THE FLASH: Tom Cavanagh on the Mysterious Dr. Wells

For as many fun things that THE FLASH set up with last week’s series premiere, one of the biggest questions most viewers had coming out of the hour was what the heck was going on with Dr. Harrison Wells?

At first, Dr. Wells appeared to simply be the S.T.A.R. Labs director, who’s helping Barry partially as an attempt to salvage his research. But the final moments of the opening episode revealed that Wells had a secret room — where he had a holographic newspaper from 2024 that states that The Flash has disappeared.

I sat down with Tom Cavanagh (Dr. Wells) to get his take on where the character fits in with Team Flash, how much he knew about the character when he agreed to join the show, and more…

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