Episode 16 - Out of Time

One year ago, just before the explosion of the particle accelerator. It was nighttime and the sky was pitch black. Clyde and his brother, Mark, were on an aeroplane during a storm. They were being shot at by Joe and his partner, but Clyde shot Joe's partner before he got onto the plane himself. "I think I got one of them." Clyde said with a smile on his face.

"Your luck's gonna run out one of these days, little brother." Mark warned him.

"You've been telling me that since I was ten, Mark." Clyde reminded him.

"Because I've been taking care of you since you were ten." Mark replies. "Look, it's gonna get choppy. You might want to strap yourself in."

"You just can't help yourself, can you?" Clyde jokes, Mark doesn't turn to look at him but he laughs slightly as they see the particle accelerator blow up, worsening the storm. "Oh, my God." Clyde gasps as the explosion ripples off of STAR Labs in a maze of bright light, hitting the plane, splitting it harsley in two and Clyde falls, tumbling in the sky as his brother screams his name.

Back in the present, Atchaco and Barry were at a bowling alley. "I never would have pegged you as someone who likes to bowl." Barry admits, looking at Atchaco.

"Oh, this is one of my favourite places in the world, and I'm guessing one of the only sports that I can destroy you at without using my special abilities." Atchaco laughed.

"Oh, okay, you think so, huh?" Barry asked.

"I'm pretty sure, yeah." Atchaco smiles.

"Okay." Barry chuckles as he leans in and kiss her.

"Hi, guys." Iris greets them, causing the two speedster to pull away as they turn to see Eddie and Iris.

"Iris, Eddie, hey." Barry returns.

"What are you guys doing here?" Atchaco asked.

"We thought it would be fun. Remember, you, Barry and I have been bowling here since we were kids." Iris answers.

"Yeah, of course I remember." Atchaco replied.

"Why don't you guys join us?" Iris wondered.

"Uh... We don't want to interrupt your date." Eddie said.

No, it's... it's okay, right Barry." Atchaco answered.

"Yeah, of course, it will be fun." Barry told her.

Minutes later, they were all bowling and Iris got a spare. "Ha-ha! Do you smell that, Barry? That's defeat." Iris laughs.

"You never told me you were such a big fan of bowling." Eddie admitted.

"Sure I have." Iris replied. "This is one of my favourite places in the world."

Minutes later, it was Barry's turn and he got a strike. "Oh, ho ho!" Atchaco cheers.

"Ohh! Ha-ha!" Barry smiles.

"I am impressed, Allen." Atchaco said as she held up a bowl of fries.

"I heard the owner was thinking of selling." Barry told them.

Oh, really." Atchaco sighed. "That just sucks. Hey, Iris, maybe you could write a piece on the place?"

"I would, but an article about sports isn't really my area of expertises and you know it. And besides, some people don't think of bowling as a sport." Iris answered.

"Well, it's not." Eddie replies as Barry dips a fry in some ketchup and eats it, getting ketchup on his face.

"Well, sport or hobby, I am still better than you." Atchaco said as she wipes the ketchup off of Barry and licks it off her finger.

"All right." Barry chuckles. "Well, I'm serious, a little bit of press, the lanes could be designated as, like, a landmark or something."

"Yeah." Iris agreed.

"Oh, Eddie, you're up." Atchaco told him.

"Oh, right." Eddie smiled as he started walking towards the lane.

"Whoo. Go get 'em, babe." Iris cheered.

Later at the Coroners in Central City, the Coroner was looking over a body. "Recording start." The Coroner explained. "Central City Coroner's report, file 28527. Petechial haemorrhage in the mucosa of the lips and the interior of the mouth, the strong odour of bleach, and the presence of a postmortem ligature mark all suggest the decedent's manner of death is…"

"Homicide." A voice calls from the darkness.

"Can I help you?" The Coroner asked, turning towards the man in the doorway.

"Yes, you can." The man answered. "I want to know who killed Clyde Mardon." He steps out of the shadows, showing that he is Clyde's brother, Mark. "He was shot by a cop a little over six months ago, and I want his name."

"That's privileged information. I'm going to have to ask you to leave." The Coroner informed him.

"Shame." Mark pouted as he made an ice ball in his hand before shooting it at the Coroner, causing him to go flying across the room.

"Please." The coroner begged.

"Cop's name. Now." Mark ordered as he walked up to him with another ice ball.

"I perform hundreds of autopsies a year." The Coroner reminded him.

"Perhaps this will jog your memory. " Mark smiled as he shot an ice ball at the Coroner, who screamed.

Later, Wells and Cisco were laughing at STAR Labs as they watched an old movie. "Oh, Buster Keaton. That guy was a genius." Cisco admitted.

"Yup." Wells agreed.

"I can't believe you've never seen this movie." Cisco replied.

"Must have been before my time." Wells hints.

"I gotta make you a must-see movie list, pronto." Cisco tells him.

