"Normally, it doesn't," Iris has to admit, cringing a little. "I'm not an expert, so you'd have to ask Cisco for the nitty-gritty, but the lighting strike activated some sort of like... inner defense mechanism. It was dormant until he was in a life-or-death situation? Something like that."

Now she's wishing she had paid more attention in biology or chemistry, because she's woefully under-prepared for this science talk and she knows it.

"Sorry, um. I'm a journalist, not a scientist."