Hunter Zolomon was easter-egged earlier in the season. Here’s our suggestions on who this Jay Garrick may be: 1. Jay Garrick from Earth-2 & Hunter Zolomon from Earth-1, if not more. Us, the audience, has the benefit of knowing there is at least two Jay Garricks. What they don’t know, and this is something that the audience knows, is that this Jay Garrick is not the one that was helping them. Team Flash know that Jay Garrick is Zoom thanks to Cisco’s vibes. So now we know why Zoom is after Barry’s speed so vehemently, but it leaves us with more questions and riddles surrounding Jay Garrick. Although the blue lightning indicates that it is having an overbearing effect on his body.
Educated guess? It is because Jay Garrick/Zoom is a Speedster and his body is capable of processing the V-9 and the temporary connection it gives to the Speedforce. This begs the question as to why Zoom hasn’t been obliterated like Trajectory was. The Flash is yellow, Reverse-Flash is red and Zoom blue but now it is apparent that Zoom’s lightning is blue due to the fact that he is using V-9. One would have been very sure earlier in the season that Zoom’s blue speed trails were merely a way to distinguish him during Speedster fights. When she overdosed on V-9 however, her body could not handle it and she was turned to a pile of goo… but not before her speed lightning turned blue. Harmon stole the formula for V-9 from Caitlin Snow and used it to gain her speed. Trajectory was not naturally a Speedster, she is the scientist Eliza Harmon. We know this due to what happened Trajectory. It seems that Zoom is using Velocity-9 to keep him from dying as he tries to steal Barry’s speed to cure himself of his terminal illness. This condition is also affecting Zoom, who we now know to be a version of Jay Garrick. The Velocity-9 serum that Caitlin & Earth-2 Wells concocted was returning Jay to his speedy ways and also stemming the condition afflicting him… but only temporary. If you recall, Jay Garrick was slowly dying from a degenerative cell disease that had been affecting him since he lost his speed. A twist like this is not really surprising given the doppelgänger theme The Flash has been toying with these season and it is a theory that we proposed in a sense before… but more on that later.įor most of this episode of The Flash, it could have been passed off as the typical villain of the week filler episode that often occur every once in a while but in the demise of our first female speedster, Trajectory, we found out the reason why Zoom is trying to steal Barry Allen’s speed!
The mid-season finale dropped the bomb on us that Zoom was in fact Jay Garrick, but not the Jay Garrick who was helping Team Flash, another version of Jay Garrick and the whereabouts of Earth-1 Jay Garrick/Hunter Zolomon are unknown. The Flash returned last night to the CW network and it did so with typical good form and while it revealed why Zoom is after Barry’s speed, it didn’t give us any further insight into the Zoom conundrum!