James Jesse, in prison since his defeat at the hands of the Flash, devises a way to escape from jail. When the prisoners are instructed to make toys for orphaned children, James has rigged a toy airplane to actually fly and uses it to escape from the prison yard.

The news spreads quickly and Iris West is put on assignment to report the escape of the Trickster. Iris refreshes herself on the history of the Trickster and how he was previously defeated by the Flash. Now busy with the assignment she calls Barry to cancel a lunch date, which works out for Barry -- having heard the news -- as he was going to break off the date as well so that he could try to find the Trickster before he can pull off any additional crimes.

The scarlet speedster comes across a jewel robbery in progress and easily captures the crooks and when he is turning them over to the police, he is shocked when the Trickster appears and steals the jewels right out of his hand. Flash follows after the Trickster at super-speed as his foe flees on his special trick shoes. Try as he might, the Flash fails to capture the Trickster and his foe makes a clean getaway.

This sets the tone for their next few encounters, as the Flash would round up other crooks in the middle of a robbery, only to have the Trickster appear with some toy-related gimmick to steal the look and successfully escape. Putting his deductive reasoning to work, the Flash realizes that he Trickster must be using a toy factory to come up with his new theft devices, and deducing that he is not stealing these items, but working in toy factories at night, the Flash goes out and searches all the city's toy factories. He finds the Trickster hard at work on his next invention.

The Trickster is prepared for the Flash, and rigs up an explosive trap for the Scarlet Speedster, however, the plan backfires when Flash uses his super-speed to race away from the explosion and race around and capture the Trickster. Giving up on outsmarting the Flash, the Trickster surrenders and allows himself to be turned over to the police. Later, when in his civilian guise, Barry is taken to a dance by Iris West and he has to stop dancing due to his sore feet. When Iris chides him for being lazy, Barry has to bite his lip and accept her criticisms as he cannot reveal the fact that he ran five thousand miles that day as the Flash in order to preserve his secret identity.

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