BWW Recap: THE FLASH and the Impossible is Just Another Tuesday

Last week's nuclear explosion has managed to separate Ronnie (Robbie Amell) and Dr. Stein (Victor Garber), but the government might not let them be. Barry (Grant Gustin) also learns about time travel. Grab a seat and we'll get you up to speed on tonight's ep "Fallout."

We begin where we left off last week. Barry is speeding Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) to safety as her boyfriend/Dr. Stein go nuclear.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Cisco (Carlos Valdes) checks the radiation levels that Barry's suit is reporting. They are normal. Barry picks up Caitlin and zooms back to ground zero. There's a crater, but both men have been separated and are very much alive.

General Eiling (Clancy Brown) knows about the explosion and his men descent on ground zero looking for traces of project F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. His team finds two body prints in the fallout. Eiling realizes the two men have separated.

Back at the lab, Caitlin has finished her medical tests of both men. Everything is fine with the exception that both men have a low-grade fever of 100.6. Stein and Robbie bicker like an old married couple. Stein was the alpha while they shared one body. Robbie blames Stein for keeping him from Caitlin. Stein points out that seeing as they were unstable, it probably kept her alive.

After dropping a grateful Stein home to see his wife, Barry heads to the police station. He's there all of a minute and Det. West (Jesse L. Martin) tells him he has to show him something. They head back to Barry's boyhood home (and the site of his mother's murder). West now has keys to a house owned by someone else. He lets them both in and West shows Barry the 3D images captured by the mirror and tells him the blood on the wall behind the wall paper is Barry's adult blood.

Barry and West return to S.T.A.R. Labs where he briefs Dr. Wells (Tom Cavanagh) on the possibility that Barry at some point figures out how to time travel. Wells says time travel is probable, but problematic. Cisco knows a guy, though.

Back at the newspaper, Iris (Candice Patton) confronts her journalism mentor Mason Bridge (Roger Howrath) why he has blueprints of S.T.A.R. Labs' particle accelerator. For a prize-winning journalist, I'm surprised he keeps major story data out in the open. Bridge is convinced it was no accident. Wells caused the accident, creating THE FLASH and all the other metahumans currently residing in Central City. He wants her to investigate her friends to find out what is really going on with the lab.

Barry pays a visit to the Stein home. Ms. Stein (Isabella Hoffman) tells him Stein has been acting weird. He's been asking for pizza and he hates pizza. Barry rushes off to get the good professor a pizza (returning seconds later). Turns out Stein is the one who knows a thing or two about time travel. His theory of time is that it is like a freeway. The moments we occupy are merely off-ramps. All you have to do is find your way into the future (or the past).

Barry mentions the blood from the scene of his mother's murder. Stein theorizes that at some point in the future that Barry moves so fast, it smashes a hold into the space time continuum. Barry is less thrilled by this as it means that he went back in time and failed to save his mom.

Caitlin and Robbie are sharing their first dinner since the explosion. He drops another bombshell on her: he wants to leave town and start new somewhere. In mid-argument, Caitlin notices two laser pointers (one poised on Ronnie, the other on the poor waiter). She tells Ronnie to get down. Waiter is not so lucky. He's shot with a tranquilizer dart. Ronnie tells Caitlin to go.

At the Stein home, Dr. Stein has a bit of a fainting spell. He seems to be feeling everything that Ronnie is. He tells Barry to go.

Eiling and his men have Ronnie cornered in an alley. Barry arrives and quickly knocks out most of Eiling's men. Eiling throws a device into the air over Barry's head. It shatters into a thousand shards of metal, raining down on Barry. Eiling is patting himself on the back for his two-for-one (capturing Ronnie and THE FLASH). Caitlin has other ideas and pulls up in a white van, rescuing both men.

Back at the Lab, Caitlin is working frantically to remove all of the fragments before Barry's super healing scars over each of the shards while they are still in him. Stein arrives. Tests are run. Stein and Ronnie are sharing brainwaves. Caitlin states that it is impossible. "Impossible is just another Tuesday for us," Barry notes.

