The Trial of The Flash
- Episode aired Jan 16, 2018
- TV-PG
- 42m
Joe and Iris must decide how far they're willing to go to keep Barry out of prison as his trial for the murder of Clifford DeVoe begins.Joe and Iris must decide how far they're willing to go to keep Barry out of prison as his trial for the murder of Clifford DeVoe begins.Joe and Iris must decide how far they're willing to go to keep Barry out of prison as his trial for the murder of Clifford DeVoe begins.
- Upper Class Woman
- (as Mercedes Gendron)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis shows the first incidence of Iris being able to talk to Barry whilst he is moving faster than normal humans are capable of perceiving, causing the room to be seen as frozen. It is a previously unknown ability demonstrated by Barry.
- GoofsThe judge told Barry he had to appear before sentencing, when Barry wanted to leave during closing arguments. As no verdict had been determined, a defense attorney would have immediately asked for a mistrial. The judge anticipated a guilty verdict, in front of the jury.
- Quotes
Cisco Ramon: Oh, damn. We need to cool him down.
Dr. Harry Wells: Killer Frost.
Caitlin Snow: Great.
Cisco Ramon: Well, go, turn!
Caitlin Snow: Well, that's not how it works. I can't just snap my finger and make her appear. It only happens with I'm scared or angry.
Cisco Ramon, Dr. Harry Wells: Oh, good Lord, Caitlin.
Cisco Ramon: The city's about to explode. Everyone, everything you know and love, the birds, the trees, the fish, the puppies! The puppies are going down because you didn't want to...
Cisco Ramon, Dr. Harry Wells: Show up for work!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Fastest Mind Alive: The Thinker (2018)
That wasn't as distracting this week though, as the focus was clearly on the trial of Barry Allen. Similarly to Flashpoint, I had mixed feelings about the trial only lasting one episode. Maybe it's because I like courtroom dramas as a place for intriguing cinematic moments, but I was hoping to get a few episodes of the trial. But I guess the answer to those hopes was that it simply wasn't even really close to begin with. As much as Team Flash tried to push the blame of Devoe's body showing up in Barry's apartment towards Devoe's wife, there wasn't a whole lot they could do. Like the best kind of villains, Devoe certainly planned for this very moment, and he was ready at every turn.
Of course, it isn't an episode of The Flash without an unnecessary subplot. This week it was Team Flash taking on a radiation based metahuman. I don't know if this was required by CW or something, but I could not think of a reason to have the team take their focus away from Barry and fight off another meta. Even if you're saying that "crime wouldn't stop if The Flash was off the streets" or that it allowed Barry to have "one final triumph" as The Flash, it still was portrayed poorly and distracted from the plot I thought I cared about.
Then there's the whole "will Barry announce that he's The Flash" side to the episode. While I admit it would be a cool moment, there was not one ounce of me that thought the CW had the guts to do that in season 4 of this young show. I've learned this the hard way by seeing Arrow spend more than half a decade teasing that The Green Arrow's identity will be outed at some point (seriously, how many times will that be a story arc?).
However, at least they had the "guts" to conclude with Barry being sentenced for life and then put him in the same jail cell as his father. If I had to guess, this will last a few episodes before Barry's exonerated. 7.0/10
- ThomasDrufke
- Jan 17, 2018