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Caitlin Becomes Killer And Alchemy Is Revealed

This article contains spoilers for the Flash episode – Killer Frost

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Well, that happened.

The latest episode of The Flash, Killer Frost, was directed by Kevin Smith and had a whole lot going on. It's one of those episodes that that you have to sit back and really think about everything after and what the ramifications might be.

We pick up immediately where last week left off: Flash in the clutches of Savitar, Joe West taking on the acolytes and Alchemy and Wally West in a cocoon. Only Barry Allen can see Savitar, maybe because of the Speed Force, they don't explain yet. But I think he may be moving so fast human eyes can't track him. I'll explain my thoughts on that in a second. Joe breaks away from the Acolytes long enough to fire blindly at Savitar, and gives Alchemy a chance to grab his stone and run. Savitar takes the Flash on a run of their own, bouncing all around the city and beating the crap out of Barry. The difference in speed is not even close. It's like Barry is standing still. He only gets away when Cisco Ramon uses his Vibe powers to port him and Caitlin Snow to where they are and then Caitlin freezes Savitar for a moment.

This is why I think people can't see him because he's moving too fast. Caitlin's abillity works like Captain Cold's, creating absolute zero and stopping motion all together. So she stopped Savitar from moving for a moment before he can virbate back out of it, but in doing so it put him back into the visible spectrum.

Tapping into her powers though pushed Caitlin a little further down the slippery slope to Killer Frost. Savitar bails and leaves the team reeling, trying to figure out what he is and what has happened to Wally. A bulk of the episode is about Caitlin giving in to her powers, trying to find Doctor Alchemy to get him to take her powers away. She ends up attacking a suspect in police custody, kidnapping Julian Albert and jabbing an icicle into Barry's leg. It's finally Vibe that takes her down using his powers in new ways. But during all of this, Caitlin let's Cisco know that his brother Dante was alive until Barry created Flashpoint. While in custody Caitlin goes fully to the darkside.

While this is happening, Joe West decides to take matters into his own hands and cut Wally out of the cocoon with H.R.'s help. There is an energy burst and then we see Wally standing there, vibrating at super speed but mentally out of it. He then takes off. This forces Barry to go back to Caitlin for help. He confronts her, lets her out of her cell and tells her that she can leave but only if she kills him first. This brings Caitlin back to the side of the angels… but for how long? She comes up with a serum that will help Wally and Joe figures out where he would go. The serum works.

Now back at the lab, they're testing Wally's speed and he's faster than Barry was in the beginning. Cisco is not okay with what he found out and there is now a wedge between him and Barry. Caitlin seems okay and is wearing the dampening bracelets. But now Julian has woken… The Flash had knocked him out. Barry goes to see him and asks him not to turn Caitlin in. That she's sick not evil. Julian agrees on one condition… Barry must quit the CCPD immediately. Julian thinks Barry is compromised, choosing friendship over the law and he can't continue to work with him. Barry accepts for the sake of his friend.

Then we get down to the moment when the voice that we though was Alchemy comes to visit Julian. The voice is Savitar, which means he's probably the one that killed The Rival way back in episode two of the season. And he's coming to Julian because Julian is Doctor Alchemy… as most people figured. And he's been hiding his gear in the crime lab.

I think this was a very cool episode overall. I'm mixed on the look of Savitar. Maybe it will grow on me, but I tend to like my characters to be physically more defined. But I will admit that I am disappointed that Julian is Alchemy. It seemed to obvoius from the beginning so I hoped they would go another direction. Plus I was starting to like him, even his reasoning for Barry to quit had some legitimacy. I aslo had this crazy idea that Alchemy was actually Barry Allen from the future of that timeline guilt ridden for what he did and coming back to fix it with the aid of Savitar… or something like that. But nope, it's Julian Albert.

That said, it's only episode 7 of 23, I'm sure there will be a lot more twists and turns as the season goes. Plus next week, alien invasion.

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