THE FLASH - Season 5.10

REVIEW:  THE FLASH – SEASON 5, EPISODE 10 :  "The Flash & The Furious"

After a little holiday break, the Scarlet Speedster is back and ready to continue protecting Central City from the threat of Cicada and anyone else looking to cause havoc to our beloved city.  And we hit the ground running, so-to-speak.

Starting off in 2049, we pick up where we left off, as Nora and Thawne have their little chat.  Nora, now with the knowledge that Eobard was the cause of her namesake grandmother’s death, lets him know that he’s lucky that she’s talking to him at all, now that she has the truth.  Eobard then tells her that, yes, he was responsible, and that he’ll always hate Barry Allen, as Barry hates him.  But he reminds Nora of what HE has given HER---speed lessons. Time with her Dad…to be able to fight crime with him.  Eobard feels that he does NOT want his actions to be his legacy.  Nora, however, doesn’t trust him anymore, and says that they will NOT be chatting anymore.

Our villain-of-the-week is a gal named Raya Van Zant…who goes by the name of Silver Ghost.  She apparently has a piece of satellite shard that allows her to control vehicles and other things with engines.   She ends up stealing a Lamborghini, and began evading the cops.  Meanwhile, Cecile is back on the job in the courtroom, where Weather Witch is on trial.  Barry is the CSI and witness for the case.  But he gets the call from STAR to investigate the matter.  Off he goes to give chase.  He and Nora are off and running to try and catch her.  As Barry approaches the car…he’s hit by the dark matter, and is blasted away.  Silver Ghost escapes, and Barry finds out he has another problem.  When trying to nab Raya, he was vibrating…now he can’t STOP.  Nora manages to use her powers to help keep him solidified until she can get him back to the lab.

At the lab, Caitlin is working on Cisco’s hands, and manages to remove most of, if not all the shards from his hands.  After doing some research, Cisco finds out that the shards weren’t dampening his powers, but taking them AWAY.  He chats with Caitlin about the possibility of a “metahuman cure”.  Caitlin tells him that while she was against Killer Frost at first, when she was gone, Caitlin felt lost without her.  Cisco tells Caitlin he wants to someday have a family, not risk his life day to day like Barry does.  He doesn’t want to be the Flash. 

Barry and Nora arrive, and in order to help Barry from stopping his vibrating, he get him to vibrate into the pipeline.  There, his powers are dampened, and is immobile for awhile.  At this time, he’s SUPPOSED to give his deposition for Weather Witch’s case, but Nora, who IS certified as a CSI, goes in his stead.  At the courthouse, Cecile can “feel” the regret in Weather Witch, but Nora, through her testimony, says that she is a criminal, and SHE was responsible for using the weapon to hurt people.  At this point, Weather Witch confesses to her crimes.  She is then taken into custody to serve her time in jail.  Cecile wonders why Nora was so harsh, and Nora explains that she is a criminal, and they don’t change.

While Weather Witch is on her way to Iron Heights, Silver Ghost catches up to the caravan delivering her, and breaks her out.  Ghost then takes her to her hideout, and says that she has plans to break into ARGUS, and needs Weather Witch to do it.  Witch is reluctant to do so, saying she isn’t like her father, that HE is the career criminal.  Ghost reminds her that SHE is a criminal now, and can’t avoid it.  Ghost leaves her and tells her to think on it. 

Back at the lab, Iris, Nora, and the others are looking into Silver Ghost’s past, and find out that she was set up by the DoD, and was dishonorably discharged from the military.  They also find out she had no affiliation to Jocelyn.  At this time, Jocelyn meets up with XS, and she turns herself in.  She wants no part of Ghost’s plan.  As XS takes her to the station, where they arrest her.  Despite her protests, she’s taken away.  Iris notices and hears her protests.  We later see Iris getting the information she was looking for about Raya from a member of the military.  Nora and Iris chat about Joc, and Iris lets her know that Barry has always given people a second chance.  Nora ponders on this.  They managed to get all the info on Raya, and find out she’s planning to raid ARGUS.

