Felicity Smoak and Ray Palmer pay a visit to Central City for some tech support from the Nerd Herd. Meanwhile, people feel the sting of the latest villain.

Previously on The Flash.... While Barry Allen tried to wrap his adorable head around the fact that his mentor was actually his arch nemesis Reverse Flash, Central City was plagued by a pair of whacky pranksters who thought bombs made hilarious gag gifts. As a result of their nutty hijinks, Henry Allen got confirmation his boy is the Flash, making it so that literally everyone, good guy and bad, knows Barry's secret identity except Iris.

The latest homicide-victim-to-be gets in her car and before she knows it, she's covered in bees! But then she's dead, so she doesn't have to worry about it anymore. She's just lucky it wasn't hornets—those bastards would prefer to kill you slowly.

The best parts of Arrow come to The Flash in the form of Felicity Smoak and her hunky dorky loverboy Ray Palmer, which causes a massive overload of hot adorableness. The effects of that are as yet unknown, but several fan comas may be linked to it.

Felicity has them come outside to await Ray's arrival. And because these writers are totally and wonderfully shameless, they all look skyward as Ray comes into view and this happens:

Felicity: "Up there!"

Caitlin: "Is that a bird?"

Cisco: "It's a plane."

Felicity: "It's ... my boyfriend."

Cisco takes one look at the suit and has a nerdgasm. Barry isn't sure they have time to work on the A.T.O.M. suit, what with some crazy murdering bee keeper on the loose. Cisco won't be deterred. He wants to spend some quality time with Ray and his suit—probably helping him in and out of it and enhancing Ray's experience while wearing it.

Wells is very impressed with the suit, or so he says, but since he's a face-sucking murdering sociopath from the distant future, he's probably lying. But if he really is impressed, then I suppose he'll try to kill Ray and take it.

Ray is grateful for the praise on his suit. "But I'm having trouble keeping it up."

Felicity leaps in to clarify what that means and she and Ray babble adorably and I try really hard not to just melt into a puddle from the attack of cute. It's like being buried in kittens. Caitlin stares at them in disbelief and says, "God, there's two of them."

Yes there are. And they are perfect for each other. See? I can like a hetero ship. I'm not totally obsessed with slash.

Iris is aware that something is up with her boyfriend. I would like to attribute this to her stellar reporter's instincts, but the truth is that Eddie Thawne is a terrible liar. On a show like this, that's totally going to come back to bite him in the ass.

After she leaves, Eddie complains to Joe that he doesn't like lying to Iris because it is seriously impeding his efforts to bone her—not the best argument to use with Joe. However, Joe smoothly moves past that and establishes a strict hierarchy about who gets to decide what Iris gets to know.

In case it wasn't obvious, Iris isn't mentioned as someone in that hierarchy.

Felicity takes Barry for coffee (is caffeine really a good idea for a speedster?) and tries to wring the truth out of him about why he isn't as perky as usual. They're interrupted by Eddie who wants to have a word about the whole keeping Barry's secret thing.

"Oh, it's cool, Felicity knows," Barry tells him.

"Wow. So, everyone but Iris," Eddie says.

Barry admits that's the case but he also clearly doesn't care. Maybe he just understands that he wouldn't be able to peel Iris off with a spatula if she knew he was the Flash and he's not really sure yet if he likes girls in that way.

Hey, it's not really possible!

Cisco and Ray are hard at work on the suit. Cisco is such a multi-tasker. Not only is he working out the answer to Ray's problem while trying to think of a better handle than "The Atom," he's creating inventive scenarios in his head involving Ray and whip cream. The flirting comes to a screeching halt, though, when Cisco has a flashback to the time when Wells killed him.

That's interesting. And disturbing.

Barry is called to the newest murder scene where he finds a swarm of angry bees. For some reason, he forgets how he got into the building and needs Cisco to help him find an escape route. He also seems to have forgotten that he can vibrate through solid objects now.

Which, sadly, results in his death.

Wait, no, it's okay. Come back. The show isn't over. Didn't meant to scare you....

Joe arrives just in time to tell Star Labs what they already know. That gives them the chance to use the defibrillator in Barry's suit. I wonder just what all gadgets Cisco has installed in that thing. And how many he's told Barry about.

Barry is a little miffed that Cisco failed to be awesome for the first time in months. Felicity thinks he's being a little harsh. After all, it's not like Cisco meant for Barry to get stung to death.

"No, why would he?" Barry asks with huge eyes.

And Felicity's like, "man, if I wanted crazy and brooding and miserable I'd have just stayed in Westeros Star City."

Meanwhile, Harrison Wells watches his people with a look like he's wondering which one of them will need a hand through the chest first.

