As the new Weather Witch stands trial, Nora discovers not everything is black and white, Wells closes in and Barry takes a week off.

There is a lot going on this week and all of it’s good. The punish title notwithstanding, Silver Ghost is a legitimate threat of a metahuman and is cleverly positioned the same way Amunet Black was last year. She and Weather Witch are on the fringes of the community and while Ghost wants to use Witch to score big, Witch isn’t so sure.

That informs Cecille’s first day back in court where she discovers how hard it is to be a DA with any kind of psychic ability. It also informs Nora’s belligerent witness statement, which is in turn influenced by the fact she’s been Clarice to Reverse Flash’s Lecter upstream. That again folds back on itself as she learns just how fundamentally decent her dad is and inspires her to do better which leads to Weather Witch saving her life and round we go. On top of all that we have Cisco kind of being over his powers, potentially discovering a cure and he and Caitlin fight over it and then reform TEAM SCIENCE AWESOME and go about saving the world.

It’s 42 minutes long. I checked.

What really makes this episode work is the sense of family. Everyone gets something big to do, and everyone is tied in webs of familial obligation whether it’s Nora to her dad and Thawne, or Cisco to Cailtin and the team. Everything folds back in on itself, everything informs everything else.

Verdict: It’s ridiculously tidy scripting, sets up the next few episodes, throws in a sweet Waynetech reference and is top fun. Plus, punnish title. What’s not to love? 9/10

Alasdair Stuart