A pair of men try to
evade Eddie and Joe. This is the third attempted robbery of the
night, Joe wonders if all the criminals of the city have gone crazy.
He calls Barry, who speeds on by. He's not alone though, He has an
indecent exposure. Eddie worries that their pursuants are getting
away, but Flash plans to take care of them. There may be a bit of a
space issue Eddie points out. Flash takes care of it, paying musical
cars. He places Joe in the suspects car, one suspect in the squad
car. The other thinks that they've lost the cops, but Joe tells him
that he's under arrest, and best of all, he's already cuffed.
Another crime. The
jewel thieves think that if they hurry they can get away. Joe and
Eddie arrive on the scene, and the Flash speeds in stealing their
weapons. He laughs at the crooks, and Joe laughs with him.
Dr. Kang says good
night, leaving the applied physics and robotics. There's a buzzing in
her car, her doors lock right before bees begin to pouring though the
vents.
Eddie fills Joe in
on their case. Dr. Kang is a tenured doctor. Barry tells them that
her whole body is covered with puncture wounds, he's not sure what.
But it looks like she went into anaphylaxis shock. When he gets the
results back from the labs he'll know more. Joe reminds him that
it'll be faster if he uses STAR Labs. Barry feels awkward around
there at the moment, but Joe reminds him that they have to play
things normal so Wells doesn't suspect they know anything. He gets
it, but he thinks that they should tells Cisco and Caitlin. Joe
thinks that the fewer people who knows is better, or worse that
they're in on Wells' plans. Joe asks that he not include them until
they're sure.
Caitlin finds that
it was death by honey bee venom. Cisco goes all Indy about the bees,
he's not a bee fan. There were no stingers found in the victim. It
seems that the metahuman involved has found a way to not only control
the bees,but up their venom levels. Cisco contemplates a bee keeper
suit, but Barry is sure he can outrun a bee. Felicity warns not to
run into a lake, the bees will wait for him, and then sting him when
he comes out. Barry asks what Felicity is there for, and she asks
them to come outside.
Outside, they have
no clue what they're waiting for. Cisco wonders if its a bird,
Caitlin a plane, but no its not Superman, not anymore at least. Its
Ray, Felicity's boyfriend in the ATOM suit.
Caitlin runs tests
on Ray, while Barry points out that Ray is a little tall for
Felicity. She asks if he's jealous. He's not, but he thinks she has
bad timing. Caitlin is done with her tests, and she wonders what
about billionaires makes them want to be superheroes. Cisco, alias
inventing extraordinaire, asks if he's come up with a name yet. Ray
is pretty partial to the ATOM. Wells finds the ATOM suit to be a
technological achievement. Wells is never impressed. Ray can't seem
to keep it up, the suit, his man parts are fine as he and Felicity
bumble to correct his word vomit. Could the two of them be any cuter?
He thought since they were able to perfect Barry's Flash suit, they
could help with his ATOM one. Any friend of the Arrow is a friend of
theirs. Cisco is more than happy to play with the suit. Barry thinks
that they have a lot on their plate already with the Bee, but Wells
is sure that he and Caitlin can provide plenty of assistance.
Felicity is troubled by his response though, and leaves Ray at STAR
Labs, while she takes Barry on a coffee run.
Iris pays Eddie a
visit at work, on business. She's looking into the fact that there is
a serious decline in crime, and wonders if he's working with the
Flash. He denies it. Iris isn't believing him for a moment. He caught
a flasher, 2 armed robbers and 2 jewelry thieves. If she didn't know
him better she'd think that he was hiding something. She thinks that
he's acting weird.
Iris leaves. Joe
jokes that she's never at work. Eddie can't keep lying to Iris, its
affecting their relationship, but Joe thinks its still best for Iris,
to keep her safe. Eddie thinks he's wrong, but until Eddie is her
husband, Daddy gets to make that call.
Felicity and Barry
have a cup of coffee. She left the city to get away from the
brooding. Barry tells her that now just isn't a good time. Felicity
worries that its because she told Ray his secret, but she assures him
that Ray is trustworthy. Barry admits that he doesn't want to put
anyone else in danger, before he can confess further Eddie
interrupts. He stands there awkwardly, and Felicity wonders if he's
in a bad mood too, if everyone in the city is. She thought Central
City was suppose to be the fun one. Eddie tries to get an aside, but
he tells him that Felicity already knows. Eddie is shocked, everyone
but Iris knows. He wonders how he can keep lying to her. Felicity
tells him not to think of it as lying, but as keeping her from
getting hurt with a fib. Iris can tell he's hiding something, and its
hurting their relationship. Felicity offers a group date, Iris had a
lot of fun last time. Eddie is up for it, but it only makes poor
Barry more solemn, as the fifth wheel.
