Today was just a layback day at S.T.A.R. Labs and Cisco, Peter and Wells we're together watching a movie after Caitlin went home and Barry had a date with a girl.
The three men were just enjoying some classic black and white movies laughing. "Oh, Buster Keaton. That guy was a genius." Cisco comments to the movie director.
"I still can't believe you have never seen this, dr. Wells." Peter states to him.
"Peter, I've been saying this for years, you can call me Harrison." Wells informs him but it's just something nobody does.
"We seriously need to get you a must see movie list." Cisco tells Wells.
"Please do. While I am more than happy to spend an evening watching old movies with you two, do you not have your brothers dinner to attend, Cisco?" Wells asks Cisco.
"Yeah. I was gonna ask Caitlin or Peter to come with me, but I got a much better idea." Cisco replies. "To not go at all." He explains the plan to them.
"So glad I was an only child." Peter mumbles to himself while eating more popcorn. "Things still not good with your family?" Peter wonders remembering how Cisco's family doesn't exactly appreciate him. "Things have been pretty fantastic...since I stopped seeing them that much." Cisco tells him when a alert goes off.
"Silent alarm went off at the Central City morgue." Cisco says and sees Peter's already in costume ready to go. "Why would anyone want to rob a morgue?" Wells wonders as Peter leaves to check it out.
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At Barry's date, he was told by Eddie what's happening and Barry makes an excuse to go. While running down the street, Barry looks to see hi,self running next to him and vanishes.
Barry quickly stops to try to find that lookalike and sees nothing around. But he hears two dogs barking at each other, a guy twirling a sign and a woman shouting for a taxi.
"Yo, Barry. You need to see this." Peters voice fills in the speakers and he runs to the morgue.
When he makes it, he sees Peter standing over the coroner who's dead.
"The coroner's dead, guys." Barry informs the guys at S.T.A.R. Labs.
Later Peter leaves as the cops arrive and Barry looks at the water in the floor. "Did the sprinklers go off or something?" Joe questions.
"No, I checked all the sprinklers. They're all intact. But look at this. Ice." Barry says while holding it up from the floor. "The cornoner has multiple impact bruises on his torso, all the size of a tennis ball." Barry says while showing his stomach. "Judging by the amount of ice and water on the ground, I'm guessing he was killed by hail."
"Hail? In doors?" Joe questions. "You thinking Snart maybe?" Joe wonders.
"No, the cold gun couldn't have done this. Besides, it's destroyed." Barry reminds him.
"Joe, we got something. The coroner office has an automated dictation system." Eddie tells him when a recording.
"Please, no more." The coroner's voice begs someone. "I'll stop when you tell me who killed him?" A second voice asks.
"I know that voice, that's Mardon." Joe tells them.
"Clyde Mardon's dead." Eddie tells Joe. "Not Clyde Mardon, his brother Mark." Joe corrects Eddie.
"It was detective West." The coroner tells Mark Joe killed Clyde and he swears vengeance before killing the coroner.
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"So while I was in Starlight City, the city was almost destroyed by a man who could control the weather ?" Peter asks them now being told about this. "It's nice to know this, now!"
"So Clyde Mardon had a brother?" Caitlin asks Barry. "And both brothers survived the plane crash, and then the dark matter released when the particle accelerator exploded affected them both the same way." Wells tells them.
"Yeah, only Mark's powers seem to be a lot more precise." Barry says. "To be able to control the weather like that, indoors?"
"You'd have to be a Weatger Wizard." Cisco says happy to have a nickname for that and takes a drink from his slushee and gets a brain freeze.
"Trigeminal headache." Caitlin informs him. "What?" Peter asks not understanding that. "Brain freeze." She explains to Peter.
"Could've said brain freeze, much easier." Peter states to her and she rolls her eyes.
"So I'm guessing you running around a twister in the opposite direction isn't gonna work this time." Joe tells Barry.
"I just remembered. During our run in with Mardon, I was tinkering with something to help attract unbound atmospheric electrons." Cisco informs the team.
"You mean like a grounding mechanism?" Peter asks his friend. "Yeah, because the only way that Mardon can control the weather is if he can tap into the atmosphere's natural electrical circuit, and if we take away the circuit, clear skies." Cisco explains as Joe answers his phone.
"Sing's checking in. I gotta go." Joe tells him.
