"As Barry begins to relive the previous day, Dr. Wells realizes what happened and warns Barry not to change any event for fear that he will create a bigger problem as the universe balances itself. Barry does not listen and instead captures Mark Mardon before he can kidnap Joe. Meanwhile, Leonard Snart and Mick Rory return to Central City. Leonard sends his sister Lisa after Cisco, whom they force to rebuild the cold and heat guns, and a third gun for Lisa that turns people into gold, under threat that they will kill Cisco's brother. Barry realizes that Dr. Wells was right, and his actions have resulted in Cisco's kidnapping and Iris rejecting his romantic advances. Cisco returns and reveals that Leonard tortured his brother until Cisco revealed the Flash's true identity. Barry goes after the Snarts, and the two develop an uneasy truce: Snart will not reveal Barry's identity, will no longer kill innocent people, and stay away from Barry's friends in exchange for Barry not locking him away in the particle accelerator. The Reverse-Flash kills a local reporter and destroys evidence linking Dr. Wells to the death of Simon Stagg. The reporter's vanishing causes Barry to think Joe might be right about Dr. Wells."
This seemed like a strange episode. Wells basically makes time sound like some sort of intelligent living organism that will be out to get Barry for changing the timeline. And it almost seems that way when Captain cold and company show up out of nowhere when they didn't the first time through that day. I can understand some things changing, like Iris not admitting she loves Barry without the huge threat to the city that made her realize it in the first pass of the day. But that kind of change has a direct causal effect. The random changes like bringing in a new threat because Barry beat the first one easier then he should have, that is just weird. If time itself is some evil entity out to screw over humankind, or controlled by one, then what is the point of doing anything?
