The Flash season 5 episode 6 "The Icicle Cometh" was largely focused upon the on-going mystery regarding Caitlin Snow's father, Dr. Thomas Snow. One of the season's major subplots centered around the idea, first proposed in season 4, that Caitlin's father was somehow aware of her powers and her Killer Frost persona when she was a child, suggesting that Caitlin was not truly a metahuman. There was also evidence that Thomas Snow had faked his death and gone into hiding, while leaving clues behind that only Caitlin would be able to understand.
While Barry Allen and Cisco Ramon helped Caitlin with tracking down her father's whereabouts, the rest of Team Flash searched for a lead on the identity of the metahuman serial killer Cicada. Destined to become the most infamous of The Flash's many enemies in the future, Cicada has killed two metahuman villains so far this season and injured Cisco Ramon to the point that he's effectively been forced to retire as Vibe.
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At this point, viewers know more about Cicada than Team Flash, with Cicada having been shown in previous episodes to be both a factory worker and a father, whose daughter is in a coma. Despite all the answers episode 6 presents, it also offers up many questions. Here are some of the biggest questions fans are discussing following "The Icicle Cometh."
Will The Flash Have More Medical Metahumans In The Future?
The events of "The Icicle Cometh" revealed that Dr. Thomas Snow, like his daughter, had the metahuman ability to lower the temperature around him and a dissociative personality. In both cases, their metagenes were triggered by a gene therapy that Thomas had created to treat his and Caitlin's ALS. This marks the first time in the reality of the Arrowverse that audiences have seen metagenes triggered, accidentally or intentionally, by a medical treatment rather than exposure to energized dark matter. Since there are many characters at DC Comics who acquired superpowers because of a medical experiment (including Beast Boy from Titans), this suggests another avenue, in addition to The Flash's meta-tech, which could bring about more superpowered characters in the future.
What Was Icicle's Big Plan?
The events of "The Icicle Cometh" also reveal that Caitlin's parents intentionally sealed Dr. Thomas Snow away in a secret lab near the North Pole for fear of what his other persona might do to their daughter. Though his treatment was able to prevent Caitlin from developing ALS, all Thomas could do for himself was stop the disease's progression. This all helped to keep Icicle from becoming a threat, since Thomas' illness affected him as well. Still, it does seem unlikely that Icicle would cool his heels (no pun intended) for two decades just hoping that Caitlin would find him and offer to cure his ALS using her own cells.
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On the other hand, it seems safe to assume, much as Killer Frost seems to lack the scientific knowledge and training that Caitlin Snow has, that Icicle wouldn't have the ability to create a cure for his ALS or silence Thomas forever on his own. The episode also confirmed that Icicle became the dominant personality and that Thomas was unable to reassert control. This begs the question: what sinister plans did Icicle have before he was trapped that prompted Caitlin's parents to seal him away in the first place? And what will he do now that he is free, albeit still physically limited by his illness?
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Why Hasn't Cisco Cold-Proofed Flash's Costume Yet?
It has been known since almost the first episode of The Flash that intense cold is Barry Allen's Achilles' Heel. After all, cold is caused by a lack of molecular motion, and what good is a speedster if their molecules can't move? It was this logic that led Cisco Ramon to construct a Cold Gun that slowed molecular motion just in case Barry Allen ever became corrupted by his power. It's also what made career criminal Leonard Snart Barry Allen's most dangerous enemy after he acquired the Cold Gun and reinvented himself as the Arrowverse's Captain Cold.
Given that, it's a wonder that Cisco hasn't seen fit to try and alter Barry's costume in such a way as to better protect him from intense cold, particularly after he gave Barry a much-ballyhooed suit upgrade in season 4. The battle with Icicle in "The Icicle Cometh" revealed that, while Cisco may have come up with a way to have the suit inflate into a life-raft if Barry gets thrown into the water, he and Ryan Choi (the inventor of Barry Allen's season 5 costume) never saw fit to protect Barry from his greatest weakness. The Flash and XS are helpless after they knowingly run into an area where Icicle has lowered the temperature to near Absolute Zero. Even Icicle has to laugh at this, after the rest of Team Flash shows up and proves equally useless, saying "You people are not as smart as I thought."
What Is The Deal With Cicada's Wound?
In addition to unveiling the true origins of Killer Frost and Thomas Snow's other identity, "The Icicle Cometh" also revealed a good deal of information about Cicada. His real name was established as Orlin Gibbons and it was confirmed that his daughter, Grace, was injured on the night of The Enlightenment. It was also explained that Orlin has a deep hatred of metahumans, blaming them for his daughter being trapped in a coma.
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The only question that remains regarding Cicada involves the wound in his shoulder and how it is connected to his dagger and his daughter. Previous episodes have seen Cicada refusing treatment for his open wound and this episode sees his wound getting worse even as he claims that he is becoming stronger with every metahuman he kills. If he is anything like his comic book counterpart, it's likely that Cicada may be hoping to use the power he is taking to heal his daughter, much as the comic book Cicada killed to gather the power need to resurrect his dead wife.
Why Is Doctor Ambres Helping Cicada?
Dr. Ambres was the pediatrician monitoring Grace Gibbons' condition in the final scene of "The Death of Vibe". That episode revealed that she knew about Cicada's wound, asking him if she could take a look at it to determine if it was getting better or worse. It was also hinted that she knew something about Orlin Gibbons' activities as Cicada, as she told him he had to give up what he was doing, though it was unclear if she meant being Cicada or not having his wound properly treated.
"The Icicle Cometh" confirmed that Dr. Ambres knew about Orlin Gibbons being Cicada and suggested that she shares his hatred of metahumans, complaining about how many patients she's treated because of "those metas out there." Still, it's quite a leap to go from complaining about people with superpowers making your job more difficult and abandoning the Hippocratic Oath to aid and abet a serial-killer. This suggests there is more to Dr. Ambres helping Cicada than simple hatred... but what is it?
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