That was an oddly specific pronouncement. They could have just said Samaritan was "still looking" or something, so it felt like Greer was foreshadowing a plot development. But if the machine's not on any networked devices, how does it jack into video feeds and pay phones and such?

I want a gratuitous scene set in the Knee Unit of New York-Presbyterian Hospital. "Hey, I know you!"

Meh. I enjoyed the episode and like Mandvi, but wasn't it obvious from the start that it was Samaritan? It had already pulled this kind of "ruin a person's life by mucking with online stuff" earlier this season, when everyone in NYC wanted to kill everyone else for a day, and then Upstate.

Point: Machine. If the Machine knew that Khan's Number was up, and it knows people's Numbers are up based on surveillance, then it knew that Samaritan would target Khan before it hacked him, which suggests it knew Samaritan had repurposed all the antivirus software, which means it's one step ahead of Samaritan.

Alasdair, "a pair of flawed but fundamentally flawed men working toward some kind of grace" seems to be where the show as a whole is right now….

If they removed the murder elements, and replaced them with some more coffee cake/donuts elements, they'd be feeling more unique.

Would love for it to be Grodd. Slowly plotting his revenge against the false Harrison Wells lo these many years….

Because the Trickster is nothing if not quietly respectful of others' feelings.

Walter was Red Vines, all the way.

Not sure which is a bigger plot hole the size of an elephant — last week when Snart says "I've got Cisco, so now I'll just walk out, hop in my car and drive slowly back to my hideout (I hope you don't think to tail me)" or this week's "I can search half of Central City in 20 seconds but I can't get over to Iron…

"If you don't see the body, he ain't dead." We did see a massively dessicated, but not quite dead yet Wells. Maybe the real Harrison Wells picked up the jumper-cable-cloning-thing and used it to disguise himself as ______ these past 15 years.

Was the licorice a callback, or just a random Fringe reference?

I was grooving on the idea, planted at the beginning and played throughout, that just when Barry was convinced Wells was evil, we all learn that he isn't. Would have made for some great dynamics of a totally different sort. I would have loved to have seen that play out somehow past this one show. But it looks like…

Our Heroes have now imprisoned Mark Mardon without a trial. Mardon robbed a bank or something a while back, but he has also NOT kidnapped Joe, not maimed Singh, not caused a tsunami… I'm looking forward to the promised episode where they deal with the pipeline jail and Minority Report issues.

Back in the days of rec.arts.comics.misc USENET, someone came up with a law of comicdom that the more impractical your costume, the dumber you were. Someone get that attribution, please!

Is it just me, or are they planting seeds with Wells' tonal shifts? Sneakily evil is one thing, but the transition from "WHAT DO YOU KNOW ABOUT WELLS?!?!?!" and arm-through-the-heart, to heartfelt "aww, Barry" back at Star Labs just felt wrong. Two Reverse Flashes? Speed psychosis?

Lots and lots was off. I was actually OK with Snart agreeing not to kill, because Barry played to his ego that he should be smart enough not to kill — to continue to do so is to acknowledge he's not Snart smart.

But why did Caitlin convince Cisco to go to the party this time 'round? Because everyone was in a better mood with Marden in the pipeline?

I would have been fine with all the unwinding from last week — we all knew it was coming — but as Scott points out, it was just sloppy. Two Barrys Become One wasn't explained, that "time finds a way to right itself" is a trope that seems to appeal more to writers' egos than any kind of logic, and the ways that the…

"Golden", heh. How long before Criminal Mastermind Snart realizes they can stop robbing the mob and banks and museums and just fire Lisa's gun at a few rocks once a week or so?