‘The Flash’: ‘The Trap’ Preview

It’s time to set “The Trap” for Harrison Wells in “The Flash.”

Barry and Joe believe that (fake) Harrison killed Nora Allen, and they are hoping to get Wells’ confession on tape to free Henry Allen from jail. But they need help in trapping Wells from Cisco and Caitlin.

As the sprint toward “The Flash’s” Season 1 finale continues, Tuesday night’s new episode raises the stakes with more answers and still more twists.

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After watching a sneak preview of the episode, we’ve picked five moments to look out for. (Note: Spoilers ahead!)

What The Frack?

Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow, Grant Gustin as Barry Allen and Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon in ‘The Flash’ (The CW)

Barry, Caitlin and Cisco stumbled upon Wells’ secret room in last week’s cliffhanger. On Tuesday night, the show picks up exactly where it left off. As they try to take in and make sense of everything in front of them (Cisco notices a few things about future Flash’s suit in the hologram newspaper), they’ll also interact with Gideon (voiced by Morena Baccarin)!

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Time Travel Consequences?

When Marty McFly traveled in the DeLorean to 1955 in “Back to the Future,” he bumped into the woman who would become his mother, and disrupted the space-time continuum, something he had to spend an entire movie trying to fix. How/if Barry disrupted things when he ran back in time while trying to save Central City from Mark Madon/The Weather Wizard (Liam McIntyre) and his wall of water, hasn’t been fully explored in “The Flash’s” version of time travel. A few weeks ago, Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg addressed the subject. “I think that like Wells said in [a] previous episode, there’s different versions of time travel. There’s the sort of fixed loop and then there’s the version where time is more plastic and mutable and I think that one of the fun things is discovering, as always, like a ‘Doctor Who’ [episode], what’s a fixed point in time and what can’t be changed and what things always have to happen and what things are changeable, and are mutable and it’s sort of a mixture of both,” he said.

The “plastic and mutable” aspect Kreisberg mentioned is definitely going to be explored even more in Tuesday night’s episode. Barry will finally tell his friends about how he ran back in time, an admission that sets them on a quest to investigate what may have happened before their friend reversed the clock.

Flashbacks!

Jesse L. Martin as Det. Joe West (The CW)

In mid-March, Kreisberg said a future episode would feature flashbacks to when Barry Allen was in a coma. This is that episode. There is some good backstory here showing some of the things that happened (medically) to Barry after he was struck by lightning, following the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion. And, as Barry undergoes treatment in a hospital, look out for a big moment between Harrison and Joe West.

Eddie Thawne

Tuesday’s episode focuses heavily on the trap the gang is setting for Harrison/Reverse Flash, but there’s a subplot involving Eddie. He’ll be providing some comic relief with his sunny optimism while trying to bond with Joe over coffee at Jitters, and asking Barry for a favor at the police station.

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The Trap

Grant Gustin as Barry Allen, Rick Cosnett as Detective Eddie Thawne, and Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow (The CW)

There’s not a lot to reveal regarding the actual trap in Tuesday’s episode without spoiling things, but it’s worth noting that trying to get a confession out of Wells will involve the containment system. But in this version of the story, Cisco is making some tweaks.

“The Flash” continues Tuesday at 8/7c on The CW.

— Jolie Lash

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