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The Flash Season 9 Episode 7: Final Supergirl Crossover Recap and Ending Explained


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The Flash’s latest episode, titled “Wildest Dreams”, comes after a week-long hiatus. This episode serves as the final Supergirl crossover and features Nia Nal (a.k.a. Dreamer).

In this episode, Nia and Iris fall into a fever dream and explore different possibilities for their lives. Barry, Chester, Allegra, and Cecile try to help them in the real world. Meanwhile, tension rises between Mark and Khione.

So what happens at the end of the final Supergirl crossover? This article provides a recap and explains the ending of the Supergirl crossover.

Warning: This article contains spoilers for The Flash Season 9 Episode 7. Read at your own risk!

Dreamer Loses Her Powers

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The episode opens with Nia Nal/Dreamer walking through a warehouse when she is suddenly hit with images of crows, graves, and spiders. A hooded figure, along with a group of people, then appears behind her.

Dreamer prepares to fight, but the hooded figure takes her powers. Iris suddenly appears and tells Dreamer that it's about control and then dies. Nia suddenly wakes up in National City's Jitters and realizes she needs to get to Central City.

Iris and Nia Get Trapped in Multiple Dreams

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Nia shows up at Central City Citizen Media (CCCM) late at night and tells Iris about her recent dream and how she lost her powers. She thinks that Iris is the only person who can help her because she was also in the dream. While they were talking, the hooded figure appears, and suddenly both she and Iris are knocked out.

They both end up in a dream where Nia is a police officer and Iris is CCPD’s captain. Nia is trying to figure out how to fix things, but Iris wonders if she should have been a cop just like her father Joe West. In the second dream, Nia and Iris are working at Jitters, along with Barry and Chester.

Meanwhile, in the waking world, Nia and Iris are in a deep sleep and can’t respond to outside stimuli. Cecile also can’t sense anything from them. Barry fears for them, especially baby Nora’s condition.

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It turns out that Nia and Iris are having an "angry sleep", where if you stay in a dream too long, your body starts to experience trauma from the intense strain. Nia explains that “dreams always reflect back to us the problems of our daily lives”. So she asks Iris if she’s struggling with anything in the real world. But Iris denies things, saying that she has everything she wants – she’s pregnant, she has a career taking off, and she has Barry. Later on, she admits that she’s always wanted to feel freedom and choose how to spend her day.

Suddenly their dreams merge. Nia talks with Iris, and Iris confesses that she’s worried about her future Pulitzer award because she feels like everything is pre-ordained since she already knows much about her future. This explains why Iris has been dreaming about lives with no pre-ordained destiny (becoming a cop or working at Jitters), so she could make her own choices.

Nia explains that “destiny isn’t just one choice. Destiny is the culmination of a lifetime of choices.” She then tells Iris that she is indeed making her own choices because she already chose to be a journalist years ago. Hence, Iris is on the right path – the path she created.

Nia Gets Her Powers Back

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Soon, Nia and Iris find a door covered in spider webs. Nia explains that a spider bite killed her mom, who was a Dreamer too. Nia realizes that she needs to give up control and has to go through the final door alone. Nia then ends up back in the warehouse with the hooded figure again.

Nia says to the hooded figure that she thought that she has mastered her powers and that she was in full control as the Dreamer. And so Nia tells the hooded figure that she's ready to give up control and accept whatever comes next.

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The figure removes her hood and reveals herself as the original Dreamer — the ancient source of Naltorian dream energy. It turns out the original Dreamer brought Nia and Iris together so that they could embrace their paths. The original Dreamer then gives Nia her powers back and both Nia and Iris wake up at STAR Labs.

Later on, Nia explains to Team Flash that she is now connected to the original Dreamer, and the latter will teach her how to unlock her potential beyond her wildest dreams. Nia then leaves, but not before she and Iris agree to see each other at the next month’s brunch with Kara, Alex, and Ryan.

Barry and Iris then go home, have Big Belly from National City (which tastes better), and Iris publishes her story on the Red Death, which would soon lead to her first Pulitzer.

Mark Leaves Central City

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Mark tries to get Khione into doing every activity he’s done with Frost. This upsets Khione and she points out to Mark that he never even tried to get to know her.

After the events with dreams, Team Flash has breakfast at the West residence. Mark stops by to talk to Khione. He reveals that he’s decided to leave town because he has to go through his pain and grieve Frost properly. He makes Khione promise to keep exploring her powers. Khione then goes back inside and ends up freezing everyone’s breakfast.

Where is Kara Danvers in the Final Supergirl Crossover?

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Kara Danvers (a.k.a. Supergirl) is mentioned several times in the episode. In the real world, Barry asks Chester if Team Supergirl can help considering that they know Nia’s powers more than they do. However, Chester tells Barry that Kara Danvers, the Martian Manhunter, and Brainiac 5 are all "off-world."

It can be recalled that in the series finale of Supergirl, Kara chooses to reveal her identity. The series ended with Cat Grant interviewing Kara and introducing her as Supergirl to the world.

Even though Kara doesn’t appear in the final Supergirl crossover, at least we know that she still does a monthly brunch with Alex, Nia, Iris, and Ryan.

Only a few episodes are left before The Flash reaches its conclusion. Several Arrowverse characters like Oliver Queen are still set to make one last appearance before the series ends.

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The Flash Season 9 airs every Wednesday on The CW.

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