The Flash - Plastique

"I'm not a bad person."
"We appear to have accepted that on trust, largely because
you're much cleaner than our villains."

The Flash continues to pile on characters from the DC back-catalogue as 'Plastique' features the eponymous metahuman of the week as well as General Wade Eiler, DC's answer to 'Thunderbolt' Ross and infamous dick to metahumans.

The episode is notable for introducing a non-hostile metahuman in the form of Bette Sans Souci, an Army EOD tech with the uncontrolled ability to convert inanimate matter into unstable explosives. You can tell she's good because she's not all grubby, but although Cisco is willing to take her on trust because she's hot, Barry connects with her on a more emotional level.

Also this week, fanservice.

The villain of the piece is General Eiler, a super-soldier nut whose mind control experiments (conducted with Dr Wells before Wells pulled the plug) were hinted at in the wreck of STAR Labs in the pilot. He is every ultra-hawkish general ever, viewing people as assets and metahumans as weapons. The emotional core of the episode comes not directly from a confrontation with Eiler, however, but from the clash between Barry's desire to help Bette and Wells' willingness to sacrifice anyone and anything to protect him.

'Plastique' is a good episode, although hampered by the continuing focus on Iris and Barry, which really needs to have something happen if it is to be interesting.