After taking a break for the holidays, The Flash is back with new episodes, beginning this coming Tuesday!

I visited the Vancouver set of The Flash a few weeks back and spoke to the show’s star, Grant Gustin, about what’s next, now that Wally West (Keiynan Lonsdale) has arrived, Zoom’s threat continues to grow and Barry continues to adjust to having a different Harrison Wells in STAR Labs.

Grant Gustin as The Flash.

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As far as Barry’s connection to it, I think Barry this year is more of a support system for a lot of people, where last year it was always his emotional journey and everyone trying to be his support system. In a lot of ways, Barry is doing that for Joe this year and he’s doing that for Iris. You’ll see more of that as the season continues. Obviously there’s a little bit of… Not jealousy, but Joe has always been a father figure to Barry and Barry knows that he has always wanted a real son. Now that he does have one and he’s in the picture, there’s some weirdness. We’re not going to see Barry and Wally interact a lot immediately but Barry is trying to be supportive and be there for them. It’s his family.We’re working towards who Barry is in the comics and we’re going to do that with Wally, I think. We’re not going to see right away, by any means, the dynamic they have in the comics. He’s not going to be Kid Flash, immediately speeding around. They’re going to take some time with it. But I don’t think they’ll drag it out. We’ll see that happen sometime in the future. But he’s not Team Flash, STAR Labs, running around with the Scooby Doo gang just yet.He does what he always does and keeps moving forward. It’s really his only choice. Now that that’s happened, Zoom is going to be in the back of his head, no matter what is going on this season. Now that’s kind of what’s looming for the rest of the season, now that we know how powerful he is.Barry starts to like him and I think that’s hard for him at first, because he doesn’t want to. He doesn’t want to fully trust him and he feels a lot of things when he looks at him that has nothing to do with this guy. Eventually Barry starts to accept that notion. This is a different guy. Yeah, there might be some shady things going on, potentially but I think Barry starts to like him. You have to remember that before all of that went down last year, before Barry got his powers, he spent most of his life knowing who Harrison Wells was and being a massive fan of him, as a scientist. Now, this is him again except he is actually Harrison Wells and no one has stolen his body. It’s hard to not like him. He finally starts to reach a place where he lets himself trust him and lets some walls down and kind of just appreciates him for being Harrison Wells.Especially when he slid down the steps... The sound it made was amazing!Yeah, I think the King Shark thing was the most exciting thing for me as far as what we were capable of doing. When we read that, I was surprised. And when we shot that, I was nervous. Because it is kind of less fun and makes you feel apprehensive about what you’re doing - if you look silly or not; how the final product is going to look. You’re either with Grodd a lot of the time, you’re looking at a stick with a tennis ball at the top or a dude in a ridiculous plush outfit with pinpoints on it. I think King Shark was a tennis ball. It was a dude with a fifteen-foot pole and a tennis ball on top of it. Then when I got strangled by him, I’m getting strangled by nothing! You get nervous about how that’s going to look, especially the idea of half shark, half dude. But I think they pulled it off, miraculously. So at this point, I have even more faith in whatever we can pull off from the comics, moving forward.

Continue to Page 2 as Gustin discusses Earth 2, whether Zoom is "Evil Barry," Patty, Iris and more.