The Flash Recap: Hero Reborn

Season 4 / Episode 1 / The CW And you say C-City! My name is Iris West, and I was supposed to marry the fast man alive. Hold Up! Before I even start this recap. WE GETTIN THAT WOKE FEMME-CENTRIC INTRO VOICEOVER FROM OUR GIRL?! Maxine Waters just shed a Missouri sweet tea tear! Wilma Rudolph is hurdling through her feels after that intro! Althea Gibson just won the Grand Slam listening to this voiceover on repeat! Ok, ok, back to our regularly scheduled programming. We start off this season of The Flash with Vibe and Kid Flash tracking down Peek-A-Boo, who is puttin the And 1 Mixtape okie doke on these fools at every turn! She goin mad Hot Sauce on em until Iris gets the sticks and starts putting in the S.T.A.R. Labs behind the scenes work! She analyzes Peek-A-Boo’s Nightcrawler teleportation distance limits and predicts it’s 3 buildings, so Vibe jumps ahead and they take her down with Joe’s help.

S.T.A.R. Labs: Starsky and Hutch return to the pad arguing over the team being called Team Vibe or Team Kid Flash. Iris shuts that shit down cuz it never was and never will be Team Kid Flash. You can tell she really has donned the helm here. Then the tone shifts to that separation anxiety feel. Cisco mentions how easy things are when Barry is here. Cecile’s moving in. Joe tells Iris the CCPD needs a new Forensic Scientist. He goes so far as to suggest a funeral and Iris hits the boy dad, bye button. But she can’t sulk for long because a brolic flying samurai just dropped into the…