The Flash 6x03 "Dead Man Running" Promotional Photos & Press Release | Season 6 Episode 3 - #TheFlash 6x02 Barry sees billions of timelines in which everyone dies
Barry jumps over to Earth-3, where the former Flash and his wife Dr. Joan Williams, Nora Allen’s doppelgänger, hook him up to a device that can project his consciousness across the Speed Force and past the anti-matter barrier since it’s impossible for him to physically go past it. So, Barry straps on Jay’s old helmet and is immediately shown billions of timelines in which everyone he loves, and everyone in the multiverse, dies in a blood-red anti-matter wave. As far as setting up the stakes of “Crisis,” this a terrific way to do it.
This little experiment traumatizes Barry both physically and emotionally. For one, he comes out of the device in immense pain because it fried his neural pathways or something. Emotionally, though, he’s distressed even more because, in the billions of timelines he saw, the only one where everyone survives is the one where he dies. When a defeated Barry returns to Earth-1, he tells Iris about what he saw in a heartbreaking scene that features fantastic performances from both actors. Iris refuses to sit there and watch Barry just accept his death and walks off.
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