The Flash Recap: Luck Be a Lady

Season 4 / Episode 3 / The CW And you say C-City! This episode gives us our first good look at the season 4 Big Bad. The Thinker is giving us that evil creation backstory. The villain of the week, Rebecca Strong, is a 24-year-old blackjack dealing jinx (according to her Myspace page…LoooooooL). She’s always had crap luck, until that fateful day she steps onto the same bus as our good friend Kilg%re and sees the metahuman light. If you had any doubt fun Flash was back, they rammed that fact down your throat off the rip. This episode’s director did an incredible job hittin viewers with the pump fake because I damn sure thought Cisco was vibing The Thinker’s secret lair. Turns out, Mr. Luxurious Locks and Team Flash are just casually puttin in that Laser Tag work against some Central City tweens. Or should I say, gettin beat down by a bunch of C-City children.

A breach alert goes off amd they all rush back to S.T.A.R. Labs ready to open up a can of whoop ass. It’s not a meta breaking through, just Jessie Quick coming through for date night with Wally. But Jessie doesn’t show. In her place, Harry appears with a “Break Up Box” containing a hologram of Jessie doing the A-Town stomp all over Wally’s heart. The team tries to act like they didn’t just see Carrie at the Dance before their eyes. I did warn y’all about Wally’s hurt ass possom mop hair. Robbery in process, so the Flash zips down to the bank but unfortunately slips on some marbles before he can apprehend the young Gran…