Joe West is a police detective of the Central City Police Department. He is the father of Iris West and Wally West, and the foster father of Barry Allen.
| Joe West | |
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| Status | Alive |
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| General Information | |
| Occupation | Police detective of the Central City Police Department Member of Team Flash (in secret) |
| Family | Francine West (wife) † Iris West (daughter) Wally West (son) |
| Actor | Jesse L. Martin |
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Joe calls Barry Allen to a crime scene. When Barry arrives Joe explains that a break-in had occurred the night before and motions towards a white sheet before mentioning that the victim was Penny Dee. Barry lifts the sheet off of her in order to analyze Penny's dead body. Joe asks what Barry thinks the cause of her death was, to which Barry can't seem to answer. Barry asks if there was any security camera footage from the night before. As he asks, another police officer calls Barry and Joe over to show them something, which is footage from Penny's home security system. The footage shows Penny watching TV as her front door opens seemingly on it's own. She pauses the television and goes to investigate, and finds a man with a blue cloak and a skeleton mask standing before her. Penny grabs a gun from inside a vase, threatening to shoot the intruder. The intruder simply laughs, recalling he hid that gun, among other weapons around the house. In disbelief Penny asks if the intruder is John, her ex-husband. John growls that she shouldn't have abandoned him when he was first arrested. He pulls a device from out of his cloak and turns on the device. Penny's body stiffens as she begins to scream. She falls to her knees, dropping the gun, screaming and crying. John picks the gun up and goes to tuck it into his shirt, but glances up at the camera and shoots it, the camera turning to static. After watching the video, Barry deduces that Penny's ex-husband must have been released from jail, or escaped, and returned home to enact revenge. He receives a phone call from his wife and Joe's daughter Iris that there is a robbery in progress at the Central City National Bank. Barry tells Joe that they'll continue the investigation of Dee later on in the day and speeds off.