Barry and the team ally with the kidnapped Captain Cold's sister, but Barry feels duped when he learns Snart is working on something with his father; Joe faces a difficult decision.Barry and the team ally with the kidnapped Captain Cold's sister, but Barry feels duped when he learns Snart is working on something with his father; Joe faces a difficult decision.Barry and the team ally with the kidnapped Captain Cold's sister, but Barry feels duped when he learns Snart is working on something with his father; Joe faces a difficult decision.
- Linda Park
- (as Malese Jow)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaBarry uses his speed to work out the password to a secure room from its keypad lock. This is an homage to the original The Flash (1990) series where The Flash used a similar technique to open a secure door.
- GoofsAs Barry talks to Snart at the prison, his jacket is on the chair. When he stands up and walks to Joe, he leaves the jacket on the chair. When both leave, suddenly Barry has his jacket in his hands.
- Quotes
Lewis Snart: [Leonard is pointing cold gun at the Flash]
[Lewis Snart to his own son, Leonard]
Lewis Snart: Kill him
[the Flash]
Lewis Snart: or you will never see your sister
[Lisa]
Lewis Snart: alive.
[threatens as if to trigger the device that would explode the Thermite bomb he has put in the neck of his own daughter, Lisa]
Lewis Snart: [Leonard is about to press trigger of the cold gun on the Flash]
Lisa Snart: [at S.T.A.R labs, Cisco is about to removes the bomb from Lisa's body, but hesitates as the bomb could explode, killing Lisa and all of them. Lisa to Cisco] Do it Ciso.
Cisco Ramon: [at S.T.A.R labs, Cisco removes the bomb from Lisa's body, exclaims] I got the Bomb out.
[the Flash hears it through his device]
Leonard Snart: [to Leonard] Lisa is safe.
[Leonard blasts the cold gun at the chest of his own father, Lewis]
Lewis Snart: [Falls and is dying. A block of ice has penetrated his chest and heart. Groans. Says To Leonard] You were working with the Flash. I thought you hated him.
Leonard Snart: not as much as I
[long pause]
Leonard Snart: hate you.
[Lewis gasps, falls and dies. Ice block in his chest shatters]
The Flash: [takes the cold gun from Leonard. Asks him] Lisa was safe. Why did you do that?
Leonard Snart: He broke my sister's heart. Only fair I break his.
[Father Lewis has been child abusing his own daughter, Lisa, since she was 7 years. To punish the father for this, Leonard had literally jabbed ice in to the heart of the father, killing him]
- ConnectionsFeatured in DC's Legends of Tomorrow: Their Time Is Now (2016)
- SoundtracksThe Flash Theme
Written by Blake Neely
With network television and a 23 episode arc, you have to expect that we get a few filler episodes here and there. 'Family of Rogues' was just that. We began as Barry saved Iris from gunmen as she was trying to get a scoop for an upcoming story. I can't exactly recall at one point last season she got the job at the newspaper, but I will contend no matter the time that her transition into a front page writer seemed pretty quick. But that scene also just felt like a strange opening. We already know Barry can save people in record times and it had nothing really to do with the rest of the episode. Perhaps it was just to link back to what Garrick said about appreciating the speed when you have it and the 'rush' it gives you.
Golden Glider/Lisa Snart appears at the coffee shop to ask for the team's (specifically Cisco's) help, which is usually a red herring for a hero. The coffee shop is back up and running and even though Barry has super speed cleaning the place up, I found it to be a rather quick turnaround. Do all those people just get their jobs back the day after it's cleaned up? It's nitpicking, but that part just bothered me a little bit. Back to Snart, I love that her proposition brought a new way to tell a filler episode. Flash is as much of a victim at giving us villain of the week episodes as any other show, but this didn't feel that way. I love the superhero stories that make the villains more in the grey area in terms of being good or bad. As much as I haven't really enjoyed Cold and Glider so far, I liked that this episode switched it up a bit. Plus, bringing the whole Snart family in was a good parallel to what was happening with the West family.
Speaking of which, I was thrilled to see Iris was understanding as to how Joe approached the mother situation. So often in Arrow those story lines are not only drawn out into a whole season's arc of lying and keeping secrets, but I don't feel like they are handled realistically. It was Iris' best moment and performance from Patton all season long. Jesse L. Martin was also notably spectacular in that emotionally demanding moment as well. In a far less emotional scene, Miller proved to be quite good up against his father and the 'tech guy' Barry. The Snart family in this episode definitely brought a more relatable quality in that nothing was over the top, probably due to the exemption of Heatwave, who is always over the top.
The romance between Cisco and Glider is awkward, but good/funny awkward. Plus, we got more awesome Cisco inventions. The built in thermo-threading in Barry's suit and his gun to remove Glider's bomb were especially fun. On a side note, it seemed Snart's father took nods from the Suicide Squad way of keeping people honest, implanting a bomb inside their heads. I guess it would behoove me not to mention Patty Spivot and Barry exchanging numbers and Well's appearance at the end of the episode. As for the latter, I hope they find a way to properly use that character. And as for Spivot, I really enjoyed her limited role here. It's very reminiscent of Felicity at her best with Oliver in season 1. I expect this to be the relationship fans 'ship' over Iris. I'll take that any day. So I can't really see myself watching this episode again, but it was fun, and that's really all it needs to be to please me.
+Different feel to Snart this time around
+Miller and List brought subtly
+Iris wasn't ticked, thank god.
+Cisco on his game
-Coffe shop up and running...already
-Opening scene
7.9/10
- ThomasDrufke
- Oct 21, 2015