"Well, he's taking being targeted by a revenge seeking metahuman rather well." Wells states regarding the threat Mardon placed on Joe . "Don't worry, Barry, Joe will be fine." He tells Barry.
"Look, last night, on my way to the morgue, I saw something. I was running and I turned and saw myself. Or another Flash running beside me." Barry explains not understanding what he saw.
"Interesting. It could've been a optical illusion, mirroring effect caused by wind shear and light, a speed mirage, if you will." Wells tries some different theories.
"It's just...he seemed real." Barry explains to them.
"Let's focus on finding Mardon first, then we will find out what we can about what you saw." Wells promises and rolls away.
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Over the last few hours, Joe and Barry had a run in with Mardon when he tried killing Joe using lightning and Iris tells Barry that she suspects Wells is hiding something, Cisco and Peter put together the device.
"I call it the Wizard's wand." Cisco tells the team. "How does it work?" Caitlin asks them.
"Think if it like a lightning rod that actually works perfectly." Peter explains to them. "You just need to point it at the sky, and it'll suck the energy floating around and stops Mardon temporarily." He recaps howw it works for them. "It's more than enough to stop Mardon."
Wells leaves to "stretch his legs" as he says and Peter sees Barry is acting strange, "You okay?" Peter asks him.
"Somebody at...somebody at picture news got into Iris' head that something suspicious is going on with dr. Wells." Barry explains to them and they're confused. "And that he knows what happened to Simon Stagg. Apparently, he hasn't been heard or seen since Danton Black."
Cisco starts thinking about that and Peter starts taking the wand to the prescient, but makes a quick detour to the basement with the Reverse Fash trap to check on something...and he finds something he couldn't believe.
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"Keep this handy, it'll protect you from Mardon's powers." Peter explains to Joe at the prescient.
"Yeah, Peter, I got it." Joe states.
"Hey, Joe, I know you got some stuff going on, but I heard from Cisco you think Wells might have something to do with Barry's mothers death. Is there a particular reason?" Peter wonders.
"It doesn't matter, I was wrong." Joe tells him.
"But what if you weren't?" Peter asks him. "What do you mean?" Joe wonders when Peter's senses go off and he looks towards the elevator. "Oh no." Peter states and quickly while nobody looks puts his mask off and rips his clothes off to reveal his suit.
"Heard you were looking for me." Mardon says and they look at him.
"You get changed fast." Joe states seeing Peter back in his suit. "Mardon." Peter states walking slowly towards the wand while Mardon does the same. "Hey, Spider-Man." Mardon greets. "Never thought I see you again after that night you chased my brother and me." He says to Peter.
"You killed an innocent man, stole from, dozens of money from people and threatened more." Peter recaps everything he and his brother did.
"Clyde was my family. Now get out of my way so I can have my revenge." Mardon warns Peter as he stands between him and Joe. "I'm avenging my family."
"Nobody gets hurt on my watch." Peter promises and shoots a web at the wall ready to stop him when a blast of wind hits him backwards into Joe.
Eddie runs to help so does Singh but Peter calls them off. "I don't go down so easily, Spider-Man." Mardon informs him and everyone aims at him but he uses the wind to take them down and summons lightning at himself.
Peter acts fast and shoots and leaps in front of the blast of lightning to stop it from hitting Joe, and it shoots him into and even through the prescient wall sending him flying. Barry just makes it and uses the wand on Mardon and it stops his powers momentarily and he makes a run for it. Joe just gets up and sees the hole in the wall and doesn't see Peter.
"Spider-Man!" Joe yells and Barry runs to the hole left behind to see Peter hitting the streets and get rammed by cars while they slam their breaks, but weren't fast enough to stop them from hitting Peter.
"No!" Barry shouts seeing his friend brutally hurt and runs to the street to check on him.
Barry makes it to Peter and kneels down next to his friend. "Peter, can you hear me?" Barry asks seeing the damaged suit has a scorch mark where his heart should be and removes his mask to see his face is beaten in and he's barely breathing.
"Guys, Peter's hurt!" Barry informs them and they don't think they can help him fast enough. "We can't help him here, get him to a hospital!" Cisco tells him and Barry doesn't know if Peter will survive, but knows where to bring him.
"Get me directions to Central City General." Barry asks them knowing May works there and speeds off.
