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"Look, I don't know, I guess our wires have gotten crossed a few times the last few days, but I think that hardly rises to the level of a crisis. After everything we've been through together, you and me, we're Barry and Iris. We're the gold standard. I am so in—"

"Then how could you leave me?! You left me, Barry. You just left me, standing there, alone. How could you do that?"

—Barry Allen and Iris West

"Mixed Signals" is the second episode of the fourth season of The Flash, and the seventy-first episode overall. It aired on October 17, 2017.

Sypnosis

Barry has his hands full when he takes on a dangerous meta who can control technology, while also confronting an obstacle in his personal life: the ramifications of abandoning Iris for six months to balance the Speed Force. Meanwhile, Gypsy breaches in for a hot date with Cisco, but she gets annoyed when his work keeps them apart.^[src]

Cast

Gallery

Videos

The Flash Mixed Signals Trailer The CW

The Flash Mixed Signals Scene The CW

The Flash Inside Mixed Signals The CW

Trivia

The scene with Barry dancing in his briefs while preparing breakfast is a reference to the dance scene performed by Tom Cruise in Risky Business.
Barry watches a sped-up version of all of his favorite shows in order to catch up. Amongst these shows includes Jon Snow from the TV series Game of Thrones dying and coming back to life, which occurred in the episodes "Mother's Mercy" and "Home", respectively.
Cisco likens Deacon's revenge spree to Richard Hendricks from the TV series Silicon Valley killing everyone in his company, Pied Piper. Barry suggests that he's more like Bertram Gilfoyle, though Cisco believes him to be more Erlich Bachman than Gilfoyle.
The video game being played by Sheila Agnani before Tim Kwon enters the room was Dying Light.
Cisco uses the expletive "frak" from the Battlestar Galactica franchise when Deacon locks him out of his own programming.
In Barry's new Flash suit, there is a feature called Babel protocol, which is a self-destruct mode created by Cisco, defending its creation on the grounds that they have already faced one evil version of Barry. This could be an Easter egg reference to the popular storyline JLA: Tower of Babel, in which Batman is revealed to have studied the weaknesses of his teammates, including Flash, and planned methods to take down each of them, in case they went rogue (in Batman's case, his protocol for stopping the Flash was a "vibro-bullet" fired at Wally West that caused him to experience seizures at lightspeed).
DeVoe claims to have completed Schubert's unfinished eighth symphony.
Cisco mentions how Earth-19 has Saint Shaquille O'Neal's Day, referencing the popular retired basketball player.
At Sharon Finkel's office, Barry finds a newspaper article that reports about the discovery that Oliver Queen is the Green Arrow. This is a reference to the twist at the end of the Arrow episode "Fallout" (which aired one week before this episode), when there was a report on the news about this coming to light, due to a doctored photo of Oliver in the Green Arrow being leaked by an unknown individual (later revealed to be Ricardo Diaz).
When Barry and Iris listed the names of the people they lost, one of the names Iris mentioned was Laurel. However, Iris never met Laurel on-screen.
Barry's HUD display is brought up by lenses that go on his eyes. In the comics, when Wally was the Flash, he also had lenses similar to this. However they were white.
This is the fourth episode of the series not to feature Tom Cavanagh.
Iris' "We are The Flash" line that she said to Barry in this episode would eventually be used as the title of the fourth-season finale.
The penthouse Kurt Weaver tours at the beginning of the episode is in the same building used for Ramon Industries.
- The penthouse also resembles Thea Queen's loft on Arrow.
The t-shirt Cisco wears in this episode illustrates Schrödinger's cat.

References

The Flash season 4
"The Flash Reborn" • "Mixed Signals" • "Luck Be a Lady" • "Elongated Journey Into Night" • "Girls Night Out" • "When Harry Met Harry..." • "Therefore I Am" • "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 3" • "Don't Run" • "The Trial of The Flash" • "The Elongated Knight Rises" • "Honey, I Shrunk Team Flash" • "True Colors" • "Subject 9" • "Enter Flashtime" • "Run, Iris, Run" • "Null and Annoyed" • "Lose Yourself" • "Fury Rogue" • "Therefore She Is" • "Harry and the Harrisons" • "Think Fast" • "We Are The Flash"

