The Flash season 1, episode 12, “Crazy for You,” showed us that despite crazy events and metahumans, Caitlin Snow is still able to have a life — but definitely still can’t sing.
Escape
The episode begins with Barry saving a couple from a flipped car who end up addressing him and saying thank you, which means the world is starting to accept him. Afterwards, Cisco tells Caitlin that Hartley knows where Ronnie is, but Caitlin doesn’t think they should believe him and she wants to move on.
Naturally, Cisco goes to visit Hartley and asks why Professor Stine was at Star Labs the night of the explosion, but Hartley says the real mystery is why Stine didn’t leave. Of course he says he can only show Cisco, not tell him, but Cisco walks away…until he comes back later with handcuffs to let Hartley take him somewhere.
Hartley takes him outside and shows him a bomb shadow – the after effects of bombs like Hiroshima – on the wall from Professor Stine. Cisco doesn’t understand the importance or implication, and just then Hartley tries to escape. But being Cisco, he pulls out a handy tool that incapacitates Hartley using his own cochlear implants against him. Hartley promises to actually show Cisco something important but insists that Cisco remove the handcuffs, because they’ll be suspicious where they’re going next.
They go to what looks like Barry’s lab to look at the old street cam footage from the night of the explosion, and Hartley shows Cisco that Professor Stine and Ronnie were actually merged together during the blast, which is why Ronnie doens’t feel like himself and wants to stay away from Caitlin. Of course this gives Hartley another opportunity to escape, this time by removing his cochlear implant (just one, though…not both?) and using it to create a high pitched noise to take out Cisco.
Cisco tells the team, and luckily they take it better than anticipated, although everyone is still pissed.
Peek-A-Boo
Elsewhere, a girl manages to break her way into a prison by just teleporting there. Why? She’s there to rescue her badass boyfriend, Clay Parker. She can only teleport to the places she can see, which makes sense, but instead of escaping with her boyfriend, Clay wants to pull off some big heist with her new powers.
Barry goes to investigate the prison and finds residual fibers in all the places the girl teleported. Turns out that the girl’s DNA was in the particulates and the team identifies her as Shawna Baez. Caitlin tells Barry that when Shawna and Clay’s DNA combined, Clay’s DNA absorbed Bonnie’s – which will probably lead somewhere interesting later in the season since it isn’t mentioned ever again in the episode.
An alarm goes off alerting Barry to a robbery downtown, and he goes to check it out. Obviously it’s Clay and Shawna, and when he gets there Shawna gives Barry a run for his money, ultimately getting away with Clay and two huge bags of cash. Barry gets back to the lab to tell Wells and Caitlin that Shawna can teleport, and they start working on a way to figure out her weakness.
After being blown off by Iris, Barry decides to visit a dive bar that Shawna and Clay used to frequent to see if they show up, and Caitlin tags along to help improve her social life, since it’s made clear that she does not have one. At the bar it seems that Caitlin forgets they’re there to stake out and gets immensely drunk, so naturally she forces Barry to sing “Summer Lovin'” at karaoke. While Caitlin is in the bathroom Barry closes out his tab and meets a girl at the bar and she gives him his number. The night ends there, and Barry takes Caitlin home to recover from her ridiculous drunk night out.
Clay and Shawna meet the guy that Clay owes money to but instead of being “cool,” the guy wants to work with them now that he knows what Shawna can do. During the interaction Joe and his police team come to break up the meeting but of course things go awry and Shawna and Clay escape, but not before Clay gets shot.
Back at the lab, Wells figures out that all they need to do to capture Shawna is to get her in a dark space so she can’t see where she’s going, and therefore can’t teleport. Unfortunately their discussion doesn’t get far before Barry gets a call saying his dad has been stabbed, probably for looking too deep into Clay and his boss, Markus. Barry gets angry at his dad for poking around but he’s the one responsible for Joe being able to catch Markus.
Barry gets the inmate who stabbed his dad (who’s okay) to tell him where the next money heist is supposed to be, and so Barry goes off to intercept it. Barry manages to make Clay and Shawna stop in the middle of a tunnel, takes out the lights in said tunnel and capture Shawna. Unfortunately for her, though, Shawna’s douche of a boyfriend ditches her, so Cisco and the team trap her in their prison.
A Picture Worth a Thousand Words
At coffee, Iris tells Barry that her editor only wants to write about the Flash, and just the Flash. Barry promises he’ll help her figure something out, because she wants to leave if that’s the case. He goes to meet with her later that night and ask if she wants help writing a story, but she’s having dinner with Eddie’s parents, leaving Barry alone.
Barry does end up meeting Iris as the Flash, this time in an alley. He gives her information about Clay Parker saying he needs her help to catch him. As he leaves Iris manages to get a photo of him as he’s flashing by. Yikes! Although that’s not the last time that day she sees Barry (unbeknownst to her), Barry does end up calling the girl at the bar and it turns out she also works for the same paper as Iris, and her name is Linda Park.
Barry goes to visit his dad, who sees the photo of the Flash in the paper and tells Barry how weird it is that the Flash was seen at the prison, and also helped saved Joe. Hmmmm. Obviously he figures it out, and tells Barry that he’s proud of him. Awww!
After the credits, a couple of sewage workers go down to check out why the system is going haywire and and up seeing Grodd written all over the walls. They then get attacked by a giant gorilla – Grodd!
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