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"Why would he bring Peter there?" Cisco wonders and Wells sees why.
"Because Peter's badly hurt, barely alive and there's a chance he might not make it." Wells states and they remember May works there.
"If there's a chance he doesn't make it, at least they get to say goodbye." Wells says and they run to meet them at the hospital.
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May was doing her usual shift at the hospital when the Flash suddenly appears in front of her holding Spider-Man..without his mask. "You gotta save him." Barry pleads vibrating his voice so May doesn't recognize the voice and she sees Spider-Man's face.
"Peter?" She asks in shock and calls for help as more doctors help bring him and begin to try keeping him alive.
Barry decides to get changed from his suit so not to draw attention and speeds off, hoping Peter will make it.
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After some time, the others arrive hoping he's okay. "Hey, how is he?" Joe asks Barry who's waiting for May to bring the news on his condition.
"I..I don't know." Barry tells them. "I haven't seen or heard from May since I got here."
"Wait, who we talking about? Who's here?" Eddie asks since he and Iris don't know about Peter and they can't keep it from him anymore.
"Eddie, Peter's Spider-Man." Joe bluntly tells his partner and he's shocked.
"Peter? The...Peter from the Christmas party?" Eddie asks clarifying it and they start explaining it to him leaving out Barry and Flash when May approaches to them with the news.
"Did you all know?" May asks quickly and they don't know how to answer that. Peter always wanted to tell her, but never knew how she would react and didn't want her worrying more than usual.
"He wanted to tell you, ms. Parker." Wells informs her. "He just didn't want to be a burden on you more than he was." He explains to May and she understands but wishes she knew sooner.
"How's he doing?" Caitlin asks hoping he's okay.
"We're not entirely sure if he's going to make it." May informs them and they're afraid for their friend. "His heart took most of the blast, that and counting the head trauma, we're lucky he was alive when Flash got him here." She explains to his friends. "He's awake, and wants to see all of you."
His three friends go first to see him and what they see is Peter looking better than he did before, but he still looks banged up.
"Hey, you okay, man?" Cisco asks his friend and Peter looks at him smiling.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I'm just resting." Peter says and starts coughing. "Okay, that's probably not a good sign." He quips to his friends believing there's a chance of him not surviving.
"You think you'll be good after some time?" Barry asks hoping this isn't the last of Spider-Man or Peter Parker.
"Yeah. I always get up, you know me better than that." Peter replies knowing he's lying to his friends. "It's just Spider-Man took quite the beating. You guys still gotta stop Mardon, don't worry about me." Peter states to his friends and they don't want to leave him.
"We're not going anywhere until we know you're getting back on your feet." Caitlin informs Peter and he just smiles at her knowing she's telling the truth and takes her hand.
"You guys mind if I had a minute with Cait?" Peter asks his friends and they give them the room. Caitlin doesn't know why he would ask to keep her but kick them out.
"I don't have a lot of time, Cait. My chest hurts with every beat my heart takes, it hurts to breathe, I'm not gonna make it." He explains his situation to her and she doesn't want to hear him say that. After everything they've been through, she was not gonna let him die because of some criminal's lightning blast.
"Listen, Cait, I never found the courage to tell you something. And I know I'm gonna regret it if I don't tell you." Peter explains to her and Caitlin wonders if he's trying to say what she thinks he's saying. "I love you, Caitlin." Peter finally tells her and she's surprised but at the same time relieved he feels the same.
"I told you a few weeks ago, I needed to find someone new to be crazy about, remember?" Caitlin asks him while leaning closer towards him. "I'm crazy for you, Peter." She states to him and quickly kisses him on the lips and Peter returns the kiss happy that she feels the same as he feels for her.
Once they break apart, Peter just has a smile on his face. "Be careful, Cait...Wells...he does have a secret." Peter tries warning her but the words aren't coming out as it gets harder for him to breathe.
"What does that mean, Peter?" Caitlin asks seeing him struggling to keep his eyes open now.
"Where's the good in goodbye, Caitlin?" Asks Peter when the heart monitor flatlines and Caitlin states freaking out.
"Peter!" Caitlin cries and calls for help and doctors come in and try reviving him and there was nothing they could do to save him.
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Iris gets home from work and turns on her tv and whatever was on was disrupted by a news report.
