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"Borrowing Problems from the Future"

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Season 3 » Episode 10

Episode number

56 of 184

Airdate

January 24, 2017

Chronology

Preceded by	Followed by
The Present	Dead or Alive

"Borrowing Problems from the Future"^[1] is the tenth and midseason premiere episode of the third season of The Flash, and the fifty-sixth episode overall. It aired on January 24, 2017.

“	So imagine, okay, domino... each domino is a moment in time. One moment in time leads to the next, so as one domino falls, it hits the next, it hits the next, and the next, and the next, and so on, leading to the inevitable conclusion, and that is... the future. And what happens if we alter certain events? Well, you... you could conceivably change where you end up, but... but, Barry, if you would... So you could change the future, but you'd have to be very careful about which events... you alter.	”
— HR Wells and Barry Allen^[src]

Synopsis[edit | hide | hide all]

Barry is tormented by his vision of the future where Iris is murdered by Savitar. When a criminal named Plunder shows up in Central City, Barry recalls the villain's presence in his vision of the future and fears that if he catches Plunder, it will cement Iris' fate. Confused about Barry's hesitation to stop Plunder, Wally decides to step in as Kid Flash. Caitlin offers Julian a job.^[1]

Appearances[edit | hide]

Characters[edit | hide]

Protagonists[edit | hide]

Antagonists[edit | hide]

Other Characters[edit | hide]

Central City Police Department
- Ben Edwards (mentioned)
- Dave Frieman (mentioned)
- Jorge Gonzales (mentioned)
- Officer Kim
Dante Ramon (mentioned)
Harrison Wells (Eobard Thawne) (mentioned)
Frozone (mentioned)
God (mentioned)
Harrison Wells (indirectly mentioned)
Harry Wells (mentioned)
Henry Allen (mentioned)
Jay Garrick (mentioned)
Julie Greer (mentioned)
Hawkgirl (name seen)
Marty McFly (mentioned)
McSnurtle
Nora Allen (mentioned)
Olga
Green Arrow (name seen)
Randolf Morgan (mentioned)
Atom (name seen)

Teams and Organizations[edit | hide]

CC Jitters (beverages)
Central City Citizen (newspaper)
Central City Museum
Central City Police Department
- Anti-Metahuman Task Force (mentioned)
Central City Taxi
Channel 52 (vibe)
Dornfeld Painters
Iron Heights Penitentiary (mentioned)
Leawood Diamond Exchange
Luigi's (mentioned)
Payson Hotel
S.T.A.R. Labs
Team Flash
Trader Sam's

Events[edit | hide]

Nebula Award (mentioned)
Flashpoint (mentioned)
Conquering of the Speed Force (vibe)
- Massacre in Alchemy's Lair (mentioned)
- Execution on Infantino Street (vibe)
Search for Alchemy (mentioned)
Plunder Robberies
Hunt for HR Wells
Central City Gorilla Attack (mentioned)

Species[edit | hide]

Objects and Concepts[edit | hide]

Back to the Future (mentioned)
Breaches
- CFL Quark Matter
Electrode Halo
- Goldtooth
Forcefields
Girder
Holograms
Kid Flash Suit
Philosopher's Stone (mentioned)
Plunder Suit
Plunder's Rifle
Power-Dampeners
- Power-Dampening Cuffs
- Power-Dampening Necklace
Savitar Armor (vibe)
- Strange Metal (vibe)
The Flash Suit
The Future Ain't What It Used to Be (mentioned)
Time Travel (vibe)
- Temporal Wormholes (vibe)
Vibes

Locations[edit | hide]

Earth-1
- Earth
  - North America
    - United States of America
      - Missouri
        Central City
        Cisco Ramon's Apartment (mentioned)
        
        City Center
        CC Jitters (beverages)
        
        City Hall (name seen in flashback)
        
        Central City Police Precinct
        
        Gardener River
        Western Avenue Bridge
        
        Infantino Street (vibe)
        
        Leawood
        Leawood Diamond Exchange
        
        Luigi's (mentioned)
        
        Payson Hotel
        
        Richmond Heights
        Trader Sam's
        
        University Town
        S.T.A.R. Labs Museum
        Time Vault
        
        West House (pictured)
        
        West-Allen Loft
        
        Keystone City (mentioned)
        Iron Heights Penitentiary (mentioned)
      - Star City (mentioned)
Hell (mentioned)
Speed Force (mentioned)

Notes[edit | hide]

This episode takes place a month after The Present.

