Barry tries to train Alexa to control Fuerza, so that she can protect herself against Nora. Meanwhile, Nora offers to partner up with Deon against Barry. Psych starts attacking a group of rich businesspersons, all of whom used to be in the League of Lions.
Tropes:
- Apologetic Attacker: Upon appearing before Barry and the others, Deon apologizes before freezing Iris, Bashir, and Angela, indicating that he was reluctant to be part of Nora's attack.
- Artistic License – Cars: Lucas Sharpe slams the brakes on his car when Psych steps in front of it, causing it to spin out. It looks to be a high-end, relatively new car, so there's no possible way it did not come equipped with antilock brakes as a standard feature.
- Bait-and-Switch: At the beginning, we pick up directly from last week's episode, with Nora facing down Deon. Turns out she's not there to kill him after all — she wants him to join her against Barry.
- Bystander Syndrome: What Bashir holds against Lucas Sharpe in particular.
- Combat Tentacles: Psych has learnt to manifest a pair of these made of his own energy.
- Continuity Nod:
- For the first time since several seasons, Patty Spivot and Julian Albert are mentioned, when Kramer goes through their files.
- Coast City and Gotham are also mentioned.
- Determinator: The failure to use Frost as an example doesn't stop Kramer's agenda to forcibly depower criminal metas as she has the metahuman cure authorized to be used as a weapon by the police.
- Hazy-Feel Turn: While Psych decides to "give family a try", he makes it clear that this could change anytime and he still acts like a huge Jerkass.
- Immediate Sequel: The episode starts immediately after The Stinger of the last episode.
- Internal Reveal: Caitlin tells Alexa about Frost having been a part of her and how she learned to control her.
- Knight Templar: Kramer is hellbent on ridding Central City of criminal Metahumans, using the cure as ammunition for the officers now.
- Laser-Guided Amnesia: Alexa doesn't remember anything about the events surrounding her death.
- Motive Decay: Originally, the Speed Force wanted to kill all the other Forces. Now she seems more bent on hurting Barry, with the help of other Forces if need be.
- "Not So Different" Remark: Alexa confides in Bashir that she's had just as a Dark and Troubled Past as him, being clean for five years and her addiction having driven away everyone who ever cared about her, with her own parents not even talking to her anymore.
- Parental Abandonment: It turns out that Bashir has had issues with abandonment. His birth parents died, then he got adopted by the Maliks, a wealthy couple. However, when they ran into financial difficulties, they tried to flee the country without their son and died when their plane crashed. To top it off, he thought that his friends at the League of Lions turned away from him. In truth, only Naomi did. The rest tried to raise money to help him out, but he rejected them all, assuming they were all like Naomi.
- Resign in Protest: Joe decides to resign from his post as CCPD Captain rather than support Kramer's plan to use the metahuman cure as a weapon.
- The Reveal: Psych's real name is Bashir Malik.
- Rich Bitch: LaSalle is the only one of Bashir's friends who legitimately abandoned him.
- Screw This, I'm Out of Here!: Joe leaves the CCPD because he doesn’t want to help Kramer hunt down criminal Metahumans.
- Sequel Hook: The Speed Force bursts in, with an apologetic Deon, who freezes everyone in place. She then zaps everybody except for Barry with lightning, seemingly fatally injuring them, and speeds away.
- Shout-Out: Alexa warns Bashir, "Don't make me angry." You won't like her when she's angry...
- Talking the Monster to Death: This time, Team Flash finally succeeds with Psych.
- Too Dumb to Live: LaSalle is specifically warned that there's a meta targeting her old friends from the League of Lions, that four of them have already been attacked and she's probably next. Immediately afterwards, Psych shows up. What does she do? Antagonize him, of course!
- Wham Shot: Joe taking off his badge and putting his gun on the desk.
- What the Hell, Hero?: Both Caitlin and Alexa subject Barry to this when he insists on continuing Alexa's training after she just lost control and hurt Cisco.
- Worth It: Moving away from Central City, where all of his friends and family are, proves difficult for Cisco. He eventually still decides that he wants to go through with it, as he doesn't want to spend his entire life working at S.T.A.R. Labs.
- The Worf Effect: Fuerza is able to power through Cisco's force field, despite it being specifically designed to became more resistant the harder somebody punches it.
