The Flash Episode 1x22 "Rogue Air" May 12, 2015

THE FLASH
Air Date: Tuesday, May 12, 2015
Time Slot: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM EST on The CW
Episode Title: (#122) "Rogue Air"

"Rogue Air"

STEPHEN AMELL, ROBBIE AMELL, WENTWORTH MILLER, LIAM MCINTYRE AND DOUG JONES GUEST STAR - As Wells (Tom Cavanagh) once again gets the upper hand on the S.T.A.R. Labs team, Barry (Grant Gustin) realizes he needs to make a big move and reaches out to an old foe, Captain Cold (guest star Wentworth Miller), for help. Joe (Jesse L. Martin) and Caitlin (Danielle Panabaker) warn Barry that Cold can't be trusted. True to form, Cold has his own agenda that involves the meta-humans trapped in the containment cells. As things seem to be going from bad to worse, The Flash gets reinforcements - Arrow (guest star Stephen Amell) and Firestorm (guest star Robbie Amell).

Doug Aarniokoski directed the episode written by Aaron Helbing & Todd Helbing (#122).

Source: The Flash on The CW | TheFutonCritic

Promo pics for episode 1x22:

ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: What can you tease for the big showdown between The Flash and the Reverse Flash in Tuesday’s episode?
TOM CAVANAGH: I can say that I’m glad with Stephen and Robbie Amell and Grant Gustin versus me that it’s not a handsome-off, because that would be a very quick defeat on my part. That’s a very good-looking trio there. As it is, I can say we’ve invested 20 hours+ in the bank and now we’re taking it out. We understand that there is going to be a lot of expectation and anticipation. We spent a lot of time doing this face-off. We understand that when you have gunslingers facing off against each other, you don’t do that at the beginning of the show, you do that at the end of the show. We put a lot of work, choreography and man hours into the fight. It ended up being really enjoyable. Not to put words in the viewers’ mouths, but I hope they’re as pleased as we are.

Given that the Reverse Flash has super speed, are Firestorm and the Arrow still formidable foes?
Absolutely. We already have super speed versus me. They’ve got different things. All of their powers play in crucial fashion and in exactly the way Barry couldn’t do on his own. In collaboration with one another, as a three-headed monster, it makes them formidable.

What does Wells ultimately want with Eddie (Rick Cosnett)?
Essentially, he has a plan for everything, which I think is a common mistake that people have made in undervaluing how much he’s thought through every time they try and put Wells in a corner. From Mason Bridge to Joe to Cisco, when they think they have him figured out or cornered, he’s a couple chess moves ahead of them. This is one more chess move in a long string of chess moves that he spent 15 years figuring out.

Wells is back in the particle accelerator, so how will he use that to his advantage?
It’s great. That’s one of my favorite things about it. I’ve spent 20+ episodes saying, “The night the particle accelerator exploded…” It’s become a mantra. To actually have it become a living, breathing character essentially, as we march up the crest to our season finale, is a stroke of genius. I love the fact that the machinery and the technology that we’re using is the same in episode 23 as it is in episode 1.

Even if the Reverse Flash is able to get home, won’t that prevent him from killing Barry? Is he faced with a choice?
That question is one that you’ll get answers to. When Grant and I were reading it, we were looking at each other like, “Oh, dude!” It doesn’t come with the obvious answer initially, but ends up answering all of that stuff in very active fashion. I like it when you think something is going to happen and something else happens. We have, in the next two episodes, a whole lot of that for the audience to digest.

There’s been a question as to whether a part of Wells still resides within him. Is there a part of Eobard, who has invested so much time in this team, that actually cares about them?
It’s a great consideration. If we’ve been paying attention, he’s not just twirling his mustache in villainous fashion. He has legitimate affection and fondness for these people. That gets addressed in an upcoming episode. All along the way, they’ve been together shepherding Eobard’s goal along—unwittingly on their part, but necessarily. They’ve been instrumental, helpful and great and encountered a massive amount of danger along the way and fought through it together, with Wells by their side leading the charge. They’ve accomplished so much together. That is not lost on Wells.

The logline for the finale says that Wells presents Barry with a life-changing choice. What can you tease?
Barry has learned a little bit, over the course of the last five or six episodes, about how messing with time is dangerous. I don’t think anybody knows that better than Eobard, who has come from another time far, far away. Essentially, Eobard is much more knowledgeable about Barry. There are huge risks involved. We’re trying to ramp up the risk factor to an intolerable degree. I hope very much that we’ve succeeded, because while we were doing it, it was very gratifying.

Ez wrote:

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There’s been a question as to whether a part of Wells still resides within him. Is there a part of Eobard, who has invested so much time in this team, that actually cares about them?
It’s a great consideration. If we’ve been paying attention, he’s not just twirling his mustache in villainous fashion. He has legitimate affection and fondness for these people. That gets addressed in an upcoming episode. All along the way, they’ve been together shepherding Eobard’s goal along—unwittingly on their part, but necessarily. They’ve been instrumental, helpful and great and encountered a massive amount of danger along the way and fought through it together, with Wells by their side leading the charge. They’ve accomplished so much together. That is not lost on Wells.

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Nice interview.
So there might be hope for Dr. Wells ...?

The Flash - Episode 1.22 - Rogue Air - Sneak Peek

WEll saw this and wells is captured at the end and I guess the lock him up down in the cells?
funny thing is the key is still there and the thing is still on ! lol

But with good teamwork they did defeat wells.

I did like the part where yellow flash ejected the flash costume from his ring, that is how it was in the old comics.

then Iris tells her Bf they can make their own future and dont listen to flash, but he turns her down!
what a loser !

