"My name is Oliver Queen." "After 5 years in Hell," "I returned home with only one goal..." "To save my city." "Today, I fight that war on two fronts." "By day, I lead Star City as its mayor, but by night, I am someone else." "I am..." "Something else." "I am the Green Arrow." "Previously on "Arrow"..." "Follow me or die." "Unh!" "Hello, Mr. Queen." "My name is Talia." "I've been looking for you." "As soon as I'm out of here, Walker will concoct some reason to put a bullet in my head." "I think I'm gonna have to prosecute this one myself." "It could take a while." "I haven't kept my promise to Laurel." "You're gonna train a new Black Canary?" "I think that somewhere out there there is a woman worthy of Laurel's legacy." "Now all we got to do is find her." "Protests continue into the final countdown for tonight's ignition of Star Labs' controversial particle accelerator." "Star Labs founder and CEO Harrison Wells promises a new era of scientific advancement is at hand." "Would you look at that?" "Future's getting brighter every day." "What do you think, babe?" "You a fan of progress?" "Why don't you just put a bullet in my head and be done with it?" "Or maybe you don't have the sack to pull the trigger." "I was gonna play another hand, let you rest some, but lay down a challenge like that, what's a guy gonna do?" "I'm gonna get what I need from you or maybe one of those molars back there." "Forget her." "Hey, Tina." "You're not looking too good, but I got something here that might put a smile on your face." "Look who we got here." "My God." "Vinny." "I'm sorry, Tina." "Aw, so sweet." "I thought you two were just cop buddies, but..." "You can tell me, Vin." "You're tapping that sweet ass, aren't you?" "Ha ha ha!" "Heh heh heh." "I wasn't sure which one of you to kill." "Thanks for making up my mind for me." "Get the tarp." "No, please, please, please don't hurt him!" "Shut up!" "Wait." "We are now being told to evacuate the facility." "The storm may have caused a malfunction to the primary cooling system." "Officials are now..." "Sean, I..." "I am begging you." "Please." "Nooooooo!" "Nope." "What do you mean "nope"?" " Did you even read her resume?" " Yeah, I did." "So you know she flew 600 sorties over Iraq, launched a program for inner city kids to get into flight school as a way out of poverty, plus she's got skills in krav maga, and a third-degree black belt." "If "Top Gun" here's a maybe, how the hell did I even get on the team?" "Don't answer that." "Look." "Finding a new Black Canary isn't just about reviewing resumes." "It's a... it's a feel thing." "Well, I feel like we're busting our asses to find new candidates, and you keep shooting them down." "I promised Laurel that I would carry on her legacy." "I just don't want Black Siren to be all that's left of her." "Well, what about this woman?" "Allison Slater." "Ok." "She's a decorated CIA officer who also happens to be a world champion in judo." "No." "Ok." "What about Tara Michele?" "Army special ops, but then she decided to open a clinic downtown to offer free health care to the homeless." "Ok." "Well, I will keep digging." "Ok." "Hold on." "What about this one?" "This woman got her engineering Ph.D." "At age 20, won gold in the karate at the Olympics, turned down offers from the NSA and Argus to join NASA as an astronaut by day while at night she secretly protects the citizens of Houston as, get this," "a ninja vigilante." "And she works soup kitchens on Saturdays and rescues puppies on Sundays." "Astronaut ninja." "You're making that up." "He did." "Karate won't be an Olympic sport until 2020." "Fine." "You got me." "This is just some woman who teaches preschool in the Glades, but my point still stands." "That point being?" "That no matter how amazing they are no one's gonna be good enough for you." "Because you keep comparing them to Laurel, which is an impossible standard you might want to consider loosening." "We just need to keep looking." "We need to think outside the box." "How far outside the box are we talking here?" "Are we talking way outside the box, like, urban Legends outside?" "Because if we are, I think I might have something." "Wait." "What do you mean "urban legend"?" "I mean..." "Her." "By "her," you mean who?" "Well, actually, I have no idea what her name is, but according to the chat rooms I visited, she's a kickass woman who appears out of nowhere and saves crime victims." " In Star City?" " All over America actually, and get this..." "She even has a cry like a canary cry." "She's a meta with the same power as Earth-2 Laurel?" "If that isn't bashert, I don't know what is." " What?" " Bashert means fate, destiny." "According to the Argus database I just