"Please do." Wells laughs. "While I am more than happy to spend an evening watching old movies with you, Cisco, do you not have your brother's dinner to attend?"

"Yeah." Cisco sighs. "I was gonna ask Caitlin to come with me, but then I got a much better idea."

"Which was?" Wells asked.

"To not go at all." Cisco chuckled.

"Oh. Things are not any better with your family?" Wells wondered.

"You're missing the movie." Cisco points up.

"Right." Wells replied.

"Okay, you know what, I'm gonna be honest with you." Cisco admits. "Things have actually been pretty fantastic... since I stopped seeing them so much." He was going to continue speaking but an alarm started chiming on the computer. "Silent alarm has been triggered at the Central City Morgue."

"Why would anyone want to rob a morgue?" Wells asked.

Back at the bowling alley, Eddie gets a text from the precinct. "I got to go. Emergency at the morgue." Eddie tells them.

"Bye." Iris replied, giving him a quick kiss.

"See you at home." He called as he left the building.

"We're going to go too." Atchaco said.

"They're going to need someone from the crime lab." Barry reminds her.

"Okay, bye." Iris said. Then Barry and Atchaco leave. Once they are outside of the building they zoom towards the morgue, as Bary is running he sees himself running next to him before the image quickly disappears. Barry stops in front of a random street. Dogs were barking as a woman was calling for a taxi.

"Taxi! Taxi! Oh, come on, I'm gonna be late!" She called into the darkness. Macanese noticed Barry not moving and stopped beside him.

"Are you okay?" She wondered.

"Yeah." Barry nodded. "Let's go." Then they zoom away to the morgue.

"What's going on? What do you see?" Cisco asked him.

"A dead body." Barry answered.

"Barry, you're in a morgue." Cisco reminded him. "You're gonna have to be a little more specific than that."

"The coroner, he's dead." Macanese informs him.

Later, the police were all over the crime scene at the morgue. "The mayor made this a high priority." Singh told them.

"Copy that, captain." Joe replied.

As Singh was turning around to leave, he bumps into Barry and they get coffee all over each other. "Aah." Singh groaned. "Oh. Allen, my fiance just bought me this!"

"Yeah, I'm so sorry, captain." Barry apologised.

CyAmze walks in and sees what is happening and she chuckles a little. "Eh! Just help Joe find out who did this." He turns to the cyborg. "You too, Lady Macanese." Singh then walks out of the door.

"Mm-hmm." Barry nodded as Joe walked over to them.

"What's with all the water? Did the sprinkler system go off or something?" Joe wonders.

"No." CyAmze sighs. "We checked all the sprinklers. They're all intact."

"But look at this." Barry said. They walked over to where the body was, and CyAmze picked up the ice in her metal fingers.

"What is that, ice?" Joe questioned.

"Mm-hmm." CyAmze hums as she lifts up the coroner's shirt. "The coroner has multiple impact bruises on his torso, all the size of a tennis ball.:

"Judging by the amount of ice and water on the ground, I'm guessing he was killed by hail." Barry explained.

"Hail? In here?" Joe asked.

"Yeah." CyAmze agreed.

"Do you two think this was Snart?" Joe wondered.

"No, his cold-gun couldn't have done this." Barry answered as Eddie walked over to them.

"Joe, we got something." Eddie informs him. "The Coroner's office just installed an automated dictation system. Listen to this." He pushes the button on the machine and the audio played.

"Please, no more." The Coroner pleaded.

"I'll stop when you tell me…" Mark replied.

"Stop." They begged.

"Who killed him?" Mark growled.

"I know that voice. That's Mardon." Joe points out.

"I want a name." The recording of Mark continued.

"Clyde Mardon's dead." Eddie reminds him.

"It's not Clyde Mardon. It's his brother, Mark." Joe tells them.

"It was Detective West." The Coroner cried in the recording. "He shot him. Detective Joe West killed your brother."

"He will pay for what he did." Mark laughed and then they heard the coroner screaming on the tape as he was being killed by Mark.

The next day, Joe told the story to everyone in the Cortex. "So Clyde Mardon has a brother?" Caitlin wondered.

"And both brothers survived the plane crash, and then the dark matter released from the particle accelerator explosion affects them both in virtually the same way." Wells explained.

"Yeah, only Mark's powers seem to be a lot more precise." Atchaco replied.

"To be able to control the weather like that, indoors?" Cisco said. "You'd have to be a Weather Wizard. Ooh, I've been waiting since week one to use that one." He drinks some of his slushy and gets a brain freeze. "Mm!"

"Trigeminal headache?" Caitlin questions.

"What?" Cisco groans.

"Trigeminal headache. Brain freeze." Caitlin simplifies.

"Then why don't you just call it a brain freeze?" Cisco growled.

"So I'm guessing you running around a twister in the opposite direction isn't gonna to do the trick this time." Joe answered and Atchaco and Barry shook their heads.