A businessman
complains on his phone as he enters the building. Emily Kinney, Miss
Queen Bee herself, is sitting on one of the chairs waiting. She tells
the bees in her hand that the man is bad, and its time for them to
get to work.
Cisco marvels at
Ray's suit. He thinks that they should be generating enough energy to
power the suit, but he's likely overheating the suit. He suggests
insulating, and Ray compliments Cisco on being so clever which jogs a
memory of sort. Cisco remembers Wells saying the same thing before
killing him, in that time loop that Barry ended up erasing. Ray
fiddles with a machine, pulling Cisco out of his thoughts and back to
the now. Cisco lies that he hasn't been sleeping, and Caitlin calls
him away. Killer bees are at it again.
Caitlin sends a
message to Barry, who races off to look into the attack. Eddie rushes
out to get Joe. Barry is too late. The bad man is already dead.
There's no sign of bees Barry thinks, and then suddenly the body
erupts with bees. Barry runs away from the bees, but he can't find an
escape. The bees have him surrounded. Joe arrives on scene. Barry
runs from the building in a cloud of bees, and collapses. Wells sees
on his monitor that Barry is going into cardiac arrest. Joe tells
Barry to stay with him. Joe calls Cisco. Barry doesn't have a pulse.
He tells Joe to step away from him, they need to jump start his heart
and there's a defibrillator in the suit. They shock Barry at 300
jewels, nothing. Wells ratchets it up to 400, and Barry is back.
At STAR Labs Cisco
announces the defibrillator to be DOA. Well thinks Barry is lucky to
be alive. Felicity was very specific not to die. He asks what
happened, he followed Cisco's directions exactly. Cisco apologizes,
his schematics weren't up to date. That's never happened before.
Felicity is sure that Cisco didn't do it on purpose, and Barry is a
little paranoid. Wells tells him that it is their job to keep him
safe, but today they failed. Its a warning to be more vigilant in the
future. Caitlin announces that all the toxins are out of his system,
and Barry takes a second to do a quick change so they don't miss
their date. Caitlin thinks he should order in, since he was dead, and
even Ray is on board, but Barry will hear none of it. They head out
and Caitlin wonders why they didn't get an invite. A bee made it back
with Barry, and flies out of his suit.
Felicity, Ray, and
Barry arrive. She compliments Iris on her stunning looks, and
introduces them to Ray. Ray leads the way, and Iris wonders how they
got a reservation, she's been trying for months. The waiter leads
them to their table, and they see that the entire place is empty. He
thought it would be nice to have some quiet so he bought out the
entire place. Ray, being over the top without meaning to as always.
Cisco pays Joe a
visit, which is good. It saves him a trip. They got information back
on the second victim, he was working in robotics as well, like Kang.
Cisco finds it weird, but not why he stopped by. He wanted to talk to
Joe about Barry. He wonders if there is something going on with him,
something that he's not telling them. He feels like there is
something bothering Barry that he's not sharing. Joe tells him that
he's just focused on the bad guys, and he's probably worried about
when the Reverse Flash will show his face again. Cisco remembers
more, he remembers seeing Wells revealed as the Reverse Flash. Joe
asks Cisco if he's okay, and he mumbles about a headache before
running out of there.
Eddie asks how
Felicity and Ray met, she says work, but he elaborates. He bought the
company where Felicity worked so she was forced to join him. Felicity
assures them that its not as creepy as it sounds. Iris finds it
interesting that they work closely together. She assumes they share
all their thoughts, and feelings. Ray admits they share everything.
Felicity sees where this is headed as Iris sees the good in sharing
so much. Felicity says that sometimes its good to sometimes leave
things unsaid. Eddie sees the good in that, but Iris, not so much.
Barry is relieved to see the food coming out. The first course
arrives. Ray envies Barry and all the time he gets to spend at STAR
Labs. Wells is a personal hero. Barry tunes out the gushing, and
excuses himself. Felicity follows suit, and finally corners Barry.
