You could gather every genius on every planet, and you still couldn't outthink me. [...] You've done wonders all these years punching gorillas with rudimentary powers, chasing madmen shooting icicles. Those were children with playguns. Savitar, Zoom, Thawne. Their powers are nothing compared to the power of limitless thought. [...] You may be the fastest man alive, Allen. I'm the fastest mind. 
Therefore I Am is an episode of season 4 of The Flash. It premiered on November 22, 2017.
Synopsis for "Therefore I Am"
Appearing in "Therefore I Am"
Featured Characters:
- The Flash (Barry Allen) (Flashback and main story)
Supporting Characters:
- Central City Police Department
- Team Flash
- Caitlin Snow (Flashback and main story)
- Cisco Ramon (Also in a vision)
- Harry Wells (Earth-2)
- Iris West (Flashback and main story)
- Wally West (Cameo)
Antagonists:
- The Thinker (Clifford DeVoe) (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision) (First appearance as The Thinker) (Origin)
- Marlize DeVoe (Flashback and main story) (Also in a vision)
- Eobard Thawne/"Harrison Wells" (Flashback only) (Impersonates Harrison Wells)
Other Characters:
- Becky Sharpe (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Channel 52 (On a TV or computer screen) (Flashback only)
- Kyle (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- Mina Chaytan (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Dr. Ortiz (Clifford DeVoe's specialist) (Single appearance) (Flashback only)
- Ralph Dibny (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Ramsey Deacon (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Unnamed laptop robber (Flashback only) (Cameo)
- The Weeper (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
- Abra Kadabra (Mentioned only)
- Captain Cold (Mentioned only)
- Catharine Jewell (Mentioned only)
- Cecile Horton (Mentioned only)
- Clifford DeVoe (Original Timeline) (Mentioned only)
- Council of Wells (Multiverse) (Mentioned only)
- God (Mentioned only)
- Gorilla Grodd (Mentioned only)
- Harrison Wells (Mentioned only)
- Jack the Ripper (Mentioned only)
- Killer Frost (Mentioned only)
- Savitar (Mentioned only)
- Unnamed starfish creature (Mentioned only)
- Weather Wizard (Mark Mardon) (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
- Zoom (Earth-2) (Mentioned only)
- Aaron Kosminski (Mentioned only)
- Bernhard Riemann (Mentioned only)
- David Hilbert (Mentioned only)
- Ronald Reagan (Mentioned only)
- Zatoichi (Mentioned only)
Locations:
- Multiverse (Mentioned only)
- Clifford DeVoe's Dimension (Unnamed)
- Earth-1
- 2013
- United States of America
- Central City
- 43 Hibbard Lane
- DeVoe House (Flashback only)
- Central City University (Flashback only)
- S.T.A.R. Labs (Flashback only)
- The Cortex (Flashback only)
- S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator (Flashback only)
- 43 Hibbard Lane
- Central City
- United States of America
- 2014
- United States of America
- Central City (Flashback only)
- 43 Hibbard Lane
- DeVoe House (Flashback only)
- 43 Hibbard Lane
- Central City (Flashback only)
- United States of America
- 2017
- United States of America
- Central City (Flashback and main story)
- 43 Hibbard Lane
- DeVoe House (First full appearance) (Also in a vision)
- CCPD Headquarters
- Central City Crime Lab
- Central City University
- S.T.A.R. Labs
- The Cortex
- S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator
- 43 Hibbard Lane
- Blue Valley (Mentioned only)
- Central City (Flashback and main story)
- England
- Colney Hatch Asylum (Mentioned only)
- Oxford University (Mentioned only)
- Japan (Mentioned only)
- South Africa (Mentioned only)
- United States of America
- 2013
- Speed Force (Flashback and main story)
- Hell (Mentioned only)
- Timestream/"Temporal Vortex" (Mentioned only)
Items:
- Big Belly Burger (Cameo)
- Dark Matter (Flashback only)
- Samuroid Head
- The Thinker's Chair (Flashback and main story) (Origin)
- Thinking Cap (Real name revealed) (First full appearance) (Flashback and main story)
Vehicles:
- Central City Bus 405 (Mentioned only)
Concepts:
- The Enlightenment (Mentioned only)
- Metahumans
- S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator Explosion (Flashback only)
Notes
- The story continues from the epilogue of the previous episode.
- Team Flash's story continues in the Supergirl episode, "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 1", the first part of the Crisis on Earth-X' crossover with Supergirl, Arrow and DC's Legends of Tomorrow".
- DeVoe states that Jack the Ripper was Aaron Kosminski's nurse, Catharine Jewell, but this has never been confirmed.
- In the Post-Crisis continuity, it's actually revealed that he's a man but his real name was never stated.[1]
- According to Clifford DeVoe, 2600 metahumans were born the night of the Particle Accelerator explosion.
- There's a continuity error in this episode as the date of the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator explosion is stated to be January 3, 2014 but it canonically happened on December 13, 2014.
- It is also not a temporal change due to the Flashpoint as December 13, 2014 is also confirmed in the Post-Flashpoint continuity during the events of "What's Past Is Prologue".
Trivia
- The title of the episode is the translation of René Descartes's quote, Cogito, ergo sum which is the Latin for "I think, therefore I am".
- In an alternate reality of a local Multiverse, which was created as a consequence of Barry Allen never creating the Flashpoint,[2] the alternate Team Flash manages to quickly defeat DeVoe's alternate counterpart with the help of H.R. Wells who is still alive due to Savitar never coming to exist in this universe.[3]
- Wally West mentions fighting a "giant starfish from outer space". This is obviously a reference to the alien supervillain, Starro.
- Barry mentions Spider-Man's Spider Sense ability.
See Also
- Images from The Flash (2014 TV Series) Episode: Therefore I Am
- 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
- ↑ DC's Legends of Tomorrow: "The Great British Fake Off"
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Flash: Hocus Pocus
- ↑ The Flash: Green Arrow's Perfect Shot
- ↑ The Flash: Johnny Quick
- ↑ The Flash: Tornado Twins