For a S-1 I have to give flash a high score, much better than arrow.
I hope they can make it better and keep it simple, not get carried away with certain things.
So wells will be a prisoner next show.
and there is a ep 23 ?
lol I think so, and they had previews for barry going back in time to save his mom.
I kept thinking tonight was the finale.

Yea, good episode, next week is the finale, it is a week behind the Arrow. I really liked seeing Ollie, Flash, and Firestorm team up. I am guessing the way Wells gets out is by telling Barry he can help him save his mother.

That was another absolutely enjoyable ep. So four evil metas are out now. Guess they have to catch them again in S2.
I loved every scene with Wells in it. Is it a bad thing for me to amit that I was almost disappointed seeing him beaten like that by team Flash?
I mean, hey, that was not exactly fair ... three against one and additionally using Ray's nano tech ...
BTW, what did Wells mean with "everything that was taken from him"? What did/will future Barry do to make Eobard that mad at him, so he even time traveled to kill Barry in the past?
I'm totally looking forward to the finale now ...

T5000 wrote:

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then Iris tells her Bf they can make their own future and dont listen to flash, but he turns her down!
what a loser !
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I completely disagree here. It was exactly like Eddie said. From the very beginning there were always three persons in their relationship ... Iris, Eddie and Barry ... and deep down even Eddie knew (like the audience did!). So actually Eddie did the right thing, not because what Wells told him, but because he sees the truth. Not a loser at all for me!! He's a good guy and deserves better than getting further fooled by Iris and Barry. I'm sorry for Eddie though.

Yea, I liked Eddie's response, if he stayed he would have came off as desperate. I didn't think the 3 on 1 was cheating at all, Wells/Thawne used the battery thing to make himself faster, so in a way he was cheating too. I don't know if Barry necessarily did anything to him, perhaps he just meant being stuck in the past was what was taken form him, his home? Either way I am sure eventually we will get answers

Ez wrote:

... I didn't think the 3 on 1 was cheating at all, Wells/Thawne used the battery thing to make himself faster, so in a way he was cheating too. ...

Ok, you have a point here. That's why I put a there, of course I couldn't root for the bad guy finally.
You know what's weird? When I looked up the ratings at TVbythenumbers, some comments seemed to kind of dislike the good ratings for The Flash. They belittled the show by calling it a typical CW teen/love drama and "blamed" that for the good ratings. The question is, how on earth would you call the Flash like that. I mean besides the Iris/Eddie/Barry triangle there was not much going on on the label "teen love". And even the relationship stuff with Iris/Eddie/Barry was imho much more tolerable than the whiny "Olicity" thing in Arrow. Sometimes I wonder, if those posters even watch the show they are talking about ...

Ez wrote:

... I don't know if Barry necessarily did anything to him, perhaps he just meant being stuck in the past was what was taken form him, his home? Either way I am sure eventually we will get answers

Ok, maybe Eobard means being stuck in the past was his big loss, but after all why did he travel back in time at all and wanted to kill Barry? And why did he kill Barry's mother instead? Just an accident?
Yeah, probably we'll only get some answers in the finale!

Yea, I hate reading the coments, too much negativity, if you don't like the show why do you watch it?

tscc1000 wrote:

T5000 wrote:

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then Iris tells her Bf they can make their own future and dont listen to flash, but he turns her down!
what a loser !
...

I completely disagree here. It was exactly like Eddie said. From the very beginning there were always three persons in their relationship ... Iris, Eddie and Barry ... and deep down even Eddie knew (like the audience did!). So actually Eddie did the right thing, not because what Wells told him, but because he sees the truth. Not a loser at all for me!! He's a good guy and deserves better than getting further fooled by Iris and Barry. I'm sorry for Eddie though.

Well I dont think he should give up like that, he could play it by ear and see what happens.
Nothing is set in stone where the future is concerned.

Iris was ready to say yes to marry him, might as well go along with that and see how it plays out.

tscc1000 wrote:

Ez wrote:

... I didn't think the 3 on 1 was cheating at all, Wells/Thawne used the battery thing to make himself faster, so in a way he was cheating too. ...

Ok, you have a point here. That's why I put a there, of course I couldn't root for the bad guy finally.
You know what's weird? When I looked up the ratings at TVbythenumbers, some comments seemed to kind of dislike the good ratings for The Flash. They belittled the show by calling it a typical CW teen/love drama and "blamed" that for the good ratings. The question is, how on earth would you call the Flash like that. I mean besides the Iris/Eddie/Barry triangle there was not much going on on the label "teen love". And even the relationship stuff with Iris/Eddie/Barry was imho much more tolerable than the whiny "Olicity" thing in Arrow. Sometimes I wonder, if those posters even watch the show they are talking about ...

Those tv by number people are not all there ,lol I mean they hang out at a TV Ratings site daily for years!!!!!!!!!
They are more interested in the ratings than the shows. and they do talk about show they dont watch on a regular basis,
and some that they dont watch at all.

I think they did a ok job with the whole love triangle thing, I would have preferred Iris stay with Thawn.
Iris looks way older than barry who looks like he is 16 lol and then she is his step sister which just makes it seem hard to
believe.

I have not watched the last 2 arrow yet but I did see felicity drive off with ollie and she told adam she love ollie more than him so they did a flip flop on that which surprised me.

I dont really care as arrow has just become a show that is hard to watch, they do some really crazy things with the show.

Flash and shield are much more well written shows.

Now the sad thing is Arrow will get many more seasons and POI only 1/2 more !!!!!!!!!!