History Recap / TheFlash2014S2E7GorillaWarfare

* DaylightHorror: Caitlin socks Cisco, and Joe tells the team that Grodd is back. Team Flash skims through STAR Labs' security cameras, trying to find her, and suddenly see Grodd walking into the shot just as she exits the building.

* ScaryAnimalTitle: The word scary describing Grodd [[KillerGorilla is an understatement]].

* AbsenteeActor: Jay Garrick once again.

* YoureNotMyFather: Said word-per-word by Grodd towards Harry.
* WomanInWhite: Caitlin spends the entire episode dressed in all white.

* AbusiveParents: Grodd's tragic line about how father takes rather than ask pretty much tells us his relationship with Wells was not happy.

The episode opens with Barry being helped to walk.

At S.T.A.R. Labs, the team says Barry is almost healed and they want to help him. He still is having trouble breathing, though, and can barely walk. Wells comes in and asks them to help him head back to Earth-2 to try to stop Zoom. Everyone is up for it except for Caitlin.

Cisco gets an alert, but it's not urgent; it's about his date with Kendra. Barry gets a phone call from Barry and takes it; he's told her he's sick but she obviously doesn't know the details and she offers to bring him soup, which he declines. She's suspicious, but lets him go.

At a research lab, a scientist has a brief, strange vision and starts to excuse himself. On the way out, he shatters a glass case, steals a canister and uses it to knock down another man who tries to stop him. Outside, he meets Grodd, who had been controlling him.

At S.T.A.R., Barry is on the treadmill, but when he starts to push himself he gets flashbacks to Zoom's attacks. He loses his balance and is thrown from the treadmill. He tells Joe that he feels like a failure because Zoom beat him in front of the whole city and now they don't have faith in The Flash.

In the S.T.A.R. breach room, Cisco tells Caitlin that he vibed on a bird-man. When he starts thinking maybe it's an angel, Caitlin gets the same vision that the scientist from before, and then punches Cisco and leaves.

In a new lair -- not his one from the sewers -- Caitlin wakes up, and Grodd calls her name. She realizes that he remembers her, and he leaps down to stand near her. He says she was always kind, and that he needs help. He wants to know how he became what he is. he wants her to repeat the accident that created him so that there can be more like him. When she says she can't, he tells her to learn.

After explaining Grodd's origin to Wells, Cisco asks what Wells is doing. Wells says he has an algorithm that can find Grodd -- and it gets a hit.

Henry gives Barry a buck-up speech, and during it, Cisco comes and says they know where Grodd is. Barry still doesn't know how they're going to get Caitlin back, but Wells has an idea: dressed as the Reverse-Flash, they hope he can convince Grodd that he's the real deal and talk him into letting her go.

As Cisco and Wells hone in on the third and final potential Grodd location, Wells "rehearses" sounding like the other Wells.

At Grodd's lair, Caitlin has a working theory on how to make more like Grodd. Before she can try to implement it, Wells enters and tells Grodd that he's back and that they don't need Caitlin anymore. He tells Grodd to let her go. Grodd says that Wells never asked for anything, just took, and demands to know who Wells is. He throws Wells against the wall, and Barry tells Cisco, who had run to rescue Caitlin, that an overdose of the drugs Grodd stole could overload his brain and provide them cover for an escape. Wells stands up and, taking a more aggressive tone of voice, manages to fool Grodd into believing he's the Earth-1 Wells.

Caitlin lures Grodd out of his lair and Barry, in the Flash outfit, lures him in front of the breach. Once there, the plan is to blast Grodd to Earth-2 with a speed cannon. Barry shows up, chased by Grodd, and Cisco and Wells turn on the speed cannon. When Grodd hits Barry, he has a flashback to his beating by Zoom, but recovers when Caitlin provides cover. She tells Grodd that Flash was just trying to save her from Grodd, and isn't an enemy. She tells Grodd she can give him what he wants if he trusts her. Grodd approaches her, and Barry runs at her, dragging Caitlin away while the breach opens up and starts dragging Grodd. He's resisting, though, and Henry has to encourage Barry to kick Grodd into the speed cannon, sending the ape to Earth-2.

At Barry's lab, Patty confronts him about his lies about being sick. She asks why he lied to her, and he says his dad was in town, and that he didn't tell her because he was convicted of murder. He apologizes for not having more faith in her, but she says it's not about Henry, it's about Barry and she needs to trust him if their relationship is going to work. They kiss.

That night after Jitters closes, Cisco brings Kendra a basket with chocolate and flowers, to apologize for bailing on their date. He tells her that there was a police emergency, and she says that working with them is very cool and brave. He's brought a digital movie projector with The Princess Bride on it so they can resume their date. Kendra reaches out to hold his hand, and he gets a much closer-up vision of Hawkgirl -- now realizing it's Kendra. he reacts to it, and covers by telling her she's a great kisser. The two leave to watch The Princess Bride.

* ImposterForgotOneDetail: Grodd identifies Wells as an impostor because "his" Wells never asked permission to take something.

* EmergencyImpersonation: As part of a plan to deal with Grodd, the role of Reverse-Flash will be played by Earth-2 Wells. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Barry does not]] [[BerserkButton take this well.]]

* CareerEndingInjury: If not for Barry's [[HealingFactor healing abilities]], Zoom ''breaking his spine'' almost ''certainly'' would have been this.

* TheOtherDarrin: [[{{In-universe}} Tonight]], as part of a plan to deal with Grodd, the role of Reverse-Flash will be played by Earth-2 Wells. [[LockedOutOfTheLoop Barry does not]] [[BerserkButton take this well.]]

** Barry is normally laid back and friendly. When he sees Wells in the [[ArchEnemy Reverse-Flash]] costume, he pins him to the wall, absolutely enraged before realising who's actually in the suit.

* {{Irony}}: Earth-2 Wells makes a DeadPersonImpersonation of Eobard Thawne, the man who [[KillAndReplace killed and replaced]] his Earth-1 counterpart.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: At the start of the episode, it was mentioned that a week passed since Barry's spine broke.

-->'''Barry:''' I'll escort you to the bus station.

* ShoutOut: Cisco asks Kendra to watch ''Film/ThePrincessBride''.

* SingleEpisodeHandicap: Not even. Barry's legs work pretty much fine before the halfway point of the episode.

* CliffhangerCopOut: ''Sort-of''. TheStinger from last episode made a big deal over how Barry [[ICantFeelMyLegs was paralyzed]]. Good news? Barry still has speedy healing, so he's up and walking again pretty fast. Bad news? [[HeroicBSOD Barry's depressed over Zoom]] [[CurbStompBattle kicking his ass]], and isn't 100% back to normal yet...

* DungeonBypass: Flash plays cat and mouse with Grodd throughout the city streets, to lure him into a trap. The ape manages to keep up courtesy of his patented KingKongClimb.

* AbusiveParents: Grodd's tragic line about how father takes rather than ask pretty much tells us hsi relationship with Wells was not happy.

* MugglesDoItBetter : Cisco designs special devices that can block Grodd's telepathy.

** Then again Grodd may have held back or the fact the futuristic material of the costume saved harry.

** Then again Grodd may have held back or the fact the futuristic material of the
costume saved harry.

** The wheelchair Barry uses? ''Thawne's''