Police Forensics Scientist, Barry Allen, is led to the office of a self-help guru, by his girlfriend, reporter Iris West. While in the office, Allen overhears a news bulletin, regarding the Mirror Master's escape from prison. Allen sneaks out of the office, to investigate the case, as the Flash. Led to the Mirror Master's cell by the prison's warden, the Flash determines how the Mirror Master escaped. The Mirror Master drew a bolt of lightning into a bucket of sand, with a loose piece of wire. The lightning bolt fused the sand into glass, which the Mirror Master then ground and polished into a mirror. With a mirror in his possession, escape was child's play.

Unbeknownst to the Flash, the Mirror Master's motivation for escaping was due to his poor showing in a poll of most successful criminals, published in the prison's paper. Prior to beginning his newest criminal campaign, the Mirror Master creates two mirror bodyguards to protect him from the Flash. The Mirror Master strikes first at a downtown salon. When the Flash arrives on the scene, the Mirror Master quickly activates his mirror bodyguards. The mirror images blast the Flash into unconsciousness. Upon recovering, the Flash attunes his inner vibrations to the same frequency the Mirror Master used to create his mirror bodyguards.

In this way, the Flash is able to track the Mirror Master back to his hidden lair. Checking his standing in the prison newspaper, the Mirror Master is overjoyed that, once again, he tops the list of Central City's most successful criminals. Storming the Mirror Master's lair, the Flash uses his mastery over his molecular structure to split off his own duplicates. While the Flash's duplicates engage the mirror bodyguards, the Flash, himself, takes down the Mirror Master. By the time the Mirror Master is incarcerated, his standing in the prison poll has hit rock bottom. Over dinner, West chastises Allen for running out on her. Much to Allen's chagrin, West has enrolled him in the self-help course.

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