It's been a long break, but now The
Flash is back, and I am so ready for Barry to learn Wells' secret!
A year ago. Joe lost his partner, two
brothers went into the air via plane, and then the particle
accelerator malfunctioned. We know what happened to Clyde when the
plane went down, but what happened to Mark.
Now. Barry takes Linda out bowling,
thinking that he could actually beat her at this something, when they
run into Eddie and Iris. Because oh joy, that's just the person Linda
wants to see. Iris shows her enthusiasm, and bowling skills. Linda
seems to be on the same page of less than enthusiastic about bowling,
and Iris a little too touchy feely with Barry for Linda's liking.
The coroner looks over a body when Mark
walks in the door, back from the dead. He wants to know who killed
his brother. The poor old coroner isn't sure, he performs hundred of
autopsies. Mark turns to a little ball of hate, using his weather
powers to try to jog his memory.
Wells sits and watches old black and
white movies with Cisco. Cisco is avoiding his family and Wells'
questions about them. Cisco's alarm system gets tripped and Wells
isn't sure why anyone would rob the morgue.
Eddie gets a call about the morgue and
runs off, without a goodbye kiss from Iris. Barry thinks that he
should head off too, that they'll need him on scene. He does kiss
Linda good night. The girls don't bother pretending to hang out for a
second.
Barry races towards the crime scene, and
sees Reverse Flash running by his side, before Reverse passes him.
Seeing the man in yellow throws him off for a moment. Barry finally
makes it to the morgue, reporting that the coroner is already dead.
When the police arrive, the coroner's
death is made a priority. There is water all over the floor, but the
sprinklers weren't tripped. Based on the bruises and impact, it looks
like he was killed by hail. Eddie finds a recording from the room of
the coroner and his killer. Joe recognizes the voice as Mark
Martin's, and they hear the coroner tell him that it was Joe that
killed his brother along with Mark vowing that Joe will pay for what
he did.
Caitlin can't believe that Clyde had a
brother. Dr. Wells explains that he did, and they were together when
the particle accelerator malfunctioned, causing them to both receive
virtually the same power. Mark's seem much stronger though, and his
control more precise. Cisco notes he must be a Weather Wizard. Joe
doesn't think that running around a twister will be the undoing of
Mark like it was his brother. Cisco has been working to remove the
atmosphere's electrical circuit to ground Martin or anyone else
looking to tap into the weather. Joe has to head off, and Wells notes
that he's taking being the target of a revenge seeking Metahuman
pretty well. Wells promises that Joe will be fine. Barry has
something else bothering him. He tells Wells about another Flash
running next to him. Wells tries to brush it off as a mirage, but
Barry doesn't think it was one. For now, Wells puts the topic on the
back burner, focusing on catching Mark before he catches up to Joe.
Joe, Eddie and Barry give the Captain
an update on the case. The captain wants Joe to coordinate the
investigation from the office, rather than being in the middle of the
fray. Joe's not happy but he doesn't argue. Iris arrives, and Joe
suggests to Eddie and Barry, that they keep Mark's revenge plot from
Iris. Eddie says little to Iris, and heads to his desk. She asks for
a moment, and the pair bee line out with lunch plans. Iris goes to
see what's eating at Eddie. He didn't like the way he felt watching
her and Barry. Iris claims that he's just family, nothing more. Eddie
points out that they're living together, and he wants to maybe marry
her one day. He knows that something has changed between them, and
he's not okay with whatever it is.
Barry and Joe enjoy their stakeout
sandwiches as they drive around. Barry asks if Joe wants to talk
about whats been going one, but Joe doesn't want to talk about it. He
brushes it off. Barry uses the opportunity to ask for some advice
about Iris. Joe laughs it up, Barry coming to his adoptive father for
advice about his daughter who's dating his partner. It's a long way
beyond complicated. It begins to rain. Barry just has moments when he
looks at Iris and thinks that she feels the same way. It starts to
pour as Joe tells him to just relish those moments for now, that's
all he may have. Barry checks the radio, which says that its a
beautiful day. It's beautiful everywhere except under their little
rain cloud. Mark is in the car behind them, and he's got another
trick up his sleeve. He brings down a powerful lightening strike, but
luckily Barry is faster, and he manages to get Joe out of the car and
to safety before the lightening causes the car to explode.
