“The Flash” will be switching things up for season 4 because the big bad won’t be a speedster this year. Instead Team Flash will be facing off against Clifford DeVoe, aka The Thinker, who has been described as “an intelligence threat.”
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It’s been teased that The Thinker will be playing a psychological game with Team Flash, and what The Thinker is trying to accomplish with his big plan will be a mystery that the team will try to solve throughout the season.
Executive producer Andrew Kreisberg recently spoke to TV Insider about what fans can expect from The Thinker, and he noted that he won’t be out to destroy The Flash, because he needs him.
Kreisberg teased, “He has a need for him, I would say is more accurate.”
What exactly that means remains to be seen, but fans of the show are sure to have fun trying to figure it all out in season 4.
“The Flash” season 4 will premiere on Tuesday, October 10.
Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) lived a normal life as a perpetually tardy C.S.I. in the Central City Police Department. Barry’s life changed forever when the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator exploded, creating a dark-matter lightning storm that struck Barry, bestowing him with super-speed and making him the fastest man alive — The Flash. But when Barry used his extraordinary abilities to travel back in time and save his mother’s life, he inadvertently created an alternate timeline known as Flashpoint; a phenomenon that gave birth to the villainous speed god known as Savitar, and changed the lives of Caitlin Snow (Danielle Panabaker) and Wally West (Keiyan Lonsdale) forever.
With the help of his adoptive father, Joe West (Jesse L. Martin), his lifelong best friend and love interest Iris West (Candice Patton), and his friends at S.T.A.R. Labs — Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes), C.S.I Julian Albert (Tom Felton), and an Earth-19 novelist named H.R. Wells (Tom Cavanaugh) — Barry continues to protect the people of Central City from the meta-humans that threaten it.
Based on the characters from DC, THE FLASH is from Bonanza Productions Inc. in association with Berlanti Productions and Warner Bros. Television, with executive producers Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “Supergirl”), Andrew Kreisberg (“Arrow,” “The Flash”), Sarah Schechter (“Arrow,” “DC’s Legends of Tomorrow”) and Todd Helbing (“Black Sails”).
