BWW Recap: It's Rogue Time on THE FLASH

Barry (Grant Gustin) not only has to deal with finding himself back in time, but Heat Wave (Dominic Purcell) and Captain Cold (Wentworth Miller) are back and they've brought Cold's sister Lisa (aka Golden Glider, played by Peyton List) with them. Grab a seat, we'll catch you up to speed on tonight's ep, "Rogue Time.

We begin right were we left off. To stop a tsunami generated by the Weather Wizard (Liam McIntyre), Barry has ran faster than ever before and managed to actually run back in time a full day.

Before you can say "Ground Hog's Day," Barry is reliving the events of the past episode. At the point where he is finishing the sentences of Cisco (Carlos Valdes) and Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker), Dr. Wells (Tom Cavanagh) realizes something is up. He pulls Barry aside and confronts him. "You ruptured the time continuum, didn't you?"

Wells goes on to explain the butterfly effect. Basically, any deviation to the time construct will have cataclysmic impact. Wells then goes off into his secret room to check the future. It is still intact (so Barry hasn't up-ended the time stream just yet).

At the precinct, Barry has a flashback (or is it a flashforward) of the Captain Singh (Patrick Sabongui) pushing Det. West (Jesse L. Martin) out of the way and receiving the full brunt of the Weather Wizard's lightning strike. If Barry allows this to happen, we know the good captain will be paralyzed.

He speeds off to the hideout of the Weather Wizard, nabs him and deposits him in S.T.A.R. Labs' secret metahuman prison. Yeah, he altered the timeline in a major way. Wells tells Barry that no matter how terrible the future was, now that he has changed it, time will find a way to make it even worse.

Enter Captain Cold and Heat Wave. They are back in Central City and the mob is not happy about it. The head of the mob and his goons try to threaten the pair, but they quickly bit the snot of everyone save one lone thug (whom they tell to run and alert all the other criminals of what he saw).

Caitlin accompanies Cisco to his brother's party. We meet the brother Dante (Nicholas Ganzalez). There's friction between them.

At the Lab, Barry is trying to recreate the time speed thing. It's not working. Det. West arrives to confront Barry about collering Weather Wizard. He wants to know why Barry is acting so weird. Fortunately for Barry, Linda Park (Malese Jow) calls. He's late for a date.

Back at the birthday party, Dante is an a-one jerk. He assumes Cisco is still at S.T.A.R. Labs because he can't find any other work. When Caitlin rises to defend Cisco, Dante notes that Cisco is loyal like a puppy. Cisco has had enough and leaves.

At the newspaper, Linda asks Barry if he is in love with her. His heart belongs to someone else and she knows it. Barry comes clean. She kisses him on his cheek and tells him to go after Iris (Candice Patton).

Barry asks Iris if he can talk to her (which prevents her fellow reporter from showing her the file of dirt he has on Wells, thus making another change to the events of last episode). He asks her out for coffee.

But first, he meets Cisco for a drink. Cisco is still nursing his wounds from his brother's party. A woman comes over and offers to buy Cisco a drink. Barry forgoes his responsibilities as wing man and leaves the two. The two leave the bar and head back to her place. Only her place ends up being the same place as Captain Cold's. Yep, the woman is Cold's sister Lisa.

Cold wants Cisco to build weapons for him and Heat Wave. And as an added incentive, he has also kidnapped Cisco's brother.

At the coffee date, Barry lays it all on the line again. He wants to date Iris. The Iris of last episode that was willing to date him is not this Iris, though. In fact, she gets pissed at him for springing it on her again. She insists her feelings have not changed.

Cold and sis make a play for the mob's casino. Cisco has been forced to make her a gun that shoots gold (why would she need to rob if she has a gun that shoot gold, I ask; this is not how the character is in the comics). Barry speeds in, quickly saves a bunch of people and takes Cold's sister as a bargaining chip. Cold calls his bluff: let her go or Cisco gets returned in pieces. He lets Cold and sis go.

Back at the Lab, Barry laments to Wells about just how much he has screwed the timeline up. Wells tells hiim he only went back one day, what if he went back decades or centuries. He could do some serious damage.

Back at Cold's hideout, Cisco and Dante are tied facing each other as Heat Wave drinks a couple of flaming cocktails. The brothers talk in Spanish. Dante, realizing they might not make it out of this, comes clean. The girl Cisco was in love with in high school also loved him, but Dante told her Cisco was going to be a priest. Turns out he has always been jealous of Cisco and never really done anything noble. So, he tries to get the drop on Heat Wave. And fails. Cold and sis return. Cold offers to let both of them go as long as Cisco reveals just who is THE FLASH.

Cisco tells him he doesn't know. Cold freezes Dante's fingers (possibly putting an end to any dreams Dante has of being a pianist). He asks again.

And the next scene has Cisco returning to S.T.A.R. Labs. He tells everyone that Cold now knows who is THE FLASH. He then quits the team. Wells stops him from leaving and takes him to the containment room (where Wells killed him last episode). The speech is a little bit like last time. Cisco is like a son to Wells. The heart-warming, non-homicidal version of the scene is quickly brought to an end when Caitlin radios them to return to the lab.

Caitlin has figured out the hit on the casino wasn't the real heist. It was done so that the mob would move all the money they use to cover bets to a safer location. Cold plans to steal the money before it can reach that destination.

Barry speeds of and stops the heist, grabbing Cold. Cold tells him "It's good to see you, Barry." Barry takes off his hood and tells Cold they need to talk.

Barry threatens to speed Cold off to the meta-human prison. Cold counters that a file revealing THE FLASH's secret identity will be uploaded unless Cold enters a kill code.

They have reached a stalemate. Barry tells Cold he will continue to stop him every step of the way. If he or any other villain kills, he won't care who they tell his identity to.

At the coffee shop, Caitlin has covered for Barry, telling Iris and Eddie that the lightning strike has caused mood swings, outburst, etc.

At the newspaper, Mason Bridge (Roger Howarth) is putting the finishing touches on his expose of Wells. Wells (as Reverse Flash) shows up, puts his fist through Bridge's chest (killing him), erases the hard drive and takes all of the evidence and Bridge's body with him.

At the lab, Barry and Wells are chatting. Barry sees a news item about Bridge being missing. He shuts off the TV before Wells can see it and heads back to his own loft lab. He summons Det. Joe West there. He tells Joe that he thinks West was right about Wells.

And with that, the plot thickens and the episode ends. I thought the detante reached by Cold and Barry was kind of --pardon the pun-- cool. What'd you think? Comment below and follow me @triggercric and follow @BWWTVWorld for all the latest updates, scoops and recaps.

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