The Flash Season 5: What Does The Ending To 'Failure Is An Orphan' Really Mean?

2. Dwyer Is No Longer A Metahuman

Everything may have went to hell in the closing moments of 'Failure Is An Orphan' as a second, more terrifying Cicada showed up and took the original from S.T.A.R. Labs' custody, but that doesn't take away from the fact that Barry and his team actually accomplished what they set out to do: cure Orlin Dwyer.

Having successfully convinced Cicada to take the cure by informing him that Grace was also a metahuman, Team Flash and Dr. Ambres administered the drug to him. The next moment certainly dragged for everyone as they watched and waited for the results they were hoping for, but it was worth their while as Dwyer's body began reacting to the cure and his dagger simultaneously lost its power - and just like that Cicada was no longer a metahuman.

Whatever happens with his successor is going to be interesting now that he is once again human, but how will he be able to reconcile the assailant's true identity with his hatred towards metahumans? Time will tell.