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Season 1 / Episode 12/ The CW And you say Central City! We catch up with Barry Allen post setting a new PR for top speed efficiency after rescuing some folks from an exploding car. Barry is hitting that Need for Speed and getting that confidence some extra EXP points.
Meanwhile outside Iron Heights, we see a young woman (of color) with hair fresher than the produce aisle of your local Shop Rite getting her Joanna Dark on scoping out a window with a mini telescope. My immediate guess is she just happens to be a connoisseur of windows or something. Nah man, apparently she is a metahuman with a very unique ability.
Yeap, she got the ability to go 0-10 real quick. She proceeds to bust her dude out of jail and make for a clean get away. We find out back at their place, his name is Clay and despite his girl being able to teleport, he owes a dude named Marcus. Apparently, Marcus got ties to Sallie Mae cause you gotta pay ya debts or this guy will find your ass. So you know some Bonnie and Clyde shit bout to happen. Barry investigates the crime scene and gets to run into his father in person. Joe West managed to let that father son time happen cause he got it like that. Daddy Allen even gets some background info on Clay and the gang figures out Shawna is the meta human that busted him out with the ability to teleport. Barry wants his father to leave the informant game alone. Yeah, we’ll see how that works out. Cisco knowing Ronnie Raymond is out still putting the flames in the gam…
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