Yamato watches Barry for a moment. Then: "Barry, you're the biggest obstacle to metahuman crime in the city, and a pretty nasty thorn in the side of regular crime, too. People are going to want you dead," he says. "Maybe they have some kind of personal motivation we don't know about, but it might just be that you're an obstacle that they want removed. That's just how things are, sometimes."

He reaches over to pat Barry's shoulder, just lightly. Barry might be apprehensive, but Yamato at least appreciates that he's not dismissing the idea out of hand.

"We have to stop them anyway. Think how much better at using your powers you've become since you started out, and apply that to the power to take control of computer systems, and a few months of practice down the line they could be unstoppable," he says. "But I wouldn't be suggesting this plan if I didn't think you could pull it off."

At the query about getting into the CCPD's server, he cracks a bit of a helpless grin. "Usually I leave committing cybercrimes to Koushiro, but yeah, I can do it."