:I just remembered. During our run-in with Mardon, Clyde Mardon, I was tinkering with something to help attract unbound atmospheric electrons." Cisco remembered.

"Like a grounding mechanism?" Barry wondered.

"Yes, 'cause the only way that Mardon can control the weather is if he can tap into the atmosphere's natural electrical circuit, and if we take away that circuit, clear skies."

Joe's phone vibrates and he looks at the screen. "Singh's checking in. I gotta go." Joe sighs.

"Yeah, we'll meet you at the station." Atchaco said.

"Joe, We'll find Mardon. Don't worry." Wells reassures him.

"I'm not worried at all." Joe admits as he leaves the room.

"Well, he's taking being targeted by a revenge-seeking meta-human rather well, I must say. Don't worry, Barry. Joe will be fine, I promise." Wells told him.

"Yeah, no, I know." Barry replied. "I actually wanted to talk to you about something else."

"I'll wait in the hallway for you." Atchaco said as she walked out of the Cortex.

"What do you want to talk to me about?" Wells asked.

"Um... Look, last night, on my way to the morgue, I saw something." Barry admitted.

"What'd you see?" Wells questioned.

"I was running and I turned and I saw myself. Or I don't know, another Flash running beside me." Barry answered.

"Interesting." Wells smiled.

"Yeah. What do you think it was?" Barry wondered.

"Could be an optical illusion, a mirroring effect caused by wind shear and light, a speed mirage, if you will." Wells explained.

"It didn't seem like that. It was... He seemed real." Barry confessed.

"I'll tell you what." Wells replied. "Let's focus on finding Mardon, and once he's safely contained in The Pipeline, we'll investigate this."

Later at the precinct, Singh stands inside of his office. "Where are we at with Mardon?" He calls.

"No one at the morgue saw or heard anything." Eddie told him.

"We're canvassing known associates, seeing if he reached out to anybody. Maybe can get a lead on where he's holed up." Joe explained.

"All right, why don't we let Thawne do that?" Singh wondered.

"Because nobody knows the Mardon brothers better than I do. I mean, Chyre and I tracked them for years. I know how they think." Joe reminded him.

"Which is why you should coordinate the investigation from here." Singh smiled.

They walk out of Singh's office and they see Iris coming out of the elevators. "Hey. If you guys want to keep that smile on that pretty face, she doesn't hear about any of this." Joe told them and Eddie, Barry and CyAmze nod as Iris walks up to them. "Hey, sweetheart."

"Hey, Dad." Iris greeted as she hugged him before turning to face Eddie. "Hi."

"Hey." Eddie smiles, giving her a quick kiss. "I would love to stay and chat but I have some work to do." Eddie then walked away.

"So, what are you guys working on? You got any good leads for an honest reporter?" Iris asked.

"Things are actually pretty quiet around here right now." CyAmze lied.

"Look, Iris." Joe sighed. "We would love to stay and talk to you but we were actually gonna go grab lunch."

"We were?" Barry wondered. Joe glares at him slightly and CyAmze chuckles. "Right, yeah, yeah."

"Duh." Joe said as he walked away.

Later, Joe, Atchaco and Barry were eating burgers in Joe's car. "Mm. I haven't had one of those in way too long." Joe admitted.

"Felt appropriate." Atchaco replied. "So, you want to talk about what's been going on with you?"

"What do you think's been going on with me?" Joe wondered.

"You just seem a bit cavalier, considering what we're up against." Barry pointed out.

"We aren't up against anything." Joe chuckles.

"Joe, come on, we…" Atchaco tries to say.

"Look, I'm fine. Can we just change the subject, please?" Joe questioned.

"Sure." Barry sighed.

"So, how are things going on between the two of you?" Joe asked.

"It's great." Atchaco answered.

"Really, great." Barry agreed. The rain started to come down hard as they continued to drive along.

"Last night we went bowling." Atchaco chuckled. "He lost terribly."

"Ah, no, I got a strike." Barry corrected. "I was just about to beat you when we got called away."

"Ah, yeah sure." Atchaco smiled.

"You too are adorable." Joe laughed as he looked out of the window to see the rain pelting down. "Man, it is coming down."

"Yeah." Barry replied as he turned on the radio.

"And it's another beautiful day here in Central City. Not a cloud…" The radio host tells them.

"Mardon. " Joe growls. Thunder rumbles above the car, and they look and see that it was only them that was getting pelted with the rain. They turn around to see Mark sitting in a truck behind them. Mark makes a lighting strike, it was about to hit Joe, when Barry and Atchaco got him out of the car, just in time for it to blow up.

Back at the precinct, they are all standing with Singh. "You're confined to the precinct until Mardon's caught." Singh orders.

"David, you said it yourself. That son of a b¡tch killed my partner." Joe reminded him.

"And I'm not gonna lose you the way I lost Fred Chyre." Singh admitted. "Look, I can't stop you being pissed, Joe, but I can keep you safe. Maybe your daughter can contact The Flash and Thunder."

