"Impulsive Excessive Disorder"[1] is the sixth and midseason premiere episode of the eighth season of The Flash, and the one-hundred-fifty-seventh episode overall. It aired on March 9, 2022.
This episode marks the beginning of Interlude II.
“ | Bart, listen to me. Nobody is perfect. You are. That is not true. Yes, it is. You knew when to come back here. You got the flash drive. You even helped Grandpa Joe and Grammy Cecile. You... Yeah, you're perfect. I'm a complete failure. No... No, you're not. I failed a lot too. |
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Synopsis[edit | hide | hide all]
Picking up where Season 7 left off, after returning home from a visit for their parent's vow renewal, Bart and Nora quickly realize that things are not exactly as they left them. The duo race to repair any fissures in the timeline and restore everything back to the way it is supposed to be.[2]
Appearances[edit | hide]
Characters[edit | hide]
Protagonists[edit | hide]
Antagonists[edit | hide]
- Trickster (mentioned)
- Eobard Thawne (mentioned)
- Godspeed Army (flashback)
- Godspeed (flashback)
- Zoom (name seen)
- Lex Luthor (mentioned)
- Royal Flush Gang
- Sterling Brooks
Other Characters[edit | hide]
- Cecile Horton's Ex-Husband (mentioned)
- Central City Police Department
- Daisy Korber
- Fred Chyre (mentioned)
- Hawkshaw
- Elon Musk (mentioned)
- Firestorm (name seen)
- Francine West (indirectly mentioned)
- Gideon (mentioned)
- God (mentioned)
- Judge Hankerson (mentioned)
- Hendrik Lorentz (name seen)
- Henri Poincaré (name seen)
- Isaac (name seen)
- Jesse Quick (name seen)
- Marcus (mentioned)
- Mark Blaine (mentioned)
- McFly (mentioned)
- Mason Bridge (name seen)
- Meena Dhawan (mentioned)
- Newspaper
- Abraham Froman (name seen)
- Anthony Bellows (name seen)
- Anthony Bellows Jr. (name seen)
- Athena Baros (name seen)
- Bruce Manthis (name seen)
- Elizabeth Gutierrez (name seen)
- Fisk Ciney (name seen)
- Jess Bebe (name seen)
- Mike (pictured)
- Morgan Harvey (name seen)
- Norman Yates (name seen)
- Vanessa O'Grady (name seen)
- Atom (name seen)
- Rose (mentioned)
- Sophus Lie (name seen)
- Nora Allen (Speed Force) (flashback)
- Team Flash
- Kid Flash (name seen)
Teams and Organizations[edit | hide]
- Big Belly Burger
- CC Daily
- CC Jitters
- Central City Diamonds (pictured)
- Central City Explorer (newspaper)
- Central City High School (name seen)
- Central City Hospital
- Central City News Daily (name seen)
- Central City Pay Parking
- Central City Picture News (newspaper)
- Central City Police Department
- Central City Sharks (name seen)
- Central City Weekly News (name seen)
- Central Gazette (newspaper)
- Channel 52 (television)
- Fast Track Labs
- Godspeed Army (flashback)
- Harrison's Jewelers
- Mornings in Central City (name seen)
- National Free Press (newspaper)
- Nazis (mentioned)
- O'Shaughnessy's
- Royal Flush Gang
- S.T.A.R. Labs
- Starling City Rockets (pictured)
- Team Flash
- The Central Chronicle (name seen)
- Utopia Casino
Events[edit | hide]
- Godspeed War (flashback)
- Assault on Central City (flashback)
- Sacking at CC Jitters (newspaper)
- Invasion of Tibet (newspaper)
- Particle Accelerator Explosion (flashback)
- Robbery of Harrison's Jewelers
- Fixed Points
- Singularity (mentioned)
- World War II (mentioned)
- Armageddon (mentioned)
Species[edit | hide]
- Angels (mentioned)
- Artificial Intelligences (mentioned)
- Humans (Earth-3)
- Humans (Earth-Prime)
- Metahumans (Earth-3)
- Metahumans (Earth-Prime)
Objects and Concepts[edit | hide]
- ATOM Exosuit
- Cosmic Treadmill
- Firestorm Suit
- Frost Suit
- Godspeed Suits (flashback)
- Impulse Suit
- Jesse Quick Suit
- Kid Flash Suit
- Mecha-Vibe Suit
- Royal Flush Gang Suits
- Temporal Wormholes
- The Flash Suits (Earth-3) (flashback)
- The Flash Suit (Earth-1)
- Particle Eradication Distributor (flashback)
- Time Aberrations
- Time Wave
- XS Suit
Locations[edit | hide]
- Earth-Prime
- Earth
- Milan (mentioned)
- La Verità Rustica (mentioned)
- Paris (mentioned)
- Tibet (mentioned)
- United States of America
- Missouri
- Starling City (name seen)
- Washington, D.C. (pictured)
- White House (pictured)
- Milan (mentioned)
- Earth
- Cosmic Plane
- Speed Force (flashback)
- Forces of Nature (flashback)
- Hell (mentioned)
Notes[edit | hide]
- The majority of the episode takes place on December 31, 2013, and during the midnight of January 1, 2014. The ending, however, takes place on January 1, 2022.
Gallery[edit | hide]
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Impulse and XS in 2013