Lydia met Ray's weak smile with an attempt of her own. "I just got here, but the same thing is true," she said. "Yesterday was my first day and they sent me out on a mission and..." she paused, trailing off slightly.

They'd let her out of containment and sent her off on a mission with Barry wherein they'd been carjacked and she'd almost had to shoot someone to keep them both alive — not something she'd ever thought she would have to do and certainly nothing she would have ever wanted to do.

"Well. It's different having a real conversation than congratulating one another on surviving something terrifying. So thank you, Ray." In retrospect, that was probably the moment when Lydia decided Ray was going to be stuck with her as long as she was here.