Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Flash Season 6 Episode 2 that may spoil your enjoyment in discovering its plotlines. Read at your own risk.
Barry Allen will not wait for The Flash imminent death and he will do everything he could to find a way out of it. In next week's The Flash Season 6 Episode 2, Barry will travel to the future to check on how he supposed to vanish.
The countdown on Barry's (Grant Gustin) death has just begun and everybody in Team Flash will react to the devastating news differently. The Flash showrunner Eric Wallace said this crisis will also bring Barry and Iris (Candice Patton) closer to each other more than ever. Perhaps, this will also make them focus on the upcoming danger and forget about the death of their daughter, Nora West-Allen (Jessica Parker Kennedy), for the meantime.
The couple is dealing with the recent death of their speedster daughter. The premiere episode of Season 6 showed how Barry and Irish deal with their pain and longing individually. In the end, they acknowledged the grieve and agreed to work it out together. Then, Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) appeared to inform them that the timeline to Barry's death has changed.
The supposed death of The Flash should be five years from now but, according to Monitor, it will happen in 2019. Monitor made it clear that for the universe to survive, the Scarlet Speedster should die.
In the teaser for upcoming The Flash Season 6 Episode 2, Barry tells Irish that will go the future, to the day after The Flash disappeared to be exact, to get a glimpse of the "Crisis on Infinite Earths." Shipp along with Michelle Harrison are seen in the clip helping Barry out of his mission.
The couple initially played the role of Barry's parents, Henry and Nora Allen. But, in Episode 2, it seems like Shipps is Jay Garrick, the Earth-3 doppelgänger of The Flash, and Harrison is Jay's girlfriend, Joan Williams.
In the teaser, the couple connected Barry in sort of a machine and after he came out of it, fear and confusion are evident in The Flash's eyes. He tells Jay and Joan that something dangerous is coming.
The Episode 2 title "A Flash of the Lightning" could be in reference to Jay Garrick. It could also be one of the Godspeeds that Team Flash has been dealing with since summer. On the other hand, some Reddit users pointed out on thread that "A Flash of the Lightning" is the title of 1985 published DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths issue #8 which is about the death of Barry Allen, a.k.a The Flash.
Elsewhere, Cecille (Danielle Nicolet) will come face-to-face with another villainous meta-human. Apparently, her secret power and his career as a District Attorney will come in conflict when the encounter happens.
Cecille could have heard what the meta-human is thinking, possibly about the crime that was committed and Joe's (Jesse L. Martin) wife knows that whatever she obtained using her power will never be admissible in court.
The Flash Season 6 airs every Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW. Episode 2 will come on the small screen on October 15.
