"Out of Control" is the second episode of The Flash. It aired on September 27, 1990.

Synopsis

Someone is performing horrible, deathly experiments on the homeless people in skid row. The police won't help, but The Flash will.[src]

Cast

Starring

• John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen/The Flash
• Amanda Pays as Tina McGee
• Alex Desert as Julio Mendez

Guest starring

• Vito D'Ambrosio as Tony Bellows
• Biff Manard as Michael Murphy
• Mike Genovese as Lt. Warren Garfield
• Stan Ivar as Dr. Carl Tanner
• Jeff Perry as Charlie Wright
• John Toles-Bey as Father Michael
• Robert Benedetti as Dr. Mortimer
• Michael Earl Reid as Mickey
• Mario Roccuzzo as Sam

Co-starring

• Bill Dunnam as Jack
• Macka Foley as Cop

Uncredited

• Sven-Ole Thorsen as Transformed Carl Tanner

Trivia

• This episode marks the first (and only) time that a main cast member was not present for the episode; that being Paula Marshall (Iris West) due to her character being written out of the series. This leaves only three cast members to appear in every episode: John Wesley Shipp (Barry Allen), Amanda Pays (Tina McGee), and Alex Désert (Julio Mendez).
• CCPD officers Bellows and Murphy report a murder on Gardner and Fox. A reference to Gardner Fox, the co-creator of Jay Garrick, the Golden Age Flash.
• The lightning bolt symbol that eventually will go on The Flash suit (Earth-90) is also initially rendered on the Moon (Earth-90).

References

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"