Prison warden gives Barry and the other metas over to be sold for 50% of the profits.

Corrupt friend of Ralph's wants to hire him for a crooked detective job. Ralph refuses.

Warden tells Iris that Barry is in isolation due to a prison fight. Cecile reads his mind and knows he is lying and learns of the metahuman trafficking.

Joe wants to tell his boss about this.

Wells2 is on Earth 2 visiting his daughter

Ralph tells team Flash of his visitor and as he talks he morphs into a copy of him including the voice. Ralph freaks out and forces himself to revert to normal appearance.

They decide to have Ralph copy the warden to release the others.

Apparently the warden's plan throws a wrench in Devoe's plans and he does not know what they should do to compensate. He is currently still assimilating his new body and its powers.

He seems confident Barry will figure a way out of it.

barry starts his plan.

Ralph tries to copy the warden's appearance. After a lecture from Cisco he copies the warden but has a few problems still to work on.

Barry basically MacGuyver's his way out of the cell and frees the other metas.

Barry convinces the other metas to work with him and escape together. The plan is to use the old tunnels to escape and get their powers back

Devoe's chair is upgraded. His wife is still having issues with his new body. He also notes she has a song playing in her head all the time and it blocks his ability to read her mind. He assures her that once the new phase is completed he will erase all doubt from her mind.

Ralph as the Warden arrives at a bar, his motor coordination is diminished in this form. he starts losing control of his disguise but manages to hold it back together.

Barry convinces them to leave a maintenance tech alive and bound and gagged.

Ralph tries to convince the villain he is the warden but he loses his disguise and flees.

Warden name is Wolf, Ralph copies his appearance....Ralph Wolf? Loony Tunes reference?

The rest of Team Flash wants to hit the prison and stop Warden Wolf, Ralph ducks out.

Caitlyn goes to talk to Ralph he wont talk to her so she becomes KF to talk some sense into him.

Warden Wolf intercepts them as they escape and get their powers back. Warden clamps a power dampener on Barry. Warden then outs Barry as the Flash to the other metas to divert them from attacking the warden.

The good luck meta helps Barry until the main villain arrives but she is easily beaten.

However Devoe shows up in his upgraded chair to attack. He blocks the metas powers then does something to their minds and they collapse and become Devoe's extra bodies. he then kills the warden, thus eliminating the one that knew Barry was the Flash. Devoe leaves

Cisco and KF arrive and get the power blocker off him. Barry states he will stay until they find away to get him out legally.

Barry zips back into his regular cell and none of the guards seem to know he was in the meta wing.

At the appeal hearing, Ralph shows up disguised as Devoe and gives some seriously fantastic testimony. Cecile reminds the judge that the city has a history of the immpossible and people appearing to be dead and returning. Devoe's wife is astounded.

The judge is astounded but clear's Barry of all charges and orders his release.

Team Flash celebrates Barry being free.

Barry notes that Devoe only stole the powers of the metas on the bus and not the other metas in iron heights.

Team Flash realizes this means Ralph is in danger.

Devoe's wife is not pleased with the turn of events including Warden Wolf's death and Barry's early release.

Devoe then slips her some drug in her wine that appears to do a slight memory wipe on his wife and beings her back to his side.

Also he is in the body of the meta that manipulates luck but has his super intelligence and telepathy from the other body and possbily the other meta powers as well.

He also mentions The Enlightenment.

It also seems that body swapping is altering how Devoe thinks about things and he is getting a bit careless.


1. Barry is free from jail at least for now. This could be reversed at a later point.

2. Ralph shape shifting into another person....not bad. Seems to be getting perhaps a bit close to Plastic Man's powers? Can't recall if Plastic Man could alter his appearance like this.

3. Devoe mentions the enlightenment....?

4. Anyone that learned Barry was the Flash is dead or assimilated by Devoe so his ID is secret again from the world.

5. Clever plan to get Barry free, Devoe's wife couldn't stop it without screwing everything up. However now "Devoe" will disappear and not be around to work with the cops as to what happened thus some suspicion about Barry will likely remain for a time, though I doubt he will experience OJ level of hatred from the public. However the courts and cops will have questions, Barry wont be able to answer them without revealing he is the Flash.

