Episode
The Flash: Watching the Detectives
Overview
The corrupt District Attorney Thomas Castillo hires a private eye named Megan Lockhart to find out the Flash's identity. He then blackmails Barry to work for him, or he'll expose his secret.
Details
- Series
- The Flash
- Season
- Season 1
- Episode
- Episode 3
- Air date
- 1990-10-18
- Runtime
- 48 min
Episode context
Watching the Detectives is Episode 3 in Season 1 of The Flash. It aired on 1990-10-18. The runtime is 48 min.
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Episode 4: Honor Among Thieves
While arranging security at the Central City Museum, Barry is reunited with an old girlfriend and a former mentor.
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Episode 1: Pilot
A laboratory accident endows a police scientist with the ability to move at superhuman speed which he uses to battle a menacing gang as a superhero.
Episode 5: Double Vision
Someone spreads graffiti, and messages asking to meet "Flash" at a church. Barry goes to the church. Shortly after that, he begins to experience black outs and memory losses.
Episode 6: Sins of the Father
A bank robber escapes from prison. He goes back to Central City to get his money and revenge on the cop who busted him, Henry Allen, Barry's father.
Episode 7: Child's Play
An orphan boy has information that incriminates a 1960s cult figure who is trying to make a comeback.
Episode 8: Shroud of Death
Pieces of a broken medallion are the only clue to an unknown assassin who is on a deadly rampage in central city.
Episode 9: Ghost in the Machine
Barry befriends an African American who was once a super hero that defeated a terrorist called the Ghost, who blackmailed the city through television sets. When the presumed dead criminal is defrosted, the Night Shade is back in business.
Episode 10: Sight Unseen
An invisible man gets into Star Labs, and releases a neurotoxin with Tina inside the lab. Then he starts killing scientists who worked on the project. Flash must find the invisible man and save his friend.
Episode 11: Beat the Clock
A jazz musician friend of Julio's is about to be executed. An hour before the execution, a friend calls and says he has evidence that could exonerate their friend. Before Barry can contact him, he disappears. They have less than an hour to save a condemned man.
Episode 12: The Trickster
Barry must protect his old girlfriend, Megan Lockhart, from an obsessed, maniacal criminal disguised as The Trickster.
Episode 13: Tina, Is That You?
Barry is having trouble sleeping. Tina tries to use bio-feedback to help him, but it back fires on Tina. She joins a gang, and she's able to hold Flash at bay with her knowledge of his strengths and weaknesses. Barry has got to find a way to save his friend.