The Flash Recap: Versus Zoom

Season 2 / Episode 18 / The CW And you say Central City! “Sometimes terrible things happen to us when we’re children. Things that can define who we become, whether we want them to or not.” The Flash gets dark in “Versus Zoom.” We dive into the Zoom/Hunter Zolomon origin story and the ramifications of childhood trauma, without an amazing support system in place. We flashback to 15 years ago: Young Hunter Zoloman is forced to watch his father beat the brakes off his mother and just as lil homie was about to run off to hide and contemplate childhood, dad of the year tells his son to stay put as he takes a gun to mom dukes. This that kind of Ted Bundy, Marilyn Manson, Son of Sam type shit that would scar the strongest of youngins.

[quote_simple] What you go through makes you stronger.[/quote_simple] Barry out here feeling like Sonic after he tossed on dem red speed shoes. He’s going 4 times faster than he ever has and is more ready than ever was to confront Zoom. Barry and Cisco back on their Need for Speed game giving the Tachyon enhancement a Speed Force test drive. The homie is rippin’ through dem streets like Ricky Williams on a Miami midnight ride. 1.7 mins later, he’s being unappreciative AF when he asks Harry Wells, can we get this thing smaller? Disrespecting the science God.

Tweaking the device he used to use to steal Flash’s speed, it’s now used to boost it with the help of the tachyon enhancement. He’s going 4x faster than he ever has. He’s running faster than Zoom. …