Rogue Air, obviously, is a send-up to the classic Nicolas Cage/John Malkovich feature Con Air about convicts overtaking a prison transport plane. Rogue Air does not do this. Boo-urns!

We finally find out what the device Harrison Wells constructed last episode does and it means bad news for the inmates of the pipe line. While Flash struggles to find a way to move the prisoners, Eddie struggles with the inevitable; that Barry marries Iris. Finally the characters know the canon pairing like the audience and despite Iris’s best efforts, we’re on track to seeing the romantic subplot settled. Hopefully. It’s a good thing Iris knocks dudes out real good with wrenches otherwise she’d be useless.

Wentworth Miller returns and somehow manages to upstage a team-up episode! The man has too much charisma! His first scene in the show is accented by “Cold as Ice” playing on the jukebox! The man is TOO cool! Lisa Snart also puts in an appearance and even flirts her way into getting her alias from Cisco; Golden Glider. Naturally, the interactions between Team Flash and Team Rogues is hilariously entertaining and, of course, this is all a double-cross and Cold lets the inamtes free but not before letting them know exactly who sprung them. Fitting for the character and I will always gush over Captain Cold showing up.

Flash Fact: The missing pilot that caused Ferris Air to close is no doubt Hal Jordan, who disappeared during a test flight and became Earth’s first Green Lantern!

After the inmate debacle, there’s surprisingly MORE episode! Wells returns to STAR Labs after his device fully charges the pipeline and Barry goes to meet him at the door but he’s not alone. Firestorm and Arrow have got Barry’s back and it’s… honestly not a well choreographed fight. If anything, it seems like a slapdash brawl in a parking lo– Oh. Huh.

Regardless, everyone gets a shot at the big bad before Ollie tags Wells with a massive arrow full Ray Palmer’s nanites and Wells takes an unintentionally hilarious tumble off a car, one leg left hanging in the air. Ollie asks for a favour and takes his leave, Firestorm saying NOTHING and hurriedly following his cousin off-screen. Weird… Barry stands triumphantly over the Reverse-Flash as the episode comes to a close.

All in all, an average episode, which is strange considering it features two team-ups but maybe that’s because I’m still coming down from the SHIELD season finale. Come back next week though because we’ll be racing across the finish line with Fast Enough.

I know I’ve been getting lax with these reviews lately but I promise I’ll get back to a better timeslot in the future but for now, we take a good look at The Nuclear Man.

Barry and Linda’s blossoming relationship hits a couple bumps in the road, between Ramon’s teasing about him being The Fastest Man Alive in the bedroom, in a less than subtle way, and Iris’s meddling but they reconcile in a sweet way and I’ve got to admit, they’re pretty cute together.

Flash Fact: The jazz musician Barry mentioned in his date plans is Mal Duncan, one of DC’s first black superheroes and known for playing a horn that opened dimensional portals.

The main B-Plot (not the romance stuff) revolves around Joe and Cisco heading to Barry’s old house to see if they can find something they overlooked 15 years ago. They talk with the amorous new owner (played by a still SMOKING HOT Chase Masterson) and get down to business. Not like that, you mongrels! They uncover a mirror and get photographs from it (not sure on the science there, lads) but get a holographic recreation of the night and find blood splatter from one of the speedsters. Joe asks Ramon to check it against Wells, which doesn’t go down well but eventually he relents and finds that Wells is not involved but an adult Barry is!

In the main plot, the hunt for Firestorm is on and after they manage to talk some sense into him, they can finally run tests and try to separate Martin Stein’s mind from Ronnie’s body. Kudos to Robbie Amell for being able to mimic Victor Garber’s portrayal of Stein, what little we see of it and Amell’s performance is quite unnerving, especially after seeing him as Ronnie Raymond. Unfortunately, the Firestorm Matrix is unstable and is ready to blow but Stein and Robbie leave for the “badlands” outside Central City to make sure they don’t hurt anyone.

This is a good point to talk about Wells. In the midst of Joe’s accusations, Wells suggests removing the threat of a nuclear explosion by killing Ronnie and Stein, throwing suspicion into Cisco’s mind. In his secret room, Wells seems more than willing to go through with it but thinks better of himself and takes part of the tachyon device to convert into a quantum splicer that will hopefully save both Ronnie and Stein. This again throws a spanner into the idea that he’s the ultimate villain because it’s explicitly stated by his AI Gideon (voiced again by Morena Baccarin) that helping Firestorm would be detrimental to his plans but he puts the city ahead of that.

The device seemingly doesn’t work and as Barry and Caitlin are outrunning the blast, the stinger cuts in to show General Wade Eiling ordering the retrieval of Firestorm. How long has he known about them? What does this mean for Team Flash?

After this fantastic episode, we’ll have to see if those questions are answered in Fallout.