DC Week’s 4 night crossover event continued on last night’s episode of The Flash. The invasion began in Central City when a spaceship landed in the center of town.

Barry approached the spaceship but was sent flying from a silver beam of light. Moments later The Dominators were unleashed, dashing off the spaceship. Lyla Diggle arrived in Central City shortly after the landing of The Dominators and she filled Team Flash in on what she knows. She then informed the team to stand down and let A.R.G.U.S. handle it.

Barry won’t back off that easily and heads out to Star City to recruit Team Arrow. While this is going on Iris and Joe watch as Wally reaches mock 2 during testing. Iris makes Caitlin and Cisco lie to Wally about his abilities hoping it will delay his use of his newly found superpowers.

Barry reaches Star City and saves Spartan and The Green Arrow from getting shot by a vigilante. He brings them both back to Felicity’s apartment and tells them about the invading aliens. Speedy aka Thea Queen walks in on their conversation and decides to come out of retirement to battle The Dominators. Oliver and Barry then have Felicity send a message to The Legends asking for their help.

The Legends arrive in Central City while Barry and Cisco go to Earth 38 and pick up Kara aka Supergirl. A new team assembles (Team Flash + Team Arrow + The Legends (minus Nate and Amaya who hang back to watch the wave rider) + Supergirl) and formulate a plan to take down The Dominators. Barry becomes team leader aka Oliver calls the shots and Barry repeats them. Oliver/Barry tell the team to prepare to train against Kara since she is an alien. The team battles Kara but nothing phases her.

While this is going on invasion continues. The Dominators ready a mind controlling device and prepare to use it on the president. They kidnap the president and take him back to a warehouse.

Barry learns that Snart died sacrificing himself for the team and also learns about the message he sent Rip in the future.

Wally shows up to try and train with the team. Iris is able to stop him from interfering. That is until he heads back to the lab and sees his test results; his powers are excelling and his body is adapting well to the changes. This only makes Wally want to get in the field more but Joe and Iris don’t want him to get involved, therefore Wally turns to an unlikely ally; HR. Wally tries to convince HR to secretly train him but HR turns him down not wanting to jeopardize his position with the team.

After his discussion with Barry, Martin starts having his visions again. Caitlin walks in mid-vision and Martin asks her to escort him back to his home to go see the woman in his visions. Martin arrives home and is finally able to confirm that the woman he is seeing in his visions is in fact his daughter. He is also still married to Clarissa.

Martin’s daughter is a direct result of Barry messing with the timeline. At least this aberration had a positive result for Martin. Unfortunately for the other members in the arrowverse it’s not the same story, which is why Cisco forces Barry to tell the team about his message and the changing of the timeline.

Diggle learns that he originally had a daughter and not a son. The rest of the team now distrusts Barry and therefore Barry sits out round one. Oliver refuses to go into battle without him and is forced to stay behind as well. The rest of the team lead by Kara go retrieve the president.

While in the field Kara tells the team about her x-ray vision. Mick being his usual repulsive self says he will call her skirt not Supergirl. That is right after he asks if she can see everyone’s giblets with her x-ray vision.

The team then heads into the warehouse and finds the president. Unfortunately for them it is a trap by The Dominators; the president was a hologram. They are then attacked by The Dominators and taken over by them.

Barry and Oliver have a heart to heart back at Star Labs. Barry shows Oliver the news article from the future where he goes missing. The news article from Barry’s future isn’t written by Iris West-Allen any more. What did Barry do in the future? Did he sabotage their relationship?

Oliver tells Barry that he isn’t a God and that he is going to make mistakes. What matters is that he learns from those mistakes. Moments later Barry and Oliver are alerted by Cisco that the team is under control of The Dominators. Barry and Oliver arrive on the scene and are attacked by their friends. They have to take them out one by one without killing them.

Seeing the trouble Oliver and Barry are in Wally goes out to help them. Wally gets injured by Kara when he tries to protect Barry. Ollie takes a now unconscious Wally and runs for cover while Barry challenges Supergirl to a race.

