History Recap / TheFlash2014S2E3FamilyOfRogues

** The Drakon brand of security keypads references the Green Arrow villain Constantine Drakon.

* AdultFear: Back when he was a beat cop, Joe heard little Iris calling 911 on dispatch. When he rushed home, he found his wife passed out from an overdose, and Iris standing next to a lit stove. This memory is still very traumatizing to Joe.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Lewis shoots Barry after he unlocks the door.

* HollywoodPhysics: Pretty bad, too. "Instead of infrared heat signatures, I programmed it to look for ultraviolet cold signatures." The exact opposite of how it would work. Ultraviolet is higher in energy; you'd only see that if something was really, really damn hot. Infrared is for things that are relatively cold. You want to spot cold? Look for areas with ''even less'' infrared. If you see a bloom of ultraviolet, that's Mick going nuts with his heat gun.

* ReverseMole: Barry, or rather, "Sam", joins Lewis Snart's gang.

* BaitAndSwitch: Barry runs into Patty, and she says Flash. This shocks Barry until he learns she's actually referring to the coffee he's carrying, named after him.

* AbusiveParent: Being willing to kill his own daughter just to force his son into helping him, and doing this after he'd brutally abused her as a child? Lewis Snart, you will not be mourned by anyone.

** Barry mentions helping Cold with the the theft of the Khandaq Diamond.

** Iris' trying to expose a real estate scam that "broke families", in light of the truth behind her MissingMom.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The normally unfettered Lisa displays completely genuine shock when Barry tells her that Lenny is back to working for their hated father.

* AntagonistInMourning: When he sees Lewis shoot "Sam", Lenny's apology seems genuine.
* ArtisticLicenseEngineering: Any real high-security keypad would lock up and trigger an alarm after multiple consecutive failed attempts at entering the password, specifically to prevent exactly what "Sam" did from working.

** Thermite burns very hot, but it's also extremely stable (hard to ignite) and very slow-burning. In other words, ''the exact opposite of an explosive substance.''
*** It certainly doesn't ignite merely through contact with air. And even if it did, that would be absurdly easy to work around, especially in a physics lab which probably has giant canisters of liquid nitrogen handy.

* BulletCatch: How "Sam" avoids being shot by Lewis. He moves so fast doing it that, when he falls back, [[FakingTheDead he convincingly fakes death]].

** "Sam" mentions helping Cold with the the theft of the Khandaq Diamond.

* TryEverything: "Sam" tries ''many'' number combinations to open a lock.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Lewis shoots "Sam" after he unlocks the door.

* AssholeVictim: Lewis Snart.

* DysfunctionalFamily: A father who would put a bomb in his own daughter's head. The Wests seem to have had [[{{Understatement}} some problems]] in the past, also.

* YourHeadASplode: Lewis likes to implant bombs in peoples' heads to ensure compliance.

* CallingTheOldManOut: Captain Cold spends most of the episode snarking at his father's relatively amateurish theft (compared to Snart's own methods), and then has a short, brutal and effective one when he kills the man.

'''Leonard:''' Not as much as I hate... ''hate'' [[AbusiveParents you]].

* AdultFear: Back when he was a beat cop, Joe received a call from little Iris. When he rushed home, he found his wife passed out, and Iris standing next to a lit stove. This memory is still very traumatizing to Joe.

** The beginning is 100% ComicBook/LoisLane[=/=]{{Franchise/Superman}} chemistry.

** Barry and Joe want Cold to be imprisoned in Iron Height's new meta-human wing. In the comics all of the Flash supervillains are put together in the same wing of the prison - the Pipeline as it's called.

** The beginning is 100% [[ComicBooc/LoisLane Lois]]/[[{{Franchise/Superman}} Superman]] chemistry.

* CastingGag: This is not the first time that Micheal Ironsides has [[Film/{{Scanners}} made heads explode]].

* ADayInTheLimelight: For Captain Cold and Golden Glider. Turns out there's more to them than just pulling heists.

* LaserGuidedKarma: Cold kills his father by freezing his heart solid. The man stuck a bomb in his daughter's neck to gain his son's cooperation and pulled enough ForTheEvulz stunts that not even Barry is protesting his death.
* LoveIsAWeakness: Lewis uses Cold's love for Lisa against to get him to do his bidding, and has a negative view on the Rogues' avoidance of civilian casualties.

** Two of the three cliffhangers from the previous episode get OutOfFocus: Professor Stein's collapse only was only to briefly remove him from this episode's plot (and set up ''another'' cliffhanger), and Francine West shows up only to give Joe something to angst about (namely, keeping a secret from Iris again).

* LoveIsAWeakness: Lewis uses Cold's love for Lisa against to get him to do his bidding.

* RedHerring: Two regarding Mrs. West:
** The fact that Joe keeps Barry and Iris in the dark made some think there was fault on Joe's part. Mrs. West was more to blame on her "disappearance" than Joe was.

* HypocriticalHeartwarming: Lewis sees himself in the position to abuse his children. If somebody else however just as much as ''insults'' one of them, he'll blow their heads off.