Last season's finale teased that Sue Dearbon would be showing up this season, however the new show runner Eric Wallace has confirmed that she'll debut in the latter portion of the season, after the crossover event Crisis on Infinite Earths. No casting has yet been announced. He did also mention that there is potential for Ralph and Sue to be spun off into their own show, which is exciting to think that a beloved more obscure DC hero has enough goodwill to possibly lead a TV series.
However, clips and set photographs of Ralph reveal him in action as Elongated Man and even seemingly in front of the Central City Police Department with new chief Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) behind him. So we'll have to see where Ralph's plotlines go this season.
So, the debut episode of Season 6 begins to set up the season. The show runner has mentioned that they will be doing two main plotlines, one before Crisis and one afterward.
The cast and crew teased that the episode would pick up right where the previous finale left off, and that's true, but there's shortly a time jump to the future. Barry (Grant Gustin) apprehends a Godspeed lookalike, with Cisco (Carlos Valdes) mentioning that several of these doppelgangers have been appearing lately. Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) finds her trying to bring out her metahuman alter ego Killer Frost troublesome as she tries to help console her fellow scientist Ramsey Rosso (Sendhil Ramamurthy) who will become the Season 6, Part 1 Big Bad Bloodwork, who has lost his mother.
Looking for a tub that her father threw out, Iris (Candice Patton) is nearly sucked into a black hole that mysteriously opened. These begin to appear around Central City with Team Flash having to find out what's causing them and how to stop them.
Ralph is back this season with dialogue confirming he went to Opal City for a missing persons case, "a summer spent rubbing Rolexes with the wealthy elite..." He was looking for leads on the disappearance of Sue Dearbon, mentioning that her parents seemed desperate to find their daughter. From what it sounds like, Sue's case is ongoing, but we know we're still in for a wait before we actually see her. But it is confirmed that the Arrowverse Sue will still come from a wealthy background, just as her original comics counterpart.
Later, Ralph tricks Killer Frost into a talk, trying to get her to admit to why she hasn't been helping Caitlin, and later he and Killer Frost go out to help evacuate part of Central City when a black hole appears.
The episode plays so neatly with threads left from the last season that it feels more like a continuation rather than a new start, even with a new show runner. Of course, it should, but there's typically been some major event going on with The Flash to shake up the status quo, but really it's just Team Flash continuing on. Which, really, is probably good as the end of the episodes sees the return of the Monitor (LaMonica Garrett) who reveals that the Crisis that the Flash disappears in will now be happening much sooner than they thought.
Also, there's a long-overdue use of a particular song by Queen.
Viewers in the US may view "Into the Void" at no charge during a limited availability window on the CW website and app. With the current licensing agreement, the entire sixth season of The Flash will be available on Netflix by June 2020. Digital versions of the episodes may be purchased on iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, Vudu, Google Play and other retailers of digital video content. Blu-Ray and DVD copies of the season are expected to be available for sale in or by September, 2020.
Non-US viewers should check their local listings, the websites of the channels that air The Flash, and digital video retailers.
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