hacked, sightings started 3 years ago in Central City." "That is right when Star Labs exploded." "And she even has a black leather jacket and everything." "Only thing that's really missing is the blond hair, and you can fix that with a wig." "I have to handle something for John." "Let's see if this urban legend is the real deal, and call me when you have something." " Hey." " Hey." "I just got a text from Adrian." "Do you know what it's about?" "Maybe they figured out how Prometheus faked." "Lyla's voice to get me out of the bunker and into here." "I'm less concerned with how you got in here and more concerned with getting you out again." "Gentlemen, sorry I'm late." "How you holding up?" "Well, Walker's gonna have custody of me in a week, so..." "Wow." "As soon as Walker gets his hands on John, he's gonna throw him into a hole." "Maybe not." "I've got a buddy at the National Security Agency." "Turns out they have General Walker under investigation and were putting together quite the case..." "Wire transfers and some Keyhole satellite images of his movements with the nuclear trigger." "That's enough to exonerate John." "Except I don't like the way you just said, "were..."" ""Building a case" just now." "Walker has friends in high places." "Managed to get the investigation slow-rolled." "But the file still exists." "I made a FOIA request, but seeing as all this is classified, that could take months, maybe even years." "That's time we don't have." "I'm sorry I don't have better news." "No, Adrian." "You have gone above and beyond already." " Thank you." " Yeah." "Well, Felicity's going to really enjoy hacking the NSA." "You mean, after she's brought you a hundred Black Canary candidates for you to say no to?" "You're not the only one who visits, Oliver." "John, I understand what I promised Laurel." "Now that we're actively doing it, trying to replace her, it just..." "Feels wrong." "She didn't want you to find someone to replace her, just someone to take on the mantle, and from where I'm sitting, that's two very different things." "Sleeping beauty awakes." "Where am I?" "Someplace safe." "I have to get back to the Bratva." "Why?" "So they can finish killing you?" "That was Gregor." "I have allies there." "I think you'll come to discover circumstances within the Bratva are a bit more complex than you thought." "Why did you save me?" "Well, from what I could tell, you needed rescuing." "Where'd you get that?" "Wasn't hard." "Sneaking past a bunch of oafish Bratva is hardly a test of my skills." "Why did you do that?" "Shipwrecked on Lian Yu, fled to Hong Kong, the omega virus," "Shadowspire, and now you're mixed up with the Bratva, but along the way, you went back home to Starling City, but you couldn't bear to reveal yourself to your family." "How do you know this?" "I did my homework." "What makes me so interesting?" "Agh!" "Unh!" "Unh!" "You wear the hood of one of my students..." "Yao Fei Gulong." "You get my text about John?" "If there is any trace of the file that Dig needs, it's gonna be buried behind some serious firewalls." "Actually firewalls don't even begin to explain it." "It's gonna be more like firecastles or firemountains." "How did you know where to start?" "All that I told you was that Chase might have something." "Yeah, yeah, and then I hacked his laptop." "Saving Dig is gonna break at least 12 federal laws." "Hacking your D.A. is just small ball." "Plus, you are the mayor." "You can pardon me." " Actually, I can't." " It doesn't matter because I am having fun." "I haven't done a good, old grab government secrets kind of hack in a really long time, and it's a great change of pace, and it feels awesome, and it will keep me busy while you're gone." "I'm..." "I'm going somewhere." "Maybe Hub City." "We're thinking that's where the new Black Canary is hanging out." "Yeah." "Let's not call her that just yet." "I'd like to see her in the field at least first." "Ask, and you shall receive." "I was able to track down cell phone footage of her latest act of heroism..." "Heroineism?" "Heroism." "Anyway, take a look." "The video isn't clear enough for facial recog, but she's real all right." "I've watched it, like, 10 times." "The woman can fight." "She can focus the sound better than Black Siren, and she is more skilled at hand-to-hand." "This is almost like..." "What was that word that you used?" " Bashert." " Yeah, that." "It almost sounds like you'd be willing to give her a look." "Call Rene." "We're going to Hub City." "Stop." "Ha!" "Wow!" "Costume warehouse having a fire sale I didn't know about?" "What do you want?" "You're a vigilante and a meta-human, and for the past 3 years, you've been working alone." "We have a