Flash 1.10

Revenge of the Rogues

Captain Cold and Heatwave return. Captain Cold has a plan which seems to involve revealing the existence of the Flash to Central City. Up to now Flash has only been a rumor. Very few people have actually seen him. Heatwave just wants to burn things. This is consistent with the way they have been played in Legends of Tomorrow.

Iris moves out of her Dad's home and moves in with Eddie. Barry chooses to move back in with Joe. Caitlin starts to investigate Firestorm, the name that Ronnie used for himself in 1.09. Her investigation leads her to a grad student named Jason Rusch who drops the name of Dr. Martin Stein. Before she gets any further in her investigation she is kidnapped by Captain Cold and Heatwave. They want to fight the Flash. When he doesn't make it easy to find him they decide to capture an acquaintance of his.

The Flash finally comes out to play. In one of the more contrived plot twists Cisco tells Flash that in order to neutralize their weapons he needs to get them to fire right at each other, cross the streams, just like in Ghostbusters. Instead of Flash figuring it out on the fly the whole end to the fight is telegraphed. When he eventually does get them to cross the streams it is because he has slowed down and they are firing at him with their guns. What's unclear is why their guns aren't doing him any great harm.

Captain Cold and Heatwave are being hauled away by the police to prison. They are arguing when the van is stopped and the back doors open up. They are rescued by someone that Captain Cold refers to as Sis. The way he is acting this is all part of his plan.

Not my favorite episode. Part of it felt a bit forced, probably could have been handled better. Not a bad episode, but a lesser one by this show's standards.