A couple is trapped in their overturned car beneath loose power
lines. Flash runs in and, vibrating the door open, gets the man clear.
However, when he goes back for the woman, Dana, the car explodes when
the sparks set off the gasoline. The fire chief holds the man back, and
they realize that Flash and the woman are clear. The couple embraces and
thanks the speedster.
When Barry returns to S.T.A.R. Labs,
Cisco cleans off the suits and Caitlin confirms that Barry is running
faster than ever. Barry says that he can run even faster, but Harrison
says that it’s enough for the night. Cisco suggests that they go out for
drinks, but Barry passes and heads home Caitlin passes as well, and
finally accuses Cisco of researching Ronnie even though she told him not
to. Cisco tells her that Harley claims he knows where to find Ronnie,
and that Caitlin still hasn’t moved on yet despite her protestations.
Shawna Baez drives to Iron Heights prison and parks outside the fence.
Using a telescope, she spots the window she wants and disappears,
teleporting inside. After disabling the security cameras, she hacks the
prison floor plan and teleports past the guards to her boyfriend Clay
Parker’s cell. He wasn’t aware that she could teleport, and Shawna
teleports into the cell and then teleports them back to the car. Clay
kisses her and then drives off.
The next day, Barry and Joe are
called in. Barry finds organic particulate residue from the cell to
where Shawna teleported inside. A guard brings Henry in to see Barry,
and Henry figures that his son can work out how Clay escaped if anyone
can. After a brief father-and-son reunion, the guard takes Henry away
and Joe admits that the guard owed him a favor.
Clay and Shawna
go back to Clay’s apartment and celebrate. She explains that after Clay
was arrested, she discovered that she could teleport and spent the last
few months honing her abilities. She wants to leave Central City
immediately, but Clay points out that he still owes mob boss Marcus
Stockheimer a lot of money. He figures that with Shawna’s teleporting
abilities, they can rob anyplace they want, pay Marcus off, and then go
anywhere they want. Shawna agrees and kisses him.
At S.T.A.R.
Labs, the scientists confirm that the DNA residue from Iron Heights
belongs to a woman. Cisco matches it against Shawna’s DNA in the CCPD
database and they begin analyzing it for how she can teleport. While
Caitlin and Harrison work on that, Cisco visits Hartley. The villain
says that Professor Stein was at the lab the night of the explosion but
never left. Hartley says that Cisco has to let him out so that he can
explain further, but Cisco refuses. The prisoner says that he knows
Cisco will give in because he considers Ronnie “family” and says that he
can wait until Cisco agrees.
Later, Barry goes to Jitters and
meets Iris, and talks about his meeting with Henry. Iris complains that
her editor only wants Flash stories from her and that she hasn’t had
any. Barry assures her that he’ll come up with some way to help her get a
story on the speedster.
Cisco finally goes back to Hartley’s
cell and agrees to release him. However, he first puts on a pair of
electronic handcuffs to make sure that Hartley doesn’t run off.
Henry calls Joe and Barry and says that he has a lead. They go back to
the prison and Henry explains that Clay was working as a runner for
Marcus and lost a lot of money when a heist went back. He figures that
Clay will meet with Marcus. As Barry and Joe leave, Barry tells his
father to stop playing cop and Henry agrees.
Cisco takes
Hartley to the outside wall of the lab, and Hartley points out the blast
shadow of a man on the wall. He explains that the shadow belongs to
Martin, who was seemingly vaporized the night of the accelerator
explosion. Hartley then tries to run for it, and Cisco reveals that he
has a remote that triggers Hartley’s cochlear devices. Hartley collapses
from the pain and Cisco tells him to explain what happened to Ronnie.
Hartley finally agrees and Cisco shuts off the device. However, the
prisoner says that Cisco will have to remove the handcuffs because
they’ll draw looks from the people where they’re going.
When
Barry returns to the lab, he notices that Caitlin is upset. She finally
tells him what Cisco said about her not having a life, and Barry points
out that their friend is right. However, he admits that he doesn’t have a
social life, either. They intercept a police report about an armed
robbery and the couple involved match Shawna and Clay’s description.
Shawna is teleporting bags of money out of an armored car while Clay
holds a gun on the guards. Flash arrives and Shawna dares him to catch
her. She teleports faster than he can follow, and when Flash finally
manages to grab her, she teleports him to the edge of a walkway and
leaves him dangling. Flash recovers and speeds down to grab her, only to
instinctively grab Clay’s bullet as it starts to penetrate his neck.
While the speedster collapses to the ground, stunned, Clay grabs Shawna
and they drive away.
Back at the lab, Caitlin bandages Barry up
and suggests that they call Shawna “Peek-a-Boo.” Harrison speculates on
how the woman teleports and what her limits are. Barry goes to help
Iris with her story, only to find her leaving with Eddie to meet his
mother. Once they go, Barry calls Caitlin and tells her that he’s going
to check out the bars where Shawna and Clay hung out at before Clay was
captured. Caitlin gives him the information from the file, and insists
on helping.
Later, Caitlin meets Barry and is wearing a party
dress. As they keep an eye out for the couple, Caitlin says that they
should start dating again. Barry admits that he keeps trying to help
Iris in the hopes that she’ll return his feelings, but he’s ready to
accept that they’re just friends. Caitlin grabs a drink and tells the
bartender to run a tab for her.
