After the explosive fight when Barry and iris had he sends Nora back to the future alone, unwilling to risk her being manipulated any further by Eobard Thawne. Iris, devastated and furious, defies him and travels to 2049 to retrieve their daughter—determined to prove Barry wrong and hold her family together.

But when Iris arrives, it’s too late.

Nora is gone—not because the universe punished them, but because the timeline has changed. Every mission she joined, every bond she formed, every villain she helped defeat… it all altered the fabric of reality. That version of Nora—the daughter who cried in Iris’s arms, who looked up to Barry, who longed to be a hero—no longer exists. She’s been overwritten by the changes she helped make.

Iris comes home alone.

And Barry was right: Thawne played Nora from the start. The emotional connection, the lessons, the bonding—it was all part of his long game. He used Nora’s need for family to manipulate time, break free, and vanish without a trace. Again.

Now, with Nora gone and the truth finally exposed, Barry and Iris face the unbearable silence of their broken home. Grief divides where love used to unite. Trust, already hanging by a thread, snaps under the weight of guilt and blame.

Barry can’t forgive Iris for going behind his back. Iris can’t forgive Barry for giving up on their daughter. Neither of them knows how to keep moving forward without her.

And when Barry sets the signed divorce papers on the kitchen table, Iris doesn’t stop him.