The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: The Reverse-Flash Returns

"The Reverse-Flash Returns"
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The Flash  Season 2: Episode 11
January 26, 2016
Directors	Michael Allowitz
Writers	Aaron Helbing Todd Helbing
Previous Episode	"Potential Energy" (January 19, 2016)
Next Episode	"Fast Lane" (February 2, 2016)

This ability to travel through time revealed a truth. My fate was to become your greatest enemy. I was never going to be The Flash, so I became the reverse of everything that you were. The more people you saved, the more you were loved, the more I had to take from you.

—Reverse-Flash

The Reverse-Flash Returns is an episode of season 2 of The Flash. It premiered on January 26, 2016.

Appearing in "The Reverse-Flash Returns"

Featured Characters:

• The Flash (Barry Allen)

Supporting Characters:

• Jay Garrick (Earth-2)
• Central City Police Department
  • Det. Joe West
  • Off. Patty Spivot (Quits team)
• Team Flash
  • Caitlin Snow
  • Cisco Ramon
  • Harrison Wells (Earth-2) (Impersonates Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells"))
  • Iris West
• Tina McGee

Antagonists:

• Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne) (Past)
  • Reverse-Flash/Eobard Thawne (Alternate Timeline) (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)

Other Characters:

• Barry Allen (Past) (In a vision) (Cameo)
• Francine West
• Gideon (Hologram) (Also in a vision)
• Hunter Zolomon (First appearance)
• Mercury Labs Security
• Nora Allen (Dies in a vision) (Cameo)
• Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne) (Future) (In a vision) (Cameo)
• Tina McGee (Alternate Timeline) (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • Mercury Labs Security (Single appearance) (In a vision) (Cameo)
• The Turtle (Appears only as a corpse)
• Wally West
• Albert Einstein (Mentioned only)
• Albert Einstein (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Doctor Light (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Eddie Thawne (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Dr. Harrison Wells (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Jesse Wells (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Reverse-Flash (Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells") (Erased) (Mentioned only)
• Thomas Snow (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Mrs. Zolomon (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Zoom (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
• Juliet Capulet (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Alternate Earth-1 Timeline (Eobard Thawne kills Tina McGee) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • United States of America
    • Central City
      • Mercury Labs (In a vision)
• Earth-1/"Earth-2"
  • 2000
    • United States of America
      • Central City
        • Allen House (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • 2015
    • United States of America
      • Central City
        • S.T.A.R. Labs (In a vision) (Cameo)
  • 2016
    • United States of America
      • Central City (Also in a vision)
        • CC Jitters
        • CCPD Headquarters
          • Central City Crime Lab
        • Central City Hospital
        • Central City Train Station
        • Hofherr Park (First appearance)
        • Mercury Labs (Also in a vision)
        • S.T.A.R. Labs
          • Cisco Ramon's Workshop
          • The Cortex
          • S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator/The Pipeline
          • Time Vault
        • Big Belly Burger (Mentioned only)
      • Keystone City
      • Midway City (Mentioned only)
        • Midway City University (Mentioned only)
• Negative Speed Force (Unnamed) (Behind the scenes)
• Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
• Timestream (Behind the scenes)
• Earth-2 (Mentioned only)
• Eobard Thawne's Future (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
  • 22nd Century (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Pulse Rifle (Unnamed)
• Reverse-Flash's Costume Ring
• Tachyon Prototype (Destroyed)
• Vibe's Goggles

Vehicles:

• Steele truck (Single appearance)

Events:

• The Singularity (In a vision) (Cameo)
• S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator Explosion (Mentioned only)

Concepts:

• MacGregor's Syndrome
• Metahumans
• Time Travel
• Wormholes/"Breaches" (Also in a vision)

Notes

• This episode features the first chronological meeting between Barry Allen and Eobard Thawne.
• The events of this episode directly causes the events of Season 1 as Eobard Thawne, in this episode, comes to know about the S.T.A.R Labs and the Particle Accelerator Explosion, Harrison Wells and Team Flash for the first time.
• Earth-2 Wells states that he and the residents of his Earth refers to Earth-1 as "Earth-2".

Trivia

• "Post 25: BFF" is The Chronicles of Cisco post that is dedicated to this episode.

See Also

• 2 Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: The Reverse-Flash Returns
• Episodes of The Flash (2014 TV Series)
• Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series)
• Gallery for the The Flash (2014 TV Series) series

Recommended Media

• None.

Links and References

• None.

Footnotes