In Cary Bates' run on The Flash, Detective Frank Curtis was a friend of Barry Allen's on the CCPD. The detective at the Dayton Labs robbery is identified in the credits as Frankie Curtis, though her first name is never used. Mento, who was also the fifth-richest man in the world. In the DC Comics Universe, Dayton Labs is one of many companies owned by Steve Dayton a.k.a. The first truck Nora is asked to inspect came from Dayton Labs. He learned of existence of the super-speed drug Velocity-9 while working at Mercury Labs and began trying to find a way to replicate it make the effects of the drug permanent. He was expelled after he conducted illegal experiments testing tachyon stimulants on coma patients. He is identified by the CCPD as a bio-hacker, former Mercury Labs intern and former graduate student at CCU specializing in Tachyon Mechanics. The Arrowverse version of Godspeed is named August Hart. He had the unique ability to move so fast for brief periods that he could create a clone of Speed Force energy and briefly be in two places at once. August would later start killing the other newbie speedsters in a bid to steal their power and become faster. Five years after Barry became The Flash, August was struck by lightning and became one of several new speedsters to seek training under The Flash following a freak storm made up of Speed Force energy. In the comics, Godspeed was Detective August Heart - a colleague of Barry Allen's and his closest friend at the Central City Police Department. Godspeed first appeared in The Flash Rebirth #1 in August 2016. This episode was directed by Danielle Panabaker, who plays Caitlin Snow. It's hard to single out any one element, but the greatest may be the total disconnect between the loving Barry Allen we see leaving a message for the daughter he knows he may never see grow up and the hate in Barry's voice two minutes later as he is abandoning that same daughter in the future after telling her he doesn't trust her and can't have her around him. The script is filled with a number of clever callbacks to the pilot episode of The Flash and other early moments from Barry's early days.ĭanielle Panabaker does a fantastic job with the direction. Too often Ralph has been treated as the comic relief and nothing but this season so it's gratifying that he gets to show his detective skills and his heart in one gesture. It's a small thing, but I do like that it is Ralph who suggests reading all of Nora's diary to figure out what she was feeling after Sherloque went through it just looking for facts. Jessica Parker Kennedy has a fantatsic turn here, adding a whole never level of depth to Nora West-Allen. Then again, Iris apparently runs all the media in Central City now.) (You'd think an event like that would be big news and that Nora would have heard about it. The Reverse Flash display at The Flash Museum says he was sentenced to life in prison, yet the end of the episode reveals he just got his last meal and is about to be executed. No effort was put into Candice Patton's old age make-up beyond giving her some silver streaks in her hair. It seems a little weird that Team Flash shuns Sherloque for having the gall to spy on Nora behind her back and then goes along with Ralph's suggestion to read her whole journal without question. Yet Iris caught him spying on Nora in 511 and told him to stop after he said he thought she was up to something. Iris says that Sherloque didn't say anything about his suspicions about Nora. The Flash comics of Joshua Williamson (character of Godspeed) and Cary Bates (Character of Detective Curtis) The film version of The Silence of the Lambs (Nora's first meeting with Thawne in prison is a tribute to the first appearance of Hannibal Lecter) As the team goes through her journal to learn just how she came to work with their greatest enemy, they learn the story of how Nora learned of her powers and how she faced her first villain - a vicious speedster who dubbed himself Godspeed.
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With Nora's relationship with the Reverse-Flash revealed, Team Flash is torn on whether or not Barry and Iris' future daughter can be trusted. For a summary of the episode guide layout & categories, click here.