"I'm not getting her involved in this." Joe argues.

"Allen, Lady Macanese, make sure he doesn't go anywhere." Singh orders as he walks back into his office.

"I need to be out there." Joe tells them.

Joe, you're always the first one to tell me when I'm not thinking clearly." Barry reminds him.

"I took down Clyde. I can take down his dirtbag brother too." Joe growled.

"You didn't do that alone, remember?" CyAmze wondered.

"You're right." Joe sighed. "How are any of these guys going to protect me? They don't know. They don't know what Mardon's capable of."

"All right, well, lucky for you, your friends at S.T.A.R. Labs do." Barry replied and Joe sighs, realising they are correct.

At Central City Picture News, Iris was typing on her desk when Mason walked up behind her. "'The Flash and Thunder: Speeding their way into our lives?' That's a little on the nose, don't you think?" Mason questioned. Iris scoffs. "I want to show you something." Mason takes out a picture from his folder and shows her it. "Simon Stagg. Remember him? Hasn't been seen in, like, six months."

"I thought the rumour was he was a recluse. You know, went all Howard Hughes." Iris replied.

"This was taken the night that Stagg went missing." Mason said, handing her another picture. "The last person to leave Stagg Industries the night that Stagg disappeared was Harrison Wells."

"This doesn't prove anything, Mason." Iris reminded him.

"It's enough for me to develop a theory." Mason argues. "Every trail in this files leads to one person, Harrison Wells, which is why I need you to start asking your friends who know him some questions, Iris." He leaves Iris with his file and walks away.

Later, Iris meets up with Barry and Atchaco at Jitters. "So the reason that I called you was because my sort of advisor at the paper is always teaching me lessons, tricks of the trade, how to get a good story, and one of the things he's repeatedly telling me is to follow your hunch, see where it leads." Iris explains.

"Sounds like good advice to me." Atchaco admits.

"Yeah, it is." Iris agrees. "Except in this instance, that hunch involves both of you."

"Well, you can ask us anything, Iris." Barry reminds her.

"It's about Harrison Wells." Iris said.

"What about him?" Atchaco asked.

"Well, I mean, a lot of strange things have been happening in Central City this past year." Iris reminds them. "The Flash, Thunder, the Burning Man, people going missing." She hands Barry a photo. "He was there at Stagg's office the night that Stagg went missing."

"And you think that Doctor Wells is what, responsible?" Barry questions as he looks at the photo.

"I mean, I don't really know him, but you two and your friends do." Iris smiled.

"Uh-huh." Atchaco hums.

"Barry, Atchaco, in your heart of hearts, do you think it's possible that there's more to Harrison than people have been led to believe?" Iris wonders.

"Harrison Wells is a good man." Atchaco tells her. "If you're looking for a story, then you're not gonna find one with him."

Later at STAR Labs, Cisco was showing off his next invention. "I call it the Wizard's Wand." Cisco smiled.

"Subtle. How does it work?" Caitlin questioned.

"Think of it like an active lightning rod. You just point it at the sky, and it'll suck up whatever energy's floating around it like a sponge." Cisco explains.

"And it'll stop Mardon?" Atchaco asked.

"It'll certainly slow him down." Cisco answers. "If there's no atmospheric electrons available to him, there's no way for him to control the weather." Barry smiles as he holds the lighting rod like a light sabre and both Atchaco and Cisco smile.

"Good work, Cisco, as always." Wells compliments. "If you excuse me, I'm gonna go stretch my legs." Then he wheels out of the lab.

"You guys okay? You both seem a little off." Caitlin questions.

"Yeah, yeah." Barry replied. "Uh, somebody at... Somebody at Picture News got it into Iris's head that something suspicious is going on with Dr. Wells."

"Like what?" Caitlin asked.

"That he knows what happened to Simon Stagg." Atchaco answered. "Apparently, nobody's heard from him or seen him since the night I stopped Danton Black."

"What'd you guys tell her?" Cisco wondered.

"That she's wrong. And she is." Barry told them.

Late at night, Cisco came into the precinct with his Wizard's Wand as the clouds multiplied outside the window. "Keep this handy. I'll protect you from Mardon's powers." Cisco tells them.

"Yeah, Cisco, I think he's got it." CyAmze replies.

"Hey, Joe…" Cisco greets him. "I know you got a lot going on right now, but... you mentioned Doctor Wells might have had something to do with Barry's mother's murder. Why did you think that?"

"Oh, it doesn't matter. I was wrong." Joe answered.

"But you seemed really sure of it." Cisco reminds him.

"Look, Cisco, I can't talk about this right now, okay?" Joe told him as Cisco turned and walked away.

"Bye, Cisco." CyAmze called as he made his way to the elevators.

As Cisco was walking towards the elevator, he saw Mark Mardon step out of them as he walked in. As soon as the elevator doors closed in front of Cisco as he stood inside, he called Barry. "I heard you were looking for me. Here I am." Mark laughs.

