Barry runs to Coast City to pick up pizza for the others, and then
returns home. Joe, Eddie, Cisco, and Caitlin are waiting, but Caitlin
says that she isn’t hungry. Joe and Cisco are going to Starling City to
investigate the car accident that Harrison was involved in 25 years ago
that cost him the life of his fiancée. Caitlin isn’t convinced that
Harrison is guilty of anything, but Joe tells her that they have to
follow up every possible lead. Cisco asks his co-worker to cover for him
while he’s out of town, but Caitlin refuses to lie to her mentor and
walks out.
A teller is leaving for the night and asks her
go-worker Nina to unlock the door for her. Nina says that she has one
more thing to finish up before she goes. Once she’s alone, Nina goes to
the safe deposit vault and takes the jewelry out of several boxes.
The next day, the police arrest Nina and Eddie shows her the bank’s
surveillance footage. Nina insists that her husband can testify that he
was with her during the time of robbery. Once she leaves, Eddie tells
Barry what happened and admits that everyone who knows Nina insists that
she’s innocent. They figure that a metahuman shapeshifter committed the
robbery, just as Iris comes in. Ignoring Eddie, she asks Eddie if he’s
seen her father. Eddie speaks up, saying that his partner took a couple
of personal days. He asks when Iris is coming home, and she tells him
that she will when it feels like home. Once she leaves, Eddie tells
Barry that he’s finished lying to Iris about what they’re doing.
At Abbott Jewelers, the jeweler, Dominic, greets a customer who wants
to sell some jewelry. Dominic checks the items against a list of stolen
goods and calls 911.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Barry and Caitlin are
discussing whether Harrison killed Barry’s mother. Harrison comes in
abruptly and overhears them, and Barry brings up the topic of the
shapeshifter thief. Caitlin tells Harrison that Cisco is taking off some
time to be with his brother, just as Eddie calls from outside the
jewelry store and tells Barry that they’ve located the thief. He then
follows the man down the street and tackles him, but the man manages to
get away. Flash arrives and tells the thief that he can’t escape. The
thief touches a passing girl, transforms into her, and slips around a
nearby corner into an alleyway. By the time Flash gets there, the thief
has made good his escape.
When Barry returns to the lab,
Harrison and Caitlin warn him that he can’t risk letting the
shapeshifter touch him in case he can take powers or memories. They
check similar cases of clearly innocent people framed for robberies, and
find a series of them dating back to a month after the explosion. The
first one was a bank teller who claimed that his best friend, Hannibal
Bates, framed him.
In Starling City, Joe and Cisco go to the
precinct house and meet with Quentin. He warns them that there wasn’t
much to the car crash, and wonders what they’re trying to find. Joe asks
Quentin to take them to the crash scene, just as Laurel arrives.
Quentin introduces her to the visitors and Laurel asks Cisco to talk
with her privately. Once they’re alone, she tells him that she knows
Barry is Flash and Oliver is Arrow... and she’s Black Canary. Cisco says
that he loves her... as far as how she beats up criminals. When he
wonders why she approached him, Laurel asks him to modify her sister
Sara’s sonic device. Cisco immediately agrees.
At S.T.A.R.
Labs, Caitlin reviews all of the reports about Harrison and his
culpability in the explosion. She then goes to Harrison’s new apartment.
Before he can answer the door, Barry carries her to the city outskirts
and warns that she can’t tell Harrison anything. Caitlin refuses to let
them ruin her friend’s life, and says that she lost everything after the
explosion. Harrison was the only one who stood by her through the
aftermath. Barry warns her that if she tells Harrison then Henry will
remain in jail. Caitlin objects to Barry using the father card but
agrees to wait until Joe and Cisco get back from Starling City.
Barry meets with Eddie and they go to see Hannibal’s grandmother. She
tells them that she hasn’t seen Hannibal and doesn’t remember filing a
missing-persons until they remind her. Mrs. Bates goes to the kitchen to
get them some coffee, but when Barry calls to her, there’s no answer.
They realize that she’s slipped out the back and that she’s Hannibal. As
Hannibal assumes a new identity and runs off, Barry and Eddie go after
him. A police car cuts him off but Hannibal takes the form of Eddie and
gets close enough to shoot the two officers. He runs off as Eddie and
Barry arrive and call 911.
The next day, Singh meets with DA
Cecile and show Eddie the dashboard cam footage of Eddie apparently
shooting the two officers. Cecile warns that with the evidence stacked
against Eddie, she has no choice but to put him under arrest. Once she
leaves, Singh asks Barry what’s going on and he says that he’s trying to
come up with an explanation. Iris runs in, desperate to see Eddie.
Barry warns her that she can’t but promises to do everything that he can
to clear Eddie of the charges.
Quentin takes Joe and Cisco to
the accident site, and Cisco scans the area with a sound-wave detector.
Joe and Quentin wait and talk about their daughters. Quentin admits that
he and Laurel are on the outs because she lied to him and he couldn’t
accept her reason why. Joe says that sometimes people life for love,
especially when it comes to their family. Before Quentin can respond,
Cisco picks up traces of tachyons and calls them over to the spot... and
Quentin’s coffee flows upward out of its cup.