Ollie reaches a building but is cornered when he runs out of arrows. He is forced to compete in hand to hand combat with The White Canary aka Sarah Lance. On the other side of Central City Barry has Kara chase him back to the warehouse where The Dominators device is being held. Barry vibrates and Kara flies through him and the mind control device controlling the team breaking it, therefore breaking the mind control on them.

An injured Wally returns to Star Labs and is scorned by Joe and Iris. However all hope is not lost for Kid Flash as HR agrees to train Wally after he saw he was willing to sacrifice himself to save Barry and Oliver; he sees potential in the young speedster.

At the close of the episode Sarah is taken by The Dominators along with Ray, Oliver, Mick and Speedy.

TO BE CONTINUED ON ARROW!

More of what’s to come:

What remains of the crossover team searches to find its abducted members.

The Dominators play head games. Katie Cassidy aka Laurel Lance/Black Canary and Slade Wilson aka Deathstroke return for Arrow’s 100th episode. Who else will return for the 100th episode? Oliver’s mom? Tommy?

Look out for a recap of tomorrow’s episode of Arrow to find out!

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Caitlin continued to struggle with her Killer Frost abilities in last week’s episode of The Flash. Caitlin almost went too far in “Killer Frost”. In hopes of eliminating her newfound powers she seeks out Alchemy thinking he has the ability to take away her powers.

In the beginning of the episode, Caitlin was forced to use her powers in order to save Barry. Barry was in a battle as The Flash against Savitar The God of Speed. Savitar is essentially Barry’s God which is why he is much more powerful than Barry. Savitar takes Barry for a run and drags him through a really cool electric tunnel. The God of Speed runs so fast that he appears in places all over the city at once even though, to Barry, it feels like they aren’t even moving.

Savitar is an invisible force that is too fast to track for the team to track. Eventually, with the help of HR (who has been doing his homework and is actually helping the team track metas), they are able to locate Barry and Savitar just as The God of Speed is about to kill our beloved speedster. Cisco creates a breach for him and Caitlin to save Barry. She momentarily freezes Savitar, saving Barry, but Savitar breaks through the ice surrounding him and escapes.

Barry then divulges to the team that Savitar is from the future and that he is the only one who can see him.

Back at the lab Joe is trying to figure out how to get Wally out of his cocoon which resembles a tunnel of lava. Hoping that the hooded man they captured in Alchemy’s lair will have some answers, Joe interrogates him. Joe’s interrogation is short lived when Caitlin swings by to tell Joe that Wally has come out of the cocoon he was in (a lie) in order to get the hooded man alone. She asks the hooded man where Alchemy is and gets nowhere. However, the hooded man does tell Caitlin that Savitar is a dark lord.

This is all before she is made by police officers in the precinct. Caitlin is on a mission and no one will stop her. Therefore, she seals in the police officers and takes Julian hostage. Barry heads to the precinct and learns the task force is being sent after her. He has to find her before they do.

Caitlin takes Julian back to a warehouse and asks him to do a search for anyone who has looked up the name Savitar in the last 24 hours. He recognizes the name. Later on in “Killer Frost” we learn why Julian knows Savitar. Julian hears Savitar’s voice and he pays him a visit at the close of the episode. He asks Julian to bring him back. How does he have this ability you ask? Why he is Alchemy of course!!!!!!

At the warehouse Barry arrives in time to save Caitlin before the task force arrives. Caitlin becomes angry with Barry and tells Cisco about Dante. Distracted with the information she just unloaded, Barry is stabbed by Caitlin. She breaks free and continues her manhunt for Alchemy… if only she knew she had already captured him. Will Cisco and Barry’s friendship ever be the same?

After learning what Barry did Cisco turns his back on Barry and goes to stake out the home of one of Alchemy’s followers by himself. HR and Joe stake out the home of the other follower.

Caitlin arrives at the home of one of Alchemy’s followers and learns that in the future she will be very powerful. Savitar has great plans for her. He has shown all his followers the future and there is a battle coming. Is this the battle Barry told Rip about?

After learning that Alchemy won’t take away her powers Caitlin heads outside and battles Cisco (the same one he vibed before). Barry gets involved in the fight and she freezes him with a kiss. He vibrates to unfreeze himself.

