Slade ended up rebuilding the device without her after regaining his memories. He is stopped by Helena, who explains that they've met before in a different version of events. She knows that (because of how the machine works) on July 6, 2009, Slade will regain his memories of what happened before.īarry continues living the new version of life, but when people around the world start experiencing large-scale FMS (false memories shared by lots of people), Barry goes to the address he'd been at before to investigate. This time around, she refuses to join Slade's team and goes into hiding. On July 6, 2009, she sends herself back in time to 2007. Helena is horrified by Slade's lack of ethics. When Reed tries to kill himself, Slade goes back in time and undoes it. Helena and Slade continue to perform experiments on Reed. When Slade realized this, Slade sent himself back in time to become a tech titan. In another reality, he was originally Helena's lab assistant, and they'd accidentally sent someone back in time.

With it, you can jump to memories where you felt strong emotions. Slade explains that they've made a time machine. But then it all happens again without Reed's death, while Helena still retains memories of the previous version of events. Helena watches Slade kill their test subject, Reed. By 2009, they've discovered that stopping the heart can make memories more vibrant. Together, they work on research to re-activate, replicate and enhance memories. She's invited to join Marcus Slade, a wealthy tech founder, who is developing a cure for Alzheimer's. Meanwhile, back in 2007, Helena is an academic doing Alzheimer's research. He starts reliving everything, except this time he's able to prevent the hit-and-run that killed Meghan, and the remembers the other version of his life as a faded memory. There, Barry gets strapped into a chair and transported back in time to 2007. As Barry investigates, he goes to an address to learn the truth about FMS. He meets a woman suffering from False Memory Syndrome (FMS), an affliction that causes people to have memories of an alternate reality or former life (what they believe is fake memories). It's the day before the 10th anniversary of his daughter Meghan's death. In 2018, Barry Sutton is a detective in the NYPD.

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