The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Time Bomb

"Time Bomb"
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The Flash  Season 5: Episode 17
March 19, 2019
Directors	Rob Greenlea
Writers	Kristen Kim Sterling Gates
Previous Episode	"Failure is an Orphan" (March 12, 2019)
Next Episode	"Godspeed" (April 16, 2019)

Team Flash finds out that a suburban mom named Vickie Bolen is in danger and they race to save her. Upon meeting her, they discover she's a meta-human who is hiding her abilities from her family. Barry encourages Vickie to share her secret with her family, which makes Nora realize she needs to come

Dad, I'm sorry I lied to you.

—Nora West-Allen

Time Bomb is an episode of season 5 of The Flash. It premiered on March 19, 2019.

Synopsis for "Time Bomb"

Team Flash finds out that a suburban mom named Vickie Bolen is in danger and they race to save her. Upon meeting her, they discover she's a meta-human who is hiding her abilities from her family. Barry encourages Vickie to share her secret with her family, which makes Nora realize she needs to come clean with her parents about Thawne.

Appearing in "Time Bomb"

Featured Characters:

• The Flash (Barry Allen) (Flashback and main story)

Supporting Characters:

• The Central City Citizen
  • Kamilla Hwang (Joins team)
• Central City Police Department
  • Det. Joe West
• Gideon (Hologram)
• Orlin Dwyer (Dies)
• Team Flash
  • Caitlin Snow
  • Cecile Horton
  • Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny)
  • Iris West-Allen
  • Sherloque Wells (Earth-221) (Flashback and main story)
  • Vibe (Cisco Ramon)
  • XS/Nora West-Allen (Nora's Future) (Flashback and main story) (Quits team)
• Vickie Bolen (Single appearance) (Also in a vision)

Antagonists:

• Cicada/Grace Gibbons (Nora's Future)
• Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells" (Impersonates Harrison Wells)

Other Characters:

• Alice Bolen (Single appearance)
• The Central City Citizen (Nora's Future) (On a TV or computer screen) (Cameo)
• Central City Lightning Strikers (Soccer team) (Single appearance) (Cameo)
• The Flash/Barry Allen (Nora's Future) (On a TV or computer screen) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• Mr. Gibbons (Unnamed) (First full appearance) (Dies in a vision)
• Mrs. Gibbons (Unnamed) (First full appearance) (Dies in a vision)
• Grace Gibbons (Flashback only) (Also in a vision)
• Harrison Wells (As an illusion only)
• Jason (CC Jitters barista) (Single appearance)
• John Bolen (Single appearance)
• Nurse Shelley (Single appearance)
• Anthony Bellows (Mentioned only)
• Cicada/Orlin Dwyer (Nora's Future) (Mentioned only)
• Craig (Debbie Dibny's ex-lover) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Darius (Vanessa Ambres' fiancée) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Debbie Dibny (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Earl Cox (Mentioned only)
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (Mentioned only)
• Spencer Young (Mentioned only)
• The Thinker (Mentioned only)
• Dr. Vanessa Ambres (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• Peter Parker (Marvel Universe) (Mentioned only)
• Radioactive Spider (Marvel Universe) (Mentioned only)
• Spider-Woman (Marvel Universe) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Multiverse (Mentioned only)
  • Earth-1
    • Earth
      • United States of America
        • Central City (Also in a vision)
          • CC Jitters
          • CCPD Headquarters
          • The Central City Citizen
          • Central City Hospital
          • Gold City Bank (In a vision) (Cameo)
          • Ralph Dibny Private Investigator Office
          • S.T.A.R. Labs
            • Cisco Ramon's Workshop (Flashback and main story)
            • The Cortex
            • Starchives (Real name revealed)
            • S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator/The Pipeline (Cameo)
            • Time Vault
      • Arctic Circle
        • Tannhauser Facility (Mentioned only)
    • Enlightenment Satellites (Behind the scenes)
  • Nora's Future
    • 2019
      • United States of America
        • Central City (On a TV or computer screen) (In a photograph only) (Flashback and main story)
    • 2049
      • United States of America
        • Keystone City
          • Iron Heights
  • Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
  • Timestream (Mentioned only)

Items:

• B.O.O.T. (Cameo)
• Breach Implosion Reactor (Cameo)
• Cicada's Daggers
• Dark Matter
• Flash's Costume Ring
• Metahuman Cure
• Meta-Tech
  • Spencer Young's Phone (Mentioned only)
• Nora West-Allen's Journal (Flashback and main story)
• Pulse Rifle
• Speed-dampening Mask (Cameo)
• Speed Force Bazooka (Cameo)
• S.T.A.R. Labs Satellite/"Sally" (Flashback only) (Destroyed) (Cameo)
• Vibe's Goggles (Cameo)

Vehicles:

• Eobard Thawne's Time Sphere
• Future Time Sphere (First appearance)

Events:

• 2023 Chicken Plague (Mentioned only)
• The Enlightenment (Flashback only)

Concepts:

• Breaches
• Metahumans
• Time Language
• Time Travel

Notes

• Although it was originally implied during the Elseworlds crossover, where it was revealed to be the language of the Book of Destiny, the Time Language is mentioned to be the source code of the Multiverse according to Eobard Thawne.
• The adult Grace Gibbons fighting The Flash in Nora's Future before 2024 suggests that the timeline changed so that she became Cicada before the Crisis of 2024 or, more probably, traveled back in time to some time in 2019 to fight him.
  • However, Grace herself states that the fight from this episode is her first clash against Flash which may imply that either Thawne was fooling Nora or the fight from the Citizen article happened in a now, erased possible version of Nora's Future.
• According to Nora's journal, a Chicken Plague hit her future in 2023.

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

• 3 Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Time Bomb
• 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

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