The Flash 1x15 Deadly Nightshade

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First Aired: Mar. 30, 1991 on CBS

Summary: The Nightshade must come out of retirement once more to help the Flash when an unknown vigilante takes on the aged hero's name... but brutally guns down criminals.

Main Characters in this Episode

Guest Stars

Christina 'Tina' McGee	played by Amanda Pays
Dr. Desmond Powell	played by Jason Bernard
Nightshade	played by Jason Bernard
Curtis Bohannan	played by Richard Burgi
Deadly Nightshade	played by Richard Burgi
Dr. Rebecca Frost	played by Denise Crosby
Chesley Keefe	played by Will McMillan
Pearl	played by Gloria LeRoy

Episode Quotes

Curtis Bohannan: Fear me, death merchants!
Steve 4X: What the hell are you?
Curtis Bohannan: Justice.

Rebecca Frost: Oh, no. I'm much too busy.

Barry Allen: You saved my life, and you're the only other person I know who wears the mask.
Dr. Desmond Powell: Oh, no. Wore. I came out of retirement for that Ghost business. Thought I was twenty-five again.

Mistakes/Goofs

Goof (miscellaneous): A newspaper headline confirms that Curtis' family name is "Bohannon." However, the end credits give the character's name as "Bohannan."
Goof (revealing mistake): Kline's show is at 10 p.m. in the evening and broadcast live. However, when Tina and Barry watch it at Barry's apartment, it's broad daylight outside the window.

Trivia

Researching police files on The Nightshade, Lt. Garfield reads a confidential statement from "Police Captain Julius Schwartz." Julius Schwartz was one of the creators of the DC Comics character of the Silver Age Flash (on whom this series is based).
The Nightshade, in trying to regain the confidence of Fosnight (his former source), speaks of "...the last time I brought you down; you were short timing for Gorilla Grodd in Helltown." Gorilla Grodd is a member of the Silver Age Flash's "Rogues Gallery" in the DC Comics series on which the series is based.
This Flash tale pre-unites two Star Trek crew members: Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar) and Jeri Ryan (later Seven of Nine) in one of her first acting roles. Crosby, recently killed off on TNG, here serves as Ryan's Psychiatrist. Each a major Federation pin-up, neither served aboard any Trek episode together.