However if needed, Ralph could copy Barry's appearance while Barry suits up as the Flash so they can both appear at the same time to make people think he isn't the Flash.

An improvement overall but the show still needs work.

I was enjoying this episode right up until this scene. It didn't seem to have been thought through too well and fell flat for me.

Mrs Devoe had been shown in earlier episodes to be an extremely intelligent woman, with the ability to think quickly and adapt to new situations. For example she handles Ralph and Joe's expose of her 'affair' in court with ease.

She KNEW that the man who appeared in court wasn't her husband. All she had to do was call him out as an imposter. They could have settled the matter there and then simply by allowing her to ask the imposter a few intimate questions. 'Devoe' wouldn't be able to answer them and that would surely throw enough doubt on the proceedings for 'Devoe' to be detained until the real man's body could be exhumed.

And she could have backed it up by demanding that fake 'Devoe' show the court his stab wounds, which could be checked against coroners' records. Even in the unlikely event that Ralph knew where the wounds were, I doubt he could have reproduced them precisely.

It's not like Devoe just died and came back to life. He was placed in a coffin and was BURIED! We saw the funeral! I know Central City is home to some impossible things, but seriously? No one questioned that?

And what happened when the appeal hearing was over? Did fake 'Devoe' just swan off into the sunset? Didn't they think it odd he wouldn't have left with his wife? What was the conversation there?

No, it just didn't work at all.


Only two other things in the episode bothered me.

1) The convenience of having a manhole entrance to the sewers smack in the middle of the floor of an ultra high security metahuman holding facility.

2) Katee Sackhoff's extremely grating faux English accent. It's getting more annoying with every appearance.

Yeah, the ending lost me, as well.

And I'm not too keen on Ralph being able to look like anybody. I could see contorting his face and body into various disguises, but... how's he turning his skin dark?

But I wasn't thrilled with the Barry in jail story anyway. Glad it's done.

I did like Caitlin's pep talk. Great use of her for a change.

Lastly, I want to see more of Becky (real Becky, not DeVoe-Becky).

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At the appeal hearing, Ralph shows up disguised as Devoe and gives some seriously fantastic testimony. Cecile reminds the judge that the city has a history of the immpossible and people appearing to be dead and returning. Devoe's wife is astounded.


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The judge is astounded but clear's Barry of all charges and orders his release.

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I was enjoying this episode right up until this scene. It didn't seem to have been thought through too well and fell flat for me.

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Mrs Devoe had been shown in earlier episodes to be an extremely intelligent woman, with the ability to think quickly and adapt to new situations. For example she handles Ralph and Joe's expose of her 'affair' in court with ease.

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She KNEW that the man who appeared in court wasn't her husband. All she had to do was call him out as an imposter. They could have settled the matter there and then simply by allowing her to ask the imposter a few intimate questions. 'Devoe' wouldn't be able to answer them and that would surely throw enough doubt on the proceedings for 'Devoe' to be detained until the real man's body could be exhumed.

She was frazzled. And was probably forced to wonder if this was part of DeVoe's master plan. When he first showed up she probably wasn't sure if DeVoe was working a new angle. He doesn't always tell her everything.

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And she could have backed it up by demanding that fake 'Devoe' show the court his stab wounds, which could be checked against coroners' records. Even in the unlikely event that Ralph knew where the wounds were, I doubt he could have reproduced them precisely.

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It's not like Devoe just died and came back to life. He was placed in a coffin and was BURIED! We saw the funeral! I know Central City is home to some impossible things, but seriously? No one questioned that?

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And what happened when the appeal hearing was over? Did fake 'Devoe' just swan off into the sunset? Didn't they think it odd he wouldn't have left with his wife? What was the conversation there?

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No, it just didn't work at all.

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Only two other things in the episode bothered me.

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1) The convenience of having a manhole entrance to the sewers smack in the middle of the floor of an ultra high security metahuman holding facility.

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2) Katee Sackhoff's extremely grating faux English accent. It's getting more annoying with every appearance.