Back at the station, the Captain isn't
happy to hear what's happened, confining him to the precinct until
further notice. He suggests to Joe that Iris contact the Flash. Joe
isn't bringing Iris into danger. He wants to get out there, and catch
Mark, he took down his brother. Barry points out that he didn't take
Clyde down alone, and that his friends at STAR Labs could help.
Iris prepares an article on the Flash,
and Mason mocks her title. He has something he wants to show her
though. The night that Simon Stagg went missing, Mason found a
picture that Harrison Wells paid him a visit. He's got a whole file
that points to Wells and missing persons, and he wants Iris to look
into it. Iris takes the file. She goes to apologize to Linda for
crashing her date. Linda admits that when Iris told her that Barry
had feelings for her that she was playing a mind game with her, but
what she didn't realize and what Iris didn't tell her was that she
had feelings for Barry too. Iris pashaws her observation, but she's
obviously and annoyingly still in denial.
Iris asks Barry to meet her for coffee.
Both think their significant others had a good time on their weird
date night. Iris called Barry not about that, but about Mason and his
Harrison Wells story. Iris shows him the photo of Wells going to see
Stagg. Barry questions what she really thinks. She's unsure. She
doesn't really know, but she presses, asking him if he really knows
Wells or if he could be hiding something. Barry is sure that he's a
good man, and she's barking up the wrong tree.
Cisco unveils the wizard's wand. It's
like a lightening rod, it'll suck up the atmospheric electrons,
putting the whammy on Martin. Wells heads off to stretch his legs,
and Caitlin asks Barry what's wrong. He tells her and Cisco about
Iris and her story, which has been eating at him since. Cisco has
more to worry about.
Cisco delivers the wand to Joe and asks
him what made him suspect Wells in the first place in Barry's mom's
death. Joe can't really talk about it with Mark still on the loose.
Cisco lets it go, and heads out, passing Mark on the way in. The
elevator doors close, Cisco tries to call Barry, as Mark announces
his presence. Mark gets chummy, as he talks about injustice. Joe
killed his brother, they killed his partner. Joe tries to reason with
Mark, letting things be between them, but Mark just isn't having it.
He wants revenge, he wants blood. Mark wants to play hardball. He
won't be defeated as easily as his brother, as he wields lightening
bolts. Joe pleads with the other officers to get out, get away, but
they don't move to abandon him. As Mark goes to blast Joe, the
Captain rushes to knock Joe out of the way, taking the lightening
bolt to the chest. The Flash arrives and raises the Wizard Staff,
neutering Mark. The Captain is still down, and the Flash rushes to
save him.
Caitlin prepares to go home. Cisco
works harder, and Caitlin thinks he feels guilty over what happened
at the Police station. He asks her if he thinks that Wells could do
something bad. Caitlin knows that since the particle accelerator some
people are quick to point the finger at him. Cisco has more than some
finger pointing and half baked stories. He shows her the information
from the night they trapped the Reverse Flash, and he escaped. They
thought it was a breach, but he checked the data multiple times. The
capacitors were still fully charged when he got out. There was no
reason that it would fail. Caitlin thinks the idea that Wells is in
cahoots with Reverse Flash is ridiculous, since it nearly killed him.
But that nearly is what bugs Cisco too. Cisco asks Caitlin to keep
Wells out of STAR Labs tomorrow night.
Barry gets coffee for Joe, and the
Captain's fiance. The fiance tells Barry that he speaks very highly
of him, and he's surprised to hear that. The doctor comes to update
them on the Captain's condition. It's too early to know the long term
effect of the strike, but he may not walk again. The fiance goes to
sit by his beloved's side, and Joe heads off after Mark. Mark
threatened his family, and he plans to end things before anyone else
gets hurt. He asks Barry to keep Iris safe.
Barry heads to Iris's work, which
happens to be Linda's too. Mason overhears him, and tells him that he
went to see her father. Mason has a low opinion of Wells, which he
thinks is a total sociopath. When he's bored he follows Wells around,
because that's totally normal. He tells Barry that sometimes Wells
goes to meet people and then they disappear. He believes that Wells
killed Stagg, and he has some evidence, but he doesn't share it with
Barry, telling him that he'll have to read about it in the papers
like everyone else.
Cisco prepares to recreate the night
that Reverse Flash got out, just like he did with the night that
Barry's mom died.
Joe tracks Mark Martin. Eddie tags
along. Joe doesn't want him to get hurt, but Eddie doesn't plan on
leaving.
