The call came early in the day, Barry and Caitlin had driven to Star Labs, to meet the gang, as Joe had said he had something important to tell them. Now, standing before the widescreen monitor in the lab, Barry watches as video footage is loaded onto the screen and he finds himself asking. "What are we watching Joe?"

Joe looks at his foster son and says. "Footage from Edward Claris's cell in Iron Heights."

Barry wants to ask why they're watching this footage but remains silent. The footage loads, and there stands Edward Claris, Barry has never seen him with his mask off, but he seems a handsome sort of fellow, tall with brownish hair. They see him shouting, but they can't hear the words. "Is there no sound?" he asks.

"The sound got cut out around this time." Joe supplies, looking at Cisco who nods.

"I'll see if I can restore the sound." Cisco says, and begins fiddling with the sound controls on his computer, after one button press, the sound comes and it is foreboding.

Claris's voice is deep and disturbed. "I did what you asked. I challenged him."

A broken voice sounds in return. "You did what I asked, but you did not do everything. You did not take out his disciple."

"There was no disciple. There was only him. The Flash was the only one there. I could not take out someone who was not there." Claris replies his voice fearful.

"We told you who his disciple was and where to find him. You failed." The voices reply sounding like a cacophony.

"Please…I can still help." Claris says getting to his knees.

"Help…." The voice replies. "I think not." The group watch spell bound as Claris is thrown from one place to another, by a force none of them can see, and then a spike protrudes from his chest and he falls to the ground, the image goes black straight after.

Barry looks away from the screen toward Joe, and asks. "Claris is dead?" He knows what he saw on the screen but he needs confirmation.

"Yes, his heart was punctured." Joe replies, the image causing him to shudder. "Julian dealt with the scene."

"There was no sign of who did the deed. No fingerprints, no DNA, nothing." Eddie supplies seeing the confused look on Barry's face. "The only thing Julian could tell us was that whatever did the deed, was sharp and precise."

"So, what are you saying? That this thing, whatever it was just appeared, and killed Claris and no alarms went off?" Cisco asks, staring at the screen where the blackness is like a shadow.

"Yes. We're not sure how. The alarms are set to a pretty high frequency to check for everyone and everything. None of the other metas were disturbed or taken out, just Claris." Eddie replies.

"And that voice that you heard, we tried to run a system can to identify it, but nothing came up." Joe adds, thinking of how Julian had looked so frustrated by that.

Barry nods and says. "I didn't think it would. I don't think there's a system around today that could identify whatever that thing was that was speaking." He runs a hand over his face, and sighs. "So, what do we do from here?"

Joe sighs. "There is very little that we can do. Whoever killed Claris is still at large, and as such we need to be careful. It's obvious from this clip that whoever it was, wants you found and challenged."

"And this apprentice this guy mentioned?" Wally asks, speaking for the first time. "Who could that be?"

Barry shrugs. "I don't know. I don't have an apprentice." The thought had trickled into his mind once or twice when he was on holiday with Caitlin, it would be nice to have someone out there in the field with him. But at the same time, it would be incredibly dangerous, and so he'd left it be. He takes another breath and then says. "Do you want me to come into work today?"

Joe shakes his head. "No, we told Julian you were ill, better keep that going."

Caitlin laughs then. "Is there something you're not telling us Detective?"

Joe sighs. "I'm not sure yet. Something seems off about Julian, he's a hard worker but he prefers to be alone far often than not. And there's the fact that Patty still isn't back."

Barry seizes on that. "Really? When was the last time you saw her?" He feels Caitlin take his hand then.

"Around four days before you came back from your holiday. She seemed fine then, but nothing since. Her phone must be off and she's not responding to any emails according to Julian." Joe says.

"I could go and see whether or not she's okay?" Barry suggests.

Joe considers this a moment then shakes his head. "No, it's fine. I'm sure she'll be back soon." With that he nods, says goodbye and then walks out of the lab with his partner.

Iris speaks then. "Well I need to head back to work, there might be something that could help explain Claris's death there." She turns and leaves.

Wally soon follows his sister, leaving Barry, Caitlin and Cisco the only ones in the cortex. Caitlin looks at her boyfriend and says. "You think you know why Claris was killed."

Barry doesn't even need to ask why Caitlin thinks that, she's become very good at reading his expression over the past three years. "I do. Something he said at the end made me wonder. He said we'd fought before, but I have no memory of ever fighting him. And he mentioned something called Flashpoint. But I have no idea what that is."

Both Cisco and Caitlin look confused over this. "Perhaps he was merely trying to distract you? He was fast, but he wasn't as fast as you. Perhaps he needed something to keep your attention elsewhere?"

"Most likely." Barry agrees. Though the thought continues to bother him.