The Flash Recap: Legends of Today

Season 2/ Episode 8 / The CW And you say Central City! We join Barry Allen running through the streets getting his urban cross country on in an attempt to become faster than Zoom. He’s clocking in well over the speeding limit at Star Labs on the cosmic treadmill but it isn’t enough. Earth 2 Wells is next to Caitlin watchin’ Barry run sayin’, “Welp, this is useless. If Barry was in Mario Kart and used a lightnin’ bolt & Blue shell on Zoom, he’d still get lapped 3 times over. *Hits intercom button* You’re doing great Barry.”

Barry realizes he isn’t actually getting faster and Wells says there’s a number of reason why Zoom is 4 times faster than him. It could be due to his diet, physiology, maybe he’s edging. As Barry heads out Caitlin is wondering how they goin’ make Barry faster when they tried everything, Wells looks at Caitlin and says, “Almost everything… where yall keep the fishscale and yayo round these parts? I got an idea.” Meanwhile down at the Central City dock some Sea-me– dudes, are checking their ship in and escorting a stowaway over into police custody. They hand over this guy’s jacket which is packed with 32 knives and looks like some shit Prince would wear on tour back in ’87. The the stowaway starts talking about how they done brought him close to his prey and how he goin stab everybody there with them knives. Okay, first of all dude is talkin’ like he wanna be Kraven The Hunter soooo baad. One of the captains of the ship gets big, callin’ this guy Houdin…