Hartley takes Cisco to the
police station and has him bring up the footage of S.T.A.R. Labs on the
night of the explosion. It shows Martin outside S.T.A.R. Labs, being
enveloped by the dark matter explosion. Hartley has Cisco freeze-frame
the video, revealing the explosion has Ronnie’s face in it. Cisco
realizes that the explosion merged the two men together. While Cisco
studies the footage, Hartley removes a device from his ear and uses it
to sonically stun Cisco. He then crushes the remote and walks out.
Caitlin is soon drunk and trying to sing karaoke. She calls Barry up on
stage and he reluctantly goes up, and a disgruntled Caitlin realizes
that he’s a much better singer. Afterward, the scientist goes to the
bathroom and a reporter, Linda, comes over to talk to Barry at the bar.
She wonders if Caitlin is his girlfriend, and Barry hastily assures
Linda that she’s not. Linda then gives Barry her phone number and says
that what he does with it is up to him. As she leaves, Caitlin comes
over and says that she’s not feeling well. Barry quickly gets her
outside and she throws up on the sidewalk.
Clive and Shawna pay
off Marcus, but Marcus draws a gun on Shawna. She instinctively
teleports and the mobster says that they’re going to keep working
together and make a lot of money with her metahuman power. Joe and Eddie
burst in with a SWAT team and open fire. As Marcus’ men return fire,
Clay is wounded, and Shawna grabs him and teleports away.
Barry
takes Caitlin home, and she starts to undress while telling Barry to
call Linda. He finally has to help her at superspeed, and gets her into
her pajamas. Caitlin collapses into bed and thanks Barry for the great
evening, and asks him to stay with her until she falls asleep.
The next day, Caitlin arrives at S.T.A.R. Labs: extremely hung over.
Barry is waiting for her, as is Harrison. He calls Cisco out and
explains that the engineer let Cisco out. Cisco admits to Caitlin that
he sealed Ronnie into the reactor on the night of the explosion, and
blames himself for what happened. Caitlin assures him that Ronnie would
believe he did the right thing, and they return to analyzing Shawna’s
teleportation residue. Harrison discovers that it goes dormant in
darkness, and suggests that if Shawna can’t see then she can’t teleport.
Before they can pursue the matter further, the prison calls Barry to
tell him that Henry has been stabbed.
Joe and Barry go to Iron
Heights and Henry admits that some of Marcus’ men attacked him for
asking questions. Barry points out that he told his father to stop
asking questions, and Joe says that Henry continued digging and found
out where Marcus was, letting them raid the mobster’s headquarters.
Henry says that he’s going to do whatever he can to help Barry, and
Barry reluctantly agrees. He then asks his father who stabbed him, and
Henry says that a prisoner named Julius did it. Julius also revealed
that Marcus was going to commit a big heist before he was arrested.
Flash speeds into Julius’ cell, grabs the prisoner, and takes him
outside the fence. As the guards realize that Julius is gone, Julius
demands that Flash take him back before they add more years onto his
sentence for an attempted escape. Flash agrees... if Julius tells him
where Marcus’ next job was going to be. The prisoner quickly tells him
about a hit on a money transfer truck, and Flash runs off, leaving
Julius for the guards.
Clay drives up behind the truck and
Peek-a-Boo teleports into the back, grabs the money, and teleports back
to the car. As they enter a tunnel, Flash speeds ahead of them and cuts
them off. Peek-a-Boo teleports out of the car and attacks the hero,
using her telescope as a baton. Flash manages to grab her and Clay hits
the accelerator, driving forward. The hero dodges out of the way and
Peek-a-Boo teleports into the car.
Harrison reminds Flash over
the radio headset what they learned about Shawna’s weakness. Flash
disables first the lights in the tunnel and then the car’s headlights.
However, Clay escapes in the darkness, leaving his shocked girlfriend
behind.
Later, Flash takes Shawna to a pipeline cell and they
confine her using one-way mirrors. Cisco assures the others that no one
else will escape the cells. Barry talks to Shawna, who admits that she
still loves Clay despite his abandoning her. As Barry and Caitlin walk
away, Barry says that some people are worth being crazy for. He assures
her that the other night was fun and that they’ve both been dwelling on
people that they can’t have. Caitlin agrees and says that it’s time for
her to move on with someone else, and Barry says that he’ll see her
tomorrow.
As Iris walks past an alleyway, Flash calls to her.
He gives her the file on Clay and says that he hopes she can help them
catch him. When Iris wonders why he’s helping her, Flash says that she’s
a good reporter as well as the only reporter he knows. He speeds off,
and Iris secretly takes a photo of him. She goes on to Picture News and finds Barry there. However, he says isn’t there for her, and goes to lunch with Linda.
After the date, Barry visits Henry again and tells his father that he went out with someone. Henry has a copy of the new Picture News
with Iris’ story on the front page, and says that Flash visited him
once in prison. He’s also heard Julius claim that Flash broke him out of
his cell, right after he told Barry about how Julius attacked him.
Barry assures his father that if he was Flash then Henry would be the
first to know. Henry, smiling, says that if Flash was his son was his
son then he’d want him to know that he was proud of him.
A
series of electrical failures plague the city and two workers go into
the sewers to investigate the cause. They find a chamber with the word
“Grodd” written on the walls over and over. A large gorilla attacks one
of them, and the other man runs off. However, before he can escape, the
gorilla grabs him and drags him back.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 23, 2019