The Flash season 1, episode 5, “Plastique,” aired last night and the world’s fastest man just got faster!
Boom, Bam, Naked
Barry invited Caitlin and Cisco to the bar with he, Isis and Eddie and he can’t feel anything from all the alcohol he’s drinking. His superpowers are keeping him from getting drunk! Meanwhile, on the other side of town a woman is robbing an office building, and ends up bombing it forcing Barry and everyone to leave early. Eddie goes because he’s a cop, Barry and his team leave to help people, and Iris leaves because she knows the “Streak” is going to be there. Barry manages to save a window washer from falling by running up a building, but Iris catches up with him in his outfit. He’s smart though, and vibrates his face so she can’t see – he needs a better mask, guys.
At the precinct, the military shows up and takes over the bombing investigation and the general wants all of the information. Barry heads back to the team with at least one piece of evidence because he finds it suspicious, and Dr. Wells explains that the man, General Wade Eiling, worked with Wells to develop enhanced genes for soldiers but Wells put an end to it.
Cisco finds out the name of the girl that bombed the place is Bette Sans Souci and Barry heads over to check things out at the closest address they can find to her. He does, but unfortunately for him she touches his suit and before he knows it she’s warning him to take if off (not like that, though) and it ends up exploding.
Barry informs the team of the suit going kaboom and Cisco is the angriest of the bunch, until he learns that Bette is really attractive. He then finds out that Bette is looking for the surgeon who operated on her several times since her accident, and Barry goes to intervene before the military gets there and he succeeds.
Plastique No More
Bette arrives at the lab and the team lets her know exactly what happened the night of the storm. She thought Eiling created her, but nope he’s not that smart. Unfortunately though, he was smart enough to tag her with a tracker before Barry got her out of the surgeon’s home, so the military shows up while they try to get Bette out of there.
They do manage to get her to a field where they test her powers, and she asks Barry if he’d ever want his powers to be reverse and he says no. Will Bette (aka, Plastique, as Cisco calls her) be on the good side or the bad? She has to pick, because there’s no way to get the bomb shrapnel out of her body, which means there’s no way to take away her powers. At least, not yet. She walks away, and Barry wants her to join them but the team doesn’t think she’s the right fit for them because she just makes things explode.
Wells talks to Bette, and tells her the only way to stop Eiling from attacking people like her is to kill him, so that’s what she leaves to do. Of course, Barry doesn’t take her absence well and has the team look up her location. He goes to stop her from doing what Wells told her to do, and he gets there in time to stop her from killing him but then Eiling shoots her and she dies just before she’s able to tell him Wells told her to kill him. Her body starts glowing and if she explodes she would destroy the city, so Barry runs on water to carry her as far away from there as possible.
The Streak
Iris is obsessed with the “Streak.” Her dad confronts her about how she was at the bomb siting and she explains that she’s blogging about it, and won’t stop. Eventually Barry goes to talk to her out of blogging about him, but she won’t let it go and asks why he’s not being supportive because it doesn’t make sense. He doesn’t have an answer.
His talk with Iris didn’t go so well, and in the next story she writes she attaches her name to it. A horrible idea, because the evil metahumans will be able to track her if they think she knows something. So Barry goes to talk to her, Arrow style with a voice changer. Unfortunately Barry isn’t good at the whole “Stop what you’re doing” speech.
Barry tells Joe he talked to her, and he says the only way to stop Iris is to tell her everything and then Joe tells Barry he knows he doesn’t tell her everything. Joe knows he’s in love with Iris and wants him to tell her, but now that Iris is with someone Barry won’t.
Barry goes to ask Iris one last time to stop writing, but she won’t unless he tells her what’s going on with him. He was about to tell her the truth but he lies and says he put the stuff with his family behind him, so Iris says she won’t stop unless the rest of the world believes in the streak. And that’s when Barry tells her they should stop hanging out for a while.
Grodd
At the end, Eiling shows up and asks Wells to work with him because his explosion is creating amazing people, but Wells says no. A flashback shows them working together on a patient, and Eiling wants to go further but Wells doesn’t like the cruel things they’re doing to him so he stops the project. The specimen in question? Grodd!
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