He's been acting weird since she arrived, and she's not taking its a
bad time as an excuse. Oliver may be training to join the League of
Assassins, Laurel is the Black Canary, and Thea is training with
Merlyn Malcolm, she knows bad times. Barry confesses that he and Joe
found out that Wells isn't who he said he is. He's the man that
killed his mother. It doesn't make sense, because he's been helping
him get faster and stronger. Felicity is sure that Caitlin and Cisco
aren't on the darkside, but Barry isn't so sure. Wells too has saved
him many times, and he was wrong about him. Maybe he's been wrong
about everything else, he has no clue who to trust. Ray interrupts,
things are getting a little intense out there.
Eddie just wants to
have a nice evening. Iris doesn't see how she's to blame for the fact
that they aren't enjoying themselves. She doesn't think she should
have to beg him to open up to her, she's his live-in girlfriend.
Eddie admits that if he could talk to her about this, he would. Iris
decides to leave. When he's ready to act like two people who love
eachother, then he should call her. For now she'll be at her
father's. Iris leaves, and Eddie chases after her. Barry gets a call.
There's an emergency at STAR Labs. He runs off leaving Felicity and
Ray to finish their 17 courses.
Cisco fires some
crazy weapon trying to hit the bee. The bee heads towards Wells, and
he begins to move his leg to get away from it, when Barry runs in,
and captures the bee. Cisco takes it to see what makes it so
dangerous, and finds that it isn't what he was expecting. The bee is
a tiny robot. As Barry gets a closer look at the bee, the Queen gets
a look at him from her computer monitor as her swarm flies around
her. Cisco is impressed by the bots vision system, Ray picks up on
the lingo. It can see all around the room at once. It's disturbing
and innovative technology not on the market yet. Wells asks where the
victims both worked in the past, and Felicity jumps at the chance to
put her fingers to the keys. They were both former employees of
Mercury Labs.
Wells, Joe and Barry
head to Mercury Labs, and meet with Christina, an old associate of
Wells. She asks if they've found her prototype, or if they're there
to blackmail her for another. Wells asks if there was another. Joe
asks her about her former doctors, both dead. She had no clue they
were killed, she tells them that they're looking for Bree Larven. A
brilliant robotists that made weapons grade bees for military
applications. The doctors warned her that Bree was weaponizing the
bees, so she was terminated. Joe figures that Christina would be on
the hit list as well, but she also knows of Wells's inability to keep
things safe, and opts out.
Barry tells Felicity
of their findings. Joe is tracking Bree at the moment. He asks where
Ray is. Ray is working on his suit with Cisco. Barry likes him, he's
a good guy. He is a good guy, as is Cisco, and Caitlin she tells him.
Barry questions if that is why she called him there. Felicity knows
that he has his back against the wall, but that's when you need
friends the most, and he should trust them. Barry is worried, because
Wells is their mentor, and there's a chance he could be very wrong.
He's unsure what to do. Felicity confesses that when she first met
Oliver, before she knew he was the Arrow, he would ask her to
complete ridiculous tasks. When she would ask him about them, he
would lie, but she would do them anyways, even though she knew he was
lying, because she knew he had a good heart. Cisco and Caitlin are no
different.
Barry comes home and
Iris is there. He's surprised that she's actually staying there. She
doesn't plan to leave any time soon. She asks if he thinks Eddie is
cheating on her. Barry knows that he's not that kind of guy. Iris
isn't sure what else he could be hiding. He asks her if she remembers
her father's blank face that he use to come home with at times. He
never understood it until he started working for the department.
Seeing some of those crimes can be ugly work. Barry is lucky he gets
to hide behind his lab, but Eddie is out there in the darkness. If
Eddie doesn't want to talk about his work, its probably because he
wants to keep her in the light. Iris is surprised that Barry is going
out of his way to make her see Eddie's point of view. Eddie makes her
happy, and he only ever wanted to see her happy.
Caitlin and Felicity
watch Ray and Cisco work on the suit, boys and their toys. Caitlin
thinks Felicity is super lucky to have a guy so smart and hot.
Felicity offhandedly remarks that its like dating Barry in Oliver's
body. Oh, Felicity. She swears Caitlin to silence. Wells sees that
the bees are on the move, and Felicity traces where the bee's signal
leads. They're headed to Mercury Labs.
Bree's swarm heads
to Christina's office window. They move together to form Bree's
image. She asks her if she plans on opening the window, or if she has
to buzz herself in. Christina has no intention of letting her in.
