Flash lends a hand helping Joe and Eddie round up a flasher and a gang of jewel thieves.
Dr. Lindsay Kang leaves the robotics lab at Hudson University and gets
in her car. Before she can start the engine, the car doors lock on their
own and a swarm of bees fly out of the air vents and attack her.
The next day, Barry and the detectives are called to the crime scene,
and Barry confirms that Kang was stung to death. Joe suggests that they
take the test results to S.T.A.R. Labs, but Barry worries that he might
inadvertently slip and give something away about Harrison. He suggests
that they tell Cisco and Caitlin, but Joe says that they should wait to
be sure in case the two scientists side with their mentor.
When
the two men arrive at the lab, Barry explains that there weren’t any
dead bees in the car or stingers in Kang’s body, even though the bees
should have died after stinging her. Also, there was enough venom in the
scientist to kill a hundred scientists. Harrison figures that they’re
dealing with a metahuman who can both control bees and make their venom
more toxic. Felicity enters the lab and asks the team to come outside.
They agree and Ray Palmer flies out of the sky in his Atom suit.
When the group goes back inside, Barry tells Felicity that it’s not the
best time for her to be there. Ray explains that he’s having some
problems with the power pack on his suit. Barry tries to get out of it,
but the scientists agree to help Ray. Felicity realizes that something
is wrong and offers to take Barry to Jitters for some coffee.
At the station, Iris confronts Eddie and wonders if he’s hiding
something. He insists that he isn’t but she doesn’t believe him and
leaves. Once Iris leaves, Eddie tells Joe that he can’t keep lying to
his girlfriend, but Joe makes it clear that he has to.
At
Jitters, Barry tells Felicity that he doesn’t want to put someone in
danger. Eddie comes over and Felicity realizes that something is wrong
with him as well. Barry assures Eddie that Felicity knows that he’s
Flash, and Felicity suggests that they go out to dinner and relax. Eddie
agrees but Barry isn’t happy to be the fifth wheel.
At Folson
Tech, scientist Bill Carlisle walks through the lobby. Brie Larven is
sitting nearby, takes out a bee, and tells it to warn the others.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco and Ray are working on the power pack. Cisco
has a flash of Harrison killing him in the alternate timeline, but has
no idea what it means. Caitlin calls the two men upstairs and informs
them that they’ve picked up reports of another bee attack at Folson
Tech. Flash speeds there and runs inside, and finds Coulson dead in his
office. Bees fly out of the corpse’s mouth and Cisco directs the hero
toward an exit. Something goes wrong and Flash hits a dead end, and the
bees attack him. He manages to get outside and collapses just as Joe
pulls up. The scientists confirm that Barry’s heart has stopped, and
shock it back into life using a defibrillator built into the suit.
Later when Joe gets Barry back to the lab, Cisco confirms that the
suit’s defibrillator is burned out. He apologizes for misdirecting
Barry, suggesting that the building schematics were out of date. Barry
isn’t convinced but Harrison says that they’ll do better next time.
Eager to get away from his friends, Barry changes into a suit at
superspeed in preparation for the dinner date. The team is surprised
that he’s ready to go and advise caution, but Barry insists that he’s
fine. As they leave the lab, a bee emerges from the Flash suit.
Later, Barry, Felicity, and Ray meet Iris and Eddie at the restaurant.
There’s no one there except for the staff, and Ray admits that he bought
the restaurant and arranged for a very private dinner.
Cisco
meets Joe at the station, and the detective tells him that Carlisle also
specialized in robots. The younger scientist asks if something is wrong
with Barry, and Joe claims that there isn’t. He says that Barry is just
worried about Reverse Flash, and Cisco has another vision of the
alternate timeline and confronting Harrison as the villain.
At
the restaurant, Iris makes several pointed remarks about couples sharing
secrets with each other. Felicity tries to change the topic and a
panicked Barry excuse himself, saying he has to use the restroom.
Felicity goes after him and asks what’s going on, and Barry tells her
what he’s learned about Harrison. He admits that he doesn’t know who he
can trust anymore, including Caitlin and Cisco. Felicity assures him
that they are trying to help, but Barry notes that Harrison has been
doing the same thing.
Ray comes out and warns them that things
are getting tense between Iris and Eddie. Eddie is insisting that he
can’t tell iris confidential information, and she walks out. Eddie goes
as well, just as Barry gets a text from S.T.A.R. Labs and speeds off.
Meanwhile, the bee from the Flash suit is about. It flies close to
Harrison, preparing to sting him, and he starts to get to his feet.
However, Flash arrives and catches it, sealing it in a vial. The
scientists examine it and discover that it’s a miniature drone unit. As
they look into its eye cameras, Brie watches them on her monitor.
