The Flash season 1, episode 6, “The Flash is Born,” aired this week and we can finally say goodbye to people calling him “the streak.”
Finally!
Iris is still blogging about the Streak, and Barry sees and visits her again to tell her to stop writing. She won’t listen, and asks what he wants to be called and he says “anything but the streak.”
At work, Tony visits Iris. He was reading about the streak and found her blog, so he wants to know if she knows who he is. Then a news alert goes on the TV warning people about Tony and as she’s about to call her dad he crushes her phone and walks away.
She lets the streak know about her visit with him, and he warns her to stay away again. But you know Iris, she never listens. It wouldn’t help anyway, because then Tony shows up at her house and kidnaps her.
After the events of the episode, Barry comes back to the cafe Iris works at and they finally make up. They start catching up and Iris informs him of reports of a guy who is on fire but doesn’t burn up and more information about the streak, and Barry hints at how he goes around town in a flash. And that’s how Barry is finally, finally known as the Flash.
Case of the Week: Douchebag Man
A guy is stealing a car, but the interesting thing about him is that he’s super strong and can turn himself into metal. Barry goes to fight him but ends up breaking his hand instead. At the lab he explains the situation and he has to have at least a few hours to heal.
During the case explanation at work, it’s revealed the guy is a kid Barry used to know, Tony Woodward, a bully of his in high school. He tells Cisco and Kaitlin about the guy being his old nemesis, and Cisco shows Barry a robot he made to mimic Tony. The robot kicks his ass.
Barry and Eddie get to a shipping center at the wharf to look for anyone who might have known Tony, since there were kegs in his car form the location, and they find a guy that explains 10 months ago (when the accident/storm happened) Tony fell into a vat of molten scraps.
Barry goes to the old factory where Tony “died” and finds Tony’s hideout, but then gets hit but kicked by him again. He gets pinned under a huge metal shelf and Cisco and Kaitlin have to come get him. After getting yelled at by Wells, Cisco explains that if he hits Tony at 837 miles an hour he can actually do some pretty good damage.
But if he doesn’t do it right then he’ll shatter every bone in his body. Conveniently, later that day Eddie asks Barry for his help boxing and teaches him how to really punch.
As they’re training, a cop shows up to tell them that Iris is missing and someone attacked the crew protecting her house. Tony ends up taking her to their old school, and he tells Iris he wants her to write about him and how he killed the streak.
Barry shows up and gets in a fight and really gets his ass kicked again before he runs away. He runs the distance he needs to be to run 837 miles an hour, and managed to hit Tony in just the right way. Tony then wakes up in the prison they made for metahumans.
Who Did It?
At work Joe is looking over old interrogation videos of Barry explaining what happened when his mom died. After work he visits Dr. Wells at Star Labs to get his help to solve the case.
Joe explains that he thinks someone with Barry’s abilities killed Nora ALlen, but Wells says that it’s highly unlikely. Later he meets Wells again for drinks, and says he thinks there was another particle accelerator 14 years ago. Wells says he doesn’t remember a storm when he moved into town, and this sparks a conversation that consists of Joe being suspicious of Wells.
Why? Wells opened up his lab a month after Nora’s murder, and Joe wants to know what he did in Central City before that. Wells says he was starting over, and leaves.
At the end of the episode, Joe comes back to apologize. Wells’ research partner and wife in Maryland, Tess Morgan, died in a car accident so he moved somewhere he didn’t have to be reminded of her constantly.
And then at the very end of the episode, Joe is at home studying the case when a red streak guy comes and circles around the living room just like it did Nora. When it’s gone, all of the case files are gone and a note on the wall tells him to stop or otherwise Iris will die.
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