As Iris and Joe mourn Eddie, the paradox causes the wormhole to reopen and start expanding, pulling Eddie's body into it. This creates a paradox: since Eddie did not leave behind any children to continue the Thawne name, Eobard is never born and therefore the entire timeline that he created by killing Nora Allen could have never been created.Īs he is erased from existence, Eobard reminds Barry that he might not be able to get along without him after years of controlling his life. As Eddie Thawne is a direct ancestor of Eobard Thawne, his death causes Eobard to be erased from existence. However, Eddie shoots himself in the heart. Enraged beyond belief, he charges at Barry and they proceed to fight, which ends in Eobard beating Barry, pinning him to the wall and announcing "Just so we're clear, after I kill you, I'm going to kill them (Team Flash) and then I'm going to kill your father! I always win, Flash!". With his Time Sphere destroyed, unstable speed and motives revealed, Eobard has no way to return 'home'. Caitlin succeeds in shutting down the generators and the wormhole is closed just before the 1:52 runs out. Barry's unannounced return causes Professor Stein to order Caitlin and Ronnie to manually shut down the generators. Barry retorts that he already has the life, friends, and family he wants. This enrages Eobard, who realizes that Barry didn't save Nora and demands to know why not, when he could've had the life he wanted. However, Barry returns, destroying the time machine with a supersonic punch. Suddenly, a helmet with wings on top comes out of the wormhole, which Eobard takes as his signal to leave. In the present, Eobard gets into the time machine Cisco made, remarking that Rip Hunter first designed it.
He spoke to Nora once last time, revealing his identity to her, and assured her that he and Henry are okay in the future. However, despite this, Barry's alternative future self saw Barry and signaled him to not to interfere and proceeded to transport his younger self 20 blocks away. Once the preparations were set for Barry to travel back in time, he traveled back to the night Nora died. Still torn over whether to save his mother and risk everything he already has, Barry visits his father in prison but gets told that he shouldn't go back to save Nora due to the changes it would make to the future. Inspired by Stein's words, Eddie decides to forget about the supposed future and date Iris once again. Because of this, despite Eobard's self-centered personality, he had to keep Eddie alive above all else until he had a child to carry on the Thawne name, which centuries later would lead to Eobard being born. However, Professor Stein told Eddie that he, being Eobard's ancestor worked in the same city as his descendant, ultimately made him an anomaly to Eobard's plan known as coincidence. Meanwhile, Eddie is torn about learning about Iris' fate to marry Barry. Eobard offered to let Barry prevent Nora's death if he created a wormhole for both him and Barry to return home to the future. However, since Eobard lost his powers shortly after and was stranded centuries before his own time, he was forced to create, ironically, the very enemy he sought to destroy. An enraged Eobard then killed Nora in hopes the trauma would prevent the younger Barry from pursuing his destiny and becoming the Flash. In order to protect him, the Future Barry grabbed his younger self and retreated twenty blocks away. However, he was followed by the Future Barry and they fought in his house. In the year 2024, he learned The Flash's true identity as Barry Allen and traveled back in time to kill the younger Barry. Eobard told Barry he hated the future Barry for reasons undisclosed even though he had grown to care about the present Barry to a degree.
Matt Letscher as Professor Eobard Thawne/Reverse-Flash.Wentworth Miller as Leonard Snart/Captain Cold.Victor Garber as Professor Martin Stein.Tom Cavanagh as Professor Eobard Thawne/Reverse Flash.Caitlin Snow and Caitlin Snow/Killer Frost Martin Stein and Ronnie Raymond return to help the S.T.A.R. Synopsis Wells presents Barry with a life-changing choice.