History Recap / TheFlash2014S5E6TheIcicleCometh

* AbsenteeActor: Joe, again because of his actor's back injury. The excuse this week is he's taking Jenna out.

* RealityEnsues: When Cecile asks the FEMA director for a list of names of people who've received help she's told she needs a warrant for that information.

* ThePowerOfHate: Cicade is horribly injured, but refuses to be treated, as the pain apparently provides him with more strength for his mad quest.

* BattleBoomerang: This is how Cicada kills the meta with the ability to turn her hands into blades, Raelene Sharp. She's about to finish him off, when the dagger returns, disables her abilities, and stabs her in the back.

* TheCameo: Thawne and [=DeVoe=] show up via a picture of Team Flash's picture circa Season 1 (specifically the one from "The Sound and the Fury") and security footage of the Speed Lab from when Killer Frost was suppressed, respectively.

* [[HesBack She's Back]]: Killer Frost finally comes back just in time to stop Icicle from killing her friends.

* HesBack: Killer Frost finally comes back just in time to stop Icicle from killing her friends.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Caitlin's dad name drops Batman villain Victor Fries, yet another nod to the upcoming ''Series/Elseworlds2018''.

* HydePlaysJekyll: From the moment Caitlin, Barry and Cisco find him, "Thomas" is Icicle trying to gain their trust.

* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: The episode has three running plots with the group split up to tackle each of them. Ralph investigates the FEMA center that was setup after the Enlightenment to find if anyone matching Cicada's description was treated there. Cecile tags along. Iris, Nora, and Sherloque investigate possible places where Sally the satellite's dark matter rich core crashed, as its shrapnel is the most likely to have become Cicada's dagger. Finally, Caitlin, Barry, and Cisco follow up on the lead on her father.
* TooMuchInformation: Sherloque telling Iris and Nora that he has had constipation since arriving on Earth 1.

* MythologyGag: "Thomas" name drops Louise Lincoln, another identity of Killer Frost in the comics.

* ShapeshifterWeapon: Raelene Sharp, the meta Cicada kills in the episodes first scene, was able to turn her arms into razor-sharp blades.

* TheEmpath: Cecile finds out that her powers have become empathy, which puts a hiccup in her attempt to investigate the FEMA center as she channels the attendant, who's guilty of embezzling the insurance claims of its patients, and thus fumbles her intimidation since she's feeling his fear.

* BattleBoomerang: This is how Cicada kills the meta with the ability to turn her hands into blades. She's about to finish him off, when the dagger returns, disables her abilities, and stabs her in the back.

* VillainExitStageLeft: Icicle manages to escape.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cisco doesn't trust Thomas' cover story, believing there to be too many holes and he manages to get Barry and later Caitlin to share his concerns; he's right as Thomas has been taken over by his split personality - Icicle - and wanted Caitlin's medical expertise to create a serum that would suppress Thomas.

* TheReveal: Caitlin's powers never came from the Particle Accelerator Explosion. As a child she inherited her dad's [=ALS=], and he treated her with experimental cryogenic therapy which resulted in her split personality of Killer Frost; Thomas has one too - Icicle.

** We finally learn Cicada's name, motivation, and source of his powers - his name is Orlin Gibbons and his daughter Grace was put into a coma thanks to debris from the satellite, which injured and gave him his dagger - and he blames all the metas in Central City for her condition, which is why he's hunting them down one by one.

* TheEmpath: Cecile finds out that her powers have become empathy, which puts a hiccup in her attempt to investigate the FEMA center as she channels the attendant, whose guilty of embezzling the insurance claims of its patients, and thus fumbles her intimidation since she's feeling his fear.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cisco doesn't trust Thomas' cover story believing there to be too many holes and he manages to get Barry and later Caitlin to share his concerns - he's right as Thomas has been taken over by his split personality - Icicle and wanted Caitlin's medical expertise to create a serum that would suppress Thomas.

** We finally learn Cicada's name, motivation, and source of his powers - his name is Orlin Gibbons and his daughter Grace was put into a coma thanks to debris from the satellite, which injured and gave him his dagger - and he blames all the metas in Central City for her condition, which is why he's hunting down them one by one.

* ThirdLineSomeWaiting: The episode has three running plots with the group split up to tackle each of them. Ralph investigates the FEMA center that was setup after the Enlightenment to find if anyone matching Cicada's description was treated there. Cecile tags along. Iris, Nora and Sherloque investigate possible places where Sally the satellite's dark matter rich core crashed, as its shrapnel is the most likely to have become Cicada's dagger. Finally, Caitlin, Barry and Cisco follow up on the lead on her father.

* GuineaPigFamily: Thomas acquired his Icicle powers from [[ProfesdorGuineaPig self-experimenting]] cryogenic cures for his ALS. Not wanting his daughter to suffer the same since she shares his ALS genes, he tested a more perfected serum on her which is how she developed Killer Frost.

* ProperlyParanoid: Cisco doesn't trust Thomas' cover story believing there to be too many holes and he manages to get Barry and later Caitlin to share his concerns - he's right as Thomas has been taken over by his split personality - Icicle and wanted Caitlin's medical expertise to create as serum that would suppress Thomas.

** [=DeVos=] used Brainstorm's powers to suppress Killer Frost, ''not'' Melting Point's.

** We finally learn Cicada's name, motivation, and source of his powers - his name is Orlin Gibbons and his daughter Grace was put into a coma from thanks to debris from the satellite - and he blames all the metas in Central City for her condition, which is why he's hunting down them one by one.

* HesBack: Killer Frost finally comes back just in time to stop Icile from killing her friends.
* FightingFromTheInside: Thomas is trying to suppress Icicle,

* ProperlyParanoid: Cisco doesn't trust Thomas' cover story believing there to be too many holes and he manages to get Barry and later Caitlin to share his concerns - he's right as Thomas has been taken over by his split personality - Icicle and wanted Caitlin's medical expertise to create as serum that would suppress Thomas.

* FantasticRacism: The motivation of Cicada and his doctor accomplice, Grace. Grace seems completely unaware that the razor injuries are treated are because of him.

* TheReveal: Caitlin's powers never came from the Particle Accelerator Explosion. As a child she inherited her dad's [=ALS=], and he treated her with experimental cryogenic therapy which resulted in her split personality of Killer Frost; Thomas has one two - Icicle.

* FantasticRacism: The motivation of Cicada and his doctor accomplice, Grace. Grace seems completely unaware that the razor

* TheReveal: Caitlin's powers never came from the Particle Accelerator Explosion. As a child she inherited her dad's [=ALS=], and he treated her with experimental cryogenic therapy which resulted in her split personality of Killer Frost.
* ProperlyParanoid: Cisco doesn't trust Thomas' cover story believing there to be too many holes and he manages to get Barry and later Caitlin to share his concerns - he's right as Thomas has been taken over by his split personality and wanted Caitlin's medical expertise to create as serum that would suppress the true Thomas.

* FantasticRacism: The motivation of Cicada and his doctor accomplice, Grace.

* TheReveal: Caitlin's powers never came from the Particle Accelerator Explosion. As a child she inherited her dad's [=ALS=], and he treated her with experimental cryogenic therapy which resulted in her split personality of Killer Frost.

* TheReveal: Caitlin's powers never came from the Particle Accelerator Explosion. As a child she inherited [=ALS=], and her dad treated her with experiment cryogenic therapy which resulted in her split personality of Killer Frost.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Caitlin's dad namedrops Victor Fries, yet another nod to the upcoming ''Series/Elseworlds2018''.

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