“Out of Time” is episode fifteen of season one of The Flash.
This episode starts back at the events of “Pilot” when Joe and his former partner tried to stop the Mardon brothers on the night of the particle accelerator accident. Clyde Mardon killed Joe’s partner and got on the plane with his brother. The plane was hit by the energy front and knocked out of the sky; Clyde, when he reappeared, said that his brother was killed. This time what happened onboard the plane is seen. Clyde and Mark Mardon are talking when the accelerator explodes. When the energy wave hits the plane, Mark is ripped out of the plane when it disintegrates.
Linda and Barry are going bowling; he says that it’s the only sport he believes he can destroy her at. Eddie and Iris are there as well, and Iris invites the two to bowl with them. Both Iris and Barry say that they’ve been coming to the bowling alley since they were kids, and that it’s their favourite place in the world. Barry and Iris are clearly having a good time; neither Linda nor Eddie appear totally happy about this.
At the morgue the coroner is examining a body when a man enters. The man wants to know who killed his brother, Clyde Mardon. He wants the name of the detective. When the coroner doesn’t answer, Mark Mardon forms a ball of ice and launches it at the coroner with speed. It appears that Mark has similar powers to Clyde.
Cisco and Dr Wells are at the lab watching a Buster Keaton film. Wells asks if Cisco wasn’t supposed to be at his brother’s for dinner. Cisco was going to ask Caitlin to go with him, then had a better idea – not go at all. Wells asks if Cisco is still having problems with his family, and he replies that things have been fantastic between them – since Cisco stopped seeing them.
Eddie gets a notification about an alarm at the morgue and leaves the bowling alley. Barry says he should go as well. On the way to the morgue, Barry sees someone running next to him – himself. At the morgue, Cisco asks Barry what he can see. When Barry replies a dead body, Cisco tells him to be more specific – he is at the morgue after all. It’s the coroner’s body that Barry is looking at.
When the rest of the police are there, the captain tells Joe that the mayor has given this a high priority. There’s a lot of water on the floor; Joe asks if the sprinklers were triggered. Barry says no, and he has found ice as well. Barry things the coroner was killed by hailstones. Inside. A recording of what happened is found, and Joe recognises the voice as being Mark Mardon – and the coroner eventually gives up Joe’s name as the man who killed Clyde. Mardon really doesn’t seem in a forgiving mood about that.
At S.T.A.R. Labs, they come to the conclusion that both Mardon brothers were affected the same way. Only Mark is a lot better at using his powers than Clyde was. Cisco says that Mardon is using atmospheric electrons to get his weather control powers, and if they, essentially, ground him, he will lose his power to affect the weather. Barry talks to Wells about the double of him he saw, and wells suggests that it’s a speed mirage. And that they will talk later. Mardon is going after Joe and he’s willing to cause a whole lot of damage in the process.
Mason Bridge has been looking into Wells and tells Iris that Wells was the last person to see Simon Stagg before he disappeared. Everyone believed that Stagg had been a recluse; actually, Wells had killed him in “Fastest Man Alive”.
There are a whole bunch of revelations and changes in this episode, which finally reveal how some things happened. Then things take a serious right turn and get a whole lot odder, with events continuing in the next episode, “Rogue Time”.