CWWe're officially issuing a flash flood warning for tonight.
Why? Because The Flash finale is about to cause a rainstorm of tears amongst its unsuspecting and totally unprepared fanbase. After a breakout freshman season, the CW hit's season finale, "Fast Enough," is going for the full-on ugly cry effect, even getting its entire cast to have a mass breakdown during the table-read.
"There were four scenes in this finale that I not only couldn't read without crying, but I couldn't talk or think about them without crying hard. Hard. Like ugly-crying," Grant Gustin tells E! News. "Our table-read was hilarious. We were crying in scenes and it wasn't like, 'Oh, we're almost done,' it was about the story and about the characters and about what was going on. It's heartbreaking. It's crazy."
Carlos Valdes continues the flash-flood warning, promising, "It's definitely going to make you cry."
His proof? His own tears! "I rarely cry at anything and just at the table-read...I had already read the script twice before the table-read, and at the table-read, just reading those scenes, I was breaking down," he says. "We were all breaking down."
Highlighting one scene in particular in the finale that brought everyone to tears, Valdes offers up one small hint: "Barry Allen is in it."
Unfortunately, there's just no way of readying yourself for what's about to go down, with Gustin saying, "There's no preparation for this finale." Gulp.
And Candice Patton adds, "[Fans are] not prepared. You're just going to cry the entire episode. Just cry, cry, cry. It's very good, but it's very heartfelt." She did offer up some advice to fans: Bring tissues, have a support system."
As for whether or not some of the tears come from Iris' (Patton) relationship with Eddie Thawne (Rick Cosnett), after their breakup in last week's episode, Patton says, "Despite what the future says, she knows that she loves Eddie and she's going to fight for that relationship until the very last moment. So I don't think she's going to give up as easy as that. I think she loves Barry and I think that's her one true love, but I don't think she's ready to go there yet. She's going to see her relationship with Eddie until the very end."
The Flash finale airs tonight at 8 p.m. on the CW.