The Flash is a 1990 American action drama superhero television film based on the DC Comics character of the same name created by Robert Kanigher and Carmine Infantino.
Produced by Pet Fly Productions and Warner Bros. Television, it was directed by Robert Iscove and developed and written by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo and stars an ensemble cast of John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen / Flash, alongside Amanda Pays, Alex Desert, Paula Marshall, Michael Nader, Tim Thomerson, Priscilla Pointer, Lycia Naff, Richard Belzer, Robert Hooks and M. Emmet Walsh.
[3] The series have been released on Blu-ray in June 2024 which features brand new 1080p HD masters that were created from the 4k scans of the original camera negatives.
Barry Allen, a forensic scientist working for the Central City Police Department (CCPD), is summoned alongside Julio Mendez, his close friend and co-worker, to take a sample of tire tracks for an analysis at his lab where he is accidentally struck by lightning and doused in electricity and nearby chemical products, leaving himself to be hospitalized.
As a result, Iris West, a computer graphics artist whom Barry is dating with and intends to marry, breaks up with him, feeling that their relationship is moving too fast.
At Jay's funeral, Barry, conflicted in anguish over losing his brother, asks Henry, his estranged father and a retired CCPD veteran sergeant, for his blessing in tracking down Pike, but Henry declines his request, so Barry convinces Tina to help him avenge Jay's death by providing him in with a special scarlet prototype deep sea diving-suit from Russia designed to withstand friction and pressure in order to conceal his identity so that he can fight back against Pike and his gang as a vigilante.
Angered at his plans being disrupted due to Barry's interferences in his operations, Pike decides to break into prison one night, kill the guards and liberate Lila, the detained Dark Rikers and several unrelated inmmates with the stolen weapons.