Felicity's brainy idea for how to fix Eddie and Iris is to have a great big dinner outing. She apparently subscribes to my (repeatedly debunked) theory that if you just ignore drama it will go away. No sooner is the first course of French snack food served (on gigantic plates, in the usual French style) then all hell pretty much breaks loose. Barry goes off to brood while Iris and Eddie snipe at each other.

"Okay, Barry, why are you doing a bad Oliver impression?" Felicity asks.

Barry mopes at her about how Wells is kind of sort of a murderer and possibly Caitlin and Cisco are his evil minions. Felicity refuses to believe that—not about Wells. It's easy to believe he's a murderer. She knows her psychos, after all, and she's had her own encounters with Wells to know he's wound way too tight.

But Cisco and Caitlin are simply too adorable to be evil. It cannot be true.

Barry isn't convinced, but the people he suspects may in fact be some sort of Injustice League are in danger so he has to go and save them from a killer bee. He arrives just in the nick of time to prevent Wells from going all Darth Speedster on the bug. After which it's quickly discovered that the bee is actually a robot.

That leads them right to the doorstep of Dr. Tina McGee, who is less than thrilled to see them on account of how they lost her prototype doohickey thing the last time. She does at least point them right at the culprit, but she declines their offer of protection. She can look after herself, after all.... By doing absolutely nothing, as we learn later.

Iris has decided to stay at her dad's until such a time as Eddie comes clean. Barry apparently feels guilty about wrecking their relationship so he talks her down off the ledge and explains that maybe sometimes a cop has a good reason for not telling his girlfriend everything.

And Iris gives him this look like, "Wow, you are such a better friend than I am." Which he is.

Felicity and Caitlin watch Ray and Cisco working on the suit and comment about boys and their toys. Yes, we like our toys. Sometimes we like other boys' toys too. And it's hard to deny, Ray has a pretty cool, um, toy. I think I'll stop now.

Caitlin is pretty impressed with Felicity's boo.

"Yeah, it's like I got Barry's personality in Oliver's body."

Which at first glance is funny and then at second just is awful. So, the reason Barry doesn't rev your engine is because he's not hot enough for you? In addition to being wonderful and brilliant and funny he has to have the rocking bod?

This is why some boys are better off playing with other boys' toys.

Bees attack again, heading for Dr. McGee to make her pay for firing our villain of the week. Man, if I killed people just because they fired me, I'd.... Well, I'd be doing a lot of jail time. Sheesh.

Since Barry isn't bee proof, they send Ray instead. Because his suit is bee proof—except for the open helmet part, but really, why quibble? So Barry gets the job of dealing with the Queen Bee whose name is, I kid you not, Brie Larvan. That's the most obvious moniker since Remus Lupin.

The flaw in their otherwise brilliant plan is the assumption she only had one bee army to use. So while Atom teaches one swarm to swim, another gets ready to sting Flash until he's just one giant blister. It turns out that Brie likes her super heroes like she likes her coffee—covered in bees!

Of course, since they're mechanical, that means Felicity can hack them and then turn them off, which leaves Barry only the job of trussing up Brie and handing her over to the cops.

One bee survives, though, and tries to get revenge on Ray for being all studly and heroic. Cisco ain't having that, however. He intercepts the bee and dies. Again.

Show.... Knock. It. Off. Seriously.

Barry applies a random amount of current to Cisco and brings him back to life, so there's no need for him to go back and alter the space-time continuum again. That's for the best. If he keeps doing that, he might wind up in a world populated entirely by shrimp or something.

Dr. McGee shows up to apologize to Barry for ignoring his warnings about her imminent death by bees. Barry understands, though, that she's still bitter about them losing her high-tech thingy so it's all good.

He would like to know why she hates Wells so much. Like, as in, is it possible Wells has brutally murdered anyone she knows?

"A long time ago, we used to be friends. Then it was like he became a totally different person. It's almost like someone is wearing him as a suit, like a Harrison suit."

Iris goes to Eddie and tells him that Barry gave her a rock-solid and totally understandable reason for why he needs to keep secrets—and that she doesn't care because she really wants to know. So either he forks over the info or she's leaving him.

Barry invites Cisco and Caitlin to his office under the pretenses of karaoke—oh please let us get a chance to see this whole cast at karaoke night! But the truth is he wants to bring them in on the fact that their boss is a totally evil scumbag.

"That's ridiculous! Totally absurd! How can you think such a thing?" demands Caitlin.

But Cisco looks all troubled and in dire need of one of Barry's hugs. He confesses he's been having these dreams about being murdered by Wells and so he's ready to believe that the professor is bad to the bone.

And that's it for this week. Sound off in the comments!