Which she does because their security system is trash. Light knocks him over and tries to escape. And when Cisco opens the pipeline, an invisible Dr. They learn this the hard way when Cisco goes to check up on her later on, only to find an empty room with her clothing crumpled in the corner. If you’re thinking she agrees to this a bit too easily, you’re right. Light to lure Zoom after faking a fight where she beats Barry, in order to capture him using a speed dampening serum Earth-2 Wells created. Team Flash comes up with a plan where they’ll use Dr.
Despite stressing that Zoom is unbeatable, she agrees to help him capture Zoom and even gives him some valuable intel. Light, who is imprisoned in the STAR Labs pipeline, hoping she’ll help him in taking down Zoom. Standing above Barry’s lifeless body, she takes the emblem off his chest and says, “Zoom always wins.” We quickly learn this isn’t exactly what it seems when the show goes back three days to explain how we got to this point.īarry decides to reason with Dr. “Enter Zoom” begins with a flash-forward of Barry losing a fight to Dr. After all, how can you try to beat a villain you know basically nothing about? And their plan is not only dangerous, but dumb as hell. But Zoom proves himself to be a fascinating new foe - everything we learn brings up even more questions, which Team Flash is hoping to answer by trapping him.
Which isn’t a compelling goal for a villain. But we still don’t really know his endgame besides the loosely defined desire to be the most powerful speedster in any universe. He’s more powerful than anyone Barry has faced. Here’s what we learn: He’s damn near demonic. We’ve heard a lot more of Zoom than we’ve seen until the last ten minutes or so of this episode. We’ve only gotten brief glimpses of Zoom thus far, which left me wondering if he’d have the same impact that Harrison Wells did in season one. A superhero is nothing without a great villain.