Barry suits up, he
wants to know how to stop her. Wells figures she has to be
controlling them remotely. Cisco wants the bug eyed glasses woman
stopped, her bandits too Ray points out. Ah the team up, she's dubbed
Bug-eyed bandit. Felicity finds her likely location. Barry worries
about Christina, but Caitlin points out that the defibrillator in his
suit is broken, he cannot go to Mercury labs. That gives Ray an idea.
Bees can't penetrate his suit. His suit hasn't been tested since the
upgrades, but there's no chance like the present to do the testing.
Cisco and Caitlin plan to follow in the car. Barry looks to Wells.
Ray will protect Christina, he needs to take out Bree.
Bree blames
Christina for ruining her. She fired her, and destroyed years of
research. Christina tells her that what she was doing was wrong. She
was hurting people instead of helping them, she had to do what she
had to. Now the Bree plans to do what she has to. The Bees attack.
ATOM approaches
Mercury Labs. Felicity can't jam the bee signal, but she can divert
it. ATOM prepares for the incoming swarm. Felicity diverts the
signal, and he fires on them. The bees give chase.
Flash makes it to
the Bee hive. He knows that she's trying to kill Christina, that she
betrayed him. He knows how that feels. She doesn't think he knows
what real betrayal feels like, but she's about to show him what it
feels like to be stung. It looks like Bree didn't send out her whole
swarm, there's plenty of bees still in the hive, and all headed to
attack the Flash. He speeds out of there in with bees in hot pursuit.
The Bees freeze just in front of the Flash. Felicity was finally able
to hack into the bee's frequency, she has control of the hive for a
moment, but Bree is working hard to regain control. Felicity finally
has a nemesis of her own, and she likes it.
ATOM leads the bees
away from Mercury Labs. Cisco directs him towards the water, to fry
the bee circuits. Ray points out that his own circuits will fry too,
but leads them anyways. He jets out over the water, and then rises
high. The bees go down, but Ray was right, his circuits are frying,
and he's losing propulsion. Cisco tries to keep an eye on Ray. He
tells him to head towards the van, that they'll catch him. Caitlin is
surprised to hear his plan. Cisco jumps into the back and prepares
for ATOM's landing. He awkwardly makes it into the van, and delivers
a not so gentle high five to celebrate.
Felicity and Bree
work to out hack each other. The STAR Lab computers begin to fry as
Bree hacks. Barry sits in peril while the girls battle it out.
Felicity refuses to let Barry be injured. She warns Bree off Barry,
then kills all her bees. Boom mic dropped, game over.
Barry stresses at
his desk. Christina comes to apologize. She should have listened to
his warning about Bree, next time she will take them up on their
protection offer. Barry understands her hesitation after they lost
her Tacheon prototype. He stops her from leaving, to ask her about
the tension between herself and Wells. That's all in the past she
tells him, but Barry wants to know more. She and Wells were close,
and bright young minds fifteen years ago, but that all changed when
Tess died, you know right when Eobard took over. She understands how
grief can affect someone, but after that day Harrison Wells became a
different person. Joe comes to see how Cisco is. He's happy to be
alive, but sad that Ray is leaving. I'm with him on that one.
Felicity and Ray were too much fun. Barry sees how selfless and brave
he was.
Felicity and Ray get
ready to leave. Barry thanks him for all his help, and hopes that he
figures out his suit. He thinks he did. He thought he needed to go
bigger with his power, but taking a note from the bees, smaller may
be the solution. Felicity asks if Barry is okay one last time. He
will be. He's taking her advice.
Iris waits for Eddie
at his desk. She tells him that she spoke to Barry last night, and
Eddie is on the edge of his seat. Barry gave her a good explanation
for his distance, and it may even be valid, but it doesn't matter,
when you love someone you tell them everything. Iris gives him an
ultimatum. He either tells her everything or else, because that always ends well. Iris leaves him
with that thought, smiling to Barry as she leaves. Eddie is left with
a hard decision.
Caitlin and Cisco
meet Barry for what they think is a karaoke jam session. But they're
not going to Karaoke. Barry admits that he's been gathering
information about his mother's death and the Reverse Flash for a long
time. He then shows them everything that they know about Wells.
They're the same person he tells them. Caitlin doesn't believe it, it
can't be true. She doesn't think that it makes sense, and turns to
Cisco for back-up. Cisco confesses that he's been having dreams,
mostly at night, but sometimes during the day. They don't feel like
dreams at all, they feel real. In them Dr. Wells is the Reverse Flash
and he kills him.
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