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Yeah, the ending lost me, as well.

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And I'm not too keen on Ralph being able to look like anybody. I could see contorting his face and body into various disguises, but... how's he turning his skin dark?

He's elongating the melanin?

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But I wasn't thrilled with the Barry in jail story anyway. Glad it's done.

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I did like Caitlin's pep talk. Great use of her for a change.

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Lastly, I want to see more of Becky (real Becky, not DeVoe-Becky).

Who cloned Alicia Witt to create this Sugar Lyn Beard actress? (come to think of it Chyler Leigh from Supergirl must be another Alicia Witt clone...we're through the looking glass people)

The whole point of the courtroom 'affair' scene from a few episodes back was to show that she doesn't frazzle under pressure. There's no other reason for it to be there, it serves no other purpose.

She's not an unintelligent woman. She knows how her husband's powers work (She'd have to if she designed and built the chair to accommodate and augment them) and fixing broken bodies isn't one of them.

Even if she didn't twig there and then in the courtroom, surely she talked to him when the hearing was over, before they'd even left the room? Even a brief conversation would have led her to the truth.

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He also mentions The Enlightenment.

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It also seems that body swapping is altering how Devoe thinks about things and he is getting a bit careless.

Good, it'll be his downfall.

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2. Ralph shape shifting into another person....not bad. Seems to be getting perhaps a bit close to Plastic Man's powers? Can't recall if Plastic Man could alter his appearance like this.

Yes and no. Plastic can can change into anyone (and has changed into different people before). However, Plastic Man has a limitation. Whenever he shapeshifts, his new form always has the same colors as his appearance as Plastic Man (skin color, red, black and yellow). Plastic Man can't be any other color without huge difficulty.

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5. Clever plan to get Barry free, Devoe's wife couldn't stop it without screwing everything up. However now "Devoe" will disappear and not be around to work with the cops as to what happened thus some suspicion about Barry will likely remain for a time, though I doubt he will experience OJ level of hatred from the public. However the courts and cops will have questions, Barry wont be able to answer them without revealing he is the Flash.

It'll be interesting if Ralph needs to be "DeVoe" again in order to answer anymore questions or if the writers will simply discard this and throw it away (and I fully expect them to do just that, leaving one big gaping plot hole).

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An improvement overall but the show still needs work.

Indeed.

You are so right, in fact the whole court case from start to finish was a complete flop. The "Barry goes to prison" story was a flop.

I could have provided Barry a better defence than Cecile did, and I'm probably the most agreeable man around.




Yes, a convenient manhole leading to freedom... great prison design there.

And Sachoff's fake accent is annoying, but its still more believable than the court case thing was.

Dibney's powers still seem to be developing and frankly they really haven't had a lot of time to explore and study his powers as much as they should.

As to changing his skin tone as well as appearance....yeah that makes him like Mystique over in X-men, the difference being that Mystique doesn't seem to have a time limit on how long she can alter herself.

Dibney on the other hand has a time limit and also needs to relearn motor skills after transforming

The way she acted when they tried to reveal she was having an affair I think was due to Devoe calculating this scenario with a high probability and she was prepared for it.

I seriously do not think she was prepared for a copy of Devoe or even Devoe somehow reanimating his old body and getting Barry out of prison.

Devoe doesn't tell her everything and we now see that he has no problems messing with her memories.

What we DO know is that Barry is free sooner then Devoe initially calculated or wanted.

Also could she really have outed Dibney-Devoe without risking Devoe's overall plans?

Yeah his defense could have been better by far.

In this episode as they were in the tunnels some of the metas even commented how a CSI guy killed someone in his own home and left evidence everywhere including on himself.

His lawyer should have pointed out all that during his trial. Surely that would have raised a few questions and some doubt in the jury.

However, even though Barry is out now the fact is that he did spend time in jail and even though the judge has exonerated Barry, cleared him of all charges and set him free, the media did a good job of poisoning the public against him, and his fellow cops also seemed to shy away except for Joe and the Captain.

Now Barry by all rights should be facing some serious P.R./karma problems with his fellow cops and the public in general. While he shouldn't experience OJ Simpson or Casey Anthony levels of hatred I would think that Barry should experience some type of trouble.

