Harry and Cisco take desperate measures to try to get Harry’s intelligence back. Basically the entire team solves the case. Amunet Black helps! Sort of!

Another great episode, Harry and the Harrisons does three things, all of them well:

-Explores and resolves Harry’s intelligence loss enough for the season endgame to roll.

-Brings back Amunet Black and continues her slow, amiable journey towards being not(that)evil.

-Gives everyone something to do.

Oh and it completely changes how the team do things too.

Each of these plots requires every character to work. Everyone, including Amunet, solves enough of the case to move things along and that gives the show the ensemble feel that Arrow has consciously rowed away from this year. Plus it’s a far tighter unit than Legends’ amiably shambolic collection of a-holes. The show talks a lot about the brilliance of the STAR Labs team. This week, we see it.

We also see Katee Sackhoff have barely legal amounts of fun as Amunet Black. She is now so clearly a goth Mary Poppins that she even leaves the episode in a whirlwind of metal shrapnel. Which is sort of like on an umbrella.

Oh and that total change in style. This week, Iris goes public. She writes an article detailing everything the team know about DeVoe and publishes it. Beforehand, she and Barry have a genuinely fascinating conversation about the ethics of whether to do it. Barry has been used to working in secret (although Amunet seeing through his mask instantly is adorable) and Iris, a journalist, defaults to going public. In earlier seasons this would have been an easy 12 episodes of crushingly dull angst. Here, it’s two capable, smart people working a problem and solving it together. The ending may be a little eye roll inducing for those of you who view the internet more cynically than the show does but it’s still a sweet, kind note to end a sweet, kind show.

Verdict: Funny, even handed, fast paced and incident heavy. The Flash has done it again. 10/10

Alasdair Stuart