The Flash Recap: Enter Flashtime

Season 4 / Episode 15 / The CW A sweaty and distraught Flash touches Iris who is frozen in place before him. He tells her that she’s moving as fast as he is–and as fast as she was when he effectively stopped time like this when they were in the courtroom during his murder trial. 8 minutes, 47 seconds ago…. Yep, this whole episode is a flashback. Barry is obsessively training, trying to run through one of Cisco’s breaches into a pocket dimension–now that Team Flash has figured out this is how DeVoe moves around so quickly. Iris and Barry have a chat about how they’re not spending enough quality time together, even though they work together, live together, and sleep together every night. They definitely need a date night. In the meantime, Harry brings them all to the bridge to talk to them–Cisco has mapped a signature field for each time DeVoe has breached into a pocket dimension. It’s been going on for three years–clearly, this dude thinks in the long term. Cisco turns to head downstairs to get Ralph who’s moved into the Lab (Buddy System in full effect!), but suddenly Jesse is standing there, which scares the crap out of Cisco–“Son of a breach!”

Jesse is expecting an apology from her father, but Harry isn’t quite…there yet. No, he’s still hurt she kicked him off her team. But now, as she walks through his lab, poking at the original version of his Cerebral Inhibitor–“It’s clunky.” “That’s what she said. No, really. That’s what she said”–we learn the real cause of …