Although tie-ins were once a fixture,
This episode sidesteps that stricture,
And only devotes
Its first couple notes
To a plot point from their latest picture.
Bobbi thinks she's with May, unshaken,
But quickly learns that she's mistaken.
The May that we see
Is Agent 33,
And Ward secretly has Bobbi taken.
Now Raina, precog, sounds the chimes,
And warns of impending SHIELD crimes,
But as much as it grieves her,
Still no one believes her.
She's cried wolf too many times.
Gonzalez wants peace, no one blames him,
But an impulse to catalogue claims him,
And the threat of a cage
Provokes massive outrage,
Skye's mom kills Gonzalez and frames him.
It does seem an odd way to go,
And a break with the character flow.
Skye's mom was a pillar,
But now she's a killer.
Why? I guess the plot said so.
Our heroes found Wells' little shrine,
And a plan they soon start to design.
And through science intel,
They find out that Wells
Killed Cisco in another timeline.
From these memories Cisco repressed,
They plan for Barry's dad's egress.
They set traps and wait,
Using Cisco as bait,
And try to get Wells to confess.
Things go south, and Joe shoots Wells dead,
But turns out they've all been misled.
The newly-dead laddie's
The shapeshifting baddy,
And Wells is still one step ahead.
And now that he's set them unsteady,
Wells begins to get himself ready.
He's already displaced
To his underground base,
And made a prisoner of Eddie.
The show is swiftly making tracks,
And gives us no time to relax.
After weeks of cases,
We're off to the races,
Looking forward to the climax.
Last time, Ra's stabbed Thea, then fled,
And given just how much she bled,
It beggars belief
That to our slight relief,
She ends up in a coma, not dead.
But this was hardly a botched hit,
And Ra's just refuses to quit.
And says, to their chagrin,
That if Ollie gives in,
He'll let them use the Lazarus Pit.
With no choice, Ollie takes this route,
And lets the succession come about.
Though while they hold court,
The league has to thwart
Abortive tries to break him out.
Ollie's friends try to give chase,
But he thinks their efforts are misplaced.
He says 'bye to each friend,
And so by the end
He's ready to be the new Ra's.
Whatever the villainous cackles,
Or whatever drama it tackles,
The plan of attack
Will always be held back,
For the flashbacks are still self-made shackles.
