CWPoor Caitlin Snow.
First, the Flash's genius scientist (Danielle Panabaker) lost her husband-to-be in the S.T.A.R. Labs particle accelerator explosion. Then she miraculously got him back—and then she lost him again when he sacrificed himself to save Central City.
She finally started to move on with Jay Garrick (Teddy Sears), the Earth-2 hero who taught Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) some important speedster knowledge, but then she (and everyone) saw Jay pulled through a breach by the evil Zoom and assumed he was dead—until everyone found out that Jay was actually Zoom the whole time.
Seriously, WTF?!
Now, at the end of Tuesday's episode, Caitlin finds herself a prisoner of Zoom's. After all that heartache, she's now been kidnapped by the man she thought she was falling for. It's enough to make anyone's heart turn cold—especially one that we know has the capacity to go full villain (she is Killer Frost on Earth-2, after all).
Flash star Sears, who plays the good-guy-turned-bad-guy (who was actually a bad guy all along) Hunter Zolomon, says Caitlin will have to seriously fight her impulses to say "screw it" and turn evil.
"We've seen her be Killer Frost. We see her heart wants to grow cold, is how I can put it," he tells E! News. "Then she then has to begin to struggle with [the idea that] here's another guy who I thought I loved who is now gone—not physically gone like Ronnie, but he's gone. The prospect of him is gone. Just like in life, how does one react to that sort of thing? There are two very distinct ways to go."
Of course, there's something very important to note: Even though Hunter Zolomon might be a convicted serial killer (and also, you know, an evil supervillain), his feelings for Caitlin were real.
"It needs to be said that while 'Jay Garrick' has managed to ingratiate himself with all the members of S.T.A.R. Labs and really to convince them that he is someone that he's not, the one thing he always was with Caitlin was real and honest," Sears says. "He loves her. The connection they have was always real. He's a broken man who doesn't see things clearly. His brain doesn't function exactly the rest of ours. There is a reason why he does take her, which makes great sense to him, which we will get into why in the near future."
So while the potential for Caitlin to go evil is there, it might not be acted upon. "I'm not saying she becomes Killer Frost in life at all," Sears clarifies, "but we all know from seeing her doppelganger that she has that potential. She begins to internalize what she has to do next with this new information. Who will she become? How will she react?"
What do you think this latest tragedy will do to Caitlin? Can the poor woman ever recover? Leave your thoughts in the comments below!
The Flash airs Mondays at 8 p.m. on The CW.