Barry was currently in his lab at the CCPD when Joe entered it.

"Hey Joe, what's going on?" Barry asked as Joe registered the look on his face.

"Why don't you tell me first. I thought you had a date with Kara tonight." Joe asked.

"She had a family emergency in Star City, apparently her sister in comatose and Kara wanted to be near her." Barry said, giving Joe a version of the truth, since in reality, Kara was helping Argus and Oliver with locating and taking down Slade in Star City, since if he didn't know her better, he'd say she's out for blood for what Slade did to Alex, not that he'd blame her if she was.

"Oh, I'm sorry Barry." Joe said.

"No it's fine, Alex should wake up soon and Kara promised she'd be back when she was. But anyways, what brings you to my lab." Barry said.

"I've been giving your dad's case some thought and I think you might've been right about what you saw that night." Joe said, much to Barry's surprise.

"Really, I thought that was just something created from the imagination of an 11 year old boy to try and protect his father." Barry said, a bit spitefully.

"I deserved that." Joe said, trying to keep himself from flinching at Barry's tone of voice, since he knew that even after all this time, Barry had still harbored a bit of anger at him for putting his dad in prison.

"So what finally made you see things my way?" Barry asked.

"You heard about Mardon?" Joe asked.

"And how he can somehow have changed your mind?" Barry asked, though he already knew.

"Because I saw a man who was very similar to what you described." Joe said.

"The Flash, he's been around for weeks and you never believed he was real." Barry said.

"That was before I saw him today and I realized that not only were you right about him, you might have also been right about your father. After all, the Flash wears a red suit and is surrounded by yellow lightning when runs, so who's to say that the man in the yellow suit isn't real either." Joe said.

"Does that also mean you're willing to accept that maybe not every meta in this city is a threat. Metas are a lot like aliens. There are both good ones and bad ones. People just seem to have a tendency to focus on the bad ones." Barry said, since he knew that Joe had always been one of those people.

"Anything else you'd like to rub in my face that you were right and I was wrong about?" Joe grumbled.

"Not at the moment." Barry said and Joe sighed, knowing that Barry was entitled to his moment of gloating.

"Great, I'll let you know if anything turns up with this man in yellow." Joe said as he moved to head out.

"Oh Joe, one other thing before you go and this is more about me voicing a concern that both Iris and I share." Barry said.

"Okay and that is?" Joe asked.

"Iris and I are both fully grown. Maybe it's time you put yourself back out there. I think that DA, Cecille Horton, was giving you looks the other day." Barry said with a smile.

"Shut up Barry." Joe said.

"Look, I'm just saying, you've got a pretty empty nest now." Barry said.

"Unlike you, Iris still lives at home." Joe said.

"Which is exactly why she knows as well as I do that you need a date. You tell her you're trying to put yourself back out there and she'll be looking for her own place the next day." Barry said with a smile and Joe actually laughed at that, knowing Barry was right.

"I'll think about it. But in the meantime, mind your own business and focus on your own relationship." Joe said and Barry smiled.

"Okay, just saying." Barry said with a smile as he let Joe walk out and now he was beginning to wonder if maybe they should tell Joe the truth about him being the Flash, Iris being Phoenix and Kara being Supergirl.