The Flash, with hardly ever a dull moment in sight, has much going on which corrects directly back to the conspiratorial organization known as Black Hole. The real Iris West-Allen (Candice Patton), as we saw at the close of the previous episode, is stuck inside the Mirrorverse. Everything plotline in this episode is somehow connected to Black Hole.

The latest episode opens with Barry Allen / The Flash (Grant Gustin) and fake Iris enjoying a moment together at the apartment. The camera zooms into the mirror behind them. It reveals the real Iris is stuck in the Mirrorverse. It is here that we discover Iris isn’t alone. There is another woman, Eva McCulloch (Efrat Dor), that’s also trapped inside the Mirrorverse.

Iris, in recalling how Team Flash defeated Samuel ‘Sam’ Scudder / Mirror Master (Grey Damon), suggests using liquid nitrogen might be a means of escaping the Mirrorverse. We saw Mirror Master in the episodes The New Rogues and The Once and Future Flash. Iris’ suggest, whilst it might have sounded plausible in theory, merely caused the mirror to shatter across the office floor. Eva doesn’t believe there is any hope of escaping the Mirrorverse.

Visibly frustrated, as Eva’s emotions intensify, she somehow causes a shard of mirror to fly across the room. Not injuring herself, even though the mirror shard is obviously sharp, Eva catches it. Her reaction to what occurred indicates that she’d never previously experienced the phenomenon. Seeing what happened with a single shard, Iris talks Eva into trying her abilities on the rest of the mirror fragments. The mirror is restored. Iris sees Barry in the real world. There is a moment where Barry stairs at his mirror as if he knows someone is watching him.

Elsewhere, not that we should be surprised, Ralph Dibny / Elongated Man (Hartley Sawyer) is so absorbed with the Sue Dearbon (Natalie Dreyfuss) that nothing else seems to matter. Even though Cecile Horton (Danielle Nicolet) offers to assist Ralph with his investigation, being the proud loner he is, he declines her assistance.

Ralph, with his having put up several alerts on Sue’s bank account, credit cards, and other finances, is altered to her making a small deposit on a Central City apartment. The apartment building, not exactly the Ritz, is possibly the seediest building in the city. When he arrives at the apartment, after the door opens, there is an explosion. A woman, Sue, shields Ralph from the blast.

Sue tells Ralph that the bomb was courtesy of her ex-boyfriend John Loring (Silver Kim). Even though Sue is initially reluctant to accept Ralph’s help, despite there being something ineffable about the entire situation, she ultimately accepts it. The two of them work a stakeout together. Not willing to allow Sue to walk into a dangerous situation, Ralph insists she stay in the car whilst he conducts a little recognisance. He is caught by one of John’s goons. Whilst the confrontation doesn’t go well for Ralph, Sue intervenes and uses her martial arts skills to great effect.

At CC Jitters, everyone’s favourite coffeehouse, we see Ralph and Sue seated together talking over what to do next when Cecile arrives. Interestingly, whilst I could be wrong, something Cecile says about Ralph and Sue suggests there is a biological connection. Cecile, even though she states it was on an emotional level, couldn’t tell them apart.

Ralph and Sue work together to acquire John’s ledger. After breaking into John’s office, even though they ran into a few of his goons, Ralph finds a key to a safety deposit box at a Central City bank. It’s possible that the ledger is in the safety deposit box. Running from John’s office, with the goons hot on their tails, Ralph and Sue soon find themselves seemingly trapped on the roof. Ralph reveals his secret identity when he uses his powers to get himself and Sue off the roof. They put a plan in motion to get John’s ledger.

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Utilising his powers, something similar to what the Elongated Man has done in previous episodes, Ralph impersonates police Captain Joe West (Jesse L. Martin) to get into the bank vault. Sue is dressed as a CCPD police officer.

After making their way into the bank vault, with the key in hand, Ralph lets Sue open the safe containing safety deposit box. With the box extracted from the safe, before Ralph can see the content, Sue knocks him aside. It is here that Sue reveals she doesn’t really know John. The entire time Sue had been playing Ralph to get to a diamond which had been stored safely away. Ralph is locked in the vault.

Sue, close to getting away from the scene with the diamond, is confronted by John and his goons. Ralph uses his powers to snake through the fire suppression system. Ralph and Sue soon discover John and his goons are the least of their problems when Esperanza Garcia / Ultraviolet (Alexa Barajas) makes an appearance. Ultraviolet and Sue breakout some seriously kick-arse martial arts moves.

Ultraviolet wants the diamond. Causing a distraction, Sue tosses the box in Ralph’s direction. With the box empty, Sue escapes with the diamond.

Meanwhile, at the Allen residence, Barry is still feeling sore after what went down with Leslie Jocoy / Amunet Black (Katee Sackhoff) and Keith Kenyon / Goldface (Damion Poitier). Did you see the CatCo Magazine? Lena Luthor (Katie McGrath), Lillian Luthor (Brenda Strong), Lex Luthor (Jon Cryer), Kara Danvers / Supergirl (Melissa Benoist), and DEO Director Alex Danvers (Katie McGrath) are pictured on the cover. This magazine was obviously published before Alex resigned her position at the DEO.

Fake Iris wants access to the mirror gun which Team Flash used to destroy the dagger Grace Gibbons / Cicada (Sarah Carter) was using to kill metahumans. Iris asks Barry to get the gun so that she can examine it. Barry, remaining overly protective of Iris, doesn’t feel it’s a good idea to remove the weapon from the STARchive.

When Barry arrives at the police department, needing a fresh set of eyes on something a tad fishy, Joe has him look at a closed case. Later, after Barry had reviewed the case, he reports back to Joe that it looks like Kimiyo Hoshi / Dr Light (Emmie Nagata) committed the crime.

Fake Iris, having gone to the STARchive without Barry’s knowledge, runs into Harrison ‘Nash’ Wells (Tom Cavanagh). When Fake Iris questions his presence in the STARchive, he tells her that Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes) asked him to cover for him whilst he was away.

Iris tells Nash she lost her daughter’s diary and didn’t want Barry to find out it was missing. All the time, in the background, we see a version of Harrison Wells indicative of Earth-2’s Dr Harry Wells. This is a hallucination only Nash can see and hear.

The Flash arrives at the bank with Joe and other CCPD officers. The day is saved. The episode closes with Sue discovering there is information pertaining to Black Hole encoded on the diamond. This explains why Ultraviolet wants to so badly.

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