Cisco and Kamilla tell the team they are leaving Central City. However, Barry, Iris and Caitlin don’t have much time to digest the news because a new version of Rainbow Raider strikes and OG Team Flash must join together one final time to save the city.
Tropes:
- Anti-Villain: Rainbow Raider 2.0 is probably one of the most sympathetic antagonists in the entire series, as she used to cancel Medical Debt and now just wants to give wealth to those in need. Which is why Barry has arranged things for her to not go to jail, but work off her sentence by serving in Mayor Sampson's Economic Development Committee.
- Cool Airship: The final battle in the episode takes place on a Ferris Air zepplin, which Rainbow Raider plans to use to drop all the money and jewels she's gathered from the various businesses in Central City.
- Continuity Nod:
- Cisco mentions that Lyla and Dig were responsible for getting him his job at ARGUS.
- When Cisco is showing Chester the STARchives, we get to see the Speed Treadmill, Captain Cold's freeze gun, Barry's initial bicycle helmet, and The Thinker's chair, among many other trinkets.
- Cisco brings out his Supervillain Card Album, which has Magenta, Kimiyo Hoshi, Null, Payton Gilbert, both Weather Wizard AND Weather Witch, Turtle 2.0, TCP, Peek-A-Boo, Pied Piper, Dan Fisk, and many others.
- Flash and Mecha-Vibe try to use the same device used to take out the original Rainbow Raider to defeat Carrie. Unfortunately, her powers work very differently and fry the machine.
- Cisco looks at a photo of him, Barry, Caitlin, and Thawne from Season 1.
- Shortly after, he mentions how often the group have heartfelt, tearful speeches to each other.
- Cisco's greatest fear, revealed a few episodes ago, where he's still stuck at STAR Labs after 30 years, is once again brought up.
- An entire montage of Cisco moments plays as he takes one last look at STAR Labs, which ends with a longing look at Flash's Season 1 outfit.
- As a farewell gift, Cisco gives Barry, Caitlin, and Joe some of his old Comi-Con shirts, which he wore in previous episodes.
- The episode ends with the original Team Flash dancing to Lady Gaga's "Poker Face", the same song which Cisco famously played when Barry woke up from his coma back in the pilot.
- Death Glare: Caitlin gives Chester one when he starts dancing with Barry instead of curing him and Cisco.
- Dude Where Is My Respect: Cisco is kinda disturbed by his friends seemingly nonchalant reaction to him announcing his departure. He finally blows up at them, leading Barry and Caitlin to show that they are really extremely sad about it.
- End of an Era: As it's pointed out in-universe multiple times, with Cisco leaving.
- Getting Smilies Painted on Your Soul: Rainbow Rider's meta powers inflict this on her victims, including a banker, a valet, Barry, and Cisco.
- Happy Dance: Under the effect of Rainbow Rider's "happy ray," Flash returns to STAR Labs and eventually starts breakdancing for the fun of it. Cisco, also under the spell, cheers him on, while Caitlin groans. When Chester comes in, he actually joins in the dancing, despite not being under any spell.
- Hidden Depths: Barry can do some sick breakdance moves.
- Hollywood Tone-Deaf: Both Grant Gustin and Carlos Valdes are veterans of musicals, yet Barry and Cisco are terrible singers during the karaoke scene. Which is odd, since Barry's previously been shown to be a good singer on more than one occasion.
- Internal Reveal: Camilla and Cisco finally tell their friends that they are leaving.
- Just Like Robin Hood: Cisco and Barry notice that Carrie acts like this, rather than as a standard supervillain or thief. As such, instead of sending her to jail, Flash arranges for her to help out with city works as a probation of sorts.
- Karaoke Bonding Scene: Cisco's final scene is of him and Barry singing karaoke. Badly.
- The Knights Who Say "Squee!": Chester's reaction to the "Starchives".
- Large Ham: How everybody starts acting after being affected by Carrie's powers, being overloaded with joy.
- Mythology Gag:
- Carrie Bates, Rainbow Raider 2.0, is named after Carrie Bates, a frequent The Flash writer who most famously wrote the 1979 issue where Iris West died. She was also Rainbow Raider's co-creator alongside artist Don Heck.
- Carrie slaps a Ferris Air decal on a van, then later steals a blimp from them.
- Only Sane Woman: After Barry and Cisco get hypnotized into being super happy, they are partying around the lab, while Caitlin tries to get them to focus. Chester comes in with a device to snap them out of it, but gets caught up in the fun and starts dancing too, much to Caitlin's frustration.
- Out of Focus:
- Despite this being also Kamilla's last episode, she only appears in three scenes, and only one with Cisco.
- Cecile and Joe only appear during the final segment.
- Allegra only appears in a couple scenes, two of which with Iris and Kamilla, and then the final fight on the blimp with Flash and Mecha-Vibe.
- Of a sort with Killer Frost. Caitlin appears all throughout the episode, but Frost herself is only shown via a text message.
- Passing the Torch: Cisco handing off his unfinished research to Chester at the end.
- Put on a Bus: After seven seasons, Carlos Valdes departs The Flash, the third original cast member to leave.note Victoria Park also departs here.
- Rousseau Was Right: Donations start pouring in after Carrie's motives are revealed to the public.
- Shout-Out:
- A super happy Cisco can't resist a few last ones.
Cisco: "No sweat, Boba Fett! It's all Hakuna Matata!"- He also calls Carrie a Rainbow Robin Hood.
- The shirts Cisco gives Joe, Caitlin, and Barry are from the video game Starwhal, Star Wars, and Missile Command respectively.
- Stepford Smiler: Barry, Iris and Caitlin initially seem rather cheerful at the prospect of Cisco and Kamilla leaving, but they later confirm that they're putting on a brave front to hide how sad they are at their departure.
- The Stinger: Cecile starts hearing a ghostly voice, which leads her to a mirror, seeing a reflection of herself with a golden mask and seemingly becoming possessed.
- Superior Successor: Rainbow Raider 2.0 is mentioned to be seven times stronger than the original Rainbow Raider Roy Bivolo.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: Carrie's mission is noble, but her approach to giving money to people in need is dangerously oversimplified. As Team Flash notes, showering the city with stolen cash, jewels and gold would only cause a mass riot as people fought each other for the loot.
