'The Flash' Season 1 Finale Recap: Who Owns the Winged Helmet That Came Through the Wormhole?
For those who haven't seen the last episode of the first season of the hit superhero TV drama series "The Flash," spoiler warnings.
"Fast Enough" saw some emotionally-charged scenes involving Barry (Grant Gustin) visiting his dying mom in the past.
This came through when he made a deal with Reverse-Flash/Eobard Thawne/Dr. Wells (Tom Cavanagh) that would allow him to break through the time barrier and go back to the exact moment when the Yellow and the Red Streak fought inside Nora Allen's house.
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After Barry made his decision, he went to the particle accelerator and did what Dr. Wells had told him to do. There he found the future version of himself somehow telling him not to do what he initially wanted to: save Nora from death.
There in the other room, he witnessed how Thawne killed his mother. As the scene cleared, he approached his mother and introduced himself. The heart-wrenching scene involves Barry finally saying a proper goodbye to his mother.
Meanwhile, Wells prepared his leave from the present time. But just as he was about to accelerate the Time Bubble machine, a winged helmet came through the wormhole which Barry had created.
A lot of fans, especially the non-comic book readers, were wondering the significance of the head gear.
As revealed, the headpiece belongs to Jay Garrick who was known in the DC Universe as the very first Flash.
The original speedster appeared in the comics in 1940 and was introduced as a college student who accidentally inhaled water vapors that he soon discovered had given him the ability to run at superhuman speed.
Followers of the show, were quick to speculate that the upcoming season of the CW series will surely be an exciting one as it now has the possibility of introducing several other versions of the Flash as well as different entities of the Reverse-Flash into Central City.
