Synopsis:
Barry manages to save Oliver's life, but Oliver is angry to find out that Felicity has revealed his secret when he regains consciousness. Barry and Felicity are able to identify and locate Oliver's attacker, Cyrus Gold. While continuing to discover the truth behind the death of Sin's friend Max, Roy is captured by Cyrus and brought before Sebastian who injects him with the Mirakuru serum. The serum fails to work and kills Roy. Oliver arrives and stops Cyrus, simultaneously destroying the centrifuge and the remaining serum. Oliver revives Roy, but worries that the serum may affect him negatively. In flashbacks, Ivo kills Shado, but flees when Slade turns up with super-human strength and kills his men. Later, Slade is revealed to be alive in the present and the one orchestrating Blood's work; he orders Blood to leave the vigilante alone, so that he can deal with him personally. While Roy recovers at the Queen mansion, the serum injection heals the arrow wound in his leg. Barry leaves a domino mask for Oliver, to better hide his identity, and returns to Central City. While in his lab, Barry is hit by strange lightning created by an accident at the new particle accelerator.
Another exciting episode, that stands out for two key reasons:
1. The creation of The Flash
2. Slade's reveal
We've already noticed the particle accelerator being repeatedly mentioned on the news, and wondered what that was building up to - even still, it was kind of over-kill on Barry Allen - an explosion at a particle accelerator contributes to a storm which forks lightning into the lab full of chemicals where Barry works... I mean, which was actually responsible for the new powers?
Slade's reveal was a very real surprise - I'd presumed he'd died on the island. His face is no longer scared, though...
Shado's death seemed a little pointless, though - why would Ivo feel he had something to gain by putting Oliver Queen through that?
Barry manages to save Oliver's life, but Oliver is angry to find out that Felicity has revealed his secret when he regains consciousness. Barry and Felicity are able to identify and locate Oliver's attacker, Cyrus Gold. While continuing to discover the truth behind the death of Sin's friend Max, Roy is captured by Cyrus and brought before Sebastian who injects him with the Mirakuru serum. The serum fails to work and kills Roy. Oliver arrives and stops Cyrus, simultaneously destroying the centrifuge and the remaining serum. Oliver revives Roy, but worries that the serum may affect him negatively. In flashbacks, Ivo kills Shado, but flees when Slade turns up with super-human strength and kills his men. Later, Slade is revealed to be alive in the present and the one orchestrating Blood's work; he orders Blood to leave the vigilante alone, so that he can deal with him personally. While Roy recovers at the Queen mansion, the serum injection heals the arrow wound in his leg. Barry leaves a domino mask for Oliver, to better hide his identity, and returns to Central City. While in his lab, Barry is hit by strange lightning created by an accident at the new particle accelerator.
Another exciting episode, that stands out for two key reasons:
1. The creation of The Flash
2. Slade's reveal
We've already noticed the particle accelerator being repeatedly mentioned on the news, and wondered what that was building up to - even still, it was kind of over-kill on Barry Allen - an explosion at a particle accelerator contributes to a storm which forks lightning into the lab full of chemicals where Barry works... I mean, which was actually responsible for the new powers?
Slade's reveal was a very real surprise - I'd presumed he'd died on the island. His face is no longer scared, though...
Shado's death seemed a little pointless, though - why would Ivo feel he had something to gain by putting Oliver Queen through that?
