The Flash Season Finale Recap: Eva McCulloch Reigns Supreme
“Here’s something they don't often tell you in movies or tv shows, sometimes the bad guy wins. It happens - TOM of Adult Swim’s Toonami Anime Block
That is exactly what happened in last night’s (early) season finale of the CW’s Superhero Drama, The Flash.
Television production had cause the hit-show, along with others, to shut down early due to the COVID-19 pandemic so episode 19, “Success is Assured,” served as the Season 6’s finale. DC Tv shows that have aired on the CW usually finished the television season with 22–23 episode season, with the exception of DC’s Legends of Tomorrow (15–18 episode season) and the multilayered Series Black Lightning (16 episode season).
Now while Team Flash managed to secure a couple of wins, they also may have unknowingly been dealt a bad hand. Eva McCulloch (Erfrat Dor) is now free from the “Mirror-verse” and she is in full revenge mode against her husband, Joseph Carver, for her six-year exile in The Mirror-verse. McCulloch has gained new abilities and a new suit as the icing on the cake.
Barry and his team has theorized that Carver’s wife will have to deal with Carver’s black hole assassins, Sunshine (Natalie Sharp), Ultraviolet(Alexa Barajas), and Dr. Light (Emmie Nagata). Ralph (Hartley Sawyer) brings out a diamond that Sue Dearbon (Natalie Drefyuss) gave to him and new team member, Allegra Garcia (Kayla Compton) detects UV energy. She then powers it up to a projected “treasure map.” The treasure map points them a large warehouse. The large warehouse is where Ralph and Barry find 5 guards who had been stabbed, freshly I should add by the Mirror version of Police Chief David Singh (Patrick Sabongui). Caught in a trap, Singh explains that Carver had knowledge of Eva’s Predicament and she had been trapped in the mirror-verse, yet he took no action to save her. Rather than save her, he profited from the very technology that she left behind( McCulloch Technologies).
Barry himself meets up with Carver at jitters and notifies him that Eva is gunning for him and intends to kill him, only after he explains the mirror-verse debacle. Carver shocks Barry that he possessed video of the very night Iris (Candice Patton) had been pulled into the mirror dimension. Carver tells Barry that is probably nothing he can do to save Iris.
“She’s gone. They're both gone. But if Iris is still alive in there, there is probably nothing left of here to save.”- Joseph Carver to Barry Allen
Carver then proceeds to leaving, saying that he does not need protection from the CCPD, though his face says otherwise turning into an anxious facial expression.
While at Carver house, Black Hole assassins were disappearing one by one, as Eva appears in reflective surfaces and pulls them in. Meanwhile, Team Flash conveys to the CSI lab in order to grasp with the revelation that Caver relayed to Barry regarding Iris possibly being unable to save.
Having found his assassins have disappeared, Carver changes his mind about not needing CCPD protection and arrives at CCPD pleading to Team Flash to help him. Mirror Singh arrives and offers to peacefully escort Carver out, but he first wants to speak Barry privately. A deal is proposed by the mirror clone.
“ let me take Carver away and you’ll get Iris back.”
Barry is actually considering the deal when it is Nash Wells (Tom Canvangh) who uses a smoke bomb to create a distraction and teleports the team to S.T.A.R labs, stopping Barry from saying yes to the deal.
After being educated on the “dupes” that Eva has formed, Carver offers his panic room at McCulloch Technologies. He explains that his building can be swaddled in an ion field to will atomize anything that tries to enter. Translation: anyone that enter will be destroyed. Everyone heads over to there and the evacuation of the place begins. Ralph runs into Sue Dearbon, who has sided with Black Hole in an effort to get close to Carver and kill him herself. All that is halted when Eva’s newly formed team, comprised of now former Black hole assassins Sunshine, Ultraviolet, and Dr. Light, show up to back up their new leader. They have succeed in destroying the ion field’s power source.
While Flash races to restore the power, the final showdown (for the season)begins in the lobby of McCulloch Technologies. Its Ralph, Allegra, Nash and eventually Sue versus Team McColluch. Barry finds himself facing Mirror Singh in the sub-level of the basement, only to find the fake cop shatter and transform into Eva herself. Eva knocks out Barry with her newly acquired laser cannon arm. After dealing with the Scarlet Speedster, she turns her attention to Carver. Eva confronts Carver inside his panic room by traveling through his computer. As Eva is about dealt a blow to her “Husband”, The Flash appears and takes the damage for Carver. A more than determined Eva forces the shards from her attack to pierce through Flash and impales Carver, who was standing behind him. As Carver is introduced to death, Eva invites Barry to join her, suggesting that they are on the same side. But Barry refuses.
“Flash, Barry! You and I are not enemies. We never have been.Your wife set out to catch a bad man, she couldn't. Together we could, we’re on the same side just remember that.” — Eva McCulloch to Barry Allen
Eva orders her team to stand down. The next day she gives a press conference where she claims she has been held hostage by an international crime syndicate, but her “faithful husband” found and save her, only to get killed in the process. Yeah you read that right. the big bad actually won this season.
The aftermath of the showdown commences. Barry says good to Caitlin/Frost, (Danielle Panabaker) who is off to get treatment by her mother (Susan Walters). Allegra and Nash have seemingly made up after a gem he gave saved her during the final showdown, Cecile (Danielle Nicolet) suprises the team with the return of Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), from his WITSEC Exile due to Black Hole.
“Now lets go save some people we love!” Joe Cheered
“It hasn’t changed how we’re going to wrap up the arc (in regards to COVID-19 shutting down production early), because of the three episodes that are still remaining — which are now the first three episodes of season 7 — episode 620, which now becomes episode 701, 90 percent of that footage is in the can. That only leaves what we always intended as our two-part season finale of season 6 to follow in episode 702 and 703, which is wrapping up Eva’s story. That’s all going to be the same. We might tweak it a little bit because we don’t know how the pandemic is going to affect shooting. Like, can we have a whole bunch of extras running around? Can we have these big stunt sequences outside that you would usually see in a Flash finale? It might be smaller now. I don’t know. We have to adjust that without adjusting the story because Eva’s story is on a very specific trajectory that we want to honor and finish.
The other big thing it’s going to then affect is the rest of the shape of season 7. We actually already started breaking season 7 when this pandemic happened. So it’s really: How does it affect the top of season 7? I think it’s making it even better, I think it’s making it stronger because it’s forcing us to look at these two separate things — which is the end of Eva’s story and the beginning of the next villain’s story and how he relates to Barry and Iris — [and realize] they kind of have to be connected even more because there isn’t some summer break anymore. The audience will experience it now a week later.
The questions that remain: is it too late? It is appriate to ask that only because in the bonus scenes, the real Iris had beenmaking headway in the attempt to escape the mirror verse and find the real Chief Singh. She showing signs that ,like what happened to Eva when she was trapped in the mirror verse, is happening to her. it is all becoming to much for her to handle. She begins to crack and reface light, before disappearing…but where has she gone too ?.