"We interrupt this broadcast to bring you a special report. Sad news tonight, the hero known as Spider-Man...has died." Once those words were said, all of Central City, all the people, young and old, came to a stand still after all these years of him protecting their home, he's actually dead.
"After suffering injuries from an attack at the Central City precinct by a Mark Mardon. Multiple sources are confirming that Peter Parker, a 27 year old scientist from Mercury labs operated as Spider-Man for over a decade." The news tells them and the entire city doesn't know what to do now knowing their hero who kept them safe is gone.
Even the people who didn't like Spider-Man feel bad after learning he's dead. People all over the city are watching the report of the death of the web slinger. People are using either their phones, their TVs even the televisions in stores to hear the news themselves not wanting to believe the truth.
The next day the team had a funeral for him, free of everyone except for friends and family. Not many people hated Peter so it was mostly team Flash, May, Tina McPhee, and some of his coworkers. Ronnie and Stein send their regards since they couldn't risk coming back now that Peter's dead.
"He always said it could've been anyone wearing the mask, he just happened to be the one who happened to get bit." Caitlin says while holding the Spider-Man mask in her hands and tosses it down to the coffin knowing it should still be with him even after death.
In the city, the police are hiding their own ceremony for Spider-Man and selling Spider-Man merchandise. Barry was planning on attending the ceremony at the prescient and gets a Spider-Man shirt to remember his friend.
Once at the checkout the owner, who's also the cashier, looks at the shirt and looks sadly at it. He was an old man with glasses, his white hair was combed back. Most locals just call him Stan. "I'm...going to miss him." He states to Barry.
"Yeah, we all are." Barry replies sad to see that he died because he wasn't there to help.
"We were friends, you know. Always stopping by, really got business booming quickly." Stan states to Barry and Peter remembers that he and Stan were friends but he didn't know Peter was Spider-Man and he checks out the shirt.
"Thanks." Barry says and goes to the memorial service.
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Peter Parker
Loved by all
Missed by more
1985-2012
Caitlin and Cisco are the only two left still looking at the grave that has their friend just six feet below them now. "He didn't ask for his powers..but he chose to be Spider-Man. He chose to be a hero." Cisco tells Caitlin knowing Peter would do anything from taking a bullet to helping someone cross a street if he could.
"Even when we didn't know it was him in the mask, he made us feel strong. That's what I loved most about him." Caitlin replies completely broken that she didn't tell him how she felt sooner.
At the prescient ceremony, they showed a casing they now have placed in the center of the main room that holds a replica of Peter's Spider symbol in a casing with a message.
A hero with or without a mask
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Later on, the team went back to S.T.A.R. Labs to close everything down for the night not feeling like looking for Mardon. "All right, Cisco, I'm heading to May's, you want a ride?" Caitlin asks the engineer and sees him looking at Peter's computers.
"Cisco?" Caitlin calls him again seeing they were going to meet up with May at her place to help her through this tough time.
"Okay, I'll watch every episode of The Walking Dead with you." Caitlin promised and that doesn't get his attention and she just reaches for his shoulder.
"You couldn't have stopped Mardon from attacking the police station." She tells him and he stops what he was doing. "It want your fault." Caitlin states to him knowing he was going to bring the wand to the station but Peter talked him into letting him do it.
"No, that's not it. I mean, it's partially it." Cisco admits to her. "I just haven't wrapped my head around it...Peter actually liked you." Cisco states and Caitlin can't believe that's what he's focusing on.
"What do you think of dr. Wells?" Cisco asks changing the subject. "Do you think he's capable of doing something bad?" He asks Caitlin wondering why Peter was asking Joe about Wells before the attack.
"Is this because of what Barry said he heard?" Caitlin asks him not wanting to get into something like this after Peter's funeral. "Ever since the accelerator exploded, there's always someone who's got it in for dr. Wells." She tells Cisco walking through the cortex.
"No, it's more than that. Joe said that Peter was asking about why he considered Wells being involved in Barry's mothers death." Cisco explains what he was looking at over on Peter's computers at what his last activity was before going to the prescient.
"That's absurd." Caitlin states to Cisco about that.
"Yeah, I know, and that's what I said, and we proved that wasn't the case, but..I'm saying some things aren't adding up and I think Peter was onto something before he died." Cisco explains and opens up what Peter was looking at on the other monitors for Caitlin to see.
