The Flash Episode 3 Title, Creative Team Revealed

We missed this in the press of Comic Con prep this week, but The Flash star Grant Gustin posted the episode cover sheet for the series' upcoming third episode to his Instagram page on Thursday night.

The episode, titled "Things You Can't Outrun," will be the first directed by someone other than David Nutter, who directed the pilot and then returned for episode two, "The Fastest Man Alive."

"Things You Can't Outrun" will be directed by Jesse Warn and it's written by Alison Schapker & Grainne Godfree. Godfree is an import from the recently-cancelled The Tomorrow People, where she presumably got a feel for Robbie Amell, that series' star and a recurring guest on The Flash this year. Schapker is a veteran of fan-favorite genre TV, from Alias and Lost to Fringe and Almost Human. Warn, best known for work on Spartacus (from where Arrow often recruits actors), has also directed episodes of True Blood and Arrow.

So far the titles are keeping with the speed puns, something that both Executive Producer Geoff Johns and Mark Waid, the influential '90s Flash writer from whom the show openly takes a lot of inspiration, did often.

Thanks to Flash TV News, who pointed this out; they were also at the Television Critics Association yesterday, where site editor Craig Byrne took in the panel for The Flash and came back with a few more tidbits about Felicity Smoak's appearance in The Flash's fourth episode, titled "Going Rogue."

"It's an episode where Barry's beginning to question his teammates, and Felicity coming along is not just to reconnect with him," Executive Producer Andrew Kreisberg told the site. "it actually serves a grander purpose, which is that Felicity is somebody who knows how difficult it is to have teammates who are fighting crime. So, she's there to offer some sage advice, both to Barry and to to Caitlin, Cisco, and Wells. So we're really excited."

The Flash will air on The CW on Tuesdays starting October 7. The pilot will be screened publicly for the first time at Comic Con International: San Diego next week.