- Hi, I'm Benny Fine. - I'm Ted Evans.
- And consider yourselves warned.
- Channel the Speed Force and zip away.
- We're gonna be recapping the major plot points
of the first two seasons of The Flash.
- You'll be all caught up when it's time for season three
after watching this recap in one take in under six minutes.
- Starting now.
- Meet Barry Allen, who lives in Central City,
is the fastest man-- - Wait a second.
We're moving a bit too fast, even for the Flash.
- Time for a flashback.
- Long story short, kid Barry witnesses Mom get killed,
his dad get wrongly convicted for it.
He gets adopted by Detective Joe West,
who he worked with as a forensic investigator
and is secretly crushing on reporter Iris's... adopted sister?
- Everybody got that? Good.
- Things gets shocking when a particle accelerator
from research facility S.T.A.R. Labs explodes.
- Long story short,
Barry is struck by lightning from the explosion,
wakes up nine months later, is being taken care of
by the wheelchair-bound Dr. Wells
and his assistants, Dr. Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon,
and now has superhuman speed,
and there's others with powers called meta-humans
due to the explosion as well.
- Everybody got that? Good!
- Barry apprehends these other metas in his signature suit
while working along with the S.T.A.R. Labs gang,
eventually revealing his abilities to Joe.
- Meanwhile, back at the lab, Wells secretly...
walks out of his wheelchair? - What?!
- Dr. Wells and his team turn the particle accelerator lab
into a prison for meta-humans,
where they can try to reverse the mutations.
- This is tough on Caitlin, whose fiance, Ronnie,
was killed by the explosion in this lab.
- More and more meta-humans get defeated
and tossed into S.T.A.R. Labs.
- Barry's hero alter-ego gets more famous
and is given his signature name by Iris, the Flash.
- Way better than the Streak.
- Joe is visited by the actual killer of Barry's mother,
a fast meta in yellow who steals the mom's murder case file.
- Things get crazy as Barry tries to stop
the meta in yellow but fails.
- Joe's partner, Eddie, asks Iris to move in with him.
- They're dating, by the way.
- Barry then confesses his love for her. - (singsong) Awkward.
- Oh, and remember Caitlin's husband, Ronnie,
who died in the explosion at the beginning of the season?
- He actually survived and can burst into flames now.
- Later on, Dr. Wells enters his secret room.
- It turns out he's keeping the same yellow suit
of the meta they're trying to capture. But why?
- Back to meta-human hunting!
- Former Prison Breaker Leonard Snart...
- Aka Captain Cold. - ...comes to Central City
with former prison brother and partner Mick Rory...
- Aka Heat Wave.
- ...and are eventually defeated Ghostbusters style
when they cross the streams of their guns.
- They get sent to prison but break out, of course.
- Heh, heh, you know,
because they broke out of prisons on that other show.
- Anyways, the group is attacked by Dr. Wells' former protege,
Hartley Rathaway, who claims to know Wells's secrets.
- After capturing him, Cisco finds out
that Ronnie merged with Dr. Martin Stein,
who was at S.T.A.R. Labs the day of the explosion.
- Ronnie and Dr. Stein then separate in a different explosion.
- The meta in yellow, aka Reverse-Flash,
kidnaps General Eiling...
- Who was in town to try to kidnap
the merged Ronnie and Dr. Stein for experimentation.
- ...and reveals himself to be...
Dr. Wells?! - Mind blown!
- Well, not that mind blown.
I mean, the suit was hanging up in a secret closet.
- Later, Barry learns that a future version of himself
was trying to save his mother. - Yep, time travel.
- Later, Wells reveals himself to Cisco
as actually being Eobard Thawne, a meta-human from the future.
- Turns out he traveled back in time to kill the Flash
but got stuck in the 21st century.
- Time travel has slowed him down,
so he killed the actual Dr. Wells, taking his identity.
- He was hoping to create the particle accelerator
quicker than when it was created in the past,
which is now the future, so he can get back to his time sooner.
- It's never simple when it comes to time travel.
- So all this time he's been helping Barry to get stronger
so that he can take his powers to go back to the future?
Mind blown!
- Not to worry though, since Cisco can warn the others.
But before he can, fake Wells, aka Eobard,
aka Reverse-Flash kills him.
- R.I.P. Cisco. NOOOO!!
- Don't worry though, because Barry accidentally runs so fast
he travels back in time, making Cisco alive again.
- YEEES!!
- Later, Barry informs Caitlin and Cisco
that Dr. Wells is the Reverse-Flash.
- They find his secret room, containing his Reverse-Flash costume
and a news clipping revealing Barry's future marriage to Iris.
- Fake Wells finds them, kidnaps Eddie,
and reveals that he's his ancestor.
- The particle accelerator gets activated, and Wells escapes.
- Eddie calls it quits when he finds out
that Iris marries Barry in the future.
- Soon after Firestorm...
- ...the fusion of Ronnie and Dr. Stein,
who can now control their merging ability...
- ...and the Flash meet Oliver Queen,
aka the Arrow, from that show that we might recap one day.
- He joins up to fight fake Wells
(announcer voice) for the superhero showdown of the season!
- It's Flash, Firestorm, and Arrow versus Reverse-Flash!
(bell dings) - They finally capture him
and find out that he killed Barry's mom.
- Fake Wells later convinces Barry to create wormhole
to return him to his time and let Barry save his mom.
- The wormhole is created, but the consequences are too dire,
and Barry later decides to let his mom die.
- Before fake Wells can kill Barry, Eddie shoots himself,
causing fake Wells to be erased from the timeline.