Barry takes Caitlin and Ronnie to hold up at the West home. Iris arrives to cook dinner. Looks like Barry is giving her another assist on reporting as the story is falling into her lap.

Wells, meanwhile, pays Eiling a visit. We know from previous episodes that Wells doesn't like anyone to threaten THE FLASH (Wells killed a guy). Eiling knows Barry is THE FLASH (it turns out that when Eiling killed Plastique in ep five, Barry took off his hood, revealing his identity). Eiling wants to use Robbie and Stein as a new kind of weapon. He wants Wells to turn both of them over to him.

At the West home, Barry confronts Det. West about the blood. He tells him that Cisco tested the blood against everyone at S.T.A.R. Labs. Barry realizes that West suspected Wells. Barry still thinks Dr. Wells had nothing to do with his mom's murder.

Back at the Lab, Wells pours Stein a drink. It is, of course, drugged. He turns Stein over to Eiling.

Bridge, meanwhile, has photos from the shoot out at the coffee shop that clearly show Iris and Ronnie there. The army issued no comment when Bridge pressed them (and I have to admit, in the age of cell phone journalism and how crowded the shop was, there is no way footage wouldn't have been leaked). Iris does some further investigating (by reviewing her own blog) and stumbles on the photo she shot of Robbie in full Firestorm mode. She thought he looked familiar.

Team FLASH, meanwhile, has reassembeled at the lab. Caitlin and Barry want to retrieve Stein. Wells thinks Eiling has proven he has the edge. Robbie tries to see if he can feel where they are keeping Stein. He feels a chill.

Eiling is torturing Stein by lowering the temperature in the holding cell where Stein is tied down. Stein tells him his research was never intended as a weapon (why take defense department research money, I ask). Eiling has his men shock Stein. Back at the lab, Ronnie cries out in pain and then cuts the word "where" in his arm.

The scar appears on Stein's arm (right where Ronnie carved it on his own arm). Stein communicates in Morse Code. Which Cisco happens to know. 27 as in area 27, a military base shut down in 1961. Barry races to the base (carrying Ronnie with him). Wells radios them that if Ronnie and Stein merge again, they might not be able to seperate them.

Eiling realizes he doesn't need Stein alive. He's about to put a bullet in Stein's head and Barry races in and rescues Stein. Eiling fires a missile at Barry. It seems to freeze his suit. He tells Ronnie and Stein to run.

It is a chemical weapon that is burning him alive. Wells radios Barry to create a vacuum by running (nothing can burn in a vacuum). Barry races in circles. The army slowly surrounds Stein and Ronnie. They realize they will have to merge again. Wells tells them to merge, but this time not try to drowned out the other voice, but rather work together. Robbie hears the professor in his head.

Firestorm quickly takes out most of Eiling's men. Eiling tosses another device into the air (an ion grenade). He's about to kill Robbie (and thus Stein). Barry speeds up to knock Eiling out. Firestorm flies off. THE FLASH speeds after him.

Back at the lab, Robbie and Stein manage to un-merge at will. Stein notes that they both seem to be getting the hang of their new found power. Caitlin realizes that Stein and Robbie have to go on the run. Stein has a colleague who might be able to help them realize their full potential, but until that time, they have to stay on the run from Eiling.

Back at Barry's old house, Barry now has keys. West meets him there. He tells West that the images show what he did before and he can learn from them. His previous loss is a tactical advantage.

Reverse Flash kidnaps Eiling, depositing him in the sewer that his home to Grood. Wells removes his hood to reveal himself to Eiling. He tells Eiling he is a metahuman who is protecting his own kind. We hear the growl of an ape. Wells tells Eiling it's an old friend. Eiling hears the voice of Grood in his head. He thinks it is God. Grood corrects him right before he grabs him by his leg and drags him away.

With that, our ep comes to a close. We'll be back on March 17 when THE FLASH returns with an all new episode.

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