Steps to make Flashlight work on 10.10.4 (doesn't work for El Capitan)
tell application "Spotlight" to inject SIMBL into Snow Leopard
That's it. Thanks to hufufuf for the explanation of how he did it.
(b) Flashlight.osax is in
/Applications/Flashlight.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/FlashlightSIMBLAgent.app/Contents/PlugIns/
(a) SpotlightSIMBL.bundle is in
/Applications/Flashlight.app/Contents/Library/LoginItems/FlashlightSIMBLAgent.app/Contents/Resources/SIMBLPlugins/