What Episode Continues the Flash Episode Elseworlds
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The Flash season 5, episode 9 recap: Elseworlds goes Freaky Friday with Barry, Oliver
Elseworlds kicks off with a bit of an identity crisis for Barry Allen and one of his costumed friends.
It's a villain so powerful that he can make the shows change nights! Just kidding, but apparently everything else is more or less up for grabs in "Elseworlds," this year's Arrowverse crossover that kicks off on The Flash.
Every epic story has a beginning, and this one promises to have its fair share of lighter moments too as Barry Allen and Oliver Queen switch bodies. Yep, it's a concept we've seen before, but it should be super fun in this context.
Let's find out.
The Flash season 5, episode 9 recap: "Elseworlds, Part 1"
In case you missed it last week, we see Earth-90 in ruins again and an ominous figure opening a big book. The Flash of that world tries to escape …
On Earth-1, Dr. John Deegan is speaking to a small audience who obviously think he's a quack. Happily, he's approached by the being from Earth-90, who wants him to use the book to "reshape the world as he sees fit." Why him? The being says it's because he has vision. Cut to the Elseworlds logo.
Oliver Queen wakes up and is immediately confused. Even more so when Iris kisses him and starts talking about Cicada. He plays along as best he can, but is he fast? Yep. "Oh Barry, what have you done this time?" And yeah, Oliver is justified in thinking this is something Barry might have done.
As Flash, Oliver manages to conjure up some lightning and knock out some crooks. But he's weirded out when the STAR Labs team says there's nothing wrong with him, and he begs off to go see Oliver Queen.
Speaking of Oliver … uh, Barry, he's getting his butt kicked by John Diggle until he realizes who he really is: Oliver Queen, the Green Arrow. "Holy crap." Well said, Barry.
He tries to It's apparently easier to adjust to amazing fighting skills than it is to super-speed. The Flash shows up and whisks Green Arrow and Diggle away at the end of their crimefighting (making Diggle hurl, of course), but Barry is thinking the Freaky Friday situation is cool until he realizes that Oliver woke up with Iris.
The problem is that no one on Team Flash believes them. So Barry tells Oliver he needs to convince Iris that something is wrong. He's a trooper, so he's going to give it a go. That talk goes poorly, though, when Iris tells Oliver what Felicity said about how her man ended up in prison. Also, Iris and Ralph trick our main heroes and knock both of the out. Thanks?
The leading men wake up in the Pipeline, but they need an idea about how to get help. What about escaping to Earth-38 and talking to Kara? Meanwhile, Cisco says Barry and Oliver are sharing a weird image of red skies and weird lightning … and the lights go out around him and he gets a vision of the figure who gave Deegan the book.
Any escape plan is going to be an amusing study in the heroes getting used to each other's abilities. They make it out thanks to Oliver figuring out how to phase, but they run into Iris again. Barry tells her something only he would know, and she agrees to give them the device that can breach them to Earth-38.
Hey, that's the Smallville theme! Appropriately, it's because the Kent Farm is the setting, as we meet Clark Kent and Lois Lane. We actually find out quite a bit about Clark and Lois' visit to Argo City, which took him away from Earth for a bit. Clark is about to tell Kara something important when Barry and Oliver arrive, and to their surprise, she can tell who's who.
On Earth-1, the remaining heroes have their hands full with a robot at Ivo Labs, one that might have been activated by the lightning Oliver threw earlier on, that seems to have all their powers. Amazo, we presume?
In a great callback to a previous crossover, Barry sets up remote bows to shoot Oliver in the back while training. They get into a bit of an argument, and it's clear their predicament is grating on them a bit.
Iris finally gets her teammates to believe that something really is amiss, and Cisco concurs. But there's a bigger problem, as Amazo has entered the Central City limits.
Back at the Kent Farm, Oliver explains a bit about why he was upset: Seeing Barry with his costume and abilities but none of his angst made him upset. In return, Oliver can probably run faster if he's happy. Kara thinks they should "play the parts," and Cisco arrives as well to get their help with Amazo. It sounds like both Supergirl and Superman are going to tag along too.
Even up against the "big guns," Amazo won't go down easily. Superman thinks he's stopped him, but the robot duplicates their powers as well. Sherloque recommends turning off the computer that runs Amazo, and Iris wonders if the robot has all of their weaknesses too. After the brains whip up a computer virus, Flash, Superman and Supergirl are able to hold Amazo in place for Barry to get in touch with his darker side and fire an arrow with the virus loaded onto it right into the robot's eye. Bye bye, Amazo.
After some joking about not swapping the heroes back, Clark wants to head home, but not before Sherloque gives him an alimony check to give to his third ex-wife on Earth-38.
But something else is still bothering Iris. She wants Barry to promise he'll come back to her. He might be the Green Arrow, but please don't become Oliver Queen. He promises, but Iris still looks worried.
The heroes want Cisco to vibe them the man he saw earlier, and not only does he show them, the dude can talk to Cisco though his vibe. Specifically, he delivers a warning: None of them can stop what's about to happen.
Oliver is able to do a super-speed sketch, and even though no one recognizes the being, Oliver does know where to find him: They're going to Gotham City.
To be continued on Arrow …
Final thoughts
For longtime DC fans, it was hard not to be thrilled by that first hour of "Elseworlds." From Lois and Clark to a semi-Justice League battle against Amazo, that was just flat out fun. It also carried the appropriate tone for an episode of The Flash, whereas it looks like things might get darker on Arrow — also fitting.
The pacing was a little strange in the sense that the Monitor hasn't even been formally introduced, and the "you need to be dark to be Green Arrow" part was a little overdone. There have been plenty of times over the years when the Emerald Archer hasn't been consumed by angst, after all. But let's assume this is all going someplace, and with only one night to find out for sure, it's all good for now.
Bring on Part 2.
Source: https://fansided.com/2018/12/09/flash-season-5-episode-9-recap-elseworlds-part-1-crossover/
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