In the Pipeline, Barry is brought food by Sherloque, and he brings up the writing that Barry was doing after he came out of the Speed Force.  Barry only remembers bits and pieces, but he calls it something of a “future language”, and he couldn’t figure out…not even Gideon, which gives Sherloque pause.  He asks Sherloque why, but Sheloque just passes it off as whimsy. 

Jocelyn is in her jail cell when she’s approached by Raya, who says she’s giving her a second chance, and lets her out of her cell.  She also has with her Jocelyn’s staff.  The two then head to ARGUS to steal an engine produced by Wayne Tech.  Turns out to be a souped up Chevy Chevelle.  They steal it, and off they go.  The team gets a hit that the Ghost and Witch are on the loose, and XS is on the case, taking Killer Frost in tow.  XS is there to meet the ladies when they are escaping, but they shoot a missle at her, that XS sees, but it blows up in her face just before it passes her by, knocking her down.  They drive on, and meet up with Frost, who has created an ice wall to stop them.  But apparently, this vehicle is pretty much “Batmobile Light”, as they phase through the ice wall, and continue their escape.  The car also is capable of cloaking (Man, leave it to Bruce to make a car with all the fixin’s).  They disappear to avoid XS, and Cisco and Iris can’t track them unless Joc uses her staff.  At this point, XS tries again to appeal to Joc, and let her know she made a mistake, and is giving her a chance to be the person she WANTS to be.  They are headed right for XS when the road ices up beneath them, and they slide to a stop.  Frost soon joins XS, and XS thanks her for icing the road to stop them.  Frost says she didn’t do it, and XS realizes it was Jocelyn that saved her.  However, both Weather Witch and Silver Ghost escape.

Back at the lab, the 24 hours are up for Barry, and the Dark Matter in his body has dissipated.  Barry is grateful to be out of the pipeline, and apologizes for not being able to help.  Cecile is happy he’s okay, and says they’ll be back on the job tomorrow.  Barry and Iris realize that raising a kid is tough, but they love it.

Cisco is busy working on an equation to help him solve the metagene.  He’s hit with a heavy overcoat, as Caitlin tells him it’s cold where they’re going.  They breach to her Dad’s old lab.  She tells him she’ll help him find a cure—for HIM.  But they work TOGETHER, and it’s for him.  

Sherloque enters the Secret room where Gideon is.  After half a minute, Sherloque figures out how to turn Gideon on, and she greets him.  He asks her to call up all the records of Nora West-Allen, and Gideon informs him that the records have been wiped clean.

In 2049, Nora once again visits Eobard.  He tells her she either trusts him or she doesn’t, but she has to decide then and there.  She says she doesn’t trust him, but will give him time to prove himself.  Time, he tells her, is something he has very precious of, as we see a clock, counting down how much time he has left. 

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Wow!  What a way to bring us back from our little Winter’s nap!  Now we see just what in the hell is going on with Nora and Eobard.  He’s taken the same road with her as he did with Barry…teaching her how to use her speed, and letting her spend time with her Dad…which is all she wanted.  But now, as she has found out that HE was responsible for her grandmother’s death, she’s less trusting---and deservedly so.  I do not know what Eobard’s plan is, but I’ve no doubt that it’s not good.  As much as he says he doesn’t want his legacy to be that of the “evil villain”, we all know that he cannot change that.  As long as Nora Allen’s death was at his hands, that will NEVER change.  And we also know that’s a pivotal point in the Flash’s history that CANNOT be changed.  It is a set point in time.  Nora is still such a naïve child in so many ways, and we will see if this will end up having serious consequences down the road.

Nora learns a valuable lesson about second chances, as Barry told her about Captain Cold, and how he went from being a virtual career criminal to a Legend.  All Jocelyn wanted was a chance to prove she was NOT her father, a career criminal.  At first, Nora was reluctant to give her a second chance, even when Cecile could sense her guilt, and later on, as she’s crying out that she turned herself in willingly, Iris overhearing it.  In the end, Nora herself needed a second chance to show Joc that she was willing to give her the benefit of the doubt, and Joc didn’t let her down.  Later on, we see that she was willing to let Eobard prove his worth, even though he seems to be on the clock now.