Gallery[edit | hide]

Vibing into the future

Promotional Images[edit | hide]

References[edit | hide]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 The Flash: Official Description For "Borrowing Problems From The Future"

The Flash
Season 1	Pilot (The Flash: 2014) • Fastest Man Alive • Things You Can't Outrun • Going Rogue • Plastique (The Flash) • The Flash Is Born • Power Outage • Flash vs. Arrow • The Man in the Yellow Suit • Revenge of the Rogues • The Sound and the Fury • Crazy for You • The Nuclear Man • Fallout (The Flash) • Out of Time (The Flash) • Rogue Time • Tricksters • All-Star Team Up • Who Is Harrison Wells? • The Trap • Grodd Lives • Rogue Air • Fast Enough
Season 2	The Man Who Saved Central City • Flash of Two Worlds • Family of Rogues • The Fury of Firestorm • The Darkness and the Light • Enter Zoom • Gorilla Warfare • Legends of Today • Running to Stand Still • Potential Energy • The Reverse-Flash Returns • Fast Lane • Welcome to Earth-2 • Escape from Earth-2 • King Shark • Trajectory • Flash Back • Versus Zoom • Back to Normal • Rupture • The Runaway Dinosaur • Invincible • The Race of His Life
Season 3	Flashpoint • Paradox • Magenta • The New Rogues • Monster (The Flash) • Shade • Killer Frost • Invasion! (The Flash) • The Present • Borrowing Problems from the Future • Dead or Alive • Untouchable • Attack on Gorilla City • Attack on Central City • The Wrath of Savitar • Into the Speed Force • Duet • Abra Kadabra • The Once and Future Flash • I Know Who You Are • Cause and Effect • Infantino Street • Finish Line
Season 4	The Flash Reborn • Mixed Signals • Luck Be a Lady • Elongated Journey Into Night • Girls Night Out • When Harry Met Harry... • Therefore I Am • Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3 • Don't Run • The Trial of The Flash • The Elongated Knight Rises • Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash • True Colors • Subject 9 • Enter Flashtime • Run, Iris, Run • Null and Annoyed • Lose Yourself • Fury Rogue • Therefore She Is • Harry and the Harrisons • Think Fast • We Are The Flash
Season 5	Nora • Blocked • The Death of Vibe • News Flash • All Doll'd Up • The Icicle Cometh • O Come, All Ye Thankful • What's Past Is Prologue • Elseworlds, Part 1 • The Flash & The Furious • Seeing Red (The Flash) • Memorabilia • Goldfaced • Cause and XS • King Shark vs. Gorilla Grodd • Failure Is an Orphan • Time Bomb (The Flash) • Godspeed • Snow Pack • Gone Rogue • The Girl with the Red Lightning • Legacy (The Flash)
Season 6	Into the Void • A Flash of the Lightning • Dead Man Running • There Will Be Blood • Kiss Kiss Breach Breach • License to Elongate • The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Part 1 • The Last Temptation of Barry Allen, Part 2 • Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Three • Marathon • Love Is a Battlefield • A Girl Named Sue • Grodd Friended Me • Death of the Speed Force • The Exorcism of Nash Wells • So Long and Goodnight • Liberation • Pay the Piper • Success Is Assured
Season 7	All's Wells That Ends Wells • The Speed of Thought • Mother • Central City Strong • Fear Me • The One with the Nineties • Growing Pains • The People v. Killer Frost • Timeless • Family Matters, Part 1 • Family Matters, Part 2 • Good-Bye Vibrations • Masquerade (The Flash) • Rayo de Luz • Enemy at the Gates • P.O.W. • Heart of the Matter, Part 1 • Heart of the Matter, Part 2
Season 8	Armageddon, Part 1 • Armageddon, Part 2 • Armageddon, Part 3 • Armageddon, Part 4 • Armageddon, Part 5 • Impulsive Excessive Disorder • Lockdown (The Flash) • The Fire Next Time • Phantoms • Reckless • Resurrection (The Flash) • Death Rises • Death Falls • Funeral for a Friend • Into the Still Force • The Curious Case of Bartholomew Allen • Keep It Dark • The Man in the Yellow Tie • Negative, Part 1 • Negative, Part 2
Season 9	Wednesday Ever After • Hear No Evil • Rogues of War • The Mask of the Red Death, Part 1 • The Mask of the Red Death, Part 2 • The Good, the Bad and the Lucky • Wildest Dreams • Partners in Time • It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To • A New World, Part 1: Reunions • A New World, Part 2: The Blues • A New World, Part 3: Changes • A New World, Part 4: Finale

