On his day off from his police work, Barry goes to S.T.A.R. Labs and
tests his speed, simultaneous playing different games with Harrison,
Cisco, and Caitlin.
A team of robbers led by Len Snart are on
motorcycles and ambush an armored car. They use a tow truck to lift it
off of its rear wheels and then knock out the guards when they get out.
Snart uses a liquid-nitrogen canister to break open the rear doors.
At the lab, Cisco picks up a police report about the robbery and Barry
dons his suit and superspeeds to the van. He arrives and knocks the
robbers back, and Snart watches as Flash checks on one of the guards
wounded in the attack. He leads his men in an escape while Flash
abandons them to take the guard to the hospital.
Later, the
police secure the crime scene and Eddie tells his partner that the
robbers took the truck’s camera storage drive with them. The armored car
company was transporting the Kahndaq Dynasty Diamond to the museum and
the robbers failed to get it, and Joe figures that they had to flee. As
they check out the area, Eddie tells Joe that he was going to take Iris
to the museum where the diamond is being displayed, until Joe glares him
into silence. Barry arrives, telling Singh that he was late because he
has a friend at the hospital, and easily deduces what happened since he
was there earlier. Once they’re alone. Joe asks Barry if he saw anything
of use, and Barry confirms that he can identify the robber’s leader.
At the station, Barry identifies Snart from the mug shot book. Joe
explains that Snart’s father was a bad cop who abused his children, and
is now in prison. Snart has become a career criminal, carefully plotting
out his crimes and then disappears until the next one. Iris arrives
with coffee for them, but Joe all but ignores her. She admits that her
father is still mad at her since she’s dating Eddie, and talks about
starting a blog concerning the mysterious Streak. She wants to see the
files on the robbery, having heard rumors that the Streak stopped it,
but Barry refuses to give her confidential information. When Barry and
Iris get to the lab, they find Felicity waiting for them.
At
their hideous, the robbers discuss the Streak while Snart reviews the
camera footage from the armored car. He insists that he carefully
plotted out the time necessary for the police to respond and took it
into account, but something much faster got there. When one of the thugs
tells Snart that he’s out, Snart shoots him dead and tells his other
two men that they’re going to have to up their game to deal with the
Streak.
Barry and Felicity go for a walk and she congratulates
Barry on finding a girlfriend. He insists that Iris isn’t his girlfriend
and asks why Felicity is visiting. She says that she wanted to see him
once she heard that he came out of his coma, and Barry realizes that she
knows from Oliver that he has superspeed. He demonstrates it by running
to the top of a nearby building, taking a photo, and running back again
in a matter of seconds. His sneakers start smoking and Barry offers to
show Felicity his friction-proof suit. They go to S.T.A.R. Labs and
Barry introduces Felicity to his friends. They worry that Barry is
telling her too much until she explains that she works with Arrow.
Harrison comes in and greets Felicity by name, well aware of her
expertise. Barry takes Felicity to the treadmill and demonstrates his
superspeed, and Harrison tells Felicity that everything they do is to
protect Barry.
Joe and Eddie stake out the diamond at the
museum, figuring that Snart will try again. As they wait outside in
their car, Eddie tells Joe that he’s serious about Iris, but Joe
abruptly cuts him off and says that he doesn’t want to know about
Eddie’s personal life. He tells Eddie that as long as they don’t discuss
Iris, their relationship is fine.
Barry and Felicity go to see
Iris at Jitters where she’s working. Iris immediately invites them to
come on a double date with her and Eddie for the café’s Trivia Night.
Felicity steps outside to call base and Iris tells Barry that Felicity
is clearly into him. Barry doesn’t believe it but Iris insists that he
bring Felicity with him.
A weapons dealer, Basil Nurblin,
brings several weapons stolen from S.T.A.R. Labs to Snart for purchase.
Snart isn’t interested in a portable flame pistol, but is intrigued by
one that fires blasts of ice-cold fire. A pair of protective anti-flare
goggles come with the gun, and Snart wonders if anyone else knows about
the stolen weapons. When the arms dealer assures him that they don’t,
Snart kills him with the cold gun.
At Trivia night, Barry arrives alone and waits for Felicity with Eddie and Iris. Felicity finally arrives wearing a new dress.
At the museum, Snart joins a tour group that comes to the diamond.
Snart approaches the case, while the curator notices him lurking around.
At Jitters, Barry and Felicity are doing well at the trivia. Between
rounds Iris asks Felicity if she has a boyfriend in Starling City, and
Felicity assures her that she doesn’t. She goes to the restroom to
freshen up and Iris tells Barry that Felicity is into him, and wonders
what he’s waiting for.
Cisco informs Harrison and Caitlin that
he’s just checked the lab inventory and discovered that several devices
are missing. The young scientist says that a janitor didn’t show up for
work and figures that he’s the guilty party. Angry, Harrison tells Cisco
to figure out a way to track the gun and insists that he never wants
weapons designed at S.T.A.R. Labs, particularly one that can hurt Barry.
Once Harrison leaves, Cisco admits to Caitlin that the gun can do bad
stuff.
Dexter calls Joe in and tells him that Snart went on the tour twice. Joe recognizes Snart and calls in for backup.