proposition for you." "Sorry." "You were doing fine." "You... you... you take it." "Yeah." "We'd like you to join us." "We can give you a home, a team, and a place to better train the use of your power." "I can take care of myself." "And, if you get in my way," "I'll send the 3 of you back to Star City with your nuts in a sling." "I thought that went pretty good." "Hey, man." "What are we still doing around this dump?" "Leather jacket lady made it seem pretty clear about us screwing off." "When have you ever known me to give up that easily?" "Never." "The answer to that is never." "That might have been implied." "We're not gonna find a better candidate." "Any progress on the facial recognition from the body cams?" "Sorry, but the Wi-Fi in here is incredibly slow." "Well, you take your time." "Got 3 patties and 3 slices of cheddar to go." "That's disgusting." "Ok." "Actually got it." "Our screaming Sonic lady has a name..." "Tina Boland, formerly of the CCPD." "That tracks." "She was in Central City when the particle accelerator exploded." "After that, she went off the grid, which means that we have no way of finding her." "Yes, we do." "Captain Singh." "I need information." "Who is this?" "It's the Green Arrow." "Or some nut job with a voice modulator." "You want help, I'm gonna need proof." "Very clever." "Fine." "What do you want to know?" "Tina Boland." "She was CCPD." " What happened to her?" " Nothing but tragedy there." "She went deep undercover, and her partner got killed in action." "Her partner's name was..." "Vincent Sobel." "Yeah." "Tina quit the force the day after his funeral, and we haven't heard from her since." "She in some kind of trouble?" "Not sure yet." "You get anything, give me a call." "I've always had a soft spot for Boland." "She's a good kid." "Will do." "Looks like our... our Tina is trying to avenge her former partner." "Which means we have a lead." "You trained Yao Fei?" "How's that possible?" "You're half his age." "Don't know it's improper to talk about a woman's age?" "Let's just say it's a family secret." "So you found me because of Yao Fei." "Congratulations." "Yao Fei's gone." "I found you because the world needs people like you." "The man who survived all this is destined for so much more than playing gangster in Russia." "You know, if you knew me so well, you'd know that I made promise." "A promise, yes, to get revenge on Konstantin Kovar." "I have something that will help." "That is Misha Yurievich, a black market smuggler with a particular speciality..." "Young girls." "You might guess his top customer." "Kovar." "We take down Yurievich, and that leaves Kovar without his key revenue stream." "We?" "You should be honored I'm offering my services." "Let me help you dispose of Yurievich, then you will hear me out with what I have to say." "At the very least, you'll be dealing a major blow to your enemy." "Thank God." "You are a lifesaver." "Yeah." "Well, I figure you got to get your share of fast-food before they lock you up in Lompoc for hacking the NSA." "Lompoc doesn't house female inmates." "They'd probably send me to Hazelton..." "Or they would if there was anything to hack." " You lost me." " The file containing all the dirt on General Walker, it's gone, scrubbed." "So what does that mean?" "Well, it means that John is back to being totally screwed." "There's no sign of Boland." "Sure this is the right spot, Mr. Terrific?" "Am I still Mr. Terrific if I'm on comms and not in uniform?" "Heh heh!" "Anyway, yeah, I cross-referenced the ATM withdrawals and pings from her burner cell phone." "Detective Boland is here." "Room 511..." "Should be straight down the hall." "Whoa." "Homegirl clearly never met a trashcan." "Even though she's not on the force, she's still playing Detective." "No, she's not playing." "She's out for blood." "That's her dead partner." "Mr. Terrific, are you seeing these names on the body cams?" "Already running them." " Drop the hammer." " Get out!" "No." "Don't go." "Help me, please!" "Tina." "Sonic dampener, new and improved." "He's dead." "Hello?" "Team?" "Looks like we're gonna have some company." "Can't let her go!" "Get her!" "I've got this!" "We didn't get to finish our last conversation." "You're persistent." "You killed that man." "Before, I thought you were worried" "I was the one who was gonna end up dead." "Make up your mind." "Detective Boland." "If you know I was police, then you know that guy back in my place helped kill my partner." "Your vendetta doesn't end with him." "Nope." "I'm still looking for his boss." "His friends are the ones currently shooting it out with your friends." "Well, we can help you get him without anyone else dying in the process, including and