On this season of The CW's The Flash, Barry Allen has managed to deal with a lot of difficult situations. Not only is there a new big bad guy in town, Zoom, but Harrison Wells' double from Earth-2 is now around, more metahumans appear every week and his girlfriend, Patty, left him after he refused to admit his secret identity to her.
Things are about to get even worse for Barry and Team Flash, though. A new clip from Tuesday night's episode shows Barry dealing with a villain who can shoot fire from his hands. However, while the Flash is busy fighting, Harrison Wells is creating some sort of device that channels, perhaps even steals, Barry's speed force powers.
At the end of the clip, Wells mentions that his kidnapped daughter, Jesse, will soon come home, but will that be by helping Barry become faster, or will Wells use those powers to try and save her himself?
However, there's something key in this clip that comic book fans have already caught onto: the name of Wells' daughter is Jesse. In the comics, there's a character named Jesse Quick, a female speedster. What if Wells plans on giving these stolen powers to his daughter? Whatever the case, it's hard to guess what Earth-2 Wells will do next.
"Essentially, at his heart, this is a decent man who has been put in an impossible situation," said The Flash executive producer Andrew Kreisberg to Entertainment Weekly when asked about Wells. "Last season, he was an indecent man who had been put in an impossible situation. In some cases, him working cross purposes with our team is familiar to last season, but it's such a different person and it's coming from such a different place. How it ultimately plays out — whether Wells ultimately decides to follow through with Zoom or whether he switches his allegiances again — is part of the enjoyment of watching the show."
Of course, the Jesse Quick theory is just one theory of many, especially on a series that already has its share of speedsters. We also haven't yet seen Wally West get his powers, although his character in the comic books starts out as Kid Flash and later becomes the Flash.
Meanwhile, Reverse Flash is also still out there, as Barry had to release him from captivity on last week's episode to save the integrity of the timeline, as well as to save Cisco's life.
The Flash airs on Tuesdays on The CW at 8 p.m. EST.
