In “The Flash” season 3 finale, Barry Allen sacrificed himself to the Speed Force, and Team Flash will be forced to move on without him in season 4. It’s already been confirmed that the season premiere will pick up six months after the season finale, and Team Flash will still be protecting Central City from metahumans.
Barry’s absence will hit the team hard, but perhaps no one will be more affected by the loss of Barry than Iris West. In Barry’s absence Iris will step up in a big way to help the team, and Candice Patton recently told TV Guide that we’ll be seeing a very different Iris.
“She’s definitely suppressing a lot of emotions about Barry’s absence and him leaving and not really consulting her,” Patton tells us. “She’s forced to deal with that anger and resentment and abandonment by kind of focusing on protecting Central City…We’re seeing a very different Iris, almost a very hardened Iris.”
Candice Patton also added that Barry and Iris will have to work on their issues once Barry returns.
“They have communication issues and so eventually I think we’re gonna try and see them work through those.”
“The Flash” season 4 will premiere on Tuesday, October 10.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry’s life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. But when Barry used his extraordinary abilities to travel back in time and save his mother’s life, he inadvertently created an alternate timeline known as Flashpoint; a phenomenon that gave birth to the villainous speed god known as Savitar, and changed the lives of Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Wally West (Keiyan Lonsdale) forever.
With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), his lifelong best friend and love interest Iris West (Candice Patton), and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs — Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), C.S.I Julian Albert (Tom Felton), and an Earth-19 novelist named H.R. Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) — Barry continues to protect the people of Central City from the meta-humans that threaten it.
Based on the characters from DC, THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “Supergirl”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Arrow,” “The Flash”), Sarah Schechter (“Arrow,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) and Todd Helbing (“Black Sails”).
