Dr. Wells’ ghosts come back to haunt him in the latest episode of The Flash, “The Sound and the Fury.”

The Pied Piper

In an event that we’re sure will cause some sort of drama later in the season (or series), Barry takes a selfie with Cisco, Caitlin and Dr. Wells while he was in his super suit after a successful mission. Later that day while at home with Iris, she gets a phone call from the Central City newspaper offering her a job.

Wells arrives home, to his fancy-as-Hell mansion (which is ridiculously futuristic) only to arrive to a phone call that sends out a signal that cuts his music. The man on the phone says “We both know what you did,” so Wells gets a gun but before he can see anyone his glass roof shatters and the man says, “It’s time to pay the piper.” Luckily he manages to use his super speed to run away from the glass before it hits him.

Barry is able to tell from the glass that there was no point of impact, meaning whatever shattered them was not a prank. Wells then tells Joe, Caitlin, Cisco and Barry that Rathaway was part of his family’s huge company (Rathaway Industries), but then got disowned when he came out. When Barry asks why they never mentioned Hartley Cisco says it’s because he was always a jerk.

Barry learns that Hartley is using some sort of sonic technology, and goes to get Harley while he’s attacking his parents’ company. When getting caught by Barry, Hartley says that he knows who Harrison Wells really is, and he knows his secret, which clearly gets Barry (and Cisco and Caitlin) to go “Whaaa?” Not literally.

Cisco puts Hartley in one of their cells and notices he has foreign metal objects in his ears, and Hartley says he can’t take them out because he suffered huge trauma when the lab exploded and he’d be in pain without them. It doesn’t take Barry and Cisco long to realize, though, that Hartley wanted to get caught and he uses his hearing aid to blow up the cell wall and escape, taking data from Star Labs with him.

Hartley heads over to the city dam to get Barry’s attention again, and it works. He starts throwing cars off the edge of the dam, which prompts Barry to have to save them instead of fighting Hartley. At the labs Cisco realizes what Hartley stole from them: All the data from Barry’s experiments, meaning he knows the sonic resonance that’s going through Barry’s suit. Hartley uses that same sonic wave on his glove to make Barry’s insides basically go splat.

Luckily Dr. Wells plays a sonic frequency on all the cars on the dam using satellite radio, which mutes Hartley’s frequency and gets Barry to bring him back to the labs in another cell.

Although it’s not a win-win today. When Cisco puts Hartley away (again) he tells Cisco that he’s the only person who knows where Ronnie is, and he knows how to save him. Dun dun dun!!

Wells’ Well of Secrets

In flashbacks through-out the episode it’s revealed that Wells’ first partner at the labs was named Hartley Rathaway. He and Wells were close and they often played chess together, but then Wells introduces Cisco to Hartley saying he’ll do great things and suddenly Hartley gets defensive and immediately doesn’t like Cisco.

To stop the crew from going “Whaaaa?” Wells decides to tell them what secret he’s talking about, which is not that he’s a second flash but instead that Hartley warned him that there’s a chance the accelerator can explode, and a good chance at that. But Wells didn’t listen to Hartley and had him escorted out of the building when Hartley told him he would tell people.

To try and make up for breaking everyone’s trust Wells puts on a press conference to tell the whole world that he is solely responsible for the explosion. It doesn’t really work to make anyone feel better, but they do give him props for doing it.

At the end of the episode Wells enters his secret braille room that houses his suit and the piece of technology that helps him go faster more steadily. Unfortunately it’s not working, but he tells his computer that the piece of technology is only a temporary solution to letting him run fast again, and there’s a more permanent solution waiting for him.

An Investigation Begins

At Wells’ home Joe and Eddie arrive to investigate the scene with Barry and they realize that Wells claims he was under the glass when it shattered, but he doesn’t have a single scratch on him. This prompts Joe to get suspicious of Wells and start his own investigation on him, where he learns that Wells’ girlfriend got killed.

Speaking of investigations, Iris goes to work on her first day at the paper only to realize the editor only hired her to look into the Flash more because he thinks she has some inside connection with him. She also met her inspiration for journalism, Mason Bridge, who told her she was a worthless millennial. Luckily for her when Wells does the press conference explaining the explosion he only calls on Iris to ask her question, and not Mason, which ups her spirits slightly.

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