Iris didn't find her father at home,
and he's not reachable on his cell. Barry claims to have not talked
to him. She asks why he's home early. He came to find her. He met
Mason, and he asks if she knows what Mason has on Wells. She doesn't.
She snarkily asks about Linda, and he wonders at her tone, which was
the same tone she used when talking about Becky Cooper. Iris tells
him that Becky Cooper was a nightmare of a high school girlfriend.
Linda isn't a Becky. She's smart, ambitious, but she just doesn't
think that she's right for him. If Linda isn't right for him, who is?
Don't say Iris, its not Iris.
Cisco doesn't understand why things
aren't working, when they suddenly do. He sees the demented rubber
duck clad Reverse Flash. And it seems to see him too.
Joe and Eddie continue to look over the
former hideout. Eddie finds that someone was there very recently. Joe
knows that Mark left him clues, while Eddie wonders where to next.
Suddenly Joe is sucked out of the window.
Joe wakes up, bruised and bloodied. He
broke a leg when was sucked out of the window. Mark marvels that he
only broke the one. When his plane went down, he broke every bone in
his body. Joe taunts Mark, trying to get him to complete his revenge,
so that his family will be safe, but Mark wants more than just an eye
for an eye.
Caitlin has coffee with Dr. Wells. She
works hard to stall him, but her watch glances are suspicious. Wells
plays along.
Eddie makes plans to get Joe back,
giving the officers their marching orders. Iris can't believe that
he's gone. Barry promises her that he will bring Joe home. Mark
reaches out to Iris. He's got her broken daddy, but he's still alive.
He tells her where she can find him, but warns that if he tells the
police he'll kill him. Iris tells Barry and they hurry towards the
waterfront and Joe. Linda stops Barry, needing to talk to him, but he
can't. It's an emergency, but all she sees is him leaving with Iris.
Caitlin thanks Wells again, for
everything that he's done for Ronnie. He accepts graciously, as
always. He brings up a new way that Cisco may be able to track
storms, and thus Mark Martin. Catilin thinks that its a great idea,
and he suggest they go to STAR Labs and tells Cisco. There's no
reason to refuse. She heads to get to go cups for their coffee.
Reverse Flash talks to Wells in the
past. Cisco can't believe what he heard, and puts the message on
repeat. Reverse Flash tells Wells that his goals are beyond his
understanding, that some would say that he's not like the Flash at
all. Wells arrives behind Cisco, finishing Reverse Flash's sentence,
while standing, delivering another shock to poor Cisco.
Mark spots both Barry and Iris run
towards them. Joe begs for Iris's life. She's completely innocent,
and Mark's brother was not. He was still his brother though, and Iris
will suffer for the sins of her father. Mark calls in a storm.
Wells is impressed. He always said that
Cisco was brilliant. Cisco realizes that Wells is Reverse Flash.
Wells introduces himself as his true name Eobard Thawne. He's a
distant relative of Eddie's. Cisco is a bit heart broken as he tries
to put it all together. He knows there were two of them. Wells shows
him how he made it look like there were two of them. Joe was right,
he was there the night that Barry's mom died. Wells never intended to
kill Barry's mother, he was there to kill Barry. Cisco doesn't
understand. He's been helping Barry, teaching him to go faster. It's
all a part of his plan. He bad guy monologues. Wells has been marooned
here, stuck in this place for fifteen years. The Flash's speed is his
key to getting home, and he's not going to let anyone stop him. Cisco
tells him that he can help him . Wells knows that Cisco is smart, but
he's not that smart. The hardest thing for Wells has been watching
him, and while he's been like a son to him, he's been dead to him for
centuries. He delivers a death blow to Cisco.
As Barry and Iris get closer, Barry
knows its too dangerous for Iris to go forward. As the storm rages in
the distance, as the Weather Wizard brings in the lightening and
worse Iris confesses that since his confession she can't stop
thinking about him. It's everything that Barry has ever wanted to
hear. He kisses her. A tsunami forms, heading towards the city. Barry
calls Caitlin warning her. She has a warning of her own about Wells,
but there's no time for her to tell him as he asks to stop it. She
suggests a wall of wind, and running very fast, but he may not be
able to run fast enough. Barry didn't want Iris to find out of about
his secret identity this way, but there's just no time. Barry gets
into costume, running his heart out, as Mark brings the tsunami to
shore. Barry hits a speed so fast, he sees himself running in the
past, crossing streams, and actually reaching the past. He's back to
where he was when he saw his mirror image. Well that just opens up
all sorts of possibilities.
