The Flash - 'The Man Who Saved Central City'

I see no possible way this could go wrong.

It's some time after the near destruction of Central City by black hole (and yet Starling City still whine about their earthquake machine incidents) and the mayor plans to honour the Flash, the titular man who saved Central City. Barry Allen is troubled, however, cutting himself off from Team Flash and reluctant to appear at the ceremony. While he stabilised the black hole, it was closed when Firestorm separated at the event horizon and newly married Ronnie Raymond was lost. Barry feels like a phony, so he's doing an Oliver Queen and trying to lone wolf the hero game while also repairing buildings damaged in the crisis.

These things never work.

This dark night of the soul is interrupted when a huge guy who looks like some dude that he murdered attacks the ceremony and punches out the Flash, growing even bigger when Joe tries to use Cisco's anti-metahuman 'boot'.

Headed by Iris, Team Flash reconvenes to approach the problem, including Professor Stein. They determine that the metahuman is gaining strength by absorbing radiation, and use this to track Atom Smasher (a name coined by Stein and earning him a huge hug from Cisco.) Barry tries to take Atom Smasher without backup, and gets mauled for his trouble.

Finally, he allows that he needs his friends, and visits the person he has been most avoiding: Caitlin Snow. She assures him that she doesn't blame him for Ronnie's death (she blames herself, because this is the Arrowverse and that's what heroes do) and together they watch Harrison Wells final message, which includes a confession to Nora Allen's murder before joining the rest of the team to defeat Atom Smasher by... luring him into a nuclear plant and bombarding him with too much radiation for him to absorb so that he, um... dies of massive radiation poisoning.

Okay. So... Team Flash just straight up murdered a guy. Sure, he was a crazed and almost unstoppable metahuman, but this is a whole new level of cold.

As he dies, Atom Smasher says that he was gunning for Flash because 'he' promised to take him home if he did. Flash wants a name, and what he gets is 'Zoom'*.

Team Flash celebrate the release of Henry Allen, who drops a bombshell by announcing his intention to leave Central City to allow Barry the space to 'be what you're becoming'. At the party, Stein proposes a toast in Hebrew - kadima; forward. Then the team gets Star Labs set up as Flash HQ with upgraded security, only for someone to walk straight in and announce that his name is Jay Garrick, and their world is in danger.

Season 2 Team Flash: Joe, Barry, Iris, Cisco, Caitlin and Stein.

So, we have another Reverse Flash as our season villain, and another Flash in the mix (his iconic helmet having already put in an appearance in the Season 1 finale,) plus quite possibly some multiversal shenanigans. It was good to see that The Flash is still distinguishing itself from Arrow by having its characters not wallow in their self-loathing. There were also hints of Cisco's nascent powers in the form of a brief vision, and I wonder if this won't also relate to the introduction of the multiverse in some way.

* Presumably related to Professor Zoom, another alias of one of the many comic continuity Reverse Flashes.