The team is able to capture Caitlin and are forced to put her in the tunnels. While this is going on Joe cuts Wally out of his cocoon and he takes off. Wally’s mind and body aren’t working together because he was taken out too early.

Barry is forced to let Caitlin go hoping she will help Wally when they find him. However the only way she is getting out of the room is if she kills Barry. This gets through to her. She doesn’t kill him and Caitlin comes through to help Wally.

Caitlin creates a serum back at the lab and Barry injects it into Wally when they find him back at the house he grew up in. They bring him back to the lab and run some tests. Wally is able to run faster than Barry could in the beginning. Will he eventually become faster than Barry? We may find out soon enough as Wally is eager to get in the field as Kid Flash and fight alongside Barry.

Barry tries to clean up another one of his messes and goes to see Julian to talk to him about Caitlin. He doesn’t want Julian to turn her in. He begs him, saying he will do anything. Julian wants him to quit and leave the force. He doesn’t want Barry to be a CSI anymore because of his choice to save his friend instead of invoking justice. This coming from the guy who doubling as a CSI and Dr. Alchemy. Can you say hypocrite?

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Things got real awkward (pun intended) on this week’s episode of ‘The Flash’. Ashley Rickards star of MTV’s ‘Awkward’ starred as Top aka Rosalind Dillion, a meta-human who has the ability to give her victims paralyzing vertigo. Top and Mirror Master are a Bonnie and Clyde like duo and two of Central City’s new rogues.

“New Rogues” also briefly brought back a fan favorite Leonard Snart aka Captain Cold. The first part of this episode takes place the night of the particle accelerator explosion to show us how Top and Mirror Master got their powers. “New Rogues” then jumps back to the present where Jesse and Barry are training.

Then the awkwardness really began for our couples. Joe walks in on Barry and Iris kissing. Jesse and Wally kiss, start a relationship and the end it just as quickly as Wally is afraid Jesse will go back to her earth and leave him broken hearted. Totally understandable. Luckily for Jesse, later on in “New Rogues” Wally admits his fear of Jesse leaving and makes a move. Will these two last? Would they try a long distance relationship between earths?

Even Joe and Cecile had some sparks flying between them. However, Joe is just as awkward as Barry when it comes to love.

Mirror Master also helps out his love by rescuing her from prison. After the escape we learn more about his abilities and how he is able to go through mirrors. He creates worm holes to get through reflective objects.

Back at Star Labs Harry and crew send out a cryptic message to recruit a Wells doppelgänger for the team. Cisco opens a breach and sends the message out to the multiverse. We then get to see the other Harry’s, some of them otherworldly, and find a winner on earth 19. A Wells with a sense of humor.

While this is going on Barry and Jesse set out to capture Top and Mirror Master. Jesse doesn’t adhere to Barry’s warning in training about casing her surroundings and doesn’t listen when he tells her to stay put. This unfortunately puts her in a really dangerous situation when Top and Jesse meet face to face. Top gives her a bad case of vertigo and she starts falling off the building. Barry comes to her rescue and is then thrown into a mirror by Mirror Master.

Back at Star Labs the team is trying to find something cold enough to slow down the molecules and get Barry out. The man-made machine is unsuccessful but Caitlin secretly uses her powers to help Barry break free.

Later in “New Rogues” Captain Cold teams up with Barry to help capture Mirror Master. Haha well a hologram of Snart. It had me fooled for just a minute and that was all Barry needed in order to capture Mirror Master. Barry leads him to a circle of mirrors which create an infinite reflective loop that Mirror Master can’t escape from.

While Barry handled Mirror Master, Jesse took on Top once again. This time she learned how to deflect the vertigo and in return sent Top for a spin.

After the new rogues are captured Wells lets Cisco know that the molecular device wasn’t working and that someone else let Barry out. Will they finally catch on to Caitlin’s abilities or will she accidentally use them and potentially get someone hurt? She can’t control them for too long. The girl literally froze her shower and gained a platinum blonde streak!

In the final scene of “New Rogues” Barry decides to move out in hopes of eliminating the awkwardness between himself, Iris and Joe. No more walking in on them making out.

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New Wells aka HR is super sketchy. Cisco doesn’t trust him and snoops through his stuff.

A monster invades central city.

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