The Flash Season 2: 18 WTF Moments From 'King Shark'

King Shark resurfaces, Jaws references aplenty, and we finally find out who Zoom is!

by Andrew Pollard

Ever since King Shark briefly appeared earlier in Season 2, many fans have been waiting to see if this fishy foe would make a bigger splash at a later date. Well, that later date has arrived. In an episode simply titled King Shark, it was, err, King Shark who stole the show here. After the rogue manages to escape his A.R.G.U.S. shackles, it€™s down to The Flash, along with some help from Arrow€™s Diggle and Lyla, to bring this terrifying maneater down. Now if seeing King Shark fully fleshed-out out on the small screen wasn€™t cool enough, there were also plenty of other awesome goings-on in what turned out to be one of the best Flash episodes we€™ve seen to date. Then again, the show is regularly hitting it out of the park lately, meaning every episode seems to be an €œall-time great€. As Barry and Cisco both struggle with what they saw over on Earth-2, that starts to affect things in Earth-1 for the pair. Then there€™s the troubled dynamic between Barry and Wally, the nervous curiosity of Cisco towards Caitlin as he fears that she may become Killer Frost, and we were also given a huge reveal at the end of the episode. Yes, we found out who was under the mask of Zoom. King Shark was a crammed outing full of random, shocking and surprising WTF moments, not to mention a load of Jaws references, and here€™s the best of €˜em.

18. Caitlin€™s Breakdown

Having already lost her €˜one true€™, Ronnie Raymond, twice, Caitlin Snow is hit majorly hard by the apparent death of Earth-2€™s Jay Garrick. After Dr. Snow took a major shine to Jay and the two unofficially became a sort of item, last week€™s closing moments really took it out of Caitlin. With Zoom having briefly appeared in Earth-1 purely to put his arm through the chest of Jay and drag him back to Earth-2, it was a shocker for us all, although it was an even bigger shocker for Caitlin to watch yet another person close to her die. As such, the opening moments of King Shark find Caitlin firmly in a funk as she mourns Jay€™s demise.
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