100 Days of Arrowverse 2017 Volume B: The Flash & Legends of Tomorrow
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"SPEEDSTER'S TRAIL"
(The Flash: Team, part 3 of 10)
"Couldn't see its face, couldn't tell you if it was a man or woman, all I saw was that it was fast… faster than me," Barry reported, the next day, after a second failed attempt. This time Wally had followed, and even he'd had no better luck. This speedster had no interest in 'joining the club.'
There had even been a third sighting that afternoon, though neither of them had tried to give chase this time. They were going to wait, to watch and see what it did, where it went. It was like trying to read a stranger's mind. The speedster had covered a lot of ground in the past two days; the problem now became figuring out what they might have looked to find.
Joe had been called on here, using his skills as a detective in a very direct way for once, under the circumstances. They had isolated the areas visited by the speedster, the better to identify anything in them or about them that might have been in any way telling.
"Most of these places are more residential than commercial," he had immediately noted. "No banks, no labs, nothing most of our usual suspects have gravitated to."
"If that was a reference, nicely done," Cisco told him, turning to his screen again. "And he's right. And I can to that not a single report of break-ins, thefts, or attacks, matching anything that could scream 'speedster.'"
"Then whatever they're looking for," HR concluded, drumsticks twirling in hand, "They haven't found it yet."
"But it thought it might, so what is it about those places?" Iris asked. And now here they were again, searching for a pattern where none stood out. "It could be trying to bury the lead, but if that's what it is, then why would it do that unless it assumes we'd know what it was looking for otherwise."
They stopped, then looked at the map again. The more he thought about it, about both times he'd chased this speedster, it had sort of felt as though whoever it was worked extra hard to stay hidden – from him.
"Move, I have an idea," Caitlin was nudging at Cisco now. He protested, but he moved. Rather than ask what she was up to, they watched. She looked to be pulling up addresses, many of them, and the names that scrolled by each belonged to people they knew, people they had interacted with closely, home addresses, work, anything that might have been known to them. And then they were transposed to the map, numbered dots spanning the whole of Central City.
"Oh, good show, Dr. Snow," Cisco commandeered his seat again. "Alright, so eliminating anyone outside the target areas, we are left with… this." Some dots disappeared, though many still remained. It was narrowing their search, but it was still…
"Wait…" Caitlin piped back in, eyes flicking from one zone to the other, the dots, the addresses. "Professor Stein lives here," she pointed to the first zone. "And Jax, there," her fingers moved to the second.
"Mick Rory," Joe pointed to the third, seeing it now.
"And this one?" Wally pointed to the last zone. It took a moment for them to find it, barely.
"Dinah Lance lives there," Caitlin explained. "When Black Siren was here, it made sense to know… That's Sara's mother."
"The speedster's looking for the Legends," Barry blinked, staring at the map.
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