Sometimes it’s a good thing when The Flash barely makes an appearance in his own show. This was one of those other times. When last we left things, Barry and Iris were enjoying a romantic Valentine’s Day in. Which would be great, except for the fact that that’s not Iris. It’s a mirror version of her. That’s gonna make things super awkward when she gets out. Not that that’s looking especially easy right now. The bright side is she’s not alone. Inside the mirror, she meets Eva McColluch, presumed dead six years ago. It turns out that Wells’ particle accelerator explosion, which created The Flash, blew her into her mirror during an experiment. That brought her into an empty mirror dimension. Six year’s later, and we’re still finding meta-fallout from the first episode.
Even a quantum physicist as company doesn’t guarantee her escape, though. To hear Eva tell it, she’s tried thousands of times to escape, losing more hope with each failed attempt. Iris convinces her to try once more, remembering Team Flash’s run-in with Mirror Master. In that episode, they used extreme cold to free The Flash from his mirror prison. Eva’s thrilled to find something she hasn’t tried. They get liquid nitrogen from her lab and try to freeze the mirror. It doesn’t work. The mirror breaks, shatters all over the floor. Iris tries to think of another way out, but Eva despairs again. Her only window to the outside world is gone, and so must be her way out. That’s what she thinks at least, until an emotional argument with Iris causes a mirror shard to move. Eva can control the mirror. There’s hope for both of them.
Efrat Dor as Eva and Candice Patton as Iris West – Allen — Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW
They’re going to have to figure a way out soon, because the fake Iris is still up to something in the outside world. Now, she’s looking to get her hands on Mirror Master’s gun. She tells Barry she needs to examine it for her McCulloch/Black Hole story, but Barry’s hesitant to give it to her. He doesn’t want it falling into the wrong hands if Iris takes it back on the street. Joe though, dealing with possible corrupt cops helping to cover up murders, convinces Barry that family are the only people who can be trusted right now. So Barry hands over the mirror gun to Mirror-Iris, who will use it for… something.
That’s a problem that plagues this entire episode. It’s clearly building to something, but isn’t interested in telling us what yet. Without even a hint, we’re left hoping a future episode makes this all worth it. We don’t have anything solid to grab hold of here, and the whole story feels aimless. Compare to the early half of the season when Team Flash was dealing with Bloodwork. We had a well-written, scary villain to pull the story forward. Even the set-up episodes were fun because they hinted at the battle to come. In the second half of the season, The Flash isn’t doing that yet. We have a bunch of MacGuffins and proper nouns, but only the vague promise that they will connect somehow down the line. There’s nothing really driving the story forward. Even Iris and Eva’s scenes feel artificially slowed down so the impostor story can stretch a few more episodes.
Natalie Dreyfuss as Sue and Hartley Sawyer as Dibny — Photo: Colin Bentley/The CW
The lack of narrative drive even affects the meat of the episode, which should have been way more exciting than it was. This was largely a Ralph-focused episode, and I love those. They’re always a nice break from Barry’s emotions and his need to talk in hallways. They’re a chance for the show to dip into the silver age comic book noir storytelling that Elongated Man allows for. Thankfully, that’s still here. It just doesn’t click as well, largely because it’s setting up a bigger storyline involving McColluch that it isn’t ready to let us in on yet.
In this episode, Ralph finally finds Sue Dearbon, the missing girl he’s been looking for for nine months. He gets a new lead out of nowhere: She put down a deposit on an apartment in central city. He visits the place and finds a package with a bomb inside. Who should push him out of the way to safety, but Sue Dearbon. He found her! He wants to take her back to her parents, but she tells him she’s on the run from her ex boyfriend. She fell in love with a well-connected hitman, and when they broke up, she knew too much identifying information about him. So she’s been trying to expose him to the police before she can go back home. Now to us, this story seems fishy from the start. It’s all too neat, too convenient. Sure, The Flash likes to go for the easy solution sometimes, but things are rarely wrapped up quite this neatly. Of course, Ralph is charmed by Sue and goes along with her plan. Especially after she saves his life from one of the killer’s henchmen.
Natalie Dreyfuss as Sue and Hartley Sawyer as Dibny — Photo: The CW
Unlike other Ralph episodes though, there’s no real mystery here. Ralph starts things by saying he smells a mystery, but he’s the only one. The mystery in question is where Sue’s ex keeps a ledger of his clients, which she can use to expose him. And that’s less of a mystery and more of a series of break-in sequences. There are no clues to uncover, just Ralph and Sue trying different buildings until they find a key to a safety deposit box. So with no mystery, the story has to rely on its central characters, and that is at least a saving grace. Even as he’s being pulled along by a story with no clear direction, Ralph is fun to watch. He’s a funny, compassionate hero and I still get a kick out of the show’s jokes about how gross his power is. Sue Dearbon is the episode’s real strength. She’s essentially a female Ralph. She’s just as quick, witty and resourceful as he is, and it’s so much fun to watch them bounce off each other. They are perfect foils for each other, like a Looney Tunes version of Humphrey Bogard and Lauren Bacall.
All that makes her inevitable betrayal stick the landing, even though we saw it coming from the beginning. After she convinces him to break into the bank and raid the safety deposit box, it’s revealed she wasn’t after a ledger at all. She never knew the killer in question, she’s just a rich girl who wanted the thrill of taking stuff. She locks Ralph inside the vault, but runs into the box’s owner and a bunch of guys with guns outside. Ralph is able to escape the vault and save her, but Esperanza/Ultraviolet shows up and tries to blast her away. Sue directs Ultraviolet toward Ralph and makes her escape with the diamond. Later, in the post-credits sequence, we see she has a reason for wanting the diamond beyond its value: It’s connected to McCulloch Industries. That would be really interesting if we had any idea why.
Hartley Sawyer as Dibny and Natalie Dreyfuss as Sue — Photo: The CW
I appreciate how this episode is trying to tie all of this half of the season’s disparate plot threads together. Or at least hint at the fact that it’s doing so. If it can eventually pull that off, it could make for a really cool story to finish out the season. It’s just not there yet. Right now, we just have an over-stuffed episode that tries to do too many things at once and gives us nothing to orient ourselves in the confusion. I was hoping for more from a new Dibny mystery, but at least we got a cool character out of it. With any luck, it won’t be too long before he and Sue are in the same room again.
The Flash airs Tuesdays at 8 p.m. on The CW.
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