As Cecile
questions Eddie, Barry comes in and says that the lab report shows that
Eddie didn’t fire a gun. However, Cecile points out that isn’t enough to
clear Eddie given the security footage. Once she goes, Barry carries
Eddie out of the station and tells him to hide for now. Eddie refuses,
pointing out that an escape will just incriminate him further. He
assures Barry that it’s not the same as when Barry was a child and
couldn’t do anything to clear Henry’s name. Eddie is confident that
Barry will find Hannibal, and Barry speeds him back to the interrogation
room.
A short time later, Barry goes home to shower. Eddie
arrives at the door and explains that Singh called in a favor with a
judge and got him released. However, when Barry turns around, “Eddie”
knocks him out, touches him, and turns into Barry. Hannibal ties and
gags Barry upstairs, and then goes downstairs just as Caitlin arrive.
She explains that they came up with a formula to lock the villain that
she’s dubbed “Everyman” into one form. Caitlin notices that “Barry” is
acting awkward and assumes it’s because of their earlier argument. She
suggests that they move on and invites Barry to the lab with her.
Joe digs and finds a long-dead corpse. As Cisco gets his kit, Joe asks
Quentin not to report the discovery. If the person they’re investigating
finds out that they’ve found the body then anyone who knows will be in
danger... including Joe.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, Caitlin puts the
finishing touches on the serum. “Barry” suddenly kisses her, saying that
they should have done it a long time ago. Caitlin responds, just as
Iris comes in. She figures that someone framed Eddie and has found the
same trail of framed people. Iris also shows them the footage of the
shooting, and points out that the shooter is left-handed but Eddie is
right-handed. Realizing that he’s been found out, Everyman starts to
draw his hidden gun with his left hand. Harrison comes in and tasers him
from behind. Iris insists on taking Everyman to the station so that
they can clear Eddie’s hands, and won’t take no for an answer. Caitlin
insists on going with her.
As the two women drive to the
station, Iris suggests that Everyman is one of the increasing number of
metahumans that have been spotted in Central City. She points out that
one of them was the Burning Man, and Mason was documenting them. As they
stop at a light, Everyman takes the form of a little girl and yells for
help. Several construction workers come over and Everyman slips away in
the confusion.
Caitlin goes to find Barry, wake him up, and
free him. He says that Hannibal was there and knocked him out, and
Caitlin sheepishly admits that she knows... now.
At the
Starling City precinct house, Joe thanks Quentin for his help. When
Quentin mentions his bad heart, Joe sees Laurel come in and suggests
that there’s something that could make Quentin better. Meanwhile, Cisco
approaches Laurel privately and gives her the modified sonic device,
which she can wear around her neck. The engineer suggests that she call
it her “Canary Cry” and Laurel agrees. She then gives him an envelope
and warns that if he shows it to anyone else, she’ll kill him.
Literally. Once Laurel leaves, Cisco takes out the photo of Laurel in
her Black Canary costume, posing with him.
At S.T.A.R. Labs,
Harrison examines the DNA samples that Everyman left and confirms that
he can only take on other people’s shapes. It’s safe for Barry to touch
the metahuman. Caitlin gives Barry the shutdown formula and nervously
says that they don’t need to hug or touch. The computer registers the
GPS tracker on Barry’s cell phone at the airport and they figure that
Everyman is leaving town.
Barry goes to the airport and tries
to spot Everyman. He notices a brief discrepancy as a TSA agent scans an
elderly woman, and goes over. Everyman realizes that he’s been spotted,
touches a TSA agent to take his form. Flash confronts him in an access
corridor but Everyman changes into Caitlin’s form and sprays the
speedster in the face with mace. He quickly recovers and they fight, and
Everyman changes into first Iris and then Eddie. Finally he transforms
into Flash, but the real Flash easily defeats him with superspeed and
then injects him with the freezing formula. Everyman shapeshifts into
dozens of forms before finally locking into Iris’ shape.
That
night at the station, Barry and Singh show Cecile the airport footage of
Flash battling Everyman. She agrees to release Eddie and worries that
the law isn’t capable of dealing with metahumans. Barry gives her a list
of all the innocent people that Everyman framed--claiming that Flash
gave it to him--and Cecile admits that she’s a fan of the hero. Once
Eddie is released, Iris greets him and he tells her the truth: that he’s
been working with Flash all along.
Later, Barry, Harrison, and
Cisco lock Everyman up in a pipeline cell. Harrison wonders who the
real Hannibal Bates is, and Everyman reverts into a featureless
humanoid... and realizes that he can’t remember what he looked like.
After Harrison goes, Barry takes Caitlin to his lab. Joe and Cisco are
there with the corpse, and they tell her that DNA tests confirm that the
dead man is the real Harrison. Barry figures that the Harrison they
know is an imposter.
As Joe leaves, he finds Harrison in the
lobby. He asks if Joe enjoyed his time in Starling City, and Joe says
that he was working a case. Joe asks Harrison if he ever goes back to
Starling City, and Harrison says that he doesn’t. He figures that Joe
knows what it’s like to lose a loved one--like Iris’ mother--and
suggests that they get another drink sometime and talk.
Later,
Cisco calls Barry and Caitlin in and shows them the 3-d model he made of
S.T.A.R. Labs after the explosion. He checks the entire building for
the first time and finds a secret chamber. They go there and find the
Reverse Flash costume and stolen tachyon generator attached to it. Barry
activates the computer and it brings up the newspaper headline showing
Flash disappearing during a crisis... in the year 2024.
Written by Gadfly on Jun 23, 2019