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-{{Dialogue|Look, I don't know, I guess our wires have gotten crossed a few times the last few days, but I think that hardly rises to the level of a crisis. After everything we've been through together, you and me, we're Barry and Iris. we're the Gold standard. I am so in --|Then how could you leave me?! You left me, Barry. You just left me. Standing there, alone. How could you do that?|[[Barry Allen (Earth-1)|Barry Allen]] and [[Iris West-Allen|Iris West]]}}
+{{Dialogue|Look, I don't know, I guess our wires have gotten crossed a few times the last few days, but I think that hardly rises to the level of a crisis. After everything we've been through together, you and me, we're Barry and Iris. We're the gold standard. I am so in&mdash;|Then how could you leave me?! You left me, Barry. You just left me, standing there, alone. How could you do that?|[[Barry Allen (Earth-1)|Barry Allen]] and [[Iris West-Allen|Iris West]]}}
 {{Episode
 |name= Mixed Signals
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 |writer= [[Jonathan Butler]]<br/>[[Gabriel Garza]]
 |director= [[Alexandra La Roche]]
-|guests= [[Patrick Sabongui]] as [[David Singh]]<br/>[[Kim Engelbrecht]] as [[Marlize DeVoe]]<br/>[[Jessica Camacho]] as [[Cynthia|Gypsy]]<br/>[[Dominic Burgess]] as [[Ramsey Deacon|Ramsey Deacon/Kilg%re]]<br/>[[Donna Pescow]] as [[Sharon Finkel]]<br/>[[Donald Heng]] as [[Tim Kwon]]<br/>[[Richard Brooks]] as [[Gregory Wolfe]]
 |before= {{Ep|The Flash Reborn}}
 |after= {{Ep|Luck Be a Lady}}
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 ==Sypnosis==
-[[Barry Allen (Earth-1)|Barry]] has his hands full when he takes on a [[Ramsey Deacon|dangerous meta]] who can control technology, while also confronting an obstacle in his personal life: the ramifications of abandoning [[Iris West-Allen|Iris]] for six months to balance the [[Speed Force]]. Meanwhile, [[Cynthia|Gypsy]] breaches in for a hot date with [[Cisco Ramon|Cisco]], but she gets annoyed when his work keeps them apart.<ref>[https://www.spoilertv.com/2017/09/the-flash-episode-402-mixed-signals.html?m=1 ''The Flash - Episode 4.02 - Mixed Signals - Promos, Sneak Peeks, Inside The Episode, Promotional Photos & Press Release'' - SpoilerTV]</ref>
+{{Synopsis|[[Barry Allen (Earth-1)|Barry]] has his hands full when he takes on a [[Ramsey Deacon|dangerous meta]] who can control technology, while also confronting an obstacle in his personal life: the ramifications of abandoning [[Iris West-Allen|Iris]] for six months to balance the [[Speed Force]]. Meanwhile, [[Cynthia|Gypsy]] breaches in for a hot date with [[Cisco Ramon|Cisco]], but she gets annoyed when his work keeps them apart.|https://www.spoilertv.com/2017/09/the-flash-episode-402-mixed-signals.html}}
+==Cast==
+===Starring===
+*[[Grant Gustin]] as [[Barry Allen (Earth-1)|Barry Allen/The Flash]]
+*[[Candice Patton]] as [[Iris West-Allen|Iris West]]
+*[[Danielle Panabaker]] as Dr. [[Caitlin Snow]]
+*[[Carlos Valdes]] as [[Cisco Ramon]]
+*[[Keiynan Lonsdale]] as [[Wally West|Wally West/Kid Flash]]
+*[[Neil Sandilands]] as [[Clifford DeVoe|The Thinker]]
+*[[Tom Cavanagh]] <small>(credit only)</small>
+*[[Jesse L. Martin]] as Detective [[Joe West]]
+===Guest starring===
+*[[Patrick Sabongui]] as Captain [[David Singh]]
+*[[Kim Engelbrecht]] as [[Marlize DeVoe]]
+*[[Jessica Camacho]] as [[Cynthia|Gypsy]]
+*[[Dominic Burgess]] as [[Ramsey Deacon|Ramsey Deacon/Kilg%re]]
+*[[Donna Pescow]] as [[Sharon Finkel]]
+*[[Donald Heng]] as [[Tim Kwon]]
+*[[Richard Brooks]] as [[Gregory Wolfe]]
+===Co-starring===
+*[[Jovanna Burke]] as Female realtor
+*[[Barbara Ellison]] as Wealthy elderly woman
+*[[Marco Darvasi]] as Uniformed cop
+*[[Ryan McDonell]] as [[Kurt Weaver]]
+*[[Aliza Vellani]] as [[Sheila Agnani]]
 ==Gallery==
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 *[[Clifford DeVoe|DeVoe]] claims to have completed [[Schubert]]'s [[wikipedia:Symphony No. 8 (Schubert)|unfinished eighth symphony]].
 *Cisco mentions how [[Earth-19]] has Saint [[Shaquille O'Neal]]'s Day, referencing the popular retired basketball player.
-*At [[Sharon Finkel]]'s office, Barry finds a newspaper article that reports about the discovery that [[Oliver Queen]] is the Green Arrow. This is a reference to the twist at the end of the {{S|Arrow}} episode {{Ep|Fallout|page=Fallout (Arrow)}} (which aired one week before this episode), when there was a report on the news about this coming to light, due to a doctored photo of Oliver in the Green Arrow being leaked by an unknown individual (later revealed to be [[Ricardo Diaz]]).
+*At [[Sharon Finkel]]'s office, Barry finds a newspaper article that reports about the discovery that [[Oliver Queen]] is the Green Arrow. This is a reference to the twist at the end of the {{S|Arrow}} episode {{Ep|Fallout (Arrow)}} (which aired one week before this episode), when there was a report on the news about this coming to light, due to a doctored photo of Oliver in the Green Arrow being leaked by an unknown individual (later revealed to be [[Ricardo Diaz]]).
 *When Barry and Iris listed the names of the people they lost, one of the names Iris mentioned was [[Laurel Lance (Earth-1)|Laurel]]. However, Iris never met Laurel on-screen.
 *Barry's HUD display is brought up by lenses that go on his eyes. In the comics, when Wally was the Flash, he also had lenses similar to this. However they were white.