"Mardon." Joe growls.

"Hey, Joe." Mark smiles. "I can call you Joe, can't I? Figured we don't got to be too formal seeing as you put two bullets in my brother's chest."

"Your brother killed my partner and a whole lot of innocent people, and threatened to kill even more." Joe reminded him.

"Yeah, Clyde was no saint, but he was family." Mark tells him as thunder starts to rumble in the room. "If you can't protect your family, the least you can do is avenge 'em."

"This is between us. Nobody else needs to get hurt." Joe argues as he steps towards the wizard's wand.

"But they are gonna get hurt." Mark chuckles as Joe makes a run for the device. Mark notices and throws him back with a huge gust of wind.

"Joe!" CyAmze yelled as she went to run over to him. As CyAmze was about to help, Mark used his wind power to throw a small flag pole at her. CyAmze didn't have time to move out of the way and it pierced right through the power core, AKA heart, of her body. She looks down at her chest and chuckles slightly. "Never been stabbed with a flagpole before." She says, pointing down at the pole sticking out of her chest.

"CyAmze!" Joe yelled. CyAmze looked up at him lazily as her cybernetics flicked before finally reverting back to Atchaco form in a desperate attempt to save power.

Mark then shoots a big gust of wind, sending everyone flying, including Atchaco. In seconds he causes lighting to shoot out from the sky and into his hands, and he shoots it towards Joe. "Joe!" Singh screams, running over and pushing Joe out of the way. This causes Singh to get hit with the lighting bolt himself and he is sent flying across the room.

Seconds later, Barry shows up and grabs Cisco's device and uses it on Mark, sucking up all the energy that Mark was creating. Mark growls at him before taking off. Joe and Eddie ran over to Singh, who was now unconscious. "Captain! David." Joe yelled.

Atchaco had left the flag pole in her chest so that she wouldn't lose as much blood. She stumbles towards Barry as blood slowly comes out of her mouth. "Barry." She whispers as her body shakes.

Barry turns to see her and his face widens. "No." He cries.

Atchaco stands in front of him. "At least I have no secrets left to keep." She laughs, hinting to the fact everyone now knows she is CyAmze. She sways a bit on her feet before collapsing in his arms.

"You're going to be okay, I promise." Barry told her as he kissed her on the head. He then quickly zooms Atchaco to the hospital and comes back for Singh.

Later at STAR Labs, everyone is in the Cortex. "All right, Cisco, I'm heading home." Caitlin said. "Cisco? All right, fine, I will watch every episode of The Walking Dead with you. Hey, you couldn't have stopped Mardon from attacking the police station. It's not your fault."

"No, that's not it. What do you think of Dr. Wells?" Cisco wondered.

"What do you mean?" Caitlin questioned.

:I mean, do you think he's capable of doing something bad?" Cisco asked.

"Is this because of what Barry and Atchaco said they heard?" Caitlin answered. "Ever since the particle accelerator exploded, there's always someone who's got it in for Dr. Wells."

"No, no, it's more than that." Cisco replies. "Joe said that maybe Dr. Wells was somehow involved in of Barry's Mother's death and her murder."

"That's absurd." Caitlin laughs.

"Yeah, I know, and that's what I said, and we proved that that wasn't the case, but I'm just saying, some things aren't adding up." Cisco admits.

"Like what, for example?" Caitlin asked.

Come here, look at this." Cisco answers, as he sits in front of the computer. "The night we trapped the Reverse-Flash in the force-field, he escaped because the containment system failed, but I checked that data three times, and the super-capacitors were still fully charged when he got out. The numbers don't add up, Caitlin. There's no reason that the containment system should have failed."

"I'm sure there's a perfectly good explanation." Caitlin told him, looking at the screen.

"One perfectly good explanation is that Wells did something to the trap." Cisco argues.

"Are you suggesting that Dr. Wells is in league with The Man in the Yellow Suit? I'm... We all saw that thing nearly kill him that night." Caitlin reminds him.

"Yeah, nearly." CIsco points out.

"Cisco." Cailtin sighs. "What you're saying doesn't make any sense. That's crazy."

"Can you keep Wells out of S.T.A.R. Labs tomorrow morning?" Cisco wonders.

Later, at the hospital as the sun was rising, Joe was sitting outside of Singh's room as Barry brought him and Singh's fiancee a cup of coffee as they had been there all night. "Thank you, Barry." He said.

"Yeah." Barry replied.

"This isn't how I thought I'd finally meet David's coworkers." He admits. "He speaks very highly of you."

"Really?" Barry wonders.

"David's all bark. A very loud bark." He chuckles as a doctor comes out of Singh's room.

"How is he, doctor?" Joe asks.

"We're stabilising him. He's experiencing some paralysis in his lower extremities." The Doctor answered.

"Oh, my God." He gasped.

"The hardest thing to gauge right now is the extent of his neurocognitive deficits. So he may not be the same person you remember." The Doctor informed him.