especially you." "You know, from what I hear, there are plenty of nut cases running around Star City, looking to make it a better place." "What makes me so special?" "If you stay in the same spot for more than a minute, and I'll get a chance to tell it." "Well, if you're gonna make a sales pitch, make it good." "You went through something traumatic." "For the past 3 years, you've been trying to understand it because you're afraid of what happened to you and of what you've become, so you're running from it." "How did you know?" "Because I've been there, and I can help you find your way back." "Ok." "What's the range on that..." "What did you call it..." "Sonic dampener?" "That's what I thought." "Agh!" "Now that's what I'm talking about." "You know, I would tell you to chew with your mouth closed, but I don't even know how you could do that with this thing." "5-stack, baby." "Nothing better." " Curtis." " Yeah." "Um, so I made some sense out of Tina's crazy murder board." "Meet Sean Sonus." "3 years ago, he was a player in Central City's criminal underworld and the target of Tina's investigation." "Interestingly, Sonus disappeared around the same time that Tina did." "That's why she's been traveling across the country." "She's been following him." "The only thing I don't understand is why Sonus is in Hub City now." "Obiah urrse." "Your belly hurts?" "Yeah." "That's not surprising." "Tobias Church." "He had all the gangs in Hub City under his thumb just like he tried to do back home." "I'm thinking with Church's demise, it left a power vacuum here, especially in the drug trade." "What's Sonus pushing?" "Some drug I've never heard of before called "Sly-Dee"?" "It's pronounced "Slide," like in playground because it hooks kids young and makes them move to the big stuff faster." "If Boland's after this scum bag," "I vote we get out of her way and let her do her thing." "I can't believe I'm about to say this, but I actually agree with Rene." "I can't believe it either." "Then there's this, the after-action report on her partner's death." "Sonus' men captured her and tortured her for two weeks, so even if she didn't drop out of the police, she would have been put on indefinite leave because of psychological trauma." "That's all the more reason not to leave her out there alone." "Look." "I didn't know this Laurel chick, but you're taking on a lot to keep this promise to her." "I'm thinking this is about more than just Laurel." "If Sonus is connected to Church's men, that makes him more dangerous than we thought." "We need to find Boland before she gets involved in something that she can't handle." "What's the plan?" "Follow my lead." "Hey." "Hey, hey, hey." "We're walking into a fortress, and you're gonna use just a bow?" "To use a bow and arrow requires patience and discipline." "Unh!" "That's Yurievich." "I will take on his guards." "Yurievich..." "Yurievich is mine." "Please tell me you didn't sleep down here." "I didn't..." "Sleep." "I thought the NSA was a dead end." "The file was erased." "Yeah, and then I remembered nothing on the Internet is ever erased." "Everything leaves behind a digital shadow, and I've been scouring the dark web, trying to find it." "What's that?" "A terminal message." "From who?" "I have absolutely no idea." "And how'd they get into your system?" "I have absolutely no idea." "Who's Ghost Fox Goddess?" "That's me." "It was my hacker handle in college." "I made a lot of bad choices in college." "What do you mean bad choices?" "I used to be a hacktivist." "That's a hacker activist." "I left that life way behind." "It went with a goth look that was not good for me." "Goth?" "Dark hair, dark Felicity, taking on corporations and governments." "It was a power trip that wasn't healthy." "What's "IRL"?" "In real life." "Yo." "You know what you're doing there?" "Are you kidding me?" "I hacked all the traffic cams in my hometown on a dare." "So this is gonna help us find miss loco bananas?" "Or Sonus." "Either way..." "Either way, we're gonna put ourselves in the middle of a showdown between a nutbar and a psycho drug dealer." "When Oliver explained his thinking to us on this, which he rarely ever does by the way," "I thought you would be more on board." "How'd the last crazy recruit turn out?" "Ok." "Evelyn did have her issues, true, but so did Rory, and Oliver channeled his vendetta into something positive, and as far as nut cases are concerned, y..." ""As far as nut cases are concerned" what?" "Nothing." "I... that was the... it was a period." ""As far as nut cases are concerned period."" "That was just... wasn't... so..." "You were thinking of me, weren't you?" "I meant it in the nicest way." " I guess you're right." " I