"Look at this. The night we captured the Reverse Flash in the force fiend, he escaped because the containment system failed, but Peter was looking over everything and even ran a schematics check several times before leaving, and it shows the super capacitors were still fully charged when he got out." Cisco explains to her and shows the data Peter was looking over. "What if Peter's powers we're telling him something was wrong and he did all of this? There is no reason that the containment system should have failed." Cisco says and sees even in death, his best friend is still helping them with problems.
"I'm sure Peter had a perfectly normal reason to be doing this and there's a good explanation." Caitlin replies to Cisco not wanting to believe Wells is actually a super villain, but remembers Peter warned her something was up with him.
"One perfectly good explanation is that Wells did something to the trap." Cisco tells her believing Peter was onto something big that could save hundreds of people.
"Are you suggesting that dr. Wells is in league with the Reverse Flash?" Caitlin questions him. "We all saw that thing nearly kill him that night."
"Yeah, nearly. Can you keep Wells out of the labs tomorrow morning?" Cisco asks her and is coming up with a plan to prove him right and she wants to know of this is what Peter meant and agreed to do it.
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Joe and Barry were in the prescient while they watched some people from off the street leave some Spider-Man based objects around the symbol to remember Peter and Joe gets up and starts leaving while Barry follows him. "Joe, where you going?" Barry questions his father figure.
"I need to end this." Was Joe's only reply as he kept walking ready to stop Mardon alone if needed to.
"Not by yourself." Barry tells him.
"Yes, by myself! I know him! I can find him. I don't want anybody else getting killed trying to protect me, especially you and Iris." Says Joe and Barry sees he feels responsible for what happened to Peter. "Mardon said he was going to avenge his brother. That goes beyond me. It goes all the way to you and her." Joe informs Barry not wanting them to end up like Peter because they tried protecting him.
"You stay with Iris, and you keep her safe." Joe tells Barry knowing he'll keep her safe from harm and leaves.
Barry just watches him leave and looks at the memorial picture some officers are putting in knowing Spider-Man did more for this city than they'll ever know.
"I'm sorry, Peter." Barry apologizes to the symbol knowing it once stood for hope in this city, and now that's been passed down to him. Spider-Man was a beacon, a spark of hope, it's Barry's job to make sure that flame he started doesn't die out now.
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Cisco is down in the basement at S.T.A.R. Labs looking over the trap to see what went wrong (or matter what didn't). "Let's see what you can teach me after death, Peter." Cisco tells himself and connects the trap to peters computer he brought down with him.
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Joe is staking out a place he knows the Mardon's frequent a lot in the past and checks to see if he came back. And for a second, it would seem he was right as he runs into Eddie in the halls and raises his gun until he realizes who it is. "Eddie. You shouldn't be here." Joe informs his partner.
"And you shouldn't be chasing after Mardon alone, partner." Eddie replies to him.
"You find anything?" Eddie asks looking around to help. "Not yet, but this was an old Mardon brothers' hideout about six years ago so it's a long shot." Joe informs Eddie and tries making him leave and it doesn't work.
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Back in S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco works on everything and sees its functioning properly. "What?" Cisco asks himself not understanding anything about this. "Come on, Peter, tell me what you were doing." Cisco bets his dead friend and powers up Peter's computer and attaches it and all the lights turn off and back in when Cisco sees the Reverse Flash appears in the cage. "Peter, what did you learn?" Cisco asks Peter again knowing he's not going to answer anytime soon.
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Back at the hideout, Joe and Eddie were leaving no room unchecked and find a room that looks recently lived in. Joe finds a newspaper talking about Mardon's brother death when a blast of wind takes Joe out the window.
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Joe wakes up sometime later on a boat in the middle of the ocean with his leg completely broken. "Small miracle you only broke the one leg, Joe." Mark tells Joe and he turns to see him.
"The night I git sucked out of my plane, I broke almost every bone in my body. It was excruciating." Mardon informs Joe.
"At least you now get a small taste of what that felt like. Still...I didn't mean to kill Spider-Man, you know that, right?" Mardon questions him while looking at Central City. "He just got in the way of you and he needed to be eliminated. And now the entire city is at a standstill, so nobody is gonna notice you're missing for some time."
"He didn't deserve to die trying to protect people." Joe informs Mardon wishing it didn't end the way that it did. "The difference is that I don't need these powers to end your life." Mardon replies to him.