"Can I see him?" He questioned.

"I'm sorry, visitation's for family only." The Doctor apologised.

"Being his fiance makes him family, doctor." Joe reminds him.

"Uh, sure." The Doctor replies, letting Singh's fiancee into his room.

"Will he be able to return to the force?" Joe asks.

"I'm actually not sure he'll be able to walk again." The Doctor answers, walking back into the room.

"Joe, where are you going?" Barry calls as Joe starts to walk away.

"I need to end this." Joe tells him.

"Not by yourself." Barry argues.

"Yes, by myself!" Joe growls. "I know him! I can find him. Atchaco is lying in hospital right now because of him. I don't want anybody else getting hurt, especially Iris and you."

"Iris is fi…" Barry tries to say.

"Mardon said he was going to avenge his brother." Joe reminds him. "That goes beyond me. It goes all the way to you, Atchaco and her. He already got Atchaco, so you need to stay with Iris, and you keep her safe. Do not leave her side."

"Yeah, all right." Barry sighs and Joe turns and walks away.

Later, Barry goes to Iris's job. "Hey, have you seen Iris West?" Barry asked.

"She went to see her dad. You're Barry Allen, right?" Mason questions.

"Yeah." Barry answers.

"Her friend/brother? Or is that brother/friend?" Mason wonders.

"Friend is fine." Barry replies.

"Oh. I'm Mason Bridge." Mason introduces himself.

"Oh, you're the guy who thinks Harrison Wells is some mad genius?" Barry points out.

"Oh, no, no, no, I never said he was crazy." Mason corrects him. "He's a sociopath and a liar, for sure. Really? You don't see it? All the time you two spend together."

"Excuse me?" Barry said.

"Sometimes when I'm bored, I follow him around." Mason confesses. "And for the most part, he keeps to himself, except when he's meeting up with you and your girlfriend, Atchaco, which he seems to do quite a bit. And then one time, he met up with Simon Stagg, And then poof, no more Simon Stagg."

"So you're saying Wells knows where Stagg is?" Barry wonders.

"No, I'm saying Wells killed him." Mason corrects him.

"Ah." Barry sighed. "All right, well, even if I believed you, which I don't, he's in a wheelchair. How could he possibly have done that?"

"I have evidence in a secure digital file that will explain everything." Mason admits.

"What... What evidence?" Barry asks.

"You'll just have to read about it in the Sunday paper, like everybody else." Mason answers.

Later, Cisco is at STAR Labs, turning on the containment system to see what had gone wrong. "Let's see if you can tell me what really went wrong that night." Cisco smiles.

Somewhere else, Joe had found Mark's hideout and then Eddie had showed up. "Hey! Joe." Eddie calls.

"Eddie. You shouldn't be here." Joe tells him.

"And you shouldn't be chasing after Mardon alone, partner. You find anything?" Eddie asked.

"Not yet, but this was an old Mardon brothers' hideout about six years ago, so it's a long shot. But listen, Eddie…" Joe answers.

"Save it. I'm not leaving." Eddie argues.

Barry goes to the hospital to check on Atchaco, who is sleeping after the operation, so he watches her from the window. Later, at Joe's house, Iris was standing there when Barry walked in. "Hey, have you heard from Dad? He's not answering his cell." Iris wondered.

"Uh, no. I haven't talked to him." Barry answered.

"I'm starting to worry about him." Iris sighed. "What are you doing home so early? I thought that you would still be at the hospital with Atchaco."

"I just came from there actually." Barry admitted. "She has just gotten out of surgery and she is fine, just resting. I'm going to go back later to talk. But right now, I was looking for you. I just met your friend Mason, and he said he had some kind of proof that Dr Wells did something. Do you know what it is?"

"No, he hasn't told me anything about that." Iris informed him.

"Okay." Barry smiled.

"So, how are you doing with the whole Atchaco thing anyway?" Iris asked.

"Honestly… I'm scared Iris… really scared." Barry mumbled. "I have loved her all my life… I don't… I can't lose her."

"Have you told her that though." Iris wondered.

"Told her what?" Barry questioned.

"That you love her." Iris answered, like it was the simplest thing in the world. "I mean, I know you guys are now a couple but have you dropped the love bomb on her yet?"

"You don't think that it is too soon." Barry asked.

"No." Iris replied. "And after what happened, maybe you should." Barry nods softly.

Somewhere else, Cisco was looking at the containment system when he noticed that everything was running fine, nothing was wrong with the machine to begin with. "What? I don't understand. This doesn't make any sense." Cisco then turns on the machine. He turns to look and his jaw drops. Inside of the containment system was the Reverse Flash.

Joe and Eddie busted into a room at Mardon's hideout. "Somebody was here very recently." Eddie pointed out.

"He left this here for me." Joe noticed as he found an old newspaper that had an article on Clyde Marton in it.

