The third season of The Flash premiered on The CW on October 4, 2016, and concluded on May 23, 2017. It was announced on March 11, 2016.
The season aired on Tuesday nights at 8:00 p.m. prior to No Tomorrow in the fall, DC's Legends of Tomorrow in the winter, and iZombie in the spring.
It became available on DVD and Blu-ray on September 5, 2017.
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Until recently, 26 year-old Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. He was secretly in love with his best friend, Iris West (Candice Patton), daughter of Barry’s surrogate father, Detective Joe West (Jesse L. Martin). Joe adopted Barry fifteen years ago after Barry’s mother was murdered and Barry’s father, Henry Allen, received a life sentence for the crime – though Barry always maintained that a mysterious "Man in Yellow" was responsible. Then the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator exploded, creating a dark matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with superspeed and making him the fastest man alive. But Barry wasn’t the only person who was given extraordinary abilities that night. The dark matter also created meta-humans, many of whom have wreaked havoc with their powers on the city. With the help of his scientist friends at S.T.A.R Labs, Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker), Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), and Dr. Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh), Barry began a journey as The Flash to protect the people of Central City from these powerful new threats. With this team, Barry was finally able to defeat the Man in Yellow, aka The Reverse Flash, but in their epic battle, a Singularity was ripped in space and time that threatened to destroy them all.
After successfully closing the Singularity from destroying Central City, Barry thinks he’s seen the worst… but the arrival of Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears) reveals that the Singularity actually opened portals to an alternate Earth, known as Earth-2, which is being terrorized by a formidable evil speedster named Zoom. As Zoom sends an army of Earth-Two meta-humans to Earth-1 to defeat Barry, he receives unexpected assistance from the Earth-Two doppelganger of his former mentor, Harrison Wells. Meanwhile, Cisco discovers that he, too, was affected by the dark matter of the Particle Accelerator and must come to terms with his newfound powers. As Barry struggles to juggle life as a hero, he opens his heart to Patty Spivot (Shantel VanSanten), a spunky detective paired with Joe West, but realizes just how hard it is to find happiness when the lives of everyone you love are at stake. He finds some solace in the companionship of his father, Henry Allen, who was freed from a wrongful life sentence... but when Zoom kills Henry before Barry’s eyes, Barry’s newfound stability is shattered.
Blinded by anger, Barry unwittingly plays into Zoom’s game and uncovers the evil speedster’s true goal: to destroy all Earths in the multiverse. In the race of his life, Barry ultimately gets the upper hand against Zoom and defeats his nemesis. But unable to celebrate victory, Barry makes a world-shaking decision and speeds back in time to the night his mother died to stop Reverse Flash from killing her, irrevocably changing his past and redetermining his future.
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| No. in series | No. in season | Episode title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 47 | 1 | "Flashpoint" | Story by: Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg
Teleplay by: Andrew Kreisberg & Brooke Roberts |
Jesse Warn | October 4, 2016 |
| 48 | 2 | "Paradox" | Aaron & Todd Helbing | Ralph Hemecker | October 11, 2016 |
| 49 | 3 | "Magenta" | Judalina Neira & David Kob | Armen V. Kevorkian | October 18, 2016 |
| 50 | 4 | "The New Rogues" | Benjamin Raab & Deric A. Hughes | Stefan Pleszczynski | October 25, 2016 |
| 51 | 5 | "Monster" | Zack Stentz | C. Kim Miles | November 1, 2016 |
| 52 | 6 | "Shade" | Emily Silver & David Kob | J.J. Makaro | November 15, 2016 |
| 53 | 7 | "Killer Frost" | Story by: Judalina Neira
Teleplay by: Andrew Kreisberg & Brooke Roberts |
Kevin Smith | November 22, 2016 |
| 54 | 8 | "Invasion!" | Story by: Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg
Teleplay by: Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing |
Dermott Downs | November 29, 2016 |
| 55 | 9 | "The Present" | Story by: Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing
Teleplay by: Lauren Certo |
Rachel Talalay | December 6, 2016 |
| 56 | 10 | "Borrowing Problems from the Future" | Grainne Godfree & David Kob | Millicent Shelton | January 24, 2017 |
| 57 | 11 | "Dead or Alive" | Story by: Benjamin Raab & Deric A. Hughes
Teleplay by: Zack Stentz |
Harry Jierjian | January 31, 2017 |
| 58 | 12 | "Untouchable" | Brooke Roberts & Judalina Neira | Rob Hardy | February 7, 2017 |
| 59 | 13 | "Attack on Gorilla City" | Story by: Andrew Kreisberg
Teleplay by: Aaron Helbing & David Kob |
Dermott Downs | February 21, 2017 |
| 60 | 14 | "Attack on Central City" | Story By: Todd Helbing
Teleplay by: Benjamin Raab & Deric A. Hughes |
February 28, 2017 | |
| 61 | 15 | "The Wrath of Savitar" | Andrew Kreisberg & Andrew Wilder | Alexandra La Roche | March 7, 2017 |
| 62 | 16 | "Into the Speed Force" | Brooke Roberts & Judalina Neira | Gregory Smith | March 14, 2017 |
| 63 | 17 | "Duet" | Story by: Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg
Teleplay by: Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing |
Dermott Downs | March 21, 2017 |
| 64 | 18 | "Abra Kadabra" | Story by: Andrew Kreisberg
Teleplay by: Brooke Roberts & David Kob |
Nina Lopez-Corrado | March 28, 2017 |
| 65 | 19 | "The Once and Future Flash" | Carina Adly MacKenzie | Tom Cavanagh | April 25, 2017 |
| 66 | 20 | "I Know Who You Are" | Bronwen Clark & Joshua V. Gilbert | Hanelle Culpepper | May 2, 2017 |
| 67 | 21 | "Cause and Effect" | Judalina Neira & Lauren Certo | David McWhirter | May 9, 2017 |
| 68 | 22 | "Infantino Street" | Story by: Andrew Kreisberg
Teleplay by: Grainne Godfree |
Michael Allowitz | May 16, 2017 |
| 69 | 23 | "Finish Line" | Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing | David McWhirter | May 23, 2017 |
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