am?" "Yeah." "Maybe this team is all about finding second chances." "Could you hand me that adapter and, tablet?" "Yeah." "Thanks." "Got a location." "Nutbar or psycho drug dealer?" "Psycho drug dealer." "Great." "Check it out." "Hey, Sean." "Been a while." "Detective Boland." "A little outside your jurisdiction, aren't you?" "I'm not a cop tonight." "Get away from her!" "Unh!" "Son of a bitch!" "Unh!" "What the hell was that?" "Sonus... he's a meta-human, too." " How is she?" " Still unconscious." "I don't know about you, man, but my head is still spinning a bit." "It's his meta power." "I think he can control Sonic waves." "It would explain how he disorientated you guys and counteracted Tina and..." "Their powers are related." "What do you mean?" "I think I have an idea." "I didn't sign up for metas, man." "Enhanced ability or not," "Sonus is running a drug trade that means we're moving on from trying to recruit this crazy lady and focus on taking down this prig?" "I'm all in." "Yeah, but we have to find Sonus first." "I know where he's gonna be." "What time is it?" "11:40." "Where are you going?" "Sonus is taking in a major shipment of Slide." "And you know where." "And something tells me you're not gonna tell us." "After 3 years, the man who killed my partner is finally in my sights." "I'm not letting anyone get in my way." "Lady wants to commit suicide, we should let her." "Free country." "He nearly killed you last time." "Against him, your ability is a liability." "Let us help." "Hey." "Thanks for the save." "Safe trip back to Star City, boys." "Unh!" "Aah!" "Agh!" "Yurievich is dead." "Good." "Now we can talk." "Look sharp." "If this goes south on me," "I want you to take this guy down hard." "Paranoid much?" "You don't know the dark web like I do, ok?" "These guys aren't exactly known to be friendly." "O..." "Mg!" "The Ghost Fox Goddess here in meatspace, the real Ghost Fox Goddess." "You're Kojo Sledgehammer." "Yeah." "I know." "It's not nearly as cool as Ghost Fox Goddess, but then I can only aspire to your level of cool, which I do." "Aspire to, I mean." "Take her down hard you said, right?" "Hey." "It is so great to meet you." "When I saw your traffic on the dark nets," "I wasn't even sure it was you." "I mean, you've been a blank for, well, years." "I've been busy." "I know." "Palmer Tech." "I just figured once you got fired you'd..." "Figured I'd what?" "It's none of my business." "Ok." "Well, um... heh." "I became a hacker, a hacktivist, because of you, the GFG." "I read about your hack of the department of education, and I was like, "I know what I want to be,"" "but then you just totally stopped and became this, like, information technology support player, and..." "Sorry." "Never meet your heroes, you know?" "No." "I haven't just been corporate, you know?" "I've been doing work that is... important." "Ooh." "If it was, I would have heard about it." "Ooh." "Sorry." "There I go again." "Heh." "I guess I was just excited when I saw you on the dark nets." "It was like..." "like you were returning, you know?" "The og GFG was back." "Well, I was looking for an NSA file to exonerate an innocent man." " John Diggle." " Yes." "My organization does its homework." "Organization?" "A hacktivist group." "We call ourselves Helix." "A month ago, we hacked Echelon." "The NSA's information gathering program?" "We hoovered up 8 petabytes of data including everything you need to help your friend." "We're calling the data cache Pandora." "With it, you can take down politicians, bankrupt companies, spark revolutions." "So you're not just giving me the file for John." "You inspired me to make the world a better place, and now I intend to inspire you to be the hacktivist you used to be, the great Ghost Fox Goddess." "Let me guess." "You're trusting me with your mask off, so now I'm supposed to trust you." "No." "I just thought that if you weren't gonna listen to the Green Arrow that you might listen to Oliver Queen." "Nice to meet you." "I spent 5 years in Hell, not unlike what happened to you when you were undercover in Sonus' organization or what he put you through when he discovered you were a cop." "And what?" "You think you see a little bit of yourself in me?" "It's more than that." "There is a man in Star City who's trying to convince me that I destroy the lives of everyone that I touch because I am beyond redemption." "Yeah, yeah." "You think if you can save me you'll prove him wrong." "Don't put your issues on me." "Absolutely right, but if you think that you can take on Sonus and his men, then you are wrong." "Let us help." "Let us help, and then..." "We're gone." "All right!" "I'm reading 15 shooters on the roof and a helicopter