Sometimes the title of an episode of a super hero TV show makes you guess which villain is featured. Last week on The Flash, “Going Rogue” could have referred to any number of Barry Allen’s foes — though it turned out to be one of his most famous enemies, Captain Cold.
This week? Yeah, it’s pretty obvious. In “Plastique,” we’re going to meet this show’s version of Bette Sans Souci. In the comics, she acquired the power to make things explode by touching them and mostly bothered Firestorm and Captain Atom.
After a bomb goes off downtown, the army, led by General Eiling (guest star Clancy Brown), rolls in and takes over the case, much to Joe’s (Jesse Martin) surprise. Suspicious, Joe tells Barry (Grant Gustin) that he and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs should look into the army’s involvement. Wells (Tom Cavanagh) informs the team that Eiling was experimenting on his men to turn them into super soldiers. Cisco (Carlos Valdes) confirms one of Eiling’s soldiers, Bette Sans Souci (guest star Kelly Frye), was at the bomb site. The Flash tracks her down and realizes that she’s not setting off the bombs, she is a meta-human who can blow things up just by touching them.
“Meanwhile, when Joe learns Iris is writing about ‘the streak,’ he tells Barry to make her stop. Barry realizes Iris won’t listen to him so he decides to have The Flash pay her a visit. Dermott Downs directed the episode written by Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing & Brooke Eikmeier.
Questions that come to mind immediately: is Plastique’s power somehow related to the accelerator accident, or will the General provide a separate ongoing source of meta-humans? And will Barry do that cool vibration thing to keep his features obscured while talking to Iris? Because if not, it’s going to be hard to swallow the idea that she wouldn’t figure out who he is. He might need to borrow one of Arrow’s voice-changing gizmos too.
Tune in tonight at 8 pm for a full helping of “Plastique,” then be sure to catch The Flash After Show from our friends at thestream.tv, and join us back here for the fastest (in terms of posting time, not how quick you can read it!) recap alive!
This week? Yeah, it’s pretty obvious. In “Plastique,” we’re going to meet this show’s version of Bette Sans Souci. In the comics, she acquired the power to make things explode by touching them and mostly bothered Firestorm and Captain Atom.
After a bomb goes off downtown, the army, led by General Eiling (guest star Clancy Brown), rolls in and takes over the case, much to Joe’s (Jesse Martin) surprise. Suspicious, Joe tells Barry (Grant Gustin) that he and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs should look into the army’s involvement. Wells (Tom Cavanagh) informs the team that Eiling was experimenting on his men to turn them into super soldiers. Cisco (Carlos Valdes) confirms one of Eiling’s soldiers, Bette Sans Souci (guest star Kelly Frye), was at the bomb site. The Flash tracks her down and realizes that she’s not setting off the bombs, she is a meta-human who can blow things up just by touching them.
“Meanwhile, when Joe learns Iris is writing about ‘the streak,’ he tells Barry to make her stop. Barry realizes Iris won’t listen to him so he decides to have The Flash pay her a visit. Dermott Downs directed the episode written by Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing & Brooke Eikmeier.
Questions that come to mind immediately: is Plastique’s power somehow related to the accelerator accident, or will the General provide a separate ongoing source of meta-humans? And will Barry do that cool vibration thing to keep his features obscured while talking to Iris? Because if not, it’s going to be hard to swallow the idea that she wouldn’t figure out who he is. He might need to borrow one of Arrow’s voice-changing gizmos too.
Tune in tonight at 8 pm for a full helping of “Plastique,” then be sure to catch The Flash After Show from our friends at thestream.tv, and join us back here for the fastest (in terms of posting time, not how quick you can read it!) recap alive!