- They're related, remember? - R.I.P. Eddie.
- The wormhole evolves into a black hole
and starts tearing the city apart!
- This forces Barry to run in to stop it, and...
- Season two!
- Firestorm destroys the black hole,
but the Ronnie half dies in the process.
- Poor Caitlin. She had to go through his death twice?
- R.I.P. Ronnie. - Things change for everyone.
- Barry starts flashing out of zone.
Iris is in grief over Eddie's death
and distances herself romantically from Barry.
Cisco works with Joe whose new partner, Patty,
later develops a relationship with Barry.
And Caitlin works at a new research lab.
- Things change even more when the Flash is attacked by a meta
who claims he was sent by a man named Zoom.
- Good news! Barry receives an old video confession
from fake Wells of his mom's murder,
freeing his dad, and the band gets back together.
- Bad news! A guy named Jay Garrick shows up
and tells them that the world is in danger.
- Turns out he's the Flash but on a parallel Earth,
which is referred to as Earth-Two.
- He got sucked into the Earth through a black hole
while fighting Zoom and lost his powers.
- First time travel and now multiverses? This show is awesome!!
- On top of that, it turns out
Cisco's got the power of precognition.
- He got it from the same explosion that gave Barry his powers,
but they didn't fully manifest until now.
- A portal opens in S.T.A.R. labs, and guess who comes through.
Earth-Two Dr. Wells! - Zoom...
- ...who we find out is actually the fastest man alive...
- ...continues to send out more henchmen to Earth-One,
who are all defeated.
- The gang plans to lure Zoom,
but Jay Garrick doesn't trust Dr. Wells and leaves.
- This Dr. Wells has a secret as well.
Zoom has his daughter captive.
- The lure doesn't work, and the crazy-fast Zoom
(gruffly) stabs Flash with his freaking arm like a badass!
- We know we're supposed to root against him,
but it's pretty cool. - Barry eventually recovers,
but his ass-whooping causes him to be unable to use his powers.
- Meanwhile, Joe deals with learning
he had a kid named Wally with his ex-wife, who he takes in.
- Wally West? Doesn't he become the Flash in the comics after--
- Eh-eh! Well, we don't know if that's gonna happen.
- Barry's drama continues, as his hero duties
get in the way of his relationship with Patty,
who decides to leave town.
- Zoom visits Wells and says he will release his daughter
if Wells helps Flash get faster so he can steal his speed.
- Barry's speed begins increasing.
- Wells's plan to save his daughter is revealed,
and Barry and Cisco decide to travel to Earth-Two
to help defeat Zoom.
- Long story short: they get stuck in Earth-Two,
encounter evil doppelgangers, save Wells's daughter,
and jump into a portal back to Earth-One.
- Meanwhile, back at Zoom's lair, he finally takes off his mask.
And it's... Jay Garrick, Earth-Two's Flash?!
- Turns out his real name is Hunter Zolomon, and he's crazy.
- Cisco finds out that Jay is Zoom, who kidnaps Wally
and wages Wally's life against Barry's speed.
- Barry chooses Wally and gives up his speed for Zoom,
who kidnaps Caitlin, because he's in love with her.
- They fell in love when Zoom was pretending to be Jay.
- He puts her in a prison
that's also holding a man in an iron mask. But who is it?
- Zoom returns to Earth-One, builds a meta-human army,
and declares the city under his control.
- Long story short, Barry gets his speed back.
Cailtin breaks free and helps knock out
the Earth-Two meta-humans.
And Zoom kills Barry's father right in front of him.
- Cold blooded!
- Zoom forces the Flash to race him, which charges a device
that would destroy all the worlds in the multiverse
except for Earth-One.
- The Flash defeats Zoom, who's taken away by Time Wraiths.
- They're basically Dementor-looking creatures
that stop speedsters who recklessly time travel.
- Oh, and that man behind the iron mask?
Turns out it was the real Jay Garrick!
- He looks exactly like Barry's dead dad!
- And finally, the grief of seeing his dad's doppelganger
drives Barry to run back in time
and save his mom from Reverse-Flash.
- He just reset the whole show timeline!
- And now you're all caught up in the Flash!
- How will everything change now that the timeline is reset?
- Is Zoom actually gone for good?
- Wait, if the timeline's reset, was this recap pointless?
- Will you keep watching The Flash?
- (both) We know we'll be!
♪ (both vocalizing The Flash theme) ♪
- Iron price! And now all the times we messed up!
(beep)
- Time for a flashback! - Long story short,
kid Barry witnesses his mom get killed.
His dad gets wrongly convicted for it.
He gets West-ed... West-ed by a Detective Joe.
- You got West-ed! (crew laughs)
- You got West-ed on The Flash!!
(beep)
- ...particle accelerator gets activated, and Wells escapes.
- Eddies calls it quits when he... oh shit.
- Oh! Shit. - Eddie calls it quits.
(laughter)
(beep)
- ...Zoom...
- ...who we find out is actually the fastest man alive...
- ...continues to send out more manchmen--
(babbling bebop-style)
- ♪ Ba da ba ba ba ♪ - ♪ I'm lovin' it ♪
(beep)
Meanwhile, back at the lab, Wells secretly...
walks out of his wheelchair?! - What?!
- Dr. Wells and his team-- (cracking up)
(laughter) - Yeah.
(beep)
- ...find his secret room containing his Reverse-Flash costume
and a news clipping revealing
Barry's future marr-eege to Ir-age.
- Fake Wells finds them, kidnaps Eddie--
- That's not...
(laughter) - Oh man.
(laughter and teasing)
(silence)