The CW Television Network has provided USA Today with a new clip from tonight’s “Tricksters” episode of The Flash.
For those of us that were fans of the original The Flash television series that ran on CBS from 1990 to 1991 tonight’s “Tricksters” episode will be extra special. On that short-lived series Star Wars actor Mark Hamill played The Trickster and now he will reprise the role of the goofy yet sinister villain on CW’s The Flash. Where has his Trickster been all this time? Locked up in prison, of course. But now that a copycat Trickster is on the loose Barry and Detective Joe West seek help from the old Trickster.
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Check out a new clip from “Tricksters” in the video below. Listen closely, Hamill sounds quite a bit like The Joker, who he voiced in Batman: The Animated Series. Beat that, Jared Leto!
A copycat killer who goes by the name “The Trickster” (guest star Devon Graye) starts setting off bombs in Central City. In order to stop the villain, Barry (Grant Gustin) and Joe (Jesse L. Martin) meet with the original Trickster, a criminal mastermind named James Jesse (guest star Mark Hamill), who has been imprisoned for 20 years. Things quickly go from bad to worse when the Tricksters unite and take Henry (John Wesley Shipp) prisoner. Meanwhile, Iris (Candice Patton) asks Eddie (Rick Cosnett) for help with a case, and flashbacks show how Harrison Wells (Tom Cavanagh) came up with the idea for the particle accelerator. Ralph Hemecker directed the episode written by Andrew Kreisberg (#117).
Meet the villain who’s all tricks and no joke. The Flash is all new Tuesday at 8/7c.
