Astrid returned with Joe to speak with Barry in his holding cell at CCPD. He was still being held for questioning and after the new information that had since been brought to light, the officers were having a hard time trying to understand exactly what had happened.
Astrid looked at Barry through the bars. "You shouldn't be in here Barry. We need to tell Singh who you are. He will be able to help us, I know it!"
"No, Astrid. That will mean giving up my secret. If these criminals in here find out who I am, they will stop at nothing to come after me. You know that!" Barry pleaded with her. "Joe, you need to talk some sense in to her."
Joe remained quiet, he actually agreed with Astrid over this, he felt that it was their only chance.
"Barry, I can't just let you rot in here." Astrid argued, "We both know how this works. You're in here for a murder that you didn't commit, you only just got your father out of prison, for the exact same thing… I will not let that stand! At least if we come clean, we can explain everything to them. We can make them see!"
"Astrid, I know what you're thinking… I'm begging you not to do it! Please, don't!" Barry pleaded. Astrid shook her head sadly. She felt defeated, like she had failed him, but at the same time she knew that it was their only shot.
"Barry. Look, we're going to try and find another way!" Joe said, "But if we can't, you need to understand that we will do anything to get you out of here… even if it means telling Captain Singh who you really are."
"No, Joe… not you too." Barry said sadly, annoyed that he was siding against him.
"Barry. We're going to do whatever it takes to get you out of here… I promise you!" Astrid said. She and Joe left the room to find Cecille Horton.
"This feels like the whole Henry Allen case all over again!" Joe sighed.
"I can imagine!" Astrid said, "I just wish that he would let us tell Singh! Things would be so much easier."
"Yeah, but he and Henry are right. Those criminals have it in for The Flash. What happens if we told Barry's secret and we still couldn't get him out of prison, and some of the inmates found out who he was?" Joe asked.
"Yeah, I get that… but, I'm not suggesting that we declare it to Central City… Just that we tell Captain Singh and whoever else is in charge of these decisions. We could then consider looking for alternative clues… Like where's that thing that helped Thawne disguise himself as Roy?" Astrid said.
"Do you realize that you're beginning to sound like an officer?" Joe commented.
"Sometimes I miss my old job as a criminal psychologist, But i don't think that i could ever go back to it, Especially while we're in the middle of getting Barry out of this mess. Besides, my dad always wanted me to take over STAR Labs. I don't want to let him down."
"You could never let him down. Your father would be proud!" Joe said.
"Okay, can we drop the whole sentiment? There's your girlfriend… I mean, the DA!" Astrid laughed.
Joe and Astrid sat with Cecille in her office and told them everything that they knew that they could share, leaving out the fact that Barry was the Flash, but they knew that without a full story... she could not help them. The questioned that plagued her was has how could Barry bring down a meta-human? there had to be more to it.
Back at Astrid's house, Cisco and Harry tried to come up with alternative plans that might help Barry's case, while Caitlin explained to Henry just how Barry's physical self, had been altered since the meteor shower.
"That's very fascinating, Caitlin!" Henry said, as he was trying to wrap his head around the whole process. "There's no question as to what my son sees in you. Nora would have loved you."
Caitlin blushed, "Thawne said something about me looking like Nora, I never really saw the similarities."
"They're subtle, but they're there." Henry agreed.
The two of them were interrupted by Harry and Cisco's attempt at a plan. "We need to get hold of STAR Labs security footage!" Harry said out loud. "That will show that Barry is innocent."
"The police would have gone through the footage by now." Caitlin said. "We would know, by now if they had found something."
"Yeah, but I'm guessing that Thawne would have tampered with it. It would make sense…" Cisco said, "But if I can get into the cortex, pull up a backup file, or even get Gideon's help… then maybe I can find out what really happened."
"Back when Joe and I saw Barry fighting with Thawne, they shut Gideon down." Henry replied, "Who's to say that Thawne hasn't already done something to her that would make it impossible to retrieve?"
"Well, that's a risk that I'm willing to take to find out!" Cisco said as he raised his hand up to form a breach.
"Cisco, we can't go over there. It's a crime scene!" Caitlin warned him.
"It's either that or we just let Barry sit in prison. Besides, I'm not asking you to come with me, Wells and I can be in and out and no one will ever know!" he said with a smile.
Caitlin shook her head slowly, "Just don't get caught, Cisco. Or Astrid will flip!"