"Where to next?" Eddie asks when a sudden gust of wind shoots throughout the room and Joe gets pulled out of the room by the force of unnatural nature.

"Joe!" Eddie yelled.

Minutes later, Joe wakes up covered in blood and handcuffed to a railing. He tried to move, but he got a shooting pain in his leg. He looked down and saw that it was broken. "Small miracle you only broke one leg, Joe. The night I got sucked out of my plane, I broke almost every bone in my body. It was excruciating." Mark confesses as he touches Joe's broken leg and he winces in pain. "At least you got a small taste of what that felt like. Still... Guess you'll never know what it really feels like to be God."

"That's what your brother said to me, right before I killed him." Joe admits.

"I don't need these powers to end your life."Mark growls as he starts to punch Joe in the face.

"Then do it. That's what you came here for, isn't it? An eye for an eye?" Joe questions.

"Oh, Joe. I want so much more than an eye." Mark answers.

At Jitters, Caitlin was sitting with Wells. "I often forget how important it is to step away from my ever present routine. Thank you, Caitlin." Wells replies. "This morning has been a refreshing change of pace."

"You can have more than two hard-boiled eggs for breakfast, Dr. Wells." Caitlin laughs.

"What can I say? I guess I'm a creature of habit." Wells jokes.

"Oh, I'm sorry, I believe these were to-go." Wells said as the barista brought them two coffees.

"Actually, I thought we could sit here and enjoy them." Caitlin tells him as she quickly checks her watch.

"Why not?" Wells wonders as he notices Caitlin looking at her watch.

Later at the precinct, Eddie was talking to everyone on the force. "We've seen what Mardon can do, but do not forget, he is not invincible." Eddie reminds them.

"I can't believe this is happening." Iris tells Barry as they stand and listen to his speech.

"He is still a man, at best, a criminal. We'll find him." Eddie continues.

"We will find this dirt bag…" Barry comforts her. "Hey, look at me, all right? I promise I will bring him back to you."

"Okay." Iris smiles.

"I want you all to scout this city until we find Joe. Move out!" Eddie ordered. All of the police force takes off and Iris's phone starts to ring so she answers it.

"Hello?" Iris questioned as she picked up the phone.

"I have your father." Mark admits. "He's a little broken, but still alive. If you want him to stay that way, come to the waterfront, south side. Oh, and Iris, you tell the police, your father's dead." Then Mark turns to Joe and tells him Iris is coming.

"He has my dad." Iris informs him. "He says if I tell anyone, he'll kill him. He wants me to meet him at the waterfront."

"All right, I'm coming with you." Barry tells her.

"Okay. Let's go." Iris said.

As they were walking to the elevator, Barry's phone started to ring. "Hello." Barry greets the person on the other end. "Yes, this is Barry Allen." After a few minutes, Barry hangs up the phone with a heartbreaking look on his face.

"Barry, what's wrong?" Iris asks with a worried expression.

"That was the hospital." Barry sighs as his eyes start to get watery. "Atchaco, she… em, she's gone."

"What do you mean she's gone?" Iris questioned. "I thought you said that the surgery went fine, that everything was okay."

"The surgery did go fine." Barry answered. "Afterwards, a blood clot had formed in her heart and sadly they didn't notice until it was too late."

"Oh my god." Iris gasps as she hugs Barry as tears form in both of their eyes. Barry hugs her back as they both continue to cry, because now their best friend and Barry's girlfriend is dead.

Back at Jitters, Caitlin and Wells are talking together. "You know, Dr. Wells, I just... I want to thank you again for all that you've done for Ronnie." Caitlin admits.

"One thank you will suffice, I'm sure." Wells said as he took off his glasses and set them onto the table. "You know, Caitlin, if Cisco were to adjust the radial velocity parameters on the S.T.A.R Labs satellite, we might be able to better detect the vortex of a forming storm, and if we could detect those air updrafts, no matter where they originate, no matter how small, we might be able to locate Mark Mardon." He then carefully places his glasses back on.

"That's a great idea." Caitlin tells him.

"So why don't we go to S.T.A.R. Labs and alert Cisco?" Wells questions.

"Let me just get these to-go." Caitlin replies. She bends down and picks up their coffees before walking over to the barista behind the counter. "Hi, could I get these in to-go cups?"

"Sure, just a second." The barista answers as she walks away. Caitlin then turns around and her face widens. She sees that Well's glasses are sitting on the table and his wheelchair was empty, he wasn't in it, but how was that possible.

At STAR Labs, Cisco had just found out that the Reverse Flash in the containment system was just a recording and nothing more, that he had played all of them. "I can't believe this." Cisco gasped as he continued to hear the recording.

"Oh, I'm not like The Flash at all." The recording says.

"Some would say, I'm the Reverse." Wells smiles as he appears behind Cisco.

