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- For other uses of Trickster, see Trickster (disambiguation).
- "How'd you get involved with, uh... Mandrake here?"
"Routine repo job. His name's James Jesse. Like Jesse James, only backwards and twisted. I followed him across state lines and he turns the tables and starts chasing me. I thought I lost him on the back roads, and then he set up a trap for me here. How was I supposed to know he was a homicidal maniac?" - —The Flash and Megan Lockhart
"The Trickster" is the twelfth episode of The Flash. It aired on February 7, 1991.
Synopsis
| A crazed killer, who fancies himself a sort of evil magician called the Trickster, vows to defeat the Flash so he can have the Flash's/Barry's new girlfriend. |
Cast
Starring
Guest starring
Co-starring
- Vito D'Ambrosio as Officer Tony Bellows
- Biff Manard as Officer Michael Murphy
- Mike Genovese as Lt. Warren Garfield
- Gloria Reuben as Sabrina
- Tim Stack as Jim Kline
- William Long Jr. as Matthews
- Christopher Murray as Williams
Trivia
- This episode, along with "The Trial of the Trickster", was aired following the cancellation of The Flash as the TV movie, The Flash II: Revenge of the Trickster.
- This is the first episode of the show where the main antagonist is based on a character from the DC Comics.
- After Barry Allen saves Megan Lockhart from James Jesse, he calls the latter "Mandrake", referring to his persona as a magician. This is either a reference to Leon Mandrake, a performer known worldwide as "Mandrake the Magician", or the comic strip character of the same name.
- This episode features a few references to Looney Tunes:
- When James says he was first defeated by the Flash, Williams says "Yeah, and I'm Bugs Bunny."
- After Barry defeated James, he told everyone at the ball "That's all Folks!" which is the Looney_Tunes signature closing sequence.
- This episode includes two references to Jay Garrick's Flash. His appearance being nodded to in James Jesse's statue, and in the Flash costumes at the costume party Jesse later crashes.
- One of the other guests at the party dresses as Superman, a DC Comics hero known for working with the Flash.
| The Flash | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Pilot" • "Out of Control" • "Watching the Detectives" • "Honor Among Thieves" • "Double Vision" • "Sins of the Father" • "Child's Play" • "Shroud of Death" • "Ghost In The Machine" • "Sight Unseen" • "Beat the Clock" • "The Trickster" • "Tina, is That You?" • "Be My Baby" • "Fast Forward" • "Deadly Nightshade" • "Captain Cold" • "Twin Streaks" • "Done with Mirrors" • "Good Night, Central City" • "Alpha" • "The Trial of the Trickster" | ||||