Will the police reinstate him? Well the courts did clear him, but surely the cops will have many questions for the fake Devoe and if he doesn't turn up to help the investigation it could look bad for Barry.

The police will likely want to talk to Barry about how Devoe could still be alive.

Also will Devoe's grave be exhumed for investigation or did perhaps Dibney secretly do some "dirty work" as it were and already took care of that? Dibney has done some dirty things such as planting evidence and since Devoe isn't really dead would it really be desecrating a grave?

Or Killer Frost could have dealt with the grave and disposed of the body.

As to Barry, can he walk down the streets now without anyone in the public trying to harass or stalk him or try to confront him?

Frankly I think that even though he and Iris are still newlyweds they should give some thought to relocating to the edge of the city, or perhaps even taking some of the lower levels of Star Labs and making them into a new home.

Also Barry, Wells2 and Cisco and Caitlyn really need to sweep the place for bugs, cameras and revamp their security systems...AGAIN.

Perhaps Wells2 could install some Earth 2 tech into the place? Perhaps that will throw people off?

This was something I said they should have pushed hard at the trial. He's a trained CSI if anybody could plan to kill somebody else and get away with it, a CSI would have a very very good idea how to do it.

Also nobody thought to say that Barry should be looked over by the court doctor for evidence of injuries sustained when Devoe clawed at him? ah well, this story is done and dusted.




I strongly suspect, the writers will probably shelve the story of Barry going to prison there and leave it. Which, I think, might be the best idea all round the whole angle was very badly executed. I think he'll probably have to cope with digs from the other cops about himself, and probably his father. There may be some questioning Barry will have to explain to the captain, but the writers will probably... probably... just leave this whole angle there now.




I sincerely hope this stuff was done beforehand, off camera. Guy you think is dead just rolls into the courthouse alive and well first thing you're going to do is dig up his grave. That's just common sense.




I think they need to get out of the open, not really because of the public but because of Devoe, he's turning himself into some super-meta and he seems less... omnipotent now.

I really hope that the final conflict between Barry and Devoe is basically like where Spider-Man cornered the Green Goblin and nearly beat him to death. I would love to see Barry just snap on his villain and unload on him stopping short of killing him. I think Devoe deserves it.

Yes, easily. The court knows nothing of the real Devoe's criminal activity. An imposter who's lying to pervert the course of justice in Barry's favour is only going to reflect badly on Barry and/or his defence team.

I thought the ending was Barry back in his jail cell.

I actually turned the app off and went to bed.

Then when I got on her and read Iron Man's summary, I was like WHAT?! there was more?

That was the WORST ending ever. As others have said it makes NO sense that Mrs. Devoe remains speechless. She could have said any number of things because she knows it's not really Devoe.

And now Barry is only free because of a dumb lie and he could very easily go back to jail when the judge realizes it's a lie.

Other dumb things about this episode:

Ralph is not a shape-shifter. That's a HUGE power to just have as like a plot device. I mean that will be useful EVERY episode. But five bucks says they hardly ever mention it again.

Devoe killing all the Bus meta was such a WASTE. And Barry was just standing there. WTF? I thought Barry was a hero?

So I guess Devoe's plan doesn't include stealing Ralph's powers or else he would already be dead. Maybe his plan is that Ralph will choke when everyone needs him. Ralph is definitely a bit of a choker.

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Yep I didn't care for that at all, wrong power, and just plain lazy writing. The very definition of a deus ex machina.




Barry still had the "power inhibitor" on his leg at that point, so he couldn't help them, as it was all over quicker than he could react.

Hmm... He made his hand go super fast so he could have used that to break the inhibitor on his leg, and then run over, he might have been too late, but at least he would have tried.

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Hmm... He made his hand go super fast so he could have used that to break the inhibitor on his leg, and then run over, he might have been too late, but at least he would have tried.

He made his hand go super fast before the inhibitor snapped on his leg. So, no speed powers at all afterwards. Barry couldn't have saved the Metas even if he had tried.

oh okay I was misremembering. Thanks for clearing it up

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