[Synopsis-1] 1.0 ^1.1 The Flash: Official Description For "Borrowing Problems From The Future"

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+|titleref=<ref name="Synopsis">[https://flashtvnews.com/the-flash-official-description-for-borrowing-problems-from-the-future/27274 The Flash: Official Description For "Borrowing Problems From The Future"]</ref>
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-{{Quote|So imagine, okay, domino... each domino is a moment in time. One moment in time leads to the next, so as one domino falls, it hits the next, it hits the next, and the next, and the next, and so on, leading to the inevitable conclusion, and that is... the future.<br>And what happens if we alter certain events?<br>Well, you... you could conceivably change where you end up, but... but, Barry, if you would... So you could change the future, but you'd have to be very careful about which events... you alter.|[[H.R. Wells (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|H.R. Wells]] and [[Barry Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Barry Allen]]|Borrowing Problems from the Future}}
+{{Quote|So imagine, okay, domino... each domino is a moment in time. One moment in time leads to the next, so as one domino falls, it hits the next, it hits the next, and the next, and the next, and so on, leading to the inevitable conclusion, and that is... the future.<br>And what happens if we alter certain events?<br>Well, you... you could conceivably change where you end up, but... but, Barry, if you would... So you could change the future, but you'd have to be very careful about which events... you alter.|[[HR Wells (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|HR Wells]] and [[Barry Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Barry Allen]]|Borrowing Problems from the Future}}
 ==Synopsis==
-[[Barry Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Barry]] is tormented by his vision of the future where [[Iris West-Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Iris]] is murdered by [[Savitar (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Savitar]]. When a criminal named [[Jared Morillo (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Plunder]] shows up in [[Central City (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Central City]], Barry recalls the villain's presence in his vision of the future and fears that if he catches Plunder, it will cement Iris' fate. Confused about Barry's hesitation to stop Plunder, [[Wally West (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Wally]] decides to step in as Kid Flash. [[Caitlin Snow (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Caitlin]] offers [[Julian Albert (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Julian]] a job.<ref name="synopsis"/>
+[[Barry Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Barry]] is tormented by his vision of the future where [[Iris West-Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Iris]] is murdered by [[Savitar (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Savitar]]. When a criminal named [[Jared Morillo (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Plunder]] shows up in [[Central City (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Central City]], Barry recalls the villain's presence in his vision of the future and fears that if he catches Plunder, it will cement Iris' fate. Confused about Barry's hesitation to stop Plunder, [[Wally West (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Wally]] decides to step in as Kid Flash. [[Caitlin Snow (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Caitlin]] offers [[Julian Albert (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Julian]] a job.<ref name="Synopsis"/>
 ==Appearances==
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 **[[Cisco Ramon (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Cisco Ramon]]
 **[[Wally West (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Kid Flash (Wally West)]]
-**[[H.R. Wells (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|H.R. Wells]]
+**[[HR Wells (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|HR Wells]]
 **[[Joe West (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Joe West]]
 *[[Julian Albert (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Julian Albert]]
@@ Line 35: / Line 35: @@
