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How formidable is Mirror Master with his holo-tech and seductive femme fatale? And does a basic burglary plot just make us fall asleep? Cory and Tom and delving deeper into The Flash 90 episodes 19 and 20, “Done with Mirrors” and “Good Night, Central City.”
Done With Mirrors:
When Barry Allen bumps into Stasia Masters, a beautiful classmate from his high school days, he could hardly suspect that he is about to become embroiled in a web of greed and deceit that will pit his superhero alter-ego against a dangerous high-tech criminal. Stasia is the former moll of one Sam Scudder, an elusive thief known to law enforcement as the Mirror Master due to his use of advanced holograms in the execution of elaborate crimes.
Scudder, having committed several robberies at various Star Labs locations, obtained important technologies and while Stasia betrayed him, getting away with one of the said items, hoping to sell it for a big score, he manages to back her into a corner where she can only turn to Barry, and then Tina for help. The Mirror Master faces off against the Flash but is no match for the speedster. Stasia attempts to get away, but only finds herself caught by Barry himself.
“Done With Mirrors” Flash points:
We’re assuming you can find the Garrick Gallery not far from StarLabs on Garrick Ave.
It also turns out that Central City is just one place in a long line that claims to be where the corn dog was invented. It was actually traced back to German immigrants in Texas, and a carnival in Texas, and then to Springfield Illinois. Looks like the truth was lost in time unfortunately.
The Professor Zoom character has a long and varied history in the comics. Too much to note here, but we do cover it quite in depth in the episode.
This is also true for Mirror Master, who was portrayed in several different lights, including the different histories of his power to move through reflective surfaces and his gadgets which did utilise holograms sometimes. The actor playing Mirror Master is former teen heart-throb David Cassidy; and the interesting thing here is that his daughter is currently working as an actor, you may have seen Katie Cassidy playing Loral Lance in “Arrow.” Then going back time, David’s father, Jack Cassidy, stared in a Broadway musical about Superman!
Good Night, Central City:
At the city morgue, small-time crook Harry Milgrim seemingly has returned from death and slipped away from police custody. The crook’s apparent demise was a ruse, a test run for a powerful sonic device capable, developed by his cousin Roger, of inducing a state of deep sleep in human subjects.
Milgrim sets out to put all of Central City to sleep such that he can carry out the criminal capers of his wildest dreams, but his cousin balks due to the side effects of the sleep: if a person stays asleep under the machine’s power for too long, they will actually die. Harry, not knowing when too far is too far, kills his cousin and takes the machine to team up with another criminal and they begin their siege on the city.
Meanwhile, Barry is dealing with a computer error that has his identity mixed up with another person, putting his financial and job security at risk. As an internal affairs investigator tries to tie him and his financial ruin to Roger’s death and a string of thefts in the city, Barry must try to prove that he is being framed by Harry.
The flash is having a hard time attempting to stop the duo but eventually Tina develop ear plugs that will block out the noise. Once protected, the Flash easily corners the crooks and brings them into justice, exonerating Barry from all wrongdoing.
“Good Night, Central City” Flash Points:
Believe it or not, we actually dug deeper into the henchman, Swede. You may notice this actor from his role as LaFours in Mallrats.
We have yet another Twin Peaks connection in the character Stanley Morse, played by Victor Rivers who was in the prequel movie, “Fire Walk With Me”.
In the comics, Barry’s middle name was Henry, presumably named for his father. We learn in this episode that it’s Patrick for the series, this is unexplained and we couldn’t find a reason for the use of the name.
We can also go way deep into the career of actor Bill Mumy, who played Roger Braintree in this episode. To name just a couple, he was Will Robinson in the original “Lost in Space” series, and appeared in 2 episodes of “The Twighlight Zone” years apart as the same character. He is well remembered in the sci-fi community and regularly appears at cons.
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