In the "stretched scene" Ralph chats with Iris West (Candice Patton), and he's sporting a pair of glasses, which he explains Cisco Ramon (Carlos Valdes, not appearing in this scene) set up with a HUD. He references Cyrano DeBergerac (getting the name wrong, Iris corrects him), a play with a scene in which a writer remotely provides words for someone to say. We then see a small bit of text Ralph is seemingly going to read off.
Umm, guys? They might have needed a sugar boost and decided to treat themselves to one.
As Ralph leaves, Iris reminds him not to "interrupt a bride in wedding plan mode." He respectfully motions that the point has been taken and goes on his way.
It was rather ironic that Ralph was not in the episode as part of it featured Barry Allen (Grant Gustin) investigating Clifford DeVoe (Neil Sandilands), who manages to report Barry's investigation as harassment to the police, getting Barry suspended. Barry's over-reach into trying to dig up evidence on DeVoe echoes the situation that got Ralph removed from the police force, and not seeing Ralph react to this turn of events feels like a missed opportunity.
Next week is the major crossover between the DC shows on the CW, and Hartley Sawyer has reported that he is not in it, which is strange as the setting for the crossover is Barry and Iris' wedding, and you would imagine that Ralph would have attended since he's in their lives. Perhaps we'll see yet another "Stretched Scene" revealing where he is.
In a little bit of trivia, when Stephen DeStefano designed Ralph's third costume in the comics, he had the idea to give him glasses, specifically "granny style" glasses. While this was nixed and I can't recall Ralph wearing glasses in any comics I've seen, it's interesting to see him with glasses that are also going to be a tool in his investigations on The Flash.
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