The Flash Recap: The Elongated Knight Rises

Season 4 / Episode 11 / The CW Ja-Quan and I gonna be tag-teaming the rest of this season, so I’m tagging in for this week’s episode about everyone’s favorite track star. This week, we open with our poor, morally upstanding hero still in Iron Heights, sitting in his cell beside himself while a prison riot rages on just the other side of the bars. Guards are hemmed up, shit’s on fire…. It’s a bad scene, man. Eventually, Barry just can’t take it anymore and speeds through the prison, returning all the inmates to the cells. In the meantime, Joe West is getting the dumbest list of demands ever from a hostage-taking bank robber who wants, among other things, an eco-friendly getaway car, like a Prius. Ralph, dressed in his linen gray pajamas super hero suit, uses his loooong arm of the law to rescue all the hostages before the robber, who’s got explosives strapped to his chest and is holding a detonator, even notices. After some clever banter, Ralph grabs the bomb and wraps himself around it while it explodes, which leaves a nasty burn mark on his suit and gives him heartburn. As the criminal takes his perp walk with Joe, Ralph is feeling himself and happy to talk to the reporters on the scene. Unfortunately, since Cisco has yet to bestow upon him a proper hero name–being a little preoccupied with trying to get Barry out of the hoosegow–Ralph’s just gonna have to live with being called “The Stretchy Man” on the evening news. Poor, sad Barry. He’s wandering around the yard looki…