BWW Recap: The FLASH Meets 'Plastique,' Wells Meets Gorilla Grodd

Terrorist Bette Sans Souci (aka Plastique, played by Kelly Frye) makes her explosive debut on tonight's THE FLASH. While in the comics she was merely good and blowing things up, here she has the power to turn anything she touches into an explosive. Oh, and she's no longer from Quebec, but rather an American. Let's jump in, shall we?

Team FLASH is having a night out. Barry (Grant Gustin), Cisco (Carlos Valdes) and Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) are at a bar. Problem is, because of Barry's super metabolism, he can't get drunk. He's 25 and his drinking days are behind him. If that wasn't depressing enough, Iris (Candice Patton) is also there, playing darts with Det. Pretty Boy Thawne (Rick Cosnett). Even Caitlin is drooling over him. Will Barry ever stand a chance with the girl of his dreams?

Across town, in a glass skyscraper, a guard is making his rounds and comes upon Bette. She warns him not to come near her and then tosses a backpack of explosive his way. Glass shatters. A window washer clings to his rig (Seriously? Who cleans windows at night?).

The flimsy plot point is a cue for THE FLASH to spring into action. Literally. Barry's plan is to run up the side of the building. Iris arrives on the sign to see "The Streak" (as she calls him) in action. She comes face to face with Barry, who quickly blurs his face so she can't ID him.

At the crime scene the next morning, Det. West (Jesse L. Martin) leaves Barry in a file room to speed through all the evidence to locate which file was taken. West returns to the precinct to find General Eiling (veteran character actor Clancy Brown as the DC Comics villain) has taken over the investigation. It seems Bette is a soldier. Barry nabs a file before the military leaves with the evidence.

Back at S.T.A.R. Labs, Wells (Tom Cavanagh) tells Barry that a decade ago Eiling contracted the lab to try and develop a super soldier serum. Since that's already been done by Marvel's CAPTAIN AMERICA, he refers to it as "enhanced gene therapies for soldiers." Same dif.

Cisco tracks down Bette's next of kin. Barry races over to the address to find Bette fleeing from the scene. He corners her. She touches his suit and tells him to get whatever he's wearing off. A boxer-clad Barry watches his Flash suit explode.

Cisco is less than thrilled to hear the news. At least they now know that Bette is a meta-human. Wells seems to already know this. Hmmmm.

Det. West has the best reaction, though: "Human bomb. Must be Tuesday in Central City."

Eiling wants to use her as a human weapon. Barry realizes they need to find her before Eiling does. He races across town on a hunch that Bette might be looking to confront the doctor who did this to her (and he's right). The military is there, too. Barry rescues her in the nick of time.

Iris posts another blog about "The Streak" and this time signs her name. Team FLASH realizes Iris just painted a giant target on herself. As THE FLASH, he pleads with her to stop writing about him. She seems him as the vehicle for validating what Barry had been saying about his mom's murder, though. If THE FLASH exists, why not the yellow blur that Barry said killed his mom?

At the lab, Bette gets some bad news: the shrapnel from her war injury has fused with her body on a cellular level (due to the same explosion that gave Barry his powers). Since there is no current way to un-splice DNA, there is no cure.

Wells shows his dark side again when he confronts Bette alone with ultimatum: kill Eiling. Bette sets off to follow orders. Barry stops Bette before she kills Eiling. Eiling shoots her before Bette can tell him that it was Wells who put her up to it.

And her lifeless body is going to explode. Barry runs on water to safely deposit Bette's body in the middle of a lake. Back at the lab, Wells seems pissed that his plan has been foiled.

At the West home, Barry asks Iris one last time to please stop writing about THE FLASH. She refuses and he tells he they can't see each other for a while.

Back at the bar, Barry is drowning his sorrows in club soda. Caitlin and Cisco show up. She has a solution to his drinking problem -a 500 proof liquor. He does his super shot alongside their regular ones. Barry's buzz only lasts for a minute, though. Looks like it is back to the drawing board.

Final moment is a flashback to five years ago. That project Wells and Eiling were working on? It was a super gorilla by the name of Grodd. And with that, we get our first glimpse of one of THE FLASH's other major nemeses, Gorilla Godd.

What'd you folks thing about tonight's big reveal? I'm stoked for next week! Join me back here then for another recap.

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