~by Korama Danquah
The Flash
Season 2 Episode 1 Recap
“The Man Who Saved Central City”
What Happened
Season two of The Flash picks up six months after the events of last season’s finale. The singu-larity that was about to completely raze Central City was stopped by Team Flash, but Ronnie (Robbie Amell) was unfortunately a casualty in the fight to save Central City.
There are a lot of flashbacks and guilty forlorn looks from Barry (Grant Gustin). The city wants to celebrate him for saving them, and plans a festival called “Flash Day”. Why any city would take a solid six months to celebrate someone they believe saved them all from imminent death is beyond me. The point is, Barry doesn’t want to go. He knows that Ronnie is the one who actually sacrificed himself to save Central City and doesn’t want to take credit.
What Barry does want is to fight crime alone and to rebuild Central City’s destroyed local businesses at night. Iris (Candice Patton) convinces him to go to the Flash Day celebration to meet the mayor and give the citizens a glimpse of The Flash and, of course, he is attacked by a metahuman who feeds off radiation and has the face of a man that Barry and Joe (Jesse L. Martin) found dead earlier that day.
The rest of the episode revolves around the absolution of Barry’s and Caitlin’s (Danielle Panabaker) guilt over Ronnie’s death and the team getting back together to beat Atom-Smasher, the radiation fueled metahuman. Atom-Smasher tells The Flash that he was sent to kill him by someone named Zoom, presumably this season’s bad guy.
At the end of the episode we get the news we’ve all been waiting for: Wells’ (Tom Cavanagh) video confession of murder which leads to Henry’s (John Wesley Shipp) release from prison. Father-Son bonding ensues, the team’s all back together and they end the episode with a cryptic message from a shady stranger (Teddy Sears) who tells them “My name is Jay Garrick, and your world is in danger” because of course it is! No one who’s a superhero gets to feel safe or happy for longer than an hour.
What Does This Mean
Well, Barry has his dad back which is great! That’s what he wanted. But I can’t help feeling like this is one of those gifts that you really want and you’re given because the gift-giver thinks it will destroy you. Maybe it has something to do with Wells in his confession video saying that Barry will never be happy anyway. This feels like a good thing that will go sour fairly quickly.
Jay Garrick, of course, is going to teach us about these other worlds and hopefully more about this murderous fiend, Zoom. I’m excited the gang’s all back and interested to see what the team dynamic will be now that Ronnie is gone. I don’t think the guilt issue is going to go away in one episode – it didn’t go away for a whole six months.
Notable Quote of the Episode
“My name is Jay Garrick, and your world is in danger” — Jay Garrick
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