"Beat the Clock" is the eleventh episode of the superhero action/fantasy series The Flash and the twelfth episode of the series overall (if one counts the two-part series premiere as two episodes). It was directed by Mario Azzopardi and written by Jim Trombetta. It first aired on CBS on Saturday, January 31st, 1991 at 8:00 pm. In this episode, a jazz saxophone player named Wayne Cotrell sits on death row awaiting to be executed for the murder of a woman named Linda Lake. His oldest friend, Julio Mendez, believes that he is innocent and Barry Allen takes it upon himself to ferret out the truth. It's a race against the clock as an innocent man's life hangs in the balance.
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Cast
Principal Cast
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Notes & Trivia
- Production code number: 187111.
- This episode is rated TV-PG (retroactive ratings classification).
- This is the second episode of The Flash written by Jim Trombetta. he writes three episodes of the series in total.
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Quotes
- Julio Mendez: He'll have those tapes on discs before Wayne's corpse is even cold. Elliot is all business man. This place is his entire life, even has an apartment upstairs.
- Barry Allen: He lied about Buell.
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