"Then do it. That's what you're here for, right?" Joe asks him. "An eye for an eye?"
"Oh, Joe. I want so much more than an eye." Mardon says while holding duck tape.
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At Jitters, Caitlin brought Wells to get him away from the labs like Cisco asked. "I often forget how important it is to step out of my every present routine. Thank you, Caitlin." Wells thanks her while she seems to be distracted. "This morning has been a refreshing change of pace."
"You can have more than two hard boiled eggs for breakfast, dr. Wells." Caitlin says getting out of her head.
"What can I say? I guess I'm a creature of habit." Wells tells her while a waitress brings their drinks. Caitlin's coffee and Wells ordered a Spider-Savior.
"Can't believe Peter got a drink named after his heroic-ness. I believe these were a to go." Wells tells the waiter. "Actually, I thought we could sit here and enjoy it." Caitlin explains to him and he agrees. "Why not?" He states happy to do so.
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Eddie tells the captain what happened and they're ready to find Joe and get justice for Spider-Man. "We've seen what Mardon can do, but do not forget, he is not invincible." Singh tells everyone. "He is still a man, at best, a criminal."
"I can't believe this is happening." Iris tells Barry scared for her father.
"We'll find him, Iris." Barry promises her.
"Were gonna find this dirtbag, and get justice for the hero who died trying to stop him. I want everyone to scour the city until we find detective West. Move out!" Singh tells all the officers and they do so and Iris' phone goes off.
"Hello?" She answers. "I have your father." Mardon's voice tells her. "He's a little broken, but he's alive." He informs her and gives her a location. "Come to the waterfront, south side. And tell the police, your father dies." Mardon informs her and hangs up.
"He wants me to meet him at the waterfront." Iris tells Barry and he plans on going with her and grabs the bag containing his suit and he's ready to get vengeance for Peter.
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"You know, Dr. Wells, I just..." Caitlin is trying to figure out how to keep him distracted. "I want to thank you again, for all you've done for Ronnie." She tells him.
"In all honesty, I thought there would be someone else on your mind." Wells informs her and Caitlin understands he's talking about Peter. "He was a great man and had a great mind to go with it. But the one thing he constantly tried telling himself is he didn't like you." Wells informs her and she gets confused.
"He was backing out. For Ronnie." Wells explains to her seeing she's confused and doesn't understand why he would do that. "He thinks you and Ronnie were destined to be together even when we thought he was dead, he thought it would be rude of him to approach you in such a way."
"I told him constantly I was over Ronnie." Caitlin tells Wells remembering their constant conversations about her and Ronnie. "You know Peter, he will never see the obvious, just the unclear. He loved you, just didn't have the chance to properly tell you." Wells explains to Caitlin and she understands.
"You know, Caitlin, if Cisco were to adjust the the radial velocity parameters on the S.T.A.R. labs satellite, we might be able to detect the vortex of a forming storm, and it we could detect those air updrsfts, no matter where they originate, we might be able to locate Mardon and get Peter justice." Wells suggests.
"So why don't we go to S.T.A.R. Labs and alert Cisco?" He asks her and she sees she can't hold him any longer and goes to change the cups to buy some more time. As she leaves to the counter and looks back to Wells, she sees the wheelchair but Wells is gone. Now she's completely shocked Peter was right, Cisco was right, Barry was right. Wells is the Reverse Flash.
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At S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco watches the newly discovered hologram of the Reverse Flash. "My goals are beyond your understanding." Reverse Flash says to nobody and Cisco realizes that it was a prerecorded message. Cisco works on Peter's computer and rewinds the hologram. "Dr. Wells, we meet at last. My goals are beyond your understanding." He repeats and Cisco is shocked to what Peter discovered and never had the chance to tell them.
"Oh, I'm not like the Flash at all." The hologram tells Cisco. "Some would say I'm the Reverse." A new voice says and Cisco looks to see Wells is standing and looking at him.
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At the waterfront, Mardon sees that Iris and Barry are there and starts summoning a storm.
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Wells starts clapping menacingly walking towards Cisco. "You're incredibly clever, Cisco." Wells tells him. "I've always said so. But I mean, following the footsteps of the man who discovered the secret first in less than a day." Wells states completely impressed by Cisco.
"You're him." Cisco realizes he wasn't working with Reverse Flash, he is the Reverse Flash.
