The Flash (TV Series)

Failure Is an Orphan (2019)

Jesse L. Martin: Joe West

Quotes 

• Barry Allen : We hit a wall at S.T.A.R. Labs tracking Cicada. Thought a change of scenery would help, but...

  Joe West : Keep your head your up, man. We'll find a way. We always do.

  Barry Allen : Honestly, I'm more worried about what happens when we do. Our whole plan depends on me being able to convince Dwyer to just take the cure. The last time I tried... I don't think I've never struck out so hard.

  Joe West : Wow, that's saying a lot considering your track record at the plate. Wait, what exactly did you say to him?

  Barry Allen : That he was creating a legacy of fear, one that would go down in history, but that we could work together to change that.

  Joe West : That sounds like something the Flash would say.

  Barry Allen : Well, I am the Flash.

  Joe West : Look, that man's a zealot. He sees you in that suit and all he sees is the thing he hates. Meta-human, superpowers, the thing that took his niece away from him. He can't see past the Flash, but what he doesn't know - there's a whole lot more to you than that. Be more Barry Allen. Human.

• Joe West : Actually... me and Cecile ran into a wall ourselves. We are, uh, she - like, working together. I mean, ever since she got her powers, it's like she's a human lie detector.

  Barry Allen : How is that a bad thing?

  Joe West : You know I've always prided myself on being able to read people, right? But Cecile and these powers, I mean, she puts me to shame.

  Barry Allen : Well, you just got to remember that you guys are a team. That makes her strengths your strengths and yours hers. So if you let her do what she's great at, it's only going to create more room for you to do more of what you're great at too, right?

  Joe West : Well, damn. You're getting real good at these pep talks, Bare.

  Barry Allen : Well, I had a pretty good teacher.

• Cecile Horton : Well, well, well. It is nice to see someone back at his desk.

  Joe West : Oh, hey, foxy. It's good to be back. After three months of sipping Wally's Tibetan butter tea, I actually kind of missed this breakroom coffee.

• Cecile Horton : Hey, you have any idea on where I can get my hands on the Cicada task force file?

  Joe West : Babe, you're standing in it.

  Cecile Horton : [looking around at the stacks of boxes]  What?

  Joe West : I've been trying to catch up on what I've been missing.

• Joe West : You ever see this woman?

  Cecile Horton : [taking the file]  Uh... Dr. Vanessa Ambres. Born and raised in Central City, got her MD from McNiter U. Oh, that's interesting. This says she treated Orlin Dwyer and Grace Gibbons on the night of the Enlightenment.

  Joe West : Yes, and she has been treating Grace ever since, even though she's an ER doctor, and the nurses report a whole slew of drugs missing from the coma ward.

  Cecile Horton : You think she's working with Dwyer?

  Joe West : The guy got stabbed, struck by lightning. He's got a hole in his chest. Somebody has got to be patching him up, right? I think we should be asking the doctor a few questions.

  Cecile Horton : All right, let's do it.

  Joe West : Oh, you want to come with?

• Cecile Horton : Babe, this is a first!

  Joe West : We've worked together before.

  Cecile Horton : We have, Detective, but anytime we did anything even close to this, I didn't have my abilities.

• Cecile Horton : Joe, what's going on? Why'd you want me to meet you here?

  Joe West : Look, I know the last time we tried to work together went a bit south.

  Cecile Horton : Oh, a bit?

  Joe West : You're right. I'm sorry, Cecile. I let my pride get in the way, and I didn't lean on your strengths when I should have. But you know me; I'm not a man who makes the same mistake twice. So...

  [indicating Dr. Ambres in the interrogation room] 

  Joe West : Would you do me the honor of joining me in this interrogation? You do what you do best, I'll take care of the rest.

• Dr. Vanessa Ambres : Detective. DA. This is starting to border on harrassment. I have told you everything I know.

  Cecile Horton : [sensing the lie]  That's not true.

  Joe West : We know that you've been funneling meds to Orlin Dwyer.

  Dr. Vanessa Ambres : Well, if you knew that, then I'd be arrested and not sitting here.

  Joe West : Let me correct myself. We have a strong hunch, but I bet if we were to go through the video camera footage from the hospital, we'll find proof that you were assisting Dwyer.

• Dr. Vanessa Ambres : I'm a doctor. I mean, why would I condone a vigilante murderer?

  Joe West : Because of what happened to Darius.

  Cecile Horton : [sensing Ambres' feelings]  Darius. It hurts you to even think about it.

  Dr. Vanessa Ambres : My fiancé was killed by meta-humans during Zoom's rampage. So, yes, it hurts to think about him.

  Joe West : Hurt enough for you to help Dwyer kill other meta-humans? Correct me if I'm wrong, you took an oath to do no harm, right? Can you truthfully say you upheld that oath?

• Cecile Horton : That guilt that you feel right now? There's a way to make up for it. All you have to do is help us find Orlin.

  Dr. Vanessa Ambres : What, so... so you can put him in jail? Kill him?

  Joe West : No, so we can cure him.

  Dr. Vanessa Ambres : It's not possible.

  Joe West : Maybe not with the medicine you've been giving him, but S.T.A.R. Labs has created a treatment that turns metas back into normal human beings.

  Dr. Vanessa Ambres : I can't take you to him.

  Cecile Horton : Okay, okay, then help us set up a meet. Look, Dr. Ambres, it's clear. You've come to truly care for Dwyer. So we're asking you now... help us save his life.

• Barry Allen : I got your text. You talked to Ambres?

  Joe West : Cecile and I together got through to her. She's gonna show us where to find Dwyer.

  Barry Allen : Joe, that's amazing.

  Joe West : Yeah. Ambres told us something else. Dwyer's niece, Grace? She's a meta.