In the event that there's one thing you can rely on in the Arrowverse, it's that with each new season of The Flash we're practically sure to get another rendition of Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Wells. Cavanagh has breathed life into a grouping of characters through the multiversal enchantment of Harrison Wells, and that will be the same on The Flash season 6. A few, similar to the first Wells, were really different characters in mask (for this situation, Eobard Thawne, the Reverse-Flash), while the rest have been Wells from various corners of the DC multiverse, each with their own novel peculiarities.

A few, similar to season five's Sherloque Wells are particularly peculiar, and keeping in mind that Sherloque left for his home measurement at the finish of season five, Cavanagh told journalists at SDCC that it doesn't mean we've said a final farewell to him. "No ones at any point gone!" Cavanagh says. "Is it accurate to say that they are ever gone? It's a multiverse with every one of these circular segments, they're never truly gone (he said mysteriously)."

Be that as it may, Cavanagh isn't an entertainer to give his latest character a chance to characterize him. After the show's first season, where he turned in a chilling and complete execution as the Flash's most prominent scalawag, he talked with Arrowverse maker Greg Berlanti about how they could change the dynamic for season two and past.

"Consider the possibility that we had a day by day butt nugget?" Cavanagh reviews. "Since they truly are, and it resembles, imagine a scenario in which we had conflict...just a person who has no social graces, is somewhat of a dick, and after that at last we think in light of the fact that about what's unfolded with Harrison Wells in season one and Reverse-Flash, you believe he will be a scoundrel and afterward he's most certainly not. That was [season two's] Harry [Wells]."

That advanced considerably further as the show went into its third season.

"Season two was dull, and I resembled, 'You know what we could utilize? Somewhat more satire.' And that was HR," he says. "In the back of my head I generally figured it would be pleasant if there was even more an extraneous through line that associated with the story that we were attempting to tell that season, and HR didn't generally. We didn't totally do it that way."



And of course, that eventually led to the genesis of Sherloque. “The idea of Sherloque, a master detective, who's really funny because he'll have this pomposity but also he'll actually be good at what he does, tracking down the Reverse-Flash, essentially me tracking down me... fits with the story and it's not indulgent,” he says. “That was a delight to play.”

In addition to juggling his various multiversal identities, Cavanagh will direct another episode this year. Having directed the momentous 100th episode of the series last season, he hopes to be able to stretch his legs in a similar manner with his next directorial job.

“Doing the 100th was a delight,” he says. You're allowed a lot of leeway. I just want to make sure that when I'm doing it, I'm getting a chance to accomplish the same sort of things that you're allowed to accomplish with the 100th. I'm just gonna leave it there. You guys don't get to have all the info! You don't need all the info!”

And with Crisis on Infinite Earths on the way this season (where Cavanagh will play the decidedly non-Wellsian Pariah), that means that the possibilities for even more Wells are, well, infinite. One reporter asked if we might get an episode that consists entirely of Wells from different corners of the multiverse. “There's myriad ways to get a show canceled,” Cavanagh says, “and that sounds like a great one.” OK, so maybe not.

We’ll meet the new Harrison Wells (and maybe a few more) when The Flash Season 6 arrives on Oct. 8.