The Flash Season 2: 10 Big Questions We're Asking After 'The Runaway Dinosaur'

6. Is Jesse A Speedster Now?

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While Wally made an instantaneous recovery from the explosion, and isn't showing any signs of being turned into a metahuman (yet), things didn't go so well for Jesse.

She ended up in a coma, which is where she spent most of the episode with little to no hope of curing her. The parallels to Barry before he became the Flash are obvious (and acknowledged within the show), but the most intriguing part comes when Barry returns, touches her hand, and after a spark of lightning she wakes up.

Was that just Barry doing that, or was it tapping into the Speed Force that Jesse is now a part of, thus becoming her own comic book counterpart, Jesse Quick?

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