inbound." "Copy." "We're in position." "Shipment's late." "Some screw-up in Bludhaven." "Take 100 grand off." "We need to move." "Be patient." "You still have Curtis' insurance policy with you?" "Yeah." "I'm still gonna get to use my guns, right?" "Chopper's about to land, guys." "Move." "Kill them all!" "Not so fast, dirt bag." "Yes!" "Yes." " They got air support." " All right." "I'll take care of it, but, Wild Dog..." "I got her six." "Guess I should be flattered." "To think you've held out a candle for me after all these years." "What are you waiting for?" "Tina!" "Don't do it." "You're better than this." "You know I'm not." "If we're as alike as you said, we both know you'd kill him." "You're right." "Maybe it's too late for me..." "And maybe I don't get a second chance..." "But you don't have to go down that road." "Tina, what would Vince want you to do?" "He'd want me to do that." "Hey!" "Let her go." "Hey!" "Man." "I was gonna ask how it went with the new Canary, but I can tell by that..." "look on your face." "Well, I have some good news, though." "I am in the market." "I've got all we need to exonerate John." "That's incredible." "How'd you do that?" "Long story." "Is there something you're not telling me?" "I know that we are not used to getting good news, but this is what it looks like." "I am gonna go leak the file on Walker." "Why don't you go tell John the good news?" "What's going on?" "You tell him." "Tell me what?" "Earlier this evening, I received the NSA's case against Walker from an anonymous source." " Anonymous?" " On the strength of it," "I went the Judge Advocate ex parte and got you released on bail." " Wait." "What?" " I filed a motion to dismiss, which is as close to a slam dunk as these things get given the cards we're holding." "What does this mean?" "It means that you can go home and hug your wife and son." "You wanted this, baited me with Yurievich." "Yes." "To see for yourself what I've become?" "To remind you." "Why go to all the trouble?" "What do you care?" "You don't even know me." "I thought I'd proven otherwise." "General Shreve, Baron Reiter," "Konstantin Kovar." "You keep looking for new fights when the real fight has been in front of you all along." "Your father literally wrote it for you, a list of all the Yurieviches and Kovars in Starling City." "He told me he left me a message." "And yet you still don't return home." "Why do you deny your father's wish for you?" "You saw the reason tonight." "I am not the man that my father raised!" "Not anymore." "You're afraid of what's happened to you, of what you've become, and you're running from it." "How do you know all this?" "Because I've been there..." "And I can help you find your way back." "You think yourself a monster." "No." "I am a monster." "There is a monster inside you, yes, but it is not you." "I don't see the difference." "No." "You need to create one." "You need to give the monster an identity." "It's only when the monster becomes someone else, some... thing... else that you're free to be Oliver Queen." "I don't know if I'm ready." "I will help you become ready." "Mr. Mayor." "Excuse me, but there's someone here to see you." "Her name is Tina Boland." "Yeah." "Send her in, please." "Mayor Queen." "It's impressive." "Maybe you should have led with that." "I got to admit..." "I didn't think I'd see you again." "Yeah." "Neither did I." "I guess I thought I would feel different with Sonus gone." "I thought I would feel liberated." "I wish it worked that way." "Heh." "How do you do it?" "How do you keep living with so much pain?" "I'm still working on that myself, but I can tell you it helps to not be alone." "That's why you're here, right?" "That's why I'm here." "Back on that roof, you asked what Vince would have wanted." "We were more than just partners." "We were lovers." "I hated Sonus for killing Vince..." "But I hated myself more for not being able to stop him." "Rene, the... the guy in the hockey mask, told the other guy that was with us..." "Curtis..." "That this team is all about finding second chances." "You said maybe we don't get second chances." "Well, maybe I was wrong." "Maybe you're my second chance." "That's a lot to put on my shoulders." "Well, Tina, there's something that tells me you can handle it." "So about that name." "Tina Boland was my official cover for undercover work." "It was to protect my family." "My real name is Dinah, Dinah Drake." "Dinah?" "Does that name mean something to you?" "I had a friend named Dinah." "She's the reason I sought you out." "What do you think she'd think about all this?" "I think she'd be proud of both of us." "Greg!" "Move your head." "== sync, corrected by elderman == @elder_man"