Episode 47: Zigzag
Takes place 29 April-7 May 2011.
Kid Flash visits Russia to learn more about their attempts to recreate the Garrick formula, in hopes of fixing his appetite. The Russians are willing to co-operate, but he doesn't find answers, and while there, the facility is attacked and a hibernating speedster is kidnapped. The Team investigates the main suspect, finding that he has connections with Hell; they are able to banish the demons and have him arrested.
The Renegade heals Frances Kane and Awakens her so that she can handle her iron-control powers better, and adopts a group of vampire-succubus hybrid children with a view to helping them function as semi-normal children (instead of cannibalising each other).
The title likely refers to super speed running.
- Crazy-Prepared: The facility holding Blue Trinity was designed to stop speedsters, with short winding corridors, electrified walls of variable density, high-speed cameras linked to shrapnel bombs and gas mines designed to corral targets, and a nuclear self destruct as a last resort. Unfortunately someone gets through anyway when the defences are temporarily disabled for Kid Flash's visit.
- Demonic Possession: A demonic speedster possessing mortal speedsters, in this case. Fortunately Kid Flash has learned to borrow other people's super speed.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Grayven toys with Wallace when the latter seeks his help healing a critically injured friend, but is actually quite willing to help.
- Godzilla Threshold: Canis Minor apparently doesn't have one — which is to say that he's always open to techniques that cause collateral damage, so long as they work. He would burn the world to win a conflict.
Canis frowns uncomprehendingly. "But they would have won?"
- Horror Hunger: Grayven is working with a group of vampire/succubus hybrid children, helping them to learn self control. They're not there yet. At least they weren't left to their own devices, to eat each other until only the youngest was left.
- Pragmatic Villainy: Paul discusses how the Light have been smart enough to adapt to him by putting scry wards everywhere, even in their paper watermarks and corporate logos. Not only are they blocking his scans, they're doing it so thoroughly that he can't even spot interesting stuff by looking for the holes.
- Super-Speed: The focus of the episode. Wally goes to the Russian government to learn whether their attempts at recreating the Garrick formula can help him fix his own flawed implementation. Unfortunately there are various hostile speedsters around causing trouble.
- Technopath: Sergeant Pushkin's Powered Armor can control nearby machines. He uses it to reactivate the automated defences around Blue Trinity, killing one of the attackers, although the other escaped.
- The Assimilator: Paul adds a Hellwraith Construct-Lantern, capable of entering and possessing people.
- Weapon of X-Slaying: Paul makes an anti-Order rifle for Jade to use against Nabu.
