'Bring me The Flash!' the great ape bellowed telepathically. Astrid probed his mind to find out why he wanted Barry.

'Intruder!' Grodd's telepathic voice yelled, ringing throughout their minds as he looked right at her.
'You… Astrid Sutherland will come with me!'

"No I won't!" Astrid yelled at him. Suddenly, Cisco grabbed her by the shoulders and began to push her forward towards him.
"Cisco! What are you doing?" she demanded of him, but she couldn't shrug him off. She knew that he was in some sort of trance.

All of a sudden, The Flash appeared before them both, separating them and taking Cisco back to the 97th floor, so he was safe and out of the way.

The Flash reappeared to find that Martin, Ronnie and Caitlin were all frozen in place. Astrid stood facing Grodd. It was as if she were arguing with him telepathically.

'I will not go with you! How dare you try to use my friends against me! We helped you escape the torture of those scientists. You know this!' Astrid said, using her mind.

'I do not want to hurt you! I can teach you how to use your powers. We can create an army…' Grodd told her.

'An army? An army for what?' she questioned him, but the gorilla did not respond. His attention was fixed on The Flash who had removed Martin, Caitlin and Ronnie from the scene. 'The Flash!' Grodd communicated to both Barry and Astrid. 'Why can't I read your mind?'

Grodd concentrated hard on manipulating Astrid's mind, he managed to take control. Astrid walked towards the large ape at his will. It was clear that while he had come to kill Barry, learning that Astrid shared the same gift as he, had changed his plans.

Barry ran to help her but Grodd stood in the way and swiped him back, knocking him off his feet. Once again, he had strength that Barry could not believe. "You may leave! Flash!" Astrid yelled. There was an eerie echo to her voice that he knew belonged to Grodd. She was still under the control of the ape, "Before I use this one to kill you!"

Barry stared at Astrid. He knew that he could not help her right now. He needed an army. He needed CCPD. "Leave now!" Astrid told him again, "Or your friends will die!"

Barry had no choice. He ran.

"I can't believe that you let Astrid go with that gorilla," Joe said to Barry. He was frustrated, but knew that now was not the time to be angry. "I have been talking with Captain Singh. He has just started believing that we are dealing with a meta-ape since a few reports have come in. However, it's going to take a lot to get him to work with the Flash."

"Well now we don't have a choice! Grodd has one of Central City's celebrities." Barry replied loud enough for the captain, who was standing right behind him, to hear.

"What did you say, Allen?" the captain chimed in.
"The telepathic gorilla has kidnapped Astrid Sutherland. I was actually here to report it." Barry told him.
Captain Singh groaned out loud. "the media is going to have a field day with this piece of information… Barry, Joe, get that mechanical engineer friend of yours… what was his name? Cicily? Charlie? Never mind... get him to send over that collar… and those tranquilizer bullets. Let's get this beast before the Flash knows what's happening!"

"Something tells me the Flash already knows," Barry sounded back, leaving the office with Joe. Though Captain Singh had not heard him. He was in the process of organizing all of his men, preparing them to hunt down the large intelligent beast.

"It looks like we're going on an ape hunt!" Cisco exclaimed, when Barry and Joe arrived to tell them of Captain Singh's request.
"Firestorm is at your disposal." Martin Stein replied, ready for action.
Ronnie said, "What better way to spend our wedding reception saving out friend from a giant telepathic beast!" There was a hint of sarcasm in his voice.

"I don't like it either, but he has her!" Caitlin replied, "Barry, did Grodd seem like he wanted to hurt Astrid?" She asked. She was deeply concerned.

"Not really? I don't think," Barry replied, unsure, "They were communicating something telepathically, but I didn't get it. But then he was able to manipulate her mind to make her give in. He is definitely a lot stronger than her mentally."

Cisco felt guilty, he knew that he had tried to push her towards Grodd. He also felt that if he hadn't tried to dampen her powers, with her bracelet, she could have learnt to use them by now. But he knew that now was not the time to wallow in self-pity. He ran over to his computer and began tracking Astrid's phone, he needed to know that she was safe. He could not get a signal.

"Get me something of hers. I need to find out where they are." He demanded.

Caitlin looked down at the bracelet on her wrist, she knew that this would be the perfect object, but she did not want to risk removing it. She ran into Astrid's office and pulled out one of her friend's silver hair clips. "Will this work?" she asked handing the clip to Cisco.

"We'll soon see." He told her. The minute he touched it, he knew that it had worked.

Astrid had been walking with the beast for a while now, and she had managed to finally regain control of her mind. Either that or he had let her do so. They were deep underground, in the sewers. The strong stench around her, made her sick to her stomach and she could barely see a thing.

She wanted to run away, but she knew that if Barry was no match for Grodd, she would not stand a chance. Grodd had said something about teaching her to control her powers. How ironic, the thought of an ape teaching a human a thing or two. He wanted to build an army. An army for what?

At that moment, she felt something odd. Someone else had just entered her mind. They were seeing through her eyes, hearing through her ears. But they weren't controlling her, just observing where she was.

"Is anyone else down here?" she asked, aloud. Grodd turned to her and shook his head, 'no'. She had forgotten that he could not speak verbally, only telepathically. But he could understand her just the same.

A thought crossed her mind, maybe Cisco was getting one of his visions. She wanted to help him figure out where she had gone. "Where are we?" she asked the beast.
Grodd looked down at her, as if he were studying her, he then thought back to her, 'Where your friends sent me… It was not a sanctuary.' Astrid was clueless as to what he meant. She knew that it would be pointless to ask him again.

"What do you want with me? What do you need to teach me?" Astrid's fear was beginning to get the better of her. Thanks to Cisco, she had seen the movie King Kong one too many times. But this was no King Kong. This was real life, and this gorilla could read minds.

'I can teach you to not be afraid.' Grodd responded once again, 'you will be able to control the minds of all those around you. You can achieve greatness. You are merely a child with great power. You showed me compassion when we met, but not all humans are the same. We can destroy them. We can enslave them all.'

Cisco had seen and heard everything in his vision. What he had seen and heard terrified him.
"Cisco, what did you see?" Caitlin asked him.
"I'm real good at crappin' the crappers…" He told them, quoting a line from King Kong. "Grodd wants to enslave everybody."

"Did you manage to get a glimpse of where they are?" Joe asked him.
"They're deep in the sewers somewhere… Astrid asked him, I think because she knew I was getting a vision, somehow. He said something about being where her friends had sent him… and then something about it not being a sanctuary… it was real creepy, that's me saying that bit… not him, this whole thing is pretty creepy!" Cisco said.

"He could be talking about the wildlife and animal rescue center," Caitlin informed, "But underground."
"You could be on to something," Barry replied, "That's on the other side of town. Caitlin, can you keep an eye on Cisco's computer, let us know when you can get a signal. We will let Captain Singh know the location."

Cisco gathered the collar and all the tranquilizer bullets, from his table and they all set off for The Central City Police Department.