Arrow season 2 episode 8 vodlocker
Barry shows Oliver the future newspaper and laments about history being changed, but Oliver tells him the needs to stop beating himself up. This leads to some Barry and Oliver bonding time, during which they visit Eobard’s chamber of secrets at S.T.A.R. Oliver refuses to leave Barry behind, so Diggle tells Oliver he’s fine to stay, too. Because of Future Barry’s recording about Present Barry’s trustworthiness, Barry decides to hang back while the team heads out to find the president. News that the Dominators kidnapped the president interrupts this little fight. (See my colleague Shirley Li’s recap of the last Legends of Tomorrow episode for more information on those pesky headaches). However, Martin has another temporal-headache thing and decides to go visit his home, where he discovers he has a daughter now.
Barry comes clean to Martin, Jax, and Oliver about Flashpoint, and they all agree to keep Flashpoint and the recording a secret (ugh!) because they don’t want to distract everyone. In the message, Barry from 40 years in the future tells Rip Hunter not to trust Present Barry because he messed with the timeline.
Before they start training with Supergirl, Martin and Jax pull Barry and Oliver aside to play them the message from Future Barry they found on the Waverider.
It has the benefit of moving things along quickly, but might be confusing to viewers who don’t watch all three shows. If there’s one thing I was surprised by, it’s how the episode was willing to engage with plotlines from the other shows and not spend too much time giving context.