"You and I have never been truly, properly introduced." Wells states. "I am Eobard Thawne." He tells Cisco and he's surprised.
"Thawne? Like Eddie?" Cisco asks not understanding anything about this.
"Let's call him a distant relative." Wells tries his best to easily explain.
"The night we trapped the Reverse Flash, you almost died. There were two of you." Cisco states trying to figure out how he did that and Thawne starts speeding back and forth and creates a double of himself.
"It's an after-image, a speed mirage, if optic will." He explains to Cisco as the second him vanishes.
"Joe was right." Cisco states holding his head to hold in this confusion as Wells starts closing down everything he found.
"You were there that night in Barry's house, you killed his mother." Cisco tells Wells seeing him take Peter's computer.
"It was never my intention to kill Nora. I was there to kill Barry." Wells admits to Cisco. "Why? You're his friend you've been teaching him." Cisco states trying to understand.
"To go faster, I know. A means to an end." Wells tells Cisco. "Because I have been stuck here, marooned in this place for 15 years too long. And the Flash, the Flash's speed is the key to my returning to my world. To my time. And no one is going to prevent that from happening." He promises and Cisco needs to know something.
"Was Peter supposed to die?" Cisco asks, if he's from the future he should know.
"Ah, Peter Parker. In all fairness, Peter shouldn't have even been in the city. In my timeline, he lived in New York with some Mary Jane Watson girl, and his children, grandchildren and so on are a nuisance to me. But I guess I brought a new hero to Central City to help the Flash. In all fairness, Peter turned out to be better than history books state, but once he learned my secret, he needed to go. And he took care of that himself." Wells states and that shocks Cisco.
"I can help you." Cisco offers not wanting anymore people to die like Peter. "You're smart, Cisco." Wells says and starts vibrating his hand. "But you're not that smart."
Cisco starts getting scared not wanting to go out like this, killed by someone he thought was a friend. "Do you know how hard it has been to keep all of this from you, Peter's senses, but especially from you? Because the truth is, I've grown quite fond of you." Wells admits to him as Cisco starts crying. "And In many ways, you have shown me what it's like to have a son." Wells tells him and stabs Cisco with his hand.
"Forgive me, but to me, you've been dead for centuries." Wells tells Cisco and he collaps to the floor dead.
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"What do we do?" Iris asks as they look around th waterfront. "He'll find us." Barry tells Iris as they keep looking and they see a storm across the water.
"Iris, you need to get out of here, get as far away as possible." Barry tells her. "Iris, please."
"Listen to me, ever since the night you told me how you felt, I have not been able, to stop thinking about you." Iris confesses to him and Barry gets confused.
"At first, I was really mad, and then I realized the reason I couldn't stop thinking about you is because I didn't want to." She admits and Barry sees she loves him.
"I've never stopped thinking about you." Barry admits and pulls her into a kiss that gets interrupted by a tsunami wave that's approaching them.
Barry quickly calls Caitlin to get help.
"Barry, I need to tell you something, dr. Wells, he's-"
"Caitlin, there's no time right now, Okay? There's a tsunami heading for the city." Barry tells her. "How do I stop it?"
"If you can create a vortex barrier along the coastline, a wall of wind, that will stop the wave." Caitlin tells him.
"How fast?" Barry asks. "I don't know if you can run that fast." Caitlin admits and Barry hangs up and looks back to Iris.
"I'm sorry, I didn't want you finding out this way." Barry tells her and changes into the Flash. "Go!" He tells her again and starts running.
As he's running, the tsunami wave approaches the city and Barry is running faster than he's ever run before and wishes there was a way to restart the past few days. Peter's death, Joe's abduction, the city in danger. As he keeps running the wave keeps approaching and Barry reaches maximum speed he has ever run and it's stopping the wave but it's more speed than he can take and he sees a blue hole opening up in the street and he runs into it.
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Barry exits the hole and sees its Central City at night and he looks to his left and sees flash running up next to him and he sees that version of him disappeared as he comes to a stop.
Barry quickly stops to try to find that lookalike again and sees nothing around. But he hears two dogs barking at each other, a guy twirling a sign and a woman shouting for a taxi. Barry realizes that he's back to the night that started everything and is completely confused.
"Oh, boy." He states seeing something's wrong and leaves him with one unanswered question. What the hell just happened?
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