The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Goldfaced

"Goldfaced"
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The Flash  Season 5: Episode 13
February 5, 2019
Directors	Alexandra La Roche
Writers	Jonathan Butler Gabriel Garza
Previous Episode	"Memorabilia" (January 29, 2019)
Next Episode	"Cause and XS" (February 12, 2019)

Barry and Ralph must go undercover as criminals in an illegal black market to purchase a device that could help them stop Cicada. Once inside, Barry and Ralph find their morality tested as they slip deeper into the criminal world, eventually having to choose between committing a crime, or losing the

It's amazing how malleable the timeline is. Even the tiniest refinement can birth a whole new reality, an object above placed below.

—Eobard Thawne

Goldfaced is an episode of season 5 of The Flash. It premiered on February 5, 2019.

Synopsis for "Goldfaced"

Barry and Ralph must go undercover as criminals in an illegal black market to purchase a device that could help them stop Cicada. Once inside, Barry and Ralph find their morality tested as they slip deeper into the criminal world, eventually having to choose between committing a crime, or losing the means to defeat one of their greatest foes. Meanwhile, Iris investigates a lead on Cicada's whereabouts and ends up in a dangerous situation.

Appearing in "Goldfaced"

Featured Characters:

• Elongated Man (Ralph Dibny)
• The Flash/The Chemist (Barry Allen) (First appearance as The Chemist)

Supporting Characters:

• Renee Adler (First appearance)
• Team Flash
  • Iris West-Allen
  • Killer Frost (Caitlin Snow)
  • Sherloque Wells (Earth-221)
  • XS/Nora West-Allen (Nora's Future) (Flashback and main story)

Antagonists:

• Cicada (Orlin Dwyer)
• Eobard Thawne (Flashback and main story) (Impersonates Harrison Wells)
• Gat (Black Market arms dealer) (First appearance; unnamed)
• Goldface (First appearance)
  • Goldface's Gang (First appearance)
    • Carver (First appearance)

Other Characters:

• Brent Osmack (Szrek Chemicals foreman) (Real name revealed)
• Central City Citizen (First appearance)
• Earl Cox
• Harrison Wells (As an illusion only)
• Sherloque Wells' ex-wives/Renee Adlers of the Multiverse (First appearance)
  • Sherloque Wells' first ex-wife (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Hologram)
  • Sherloque Wells' second ex-wife (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Hologram)
  • Sherloque Wells' fourth/sixth ex-wife (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Hologram)
  • Sherloque Wells' fifth ex-wife (Unknown Earth) (Single appearance) (Unnamed) (Hologram)
• Amunet Black (Mentioned only)
• Breacher (Earth-19) (Mentioned only)
• Central City Police Department (Mentioned only)
• Cisco Ramon (Mentioned only)
• Grace Gibbons (Mentioned only)
• Harrison Wellses of the Multiverse (Mentioned only)
• Robbie Byrne (Orlin Dwyer's cousin) (Mentioned only)
• Renee Adler/"Sherloque Wells' third ex-wife" (Earth-38) (Mentioned only)
• Spencer Young (Mentioned only)
• Superman (Earth-38) (Mentioned only)
• The Thinker (Clifford DeVoe) (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Multiverse (Mentioned only)
  • Earth-1
    • United States of America
      • Central City
        • CC Jitters
        • Dwyer House
        • Goldface's Black Market (First appearance)
        • Ivo Laboratories
        • Ralph Dibny Private Investigator Office
        • S.T.A.R. Labs
          • Cisco Ramon's Workshop
          • The Cortex
          • The Lounge
          • Speed Lab
        • Van Horn Industries (On a TV or computer screen) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
      • Central City Museum (Mentioned only)
      • Szrek Chemicals (Mentioned only)
  • Nora's Future (Flashback and main story)
    • 2049
      • United States of America
        • Keystone City
          • Iron Heights (Flashback and main story)
  • Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
  • Earth-38 (Mentioned only)
  • Timestream (Mentioned only)

Items:

• CCPD Killer Laser Rifles (First appearance)
• Cicada's Dagger
• Dark Matter
• Flash's Costume Ring
• Goldface's Necklace (First appearance)
• Interdimensional Extrapolator (Cameo)
• Meta-cuffs
• Metahuman Cure (Mentioned only)
• Neuro-Stasis Field Generator (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)

Concepts:

• Breaches
• Metagene
• Metahumans
• Time Language
• Time Travel

Notes

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Trivia

• Post 90 "#ArcticLab101"" is The Chronicles of Cisco post regarding this episode.
• Ralph Dibny refers to himself and Barry Allen as the Dynamic Duo which is the iconic nickname of Batman and Robin in the comics.
• Van Horn Industries first appeared in the Arrow episode, "Invasion!".

See Also

• 3 Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Goldfaced
• Episodes of The Flash (2014 TV Series)
• Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series)
• Gallery for the The Flash (2014 TV Series) series

Recommended Media

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Links and References

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