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Oct 21, 2014 · Things You Can't Outrun: Directed by Jesse Warn. With Grant Gustin, Candice Patton, Danielle Panabaker, Rick Cosnett. Barry and Joe track a deadly metahuman with toxic gas powers, and Caitlin relives the night of the explosion that killed her fiancé.
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- Action, Adventure, Drama
- Jesse Warn
- 2014-10-21
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- Plot
- Behind the scenes
- Trivia
- Goofs
"Things You Can't Outrun" is the third episode of the first season of The Flash, and the third episode overall. It aired on October 21, 2014.
Starring
•Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Streak •Candice Patton as Iris West •Danielle Panabaker as Dr. Caitlin Snow •Rick Cosnett as Detective Eddie Thawne •Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon •Tom Cavanagh as Dr. Harrison Wells •Jesse L. Martin as Detective Joe West
Guest starring
•Robbie Amell as Ronnie Raymond •Anthony Carrigan as Kyle Nimbus/The Mist •Patrick Sabongui as Captain David Singh •John Wesley Shipp as Dr. Henry Allen
Co-starring
•Michael Benyaer as Araz •Philip Cabrita as Man #1 •Chris Eastman as Mall Cop •Arash Ghorbani as Raffi •Everick Golding as Corrections Officer •Natalie Goyarzu as Terrified Woman •Christoff Lundgren as Tweaker •Elizabeth McLaughlin as Theresa Howard •Jana Mitsula as Detective •Gerald Paetz as Curtis •Michael Karl Richards as Paulson •Benjamin Wise as Mugger
Barry and Iris are leaving a movie theater. Iris is talking about how intrigued she is by the Red Streak, at which point Barry tries to change the subject. Iris gets a call from Eddie while Barry fields one from Cisco informing him there is a high speed chase. Iris is turned with her back to Barry and Barry uses the chance to speed off.
A police car is in pursuit of a pickup and the driver is armed with a gun. The Red Streak intervenes and the policemen are left astonished as where to the driver of the pickup has disappeared. The policemen turn to see the driver handcuffed in the back of the police vehicle. Barry runs back to the theater and Iris doesn't even know he was gone.
One of the crime families of Central City is sitting down to a meeting. The door is locked as the crime boss starts the meeting; he is engulfed by a green cloud and suffocates. The rest of the crime family is also attacked by the cloud and die.
Joe and Barry are in the crime lab at the police station. Joe sees all of the work Barry has done on his mother's case and he tells Barry that he is going to reopen the case of Nora's murder. Eddie interrupts, telling them of the homicide in which the crime family died. Barry quickly suspects that it was a meta-human who attacked the men.
Barry and Joe have joined the team at S.T.A.R labs where Dr. Wells, Caitlin, and Cisco speculate how the meta-human is controlling the gas. The trio talks excitedly about the meta-human when Barry tells Joe they get really excited about these sort of things. Joe says he's only excited about putting criminals behind bars and Iron Heights Prison isn't equipped to hold meta-humans. Cisco says there is one place that might hold them. Dr. Wells agrees but Caitlin is upset and says it's cordoned off. When Barry asks them what place they're all talking about, Dr. Wells answers—the particle accelerator. The mention of the accelerator brings back painful memories to Caitlin.
In a flashback, on the night of the particle accelerator explosion, Cisco informs Dr. Wells inside of S.T.A.R labs that there is a thunderstorm in the area, but Dr. Wells shrugs it off. Caitlin and her fiancé, Ronnie, are discussing where to go to on their honeymoon. Dr. Wells gathers everyone as he turns the particle accelerator on. Cisco says he thought when the particle accelerator is turned on there would be a loud bang, when Ronnie, who is one of the engineers, informs him that they would all be in big trouble if there was a loud bang. Dr. Wells pops a bottle of champagne, and some of the champagne floats out of the bottle then falls to the ground. Suddenly the lights go out and there is a loud bang.
•The cinema displayed two films on a board, titled Blue Devil II: Hell to Pay and The Rita Farr Story. In the comics, Blue Devil and Elasti-Girl (whose real name is Rita Farr) were both movie stunt performers who ultimately gained superpowers.
•Waid Boulevard is a reference to Mark Waid, a comics writer who is highly regarded for having written a run of The Flash comics.
•Barry jokes that he doesn't want a museum built in his name. In the comics, the Flash Museum was dedicated to all heroes who had the alias of The Flash, mainly focusing on Barry Allen.
•The Flash Museum would briefly appear as a vision in "Fast Enough" and go on to play a major role in Season 5.
•Captain Singh asks for the "Orloff case". In the comics, Professor Pytor Orloff is a bio-geneticist who created the Red Trinity, a group of genetically-enhanced individuals with super speed.
•A Dr. Pytor Orloff would later appear in Season 8 Episode 16 titled, "The Curious Case of Bartholomew Allen"
•This episode is tied with "Plastique" as the lowest rated episode of Season 1 with a rating of 7.9 on IMDb.
•Central City Shopping Mall, the mall that is seen from above in this episode, is an actual mall center located in Mexico in the city of Tlalnepantla called Mundo E. The name Mundo E is seen on a sign at the entrance in the picture.
•This episode shares some similarities with the later episode "The Trap". While this episode has recurring flashbacks from different characters' perspectives telling the story of the night the particle accelerator exploded, "The Trap" uses the same technique to show events that happened when Barry was in his coma.
•In the last flashback scene, Wells is watching a live feed in the Time Vault of Barry, moments before he is struck by lightning. The time on top right corner indicates that Barry was hit by the bolt at 9:52 PM.
•In "Pilot", "Wells" said the particle accelerator was online for 45 minutes before it malfunctioned, but in this episode, the accelerator is shown to malfunction moments after being activated.
•When writing her blog at the end of the episode, Iris misspells pastime as "passtime".
Dr. Pytor Orloff will become an antagonist of the Flash in the Post-Crisis continuity. [1] The marquee outside the Vogue Theatre lists " Blue Devil II - Hell to Pay " and " The Rita Farr Story " as features.
Oct 14, 2014 · The Flash 1x03 "Things You Can't Outrun" - As Barry (Grant Gustin) and the team at S.T.A.R. Labs work to capture Kyle Nimbus (guest star Anthony Carrigan), a...
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Oct 22, 2014 · Episode 103: Things You Can't Outrun. advertisement. Written by: Alison Schapker & Grainne Godfree. Directed by: Jesse Warn. Original U.S. Air Date: October 21, 2014. Summary: A man that can turn ...
Oct 22, 2014 · The Flash has found its story engine, and it works. If you think about it, Silver Age comics were based on the freak-of-the-week (or, rather, month) concept, with a hero battling a villain while also confronting personal issues, rinse and repeat. The Flash has that same formula, powered by the particle accelerator accident. However, the problem ...
Oct 22, 2014 · But I digress…. While “Things You Can’t Outrun” is about as villain-of-the-week as they come, it manages to get so many other little things done, and does them all so well, that I’m not ...