Just off of the coast, Mark was holding Joe hostage on the raft. "Congratulations, Joe." Mark mocks. "You're my plus-one today. Front row seats to watch everyone and everything you ever loved, destroyed." He hands Joe the binoculars so that he can see what is happening on the coast. "Pretty girl too. Such a shame." He smiles as he rips the tape off of Joe's mouth.

"Please, she's my daughter." Joe begged, internally knowing that his begging will get him nowhere.

"Clyde was my brother." Mark growled.

"He's a thief and a murderer." Joe reminds him. "She's an innocent girl, just like the one you decided to stab at the police station."

"She'll pay for the sins of the father then." Mark laughed, reapplying tape over Joe's mouth. "They'll all pay."

Back at STAR Labs, Wells and Cisco were standing in one of the rooms. "You're incredibly clever, Cisco. I've always said so." Wells reminds him as he gives him a slow and mockery type clap.

"You're him. The Reverse-Flash." Cisco notices, his eyes getting watery.

"You and I have never been truly, properly introduced. I am Eobard Thawne." Wells introduced himself with a small smile on his face.

"Thawne? Like Eddie." Cisco questioned.

"Let's call him a distant relative." Wells answers.

"The night that we trapped the Reverse-Flash, you almost died." Cisco pointed out.

"Mm-hmm." Wells hummed, as if he was enjoying messing with his mind.

"There were two of you." Cisco told him.

The Wells… no, Eobard starts running back and forth as he makes a copy of himself to show Cisco. "It's an after-image, A speed mirage, if you will." Eobard explains.

"Joe was right." Cisco gasped, his breathing heavy as a breath caught in his throat and his mind trying to piece it all together, not completely believing what was happening. "You were there that night, 15 years ago, in Barry's house. You killed Nora Allen."

"It was never my intention to kill Nora. I was there to kill Barry." Eobard smiles.

"Why?" Cisco wonders. "You're his friend. You've been teaching him how to…"

"Go faster, I know." Eobard replies. "A means to an end. And I'll tell you why. Because I have been stuck here, marooned here in this place for 15 long years. And The Flash and The Flash's speed is the key to my returning to my world. To my time. And no one is going to prevent that from happening, not you, not Joe and certainly not Lady Macanese."

"I can help you." Cisco tells him.

"You're smart, Cisco." Eobard comments looking into Cisco's puppy dog eyes as he starts to make his arm vibrate really fast, to the extent that it will phase through anything. "But you're not that smart. Do you know how hard it has been to keep all of this from you, especially from you?" He steps a bit closer to him and phases his hand right through Cisco's ribcage and holds his heart. Eobard's vibrating hand clutching the muscle is the only reason that it continues to beat with life. "Because the truth is, I've grown quite fond of you. And in many ways, you have shown me what it's like to have a son."

Cisco smiles a bit at the complement. "Forgive me, but to me, you've been dead for centuries." Eobard confesses. Cisco looks at him, his eyes begging for mercy, already knowing that there isn't any. Then Eobard's arm suddenly stops vibrating, but still clutching Cisco's heart. The muscle makes one more pitiful attempt before surrendering to its fate, and Cisco falls boneless to the floor.

Back with Barry and Iris, they were both standing near the coast. "What do we do?" Barry asked. "He'll find us." His eyes were still puffy from earlier.

"Oh, my God." Iris gasped as she heard thunder rumbling.

"Iris, you need to get out of here, okay? You need to get as far away from here as possible." Barry told her.

"I am not leaving you." She argued.

"Iris, please! I've already lost Atchaco, I cannot lose you too. You are my best friend, you always were." Barry admitted.

"You're my best friend too." Iris replied.

Then they hug each other. Thunder starts to rumble loudy by the coast as Mark was making a tsunami on the lake. "Caitlin." Barry said into the phone as soon as she picked up.

"Barry, I need to talk to you. Dr. Wells, he isn't…" Caitlin tries to say.

"Hey, there's no time for that right now, all right? There is a tsunami heading for the city. How do I stop it?" Barry asked.

"Theoretically, if you can create a vortex barrier along the coastline, a wall of wind, that would be able to sap the tidal wave of its energy before it hits the city." Caitlin answered.

"By running back and forth. How fast?" Barry wondered

"I don't know if you can run that fast." Caitlin admits.

"I am so sorry." Barry apologies. "I didn't want you to find out this way." He then changes into his Flash suit at superspeed. He looks at Iris with a serious but kind expression. "Go!" He orders.

Then Barry suddenly zoomed away, running back and forth, up and down the coast line. Everyone else was running away from the tsunami but Iris just stood on a hill and watched as the Flash risked his life for everyone else. Then, Barry starts to go really, really fast before disappearing and reappearing down the street. He was still running when he sees himself from a few days ago and it disappears and Barry then comes to a stop at a very familiar sidewalk. He looks around, and feels like he has been there before.

"Taxi! Taxi! Oh come on, I'm gonna be late!" Iris yells.

Barry's face widens as he looks around the area, a strong sense of deja vu washing over him. "Oh boy." He gasps.