Detective Joe West met with Barry, Astrid, Caitlin, Cisco and Harry in the STAR Labs cortex to gather a full description of the robbery that had taken place the night before.
The Flash had searched all night for the criminal, who was an exact double of Astrid Sutherland, complete with her fingerprints, but had come up empty handed.
"While I am both surprised and curious as to how DR Wells is back, we should get back to the matter at hand… this, other Astrid… Were there any differences between them, at all?" Joe asked the group.
Barry went over the surveillance footage alongside Cisco and Joe at the computer. "Her clothing style." Barry said, "…and the way she walks."
"Yeah… This Astrid is seriously hiding something, she's acting very suspicious…" Cisco replied, "…like she's nervous or something. Also, Astrid doesn't dress in fur."
Astrid, Caitlin and Harry reentered the cortex. "Whoever she was..." Astrid said, "...she was only looking for money. But, it seems like she's been in here before... she knew exactly where to go, she went straight to my safe."
"Nothing was taken from my vault either…" Harry replied.
"Or the medicine cupboards, so she wasn't looking for drugs." Caitlin replied.
"Could she be Astrid's doppelganger from another earth?" Joe asked them.
"That would be something…" Astrid replied, "But, no… I have no other doppelgangers. I'm only alive on this earth because the gods allowed for Barry to travel through time and save me."
Joe shook his head, "That never gets easier to understand… Alright. I'll look into it. I'll report back to Captain Singh and keep you all updated… Barry, did you want to go with me?"
Barry glanced over at Caitlin, who had returned back to her medical bay, "Joe, could you give me a moment, please?"
Joe nodded and so Barry made his way towards Caitlin. "Hey, Cait… I was thinking about you and I going out for lunch or something this afternoon. I want to make it special just you and me."
Caitlin smiled at him, she thought back to what Astrid had told her about self-sabotaging her relationship with Barry. "Sure Barry. What did you have in mind?"
"It's a surprise." He said with a smile, he gave her a quick peck on the cheek and disappeared with Joe over to CCPD.
Astrid approached Caitlin, "I'm glad to see you're taking my advice." She said with a warm smile.
"Why don't we just find your thieving double." Caitlin replied, her face blushing.
"Hey… Astrid having a double sort of gives me a few ideas." Cisco said as he stepped towards them.
"This I have to hear…" Astrid replied, raising her eyebrows.
Cisco grinned, "Well, you don't need to hear all the ideas I have… but, you know… you could quite literally be in two places at once… that would be pretty awesome… like you could be helping save the city and sitting a board meeting or a press conference at the same time… think about it…"
"Speaking of press conferences…" Harry replied as he turned the volume up on the news.
There were reports of Astrid's double being involved in crimes around town and quite literally disappearing afterwards.
"Ok… I didn't do that…" Astrid said pointing at the screen.
"Let's just hope Barry and Joe get to the bottom of this immediately!" Caitlin replied.
Over at CCPD, Barry and Joe alerted Captain Singh with their findings on the theft at STAR labs.
"The press is having a field day with all these thefts that they believe were done by Miss Sutherland. It just doesn't make sense!" Captain Singh said, "Please tell me that Captain Cold hasn't convinced her to go on another crime spree, like they did with Mercury Labs last year… it took me ages to deal with that one."
"I can vouch for her, Captain. It certainly wasn't Astrid… this time, besides… Captain Cold isn't anywhere in our time… zone. Time zone." Barry said.
Captain Singh looked up at Barry, "time zone, Barry? Alright… I'll take your word… but this girl has her finger prints on everything."
The door was suddenly opened, a female blonde officer hurried in. "Sorry I'm late, Captain Singh. I have been going over these reports all morning. I believe that Miss Sutherland is being set up. Before you send out these officers to arrest her… can you please, just take a look at these? All these cases have one thing in common… While all the DNA points to these suspects being the culprits… their backgrounds state otherwise. Murders, acts of cannibalism and robberies all these crimes are entirely out of character for these people… should I go on to mention that Barry Allen's father was susp…"
The woman stopped rambling as she saw that Captain Singh, Barry and Joe were all staring at her.
"Why is everybody looking at me like that?" she asked, confused.
"Joe… this young detective is your new partner. Detective Patty Spivot. Patty... this is your new partner Detective Joe West, and as you may be aware… Mr Barry Allen." Captain Singh said pointing at the two men.
"So… these aren't the officers that you are going to have arrest Astrid Sutherland?" she asked.
"Quite the opposite, actually." Barry replied, holding his hand out for the girl to shake. "I'm actually best friends with her and we're here to report a robbery up at STAR Labs."
Patty adjusted her glasses and shook Barry's hand "wow. You're Barry Allen? The Barry Allen… The Barry Allen who caught the speedster who both killed his mother and framed his father for it? Wow, this is pretty exciting for me… sorry, real fangirl moment right here!"
"This is my partner?" Joe demanded of Captain Singh, "She barely looks old enough to be out of the academy."
"I'm actually twenty-six… but I get that a lot, so I forgive you, i also take it as a compliment… and I promise that I'm good at my job… take these reports for instance!" she said in her defense.
"At least the three of you are in agreement with the fact that Astrid did not commit these crimes. So find the culprit who did. Joe, I trust that you can take Patty out and show her the ropes." Captain Singh said waving them out of his door.
"Thank you, Captain! You won't regret this!" Patty said excitedly as she left with Joe and Barry.
Joe led Barry and his new partner Patty to his office, where she took over Eddie's old desk. They began pouring over the articles.
"You see?" Patty began looking over the article that Barry had been reading over. "It's like every one of these people have an exact double… they all have the same finger prints, the MO is exactly the same in every crime. As if they're all part of some group of copy-cat criminals and unless Astrid is part of that group, which I highly doubt… Plus, we live in a world of meta-humans… there has to be some sort of link here."
Barry looked up at Joe, who knew exactly what he was going to do.
"Can the two of you excuse me for one moment, please?" Barry asked them with a hint of excitement.
"But, we're in the middle of a case?" Patty asked him.
"Go, Barry." Joe said.
Barry ran out of CCPD and over to the cortex, where the group were still gathered and blurted out "We're not dealing with a replica of Astrid… but with someone who can pose as many different people as they choose."
"What do you mean?" Astrid asked him.
Barry held up the report to show them. "All these crimes consist of entirely different people, with only one MO… He has to be a meta-human. There's no other way."
"Are you saying that this man can turn into any one he wants?" Caitlin asked, confused.
"Yeah… Anyone, everyone…"
"Everyman!" Cisco butted in excitedly. "You guys, I think it's Morphin time!"
