The Flash Recap: Therefore I Am

Season 4 / Episode 7 / CW And you say C-City! “Therefore I Am” is an episode of The Flash that does an amazing job of splicing DeVoe’s backstory into what we already know about the explosion of the particle accelerator, while giving us some powerful “This is chess; this ain’t checkers” moments in the present. Barry and Joe take a seat with Mr. DeVoe, after getting blindsided by his physical state. They ask him a few standard questions and he breezes through them, angering Barry in the process. He’s hellbent on uncovering the truth while Team Flash thinks our boy is way out of line.

Flash back to 4 years ago when he became the fastest mind in the world. Professor Devoe and his evil assistant are legit baes who have been plottin’ behind the scenes of this whole series. But don’t sleep! Evil assistant is no pushover. ‘Ol girl got the engineering and robotics mind of a genius. Together they create a “thinking cap” to execute their plan to increase his intelligence. But they need a power source, and what better source than the particle accelerator a fellow bright mind just created. They knew it was ’bout to tech Chernobyl and crash the rally. They call out Wells on the possibility his Accelerator could blow and open up a black hole, then get into position. This mutha DeVoe places the tech cap on his head the moment the accelerator goes up in a meta power granting blaze! DeVoe is struck by the Raiden thunderbolt of enlightenment and begins his reign from there.

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