However, after Jesse storms off from her father for the umpteenth time, Harry admits he’s stuck in the cycle of making mistakes, trying to fix them, and then making more mistakes again, which is similar to Barry. Harry was simply trying to make up for being an absentee father by doubling down on protecting Jesse, but it’s not producing the desired results.
The episode’s attempt to compare his actions to Barry’s transgressions feels kind of forced, and it seems like Barry is being let off the hook for doing something stupid, which is creating the alternate timeline called the Flashpoint.
During the Season 2 finale, it could be recalled that Barry altered the universe when he went back in time to save his mother from being killed by the Reverse Flash which resulted to another timeline called the Flashpoint.
In the Flashpoint storyline, Barry also does not have any power as The Flash and he needed to find a way to recover it in order to correct the timeline. He needs to draw on other people to help him out since Team Flash never existed in the Flashpoint timeline at all.
But the interesting sidelight to Flashpoint amid all the foreboding doom that it brought is the love story between Barry and Iris, which was what the third episode just built on from the Flashpoint storyline during the first two episodes.