"Failure Is an Orphan"[1] is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-eighth episode overall. It aired on March 12, 2019.
| “ | I just want to talk. There's no more talking. Every time one of you metas comes near the rest of us, good people get hurt. This is what you all deserve. Does that include Grace? Ambres hasn't told you. Grace. She's a meta. The night the satellite crashed, she was hit with a piece of shrapnel inflected with Dark Matter. That's... that's why she's in a coma, and now it's changing her. That's a lie. And that's why Ambres told us where to find you. She's afraid. She's afraid you're going to do the one thing you can't come back from. I know how much you care about Grace. You're trying to make the world a better place for her. She didn't choose to be a meta, but she is. Does that mean she deserves to die? No. I would never hurt Grace. Then you'd let her grow up in a world of fear. Where there's someone out there hurting people like her. The cure, it will heal Grace and you. And why should I believe you, Flash? Because I'm a father too. My daughter, I love her more than I ever thought possible. I would do anything to make the world a better place for her. And I think you would too. So do it. |
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Synopsis[edit | hide | hide all]
With the metahuman cure ready to use, Barry and Team Flash must figure out a way to subdue Cicada long enough to take it. Killer Frost steps in to help with the plan. Meanwhile, Joe eases back into work, and Nora isn't happy about the way her dad plans to stop Cicada.[1]
Appearances[edit | hide]
Characters[edit | hide]
Protagonists[edit | hide]
Antagonists[edit | hide]
- Plastique (mentioned)
- Cicada's Victims
- Raelene Sharp (pictured)
- Vanessa Jansen (pictured)
- William Lang (pictured)
- Cicadas (mentioned)
- Harrison Wells (Eobard Thawne)
- Magenta (Frankie Kane) (mentioned)
- Cicada II
- Grace Gibbons (mentioned)
- Grodd (mentioned)
- Zoom (mentioned)
- Leonard Snart (mentioned)
- Amunet Black (mentioned)
- Cicada (Orlin Dwyer)
- Acid Master (Philip Master)
- Savitar (mentioned)
- Vanessa Ambres
Other Characters[edit | hide]
- Anthro the First (mentioned)
- Darius (mentioned)
- Esther (mentioned)
- God (mentioned)
- Jenna West (mentioned)
- Kamandi the Last (mentioned)
- Marlize DeVoe (mentioned)
- Norvock (mentioned)
- Renee Adler (mentioned)
- Robertson (mentioned)
- King Shark (mentioned)
- Wally West (mentioned)
Teams and Organizations[edit | hide]
- CC Jitters
- Central City Citizen
- Central City Hospital
- Central City Picture News (article)
- Central City Police Department
- Central City University
- Iron Heights Penitentiary
- McNider U (mentioned)
- S.T.A.R. Labs
- Flash Museum (mentioned)
- Team Flash
Events[edit | hide]
Species[edit | hide]
- Humans (Earth-1)
- Humans (Earth-221)
- Metahumans
- Sharks (mentioned)
Objects and Concepts[edit | hide]
- Anti-Dampening Array (concept)
- Breaches
- CFL Quark Matter
- Cicada Suits
- Kukris
- Cure Injector
- Dark Matter
- Energy Guns
- Enlightenment Satellites (mentioned)
- Holo-Cube
- Inter-Dimensional Extrapolator
- Lightning Dagger
- Memory Machine (mentioned)
- Metahuman Cure
- Negative Tachyons (mentioned)
- Journal
- Power-Dampener
- Power-Dampening Cuffs
- Sally the Satellite (mentioned)
- Speed Force Bazooka (mentioned)
- The Flash Suit
- Time Language
- XS Suits
- XS-presso
Locations[edit | hide]
- Earth-1
- Earth
- Tibet (mentioned)
- North America
- Earth
- Speed Force (mentioned)
Notes[edit | hide]
- In It's My Party and I'll Die If I Want To, it is said that this episode takes place four years prior, placing this episode on March 14, 2019.
Gallery[edit | hide]
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Cicada attacks Orlin Dwyer
