Joe West quotes from The Flash

Joe

You have people that sit up at night worried sick about you, and they're not going to stop worrying about you. That's what a family does. They put up with each other and they put up each other first, before ourselves.

Wally

So you're not mad at me?

Joe

For being reckless with your life? Yeah, hell yeah, I'm mad at you. But I'm more mad at myself for being something I'm not. I'm not your friend, Wally. I'm your father. I ain't letting you go.

Joe

I don't suppose my home owner's insurance covers a Sharknado attack.

Wally

I don't understand you people. Jaws busts through here like the Kool-Aid Man, The Flash shows up, and y'all act like it's no big deal.

Iris

Yeah, we've had a lot of weird things happen in Central City over the past two years.

Wally

Weirder than a talking shark wearing pants?

Joe

How do you use this?

Wells

Make sure you aim it, and then you pull the trigger.

Joe

Smart ass.

Joe

Why the charade? Running around dressed like the Flash?

Zolomon

To give people hope, detective.

Joe

Hope?

Zolomon

So I can rip it away from them. It's so fun pretending to be a hero.

Caitlin

You are no hero. You're nothing but a monster.

Cisco

Why is it that bad guys always insist on having the creepiest hideouts?

Joe

Because they crazy.

Joe

How are you feeling?

Wally

Tired, but fine, I guess.

Joe

So you don't notice anything different?

Wally

Uh, no.

Joe

I mean, I want you to know you can come and talk to me if you're scared or... you have questions about how your body's changing.

Wally

I think you're a little late for the puberty talk, Dad. I've seen the Internet.

Joe

Wally, these are not just guys, these are metahumans! Leave this to the cops and the Flash!

Wally

The Flash can't be everywhere at once. I... I have to do what I can to help. I have to show him I was worth... being saved.

Joe

Wally... you are worth it.

Wally

Really? Am I? 'Cause last time I checked, I'm the guy who avoided his dying mother for weeks. I'm the guy who shaved a bunch of other guys and illegally took their cars from them. I'm the guy who caused the Flash to lose his powers and start this whole damn "metapocalypse" in the first place.

Joe

Wally --

Wally

Last time I checked, I've a whole lot to make up for. That's what I intend to do.

Wells

All right, we're synced up with whatever the heck that thing is.

Joe

Finally, something we're both baffled by.

Wells

I am kidding. That, my friend, is a 75 KTSB 40,000-watt reverberating sound amplifier, designed to single out the operating frequency of every single Earth-2 being on this planet, which when contained and magnified by the Flash creating a sound pressure wall around the city, will render all of us Earth-2 beings unconscious. Hence, the safety precautions.

Henry

[shrugging] I'm baffled by it.

Barry

Listen, I've been thinking about Wally some more.

Joe

Are you gonna talk to him again?

Barry

No, I'm not.

Joe

Why not?

Barry

Because he's your son, Joe.

Joe

I know he's my son.

Barry

No, what I mean is, he's got your values. He's got your inner drive to help people do what's right. We're supposed to think we're something we're not until we become that thing. That's that path that Wally's on. I'm not gonna stop him from being the hero he's gonna become. I really don't think you should, either.

Joe

[in good humor] I can't wait until you have kids and they torture you. I'm gonna laugh in your face.

Barry

[amused] All right, Gramps.

Joe

"Pa-pa".

Barry

What?

Joe

My grandkids are gonna call me "Pa-pa".

Barry

[walking away laughing] All right.

Barry

Zoom's still out there. We need to come up with a plan.

Cisco

The man can crack open breaches to Earth-2. I mean, if he can do that, what else can he do that we don't know about?

Barry

Right after he killed his time remnant, he told me I was "almost ready."

Iris

Almost ready for what?

Barry

I don't know.

Cisco

Yep. Classic psychopath. Why can't they ever just say what they want to do? We also have to figure out why I keep vibing Earth-2 being ripped to shreds.

Joe

Seriously.

Cisco

It's like I'm watching Transformers in 4-D, but, like, ten times more realistic and with much better acting.

Wally

Okay, so you ran back in time and made a copy of yourself?

Barry

Well, uh... basically, yeah.

Jesse

It's called a time remnant.

Barry

It's not... something that I can do every day, but I needed a way to draw the Time Wraiths out of the Speed Force, hoping that they'd be more upset at what Zoom had done than they'd be at me.

Joe

[to Iris] Is that what I look like when they start talking about science?

Iris

Pretty much.

Joe

Don't worry, Wally, it'll get easier to understand.

Wally

But how does that even work?

Barry

Same way Zoom did it. I ran back in time moments before I left. It's the only way I could be in two places at once.

Wally

[still a bit confused] O-okay, so the-the time remnant, it's still you.

Barry

Yeah.

Caitlin

But he died.

Barry

I...uh, he was willing to sacrifice himself for all of us.

Iris

That's how much he loved us.

Wally

You know what, we'll just forget about it. Uh, Barry, I'm glad you're okay.

Joe

What'd you find out?

Barry

Okay, get this. So the outer layer of the lamppost is a half an inch thick. But to bend even a quarter of an inch of steel requires 177 tons of tensile strength. So...

Joe

So we're looking for a meta with super-strength.

Barry

Well, I'm not sure yet, but that's as much as I could find.

Joe

What? Why?

Julian Albert

Because I showed up. Yes, any problems with Barry's little theory is that there were no fingerprints on the post.

Barry

Again, Julian, not my theory. And the meta could have been wearing gloves.

Julian

Yes, perhaps. But the curvature on the post suggests that equal amounts of pressure were applied to the whole thing at the same time. So, unless our strongman has a wingspan of over twenty feet...

Joe

Something else caused it.

Julian

Yes.

Barry

Hey, Joe. Did you talk to Wally? He still seems a little bummed.

Joe

Eh, it's not gonna fix itself overnight, but it's all good. He gets it.

Barry

Okay.

Joe

And I gotta be honest, it was one of my better Dad Cop speeches.

Barry

What's "Dad Cop"?

Joe

Uh, there's Good Cop, Bad Cop,... and Dad Cop. Firm but reassuring. Cuts to the point.

Barry

I don't think I know that one.

Joe

Yeah, I didn't use it on you. Wally's different than you, Barry. You're like a... second daughter. You overshare your feelings. Him, I gotta be a little more... nuanced.

Barry

[taking that in] Huh. Cool.

Joe

I'm messing with you. [He and Barry share a little laugh] I'll talk at'cha if I get any leads on Frankie, all right? [walks off]

Barry

All right. [mutters to himself] "Second daughter"? What is he... talking about?

Joe

You been hanging out here a lot lately.

Iris

Yeah, well, there's a lot of scared people with this monster running around the city.

Joe

Oh, we'll get him. We always do.

Iris

Oh, yeah? Is that a quote I can use for my article?

Joe

[emphatically] No!

Iris

All right, it was worth a try.

Wally

Why don't we say what this is really about? You're okay with Barry having powers. You're okay with Barry running into danger, fighting all these metas. He could screw up over and over again, and you're okay with all of it because he's Barry. But you won't give me the same amount of leeway because at the end of the day, you just don't... trust me.

Barry

You know that's not true, Wally.

Wally

I don't need you to fight my dad's battles for him. Say it, Joe. You don't... trust me, do you?

Joe

Wally,....

Wally

That's what I thought. [leaves]