 *[[Cynthia Reynolds (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|Gypsy]]
 *[[Jared Morillo (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Plunder (Jared Morillo)]]
-*[[Music Meister (Pre-Crisis)|Music Meister]] {{c|mentioned}}
+*[[Music Meister]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Savitar (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Savitar]] {{c|vibe}}
@@ Line 51: / Line 51: @@
 *[[Harry Wells (Earth-2: Pre-Crisis)|Harry Wells]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Henry Allen (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Henry Allen]] {{c|mentioned}}
-*[[Jay Garrick (Earth-3: Pre-Crisis)|Jay Garrick]] {{c|mentioned}}
+*[[Jay Garrick (Earth-3)|Jay Garrick]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Julie Greer (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Julie Greer]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Kendra Saunders (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Hawkgirl]] {{c|name seen}}
@@ Line 67: / Line 67: @@
 *[[Central City Museum (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Central City Museum]]
 *[[Central City Police Department (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Central City Police Department]]
-**[[Anti-Metahuman Task Force (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Anti-Metahuman Task Force]] {{c|mentioned}}
+**[[Metahuman Task Force (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Anti-Metahuman Task Force]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Central City Taxi (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Central City Taxi]]
 *[[Channel 52 (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Channel 52]] {{c|vibe}}
@@ Line 87: / Line 87: @@
 *[[Search for Alchemy (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Search for Alchemy]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Plunder Robberies (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Plunder Robberies]]
-*[[Chase of H.R. Wells (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Chase of H.R. Wells]]
+*[[Hunt for HR Wells (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Hunt for HR Wells]]
 *[[Central City Gorilla Attack (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Central City Gorilla Attack]] {{c|mentioned}}
@@ Line 95: / Line 95: @@
 *[[Metahumans (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Metahumans (Earth-1)]]
 *[[Metahumans (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|Metahumans (Earth-19)]]
-*[[Time Remnants (Speed Force)|Time Remannts]] {{c|vibe}}
+*[[Time Remnants (Speed Force)|Time Remnants]] {{c|vibe}}
 *[[Wikipedia:Turtle|Turtles]]
 ===Objects and Concepts===
 *[[Wikipedia:Back to the Future|Back to the Future]] {{c|mentioned}}
-*[[Breaches (Pre-Crisis)|Breaches]]
+*[[Breaches]]
-**[[CFL Quark Matter (Pre-Crisis)|CFL Quark Matter]]
+**[[CFL Quark Matter]]
-*[[Forcefields (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Forcefields]]
+*[[Electrode Halo (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Electrode Halo]]
+**[[Goldtooth (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Goldtooth]]
+*[[Forcefields]]
 *[[Girder (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Girder]]
-*[[Holograms (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Holograms (Earth-1)]]
+*[[Holograms]]
-*[[Holograms (Earth-19: Pre-Crisis)|Holograms (Earth-19)]]
 *[[Kid Flash Suits (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Kid Flash Suit]]
 *[[Philosopher's Stone (Speed Force)|Philosopher's Stone]] {{c|mentioned}}
 *[[Plunder Suit (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Plunder Suit]]
 *[[Plunder's Rifle (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Plunder's Rifle]]
-*[[Power Dampeners (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Power Dampeners]]
+*[[Power-Dampeners (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Power-Dampeners]]
 **[[Power-Dampening Cuffs (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Power-Dampening Cuffs]]
 **[[Power-Dampening Necklace (Earth-1: Pre-Crisis)|Power-Dampening Necklace]]
@@ Line 119: / Line 120: @@
 *[[Time Travel]] {{c|vibe}}
 **[[Temporal Wormholes]] {{c|vibe}}
-*[[Vibes (Pre-Crisis)|Vibes]]
+*[[Vibes]]
 ===Locations===
@@ Line 167: / Line 168: @@
 ==References==
 {{Reflist}}
-{{Season 3 (The Flash: 2014)}}
+{{The Flash (2014)}}