Alchemy's Identity Revealed On The Flash

On tonight's episode of The Flash, much of the episode was spent with Caitlin Snow searching for Alchemy -- and while she didn't find him (exactly), somebody else did: the audience.

After weeks of wondering just who might be behind that comically strange mask worn by the villain we now know to be the scion of Savitar the self-appointed "speed god," Alchemy made himself known in a surprising way in the closing moments of tonight's episode.

Caitlin, having developed powers she was having a hard time controlling, was looking for Alchemy to help her get rid of them. Given that Savitar has a cult that worships him, of which Alchemy is apparently a member, Snow spent much of the episode trying to track down Savitar's acolytes in the hope that somebody would lead her to Alchemy.

Along the way, that led her to Julian Dorn, the other CSI who worked at the Central City Police Department with Barry. It was by kidnapping him that she was able to find the acolytes of Savitar, and eventually Barry had to bargain for her freedom by agreeing to resign from the police force.

In the closing minutes of the episode -- the one that producers had promised would revealthe identity of the villain -- all of the seemingly-unrelated plot threads were pulled together.

After Barry left the CSI lab, Savitar came to Dorn in the hospital (where he was resting after getting a minor concussion when The Flash punched him to shut him up while he freaked out about Caitlin), and Julian followed that up by heading to the lab, opening his locker, and...

...that's right, Draco Malfoy wields the Philosopher's Stone as Dr. Alchemy on The Flash.

This is not entirely surprising, of course; back in the summer, before the season had started, many fans speculated that Felton had been cast specifically because he's a great bad guy. His response to that, when we asked him about it at Comic Con?