Season Guide
The Flash Season 5
Season 5 Review
⚠ Spoiler alert Season notes below reveal how the story develops.
Season 5 of The Flash aired 2018-2019.
Episodes
1
After Nora meets her parents and reveals that she's stuck in 2018, Flash goes off after a new meta--Gridlock--and subsequently discovers what happens to himself in the future.
2
The team take on a new meta with the ability to create blocks out of concentrated air. Meanwhile, Danielle realizes that she's losing her powers, Barry tries to deal with…
3
While Caitlin and Ralph look into Thomas Snow's death, the others deal with Cicada and bring in a consulting detective to help them.
4
Nora reveals what Iris did to her in the future that causes her to be so hostile to her in the present. Ralph and Sherloque try to trace Cicada, and…
5
A new meta launches an attack on Central City, and Flash tries to deal with him while Nora avoids Iris. Meanwhile, Cisco, Caitlin, Sherloque, and Ralph try to track down…
6
Caitlin is reunited with her long-lost father, but Cisco suspects that not everything is at it seems. Ralph teams up with Cecile to learn who was injured the night of…
7
A new weather-wielding villain appears in Central City, and demands that Team Flash hands Mark Mardon over to her. Nora reveals her unresolved feelings for losing Barry in the future,…
8
To defeat Cicada, Nora comes up with a plan to assemble the necessary components from discarded villain items in the past and hide them in the present. Barry travels back…
9
Oliver and Barry discover that they've swapped bodies. To find someone who can recognize them for who they are, they travel to Earth-38 to get Kara's help. Before they can…
10
When a new meta-tech villain--Silver Ghost--helps Jocelyn Jackam escape, Nora wonders if Jocelyn wants to reform as she claims. Meanwhile, Barry is forced to stay in the pipeline after a…
11
Cicada renews his murder spree against metas and cripples XS, causing Flash to lose control. Meanwhile, Killer Frost worries that she'll be destroyed by the cure Caitlin is working on,…
12
Sherloque uses a memory machine to try and revive Grace, and Nora ends up trapped in the girl's memories. Barry and Iris go in to save their daughter, and see…
13
To find a device that will let them administer the meta cure to Cicada, Barry and Ralph go undercover to get it from a black market arms dealer. Meanwhile, Iris…
14
With Barry out of contact in the Speed Force, XS witnesses Cicada kill Killer Frost and tries to travel back in time to stop the outcome... and a different teammate…
15
The team need a meta to test the cure on, and settle on King Shark. Grodd escapes from ARGUS captivity and initiates his own plan to rule Central City... and…
16
Barry tries to find the words to convince Cicada to take the cure that Team Flash has developed. Joe and Cecile join forces to question Ambres, and Eobard warns Nora…
17
Team Flash discovers the nature of the new Cicada when they find a time sphere that is a future duplicate of Eobard's. They also find out that Cicada II is…
18
To learn why Nora joined forces with Eobard, Team Flash reads her journal. They discover that in 2049, Eobard was the only person who was honest with Nora, and taught…
19
Iris and Ralph travel to the future to find Nora and confront Eobard, while Barry, Joe, and Sherloque deal with Icicle's newest scheme.
20
Back from the future, Nora gathers a group of Rogues to steal meta-tech. Meanwhile, Cicada II steals Cisco's metahuman cure, and Barry considers whether he's a good parent.
21
Cicada II assembles the part to build an atomizer that will release the meta-human killing virus, and Nora tries to use her psychic connection to the villain to find out…
22
Barry must choose between stopping Cicada or releasing Eobard. Nora and Cisco make choices of their own as they face the crisis upon them.