"He's still doing that?"
Ted kept some of his. They're tied with ribbon to a piece of scrap metal. (Debris from a robot shark.)
"I don't know where he is, but I knew him. What was in that message?"
Beetle
She stares momentarily, questioning whether or not to answer him with her trust. In the end she decides on the truth.
"...He left me a cryptid message before his disappearance." As he always does.
Helena Bertinelli.
He's curious.
But not curious enough to speak up without context.
Instead, he asks a simple question:
"Why? Did he go somewhere?"
Beetle
Hm. Not around here then either. She'll move on then.