Elsewhere…

In the abandoned laboratory he was currently using as his hideout, the man known as Professor Thawne was plotting, something he has both natural talent and great experience in. Professor Thawne was a man in the grips of an obsession, an obsession over The Flash. More accurately, he was obsessed with The Flash's powers. He had long theorized that with a large power source and the right chemical formula, the human body could move at speed usually reserved for fighter jets.

When, after many attempts, he was unable to find the correct chemical formula, he had reluctantly abandoned his ambitions. When the Flash had zoomed onto the scene his ambition had returned.

With avengeance.

"I must find a way to gather data on the Flash," Thawne muttered to himself "but he's so fast, I can barely keep track of him, let alone set up all the sensitive equipment necessary to test his speed". "What to do, what to do?" he thought as he started absently tinkering around with a strange device.

The device in question was a blue handgun, modeled in the Glock tradition. Unlike most guns, which were designed to give bullets, this gun was designed to take heat from the surrounding area, in essences generating extreme cold. It had been Thawne's intention to use this "cold gun" to freeze the Flash in place, and thus capture him, but he scrapped the idea when he realized the gun, out of necessity, would have a limited range, forcing Thawne to put himself in harms way.

Like he would ever do that! What lame kind of mastermind does anything for himself?

"What I need is field tester,", Thawne thought out loud, his mind now on the possibilities of the device. "Someone to capture The Flash for me. A patsy, a stool pigeon, a cats paw, a pawn".

Thawne paused. "Mental note," he said, "stop talking to myself and get better entertainment than reading the thesaurus for fun".

"Maybe I should watch the eleven-o-clock news. That always cheers me up" Thawne thought reveling more of his personality than he realized. Thawne turned on the news and was greeted by the charming face of Iris West. "In other news" Iris spoke "The robbery of the Needmen jewelry store was foiled today by the masked vigilante known has the Flash, the culprit Leonard Snart was taken into custody".

Then Thawne got an idea. Thawne got an awful idea. Thawne got a wonderfully awful idea.

No, it had nothing to do with Christmas.

Except perhaps the snow.