The Flash - 'Running to Stand Still'

I blame the bear personally.

A briefer review than my usual for The Flash, as it's been a while since I saw the episode.

Mark 'Weather Wizard' Marden busts Captain Cold and the Trickster out of prison in order to put together a hit on the Flash. Snart tips Flash the wink and Barry has Cisco dig out his plans for the Wizard's Wand (not actually built since Barry's first time jump,) but with hundreds of bombs in family homes around the city, Flash may have little choice but to accept his fate. Meanwhile, Patty has her own axe to grind against Marden, and a dark path beckons her.

We get a lovely scene where the Flash has to talk Patty down, but once more I just can't see why Barry hasn't come read her in on the whole Flash thing yet. He even blithely wonders if someone at the door - Wally West, as it happens - might be Harry, whom he knows to be the doppelganger of someone she knows to be a killer and whom she shot last week.

Harry, however, has troubles of his own, as Zoom recruits him to continue making the Flash faster, so that there will be more Speed Force for Zoom to steal from him.

Oh, and Caitlin and Jay kiss under the mistletoe.

'Running to Stand Still' is a decent episode, with Mark Hamill once more having a whale of a time as James Jesse. It's an especially pivotal episode for Patty, and that makes her continuing ignorance even more disappointing.