Joe and Ray arrive and the scientists figure that a normal human,
albeit a genius, is responsible for the deaths rather than a metahuman.
Felicity checks the Internet and confirms that Kang and Carlisle both
worked at Mercury Labs, Barry, Joe, and Harrison go to see the head
scientist and Harrison’s former friend, Tina McGee. Tina explains that
Brie was a former employee who had worked with Kang and Carlisle to
develop bee drones for agricultural development. However, Kang and
Carlisle warned Tina that Brie was weaponizing them and Tina fired her.
Joe offers Tina police protection but she's still suspicious of them
after they lost her tachyon accelerator, and refuses.
Later,
Felicity arranges to meet Barry at Jitters. She insists that Ray is a
good person, as is Cisco and Caitlin. She tells Barry to trust them, and
explains that even before she learned that Oliver was Arrow, she knew
that he was a good person. Felicity is confident that Cisco and Caitlin
are the same.
When Barry returns home, he finds Iris working in
the living room. She explains that she moved out on Eddie and wonders
if he’s cheating on her. Barry says that Eddie isn’t that kind of guy
and suggests that Eddie is trying to protect Iris from the darkness that
he sees every day as part of his job. Iris considers and then thanks
Barry, and admits that she’s surprised he’s helping her see Eddie’s
point of view. Barry tells her that he just wants her to be happy.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, the drone unit activates and Felicity traces the
wireless signal. She tells the others that the swarm is heading for Tina
at Mercury Labs.
In her office, Tina looks up at the window
and sees the drones outside. They form into Brie’s face and she tells
Tina to buzz her in.
Barry arrives at the lab and Felicity
traces the wireless signal back to an abandoned greenhouse. Caitlin
warns Barry that he can’t risk confronting the swarm again, and Ray
offers to confront them in his impenetrable Atom suit. Cisco warns him
that they haven’t tried out the new power system yet, but Ray insists on
testing it into the field. He leaves in the van with Caitlin and Cisco,
and Barry goes to the greenhouse.
At Mercury Labs, Tina tries
to get through to Brie, who says that she’s doing what she has to and
orders the drones to shatter the window. Felicity tries to interrupt the
wireless signal without success, but she is able to redirect them to
the Atom, who then flies away with the drones in hot pursuit.
At the greenhouse, Flash confronts Brie and says that he knows how it
feels to be betrayed. Unimpressed, Brie sends more drones after him and
they follow the speedster outside. As they corner him, they suddenly
stop. Felicity tells Flash that she hacked the frequency and is
controlling them. However, Brie tries to hack into Felicity’s hack of
her system and take control again.
Cisco tells the Atom to fly
into the ocean so that the drones will short out. The Atom has no choice
even though it will short out his own systems as well. He flies back
into the air but loses propulsion control, and Cisco tells the Atom to
rendezvous with the van. The hero does so and flies into the back, and
he and Cisco high-five at the success of the suit.
Felicity
manages to fight back against Brie and deactivate the drones. Flash
races into the greenhouse and handcuffs Brie to her command chair.
As Cisco and Caitlin park the van, a drone flies out of the Atom suit.
As Caitlin checks on Ray, Cisco spots the drone and leaps in the way. It
stings him in the chest instead of Ray, and Cisco collapses. As Caitlin
administers CPR, Ray calls Flash, who arrives and uses his superspeed
to vibrate Cisco’s heart into beating. Cisco thanks him and Flash
assures him that he’s a hero as well.
The next day, Tina visits
Barry at the station and apologizes for ignoring his warning against
Brie. He understand why she refused to trust them and asks what happened
to turn her against Harrison. Tina explains that 15 years ago they were
working together. However, Harrison became a completely different
person after his fiancée Tess died. As Tina leaves, Joe arrives and
Barry assures him that he’s fine.
On their way out of Central
City, Felicity and Ray stop at Jitters for coffee and meet Barry. Ray
shows him one of the drones and explains that he used the
miniaturization technique to resolve the problems with his own suit.
Felicity confirms that Barry is doing better and he says his goodbyes.
At the station, Eddie finds Iris at his desk. She says that Barry
explained why Eddie is trying to protect her. However, Iris says that it
doesn’t matter and tells Eddie to give her the truth, or she’ll leave
him.
Later, Barry invites Caitlin and Cisco to his lab, where
Joe is waiting. Barry shows them all of the information that he’s
gathered about Reverse Flash... and Harrison. He explains that Harrison
and Reverse Flash are one and the same, but Caitlin doesn’t believe it.
She points out that her mentor is in a wheelchair, but Joe isn’t so sure
Harrison is actually handicapped. When Caitlin asks Cisco what he
thinks he tells the others that he’s been having visions of Reverse
Flash killing him.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 23, 2019