Speaking of Eobard and being “on the clock”, I was curious about that timer from the midseason finale a month ago, and now it makes more sense.  Eobard is dying.  How long he has, and what he is suffering from is still yet unexplained, but it seems like he’s looking to either turn over a new leaf before he dies, or yet it’s another in a long set of well crafted schemes he’s cooked up.  We should get more info on that as the story progresses.

Caitlin and Cisco’s teaming up to find a “metahuman cure” seems like a good idea at first:  to help those afflicted with powers from Dark Matter like Cicada, and stop them before they do something drastic.  However, Cisco is feeling the weight of being a superhero, and seeing how much Iris and Nora worry every time Barry races out as the Flash to risk his life…it’s begun to weigh on him as well.  He wants a normal life…to be the Cisco Ramon he was BEFORE becoming Vibe.  And while Caitlin and Frost have come to terms with the fact that they do need each other, Cisco is more interested in being an average guy…well, average for Cisco, anyway.  While they work on this “cure”, I have a sneaking feeling it’s going to fall into the wrong hands.  I see baaaad, baaaad things down the road with this thing.

Was awesome to see Cecile get back into the swing of things, now that she’s off maternity leave.  She wasn’t pleased Barry had to run off to go do his Flash thing (and, at this juncture, she had BETTER be used to it!  It’s what you get when your head CSI is the Fastest Man Alive).  Was also pretty cool we got our Joe update of the week---he’s got Jenny, and hanging out with Wally (I bet THAT time---insert joke—is being well spent, LOL!), but we can expect our patriarch and favorite CCPD detective to be back on the job again soon---Jesse L. Martin has been cleared to come back to work! 

Silver Ghost was another “villain of the week”, but she had something of a cool power---metatech that allowed her to control things with engines.  And for her to rip off ARGUS for a high tech ride that they had from Wayne Tech (leave it to Wayne Enterprises to create something that can elude the law, a speedster, and have all sorts of Batmobile type gadgets), and make it a sweet ride like a Chevy Chevelle SS (and the color and stripes reminding me an awful lot of the Shelby GT 500 used in the 2000 version of the movie Gone In Sixty Seconds….Eleanor).  And getting into ARGUS seems to get easier, despite all their defense methods they implement.  You’d think that with enough metahumans running around, they’d get a clue.  Good thing about this villain---she’ll be back to plague Team Flash again.  As for Jocelyn…our Weather Witch.  Will she stay on the downlow?  Or will she embrace her father’s life?  Time will tell.

Mick Rory having been published---and Barry reading his book in captivity..and LIKIING IT...love it!

Finally, Sherloque’s quest to know all about Nora’s activities, and the language she’s been writing down, have got him hot on her trail.  Him quizzing Barry about the language, and Barry telling him he only knew bits and pieces, but couldn’t decipher all of it…even with Gideon’s help, got his mind working overtime.  Having ask Gideon about Nora’s records of her journal, which he surmised, is what she was doing, and Gideon saying that the records have been erased, will now have him working like crazy to uncover her secret.  For being as goofy as he’s been---he’s proving to be every bit as deductive as the real Sherlock Holmes. 

Only drawback to this week’s installment?  No Ralph.  Would like to see him open up his own detective agency…see him working on a case.  But I guess his lack of appearances help to not make him stale…and be useless.  He comes in when he’s useful, but it WOULD be nice to know what’s been going on with HIS life while not hanging around Team Flash.

All in all…not a bad way to come back from the break, and get this story moving into the next gear.  It had its slight humorous moments, and we got a good chunk of answers as to WHY Nora was working with Eobard.  There’s still more to come, but happy to have our speedster back on the beat.

That’s all for this week!  Wanna give a shoutout to my friend Jocelyn, and her friends with whom she does a podcast with, Everydaynerdpodcast, with some friends of hers.  Check out her You Tube page by copy and posting the link here and looking it up: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBvUpMcZiuEvQq6giR-T_wg     Also, don’t be afraid to subscribe and leave comments, I’d appreaciate it! 

Until next week….keep on running!