Stories I Never Told: The Flash “Swift Justice”

A million years ago (OK, maybe six), I was asked to write some novels based on The Flash TV series. I was, needless to say, chuffed.

Someone at my publisher mentioned that if I did a good job writing the books that maybe I’d get the opportunity to pitch an episode of the show.

This, also needless to say, did not happen.

But recently I was spelunking on my hard drive and I was surprised to find the script, embedded below. Now, I remember coming up with an idea for an episode of the show. I even remember writing up an outline and noodling around with some dialogue.

But I don’t remember actually writing the damn thing!

And yet…here it is. A full episode of The Flash, set somewhere in Season 3, I’d imagine. I know that at the time I was thinking about this, I figured it would be a fill-in episode, so I deliberately wrote it to avoid continuity glitches and such. But as I look at it now, I realize that — especially for a first-timer — it relies way too much on guest stars and special effects. I think it probably would have been pretty expensive.

And even though it was meant to be a one-off, I left a little hook just in case anyone wanted to revisit.

Ah, well.

If you’re interested, enter the world of…Swift Justice!

Flash TV Episode