After the lightly toned episode of last week, The Flash gets down to business this week with quite a serious episode that starts advancing the main plot line for the rest of this season. The episode basically revolved on the age old theme of whether or not superheroes should kill or not with Ralph wanting to kill DeVoe and Barry trying to convince him otherwise. One important aspect of the episode was that the series ends the bus meta plot line that has been continuing all through the season and now it can move into the endgame as per whatever Devoe’s final plan is.

Team Flash goes around trying to find the last of the bus metas , Edwin Gauss, who can create his own pocket dimensions and travel through them. The team finally locates Gauss and bring him to Star Labs to protect him from DeVoe. On the other hand, Harry creates a tuning fork which can subdue DeVoe and can even kill him. Ralph decides to take the help of Gauss to enter Devoe’s lair and kill him with the fork but Barry stops him. Ralph then says to Barry that it is not for his sake that he wants to kill DeVoe but for the sake of team Flash, as this team is the only family he has left. Ralph has been shown learning lessons all through the season in the same pattern and finally we get to see the character showing some maturity and depth.

The team than decides to take DeVoe head-on and Flash, Cisco, and Killer Frost confront him. But the Thinker remains much ahead in the game, as he fools them with his holographic image, while attacking Star Labs with Marlize and the Samuroid. We get to see some nice action scenes between Marlize and Iris and a weird scene with the elongated man being chased by a bone dinosaur. DeVoe finally gets the power of all the metas who were kept in Star Labs but Ralph subdues him with the tuning fork. He does not kill DeVoe with a second stroke but cuffs him and as Barry returns they rather prematurely assume that the Thinker has been beaten.  DeVoe breaks free, incapacitates Barry and takes control of Ralph as Barry watches helplessly. So Ralph’s decision of not ending DeVoe’s life proves deadly for his own self. Barry is shown rather disheartened by this turn of events as he cleans out Ralph’s office and we will surely get to see something that reconfirms his faith in his decision of not taking a life.

With DeVoe now owning the power of all the 12 bus metas we will get to see the final chapter of his plan unfold as the season draws to an end. The episode also showed some odd developments with Harry as instead of turning into a darker character, he has started showing severe withdrawal symptoms once parted from his thinking cap. There will be some effects of overcharging his brain with dark matter as he did and we will come to know about that in the coming episodes. In another development, Caitlin, after coming in contact with DeVoe, loses the presence of Killer Frost from her body. The two were starting to form some kind of a bond and as the show has underutilized Caitlin’s character all through the season, the absence of Killer Frost further reduces her importance in team Flash.

With DeVoe harvesting Ralph’s power of shape shifting, Neil Sandilands is back as portraying DeVoe, which is a good thing for the show. His presence and acting chops was being missed in the role of the main villain. Marlize is seen back as the devoted wife with no further developments on the fact that she is being brainwashed by her husband. This will definitely change in future as she tries to break out of the prison DeVoe has built for her. The possibility of Cisco starting to work as the Breacher is also not explored in this episode. The show often finds it difficult to balance so many characters and their individual stories along with the main plot but hopefully the remaining episodes will tie things up neatly for everyone.

So The Flash brought an end Ralph Dibney’s part in the team with an eventful episode and tighten things up for delivering the last phase of the season. Hartley Sawyer portrayed a character that was ranged from being comic to mildly irritating and the show ended his role on a rather high note .Things do not look good for team Flash at present as they have been beaten by DeVoe in every step so far. Though we know that they will outsmart the Thinker in the end but it does not seem that it will come at a small price.

 

The Flash returns on 24^th April with the new episode “Fury Rogue”.

 

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