- According to legends, the warrior Gilgamesh used a gold mask to imprison a powerful demon, or what we might consider today as an ancient psychic metahuman. But with the centuries, the mask has popped up all over the world: the Yoruba Tribe in Africa, 17th Century pirates, all the way up to Hayden. Now, the story goes, if you wear the mask, it doesn't just give you powers. It feeds off of your mind, leaving you insane and leaving the mask in search of a new wearer. A psychic parasite moving from host to host, and now it found a brain that's capable of speed thinking.
Masquerade is an episode of season 7 of The Flash. It premiered on June 15, 2021.
Synopsis for "Masquerade"
Appearing in "Masquerade"
Featured Characters:
- Cecile Horton (Possessed) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an illusion)
- The Flash (Barry Allen) (Also as an illusion)
Supporting Characters:
- Sue Dearbon
- Team Flash
- Caitlin Snow
- Chester P. Runk
- Iris West-Allen
- Joe West (Flashback and main story)
Antagonists:
- The Psycho Pirate (Real identity revealed) (First full appearance) (As a spirit) (Flashback and main story) (Impersonates Cecile Horton) (Origin)
Other Characters:
- Cisco's Who's Who? Binder villains (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Abra Kadabra
- Arielle McAlpin
- Doctor Light (Kimiyo Hoshi)
- Null (Janet Petty)
- Payton Gilbert
- Psycho Pirate (Roger Hayden)
- Psycho Pirate's former vessels
- Gilgamesh (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- Golden Masked Pirate (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- King Satvir Panchhi (Single appearance) (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- Samuroids (Cameo)
- Martin Luther King (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Tupac (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- A.R.G.U.S. (Mentioned only)
- Cisco Ramon (Mentioned only)
- Cecile Horton's aunt (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Cecile Horton's mother (Unnamed) (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
- Central City Police Department (Mentioned only)
- Demons (Mentioned only)
- Erik Frye (Mentioned only)
- God (Mentioned only)
- Gorilla Grodd (Mentioned only)
- Jenna West (Mentioned only)
- Kristen Kramer (Mentioned only)
- Ralph Dibny (Mentioned only)
- Psych (Bashir Malik) (Mentioned only)
- The Thinker (Clifford DeVoe) (Mentioned only)
- United States Army (Mentioned only)
- Yoruba Tribe (Mentioned only)
- Dominic Toretto (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Multiverse
- Cecile Horton's Mindscape (Single appearance)
- Earth-Prime
- Earth
- Africa (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- Tunisia (Mentioned only)
- Asia
- Mesopotamia (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- Kahndaq (Mentioned only)
- Central America
- Caribbean (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- North America
- United States of America
- Central City
- Bentley Building
- Cecile Horton, Meta-Human Attorney Office
- Central City Museum
- S.T.A.R. Labs
- Chester P. Runk's Lab (First appearance)
- The Cortex
- Starchives
- West House (Flashback and main story)
- Chester P. Runk's Garage (Mentioned only)
- DeMatteis Dance School (Mentioned only)
- Lily Hotel (Mentioned only)
- Penthouse Suite (Mentioned only)
- Bentley Building
- Gotham City
- Arkham Asylum (On a TV or computer screen) (In a photograph only)
- Houston
- St. Carmine's Psychiatric Hospital (Flashback only) (Also as an illusion)
- Fort Dakota (Mentioned only)
- Central City
- United States of America
- Africa (On a TV or computer screen) (In picture only)
- S.T.A.R. Labs Satellites (Behind the scenes)
- Earth
- Speed Force (Behind the scenes)
- Hell (Mentioned only)
- Sage Force (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Atom Smasher's Helmet (Cameo)
- Barry Allen's Training Helmet (Cameo)
- Cerebral Inhibitor
- "Cisco's Who's Who? Binder"
- Girder Training Robot (Cameo)
- Medusa Mask (Unnamed) (Origin)
- Memory Machine (Mentioned only)
- Pulse Rifle
- Sonic Scepter (Cameo)
- Tachyon Prototype
- The Thinker's Chair
- Thinking Cap (Cameo)
Concepts:
- Breaches (As an illusion only)
- Magic
- Metahumans
Notes
- This episode takes place two weeks after the events of "Family Matters, Part 2".
- This episode reveals that the (unnamed) Medusa Mask is actually a prison for the being as the Psycho Pirate who is possessing people, including the supervillain Psycho Pirate/Roger Hayden, since the ancient times.
- Despite the legend claiming that the Sumerian hero Gilgamesh banished a demon inside of the mystical item, Team Flash speculates that he's actually an ancient psychic metahuman.
- As another effect of the Crisis, Erik Frye is still a metahuman on Earth-Prime while his Pre-Crisis counterpart had his powers stolen by Matthew Kim and gifted to Jaco Birch.[1]
- Due to Birch having gained the same powers in the Post-Crisis continuity,[2] it can be presumed that they both gained their abilities in different circumstances, probably the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator Explosion.
Trivia
- There are a few references to past events:
- Barry Allen tells Cecile that Erik Frye's case is similar to a previous case which is a reference to the events of "Run, Iris, Run";
- Caitlin Snow mentions Roger Hayden's imprisonment in Arkham and his partecipation in its massive riot which was shown in the Arrow episode, "Elseworlds, Part 2";
- Barry reminisces having already been in a mindscape and knowing about its escape doors. This is a reference to the events of "We Are the Flash", where he entered DeVoe's mindscape, "Memorabilia", where he entered Nora West-Allen's mindscape, and "Grodd Friended Me" where he entered Grodd's mindscape.
- DeMatteis Dance School is a homage to the DC writer, J.M. DeMatteis.
See Also
- 2 Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Masquerade
- 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
- None.
Links and References
- None.
Footnotes