At Jitters, Iris and Eddie kiss just as Eddie gets the call. He leaves
to go after Snart, and Felicity tells Barry that she’ll cover for him
with Iris while he goes after Snart.
Joe follows Snart down the
street and yells at him to surrender. Snart turns and fires his gun at a
police car as it arrives, sending it skidding out of control. Flash
gets Joe out of the way just in time and they follow Snart into a
theater. Snart fires at Joe and Flash deflects the beam, only for it to
wound him in the back. The hero is forced to speed from cover to cover,
avoiding the cold blasts while moving innocent bystanders out of the
way. Recognizing what Flash is doing, Snart shoots an usher and Flash is
unable to outrun the beam and save the man.
Barry gets back to
S.T.A.R. Labs and Caitlin tells him that he has third-degree frost
burn. Without his accelerated metabolism, he’d be dead. Harrison tells
Barry where the gun came from, and Cisco reluctantly explains that he
designed the gun to stop someone with superspeed. He didn’t know that
Barry would be the one to get such powers and built it in case someone
like the Mist and Multiplex acquired superspeed. Barry is angry that
they didn’t trust him, and points out that they all have to live with
the fact that a man is dead because of Cisco’s invention.
Joe
comes home and Iris tries to talk to him, but he gives her the cold
shoulder again. She warns her father that she isn’t going to stop seeing
Eddie just because of his reaction, and Joe explains that he can’t
focus on his job when he’s worried that Eddie might get hurt, and how
Iris would react if that happened.
Snart’s two remaining thugs
warn that Flash will be waiting at the museum, and he tells them that
he’s ready for the hero. They want out and draw their guns on him, and
Snart tells them to either kill him or he’ll kill them. Reluctant to
murder, they tell Snart that Central City isn’t his anymore and leave.
Felicity comes to see Barry as he runs on the treadmill, and tells him
to get some rest. He stops and says that he has to learn to go faster so
that no one else dies. Felicity tells him that it isn’t Cisco’s fault
that Snart has the gun, and that even her team had some problems coming
together. As she leaves, Felicity tells Barry not to make himself any
lonelier than he has to be.
That night, Snart uses the cold gun to shatter the museum door, and advises the guard to run.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco comes up with the name “Captain Cold” for their
new opponent and devises a way to track the gun he created. Barry
doesn’t want to have anything to do with Cisco, but Harrison advises him
to listen to Cisco. Cisco explains that he can send an update to the
wireless unit on the gun and then track the resulting signal via the
city’s wireless network. With Felicity’s help, Cisco hacks the network
in a matter of seconds and determine that Snark is heading for the train
station. Barry dons his suit but turns off the radio earpiece, saying
that he doesn’t want to talk to them right now.
Joe and Eddie arrive at the train station, and Joe orders Eddie to stay inside and wait for their backup.
Felicity tells Cisco and Caitlin that they have to go after their
friend despite what he said, explaining that teammates always have each
other’s backs. Cisco considers the matter and says that he knows of
something that can stop Snart.
Snart ambushes Joe at the train
station, but Eddie has followed along and scares the thief off with a
warning shot. Eddie tells Joe that he’s his partner and they go after
Snart only to lose him when he boards a train. Flash boards the train en
route and Snart boasts that he knows the hero’s weakness. He fires a
cold beam through the floor of the passenger car and the train skids on
the icy rails. Flash manages to get everyone off in a matter of seconds,
but Snart shoots him from behind and prepares to finish him off. He
admits that Flash encouraged him to up his game. Cisco, Felicity, and
Caitlin arrive. Cisco is armed with a gun and the two women are carrying
the over powerpack. Cisco explains that his weapon is a prototype, four
times as powerful as the one that Snart has. Snart concedes that Cisco
has won for the moment, tells Flash that he’ll see him around, and walks
away with the diamond. Once he’s gone, Cisco admits that he rigged up
the lab’s vacuum cleaner with flashing lights. Flash shakes Cisco’s
hand, burying their differences.
Back at the lab, Cisco
confirms that Snart disconnected the tracking unit on the cold gun.
Barry says that they’ll find Snart, together, and Felicity tells them
that she had to head back to her team. Once she leaves and Barry
departs, a still angry Harrison tells Cisco never to create another
weapon.
Iris visits Joe at the station and apologizes for
dating Eddie. However, she assures him that nothing he could do would
ever change her feelings toward him. Joe concedes that he underestimated
his partner and Iris hugs him and says that they won’t have any more
secrets between them.
As Felicity takes a train back to
Starling City, Barry runs aboard and sits down next to her. She’s
realized that Barry is in love with Iris even though Iris doesn’t know
it, and Barry has realized that Felicity is in love with Oliver. They
admit that they’re both pining for people that they can’t have when they
would be perfect for each other. Felicity and Barry promise to be there
for each other and they share an affectionate kiss before Barry speeds
off.
Snart makes his way to neighboring Keystone City and calls
in an old friend, Mick Rory. The thief says that he’s putting together a
special crew to deal with Flash, and knows that Mick has a thing for
flames. He shows Mick the flame gun and asks if he’s in, and Mick lights
a match and says that he is.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 23, 2019