The Flash Recap: Therefore She Is

Season 4 / Episode 20, Therefore She Is / The CW This episode opens with a flashback to eight years prior, with Clifford DeVoe being a condescending pedant at Oxford University, challenging Marlize during a public dialog about the Enlightenment and the value of technology to help humankind. Being, well, DeVoe, he’s a cynic–technology can and will be used in destructive ways; it’s a cancer. I would say he’s projecting, but Facebook. At S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco gets hit up via hologram by his breaching sweetie Gypsy–seems her pops is interested in him taking over his job on Earth-19 now that he’s retired. Cisco hasn’t decided yet and doesn’t hit her back–we all know you saw that text, Cisco! And we can guess the rest of Team Flash has no idea this is even a thing. I think I’m losing my mind this time. Harry’s running an experiment on Caitlin to bring back Frost. It’s pretty obvious that he’s not running at full tilt–he’s forgetting things, like the fact that all the dark matter in Caitlin’s body is gone. He finally admits to the team that injecting dark matter has caused him to start losing his intelligence, and it’s only going to get worse. He wants to figure out the solution himself, but aside from his waning smarts being a bit of an obstacle here, Barry reminds him that the way DeVoe wins is by splitting them all up. They have to work together if they’re going to win.

DeVoe and Marlize break into a Vandermeer Steel–pretty easy when you can breach in, morph your eyes into s…