Jesse L. Martin Says Team Flash Has To Push Through Their Personal Loss In Season 4 Premiere

The Flash actor Jesse L. Martin says the season will begin with a team struggling to [...]

By Russ Burlingame

The Flash actor Jesse L. Martin says the season will begin with a team struggling to compartmentalize their personal loss and baggage in the service of a greater good -- filling the void left behind when Barry sacrificed himself to the Speed Force at the end of season 3.

The actor, whose character is something of a surrogate

"We're obviously reeling form losing Barry to the Speed Force, and I'm super worried about the two kids who are still here, on Earth," Martin told DC All Access. "Iris in particular because she lost her fiance, but there's still metas, there's still crimes going on in Central City, so we have to concentrate on that work. So Iris steps up, becomes a leader at STAR Labs, and stars sending Kid Flash, Vibe, and myself into the streets to do the work that Barry can't do."

The Flash will return in October, and airs Tuesday nights at 8 p.m. ET/PT on The CW.

Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry's life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. But when Barry used his extraordinary abilities to travel back in time and save his mother's life, he inadvertently created an alternate timeline known as Flashpoint; a phenomenon that gave birth to the villainous speed god known as Savitar, and changed the lives of Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Wally West (Keiyan Lonsdale) forever.

With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), his lifelong best friend and love interest Iris West (Candice Patton), and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs — Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), C.S.I Julian Albert (Tom Felton), and an Earth-19 novelist named H.R. Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) — Barry continues to protect the people of Central City from the meta-humans that threaten it.

Based on the characters from DC, THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti ("Arrow," "Supergirl"), Andrew Kreisberg ("Arrow," "The Flash"), Sarah Schechter ("Arrow," "DC's Legends of Tomorrow") and Todd Helbing ("Black Sails").

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