"[PANTING]" "[GRUNTS]" "[SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "OLIVER:" "The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu." "It's Mandarin for purgatory." "I've been stranded here for five years." "I've dreamt of my rescue every cold black night since then." "For five years, I have had only one thought, one goal survive." "Survive and one day return home." "The island held many dangers." "To live, I had to make myself more than what I was to forge myself into a weapon." "I am returning, not the boy who was shipwrecked but the man who will bring justice to those who have poisoned my city." "My name is Oliver Queen." "Oliver Queen is alive." "The Starling City resident was found by fishermen in the North China Sea five days ago." "Five years after he was presumed dead following the accident at sea which claimed The Queen's Gambit." "Queen was a tabloid presence and fixture on the club scene." "Before his disappearance, he was acquitted of assault stemming from a highly publicized drunken altercation with paparazzi." "Queen is the son of Starling City billionaire Robert Queen who was also on board but now officially confirmed as deceased." "LAMB:" "Twenty percent of his body's covered in scar tissue." "Second degree burns on his back and arms." "X-rays show at Ieast 12 fractures that never properly healed." "Has he said anything about what happened?" "No." "He's barely said anything." "Moira, I'd Iike you to prepare yourself." "The oliver you lost might not be the one they found." "oliver?" "Mom." "Oh." "My beautiful boy." "I've got it." "Your room is exactly as you left it." "I never had the heart to change a thing." "WALTER:" "oliver." "Damn good to see you." "It's waiter." "WaIter SteeIe." "You remember waiter." "Your father's friend from the company." "It's good to see you, Raisa." "welcome home, Mr. oliver." "Mr. MerIyn phoned." "He wants to join you for dinner." "wonderful." "[DOOR OPENING]" "oliver?" "Did you hear that?" "Hey, sis." "THEA:" "I knew it." "I knew you were alive." "I missed you so much." "You were with me the whole time." "JOANNA:" "Come on, laurel." "We're lawyers, not miracle workers." "We can't win this." "If we can't win a class action against a man who swindled hundreds of people out of their life savings we're not fit to be called a legal aid office." "And if we go bankrupt in the process, we won't be a legal aid office." "Hunt has an army of lawyers and they are ready to bury us." "You and I against an army?" "I Iove those odds." "Why do you hate me?" "[SIGHS]" "MAN [ON TV]:" "And in other news details as to the castaway story you've all heard about the son of a very wealthy billionaire will soon become a legendary story." "Jessica now has more details and the complete castaway story." "WOMAN [ON TV]:" "The Queen's Gambit was last heard from more than five years ago." "Mr. Queen has reportedly confirmed he was the only survivor of the accident that took the lives of seven people including local resident Sara Lance, survived by her sister, Laurel" "OLIVER:" "After five years everything that was once familiar is now unrecognizable." "The face I see in the mirror is a stranger." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "Storm's a category two." "Captain's recommending we head back." "ROBERT:" "AII right." "Inform the crew." "Are we in trouble?" "One of us is." "ollie?" "Where do you keep the bottle opener on this thing?" "I'II be there in a minute, Sara." "You know, son that is not going to finish well, for either of them or for you." "What did I tell you?" "Yachts suck." "Tommy MerIyn." "I missed you, buddy." "Okay, what else did you miss?" "Super bowl winners:" "Giants, steelers, Saints, Packers, Giants again." "A black president, that's new." "Oh, and Lost." "They were all dead." "I think." "What was it like there?" "cold." "TOMMY:" "Tomorrow, you and me do the city." "You've got a Iot to catch up on." "Great idea." "Good." "I was hoping to swing by the office." "There's plenty of time for all that." "Queen consolidated isn't going anywhere." "I am so sorry, Mr. oliver." "[SPEAKING RUSSIAN]" "Dude, you speak Russian?" "Didn't know you took Russian at college." "I didn't realize you wanted to sleep with my mother, WaIter." "I didn't say anything." "She didn't have to." "oliver, WaIter and I are married and I don't want you to think that either one of us, did anything to disrespect your father." "WALTER:" "We both believed that Robert, Iike you, was, uh..." "...well, gone." "OLIVER:" "It's fine." "May I be excused?" "TOMMY:" "Hey, don't forget about tomorrow, buddy." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "SARA:" "One, two, three." "It's getting closer." "That's not very scientific." "What would you know about science, Mr. Ivy League drop out?" "I happen to know a Iot about science." "I know about fermentation." "I know biology." "laurel's gonna kill me." "Oh, she's so gonna kill me." "Your sister will never know." "Come here." "Ha-ha-ha." "Okay, that one was really close." "Sara, we're gonna be fine." "[SARA SCREAMING]" "Sara!" "Sara!" "Aah!" "Sara." "GUS:" "oliver!" "oliver!" "Sara!" "No!" "No!" "No, dad, she's out there!" "She's not there." "Sara!" "She's gone." "oliver!" "Wake up." "oliver!" "[GRUNTS]" "WALTER:" "oliver!" "[MOIRA COUGHING]" "I'm sorry." "I'm so, so sorry." "No, it's okay, oliver." "It's all right, sweetheart." "You're home." "You're home." "THEA:" "Where did you get these?" "Roxies." "Thank you, Daddy's ACL tear." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "ollie." "No one's called me that in a while, Speedy." "Worst nickname ever." "What, always chasing after me as a kid?" "I thought it fit pretty well." "Maybe it still does?" "See you at school, Speedy." "Sorry about her." "I have something for you." "You did not come back from a deserted island with a souvenir." "It's a Hozen and in Buddhism, it symbolizes reconnecting." "I kept it, in hopes that one day it wouId reconnect me with you." "A rock." "That is sweet." "I want one of those T-shirts that says "My friend was a castaway and all I got was this crappy shirt."" "[TOMMY CHUCKLES]" "Don't let him get you into too much trouble." "You just got back." "Take it slow." "TOMMY:" "Ahem." "The city awaits." "Have you noticed how hot your sister's gotten?" "Because I have not." "Your funeral blew." "You get lucky?" "Fish in a barrel." "They were so sad and huggy" "No." "And I'm counting on another target-rich environment for your welcome home bash." "At my what?" "You came back from the dead." "This calls for a party." "You tell me where and when." "I'II take care of everything." "This city's gone to crap." "Your dad sold his factory just in time." "Why'd you wanna drive through this neighborhood anyway?" "No reason." "So, what'd you miss the most?" "Steaks at The palm?" "Drinks at The Station?" "meaningless sex?" "laurel." "Everyone is happy you're alive." "You wanna see the one person who isn't?" "laurel, I just got this from Hunt's lawyers." "They filed a change of venue." "We're now in front of Judge GreII." "Hunt funded GreII's re-eIection campaign." "Mm-hm." "GreII's in his back pocket." "It's fun being your friend." "I get to say "I told you so" a Iot." "Adam Hunt is not smarter than we are." "He's richer and willing to commit felonies." "We don't need to go outside the Iaw" "To find justice." "Your dad's favorite jingle." "hello, laurel." "You went to law school." "You said you would." "Yeah." "Everyone's proud." "Adam Hunt's a heavy hitter." "You sure you wanna get in the ring with him?" "Five years and you wanna talk about Adam Hunt?" "No." "Not really." "Why are you here, ollie?" "To apologize." "It was my fault." "I wanted to ask you not to blame her." "For what?" "FaIIing under your spell?" "How could I possibly blame her for doing the same things that I did?" "I never meant to" "She was my sister." "I couldn't be angry because she was dead." "I couldn't grieve because I was so angry." "That's what happens when your sister dies while screwing your boyfriend." "We buried an empty coffin." "Because her body was at the bottom of the ocean where you left her." "It should've been you." "I know that it's too late to say this but I'm sorry." "Yeah, I'm sorry too." "I'd hoped that you'd rot in hell a whole lot longer than five years." "How'd you think that was gonna go, Tommy?" "About like that." "We took care of that." "Good call." "Now we can make up for lost time." "If you're not sick of fish let's find some Ieggy models and eat sushi off them." "What do you say?" "What the hell?" "Hey!" "Here, son." "Drink." "What the hell are you doing?" "That's all we've got." "If anybody's making it out of here, it's gonna be him." "I'm so sorry, I thought I'd have more time." "I'm not the man you think I am." "I didn't build our city." "I failed it." "And I wasn't the only one." "MAN:" "Mr. Queen?" "Mr. Queen?" "Did your father survive that accident?" "I ask the questions." "You give me the answers." "[SCREAMS]" "Did he make it to the island?" "Did he tell you anything?" "[SCREAMS]" "[PANTING]" "Yes, he did." "MAN:" "What did he tell you, Mr. Queen?" "He told me I'm gonna kill you." "[MEN LAUGHING]" "MAN:" "You're delusional." "You're zip-cuffed to that chair." "Not anymore." "[GRUNTING]" "He killed that man." "You don't have to do this." "Yes, I do." "Nobody can know my secret." "[CRACKING]" "QUENTIN:" "So that's your story?" "A guy in a green hood flew in and singIe-handedIy took out three armed kidnappers?" "I mean, who is he?" "Why would he do that?" "I don't know." "Find him and you can ask." "Yeah." "What about you?" "You see the hood guy?" "I saw just movement." "Everything blurry." "I was kind of out of it." "Yeah." "It's funny, isn't it?" "One day back and somebody's gunning for you." "Aren't you popular?" "Were you able to identify the men?" "Scrubbed identities." "UntraceabIe weapons." "These were pros." "Yeah." "They figured you'd pay a king's ransom to get your boy back." "Or a Queen's ransom, as it were." "After all, a parent would do anything to keep their child safe." "I don't find your tone appropriate, detective." "If oliver can think of anything else, he'II be in touch." "Thank you, gentlemen, for coming." "Your luck never seems to run out, does it?" "You are different." "Not like you to read a book." "I missed you, Raisa." "No kitchen on the island." "No." "No friends, either." "Hey thank you." "Do I really seem different?" "No." "You're still a good boy." "Oh, I think we both know I wasn't." "But a good heart." "I hope so." "I wanna be the person you always told me I couId be." "oliver I wanna introduce you to someone, John DiggIe." "He'II accompany you from now on." "I don't need a babysitter." "darling, oliver's a grown man." "If he doesn't feel he needs armed protection" "You know, I understand but this is something I need." "So what do I call you?" "DiggIe's good." "Dig, if you want." "You're ex-miIitary?" "Yes, sir. 105th Airborne out of Kandahar, retired." "Been in the private sector a little more than four years now." "I don't want there to be any confusion." "My ability to keep you from harm will outweigh your comfort." "Do we have an agreement?" "Sir?" "[DOOR OPENS THEN SHUTS]" "Sir?" "OLIVER:" "The abduction was unexpected." "It forced me to move up my plans." "What I told the police was true." "The man in the green hood was in that warehouse and he's just beginning." "[ELECTRICITY HUMMING]" "MAN [ON TV]:" "The suit alleges Hunt committed acts of fraud and theft against the underprivileged." "Laurel Lance, attorney for the city...." "OLIVER:" "Adam Hunt." "His crimes go deeper than fraud and theft but he's been able to bully, bribe, or kill anyone who's gotten into his way." "He hasn't met me yet." "Remind GreII I put him on the bench." "I can take him off." "I will turn him into a cautionary tale." "Yes, Mr. Hunt." "And this attorney, laurel Lance?" "You said she wasn't gonna be a problem anymore." "I told you to fix that situation." "Why are you still here?" "Get in the car!" "OLIVER:" "Hey, you missed." "[BODYGUARD GRUNTING]" "What?" "What?" "Look, just" "Just tell me what you want." "You're gonna transfer $40 million into StarIing City Bank account..." "...1141 by 10 p.m. tomorrow night." "Or what?" "Or I'm gonna take it." "And you won't like how." "If I see you again, you're dead." "He was wearing a hood." "A green hood." "And had a bow and arrow." "What, you don't believe me?" "That maniac put two of my men in the hospital." "well, thanks for your statement." "We'II put out an APB on Robin Hood." "Hey, pal, I'm not some grocer who got taken for his register." "I go to the front of the line." "He said he'd be back here by 10 p.m. Make sure you're here first." "You can coordinate with Mr. Drakon, my new head of security." "AII right." "well, uh, thanks for your time." "Looks like Queen was telling the truth." "Yeah, well, there's a first time for everything." "This hooded guy comes looking for trouble, he'II find it." "Put on your seatbelt, sir." "WouIdn't want you to miss your party." "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[MUSIC STOPS]" "Everybody, hey!" "Man of the hour!" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "And, ladies, please give this man a proper homecoming." "[QUEEN'S "WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Thank you very much, everybody!" "ollie, ollie, ollie." "I missed tequila." "[ALL CHEERING]" "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING]" "What the hell's going on out there?" "Across the street." "Party for the guy they rescued off that island." "oliver Queen." "Bye." "Hey, does he wipe for you too?" "Now, by my rough estimate, you would not had sex in 1839 days." "As your wing man, I highly recommend Carmen golden." "OLIVER:" "Which one?" "She looks like the chick from Twilight." "What's Twilight?" "You're so better off not knowing." "Back in a minute." "ollie, hey!" "This party is sick." "Who let you in here?" "I believe it was somebody who said, "Right this way, Miss Queen."" "well, you shouldn't be here." "Oh, I'm not 12 anymore." "No, you're 17 ." "ollie, I Iove you, but you can't come back here and judge me." "especially for being just like you." "It couldn't have been easy when I was away." "Away?" "No, you died." "My brother and my father died." "I went to your funerals." "I know." "No, you don't." "Mom had waiter." "And I had no one." "Now, you guys all act like it's cool, Iet's forget about the Iast five years." "well, I can't." "For me, it's kind of permanently in there." "I'm sorry, if I've turned out a major disappointment but this, me, is the best I couId do with what I had to work with." "Let's bounce." "You have the fun dip?" "Yeah." "It's right here." "No, I must've dropped it." "Oh!" "Oh." "You're here." "Tommy." "He made the point that we have too many years between us to leave things the way we left them." "Is there some place quieter that we could go?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry about saying that you should've been the one who died." "That was wrong." "If I couId trade places with her, I would." "About Sara...." "There's something that I've been afraid to ask, but I need to know." "Okay." "When she died did she suffer?" "OLIVER:" "Aah!" "Sara!" "SARA:" "Aah!" "No." "I think about her every day." "Me too." "I guess we still have one thing in common, then." "I can't believe I'm gonna say this, but if you need someone to talk to about what happened to you, I'm here." "[PHONE VIBRATING]" "Something wrong?" "I asked somebody to do something." "They didn't do it." "laurel you always saw the best in me." "Right now, that's what you're doing." "Looking at me and you're wondering if that island changed me somehow if it made me a better person." "It didn't." "Stay away from me." "Otherwise, I'm just gonna hurt you again." "But this time, it will be worse." "Gotta roll." "I got five years of debauchery to catch up on." "You know what, oliver?" "You're wrong." "That island did change you." "At least now you're honest." "Something I can help you with, sir?" "I just want a second to myself." "DIGGLE:" "I would believe you if you weren't full of crap." "Party's this way." "It's locked." "You two cover the elevator." "Hang back and be ready." "Stay in the corners and stay alert." "[DOOR LOCKS]" "It's past 10 ." "He's never getting in here." "AII's clear." "Yeah." "[ELEVATOR DINGS]" "[MEN GRUNTING]" "You missed!" "really?" "He's here!" "AII units converge." "AII units converge." "Go right, go right." "On me." "Lay down your weapons or we will open fire." "I repeat, lay down your weapons!" "tell me you saw that." "Okay." "Let's go." "Move!" "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Search the building." "Roof to basement." "Find him." "StarIing City police." "The party's over, kids." "Oh, Mr. MerIyn." "Imagine my shock to find you here." "Roofie anyone special tonight?" "Detective." "This is a private party." "There was an incident at Adam Hunt's building." "Know about that?" "Who's he?" "QUENTIN:" "A millionaire bottom feeder." "I'm surprised you aren't friends." "I've been out of town for a while." "Yeah." "well, he just got attacked by the guy with the hood." "The guy that saved your ass the other day." "You didn't find him?" "Yeah." "I'm gonna offer a reward." "Hey, everybody." "Two million dollars to anybody that can find a nut bar in a green hood." "[ALL CHEERING]" "Did you even try to save her?" "Okay, Iet's go partner." "QUENTIN:" "Did you even try to save my daughter?" "Sara wouldn't want this." "It's not." "Partner, Iet's go." "It's all right." "Let's go." "It's too quiet in here!" "This is a party." "Yeah!" "[ALL CHEERING]" "Some coincidence." "You asking to have your party here and Hunt getting robbed next door." "And by the same guy who rescued us at the warehouse." "If I were you, Tommy, I'd just be glad you're alive." "What happened to you on that island?" "A Iot." "What the hell are you talking about?" "Forty million dollars doesn't just up and vanish." "UntraceabIe?" "It is $40 million." "Find it!" "How did he do it?" "There's not enough for all of us." "Save your strength." "ROBERT:" "You can survive this." "Make it home, make it better." "Right my wrongs." "But you gotta live through this first." "You hear me, ollie?" "You hear me, son?" "Just rest, Dad." "No." "Dad." "Survive." "No!" "[GUNSHOT]" "If, hypothetically, $50,000 magically appeared in your bank account it might be best not to speak about it." "To anyone." "Ever." "[CHUCKLES]" "God bless you too." "I just got a very grateful phone call from one of our clients against Adam Hunt." "Me too." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "It looks like StarIing City has a guardian angel." "By the way, your cute friend's here." "You left the party quick last night, even after I stocked the bar with Pinot Noir." "It wasn't really my scene." "I thought maybe you and oliver went mano-a-mano again." "I saw you two head out." "There's nothing between oliver and I. Not anymore." "And here I thought the only thing between you and oliver was us." "I wouldn't characterize us as an us, Tommy." "Then what would you call it?" "A lapse." "It's quite a few lapses." "Your place." "My place." "My place again." "Come on, MerIyn." "We both know that you're not a one-girI type of guy." "Depends on the girl." "I have to go back to work." "Dinah laurel Lance." "always trying to save the world." "Hey, If I don't try and save it, who will?" "OLIVER:" "She says the island changed me." "She has no idea how much." "There are many more names on the list those who rule my city through intimidation and fear." "Every last one of them will wish I had died on that island." "The police failed to identify the men I hired to kidnap oliver." "And they never will." "should we arrange another abduction?" "MOIRA:" "No." "There are other ways of finding out what my son knows." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "[GASPS]" "OLIVER:" "The day I went missing was the day I died." "Five years in hell forged me into a weapon which I use to honor a vow I made to my father who sacrificed his life for mine." "In his final moments, he told me the truth that our family's wealth had been built on the suffering of others." "That he failed our city and that it was up to me to save it and right his wrongs." "But to do that without endangering the people closest to me I have to be someone else." "I have to be something else." "MAN 1 Who's that?" "Where'd he come from?" "[GRUNTING]" "MAN 2:" "What's going on here?" "MAN 3:" "Get the chopper back, now." "MAN 4:" "Who is this guy?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa." "please, wait, wait." "No, please." "Marcus Redmond, you've failed this city." "please, don't." "please." "Don't." "cell phone, inside pocket, call your partner." "tell him to give those pensioners back their money." "please, don't." "Do it now." "MAN [OVER TV]:" "Over the past 15 years, Mr. Redmond has withdrawn more than 30 million dollars from the plan's account." "Mr. Redmond claims refunding the Halcyon pension plan has always been his intent." "But sources say Redmond was coerced by the vigilante." "This guy gets more airtime than the Kardashians, right?" "Five years on an island and you still know who they are." "Been catching up." "It's nice to see our culture has improved while I was away." "The city used to be different." "people used to feel safe." "Oh." "What's the matter, Mom?" "Afraid we're gonna be next?" "WALTER:" "Do you have any questions, oliver?" "It's a simple proof of Iife declaration." "Read out a brief statement to the judge and your death in absentia judgment will be voided." "It's fine." "I've been in a courtroom before." "Four times by my estimate." "There's the DUI." "The assault on that paparazzi douche bag." "stealing that taxi, which was awesome, by the way." "And who could forget peeing on the cop?" "I wish everyone would." "I'd hang, but we're headed to court." "It's why I'm here." "My best friend is getting resurrected?" "I wouldn't miss this for the world." "What about you?" "I think the first four times of you in court was enough for me." "Fair enough." "Mrs. Queen, car's ready." "TOMMY:" "WaIter." "REPORTER 1 Mr. Queen." "Mr. Queen." "[REPORTERS CLAMORING]" "How does it feel to return to civilization after five years?" "REPORTER 2:" "What happened on that island, Mr. Queen?" "[SCREAMING]" "REPORTER 3:" "tell us about the accident." "REPORTER 4:" "OIiver" "[SCREAMING]" "OLIVER:" "There was a storm." "The boat went down." "I was the only survivor." "She's not there." "Sarah." "My father didn't make it." "OLIVER:" "No." "I almost died." "I" "I thought that I had because I spent so many days on that life raft before I saw the island." "When I reached it, I knew I knew that I was gonna have to live for both of us." "And in those five years, it was that one thought that kept me going." "Your Honor, we move to vitiate the death-in-absentia fiIed after oliver's disappearance at sea aboard the Queen's Gambit five years ago." "unfortunately, we will not be requesting that the declaration of death filed for the petitioner's father, Robert Queen, be rescinded." "The Queen family is only entitled to one miracle, I'm afraid." "Now on to the offices." "Everyone is waiting to meet you there." "Mom, that was, uh...." "A little bit heavier than I was expecting it to be." "could we do that tomorrow?" "please?" "Of course." "Thank you." "Last week you couldn't wait to get to the company." "Tommy, I spent five years away from civilization." "I wasn't exactly thinking straight." "Hi." "Hi." "What are you doing here?" "Oh, they were bringing me back from the dead." "legally speaking." "What are you doing here?" "My job." "Right." "More like the DA's." "Hi." "oliver Queen." "emily Nocenti." "OIiverjust got back from five years on an island." "Before that, he was cheating on me with my sister." "He was with her when she died." "Last week, he told me to stay away from him." "It was really good advice." "Excuse me." "It was nice to meet you." "Yeah, Iet's go." "Come on, buddy." "Shake it off." "Let's go." "REPORTER 1 Mr. Somers." "One question, sir." "I don't know what I've done to earn this witch hunt from Ms. Lance and her bosses at the CNRI, but I can tell you this." "I am an honest businessman and I will fight this slander to my last dime and breath." "That's all I have to say." "Thank you." "[REPORTERS CLAMORING]" "REPORTER 2:" "Oh, there's Mr. Queen." "REPORTER 3:" "Do you want to follow up?" "[REPORTERS CLAMORING]" "REPORTER 4:" "tell us what happened inside, Mr. Queen." "Step back everybody, please." "REPORTER 4:" "Can you give us a couple comments?" "REPORTER 5:" "Before you go, sir." "REPORTER 4:" "Comments about the island?" "What happened?" "Step back." "Hey man, I'II make you swallow that Nikon." "Back." "[TIRES SQUEALING]" "This happens to you a Iot, doesn't it?" "How much is a life worth?" "A life of a man, a good man." "A stevedore on the docks of the city in which we live." "A father." "A man with a daughter." "The plaintiff will prove by a preponderance of evidence that Victor Nocenti learned that his boss, that man, sitting there, Martin Somers was taking bribes from the Chinese triads to smuggle drugs into our city." "When Victor threatened to tell the police Martin Somers had him killed." "Mr. Somers is very weII-connected and has friends in the District Attorney's office." "Which is why if emily Nocenti is to get justice for her father's death if Somers is to get justice for his crimes then someone is gonna have to do it for them." "OLIVER:" "Martin Somers." "Laurel's targeted the worst of Starling City so it's no surprise his name is on my father's list." "The city's police and DA can't stop him or won't." "Laurel thinks she's the only one willing to bring him to justice." "She's wrong." "You, listen up." "The longer this goes on, the more the media is gonna crucify me." "You shut this trial down, understand me?" "Yes, sir." "SOMERS:" "What the hell?" "[SOMERS CHOKING AND YELLING]" "[GASPING THEN CHOKES]" "[SOMERS GROANING]" "GREEN ARROW:" "Martin Somers-- SOMERS:" "Who the hell are you?" "GREEN ARROW:" "You've failed this city." "No, no, no." "[ARROW WHOOSHES]" "GREEN ARROW:" "You're going to testify in that trial." "You're gonna confess to having Victor Nocenti killed." "[SOMERS GRUNTING]" "There won't be a second warning." "[SOMERS YELLING AND GRUNTING]" "I hired you to protect my son." "I'm not a bodyguard, but it seems to me the first requirement would be staying next to the man you're hired to protect." "I've never had a client who didn't want my protection." "I hired you." "That makes me the client." "Now, where do you think my son is going on these chaperone-Iess excursions?" "Ma'am, I truly do not know." "And he truly doesn't." "Then perhaps you'd Iike to share with me, you know, where it is you run off to?" "[OLIVER CHUCKLES]" "I've been alone for five years." "I know that, OIiver" "Mom." "alone." "I see." "I promise to introduce her if it ever gets to the exchanging first names stage." "I'd rather you promise to take Mr. DiggIe with you on your next rendezvous." "It's not safe." "You've already been abducted once." "There is a maniac out there hunting the wealthy." "That maniac saved my Iife." "This isn't a game." "I lost you once." "And I am not going through that again." "Okay." "Dig's my guy." "Thank you." "[SIGHS]" "Sorry to give you so much grief." "I served three tours in Afghanistan, Mr. Queen." "You don't even come close to my definition of grief." "I tell you what you ditch me one more time and no one will have to fire me." "Where are you going?" "Somewhere loud and smoky." "Don't bother trying to pickpocket my stash because I'm gonna go get drunk instead." "Thea." "Do you think this is what Dad would want for you?" "Dead people don't want anything." "It's one of the benefits of being dead." "I was dead." "And I wanted a Iot." "Except for your family." "You've been home a week." "And all you do is avoid Mom ignore waiter and judge me." "Don't wait up." "well, I owe you an apology, Mr. Somers." "We come all the way down to your docks and turns out you don't need the police." "Which is exactly what I've been saying." "So I guess that 911 call we got last night from your stevedores saying you were attacked by a guy in a hood and a bow and arrow." "I guess that...." "Hm...." "Was that a practical joke?" "These guys like to fool around." "Yeah." "[SCOFFS]" "You know, I'd be very inclined to believe an honest upstanding businessman like yourself except...." "well, one of my men found this at your docks." "You see, there's this vigilante running around." "He thinks he's some kind of Robin Hood." "Robbing the rich." "Trying to teach them a lesson, I guess I don't know." "But the point is, the man is a killer." "And nothing and no one is gonna stop me from bringing him down." "But like you said..." "Huh." "...clearly nothing happened here last night." "Isn't this a conflict of interest, Detective?" "After all, your daughter is suing me." "I'm good at keeping my emotions in check." "I'm not." "You and your daughter don't wanna find out what I'm capable of when I get emotional." "[SCOFFS]" "As you can see, oliver, we've modernized quite a bit." "BOTH:" "Hi." "Ha, ha, are you enjoying yourself?" "Yes, I am." "WALTER:" "I remember your father used to bring you here when you were a boy." "You always were so excited." "Dad let me drink soda in the office." "So that's why you enjoyed coming." "Queen consolidated's success of late is a result of its targeted diversification." "We have been making impressive inroads in cutting-edge fields like..." "...biotech and clean energy" "That's neat." "Excuse me." "Can I get a sparkling water or something cold, please?" "Sweetheart, oliver, WaIter and I have something to discuss with you." "Come, please, sit." "Mom, it makes me nervous when you ask me to sit down." "The company is about to break ground on a site for the applied Sciences division." "And we would Iike to honor your father by dedicating the building in his name." "Nice." "MOIRA:" "And we'd Iike to make an announcement at the dedication." "That you will be taking a leadership position in the company." "No." "No." "Your, your company." "No." "I don't wanna lead anything." "Besides, WaIter's doing a very good job here." "You said that you wanted to be a different person." "And you are Robert Queen's son." "I don't need to be reminded of that." "obviously, you do." "Everyone here understands that this transition is really difficult for you." "Thank you, WaIter." "Which part though?" "Everyone fantasizing that I got my MBA while I was on the island?" "Or the fact that my father's CFO now sleeps down the hall from me?" "You know, five years ago, your irresponsibility was somewhat charming." "It is a Iot less so now." "REPORTER:" "There he is." "[ALL SHOUTING AND CLAMORING]" "The driver will be here in a minute." "Okay." "I spent the first 27 years of my Iife in starling City and the next five in Afghanistan." "You want to know what I Iearned?" "There's no place like home?" "No, just the opposite." "Home is a battlefield." "Back home, they're all trying to get you." "Get you to open up, be somebody you're not sure you are anymore." "Or I couId be wrong." "Maybe after five years alone, you're not as messed up in the head as you have every right to be." "[SEAGULLS SQUAWKING]" "Hey." "Hey, get away." "Hey." "Dad?" "[GRUNTS]" "[RETCHING]" "Hey." "Hey, stay away from him." "[GAGGING]" "[GASPING]" "[GRUNTING]" "JOANNA:" "well, we anticipate that Somers' attorney will try to paint you as blinded by grief or looking to make a buck." "But this isn't about the money." "I just want justice for my father." "emily, there are a Iot of people who don't want this trial to proceed." "Dangerous people." "My mother died when I was a baby." "My father is the only family I've ever known." "And they slit his throat." "They are going to have to kill me if they want me to give this up." "well, Iet's hope it doesn't come to that." "LANCE:" "And it won't." "What's going on?" "You three are getting police protection." "Get used to their faces, they're going with you everywhere." "No arguments." "I'm a lawyer." "I Iive to argue." "I'm your father." "I Iive to keep you safe." "emily, Iet's go grab a cup of coffee?" "Yes, why not do that?" "Thank you." "please, go with them." "Stay there." "Protective custody?" "I seem to recall you trying that once I discovered boys." "It didn't work then, either." "This isn't ajoke, laurel." "Martin Somers got attacked last night." "What?" "Yeah." "By who?" "Doesn't matter." "You have whipped up a storm with these guys and until the dust settles, you will be protected." "End of discussion." "That might've worked when I was 8..." "...but it's not gonna work anymore." "End of discussion." "Doing yourjob?" "Great." "This is me doing mine." "Okay?" "Not just as a father, but as a cop." "These people are more dangerous than you are willing to admit." "And you've made them angry." "Thank you for coming." "Anything for a friend." "We're not friends." "You smuggle drugs." "I let you use my port." "For which you are paid a Iot of money." "I don't get paid enough to have arrows shot at me." "You need to take this guy seriously." "He's a bigger threat than Nocenti ever was." "Now it's Nocenti's daughter who's the problem." "unlike your friend with the hood, we know where to find her." "Don't be an idiot." "Take out emily Nocenti and Lance will never let this go." "She won't stop until she burns you, me and the entire triad to the ground." "Then we kill Ms. Lance." "MAN [OVER TV]:" "Attorney for shipping magnate Martin Somers confirmed his client has no intention of testifying, maintaining innocence in the death of Victor Nocenti." "Nocenti's body was found four weeks ago." "We'll keep you updated as information becomes available." "Wait, how did you get those?" "Don't you knock?" "No, wait...." "Mom said that there were scars...." "I'm...." "oliver, what happened to you out there?" "I don't wanna talk about it." "[SCOFFS]" "Of course you don't." "You never want to talk to me about anything except for my social life." "Wait." "Where are you going?" "Why should I tell you?" "I'm sorry, Thea." "I need to get better at talking about what happened to me there." "But I'm not ready yet." "Okay?" "Do you have a second?" "Yeah." "Good." "I wanna show you something out back." "Sometimes when I felt...whatever." "I'd come here." "About a month after the funerals, Mom stopped going out." "Pretty soon she stopped talking altogether." "The house got so quiet." "So I'd come here." "To talk to you." "Stupid stuff." "Like what I was doing that day what boy I had a crush on." "And then sometimes, I'd ask you, beg you, to find your way home to me." "Now here you are." "And the truth is, I felt closer to you when you were dead." "Look, I know it was hell where you were." "But it was hell here too." "You gotta let me in, ollie." "You gotta let someone in." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Hi." "Are you okay?" "There are two cop cars outside." "How am I supposed to stay away from you if you won't stay away from me?" "What are you doing here, ollie?" "My sister took, what...." "She pointed out that I have been distant since I got back and that it wouId probably be a good idea if I let somebody in." "So you thought you'd start with the first person you pushed away?" "I did that to protect you." "And then I saw you yesterday and I realized that I hurt you." "[SIGHS]" "Thank you." "Wow." "This place hasn't changed in five years." "I haven't really had time to redecorate." "I'm ajerk." "Before the island, I was ajerk, and now I'm just a...." "I'm a damaged jerk." "What's in the bag?" "I thought about many things on the island but there was one thing I thought about every day." "I actually dreamed about it, and I promised myself that if I ever got a chance to do it again, I'd do it with you." "Eat ice cream." "This is as good as I remember." "My mother wants me to join the company." "Yeah." "Take my rightful place." "I can't exactly picture you as the master of the universe." "You know, after five years, I have plans." "I have things that I have to do." "I can't do that if I'm...." "I don't know." "Attending board meetings and stockholder briefings." "oliver." "You're an adult." "You can say no." "Oh, I tried." "Didn't take." "well, then don't tell her, show her." "Be the person that you want her to see you as." "Trust me." "I have plenty of experience with disapproving parents." "I have been on the receiving end of your father's disapproval." "He blames himself more than he blames you." "He thinks that, you know, maybe if he and Sarah were closer she would have told him about the boat trip." "And he could have stopped her from going with you." "I am sorry." "You apologized already." "It'II never be enough." "[METAL CLATTERS]" "Did you hear that?" "What?" "There's someone on the fire escape." "What?" "Hey, come on." "Come on." "[GRUNTS]" "[LAUREL GASPING]" "[LAUREL SCREAMS]" "[OLIVER GRUNTS AND LAUREL SCREAMS]" "Huh." "[GUN COCKS]" "Unh!" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[DIGGLE GRUNTS]" "[WHIMPERS]" "Are you hurt?" "No." "Are you hurt, Mr. Queen?" "No." "No." "This is why it's a good idea to have a bodyguard." "Hey, you okay?" "[POLICE CHATTER]" "Daddy." "Thank God." "Thank God." "Are you all right?" "I'm okay." "Yeah." "Those cops that you put on me." "They" "I went to ask for a light and they were both dead in the squad car." "It's all right, honey." "It's okay." "Mr. DiggIe, thank you." "You feel free to run as many red lights as you want." "I was doing my job, sir." "No, yourjob is protecting him." "It seems like whenever you're with one of my daughters, people die." "You stay away from laurel, or the next time you disappear, it'II be permanent." "Dad." "No, LaureI" "It's okay." "I understand." "Yeah." "laurel." "I'd say thank you but I don't think that'd cover it." "Like I told your cop friend, I was just doing my job." "Besides, I think it should be you that I'm thanking." "What for?" "The knife." "The knife." "I got lucky." "That was a kitchen knife it wasn't weighted properly." "You threw it for accuracy across a ten-foot room." "exactly." "I got lucky." "I'm not the man you want to take for a fool." "You understand me?" "Yes." "I think I'm just beginning to understand the kind of man you are." "ShouIdn't take you very long." "I'm shallow." "And very tired." "So...." "Good night." "Good night, sir." "OLIVER:" "I wanted to give Martin Somers the chance to confess .and face a court, but he chose to go after someone I care about instead." "He's still going to face justice." "It'll just be a different kind." "That triad bitch screwed up the hit on Lance." "Now the triad is gonna erase every ounce of evidence of their smuggling operation." "including me." "Except that's not gonna happen." "tell wallace to get the boat ready." "I'm leaving tonight." "wallace?" "wallace, you copy?" "wallace?" "GREEN ARROW:" "Wallace isn't here." "But I am." "We need to move." "Now." "Move." "BODYGUARD:" "Sir, we got six men out there." "SOMERS:" "That's not enough." "Move it.." "You're going into that court room to recuse yourself." "Or drop it, but either way you are done." "If you think I'm gonna abandon emily you don't know me that well." "You don't know me well, young lady." "I will lock you in a cell." "well, I guess that's what it's gonna take then." "Damn it, laurel." "I thought after what happened with Sarah that you'd stop being just so reckless." "It's not about being reckless, it's just the opposite." "I'm trying to make this city safer." "Just like you." "Sweetie, you're my only daughter, laurel." "You're all I have left to live for." "But what you want for me isn't living." "Having cops around, not being able to do my job." "Yourjob is not going after people like the triad or Somers." "My job is to use the Iaw to fight for what is right." "Just like you taught me." "well, that's dirty." "Using me against me." "You can't do that." "well maybe I picked that up along the way too." "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "Lance." "MAN:" "Sir, we got a report from the wharf site." "Somer's imports." "LANCE:" "I'II be right there." "I've gotta go." "There's something going on at the docks." "[AUTOMATIC GUN FIRE]" "[MAN GRUNTS]" "[GREEN ARROW GRUNTS]" "[YELLS]" "GREEN ARROW:" "Somers." "[SOMERS GASPING]" "[YELLS]" "[SOMERS GRUNTS]" "Oh, God, no, no, no." "He can't help you." "I want the truth about Victor Nocenti." "I can't." "The triad will kill me." "The triad's not your concern right now." "[YELLING AND GASPING]" "AII right." "AII right, all right." "It wasn't me that killed him." "It was the triad." "Acting on whose instructions?" "Whose?" "AII right, all right." "It was mine." "It was mine, all right?" "Nocenti said he was gonna testify against me." "[IN CHINESE]" "[IN CHINESE]" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[SIRENS BLARING]" "MAN [OVER SPEAKER]:" "It's the police." "Drop your weapons." "You're surrounded." "Come out with your hands on your head." "Freeze." "You twitch and you're dead." "Bow down, hands up." "SOMER [OVER RECORDING]:" "It was mine. lt was mine, all right?" "Nocenti said he was gonna testify against me." "Son of a bitch." "[SIRENS BLARING]" "Laurel was right." "I can't be the Oliver my mother wants me to be and still keep the promise I made to my father." "I have to be the person I need them to see me as." "[CHATTERING]" "Okay, this is a surprise." "Did you show up here by mistake?" "By invitation." "Oh...." "oliver invited me last night." "Last night?" "Is that surprise orjeaIousy I'm hearing?" "Look, I just don't want him to find out anything, okay?" "oliver has been through a Iot." "Tommy, we've all been through a Iot." "Good afternoon and thank you all for coming." "welcome to the future site of the Robert Queen memorial applied Sciences Center." "Now this is a building that will stand as a monument to the man whose company and vision are his greatest legacies." "OLIVER:" "Whoa!" "Whoa." "Mm." "What about me?" "Right?" "I'm a legacy." "Hey, thanks for warming them up, wait." "AII right." "Fine, fine." "shovel." "I got it." "Whoa!" "Oh." "I'm kidding." "I'm kidding." "I got it." "I got it." "Some of you may not know me." "My name is oliver Queen." "Watch some television, read a newspaper, I'm kind of famous right now." "mostly, though, I'm famous because I'm Robert Queen's son." "Uh, but as waiter, who's my new dad...." "Huh?" "Who is...." "Sorry." "As waiter was saying, I'm not much of a legacy, per se, and" "oliver, you don't have to do this" "No, sit." "Sit." "Gosh." "See, I was supposed to come here today and I'm supposed to take my rightful place at the company." "prodigal son returns home and becomes the heir apparent." "But I'm not my father." "I'm not the man he was." "I'm not half the man he was." "I never will be." "So, please, stop asking me to be." "[PEOPLE WHISPERING]" "MAN [OVER TV]:" "Martin Somers, CEO of Starling Port arrested for the murder of Victor Nocenti." "He is also being accused of accepting cash, including over ten million in bribes." "We can pursue the civil suit if you want, but the DA now has no choice with Mr. Somers' confession, to prosecute him." "He's going to jail, emily." "For the rest of his life." "Thank you so much for fighting for us." "well, thank you for being brave enough to let me." "Hey." "I thought I didn't need police protection anymore." "I thought I didn't need a reason to see my daughter." "You don't." "Hm." "You look tired." "I was filling out reports on the shoot-out at the port and getting grilled about how I let that archer get away." "I have to admit, I'm kind of glad he did." "He brought down Martin Somers." "He hurt a bunch of people doing it." "He is no hero." "He's an anarchist." "Yeah, well, whoever he is, it seems like he's trying to help." "The city doesn't need that help." "I always told you you don't go outside the Iaw to find justice." "No, I believe that, all right?" "And I promise you, when I catch this guy he's gonna believe it too." "[PANTING]" "well, you saw for yourself." "My son knows nothing." "Robert didn't tell him anything that could hurt us." "He has no idea that the yacht was sabotaged." "AII that time on the island, plotting my return I didn't realize how hard it wouId be to reconnect with Mom, Thea laurel." "Okay, I didn't...." "I didn't know how painful it wouId be to keep my secrets." "You asked me to save the city." "To right your wrongs." "I will." "I swear." "But to do that, I can't be the oliver that everyone wants me to be which means that sometimes to honor your wishes I need to dishonor your memory." "I'm sorry." "Take it down." "will you be going out tonight, sir?" "definitely." "[ARROW WHOOSHES]" "[SCREAMING]" "[english" " US" " SDH]" "[CHAINS CLANGING]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "To my family, I am the brother and son who just returned home after being lost at sea five years ago." "They don't know I came back with a mission to bring justice to our city and they never can." "The men and women I've targeted are dangerous, corrupt a virulent cancer." "Cancers like James Holder, whose corporation put defective smoke detectors in low-income housing in the Glades." "There have been many fires and too many funerals." "But cancers can be fought and conquered." "All it takes is a surgeon and the right instrument." "[CHUCKLES]" "Other than the bill I got handed by my legal team I'm feeling pretty good." "Now that this lawsuit's been settled we can focus our attention on Unidac Industries." "[CHUCKLES]" "Okay." "I'II see you in the office first thing." "[SCREAMS]" "I have armed security inside." "AII I have to do is call out." "Go ahead." "They can't hear you." "What the hell do you want?" "How many people died in those fires?" "How many?" "The courts say you don't owe your victims anything." "I disagree." "James holder, you" "[GUNSHOT THEN HOLDER GRUNTS]" "[GRUNTING]" "OLIVER:" "It's no surprise a man as corrupt as James Holder has more than one enemy." "[GRUNTS]" "The bullet." "Poison." "[GROANS]" "OLIVER:" "Who are you?" "Why did you shoot me?" "[YAO FEI IN CHINESE]" "[GRUNTS]" "[SCREAMING]" "[COMPUTER BEEPING]" "Damn it." "[CHATTERING]" "What happened?" "Thea okay?" "Cops brought her home." "She and some of her friends broke into a store tried on some dresses last night." "Lit up the breathalyzer like a Christmas tree." "So how was your evening, sir?" "After I said I had to go bathroom at dinner and never came back?" "I guess from now on I'II be watching you pee." "Thank you, officers." "My wife and I appreciate it." "I'II see you out." "Thank you." "Last time it was public intoxication." "This time breaking and entering." "My, how we are moving up in the criminal world." "When you pay off the store owner you should check out the merchandise." "They got some pretty killer outfits." "Thea, go get ready for school." "Uh, you know, I was thinking of taking a sick day." "Fine, then get some sleep." "You look like crap." "You're letting her play hooky?" "When your sister gets like this, it's best to give her space." "She's testing you." "Yes." "Who'd she learn that from?" "Mom." "When I was her age, you let me get away with murder." "Looking back I couId have used less space and more parenting." "It doesn't make sense." "holder fits the profile." "wealthy dirtbag." "Red meat for the hood." "We recovered one arrow." "This time cause of death is a double tap through the heart and our perp doesn't use firearms." "He's figured out there's easier ways to kill people than with a bow and arrow." "And it's like you said, the guy's a whack job." "OLIVER:" "The bullets were laced with curare." "A rare and deadly poison." "The killer's unique MO." "He's killed all over the world." "Chicago, Markovia, Corto Maltese." "Interpol even has a codename for him." "Deadshot." "I was prepared to give James Holder a chance to right his wrongs but this Deadshot has no morality no honor, no code." "He doesn't kill for justice, which makes him as dangerous as anyone on my list." "In fact, it puts him right at the top." "OLIVER:" "What do you think?" "Great spot for a nightclub or what?" "Sweet." "If you're thinking calling it Queens, I don't think you're gonna get the clientele you were hoping for." "Private office?" "For the private one-on-one meetings, I would imagine." "hopefully the occasional two-on-one meeting." "[TOMMY LAUGHS]" "Man, are you sure you wanna do this?" "It's not Iike you really have any experience in running a...." "well, running anything." "How about tomorrow night, the two of us go and scope out the competition." "There's a new club opening downtown." "It's called Poison." "Max fuller owns it." "Max fuller." "TOMMY:" "Mm-hm." "I slept with his fiancée." "Yeah, before the wedding." "It was at rehearsal dinner." "The rehearsal dinner is technically before the wedding." "Ha, ha." "Right?" "Ha, ha." "And besides, who stays mad at a castaway?" "Aw, damn it, I gotta roll." "Anyway, I'II see you later, man." "Good place." "See you." "So what do you think?" "I'm here to provide security, not a commentary." "Oh, come on, Dig, do me a favor." "Speak freely, please." "well, this is the glades, right?" "Your rich friends wouldn't come to this neighborhood." "I am oliver Queen, right?" "people would stand in line for three hours if I opened a club." "No one who lives in the glades would see a penny of those charges." "We make it a successful business, we gentrify the neighborhood." "I was wondering when we would get to that." "The white knight swooping in to save the disenfranchised." "And all by his lonesome with no help from anybody." "Wow." "You don't think very much of me, do you?" "No, actually, sir, I have a very high regard for how perceptive you are." "Sir." "OLIVER:" "The nightclub will conceal my base underneath and provide an alibi for where Oliver Queen spends his nights." "Hey, do you have the depos on the Jergens case?" "Yeah, they're around here somewhere." "I was just surfing the net." "really?" "Joanna, I'm over him." "And you don't believe me." "I would have if I wouldn't have just caught you trolling for articles on him." "I wasn't trolling." "I don't wanna be the one to remind you that he cheated on you, laurel." "With your sister." "I appreciate your seIf-controI." "You're stuck." "The reason I know this is the fact that only relationship you've had since oliver is with his best friend." "It is time to move on." "It is past time." "I've been busy." "I work a Iot." "Okay." "That's gotta stop." "So we are going out tonight." "And we are gonna have some shots and we are gonna dance with men that we don't know and we are gonna stay out way too late." "Oh." "Heh." "Jergens depos." "I really don't think I can go out tonight." "It is adorable that you actually think I'm giving you a choice." "I want you to come home right after school." "Uh, can't." "Margot and I are gonna go to the mail." "What, more shopping?" "tell Margot you'II have to cancel." "You're grounded for two weeks." "Grounded?" "I've never been grounded." "well, you've never committed larceny before." "Since when do you care?" "I've always cared." "I'm your mother." "Look, we've had a good thing going on the Iast five years." "Why mess with that now?" "No, we are paying off store owners to keep your record clean." "So clearly, it hasn't been working." "And you're gonna teach me." "It's oliver, isn't it?" "His judgmental hypocrisy is rubbing off on you." "No, I don't need oliver to teach me how to parent you." "You'II be home by 4." "Or what?" "You're gonna call the cops on me?" "Heh." "tell them I say hi." "[CHATTERING]" "Got baIIistics back on the holder murder." "They pulled two 7.62 millimeter bullets out of him." "According to stippIing and size of the entry wound they estimate shots were fired from 100 yards away." "A hundred yards?" "So the hood shoots him from another building goes over to his place, he takes out his security, then fires a few arrows?" "And according to his tox screen, his blood contained strychnos toxifera." "What?" "Curare." "It's a kind of poison." "Oh." "Okay, so now we switch from arrows to sniper bullets and poison." "I'm not buying it." "We still found arrows on the scene." "solid evidence the hood was there." "Where are you going?" "I'm going to get my own evidence." "OLIVER:" "Seven-point-62 millimeter rounds." "The money trail leads back to the Bratva." "The Russian mob." "Finally, some good luck." "[MAN SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]" "[OLIVER IN RUSSIAN]" "[IN RUSSIAN]" "[SCREAMS]" "pleased to meet you." "I apologize." "We meant no disrespect to a captain." "particularly an American one." "So how can I be of assistance?" "I'm in the market for a hired gun." "Someone the organization's used before." "His calling card is a 7.62 millimeter round Iaced with curare." "I know no man who uses such tools." "But you can find out who does." "First, we will drink to each other's health then I will look into the identity of this man you seek." "I will also confirm that you are really Bratva captain." "should this not be the case, I will send my mechanic here to find you and kill you and your family." "MAN [ON TV]:" "Carl Rasmussen was found shot to death in his home earlier this evening." "The police will not comment if there's a connection between Rasmussen's death and the murder of James Holder." "Mr. Rasmussen leaves behind a wife and three children." "It's a great loss." "carl was a titan." "A titan who was looking to buy out a company called Unidac Industries?" "well, industries are something of a misnomer." "UI's recent activity was actually looking into alternative energy." "The point my partner is trying to make is that Rasmussen was the second bidder..." "...to lose his life." "Are you implying something, detective?" "only that your husband's looking into buying Unidac and the competition seems to be dropping like flies." "And I'm sure your veiled accusation has nothing to do with how you feel about my family." "Unidac's in receivership, detective." "Ownership is subject to a liquidation auction so that means there are many prospective buyers." "And the auction's tomorrow so if I was taking out the competition I have a Iot of killing to do in a very short amount of time." "We're just making rounds with interested buyers." "Let them know to be careful." "Oh, yes." "And I'm overwhelmed that Detective Lance is concerned for our safety." "well, thank you for your concern, gentlemen." "Our security consultant, Mr. DiggIe is taking all the necessary precautions." "Yeah." "Right." "well, if you need us we're just a 911 call away." "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Ha, ha." "Oh, my, this is gonna be killer." "If Max fuller sees me here, I agree." "Aw, if you wanna run a business, you gotta take a few risks." "I don't see your name on the list." "Mr." "Queen." "Oh." "I have never seen this guy before in my Iife." "Ever." "TOMMY:" "Oh, wow." "Doesn't you going out and having fun violate some kind of law like the ones that are carved on a stone tablet." "That's cute, Tommy." "TOMMY:" "Thanks." "I can see you two are up to your old hunting patterns." "Just seeing what passes for fun in starling City after five years." "Ah." "I'm sure you'II find that it hasn't been same without you." "Big brother." "Oh, I am so wasted right now." "There is...." "There is two of you." "I thought you were grounded." "I am." "And thank you." "Thank you for that, by the way." "You're done for the night." "Oh, what are you gonna do?" "tell mom?" "OLIVER:" "Thea." "You are hanging with the wrong people." "You're one to talk." "How much do you know about your own so-caIIed friends over here?" "Thea, maybe you shouldn't" "Tommy, I think your BFF has a right to know." "Thea, Iet's go." "well, I guess they never told you that they've been screwing while you were gone." "Look, man, I" "Tommy." "It's okay." "You and me, we're done for the night." "Take your hands off of me." "You're not my father." "And you're barely my brother." "MAX:" "well, well, look at this." "oliver Queen." "Max fuller." "How you been?" "Happy you drowned." "Hey, Max" "Ugh!" "MAX:" "Get him up!" "Hey, Iet him go, Iet him go." "Hey, I said let him go." "told you he was gonna be pissed." "Back off, MerIyn." "This isn't your problem." "You wanna get to him?" "You've gotta go through me." "Wow, they are probably gonna go through me." "[ALL GRUNTING]" "LAUREL:" "So is this over, Max?" "Or are you gonna have your boys pound on me next?" "You three consider yourselves banned for life." "Get the hell out of my place." "Your club sucks anyway." "You guys okay?" "Where'd you learn to do that?" "Cop dad, remember?" "He made me take seIf-defense classes." "OLIVER:" "laurel." "What Thea said...." "oliver, Tommy and I don't need your blessing." "And I don't need your forgiveness." "[PANTING]" "[COUGHING]" "[BRANCHES CREAKING]" "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Why don't you guys, uh, take a seat and I will grab a couple of burgers and some ice for those faces." "Cute." "That's my sister-in-Iaw." "Who I will never speak to or look at." "Ever." "Gonna grab a booth." "She's not wearing a wedding ring." "Brother out of the picture?" "Yeah, you could say that." "Hey, you." "So sweet of you to adopt two white boys." "They need a good role model." "That's my client oliver Queen." "Looks like you're doing a bang up job protecting him." "Look, man about laurel." "I was gonna tell you." "I was just trying to figure out the right way." "To tell somebody that you slept with their girlfriend after they went missing and were then presumed dead." "What, there's no greeting card for that?" "[CHUCKLES]" "Look, it was wrong." "And I'm sorry." "Tommy." "I was dead." "No, man, you were with laurel." "And whether you were dead, or as it turns out, alive on a deserted island, you are my friend." "And me being with laurel violated that friendship..." "...in about 50 different ways." "Thank you." "But it's okay." "How dangerous is this gig, anyway?" "It's a cakewalk, carla, don't worry." "Too late." "Or have you forgotten this job got your brother killed?" "Because, Dig, I haven't." "I can't." "You are being really chill about this." "I...." "[PHONE RINGING]" "hello?" "[OLIVER SPEAKING IN RUSSIAN]" "It's a Russian model calling me." "Can we...." "Can I have a minute, please?" "I can see now why you were able to be so chill." "Enjoy." "So I checked out?" "MAN [OVER PHONE]:" "You did." "His name is Floyd Lawton." "I have address, where he stayed last time he was in starling City." "[OVER PHONE] But that is all." "Let's hope he's a creature of habit." "Go." "MAN:" "1700 Broadway, Pape Motel, Room 52." "You'II leave us out of this, yes?" "[OVER PHONE] Assuming Mr. Lawton doesn't kill you first." "[BONES CRACKING]" "[CLEARS THROAT]" "OLIVER:" "felicity Smoak?" "Hi." "I'm oliver Queen." "Of course." "I know who you are, you're Mr. Queen." "No, Mr. Queen was my father." "Right, but he's dead." "I mean, he drowned." "You didn't, which means you could come down to the IT Department and listen to me babble." "Which will end." "In three, two, one." "Having trouble with my computer and they told me that you were the person to come and see." "I was at my coffee shop surfing the web and I split a latte on it." "really?" "Yeah." "Because these look like bullet holes." "My coffee shop is in a bad neighborhood." "If there is anything that you can salvage from it I would really appreciate it." "Mm-hm." "Wow." "well, good, you're here." "I'm under house arrest, remember." "Do you wanna wear the calvin klein or the Zac Posen?" "To dinner?" "I was just gonna wear pajamas." "To waiter's stock auction." "I think I rather be grounded." "No, it's important that you come." "Important to whom?" "To me." "AII right, listen to me." "When you were 4 years old, you came home one day with a cat." "It was a stray, it was filthy and it was mean." "But you stood there and you declared that it was coming to live with us." "Your father came home from the office and he saw what was going on and he sat you down and he explained to you that the cat was in fact a tiger and that we needed to get it home." "And somehow you understood." "Robert was always so good at getting through to you." "I was always so jealous of that." "I...." "You never talk about him." "Dad." "That's the first time you talked about him in years." "well, I think you and I have gotten into some bad habits." "There's been a Iot that has changed recently, Thea and I think that maybe this can change too." "FELICITY:" "It looks like blueprints." "Do you know what of?" "The Exchange building." "Never heard of it." "It's where the Unidac Industries auction is scheduled to take place." "I thought you said that was your laptop." "Yes." "Look, I don't wanna get in the middle of some Shakespearean family drama thing." "What?" "Mr." "steele marrying your mom." "CIaudius, Gertrude, hamlet." "I didn't study Shakespeare at any of the four schools that I dropped out of." "Mr. SteeIe is trying to buy Unidac Industries." "And you've got a company laptop associated with one of guys he's competing against." "floyd Lawton." "No." "Warren PateI." "Who's floyd Lawton?" "He is an employee of Mr. PateI, evidently." "OLIVER:" "The Exchange Building is surrounded by three towers with eye lines into the building." "Lawton can get his kill shot off from virtually anywhere." "But I can't cover the area." "I can't protect all of Deadshot's targets." "I can't do this alone." "You son of a bitch!" "Detective, quiet!" "You've got a pair on you, pulling this." "floyd Lawton's the one targeting the buyers interested in Unidac." "interpol calls him Deadshot because he never misses." "You can look this up after I go." "Yeah, and stop chasing you, I suppose?" "Warren PateI hired Lawton." "I can't be sure who they're targeting, might be the buyers and I can't protect them in a space that big." "I need your help." "Heh." "Yeah?" "professional help?" "Lawton Iaces his bullets with curare." "tell your men to wear kevlar." "I'II them to shoot you" "[SOFT JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS AND PEOPLE CHATTERING]" "well, it's quite a turnout." "well, it's quite an opportunity, actually." "But regardless of the outcome of the auction I'm already a winner because I have two beautiful women at my side tonight." "MOIRA:" "Two?" "WALTER:" "Thanks for coming, Thea." "It means a Iot to your mother." "And me." "Mr. SteeIe, the auction will be opening in five minutes." "please make sure your bid is ready." "Thank you, Gina." "shall we?" "MOIRA:" "Mm-hm." "I got him." "Warren PateI." "I need you to come with me, sir." "Unit one, all clear." "Unit two, you copy." "HILTON [OVER RADIO]:" "We have Patel in custody." "Still no sign of Lawton." "Unit three?" "WOMAN:" "I'm at the northwest perimeter." "All clear." "Unit four?" "MAN 1 Parking structure is secure." "Unit five, what's your status?" "DEADSHOT:" "This is unit five." "AII clear." "TOMMY:" "Oh, what a shock." "Heh." "It is Friday night." "What are you doing here?" "well, I am an attorney and this is a courthouse so I think the better question is what are you doing here?" "I wanted to talk to you about last night." "You mean how I saved your asses?" "You're welcome." "Okay, first of all, we shall never, ever speak of that ever again." "secondly, I think you know that I meant the other thing." "I don't care to talk about that." "I spoke to oliver." "He was surprisingly cool." "That's because he knew." "Did you see his face when Thea told him?" "Tommy, he didn't even blink." "Trust me, he knew." "Then why didn't he say anything?" "I don't know." "Maybe because he knows he doesn't have any right to judge me." "You got a silver lining, though." "Now that the whole truth, and nothing but, is out is there a chance now for you and me?" "You said you didn't think that I was a one girl type of guy." "I'm gonna prove you wrong." "By dating me." "By being better." "By being someone that you deserve and that you want to be with." "well, that's certainly a guy I'd be interested in meeting." "Good." "Now how about we start, ahem, by getting you the heck out of here." "Come on, it is Friday night." "Come on." "Fine." "Good." "[PEOPLE CHATTERING]" "Don't you scrub up nice?" "Here to support my family." "Yeah, me too, God help me." "Thank you." "[SCOFFS]" "Dig." "Got your eyes open?" "That's what I'm here for." "And answering patronizing questions." "This guy's out of time." "If he's gonna do something, it's gonna happen before the auction." "Sir?" "I heard the story on the radio." "WALTER:" "oliver." "So pleased you were able to attend." "Heh." "OLIVER [OVER RADIO]:" "Walter, the police said that some of the Unidac bidders were murdered." "I think that we should be a little bit more careful." "My mother's already lost a husband." "If Moira shared your concern, she wouldn't have come." "And she definitely wouldn't have brought your sister." "Hi." "oliver, what a wonderful surprise." "I need you to get them out of here right now." "[ALL SCREAMING]" "MAN 1 Down." "MAN 2:" "Get down." "Are you okay?" "Are you hurt?" "No, I'm fine." "Where is WaIter?" "Go, go, go!" "WaIter's fine." "I have to get you out of here." "No, them!" "Them." "Go, I'II find him, I'II find him." "[ALL SCREAMING]" "[GRUNTING]" "Drop your guns." "I admire your work." "Guess you won't be extending me any professional courtesy." "We're not in the same line of work." "Your profession is murder." "You've taken lives." "For the good of others." "You're out for yourself." "[CHUCKLES]" "[DIGGLE GROANING]" "[GASPS]" "[SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "[IN CHINESE]" "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "[BRANCH BREAKS]" "[COUGHING]" "[GROANS]" "Hey." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal: survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish." "You can survive this." "OLIVER:" "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Sarah!" "LAUREL:" "How am I supposed to stay away if you won't stay away from me?" "MOIRA:" "John DiggIe." "He'II be accompanying you from now on." "I'm just beginning to understand the kind of man you are." "[GROANS]" "[GROANING]" "[COUGHING]" "[GROANING]" "Hey." "oliver?" "You're that vigilante." "Take it easy, Dig." "You were poisoned." "Son of a bitch!" "[DIGGLE GRUNTS]" "I couId've taken you anywhere." "could've taken you home." "I brought you here." "You did lose your mind on that island." "Found a couple of things." "What, archery classes?" "clarity." "StarIing City is dying." "It is being poisoned by a criminal elite who don't care who they hurt as long as they maintain wealth and power." "And what are you gonna do, take them all down by your lonesome?" "No." "No, I want you to join me." "special Forces out of Kandahar." "It's perfect." "You're a fellow soldier." "oliver, you're not a soldier." "You're a criminal." "And a murderer." "LAUREL:" "Where were you?" "What are you doing here?" "I heard about the shooting and wanted to make sure you were okay." "You did?" "Yeah." "I knocked on the door and I found a family terrified for you." "They had no idea where you were." "Oh." "Are you so seIf-centered that you don't think that people who care about you will wonder where you are after you got shot at?" "You're right." "I made peace with your selfishness a Iong time ago but Moira, Thea and waiter, they don't deserve that." "They deserve better someone who doesn't care only about himself." "laurel." "Thank you for coming." "I care about the lives of other people, oliver." "Maybe you should try it sometime." "Oh, man." "THEA:" "That was harsh." "You okay?" "Sure." "Second time tonight that a friend of mine has taken me to the woodshed." "Kind of tires you out." "Yeah." "Good night." "Night." "[YAO FEI SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "What am I supposed to do with that?" "[YAO FEI SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "Does that mean "bird"?" "[YAO FEI SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "I don't speak Chinese!" "I'm sorry, laurel." "I'm so sorry." "[GASPS]" "MAN [ON TV]:" "There were no signs of forced entry or any evidence of a struggle, but hours later the police found the blood-stained kitchen knife..." "...in the trunk of Peter Declan's car." "CouIdn't sleep either?" "No." "What are you watching?" "Peter DecIan." "OLIVER:" "Hmm?" "Oh, a guy who killed his wife." "Right." "This guy killed his wife in their baby's room." "Psycho." "Camille was everything to me." "I couldn't kill her any more than I could kill myself." "So why can't you sleep?" "Bad dreams." "About?" "laurel." "So why don't you make a play?" "I mean, she did come over here just to make sure you didn't get shot." "There are reasons." "What are they?" "Besides you sleeping with her sister and her sister dying and her father hating your guts and you being ajerk to everybody since you've been back." "Those are the top ones." "[CHUCKLES]" "I know that it might not seem like it sometimes but I'm not the same person I used to be." "So show her." "Be yourself." "I mean, your new self." "How did you sleep?" "Just fine, thank you." "MOIRA:" "Mm." "We have a visitor." "Mm." "Mr. DiggIe's replacement." "replacement?" "Yes." "He tendered his resignation this morning." "Did he say why?" "He said he didn't approve of the way you spend your evenings particularly given that they always begin with you ditching him." "Hi." "ROB:" "Mr. Queen." "Rob Scott." "I'II be your new body man." "Firm grip you got there, Rob." "That's five years SWAT with Monument Point MCU." "I feel safer already." "Thank God we don't have to hear about this awful man anymore." "Declan's execution is set for midnight two days from now." "Camille Declan's former employer, Jason Brodeur released a statement saying, quote:" ""l hope this gives Camille the peace she deserves."" "Jason Brodeur." "MAN [ON TV]:" "Thank you, Jessica." "What?" "The dead wife worked for Jason Brodeur." "apparently so." "What?" "Why?" "No reason." "I wanna go into town." "could you please get the car for me?" "No offense, but I have been filled in on your tendency to slip the leash." "If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer keeping you in my sights at all times." "We're 20 miles from the city." "If you don't drive me, how else am I gonna get there?" "Right." "I Iike him." "Hey!" "OLIVER:" "They say Peter Declan murdered his wife in cold blood." "He had no alibi." "And all the evidence pointed toward it." "He was tried, convicted, sentenced to death." "An open-and-shut case except for one thing." "Declan's wife, Camille, worked for Jason Brodeur." "And Jason Brodeur is on the list." "Mr." "Brodeur." "Admiring your handiwork, Ankov?" "You should've let me kill both of them." "Peter DecIan is worth more alive." ""Husband kills Wife" is a much better headline than "WhistIe-bIower Uncovers Toxic Dumping," don't you think?" "Either way, 48 hours, all this will be over." "OLIVER:" "The odds are good Brodeur is involved in this woman's murder, which means an innocent man is facing execution." "He'll need a good attorney." "So I take it there's absolutely no point in asking if you'd Iike to grab a drink." "I can't." "I have to go over transcripts for the Fernands case." "If you go somewhere that's not work or your home your odds of meeting someone increase by a gazillion percent." "That's not true." "I couId still get mugged on the way home." "In that case, I hope he's cute and single." "Good night, Joanna." "[BEEPING]" "hello, laurel." "Don't move." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "Stay back." "My father is a cop." "You are making a huge mistake." "I'm not the person you think I am, and I need your help." "Peter DecIan is gonna be executed in 48 hours." "I think he's innocent." "DecIan's wife was gonna blow the whistle on Brodeur." "Brodeur had her murdered." "There are a thousand lawyers in starling City." "Why me?" "We're both trying to help." "What makes you so sure I'm gonna help you?" "Because I know you'd do anything to save the life of an innocent man." "LAUREL:" "Ajury has found you guilty, Mr. DecIan." "The evidence was stacked against me, but I didn't kill my wife." "I didn't take my daughter's mother from her." "The murder weapon was a knife from your kitchen with your prints on it." "It was found, along with CamiIIe's blood in the trunk of your car." "Your neighbors said they heard an argument that night." "We had a knockdown fight over Jason Brodeur." "camille worked for him and his company had been dumping toxic waste into the glades." "camille told me she'd gone and told a supervisor about it." "I was afraid for my family's safety." "And we argued very loudly, yes." "Izzy started crying, so CamiIIe went and stayed in her room." "In the morning, I went to apologize and that's when I found her." "So I just grabbed Izzy and I ran outside and I called 911 ." "I'm innocent, Ms. Lance." "well, it looks like someone forgot a lunch date with his wife." "What do you mean?" "Lunch isn't for another...." "Forty-five minutes ago." "I'm so sorry." "It's all right." "The restaurant is holding our table." "Is there something wrong?" "compliance department tagged something: $2.6 million withdrawal from one of our Vancouver subsidiaries." "Are you saying that someone embezzIed $2.6 million from the company?" "It's probably a bookkeeping error, but compliance is worried about an IRS audit." "Mm." "But don't worry." "I'm sure it's nothing." "Come on." "We're gonna be late." "I mean later." "well, I wasn't the lead on this, but from what I recall we had fingerprints, we had blood, we got motive, everything." "Brodeur seems like the type of guy with resources needed to frame someone." "laurel, in 24 hours, Peter DecIan is Iying down with a needle in his arm." "If I thought we didn't have the right guy you think I'd be doing anything now except get at what really happened?" "DecIan said his wife went to her supervisor with allegations that Brodeur was dumping toxic waste." "Yeah, but that supervisor, he said that never happened." "Let me see." "What was his name?" "Here you go." "Istook, Matt Istook." "He said he didn't even see CamiIIe that day." "Happy now?" "Yes." "I thought it'd be cold day in hell..." "...before you started defending criminals." "I'm not sure DecIan is a criminal." "Like you said, he's on a clock." "Can't leave any stone unturned." "Oh, yeah." "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "So when are you gonna tell me?" "Hmm." "About what happened to your arm." "Oh, it's my shoulder, and it's fine." "I knew that Queen guy was trouble." "Hey, I never said this happened protecting Queen." "[DOOR OPENS]" "CARLY:" "Oh, yeah?" "Then what's he doing here?" "Area secure, sir." "Thank you very much, Rob." "hello, DiggIe's sister-in-Iaw carly." "I'm oliver Queen." "I know who you are." "No, you really don't." "OLIVER:" "hello." "I couldn't help but notice a distinct lack of police cars when I got home." "I knew you wouldn't drop a dime on me." "So have you considered my offer?" "Offer?" "Heh." "That's one hell of a way to put it." "It is an offer." "It's a chance to do the kind of good that compelled you to join the military." "please." "You were born with a platinum spoon in your mouth, Queen." "What, you spent five years on an island with no room service and suddenly you found religion?" "This was my father's." "I found it when I buried him." "You said your father died when the boat went down." "We both made it to a life raft." "There wasn't enough food and water for both of us, so he shot himself in the head." "As much as he was doing it to give me a chance to survive I believe that he was also atoning for his sins." "I need to right the wrongs done by my family and I'm offering you the chance..." "...to right the wrongs done to yours." "oliver, what are you talking about?" "police never caught your brother's shooter." "You leave Andy out of this." "The bullets were laced with curare." "That's floyd Lawton's M.O. He is the sniper that I stopped." "Are you trying to tell me that you took down Andy's killer?" "I'm giving you the chance a chance to help other people's families." "Do you remember when the people in this city helped each other?" "They can't do that anymore, because a group of people people like my father they see nothing wrong with raising themselves up by stepping on other people's throats." "It does need to stop, and if it's not gonna be the courts and it's not gonna be the cops then it's gonna be me." "And, I hope, you." "I'm gonna go to the washroom, Rob." "[DIGGLE SIGHS]" "Oh, that boy is long gone now." "You still following the money trail?" "Mm-hm." "Don't we have accountants for that sort of thing?" "They're being singularly ineffective in this instance." "well, then it's fortunate that I've solved the mystery." "I think I'm the culprit." "Two-point-six million is a rather specific figure." "That's the exact amount the company invested in a friend's start-up venture three years ago." "[CHUCKLES]" "I will call Accounting." "They'II clean it up, then there's nothing to worry about." "Okay." "JOANNA:" "You really are putting a Iot of hours into this DecIan thing." "You actually think he's innocent?" "Someone does." "So you said, but you didn't say was who." "A guardian angel." "The guy in the hood?" "Wha--?" "You're kidding." "He tracked me down, asked me to look into the case." "But you've met him?" "But he goes against everything that I was ever taught to believe in." "He breaks the Iaw and God knows what else." "How are you not afraid he won't do "God knows what" to you?" "He won't." "I don't know, I can feel it." "When I told you to meet someone, this is far, far away from what I meant." "I got your message." "Is there a reason we can't do this face to face?" "ARROW:" "You've met with Peter DecIan." "You were right." "He might be innocent." "DecIan said his wife blew whistle on Brodeur the day she was murdered." "Then we need to get whoever she told about Brodeur to testify." "He already has." "Matt Istook, camille's supervisor." "only he says that she didn't say a word to him." "He could be lying." "well, if he is, then he's very convincing." "He had the jury and police believing him." "He hasn't been questioned by me." "I didn't become a lawyer to break the Iaw or hurt anybody." "I do what's necessary, what people like Peter DecIan need." "If what you're doing isn't wrong then why are you hiding your face with a hood?" "To protect the ones I care about." "That sounds lonely." "It can be." "But not today." "I've got one question." "Why am I being fired?" "Ms." "Smoak, isn't it?" "Yes." "And I am, without a doubt, the single most valuable member of your technical division." "That's including my so called "supervisor."" "Letting me go would be a major error for this company." "I agree, which is why you're not being fired." "I assumed when you brought me up here it was because...." "It's because I wanted you to look into something for me." "A variance of $2.6 million on a failed investment from three years ago." "It was authorized by my wife." "I was hoping you could find out some of the details..." "...of the transaction for me." "Find out?" "Dig up." "DiscreetIy." "I'm your girl." "I mean, I'm not your girl." "I wasn't making a pass at you." "Thank you for not firing me." "[GRUNTS]" "What the--?" "[GROANING]" "ARROW:" "Matt Istook." "You're him." "That hood guy who's been terrorizing the city." "Peter DecIan." "Your lies helped put him on death row." "Now, either it's time to tell me the truth, or it's time for the 10 :15 to BIudhaven." "Ah." "Okay." "Okay." "Brodeur paid me to say that CamiIIe never spoke to me." "[TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWING]" "But I didn't have anything to do with her death." "Oh, God." "please let me go." "I'II do anything." "You can have the file." "What file?" "camille gave me a file of evidence against Jason Brodeur." "Where is it?" "Let me go, and I'II tell you." "Wait!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Don't go!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Wait!" "Don't go!" "Uh, it's in my desk!" "The file, it's in my desk at the office!" "You can have it!" "Get me out of here!" "What is that?" "I'm so hungry." "It smells really good." "[OLIVER SCREAMS]" "Hey, fine, don't share." "Hey." "[YAO FEI SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "I'm not gonna kill the bird." "[YAO FEI SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "[FILE THUDS]" "ARROW:" "compliments of Matt Istook." "What's in here?" "Leverage on Jason Brodeur." "Enough to help save Peter DecIan's life." "As an attorney, I never would've gotten a file like this." "I always thought the Iaw was sacred." "It fixed everything." "And now, laurel?" "Now what do you think?" "I think there's too many people in this city who only care about themselves." "people who are selfish." "I think they need someone who cares about the lives of other people." "Someone like you." "Oh, my God." "What's wrong with your face?" "What do you mean?" "There's something really weird on it, Iike this thing with your mouth." "It looks like it's in the shape of a smile." "Yes." "That's cute." "So why are you grinning?" "I took your advice with laurel..." "...to be myself." "And?" "It's helping." "I got mad relationship skills, bro." "Let me know if you need trendy places to propose." "I think you're getting a little bit ahead of yourself." "little bit." "Rob." "You gotta keep up." "Hey, you look busy." "Is that the DecIan case?" "There was a funny development on that." "Matt Istook, he, uh, filed a police report." "He said the Hood harassed him last night." "And that's funny, because I gave my daughter Istook's name." "Dad, I" "He's a vigilante." "He's a damn criminal, and you working with him." "That makes you an accessory." "I'm trying to save an innocent man's life." "No, you're breaking the Iaw." "I wouldn't have to if the police had done theirjob right in the first place." "I asked you how you got this case." "You lied to me straight to my face." "Eh?" "I thought you and I didn't do that." "Guess I was wrong." "Your Honor, the mere existence of the file proves that Mr. Istook perjured himself for Jason Brodeur's benefit." "That's slander." "Jared Swanstrom, Your Honor." "I represent Jason Brodeur and Brodeur chemical." "The interests ofjustice requires you to stay the defendant's execution pending exploration of the newly discovered evidence." "Ours isn't a court ofjustice, Ms. Lance." "It's a court of law." "And under the Iaw, your evidence is sufficient to warrant a stay of execution." "Your motion for habeas corpus is denied." "This isn't over." "I've got the loose end now." "And no matter what happens, I'II pull on it until your whole world unravels." "ISTOOK:" "Declan's lawyer is pulling me into this." "I'm gonna go to prison, if not for murder, then this dumping thing!" "That won't happen." "There are steps we can take." "You saw her." "She's going after me!" "She'II wanna meet with her client after what happened in court today." "We have friends up in Iron Heights." "Prison can be a dangerous place." "We're not done yet." "I'm an attorney." "Trust me, we're done." "What do you need to free Peter DecIan?" "At this point nothing short of a signed confession from Brodeur." "Where are you going?" "To get a confession." "The company Mrs. Queen" " SteeIe." "Mrs. Queen-SteeIe." "Is she hyphenate?" "She seems like a woman who would hyphenate." "[CLEARS THROAT]" "Right." "The company she invested in doesn't exist." "I don't understand." "There was no investment." "The money was used to set up an offshore LLC called Tempest." "Don't recall the name being under Queen consolidated." "It's not." "There's nothing registered with the secretary of state." "No federal tax records, no patent applications filed." "But in 2009 Tempest purchased a warehouse in starling City." "Enough moping." "Mm." "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "You quit." "It's done." "My advice would be to move on." "Ah." "If it were only that easy." "Except it is." "personal security is dangerous." "Your nephew already lost his father." "He can't lose his uncle too." "Does it ever bother you they never caught the guy who killed Andy?" "You know, when I was in Afghanistan, I had ajob and I did it." "When I couId, I'd help out the people there so that in some small way, when I Ieft, I couId believe I Ieft it a better place." "But ever since I've been home, all I do is protect punks and spoiled one-percenters." "I miss feeling like I'm making a difference." "Then get out of personal security and go do something you believe in." "Yeah, what if it's wrong?" "John, if you believe in something how can it be wrong?" "ARROW:" "Jason Brodeur." "What do you want?" "You'II confess you arranged to have Peter DecIan's wife murdered." "What, so I can take his place in prison?" "So you can avoid the death penalty." "Except if I'm dead, well, then you got no one to pin CamiIIe's murder on." "You need me to exonerate Peter DecIan." "Maybe you could try to force me to sign a confession or something" " Ahh!" "That might be difficult." "[WHIMPERING]" "BRODEUR:" "My hand!" "[PHONE RINGING]" "Just answer it." "What?" "ANKOV [OVER PHONE]:" "It's Ankov." "It's going down." "One hour." "What's going down in an hour?" "What?" "Let's just say Peter DecIan's execution is getting moved up." "[BRODEUR GRUNTS]" "Okay, you have to listen to me." "We still have a shot." "You remember the friend I mentioned?" "The one who believes in you?" "He's working on something." "[MAN GRUNTS]" "I told you, Jason Brodeur is powerful." "Time to unlock the cages." "I've been here before." "These lawyers holding out these little nuggets of hope." "[ALARM WAILING]" "GUARD 1 What?" "[MEN SHOUTING]" "What the--?" "[ALARM WAILING]" "GUARD 1 [OVER RADIO]:" "Secure all corners in cell block C." "The warden is setting up a secure perimeter in C block." "Stay here, Ms. Lance." "Wait!" "[ALL SHOUTING AND GRUNTING]" "Let's go." "Go, go, go." "[LAUREL SCREAMS]" "[GRUNTING]" "[CHOKING]" "[ARROW GRUNTING]" "LAUREL:" "Stop!" "[PANTING]" "GUARD 1 Open up the generator area!" "laurel." "Ms. Lance, stay back." "Area secured." "laurel." "Sweetie." "What are you...?" "I'm all right." "You sure?" "I'm sorry about what I said to you." "You were right." "Brodeur's bodyguard confessed to camille DecIan's murder." "We got the wrong guy." "But listen to me." "I'm right too, about him." "He's dangerous." "He's outside the Iaw." "I know." "He's a killer." "He would have killed that man." "I Iooked in his eyes." "It's like he had no remorse." "Hey." "please." "I'm starving." "I never killed anything before." "I'm sorry." "[CHICKEN SQUEALS THEN BONES CRACK]" "Let's get you home, sweetie." "How did he get into that prison anyway, huh?" "A grown man in an outfit and a hood that kind of stands out a little, doesn't it?" "He actually wasn't wearing the outfit this time." "He was in a prison guard uniform and a ski mask." "What?" "Nothing." "I just had an idea." "Get in the car." "[LOCK BEEPS]" "[LOCK BEEPS]" "[LOCK BEEPS]" "[DOOR CLICKS]" "Okay, here's the security footage from the Exchange building shooting." "I've already scrubbed through all of it." "Yeah, well, we're gonna do it again." "When you went through the security tapes you were looking for a guy in a green hood?" "And what do you want me to look for, a man in a wig and a tutu?" "I want you to look for anything that's out of the ordinary, okay?" "Just look." "Hey, whoa, whoa." "Wait." "Wait." "Go back 10 seconds." "What is that?" "I'II be damned." "play that again." "Thank you, laurel." "Don't thank me." "Thank Brodeur's bodyguard Ankov for flipping him." "I think there's someone that wants to see you." "Izzy." "[SOBBING]" "MAN [ON TV]:" "At least five federal, state, and local agencies are seeking millions of dollars in fines and environmental cleanup costs from Brodeur Chemical." "New facts have come to light that Brodeur Chemical employee Camille Declan had discovered Brodeur was illegally disposing waste and had collected a file of evidence against her employer before her murder in 2007." "Peter Declan, who was convicted of killing his wife has been released and the case has been reopened." "[SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "Yeah." "Bird." "I know." "Shengcun not mean "bird."" "Shengcun mean "survive."" "You speak english?" "You want survive this place, bird not last thing you kill." "And forget her." "You look at that all day, you not survive this place." "You wanted to see me?" "You look nervous, Moira." "Do I have a reason to be?" "We all do." "A modern-day Robin Hood." "What?" "Are you worried that your net worth makes you a target?" "Jason Brodeur." "Adam Hunt." "Warren PateI." "tell me you see a connection, Moira." "He's not targeting the rich." "No, he's not." "He's targeting the list." "[OLIVER CLEARS THROAT]" "You here for the bodyguard position?" "Because the new guy just quit." "No, I'm not." "I'm here about the other position." "Just to be clear, I'm not signing on to be a sidekick." "But you're right." "Fighting for this city needs to be done and you'II do this with or without me." "Yeah." "But with me there'II be fewer casualties, including you." "DiggIe, I'm not looking for anybody to save me." "Maybe not, but you need someone just the same." "You are fighting a war, Queen except you have no idea what war does to you." "How it scrapes off little pieces of your soul." "And you need someone to remind you of who you are, not this thing you're becoming." "[CAR TIRES SCREECH]" "LANCE:" "oliver Queen." "What is this?" "You can't barge in here." "I got a badge and a gun that say different." "OLIVER:" "What the hell is going on?" "THEA:" "oliver, what's happening?" "You're under arrest for obstruction ofjustice, aggravated assault..." "WaIter, stop them." "...trespassing, acting as a vigilante..." "Are you out of your mind?" "...and murder." "You have the right to remain silent." "If you give up that right...." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal." "Survive." "oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "Previously on Arrow:" "Company Mrs. Queen invested in doesn't exist." "Tempest purchased a warehouse in starling City." "could never tell if the playboy thing was all an act." "But I guess after a while, it doesn't really matter." "He is a vigilante." "He's a damn criminal." "Here's the security footage." "What do you want me to look for?" "Anything out of the ordinary." "What is that?" "play that again." "You're under arrest on suspicion..." "What is going on?" "...of assauIt" "Are you out of your mind?" "And murder." "Dinner." "Come-- Hey, I've got an idea." "Why don't you let me shoot that thing and you can go pick up the bloody, dead, disgusting animal?" "What?" "Try." "Breathe." "Everything breathe." "Breathe." "Aim." "Fire." "Yeah." "Aim that tree." "Breathe." "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "What does that mean?" ""You will die badly."" "Get." "[OLIVER GROANING]" "Wait." "Wait." "You can't leave me here." "Don't do this to me." "please." "[SCREAMS]" "please!" "I didn't do anything!" "POLICEMAN 1 Stay back." "OLIVER:" "The police think they know who I am." "They think I'm the vigilante." "The man in the hood, terrorizing the city's criminals." "They also think they have me trapped." "That I have no way out." "They're only half-right." "OLIVER:" "This is a mistake." "I'II be asking you a few questions." "Standard stuff for the report." "Have you been arrested before?" "It's okay, I know the answer to that one." "plenty of times." "Like I said, this is a mistake." "As far as I can tell, the mistake I made was not shooting you down at the docks when I had the chance." "I am not who you think I am." "Oh, you're exactly who I think you are." "You're a menace who doesn't care about who he hurts." "You're doing it with bows and arrows instead of trust funds and yachts." "Detective, you hate me." "I get it." "But that doesn't make me a vigilante." "No, the security camera footage of you from the Unidac Auction with the green hood does that." "Again, I ran into the stairwell once I heard shooting." "I saw a duffle I thought maybe belonged to the shooter, looked inside and saw..." "...a hood." "You took it home?" "We can't find it." "What about harassing Adam Hunt?" "Happened to take place across the street..." "...from your little bash." "Coincidences." "No." "When they pile up like that, it becomes evidence." "Parents are here." "tell them to wait." "I wanna see my son." "LANCE:" "I'm in the middle of an interrogation." "Detective, I know you hate my family, but I had no idea you'd go so far to arrest my son without any grounds." "I have solid grounds, and I have evidence." "Which you can present to Queen's attorney when he gets here." "until then, this interrogation is over, detective." "Sure." "You have 15 minutes." "Detective Lance appears to be on some personal vendetta." "He is." "He blames me for the death of his daughter." "He also thinks that I dress up in a green hood..." "...and shoot people with arrows." "Important thing is not to say anything..." "...until your attorney gets here." "Fine." "I want laurel." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "oliver, I don't think your ex-girIfriend can be counted on to be objective here." "She knows me better than anyone." "She knows that I couId never be this guy." "WaIter, you say Lance has a vendetta?" "Yes." "I think laurel can get him off of it." "He raised her to do the right thing." "That includes representing an innocent man." "So, Mom please." "REPORTER:" "Oliver Queen was arrested today on suspicion of being the vigilante that has been targeting the wealthy and corrupt." "laurel." "Mrs." "Queen, what--?" "It's oliver." "Something's happened." "It's been all over the news." "[SCOFFS]" "These charges are ludicrous." "I know." "Can I ask you, who's representing him?" "well, that's why I'm here." "He wants you to represent him." "Me?" "Yes." "I told him it was a bad idea." "But, to be frank, I am desperate." "He says if you don't represent him, he doesn't want any attorney." "Mrs. Queen, my father is the arresting officer." "Yes." "I don't think it's a good idea for me to represent someone I've been involved with." "Listen, I am sorry for what your family is going through" "No." "No apologies." "Your idealism, I think, is why my son, for all his mistakes, is so smitten with you." "regardless, it was a bad idea on his part and I am sorry if I made you feel uncomfortable." "Docket ending 1-9-4-1 People v. Oliver Queen." "Murder, aggravated assault assault with intent, menacing and trespassing." "Where's your attorney, Mr. Queen?" "I'm representing myself, judge." "I'm not sure that's the wisest course, Mr. Queen." "I think it is." "I'm innocent." "Then we'II consider that your plea." "Thank you." "Now, as to bail." "Your Honor, Mr. Queen's family owns a pair of private jets." "while on the subject of their wealth, there is virtually no ball amount that could guarantee his presence at trial." "So then I guess it's a good thing that the people's case is so circumstantial." "Dinah laurel Lance." "I'd Iike to file my appearance on behalf of the defendant." "Mr. Queen's wealth should not deprive him of the right to be released on bail..." "...under the presumption of innocence." "He is a flight risk." "Then minimize the risk." "The defendant is willing submit to home confinement and electronic monitoring through the wearing of a UKG-45 administrated ankle device." "No, he wouldn't." "sold." "Your Honor" "ball is set at $15 million 5 miIIion dollars bond." "Defendant to see Probation for the fitting of a GPS device." "I knew you couldn't resist saving my ass." "Gonna make me regret this, aren't you?" "No." "It's gonna be like old times." "fortunately, with the legal case, there's no way that you're this vigilante." "I agree." "He's actually trying to make a difference." "We both know that's not really your style." "Mom, it's not that bad." "Okay, this device has a direct line into the precinct." "You stay on the property, you're golden." "Any questions?" "I'm having a sizable get-together here tomorrow evening and there is a likely chance it spills into the outdoor pool." "pool deck's fine." "Step on the grass, they're sending a team to forcibly subdue you." "WALTER:" "Thank you, officer." "OFFICER:" "Of course." "A sizable get together?" "I am confined for the foreseeable future." "I might as well make the most of it." "Party is gonna be themed." "I'm thinking prison." "Burning Man meets Shawshank Redemption." "The invite says, "Come before oliver Queen gets off."" "Maybe a party's not in the best of taste, considering the circumstances." "Tommy, the circumstances are why we're having the party in the first place." "I want people to know I'm not worried about any of this." "well, that makes one of us." "LAUREL:" "Before you start yeIIing" "Why yell?" "You're defending the man that killed your sister." "oliver did not kill Sara." "She wouldn't have been on that boat." "Have you considered the possibility that that's the reason..." "...you're trying to make him this menace?" "It is the videotape, the suspicious timing." "That is the reason." "This is oliver Queen we're talking about." "He wrecks fancy cars and he dates models." "He doesn't kill people." "No, he just uses them." "Like he used Sara." "And like he used you." "He's only asked you to be his lawyer to get at me." "No, he asked me to be his lawyer to get through to you." "You hate the hood and you hate oliver and you want them to be the same person." "But oliver isn't the reason why Sara died or the reason Mom left." "I don't have to listen to this." "And by the way you're not the only one who misses them." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Yeah?" "Thank you for coming." "Shut the door." "Just a matter of time before the police caught up with you." "Except they didn't." "oliver, they got you on video." "I knew the camera was there, I knew the police would review the footage and arrest me." "AII part of the plan." "So you wanted to get arrested?" "I returned to StarIing City and a few days later the vigilante appears." "Somebody was gonna make the connection." "What part of serving yourself to the cops will help you avoid going to prison?" "There's more to it." "There better be because your family is freaking out." "oliver, your mother and your sister just got you back and now you're gonna put them through a trial?" "Don't you care?" "Of course I care." "The mission comes first." "Who is he?" "Leo MueIIer." "German arms dealer, suspected in the theft of 100 M2-49 squad automatic weapons." "Okay." "Last night he arrived in starling City to sell the guns." "Don't you imagine there's enough trouble you're in than to go after this guy?" "I imagine what would happen if a gang got military hardware." "I imagine our city's streets turned into a war zone." "But you're under house arrest, oliver, which means you can't go after this guy." "Look." "For now, I would just like you to shadow MueIIer." "I would Iike you to track his movements." "I wanna know where the buy is happening." "Okay." "And how am I supposed to track him?" "well, you know us billionaire vigiIantes." "We do love our toys." "[ELECTRICITY HUMMING]" "Wow." "Ow." "Whoo." "[BEEPING]" "Oh, that's sweet." "You wanted to see me, sir?" "No, I didn't." "In fact, this meeting isn't taking place." "How long have you been head of Security at Queen consolidated, Josiah?" "Going on seven years now, sir." "Sounds about right." "But what I'm about to tell you will test the bounds of your discretion." "You're aware of the Queen's Gambit ?" "Robert Queen's ill - fated yacht?" "I found it." "Sir, the boat went down in the North China Sea five years ago." "Which is why my discovery of its remains in a warehouse downtown was unexpected, to say the least." "I want you to transfer those remains to a secure location." "Can I count on you?" "[CHUCKLES]" "What's going on, sir?" "That's very much what I'm trying to determine." "Thank you both for coming." "Thank you." "It's nice to get out of the house." "I'II cut right to it." "Detective Lance arrested your client without consulting my office." "So, congratulations, I am willing to consider a plea in this case." "absolutely not." "SPENCER:" "Mr. Queen spent five years in seclusion on a deserted island, cut off from civilization." "It is quite possible he's suffering from some form of post-traumatic stress." "Given that, we would support a plea of insanity conditional on a period of indeterminate incarceration at a psychiatric facility." "No, thank you." "I'm not crazy." "finally something we agree on." "He's not a nut." "He's a killing machine." "I'm neither." "There is nothing you can say that I would believe." "I'II take a polygraph." "PoIygraphs are inadmissible." "In front of ajury." "I'II talk a polygraph in front of him." "He's the one I need to convince." "I'm gonna need a minute." "You're looking at life in prison." "What Spencerjust offered you is a gift." "I'm not crazy." "I am innocent." "I kind of wanna take the polygraph and if I take it and I faiI, then I will consider making a deal." "Fine." "I'II set up the poly." "And I will tell Spencer that we're not pleading out." "But, oliver?" "You have a family." "Friends." "people who actually care about you." "So don't for one second think you're the only person with something to lose here." "I'II be right back." "[GROANS]" "please." "Sit." "You're making me feel rude." "I do apologize for my men's treatment of you." "They're...." "They're trained to view any stranger as hostile." "I'm Edward Fyers, by the way." "And you are?" "I'm oliver Queen." "I was shipwrecked here." "I don't know for how long." "My family has money, lots of money." "You would be" "You'd be really well compensated for my rescue." "well, I Iook forward to that." "But for the moment, Iet's just talk." "About what?" "well, for instance this gentleman." "Do you know him?" "No." "No?" "No." "Who's he?" "You're a poor liar." "I've been polite." "I'II offer you one more chance before my manners leave me." "Hey." "Hey." "I don't know this guy." "I" " I thought I was on this island all by myself." "Do you know what this island is named?" "We're on Lian Yu." "Mandarin for "purgatory."" "But I can make it feel like hell." "I don't know why you're protecting him." "You're young." "foolish." "Perhaps you don't know why either." "Think on that when you're begging for death." "He's yours now." "Hey, Speedy." "One of the workers left a keg too far from the bar." "Can you ask them to move it?" "please?" "I got the ankle thingy." "I don't want to set off a SWAT invasion." "Hey, all this stuff, it's gonna be fine." "I promise." "Yeah, well, when you and Dad left on the yacht you promised me I'd see you in a few days, which didn't happen." "This is different than that." "I didn't do any of this stuff." "You know that." "Right?" "You're out all the time." "You have those scars, and since you've been back, you've been acting really weird." "None of this makes me some Robin Hood wannabe." "And you gave me this." "I mean, it's an arrowhead." "Oh, man." "Thea, I bought that in the gift shop of the Beijing Airport." "Now I'm sort of happy I didn't buy you the shot glass with the panda on it because then you'd be worried I was Panda Man." "You know, I knew you couldn't be this person." "I just" " I can't lose you again." "deal." "Moira, thank you for coming on such short notice." "Yes." "could you please make this quick." "I'm in the midst of a family emergency." "Yes, of course." "It's all over the local news." "possibly even national." "well, I know what you're thinking." "Do you?" "My son is not the man targeting the list." "The charges are preposterous." "Not according to the district attorney, assistant attorney the investigating detective and the police that filed charges." "That detective has a vendetta." "Why?" "Is there something untoward about your family?" "If so, something really needs to be done about that." "LANCE:" "Is your name oliver Queen?" "You don't know who I am, detective?" "The questions calibrate the polygraph." "Is your name oliver Queen?" "Yes." "Were you born in starling City, May 16th, 1985?" "Yes." "Is your hair blue?" "No." "Ever been to Iron Heights prison?" "No." "Are you the man in this picture?" "Where can I find the man in this picture?" "No." "You steal $40 million off Adam Hunt?" "No, I didn't." "Were you marooned on an island for five years?" "Yes." "Is that relevant?" "Since you asked, whatever happened to your client on that island turned him into a coId-bIooded killer." "[SCREAMING]" "The physician reported that 20 percent of your body is covered in scar tissue." "[SCREAMING]" "The machine won't work unless you ask a question." "Did that happen to you there?" "Yes." "When you came back, you told everyone that you were alone on that island." "Are you claiming that your scars were seIf-infIicted?" "No." "I wasn't alone." "I didn't wanna talk about what happened on the island." "Why not?" "The people that were there tortured me." "Have you killed anyone?" "Yes." "When I asked your daughter Sara to come on my father's yacht with me." "I killed your daughter." "I'd have to study the data, but just eyeballing it, he's telling the truth." "Hmm." "Can I assume you'II be recommending Ms. Spencer to drop all charges against my client?" "No." "I know a guilty man when I see one." "He is guilty." "Whether you can see it or not." "[3OH!" "3'S "YOU'RE GONNA LOVE THIS" PLAYING FROM SPEAKER]" "[MUSIC STOPS]" "Hi, everybody." "ALL:" "Hey." "I'm very touched that you came to celebrate with me before I am sent up the river." "closest neighbors are 6 miles away, so don't worry about the noise." "actually, on second thought let's wake those losers up!" "[MUSIC RESUMES PLAYING]" "[ALL CHEERING]" "If you think this is what prison's like, you are in for a rude awakening." "mueller's car's been in the warehouse district of the glades for 45 minutes." "Yeah, it's a good place for an arms deal." "Okay, since it's going down tonight, what do we do?" "Drop a dime on MueIIer with the cops?" "No." "The man in the hood he's gonna stop them." "oliver, you can't leave the house." "It doesn't have to be me in the hood." "That's why you threw this ridiculous party?" "A hundred witnesses placing you at the house while I'm across town dressed as a vigilante?" "I thought it was gonna be enough just for you to be seen in the hood." "I didn't count on MueIIer showing up, and the possibility that the glades could be flooded with machine guns." "Look I promise, it was never my intention to put you in harm's way." "oliver, I didn't think joining your crusade was ever gonna be risk-free." "I just don't like being played." "You have gotten used to lying to everyone else but I'm the one guy you don't lie to." "You're right." "I'm sorry." "So am I going to jail?" "No, man." "I gotta stop an arms deal." "[PHONE RINGING]" "hello?" "VOGEL:" "Mr. Steele." "I'm sorry to bother you, sir." "This is Mike Vogel down in Security." "I have some sad news for you." "The company's head of Security, Josiah Hudson was in a car accident tonight." "He's dead, sir." "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING FROM SPEAKER]" "OLIVER:" "hello." "Do we have a legal meeting or something?" "Because I have friends over." "Do you think maybe you can tear yourself away from this inappropriately themed rave for a couple minutes?" "LAUREL:" "Wow." "I can't remember the Iast time that I've been in this room." "I can." "halloween 2005." "We were getting ready for Tommy's party." "Ah." "Yes, I wore those horrible fishnets." "I thought you looked good." "Listen I just wanted to come by and apologize for my father's behavior today during the polygraph." "You don't have to apologize for him." "He has a right to feel any way that he wants." "It wasn't just Sara, ollie." "What do you mean?" "After Sara died, my father threw himself into his work." "I think that's part of the reason I'm an attorney." "He ran to the Iaw and I followed." "But my mother couldn't." "So she left him." "Left us." "Look, I'm not trying to tell you this to make you feel bad or worse." "I just" " I really want you to understand him." "Why don't you hate me?" "You should." "I did." "For so long, I did, ollie." "But after today, I realized I was so focused on what happened to my family that I didn't even stop and wonder what could have happened to you." "I didn't know about the torture or your scars." "What happened to you on that island was far more than you deserved." "And I was wrong that I didn't ask you before." "But I'm asking you now." "I need to know." "I need to see." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "How did you survive this?" "There were times when I wanted to die." "In the end there was something I wanted more." "You don't" " laurel, you don't have to go." "Amazing." "You have resolve I didn't credit you for." "Or perhaps he truly doesn't know anything." "Yes." "You should put him out of his misery." "[MUELLER SPEAKS IN GERMAN]" "MUELLER:" "The M249 machine gun." "Gas-powered, air-cooIed, fires up to 800 rounds per minute." "[WHISTLES]" "We need to move." "Now." "[YELLS IN GERMAN]" "Go." "Come on." "Let's go." "well, I'm not accustomed to being summoned to the office in the middle of the night." "well, what was it that was so important that I had to race down here?" "I found the Queen's Gambit, Moira." "I know you secretly had the boat salvaged." "I wanted to move it to a secure location before confronting you about it." "In fact, I sent Josiah Hudson to the warehouse for precisely that purpose but he died mysteriously in a car accident." "I hope you now have a better understanding of why it is I've been so distant of late." "It's very disconcerting to discover the person with whom you share your home your bed and your heart, has been lying to you so convincingly." "I would be a fool not to consider all the things you have told me were lies." "WaIter, you're my husband." "Yes, I am." "WaIter, please." "You've got to stop looking into this." "It's not safe." "You'II be" " You'II be upsetting people." "people with influence." "You are very far out of your depth." "[PHONE RINGS]" "DIGGLE:" "Man in the hood, 1." "Gang bangers, zero." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Hang on." "Yeah?" "Mr. Queen, if you're entertaining guests upstairs..." "...should I have drinks sent up?" "OLIVER:" "No, it's just me here and I'm on my way back down." "Good job." "Now get back here." "LANCE:" "Yeah." "Yeah." "How did you know I was in trouble?" "When the guy was fighting you, he broke the ankle monitor." "MOIRA:" "Are you all right?" "I'm fine." "oliver." "Mom, I promise." "This is on you." "By accusing my son publicly, you've made him a target." "WALTER:" "Do you have any idea who attacked oliver?" "We haven't identified him." "It must be someone with a grudge against the hood." "What are you doing?" "Just got a call from my lieutenant." "An arms dealer was attacked across town tonight." "By the vigilante." "multiple witnesses put him there." "In light of that, all charges against your son are dropped." "I'm truly sorry for what's happened to your family, Quentin." "But would you kindly get the hell out of my house?" "OLIVER:" "Mr. Lance?" "Thank you." "Moira." "Did we have an appointment?" "No." "But I decided to screw propriety after you tried to have my son killed." "I'm sure you understand I was justified in suspecting your son of being the vigilante targeting our associates." "I had to take steps." "And now that you know your steps were taken in error?" "That oliver is not your enemy?" "[CHUCKLES]" "I offer my sincerest apologies." "I know you found out I had the yacht salvaged." "Just as I know you had Josiah Hudson killed." "well, accidents tend to befall people who are too curious." "I've been the good soldier." "I've done everything you asked." "But if any member of my family so much as gets a paper cut I will burn your entire world to ashes." "[GROANING]" "I tell you, island dangerous." "But you not tell them where to find me." "You stronger than I thought." "Take it." "I lead them off." "You stay." "Remember, everything breathe." "You breathe, you survive here longer." "I'm coming with you." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Rough party." "My father told me what happened." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, I'm fine." "These are your polygraph results." "My father asked you if you'd ever been to Iron Heights." "It's the prison where the vigilante saved me last week." "It's also where you and I went on our eighth-grade field trip." "When you said that you had never been there I thought maybe you were just nervous, or that you'd forgotten." "But then I Iooked at your results and there is a slight flutter in your answer to that question." "And if you lied on one, you could have lied on others." "What happened to me being too selfish to be a masked crusader?" "oliver, I saw your scars." "Do you wanna know why I don't talk about what happened to me there?" "Because, if people knew if you knew you'd see me differently." "And not as some vigilante guy." "As damaged." "I don't sleep." "I barely eat." "I can barely sign my name let alone aim a bow and arrow." "After last night clearly we're still attracted to one another." "oliver nothing can ever happen between us." "I know." "DIGGLE:" "So you lied to her." "Or maybe you just gave her a version of the truth." "I told her what she needed to hear." "She was too close." "DIGGLE:" "The sad thing is I think you actually believe that." "I think things didn't go down exactly as you planned." "You didn't count on so many people having questions." "Doubting you." "You didn't think about what happens when you lie." "Thank you, Chris." "WaIter?" "DIGGLE:" "Especially when you lie to ones you love most." "What is this?" "Business trip." "I decided it's long overdue for me to inspect our holdings in melbourne." "And how long will you be?" "I don't know." "DIGGLE:" "When you were stuck on that island plotting your grand plan to save the city I don't think you stopped to consider the effect it would have on the people in your life." "Let's go." "LANCE:" "It's fine." "LAUREL:" "Come on." "You're okay." "No, no, no." "Put it" "Or how it might hurt them." "You're wrong." "I think about it all the time." "And just to be clear, not being able to tell my family the truth it doesn't hurt anyone worse than it hurts me." "Where you going?" "mueller still has guns." "I have to stop him." "oliver." "He had his chance." "MUELLER:" "Twenty-eight crates, four guns in each crate, $250,000 cash." "Take it or leave it." "That's the deal." "MAN:" "Yeah, okay." "[GRUNTS]" "[SPEAKS IN GERMAN]" "Leo MueIIer, you have failed this city." "[MUELLER SCREAMS]" "[english" " US" " SDH]" "Did you think I wouldn't find out?" "Mrs. Queen, I absolutely do not know what happened and I apologize." "If you wish to fire me" "I do." "And you are fired." "OLIVER:" "Don't I get a say?" "oliver, please." "It wasn't his fault." "Wasn't your fault." "A couple of ex-bouncers had some beef with me and they came up behind us in a stairwell." "Dig didn't have a chance." "But I tossed them a few thousand and it's settled." "So I vote we give him another shot." "No, this is not a game." "I mean, this is your life." "Which I value very much." "Besides, I think Dig and I have an understanding." "Don't we?" "Yes, sir." "Good." "See you tomorrow." "oliver." "Yeah." "What was that about?" "Nothing." "Nothing?" "I feel like I'm doing everything wrong." "I wish there were a handbook for the parent of a shipwreck survivor..." "...but I'm guessing that there isn't." "Mom." "Mom, you're doing fine." "Am I?" "You're doing fine and I Iove you." "And I Iove you." "I'd Iike waiter to have you down to the company tomorrow." "Great." "I'm gonna go in and get some rest, though." "It's been a Iong couple of days." "Of course." "[ALL GRUNTING]" "MAN 1 What's going on here?" "MAN 2:" "Get him!" "It's a new day." "There used to be three kinds of people in starling City." "civilians, criminals, cops." "And then came this guy." "MAN:" "Who is this guy?" "Whoa, whoa, whoa!" "please." "Wait, wait." "LANCE:" "If his pattern holds it looks like he's targeting the rich, the 1 percenters." "So far he has hit Adam Hunt, Tim Seavers, and last night he added Marcus Redmond." "Unh!" "No!" "No, please!" "No, please, please!" "Marcus Redmond..." "...you failed this city." "please, don't!" "please don't!" "cell phone, inside pocket." "call your partner." "tell him to give those pensioners back their money." "AII right." "please, don't." "Do it now." "Now this Arrow guy, Hood, Robin Hood, I don't care what you call him the point is, four men are dead because of him and he has injured enough men to populate a small hospital." "He's armed, he's extremely dangerous, and if you see him shoot to kill." "Hey, emily, you ready to do this?" "If I said I wasn't sure, would you think I'd lost my nerve?" "No, I'd think you were being honest." "Court makes everyone anxious." "Not him." "well, it does help that he's a sociopath." "And we're gonna wipe that cocky grin right off his face." "The DA couldn't." "No, the DA wouldn't try." "emily, I promise you we will get justice for you and your father." "Come on." "Did you find the aspirin I laid out for you?" "I imagine you're quite hungover." "Mom, I just" "No, I was wrong to push you, oliver." "You're not your father." "And I need to accept that." "And you have to find your own path in life." "And wherever that leads you I will love you just the same." "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "What are you doing here?" "That was some speech." "Yeah?" "Not my finest hour, but you said I should be the person I want her to see me as." "So I did." "No, you didn't." "What do you mean?" "I've known you nearly half my Iife, oliver." "And while that speech was an outstanding effort to piss everyone off and keep your family and friends at arm's length I couId tell." "I couId see that it was an effort." "So when you're done keeping secrets and you're done trying to push everyone away that's when you should show up at my place with ice cream." "Oh, and when you do rocky road." "Excuse me." "Do you know where I couId find a lawyer?" "I'm sorry." "I don't handle paternity suits." "Heh." "Okay." "Do you handle construction permits?" "Because I'm opening a nightclub and the paperwork is already burying me." "A nightclub?" "Wow, you couldn't think of a more inspiring line of work?" "Does this mean that you're not gonna help me?" "Fine." "After I finish my job of actually helping people." "Anything else?" "Yes." "A Iot, actually." "I had five years to think about what I would say to you if I ever made it back." "And I wanted to tell you that" "What?" "Thanks for looking this over." "WaIter." "I saw a police car out front." "Thea?" "Heh, no." "It seems two prospective buyers of a company that I'm interested in acquiring were murdered." "carl Rasmussen and James holder." "really?" "Mm." "So you're gonna lay low for a few days then?" "I most certainly will not." "Ha-ha-ha." "Don't worry about me." "I'm as safe as houses." "How'd you get in here?" "You don't work security without becoming friendly with at Ieast one or two cops." "[SIGHS]" "Wow." "Gotta say, when I signed on to your little crusade I didn't expect you to get arrested quite so fast." "Yeah." "For the life of me, I can't figure out how I missed that security camera." "You mean you were trying to get yourself caught?" "You" "You are even crazier than I thought." "And trust me when I tell you, that's really saying something." "I come back into town, the Hood guy starts firing arrows at starling City's privileged elite." "DiggIe, sooner or later, somebody was gonna make the connection." "I needed to take the question off the table but on my terms." "Okay." "well, congratulations, you got yourself caught." "What's next on your master plan?" "I got all the angles covered." "Mm-hm." "oliver, your mother and your sister are going out of their head because they love you, man." "Something tells me that's an angle you don't have covered." "WaIter, your stepson has been arrested on murder charges." "I think that the office can do without you for a day." "well, if I thought that, I wouldn't be going in." "Yes, but I think your family your wife needs you more." "I'II check in on the hour." "You're under arrest, Mr. MerIyn." "Oh, guilty as charged." "You know, these might come in handy later." "Mm." "Heh." "You know, for a guy that just got handcuffed by a super-hot chick you don't look very happy." "Tommy, something is on your mind." "talk to me." "If this arrest thing goes the distance, I'm gonna have to testify." "And somebody's bound to ask me if I saw the guy in the hood who rescued us from those guys who tried to kidnap you." "Yeah?" "So?" "So I didn't see any guy." "AII I saw" "AII I saw was you." "Okay, I came to just for a little bit and I saw you running away." "You wanna know what happened?" "[CHUCKLES]" "I came to, I saw all the guns and I panicked." "I ran away to save my own *** and I didn't say anything to the police because I didn't want you to know that I'm a coward." "And I'm a lousy friend, okay?" "No." "oil, don't beat yourself up." "I mean, at Ieast, the truth is, if I had been the one to be able to get free I probably would have hauled ass too." "MAN:" "Drive with your eyes open, you idiot." "Oh, my gosh, sir." "Look at this." "I am so sorry, sir." "Listen, my boss is gonna fire me." "Is there any way I can take care of this?" "I'II pay you directly." "Here's my card." "Mr." "mueller, please, I'II take care of this." "Sir, I just can't lose my job." "The economy is tough out here for a brother." "Anything, just" "Let's go." "Oh, hi." "Hi." "Listen, um, I just came to apologize." "I never should have agreed to represent oliver." "I guess on some level, I wanted you to confront this and move on." "You might be overestimating my capacity for personal growth." "[CHUCKLES]" "well, I don't know about that." "You did save oliver's life." "Yeah, well, for a second, I was thinking about letting the guy kill him." "No, you weren't." "That's not who you are." "results of the Queen lie detector test." "They confirm he passed." "You were right." "When you said this wouldn't bring her back." "Your mother was right to leave." "Your sister Sara's death had destroyed me and nobody could love if they're that damaged." "What is it?" "Um, nothing." "There's just something that I have to go do." "Yeah, yeah." "Go, go." "I got work to do anyway." "Turns out, wrongfully accusing a billionaire generates a Iot of red tape." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "I Iove you." "Go." "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish." "Make it home." "Right my wrongs." "OLIVER:" "No!" "[GUNSHOT]" "OLIVER:" "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "[ALL SCREAMING]" "ACE:" "Get down." "Everybody keep down." "Nobody lift their head, nobody gets hurt." "KING:" "Get down!" "ACE:" "Down." "KING:" "Get on the floor right now!" "MAN:" "Go." "You can't jackhammer into the safe." "It's too thick." "[GRUNTS]" "ACE:" "Shut up." "KING:" "Move." "Move." "Go." "JACK:" "We're through." "KING;" "Three minutes." "Are you trying to get us killed?" "Don't worry." "I'm a cop." "WOMAN:" "please don't do anything, okay?" "I don't wanna die." "please." "[ALL SCREAMING]" "KING:" "What hell's going on?" "ACE:" "He was a freaking cop." "KING:" "Enough throwing shots." "[SIRENS WAILING]" "ACE:" "You hear that?" "Someone triggered the alarm." "KING:" "Don't." "That's it." "Let's go." "HILTON:" "StarIing City police Department." "Lay down your weapons and come out with your hands up." "Repeat, lay down your weapons and come out with your hands up." "hold your fire." "[ALL SCREAMING]" "Move those hostages." "mills, contain the hostages." "AII other units, move in, move in." "[ACE GRUNTS]" "KING:" "Come here." "You shot a cop." "This is not how we do things." "ACE:" "Me getting killed isn't how we do things." "KING:" "Get in the van." "Get in the van!" "Go." "[TIRES SCREECH]" "[METAL CLANKING]" "Anchor the rear hand, DiggIe." "Come on." "DIGGLE:" "Okay." "[DIGGLE GRUNTS]" "variable acceleration." "Fighters work at the same pace." "You switch it up, throw your opponent off his game." "[GRUNTS]" "That was nice." "Where'd you learn that?" "His name was Yao Fei." "Did he give you those scars?" "One of them." "And the others?" "One day you're gonna be straight with me about what happened." "absolutely." "[DIGGLE GRUNTS]" "But not today." "still, some pretty sweet moves." "Yup." "Tonight I'm gonna use some on him." "Scott Morgan runs Water  Power in the glades." "Jacks up the prices when people can't pay shuts them down even in the dead of winter." "Which is at Ieast a month away." "Look at this." "These guys started in Keystone three years ago." "Began moving west, hitting banks along the way." "This morning, they hit StarIing City Trust." "Shot an off-duty cop." "He's in a coma." "Doctors say it's a coin-toss whether he'II make it." "If he's a cop, S.C.P.D. will be over it." "overwhelmed, underfunded." "These guys don't hit one time, they hit two or three per city." "Right now they're planning their next job." "You have the wrong impression about what I do." "Take out bad guys with bow and arrow." "I don't fight street crime." "That's a symptom of this city." "I'm trying to cure the disease." "CEOs and crooked entrepreneurs." "I get it." "Listen, oliver, I'm just saying you can make a difference if you think beyond the scope of those pages." "I'm sure your father wouldn't mind." "No, you don't get it." "My father died so that I couId live." "Make a difference by fixing the city that he and the people in this book ruined." "Every name I cross off this list honors that sacrifice." "There's more than one way to save this city." "Not for me." "Crime happens in this city every day." "What do you want me to do?" "Stop all of it?" "It sounds like you have a narrow definition of being a hero." "I'm not a hero." "Dad?" "tell me that this is a nightmare and I'm about to wake up." "How can Stagg Industries pull out?" "They're our largest donor." "It's like they say, "It's the economy, stupid."" "No, it's the stupid economy." "Okay, without Stagg, how long can CNRI keep their doors open?" "Uh, depends." "What time you got?" "TOMMY:" "I have fiesta time." "Or is it siesta time?" "Which one means a party and which one means a nap?" "Tommy, as much as I would love to relive Intro to Spanish, today is not good day." "well, of course not, working in this tiny brick office." "It's intolerable." "Now, you know where's a spectacular place to spend the day?" "Coast City." "Here's what I am thinking." "Sunset flight on my private plane, dinner at Broome's I'II have you home by midnight." "Or maybe in the morning." "Hmm?" "What is this?" "This is what we talked about." "This is you getting to know the real me." "Tommy, so you don't misunderstand, CNRI just lost its largest single donor." "AII of the hard work and sacrifices that I have made to help this legal clinic survive, it may have been for nothing." "[SIGHS]" "Maybe another time." "Yeah?" "I mean, haven't you noticed she's been acting a little down lately?" "Heh, what am I saying?" "Of course you haven't." "Since when do you pay attention to how Mom's feeling?" "Since our step-father decided to take a business trip halfway around the world." "When someone at waiter's pay takes a trip, it's always sudden." "I wouldn't worry." "Ah." "Guess who I just hung up with?" "Janice Bowen." "Carter's mother." "THEA:" "Oh." "OLIVER:" "Oh, heh." "Carter Bowen." "The perfect son." "Is he perfect?" "OLIVER:" "According to you." "Carter Bowen just won the national chess championship." "Carter Bowen is anchoring the debate team." "I didn't make that big a fuss." "oliver, Carterjust got accepted into Harvard and Princeton." "Because Carter got a perfect score on his SATs." "Now, how did he manage to study and cure cancer?" "AII right, all right." "I get it, I get it." "well, they're coming for brunch and I expect you to be there." "I have plans." "That's fine." "Brunch is tomorrow." "Heh, inches from a clean getaway." "well, you too, Thea." "[SNAPS FINGERS]" "Snap." "Nobody says that anymore." "What?" "Mom?" "Hmm." "I can't actually go." "I haven't seen the Bowens in years." "Whatever it is that you have planned I'm sure the two of you can make the sacrifice just this once." "We'II be there." "I hate you." "Mm-hm." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Yeah?" "Scott Morgan from your father's list?" "[OVER PHONE] He tried to kill himself." "Maybe afraid of getting a visit from you." "Can you make it to StarIing general?" "On my way." "Hey, just the man I wanted to see." "I just picked up a new sports car." "I'm thinking, we can open her up, pick up a few speeding tickets...." "That sounds great but something's come up." "I gottajet." "Oh, uh, okay." "Nice talk." "Thanks." "He moves fast, doesn't he?" "It's ironic since you're the one we call Speedy." "Ah, "called," please." "For the love of God." "But if you need somebody to talk to, I'm here." "You know, maybe you could help." "There's this girl that I'm interested in." "And I am really not sure how to pursue it." "Have you tried using your usual lines?" ""My name is Tommy MerIyn, billionaire, but I don't look like Warren Buffett."" "Yeah, she is aware of that and she doesn't care." "You know, money really isn't a big deal to her." "Why don't you just tell her how you feel?" "well, I've-- I've known her for a Iong time." "And I'm not sure the direct approach is the right way to go." "Maybe you have to figure out what's a big deal to her and make it a big deal to you." "Thea, you are amazing, heh." "Love you." "You sure?" "Scott Morgan doesn't seem like the type who'd try to kill himself." "True, but it's the best lie I couId come up with on short notice." "Mr. DiggIe, I can't thank you enough for arranging to move my husband from county ward to StarIing general." "Now I know he's getting the best care." "You should be thanking oliver Queen." "He's paying the bill." "Jana's husband, Stan, is a police officer." "He happened to have been making a deposit at starling Trust." "The bank that was robbed." "I was so sorry to hear about your husband." "Is he gonna be okay?" "The next 24 hours are crucial." "He should have just kept his head down, you know?" "I've known a few police officers in my day." "always willing to help others even if that means putting themselves at risk." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "You lied to me." "And you asked me to work with you, not for you." "You said it was because you understand the man I am." "I'm the man who doesn't walk away when there's a chance to make a difference." "And neither does Stan Washington." "oliver, I'm not finished talking." "Where you going?" "To go make a difference." "Let's catch some bank robbers." "See that guy there?" "He's got a temper." "And he shot Officer Washington." "That's right." "college ring." "well, high school, more likely." "That ring will get us an ID." "But even with photo enhancement you have a problem getting a clear shot of that ring." "It left an impression police will have photographed." "It'II be in evidence Iockup." "You're not going where I think you're going." "DiggIe, why do you even ask?" "[PHONE RINGING]" "HILTON:" "Are you kidding me?" "I don't wanna hear this." "Don't tell me about red tape." "One of our own's been shot." "tell them to find themselves a pair of scissors." "So where are you gonna take me today?" "Monte carlo?" "actually, uh, I was just telling Jo here that the MerIyn global Group is looking to expand its philanthropy and I thought that we could start by sponsoring a benefit for CNRI." "Thank you, Tommy." "But I think we can manage without your family's finances." "laurel, a word?" "Heh, come on." "What are you doing?" "He's not interested in throwing us a fundraiser." "He wants the First annual Attempt to Get Back Into My Pants gala." "Who cares why he's doing it?" "We need the money." "Not like that, we don't." "We really do." "So you're gonna listen to your best friend's advice." "You are gonna go over there and say, "Thank you, Tommy." "We'd be honored for you to throw us a fundraiser." Hmm?" "Thank you, Tommy." "We would be honored for you to throw us a fundraiser." "The bank manager Ace punched." "His ring left a mark." "Larchmont High." "High school." "I cross-referenced his height and age with the students and alumni." "That's a pretty long list." "It was." "I dug a little deeper and found kyle Reston." "Before kyle's senior year, not only did he drop out he dropped off the grid, along with his family." "Father, mother, younger brother." "There are two other guys involved in this robbery." "And a woman." "Aside from Stan Washington there were 22 customers and employees that came." "Nine men, 13 women." "Inside the bank, nine men, 14 women." "Heh, they put a ringer in." "The mom." "The police look for a crew, we look for family." "Speaking of which, I'm incredibly late for mine." "well, I'm sorry waiter couldn't join us." "Oh, yes." "well, the australian trip came up suddenly." "He sends his apologies." "Where's oliver?" "He's not out of town too, is he?" "I'm sure he's" "Stuck in traffic." "One of the things I didn't miss on the island?" "Sunday drivers." "Sorry I'm late." "Mm-hm." "Thank God you're here." "It is so good to see you." "We all thought you were" "Oh, well, we are just happy he's home." "Hmm, and returning as a celebrity too." "How do you mean?" "CARTER:" "well, billionaire scion, castaway for five years." "You know, there is a bidding war for the rights to your life story." "At least, that's what my agent says." "Agent?" "I thought you were a neurosurgeon." "I know." "It's crazy, right?" "One minute I'm publishing this book on how Iong-term potentiation initiates the creation of a sIow-moving protein synthesis and then next, there's an agent trying to make me the next Dr. Oz, heh." "Why would he want you to be a wizard?" "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "oliver." "For our sakes, start reading US Weekly." "well, the truth is, I feel it's our duty as StarIing City's more fortunate..." "...to help those most in need." "Oh, of course." "Do you agree, oliver?" "You're the hero, Carter." "Quick and clean." "And try not to shoot anybody." "Now that you're back, what are your plans?" "will you be taking ajob with Queen consolidated?" "I'm opening a nightclub." "[THEA CHUCKLES]" "DIGGLE:" "Sir, your liquor distributor's on the line." "First Bank of starling was hit two minutes ago." "Sorry." "Business." "If their M.O. holds, they made their escape underground." "First Bank of starling is located above water tunnels." "The entrance is located here." "oliver, where are you going?" "Something's come up." "I'm really sorry." "[SIREN WAILING]" "MAN 1 Okay, go, go." "Go." "I got it." "Let's go." "HILTON:" "S.C.P.D. Don't move!" "KING:" "Enough." "What are you doing?" "Move!" "Let's go!" "[ACE GRUNTS]" "KING:" "Get out of here!" "JACK:" "Our cash!" "KING:" "Forget it!" "Go." "Go!" "AII right, Iet's move." "It's the vigilante." "ACE:" "Come on." "JACK:" "Who the hell was that guy?" "KING:" "The local vigilante." "Goes after rich guys." "clearly, he's branching out." "Things have gone sideways lately." "That hood guy." "kyle shooting a cop." "You warned me he was a cop." "So you would take his gun." "KING:" "Your mother has a point." "Maybe this is a sign we need to hang it up." "Head for Mexico." "Retire." "We don't have enough." "We said that we wouldn't quit until we had enough to set ourselves up." "We need to hit another." "We can make do." "We'II be okay." "I didn't spend five years risking my Iife and my freedom to just be okay." "No, set for life." "That was our deal." "Okay." "One more." "And then we're out." "should add "personal Internet researcher for oliver Queen" to my job title." "happily, I mean." "His name is Derek Reston." "We were close before I went away and I wanna get back in touch." "Didn't have Facebook on that island." "DIGGLE:" "Nope." "Not even a Myspace account." "It was a very dark time." "There's not much here that's recent." "No credit activity, no utility bills." "I guess you guys must have met at the factory." "Wait, what factory?" "The Queen steel factory." "Derek Reston worked there for 15 years until it shut down in '07." "Derek Reston worked for my father?" "You weren't really close friends, huh?" "Looks like Derek was the factory foreman until your dad outsourced production to China." "About 1500 employees got laid off." "The finance guys found a loophole in the union contracts so they didn't have to pay severance packages and pensions to their employees." "They all pretty much lost their homes." "including your friend." "You died." "I asked you, I begged you to survive." "But if you don't think you can there's still one bullet left." "But, oliver, my death is made meaningless by yours." "I'm starving." "I'm gonna die anyway." "And I just want it to be quick." "I want it to be quick like yours was." "You can survive this." "No, I can't." "I'm not as strong as you think I am." "And I'm sorry." "The Restons just got home after five years away." "Those factory guys hung out at a bar after work." "hopefully, Derek Reston wants to take a stroll down memory lane." "And if by some miracle Reston's there?" "Gonna give him the chance to do the right thing." "He had his chance to do the right thing." "It's called not being a criminal." "This is happening because of my father, because of my family." "No." "You're worried about the wrong thing." "It's not your fault." "The Restons aren't the victims." "My family stole from this city." "They hurt the people in it." "And I am heII-bent on making that right." "For Derek Reston that means giving him the chance to make it right." "[LAUREL YAWNS]" "Hey, don't fade on me now." "We have about 10 ,000 more decisions to make." "Now, cake." "Ahem, chocolate or mocha?" "Mm, carrot." "Are you sure about that?" "Because Bugs Bunny hasn't RSVP'd yet." "[CHUCKLES]" "Tommy, why the fuII-court press?" "Asking me to Coast City, the fundraiser." "Why now?" "You know, I was in a bar last week and I was talking to this girl and things were progressing, if you know what I mean." "No, you're too subtle." "Anyway, we finally go back to her place and I realize, all of a sudden, ahem, that I had been there before." "Been with her before." "Two years ago." "I just didn't remember." "So I Ieft." "You know I remember some of the mornings when you and I were together and I made you omeIets." "And I'd be in your kitchen and I would think to myself, this isn't just fun." "This is more than fun." "This is...." "This is different." "I've never felt that way with anybody else." "And I miss it." "Not mocha?" "Carrot." "Carrot." "Yeah." "[COUNTRY MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[LAUGHS]" "MAN:" "AII right." "Heh, okay, fellas." "Thanks for playing." "[OLIVER CLEARS THROAT]" "Mind if I sit in?" "oliver Queen." "The prodigal son returns." "Didn't figure you for someone who would hang in the glades." "My father used to bring me here." "There's a "Pac-Man" machine in the back." "I had the highest score for two months." "Oh, the Iast time I saw your dad, he was making a speech telling my crew not to believe all the gossip." "That there was no way Queen consolidated was moving production to China." "A week later, they closed the doors." "I didn't get the two-weeks vacation pay due me." "My father made mistakes." "He hurt people." "When people are hurt, people are in trouble they tend to make the wrong choices." "Right, Derek?" "Those choices don't have to define you." "They don't have to define who your family will be." "Because there's always one moment when you can turn it all around." "If my father had another chance I think he'd do things differently but time ran out for him." "How poetic." "That doesn't help me get my house back." "No, it doesn't." "No, all I can offer you is an apology and ajob." "Queen consolidated has subsidiaries all over the country." "I make one phone call, you start next week." "So, what do you say?" "How about, I still have some pride left?" "Now, I don't need charity from the son of the man who screwed me over." "Okay." "You change your mind?" "You and I have one thing in common." "We're both dealing with the consequences of my father's actions." "What he did then, that's on him." "But what we do now that's on us." "KING [OVER COM]:" "I've been thinking." "Maybe you were right." "Maybe it's time to hang it up, retire." "QUEEN [OVER COM]:" "But Kyle said we do one more or he'll go out on his own." "KING:" "If that's what he wants, that's his right." "You and me and Teddy, we're out." "QUEEN:" "I wanna quit too but I am not leaving without Kyle." "What's this?" "I dropped a bug in Reston's jacket." "I thought you were gonna give a second chance." "That's what I believe in." "I also believe in covering all my bases." "QUEEN:" "Derek, we can't abandon our son." "After all this time, he wants to end up a winner." "Set for life." "Otherwise, what was the point?" "KING:" "All right." "One more." "Now what?" "We take them down." "Monitor the Restons with this." "You get a line on their plans, we move." "And you're gonna do another abrupt exit?" "I'm getting better at it with practice." "[DIGGLE CHUCKLES]" "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Honey, keep the alcohol flowing." "I ca, heh-- Wow, you look just really lovely." "LAUREL:" "lovely?" "Yeah." "It's nice you've extended your vocabulary from words like "hot" and "mega-hot."" "You could just say "thank you," you know." "Thank you you know." "You're welcome." "Tommy, this is wonderful." "It means the world to us." "Thank you." "Oh, God." "Excuse me, just for a second." "So?" "You were right." "Thank you for coming." "Thank you for inviting me." "well, I figure the entire Queen family and their checkbooks should be present." "Right." "How is that going for you so far?" "It is going amazing and all thanks to you." "You know, Thea Queen, the unlikely voice of reason." "Oh, me?" "well, what did I do?" "You gave me that great advice." "You know, I thought about what the girl was interested in and, uh...." "And you did this for laurel?" "And it's working." "Thanks again, Speedy." "Yeah." "Anytime." "Tommy, do you remember Carter Bowen from high school?" "Oh, yeah, sure I do." "So glad you could make it." "So great to see you." "You look amazing." "I gotta say, I'm so impressed with the work you and CNRI are doing here." "Thanks, Carter." "Yeah." "I've been thinking about starting a clinic in the glades." "really?" "Maybe grab a couple drinks, tell you what I'm thinking." "That sounds great." "It's a creative space." "Gorgeous." "Hi." "MOIRA:" "Excuse me." "well, I'm surprised you made it tonight, given your hectic schedule." "Mom, I messed up with the Bowens yesterday." "I made you a promise." "I couldn't keep it." "well, it's nothing new for you, oliver." "I know you and I have had our difficulties but despite all my many mistakes I always thought that you and I had a connection." "So you can imagine just imagine, after being granted the miracle of having my child returned to me that you seem to have little or no interest in being with me." "Or telling me the truth." "Ma'am." "Redwood United Bank." "They're gonna try a nighttime hit." "I have to go." "I'm sorry" "No, don't bother apologizing." "honestly, oliver, there are times I wonder why you bother coming home at all." "[GUN COCKS]" "[GRUNTING]" "[DETONATOR BEEPING]" "Three minutes." "Okay." "[DOOR OPENS]" "You hear that?" "I'II check it out." "AII right." "ARROW:" "kyle Reston." "ACE:" "I came prepared." "[ACE GRUNTS]" "It's okay." "It's gonna be okay." "[ARROW AND ACE GRUNTING]" "MAN:" "Now!" "ARROW:" "Hey, I got this." "MAN:" "Drop your weapons." "Now!" "KING:" "No!" "[GRUNTS]" "[KING GROANING]" "ARROW:" "He's bleeding out." "call an ambulance." "Now!" "[KING GASPING]" "kyle?" "He's okay." "He's just knocked out." "Listen, it wasn't his fault." "I turned my son into this." "I'm" "Of course it doesn't work." "I'm hallucinating." "Or I'm dreaming." "But if you weren't...." "You betrayed me, oliver." "I died so that you could live and you threw that gift away." "You made that sacrifice empty." "I'm not you." "I'm not as...." "I'm not strong like you." "I never was." "I told you, I'm not the man you think I am." "The things I've done." "What I was about to do." "Dad." "Dad." "What does that mean, please?" "I don't know what it means." "I told you, I begged you right my wrongs!" "This is your responsibility now." "How--?" "How do I do this?" "I can't even get off this island." "I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth about me but I hope that you know that I Iove you." "[SIRENS WAILING]" "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Did you know that as a doctor I was able to diagnose myself as a giant tool?" "How about a dance, handsome?" "Hey, uh, I thought that we agreed that you were going to call me before you did something stupid." "See?" "You're no fun." "I'm gonna show you how to have some fun." "Whoa, whoa, whoa, what are you doing?" "You said I was amazing." "You are amazing, but you're also like my sister." "My baby sister." "well, I'm not a baby anymore." "Thank you for noticing." "Heh, laurel doesn't even like you." "She doesn't understand you." "I do." "Why can't you just see that?" "Thea." "Thea, it was a mistake to talk to you about girls and stuff." "It was inappropriate and I think it may have confused you." "Heh, no, the rejection is pretty clear." "Even if it wasn't, between my mom and oliver and, heh, everybody in my entire life, I'm pretty much used to it by now, so...." "Whoa, whoa." "Hey, Iet's go, Iet's go." "Come on." "It's all right." "[THEA RETCHING]" "Tommy?" "Yeah." "Is Thea okay?" "Oh, yeah." "She just ate some bad crab cakes." "Are you sure it wasn't something she drank?" "Ahem, don't worry." "I got this." "You can go back inside." "Keep having fun." "Looked like you were having a nice do-si-do with the good doctor." "I'm gonna let you in on a IittIe-known secret about Dr. Carter Bowen." "The man is a gigantic ass." "[CHUCKLES]" "And the only reason why I danced with him is because he wrote a massive check to CNRI." "Why would you think anything else?" "I guess when it comes to you, I tend not to think straight." "Can you call me a cab?" "absolutely not." "I am taking you home." "Get in." "I apologize for making such a scene." "Just feel better, okay?" "Hey, Tommy." "I owe you a dance." "Yeah?" "You earned it." "Good night." "please don't hate me." "Never." "Never." "What went down wasn't your fault." "I didn't say it was." "oliver, it wasn't your fault, man." "You gave Reston a chance." "That was more than he deserved." "I'm not so sure about that." "well, listen, I'II tell you this much." "You say going after the guys on that list is the way you honored your dad?" "well, if your dad could have seen you this week the way you cared about the people he had hurt the way you stepped up to try to help them I say he'd be pretty damn honored." "So maybe there is more than one way to save this city." "Maybe." "By the way, Stan Washington woke up." "He's gonna be fine." "[PANTING]" "My responsibility." "I promise, Dad." "I promise." "Nightcap?" "well, I thought it wouId help me." "I don't sleep well alone." "I'm sorry about what I said tonight." "No." "You were being honest." "No, not entirely." "The truth is, with waiter being gone, I'm...." "I'm lonely." "You know, you and I used to talk." "I used to know what you were thinking." "But now, even when you're home, you're somewhere else." "I guess I just miss my son." "I miss you too." "And I wish that...." "Are you hungry?" "OLIVER:" "Thank you." "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[CHUCKLES]" "AII right." "Mm, Mom, heh." "It's okay to get your hands dirty every once in a while." "For me, please." "AII right." "Mm." "Mm-hm." "Mm." "Yeah." "That is a great burger." "Thank you for this." "Anytime." "I'II bet Carter doesn't know where to find the best burgerjoint in starling City." "So I have one thing on him?" "No." "You have everything on him, oliver." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER [VOICE OVER]:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal: survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER [VOICE OVER]:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish." "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "DR. LAMB:" "The oliver you lost might not be the one they found." "When you were plotting your plan to save the city I don't think you considered the effect it wouId have on the people in your life." "OLIVER:" "You're wrong." "Not being able to tell my family the truth doesn't hurt anyone worse than me." "I made you a promise I couldn't keep." "After being granted the miracle of having my child returned to me that you seem to have no interest in telling me the truth." "You've gotta let me in, ollie." "You've gotta let someone in." "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "hello?" "Hi." "Mom said I'm supposed to remind you to pick her up for lunch." "Was I supposed to have lunch with her?" "She said she left you five messages." "Bite the bullet and have a Cobb salad with the woman." "Sometimes it's difficult to remember which one of you is my mother." "Mrs. Queen, all I'm asking for is a chance to sit down and discuss our proposal." "If that's all it is, then I can save us both the time." "It's rejected." "I see." "May I ask why?" "Do I really need to answer that, Mr. Copani?" "Now, if you'II excuse me, I'm meeting my son for lunch." "[TIRES SCREECH]" "Get down!" "[EXHALES]" "Mom?" "Are you okay?" "I'm all right." "Are you hurt?" "No, I'm...." "Are you sure?" "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "call 911 ." "[CAR TIRES SCREECH]" "[HORN HONKS]" "[PANTING]" "Hi." "Are you okay?" "I'm fine." "I'm fine." "Did you reach waiter?" "No, I'm sorry." "As I was telling your mother and sister the CAT scan showed a grade-2 concussion." "She can go home so long as someone stays with her." "Thank you." "MOIRA:" "Hm." "I'm sorry." "I shouldn't have left you." "I thought you were fine." "What did you think you were doing?" "I wanted to get the license plate of the guy who took a shot at you." "well, that was foolish." "Yeah." "So did you get the license plate?" "No, he got away." "Maybe you should spend a little less time trying to be a hero." "You're obviously not very good at it." "That's cute." "Wasn't trying to be." "You left Mom in the street." "alone and hurt in the street." "Heh, to get a license plate?" "You don't believe me?" "I Iove you." "Mom loves you." "But it's getting hard when you won't be truthful with us." "Detectives." "Do you have any leads on the shooter?" "Not yet." "Did you get a look at him?" "He was wearing a helmet." "Don't worry." "We'II find him." "My head of security is on his way." "I wanna make sure there are men outside my mother's door." "She needs to be protected." "You know your family's at the tippy-top of my list of priorities." "The guy she was with was connected." "Mobbed-up-to-the-eyebaIIs connected." "She wasn't the target." "And you're welcome." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Uh, technically, I did get here, Iike, 10 seconds before this guy." "Keep the change." "So, Tommy, what brings you by so late?" "well, I assumed, rightly, that you would be at home working tonight and I also assumed that you might be hungry." "also rightly." "I don't know." "This is a mushroom and olive pizza from Mario's." "Oh, that is damn good pie." "AII right." "What do you have to offer?" "Spicy tuna on crispy rice from Toro." "Oh." "Damn you, MerIyn." "I hope sushi was all you had in mind." "Uh, actually, there was something that I wanted to ask you." "And what's that?" "will you go out with me?" "Like, on a date?" "You brought me dinner to ask me to dinner?" "Oh, uh, well, I also did throw you a really big charity gala." "See, I thought you threw it for the hundreds of people it wouId benefit." "Oh, yeah, hundreds of people." "plus one more." "Tommy, heh." "laurel." "I get it." "Okay, this is all happening for us in the wrong order." "First, we're friends for many years and then, briefly, we are friends with benefits extremely excellent benefits, and now I'm just hoping that we can be two people sitting at the same restaurant at the same table at the same time." "See, when I say it like that, it doesn't sound so scary, does it?" "oliver, your mom's nearly killed I think you can take a day off from training." "My mother wasn't the target." "This man was." "paul Copani." "He was trying to close a deal with her when they were shot at." "[PANTING]" "Copani works for BertineIIi Construction." "And Frank BertineIIi." "The mob boss." "I did some digging." "Copani isn't the first member of BertineIIi's crew who's been hit." "You did some digging." "BertineIIi has a Iot of enemies." "The best way to figure out who's trying to target his organization..." "...is to get inside of it." "So let me get this right, oliver." "Your mother's shot at, nearly killed, and the way you process this emotionally..." "...is by going undercover with the mob." "I'm not trying to process it emotionally." "Yeah, well, maybe that's your problem, man." "You ever thought about just being there for your family?" "I tried that today with Thea." "She told me I wasn't being honest with her and she's right." "I can't very well explain to her that I Ieft our mother alone and bleeding on the pavement because I'm fast enough to almost run down the attacker." "But what I can do is protect my family." "And, DiggIe, when I find out who this guy is, he's a dead man." "Speedy, where you going?" "clubbing." "Which is difficult to do in your house and not at an actual club." "I have to go out tonight." "I thought you'd be watching Mom." "I've spent the whole day with her." "I thought you were taking the night shift." "I'm sorry, but this thing, it's important." "[SIGHS]" "You know, sometimes, ollie, I just don't get you." "And by "sometimes" I mean never." "You're not the first person to say that to me today." "Why am I not surprised?" "Oh, nice dress." "Where you headed?" "Upstairs." "apparently." "Long story." "Hey, I heard about your mom." "Is she all right?" "well, she's resting upstairs." "More shaken up than anything." "I gotta run to this, uh, business thing." "I appreciate you stopping by." "No problem." "Just so long as your mom's all right." "Yeah." "Hey, one more thing." "mainly because I don't want you to find this out from someone else that someone else especially being laurel uh we're going to dinner, as in a, uh, date." "That's good." "laurel deserves someone special and so do you." "Thanks, man." "I gotta run to this thing." "absolutely." "I'II catch you later." "Oh, and, uh, Tommy, if you hurt her, I'II snap your neck." "I'm just kidding, heh." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "Mr. BertineIIi." "call me Frank." "call me oliver." "Yeah, heh." "Thank you for agreeing to meet me at my home." "Living rooms make the best conference rooms." "Oh, I'm gonna steal that." "Heh." "Nick SaIvati, my associate." "How do you do?" "Let's have a drink." "THEA:" "So, what are you in the mood for, hmm?" "We could watch reality housewife cooking show or Cop Docs." "It's where doctors run around fighting crime when they're not all sleeping with each other." "[CHUCKLES]" "Whatever you want, sweetheart." "You're the one who's given up your evening out." "Aw, it's not Iike there's anybody else who could be staying with you." "[GASPS]" "Oh, wait, yes, there is." "Don't be too harsh on your brother." "[SCOFFS]" "Why not?" "I mean, aren't you getting, heh, sick of his lies?" "Thea, everyone has secrets." "I mean, we all have things that we wanna keep to ourselves." "I just don't get him sometimes." "I know." "I know." "You know, being in that hospital and seeing Dr. Lamb again it made me remember the day that oliver came home." "It was Dr. Lamb that told me that the oliver we'd lost might not be the oliver that they'd found." "I think it's easy to forget, but he lived apart from civilization for 5 years." "THEA:" "Hm." "So, what, he gets, Iike, a free pass?" "No, no, no, not at all." "I just think we need to stop judging him for the oliver he was and start accepting him for the oliver that he is." "So, oliver, I'II be honest with you, I was surprised to hear from you." "It was my impression from the news that you weren't gonna be involved with your family's business." "There were a few catchphrases I missed while I was away for five years." "One of them being Iame-stream media." "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "The press never gets anything right." "Oh, I know a thing or two about that." "[CELL PHONE RINGS]" "So, oliver, I'II be blunt." "Hmm?" "I want the contract to build Queen consolidated's new applied sciences division." "And I'm inclined to give it to you." "Your mother wasn't so enthusiastic." "How is she by the way?" "She's recuperating at home, thank you." "What a terrible thing." "And, Frank, I was very sorry to hear about what happened to paul Copani." "paul was a good friend." "He was a good man." "[SIGHS]" "The violence in this city...." "Sometimes I wonder why I stay." "I had the same thought." "So why'd you come back?" "You could have settled anywhere in the world." "Because StarIing City is my home." "[SPEAKING IN ITALIAN]" "No matter which way you go or turn, you always end up at home." "oliver, this is my daughter, helena." "hello." "Nice to meet you." "I'm heading out." "AII right." "Take one of the guys with you." "I can take care of myself." "Heh." "I wasn't asking, sweetie." "Frank, that meeting you requested?" "They can do it." "Now." "I can come back another time." "No, no, no." "Just, uh...." "Just excuse us for a moment, would you?" "OLIVER:" "Mm-hm." "Thank you." "oliver Queen." "The rich man's Lindsay Lohan." "Look, um I've gotta go to this other meeting." "But I need someone to take him to dinner." "So you pimp out your daughter." "No, I ask her to help me close a business deal." "I remind her that the family business is dying and that we need this contract and oliver Queen can give it to us." "please, sweet pea, huh?" "For us." "For me, hmm?" "That's my girl." "oliver, I'm so sorry, something has come up." "But helena would love to take you to dinner and discuss the deal further." "Oh." "HELENA:" "Hm." "I was hoping to speak with you." "well, as you, uh, speak for your family, my daughter also speaks for ours." "It's really not necessary." "It'd be my pleasure." "Sure." "I Iook forward to working together." "FRANK:" "Thank you for coming." "Anything for a friend." "[SPEAKING IN CHINESE]" "We're not responsible for the attacks on your people." "These attacks on my business, on my family's lifeblood, they stop now." "Or I'm coming for you." "[SIGHS]" "What does the Triad have to gain by provoking you?" "well, no one ever credited the Triad with rational thinking." "If not them, then who?" "FRANK [OVER COMPUTER]:" "Whoever it is when I find out who's behind this, there will be blood." "BertineIIi's ready to put the screws to everyone who pays him protection money." "Three of his best earners have been murdered." "He's gotta make up the cash somewhere." "Whoever is pruning the family tree is looking to make BertineIIi suffer." "You think it's one of the other families?" "No." "HILTON:" "Then who?" "According to the coroner, none of the vics took a clean shot." "half the bullets missed." "Our killer is not a pro." "That's not stopping them from pulling that trigger." "That's up to us." "Or this is gonna blow up into an aII-out mob war." "You're an angel, helena." "So beautiful." "Heh." "well, we are gonna take good care of both of you tonight." "You'II tell your father hello from us?" "Of course, Mr. Russo." "I'II give you a minute." "Thank you." "I heard about your mother's accident." "Is she gonna be okay?" "She's gonna be fine." "Thanks." "I'm glad." "So why would you wanna go into business with my father?" "You know who he is and how he made his money." "You don't approve of your family's enterprises?" "We share a name." "That name defines us whether we want it to or not." "You've already made judgments about me like I've made judgments about you." "Right." "I'm the rich man's Lindsay Lohan." "Heh, sorry." "That's okay." "Heh." "Hey, can I ask you something?" "Yeah." "I know it must have been hell for you alone on that island for five years, but, um...." "But what?" "But was there ever a day when you were just happy to be away from everything?" "No pressure from your family." "No need to be the person that everyone else expects you to be." "Was there ever a day when--?" "When I didn't feel lost, that I felt free?" "[CHUCKLES]" "More than one and, uh...." "And those are the days that I miss." "[TOMMY GASPS THEN COUGHS]" "What, is it too spicy for you, MerIyn?" "No." "No, not really." "I'm just, um, crying because I was thinking of a hallmark commercial I saw earlier today featuring a sick kitty." "It was very emotional." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "WAITER:" "will there be anything else?" "No, thank you." "Yep." "Thanks for letting me take you to dinner." "well, thank you for letting me choose Indian." "Yeah, I read this article by a film critic once who said if he could have one wish it wouId be to watch his favorite movie again for the first time." "I kind of wish that was us." "So you want dinner and a movie?" "No." "I wish we had just met, and that all this was just beginning and there wasn't so much of me I wish you'd forget." "well, keep saying nice things like that and maybe next time I'II let you choose the restaurant." "Mr." "MerIyn?" "Yeah." "I'm sorry, I'm afraid your credit card has been declined." "You swipe it a few times?" "Sometimes those things can be glitchy." "I did." "And, um, I'm afraid the credit card company wants me to confiscate it." "Sorry." "OLIVER:" "people are always asking me what did I miss the most." "[SIGHS]" "Uh, air conditioning." "satellite radio." "TagIia...." "TagIiateIIe?" "Right." "Hmm." "Those are the answers I give because those are the answers they're expecting." "Why can't you just be truthful?" "I don't know how truthful I can be." "You've been through a crucible." "And it changed you." "How could it not?" "That's beautiful." "Your cross." "It's a gift." "From my fiancé." "Heh, fiancé." "I didn't know you were engaged." "I'm not." "Anymore." "He died." "I'm sorry." "Me too." "That was my crucible." "Boy, it's nice to...." "It's really nice to be with someone that I can be myself with." "It's nice to be with someone who knows how hard it can be." "[CELL PHONE VIBRATES]" "Ugh, I'm really sorry." "It's okay." "Take it." "Thank you." "Yeah." "DIGGLE:" "Hey, it's Dig." "Something came up." "You gotta get out of there and call me back." "helena, I have to go." "There's something that I have to do." "It's about my mother." "Otherwise, I would, uh, stay." "And I would Iike that." "Uh, my father would kill me if I let you pay." "[SCOFFS]" "I have a confession." "I didn't wanna go out with you tonight." "That makes two of us." "I'm really glad that I did." "That makes two of us." "[CHUCKLES]" "oliver." "Be careful with my father." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Thea, you don't need to knock, sweetheart." "[DOOR OPENS]" "MAN:" "What about me?" "I hope you don't mind." "Thea let me in." "What are you doing here?" "I wanted to see how your recovery was going." "surely someone of your means has a telephone." "I Iike to see someone when I have something important to talk about." "We used to be friends, Moira." "I still remember that time." "You, me and Robert." "Which is why I came by." "You are a vital part of starling City's future." "Robert feared that future." "He lost his conviction." "It's been my experience that when someone has a brush with death like you experienced today, even their deepest held convictions can change." "Have they?" "No." "You didn't have to say it." "I can see that they haven't." "What happened?" "Yeah, it's what's about to happen." "BertineIIi's enforcer, Nick SaIvati?" "Yeah, we drank a Scotch together, he seems like a real stand-up mobster." "He's paying visits to everyone who owes the mob protection money." "I'm trying to figure out who took a shot at my mother not take on all of organized crime." "SaIvati and his goons have put four people in the hospital and if somebody doesn't stop him the poor bastard who owns Russo's is next." "Wait, wait." "Russo's?" "lt's at the corner of Adams" "I know where it is." "I'm here right now." "What?" "I was having dinner with BertineIIi's daughter." "You're supposed to be undercover..." "...not speed dating." "I didn't have a choice." "Yeah, well, uh, I've seen her on the web." "You made quite the sacrifice." "SaIvati's here." "I'm sorry, we're closed." "Huh?" "Mr. SaIvati." "[SPEAKS IN ITALIAN]" "Uh, I have some fresh-made Iasagna." "SALVATI:" "We're not here for food, Mr. Russo." "Your payment's due." "I already made my payment this month." "You need to pay again." "I can't afford to make another payment if I'm" "Going to what?" "Restock your bar?" "Break his fingers." "Leave him alone!" "Break hers too." "No, don't touch her!" "[EXPLODES]" "[MAN GRUNTS]" "OLIVER:" "Go!" "[GUNSHOTS]" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[PANTING]" "OLIVER:" "I don't understand." "Why is she targeting her family?" "I don't know." "Here I thought you had parental issues." "This is not ajoke, DiggIe." "oliver, you're not falling for this girl, are you?" "Because I know you can't be that crazy." "helena BertineIIi shot at your mother." "She also murdered four men in cold blood." "She has to have reasons for what she's doing." "Reasons?" "Since when do you care about the bad guy's reasons?" "Oh, she is bad guy, oliver." "She's the killer." "Whatever's going on in your head, get it straight." "Any attempt on his right hand is gonna send your new friend's father on a warpath." "I know what I'm doing." "Now I know how your family feels when you lie to them." "Is this the only angle you've got?" "The Russos chintzed out a bit on their security package." "Somebody's in the wings with a gun shooting at these guys." "What do you got from earlier?" "Yeah." "Before the shooting?" "Business dinner, birthday dinner, couple of blind dates." "Any guests of the Chinese persuasion?" "Why?" "Humor me." "Whoa, whoa." "Wait." "Wait a second, what was that?" "help yourself." "Come on." "Son of a bitch." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Detective." "Is everything okay?" "Your, um...." "Your buddy with the arrows was at Russo's last night." "And I was there earlier with a date." "So, what, you think I'm the hood guy again?" "Heh, no." "Your date." "helena BertineIIi." "If I were you, I'd stay away from her." "Her family is bad news on a good day." "Why the sudden concern for my weII-being?" "A few weeks ago, I made a mistake." "I almost got you killed." "And you felt like you owed me one?" "If I did, as far as I'm concerned, this clears the books." "Can I talk to you?" "Dad." "MALCOLM:" "In case you haven't noticed, I'm a little occupied at the moment." "I just talked to the accountant." "He said my accounts were frozen." "He said my credit cards were all canceled." "MALCOLM:" "I pay Sandy a king's ransom each year in fees, Tommy." "When it comes to money, if he says it's so, it's so." "Do you think this is ajoke?" "MALCOLM:" "No." "[PANTING]" "You are." "although, I must say, your chronic irresponsibility and terminal Iaziness has lost its humor." "Heh." "You're wondering why now." "The better question is why not sooner?" "It's...." "It's my trust fund." "Which is comprised of my money." "Oh, excuse me." "Was comprised." "helena." "How did you find me here?" "I followed you from your house." "Your fiancé?" "Yeah." "You said that losing him was your crucible." "That it changed you." "You didn't say how." "When you love someone as much as I Ioved him with all of your heart then you can't just turn that emotion off when they're taken from you." "You still feel things as deeply." "And if it...." "If it can't be love that you feel then it becomes hate." "Hate for who?" "oliver." "You should stay away from me." "helena." "Get in." "My father is going to kill you for this." "[CHUCKLES]" "[GRUNTS]" "I've been wanting to do that for years, you spoiled bitch." "I knew it was someone from the inside waging war against your father and me." "I just never thought it'd be this inside." "[SCOFFS]" "You dropped this at Russo's." "You're smarter than I gave you credit for, Nicky." "You're not." "Hey!" "You're a businessman, right?" "So let's talk business." "I can offer you a Iot of money if you let us go." "This isn't about money, Richie Rich." "This is about loyalty." "HELENA:" "He's got nothing to do with any of this." "SALVATI:" "Then what the hell is it about?" "My father had michael murdered." "[SALVATI CHUCKLES]" "Of course he did." "He didn't want you to know the truth." "Your rat of a fiancé was gathering evidence." "He was talking to the frigging FBI." "The love of your life was going to destroy your father." "You're wrong." "[GRUNTS]" "We found a laptop in michael's bag, helena." "Everything that could send your father and me to prison for the rest of our lives was on it." "That computer" "Was mine." "michael wasn't the one talking to the FBI." "I was." "You?" "My father is a monster who doesn't care who he hurts to keep his money and power." "And I wanted it to stop." "SALVATI:" "well, then it's your fault michael's dead." "Not your father for ordering the hit or me for carrying it out." "Yours." "You shot michael?" "In the chest." "So he knew it was me." "Just like this." "[ALL GRUNTING AND GROANING]" "You're gonna burn in hell." "It'II be worth it." "[PANTING]" "helena?" "[PANTING]" "I didn't have a choice, oliver." "No one can know my secret." "CSU didn't find any usable prints except for the three victims'." "One of them had a GSW to the chest." "So who broke the necks of SaIvati and his buddy?" "Look, it's been a while since the hood broke anyone's neck." "And I didn't see any arrows laying around." "well, better pray that Frank BertineIIi blames the hood for this." "Because if he thinks it's the Triad StarIing City is ground zero to world War III." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "You okay?" "Spoke to my dad today." "I bet that was fun." "He explained to me what happened with my credit card yesterday." "And my checking account, my savings account my brokerage account, my stock portfolio." "He cut me off completely." "What?" "My car got repossessed." "That was fun." "And I have to move out of my apartment by the end of the month." "You are gonna be fine, Tommy." "[SCOFFS]" "In fact, you are gonna be great." "MerIyn money or not." "And, you know I have a mushroom and olive Mario pizza in my refrigerator waiting to be eaten." "I suppose it's already paid for, right?" "exactly." "When did you get back?" "Just now." "[SIGHS]" "I'm so happy to see you." "Hmm." "But did you come home only because you heard I was hurt?" "No." "I was already on my way when Thea called." "I actually came home because I missed my wife." "MOIRA:" "It's okay." "Is she all right?" "WaIter's home." "She's gonna be fine." "Look, I'm sorry if I was a bitch with you earlier." "There were a few times." "could you be more specific?" "Don't push it." "Don't worry." "You weren't a bitch." "At the hospital, you were a little...." "A little bit." "[CHUCKLES]" "Look, I'm just worried about you." "You seem really lonely." "And we all have our secrets, ollie." "clearly you have yours." "And it's fine if you don't wanna share them with us." "But I just really think you should share them with someone." "I'd ask how you got in here but the starling City vigilante comes and goes as he pleases, doesn't he?" "How'd you know?" "I saw you fight." "And I saw your eyes." "That island changed you in ways that only someone like me could understand." "No." "What you're doing right now I know that it feels like justice, but it's not." "It's revenge." "Sometimes revenge is justice." "Your father killed your fiancé." "And what did your father do to you?" "Isn't the man in the hood fighting to set things right?" "Why is your vendetta more valid than mine?" "We're the same, you and I." "No, we're not." "Heh." "Hiding in plain sight." "concealing our anger with smiles and lies." "Don't lie to me, oliver." "You feel the same as I do." "I know it." "Why are you crying?" "I don't know." "Maybe it's because I have been alone in my hate for so long." "It feeIs" "So good to tell the truth." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish:" "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "The company Mrs. Queen invested in doesn't exist." "Tempest purchased a warehouse in starling City." "oliver, this is my daughter, helena." "The starling City vigilante comes and goes as he pleases, doesn't he?" "How did you know?" "HELENA:" "I saw you fight." "I saw your eyes." "SALVATI:" "It's your fault michael's dead." "Not your father for ordering the hit or me for carrying it out." "That island changed you." "only someone like me could understand." "I know that it feels like justice, but it's not." "Revenge is justice." "You feel the same as I do." "I know it." "[IN CHINESE]" "[IN CHINESE]" "HELENA:" "Take your hands off me." "What do you think you were doing?" "That man was the leader of the Triad." "My father blames them for the recent hits against his men." "These are men you killed." "That's right." "I take out Zhishan and the Triad retaIiates." "I've weakened my father's organization to the point where there's no way he can survive their onslaught." "What, and then you have your revenge?" "Then I have justice." "For what he did to michael and me." "It's not justice." "And what you do is?" "would you let me show you?" "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "CARLY:" "Get you anything else?" "OLIVER:" "No, thank you, carly." "Where's my brother-in-Iaw?" "It's late and this is the glades." "ShouIdn't he be keeping you safe?" "She's tougher than she looks." "I haven't been on a second date in a while." "feels good so far." "Look, we slept together and it was really nice, and I needed it." "But I'm not looking for anything." "Because you have everything figured out." "I don't think you're one to judge." "I saw you kill people." "I kill people when it is absolutely necessary." "It's not my opening move." "And the way you're going, you're gonna get somebody hurt like my mother or yourself." "I'm sorry about your mother." "That was an accident." "How many accidents have to happen before you're done getting back at your father?" "hopefully none." "But I am not getting back at him." "I am stripping away everything that has meaning to him like he did to me when he had michael killed." "What if I show you another way?" "A way that you could take down your father's organization without putting innocent people at risk?" "Thank you for the coffee and the sex, but I am not interested." "DIGGLE:" "I don't know where the next olympics are but you might wanna think about signing yourself up." "So you wanna talk about last night?" "Okay." "Last time you and I spoke, you were on your way to stop helena BertineIIi from her one-woman war against the Mafia." "How'd that work out for you?" "Nick SaIvati, Frank BertineIIi's right hand was found with his neck snapped, along with a few of his thugs." "Was that her or you?" "I was with helena when SaIvati jumped us." "We didn't have a choice." ""We"?" "She knows, DiggIe." "About me." "It was my secret or her life." "It's not just your secret anymore, oliver." "This woman's a killer..." "...dropping bodies all over the city." "She's not what you think she is." "Three years ago, she was gonna turn her father in." "She put everything she had on a laptop." "Her father found it, thought it belonged to her fiancé, and had him murdered." "AII right, that's a heavy thing, but it doesn't change the fact that she is dangerous." "And if BertineIIi retaIiates against the Triad, or is perceived to the Triad is gonna rain down hell and innocent people are gonna be killed." "She's lost, DiggIe." "And whether she knows it or not, I can save her." "Stop her from doing anything reckless." "That's just it." "You can't save her." "Some people don't change." "She can." "I can help her." "AII right, maybe you think you're more persuasive than you are or she thinks she's fine the way she is on her mission of righteous fury." "Whatever it is, either way, all of this, it ends badly." "Either way I gotta try." "Where are you off to so early?" "You just got home." "trouble with traveling for a few weeks is a few weeks' worth of work piling up." "I just want to dig my way out from underneath it." "Of course." "What is it?" "We haven't spoken since you left." "really spoken." "I know." "well, I can imagine finding out that I had Robert's yacht salvaged and that he was murdered was a Iot for you to take in." "Yes, it was." "I just don't want you to feel that you can't trust me anymore." "I wasn't lying to hurt you, but to keep you safe." "I haven't changed, WaIter." "I'm still the woman you fell in love with and married." "Do you see that?" "Yeah, of course I do." "I just want us to agree to be honest with one another moving forward." "Yes, of course." "THEA:" "WaIter will you give me a lift to school?" "I Iike to mix it up sometimes and actually be on time." "well, that would be my parental privilege." "Or you could just buy me a convertible and then we could avoid this." "WALTER:" "What, and miss out on all those wonderful conversations we have in the car?" "I don't think so." "DINA:" "I'm so sorry, Frank." "Last thing you need is me crying on your shoulder all night." "I just can't believe that Nick is gone." "Dina, look, you and Nicky, you're like family to me, okay?" "And in my family, we take care of our own, okay?" "I'm sorry for your loss." "Nick was like a brother to me." "Come on." "We'II talk to you soon." "Okay." "I'm gonna find the son of a bitch who did this and on my Iife, I am gonna make him pay." "[DOORBELL CHIMES]" "You know, that girl's always forgetting something." "Frank, sorry to drop by unannounced." "No, no, no, come on in." "It's all right, come on in." "I know, uh, that we've been working on that construction deal." "And I'm sorry for dropping the ball." "We've had a death in the family." "I'm terribly sorry to hear that." "Thank you." "actually, though, I'm not here to discuss business." "Oh, okay." "well, this is one merger I won't stand in the way of." "Excuse me, sweetie." "A father knows when he's not needed." "Was I not clear that I wasn't interested in talking?" "You don't have to talk." "Who was she?" "OLIVER:" "Somebody I knew a Iong time ago." "I was dating her sister and it was getting serious." "But back then, I did not do serious well." "But I was excellent at screwing things up." "I started sleeping with Sara." "I started sleeping with my girlfriend's sister." "I brought her on the yacht and she died." "Right in front of me." "And I hurt" " I hurt her family." "I just didn't care." "Before the island, I wasn't a good person." "I was selfish and thoughtless and awful." "And it affected, really affected people." "people I Iove." "Because, helena, you're on an island too." "oliver, I want to let you in." "But michael was the Iast man I opened up to." "I can't be hurt again." "Never." "I'II never hurt you." "I promise." "Ah, ah." "relax." "relax, relax, relax." "Now pull back gently." "You need all three fingers to come off the bowstring at the same time." "relax." "Breathe." "And release." "[GLASS BREAKS]" "This is a waste of time." "I'm teaching you something." "The least effective way to shoot people?" "No, control." "To use a bow and arrow requires patience and discipline." "I can do this all day." "It's kind of fun." "I Iove a man with stamina." "Our crusades have something in common." "Mine started with my father too." "He left me with a list." "Of people who need to be reminded that StarIing City isn't theirs for the taking." "Anthony Venza's in here." "He works for my dad." "He deals illegal prescription pills." "OLIVER:" "DiggIe, this is helena." "DiggIe is my associate." "well, any associate of oliver's" "Is absolutely nothing to you, ma'am." "I'II leave you to associate." "DIGGLE:" "She knows my name." "That's lovely." "You can trust her." "Except I don't." "You sleeping with this girl?" "I don't think that's your business." "It became my business when you brought me into this." "When I signed on, I told you I was gonna keep your head straight." "But you're lonely." "LoneIier than you wanna admit." "You think you can change this girl because you need to think you can." "Like a dope fiend who deals with his own addiction by making another addict go straight." "oliver, what you do is dangerous." "Getting confused about who's good and bad is a good way to get yourself dead." "You done?" "Yeah, I'm done." "With this." "Everything else?" "I don't know." "I don't know, oliver." "You tell me." "Hope you don't have plans tomorrow night." "I just got us a rez at that new restaurant, table salt." "Opening night." "Isn't that place ridiculously expensive?" "Everywhere worth going is." "Aw, you have the cutest crinkIe in your forehead when you're worried." "Stop." "This is serious." "I thought you were gonna live more frugally." "Yeah, I know, everybody's a grown-up except for me." "Even oliver has ajob." "He's working on that new nightclub." "You have thinky face." "Why thinky face?" "Thought about asking oliver for ajob?" "Not even once." "This isn't a quality that I Iove most about you but you do know the club scene and how to have fun." "You make some very valid points." "I'II take care of it." "I'II talk to ollie later." "We'II see what he thinks." "He is gonna think it's a great idea." "How was your trip to australia?" "I've always wanted to go down under." "It's just I have this thing about kangaroos." "More of a phobia." "They wig me out." "They look evil." "I'm sure their picture's on everything in that country." "You had something important to tell me, Ms. Smoak?" "Yes, I did." "It's about Tempest." "Your wife's mysterious LLC." "The one she diverted company funds to." "I appreciate your diligence, but it was a misunderstanding between my wife and I." "Everything's been resolved." "No, see, it hasn't." "There was something about the money transfer that felt hinky to me." "The money your wife withdrew, I wasn't the only one who tracked it." "She was being shadowed by another entity." "And whoever it is, they're good." "NSA good." "But as you know, I'm good too." "So even though they left almost no trace of their presence in our system I did manage to find one thing." "well, one image." "Does that symbol mean something to you, sir?" "No." "What means something to me is one of my employees prying into my wife's private business without authorization." "And should it happen again, I'II have you suspended." "Is that clear?" "crystal." "Where's your friend?" "OLIVER:" "Just the two of us tonight." "Oh, really?" "And what did you have in mind?" "An object lesson." "We're going after Anthony Venza?" "Yes, but we're doing it on my terms." "Your father loses a piece of his organization but no innocent people get hurt in the process." "What is it?" "I explained guns were weapons of emotion and unpredictability but since you are far from an expert at archery, this will have to do for now." "I Iike it." "But you can't go out like that." "Why?" "You got a spare hood?" "Does it come in purple?" "[GASPS]" "I Iike purple." "VENZA:" "This isn't crack." "Anyone can sell crack." "AII you need is a street corner and a hoodie." "This is pharmaceuticaI-grade oxycodone." "It is caviar." "It is champagne." "And you sell this in fancy houses at parties with rich kids that got money to burn." "Check it out." "[THUDDING AND GRUNTING]" "Whoever you are, you really think you're gonna get out of here in one piece?" "ARROW:" "I was thinking the same thing." "Anthony Venza." "You have failed this city." "[ALL GRUNTING]" "please, just don't hurt me." "Aw." "How about just a little?" "OLIVER:" "millions of dollars' worth of illegal drugs confiscated." "A massive blow to your father's criminal proceeds." "And nobody had to die." "Justice." "What do you think?" "I think this feels good." "And not just the justice part." "MAN [ON TV]:" "Anthony Venza was arrested last night." "The police confiscated a warehouse full of illegal prescription drugs with a street value estimated in the millions." "Several unconfirmed witnesses reported seeing the Starling City Vigilante leaving the scene with another unknown accomplice, possibly a woman." "Bad year?" "The scotch, I mean." "Yeah, sorry." "Another business setback." "Wow." "You look beautiful." "[CHUCKLES]" "oliver Queen?" "[FRANK CHUCKLES]" "Aw." "It's nice to see you happy again." "It's been too long." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Yeah?" "Yeah, yeah, I heard about Venza." "Yeah, I know where that leaves us!" "MOIRA:" "I'm sorry to rush out." "I have this impromptu board of directors meeting with the starling City Modern Art Museum." "I don't know much about art, but I do know how to pay for it." "No worries." "Whip them into shape." "Yes, sir." "I'II see you when I get back." "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS AND PEOPLE CHATTERING]" "well, it's only been 30 minutes." "That's not too bad for an opening." "If they don't seat us soon, I'm going to write a horrible review online." "Let me see what I can do." "Hey, I am loving the CavaIIi." "Uh, look, I'm Tommy MerIyn." "Is there any way that we can go to the head of the class?" "Is there?" "[TOMMY CLEARS THROAT]" "Let us know when our table's ready, okay?" "Maybe you can eat some of those fancy peanuts..." "...from behind the bar." "OLIVER:" "Hey." "TOMMY:" "Hey, oliver and someone." "Tommy, laurel, this is helena." "Nice to meet you." "pleasure." "Likewise." "You look beautiful." "Thank you." "Mr. Queen, your table is ready." "When will our table be ready?" "When it is." "Why don't you both join us?" "TOMMY:" "We're gonna have a drink" "We'd love to." "Are you sure?" "I'm sure I'm hungry." "That" " Ahem." "That's" " That'II be" " It'II be great." "That sounds great." "There you go." "Yeah." "OLIVER:" "I had forgotten that." "You filled your parents' pool with beer." "How many kegs did that take?" "roughly a thousand or so." "[ALL LAUGH]" "So his father was so pissed, I thought he was actually gonna drown you in it." "Death by beer, there's worse ways to go." "Right, helena?" "well, there are no good ways to die." "So, uh, how did you and Tommy meet?" "actually, we've all known each other since" "We've all known each other forever." "You three have a Iot of history." "Sometimes a little too much." "[CHUCKLES]" "So how's the nightclub coming along?" "slower than I expected it to." "I've, uh, been busy." "You must be happy to have the help." "What do you mean?" "I'm sure that oliver doesn't want to talk about work right now." "You didn't ask him?" "Ask me what?" "Tommy wanted" "Tommy said that he was gonna talk to you about working for you at your nightclub." "[OLIVER LAUGHS]" "really?" "Sorry, I didn't think that you wanted any responsibility at all." "Who'd believe that?" "You've always wanted to get into business with Tommy." "Remember when we went to Aspen and you wanted to open a ski lodge?" "OLIVER:" "The thing I remember from Aspen was your father being furious we shared a room with one bed." "[CHUCKLES]" "HELENA:" "Wait." "So you two were together and now you're dating his best friend?" "Yeah, we're just primed for a reality show, aren't we?" "Tommy, you working for me, that could be fun." "I don't feel so good." "I'm gonna step outside." "I should probably go check on him." "helena, it was very nice to meet you." "LAUREL:" "Tommy, why are you so upset?" "Why did you say something about the job?" "You were supposed to talk to him." "well, I hadn't." "I didn't realize." "I was trying to help." "You were trying to get oliver to help." "You know, it's typical laurel, always running to her white knight." "It's oliver and laurel." "It always has been." "That's not gonna change." "oliver and I are over." "You seemed awfully bothered by his new girlfriend." "What, am I supposed to like her?" "I do not wanna be oliver's charity case." "To every day be reminded that I can't give you everything he could." "You know, losing a fortune I think is gonna be easier than losing you so why don't we just stop now?" "Hey, I'm sorry." "How am I supposed to know it's gonna get so weird in there?" "No, I'm sorry." "Sorry I ever listened to you." "helena, wait." "You know what I've been through." "I told you I couldn't be hurt again." "I'm not trying to hurt you." "So making me have dinner with the love of your life is what, oliver?" "laurel was the girl things were getting too serious with." "The girl whose sister's grave you used to manipulate me." "I saw the way you looked at her." "That kind of love doesn't die." "And you still love her." "I don't." "[SCOFFS]" "Hey." "No, don't." "Don't touch me." "I am done talking." "I came to apologize." "I know you were just trying to help." "I guess I wasn't ready to face reality." "This is just so new, you and me, and I didn't want you to see I'm scared." "I'm almost 30 years old and I've never been given an ounce of responsibility in my Iife." "You, you are driven and intelligent." "You're a million times too good for me even before I was broke." "And now I have absolutely nothing to bring to whatever this is." "I never cared about the money." "And truth be told, "billionaire" was your least attractive quality." "I am so sorry if I pushed you too hard on the job with oliver." "I just" " I thought you working for him was a good idea because he's your friend and it's okay to ask a friend for help." "You won't lose your street cred." "I am happy to lose my street cred." "I just don't want to lose you." "well I'm not saying that it's gonna be easy." "But I'm here for you if you need someone to lean on." "That's what people do when they're together." "Together like boyfriend-girIfriend?" "Do not ruin this moment." "It was going so well for you." "Ha-ha-ha." "I didn't expect to hear from you tonight." "Something happen?" "I think you were right." "Okay." "About which part?" "AII of it." "I should have listened to you." "oliver, you said you wanted to help her change." "The thing is, she already did change." "When her father killed her fiancé, she changed into something dark and twisted." "You see that now, don't you?" "It's not that I" " It's not that I couldn't see it, DiggIe." "I didn't" "I didn't want to." "I'm living a double life." "And to do that, I'm taking all these people I Iove and I am putting them at arm's length." "I'm giving up a Iot." "So maybe" "Maybe I thought the universe owed me one." "But I Iooked into her eyes tonight." "And I can't stop her from going over the edge." "She's" " She's already past it." "[PHONES RINGING]" "[PHONE BUZZING]" "[IN CHINESE]" "[MAN IN CHINESE OVER PHONE]" "[HELENA GRUNTING]" "[IN CHINESE]" "I don't speak Chinese." "So I'm just gonna assume you said goodbye." "[MAN GROANING]" "tell your mistress Frank BertineIIi sends his regards." "You wanted to see me, Mr. SteeIe?" "Did I mention it's almost Christmas?" "Many of the suicides this time of year are due to sudden and unexpected jobIessness." "I want you to find out all you can about that notebook." "Where it was made, how it was purchased, what it could mean." "Yes, sir." "FeIicity." "I asked Josiah Hudson, our head of security to look into the same subject matter." "He died the next day under questionable circumstances." "What I may be asking of you, this mystery are you sure you want to do this?" "I hate mysteries." "They bug me." "[They need to be solved." "DIGGLE [OVER PHONE]:" "It's Dig." "What's the situation?" "War." "MAN [OVER PHONE]:" "Boss, we just got word." "Somebody hit Zhishan." "He's dead." "AII right, then we know what's coming next." "tell everyone to strap up." "[IN CHINESE]" "Ricco's not answering his walkie." "Check it out." "[GUNFIRE]" "Frank BertineIIi, this is for Zhishan." "Run!" "[SCREAMS]" "[GROANS]" "helena, what is this?" "Payback for michael." "I know you had him killed." "SaIvati told me." "I did that to protect the family!" "I had to take everything away from you because you took everything away from me." "You finally know what it feels like to find out your own blood is responsible for the death of your entire world." "[GRUNTING]" "No!" "OLIVER:" "helena." "helena." "[SIREN WAILING]" "Ugh." "Hey, easy, easy." "You were lucky." "Am I supposed to be grateful?" "No, HeIena" "He's a mobster, a criminal." "Why would you save him?" "I didn't save him." "I saved you." "You think that because you've killed you understand what it's like to have blood on your hands." "You don't." "You don't understand the toll that it takes on you." "especially when it's your father." "I'm not going to stop." "The police have him in custody." "He's going to jail and then on to prison." "They don't have any evidence on him." "They do now." "The laptop." "He's going away, helena, for the rest of his life." "This is justice." "Then I guess you were right." "I'm more interested in revenge." "Stay out of my way, oliver." "Or I'II make sure your secret doesn't stay secret." "helena." "What I did everything that I've done, I've done because I care about you." "Too bad I can't say the same." "Hey, you." "Thanks for the call." "What are ex-sisters-in-Iaw for?" "Mm." "DIGGLE:" "ChiIi cheese fries with jalapenos." "Mm." "That's a cry for help if I've ever seen one." "I don't know what hurts worse, this or getting shot with a curare-Iaced bullet." "Been there, done that." "definitely the bullet." "Heh." "[SIGHS]" "You know, oliver, I'm no expert at this but I don't think love is about changing or saving a person." "I think it's about finding the person who's already the right fit." "One day you will." "I think I burned that particular bridge." "NapaImed it, actually." "So things didn't work out as you planned." "You did save Frank BertineIIi's life." "He'II be doing time for a while." "Justice wins out." "helena doesn't see it that way." "You opened up, took a risk with your heart." "The oliver I met a few months ago would not have been able to do that." "And when you meet the right person, you'II be ready for her." "[BOTH LAUGHING]" "What are you doing?" "Needs to be dark if we're gonna do this." "If I'd had more time to think of that sentence, it wouldn't have sounded so dirty." "Look." "I don't see anything." "I got these from applied Sciences." "They're able to pick up the sub-visibIe variations in the UV spectrum." "Now look at the book again." "Hi." "Look, I'm sorry about last night." "I just" " I let it get too far, us sitting at the same table." "That was" "That was stupid." "No, I was stupid." "I haven't been entirely honest with you." "My dad cut me off." "He froze all my funds." "I am living on fumes." "really?" "Why didn't you say anything?" "Embarrassment, shame, jealousy." "probably a few other emotions I'm not used to feeling." "Tommy, my trust fund is your trust fund." "No, that is the easy answer." "And believe me, I have loved easy answers." "What I need is ajob." "I'm trying to change." "Not sure into what yet but I don't wanna be what I was anymore." "It just so happens that I have a general manager position that is available." "You're probably the guy for the job." "will I get dental?" "This smile wasn't cheap." "I will look into that." "Thank you." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "You okay?" "I will be." "Something happen with helena?" "We had a faIIing out." "But I have a feeling that I will be seeing her again." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish, to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Stop looking into this." "It's not safe." "Accidents tend to befall people who are too curious." "felicity, I want you to find out all you can about that notebook." "I got these from applied Sciences." "Look at the book again." "Where can I find the man in this picture?" "[YELLS]" "island dangerous, but you not tell them where to find me." "OLIVER:" "I'm coming with you." "HUNT:" "This is a once-in-a-Iifetime opportunity." "Look, all I'm doing is looking to get something going again." "Yeah, I know." "I know, but this time" "[CLATTERING]" "I'm gonna have to call you back." "What?" "What, you come back for another pound of flesh?" "You're gonna be disappointed, pal." "Thanks to you, I'm" "[GRUNTING]" "Nice." "Picking up the pace." "could say the same thing about you." "You crossed three names off your father's list." "Some of these guys are just giving it up." "AII I gotta do is pay them a visit." "Seems the vigilante's reputation is beginning to precede him." "Ah!" "Ugh." "Another round?" "No." "Gotta take my nephew to the mail so he can let Santa know..." "...what he wants for Christmas." "Christmas." "[CHUCKLES]" "I didn't even realize." "Because you've been logging so many hood hours ever since that thing with helena." "I meant there were no holidays on the island." "There just" " Every day was:" ""How do I stay alive?"" "And to do that, you had to forget things." "Like Christmas." "My dad threw a party every year, heh and he would put a Christmas tree in every room." "The whole mansion smelled like...." "It smelled like Christmas." "Maybe give the list a rest and enjoy the holidays with your family." "Besides, I hear St. Nick has a list of his own." "I'd wager you're in the "nice" column." "Go home, oliver." "[ROCKS GRINDING]" "You not dead." "Good." "Where the hell have you been?" "I ran out of food and water days ago." "Hey." "Hey." "Where you going?" "You." "YAO FEI:" "Stop." "Stop." "He's the one who tied me up and had me tortured all because he was looking for you." "He would've killed me if you didn't show up." "Then you kill him." "Or he can take you home." "What?" "YAO FEI:" "He has a plane." "A way for you off this island." "Hey." "You look very pretty." "What's the occasion?" "Mom and waiter are having a dinner party with some big muckety-mucks." "Phew." "Best night of my Iife." "Thea, why aren't there any decorations up in the house?" "What do you mean?" "No wreaths." "No trees." "Everyone's just been really busy lately." "I'm sure they haven't gotten around to it yet." "Does Mom at Ieast have some of those boxes of candy canes?" "Remember we used to race to see who would finish first?" "Yeah, I always won." "No, you cheated." "well, she went sugar-free last year." "So I doubt you'II be seeing any of those around." "The thing that people forget is that Robin Hood was a criminal." "And stealing from the rich to give to the poor is really the job of the Democrats." "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "AII joking aside, crime is down for the first time in five years." "That's because of the changes my department has implemented." "Or because the vigilante's activities have had a chilling effect on the city's criminals." "[MURMURING]" "What are your thoughts, oliver?" "I think the vigilante needs a better code name than "the Hood" or "the hood guy."" "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "I agree." "How about "Green Arrow"?" "Lame." "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "[WALTER SIGHS]" "Forgive me." "It's the office." "Excuse me." "I'm in the middle of a dinner party, so I hope this is of some importance." "FELICITY:" "That depends how you define "important."" "See, most people would consider finding a list of names written in subsonic, ultraviolet, invisible ink important." "But I already know about that, don't I?" "Did you know seven of the names on the list are guys the vigilante has had in his crosshairs?" "That is if bows had crosshairs, which they don't." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "But it is a rather long list, felicity, so I would expect there to be some overlap." "Like Doug miller." "Head of applied Sciences at Queen consolidated." "What of him?" "miller may end up getting an arrow in his stocking, because he's on the list." "So important or not?" "[WHISPERS INDISTINCTLY]" "I'm sorry." "Something's come up." "Is everything okay?" "The vigilante has struck again." "[MURMURING]" "[CELL PHONE BUZZING]" "I really do need to take this call." "It's my contractor." "Excuse me." "LANCE:" "well, the daughter came over, used her key, found Dad." "Hat trick to the chest." "The hood guy." "That's what I thought at first, but these black arrows aren't consistent with his M.O." "Neither is the fact that the Hood took Hunt for $40 million a few months ago." "Doesn't make sense to kill him now." "Something doesn't add up." "We're dealing with a copycat." "Who would kill Adam Hunt with an arrow?" "I mean, other than you." "A setup, maybe." "Someone looking to cover up killing Hunt by making it look like the work of the Hood?" "Whoever he was, he's good." "The grouping on Hunt's chest was tight." "It's a compound bow, most likely." "The guy is a...." "The guy's a legitimate archer." "So someone who would be particular about his arrows." "We get an arrow, we get a bead on where he purchased them." "So, what are you gonna do?" "What anyone does when they need help." "call a cop." "DELIVERY MAN:" "Quentin Lance?" "Yeah." "Sign here, please." "Thanks." "Thanks." "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "Lance." "ARROW:" "I didn't kill Adam Hunt." "You." "ARROW:" "You call me "the Hood."" "It's not a great nickname." "You told Commissioner Nudocerdo you might be dealing with a copycat another archer, which makes me your best bet to take him down." "But I need your help." "I need one of the arrows from his murder." "We're good at pulling down leads off evidence." "ARROW:" "Not like I am." "I can do things the police can't." "Go places they won't." "Like I said, I don't even know who" "If this archer doesn't stop with Adam Hunt, we both have a problem." "Think about it then call me." "Number's programmed in." "[DOOR OPENS]" "Doug." "Thanks for coming." "Of course." "How's construction coming on the applied Sciences Center?" "Over budget and behind schedule." "exactly as expected." "Is that what you wanted to see me about?" "Adam Hunt he was murdered last night by the vigilante." "I read about that." "I've been concerned by the idea that the vigilante might target an employee or officer of this company." "Security red-fIagged you." "Me?" "Why would this guy go after me?" "That's a point I was hoping you could shed light on." "From what I've read, this vigilante only goes after white-coIIar criminals." "well, Iet's just hope he doesn't decide to branch out." "[CHATTERING]" "I think there should be a national holiday for the guy who invented french fries." "Or at Ieast a statue or something." "There is no Christmas party is there?" "Thea, Dad threw one of these every year." "Did people think I just wasn't gonna notice?" "SHANE:" "Hey, Thea." "Hi, Shane." "Uh, this is my brother, oliver." "Nice to meet you, Thea's brother." "Bet the food on that island's better than the stuff here." "You'd lose that bet." "We're heading down to the bay, if you wanna come." "Thanks, but, uh, I'm spending the afternoon with my brother." "SHANE:" "Another time." "See you." "How do you know that Shane guy?" "We rob banks and smoke crack together." "Heh, that's funny." "I have a feeling I'm not gonna be a fan." "You don't even know him." "Let's change the subject." "Fine." "You were gonna tell me why we're not having the annual Christmas party." "[SIGHS]" "When you and Dad disappeared by the time Christmas rolled around none of us felt much like celebrating so we kind of skipped Christmas that year." "Every year." "And it's really fine, so...." "No." "No, it's really not." "We're celebrating Christmas." "I went five years without it then Thea tells me you didn't have it either and I'm the reason." "So maybe now I can be the reason we have Christmas again." "I thought I would throw the Queen Christmas party." "[CHUCKLES]" "You?" "I know that I haven't been the son or the stepson or the brother that all of you deserve, especially lately but this feels like the right moment to start making up for lost time." "What do you say?" "I say yes." "OLIVER:" "Yes." "Okay." "I will take care of everything, you don't have to do anything." "Just show up, look fantastic, and bring some Christmas cheer, okay?" "Okay." "Fine." "You're a good man, oliver." "FYERS:" "You're a good man." "I can see it." "well, beneath the privileged upbringing and the wealthy veneer." "I saw it when my man tortured you." "You wouldn't give up your friend." "Not even a friend, really." "Someone you just met." "Shut up." "What do you know about him, hmm?" "Nothing, I suspect." "Do you even know what this island really is?" "It's a prison." "I mean this literally." "until eight years ago, the Chinese military operated this island as a penitentiary for criminals deemed so dangerous they couldn't be safely incarcerated on the mainland." "When the military shut the program down my unit came in and disposed of all the inmates." "With the exception of two." "Your friend was one of them." "Who was the other?" "You met him." "He presided over your interrogation." "He tortured me." "You had information I needed." "What would you do in my position?" "What would you do to capture the man who'd slaughtered dozens of people?" "douglas miller came to see me today quite concerned." "He said your husband interrogated him." "That his questions suggested a knowledge he shouldn't have of the list." "Let me talk to him." "I think we're past the point of conversation, Moira." "A month ago you came to me and told me to stay away from your family, and I did." "But your family isn't staying away from me which means something must be done about it." "Don't you agree?" "Yes, I do." "And I'II handle it." "I guess what I'm wondering is whether it's time for our associate to handle it." "hell yeah, I returned the money." "Seventy-miIIion dollars isn't worth getting an arrow through the chest." "And you can tell him, if he's got a problem with that, he can" "LANCE:" "Commissioner, this is nelson Ravich." "The Hood hit him earlier this week." "Ravich wired back the money he embezzled less than five minutes later." "AII right." "We tell the press the Hood did this." "Hunt's murder is a Page-10 story, at best but Ravich makes this a seriaI-murder case." "We can't let the public get wind of the idea that there are two of these nutjobs around." "You want me to ignore a serial killer?" "Just catch one of these psychos." "I don't care which one." "That is a direct order from your commanding officer." "well, you can forget it, then." "Fine." "It's forgotten." "And you're off this case, sergeant." "Effective immediately." "[PHONE DIALING]" "[BUZZING]" "Don't bother trying to trace this." "You'II never make it through the encryption." "There's a heating vent on the corner of O'NeiI and Adams." "You'II find what you're after there." "ARROW:" "It'd be a mistake to set a trap for me, detective." "I'm trading away everything I believe in." "It's the only way to get this bastard." "You've got till Christmas, and then, copycat or not I'm coming after you." "So your friend Lance gave you a Christmas present after all." "OLIVER:" "Mm-hm." "TefIon-coated titanium blades." "Serrated to split the bone." "Shaft is some type of specialized polymer which is stronger than your typical carbon fiber." "This...." "This is a custom job." "Lance gave in after the other archer dropped another body." "nelson Ravich." "Which is another name you crossed off your dad's list." "So is this guy trying to frame you or call you out?" "Either way, I need to find him." "Hey." "Don't you knock?" "FeIicity, this is the I.T. Department." "It's not the ladies' room." "Heh." "Right." "What can I do for you?" "My buddy Steve is really into archery." "apparently, it's all the rage now." "I don't know why." "Looks utterly ridiculous to me." "Mm-hm." "Anyway, it's Steve's birthday next weekend and I wanted to buy him some arrows." "Thing is, he gets these special, custom-made arrows and I have no idea where he gets them." "I was hoping you could find out where this came from." "careful." "Yeah." "The shaft's composite is patented." "And that patent is registered to a company called Sagittarius." "That's Latin for "the archer."" "really?" "could you find out where and when this was purchased?" "According to Sagittarius company records that particular arrow was part of a bundle shipment." "Two hundred units sent to this address." "felicity you're remarkable." "Thank you for remarking on it." "And Merry Christmas." "I'm Jewish." "Happy Hanukkah." "NUDOCERDO [ON TV]: --significant resources of the Starling City Police Department it is clear that this vigilante's cycle of violence has escalated." "I'm asking our citizens to keep a close eye out and to report anything suspicious." "A tip line has been set up and a reward will be offered to anyone who aids the authorities in the capture of this madman." "It isn't him, is it?" "NUDOCERDO:" "We are all frustrated with the crime...." "The man in the hood, he didn't kill those people." "NUDOCERDO:" "This violence has gone on...." "You're the one that said he was a monster." "Yeah, but he was protecting me, it's different." "the apprehension of this so-called Hood that has been terrorizing our city." "[KNOCK ON DOOR]" "As police commissioner...." "It's probably Joanna." "She said she was gonna come by with some files." "Merry Christmas, sir." "How are you?" "Proficient with firearms." "Dad?" "Yeah." "I told you I wanted to spend the holidays with my dad." "Right, because of Sara." "Because it makes the holidays a tough time." "But when you are with someone, as I wanna be with you then there aren't tough times, there's just times." "Something is holding you back." "The Queens are having a Iast-minute Christmas party and I would Iike for you to be my pIus-one." "I, um, was looking through some old photographs and I found this." "Merry Christmas." "[DOOR CLOSES]" "Bad enough you're friends with this guy, D, now he's your what?" "I don't know what he is, but he's not wrong." "Something is holding me back." "Right." "Keep listening to that something." "I try to stay out of your personal life, but MerIyn, Queen, they're selfish." "They think they can treat people any way they please." "It's you, me and Sara." "What?" "[LIQUID SPLASHING] [ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]" "[CHATTERING]" "[BAND PLAYING JAZZ MUSIC]" "I see the halls are decked." "You okay?" "I'II manage." "Ahem." "Is everyone having a good time?" "You sure you wanna do this, man?" "Maybe now is not the best time to be Martha Stewart's elf." "My family needs this party, DiggIe, which means that I need it." "[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]" "Hey, dude." "Uh, Thea invited me, I hope that's cool." "These are for your mom." "Smooth." "Good luck, kid." "Thank you for coming." "oliver." "You guys look great." "Merry Christmas." "ALL:" "Merry Christmas." "Let's get a holiday photo." "I've already sent out our Christmas cards, oliver." "Let's get a picture just for the four of us." "Of course." "SHANE:" "Excuse me, Mrs. Queen?" "These are for you." "well, thank you." "Uh, I'II go put those in water." "WALTER:" "Is everything all right?" "You and I should talk." "alone." "THEA:" "I'm really surprised." "Everything okay between the two of you?" "Yeah." "I'm sure it'II work itself out." "So glad that both of you could make it." "Merry Christmas, pal." "Merry Christmas." "Merry Christmas." "Hi." "So how long do you think it'II be till this isn't so weird?" "You know, the three of us." "It's not weird at all." "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "You lied to me." "An odd accusation coming from you." "When you came home, you said you were through investigating Robert's death." "Robert was my oldest friend." "Do you take me for a man who wouldn't avenge his best friend's murder?" "[SCOFFS]" "I thought I couId forget about it, go back to the way things were but you told me too many lies, Moira." "You embezzIed money from the company." "salvaged the Queen's Gambit." "Why, Moira?" "What was it all for?" "For leverage." "Against whom?" "Against whom?" "people you've made very angry." "well, then let me help you fight them." "I can't fight them." "I am them." "I have tried so hard to convince myself that I'm not." "And loving you...." "You were my salvation." "Moira. ...whatever you've done, and whoever these people are the time for lies is over." "You need to tell me what's going on." "Let's just get through the party and I promise I will tell you everything." "[WALTER CHUCKLES]" "Tommy, do you mind if I talk to oliver for a minute?" "Yeah, I'II go grab us a couple of drinks and drink them both." "[OLIVER CHUCKLES]" "I know it's probably not easy for you to see Tommy and I together." "The invitation said "plus one," not "minus laurel."" "I've been wanting to move forward with him, but something's been holding me back." "I keep making these excuses that it's my dad, it's my work when really it's you." "But for five years, I was emotionally off because you had died." "And the truth is the Iast person that I expected to make me feel again, has." "I'm happy for both of you." "Thank you." "Thea, I have something to tell you." "oliver." "Hit the road." "What are you doing?" "Funny, I was gonna ask you the same thing because there's a party going on downstairs that I threw for you." "I told you I didn't want a party, but you didn't care." "Because you came down with the holiday blues." "I've been trying to get you to open up for months." "AII this party is doing is bringing back memories I've been trying to forget." "Thea." "Why would you wanna forget?" "No matter how fancy the party is you throw things will never be the way they used to be in our family, ever again." "DIGGLE:" "oliver?" "What is it now?" "That other archer moved to the next level." "He's taken hostages." "This just hit the news." "[WHIMPERING] "Happy holidays, Starling City." "For the past three months, this city has been laid siege by a vigilante." "But the police have been unable to bring him to justice because they lack the will to do what justice demands." "[SOBBING] I will kill one hostage every hour in the name of this vigilante until he surrenders himself to my authority."" "police are on the scene." "Let them handle this." "Those people are there because of me." "I have to end this." "oliver, this guy...." "This guy, he's very dangerous." "There wasn't anything on the island that wasn't twice as dangerous as this and I survived there for five years." "call your people." "tell them to bring the plane." "There's no need, Yao Fei." "My people will be here shortly." "Do you not think it convenient you captured me so easily?" "YAO FEI:" "Go." "What?" "Run!" "NEWSMAN:" "Starling City holds its breath as the hostage crisis unfolds." "Police have attempted to enter the structure in the Glades but found explosives preventing them from doing so." "At the moment, there has been no sign of the vigilante as his one-hour deadline nears." "BOMB TECH:" "I count three thresholds, each wired via mercury switches to Semtex charges." "Can you defuse one for HRT to use as a breach point?" "That's gonna take a while." "He's gonna know which way we're coming." "You got a better idea?" "Now would be a lovely time." "[CLANGING]" "[GLASS BREAKS]" "ARROW:" "Where is he?" "WOMAN:" "I don't know." "ARROW:" "It's gonna be okay." "follow me." "Get up on the roof." "What about--?" "I'II handle him." "Move." "Hostages." "You got five hostages on the roof." "Repeat, five hostages on the roof." "ARCHER:" "Thank you for coming." "After the warehouse, I knew I'd have to do something dramatic to get your attention." "What do you want with me?" "What any archer wants to see who's better." "[YELLS]" "[YELLS]" "ARCHER:" "First Hunt, then Ravich, and now you." "[GRUNTING]" "I know about the list." "The man who authored it wants you dead." "They call you the Hood, Iet's see what you look like without it." "[ARCHER GRUNTS THEN GROANS]" "[GRUNTING AND GROANING]" "[HELICOPTER WHIRRING ABOVE]" "[GRUNTS]" "[COUGHING]" "Dig help." "help." "DIGGLE:" "Hey, relax." "OLIVER:" "Ugh." "relax, relax, relax, you're safe." "You're in the hospital." "What happened?" "I back-traced your signal, cleaned you up and got you out." "You have a pneumothorax, broken ribs and a concussion but the doctors say you're gonna be fine." "Some people are here to see you." "Are you all right?" "THEA:" "Oh, God, you look terrible." "Thank God you were wearing your helmet." "I told them how you were on a bike and the semi pulled in front of you." "What were you even doing out?" "You bailed on your party." "It seemed like the right move." "I mean, Iike you said, it wasn't the best timing." "[SIGHS]" "Okay, but when I was saying that, that was me being a bitch." "No." "The truth is, I don't think any of us were at our best." "The real truth is, you wanted to have a party to bring us closer together." "well, here we are." "[CHUCKLES THEN GROANS]" "We're gonna let you get some rest." "So we never got to the exchanging-presents part." "[CHUCKLES]" "I don't think I deserve a present." "Look, I know that I've been hard on you about being different from the way you were." "But the truth is, ollie I'm not the same person I was five years ago either." "So maybe we can just accept each other not for who we were but for the people we are now." "Yeah." "Oh." "No cheating." "You're on." "Come here." "Thank you, felicity." "It was good of you to call, but oliver's gonna be fine." "He's already on the mend." "FELICITY:" "Good. I'm glad to hear it, sir." "I'm stepping into an elevator, so I'II probably lose you." "I'II call you straight back." "Hi." "MAN:" "It's done." "And he won't be harmed." "Nor will he discover your involvement." "You have my word." "Forgive me if I don't find that comforting." "You were warned, Moira." "I told you to get waiter under control and you couldn't." "Steps had to be taken." "That's what you said to justify Robert's murder." "And you wonder why I don't trust you." "Quite a bit ofjudgment coming from a woman who had her son kidnapped and tortured." "To prove to you that oliver didn't know anything." "And what does it matter now?" "What's done is done." "No, Moira." "It's just beginning." "In six months, the organization's vision of what this city should be will be complete." "And you won't feel a thing, will you?" "Thousands of innocent people will be dead and you'II feel nothing." "That's not true." "I'II feel a sense of accomplishment." "And you'II have waiter back." "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "OLIVER:" "You know, Dig when I confront somebody on the list I tell them that they failed the city." "But tonight, it was me who failed." "oliver, five hostages are home tonight with their families enjoying the holidays because of you." "This guy, the other archer he'II get his." "And you'II give it to him." "We might have a bigger problem." "The other archer told me that somebody compiled the list." "I always assumed it was my father but what if it wasn't?" "What do you mean?" "I think there's someone else out there." "Someone who's more of a danger than the archer." "And I am gonna take him down." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "MALCOLM:" "It's done." "He won't be harmed?" "Nor will he ever discover your involvement." "You have my word." "OLIVER:" "You know, when I confront somebody on the list I tell them they failed the city." "But tonight...." "Tonight it was me who failed." "[MEN SHOUTING]" "Get that hose to the north face or we're liable to lose the block." "Yes, sir." "Danny?" "DANNY [OVER RADIO]:" "Yes, chief?" "Getting a little smoky out here, buddy." "Just clearing the upper level." "Hey, you." "Over here." "I couId use some help." "I got a hot spot." "Hey, hey." "Hey, what--?" "[SCREAMING]" "How you doing?" "The rehab going good?" "Any news on waiter?" "My contact at the Bureau struck out." "Same with my guy at InterpoI." "They both say the same thing." "Either my stepfather doesn't wanna be found or someone doesn't want him to be found." "It's been six weeks, oliver." "No contact from the kidnappers, no ransom demand, no proof of Iife." "I hate to sound insensitive" "Dig we both know he's more than likely dead." "What do you wanna do?" "I don't know." "Even my contacts in the Bratva can't dig up a lead." "I wasn't talking about waiter." "Back at fighting weight, looks like." "And last I checked, there were more than a few names to cross off in this book." "Those people aren't going anywhere." "With waiter missing, my family needs me right now." "YAO FEI:" "call your people." "tell them to bring the plane." "My people will be here shortly." "Do you not think it convenient you captured me so easily?" "YAO FEI:" "Go!" "What?" "Run!" "And Judge HinkIe is ready to grant them another continuance." "So I said, "hell, no." "This trial starts right now."" "LAUREL:" "ThattagirI." "JOANNA:" "Thanks." "Dad, what brings you by?" "I need to talk to Jo." "Is everything okay, Mr. Lance?" "No." "What's happening?" "No." "Her brother, Danny, he was killed on duty last night." "Jo, I'm so sorry." "No." "No, no!" "No." "No!" "LAUREL:" "Jo, it's okay." "No, no!" "LAUREL:" "Shh." "[WHIMPERS]" "OLIVER:" "Mom?" "Hey." "Hey." "I stopped by the Big belly Burger." "Thought maybe you, me and Thea have some takeout, watch a DVD." "Thank you, sweetheart." "I'm not very hungry." "If you change your mind...." "I've seen the movie before." "Cut me some slack." "I've been gone for a while." "And apparently I missed the cinematic genius that is Zach GaIifianakis." "I mean, with mom." "When you and Dad disappeared, she spent more and more time at home." "eventually stopped going out altogether." "What snapped her out of it that time?" "WaIter." "One morning, he showed up and you know when he gets all British and stern-Iike." "Yeah." ""Moira." "Get dressed." "We're going out for lunch."" "I mean, and it worked." "You know, I've been thinking maybe waiter wasn't abducted." "Maybe he's having some mid-Iife crisis and he's with some stewardess in Bora Bora and he's too ashamed to call home and say that he's okay." "Just because we haven't heard from him doesn't mean he's...." "He's gone." "Right?" "Right." "What strikes me is that this vigilante was actually making a difference." "In the four months that he was active, assaults were down." "Muggings down." "The murder rate dropped by 16 percent." "So in a very quantifiable way this man in the hood had been a positive force in this city." "So where has he been for the past six weeks?" "MAN [ON TV]:" "True enough." "Looks like everyone's disappearing." "Hey." "[TOMMY CLEARS THROAT]" "What's this?" "It's nothing." "It's nothing?" "It is, it is." ""Reasons I deserve a drawer."" "Okay, we're gonna table this for a less tragedy-fiIIed day." "Yeah, and besides, I don't think we're there yet." "[KNOCK ON DOOR]" "I should probably get that." "AII right." "JOANNA:" "I need your help." "Jo, come in." "I, um...." "I don't think what happened to Danny was an accident." "I think he might have been murdered." "Jo, do you remember when Sara died?" "I did all this research to try to find an explanation for why the boat went down." "I needed to believe that it wasn't just an accident." "That is not what I am doing, laurel." "I once handled a case for a clerk in the coroner's office." "He passed me a copy of the incident report." "It said that Danny's turnout coat was doused in turpentine." "But I checked and the plant owner said that there wasn't any in the factory." "A turnout's supposed to withstand temperatures in excess of 500 degrees." "But the coroner said that the fire did not exceed 250." "How did my brother burn hotter than the fire that supposedly killed him?" "laurel, a fireman died fighting a fire." "I'm not sure I see the crime." "I did some digging." "Last week, another firefighter, Leo Barnes, was killed in action." "Same circumstances." "Traces of turpentine and ignition temperatures hotter than the actual fire." "Do you think you could talk to the fire marshal?" "Encourage him to pursue this?" "Fire Department has its own investigative unit." "They don't answer to police." "Sorry to take so long with it." "CSU's been really backed up." "well, you find anything?" "The only prints on it are yours." "The tech inside is military grade." "I can't even trace the manufacturer." "Forensics-wise, it's a dead end." "Another case?" "VigiIante." "The phone belongs to him." "Where'd you get it?" "Does he answer?" "well, Iike KeIton said, it's a dead end." "Listen, kiddo, I feel for Jo and her family, I really do but there's not a Iot I couId do this end." "I gotta go." "I Iove you." "Hey, Iet's go." "[PHONE BUZZING]" "LAUREL [OVER PHONE]:" "Hello?" "I need your help." "I didn't trust that you'd come." "No one's seen you for a while." "Where have you been?" "You said it was important." "My best friend's brother he died two days ago fighting a fire." "The police and Fire Department say that he died in the line of duty." "But my friend, she thinks he was murdered." "So you're asking one killer to find another?" "I heard what you said to your father about me." "That I'm a killer, that I have no remorse." "Do you?" "Take a look at the file." "If Danny De La Vega was murdered, then we have to bring his killer to justice." "I'II look into it." "[GRUNTING]" "Rotate your hips, DiggIe." "That's where the power comes from." "It's not just your arms, even if they're the size of bowling balls." "laurel reached out to the hood last night." "really?" "Thought the vigilante spooked her pretty well last time." "She thinks somebody's killing firemen." "It looks all in the job." "Seems pretty thin." "We look into it?" "Yeah." "I have a friend who has a friend in the Fire Investigations Department." "I'II reach out." "If you get any leads, tip the police." "The police?" "They just need something to jumpstart them." "Isn't the whole idea of being a vigilante that you do the police's job?" "You've been spending a Iot of time around here lately." "I thought after six weeks you'd be anxious to hood up." "I even prepared the "you gotta slow down" speech." "TOMMY:" "Where the hell is everybody?" "OLIVER:" "Let me see what's going on upstairs." "TOMMY:" "There was supposed to be a delivery this morning, another one this afternoon and I see nobody ready for work." "If you don't get some progress here in the next week I'm gonna bring someone else in." "Is that clear?" "It's difficult for you to manage my nightclub what with there not being a nightclub here." "I just took the liberty of, uh, yelling at our contractor." "I told him if we didn't see any real progress, we'd bring someone else in..." "...to finish the job." "Good." "How's laurel's friend?" "The one whose brother was a fireman?" "Hanging in there, thanks." "That's something I wanted to bring up." "I was thinking that we could throw a fundraiser for the Fire Department." "Raise some money for the families." "That's a great idea." "We could do it here." "We could keep the overhead low." "Make sure we maximize the proceeds to the firemen." "Who are you?" "Where's my friend Tommy MerIyn?" "The guy who once rented out a pro football stadium so that he could play strip kickbaII with models." "That guy needed a swift kick in his lazy ass." "Jo, you really should take some time off." "Go be with your family." "I seem to recall when Sara died you hit the books pretty hard." "I am not exactly the best example for healthy grieving." "Hey, can I talk to you, please?" "LAUREL:" "What is it?" "Where is it?" "Where's what?" "The phone." "I'm sorry." "I know I shouldn't have." "stolen evidence?" "Yeah, you probably shouldn't have." "I had to do something." "The man is a killer." "Then why did he give you his phone?" "Give me the phone." "He took it back." "You were with him?" "When Sara died if someone could've done something to give you even a little closure don't you wish they'd done it?" "If it meant breaking the Iaw, Iying to the people closest to them, no." "MOIRA:" "surely there are contingencies for these types of situations." "Bring someone over from our London office, perhaps." "FOSTER:" "It's not solely a matter of the day-to-day operations." "We have accountants and vice presidents to do that." "It's about perception, public confidence." "The company will be fine." "I don't mean to be indelicate but this is the second time in five years that the CEO of Queen consolidated has vanished under mysterious circumstances." "I don't need you to remind me of that." "The last thing I wanna do is upset you." "Then you should consider this visit doubly disappointing." "Good day." "Who was that?" "Ned Foster." "The COO of the company." "He wants Mom to take waiter's place." "He says that the company's stock price has been damaged by walter's absence and my stepping in would help settle the board." "But I told him that I needed to be at home for my family." "Mom, Thea and I are fine." "We can manage here without you." "This sounds like something everyone needs you to do." "well, maybe I don't care what everyone needs." "She's gonna be all right, Thea." "We have to get going if you wanna make your dentist appointment." "Now, sir." "Eyewitnesses place a '72 Ford pickup at the scene of Danny De La Vega's fire." "Okay." "Stagg chemical lit up 10 minutes ago." "I hacked into Stagg's video security feeds." "Parked on the street running along the plant." "Same pickup." "I've got your gear in the car." "By the time I get someone on the phone who will even listen to me at Ieast one of those firemen are gonna be dead." "They need the man in the hood." "[LEAVES RUSTLING]" "I have contact." "Two kIicks southwest." "FIREMAN:" "portable to Deputy Chief." "AII clear of civilians." "CHIEF [OVER RADIO]:" "Copy that." "Bail out and wait for second-in-companies." "[GRUNTS]" "Who are you?" "[SCREAMING]" "[BEEPING]" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[PHONE RINGING]" "hello." "ARROW [OVER PHONE]:" "I have some information for you." "The killer drives a 1970s Ford pickup." "There's a scar on his right wrist from a severe burn and a tattoo of a firefly." "well, then you must've gotten pretty close to him." "AII the men in Engine Company 15 had firefly tattoos." "Any one of them could be the killer." "And what should I do with this information?" "Whatever you'd have done before you met me." "Who was on the phone?" "Wrong number." "So laurel's on her own against a murderer who burns people alive?" "I can't right every wrong in this city." "No, I get that, oliver." "But maybe you're not back to 100 percent like you thought." "Maybe I'm not." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "What did that prove?" "That this is one sturdy desk." "And clearly your problem isn't physical." "I never said I had a problem." "Don't have to." "But this guy, the other archer he got in your head, he took something from you." "That's enough." "He took whatever is in your heart that lets you jump off buildings and take down bad guys." "Thank you for the analysis." "You can avoid laurel, oliver, avoid me avoid this as long as you want." "But until you're ready to take ahold of the fear in you you might as well have let that archer kill you." "[PHONE BEEPS]" "Text from Tommy." "I need to run an errand for the benefit at the firemen's station." "while you're at it, Iet me know if you still wanna be a vigilante orjust a club owner." "Hey, what are you doing here?" "I told Joanna I'd clean out Danny's locker." "And you?" "Tommy sent me over to make sure the guest list for the Fireman's gala was accurate." "Tommy's been working very hard on that." "It's very generous of you, oliver." "It's truly not." "Ha, ha." "Speaking of Tommy he told me that you're being very protective of your drawers." "This is not a fancy term for your underwear." "Are you and I seriously having this discussion?" "well, we're friends." "Yes, Tommy asked for a drawer." "And this is bad?" "No, it's just...." "I'm an aII-or-nothing type of girl." "First it's a drawer, then it's a closet, half my rent, it's half my Iife." "Am I really ready to do that with Tommy?" "You could take it slow." "I don't take things slow, remember?" "I close my eyes and I jump." "Just like you." "I think that's why we spooked each other." "Our feelings, our fears, they control us." "It's not the other way around." "You know?" "Yeah." "I have to get inside." "LAUREL:" "I did some research." "There are eight firemen in this picture." "You called yourselves the fireflies." "That station house was shut down a few years back." "AII the guys went to different companies, so...." "Four of these men are now dead." "It's not all getting cats out of trees." "But three of them died within the Iast six weeks." "Except for that man right there, garfield Lynns." "He died two years ago in the NodeII Tower tragedy." "You forget something, Mr. Queen?" "Just wanted to see if my friend there needed some help." "What was the NodeII Tower?" "How do you not remember that?" "I was Wi-Fi free for a few years." "It was 22 stories of glass and steel." "Except it turned out that the construction company who built it used substandard materials to save themselves a few bucks." "It was nowhere near the structural code." "A gas line blew." "There was a fire." "Yeah, melted right through the stanchions." "The whole damn thing came down." "Bad day." "Thirty-four civilians and six of my fellow firemen died." "Now, do you need anything else, Ms. Lance?" "Other than reminding me of all the friends I've lost and buried?" "Hey, what was that all about?" "It was nothing, oliver." "I have to go." "[PHONE BUZZES]" "LAUREL [OVER PHONE]:" "Hello?" "Are you there?" "[OVER PHONE] I spoke to Danny's old chief." "I didn't get anywhere." "[OVER PHONE]:" "What am I supposed to do now?" "ARROW [OVER PHONE]:" "Nothing. lt's my turn." "[GASPS]" "We have so many of these old photos." "I really should have them scanned in." "well, that's an incredibly ambitious plan." "Which will have to wait." "Why?" "Because we're gonna go out." "To dinner or to a movie or shopping." "Anything to get you out of the house." "No, Thea, I'm just too tired." "really?" "That's pretty amazing considering you've been in bed all day." "please, don't presume to think you know what I'm going through." "I do know." "I lost dad too." "I'm worried about waiter too." "But I don't get to worry about him, because I'm busy worrying about you." "I never asked you to do that." "Right." "Because you don't ask me to do anything anymore." "You don't ask me to do my homework or to be home at a decent hour." "I mean, you basically stopped being my parent." "well, how's this?" "Don't talk to your mother like that." "Maybe you should start acting like my mother." "So I don't have to act like yours." "Thought you were done helping laurel." "The first firefly to die, his name was GarfieId Lynns." "well, being dead kind of rules him out as a murder suspect, right?" "oliver I'm sorry I came at you so hard, man." "But I've been there." "I know what it's like to stare death in the face and be the one who blinks." "That's not it." "I've been close to death on the island more times than I can remember and I never feared it." "Because I had nothing to lose." "But when that archer almost killed me, when I stared death in the face then I thought about the people that I've let into my Iife since I've been back." "My family, laurel, Tommy." "And that made me afraid." "Afraid of what would happen to those people if they lost me again." "And for the first time in so long I had something to lose." "Maybe you got it backwards, oliver." "You think the people you let in have taken your edge." "I think it gives you one." "Maybe a stronger one, even." "You can stare down death with something to live for or not." "Something to live for is better." "AII the men in the unit had an alibi for Danny's murder." "The guy that I fought had a firefly tattoo and his arm was severely burned." "Okay, I don't see where you're going with this." "The NodeII Tower fire the bodies were so burned, they couldn't be ID'd off records." "What if GarfieId Lynns didn't die, but was just presumed dead?" "[THE ROYAL CONCEPT'S "WORLD ON FIRE" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Hi." "[LAUGHS]" "You know, ironically if we get any more people in here, we're gonna violate the fire code." "We're good on Drawergate, right?" "AII good." "OLIVER:" "Excuse me." "Can I borrow laurel for a sec?" "absolutely." "Chief Raynes." "Hi." "Mr." "Queen, this is spectacular." "well...." "The starling City Firemen's relief Association can't thank you enough." "You guys are the real heroes." "Like at the NodeII Tower fire..." "...which I've been reading up on." "Oh, yeah?" "garfield Lynns was the first man to die in your unit." "I read that they recovered his coat in the wreckage but they never found his body." "You always interrogate your club's guests?" "Why?" "Do you feel like you're being interrogated?" "I couId see it on your face at the fire station." "There's more to the NodeII Tower fire than people know about." "I've been doing this a Iong time and I've never seen a fire like that." "It was like some monster out of a science-fiction movie." "I radioed for my men to get the hell out of there." "But Lynns, he wouldn't go." "Begged me to send the unit back in." "But I wouldn't do it." "I couldn't." "God help me, I Ieft him to burn." "But I can't bring him back." "You don't have to." "He is back." "What the hell are you talking about?" "garfield Lynns killed Danny and the other men on your unit." "There is no way he could have survived that fire." "You'd be surprised the power revenge can give you." "Thank you so much." "The people in this city appreciate everything you...." "You're insane." "Gar did not make it out of that building." "LYNNS:" "Just like you won't make it out of this one." "[CROWD SCREAMING]" "MAN 1 Go, come on." "Exit's this way." "DIGGLE:" "Go." "Go, go, go." "MAN 2:" "Go, go, go." "This way." "Gar, what the hell are you doing?" "Run." "Go!" "What the--?" "laurel!" "TOMMY:" "laurel." "laurel." "Where's oliver?" "He's still inside." "We can't leave him." "Tommy!" "You know how long it takes for your skin to melt?" "I do, from experience." "I told you to get out of there." "And I told you that we could save the building." "But you got scared." "You lost your nerve." "You left me in there to die." "How did you get out?" "I was pulled from the wreckage." "Listed as a John Doe in the burn unit." "In a coma for months." "When I woke up and saw what was left of who I was I only had one thought:" "To leave you as alone as you left me." "Now it's your turn." "ARROW:" "Go." "It's over." "I'm not afraid to die." "I know." "You're afraid to live." "Let me get you out of here." "Lynns let me get you help." "Thanks." "But I'm already burned." "Lynns, don't do it." "WOMAN [ON TV]:" "Eyewitnesses contend that numerous lives would have been lost if not for the timely intervention of the vigilante." "But these were not the actions of a vigilante." "What's been described are the actions of a hero." "What's got you all smiley?" "Your new club's a briquette." "It was under construction before." "Now it's just more under construction." "MOIRA:" "Good morning." "Sharp suit, Mom." "Not used to seeing you without your bedroom wrapped around you." "well, I couId hardly go to the office in my pajamas." "I'm taking waiter's position at the office." "What changed your mind?" "Not what." "Who." "My daughter." "My family." "And I promise you, WaIter will get back to us." "I will keep looking for him and I will find him." "And I'II see you for dinner." "OLIVER:" "Mm-hm." "What?" "Just feeling the whiplash." "She went from shut-in to chairman pretty fast." "Sounds like you got through to her." "Yeah, I guess." "It'II just be for a few months." "My mom, she's taking it so hard." "Whatever you have to do to take care of your family." "Before I forget." "My brother's badge." "My mom was hoping maybe you could find a way to get it to, you know, him." "As a thank-you." "I don't care what anyone has to say." "He really is a guardian angel." "I'II find a way to get it to him." "I'm gonna miss you." "Yeah." "Hi." "Hey." "You look after yourself, all right?" "I will." "Good." "So Joanna's taking a leave of absence, huh?" "She has to go be with her family." "Yeah, well, family's important." "I already apologized." "It's my turn." "After what happened last night maybe it's a good thing you got the hood involved." "He didn't take the phone off you, did he?" "Maybe you should hold onto this." "I mean, I may not Iike the guy's methods, but whoever this guy is he's got a habit of putting himself between danger and you." "And that's not something I can argue with." "Besides, I shouldn't have this thing anyway." "KeIton, are we good?" "I got a strong signal from the crystal VHF transmitter you hid in the speaker." "It can't be back-traced." "talk to me like a third grader." "Next time your daughter calls the vigilante we'II be able to listen to every word." "I know you swore to bring this guy down, detective but using your own daughter as bait, that's stone cold." "[GRUNTING]" "Good thing the fire didn't spread to down here." "It's one of the benefits of concrete and steel construction." "Thank you." "What for?" "You know what for." "So, what's next?" "More training?" "No." "We go hunting." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "GREEN ARROW:" "Don't turn around." "I have my hand on my weapon." "Then we're even." "What do you want?" "paul Caponi, John Madera, Christian Nero." "AII members of the BertineIIi crime family, all murdered." "I wanna know what the police know." "Why would I tell you?" "Because I saved your life, detective." "So maybe you don't think I'm the menace to society your partner does." "The victims were all bag men." "Money earners for Frank BertineIIi." "He's feeling it in his wallet about now." "Somebody's trying to send him a message." "Who?" "That's what we're investigating." "But if we did know, what would you do about it?" "About what?" "Wh--?" "Who are you talking to?" "You gotta be kidding me." "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now, I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "Previously on Arrow:" "You told me to stay away from your family." "But your family isn't staying away from me which means something must be done." "Where can I find the man in this picture?" "Do you not think it convenient you captured me easily?" "YAO FEI:" "Run!" "[GRUNTS]" "FYERS:" "Do you even know what this island really is?" "It's a prison." "What would you do in my position?" "[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]" "Whatever you're listening to, it ain't music." "[JAZZ MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]" "There ought to be a law." "well, there's not." "So...." "[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING OVER RADIO]" "[GUN CLICKS]" "GUARD:" "Yo, watch it." "Hey, he's got a gun." "[MEN GROANING]" "[BOTH COUGHING]" "[GUNFIRE]" "THEA:" "Tahitian Green or Midnight black?" "What do you think?" "You've been dropping hints all week." "Mom still isn't buying you a car." "I couId not have said it better myself." "oliver got a car when he turned 18 ." "Yeah, but I couId back it out of the driveway without hitting a tree." "I do remember you taking the paint off your dad's Maserati." "Hmm." "MOIRA:" "Thea, the party planner's waiting." "Sorry to run off like this." "But we have a convertible to go buy." "OLIVER:" "Good luck." "MOIRA:" "Yes." "How's she holding up?" "Oh, she's okay." "Thea thinks she's actually a little bit too okay." "What do you mean?" "Just behaving erratically." "Shut-in one minute, run the company the next." "Her husband is missing and presumed who-knows-what." "If anyone had an excuse to be erratic, it's your mom." "That's what I told Thea." "Department's got the same comment about this heist as the other two." "No comment." "S.C.P.D. may not be willing to go on record but traffic cameras got the entire heist in this exclusive." "MAN:" "Shortly after 1 a.m., three masked robbers approached the armored vehicle after launching what appears...." "TOMMY:" "That's why you keep all your money offshore." "MAN [ON TV]:" "One guard was pronounced dead on the scene." "The other died en route to Starling General." "Their identities have not yet been released." "DIGGLE:" "With all the guys up top, you might want a side entrance..." "...for your, uh, Arrowcave." "OLIVER:" "Unh!" "Just put one in." "South aIIeyway." "Ah." "There's something I wanna show you." "You're into online dating and you need help with your profile." "Not exactly." "But there's somebody I'd Iike to meet." "Yeah, I read about this." "Third truck to get hit this month." "I saw it on the news this morning." "CouIdn't figure out why it seemed so familiar." "Then I remembered this." "Kandahar, '09." "The Marines took out a taliban transport vehicle." "DIGGLE:" "Yeah." "well, there's a reason why that looks similar." "These guys run the same technique." "Where'd you find this?" "Researching someone." "Bodyguard who works for a security firm." "blackhawk Squad Protection Group." "His name is Ted Gaynor." "oliver, Ted Gaynor was my commanding officer in my first tour in Afghanistan." "Dig, I'm sorry but Gaynor's on the list." "Gaynor's a few hundred thousand dollars short." "I never said it was just 1 percenters, did I?" "This guy saved my Iife." "Received a commendation for it." "Don't care what your book says, he's not a stick-up man." "You haven't known him a Iong time." "We both kept in contact since we got stateside." "Six months ago, he even offered me ajob at blackhawk." "Trust me, you don't know this man like I do." "I know in Afghanistan his training specialty was M32 multiple grenade launchers." "The exact same weapon used in these heists." "Not exactly something you find at your local sporting goods store." "Two months ago we found out this wasn't even your father's book." "Written by whoever hired the other archer." "Doesn't that beg the question..." "...what else you could be wrong about?" "I can be wrong." "The list isn't." "Now, I'm gonna have a pointed conversation with Mr. Gaynor tonight." "We'II see what he has to say." "I understand if you wanna take the week off." "Yeah, well, thank you." "Sir." "[MEN CHATTERING]" "[SOLIDER SPEAKING IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "SOLDIER:" "Different day, same slop." "You new?" "OLIVER:" "Yeah." "[SOLDIER CHUCKLES]" "SOLDIER:" "Don't worry." "Took me a year to find my way around the island." "OLIVER:" "well, hey, hey, hey." "I'm supposed to be transporting a prisoner." "Chinese guy who wears a green hood?" "SOLDIER:" "Sounds like the guy they took to east camp." "I'm heading over that way." "You can hitch a ride." "Let's go, come on." "hold up, hold up." "Unit one, two." "[FYERS GROANING]" "That wall over there still has to be taped and textured." "I need you to grout the hallway floor as soon as they're done with the tile install." "[PHONE BEEPING]" "MAN:" "AII right." "Yeah." "Hey, Tommy." "Dad, I am really busy." "Tommy, I know things have been well, strained between us since" "Since you cut me off and told me that I was a loser?" "I was just trying to jolt you into adulthood." "And look at you now." "You've got your first job, heh." "My tough love worked." "What do you want, Dad?" "Nothing more than to share a meal with my son." "Dinner, tomorrow night?" "laurel and I have plans." "MALCOLM:" "Bring her along." "I think it's time I got to know her a little better." "Tommy I've said some pretty hurtful things and I regret them." "But you're still my son and I still want what I've always wanted." "For us to be close." "Let me check with laurel and I'II get back to you." "[DART GUN FIRING]" "[GRUNTS]" "Ted, we're gonna have a conversation." "You make a move, go for a gun, anything and things will end badly for you." "[GUN COCKS]" "Put the bow down." "[SIGHS]" "[SIGHS]" "It's all clear." "You okay?" "Uh, yeah." "well, I gotta talk to my boss but after what I just saw I'd say you're as good as hired." "hell of ajob interview, Ted." "usually the vigilante only goes after rich schmucks." "Any reason why he would change his MO for you?" "[SIGHS]" "You've known me a Iong time, John." "What do you think?" "[SIGHS]" "I think he made a mistake." "Got the wrong guy." "OLIVER:" "I couId've shot you, killed you." "What the hell?" "Not gonna let you william tell..." "...an innocent man." "Gaynor isn't innocent." "You seem to think that because of your book..." "...which you trust more than you trust me." "I trust my father." "And he explained to me that every name on that list has a reason to be there." "You took that book off your father's dead body." "How could he be so chatty?" "A few years ago, I found a message he left me explaining the list." "How was that possible?" "You were on a deserted island." "I didn't say that I found it on the island." "DiggIe, for the past four months, I've lied to hurt and hid things from all the people that I care about." "Do you really think that I would do all this if I wasn't sure?" "oliver, listen, Gaynor got me into BIackhawk." "And I'm gonna prove he's innocent." "And if he's isn't?" "[GUN COCKS]" "You owe me that." "You owe me at Ieast that." "Were you stationed by the perimeter?" "OLIVER:" "Yes." "And your report?" "OLIVER:" "Everything's good, sir." "No trouble." "How long have you been stationed here?" "OLIVER:" "Uh, just arrived, sir." "Yes, you do seem rather green." "I don't recall the submarine bringing in a phalanx of new troops lately." "OLIVER:" "Submarine?" "I thought everybody came in to the island on the plane." "Indeed they do." "I think you've tried on every dress in the city." "Heh." "totally worth it." "[CHUCKLES]" "My friends are gonna freak." "Yes, well, if your father were still alive, he'd freak too." "Though in an entirely different way." "Heh, Iike when he saw what I was wearing to my first boy-girI dance?" "That poor boy you went with." "Oh, Robert scared him to death." "You know, Dad used to say his saddest day would be when I turned 18 ." "Now he's gone and I'm the one that's sad." "[PHONE RINGS]" "Ah, sorry." "I need to take this." "hello?" "Yes, I understand but I'm with my daughter." "AII right." "I'II be there." "[SIGHS]" "We were gonna spend the whole day together." "I know, but, uh to my assuming waiter's position at the company and they can't wait." "I'm sorry." "Is everything okay?" "You look worried." "Not worried." "Just...." "My father called." "Oh." "And how did that go?" "He invited us to dinner." "For tonight." "Oh." "Yeah." "apparently, he wants to mend some fences." "But thanks to him, I can't afford a fence." "I assume he's got some other agenda." "well, there's only one way to find out." "And maybe he really is trying to extend an olive branch." "You really do look for the best in people, don't you?" "Lucky for you." "[CHUCKLES]" "I'm sorry to have to pull you away from your family." "What do you want, malcolm?" "We have a problem with your friend, carl BaIIard." "He's trying to gentrify the glades." "carl knows that's not part of the plan." "Which is why you're gonna shut him down." "You're his friend." "He'II listen to you." "You want me to help you with carl, I want something in return." "Proof waiter's still alive." "My word isn't enough?" "[MOIRA SCOFFS]" "What's that saying? "Trust, but verify"?" "Words to live by." "GAYNOR:" "Two days later, I'm still digging regurgitated tacos out of the car vents and he asks me why I won't turn on the AC?" "[LAUGHING]" "AII right, you win." "Bodyguarding Queen was never that bad." "Six years serving, the only thing I'm qualified for is babysitting spoiled brats." "Ted, they're not all like that." "I haven't met one yet that would survive a single day in-country." "Hmm." "Makes me wonder what I was doing over there." "CARLY:" "specialty of the house." "Thank you, carly." "Uh-uh, where is my cake?" "Tired of listening to you complain about the cleaners shrinking your suits." "Oh, yeah." "Heh." "[SCOFFS]" "She likes you." "She's my sister-in-Iaw, Ted." "Not anymore." "Your brother's gone, John." "But you are here." "Car's waiting outside." "We got a client to drop off at the art gallery opening." "GAYNOR:" "You remember paul Knox?" "He was a couple of ranks under us back in the 'Stan." "Good to be working with you." "I'II be outside." "Didn't know Knox worked at blackhawk." "They recruited him when his tour ended last month." "Mm-hm." "people change, John." "And everyone deserves a chance to prove it." "[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]" "[COMPUTER BEEPS]" "[DOOR OPENING]" "OLIVER:" "Knocking is not just a suggestion." "I need to talk to you." "Thea, I'm not telling you if Mom's getting you a car." "Heh, it's not about that." "Remember last week when I asked you if you thought Mom was acting weird?" "Yep." "well, I found out why." "She's hooking up with Tommy's dad." "[SCOFFS]" "That's insane." "I just saw them together." "It's happening all over again." "What are you talking about?" "Um...." "A couple months before you and Dad left on the Gambit..." "..." "Mom and Dad were arguing a Iot." "About what?" "I don't know." "But she was having a Iot of these lunch meetings with Mr. MerIyn." "And now waiter's gone too and Mom and Mr. MerIyn are back at it." "It's gross." "Mom never would've cheated on Dad." "She's not cheating on waiter." "[SIGHS]" "You don't wanna believe because you have this perfect image of Mom in your head." "That's not who she is, ollie." "She's a liar and a cheater." "And you really don't know her at all." "malcolm and I, having an affair?" "That it started when Dad was still alive." "Why would she think that?" "She says you and Dad were fighting." "Oh, dear God." "Mom?" "It's not your concern, sweetheart." "Thea made it my concern." "What was going on?" "Robert was unfaithful to me." "repeatedly." "It made our marriage difficult, to say the least." "I'm sorry." "But your father wasn't always the man you thought he was." "[SCOFFS]" "I know you thought he walked on water." "But you see, that's how I wanted you to remember him as a good man who loved you." "That's how I want Thea to remember him." "So promise me you'II keep it a secret." "Of course." "Mom?" "Yes?" "Why would Thea think you and Mr. MeryIn are still sneaking around?" "well, I can't imagine." "Have you seen him lately?" "oliver." "[CHUCKLES]" "He's been the CEO of merlyn global Group for years." "I've been running Queen consolidated mere weeks." "Yes, I occasionally go and ask for advice." "Is my interrogation over?" "FYERS:" "See, this is where we, uh detain prisoners prone to running off before I've finished with them." "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "[THUDS]" "[OLIVER COUGHS]" "[PANTS]" "Prisoners like you, Mr. Queen." "At Christmas one year, Tommy wanted a puppy." "He wanted to name it Arthur, as in King Arthur because he's a MerIyn." "Heh." "well, you used to be so incredibly adorable." "I still am." "Heh." "My wife would've liked you, laurel." "LAUREL:" "I wish I would've known her." "She passed away before Tommy and I became friends." "She was killed." "There's no need to be polite about it." "You are just a ray of sunshine today." "please forgive me." "talking about my wife has a tendency to make me a little bit maudlin." "And here I was beginning to think my days of being oliver's geek were coming to an end." "Is that your way of saying you missed me?" "No, but if that works for you, go with it." "Heh." "A friend is running a scavenger hunt and there's a case of Lafite RothschiId 1982..." "...waiting at the end." "Oh, I Iove red wine." "But in order to find it, I first need to get through this." "Hmm." "Security fob." "[DEVICE BEEPS]" "[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]" "It's PIN protected." "Response goes back to a company called BIackhawk Squad Protection Group." "My friend had his bodyguard set it up for him." "personally, I think it's cheating, but whatever." "This is a miIitary-grade cryptographic security protocol." "Your friend really went to all this trouble?" "The idle rich are hard to entertain." "Listen, you get through it and one of those bottles of wine is yours." "This has been lovely, Mr. MerIyn." "Thank you." "Thank you forjoining me." "It's been wonderful getting to know you better." "If Tommy doesn't mind me mixing business with pleasure I couId use your signature on these." "You wanna shut down Mom's free clinic?" "It's not hers anymore, Tommy." "That clinic meant everything to Mom." "You were 8." "I don't think you were in a position to know what was important." "I just need your signature-- TOMMY:" "Stop." "This dinner was never about getting to know laurel it was about this." "You haven't changed and you never will." "It's about time that I learn that and stop letting you disappoint me." "We're leaving." "This clinic was his mother's." "MALCOLM:" "Yes." "And his mother taught him a lesson that the world is a harsh and unforgiving place." "When did she teach him that?" "When she was Iying dead in the street with a bullet in her head." "Good night." "GAYNOR:" "Management keeps things running smooth, which is nice." "Better than going to war with the army you got, right?" "Heh." "Indeed." "Indeed." "So, Ted, are you the reason Knox is working for blackhawk?" "Look, I know you don't like the guy." "I wasn't his biggest fan either." "But jobs are hard to come by for everybody these days." "And guys like us?" "When all anyone thinks you're qualified for is shooting at people?" "If I hadn't gotten Knox this job chances are he'd be out knocking over liquor stores or robbing banks." "[PHONE RINGING]" "What'd you get?" "FELICITY:" "Your friend's bodyguard..." "...gave him the wrong fob." "Why?" "well, once I got past BIackhawk's authentication system there wasn't anything about a scavenger hunt." "Just a directory and...." "well, I think you've stumbled onto or gotten me to stumble onto..." "...something pretty illegal." "Define illegal." "Oh, you know, robbing an armored car with grenade launchers and tear gas." "What?" "Someone at blackhawk was using their system to store schedules for the city's seven major armored car carriers." "including the three that have been hit." "We should provide this information to police." "They should be able to predict the next heist." "hold on, felicity." "I don't wanna get you in trouble." "Do me a favor." "Forward that directory on to me and I'II get it to the police personally." "Thank you." "So no wine then?" "[MAN GRUNTS]" "[GUNFIRE]" "[GROANING]" "blake?" "blake?" "Come on, man, come on." "[GRUNTS]" "[GRUNTS]" "blake is hit." "He's hit!" "Come on, come on!" "Go." "Drive, drive, drive." "[TIRES SCREECH]" "[DANCE MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "Oh, God, check it out." "Check it out." "convertible." "Oh, my God." "You must be so surprised." "Isn't everything absolutely perfect?" "Except for if Dad were here." "If Dad were here, he'd say you look beautiful." "Oh, excuse me a sec." "OLIVER:" "Mm-hm." "DIGGLE:" "I heard the Hood foiled an armored car heist earlier." "Gaynor wasn't running the rocket launcher." "I was with him the whole time." "Looks like you were right." "If someone at blackhawk is involved, I'd put my money on Knox." "He started right before the heists began." "He has training." "Okay, I injured one of them." "He was bleeding badly when they made it off in their van." "If any of Knox's blood is in one of the motor pool vans..." "...we'II know." "I'm going with you." "No, listen, you have this party and I told you I would handle this." "Any problems, you're a phone call away." "Hey." "Head on a swivel." "That's the way I was born, man." "Happy birthday." "Oh, thank you." "We have a special birthday gift for you." "It's called Vertigo." "Supposed to make you feel all floaty." "Ah, heh, if my mom caught me with this, I wouldn't make it to 19 ." "I'm gonna go put it upstairs and then I'II be right back." "Moira, I have a little something for you." "MOIRA:" "WaIter." "I did as you asked." "Now it's your turn to do as I asked." "MOIRA:" "I'II take care of it." "Thank you, Moira." "At my party." "Right here in front of me?" "No, Thea, you don't understand." "WaIter hasn't been gone two months and you're already cheating on him." "Just like you cheated on Dad" "No, I never cheated" "Like I would believe anything you say." "Thea." "Thea." "I wish it had been you that was on that boat." "[GUNS COCK]" "KNOX:" "I had a feeling you'd show up." "DIGGLE:" "Yeah?" "Why is that, Knox?" "KNOX:" "Right after Gaynor got you hired, someone hacked our system." "First person to ever make it through." "You wanna tell me how you did it?" "Not really sure." "He didn't think you'd be very cooperative." "Who?" "Hey, John." "Ted, you're part of this?" "GAYNOR:" "No, not part of." "My men." "My mission." "Mission?" "This isn't Afghanistan." "Oh, don't I know that." "Over there, we were trusted with millions of dollars in weapons and personnel." "We were conquerors." "And now?" "We're nannies with Tasers." "[SCOFFS]" "So that gives you the right to steal?" "To kill innocent civilians?" "I'm not gonna convince you I'm right." "I am gonna convince you to join the team." "Heh." "Yeah, now I know you're crazy." "Tonight was supposed to be our last score." "Because of the Hood we struck out." "Now we're down a man." "Good thing you're qualified to take his place." "[SCOFFS]" "I think your convincing is gonna have be a Iot more convincing." "Copy that." "Cavanaugh." "[DOOR OPENS]" "[CARLY GRUNTING]" "DIGGLE:" "carly." "You son of a bitch." "No, don't." "Don't." "Wait." "Don't." "Knox." "[MUFFLED SCREAMS]" "You both can die tonight, John." "Or once we do this, we're on a plane and she can go home to your nephew." "[OVER COMM] lt's your call." "[HORN HONKS]" "Oh." "Come on, Iet's go." "Ugh." "KNOX:" "Oh, you shouldn't have done that, Dig." "Now you gotta watch us kill your girlfriend." "No, please don't." "DIGGLE:" "You're forgetting one thing, guys." "Oh, yeah?" "And what's that?" "I'm the one with the grenade launcher." "carly, get out of there." "[GRUNTS]" "[PANTS]" "DIGGLE:" "Freeze!" "Oh." "[GASPS]" "DIGGLE:" "Drop it, Ted." "Or I swear...." "Don't posture." "You're not gonna do it." "You can't." "I can see it in your eyes." "You're late." "You knew I was coming?" "DIGGLE:" "Next time you plant a bug on someone, be more subtle about it." "I wish you'd trusted me though." "I trusted you." "But them, never." "[POLICE SIREN WAILING]" "You should get out of here." "John." "carly, are you okay?" "OFFICER:" "Turn around and put your hands where I can see them." "[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING ON RADIO]" "[TIRES SCREECH]" "[GLASS SHATTERS]" "[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA]" "Oh, Thea." "Are you okay?" "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine." "Just headachey, really." "The car, is it...?" "The car isn't important right now." "[SIGHS]" "Do you remember what happened, sweetheart?" "[SCOFFS]" "Just go away." "Thea, please." "I said, I'm fine." "[PHONE RINGING]" "[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TELEVISION]" "Your father's even beginning to call me now." "Don't waste your minutes." "[SIGHS]" "Your father's ajerk." "But he's still your father." "I think, in his own way...." "I think he sees himself as protecting you somehow." "Yeah, he is really good at using my dead mother for an excuse for being ajerk." "You never talk about your mother." "I was only 8." "I don't remember much about what happened." "But after?" "My father completely shut me out." "And then he went away." "He was gone for a year, maybe two." "I was 8 and he left me." "That is who my father is." "He only cares about himself." "Cops give you a hard time?" "DIGGLE:" "No." "I explained them that me and Gaynor were old war buddies." "He tried to rope me in...." "[SIGHS]" "When I refused, he kidnapped carly, everything else happened under duress." "[OLIVER SIGHS]" "I screwed up, oliver." "obviously Gaynor wasn't who I thought he was." "I was wrong." "Yeah, but you were right too." "When you told me that I trusted the list more than I trusted you." "DiggIe, the truth is, after what happened to me on the island it's difficult for me to trust anything." "But you do." "And that reminded me why I chose you as my partner." "It's because you see the best in people." "I Iearned something too." "until you tell me, I don't ever wanna know what other names are in this book." "OLIVER:" "She promised she's not cheating on waiter." "THEA:" "Like I would trust anything that woman says." "OFFICER:" "Miss Queen?" "Thea Queen?" "There a problem?" "We received a call from your doctor." "In the event of a vehicular accident, they report the results of the tox-screen." "Ms. Queen tested positive for a narcotic called Vertigo." "[SIGHS]" "The drug they're using in the glades?" "OFFICER:" "Thea Queen, you are under arrest for driving under the influence of narcotics." "Do you know why my men wear balaclavas, Mr. Queen?" "Because it masks everything but the eyes." "And in a man's eyes, one can always find the truth." "You risked everything to save your friend." "Someone I warned you about and yet you trusted him." "But that trust was misplaced." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "[MAN PANTING]" "[MAN GRUNTS]" "No, no, no." "[GRUNTS]" "[GRUNTS]" "Come on, man." "I'm just trying to make an honest living." "There's nothing honest about what you do." "Who supplies you with Vertigo?" "tell me now and you live." "please!" "He'II kill me!" "Whoever you fear fear me more." "Okay, okay!" "They call him The Count." "That's all I know." "I swear to God!" "Hey!" "You get me down from here!" "DIGGLE:" "Find what you're looking for?" "Took down three Vertigo pushers." "The last one finally knew a name." "The Count." "The Count?" "That's worse than The Hood." "You're not going back out there?" "I'm not done for the night." "This Count has a Iot of blood on his hands." "It is long past time he started paying." "slow down." "I think you're missing the point here." "What?" "Thea." "Her hearing's in a few hours." "You think she cares more about some drug lord or you being by her side when she needs you the most?" "Hey, we should get going." "Heh." "Judges don't appreciate the value of being fashionably late." "[CHUCKLES]" "Got any other tips?" "Ahh, Iet the lawyer do all the talking." "They give you a pad and paper, but do not play tic-tac-toe." "[CHUCKLES]" "Judges don't appreciate that either." "[SIGHS]" "Come on, Speedy." "I know." "I know." "I keep on trying to get up and go but, heh, I just don't." "I wish Dad were here." "[SIGHS]" "I'm here." "We should leave now, Thea." "MAN 1 Miss Queen." "Thea, over here." "Can we get a comment?" "Just one comment." "Thea, are you going into rehab?" "MAN 2:" "Are you being expelled from BaIIioI Prep?" "Are you worried about the outcome?" ""Docket ending 1-10 -5-6, People v. Thea Dearden Queen." "Possession of a controlled substance." "Driving under the influence."" "counselors, I understand you've reached a plea agreement?" "We have." "Given that my client is ajuveniIe the people have agreed to probation." "AjuveniIe?" "Says right here she's 18 ." "LAWYER:" "She is 18 now, but at her arrest she was still two days shy of her 18th birthday." "Miss Queen has no priors." "JUDGE:" "Just because Miss Queen's family sweeps her priors under the rug, doesn't mean they don't exist." "You get your client off." "You help your boss avoid dealing with a drug that's sweeping across our city like a plague." "Everyone wins, except us..." "...people of starling City." "LAWYER:" "With all due respect" "Miss Queen like it or not, you are now the poster child for this menace." "Maybe if people see that the Queen family can't get away with using Vertigo they'II think twice before using it themselves." "The plea arrangement is denied." "This case will proceed to trial." "[SPECTATORS MURMURING]" "[CAMERA SHUTTERS CLICKING]" "MOIRA:" "They can't do this." "That man cannot send my daughter to prison." "What are our options?" "An interlocutory appeal." "The trial judges have discretion to reject plea agreements." "You might prepare for the possibility that this isn't gonna go our way." "I'm sorry, Mrs. Queen." "I'II get to work on the appeal." "[MOIRA SIGHS]" "well, so much for the best criminal defense attorney in the city." "Thea, we will handle this." "I promise." "Like you promised waiter you'd always stay faithful to him?" "I feel better already." "That's enough." "Don't worry." "Sounds like you won't have to be putting up with me much longer." "What, does she not realize how serious this is?" "She took drugs." "She drove." "She could have killed someone." "Or herself." "I know." "AII that judge is looking for is someone to make an example of." "Why does it have to be her?" "Maybe it doesn't." "Listen, I have to go do something." "Are you gonna be okay?" "I'm not the one facing prison." "Working for them now?" "Why are you doing this to me?" "I thought we were friends or something." "Why'd you bother keeping me safe if you were gonna hand me over to them?" "Just get me out of here, okay?" "I can't." "Hey." "Don't leave me here." "I came back for you." "Now you hear me." "I came back for you!" "Looking for a Detective hall." "I was told he works in Vice." "oliver?" "McKenna hall." "Hi, heh." "Here I was, expecting a middIe-aged guy in a bad suit." "And I got McKenna hall." "I Iive to surprise." "Oh." "I remember." "Heh." "What was that club you got us kicked out of?" "The club DeViIIe?" "In my defense there was no sign that said you had to keep your clothes on." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "So a cop." "I guess you're not hitting the party circuit anymore." "I still go to raves." "I just go undercover now." "And I have to dress slightly more appropriately..." "...to hide my badge and gun." "Right." "So, what do you need with a vice cop?" "[SIGHS]" "Vertigo." "Right." "I saw your sister on TV." "I'm sorry." "The judge is making an example of her." "So if you could find the person selling drugs, it might take some heat off Thea." "Easier said than done." "Did some digging and came up with a name." "Um, The Count?" "We've known about The Count for months." "Oh." "I wish this was thicker, but we really don't have much on him." "Love to say we're gonna catch him before your sister's trial but it's unlikely." "Oh, I'm late for my shift." "well, if you hear of anything about this guy, just let me know?" "always loved how much you cared about your sister but leave the policing to the police." "Okay." "What did Queen want?" "He's an old friend." "His sister's jammed up." "Anything else, sergeant?" "No." "[SIGHS]" "[DOOR OPENS]" "[GASPS]" "You need a tailor." "You know about the Hood." "He just cornered me, man." "The Hood guy?" "I didn't say anything." "Oh, I know." "You can't divulge secrets you don't know." "[CHUCKLES]" "But examples must be made." "[GROANING]" "Vertigo in its purest form." "When injected into the bloodstream affects the thalamus region of your brain which is where all of the information from your pain receptors is collected." "No doubt you're in excruciating pain but actually you're not." "You just think you are." "I've seen it last for days until finally the heart gives out." "[SCREAMING]" "One bullet left." "[GROANING]" "Now, you can use that bullet to shoot me and take your revenge or you could shoot yourself." "[PANTING]" "It's your choice." "[GRUNTING]" "[MAN SCREAMS]" "[GUNSHOT]" "The Hood..." "Interesting." "I'm learning you're not a morning snuggIer." "I'm learning you don't like to wake up at any hour that ends in a.m." "That's true." "Yeah." "So if you're busy being a lawyer all day and I'm managing a nightclub all night when exactly do we get to see each other?" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Hmm, I got it." "Stay." "Hey." "Hey." "Hey, how is Thea holding up?" "She's doing okay." "Thank you." "Um...." "actually, uh, I came to talk to laurel." "Yeah." "Hi." "Hi." "Thank you for coming to court yesterday." "Of course." "But I don't think the judge is willing to move off his position." "Taking a hard line against criminals is a platform for his reelection." "I need you to talk to your father." "He's inside the system and maybe he cashes in a chip with Judge Brackett..." "...gets him off throwing book at Thea." "oliver, I don't" "laurel, I am working on something on my end but if it doesn't work out, this is my best chance to help my sister." "please." "I'II see what I can do." "But no promises." "Thank you." "Yep." "[SIGHS]" "LANCE:" "absolutely not." "Dad, I know how you feel about oliver." "Then why would you even ask me?" "Because Thea, she's only 18 years old." "Which makes her an adult." "She can take medicine." "It's about time somebody in the Queen family did." "What about the Lance family?" "A young girl acting out, engaging in reckless behavior." "Does that sound familiar?" "laurel, don't go there." "Thea, she's just like I remember Sara." "That is not how I remember your sister." "Because you remember her the way you wish she had been not the way that she actually was." "She's not the saint you make her out to be." "I know she was arrested for shoplifting and I know you made it go away." "well, maybe if I'd let her go to jail Queen wouldn't have had her on that boat." "Dad, you make it sound like he kidnapped her." "For so long, you and I have blamed oliver for Sara's death." "But Sara's to blame too." "When I Iook at Thea, I see Sara's potential in her." "And her flaws too." "Yes, Thea made a mistake but she's been through a Iot." "She lost a father and a brother." "She doesn't need prison." "She needs help." "So please...." "I'II make some calls." "[DOOR OPENS]" "Seen a fair amount of cyrillic back in Afghanistan left over by Soviets." "Is this Russian-owned?" "It's the not-so-hidden headquarters of starling City chapter of the Bratva." "DiggIe." "Whatever I say." "Whatever goes down." "Just go with it." "[IN RUSSIAN]" "Good to see you too." "Long time." "particularly for Bratva captain." "I was trying to figure out where to put my interests." "I decided on pharmaceuticals." "I don't mean aspirin." "A wise choice." "Mephedrone would be good investment for you." "It's the newest thing." "I was thinking Vertigo." "Newer thing." "Tough market, Vertigo." "only one seller." "OLIVER:" "I know." "Hoping you could do me a favor, arrange a meeting." "He is difficult man and he does not Iike new friends." "This is everything the police have on him." "tell him it's a gift." "[SIGHS]" "I will see what I can do provided you do favor for me." "[IN RUSSIAN]" "It is unusual for an American to hold such a position of esteem in our organization, Mr. Queen." "AnatoIi Knyazev..." "...he speaks very highly of you." "OLIVER:" "He should." "I saved his life." "[MAN GROANING]" "What did he do?" "Something I told him not to." "Now, the favor." "kill this man for me and I will believe your interest in our organization is genuine." "And then I will arrange a meeting with The Count." "DIGGLE:" "oliver...." "OLIVER:" "Hey, shut up." "[GROANING]" "Spasiba." "What are friends for?" "I'm out of the gate now." "What's going on?" "Are we getting out of here?" "Where are you taking me?" "[BOTH GRUNTING AND GROANING]" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "well, I admit that bout was particularly one-sided." "would anybody else like to give it a try?" "The point of these little gIadiatoriaI distractions is to strengthen unit cohesion." "To that end, I think our newest recruit ought to be afforded the opportunity to try his hand." "MAN 1 Come on." "MAN 2:" "Hurry up." "MAN 3:" "Get it on." "MAN 4:" "Get it over with." "I can't believe you just killed that guy." "You really have a Iow opinion of me." "[TRUNK BEEPS]" "[GASPS]" "Whoa, that's a neat trick." "You going to teach me that one day?" "[GROANS]" "No." "What are you doing?" "You need to arrange a new identity for this guy." "Get him out of the city." "So your Russki pal draws out The Count, the vigilante takes him down." "No, then the Bratva would know I used them." "That relationship is too valuable." "I do the meet with The Count as myself let him leave, then we follow him to his hideout." "Just that easy, huh?" "I will still need my trusty bodyguard." "Fantastic." "Looking forward to my new and exciting career as a drug dealer." "He is a captain." "And he has money." "Are you interested?" "Hmm." "Let's say, yes." "My father was able to get Brackett to back off his hard line stance." "Your father hates me." "No." "No." "My father hates him." "Nobody asked you to get involved." "I did." "LAUREL:" "The judge has agreed to a sentence of 500 hours of community service and two years of probation." "provisional on the appointment of someone to act in loco parentis." "In loco what?" "It means the court will appoint an individual to assume responsibility for you." "Me." "I say thanks, but no thanks." "Thea, you don't actually have a choice." "Oh, actually, I do." "See, I'm 18 now and I can make my own decisions." "So I decide not to be your ex-girIfriend's office monkey." "well, if you change your mind, then." "Thank you." "Yeah." "Thea." "You're in real trouble." "And rightly so." "Doing drugs and driving, it is beyond stupid." "That is a good deal that laurel got you." "Why aren't you jumping at it?" "I already have a mother." "So...." "You're gonna go to jail, and it will ruin the rest of your life." "No, heh, I want to ruin Mom's life." "She's a liar and a cheat." "I mean, deal with it, ollie." "You can pretend all you want to that she's a saint, but I hate her." "And she betrayed Dad." "So you're gonna go to jail to spite her?" "[CHUCKLES]" "Thea Mom didn't cheat on Dad." "He cheated on her." "Is that the best you can come up with?" "Dad wasn't the man he said he was." "On the Queen's Gambit right before he died he admitted to me that he failed us." "You, me and Mom." "That he wasn't the man he said he was and that he just wished...." "[SIGHS]" "He wished he had more time to right his wrongs." "I don't believe you." "Yes, you do." "Speedy" "Leave me alone." "How dare you." "She was old enough to know the truth." "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "oliver, the Russians called." "The meet is set." "It's tonight." "ALEXI:" "You know why they call him The Count?" "When he was developing this drug, he experimented on the homeless." "Prostitutes, runaways." "The police would find their bodies, puncture marks on their neck like a vampire." "You should not be in such a hurry to meet this man." "Thank you for this." "But I'm not overly concerned about the S.C.P.D." "Now, I understand you gentlemen wish to participate in the feeI-good business." "Yes." "And why is that?" "I'm opening a nightclub." "I'd Iike my customers to have a little..." "[SIGHS] ...something extra." "well, as it happens, I'm looking to expand my brand." "A good wine's value is measured by its vintage." "The number of years it took to ferment." "Vertigo is measured in lives." "Fifty-six people died to perfect this high." "believe me when I say that they did not die for nothing." "[POLICE SIREN WAILING]" "MAN 1 Let's get out of here." "Come on, come on, Iet's go." "S.C.P.D. Put your weapons down!" "MAN 2:" "Move, move." "OFFICER:" "S.C.P.D. Freeze." "Get down!" "oliver!" "[GRUNTS]" "[GROANING]" "No witnesses." "Get out of the car." "[GRUNTS]" "DIGGLE:" "You okay?" "OLIVER:" "Keep it." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "Got it, got it." "Go." "Steps, Iet's go." "[GROANING]" "[DIGGLE PANTING]" "[GRUNTING]" "oliver." "Drink." "[SCREAMING]" "[GROANING]" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "[BOTH GRUNTING AND GROANING]" "MAN 1 You're quick." "MAN 2:" "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "MAN 3:" "AII right." "MAN 4:" "Come on." "[GROANING]" "[GASPS]" "Morning." "How you feeling?" "I feel like I'm getting over the worst hangover of my Iife." "Argh." "That coming from a guy who spent most of his 20s in a hangover." "Think you can uncuff me?" "I'm not gonna kill you." "Promise." "Ah." "Oh." "You're standing." "That's pretty impressive." "[SIGHS]" "Count got you with half a dose but you sweated out a small pool coming down." "Ah, The Count." "Any chance our friends in S.C.P.D. took him down?" "None at all." "But we did manage to get this." "I think we should analyze it." "[SIGHS]" "Listen, maybe you need to give it a few hours." "A near drug overdose isn't something you just walk away from." "Neither is Thea." "What's wrong?" "Is everything okay with Thea?" "This isn't about your sister, this is about you." "Last night, we got a call from a CI." "Busted up a drug sale between a bigtime dealer and Russian mob." ""We"?" "I thought you worked Vice." "Joint task force." "Vertigo's got everyone holding hands." "LANCE:" "Like I said last night, drug deal gone south." "An eyewitness puts you at the scene." "Whoever he is, he's mistaken." "Yeah?" "I saw you, oliver." "Is this true?" "I was checking into The Count." "He's the guy who sold drugs to Thea." "Figured I couId find out what he looked like, give your sketch artist something." "I paid a lowlife with a Russian accent an obscene amount to arrange a meeting." "And did you get eyes on him?" "No." "AII right." "Are you pressing charges against my son?" "[SIGHS]" "Get involved again, you'II see the inside of a cell." "unlike last time, you will not see the way out." "Detective." "McKENNA:" "Thank you very much." "Thank you for what you did for Thea." "My daughter asked me for a favor and I did it." "And that's the end of it." "Hope you don't think I sold you out." "No." "Just doing yourjob." "What were you thinking?" "I was trying to help." "By running around with the Russian mob and a murderous drug dealer?" "Are you out of your mind?" "Heh, Mom, look the real reason that you're upset is because I told Thea the truth about Dad." "She never needed to know that." "THEA:" "Yes, I did." "I'm old enough to know the truth, Mom." "Mom...." "It wasn't about your age." "It was about preserving your memory of your father." "He loved you." "No matter his faults, he loved you." "I said that I wished you had died instead of him, but you still didn't say anything." "Why?" "One day I hope you're lucky enough to have a daughter and you'II know why." "I'm so sorry for what I said." "I know, I know." "[BOTH SOBBING]" "Now what?" "Like you said, we analyze the Vertigo." "It's liquid form, it contains water." "So maybe we can trace back to where in the city The Count is cooking up this garbage." "[GRUNTS]" "[PANTS]" "DIGGLE:" "oliver?" "oliver." "[GRUNTS]" "[IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "[ELEVATOR DINGS]" "Hey, we need to get you to a hospital." "No." "oliver, God knows what's in that drug." "It could be causing permanent damage." "Ahem, felicity." "Hey, they said you'd be up here." "You look like something the cat dragged in." "Not that there are cats in this building." "well, once a cat did get in, but a guard Tased it." "It smelled like fur and static in here for, Iike, a week." "Ahem, you mind stepping away from the window?" "I have a little bit of a hangover." "Sounds like you need a bloody Mary and a pretzel not the IT Department." "actually, my buddy Kevin is starting an energy drink company." "He says it's fantastic for curing hangovers but I am very particular about what it is I put in my body." "I've noticed." "I said, "not noticed," right?" "[CHUCKLES]" "Trying to find a secret recipe." "could you do a spectro-anaIysis of the sample and find out exactly where in the city it's made?" "If it's an energy drink, why is it in a syringe?" "I ran out of sports bottles." "[ELEVATOR DINGS]" "[ELEVATOR OPENS]" "Your BS stories are getting worse." "well aware." "DIGGLE:" "Looks like felicity came through." "The solvent used in the Vertigo sample was runoff water originated within a 10 -block radius of where East GIades meets the bay." "Nothing there except an old detention center abandoned about three years ago." "Cutbacks." "You can't go out there, oliver." "still suffering the aftereffects of Vertigo." "Did you hear The Count?" "He's taking this drug citywide." "We don't stop him, this becomes an epidemic." "I can stop you from leaving." "Try." "DIGGLE:" "oliver, hit this and you can leave." "[BREATHING HEAVILY]" "I'm glad you came to your senses." "You should remember one thing, Dig." "What's that?" "I don't need the bow." "[SCOFFS]" "[MEN GRUNT]" "[GROANING]" "[MAN SCREAMS]" "My CI swears this is the place." "Bring your men up on the flank." "Okay, this way." "follow me." "He's here!" "He who?" "The Hood!" "[GUNFIRE]" "Looks like we're not the only guests." "You should have stuck to your depraved elite." "I'm merely providing people with what they want." "I'm providing a public service." "So am I." "[GROANS]" "Enjoy the fruits of your labor." "Freeze!" "Put down the needle or I will shoot you." "[GRUNTS]" "Put down the syringe." "OLIVER:" "He deserves this." "Not according to the Iaw." "people think you're a hero people like my daughter if they could see you now." "You're no hero." "You're what I always said you were." "A killer." "Get him." "Get me an ambulance." "Now." "juvenile delinquent reporting for duty." "Heh, since you lost your license, I'II pick you up at 5." "Six." "We have a Iot of work for her to do." "well, then, Iet's say 7, just to be safe." "Is it too late to choose jail?" "OLIVER  LAUREL:" "Yes, ha-ha-ha." "I need you to go through these files, and pull out the documents dated March 2007." "Do you think you could do that?" "I think I can, heh." "Look, I know I messed up." "I really appreciate this, laurel." "We're gonna make an upstanding citizen out of you yet, Speedy." "[CHUCKLES]" "Thank you." "This will be good for her having a role model..." "...somebody better than me." "Oh, you're not so bad." "And besides, it will be nice to have her around." "[PHONE RINGING]" "I gotta take this." "Excuse me." "hello." "McKENNA [OVER PHONE]:" "I got the Count." "Bust up his lab, got him on everything from drug trafficking to homicide." "He'll be gone for a long while." "That's great." "Thanks." "It was great seeing you, oliver, heh." "You too." "[OVER PHONE] See you." "Argh." "He's still critical." "I've never seen anyone OD on this much Vertigo and live." "There's just no way of knowing what damage has been done to his brain and nervous system, or if it's irreparable." "[GROANING]" "[COUNT SCREAMING]" "[GASPING]" "[COUGHING]" "[PANTING]" "[PANTING]" "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" ""Survive."" "Hi." "Hi." "Thanks for meeting me." "I was nervous to come to your house, heh." "Okay, heh." "The thing is, I've been debating whether or not to share this with you for weeks." "Can I trust you?" "I'm not an idiot." "You've dropped some fairly ridiculous lies on me and yet I still feel like I can trust you, heh." "[CHUCKLES]" "Why is that?" "I have one of those faces." "[OLIVER CHUCKLES]" "Sorry." "Yes." "You can trust me." "Then I have something to show you." "Have you ever seen this before?" "No." "Where'd you get it?" "From your stepfather." "It's from WaIter." "Uh...." "Where did he get it?" "He said he found it in your house that it belongs to your mother." "WaIter thought she was hiding something." "Something more and he wanted me to look into it, but then he vanished." "I think this list might have cost waiter his life." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish." "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Next time your daughter calls the vigilante, we'II be able to listen." "I know you swore to bring this guy down, detective but using your own daughter as bait, that's stone-coId." "Where'd you get it?" "From your stepfather." "And where did he get it?" "belongs to your mother." "[LOCK BUZZING]" "MAN:" "Ready for transfer, sir." "VANCH:" "Hi, George." "GEORGE:" "Vanch." "Surprised to see me?" "I imagine you would be, seeing as how you botched my trial." "And from what Viv here tells me, protecting my interests." "There were contingencies that couldn't be anticipated." "Yes, Vivian told me." "The head of the Triad getting ventilated BertineIIi getting collared, and, uh, this archer." "exactly." "What am I supposed to do in the face of something like that?" "absolutely nothing, Georgie." "tell you what." "AII is forgiven." "Give us a hug." "Come on." "You know, I couId use a place to stay while I'm getting my sea legs back under me, George." "And you got a nice place here." "What do you say?" "George?" "George?" "[VANCH CLEARS THROAT]" "I hope George has been food shopping." "I'm famished." "So this book contains a list of the names of the guys you've been hunting." "And this book, your mother's, has the same list of names." "It's identical." "So where'd your mother get her copy, oliver?" "For that matter, who gave it to you?" "felicity Smoak." "She said that waiter found it in their bedroom." "And now he's missing." "She's my mother." "She's not the kind of person who wouId" "Have her husband disappeared?" "Because that's really the question." "I understand why you would believe your mother over your stepfather but I believe the innocent party is whoever's missing and presumed dead." "Twitch and I will open your throat." "How many more are with you?" "What?" "You have 10 seconds to tell me something I believe before I cut out your voice box." "Wait, wait, wait." "Yao Fei sent me here and I'm pretty sure it wasn't so you could kill me." "What?" "Yao Fei." "He gave me directions to your plane." "Frank, you gotta be kidding me." "You can't throw me another assignment now." "It's "Iieutenant," and that's what gives me the authority." "I'm drawing in on the Hood investigation." "I am gonna get this bastard." "Have you considered the possibility no one wants you to?" "What?" "He saved the Christmas hostages he took down an arsonist and armored car thieves." "And busted the Vertigo drug ring when we couldn't." "What was urban legend is becoming heroic." "If this man's a hero, I don't know what my Iife in this city as a cop means." "Find meaning in following orders." "Frank, listen to me." "I'm close." "If my lead comes to something more" "Come to me with something real, Quentin, and we'II talk." "In the meantime, I'm assigning you another case." "OLIVER:" "Hey." "Heading out?" "Mm, yes." "A meeting with the financial planners." "Are you all right?" "There was something that I wanted to talk to you about." "I wanna talk to you about waiter." "Right around Christmas, when he disappeared he gave me this." "This is your father's notebook." "He kept a list of all the people in starling City who owed him favors." "I had no idea there were so many of them." "I've been researching some of those names online and they're not good people." "oliver, I have no idea what your father was involved in or with whom." "And you and your sister both now know that he wasn't exactly honest with me." "Then we need to find out" "No." "If what you say is true and this list is filled with bad people and waiter was looking into it and now he...." "The only way to keep this family safe is for everyone in it to stop asking questions." "including you, oliver." "Promise me." "THEA:" "So this is really happening." "Four hundred and ninety-eight hours of community service to go." "Four hundred and ninety-nine." "Orientation doesn't count." "tell me how this is not cruel and unusual punishment." "Anastasia, I'd Iike you to meet our new intern, Thea Queen." "Interns get school credit." "I'm more like a court-ordered slave." "I can relate." "Anastasia is on a one-year pro bono sabbatical from her law firm." "And apparently from my six-figure salary." "The experience of helping others is its own reward." "I have yet to see evidence of that." "Speaking of lack of evidence Cyrus Vanch was released from Iron Heights." "We represent a victims' advocacy group trying to keep Vanch locked up." "I'm calling Kate Spencer." "ANASTASIA:" "I did." "She said there's nothing the DA's Office can do without further evidence." "Then I'm going to her." "She also said not to show up at her office." "Vanch is connected to human trafficking, drug running racketeering and at Ieast 52 different homicides." "Okay." "So, what's the play?" "unless you have access to some private police force Vanch will stay free to roam the streets." "[PHONE RINGING]" "I have to get this." "hello?" "How does a night with me and a dozen famous chefs sound?" "Like an episode of The Bachelor." "I'm auditioning potential chefs for the club tomorrow night." "I've arranged a tasting and I couId use an extra set of taste buds." "I'm trying to figure out how to get a vicious criminal back in jail." "I can't." "Perfect, it sounds like hungry work." "Tomorrow night?" "[OVER PHONE] Maybe we could do it early?" "Look, I gotta go." "There's someone I have to call." "I'II see you later." "Bye." "You don't find that convenient, her happening to burn the book?" "She did it out of concern for my safety." "Or her own." "You said it yourself." "Whoever compiled that list is involved in something dangerous, and if your mother is Iying to you" "She didn't know any of the names." "She said she didn't." "You don't have to take her word for it." "If this were anybody else, you'd be on your way to an arrow-side chat with them." "This isn't anybody else." "This is my mother." "And I know her." "[PHONE BUZZING]" "DIGGLE:" "What's that?" "That is the phone I gave to Lance so he could contact the Hood." "Is he asking you to turn yourself in?" "He gave it to laurel." "hello?" "I need your help." "ARROW:" "That's why you have the phone." "Cyrus Vanch was released from prison on a technicality..." "[OVER PHONE] ...living large in his lawyer's house." "There's no evidence of foul play but I know he's Vanch's first victim and he won't be his last." "What about the police?" "They can't move on him without evidence of new criminal activity." "OLIVER:" "laurel, obtaining evidence isn't what I do." "Vanch is dangerous." "hold onto the phone." "I'II call." "laurel needs my help." "oliver, are you running to help her or away from the truth about your mother?" "I have work to do." "KELTON:" "Hey, detective?" "I'm busy, KeIton." "I'm sure you're gonna wanna hear this." "Yup?" "The bug I put in that phone from the vigilante just lit up." "Your daughter's playing Maid Marian to Robin Hood again." "Where you going?" "Lieutenant Pike's office." "If she's meeting with the Hood there's gonna be a task force there when she does." "See, we gotta look at all this as an opportunity." "The Triad and the BertineIIi organization are leaderless." "The giant sucking sound you're hearing is the current power vacuum in starling City." "One that I plan on filling." "How are you going to convince the Triad and BertineIIi's crew that they should sign up with you?" "well that's an excellent question." "I need to do something." "[ON RECORDING] Something spectacular to get their attention and earn their respect." "You know what I Iearned in prison?" "If you want to be respected you find the biggest guy and put him down permanent." "I think I just found the biggest guy." "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[GIGGLES]" "This is gonna be fun." "I even wore my fat pants." "I don't wanna know what those are, do I?" "Nope." "[PHONE BUZZING]" "[SIGHS]" "This is work." "It'II just be a second." "Okay." "hello?" "It's me." "I have something." "Can you meet?" "Uh, yeah." "Where?" "Rooftop, Winick building, 30 minutes." "Good work, KeIton." "Okay, everybody." "Rubber bullets." "This is my daughter." "She cannot come to any harm." "But outside of that, you do whatever needs doing to bring that archer down." "MAN:" "You got it, sir." "You sure about this?" "I'd do anything to catch this bastard and this is the only option I've got." "Look, I wanna get this guy just as badly as you do." "I just don't wanna see anything come between you two." "I warned her." "I said stay away from this lunatic, she didn't." "You don't think that turns a knife in my back?" "I hope she sees it that way." "Mm, put those puppy-dog eyes away." "Something's come up at work." "That can't wait until tomorrow?" "It'II only be an hour." "I can meet you at the club." "One hour." "An hour and a half, tops." "Mm." "Ricky has been driving me for six years now and I can't remember the Iast time he missed a day." "Thank you for offering to fill in, Mr. DiggIe." "It's my pleasure, Mrs. Queen." "believe me." "Are you sure my son won't miss you?" "Said he was staying in for the evening." "And you believed him?" "It's been my experience when your son wants some alone time there's not much I can do to stop him." "Much to my chagrin." "You can stop just up ahead." "No need to escort me inside." "I'm fine on my own, Mr. DiggIe." "Of course, Mrs. Queen." "MOIRA:" "Were you surprised?" "You were?" "Ha, ha." "WOMAN:" "Look who just came in." "MOIRA:" "Mr. DiggIe." "Mrs. Queen, I was just, uh, looking for the restroom." "Excuse me, ladies." "Happy birthday." "ARROW:" "hello, laurel." "Thank you for helping." "I couldn't do much." "Vanch's position is too heavily fortified." "But I did get this." "Evidence he's trying to take over the positions vacated by Frank BertineIIi and" "[DOOR OPENS]" "And the Triad." "What's wrong?" "We're not alone." "What?" "S.C.P.D. Get down!" "Hands where we can see them!" "Dad." "Do it now!" "You leave a bruise on her and I will drag you down to hell myself." "laurel, I'm sorry." "Quentin, don't!" "[BOTH GRUNT]" "LAUREL:" "I don't know what's worse." "The fact that you lied to me or nearly got me killed." "You were completely safe." "I was on a rooftop with an army of men pointing their guns in my face." "You shouldn't have been on that roof" "No." "You wanted me on that roof." "Wasn't that the whole point of your trap?" "I'm trying to catch a killer." "You manipulated me." "manipulated?" "You practically ran to this guy." "I told you." "I said stay away" "Before you gave me the phone." "What?" "That's before you realized you could use me as bait." "Your own daughter." "But you wouldn't listen to me." "You are so blinded by hate that you don't realize the damage that it's doing in your own life, to your family." "So, what happens when you catch him?" "What happens then, Dad?" "You're gonna find another criminal?" "Somebody else to blame for Mom leaving?" "For Sara dying?" "For your drinking?" "That's enough, laurel." "Yeah, you're damn right, it is." "laurel." "The phone." "Give me the phone." "laurel could've been hurt or worse." "And I suppose that was Lance's fault." "What's your point, Dig?" "Just that you don't see straight when it comes to laurel or your mother." "This is not the time to bring this up again." "Okay." "Okay." "But there's something I should tell you and it's better now than later." "I'II be driving your mother around." "You're spying on her?" "Just doing my due diligence." "See if she meets with anyone we might be interested in." "She's not a suspect." "She's my mother." "Which is exactly why someone needs to take a close, objective look at her." "oliver, something's going on in this city, you know it." "That doesn't mean she's involved." "Then there's no harm in me driving her around for a few days, is there?" "I still can't believe it." "He used me as bait." "Who?" "My father." "He was trying to catch the vigilante." "He eavesdropped on my phone conversation and then lied in wait." "This was tonight?" "Yes." "while you were working?" "This was work." "So you met up with the Hood guy?" "knowingly?" "He's contacted me before." "He helped me with the DecIan case and Joanna's arson investigation." "The DecIan case was months ago." "I know." "Tommy, I've been wanting to tell you." "laurel, he's a murderer." "You sound like my father." "I hate to break it to you but he's right." "Are you seriously taking his side?" "He's been lying to me for weeks." "Yeah, it feels like crap, doesn't it?" "Tommy." "MAN [ON TV]:" "A sting operation to catch the notorious Starling City Vigilante wreaked havoc last night despite the police's failed attempt to apprehend the vigilante." "Police have continued to insist that their warnings remain." "This archer is to be considered armed and dangerous." "Should you find yourself in harm's way, as always, call 911 ." "Interesting." "Using deception and intimidation to make a name for himself." "Ha, ha." "This guy stole my move." "I have news from my friend in the police department." "I think I've figured out a way to get the Hood out and into the open." "Huh." "Astonish me." "Remember that attorney, laurel Lance?" "Hey, what's wrong with this picture?" "You look like you're working." "Heh." "I'm going over résumés for the chef's position at the nightclub." "This guy looks good." "He won Top Chef season six." "At this point, it is basically a culinary prerequisite to be on that show." "Oh." "Can I talk to you about something?" "Tommy, every time you wanna talk about something and that something is laurel you look like you're about to tell me you have a terminal disease." "She's been working with the Hood guy." "What?" "You're letting her work with that person?" "She could get hurt, Tommy." "I'm not letting her do anything." "I only just found out about it because she accidentally slipped up on one of her many lies." "Wait, she's lying to you?" "That doesn't sound like laurel." "Lying, keeping secrets about who she's with." "Does that remind you of anybody we know?" "Me, in every relationship that I've been in." "Me too." "Except this one." "There's some sort of infatuation thing going on here." "We both know that she has a pretty strong track record of being attracted to guys who are dangerous, who break the rules." "Show me a more dangerous rule breaker than the Hood." "You need to have an honest chat with her." "Find out the real reason she's keeping secrets." "I can't believe that laurel, of all people, would lie to my face." "I guess that's the way that it is with the people that you're closest to." "I know." "But talk to her anyway and fix this before it becomes something that's unfixable." "[SPEAKS CHINESE]" "It's Chinese." "It means-- -"Survive."" "What do you think he meant, besides not getting killed?" "There's an airfield 10 clicks from here." "It's key off this island." "Yao Fei and I had been observing it for months famiIiarizing ourselves with their operations." "We were supposed to get off this island together." "But then Yao Fei was compromised, and we were separated." "What's this for?" "I think Yao Fei sent you here because he knows I cannot take the airstrip alone." "Sounds like Yao Fei." "He is a softerjudge of character than I am." "If you're going to have my back I need to know you can cover it." "What are you doing?" "Fight back." "[GRUNTING]" "Keep your blade up." "always stay behind your sword." "You have no skill, no strength, no training." "To say you fight like a girl would be a compliment." "I told you, I'm not a soldier." "I was shipwrecked here." "I killed the guy that was wearing this uniform by accident." "Where was Yao Fei?" "He told me to run and I did." "TOMMY [ON RECORDING]:" "Hey, it's Tommy." "Hit me on the beep." "Hey, it's me again." "please call me back." "I think we should talk." "[DOORBELL BUZZES]" "I was just leaving you a message." "[LAUREL GASPS]" "[ALL GRUNTING]" "I Iove a girl who can take care of herself." "[LAUREL GASPS THEN TASER BUZZES]" "But can't block a Taser." "No need to get out of the car, Mr. DiggIe." "It's just my accountant." "The only threat is boredom." "It's no problem at all, Mrs. Queen." "It's my job." "Yes." "well, then, take the night off." "I'm quite all right." "MOIRA:" "What do you want?" "[MOIRA CHATTERING INDISTINCTLY]" "MOIRA:" "It's taken care of. I've taken care of it." "carl BaIIard will not be a problem anymore." "Given your propensity for squeamishness I'm assuming that Mr. BaIIard remains in good health." "I made it clear to him, persuasively, that his plans endanger the undertaking." "I didn't have to make the usual threats." "excellent." "Now, one more matter to attend to." "I need you to have the contents of this address removed and disposed off thoroughly." "The warehouse where you're storing the remains of the Queen's Gambit." "I already told you, I knew Robert's yacht was sabotaged." "And I don't think it serves for anyone to find evidence of that." "[DOOR OPENS]" "MAN:" "What the hell are you doing?" "Nothing." "Just hanging." "I work for Mrs. Queen." "And I work security for the man she's meeting with." "Guess we're on the same team." "I don't think so." "And I'm gonna need to see what you put in your pocket." "What are you, man, the police?" "Show it to me." "Do it now." "Right." "Just thought I couId come in here and ruin my lungs a little bit." "I know it's a filthy habit." "laurel, it's me." "Can we talk?" "laurel?" "laurel?" "[BEEPING]" "VANCH [ON RECORDING]:" "Make sure this message finds its way to the vigilante." "Do it fast, because at sunrise I'm gonna leave pieces of this girl all over Starling City unless he pays me a little visit." "You know, give us a chance to get to know each other better." "What do we do?" "Can your CSIs...?" "I don't know." "Can they track this or trace it or something?" "How did he know about laurel?" "What?" "How does this guy know laurel is connected to the Hood?" "No idea." "I only found out about it myself last night." "She said you knew." "well, just me and...." "Mr. Lance, that maniac has got laurel." "You've gotta call in posse or something." "I don't know, SWAT teams." "I can't." "Detective Lance." "I gotta go make a call." "Thanks for coming." "It didn't seem like a good idea to talk at your house." "would've been awkward for you to explain to my mother..." "...that you're spying on her." "No, man." "The awkward part's coming up." "You bugged my mother?" "Just listen." "MOIRA [ON RECORDING]:" "It's taken care of. I've taken care of it." "Carl Ballard will not be a problem anymore." "MALCOLM:" "Given your propensity for squeamishness I'm assuming that Mr. Ballard remains in good health." "MOIRA:" "I made it clear to him, persuasively that his plans endanger the undertaking." "I didn't have to make the usual threats." "MALCOLM:" "Excellent." "Now, one more matter to attend to." "I need you to have the contents of this address removed and disposed off thoroughly." "The warehouse where you're storing the remains of the Queen's Gambit." "MOIRA:" "I already told you I knew Robert's yacht was sabotaged." "I'm sorry, man." "The yacht was sabotaged?" "Somebody tried to kill my father." "Your mother was involved somehow." "You do not know that she was involved, DiggIe." "What I do know, oliver, and so do you is that she kept this a secret." "Why would she do that if she didn't have something to hide?" "[PHONE BUZZING]" "Isn't that--?" "Yeah." "You have three seconds before I have this line permanently disconnected." "It's laurel." "She's been kidnapped." "Listen, whoever this is, he's gonna kill my daughter." "please believe me." "Sorry." "It's nothing personal." "The airstrip is a very heavily fortified position." "I've been there." "And I cannot take it on my own." "So what?" "Huh?" "You're just gonna kill me?" "Ah." "Like I said, it's nothing personal." "If you're alive, they will find you." "If they find you, they will torture you until you give up my location, and I cannot allow for that to happen." "Hey, no, wait." "No, please don't do this." "I'm not gonna say anything to them." "Don't make it more difficult upon yourself." "I can do this in a way that you will not feel it at all." "[OLIVER GRUNTING]" "[SCREAMS]" "[OLIVER SCREAMS]" "[SLADE LAUGHING]" "SIade wilson." "oliver Queen." "well, oliver Queen there might be a fighter inside of you after all." "Detective, if this is another trick, you will not Iike the consequences." "I'm not particularly happy right now." "I hate you." "I hate everything you stand for." "But this lunatic has my little girl." "He left this behind as some kind of ransom note." "His name is Cyrus Vanch." "Jeez." "He'II kill her if he doesn't get you." "He'II kill her anyway so why come to me?" "It's a pretty tight circle that knows about you and my daughter working together." "If Vanch knows it's because someone at the precinct talked." "There isn't anybody else I can trust." "Vanch is holed up in a mansion." "It's a heavily fortified position." "I was there." "I can't take it by myself." "I need your help." "Then I need yours." "Time's running out and still no visit from your friend." "I might have overestimated his fondness for you." "[GASPING]" "assault with intent and kidnapping." "You're gonna rot in prison for life this time." "[CHUCKLES]" "That's assuming your hooded BFF saves you." "And his chances of survival are not so great." "He's going up against trained men with their fingers on the trigger of guns that fire up to 600 rounds per minute." "Now, I'm no Einstein, but that is a Iot of bullets." "[GRUNTS]" "[MAN YELLS]" "And even if he were to take them out I have two sharpshooters on the roof." "And even if he were to get by them what's he gonna do against the army of sons of bitches I've got waiting for him?" "Now, as I said, I'm no Einstein, but I can count to 24." "In case you're wondering, I was, so I studied up on my news footage 24 is the exact number of arrows he carries in his quiver and fIéchettes around his forearm." "[GUN COCKS]" "[VANCH CHUCKLES]" "Lose the bow, Merida." "VentiIate him." "My daughter." "My little girl!" "ARROW:" "I'm the vigilante, you're the cop." "Doesn't mean I have to read the bastard his rights, though." "laurel, are you okay?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "I'm okay." "AII right, you're good to go." "I'II take you home now." "I can take a cab." "laurel, you had a trauma." "I'II drive you home." "No." "What?" "I'm gonna need you to keep your distance for a while." "laurel." "Dad, I Iove you." "I'II always love you." "But what I can't do right now is trust you." "I was doing my job." "I thought you'd understand at Ieast that." "That part I do understand." "But lying to me, using me?" "It's gonna take longer." "Are you all right?" "What would you think if I said I didn't know?" "That you were being honest." "My father has the phone now." "I don't think he'II be giving it back soon." "Maybe that's good." "I didn't see how it wouId put you in danger." "I'm a big girl." "I knew the risks." "Now I know them." "And I'm not willing to take them with you." "What does that mean?" "It means goodbye." "TOMMY:" "laurel?" "laurel." "Oh, my God, laurel." "laurel, tell me you are okay, please." "No, no, I'm fine." "I'm so sorry." "No, no, it doesn't matter, just as long as you're okay." "You know, this does not change anything between you and I." "It takes two men to take the airfield." "And if you compromise my getting off this island, I will kill you." "You've had your second chance." "You need me just as much as I need you." "[CHUCKLES]" "So, what's our next step?" "Turning you into something that won't get us both killed." "Choose a weapon." "We're starting now?" "That's mine." "You're the lunatic who tortured me." "No, that was another guy." "bull." "This mask, it's my operational equivalent to a balaclava." "My partner and I wore them to keep our identities classified during our missions." "You're lying." "Fyers told me that this nutcase is a prisoner on the island." "And Fyers is such a trustworthy individual?" "He lied to you." "My partner and I came here to free Yao Fei and get him off this island." "We're ASIS." "australian intelligence." "Now, you're going to find your silver weapon." "Have you considered a sword?" "I Iike swords." "MOIRA [ON RECORDING]:" "I made it clear to him, persuasively that his plans endanger the undertaking." "I didn't have to make the usual threats." "I've listened to this 15 times." "It's definitely her voice, DiggIe." "I just...." "I can't believe it's her." "We all have blind spots when it comes to family." "Yeah." "laurel's almost got her killed." "Vanch never would've known about her connection to me if Lance hadn't lied to her." "Guess the lesson here is blind trust can be dangerous." "MOIRA:" "I made it clear to him, persuasively that his plans endanger the undertaking." "l didn't have to make the usual threats." "MALCOLM:" "Excellent." "What's the undertaking?" "I don't know." "But with all this talk about threats, it can't be good." "You warned me that if she was Iying it wouId be to cover up her involvement in something dangerous." "I need to know what the undertaking is." "What are you gonna do?" "I need to have another chat with my mom." "I'II need the Unidac merger finalized by the end of the week." "We're on something of a clock here." "[MOIRA SCREAMS]" "Moira Queen, you have failed this city." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish:" "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "SIade wilson." "There's an airfield 10 clicks from here." "It's key off this island." "I think Yao Fei sent you because he knows I cannot take the airstrip alone." "You bugged my mother?" "Just listen." "MOIRA [ON RECORDING]:" "I made it clear to him persuasively that his plans endangered the Undertaking." "What are you gonna do?" "I need another chat with my mom." "MOIRA:" "I'II need the Unidac merger finalized by the end of the week." "We're on something of a clock here." "[BEEPS]" "[MOIRA GASPS]" "Moira Queen, you have failed this city." "[MOIRA GASPS]" "Stand still." "please don't kill me." "Do you know anything about your husband's disappearance?" "What?" "Is waiter SteeIe still alive?" "I don't know where my husband is." "I swear." "Do you know anything about the Undertaking?" "I said don't move!" "I" " I'm a mother." "I have a son, oliver." "A daughter." "Her name is Thea." "She's just a teenager." "please don't take me from my children." "They've lost their father." "They can't lose me too." "please, whoever you are, please." "Okay." "I'm not gonna hurt you." "[GUNSHOTS]" "[CELL PHONE DIALING]" "This is Moira Queen." "I'm on the 39th floor." "I need help." "There's an intruder." "please." "[CAR ALARM CHIMES]" "[ENGINE STARTS]" "[GREEN ARROW GRUNTS THEN FELICITY GASPS]" "GREEN ARROW:" "I'm not gonna hurt you, felicity." "How do you know my name?" "Because you know my name." "Mr." "oliver." "Oh." "Wow." "Everything about you just became so unbelievably clear." "You're bleeding." "I don't need to be told that." "You need a hospital." "My" "My father's old factory in the glades." "No, you need a doctor, not a steel worker." "felicity, you have to promise me that you are gonna take me to my father's factory and nowhere else." "Yeah, promise." "Something tells me bIoodstains are not covered under my lease." "MAN [ON TV]:" "So far, the police are unwilling to comment but unsubstantiated eyewitness reports claim the Starling City vigilante attacked Mrs. Queen in her office earlier tonight." "She was unharmed in the assault." "FELICITY:" "Excuse me." "Can you help me?" "He's really heavy." "Oh, damn it." "He just missed a carotid." "It's a zone two wound." "Press there." "I should've taken him to a hospital." "DIGGLE:" "No." "That's why he asked you to bring him here." "He knew the police would wanna know how and why he got that wound." "I'm guessing "how" and "why" are oliver Queen's least favorite questions." "Yeah, well, there's also "when" and "where," he's not too fond of." "If we can't bring him to the hospitaI" "We are bringing the hospital to him." "Is that--?" "DIGGLE:" "Yeah." "His blood." "He stored it for a rainy day." "And I say right now, it's pouring." "FELICITY:" "Mm." "DIGGLE:" "I got it." "Over there." "Do you know what you're doing?" "Yeah, I had some medical training in the Army." "I just hope it's enough." "Remember playing Operation when you were a kid?" "Yes." "Heh." "It never made me want to throw up." "Hey, felicity, listen." "Trust me." "He'II be fine." "He's been through a Iot worse than this." "[GRUNTING]" "SLADE:" "Dead." "[GRUNTING]" "How did you survive here for six months?" "I know girl Scouts who have more fight in them." "Fighting girl Scouts now, SIade, huh?" "Aah!" "What the hell?" "Listen, kid." "We have 10 days until the supply plane lands." "Ten days to turn you into at Ieast half a soldier." "So start taking it seriously." "[GRUNTING]" "Aah!" "What is the point of this?" "These soldiers don't carry bamboo!" "They have guns!" "So, what am I supposed to do if one of them jams a gun in my face, huh?" "Threaten them with my stick?" "Jam this in my face." "Do it." "[GRUNTING]" "I give up." "I give up." "There is no giving up to these guys!" "No crying or buying your way out of it!" "You have two choices." "Escape or die." "So choose." "Escape." "Then let me show you how not to die." "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "Lian Yu." "It's the name of the island, I know." "It's Mandarin for "purgatory."" "It is?" "wonderful." "Is that the airstrip?" "ASIS took satellite images of the whole island." "This is Fyers' main camp, where I was held for almost a year." "Do you think that's where Yao Fei is now?" "We can get a message to him." "tell him we found a way off the island." "Forget about him." "This is the airstrip." "And these infrared images show there are at Ieast 10 soldiers guarding the perimeter." "Too many of them for you?" "No." "My problem is the guy here in the tower." "It's a PATC." "A portable air traffic control tower." "The U.S. government set up these for disaster zones like thailand after the tsunami." "So, what's the problem?" "The glass is bulletproof." "I can't take out the tower guard with my sniper rifle." "And if he suspects anything's wrong, he'II radio Fyers and we're cancelled." "It'II be up to you to take him out." "Up close and personal." "Are you ready for that?" "Do you think I'm ready?" "What I think is there is only one supply plane every three months." "We leave tomorrow, or we die soon afterwards." "I pick leaving." "So get some sleep." "We leave at 0600." "Don't worry." "You'II be back with your girlfriend soon enough." "Morning." "please don't hate me." "Why would I hate you?" "For cheating on you with Sara." "Did it hurt, ollie?" "Did what hurt?" "When they killed you." "[THUDDING]" "SLADE:" "Rise and shine." "Come on." "We're moving out." "AII clear." "Hey, can we, uh...?" "Can we rest for a second?" "You can rest on the plane." "Yeah, well, really looking forward to that in-fIight movie." "[CLICKS]" "Oh, God." "Don't move." "Is it a mine?" "Yeah." "The soldiers mined the island?" "No." "It's probably Japanese." "Left over from world War II." "still active." "Impressive." "Can you disarm it?" "Without disarming you?" "[MEN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "soldiers." "OLIVER:" "They're gonna see us." "They're going to see you." "Wait." "Stop." "SOLDIER:" "What are you doing so far from camp?" "OLIVER:" "I got separated from my unit." "SOLDIER:" "Come with us." "OLIVER:" "I can't." "I'm kind of having a bad day, you know?" "[SLADE YELLING]" "[GRUNTING]" "Be still." "Thanks." "[CHATTERING]" "Yao Fei." "Come in." "Sit." "Now, the first time I saw you with this contraption I thought you looked utterly ridiculous." "That is, until you took out three of my best men with it." "Twenty-five compound bows will be arriving on tomorrow's supply plane." "I'd Iike you to train a few of my men on how to use them." "Archery can take years to master." "I trust you will be a proficient instructor." "That will be all." "I hope you are steadfast in your commitment to our cause, Yao Fei." "For her sake." "I am." "obviously you were never a Boy Scout." "Yeah?" "What tipped you off?" "We better hurry." "The wolves come out at night." "There are wolves here?" "Right." "Of course there are." "Because what would the worst place on Earth be without wolves?" "well, the only thing that will keep them out is fire." "well, you know, you're welcome to help." "seriously?" "I've been working on this for two hours." "I know, I was watching." "Thank you for the entertainment." "You're gonna wear that thing out just by looking at it." "Don't worry." "She'II be waiting for flowers when you get back." "I doubt it." "Remember how I told you I was shipwrecked here?" "Her sister was with me when the boat went down." "That's funny." "I never took you as being the bad boy." "You seem to lack the spine." "That's why I've gotta get home." "To make this right." "Do you think you can sleep with your girlfriend's sister and still make it right?" "You're dumber than I thought." "And believe me when I tell you, that is saying something." "Yeah, well, you don't really strike me as the type of guy who accepts apologies, so...." "Everybody is in this life for themselves." "Learn that at australian spy school?" "No." "I Iearned that here." "Do you remember I told you that I had a partner?" "Yeah." "You remember the guy who tortured you?" "[SCREAMS]" "That--?" "That freak show was your partner?" "His name's billy Wintergreen." "Oh, okay." "Our mission was to exfiltrate Yao Fei find out why Fyers and his men were interested in him." "Our bird got shot out of the sky before we even saw the airstrip." "That's where I found you." "When Fyers took us prisoner, he asked if we would join him and his men." "billy accepted Fyers' invitation and I declined." "He was the godfather to my son, Joe and yet he turned his back on me without even thinking twice about it." "Everybody is in this life for themselves." "If you let him radio camp, we're done." "What about the others?" "You worry about your one." "I'II worry about my 10 ." "[INDISTINCT RADIO CHATTER]" "[BEEPING]" "FELICITY:" "Good job." "I think." "His heart rate's elevated, but at Ieast the bleeding's stopped." "Thanks for your help." "You kept your head on." "well, I always wondered how I'd react if I found my boss shot and bleeding inside my car." "Not that I helped because he's my boss." "I'd help anyone who was shot and bleeding in my car." "I was thinking all of this would be more of a shock." "You saying you called this all along?" "I'm not saying anything." "Except oliver brought me a laptop with bullet holes had me trace a black arrow and research a company involved in armored car heists." "I may be blond, but I'm not that blond." "Yeah, oliver's not too great with cover stories." "FELICITY:" "Neither are you." "The two of you with that whole energy drink hangover cure?" "please." "What was really in that vial anyway?" "Vertigo." "I knew it." "I didn't know it was Vertigo for sure but I knew it wasn't something that can cure a hangover." "Yeah, we needed it analyzed so we could take down the Count." "That was you and oliver?" "And you, felicity." "Without you, we never would've found him." "But why come to me?" "Hard as it probably is for him to admit, even oliver needs help sometimes." "[GUNSHOT]" "[GUNSHOTS]" "[GUN CLICKS]" "Damn." "[OLIVER GRUNTING]" "[BEEPING]" "What's happening?" "There's a syringe labeled Ativan." "It should stop the seizure." "Go." "[EKG FLATLINING]" "His heart stopped." "FELICITY:" "I'm calling 911 ." "No." "Wait, you can't." "You know how to use one of those?" "We are about to find out." "[DEFIBRILLATOR BEEPS]" "You didn't say clear." "[DEFIBRILLATOR WHINES]" "I heard the charge." "That's good news." "How's that?" "Might not be the machine." "It could be the wiring." "Come on, come on, come on." "FELICITY:" "Try again." "DIGGLE:" "clear." "[BEEPING]" "[DIGGLE SIGHS]" "What the hell did you do?" "I've been building computers since I was 7." "Wires are wires." "What do we do now?" "Pray we don't have a heart attack ourselves." "[GUARD GRUNTING]" "One job to do and you manage to screw up even that." "I'm gonna make sure everything is clear." "Stay here." "Keep the door locked." "Do not let anybody in except for me." "You got that?" "Yeah." "SLADE:" "Here." "Keep this." "And try not to shoot yourself by mistake." "[LINE CRACKLES THEN DIAL TONE]" "[DIALING]" "[LINE RINGING]" "LAUREL [OVER PHONE]:" "Hello?" "hello?" "is anybody there?" "Have you lost your mind?" "They might be monitoring the calls." "MAN [OVER RADIO]:" "Island Tower." "This is Skyhawk 801 Foxtrot." "We are 700 kilometers southeast of your position." "ETA, three hours, 22 minutes, over." "island Tower, Skyhawk 801 Foxtrot, acknowledged." "Skyhawk 801 Foxtrot, acknowledged." "MAN:" "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth...." "OLIVER:" "What is that?" "SLADE:" "It's a challenge code." "They're trying to verify our identity." "Skyhawk 801 Foxtrot, please repeat." "MAN:" "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth...." "Wait." "SLADE:" "What?" "Wait, I know this." "I know this." "They picked the one book that I read in college." "What the hell are you talking about?" "It's a quote from The Odyssey." "Uh...." "Of all creatures that breathe and move upon the Earth, nothing" "Nothing is born that is weaker than man." "Are you sure about this?" "If you're wrong, this plane will turn around." "OLIVER:" "Yes." "I'm positive." "Nothing is born that is weaker than man." "Say it." "Wait." "Wait, wait, wait." "It's" " Sorry, sorry, sorry." "Bred." "Not born." "Bred." "Nothing is bred that is weaker than man." "That's it." "Nothing is bred that is weaker than man." "MAN:" "Roger that." "See you in a few hours." "Out." "The Odyssey?" "Yeah." "It's a" "well, it's a story about a guy who's trying to get home, so...." "well, after a few days at LandstuhI Air Base you'II be on your way home." "You sound like you're not coming with me." "I'II be coming with you." "After I radio in an air strike on this location." "I'm going to send Fyers and all his men straight back to hell." "Wait." "You can't blow up the island." "Yao Fei is still out there." "He is not my concern." "OLIVER:" "really?" "He's the only reason you came here." "Rescuing him was your mission." "The mission has changed." "Edward Fyers is a mercenary and he is not on this island by mistake." "He has plans for Lian Yu that involve Yao Fei." "And whatever they are, they must end." "Yao Fei saved my Iife." "That is your debt to repay, not mine." "Where are you going?" "AII my Iife all that I've ever thought about is myself." "I took my family for granted." "I betrayed people that I Ioved." "And I'm not gonna be that person anymore." "I can't leave Yao Fei here to die." "I won't." "The plane leaves in three hours." "If you and your friend are not on it, I am going to leave without you." "If I don't make it back in time and you get out of here I want you to call my family." "call my family." "Sure, kid." "[EKG FLATLINING]" "He's going into cardiac arrest again." "No." "Ah, the leads just came loose." "[EKG STOPS]" "DIGGLE:" "Aah!" "It's less stressful when he's jumping off rooftops." "Yeah." "This bow has put arrows in quite a few people." "Yeah, bad people." "That doesn't bother you?" "Because" "And I mean this in a good way." "you seem like the kind of guy it wouId bother." "When I was in Afghanistan, my unit was tasked with protecting this local warlord." "GhoIem Qadir." "Qadir was less than human." "He sold opium." "sold children." "One day, we were accompanying him to MosuI when my convoy was ambushed by insurgents." "We had them outgunned." "Firefight didn't last more than a minute." "When the smoke cleared I moved in on their position." "They were all dead." "I knew which one I had killed." "When I pulled off his keffiyeh, I couId see it was just a kid, no more than 18 ." "Shot him in the throat." "I killed this kid to protect this human piece of garbage and I thought, "Am I still good?" "Am I still a good man?"" "Doing this with oliver doing what we do, I feel good again for the first time in a Iong time." "And that's worth all the collateral damage?" "Haven't killed anyone, if that's what you're asking." "But he has." "unfortunately, there are always casualties when you're fighting a war." "How did you--?" "Let's go." "I'II explain on the way." "Stupid." "You should not have come back." "I found SIade wilson." "And he has a way off the island." "But we have to go right now." "No." "No." "What?" "What do you mean, no?" "This is our chance." "What reason could you possibly have for staying here?" "Not what." "Who." "Now, Mr. Queen, I think it's past time you left this island." "permanently." "MAN [OVER RADIO]:" "Island Tower, this is Skyhawk 801 Foxtrot." "We are 5000 feet and holding." "Over." "Skyhawk 801 Foxtrot, this is island Tower." "You are clear to land." "MAN:" "Roger that." "simply to satisfy my own curiosity, why aren't you already dead?" "I saw Yao Fei choke you to death." "I guess he's not as strong as he looks." "[SOLDIERS LAUGHING]" "still, you returned for him." "So you're either a fool or is it possible you now think yourself a hero?" "I'm not a hero." "FYERS:" "No, of course not." "It's not possible to be a hero when there's nobody worthy of saving." "Is this what you want?" "You want me to fight him again?" "FYERS:" "Oh, no, Mr. Queen." "I'm sorry, you're mistaken." "This is not a match." "It's an execution." "YAO FEI:" "I'm sorry." "It's Wintergreen, right?" "bill Wintergreen?" "I know all about you." "I know you worked for the australian government and that you used to fight for your country." "You used to stand for something." "Whatever he's paying you, I'II triple it." "How many of them are there?" "SOLDIER:" "Go, go, go!" "[SOLDIERS YELLING]" "DEATHSTROKE:" "SIade." "Come back to die?" "[GRUNTING]" "Was it so easy to betray me, billy?" "well, billy you always had a good kick." "[KNIFE SQUELCHES]" "[THUDS]" "[GUNSHOT THEN SLADE GRUNTS]" "Come on, come on, come on." "Aah!" "[SOLDIER GRUNTS]" "[AIRPLANE MOTOR HUMMING]" "SLADE:" "There goes our ride." "[GRUNTING]" "I'm impressed." "You didn't puke." "I swallowed it." "You can untie me now." "Why did you want me to tie you up in the first place?" "A man in pain is unreliable." "I was afraid I might kill you." "Thanks." "[CHUCKLES]" "What?" "I'm trapped on an island and my only friend is named wilson, so...." "What now?" "We hope my fireworks show set Fyers back maybe enough for those who hired him to call things off." "Hired him?" "well, Fyers is a merc." "He follows the money." "So he's on this island under someone's employ." "And what do we do?" "We have to make sure that neither of us dies on this godforsaken island." "I thought you said if we didn't get on the plane we weren't gonna make it." "well, that dumb kid that I trained he would never have made it." "You?" "You might just have a chance." "Yup, it's Fyers." "MAN [OVER PHONE]:" "Satellites show multiple heat blooms on the island." "What's happening?" "There was a complication." "MAN:" "Slade Wilson?" "I'm handling it." "MAN:" "Handle it better." "I've worked too hard and planned for too long to have complications close to the end." "I assure you, it won't happen again." "MAN:" "What of Yao Fei?" "I've ensured his cooperation." "MAN:" "Good." "I've paid you a lot of money, Fyers." "I expect a return on my investment." "You sent for me?" "I'm a man of my word." "You made the right call, turning in your young castaway." "And for that, I'II grant you five minutes." "Shado?" "Shado?" "Shado?" "SHADO [IN MANDARIN]:" "YAO FEI [IN MANDARIN]:" "Shh, shh, shh." "I guess I didn't die." "Again." "cool." "It's not bad." "So how am I gonna explain this one?" "Hickey gone wrong?" "The police collected a sample of your blood at Queen consolidated." "I just hacked the crime lab and ordered the sample destroyed." "Oops." "Heh." "I hope it's all right." "Your system looked like it was from the '80s and not the good part of the '80s, Iike Madonna and, well, Iegwarmers." "It's a Iot of work." "Does that mean you're in?" "You mean "in" as in I'm going to join your crusade?" "You're practically an honorary member of the team already." "Hm, so Mr. DiggIe said." "No." "Then why'd you upgrade my system?" "First, because seeing a network that poorly set up hurts me in my soul." "DIGGLE:" "Ahem." "And second I want to find waiter." "My stepfather." "He was nice to me." "And Mr. DiggIe told me the notebook you use to fight crime is the same notebook that got waiter abducted." "I'II help you rescue him, but that's it." "Then I want to go back to my boring life of being an IT girl." "That's my offer." "Okay." "So I've been meaning to ask is there a bathroom?" "Because I've had to pee since I got here." "It's upstairs to the Ieft." "FELICITY:" "Great." "felicity." "Thank you." "Yeah." "oliver, I know you don't wanna hurt this girl and you didn't have any choice in telling her who you were but we're asking her to get involved in dangerous stuff." "We can protect her." "How?" "Your motherjust shot you, oliver." "You can't even keep yourself safe." "She was scared." "She was defending herself." "Or she was hiding something." "Like maybe her involvement in WaIter's disappearance or worse." "DiggIe, we don't always know why people do what they do." "But what I do know is when I was standing in her office with an arrow aimed at her heart she begged me to spare her, all on behalf of me and Thea." "Now, I've taken down a Iot of bad people." "None of them brought up their kids." "She had the list." "Now, she may not be in charge of whatever it is..." "...but she's definitely involved." "involved in what?" "We don't even know what it is." "And until we do, she is off limits." "Am I clear?" "DIGGLE:" "But, oliver, are you saying this because you truly believe she's innocent or because you don't wanna face the fact that your mother might be guilty?" "MOIRA:" "Six-one and a deep voice." "I" "Hey." "What's going on?" "Where have you been?" "I've been calling all night." "At the club." "I get zero reception in there." "It's time you invest in a landline." "Thea." "Your mother was attacked last night." "By the vigilante." "What?" "He came after me at the office." "Did he hurt you?" "Are you okay?" "She hurt him." "She shot him point-bIank with a gun hidden in her office." "That should help with your investigation." "You get any evidence?" "A blood sample...?" "There was a screw-up at the lab." "That's too bad." "Mm." "We'II be in touch." "Thank you." "Yeah." "Oh, sweetheart." "I was so scared." "OLIVER:" "I'm just glad you're okay." "I thought he was gonna kill me." "I promise you he's never gonna bother you again." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Looking for Detective hall." "I was told he works in Vice." "oliver?" "McKenna hall." "I Iive to surprise." "I want to find waiter." "My stepfather." "I'II help you rescue him, but that's it." "That's my offer." "Okay." "Jerry." "Jerry, you okay?" "You look a little piqued, man." "I'm fine, it's, uh...." "Ms. hill wants us to move the Sherwood into the vault." "Now?" "It's midday." "I know." "She says it's a security threat." "It's all the robberies lately." "Heh." "[ALARM BLARING]" "That way." "[GUARDS CHATTERING]" "Take this thing off me, all right?" "I got it like you asked." "Here." "Take it off me." "Were you--?" "Were you bluffing?" "would that thing have detonated?" "violently." "Don't worry, though." "You did exactly as I asked, so it's just unconsciousness for you." "Unconscious?" "[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES JERRYGROANS]" "Might wanna take it easy if you plan on taking someone off that list." "This is me taking it easy." "So who's the unlucky guy tonight?" "OLIVER:" "Ken williams." "His pyramid scheme stole millions." "people didn't just lose their homes, their lives were ruined." "Why don't you call it in early?" "I'm not expecting much trouble." "felicity." "Did you just--?" "Computer-override your lock?" "Maybe a little." "What are you doing?" "I pulled up information on Mr. williams." "Did you know he's a widowed father of a 10 -year-oId boy?" "I told you, I'm only in this to help waiter, not to be an accessory to orphaning little kids." "I'm giving him a warning." "Has it occurred to you you could do some good in the city?" "Beyond recovering people's stock portfolios and saving accounts." "You're not the only one who knows how to reboot my system." "I made a mistake." "Getting in my way?" "I don't disagree." "FELICITY:" "No." "Signing on with you." "Even provisionally." "[SLADE GASPING]" "Hey." "Hey." "Drink." "Tastes like dirt." "You gotta stay hydrated, okay?" "Hydration is not my problem." "My problem is getting a bullet dug out of my arm with a dull blade." "Let me take a look." "Oh." "Ugh." "Is it infected?" "Go figure." "Yeah." "Uh...." "I gotta stop that before it spreads." "SLADE:" "When you swing past the drugstore for those antibiotics you wanna get me a copy of Maxim or maybe a Sports lllustrated?" "Yao Fei had these super herbs back in the cave that would heal anything." "AII right?" "I'm gonna go get them." "You're not gonna last an hour out there." "well, I guess you better hope I get back in 45 minutes, then." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "MOIRA:" "Oh." "Thank you for coming." "It is so good to see you, Frank." "Mm." "It's been far too long." "Yes." "My interests in China have kept me away more than I'd Iike." "But with the Undertaking approaching, I felt a return to StarIing City was in order." "actually, Frank, it's the Undertaking that I wanted to talk to you about." "I wanna get out." "Is this because of what happened to waiter?" "With waiter." "With Robert." "Last week, the vigilante nearly made my children orphans." "I've reached my limit, Frank." "FRANK:" "That's, uh a Iot to confide in me, Moira." "Robert did." "I know he reached out to you, whether I was supposed to know it or not." "He had misgivings." "He sought you out because he knew you did too." "But then he was murdered." "And that should be a cautionary tale for both of us." "Yes, I know." "And I've gone along with this for as long as I can stomach it." "We started this to fix the glades, Frank." "To cure the city, not lay it to waste." "You got into this because of what happened to your daughter." "Frank what would Amanda want you to do?" "well, maybe we should come back later." "No, maybe we should wait." "This is really serious." "What if her next attack of conscience leads her to the police?" "No, she won't say anything." "I had to make the same calculation when you found out about me." "Mm-hm." "What would you have done if you were wrong and I decided to make a call to Detective Lance?" "I would've put an arrow in you." "[DIGGLE CHUCKLES]" "really?" "You really would have done that?" "really?" "Hmm." "I had a bet going with myself on how quickly you would visit tell me not to reveal your secret." "Looks like I won." "actually, I was hoping that I couId get you to change your mind." "[MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]" "I was worked up on adrenaline last night, and I didn't exactly put my best foot forward." "I was hoping you'd give me the opportunity to do that now." "How about you start with Ken williams?" "Did he also enjoy your adrenaline last night?" "No." "He returned the money he stole in time to put his son to bed." "Like I said, felicity, just a warning." "McKENNA [ON TV]:" "We'd like to remind the public we are coordinating efforts with Interpol as the Dodger operates primarily in Europe." "They have advised us to warn the public he is considered armed and extremely" "I heard about this guy." "They call him the Dodger because he avoids getting his hands dirty." "He uses hostages to do his stealing for him." "How?" "Puts a bomb collar around their necks." "Last year, a guy in Madrid didn't steal what the Dodger told him to." "It took his head off." "literally." "FELICITY:" "Now this psycho's in starling City?" "Too bad his name's not in your notebook." "Not all people that I target are on the list." "Every once in a while, I make an exception." "Hostage-taking jewel thief, for example." "So why don't you help us take him down?" "He's late." "Never." "I maintain a Swiss account for financial transactions." "Here's the number." "Thanks." "I'II wire you the money." "Assuming I don't misplace the numbers." "My bookkeeping method is a little sloppy." "really?" "Heh." "clearly, you're under the impression that you can have the Sherwood ruby for a steal." "well, you're new here in town." "We're not as refined in starling City." "I am getting that impression." "[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING]" "[DODGER CLEARS THROAT]" "DODGER:" "Don't worry your men are merely unconscious." "In about 17 minutes, they'II wake up with the ability to tell every other fence in this town that I am not to be trifled with." "[STAMMERS]" "What about me?" "Uh...." "[GUNSHOT]" "What about you, indeed." "So to catch this guy we need to either figure out where he is or where he's gonna be." "This really how you guys figure out how to get your target?" "Over burgers and shakes?" "Sorry it took me so long." "I'm waiting on a bunch of particularly rowdy customers." "[ALL SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "You need me to handle that?" "I appreciate it, but I'm a pro by now." "I'II be here if you need me." "girlfriend?" "No, no, that's my sister-in-Iaw." "Sort of." "carly was married to Dig's brother." "And he passed away." "well, looks like she's hot for you." "Ah." "Can we get back to crime-fighting?" "actually, I was thinking you probably should ask her out." "really?" "OLIVER:" "Mm-hm." "I'II do that five minutes after you ask out McKenna." "Ooh, the detective on the Dodger case." "You have a thing for her?" "Uh-- DIGGLE:" "Yes." "[OVER SPEAKERS] This is way too hard" "I don't see you asking carly out." "felicity, this guy, he's targeting a very specific type ofjeweI." "We figure out why and that'II give us the how to catch him." "I have an idea." "OLIVER:" "Mm-hm." "Your crush object with a badge said they were working with interpol." "Yeah." "FELICITY:" "Why don't I work up a little tech you distract her with a little fIirty-fIirt, slip said tech onto her phone it'II turn it into a microtransmitter and, boom, we'II learn everything she knows." "Hmm." "It's not how I typically get my information." "How do you typically do it?" "I find the person and then I put the fear of God into them until they talk." "But we can try your way." "You know, carly, I don't want this to, um...." "You know, to come off weird or anything, it's just...." "l never wanted to stop Because I don't wanna start all over" "would you Iike to have dinner?" "How about tonight?" "Tonight?" "CARLY:" "What we haven't waited long enough?" "All that I want All that I want" "Mm." "Who knew street meat could taste so good?" "I had a feeling you needed a break from the office." "Hank was my first client." "I kept his son from being sent away for a mugging that he didn't commit." "Then how did that not score you free hot dogs for life?" "CNRI gives Iow-income people access to the legal system." "Without them, his son could have gone to prison forever." "I couId've gone to prison too." "He couldn't afford a dream team of super-Iawyers." "So I'm supposed to feel guilty because I'm lucky enough to have a rich family?" "No." "You are lucky." "And hopefully, CNRI will show you that." "Hey!" "[HORN HONKS]" "Give us the purse and we won't press any charges." "Yeah, you're right." "I really do feel lucky." "LAUREL:" "This got snagged as he vaulted over the fence." "Looks like a chain from his wallet." "I thought you gave up crime-fighting." "What?" "well, the business with your sister." "I figured..." "Oh." "...you'd stay out of police precincts." "[CHUCKLES]" "Yeah, I" " I saw you on the news and realized that I never thanked you for everything that you did, so...." "Thank you." "So you got promoted." "Major Crimes." "OLIVER:" "Wow." "And they assigned me to the Dodger case." "He extorts people into stealing for him." "How's that going?" "slow." "It was nice seeing you the Iast time that I saw you." "Yeah." "It was good seeing you too." "It was like old times." "Except the PG version." "How do you mean?" "McKENNA:" "Ha, ha." "well, you and I always knew how to have a fun time." "Something that's been missing from my Iife." "So how about a drink?" "Not now." "would you maybe--?" "I'II take you for a" "would you Iike to have dinner with me, McKenna?" "McKENNA:" "Ha, ha." "I was on a deserted island for five years and I am totally out of practice with this whoIe" "Mm." "well, dinner would be nice." "In fact, I can make myself free tonight." "Yeah." "Great." "So I'II grab you at 8?" "That's perfect." "Okay." "McKENNA:" "Okay." "I'm lingering." "I'm gonna go." "Ha, ha." "Okay." "[MAN COUGHS]" "Who's there?" "help me." "[PHONE DIALING ON RECORDING]" "[LINE RINGING ON RECORDING]" "LANCE [ON RECORDING]:" "Lance." "McKENNA [ON RECORDING]:" "It's Detective Hall." "I have an update on the Dodger case." "A body was found at an art gallery shot point-blank." "There were three other men, all rendered unconscious by a highly focused electric current." "LANCE:" "Same MO as that guard at the museum." "You got an id on the vic?" "McKENNA:" "His name is Cass Derenick." "Pause." "Who's Cass Derenick?" "FELICITY:" "Arrest, possession of stolen goods." "Arrest, conspiracy." "Conviction, attempted sale of stolen goods." "This guy's a fence." "The Dodger's looking to unload the Sherwood ruby." "Which means he'II be in the market for a new fence." "One he hasn't, you know, killed." "So we find the fence and we find the Dodger." "Anyway, I saw online that you sell a chain wallet with an eight ball on the chain." "I was wondering if you could give me a name of one of your customers if I gave you a description." "Yeah, sure, you can call me back." "You and every other used-cIothing and Ieather-goods store I've called today." "What was that about?" "What's up with the fancy-fancy?" "What--?" "Oh, um...." "Heh." "I have a date." "Contrary to popular opinion, I do have a life." "Then why do you seem so nervous?" "Is it obvious?" "Just be your charming and brooding self." "I mean, girls seem to dig that." "This girl's different." "She knew me before the island, before I was" "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "It's CNRI." "I've gotta take this." "I'm working on a very important purse-snatching case." "Yeah." "hello?" "Yeah, he might have been wearing a red hoodie." "Kind of Abercrombie-Iooking." "His face, not the hoodie." "really?" "You wouldn't happen to have his name?" "[ON STEREO] You had to sell your gold" "Thank you so much." "[LINE RINGS]" "Hey, laurel." "Does your dad still, Iike, arrest people?" "I found the dirtbag." "His name is Roy Harper." "CARLY:" "I can't remember the Iast time I was here." "It's so beautiful." "Yeah, this was the place to take a girl in high school." "Hmm, I was never lucky enough to experience that." "I had braces and terrible bangs back then." "[CHUCKLES]" "I'm sure you looked amazing." "I'm glad we finally got around to doing this." "Me too." "You know, Andy set a pretty high bar when it came to first dates." "Hmm." "He faced down armed gunmen for a living but I've never seen him as scared as he was before that first date with you." "[SIGHS]" "carly, I'm sorry, that wasn't good first-date etiquette, was it?" "To bring up Andy when we are having a romantic night?" "probably not." "carly, this is difficult and complicated." "It's not Iike there's a manual, you know?" "You know, for a moment I felt like a girl who likes a boy and nothing else mattered." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah." "If this is too hard for you or too complicated then please, you know, just get out now because I've already been hurt too much." "I'm sorry" "Can you just please take me home?" "[OVER SPEAKERS] ln these little moments" "Get your cards out I am waiting" "Mm." "No, no, no, it is not possible for something to be this good." "Right?" "McKENNA:" "Oh." "You must have missed souffIés." "What do you mean?" "Five years on an island away from civilization." "What did you do?" "What did you eat?" "Where'd you sleep?" "How did you make it?" "McKenna." "Sorry." "Didn't mean to drill you." "It's okay." "I haven't had a conversation with a guy in a while without it resulting in me reading him his rights." "Heh." "So...." "Yeah, but those years, they must have changed you." "[ARROW PIERCES FLESH OLIVERSCREAMS]" "From the guy I used to party with to who you are now." "Yeah." "I had to make some tough choices." "help me." "You're right." "It changed me." "I am waiting" "What kind of tough choices?" "I don't wanna talk about those experiences." "In these little moments" "[CELL PHONE RINGING]" "Saved by the cell." "hall." "Ahem." "Okay, put what the CI told you in the warrant application." "I'II be right there." "It's work." "I gotta go." "Okay." "felicity, listen." "I need you to activate the bug in McKenna's phone." "I think the police just got a lead on the Dodger." "Okay." "Who are you?" "My name's alan Durand." "I'm an exchange student." "I was on a fishing excursion with my class." "We got lost and our boat caught fire." "It was some mechanic malfunction." "We had to jump ship." "When?" "Two days ago." "It was awful." "I thought I was gonna die." "[CRYING]" "Where are the other students?" "Where's the boat's crew?" "Huh?" "I think I'm the only one who made it." "I managed to get to shore." "I thought I was lucky." "What?" "Somebody found you?" "soldiers or" "Yes!" "Yes." "They had these masks on." "They attacked me and beat me!" "They left me here!" "Who are they?" "You can untie me at any point, by the way." "DODGER:" "Nice place you have here." "ABBOTT:" "Thank you." "tell me, does every fence in this town hire muscle?" "Heh." "I did as soon as I heard about what you did to Cass Derenick." "Ah, yes, Cass." "God rest his soul." "He wasn't a very nice man." "He tried to steal from me." "Oh." "I've heard that you have a better sense ofjudgment." "And that you'd have no trouble in moving this." "well, it's only a recession for some people." "I take a 15 percent commission off the top." "Let's call it 12 , shall we?" "I don't have to remind you what happened to the Iast person who tried to screw me over." "S.C.P.D. Grab the floor!" "[YELLS]" "[GUNFIRE]" "[ABBOTT GRUNTS]" "Come quietly." "I'm afraid I'II have to decline." "Then I'm afraid you won't be going to jail." "[COLLAR BEEPING]" "FELICITY:" "I heard on the news the Dodger got away." "hopefully the night wasn't a complete waste." "Your dates." "How'd they go?" "Great." "Awesome." "You two suck at lying." "The police and I busted it up before the Dodger could get himself paid." "Don't change the subject." "Is your hacker chip still working?" "You two are no fun." "Yeah." "still getting a strong signal." "OLIVER:" "You should pull up the police records." "Everything the Dodger's stolen so far." "What're you thinking?" "We know the Dodger has a taste for a very specific type of antiquity." "Yeah." "These all look like they're from the ominous decade." "The last ten years of King Ferdinand's reign." "And she says we have no lives." "OLIVER:" "Are there any other places that sell or display items from the ominous thing?" "Decade." "Not really." "people in starling City prefer the elizabethan era." "OLIVER:" "StarIing City Cancer Society." "It says they're holding a fundraising auction tomorrow." "We could lure him out into the open." "With what, a fake?" "No." "The Dodger has a trained eye for this sort of thing." "He's not gonna fall for anything less than the genuine article." "Where are we gonna get a rare Spanish antiquity?" "You really have no idea how rich his family is, do you?" "Roy william Harper Jr." "Where's senior?" "Norris Cemetery." "Sorry to hear that." "You and an army of bookies." "[OVER SPEAKER] Can I go?" "LANCE:" "No." "You've been id'd as a suspect in a purse snatching." "Quite a résumé you've compiled here." "Petty theft, B and E, robbery, petty theft." "stolen car." "It's nice to change things up once in a while." "And petty theft." "You got something against banks?" "well, it is hard to run with one under your arm." "well, maybe you'II learn a few new skills in prison." "Look, I don't wanna steal, okay?" "I don't have any other choice." "My mother, she has a problem." "Yeah, her son's a moron." "No." "Vertigo." "She got hooked on Vertigo last year." "She kicked it, but I guess she'd done enough that it messed her up." "Hmm." "She hasn't been the same." "And her medical biIIs" " Look, I'm just trying to help her get out from under." "Look, we're not privileged enough to have as much as other people, okay?" "Fine." "Let him go." "It's just a damn purse, right?" "They'II meet with you." "It has been arranged." "Thank you for this." "There's one more thing I need you to do for me." "malcolm's the only one who knows where waiter's being kept." "I just need a clue." "Some lead to follow." "If our plan works, I can't let it damn waiter to hell." "No, that's the fate that's in store for us, I'm afraid." "[ELEGANT CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]" "[GUESTS CHATTERING]" "The police are here too." "Your bait's attracted them, at Ieast." "That's not exactly who I'm looking to catch." "So I'm getting a good signal from the GPS I put in your family's brooch." "I can track it on my phone." "Speaking of, have you given any thought to what might happen if this doesn't work and the Dodger absconds with your family jewels?" "I'm sorry, that came out very wrong." "Let's just keep our eyes open, felicity." "DIGGLE:" "Hey, isn't that...?" "Mm-hm." "I would rather take my chances with a deadly jewel thief." "DIGGLE:" "Right." "Hey, that brooch was donated by the Queen family." "If you want it, you're gonna have to bid." "actually, love, I thought I'd just take it." "I should see if the security guard's having problems." "Good idea." "I'm gonna go check on the bait." "I think I have a problem." "Get away from me." "If this thing bIows" "That's not gonna happen." "The Dodger said if I called the police, he'd-- I'm gonna get decapitated, aren't I?" "AII right, tracker's on the move." "If I find him, I can get him to disarm it." "talk me in." "Stay calm." "Too late." "You can go." "Just go, go, go." "talk to me, felicity." "talk to me." "Ahem." "Heading towards Adams and O'NeiI." "He's gotta be in a vehicle." "Hey, I need your bike." "Are you kidding me?" "OLIVER:" "No." "[GRUNTS]" "[ENGINE REVS]" "OLIVER:" "I'm mobile." "Where is he?" "[HORNS HONK]" "OLIVER [OVER PHONE]:" "Talk to me, Felicity." "First time anyone's ever been grateful for traffic cameras." "One block from you." "If you cut through Harris plaza, you'II end up behind him." "OLIVER:" "Where is he now?" "FELICITY [OVER PHONE]:" "I got him, I got him." "Gray sedan driving north at the light ahead of you." "Dead ahead." "Good." "Okay, hard right." "OLIVER:" "Got him." "Don't do anything stupid." "I had the foresight to collar up a particularly inquisitive blond." "I assume she's a friend of yours." "Touch one hair on my head and she loses hers." "You've got quite the choice to make, don't you?" "OLIVER:" "Not this time." "Your median nerve's been severed." "You couldn't push that button if you tried." "[BEEPS]" "Oh, thank God." "Why are you doing this?" "I'm exactly like you." "I only steal from the rich." "[ELECTRICITY CRACKLES DODGERGRUNTS]" "I'm not Robin Hood." "DURAND:" "I don't know when these men are coming back." "You have to believe me." "Untie me, please." "What?" "Do you think these men, they planted me here?" "Some kind of trap or something?" "well, why'd they tie you up like that and then just leave you?" "Huh?" "Why not just kill you?" "They were going to." "They got called away at some altercation somewhere else on the island." "If they come back, they will kill both of us." "please, you have to believe me." "please." "AII right, turn around." "Thank you." "Thank you." "I'm sorry but I can't." "What?" "Why?" "Why not?" "Because I don't know you." "Are you out of your mind?" "please!" "You can't do this!" "You can't just leave me here!" "DIGGLE:" "Last night, all I couId think about was how pissed off Andy would be." "How hurt he would be if he saw us together." "But that's nothing compared to how he'd be if I did something to hurt you, carly." "believe me when I tell you that war is easier than dating." "In a war, you act or you die." "No time to think, no time to second-guess yourself." "Maybe that's your problem." "With me, you're thinking." "Not feeling." "DIGGLE:" "You're right." "ROY:" "How'd you know where I Iive?" "A little thing called the Internet." "Look, can we not do this with a door between us?" "I guess you're not pressing charges because you feel like you can change my Iife?" "So you can tell your rich prep-schooI friends what a saint you are..." "...and how you're helping the disadvantaged?" "You don't know a thing about me." "Thea Queen, trust-fund brat." "totaled her car, which she got as a birthday present." "Loves designer labels and is in the tabloids for partying too much." "Did I leave anything out?" "Yeah." "Dead father, missing stepdad, damaged brother and almost served jail time for that car accident." "plus, she really wants her purse back." "You showed some real sack coming down here the glades in the middle of the night." "You must not know the value of a vintage purse." "[SCOFFS]" "Don't worry, it's all there, except for these." "That's a really filthy habit you got there." "Yeah." "tell me about it." "Hey, can I give you some advice?" "First, stay out of the glades." "And second?" "Don't fall for every sob story a guy like me tells the police." "You have a great evening, now." "Do you ever take time off?" "I do." "In fact, last night, I went on a date." "The guy was kind of ajerk." "really?" "He might've had a reason." "McKenna, I didn't just lose five years on the island." "I lost the part of me that enjoyed being alive." "Listening to music and, uh eating a soufflé with a beautiful girl." "It's the easy things." "But when you asked me about the island, it reminded me of all the hard things." "And the hard choices that I had to make that still stay with me." "Made me question how I can trust and even if I'm worthy of being with anyone." "You are." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "Can I take you to a dinner that I promise not to cut short?" "Um...." "Throw in a soufflé and you're on." "LANCE:" "McKenna." "I'm glad you're still here." "Queen." "Mr." "Lance." "McKENNA:" "I was just leaving." "Is everything okay, sir?" "Yeah." "I'd Iike you to work with me on the vigilante investigation." "Yes, sir." "well, don't worry." "We'II bring him in" "Oh, yeah." "[McKENNA CHUCKLES]" "Uh, ready to go?" "Yep." "McKENNA:" "Okay." "Tastes like an ashtray, but does the job." "I owe you one." "You didn't get into any trouble out there, did you?" "Hmm?" "No." "Not a bit." "Frank Chen recommended you." "He said you could help us with our problem." "He appreciates you agreeing to meet with me." "Anything for a friend." "So how can we be of assistance?" "malcolm MerIyn." "I want you to kill him for me." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "[BEEPING]" "OLIVER:" "So, Maureen, how are the dance lessons coming?" "Not bad." "It's always so kind of you to remember, Mr. Queen." "Oh, that is completely selfish of me." "I'm always looking for somebody to tango with." "MAUREEN:" "well, here you go." "Just call when you're done." "will do." "So all this is your cash?" "In this bank." "What am I supposed to do with this?" "fill it." "Okay." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Detective hall." "MAN [OVER PHONE]:" "I have information on where the Count will be tonight." "melt it down, powder it out, pack it in." "melt it down, powder it out, pack it in." "melt it down, powder it out, pack it in, pack it in." "melt it down, powder it out, pack it in, pack it in." "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish, to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "I'd Iike you to work with me on the vigilante investigation." "Thank you, sir." "MALCOLM:" "It's just beginning." "In six months the organization's vision of what this city should be will be complete." "Thousands of innocent people will be dead, and you'II feel nothing." "That's not true." "I'II feel a sense of accomplishment." "So how can we be of assistance?" "malcolm MerIyn." "I want you to kill him for me." "black arrows aren't consistent with his MO." "Something doesn't add up." "[SIRENS WAILING]" "The chopper's about to touch down?" "The log doesn't have him due for 20 minutes." "Then lock down the heliport." "[LINE RINGS]" "I've just landed in starling City." "We agreed, half on arrival, the other half when the job is done." "[SPEAKS IN SPANISH]" "Don't worry." "The man's as good as" "GuiIIermo Barrera." "You have failed this city." "You've built quite the reputation." "And you should've stayed overseas." "I thought about it, but then I remembered I've got a reputation too." "[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]" "Ow." "The trick is to keep your weight evenly distributed." "I thought the trick was to avoid getting into fights." "JOHN:" "StarIing City's not the kind of place where you can talk your way out of trouble." "Besides, if you're gonna be working with us I'II sleep a Iot easier knowing that you can handle yourself." "At least a little bit." "[DOOR OPENS]" "How'd it go?" "badly for him." "FELICITY:" "Who him?" "An assassin for hire with an affinity for knives." "His name was GuiIIermo Barrera." "Was?" "So we can't ask him about his intended target?" "No, which is why I need you to hack his phone." "Barrera's worId-cIass." "He kills high-profiIe targets." "And whateverjob he was hired for isn't finished." "We need to figure out who he was here to kill, and fast." "They are probably still in danger." "Okay?" "Yeah." "I have to meet McKenna." "Good thing she didn't meet you at the heliport." "May not be a good idea to fall for the cop that's hunting you down." "well, it's slim pickings for us vigiIantes." "[GRUNTING]" "Four?" "I'm more of a runner." "Why the sudden desire to work out?" "What else is there to do?" "well, we can try to think of another way off the island." "There is no other way." "If there was, I would've found it." "We can't just sit here and wait for Fyers to come and kill us." "I did have one idea." "If you go into the forest and gather as much bamboo as you can find" "Yeah." "we could build ourselves a boat like they did on Gilligan's Island." "That's broken." "It got busted during the crash." "Did you try to get it to work?" "I'm better at pulling things apart." "My father was a pilot, and he used to do his own maintenance." "You're hoping aircraft maintenance is genetic?" "No, I used to help him, and I liked it." "Then I got pretty good at it." "Maybe I can make the radio work." "You should be training for the inevitable fight that's looming." "I think I have a better chance of making the radio work." "Hey." "Sorry I'm late." "No, I am." "I just got caught up at the office." "Me too." "Wow." "You look nice." "We should go inside." "We should." "[McKENNA CHUCKLES]" "We don't seem to be going inside." "Ha-ha-ha." "[BLONDFIRE'S "WHERE THE KIDS ARE" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "welcome." "Happy birthday, buddy." "Thank you." "Mm." "This feels like a Chateauneuf du Pape." "It's gonna taste like one too." "You are a true friend." "Thank you." "Tommy, you remember McKenna hall." "From back in the day." "And back again." "Ha, ha." "LAUREL:" "ollie, hi." "Hi." "OLIVER:" "laurel, this is" "McKenna hall." "We know each other from the courthouse." "How are you, counselor?" "I'm well, detective." "TOMMY:" "I'm gonna go crack this open." "Come in." "Such a nice apartment." "So much space." "Oh, this is adorable." "How old are you here?" "That's actually my sister, Sara." "Oh, I am so sorry." "No, no, it's okay." "I don't know why my father bought her that canary." "That thing chirped night and day." "It drove us all nuts." "A toast." "There you go." "Thank you." "Thank you." "To the first birthday that I have enjoyed in a Iong time." "I got my best friend back." "And I have finally figured out why poets have been in business for the Iast few thousand years." "Happy birthday, baby." "Thank you." "Cheers." "Cheers." "Cheers." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "I think that's the food." "Okay." "Oh, thank God she didn't cook." "Amen." "Mr." "MerIyn." "laurel." "Can I come in?" "oliver." "Mr." "MerIyn." "I've been trying to get in touch with you." "What are you doing here, Dad?" "Happy birthday, Tommy." "Just give us a second." "Of course." "We're about to eat, so" "I can't stay." "well, that works out, because you weren't invited." "I'm being honored by the starling City municipal Group." "They're bestowing me with their Humanitarian Award." "What, they ran out of actual humans to give it to?" "I would Iike you to be there if you could." "I am 100 percent certain that I'II be busy." "You might not believe this but all I ever wanted for you was happiness." "If it will allay this tension between us, I'II turn the switch back on." "Save your money, Dad." "I don't need it anymore." "I'd still like you to come to the event." "It would mean a Iot to me." "You know what, Dad?" "Sometimes the people that you want there the most aren't." "You taught me that." "multiple times." "CHINA:" "hello, Lawton." "I see your edge has dulled." "Oh, I knew you were there." "I just didn't care if you killed me." "Ha-ha-ha." "Yeah, what do you want?" "CHINA:" "My organization has been contracted to eliminate a certain high-profiIe individual." "A very weII-guarded target." "well, forget it." "Look, I'm retired." "To drink and smoke your life away?" "Hey, we all gotta die sometime." "I need someone to die at the right time." "And no one does it better than you." "My vision ain't exactly what it used to be." "No." "It's going to be better." "So who needs two bullets in the chest?" "Moira, is it happening?" "Yes, at the Humanitarian Award ceremony." "Isn't that a little public?" "No one will expect it." "MALCOLM:" "I have very welcome news to share with all of you." "Thanks to Queen consolidated's applied Sciences Division and their recent acquisition of Unidac Industries the undertaking which we set for ourselves is only months from fruition." "There's hope on the horizon for everyone in starling." "Heh." "We won't fall this city." "And I think I speak for everyone here when I say we're all with you, malcolm." "[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]" "[FELICITY SIGHS]" "Jeez, this was one paranoid assassin." "Barrera's got CobaIt-IeveI encryption on his phone." "It's not gonna be easy to break." "But Code Breaker is my middle name." "actually, it's Megan" "FeIicity, can you get anything off of it?" "Just the Iast number he dialed." "OLIVER:" "Which was?" "A restaurant in Chinatown." "Jade Dragon." "Even hired killers enjoy the city's best chow mein." "Jade Dragon is a front for the Chinese mafia." "call the restaurant." "Make a reservation for two for tonight." "You need to decrypt that phone." "I'm kind of in the mood for Chinese now." "Mm." "[TOMMY CHUCKLES]" "Oh, oh." "Uh...." "[SPEAKS IN CHINESE]" "[LAUGHS]" "That is one big fried fish." "I was told this was the most authentic Szechuan in town." "I wanted to make sure that your birthday celebration got its due celebration." "It was a little bit, um, tense last night." "Trust my dad to run all the smiles out of the room." "He did come by." "And it seemed like he was trying to act a little bit dadIike." ""DadIike," that sums up my father perfectly." "I know the two of you have never been close but it couldn't have been easy for him after your mom was killed." "He forgot there were two of us in that club." "I'm not defending him, Tommy." "With everything I've been through, people that I've lost I know how hard it can be." "You probably don't remember this." "Uh...." "We were 8." "But after her funeral, he left for like two years." "And when he did come back, he was...." "He was so freaking cold." "He barely spoke." "That's why I spent so much time at your house." "From the outside, it always looked like I had a father." "He paid my bills, he lived in the house, he bailed me out." "But your dad took me to my first hockey game." "Your dad taught me how to fIy-fish." "Your dad took us to our first R-rated movie." "But he wasn't perfect." "My dad made mistakes." "And...." "We haven't talked about this but I have a Iot of anger towards him." "But still, I would give anything to have him back because at the end of the day, your dad is your dad." "I meant what I said last night." "I am really glad that you're back." "I gotta hit the restroom." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[SCREAMING]" "[IN CHINESE]" "[IN CHINESE]" "MAN [IN CHINESE]:" "ACCOUNTANT:" "[IN ENGLISH] Check, please." "I hope you Iike barbecue." "Don't fall over yourself thanking me for spending six hours up a tree..." "...so you can eat." "What?" "Great." "I'II eat later." "You've been at that for days." "Give it a rest." "It's because I can do this." "Sure, kid." "When pigs fly." "[STATIC CRACKLING AND MAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "You've gotta be kidding me." "Can you clean this up?" "I don't know." "I don't know how I got this far." "MAN:" "Continue approach, 463 heavy." "Mayday, mayday, mayday." "This is WedgetaiI 325." "pilot and passenger down." "WOMAN:" "Four-six-three heavy cleared to land, Runway 27, right." "Wind 260 degrees, ten knots." "I repeat, pilot and passenger down on the island of Lian Yu." "Request immediate rescue." "MAN:" "Cleared to land, Runway 27, right." "Four-six-three heavy." "They can't hear us, and we can't call out." "We're still trapped." "[BUZZING]" "What?" "The Triad have hired a contract killer." "Yeah?" "The one you put in the morgue?" "congratulations, you're the talk of the station again." "[IN ALTERED VOICE] lf they hired one, they're gonna hire another, detective." "Who's the target?" "I'm trying to find out, hitting dead ends." "Put your people on it." "My people don't work for you, and come to think of it, neither do I." "It's not about you and me, detective." "It's about saving a life." "call me back when you got a name." "hall." "Yes, sir?" "You and me, we're gonna catch that vigilante." "CHINA:" "There are five exit routes from the main floor that need to be cut off." "Once the fire alarm goes off, we'II have less than 30 seconds to disable MerIyn's private security and force him outside with the others." "Once he's outside, the rest will be up to Mr. Lawton." "Roger that." "[TYPING ON KEYBOARD]" "You look handsome." "I try not to." "It just keeps happening." "[BOTH LAUGH]" "What's the occasion?" "I decided to go to my dad's thing." "really?" "Are you sure?" "Oh, mostly." "Did you want me to go with you?" "No, no, no." "I know you have work to do." "I promise I will be fine." "[DOOR OPENS THEN CLOSES]" "[PHONE BUZZING]" "[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]" "[CHATTERING]" "MALCOLM:" "You look beautiful." "Thank you." "If you're free, maybe after the ceremony we could have dinner and talk like we used to." "I'd Iike that." "[MICROPHONE FEEDS BACK]" "That's my cue." "Ha, ha." "I've been trying to avoid him all evening." "If we didn't show, it'd look suspicious." "How can you talk to him that way, as if nothing is about to happen?" "I've been living this lie for five years." "Five more minutes won't matter." "Good evening, ladies and gentlemen." "Now, tonight's honoree needs very little introduction." "It is neither his wealth nor his name that we celebrate here tonight but it is his efforts in making StarIing City a better and safer place to live." "So please help me welcome StarIing City's Humanitarian of the Year Mr. MaIcoIm MerIyn." "[CROWD APPLAUDING]" "Thank you." "[McKENNA CHUCKLES]" "Right, and so that's a stage, and most nights we'II have a band." "Somebody cool." "Is fall Out Boy still cool?" "They broke up." "And never." "So somebody else will pick the bands." "[FOALS' "LATE NIGHT" PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "Something bothering you?" "Don't say no, because you're a terrible liar." "really?" "I thought I was getting better at it." "Mm-mm." "What's wrong?" "There's a Iot of stuff going on in my Iife." "Work, friends." "And I'm having a difficult time figuring out how to fit it all in." "I've been struggling with some of those thoughts." "Do you have any good ideas?" "I think we just have to be really honest about what's going on in our lives." "Think you can do that?" "Come on, come on." "I'm in." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Yes." "Way to go, felicity Smoak." "You don't happen to speak Spanish, do you?" "Arabic." "Le sigh." "Okay." "Oh, my God." "You know I'm there for you." "Excuse me, Mr. Queen." "The IT Department has that item that you requested." "One sec." "McKENNA:" "Okay." "You find the target?" "oliver, the target is Tommy's father." "At the award ceremony?" "Tommy's there." "McKenna, Mr. DiggIe is gonna take you home." "I have some unexpected business." "It's okay." "[PHONE BUZZING]" "QUENTIN:" "What?" "OLIVER [IN ALTERED VOICE]:" "The target is Malcolm Merlyn." "Establish a perimeter, but keep your distance." "I don't want the police caught in the cross fire." "The true humanitarian in the MerIyn family was my wife, Rebecca." "Many of you here knew her." "She tirelessly devoted herself to helping those less fortunate in the glades." "I Iike to think that if the man who murdered her knew her knew the work that she did, knew the person that she was he would have helped her to her car, made sure she was safe instead of stealing her purse and shooting her." "The truth is I haven't done enough for this city." "My city." "I've failed it." "But I promise you, I am not finished yet." "I promise you that this city will be better for all of us." "And on that day, I will look at this beautiful award and feel that I have earned it." "I thank you." "[BEEPS]" "Thank you very much." "[ALARM CHIRPING]" "MAN 1 Ladies and gentlemen, please exit calmly and quietly through the glass sliding doors." "MAN 2:" "Get outside, get outside." "Tommy." "[ALARM CHIRPING]" "[WHIRRING THEN BEEPING]" "MerIyn's not taking the bait." "Change of plans." "I don't like improvisation." "Drive him upstairs to his penthouse office." "I'II need to switch vantage points." "MALCOLM:" "Tommy." "Tommy?" "Come with me." "There's an exit on the second floor." "I wasn't leaving until I knew you were safe." "[SIRENS WAILING]" "GREEN ARROW [IN ALTERED VOICE]:" "Go somewhere safe." "I'II hold them off." "Go now!" "Come on." "TOMMY:" "Where are we going?" "MALCOLM:" "Up." "TOMMY:" "Who were those guys?" "MALCOLM:" "I don't know." "TOMMY:" "They were trying to kill you." "Seems that way." "We're going up?" "Without any bodyguards?" "Dad, we need to get out of here." "Tommy, take a deep breath and trust me." "Upstairs in my office there's a panic room." "We get there, we seal it off." "MerIyn's headed to the penthouse." "Why do you want MaIcoIm MerIyn dead?" "I'II settle for you." "[MEN GROANING]" "Wait!" "MALCOLM:" "Let's go." "You killed him." "As surely as he would have killed you." "Come on, move, move, move." "electromagnetic locks." "What if they cut the power?" "This floor is on an entire separate grid." "The glass?" "Lexan, bulletproof." "It's over." "How did you know how to do that?" "What?" "Fight." "kill." "Dad?" "[GROANS]" "McKENNA:" "Freeze!" "S.C.P.D. Put the bow down." "[COUGHS AND GRUNTING]" "Tommy, you okay?" "Dad!" "Dad?" "Turn around slowly." "Dad." "Dad." "I'm sorry." "Unh." "I'm okay." "I'm okay." "Damn it." "No, no, no." "You're bleeding." "You're bleeding." "I'II be fine." "I'II" "No, no, no." "Dad!" "Dad!" "No." "Stay back." "GREEN ARROW [IN ALTERED VOICE]:" "I'm not here to hurt you or your father." "I said, stay back." "[SIRENS WAILING IN DISTANCE]" "GREEN ARROW:" "It's a curare." "Don't come any closer." "Your father has been poisoned." "An assassin named floyd Lawton Iaces his bullets with curare." "I've dealt with this." "We need to dilute the poison in his bIood" "I said, stay the hell back." "In three minutes he's paralyzed." "In four minutes he suffocates." "If you don't let me help you now, he's dead before anybody gets here." "help?" "How?" "Fresh blood buys him time to get to the hospital." "A blood transfusion?" "That's insane." "It's the only way." "He needs your blood." "You're out of time." "You need to make a decision right now." "Why should I trust you?" "[IN NORMAL VOICE] Because you always have." "oliver." "OLIVER:" "Okay." "Ready?" "Do it." "I'm done." "hold his arm." "Come on, come on, come on." "You're the vigilante." "Why?" "Later." "He's still gonna need medical attention to clean out his system, understand?" "Okay." "Thank you." "Tommy?" "I'm right here, Dad." "McKENNA:" "What did the Hood say?" "TOMMY:" "He didn't say anything." "McKENNA:" "You let a homicidal maniac talk you into a blood transfusion instead of calling the paramedics?" "TOMMY:" "My father's life was at stake." "So first the Hood rescues you and Queen from those kidnappers now he saves your old man but he's taking down every other 1 percenter out there?" "Is this guy a friend of yours, MerIyn?" "I don't know who the hell he is." "[STATIC CRACKLING AND WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]" "If they can't hear us, then what's the point?" "SLADE:" "Wait." "You still might have done us some good." "FYERS: --0500 hours from my mark." "Final deployment is five-by-five." "That's Fyers." "I've tuned in to the soldiers' frequency." "MAN:" "Scylla is en route." "ETA 0600 hours at the southwest bay." "FYERS:" "I'll call you when Scylla is in my possession." "Fyers out." "Who was Fyers talking to?" "I don't know." "Sounds like someone off this island." "Maybe his benefactor." "More importantly, who or what is ScyIIa?" "The ScyIIa and Charybdis." "It's the Odyssey, from one of the four nightmare chapters." "ScyIIa was a monster." "I wanna meet this monster." "Am I going alone?" "How does it feel to save a 1 percenter?" "Looks like MerIyn is gonna be okay." "They took him to StarIing general." "Good thing he was wearing a bulletproof vest." "He's not in the hospital because he was shot." "He was poisoned by curare." "[SIGHS]" "Lawton's alive." "I'm sorry, John." "This Lawton kick his dog or something?" "No." "He killed his brother." "SLADE:" "Damn." "What?" "What is it?" "You were right." "ScyIIa is a monster." "A Russian-made S-300 antiaircraft missile launcher." "It can simultaneously track up to a hundred targets whilst engaging in at Ieast a dozen." "I mean, from here they could shoot down a commercial airliner or start a war." "[CHATTERING]" "McKENNA:" "Hey, you're here." "Yeah." "walk with me?" "I heard you were there." "You okay?" "I'm fine." "Listen, McKenna I'm really sorry I had to run out on you." "Don't worry." "Five more minutes, and I would've had to run out on you." "Our lives are complicated." "But I'm willing to figure us out if you are." "willing and able." "[GASPS AND GRUNTS]" "Hey." "Hey, Dad, Dad, Dad." "Take it easy." "You were shot." "The bullet was laced with poison." "I should be dead." "I gave you a blood transfusion." "actually, it was the vigilante's idea." "He saved you." "He did?" "I was worried I was gonna lose you." "I'm not going anywhere." "You said that after Mom died but you left." "I wasn't a very good father to you after your mother passed away." "I was so lost." "You never told me where you went." "I found myself in a place called Nanda Parbat." "I met a man there." "He helped me make sense of things." "He helped me to find a purpose for my Iife to make this city a better place for everyone." "especially for you." "How are you gonna do that?" "MOIRA:" "malcolm." "Tommy, could I talk to Moira for a minute?" "Thank God you're all right." "We have a traitor in our midst." "I want you to find out who." "He just made his last mistake." "[WOMAN SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER PA]" "My dad's gonna be okay, thanks to you." "It's thanks to you." "I once asked you what happened to you on that island." "You said "A Iot."" "That doesn't quite cover it." "Tommy" "I saw you kill those guys who kidnapped us when you first got back, didn't I?" "I...." "I know you have a Iot of questions." "Yeah." "Yeah, but for now just the one." "Were you ever gonna tell me?" "No." "Tommy, I saw it all on the news." "I'II be there as soon as I can." "Okay, bye." "hello, laurel." "Mom." "What are you doing here?" "I need to talk to you." "About what?" "I know I've made mistakes." "Yeah." "Yes, you have." "[LAUREL SIGHS]" "Look, I have to go." "Why don't you send me an e-maiI or a postcard some time?" "I have something important I need to discuss with you." "What could be so important after all this time?" "It's about Sara." "What about her?" "I think she may be alive." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now, I will fulfill my father's dying wish:" "to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "Previously on Arrow:" "Mom?" "It's about Sara." "What about her?" "I think she may be alive." "OLIVER:" "I'm not here to hurt you or your father." "Why should I trust you?" "Because you always have." "This is my daughter, helena." "When her father killed her fiancé, she changed into something dark and twisted." "I have been alone in my hate for so long." "What is this?" "Payback." "The police have him in custody." "He's going to jail and then to prison." "HELENA:" "I'm not going to stop." "[NICKI MINAJ'S "VA VA VOOM" PLAYING OVER SPEAKER]" "Hey, mister." "You feel like a dance?" "SABATONI:" "absolutely." "Tonight your first night?" "Hmm?" "First." "And last, Gus." "[SABATONI GROANS]" "helena?" "I'm looking for my father." "I figure if anybody knows where he is, it wouId be his attorney." "I don't." "Ow." "Whoa!" "helena, I swear I'd tell you where the FBI is keeping Frank but after your father and I made his plea deal to testify the feds, they stopped telling me anything." "please." "You have to believe me." "I do." "Hey, Gus, song's over, man." "You still in there?" "[ENGINE REVS]" "Oh, my gosh." "It looks amazing." "[OLIVER CHUCKLES]" "Yeah." "Steve Aoki's gonna DJ right there." "What?" "How did you get Steve Aoki?" "I dated his sister." "A million years ago." "A million years ago." "Okay." "So will you be my date tomorrow night?" "Is a club opening a proper date?" "I certainly hope so." "Is that a yes?" "No." "That's a yes." "laurel, I'm glad you called." "Two months is too long for us to go without talking." "LAUREL:" "Dad, I have to tell you" "No, listen." "Before you say anything, I got to apologize." "I should never have used you to catch the archer and I'm sorry." "laurel, I'm just" " I'm sorry." "Thank you." "I owe you an apology too." "For what?" "DINAH:" "hello, Quentin." "How are you?" "You look well." "What are you doing here?" "Why are you here?" "I'm here because I believe Sara's still alive." "What?" "Dad." "Sit." "What is going on?" "Just hear Mom out." "Sit." "What's going on?" "Start from the beginning." "oliver was found on an island called Lian Yu in the North China Sea." "There are hundreds, thousands of deserted islands in this chain." "What if Sara had survived too?" "Nobody would know if she'd washed up in any of those." "So you don't actually have any proof that she's alive?" "I have proof." "A tourist took this." "could be anybody." "Doesn't it look just like Sara?" "Our daughter's a survivor, Quentin." "You have some nerve." "Three years, no phone calls, no e-maiIs, nothing." "You just show up with an old photo" " No." "Dad, please." "please, you listen to me, okay?" "Sara died on that boat." "Why are you making me re-Iive this?" "Why you doing this?" "LAUREL:" "Dad...." "LANCE:" "No." "So I told Chris and Shane they could be our plus ones tonight to oliver's club, if they're lucky." "We both have plus ones, right?" "Uh...." "I don't know." "hold on just a second." "I didn't know purse snatchers took coffee breaks." "For a stuck-up rich-bitch, you spend a Iot of time here in the glades." "My job's around here." "You have ajob?" "THEA:" "Yeah." "You should try it." "Instead of hanging out on a street corner waiting to boost somebody's handbag." "Sounds good." "Know anyone hiring high-schooI dropouts with a couple priors no references and a history of violence?" "actually, I might." "You know that new club opening in the glades?" "Verdant?" "My brother owns it." "I think they might be hiring valet attendants." "You think it's a good idea, me taking the keys to strangers' cars?" "I think it's time you put up or shut up." "talk to your brother." "OLIVER:" "Yo." "Hey." "Where you been?" "I thought I'd give myself a rare morning in." "Don't look at me like that." "The club is opening finally." "McKenna and I are going on date number six tonight which is...." "It's significant." "And, uh, I don't know." "It seemed like a good day to give the bad guys a rest." "well, it's the bad girls that I'm worried about." "helena." "Yes, or as I Iike to call her your psycho ex-girIfriend." "This was taken at alley Cats, the strip joint." "The police report lists the stiff's name as Gus Sabatoni." "That's BertineIIi's lawyer." "Why would she come back just for him?" "Not like he did a good job." "Her father's serving consecutive life sentences." "Come on, we both knew this was just a matter of time." "You tried to help her, you couldn't." "Now the only question is how long before she drops a dime on you me, this whole operation." "Okay." "I want you to get in touch with our contacts in the Bratva." "talk to anyone on the street, figure out where helena is, why she's back." "Okay, but OIiver" "If she's here, she's here for a reason." "If that's not Frank, need to know what she has planned." "Okay." "[WOMEN LAUGHING]" "Speedy?" "THEA:" "Oh, we're in here." "Look who's back." "She was just telling me about your guys' first date at Russo's." "hello, oliver." "ollie, I kind of have this pseudo friend that's looking for ajob." "I was wondering if the club's still hiring?" "Yes." "Of course." "talk to Tommy." "As a matter of fact, you can go upstairs and call Tommy right now." "Great." "You rock." "Where have you been?" "Um...." "barcelona." "Monaco." "Budapest." "I just needed to forget who I was." "And how much I missed you." "Do you mean like you missed Gus Sabatoni?" "I thought you were done with your father's organization, helena." "Because he's serving consecutive life sentences in Iron Heights prison." "You got your revenge." "He just cut a deal with the Justice Department to testify against the East Coast family." "In 48 hours, Witness Protection will give him a new name, a new life and he'II be off the grid forever, untraceable." "I'm sorry." "I'm sorry." "My father doesn't deserve a second chance, a second life." "And I can't take on a phalanx of U.S. marshals." "Not without help." "No." "That's murder." "It's not justice." "MOIRA:" "Oh, there you are." "I have a question about your opening tonight." "hello." "Hi." "oliver, who is your friend?" "Oh." "Mom, this is helena." "helena, this is my mother." "Hi." "Nice to meet you." "helena was just leaving." "Yes." "I have a family engagement." "OLIVER:" "Excuse us for a minute." "MOIRA:" "Of course." "I guess I will just have to be more persuasive." "fortunately, you have a family too." "She was in my house." "She made a not-so-veiIed threat." "I want extra security around my mother and sister." "Way ahead of you, man." "Thank you." "It's my job." "For not saying "I told you so."" "Night's young." "Where you been?" "The club's opens in four hours." "I've been dealing with the vendors." "No, you haven't." "Tommy." "We need to talk." "I'm sorry." "But I kept this a secret to protect the people that are closest to me." "Do you think that's what I care about?" "What, that my feelings are hurt?" "You're a murderer." "A killer." "You were my best friend in life, but now it's like I don't even know you." "You're right." "I've changed." "Listen, buddy, now I can explain to you." "I can explain to you how and why" "What'd be the point?" "I wouldn't believe a word of it anyway." "One of those missiles has an effective range of up to 2400 kilometers." "We're not going anywhere until we figure out what Fyers is planning." "wild guess?" "He's planning on blowing something up." "well, one of those could do that job." "But this?" "This is about starting a war." "With who?" "What does it matter?" "We have to stop Fyers before he kills thousands of innocent people." "There are a ton of soldiers." "Even if we get through all of them, we can't just steal a whole missile launcher." "well, who said anything about stealing it?" "So, what's the plan?" "Ambush?" "impossible." "Can't take out six without one radioing for backup." "It'd be good if we could get all the soldiers in one place." "You're right." "What is--?" "Damn thing." "What did the stapler ever do to you?" "What is it?" "I'm busy." "The Hood's girlfriend's back." "Dad, I'm sorry about this morning." "But if I told you the real reason to come see me, you wouldn't have shown up." "You're damn right I wouldn't." "So you really believe this garbage about Sara being alive on fantasy island?" "I mean, no." "But what would it hurt to take a look at everything that Mom found?" "Even if it's just to set her straight." "You know how long it's taken to get to a place where Sara isn't the first thing I think about every morning." "Dad." "[SIGHS]" "tell your mom I'm not making any promises." "[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[CROWD CHEERING]" "MOIRA:" "To Verdant." "I know I haven't always been supportive of this venture but I have to admit this nightclub is quite an accomplishment." "I'm proud of you." "Your father would be too." "Thank you." "Yeah, congratulations, ollie." "Your club doesn't totally suck." "Thanks, Speedy." "Thank you very much, all of you, for coming." "There you are." "This place is amazing." "I'm so proud of you and ollie." "Thanks." "Is everything okay?" "I'm great." "well, breakfast was a disaster." "Breakfast with my parents." "Right." "That was this morning." "Sorry." "Are you sure everything's okay?" "Because you seem completely off." "I'm fine." "I promise." "Tommy." "Tommy." "Did you call Roy yet?" "I Ieft him a message." "He starts tomorrow." "Which reminds me, I have to go check in with the office." "Excuse me." "Hey, Tommy." "Remember me?" "I'm sorry to bother you." "Your timing is perfect." "I can't dance." "They said it was urgent." "You okay?" "OLIVER:" "Yeah." "We ran out of cristal." "I'II be right back." "Oh." "Dig?" "Let him go." "He has nothing to do with this." "I told you." "oliver, I warned you." "helena, this isn't you." "My father is a mobster and a murderer." "It is not Iike you haven't killed men like that before." "And I tried to teach you to obtain your objective without killing." "By applying leverage." "By exploiting someone's weakness." "[TOMMY SCREAMING]" "There is a whole club full of leverage above our heads right now." "please." "oliver, don't make me do something that both of us will regret." "Okay." "Okay, I" " You win." "I'II help you." "Let him go." "Let him go." "[TOMMY SCREAMS]" "Don't say it." "Okay." "Then let's talk about helena." "oliver, if you didn't have feelings for this girl, you would have a different solution than letting her extort you into killing." "What do you want me to do?" "You want me to kill her?" "I think you would have if she looked like me instead of the T-MobiIe girl." "She's a stone-coId killer, oliver." "She's not evil." "She's been lost since her father killed her fiancé in cold blood." "And are you gonna sit there and tell me that you don't know what it's like to want revenge?" "What would you do, hmm?" "If floyd Lawton was standing right there?" "Nothing that would involve bIackmaiIing you into hunting him down." "You're right." "Okay?" "I can't kill her." "And I can't take her to the police and risk her exposing all of this." "But at Ieast if I'm involved, I can contain her, all right?" "I can minimize the collateral damage." "Sorry, am I interrupting something?" "We were just talking about you." "And here I thought you didn't care much for me." "still don't." "I haven't been able to locate where the FBI is keeping your father." "I can help." "I've been dying to hack into the FBI's security system." "Get out." "Get out." "This is a private thing, felicity." "please." "Oh." "Okay." "See you." "I guess." "How many girlfriends do you have exactly?" "Like I said, we don't know where the safe house is." "What we know is that the marshall service is taking your father to a hearing at the Justice Department tonight." "There's a problem, Helena." "There are two vans." "And one of them's a decoy." "well, it's a good thing there's two of us." "It's not too late to call this off." "I think you know me better than that." "I don't take prisoners." "OLIVER:" "Hey!" "I found an intruder while I was circling the perimeter." "It's wilson." "SOLIDER:" "You killed a few of my friends, son of a bitch." "And I'm gonna kill a few more." "I'II talk to one of our lawyers and have them call you right back." "Cut yourself shaving?" "Hi." "Hey." "You got a minute?" "Sure." "How was Roy's first day?" "Kid never showed." "Um...." "I just, uh" " I came by to apologize for last night." "Instead of an apology, why don't you try the truth?" "You can start with your wrist." "I got into a fight with a blender at the club." "It was stupid." "I thought I asked for the truth." "I know something's up." "Why won't you tell me what's going on?" "Because I can't." "Why not?" "I can't tell you that either." "I wish that I couId." "laurel, I'm sorry." "So am I." "I really need you right now, Tommy." "My mother shows up saying my dead sister is still alive and my father is furious with me that I'm even listening to her." "And I don't know who to believe." "I feel like I'm falling apart." "laurel, I'm still here for you." "No, you're not." "You're a million miles away and the worst part is, I don't even know why." "I'm sorry." "Wow." "stalker much?" "You didn't show up for the job." "Yeah, I had second thoughts..." "...about parking your brother's bentley." "Being a valet is beneath you?" "No." "But accepting charity from some rich girl is." "Why are you so obsessed with the fact that I have money?" "You know, money isn't everything." "Spoken like someone who's got it." "Now, if you'II excuse me, I need to get back to my Iife of crime." "[SIGHS]" "Yo." "Can you help me out?" "I think I'm lost." "Where's downtown at?" "I don't know." "Maybe you can give us some directions." "Or, better yet, some money." "You okay?" "You're bleeding!" "Yeah, you know, that's what happens when you get stabbed." "[GROANS]" "Just your father." "Anyone else gets hurt and I'II put an arrow into you." "That's sweet." "Now I know how you charmed your cop girlfriend." "[POLICE DISPATCHER SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY OVER RADIO]" "[POLICE SIREN WAILING IN DISTANCE]" "[CAR HORN HONKING]" "Give me Frank BertineIIi!" "[POLICE SIREN WAILING]" "LANCE:" "Your father's not in the van." "But he sends his regards." "Where's the Hood?" "McKENNA:" "helena BertineIIi you have the right to remain silent." "Damn it." "McKENNA:" "Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law." "You have the right to an attorney." "paul Copani." "Nick SaIvati." "Gus Sabatoni." "You are quite the hunter, Miss BertineIIi." "well, I guess I should make that "huntress."" "You've been taking down everyone in your father's criminal organization." "When Gus Sabatoni turned up dead we knew it was just a matter of time before you tried to murder your old man." "Do you want to tell us why?" "Not particularly." "You should reconsider." "We got you, but the vigilante got away before ESU could move on him." "You know who he is." "Who he really is." "Don't you?" "[LANCE CHUCKLES]" "Ms. BertineIIi, you're going away for all day." "We can't change that." "But things can be better." "Or they could be worse." "You tell me his name, I will do everything I can to make it better." "oliver Queen." "You're dating him now, right?" "I saw you at the opening of his club last night." "Did he mention that we used to be lovers?" "We want to know about the Hood, not oliver Queen." "Let me let you in on a little secret." "It's not gonna work out between you two." "You see, oliver has a particular talent." "He uses people." "He used me." "He used the detective here's daughter." "Excuse me, daughters." "I would get out of it before you get yourself hurt." "Last chance." "His name." ""The Hood."" "[BELL RINGING]" "What the hell is going on?" "McKENNA:" "I don't know." "Let's go." "MAN 1 Get out of here." "MAN 2:" "Can't see anything." "LANCE:" "Freeze!" "[DART GUN FIRES]" "DOCTOR:" "Sounds like quite the daring rescue." "You're very lucky to have a friend like Roy, Thea." "Oh, don't I know it." "We're not friends." "well, Iet me get you stitched up and then you two can decide what you are or aren't." "You are such ajerk." "Roy, what's the matter?" "Nothing." "I just don't see why I need a shot." "Oh, don't tell me a tough gangbanger like yourself is afraid of a tiny little needle." "It doesn't look so tiny." "well, just think about something else." "Besides the needle." "Like what?" "Okay, now this could sting a little." "Done." "Now, that wasn't so bad, was it?" "Thanks for the save." "I couldn't risk you telling police about me." "Is that the only reason?" "Why can't you just admit that you still have feelings for me too?" "What is it?" "A plane ticket to Rome and a passport so you can start a new life somewhere else." "The police know you're tracking your father, helena." "You'II never find him." "So get out of my city." "place these around the launcher." "Do it quickly." "Their backup will be arriving any second." "SOLDIER [OVER RADIO]:" "We are 60 seconds out from the launcher." "Set your final charges and we'II blow it." "I think I have a better idea." "What are you doing?" "I'm taking the circuit board." "Computers won't work without them." "Neither will this." "Leverage." "I'm sorry." "I should've called." "No, it's okay." "Come on in." "Are you sure?" "Yeah, yeah." "Thank you." "I'm surprised, but I'm happy." "Yeah?" "Yeah." "Everything okay?" "I had a really rough night." "I just wasn't anticipating, with my work and the club I feel like I'm letting everybody down." "My family and Tommy and you." "I feel like I'm letting you down." "You're being too hard on yourself." "We both have demanding jobs." "That's no excuse for hurting the people closest to you." "No, but when you believe in what you do, you find a way to make it work." "How?" "well, the first thing you do is you find yourself someone you never have to apologize to." "[PHONE VIBRATING]" "Hey, I was multitasking and intercepted a police report." "A local sporting goods store just got robbed of one high-powered crossbow." "Now, could be a crazy coincidence or your psycho ex-girIfriend" "Dig's words, not mine." "is still in town." "I'II let you know if I learn anything more." "In the meantime, just watch your back." "Hi." "I don't think we had a chance to be properly introduced this morning." "FeIicity?" "FELICITY:" "oliver." "oliver." "OLIVER:" "I'm here." "Are you okay?" "Hey." "Hey." "You okay?" "Got your call." "What happened?" "helena." "She wanted the address of the safe house where her father's kept." "She made me hack the FBI database." "I'm sorry, oliver." "Hey, it's not your fault." "oliver, what are you gonna do?" "What I should've done in the first place." "helena!" "DISPATCHER [OVER RADIO]:" "Code three, shots fired at the Bertinelli safe house." "This is HaII." "I'm on-site." "LANCE [OVER RADIO]:" "Wait for backup, detective." "That's an order." "You won't shoot me." "You're not a murderer, remember?" "OLIVER:" "But you are." "And if I let you go, that blood will be on my hands." "I'm sorry." "I practiced that move." "I had a feeling I might need it someday." "You would have killed me." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "Enough!" "Freeze!" "Put it down." "Turn around." "slowly." "No!" "McKenna." "[KNOCKS ON DOOR]" "Hey." "Hey." "How you feeling?" "Ah, numb." "Hey, don't move." "Okay." "Okay." "I met your doctor." "He's a nice guy." "He says you're lucky to be alive." "Yeah." "He also said I have a shattered femur and it's gonna take at Ieast a year to rehab." "I Ioved being a cop." "Oh, come on." "McKenna." "You're still a cop." "You have one more surgery, go home" "I'm not going home." "What?" "Moving to Coast City to live with my sister." "They have the best physical therapy facility in the country there." "I'II visit." "I told you, I'm a billionaire, right?" "Yeah." "I'II move to Coast City." "That's very sweet, but your club just opened." "And your work is here." "Don't worry about me." "It's my responsibility to worry about you." "Just stop, okay?" "Listen, you know how I feel about you." "please don't make this harder than it already is." "Okay." "Okay." "It's, uh...." "It's whatever you need." "[SIGHS]" "cleaning out your desk?" "No." "A friend's." "Um...." "You asked to see me?" "Take a seat." "I'm ready to listen now." "Thank you." "TOMMY:" "Hey." "I, uh, heard about McKenna." "You okay?" "Not really." "Look, I know that I have been ajerk lately." "I just couldn't understand how you could keep such a huge secret from me." "But I never considered the toll it must take on you." "Lying to the people that are closest to me." "It's the hardest part." "I get that." "[SIGHS]" "I was wrong to think that I couId have it both ways that I can do what I do and still have a normal life." "With anyone." "Except if you're alone you're never gonna be happy." "Maybe not." "But me being happy isn't what's important right now." "Your plan." "Your call." "Fyers." "Mr. Queen, I thought I might be hearing from you." "We have the circuit board." "You are making a grave mistake." "My men are scouring the island for you as we speak." "And when they find you, they will kill you." "Very slowly, I'm afraid." "If your men kill us, you'II never find the circuit board." "After that, we both know all you'll be left with is a really ugly piece of modern art." "Then what do you propose?" "A trade." "FYERS:" "I see." "And what do you want in exchange?" "I want a way off the island." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Mom?" "What are you doing here?" "I believe Sara's still alive." "You don't actually have any proof." "I have proof." "Doesn't it look just like Sara?" "I did manage to find one thing." "I want to get out." "malcolm MerIyn." "I want you to kill him for me." "If we have a traitor in our midst, he just made his last mistake." "Lawyers for John Nickel spoke to the press today." "They say they're pleased the DA declined to indict their client on charges stemming from the recent fire in one of Nickel's buildings." "OLIVER:" "nickel is one of the wealthiest real estate developers in starling City." "He's also one of the dirtiest." "That building that burnt down last night, the wiring was not up to code." "Maybe he didn't know." "He didn't know about the seven people who have frozen to death in his other buildings." "Yeah, he's a real man of the people." "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "Not for long." "The DA ignores this and the police can't do anything because all these slums are in the glades." "So tonight, felicity, we cross Mr. nickel's name off the list." "You okay with that?" "ANCHOR [ON COMPUTER]:" "The scene outside of the courtroom where Nickel was released..." "...was, not surprisingly, tense." "One hundred percent." "[CROWD CHATTERING ON COMPUTER]" "[COMMENTATOR SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY ON TV]" "[GLASS BREAKS]" "[FOOTSTEPS APPROACHING]" "[YELLS]" "[YELLING]" "[GRUNTING]" "[SCREAMS]" "FELICITY:" "He was just gone?" "No, not gone." "Taken." "Looks like nickel was on somebody else's list." "After the fire last night, it's not entirely surprising." "felicity, get everything that you can on nickel." "Focus on his tenants, anyone who might have filed a formal complaint against him..." "...or people that lost something in the fire." "FELICITY:" "It's gonna be some list." "SIumIords aren't generally known for their popularity." "plus...." "What?" "FELICITY:" "Nothing." "It's just...." "You went over there to be all, "Grr, stop being bad or I'II arrow you."" "Now you want to rescue him?" "I don't like the idea that somebody dangerous is out there." "Somebody else." "Because typically they don't show my level of restraint." "So you're gonna cross nickel off anyway?" "No." "I'm finding somebody else who needs a taIking-to." "DIGGLE:" "You're going out there again, oliver?" "Go be with your family." "That's when the work is done." "Okay, I'II take you out to dinner." "I'm not hungry." "DIGGLE:" "I'm not asking." "OLIVER:" "simple exchange." "You get us off the island, we'II give you the circuit board so your missile launcher isn't just furniture." "You've grown up quite a bit, Mr. Queen." "I'II give you that." "I can get you a boat." "[OVER RADIO] But I need time." "You got an hour, Fyers, and then you're never" "[WHISPERS] What?" "It might take you longer than an hour to get a boat." "What we mean is you need to move with some dispatch." "Oh, wilson, still in command there, eh?" "I thought your little pet had staged a coup d'etat." "Just get us the damn boat." "[ON STEREO] I got a fatal heart I'm tied to the living Got a tortured soul I can't give it away" "Gonna find a line" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "Oh, now you wanna stop?" "well, we don't all have butlers." "Some of us actually have to answer our own doors." "Oh, the horror." "TURK:" "You look familiar." "I see you on TV or something?" "probably." "I'm Thea Queen." "Heh." "Yeah, right." "Did you get it?" "Tomorrow night." "Joe wants us there at 11 p.m." "He said to be on time, Harper." "I'd say I told you so But I know you never listen" "What's happening tomorrow at 11 ?" "I'm actually focused on what's happening right now." "Oh, okay." "Yeah." "No, no, Thea, don't." "No." "Why do you have a gun?" "Because I'm no good with knives." "Look, it's just a liquor store." "The guy's a creep." "Trust me, he deserves it." "Look, if it'II make you feel any better I won't be armed." "The owner won't know that but...." "I got you ajob at my brother's club." "You have choices." "You don't have to be a criminal." "I'm not talking about phone bills." "I owe people." "people with much bigger guns than this." "Look, here in the glades this is pretty much the only solution." "No, lots of people in the glades live honest lives." "obviously not you." "You're just a waste." "Thea." "Thea." "Let me make sure you get home okay." "Don't bother." "Yeah." "Mm-hm." "Yeah." "Yeah." "Hey, honey." "Here you go." "What's all this?" "well, you asked me to look into your mother's leads on Sara so I made some calls." "It looks like you did a Iot more than that." "You're the one that said we should do this, laurel." "If there's a chance your sister" "Yeah, but-- DINAH:" "Thank you." "Hi, sweetheart, I'm sorry about the mess." "Quentin, I just got off the phone with the consulate in Phuket." "The secretary there's gonna run Sara's photo against their database..." "...see if there's a match." "That's good work." "What?" "well, I guess I just thought deep down that you were going to help Mom accept things." "Things you and I accepted." "Um...." "Yeah, but you got to admit..." "...this girl, she looks a Iot like Sara." "DINAH:" "Sara had that same cap." "The starling City Rockets." "Your dad bought it, remember?" "Yeah, I remember." "Stranger things have happened." "Yeah." "I can see that." "Hungrier than I thought." "Are you waiting for me to finish before giving me the lecture?" "You've been spending a Iot of time under that hood." "Keeps my ears warm." "And you've made this decision to avoid entanglements?" "For their protection." "The people who get close to me get hurt." "What's the problem?" "Do you think I'm losing my grip?" "No, it's just the opposite, really." "You seem calm." "Scary calm." "Things didn't end well with helena, with McKenna" "With laurel." "With Sara." "The list goes on." "Yeah." "But what do you do?" "You hood up, you go home, you repeat." "Not much of a life." "The life that I'm leading for myself doesn't leave much room for an actual life." "And I don't need one." "Wow." "That's a pretty bleak future you plan on spending with no one." "[CELL PHONES CHIMING]" "I'm used to isolation." "And that is exactly what worries me." "You've been home for eight months, oliver, but I don't think you left that island yet." "[CELL PHONES CONTINUE CHIMING]" "What the hell is going on?" "[CELL PHONE BUZZING]" "[CELL PHONE CHIMES]" "Yeah?" "I found nickel." "click the link I sent you." "This came up on every screen with an IP address originating from the glades." "MAN [IN DISTORTED VOICE ON PHONE]:" "If you make the Glades your home you know who this man is." "John Nickel." "He owns your tenements, manages your slums." "He provides the leaking roofs over your heads the lead in your pipes, the asbestos in your walls." "Basically, he makes money off of our suffering." "But the police aren't interested in helping us." "They may have let us down, but I won't." "John, I want to give you the chance to state your case." "Why shouldn't you be punished?" "I knew there was bad stuff in my buildings." "Track him, felicity." "I'm looking." "Okay, yes, I made a little profit." "At least they had a place to live." "Without me, people like that would end up on the street." "MAN:" ""People like that."" "[NICKEL GRUNTING ON PHONE]" "MAN:" "That's all we are to guys like this." "[SCREAMS]" "MAN:" "John I find you guilty." "[GUNSHOTS ON PHONE]" "[CROWD GASPING AND MURMURING]" "MAN:" "There are plenty more people who need to answer for their crimes against us." "So who's next?" "Anything new?" "This guy's got more than a subscription to Wired." "His website's protected by serious encryption." "Use that air magnet thing." "oliver, no offense, but do I tell you how to sharpen your arrows?" "DIGGLE:" "Spoke to my friend at the NSA." "The website code matches a cyber crusader on their radar." "He hacks into fringe sites under the user name The Savior." "He's a former resident of the glades." "Former?" "Yeah, a year ago he hacked himself right off the radar." "Erased all traces of his existence." "So, what happened a year ago?" "SAVIOR [ON COMPUTER]:" "We're back." "I have with me Assistant District Attorney Gavin Carnahan." "[CARNAHAN GRUNTING ON COMPUTER]" "SAVIOR:" "Now, das are supposed to go after bad guys." "But this one can't even be bothered to bring them to trial." "Like the ones who killed my wife in a bodega." "FeIicity?" "FELICITY:" "I'm on it." "SAVIOR:" "You said there wasn't enough evidence." "You think evidence would have turned up if she'd been killed in one of Starling City's nicer neighborhoods?" "[CARNAHAN GRUNTING]" "Emma FaIk." "Husband is Joseph FaIk." "What do we have on him?" "Not much, 42, former city worker." "Department of Transportation, computer technician." "Left his job when she was killed." "One year ago today." "No current phone, no current address." "SAVIOR:" "Gavin, you're a lawyer." "You're used to making a case." "So go ahead." "I'm gonna give you 10 minutes to deliver the closing argument of your life." "Come on." "Trying to get a lock on his signal." "Ten minutes to convince me not to blow you away." "What did MaIcoIm want with you at the hospital?" "A target for reprisal." "He wants justice and he's not going to stop until he gets it." "Besides, this is good." "I think your definition of good requires an adjustment." "No, he came to me." "Which means he doesn't know that we're responsible for the attempt on his life." "Yet." "What are the chances of malcolm discovering who paid the Triad to assassinate him?" "I was discreet." "I wired the money through a shell corporation I own from an offshore account." "Offshore." "Good." "That's good." "I'm sending Amanda to London for a few weeks." "Just as a precaution." "Perhaps you should do the same for your family." "There's nothing I wouldn't do to protect my children, Frank." "Can I talk to you about something?" "AImost-woman to woman?" "I'm really busy right now." "Okay." "Thea." "Sorry." "What's up?" "I couId use some advice." "I'm sort of dating this guy who could definitely be described as a bad boy." "And I figured, as someone who's dated like a gajillion of them" "I haven't dated a gajillion." "AII right, guilty as charged." "You want my advice?" "Run." "As fast as you possibly can." "Yeah." "That was my first instinct too, but" "laurel?" "The Chinese embassy's on Iine two." "I'm transferring them over." "THEA:" "Chinese embassy?" "It's just this case that I'm working on." "But we are definitely continuing this conversation later." "Thank you so much for getting back to me." "I'm trying to track down the woman in the photo that I e-maiIed you." "You did." "really?" "And you're sure that she's in the States now?" "Do you happen to have an address on her?" "I got him!" "Shut it down." "Can't." "He has a firewall." "He's working off an IPX at 23rd and Mira." "DIGGLE:" "You gonna hood up?" "OLIVER:" "It's the middle of the day." "[CARNAHAN WHIMPERING]" "Look!" "Listen!" "Listen to me, okay?" "I have 53 cases on my desk right now." "l don't always have time-- SAVIOR:" "You should have made time." "OLIVER [OVER PHONE]:" "How's Carnahan?" "Not making a persuasive argument." "[HORN HONKS]" "OLIVER:" "I'm almost there." "See anything?" "I'm only on the first floor." "Just six more to go." "There aren't resources." "I tried." "Sorry!" "I'm sorry." "oliver, hurry." "Can't find him!" "He's not here, felicity." "What?" "I searched every office on every floor!" "He's not here." "Is this the right place?" "Are you sure?" "FELICITY:" "Yeah, I" "Oh, crap." "What?" "How is this possible?" "This can't happen." "He's" "talk to me!" "FELICITY [OVER PHONE]:" "Wait." "He moved." "Ocean and Grand." "On my way!" "I took on cases that were-- That I thought I couId" "SAVIOR:" "Win." "Yes." "I'm sorry." "[HORNS HONKING]" "SAVIOR:" "Gavin Carnahan, I find you guilty of crimes against the glades." "Don't do this!" "Don't do this!" "SAVIOR:" "I sentence you to death." "OLIVER:" "I'm at Ocean and Grand, and it's just a vacant lot." "How is this possible?" "He's" "[GUNFIRE]" "OLIVER:" "Find the right address now!" "He's...." "He's...." "oliver, it's over." "Carnahan is dead." "Where's DiggIe?" "I asked him to leave me alone." "In my loud voice." "This wasn't your fault." "I was the one who was supposed to find Carnahan and I was the one who sent you to that bogus location." "I've never seen anybody die." "Hey, this is the thing with what we do." "Sometimes we lose." "Maybe it is better being alone." "I'm not seeing anyone currently but if I were, I don't know how I'd tell him about today." "gentlemen." "welcome." "So happy we're able to reach an accord." "Oh, good." "small talk." "Are we gonna get on with this?" "As you wish." "Straight to business." "Circuit board." "Where is it?" "Somewhere safe." "So get us to the boat and then we'II tell you where it is." "And, of course, you'II be honest about its location." "SLADE:" "well, I wouldn't be." "But this one's got some strange hang-up about principles and integrity." "FYERS:" "Hmm." "I always imagined as much." "Which is why I'd Iike to make a counterproposal." "Men!" "[WOMAN GRUNTING]" "No." "No!" "Hey!" "[YAO FEI GRUNTING]" "deliver back to me the circuit board or I will kill Yao Fei's daughter." "So I wouldn't leave." "I can't imagine you want the death of an innocent young woman on your hands." "Not with your principles." "Hey." "LAUREL:" "Hi." "I wanted to do some research on my own into the evidence that you gathered on Sara so I called my friend from law school who works at the Chinese embassy and...." "The photo of the girl." "I found her." "I'm sorry." "Can I borrow your phone?" "I promised my fiancé that I'd call him before dinner." "Jenn, these are my parents." "Hi." "Nice to meet you." "Yeah, you too." "I told Jenn about this photograph that popped up in this case that I'm working on." "That's you in the picture?" "Yeah." "I spent six months on an island off the coast of China." "That was taken in a small fishing village named Zhengjiu." "It's Mandarin for" "salvation." "Are you all right, Mrs. Lance?" "Yes, I" "It's just, uh, you look like someone I used to know." "Wow." "I was waiting for this." "Waiting for what?" "For the whole "you can change, I see the real you" speech." "Look around, Thea." "This is home sweet home for me." "You starve or do things that mean you're lucky to make it to 21" "I can't accept that." "No, you can't accept me." "MAN:" "Roy Harper?" "ROY:" "Yeah?" "Unh!" "THEA:" "Roy!" "[ALL GRUNT]" "[CLICKING]" "More on the story out of the Glades." "The kidnapper seems to have another victim and is broadcasting the feed to his website." "A warning to viewers, this is live footage, so we're not sure what we're about to see." "SAVIOR [ON TV]:" "Meet Roy Harper." "Arrests, larceny, robbery, aggravated assault." "Yet you're out on the street." "Another gangbanger in the glades running free like the ones who killed my wife." "I grew up in the Glades too, and it didn't turn me into a criminal." "I know that kid." "How?" "THEA:" "ollie?" "OLIVER:" "Tommy?" "[SOBS]" "THEA:" "Oh, God, no." "I didn't know where else to go." "You know him?" "Roy." "He's my friend." "We were in a fight and some guy just attacked us." "He doesn't deserve to die." "I promise you he's gonna be okay." "You stay here with Tommy, all right?" "[CELL PHONE RINGS]" "hello?" "MALCOLM [OVER PHONE]:" "It's Malcolm." "I've learned a high-ranking member of the Triad was arrested." "I should have a word with him." "I already have." "He's agreed to find out who hired his organization to assassinate me in return for a reduced prison sentence." "Tonight we should know the name or names of the people who tried to kill me." "Good." "What are you doing?" "So it's not Sara in the photo." "But she's still out there, Quentin, and I'm going to find her." "Look, I understand now that neither of you have the stomach to continue looking for her." "And that's fine." "I'm sorry I involved you both." "You know that I would cross to hell and back to bring her home." "But I can't!" "Because she's gone, Di." "No." "You gotta let go of this now." "No." "I can't." "I won't." "How did you know Sara had her hat with her when she went on the boat?" "You were so sure that the girl in the photo was Sara not because she was American but because of her hat." "Her StarIing City Rockets hat that Dad bought her." "Mom how did you know she took her hat with her on the Queen's Gambit with oliver?" "I saw her." "What do you mean?" "I came home early that day and I saw her." "Sara." "I saw her put the hat in a bag." "She was packing." "You knew she was going with him?" "I told her not to." "I told her not to do this." "Not to you, laurel." "But she said she was in love and she had to follow her heart." "Even if nobody else thought it was right." "Just like I had told her" "Just like I told her I once did." "So I let her go." "[SOBS]" "I killed her." "[SOBBING]" "I killed my daughter." "I killed her." "I'm so sorry, Quentin." "I'm so sorry, Quentin." "I killed our baby." "OLIVER:" "Anything?" "I've been going through the video to see if there's anything that'II tell us where this guy is." "I got nothing except a sound." "Buried in the ambient noise." "almost rhythmic." "I've isolated it." "[THUDDING ON RECORDING]" "What is that?" "Sounds like a car driving over lane markers." "It has to be bigger than a car." "OLIVER:" "Bigger than a car?" "What, a bus?" "FELICITY:" "No." "DIGGLE:" "I know this." "I know it." "Come on, guys." "felicity, show me a map." "Sites of the abductions and where we've seen the signal so far." "Right there, right there." "23rd and Mira, LocksIey and Adams wells Street down by CNRI." "Those are all subway stops." "StarIing City doesn't have a subway." "They used to." "My dad used to take me to the Rockets game by subway." "I'd lean against the window feeling the rhythm of the train." "That's how he did it." "What?" "He was at 23rd and Mira, but he was underground." "He used to work for the Department of Transportation." "That's why he knows all the subway stops." "That's why I couldn't trace the signal." "OLIVER:" "Where is he now?" "He's on the old crosstown line." "He'II be at the Spring Street stop in 15 minutes." "Let the girl go." "No deal?" "Very well." "kill her." "No!" "[ALL GRUNTING]" "well, that was unexpected." "OLIVER:" "SIade!" "[GUNFIRE]" "[YAO FEI GROANS]" "Come on!" "Come on!" "Get her to safety." "Now!" "I will only slow you down." "Go!" "Papa." "Go!" "You've got to go!" "Go!" "It's happening." "SAVIOR:" "I'II give you 10 minutes to state your case, Roy." "[ON COMPUTER] So tell us, why do you get to live?" "I shouldn't." "Just do it." "kill me." "Go on!" "kill me!" "[IN NORMAL VOICE] You really don't care if you live or die?" "No one's gonna miss me." "I'm just a waste." "SAVIOR [IN DISTORTED VOICE]:" "Well, then, we agree on something." "This world will be better off without you in it." "[THUD]" "ANCHOR [ON TV]:" "We seem to have lost the feed." "We will stay on the story and keep you up to date on any developments." "Let the kid go." "If you kill this kid, he'II never get an opportunity to change." "You can give him a second chance." "[IN NORMAL VOICE] We're the only ones who can save this city." "We can't stop now." "We're not the same!" "SAVIOR:" "You've killed people for this city." "So have I." "What's the difference between you and me?" "Emma never got a second chance." "You have no idea how lonely it is." "Joseph." "Joseph!" "I understand being alone." "But it doesn't give you the right to kill people in cold blood." "He deserves it." "Just like the gangbangers who gunned her down." "He's no different." "And now I get to gun him down." "Don't do it!" "I better get going to the airport." "That red-eye to central City." "I should be home in a flash." "Mom." "call me sometime." "I'd really like that." "You would?" "Of course I would." "You're my mother." "I Iove you so much." "I Iove you too." "[OVER SPEAKERS] lt's a fine day" "People open windows" "[CELL PHONE BUZZES]" "It's a fine day" "People open windows" "I thought you were gonna die." "That makes two of us." "I probably look like a mess." "I'm gonna go to the bathroom and freshen way, way up." "Okay." "It's a fine day" "People open windows" "ollie?" "Hi." "Hey." "I heard Thea's friend was okay." "Yeah, that worked out okay." "This Roy is more than just a friend, isn't he?" "Bad boys." "They hook you ever time." "OLIVER:" "Yeah." "Oh, I think Tommy actually went home for the night." "Oh." "OLIVER:" "You all right?" "You seem like you're something other than all right." "My mom." "She showed up in town this week, and she's been...." "What?" "She had this crazy idea that Sara was still alive." "She was so sure of it that she kind of had me believing it also." "But Sara's gone." "Yeah." "I can't believe she sucked me in like that." "You miss her." "I miss them both." "Thanks for listening." "Of course." "laurel?" "You wanna have a dinner or coffee?" "I don't know." "Why?" "I don't want to be on an island anymore." "LAUREL:" "Sure." "Good night." "Good night." "SIade." "The circuit board's gone." "Damn." "Fyers played us." "while he was screwing us around, his men were combing the woods for it." "Now his missile launcher is fully operational." "He was never gonna let us off the island." "Of course he wasn't gonna help you." "He couldn't chance you warning the mainland." "She speaks english." "Yeah, well, guess what." "Neither one of us have any idea what his plans are." "I do." "MOIRA:" "Thank you for coming, Frank." "Meeting like this is dangerous, Moira." "particularly now." "MOIRA:" "Yes, I know." "malcolm knows." "What?" "I had no choice but to turn over what I discovered." "The evidence of the wire transfers." "Money that you paid to assassinate him." "The money I" " Ah!" "[GASPS]" "Moira." "DARK ARCHER:" "Mr. MerIyn thanks you for your loyalty." "You've done well." "Now Chen's family will share his fate." "Chen betrayed us but his daughter didn't." "tell Mr. MerIyn I want her to live." "Amanda nearly lost her life." "Now she's lost her father." "I think she's suffered enough." "DARK ARCHER:" "We must send a message." "We have." "DARK ARCHER:" "Very well." "Thank you." "[SOBBING]" "Thea's friend is upstairs." "I saw." "You probably saw they were very happy to see each other, if you know what I mean." "Which you probably don't wanna talk about, because she's your baby sister." "You okay?" "Getting there." "Thank you." "Psst." "By the way, if you ever need to tell someone about your day you can tell me." "Thanks." "What's that?" "DIGGLE:" "felicity pulled that up." "It's an old map of the decommissioned subway line." "Runs underneath the Iow-rent district of the city." "I've seen that map before." "It was right in front of our faces the entire time." "My father, the other archer, the Undertaking." "Whatever the plan is, it's all connected to the glades." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island, with only one goal survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "NARRATOR:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Who supplies you with Vertigo?" "They call him the Count!" "Fifty-six people died to perfect this high." "[GRUNTING]" "police never caught your brother's shooter." "bullets were laced with curare..." "...that's floyd Lawton's MO." "Lawton's alive." "I'm sorry, John." "FELICITY:" "Lawton kick his dog or something?" "He killed his brother." "[TECHNO MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "[CAR HORNS HONKING]" "[TIRES SCREECHING]" "[CAR HORN HONKS]" "OLIVER:" "How we doing?" "TOMMY:" "We are in the black and the green." "I Iike how we've gone from throwing money at clubs to catching it." "Oh, look at these." "What sort of business has a lost and found..." "...filled with women's underwear?" "Best business ever?" "Oh, having this much fun should be against the Iaw." "Oh, if wishing made it so." "Sorry, am I interrupting anything?" "TOMMY:" "Is laurel okay?" "She's fine." "This visit is about something else." "A girl just got mowed down a couple blocks from here." "On the starling Bridge." "Ring any bells with you two?" "No." "should she?" "LANCE:" "She was in your club tonight." "A Iot of people were." "You think someone killed her?" "Not someone." "Something." "Vertigo." "Yeah." "Had a problem with that in this club?" "Not that I'm aware of." "We don't allow drugs here, detective." "LANCE:" "control your clientele." "Before anyone else wanders into traffic." "Any chance she could have scored the drugs in here?" "Doubt it." "I tried not to hire too many drug dealers." "Get me a list of employees." "I'II have felicity cross-reference it for drug arrests." "That includes the two of us, you know." "[KEYPAD BEEPING]" "I thought the vigilante finished off the Count." "I did." "LANCE:" "Just need to ask him a few questions, doc." "You're welcome to try, detective." "Not sure you'II get very far." "LANCE:" "What does that mean?" "Is this a load about doctor-patient privilege?" "No." "The unrefined Vertigo overdose he suffered caused damage to the caudal portion of his anterior cingulate." "LANCE:" "You'II be shocked that I didn't go to medical school." "DOCTOR:" "I've been working with him for months." "AII I've gotten out of him is word salad, the occasional spit in the face." "Best of luck to you." "Yeah, thanks." "Here I was born and there I died." "It was only a moment for you." "You took no notice." "[GRUNTS]" "GREEN ARROW:" "A woman died tonight." "From your poison." "Lots of women die lots of nights, for lots of reasons." "Someone is selling Vertigo again." "Where is it coming from?" "I remember you." "Man in the hood." "You are never far from my thoughts." "Unh!" "You have failed this city!" "You have failed this city!" "You have failed this city!" "You could've just said he was nuts." "You have failed this city!" "[GRUNTING]" "You're teaching me that one." "only if you show me where the knife was." "Who taught you how to fight?" "My father wanted a son." "He got one." "SHADO:" "careful." "Tension on that bow's a hundred and fifty pounds." "Snap it, you'II end up with carbon fiber shrapnel in your eyes." "SLADE:" "She's right." "You're not strong enough, kid." "Go again?" "You know, it's pretty exciting that both of you are such bad asses but you think that we should be making a plan to stop Fyers?" "And I don't know, save your dad?" "Does he always whine this much?" "This is one of his good days." "SHADO:" "Can he fight?" "I've tried." "Limited success." "I'm sitting right here." "well, I haven't tried yet." "[SLADE LAUGHS]" "uncle John?" "Hey, buddy." "will you read Logan Bogan to me?" "Sweetheart, get into bed and mommy will read to you." "But I want uncle John to read to me." "uncle John's had a Iong day." "He'II read to you next time." "Hey, I'm sorry." "I've been someplace else today." "What's going on with you?" "I'm just trying to figure some stuff out." "If you need to talk about anything, you know I'm here for you." "[PHONE RINGING]" "It is oliver Queen." "With an emergency." "I gotta go." "DIGGLE:" "Got here quick as I couId." "This about the glyph in your father's notebook?" "OLIVER:" "felicity is still working on that." "We have another problem." "WOMAN [ON TV]:" "Starling City is once again at war with the drug known on the streets as Vertigo." "It used to be the city's most lethal vice but the purple and green pill was nowhere to be found the last three months." "Over the past few days city's been flooded with new version of Vertigo, more addictive, more unstable." "It killed a girl in the club." "Just like it almost killed Thea." "Okay, what are you thinking?" "We should pay the Count a visit?" "He was my first visit." "Waste of time." "He's sumasshedshiy." "Duh." "Since he's the only one who knew the formula for Vertigo..." "..." "I don't even know where to begin." "FELICITY:" "Good, you're here." "Of course you're here." "Where else would you be?" "clearly love it down here." "You got to see this." "I'm here at the scene where police say a disturbed patient escaped only hours ago." "Authorities issued an immediate lockdown at the Starling County Institute for Mental Health following the breakout." "Police are warning people to avoid contact with the drug dealer known as the Count." "Not so crazy after all, huh?" "DOCTOR:" "I was administering his meds." "He was babbling, his usual ranting, then he's ice-coId." "He overpowered me." "Forced me to take him out through the maintenance exit." "I thought he was harmless." "basically a vegetable, you said." "I know, which means" " I've interviewed him dozens of times in the past few months." "To be deceived by a patient so compIeteIy" "Don't worry." "We'II find him." "And he's going to find prison a Iot harder to break out of." "Detective, he's dangerous." "Don't underestimate him." "LANCE:" "Anything from the security cameras?" "Not according to the orderly." "Due to budget cuts, the cameras were the first to go." "That is unbelievable." "There's another angle." "Veronica Sparks, the dead girl from Verdant?" "LANCE:" "Yeah?" "I checked her LUDs." "The last person she texted before she died was Tommy MerIyn." "He said he didn't know her." "HILTON:" "MerIyn has two collars for possession, one with intent." "LANCE:" "Yeah, that was over five years ago." "HILTON:" "Maybe he's just better at not getting himself arrested." "laurel says he's changed ever since his father cut him off." "Leopard and his spots." "Maybe pushing Vertigo is a way of maintaining his old lifestyle." "Maybe going after MerIyn is a great way to get my daughter..." "...to stop speaking to me again, HiI." "Quentin, I get that." "But here's the thing, on a hunch, I subpoenaed the club's bank accounts." "Ten large missing from their operating expenses." "MerIyn spent that money on Vertigo?" "I can't explain how that much money just gets misplaced." "I'II take a run at him, keep you out of it." "No." "I should do it." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "What you need?" "AII right, the person-of-coIor has successfully purchased your drugs." "For the record, I offered." "How will we know the tracker is active?" "It already is." "Good signal off the monofilament strips we placed in the bills." "Drug money's like a pigeon." "always finds its way home." "follow the money back to the Count." "FELICITY:" "Okay." "OLIVER:" "Keep tracking it." "So what are you gonna do with all the Vertigo you bought?" "plan on having a party?" "My only experience with drugs was an encounter with a pot brownie my freshman year." "By mistake." "Which could've been fun, except I'm allergic to nuts." "AII right." "Deadshot kills again." "This time, a U.S. Senator." "Where you been tracking him?" "Not far." "I ran his floyd Lawton alias through every law enforcement database." "He's made a series of calls to an AIberto Garcia." "According to NSA, Garcia's a reputed underworld talent scout." "He books all of Deadshot's hits." "It's not much to go on" "Yeah, but it's something, felicity." "Thanks." "Don't you think oliver should know?" "No." "This is personal." "Lawton's my problem to deal with." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "What brings you by?" "TOMMY:" "Hey." "Like some dinner?" "Your daughter ordered too much Thai food." "No, thanks." "This is a business visit, actually." "I have some foIIow-up questions on the Sparks girl's death." "Sure." "The girl was in the club before she got run-over." "You said you didn't know her, but the Iast text off her phone was to you." "really?" "Because...." "well, I'II be damned." "Hm." "I didn't reply." "I get a hundred texts a night." "people wanting to get into the club." "So that's what she meant by, "Can you hook me up?"" "What else would it be about?" "Ten thousand dollars is missing from your club's bank account." "What'd you spend the money on?" "No idea." "There must be some sort of bookkeeping error." "Okay, Iet me put this another way:" "If you spent that money on Vertigo..." "...so you could hook up your clientele..." "Dad!" "...the best thing for you is to cop to it, get out in front of this." "Don't say anything." "I'm trying to" "To do yourjob?" "I know." "And this is me doing mine." "laurel, I know I Iook like that disapproving father, again." "But I came down here so another cop wouldn't." "You understand?" "Tommy I" "I'm not hungry anymore." "SHADO:" "hold up your hand up." "palm facing me." "Hit the water." "What?" "Hit it." "Again." "Again." "Harder." "If the point of this is to make me feel like an idiot, it's working." ""The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."" "Confucius." "Great." "I'm starting to see the family resemblance." "Lao Tzu, actually." "Again." "Now what?" "fill the bowl." "Start again." "[PHONE BEEPS]" "What have you got?" "The end of the money trail." "Sending the dealer's location to you now." "[PHONE BEEPING]" "MAN 1 Oh, man." "It's freezing." "MAN 2:" "Oh, hey!" "MAN 3:" "Hey, check this." "MAN 1 Hey, come on, Iet's see what we can get." "MAN 2:" "Get back, guys." "Get back." "Hey, yo." "Who's looking to party?" "MAN 1 Vertigo." "MAN 2:" "Right here." "That's not enough, man." "You don't pay, you don't play." "BOSS:" "It's all right." "Good for business." "My boss seems to like you, G." "MAN 1 Hey." "Hey, hey." "Give it." "Give it." "MAN 2:" "How much for this?" "Now that, that will buy you a brick, my man." "BOSS:" "Go, go, go!" "[TIRES SCREECHING]" "Don't forget to breathe." "If you won't, I won't." "congratulations." "You're officially the creepiest person I've ever met." "I don't feel so good." "Get away from me, creep." "Hey, we got a problem here?" "Are you okay?" "[PEOPLE SCREAMING]" "DISPATCH [ON RADIO]:" "All units." "Code 99." "4-1-7 in progress, Starling Aquarium." "All available units...." "FELICITY:" "This came over the police frequency." "Hacked the aquarium security system to get a better look." "You want to argue with me, huh?" "Bystanders said they saw him pop green and purple pills." "There's a lunatic high on Vertigo who's taken hostages and you're making tea?" "medicinal herbs from the island counterbalance the effects of certain drugs and poisons." "They should counteract the effects of Vertigo." "[MACHINE BEEPING]" "Then you aren't going to" "What?" "You know...." "My sister got high on this garbage." "could've killed someone." "She didn't deserve an arrow in the heart." "This guy didn't fall the city." "The city failed him." "And so did I." "What's happening now isn't your fault." "You didn't make him take drugs." "I failed to put the Count in a grave so he couldn't hurt anyone." "They locked him up" "And now the city is on fire!" "So clearly it wasn't the right decision." "Get in touch with DiggIe." "With the security feed out, I'm gonna need a second set of eyes at the aquarium." "[PHONE RINGING]" "glad I caught you stateside." "Just barely." "I leave in two days for Pyongyang." "Isn't that classified?" "I figure an old Army buddy can keep a secret." "I was glad to get your call." "LyIa, that's not why I called." "There's something else you'd Iike me to do, then." "well, actually, I think there's something I can do for you." "I'm gonna go out on a limb and assume that Deadshot..." "...is on ARGUS's most wanted list." "What do you know about him?" "well, his name, for starters." "floyd Lawton." "We don't even have that." "Where'd you get it?" "Same place I got this." "It's everything you need to locate who's giving Deadshot his targets." "What's your interest in this?" "Lawton came up in connection with some things I'm working on." "Decided to pass it off to you." "I remember you being a better liar than that, Johnnie." "Listen, LyIa, Lawton is a very dangerous man." "Your people are qualified to take him down." "It's simple." "Nothing in our business is simple." "You come to ask for my help again, Mr. Lance?" "LANCE:" "Eric Messner." "Who?" "He's a zoning commissioner for starling City." "A notoriously corrupt one at that." "The missing 10 grand you paid him to skip the inspection of your nightclub." "Why'd you do that?" "What didn't you want him to find?" "We've got nothing to hide here." "Great." "Then let's just take a look around." "absolutely." "Yep." "When you come back with a search warrant." "You sure this is how you want to play this?" "apparently." "Doesn't my daughter know how to pick them?" "Stop laughing at me!" "[WOMAN SOBBING]" "[GUNSHOTS AND PEOPLE SCREAM]" "Shut up!" "Just shut up!" "[GRUNTING]" "GREEN ARROW:" "Stop!" "I don't wanna hurt you!" "[GRUNTING]" "Hey, easy." "I'm here to help you." "[MAN GASPING]" "My mom does yoga." "Hey, remember when SIade and I rescued you?" "You rescued me?" "Fine." "When we all rescued each other." "You said you knew why Fyers wanted Yao Fei and how he was forcing him to help him." "feel like sharing?" "I'm almost out of slapping water." "My father was a Shang Jiang in the people's Liberation Army." "A general." "I didn't hear the details of Fyers' plans but he wants my father to be the face of it." "A scapegoat." "To take the blame and conceal their own involvement." "Why was Yao Fei on the island in the first place?" "Fyers says he murdered people." "No, he didn't." "The Chinese military committed a massacre." "Someone had to take the blame." "They chose him." "Sent him to this island, for life." "I spent years looking for him." "A few months ago, a man came to my apartment said he had information about my father's whereabouts." "I had given up hope." "I let my guard down, didn't see the Taser until...." "When I woke up, I was here." "I'm worried." "This isIand" "What he must have had to do to survive." "That it changed him." "He saved my Iife." "He's still a good man, Shado." "Again." "LAUREL:" "So there I am sitting at our favorite sushi restaurant a bottle of sake, and the only thing that's missing is my boyfriend." "Oh, God, I'm so sorry, baby." "I just have a Iot going on here." "Tommy, whatever's going on with you, I want you to know I believe you." "I'm here for you." "OLIVER:" "Sorry." "LAUREL:" "ollie." "What's wrong?" "Bad night." "It's about to get worse." "Mr. MerIyn, as requested, a warrant to search these premises." "I can't believe you're doing this." "believe it." "Detective, I'm not an attorney but on what grounds are you searching my club?" "Your manager bribed a government official to keep him from inspecting your building." "What?" "LANCE:" "He's selling Vertigo out of the club." "ollie, it's valid." "LANCE:" "Thank you." "A subIeveI is not listed on the inspection's floor plans." "However, I pulled the county records." "There's something down there." "I wanna see for myself what it is." "Oh, look at that." "Open the door." "[OLIVER SIGHS]" "You're making a mistake." "No, you are if you don't open that door." "I said, open the door." "[BEEPING]" "Thank you." "TOMMY:" "The place is a kind of a mess." "I've been using it to store the bulk of our inventory." "What's in the boxes?" "TOMMY:" "Why don't you have a look?" "If Prohibition were still in effect, you might have the basis of a criminal complaint." "would you Iike to open the crates?" "[SIGHS]" "So if you don't have anything to hide why didn't you want the inspector down here?" "well, the ventilation system in this place hasn't been updated since the '60s." "I mean, we shouldn't even be open." "Yeah." "LAUREL:" "I'm sorry." "I thought he was okay with us being together." "TOMMY:" "He wasn't wrong." "I bribed a guy." "That's not why he brought out his jackboots." "It's all gonna be fine." "I'II see you at home." "Good night." "Good night." "Is there something you want to say?" "Thank you." "No, the thing that you were thinking when Lance accused me of dealing out of the club." "I don't understand why you wouldn't tell me about the bribe." "I run the club, oliver." "I don't tell you a Iot of things." "So let me ask you a question, pal what have I done in the six months since you've been home that would lead you to believe I would sell drugs?" "In the Iast six months, nothing." "Yeah." "But before I Ieft, you played hard." "You played with bad people who were in" "And so did you, oliver." "But I changed." "Just like you did." "Now you put arrows in people who do illegal things." "Last time I checked, bribing a city inspector was not legal." "Do you actually think that I couId hurt you?" "truthfully, I have no idea what the hell you would do." "You are a complete mystery to me." "I've got no idea how you find it so easy to kill people." "The next time you decide to think the worst of me imagine what I now think of you." "What's his problem?" "What's yours?" "Excuse me?" "I asked felicity to get in touch with you." "There was a hostage situation at the aquarium." "Sorry, I didn't get message till it was over." "Why?" "I was busy doing something else." "Lawton." "You didn't end up needing me." "You couldn't have known that." "In other words, "Find your brother's killer on your own time."" "Vertigo is tearing this city apart, DiggIe, so yeah, maybe now is not the best time to indulge a personal vendetta." "You're telling me that you going after the Count is not personal?" "oliver, I cannot read a book to my nephew without knowing Lawton killed his father." "I can't move on with carly, I can't move on with my Iife knowing that he's still out there." "I thought if anybody got that, it'd be you." "What happened here?" "The Ethernet cable still works." "would you plug in your tablet?" "You decide to remodel?" "OLIVER:" "Long story." "Where's Dig?" "OLIVER:" "Long story." "Okay." "The hostage-taking junkie is our only lead to the Count." "What type of information are you looking for?" "Anything that would give us a line on the Count's location." "Has the ME performed the autopsy yet?" "Yeah." "Just pulling it up now." "Check the toxicology to see if there's something related to Vertigo." "He didn't die from a Vertigo overdose." "I saw it, felicity." "According to the coroner, cause of death was severe anaphylaxis." "He died of an allergic reaction to chlorpromazine." "That's an anti-psychotic." "pull up the Veronica Sparks autopsy." "Did she have chIorpromazine in her system?" "Yes." "How'd you know?" "The Count must've added it in this latest iteration of Vertigo." "WouIdn't the amount he'd need to manufacture enough for circulation be huge?" "Where would he get that much?" "A mental institution." "What if we're looking at this wrong?" "How so?" "Everybody is looking for him outside the asylum." "But what if he never left?" "What if he faked his escape, the same way he faked being insane?" "[COUNT SPEAKING INDISTINCTLY]" "Never forgets." "Always back for more." "GREEN ARROW:" "I should've killed you when I had the chance." "Turn around." "I said, turn around." "[MAN GRUNTS]" "oliver Queen." "AII those years on that island." "Guess you really did go crazy." "So the Count didn't fake losing his mind, did he?" "This was you the whole time." "How did you get him to give you the formula for Vertigo, huh?" "Chemistry doesn't seem like his best subject right now." "He couldn't tell me if he wanted to." "I ordered a biopsy on his kidneys." "The tissue was suffused with the narcotic after his OD." "When I got the results I realized I couId reverse-engineer the chemical compound of the drug." "Produce a synthesized version myself using the facilities here." "And made a few improvements like adding chIorpromazine." "That's how you found us." "Cops came around and started asking questions you faked the Count's disappearance to draw attention away from yourself." "It's clever." "I wasn't trying to be a criminal mastermind." "I just needed the money." "Something I'm sure a billionaire wouldn't understand." "believe me." "I understand you perfectly." "Open his mouth." "[GRUNTING]" "From what I've read in the tabloids no one will be surprised to hear oliver Queen died of a drug overdose." "[CLICK]" "[BEEPING]" "[GRUNTING]" "OLIVER:" "Dig!" "OLIVER:" "Argh!" "Unh!" "Unh!" "[BEEPING]" "[ELECTRICITY CRACKLING AND MAN GRUNTS]" "clear." "Freeze!" "DOCTOR:" "You don't look so good." "I doubt you could aim a single arrow." "COUNT:" "Looks like I'm the Iast one standing." "Sitting." "Spinning." "Something to do." "What was I going to do?" "Memory not what it once was." "Nothing what it once was." "Is there a name on the gravestone?" "No." "It's new and clean and waiting." "We're finished here." "OLIVER:" "Hey." "How we doing?" "In the black." "Did the Hood get his man?" "well, we won't be having any problems with Vertigo anymore." "Look, Tommy, I'm sorry" "I've caught up the bookkeeping and all my notes on the inventory are in there..." "...along with the list of suppliers we use." "Okay." "I don't see why you're telling me that." "This club is important to me." "But for you it's just a front." "You want me to keep your secret, help you be this thing you've become but you refuse to see me for what I've become." "I've got just a bit too much seIf-respect for that." "I quit." "SLADE:" "Dinner." "You're still doing that?" "Fyers better be careful with his bowls of water." "When are we gonna do actual training?" "SHADO:" "There once was a young boy whose father dropped him off..." "...at a shaolin monastery to study kung fu." "Good." "A story." "After a year, the boy came to visit his family." "When asked what he'd learned, the boy hung his head in shame." "AII the monks had him do was slap water in a barrel for a year." "We don't have a year, so I hope your training regimen is a bit faster." "The family didn't believe him, so he showed them." "He raised his hand and hit the table they were eating on." "It broke in half." "I'm going to be able to break a table?" "Better." "[OLIVER SIGHS]" "Okay." "Draw the bow." "I'II be damned." "What's next?" "We teach you to shoot." "Drinking alone?" "Oh." "well, not anymore." "Just soda?" "Bartender forget the Scotch?" "I didn't really feel the need for it." "So, um...." "The girl who died turns out that she got her Vertigo from a co-worker." "Guess I owe your boyfriend an apology." "He has a name, you know." "I just can't seem to bring myself to use it." "Baby steps." "Did I screw things up between us again?" "No." "I really wasn't looking to jam up MerIyn." "I knew by pursuing him that I couId throw a wrench in us" "Then why'd you do it?" "There was evidence, laurel." "And I had to follow it, I had to." "Your mom was right." "You were right." "Like you said about me and the vigilante, I can't let things go." "And I close cases." "It's what I do." "Everyone else be damned." "Maybe the fact that there's no Scotch in there means you're ready to work on that." "people can change." "DIGGLE:" "Hey." "Hey." "You had my back." "You needed me." "FeIicity told me where you were headed." "You okay." "I'm the killer, remember?" "I've killed before, oliver." "It's just been a while." "If you're the killer, why isn't the Count down too?" "Sure it must have been tempting, take him off the board for good." "people change." "people like the Count?" "No, I meant me." "Not so long ago, I would've put that guy down for good but looking at him today, all vacant there didn't seem to be a point." "But not everybody deserves mercy." "For exampIe." "I thought he wasn't a priority to you." "He's a priority to you." "And you two have unfinished business." "Where do we start?" "I'd prefer we skip the I-toId-you-so's, but the nightclub wasn't really working out." "I guess I need something more boring." "stable." "Nine to 5, go home, kiss laurel, that sort of thing." "I guess what I'm saying is I want ajob." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island, with only one goal survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "Previously on Arrow:" "So you met up with the Hood guy?" "He's contacted me before." "You're a murderer." "You were my best friend in life, but now it's like I don't even know you." "I quit." "Listen, LyIa, Lawton is a very dangerous man." "LYLA:" "What do you know about him?" "DIGGLE:" "Everything you need to locate who's giving Deadshot targets." "This Lawton kick his dog or something?" "He killed his brother." "I can't move on with him still out there." "I thought if anybody got that it'd be you." "You two have unfinished business." "Where do we start?" "[GRUNTING]" "You feel better?" "I'II feel better once we end Deadshot." "MAN:" "welcome to Germany, Mr. Ambassador." "Henrik, you're looking great." "We have to end this guy before he makes any more widows out of wives." "[PEOPLE SCREAMING]" "We will." "DiggIe, we'II stop him." "I promised you I'd help take him down and I keep my promises..." "...but he's on another continent." "FELICITY:" "Not anymore." "Thought it'd be helpful to track A.R.G.U.S.'s manhunt for floyd Lawton a.k.a. Deadshot, so I decrypted their communication logs." "Which means, I just hacked a federal agency." "Makes me a cyber-terrorist, which is bad." "I don't see myself fitting in at Guantanamo Bay." "Don't worry, felicity, they don't send blonds there." "I dye it, actually." "I keep your secret." "Hey, what'd you find?" "Deadshot is scheduled to meet with a potential new client here in starling City." "Except the potential contract is bogus." "Your friend LyIa is setting a trap for him." "Lawton took the bait." "Great, I'II talk to LyIa..." "...see if I can suss out any details." "Good." "I've gotta have lunch with laurel." "So when did you become, uh, lunch dates with laurel?" "Look, we're just...." "We're friends." "Friends are good." "But?" "CouIdn't you be friends with someone less complicated than your ex-girIfriend who's your ex-best friend's current girlfriend?" "I wear a hood and I put arrows into criminals, so when it comes to complexity I grade on a curve." "Rescuing your father and stopping Fyers is not gonna be some walk in the park." "They're not gonna allow us to just stroll on into their camp." "Which is why we'II need cover." "If both of us are infiltrating, who'II provide that?" "He will." "Me?" "Ha-ha-ha." "The assault rifle is flushed." "It's useless." "We have a bow, arrows." "And no one capable of shooting them." "No offense, kid." "I was gonna say the same thing." "I think we should be spending our time trying to devise a plan not lower our already slim chances of survival." "He'II hit his mark by sundown." "If not, we'II do it your way." "DIGGLE:" "LyIa?" "What is it, Johnnie?" "Came by to see how your Deadshot investigation is going." "Anything new come up?" "FunniIy enough, it did." "I was curious why you, a bodyguard, were so keen on taking down such a high profile assassin, so I did some reading up on Lawton." "LyIa, Iisten" "Did you think I wouldn't find out he killed your brother?" "That you were using me." "Me." "To what?" "Draw him into the open so you could take him down yourself?" "I will not let you use my agency to settle your blood feud." "LyIa, I need to see this guy in a bag." "You of all people should get that." "Get this: stay away from Lawton, Johnnie, or so help me, I will have you arrested." "You doubt me?" "Never have." "Hi." "Did you get my voicemail?" "No." "Things got a little crazy around here back-to-back meetings, I am so sorry, rain check?" "Sure." "I couId definitely catch up on some club paperwork." "I'm way behind since Tommy left." "I'm still shocked that he went to go work for malcolm." "You know, you were really understanding to let him take this opportunity." "Tommy said you were cool with it." "Why wouldn't I be?" "He's my friend." "Like you." "I'm sorry, are we early?" "No, not at all." "Uh, oliver, this is Eric Moore and his wife, Nancy." "I'm prepping them for a deposition for tomorrow." "And this must be your bodyguard?" "This is our son, taylor." "well, you're in very capable hands." "It's nice to meet you." "Eric, Nancy, I wanna make sure that you guys are up for this." "Edward Rasmus isn't known for playing with kid gloves, so this could get rough." "We invested our entire life savings with Rasmus and he stole it." "Our retirement." "taylor's college fund." "He stole our future, Ms. Lance." "We want it back." "well, then let's go get it." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "hello?" "MAN:" "Mr. Moore." "I have some documents for you from Ms. Lance related to tomorrow's deposition." "What a nice home you have here." "You can really feel the love." "[SILENCED GUNSHOT]" "Sorry about the mess." "This works better if it looks like a break-in." "[LOCK CLICKS]" "[PHONE RINGS]" "Is it done?" "MR. BLANK:" "Parents, yes." "I'm afraid there's been a variable." "The child got away." "Got away?" "Did he see you?" "MR. BLANK:" "No, Mr. Rasmus." "What he saw was the face of the man who will reunite him with his parents." "MAN [ON TV]:" "Starling City is expected to be host of this year's Festival of Lights exhibition." "In other news, the bodies of Eric and Nancy Moore were found early this morning." "The couple were being represented by attorney Laurel Lance of CNRl in a lawsuit against financier Edward Rasmus." "Miraculously, their 7-year-old son, Taylor, survived the horrific attack." "This isn't your fault, laurel." "You shouldn't feel guilty." "I don't feel guilty." "I'm angry." "This wasn't some random break-in." "Edward Rasmus is involved, I know it." "Listen, our guys are looking into this." "But you need to stay out of it, okay?" "Because if Rasmus is behind this he's clearly not messing around." "If you'd Iike to say goodbye to taylor, I will be taking him over to child Services." "Doesn't he have any other family?" "Grandparents are in melbourne." "We're tracking them down but until then, he's gonna be a temporary ward of the State." "He can stay with me." "As his attorney, I am assigning myself temporary guardianship." "You'd still need ajudge's order." "I'II have it to you in an hour." "well, have it your way." "Okay, look, I'm gonna park a patrol car outside your place." "Fine." "And you." "You look after them." "I spend most nights at you daughter's." "There was probably a better time to tell you that." "probably not." "Hi." "So you're gonna come stay at my house, okay?" "What are you doing here?" "I heard." "I wanted to make sure laurel was okay." "You could have just called." "I met laurel's clients and their son yesterday and I felt badly." "You met them?" "Yeah, when I was picking up laurel for lunch." "Which she didn't tell you about." "LAUREL:" "tell you what?" "Nothing." "It's settled." "taylor's coming home with us tonight." "OLIVER:" "well, if you need anything" "We're fine." "Okay." "We should really get going." "LAUREL:" "Here." "SHADO:" "Set your sight." "Hit the tree." "probably hit a tree." "Set your sight." "Hit the tree." "Steady your anchor point." "SLADE:" "I hope you're getting closer." "At teaching him how to be a better marksman." "It's not as though our lives depend on it or anything." "Try again." "Okay." "What's this?" "LyIa's mission profile on the trap they've set for Deadshot." "Lawton is set to meet his new employer and get his assignment tomorrow at 8 p.m." "only, his new employer will be an A.R.G.U.S. agent." "LyIa will then swoop in with her team and arrest him." "Do you want Lawton arrested?" "No." "Then tomorrow night, we cross floyd Lawton's name off your list." "There is something else we need to look into." "Two of laurel's clients were murdered last night." "Their 7-year-oId son barely escaped." "That's terrible." "Edward Rasmus, the financial advisor laurel was taking to court may not have pulled the trigger, but he probably called in the hit." "I want you to get into his corporate accounts, phone records anything that may link him to the killer, okay?" "Where are you going?" "laurel's." "Another friendly meal?" "My daughter is secure at her place?" "OFFICER:" "So far, all quiet." "AII right, Iet me know if there is any movement." "OFFICER:" "Yes, sir, roger that." "I'm heading over there right now." "What did you steal this time?" "You got a minute?" "No." "It's about the Hood." "When my men found you on that subway car after you were kidnapped you told me you didn't know anything about the vigilante." "Something you forgot to tell them?" "No." "I just wanna see him brought to justice like everyone else." "Don't worry, kid." "We'II get him." "Just keep making sure I don't have a reason to get you." "taylor?" "Sweetheart?" "Are you hungry?" "You know, I make the world's best macaroni and cheese." "TOMMY:" "It's the only thing she knows how to make." "I miss my mom and dad." "When I was your age, my mom tucked me into bed at night before going out." "Then the next thing I knew, there was a police officer at my door." "He said that she was gone and that I would never see her again." "But you know what?" "He was wrong." "You saw her?" "Mm-hm." "Every time I close my eyes, I can see her." "Every time I go to bed, I see her in my dreams." "really?" "Yeah." "Try it, close your eyes." "I see them." "Whenever you are sad or scared just remember that they will always be there." "You constantly surprise me, MerIyn." "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "I'II get it." "MR. BLANK:" "Ms. Lance?" "It's Lieutenant KesseI, S.C.P.D." "Your dad asked me to check in." "Lieutenant, can you hold your badge up to the door, please?" "Okay, great." "Just one sec." "What?" "His badge number begins with a zero." "Lieutenant's badge numbers begin with a one." "[SILENCED GUNFIRE]" "[FLOORBOARD CREAKS]" "It was the badge that gave me away, right?" "You know, my father's a cop." "And that's not all he taught me." "[CLICKS]" "[INDISTINCT CHATTER OVER POLICE RADIO]" "feeling like it might be time for you to move." "Dad, whoever Rasmus hired is gonna keep coming until he finishes the job otherwise Rasmus will just hire someone else who will." "Listen, I want the three of you in protective custody immediately and don't even think about it." "He killed two of my men." "The Hood just saved our lives." "We can trust him." "He won't let anything happen to me." "LANCE:" "Even if I was comfortable with the idea of him watching over you 24/7, which I'm not something tells me he's got better things to do." "What about oliver?" "Sorry, you got another friend named oliver?" "The Queens have more security than the president." "They've got cameras everywhere, bodyguards in every wing and no one goes in or out without being accounted for." "We both only want what is best for laurel." "And right now that is to stay close to oliver." "Trust me." "[SIGHS]" "This is Mr. Robbins." "Where you go, he goes." "You'II be very well protected, Ms. Lance." "Thank you." "DIGGLE:" "I hand-seIected these men myself." "The house and the grounds are completely secure." "please make yourself at home." "You must be taylor." "How about I show you where I hide the good cookies?" "Mr. Queen, whenever you're ready, I can take you to your next appointment, sir." "The Lawton meeting?" "Yes." "I just need to swing by the club and pick up my good suit." "So I'II meet you there." "Of course, sir." "You're leaving?" "There's something else I need to take care of." "It's important." "More important than what's here?" "No offense to oliver, but I think we need Mr. Robbins and his men more than him." "You are the reason why we're here." "Trust me, that wasn't easy to admit." "You'II be fine." "I promise." "You know, chewing might help." "Not dainty enough for you?" "I can eat you under the table, Roy Harper." "Don't forget that." "Yeah." "All units, code 10-80." "Starling City port" "What is that?" "Suspected vigilante activity, requesting all available units." "Do you have a police radio in your pocket?" "No, I'm just happy to see you." "Got to run." "Oh, wait." "Heading on East Gary." "We're 20 minutes out." "Nice evening, huh?" "Hey, I think you got something that belongs to me." "You set this up, just to get your radio back?" "well, I do love that radio." "Come on." "I'm uploading a satellite overview of the plaza to your phone." "OLIVER:" "I know the place." "Dig was specific about where you should perch." "You know what position gives you the best shot at Lawton." "I think." "He used a Iot of military jargon." "So you're sniping a sniper." "Kind of ironic, don't you think?" "Me neither." "What's that?" "I had a remote access trojan scouring the Internet for Edward Rasmus." "His name just popped up on a flight manifest, 8:15 to Shanghai." "He's running." "That's good, right?" "If he's leaving town, he won't be after laurel and the child anymore." "But if you did wanna stop him, looks like it's now or never." "Deadshot or Rasmus." "Your choice." "Trap 1 this is Harbinger." "Wait for Lawton to enter and make contact." "Then we take him down." "DIGGLE:" "Damn it, oliver." "RASMUS:" "Just until this CNRI mess dies down." "Ha, if it doesn't, two best things about China:" "wontons and no extradition treaty." "Ha, ha." "Hey, hey, I thought I was paying you extra not to stop at the reds." "Trap 1 possible target acquisition." "Get ready." "Stand down." "Maybe Lawton didn't take the bait after all." "We're blown." "Take cover." "LyIa?" "[GRUNTING]" "On your knees." "On your knees." "Hands behind your head." "I saw you coming a mile away." "Thanks for tipping me off." "I'II kill you for what you did to Andy." "I'd be pulling these triggers right now, except there's nobody paying me." "There's space for you right here, right next to your brother." "You'd do best to remember that." "[GROANING]" "What happened?" "You didn't show, things didn't go well." "Rasmus was skipping town and I had to reprioritize." "Thanks to your new priorities, four agents are dead, oliver." "You could have stopped this guy, ended this maniac once and for all." "Lawton got away?" "You seriously think a man who goes by the name Deadshot was going down without a fight?" "I needed you there, man." "taylor Moore was relying on me, DiggIe." "This was never about that kid." "He is safe under armed security at your house." "This is about laurel." "DiggIe, I made a choice." "I know." "You chose laurel." "always her." "Everybody else be damned." "Something to say, felicity?" "Nothing you wanna hear." "Try again." "[OLIVER SIGHS]" "You're thinking too much." "Nobody ever accused me of that before." "Show-off." "I see my target in the distance, I feel the variation in the wind." "I hear the bowstring tighten and I let go." "Give in to your senses, don't think." "You're right, this is definitively not the time or place." "No, it's just there's, uh...." "There's someone." "And it's a mile past complicated, but I can't." "Does she know how much you love her?" "I suspect right now she doesn't." "But as soon as I'm home, she will." "You looked so beautiful that night." "I remember oliver telling me once that he wished your father would let him come over to your house more often." "That being there made him feel less like Robert Queen's son and more like himself." "I liked who my son was when he was around you." "Thank you." "OLIVER:" "Hey." "The police just called." "Edward Rasmus was arrested." "really?" "What happened?" "apparently he confessed to everything." "He's going to prison a Iong time." "Won't be able to hurt anyone ever again." "Why would he confess?" "The vigilante was involved." "TOMMY:" "Good for him." "So I guess it's over." "Yes." "Yeah." "Great, I'II go wake up taylor." "No, Tommy, please." "He's sleeping, he's been through a Iot." "Now, you all are welcome to stay." "We certainly have enough room." "It's your call." "Thank you, Mrs. Queen." "I guess we'II stay, then." "MOIRA:" "Good." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "OFFICER:" "Your lawyer's here." "I'd Iike to discuss loose ends." "You didn't get my message?" "Forget about the Moore boy." "I already confessed." "That freak show in a hood told me he'd kill me if I didn't." "We need to make this meeting appear legitimate." "Lawyer stuff." "Sign here, please." "Am I clear?" "You leave the boy alone." "I wish I couId, but he's seen my face." "Just like you." "If you put pressure in just the right areas above the forearm like I did to you, an embolism will form in the medial antebrachial vein." "When the air pocket reaches your heart in give or take 15 seconds, you'II die." "It's relatively painless." "Oh." "Nothing personal." "We're done here." "[GASPING]" "Excuse me, hi, I'm looking for my boyfriend." "He's kind of a regular around here." "Piercing blue eyes and may or may not have stolen a police radio." "Yeah, that's him." "Behind you." "well, that's a nice look." "What were you thinking?" "well, if it isn't the wonder twins." "He's very sorry for stealing the radio and he won't ever bug you or steal anything from you guys ever again." "Both of you." "Come with me." "THEA:" "What are we doing here?" "well, your boyfriend is so interested in the Hood I thought he might like to meet someone who's already made his acquaintance." "Oh, God." "Who was he?" "well, that's the thing." "When you're alive, you get a name." "When you wind up down here, you get a number." "Meet 26." "See, your pal the Hood, he's already sent 26 stiffs down here..." "[THEA GROANS]" "...since he started his little one-man war." "Maybe this guy deserved it." "Maybe he did." "But that's not how justice works." "You see, the vigilante, he doesn't have to answer to anyone but himself and that's a very dangerous power to give to any one man." "He saved my Iife." "How do you know tomorrow he won't just as easily take it?" "Get out of here." "THEA:" "Let's go." "Come on." "[THUNDER RUMBLING]" "He's safe now, laurel." "With a hard road ahead of him." "well, he's lucky to have you in his life." "I know the feeling." "When you first got home, I didn't think that you had changed much." "But you have and it's nice to see." "Thank you." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "GUARD:" "I have a delivery van coming in for Ms. Lance." "His id checks out." "Thanks for the heads up." "For Ms. Lance." "[SILENCED GUNFIRE]" "What a beautiful home." "Hmm." "Such pain here." "A sense of loss and regret, you can feel it, down to the wood paneling." "Tommy." "Okay, you two stay here with taylor." "Where are you going?" "It's an old house, fuses blow all the time." "It's probably nothing." "Just, please, come on." "He's here." "[GUARD GRUNTING]" "Where's the child?" "This house is quite large and I don't particularly care to check every room." "Very well." "Have it your way." "[SILENCED GUNSHOT]" "laurel." "laurel, don't." "No, ollie is still out there." "[GRUNTING]" "What happened to you on that island?" "Let's go." "You're about to find out." "Death by poker." "That's a new one." "He was gonna shoot me." "And then, uh, Mr. Robbins he grabbed the poker and saved my Iife." "Mr. Robbins was a real hero." "If it weren't for him, we'd all be dead." "I've got enough details for my report." "I'II clear my boys out of here." "Let's go." "Come on, taylor." "You still love her." "Don't you?" "Doesn't matter how I feel." "Because of what I do I couId never be with her." "So you don't have anything to be afraid of." "She is never..." "...ever going to know my secret." "It doesn't matter if she knows." "I know." "And I don't know how to be with laurel knowing the entire time that if she ever found out who you really are she would choose you." "Thank you for everything you tried to do for Eric and Nancy." "And for keeping taylor safe." "Come here." "You keep being a good boy, okay?" "Tommy, I really need to talk to you." "What's that for?" "It's my stuff." "What's going on?" "I'm not sure that I'm ready for the kind of commitment that you're looking for." "I don't wanna hurt you in the Iong run, so" "Wait." "We both almost lost our lives and I'm emotional too but you can't be serious." "This is me serious, laurel." "But it doesn't make any sense, I mean, why?" "Why now?" "Why even at all?" "I thought that I wanted this." "You." "And the other night made me realize I don't." "You're lying." "I am not a liar." "If you've changed and I know that you've changed then you wouId-- You would never do this." "Then I guess I haven't changed as much as we all thought, then." "I know." "You think I'm an idiot." "I always thought you were an idiot." "Now I think you're brain dead." "Yeah, you're probably right." "Look, I don't understand this, Roy." "Why is finding the Hood so important to you?" "I can't stop replaying that night in my head." "The night I got kidnapped by that psycho, I just...." "I thought I was gonna die." "But you didn't." "Yeah, because of him." "You don't owe him anything." "You're wrong, I owe him everything." "I can't go back to the way things were, Thea." "I can't just go back to being nothing." "You're the one that keeps telling me that I can be better than who I am and this is my chance to be." "I can't explain it." "It feels like my Iife is connected to his." "So let's find him." "I can tell this means the world to you." "And you mean the world to me." "So let's find him." "You and me." "VigiIante, here we come." "Was hoping you'd be here." "I want us to get back on the same page." "oliver, we're not even in the same book, you and me, not anymore." "I just did what I thought I had to." "Just like I'm doing what I have to." "[SIGHS]" "We're done." "Don't do this." "The only thing you have to stop me from going out that door is an arrow." "FELICITY:" "Hey." "Where's he going?" "So how did our Robin Hood do?" "As expected?" "So back to the drawing board we go." "[LEAVES RUSTLING]" "OLIVER:" "Yao Fei." "Ba!" "How did you escape?" "I didn't." "You son of a bitch." "Hey." "Your time on this island is at an end." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "Sorry about that." "Ach!" "Don't be." "I want that dance." "Just give me a second." "Two minutes." "One minute?" "Okay." "Okay." "trouble?" "You're all clear." "I have triple security at every door, I have two teams at your house right now." "Okay." "oliver." "What?" "Go dance with your girlfriend." "Or is dancing the one thing you didn't learn how to do on that island?" "Quentin." "laurel's at work." "Yeah, I know." "Can I come in?" "Sure." "Uh, you want some coffee?" "I know she has some of that French roast you Iike." "I didn't come here for coffee." "Then why are you here?" "This was a mistake." "No." "No, it wasn't." "We have a Iot to talk about." "I don't wanna talk about Sara." "No, you never did." "What's that supposed to mean?" "After Sara died, you threw yourself into your work." "You took every case that passed your desk." "My job was always demanding." "No." "No, not Iike this." "You retreated into your work so you wouldn't have to deal with your grief." "I dealt." "I managed not to put a bullet between my eyes." "Yes, and I begged you to go to counseling with me." "You don't get to judge me, all right?" "Because I stayed." "We still had another daughter and I stayed for her." "Leaving laurel was the hardest thing I have ever had to do." "But she was away at law school, you had your work, and I was all alone." "Now, you can be angry at me for leaving all you want but the fact is you left me first." "[SIGHS]" "[PHONE BUZZING]" "Ugh." "Oh." "Uh, I'm sorry." "Is there something going on more exciting over on your phone than right here." "A search alert." "So, yes, then." "Hey." ""police manhunt for vigilante intensifies."" "You set up a search alert for the Hood?" "It says here the guy heading up the task force is the same guy who collared me for boosting your purse." "Quentin Lance." "You're tight with him, right?" "If by tight you mean he hates me and my brother and basically everybody with the Iast name Queen then, yeah, we're super-cIose." "Why do you wanna know?" "Ah." "I wanna know everything about you." "Keep dreaming, purse snatcher." "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal:" "Survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish:" "To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "ANNOUNCER:" "Previously on Arrow:" "I want you to find out all you can about that notebook." "I'II be driving your mother around." "She's not a suspect." "Something's going on in this city." "You know it." "WaIter, please." "You've got to stop looking into this, it's not safe." "Accidents tend to befall people who are too curious." "It's done." "And he won't be harmed?" "Nor will he discover your involvement." "You have my word." "TOMMY:" "I'm not ready for the commitment you're looking for." "You can't be serious." "This is me serious, laurel." "BACKMAN:" "call Cayman fidelity." "tell them their favorite accountant is flying in to make a special deposit for a special client." "[ELEVATOR DINGS THEN DOOR OPENS]" "That elevator's supposed to be on a key." "Go check it out." "[MAN GRUNTS]" "harold Backman." "You have failed this city." "I'm only an accountant." "I'm just the money." "Money that leads to extortion, kidnapping and drugs." "It's the destruction of innocent lives!" "You think you scare me more than the people I work for?" "No." "They can deal with you." "Hmm." "Let me guess." "Some bad guy missing his fancy new laptop?" "harold Backman." "He's who StarIing City's worst call when they want to launder money." "Then shouIdn't we just turn this over to, I don't know, the IRS?" "We will." "Just as soon as you return the money to the rightful owners." "Sounds like a nice idea, but Backman's files are protected with an encryption algorithm." "really?" "Yeah." "So it's gonna take a while to break in." "Days, at Ieast." "Better get started, then." "At the risk of ending up with an arrow in my eye, can I ask..." "...when are you making peace with DiggIe?" "He's the one who left, felicity." "I did everything I couId to stop him." "Except apologize." "You promised you'd help track floyd and you" "Made a choice that I can live with." "If he can't, then I don't need him." "OIiver" "I need to get back to the club." "Let me know when you break in." "I wish someone would send me off to the Caymans." "Yes, I know it's been six months, but" "I am very well aware of the statistics but I haven't given up hope and neither should you." "THEA:" "That didn't sound too good." "Oh, it's fine." "Who were you talking to?" "Just the insurance company." "They insist on paying out WaIter's life insurance policy." "I know we haven't talked about waiter in a while, but I miss him too." "It's like losing Dad all over again." "MALCOLM:" "You look radiant." "FIatterer." "I think you're the Iast to arrive." "How's Tommy?" "Tommy is Tommy." "How's oliver?" "still in bed." "It's only noon." "[BOTH CHUCKLE]" "MOIRA:" "well, look who I just found." "Heh-heh." "Get lost trying to find the house?" "You say that as if your driveway's not longer than most roads." "Can I get anyone anything else?" "ROBERT:" "We're fine." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "Oh." "Excuse me." "hello, Mrs. Queen." "I'm sorry to bother you at home." "Oh, no, no, no." "Don't be silly, WaIter." "Come in, please." "You're here to see Robert?" "Yes, just some papers he needs to sign for the stock offering." "He's in some private meeting right now, but you're welcome to wait." "Thank you." "unless you'd Iike to help me get my children out of the house." "You don't have children do you, WaIter?" "Not yet, I'm afraid." "well, save yourself the trouble and don't." "They eventually all turn into teenagers." "FRANK:" "Adam Hunt was reluctant at first, but was more cooperative upon being informed we knew about his embezzlement." "The police's communications system could use an upgrade." "I think Mr. Hunt can be persuaded to make an anonymous donation." "well, that will certainly cure what ails this city." "What's that, malcolm?" "We're emptying the atlantic with a tablespoon." "For years, we've been forcing the city's worst to do what is best Ieverage them to help us save this city." "But it's not working." "Crime in the glades is rising." "The cancer is spreading." "We just need to take some more time-- MALCOLM:" "Did Rebecca get more time?" "Did the man who raped Frank's daughter give her any quarter?" "Everyone in this room has lost something or someone to the glades." "And we have committed ourselves to fixing it but what have we truly accomplished?" "Nothing." "And maybe it's because the glades can't be fixed." "You're saying we should abandon the project." "MALCOLM:" "Yes." "In favor of a new undertaking." "Like Ben Tre in Vietnam." "The village must be destroyed before it can be saved." "Are you suggesting we somehow level the glades?" "Down to the bedrock." "only then can we truly rebuild StarIing City and make it safer for everyone." "That's 24 square blocks." "And if we did, and I'm not saying we should if we did, wouldn't suspicion fall on us?" "Not if the destruction appears to be caused by a natural disaster." "You've always had something of a God complex, malcolm it's part of your charm." "But even you can't create a natural disaster." "Have you ever heard of Unidac Industries?" "It's a small company." "They have an idea." "An idea that will serve our purposes." "My sources tell me they're five years away from prototype and any undertaking of value is worthy of patience." "And restraint." "One man alone can't save this city, Robert." "We both know that." "[DOOR OPENS]" ""Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine."" "This coffee is terrible, oliver." "That's what you get for ordering coffee at a bar." "You look tired." "Too much work?" "Too much crying." "Tommy broke up with me." "What happened?" "I have no idea." "Things were good, they were great." "And then, suddenly, he's packing up his things and telling me that it's over." "Did he say anything to you?" "No." "Tommy and I haven't talked very much since he quit." "But he'II come around." "It's probably just cold feet." "Like it was with you?" "oliver, you don't sleep with your girlfriend's sister unless you're looking to blow the relationship up." "If you still want to be with Tommy do what we should've done." "talk to each other." "And be honest." "[DOOR OPENS]" "FELICITY:" "oliver, I need to show you what" "I just totally walked in on a thing, didn't I?" "I'm sorry, uh, who are you?" "Nobody." "I mean, I'm not nobody." "I'm someone, obviously." "And so are you." "You're laurel, right?" "That laurel." "Gorgeous laurel." "This is felicity." "She's setting up my Internet." "Router." "And I need to show oliver something very important related to it." "I'II let you go, then." "Thank you for the coffee." "And the advice." "[SIGHS]" "tell me you got in." "Better." "I hacked Cayman fidelity and put together a list of all the deposits Backman made." "What good does that do us?" "Look at the biggest deposit last year." "Bottom of the page." ""Two million dollars on Decem--"" "December 12th." "That's" "The day waiter disappeared." "What if one of Backman's clients was paid 2 million to kidnap waiter?" "Then we find out which client it was and use them to find waiter." "Okay, back trace the account." "follow the money." "hopefully, it will lead us to whoever kidnapped waiter." "After all this time, do you think waiter might still be alive?" "I don't know." "Got it." "Dominic AIonzo." "Ugh." "Name ring any bells?" "Yeah." "AIonzo runs the biggest underground casino in starling City when he's not busy kidnapping." "He looks like the kind of lowlife someone would hire to kidnap waiter." "How many arrows you think you'II put in him before he gives waiter's location?" "Say "a Iot."" "It's not that simple." "That casino has its own army." "We need to access AIonzo's computer but without setting off any alarms." "Looks like we're gonna need all the help we can get." "It's too bad there's not someone we could call." "That's enough." "We can do this on our own." "well, then, it looks like someone's going gambling tonight." "Those guys would make me the minute I walked in." "oliver Queen would never be in a place like that." "I wasn't talking about you." "absolutely not." "I can count cards." "It's all probability theory and mathematics." "Have you met me?" "Bottom line, I know my way around a casino." "FeIicity" "oliver, the reason I joined you in the first place was to find waiter." "For the first time, we have a real chance at finding him." "You have to let me do this." "AII right." "But we do it my way." "Come on." "I'm sorry to pull you away from whomever you were meeting." "Oh, it's nothing." "Everyone's left already." "Besides, it's my fault for forgetting to sign the K-Fives this morning." "I hope you don't mind me asking, is everything all right?" "Just, uh, taking care of some odds and ends." "well, if ever you need a friendly ear." "You're a good man, WaIter." "I thought you'd left." "I'm still waiting for your answer." "How can you even think of doing this?" "That place took your soul, Robert." "And doing this won't give it back." "Won't bring back Rebecca, either." "It still feels like yesterday, that day." "When she called my cell phone for the first time, I remember being annoyed." "She knew I was busy, so I just let it ring." "When she called back a minute later I shut my phone off." "A little after midnight, two S.C.P.D. officers showed up at my office." "AII I remember them saying was she'd been shot." "Murdered." "In the glades." "After the cops left I sat in my office the rest of the night, listening to Rebecca's messages." "She kept calling my name." "Asking for help." "until she was just struggling just to breathe." "Gasping for air." "I listened to my wife die over and over and over again." "I can't imagine, malcolm." "Try." "Imagine it was Moira lying on that pavement, bleeding, calling your name." "And then tell me you wouldn't be prepared to do what I am." "[SIGHS]" "What do you want?" "Is that any way to treat a girl who just walked up six flights of stairs?" "No, it's not." "Where are my manners?" "Come on in." "Thank you." "welcome." "Did you do these?" "You know, felicity, oliver and I don't need a relationship counselor." "That hasn't been my experience." "We have a lead on waiter." "I need you to come back and help us find him." "oliver put you up to this?" "No." "Heh." "He doesn't even know I'm here." "Look, I know oliver didn't help you find your brother's killer and that hurts and that sucks." "But you gotta know if it was your life on the line and not just your very understandable vendetta, he would be there for you." "No hesitation." "And I don't want a partnership with those kind of qualifications, felicity." "Look, I know oliver's religiously against admitting he's wrong but the truth is, he needs you." "Yeah." "And when oliver is ready to say that, he knows where I Iive." "[SIGHS]" "Sorry for bothering you." "It's no bother, I hope you find him." "[ALL CHATTERING]" "Wow, you really look like your father." "I never thought so before, but just now I saw him in you." "What are you doing here?" "We need to talk." "I've said everything I have to say." "well, I haven't." "Tommy, I Iove you, and I think you still love me so whatever problems you think we have, I know if we face them together" "You don't understand." "Then help me understand." "If our relationship is gonna end, at Ieast let it end with honesty." "Okay, laurel." "honestly you belong with oliver." "Excuse me?" "He's still in love with you." "I have a meeting." "Are you ready?" "I think so." "The plan is for me to get caught counting cards in a underground casino filled with hardened criminals." "So you can get a friendly warning from AIonzo and plant a bug on his office computer." "Right." "Which will hopefully lead us to waiter." "That is, assuming I get the friendly warning and not a bullet." "Hey." "You don't have to do this." "Yes." "I do." "Okay." "If anything happens, I'm right outside." "Okay." "Heh." "Password?" "Snapdragon." "GREEN ARROW [OVER RADIO]:" "The password is Snapdragon." "Password?" "Snapdragon." "[ALL CHATTERING]" "Hi." "GREEN ARROW:" "What do you see?" "Six armed guards." "Two pit bosses." "And a floor man." "No slot machines." "How can you call yourself a casino without lucky sevens?" "Stay focused, please." "I'll be with you the entire time." "Thanks." "[FELICITY SIGHS]" "It feels really good having you inside me." "And by "you" I mean "your voice," and by "me" I mean "my ear."" "l'm gonna stop talking right now." "That would be my preference." "One stack of high society, please." "Thank you for stopping by." "Of course." "Uh, you said you had news." "I do." "It's ready." "The Markov device passed its final beta test this morning." "applied Sciences is loading it on a truck bound for starling City as we speak." "well congratulations are in order." "To both of us." "Moira, you may be surprised to know that I sometimes waver in my convictions." "But your friendship, your endless support, always gives me the strength to carry on." "After all, you and I will always have a connection." "I'm just sorry that Robert's not here to celebrate with us." "I'm sorry I had to take him from you." "If anyone's to blame for his death, it's me." "To Robert." "To Rebecca." "MOIRA:" "Are you feeling all right?" "I know tonight was just another Ted Kord fundraiser, but you were surprisingly quiet." "Moira, there's something I need to talk to you about." "If this is what I think it is, I don't want to know her name." "No, it's about malcolm." "He wants to level the glades." "And how does MaIcoIm propose to evacuate an entire section of the city?" "He doesn't." "Robert this doesn't sound like you." "Because I'm not the man you think I am." "About a month before the opening of the steel factory, the one in the glades I was approached by a local councilman." "He wanted money." "He told me that's the way everything was done in the glades." "I told him I'd never paid a bribe in my Iife." "We got into an argument." "I didn't want to hurt him." "I swear, Moira." "But he fell." "Oh, dear God." "Oh, dear God." "The work I'm doing with malcolm with the list it's my penance, Moira." "What, so you'II atone for one murder by committing hundreds?" "Thousands?" "[MOIRA SIGHS]" "Robert, you listen to me." "Whatever wrongs you've committed, whatever mistakes you've made preventing this horror is your chance to make it right." "please." "please, Robert, promise me you won't let this happen." "FELICITY:" "Oh!" "blackjack!" "FELICITY:" "Ha-ha-ha!" "Wow!" "Yes." "Ha-ha-ha!" "Miss, can you come with me?" "Is something wrong?" "Get up." "well, since you asked so nicely." "Oh, look, there's the bathroom." "Heh." "I should've known the manager's office would be to the right of the bathroom." "PIT BOSS:" "Mr. AIonzo." "Yeah." "Have a seat." "What's your name?" "Megan." "Do you know where the term "86" comes from, Megan?" "Yes, as it happens, I do." "It's from prohibition." "There was an illegal casino not Iike this one, located at 86 Bedford Street in New York and...." "Ah." "You know, I'm just gonna stop talking." "And now it means to ban someone." "Someone who's cheating." "You're 86'd." "Leave your chips and go." "Thank you." "Thank you." "Oh, yeah, Megan." "One more thing." "See, the thing about card counters is, uh, that sometimes they work with a partner." "[RADIO BEEPS]" "You're gonna be really upset when you meet my partner." "[ALL CHATTERING]" "[GUNSHOTS OUTSIDE]" "[CROWD SCREAMING]" "[MEN SHOUTING]" "[SCREAMS]" "[SCREAMS]" "[GASPS]" "I heard you never miss." "I don't." "[BEEPS]" "[FELICITY GASPS]" "[GRUNTING]" "Where's waiter SteeIe?" "What?" "What are you talking about?" "Six months ago, you had him kidnapped." "It was just ajob." "I was given a name." "I didn't ask any questions." "Last chance." "Where is he?" "below ground." "You're lying." "I'm not." "I delivered him and they killed him." "I heard the gunshot." "He's dead." "Oh, Iet's see that blouse in a violet shade." "[MOIRA CHUCKLES]" "You're a miracle worker, Thea." "Oh, when it comes to shopping, it's not work, really." "Heh." "Hey." "Just teaching Mom the joys of online clothes shopping." "ollie." "Are you okay?" "I need to talk to you both." "What is it?" "It's about waiter." "Did the police contact you?" "One of Mr. DiggIe's army buddies works for the FBI now..." "...and they got news tonight." "No." "I'm very sorry." "No, no, no." "There must be some mistake." "Who did Mr. DiggIe talk to?" "Did they find a body?" "Mom." "WaIter's gone." "This isn't right." "OLIVER:" "Where are you going?" "MOIRA:" "Out." "It's 10 :00." "MOIRA:" "I need some air." "Mom, you're in shock." "Don't tell me what or how I feel, oliver." "Why is she acting like that?" "Come here." "[THEA SOBS]" "I suspect I know what this is about." "You and I got in bed with malcolm to cure what ails this city." "But I think you agree killing thousands of people is not the answer." "Indeed." "If we were to wage a war with malcolm MerIyn, we will lose." "My family has already suffered enough." "And I have no desire to endanger mine." "fortunately, there's another option." "Six months ago, malcolm started buying up buildings in the glades through an off-shore company called Sagittarius." "He made it sound as if this undertaking of his was a recent inspiration." "If you're right, he has been thinking about this for months." "If he can't rebuild it, he'II abandon the project." "How much of the glades does he already have?" "About a third." "Now, if we can quietly buy up the rest before he can, he won't be able to gain the control he needs." "We will need capital." "Do you still have your contacts in China?" "I already have a flight planned for Shanghai tomorrow." "Come with me." "We shouldn't travel together." "malcolm might get word." "He already knows I have my doubts." "Besides, I'm getting the urge to take out the Queen's Gambit for another voyage." "Dad, do you have any cash?" "This jerk pizza guy can't break a hundred." "oliver, you remember Mr. Chen?" "Hi." "Hey." "Waiting." "Thank you." "[POP MUSIC PLAYING OVER SPEAKERS]" "OLIVER:" "Pizza." "My hero." "I'm starved." "[OLIVER SIGHS]" "Hey, ollie." "Yeah?" "Where do you keep the bottle opener?" "Bottom drawer." "Did you talk to Ray today?" "About the ski trip?" "No." "He asked Jean to move in with him last night." "Oh." "Guess they've been together forever." "We've been together longer." "Guess we have." "I only bring this up because your mom busted me yesterday." "And obviously we can't hang out at my house" "Why?" "Because your father threatened to Taser me the Iast time I closed the door to your room?" "WouIdn't it be nice to have a little place?" "Yeah." "Maybe." "This is a little fast, laurel." "I know that you Iike to think of yourself as a bad boy, oliver Queen but I feel like we're ready to take the next step." "Yeah." "Let's do it." "[CHUCKLES]" "You lied to me." "We had a deal." "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "What?" "You promised if I cooperated with the Undertaking, WaIter wouldn't be harmed." "I'm a man of my word, Moira." "I think we both know better than that." "And I know...." "[MOIRA SIGHS]" "I know you've had him killed." "Turn on the camera." "WaIter." "MALCOLM:" "Like you said, Moira, we have an agreement." "WaIter would stay in my custody until the Undertaking was complete." "[OVER RADIO] We're both in this together." "I've been sitting in the dark all night too." "AII these months, I kept thinking if I couId find a clue or get a lead on him...." "I guess it wouldn't have mattered." "I can't imagine what your family's going through." "WaIter's alive." "What?" "But AIonzo said" "I need you to pull up MaIcoIm MerIyn's phone records." "He made a call from his office to wherever waiter is being kept at 10 :30 p.m." "malcolm MerIyn?" "Tommy's father?" "Why would he kidnap waiter?" "felicity." "LUDs show he made a call to a tenement complex located in BIudhaven." "Can you pull up a satellite view?" "Uh, yeah." "A Iot of security for Iow-income housing." "There's two guards stationed at all access points." "Just one on the roof." "exactly." "There's no other buildings in that area." "If you wanna get onto the roof, you're going to have to jump off of something." "I've got something." "[GUARD GRUNTS]" "There's a problem in Quadrant 4." "[ALL GRUNTING]" "[MEN GROANING]" "[VOICE MODULATOR BEEPS]" "[IN DISTORTED VOICE] Mr. SteeIe?" "WaIter." "[WALTER GRUNTS]" "What's happening?" "You're going home." "I thought I'd never see you again." "[MOIRA SIGHS]" "I'm all right." "welcome home, WaIter." "Thank you, son." "Thea." "[WALTER CHUCKLES]" "This is totally a family thing, isn't it?" "I'm sorry." "Who are you?" "This is felicity." "She's my friend." "Mine too." "It's good to see you." "You too." "Uh, I'II let you guys get back to your hugging." "[ALL CHUCKLE]" "[MOIRA SIGHS]" "MOIRA:" "oliver." "We're all together again." "Everything is going to be all right." "MOIRA:" "Robert, I don't like the idea of this." "ROBERT:" "It's gonna be okay." "How long will you be gone?" "A few weeks." "Maybe more, depending on weather." "Why can't you just fly to China?" "It's better the less you know." "I just hate that stupid boat." "Look at me." "I Iove you." "Everything's gonna be fine." "I know." "Hey." "Got room for one more?" "No, no." "Mom." "Let me keep Dad company." "oliver, you're in school." "Not really." "I forgot to tell you that." "I couId use an extra hand on the ship." "Robert." "Moira, Iet the kid take the boat out with the old man." "[SIGHS]" "AII right." "AII right." "But promise me that you'II behave yourself." "Oh, yeah, I promise." "I Iove you so much." "I Iove you too." "I totally spaced." "I gotta call Tommy and let him know I'm out of town for a few weeks." "See you onboard in five." "Sara, you here?" "Ahem." "Yeah, you might wanna circle around the block a few times because your sisterjust showed up." "Hi." "What are you doing here?" "You're leaving for three weeks." "I wanted to come say bye to you in person." "I'm glad you did." "And I wanted to bring you something." "[OLIVER SIGHS]" "In case you get lonely oversea." "[CHUCKLES]" "Thank you." "Hey, is everything okay?" "I mean, I didn't totally freak you out when I brought up the whole apartment thing, did I?" "No." "Good." "No." "Mm." "But I do have to get back to the boat." "Yeah." "MALCOLM:" "Is it done?" "FRANK:" "Yes." "The bomb is in place." "And there's a storm front moving in along the Gambit's projected course." "Good." "When the Queen's Gambit goes down no one will suspect it's anything other than an act of God." "oliver." "Oh." "What a miracle." "How's waiter?" "The police are saying he was rescued by the vigilante." "Yes, he was." "Has he said anything about his ordeal?" "Was he able to identify any of his captors?" "No." "Hmm." "That's too bad." "They'II get what's coming to them." "I'm just glad that my family is back together." "We all are." "LAUREL:" "ollie." "Excuse me." "Is waiter okay?" "I saw it on the news." "Yeah." "Are you okay?" "Of course." "I promise you, now is not the time." "Oh." "It's you and Tommy." "You and me, actually." "I talked to Tommy, and the reason he broke up with me is because he thinks that you and I still belong together." "What did you say?" "Nothing." "He walked out on me." "I just want you to be happy." "It's what I've always wanted." "Then will you please go talk to Tommy for me?" "And say what?" "Say that you and I are over." "That you're not still in love with me." "I can't do that." "Why not?" "Because it wouldn't be true." "And I have enough lies in my Iife already." "[SIGHS]" "[KNOCKING ON DOOR]" "[SIGHS]" "I guess you do know where I Iive." "I've always known where you live." "May I?" "I'm sorry." "You were right and I was wrong." "About Deadshot?" "About everything." "About my mother." "And about her involvement in the Undertaking." "She lied to me." "To Thea." "She's working with malcolm MerIyn." "And they're planning something." "Something terrible." "I don't know what yet but I just know one thing I need your help to stop them." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "For five years, I was stranded on an island with only one goal survive." "Oliver Queen is alive." "OLIVER:" "Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city." "To do this, I must become someone else." "I must become something else." "ANNOUNCER:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Rescuing your father and stopping Fyers is not gonna be some walk in the park." "Yao Fei." "Pa." "How did you escape?" "I didn't." "You told me to stay away from your family and I did." "But your family isn't staying away, which means something must be done." "You're going home." "About my mother and about her involvement in the Undertaking." "She's working with malcolm MerIyn, and they're planning something terrible." "So I was wondering, there's a late night happy hour at stella's." "The place across the street." "The place that's always playing loud salsa music at all hours..." "...when I'm trying to work late?" "That would be the one." "Anyway, I was thinking that, uh, maybe, you know if you wanted to, we could perhaps grab a drink?" "How about two?" "[WOMAN GASPS]" "WOMAN:" "Oh, my God!" "please, I did everything Mr. MerIyn required of me." "He knows, Dr. Markov, and he thanks you for your service." "[SCREAMS]" "[LOCK BEEPS]" "Open the door!" "Open the door!" "Open the" "Freeze!" "Open the door." "Open the door." "Get down on the floor!" "MAN:" "Open the door." "[ALARM WAILING]" "[BOTH SIGH]" "[WOMAN GASPS]" "[SCREAMS]" "I've been watching your mother for days now, oliver, and nothing." "She goes to work, she comes home." "occasionally she goes out to dinner." "She seems to like the salmon tartare at table salt." "I'm linked into phone." "Nothing out of the ordinary." "No mention of WaIter's abduction or the Undertaking." "Just innocuous calls to malcolm MerIyn." "Why wouldn't she call him?" "They're old friends." "We're all old friends." "Are you okay?" "My mom and my best friend's dad are involved in a conspiracy that may have dire consequences for the city." "I'm sure they murdered my father." "I'm not planning on using the word okay again anytime soon." "AII we know is malcolm and your mother are planning something for the glades." "WaIter and I were getting close." "That's why they had him kidnapped." "We have to find out what this Undertaking is." "I gotta ask her." "well, no." "The last time the vigilante paid your mom a visit you got shot, and I got to play doctor with you." "Oh!" "My brain thinks of the worst way to say things." "This time it'II just be me asking." "friendly mother-son chat." "laurel, what are you doing here?" "It's not even 7 a.m." "That's just after closing time, right?" "[OLIVER CHUCKLES]" "How's business?" "well, it's busy." "Busy." "It was easier when Tommy was running things." "Tommy's a good guy." "Yeah." "Are you?" "What do you mean?" "Last week, I told you that I wanted to get back with Tommy." "That I needed you to go to him and explain that you didn't still have feelings for me." "But instead, you told me that you did." "As I'm sure you can probably imagine, I haven't been able to think of much since." "I shouldn't have said that." "Then why did you?" "I" " I didn't have an agenda." "I didn't mean to make it more difficult for you to fix things with Tommy." "But what if you did?" "After you disappeared with Sara I was sorry I ever knew you." "But now things have happened that I never thought would." "You coming home." "My parents being in the same room." "And you." "What if I'm finally starting to see you for who you really are?" "No" "Maybe Tommy was right." "Maybe he and I weren't meant to be." "Maybe I'm finally ready to admit that I still have feelings for you too." "Nothing's changed." "My life hasn't changed." "I haven't changed." "I gotta go." "WaIter's coming home." "[SIGHS]" "Everything's exactly as you left it." "How are you feeling, WaIter?" "I'm on the mend, thank you, oliver." "Oh, I'm so glad you're home." "That makes two of us." "AII of us." "We've prepared a delicious brunch for you." "AII your favorites." "Yum, english food." "actually, I'm more tired from the drive than I expected." "So I think I'd Iike to lie down for a bit." "Yes, of course." "[CELL PHONE BUZZES]" "WaIter doesn't really seem like himself." "He's gone through a Iot." "It's just gonna take a little bit of time." "[THEA SIGHS]" "I'm really sick of us all having to go through a Iot, you know?" "Six scientists and three security personnel are confirmed killed in the massacre." "Among the dead, respected seismologist, Brian Markov." "A spokesperson for Unidac lndustries says a comment would be forthcoming." "Mom, we need to talk." "Oh, uh, later, oliver." "to co-workers, parents and families of all the victims to see how they're coping with their loss." "You" "Save it." "We don't have the luxury of indulging in vendettas." "Pa." "Shado." "You led Fyers right to us, you coward." "Fyers was about to fire bomb the entire forest just to eliminate you." "This way, you all have a chance." "Pray I don't get the chance to repay your mercy." "How fitting." "Everyone reunited for the end." "The end of what?" "What is all this for?" "PILOT [OVER RADIO]:" "HKlA, this is Ferris, Flight 637 out of Berlin, nonstop to Hong Kong." "We are steady on approach at 33,000 feet with winds at 15 knots." "ETA, two hours, 15 minutes, over." "Ferris 637, this is HKIA." "Adjust course to 0.6 degrees south, 11 minutes, over." "Roger, HKlA." "Why the course change?" "Nothing to worry about, 637." "Just looking to make sure you avoid a little turbulence." "Roger that." "Adjusting course now." "They're altering course." "The plane will be in Lian Yu in 26 minutes." "Good." "Keep tracking it." "That's a commercial airliner, Fyers." "It's not Iike it can land here." "It won't be landing anywhere, Mr. Queen." "I'm going to destroy it." "Arrows are black, not green." "Copycat archer again." "Psychopaths are coIor-coding themselves." "That's helpful." "We haven't seen the copycat in quite a while." "Last time he took hostages to draw out the vigilante." "This time, he massacres a bunch of lab nerds?" "Want a press Iockdown." "Nobody hears about the other archer." "Get a list of all Unidac employees and what they're working on." "It was a tight group." "Anyone who knows anything about the project is dead." "The copycat fried their computers and burned their research." "Ah." "Whatever's going on here, someone doesn't want anyone to know about it." "THEA:" "Where did you even get that camera?" "Come to think of it, where did you get this car?" "I borrowed it, illegally." "When I imagined being in a car with you, this isn't exactly what I had in mind." "You said you'd help me find the vigilante." "I know, but it's been two weeks." "The closest we've come is snapping photos of the cop who hates the Hood just as much as you worship him." "I don't worship him." "I just need to find him." "You don't need to find him to be somebody." "Besides, it's not Iike you're gonna meet him any time soon." "Seems like the cops don't have a clue." "We don't know what they know." "Okay, I officially do not Iike that look." "You still work at CNRI, right?" "Hey, Mom." "[SIGHS]" "WaIter's upstairs resting." "I think he's doing well, don't you?" "Who took him?" "well, we don't know yet." "I'm gonna make sure the resources of Queen consolidated are behind it." "That's the answer that you gave to reporters yesterday." "tell me the truth." "[SCOFFS]" "I don't know what you mean." "I think you do." "When I showed you dad's notebook you seemed to know something." "Something about our family being in danger." "Are you suggesting that I knew something about my husband's kidnapping?" "I'm suggesting you were scared." "That maybe you didn't mean for any of this to happen." "It was harder than you thought, now you're barely keeping your head above water." "please, Mom." "Let me help you before you drown." "You need to stop asking these things." "Do you understand?" "I need you to stop." "I can't." "I need to know." "Is that a power outage?" "I don't know." "[ARROW FIRES THEN OLIVER GRUNTS]" "oliver." "oliver." "[ARROW FIRES]" "[GASPING]" "Mom." "oliver." "Are you okay?" "oliver?" "What...?" "We...." "Oh, we've gotta get out of here." "THE HOOD:" "Moira Queen you have failed this city." "This doesn't make any sense." "Why do you want to blow up a plane?" "When the New York Stock Exchange reopened after 9/11  the Dow Jones dropped nearly 685 points." "Imagine what would happen to China, the world's second largest economy if all air travel in and out of China were to be grounded indefinitely." "You want to destabilize China's economy?" "It's not what I want, but rather my employer." "We have enough missiles to shoot down any aircraft approaching the mainland." "And that will decimate China's economy." "especially once a rogue element in China's own military claims responsibility." "You see, inconvenient though you occasionally were you're always worth more to me alive than dead." "Then you should have killed me, because I won't do it." "really?" "[GRUNTING]" "Shado." "Shado." "I said I need you alive, but I can kill everyone you care about." "help you with something?" "Yes, um, I'm from CNRI and we're investigating claims of racial bias in SCPD arrests." "So I'm gonna need a copy of each file from every arrest in starling City January, 2011 to present." "It's almost 9 at night." "tell that to Judge Crow." "He's the one who signed the court order." "Wait here." "HILTON:" "I don't know, it seems like a leap." "LANCE:" "What you do when you got nothing because all I know is the copycat, he torched every record down at Unidac." "And all we got are phone records and they show that this Markov guy made calls to an unclaimed line at MerIyn global." "A couple of calls?" "Did I say "reach"?" "I misspoke." "I meant "leap."" "LANCE:" "Get someone down here from merlyn global to answer questions under oath." "Did you find anything?" "Lots." "THEA:" "Anything helpful?" "ROY:" "No, still looking." "What about you?" "You learn anything from the cops?" "As a matter of fact." "I Iike the sound of that." "You know that copycat archer?" "Yeah." "Turns out he's connected to MerIyn global somehow." "Or at Ieast his victims are." "We're looking for the Hood, not some crazy wannabe." "well, the guy with the black arrows seems to hate the guy with the green arrows, so...." "So what, we just show up at MerIyn global and hope the Hood shows up too?" "Last I checked, you don't have any better ideas." "please." "Do not hurt my son." "THE HOOD:" "tell me what the Undertaking is and I won't have to." "OLIVER:" "No!" "tell me!" "please, leave my son alone." "What is malcolm MerIyn planning?" "I can't tell you." "He'II kill me, he'II kill my family." "THE HOOD:" "You should be more worried about what I'II do." "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "No!" "malcolm is planning to level the glades." "He said so he could rebuild it but...." "THE HOOD:" "How?" "There's a device." "What device?" "He says that it can cause an earthquake." "How is this possible?" "I don't know." "It was invented by Unidac Industries." "malcolm used my company's applied sciences to turn it into a weapon." "Why would you get involved in something like this?" "My husband...." "He got involved without my knowing." "He was just trying to do some good." "He was lost." "He...." "His decisions left me vulnerable to malcolm and I had no choice." "I had to protect my family and my children." "THE HOOD:" "This device, where is it?" "I don't know." "If you don't tell me, I can't stop MerIyn." "Oh, you can't stop him." "It's too late." "No, no, no, I told you everything!" "oliver." "No." "Oh, sweet" "Don't." "please, I know what you must be thinking, sweetheart but I never intended any of this to happen." "[COUGHS]" "You know I would never willingly be a part of anything like this." "I don't know anything anymore." "Oh, my God." "You said you were gonna pull your punches." "I did." "Let me get you an icepack for everything." "I'm fine." "I need you to dig up everything you can on Unidac Industries." "well, we know Queen consolidated acquired them seven months ago." "That's when we met." "I need information about what I don't know." "Unidac is a small research and development technology company that specializes in seismic infringement." "MerIyn plans on leveling the glades with a device that triggers a manmade earthquake." "FELICITY:" "You're kidding." "What else does it say?" "More information on the stock auction and you know the latest, what the media's caIIing" "The Unidac massacre." "There's no way this timing is a coincidence." "oliver, there's a website claiming the police suspect a copycat archer." "What?" "So the other archer works for MerIyn?" "He's tying up loose ends." "Erasing all evidence this device exists so no one can trace the devastation to him." "You'II have a conversation with MerIyn." "Even if I take out MerIyn the other archer is there." "He can set off the device." "We need to find it." "Then MerIyn can get his." "Maybe there's another way to get MerIyn to tell us." "What do you have in mind?" "As I keep proving, people keep secrets..." "felicity, are you hacking into the MerIyn global mainframe?" "Hacking is such an ugly word." "No." "I'm...." "Yeah, totally hacking into the MerIyn global mainframe." "Stop!" "I'II do it." "I knew your good judgment could be counted on." "Come along now." "We need to get you back into uniform." "[OLIVER GRUNTS]" "[SPEAKS IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE]" "It's Fyers." "It's happening." "Understood." "That was Fyers." "Everything is proceeding to your plan." "WALTER:" "It truly is very kind of you to come all the way out here." "WaIter?" "Who are you speaking to?" "Moira." "How are you?" "well." "Thank you." "actually, you look a little bit out of sorts." "Oh, no, no, I'm fine." "malcolm stopped by to check up on his nemesis." "[MALCOLM CHUCKLES]" "On the racquetball court." "[CHUCKLES]" "Didn't get a chance to talk to waiter at the hospital." "Like everyone, I'm glad he's back where he belongs." "With his family." "Yes." "I'II let you get some rest." "Thanks again." "Yeah." "Uh, I'II walk you out." "Your assassin wasn't too subtle in eliminating those people at Unidac." "police are focused on the copycat archer instead of the Undertaking." "As for our collateral damage, had to limit our exposure." "I see." "And does paying waiter a visit just now fall under the same category?" "You held him for nearly six months." "surely you had him questioned." "He was." "I assume if waiter knew something you'd rather he didn't, agreement be damned I would be a widow again." "Am I wrong?" "rarely." "LANCE:" "well, we discovered a few phone calls between one of the Unidac victims and someone at the MerIyn global group." "Which is why I asked for someone at your company to help me with my investigation." "But naturally, they send down the one guy that's been working there 30 seconds and knows nothing." "Detective Lance, if someone from merlyn global is involved with those deaths..." "..." "I want them found as much as you do." "Yeah." "Give me more to go on than phone calls and I will help you in any way that I can." "Thank you." "Hey." "What are you doing here?" "helping your father with an investigation." "Uh...." "call me if you need anything else." "Thank you." "One second, sweetie." "Okay, someone at MerIyn global could be connected to the copycat archer." "Any chance you can have a little snoop around their computer systems?" "We'II need a warrant." "We'II need ajudge who owes me a favor." "Hey." "You never did tell me what had you and merlyn on the outs." "No, I didn't." "You don't have to tell me." "oliver." "[SIGHS]" "Come on." "I know." "I know." "Say it." "You think I'm crazy." "I mean, oliver, he cheated on me, he broke my heart, he led Sara to her death and you would probably rather drink acid than see me with him again." "Dad, I am sure you're disappointed in me." "[LANCE SIGHS]" "Since Queen's been back, he's different." "I'II deny ever having said that." "Let's eat." "FELICITY:" "Ah." "Anything?" "For the record, I will pump my fist in the air and scream "yes" if I get in." "You can say this isn't working." "This isn't working." "There has to be some other way." "unless I can waltz up to MerIyn's mainframe and plug in my tablet directly..." "...there's no way of getting that location." "Then we waltz." "Excuse me?" "You need direct access to the mainframe, so we get you direct access..." "...and figure out where the device is kept." "oliver I did mention that the mainframe is located inside MerIyn global Group's main headquarters, on the 25th floor?" "only accessible via a restricted elevator." "OLIVER:" "I know." "We're gonna have to break in." "Hi." "oliver Queen." "I have an 11 :30 with Tommy MerIyn." "I have a super deluxe Big belly Buster for a Mr. Andrews." "I think he's in security." "He a good tipper?" "You can go on up, Mr. Queen." "You can wait a second." "New guy, you order food?" "Yeah, I'm addicted to Big belly Burger." "Never had it." "I'II split it with you." "Keep the change." "MAN:" "hold that." "Where you heading, sweetie?" "Nineteenth floor." "Too bad, I'm going to 13th." "Damn it!" "Mr. Andrews got his lunch?" "One belly Buster with benzodiazepine." "hold the mayo." "sleep tight." "Mainframe's on 25, guys." "This is as close as I can get you." "[FELICITY GRUNTING]" "Don't look down." "Too late." "I should mention I'm afraid of heights, which I just learned." "FeIicity." "hold on to me tight." "Huh?" "I imagined you saying that under different circumstances." "Very pIatonic circumstances." "Ready?" "Uh-huh." "Come on." "You all right?" "I'm fine." "Yeah, this is just my about-to-hack face." "I always oh, look like this right before I, you know, hack." "Security patrol's on a 10 -minute cycle." "I'II have my meeting with Tommy and be back in nine." "Okay." "Okay." "Dig, you got eyes on her?" "Five by five." "Okay." "OLIVER:" "Sure beats the back of a bar." "I saw your name in my schedule." "I thought it must be a typo." "Why so serious?" "Did someone decide that they didn't want you putting an arrow in them today?" "I thought it was past time we talked." "About what?" "Me leaving the club, you being a serial killer?" "We're not lacking for topics." "Let's start with laurel, since you're still in love with her." "So are you." "I can't be with her, Tommy." "You know why I can't." "So what?" "I'm her consolation prize?" "I'II pass." "She's not anyone's property." "laurel makes her own decisions and she chose you." "until you couldn't handle it." "Lord knows I am guilty of a Iot of things between us but not you and her." "That's all I came to say." "What exactly do you do here?" "I work closely with my father." "Guys, you got trouble." "What?" "felicity's about to have some company." "I'm not there yet on the download." "hold tight." "I am on my way." "oliver." "Mr." "MerIyn." "I must say, I'm surprised to see you here." "Tommy and I just had a little unfinished business." "Ah." "Things have been challenging, but I trust you're working things out." "DIGGLE:" "Felicity." "FELICITY:" "Just a few more seconds." "Yes." "I'm sorry, I have to go." "There are investors waiting for me at my club." "I'm heading out to a meeting myself." "I'II walk you down to the lobby." "DIGGLE:" "She's gonna get made, Oliver." "Oliver, did you hear me?" "DIGGLE:" "felicity." "What?" "Just a few more seconds." "Come on, come on." "You don't have a few more seconds." "Yes." "Wow, I really do do that." "Oh." "oliver, she's in trouble." "Where are you?" "This is a restricted area." "Let's see some ID." "ID?" "Uh...." "tell your mother I said hello." "I will." "Got held up." "Heading back upstairs." "THEA:" "ollie?" "Thea?" "What are you doing here?" "I, uh, just saw Tommy." "Yeah, me too." "I'm gonna run back up." "I don't wanna be late." "Oh, I thought you just came down." "There you are." "Thanks a Iot, man, this one snuck past security." "One of merlyn junior's bimbos." "Pissed he never called her back." "Copy that." "I read the tabloids." "Yeah." "Thanks again." "Let's go, Barbie." "Your new last name ain't gonna be MerIyn." "But I Iove him." "He's my man." "Ha, ha." "You're my knight in shining armor." "Is that your friend Roy?" "No." "Uh...." "No?" "Yeah, he gave me a ride." "Thea, what are you really doing here?" "The truth, please." "The truth?" "Uh...." "Mm-hm." "We're trying to find the vigilante." "What?" "Roy's been kind of obsessed with him since he saved his life at the subway." "I overheard Detective Lance saying the other archer was connected to MerIyn global, some-- Hey." "Roy." "We haven't met." "I'm Thea's disapproving older brother." "Yeah, I know." "Good to meet you." "Don't mess around with the Hood." "He's a psychopath." "He's dangerous." "Anyone who gets near him winds up dead." "That will not be my sister, do you hear me?" "Okay." "Take her home now." "What are you doing?" "VigiIante's not fond of guys who sell Vertigo." "I know a guy who claims he has a stash to sell." "Maybe we could stake him out, hope the Hood shows up for him." "Did you not hear what my brother said?" "What does your brother know?" "Uh, for one thing, the vigilante once saved his life so if he's telling us to keep away that should say something." "No offense, but your brother's a wimp." "Don't say that." "Why not?" "It's true." "My brother survived five years alone on an island." "Five years I thought I had lost him." "Yeah?" "well, I lost someone too." "And they aren't coming back." "Who?" "It doesn't matter." "That is why I need to find him." "So he can teach me to be like him." "I'm not losing anyone else ever again." "I can't do this, Roy." "If you don't give this up, you're gonna lose me." "Better now than later." "[SIGHS]" "Oh, good." "I was just coming to check on you to see if maybe you'd Iike some tea or...." "What is this?" "WaIter please." "Divorce is an extreme reaction." "well, considering the circumstances, I find it somewhat reserved." "You think I believe that my abduction on the night you told me that I was getting too close to your conspiracy was a coincidence?" "No, you were in danger." "This arrangement, it saved your life." "well, that's ironic." "Because it feels like you've destroyed it." "WaIter." "You know I read about people in forced captivity." "Some of them said it was a simple thought that got them through the isolation and fear." "Returning to their loved ones." "So I don't know really why I'm still alive, Moira, because I didn't have that." "WaIter, pIease" "What do you think you can say to me to convince me that everything I knew my whole life, hasn't just evaporated?" "Where are you going?" "WALTER:" "Come here." "[SOBBING]" "Detective?" "What did you find?" "MerIyn global's cyber security is off the charts." "firewalls, NSA-grade, IPSec protocols." "What's that, tech speak for, "I struck out, boss"?" "Yeah, but I wasn't the only one." "Somebody else tried hacking into MerIyn global systems." "Same pathways I used, same result." "You're saying someone was looking for MerIyn's connection to Unidac?" "Someone good." "Knew how to reverse engineer her footprints." "I almost didn't catch her." "Her?" "Yeah." "She works at Queen consolidated." "Name's felicity Smoak." "Who the hell is felicity Smoak?" "FELICITY:" "In addition to the download I also took the liberty of uploading a Trojan to MerIyn's system." "Figured it might come in handy." "That's smart." "If MerIyn thinks he's been compromised, it'II help if we know." "Can you locate the seismic device?" "I'm working on it." "But there's at Ieast a teraflop of data to go through." "You all right?" "My father, he told me that he failed the city." "Asked me to right his wrongs, but I never knew what he meant until now." "It's the Undertaking." "I promised myself that when I crossed all these names off the list, I'd be done but taking down these people, it doesn't honor him." "I was just treating the symptoms while the disease festered." "I stop the Undertaking I wipe out the disease." "What are you saying, oliver?" "You would hang up the Hood?" "MerIyn's plan is what I returned from the island to stop." "Where are you going?" "Out." "[KNOCK ON DOOR]" "Hi." "Can we talk?" "What do you wanna talk about?" "Wow, I thought this was gonna be easier to say." "But now I'm standing here..." "..." "looking at you and it's" "Just say what you have to say and go." "Ever since I've been back, we've been doing this dance." "We come together, and then I pull away." "Something pulls me away." "But I think, finally that something might be over." "What are you trying to say?" "That you know me better than anyone." "And that you are more important to me than anyone." "I just hope I didn't wait too long to say it." "You didn't wait too long." "You're right on time." "[CELL PHONE BUZZING]" "What is it?" "FeIicity found the Markov device." "MerIyn's keeping it at a warehouse his company owns in the glades." "Good." "Coordinate an attack." "You take the device, I'II take MerIyn." "Got a location?" "Yeah." "According to felicity's Trojan, MerIyn's logged on to his computer from his office." "I'm on my way." "The uniform suits you, Yao Fei." "Any time you're ready." "To the people of China and citizens of the world I make this statement voluntarily, taking responsibility for the shooting of Ferris Air flight 637 to protest the people's republic of China's treatment of me for betraying and abandoning me to the island of Lian Yu." "Consider this my righteous delivery of powerful vengeance." "Thank you." "No!" "SHADO:" "Pa!" "Pa!" "MAN:" "Sir, the plane is within range." "[SHADO SOBS]" "Very well." "I'II be in touch." "Can I help you?" "No." "I wasn't talking to you." "[IN DISTORTED VOICE] MaIcoIm MerIyn you have failed this city." "And how have I done that?" "The Undertaking." "It ends now." "DIGGLE [OVER RADIO]:" "Oliver, the device it's gone." "Where's the device?" "Safe." "I don't know how you got that Trojan onto my system but it prompted me to take precautions." "There is nothing you can do to stop what is about to happen." "And you shouldn't." "This city needs what is about to happen in order to survive." "The people who are destroying it from the inside need to be erased from the map." "Fine." "Let's start with you." "Ironic, isn't it?" "Last Christmas, I almost killed you." "A few months ago, you saved my Iife." "And now you're here trying to kill me." "You should make up your mind." "Done." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[YELLS]" "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[PANTING]" "Oh, no." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "OLIVER:" "Previously on Arrow:" "Maybe I'm finally ready to admit that I still have feelings for you too." "No." "malcolm is planning to level the glades." "My father, he told me that he failed the city." "But I never knew what he meant until now." "MerIyn's plan is what I returned from the island to stop." "Oh, no." "You can survive this." "Make it home." "And make it better." "Right my wrongs." "Dad." "Survive." "[GUNSHOT]" "[OLIVER PANTING]" "I hope I didn't hurt you." "At least I can properly thank you now for saving my Iife." "If I only knew how you were spending your nights." "My hope is that I can explain everything to you to help you understand." "You murdered my father." "You sentenced me to that island to five years of hell." "I'm truly sorry for what happened to you." "You know I have lost people." "Yeah, your wife." "Do you really think that you're honoring Tommy's mother by destroying the glades?" "As surely as you believe you're honoring your father with this hood." "Not a day goes by I don't miss your father." "You'II see him soon." "You can't beat me, oliver." "Yes, you're younger and you're faster." "Yet you always seem to come up short against me." "Want to know why?" "Because you don't know in your heart, what you're fighting for." "What you're willing to sacrifice, and I do." "No one can stop what's about to come." "Not even the vigilante." "plane's holding steady at 33,000 feet." "The range for missile intercept." "Lock missile one on target." "missile one locked on the jet's heat trail." "FRYERS:" "Prepare to launch on my mark." "DURAND:" "Yes, sir." "[YELLING]" "[DURAND GRUNTS]" "Fire!" "Fire the missile now!" "[GRUNTS]" "[GROANS]" "[NECK SNAPS]" "[CRACKS]" "[GUNSHOT]" "I take back every joke about you sticking a tracking device in your boot." "felicity's at Queen consolidated." "She's going through data she pulled off MerIyn's network." "Did she find anything?" "Yeah." "The design schematics of the earthquake generator." "So we can shut it down." "Assuming we find it in time." "[PHONE RINGS]" "DIGGLE:" "Yeah, Felicity, I got him." "Thank God." "Is he okay?" "DIGGLE:" "Mostly." "Okay." "I'm on my way." "LANCE:" "Miss Smoak." "Where are you off to in such a hurry?" "please." "Take a seat." "You know, I think I'd rather stand." "You're not exactly a hardened criminal." "No, I'm not any kind of criminal." "What do you call computer hacking?" "A hobby?" "That I do not engage in." "Hey, I got a whole mess of gobbledygook I don't understand but says otherwise." "I had my tech guy scrub through your computer at Queen consolidated." "You used it to hack into BIackhawk Squad Security research arrows shipped to a company called Sagittarius and to analyze a water sample to tie back to a Vertigo drug lab." "These are all cases involving The Hood." "tell me, felicity." "What am I thinking?" "[PHONE RINGS]" "Saved by the bell." "Excuse me." "HOOD:" "Hello, detective." "Funny you should call." "I got your sidekick sitting in front of me." "HOOD:" "I don't have a sidekick." "When I need help, I call you." "MerIyn plans to level the glades with a manmade earthquake using technology from Unidac lndustries." "What?" "Ha, ha." "Now you're trying to have fun with me." "I don't know MerIyn's timetable." "You need to evacuate the glades immediately." "Get as many people to safety as you can." "Whatever you think of me, detective, please believe this." "Sounds like you have bigger problems than me." "Don't leave town." "You know I used to think the vigilante was a criminal too but it seems to me whoever he is, he's willing to sacrifice to help the people of this city." "Kind of makes him a hero." "Doesn't it?" "Look who it is." "My best friend in life." "Hey, buddy." "I took your advice, you know." "I went to laurel's to fight for her." "So imagine my surprise seeing you there, kissing her." "I'm sorry." "No, you're not." "Something's happening and it involves your father." "Keep my father out of this." "Our fathers." "They aren't the men we thought they were." "They made a plan together to destroy the glades." "Do you have any idea what you sound like right now?" "Your father's gonna do it." "Because he thinks it will avenge your mother's death." "Do not talk about my mother." "The difference between us, Tommy is that I didn't find out the truth about my father until it was too late." "But you've always known deep down you have always known the man he is." "I wish you would have died on that island." "Open." "[YELLING]" "We need to reprogram the missile." "I don't know how to reprogram." "I do." "Hey, Shado!" "[GRUNTS]" "oliver, put the chip in." "Quick, I got a comm stat meeting in five." "I don't want to be late for my funeral." "I've got it under good authority that MerIyn plans to level the glades using an earthquake device made by Unidac Industries." "Who's your source in all this?" "The vigilante." "He called me." "Yeah, has done the Iast few months." "He's been helpful on some cases." "You asked for the task force to catch him." "You swore you'd bring him in." "I know." "I swore to uphold the Iaw." "The law is steady and unchanging." "The law needed to be protected." "But what are laws, rules, if they don't protect people?" "I'm throwing away my career by telling you this I am willing to sacrifice catching this guy if it means saving people's lives." "please." "You're suspended." "Leave your gun and badge with the duty sergeant." "Lieutenant..." "Suspension or incarceration." "You choose." "No more lies, Mom." "The Undertaking." "We need to stop it." "Everything I have ever said or done has been to protect you and your sister." "What about all those people in the glades?" "I'm not their mother." "I spoke to malcolm." "You what?" "He could have killed you." "He killed your father." "No, he didn't." "After the Gambit went down, dad and I both made it to the life raft." "And then we drifted, for days." "In the end, there wasn't enough food and water for both of us." "So he shot himself in the head." "I don't want to hear this." "He sacrificed himself." "So that I couId live." "Do you really think that I couId go on living knowing that you sacrificed thousands more in my name?" "Mom." "please." "You have to help me stop MaIcoIm." "We need to know where the device is." "[PHONE RINGING]" "malcolm." "How can I help you?" "I see." "Yes, thank you for calling." "What is it?" "malcolm's accelerated his timetable." "The Undertaking is happening tonight." "Where are you going?" "Somebody in this family needs to put an end to this." "Whatever the cost." "LAUREL:" "Hi." "Hey." "LAUREL:" "I woke up and you were gone." "I'm really sorry about that." "oliver, I'm trying not to think that our history's repeating." "That you're scared again." "No." "That's not it." "Then will you tell me what's going on with you?" "There are so many things that I have wanted to tell you for so long." "I never told you what happened to me on the island." "You didn't have to." "I can see that it changed you." "That's the thing." "laurel, it didn't." "Those five years didn't change me." "They just they scraped away all the things that I wasn't and revealed the person I always was, which is the person" "That's who you always saw." "I don't know how you saw it, but you did." "Nobody in my Iife is who I thought they were." "Except you." "laurel, I need you to do something for me." "Stay out of the glades tonight." "Why?" "You'II know soon." "One way or the other." "I have to go." "It's over." "laurel and me, I mean." "She's with oliver, again." "always." "I'm sorry, son." "Yeah, and he said you wanted to nuke the glades or something." "It's funny, Scotch doesn't make it any more believable." "Maybe after yourjihad, we can, uh, grab some steaks." "It's true, Tommy." "It's the reason I closed your mother's clinic." "I didn't wanna see it leveled." "What?" "I have something I'd Iike you to listen to." "The night your mother died she called me." "I awoke to a voicemail from her." "Dad." "Her final gift to me." "REBECCA [ON RECORDING]:" "Malcolm, I'm in trouble." "I told, I told him to take everything." "My money my ring." "Turn it off." "REBECCA:" "They shot me." "I screamed for help..." "...but no one would come." "God." "No one would come." "REBECCA:" "Malcolm, I don't want to die alone." "She bled out into the pavement while people passed and did nothing." "Your mother built her clinic in the glades because she wanted to save this city." "It can't be saved." "Because the people there don't want it to be saved." "So you kill them aII--?" "Yes!" "They deserve to die!" "AII of them!" "The way she died!" "The Undertaking is happening tonight." "felicity may have found something." "This symbol is the map of the old subway tunnel system." "That's got us thinking the Undertaking is connected to the glades." "What if it's more specific?" "What do you mean?" "If I had a machine that could trigger an earthquake in an otherwise geoIogicaIIy stable area, where would I position it?" "Underground." "Yeah." "This is a U.S. geological survey of the tectonic plates running underneath StarIing City." "This red line here is a known fault that runs right below the glades." "About a mile." "fault runs under the old 10th Street subway." "dollars to doughnuts, the seismic device is somewhere along there." "I know where it is." "[PHONE VIBRATES]" "Now is not a good time." "Yeah, understate much?" "Mom has a whole bunch of reporters here." "She's holding a press conference or something." "What channel?" "It looks like all of them." "felicity, pull up the local news, please." "My name is Moira Dearden Queen." "I am the acting CEO of Queen Consolidated." "And God forgive me, I have failed this city." "For the past five years, under the threat for my Iife and the lives of my family I have been complicit in an undertaking with one horrible purpose." "To destroy the glades and everyone in it." "I realize now that my family's safety will mean nothing if I let this dreadful act occur." "But you need to know that the architect of this nightmare is Malcolm Merlyn." "[SCREAMS]" "Yes, and I have proof that he has killed dozens in pursuit of this madness." "Adam Hunt, Frank Chen and my husband Robert." "Please." "If you reside in the Glades, you need to get out now." "Your lives and the lives of your children depend on it." "please." "[REPORTERS YELLING INDISTINCTLY]" "I don't understand." "I'm sorry." "I Iove you." "I Iove Roy." "Roy?" "He lives in the glades." "I can't leave him there." "Sweetheart." "Thea." "HILTON:" "You're under arrest for conspiracy to murder." "Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law." "You have the right to an attorney." "TOMMY:" "Is it true?" "Did you kill all those people?" "I did what I had to do." "OFFICER:" "Freeze!" "malcolm MerIyn, you are under arrest." "Don't move." "Dad, no." "please, Dad." "Stay back." "I don't want to hurt you." "You can't." "And you can't stop me." "FELICITY:" "oliver, I'm sorry." "Don't be." "She gave those people a chance." "I thought MerIyn broke your bow." "I have another." "I was going over the device schematics." "The device can be set for a timed detonation..." "...or remote activated by mobile transmitter." "Something MerIyn could have on him." "If we can just get our hands on this transmitter..." "...we don't need to track down the device." "It's too big an if." "I need you in the subway." "Find the device, disarm it." "So you can take on MerIyn by yourself?" "I have to." "Oh, he'II kill you, oliver." "I know." "He's beaten me twice." "And I don't know how to stop him." "Okay." "How about this time, you bring along something you didn't have the Iast time you two fought." "Me." "I can't let you." "I can't let you do this by yourself, man." "oliver, you are not alone, not since you brought me into this." "Us into this." "Besides, Army regulations." "A soldier never lets a brother go into battle alone." "I'm out of bows." "I got my gun." "I guess it's up to me to do the dismantling." "This whole area is ground zero." "I want you out of here." "If you're not leaving, I'm not leaving." "Besides, if I don't deactivate the device, who will?" "[PHONE RINGS]" "You were right." "I need one more thing from you." "Yeah?" "What do I got left to give?" "I know where MerIyn is keeping the device." "It's in an abandoned subway station near Pap Street." "LANCE:" "How do you know?" "That's where his wife was murdered." "[OVER PHONE] I need someone I can trust to deactivate the device." "We have a mutual friend that I think could talk you through it." "She says you care about the people of this city that it needs you." "Right now, detective it needs you." "[YELLING]" "REPORTER [ON TV]:" "Earlier today, Moira Queen, CEO of Queen Consolidated admitted to a conspiracy to destroy the Glades." "Everyone within a five-mile radius has been asked to evacuate." "MAN [OVER PA]:" "Stay calm." "Do not rush and do not panic." "Proceed out of the Glades in an orderly manner." "[GRUNTING]" "Looks like we missed him." "Shado." "SIade." "[SLADE LAUGHING]" "Oh, I should have figured." "You couldn't save the day..." "...without making a mess." "Where's Shado?" "I thought she was with you." "FRYERS:" "actually she's with me." "Let her go." "It's over, Fyers." "Let her go." "Amazing." "A two-year operation undone because a young playboy happened to wash up on the shore and now here you are, a killer." "You wanted nothing more than to leave this island and now you can." "I can call in a rescue ship, you can go home." "tell me, Mr. Queen." "Are you prepared to sacrifice your freedom for her?" "Guess so." "[COUGHING NEARBY]" "Tommy." "Tommy." "oliver." "Where's your father?" "I don't know." "You were right." "You were right about him." "DIGGLE:" "oliver." "Are you gonna kill him?" "Get to safety." "Looks like a false wall." "welcome, gentlemen." "I've been waiting for you." "I wanted to see you watch your city die." "Where's the transmitter?" "Somewhere I can easily get to it." "I doubt it." "You'II be too dead." "[GROANS]" "Stairs, oliver." "Go, go." "So tell me, are you ready to die?" "FELICITY:" "You found it yet, detective?" "I'm not sure what I'm looking for." "You want me to describe it?" "No, I got it." "FELICITY:" "You should see something that looks like a circuit board." "Pull it out." "Do you see a timer?" "Seven minutes." "Okay." "well, the good news is this is going to be a paperweight in three." "MAN [OVER PA]:" "Everyone leave the Glades. I repeat leave the Glades now." "MAN 1 What do you got there, grandpa?" "Hey." "MAN 2:" "please, please, it's all I have." "ROY:" "Hey." "Hey." "Back off." "Learn how to count, jerkwad." "There's three of us." "Oh, is that right?" "Because I only count one." "With a gun." "Where did you learn how to do that?" "I have wicked aim." "I went to your house." "I figured I'd run for my Iife with everyone else." "Did you...?" "Did you come to rescue me?" "Yeah." "Come on." "[ARROW BEEPS]" "Look for three wires, you need a green one a yellow and one blue." "Cut the blue one." "AII right, I got it, I got it." "[WHIRRING]" "Oh, my God." "LANCE:" "No, no, no." "There must be an anti-tamper safeguard." "Hold on. I'm gonna figure out how to override it." "Not enough time." "There's not enough time." "Just hold on." "LANCE:" "Not enough time." "Laurel." "Dad." "Don't worry, I got your message and I did not come into work today." "Save it, kiddo, we both know you're there." "You got to get out of the Glades right now." "Okay, please." "Dad?" "LANCE:" "Right now, Laurel." "Right now, laurel." "Daddy, you're scaring me." "Sorry, but I'm not...." "I'm not gonna make it." "What?" "What?" "LANCE:" "You have to promise me one thing." "You're not gonna die with me." "[OVER PHONE] You have to go on with your life." "After your sister died, I pushed people away, I became like a ghost." "Didn't think I had the right to live if my baby couldn't." "Promise me you're not gonna make the same mistakes as I did." "Promise me, laurel." "[OVER PHONE] Promise me." "I promise." "I Iove you, honey, now and forever." "I Iove you." "Dad." "Detective Lance?" "I need you to listen to me very carefully." "You do know how dangerous it is to text and drive, right?" "It can wait." "It can't." "I'm trying to find another route out of here." "Let me." "It's not worth the risk." "Roy." "Roy." "help me out." "help me out." "help me out." "Roy, stop." "The device is about to go off any second." "I can't leave any of them behind." "I know you have something to prove." "But you're not the vigilante." "Look, I can't do this unless I know you're safe." "Then you better haul ass out of here too." "Don't struggle." "It's over." "There was never any doubt in the outcome." "Don't worry." "Your mother and sister will be joining you in death." "ROBERT:" "Survive." "[MALCOLM GRUNTS]" "Thank you for teaching me what I'm fighting for." "But my father taught me how." "Come on." "[POWERS DOWN]" "FELICITY:" "Oliver, Lance did it." "It's over." "If I've learned anything as a successful businessman, it's..." "[COUGHS] ...redundancy." "[GROANS]" "felicity there's another device." "There's two of them." "LANCE:" "What the hell's happening?" "Okay, that's enough." "I turned the damn thing off." "MerIyn had a second device." "laurel." "She's at CNRI." "Go." "Go!" "laurel." "oliver?" "Are you okay?" "Yeah." "[SOBS]" "The damage seems to be contained on the east side..." "...past Wells Street." "laurel." "Are you gonna be okay?" "Go, oliver." "Go, go, go." "help." "please." "please!" "help me!" "Tommy." "What are you doing here?" "I kind of figured that you might come back to CNRI." "[TOMMY GRUNTING]" "You came here for me?" "I Iove you." "Get up." "Go." "Go." "I'm right behind you." "LANCE:" "laurel." "laurel." "Dad." "Dad." "Oh, sweetie." "No." "No." "Tommy!" "No." "laurel." "laurel." "No, you can't." "You can't." "I Iove him!" "Let go of me." "It's too late." "It's too late, it's too late." "I'm sorry." "LAUREL:" "Tommy!" "please, I want to help him." "Get it off." "Okay." "You're gonna be fine." "Another thing, unh, we've got to disagree on." "Tommy." "Is--?" "Is laurel safe?" "Is laurel safe?" "I tried to get her out of here." "Yeah, yeah, you did." "You saved her." "AII right, Iet me get you out of here." "You're gonna be fine." "oliver, stop." "I'm sorry." "No." "Don't apologize." "I was angry." "And I was jealous." "I...." "I am my father." "No." "No, you're not." "Did--?" "Did you kill him?" "No." "Thank you." "No, no." "Tommy." "It should have been me." "Open your eyes, Tommy." "Open your eyes." "[english" " US" " SDH]" "MOIRA:" "Thea, darling?" "should I reschedule your dressage lesson?" "THEA:" "That horse hates me." "Maybe that's because you keep canceling on it." "Sorry, Mrs. Queen." "[OLIVER GRUNTS  LAUREL LAUGHS]" "Mm!" "Mm." "Wake up." "Your mom, she just totally busted me." "seriously?" "Yes." "[CHUCKLES]" "Oh, yeah?" "It's not funny." "[GROANING]" "Somebody is in big, big trouble." "Shh!" "Hey, have you seen Mom today?" "No, why?" "She seems really depressed, oil." "Some insurance guy called about waiter." "I guess six months was enough time for them to give up hope." "Maybe it's time we did too." "Thea I know how difficult the past few months have been on everybody but I have a feeling things are gonna be okay again." "You have a crystal ball or something?" "Something like that." "felicity's at Queen consolidated." "She's still going through the data she pulled off MerIyn's network." "She find anything?" "Yeah." "The design schematics of the earthquake generator so we can shut it down." "Assuming we find it in time." "DiggIe." "You need to call carly." "tell her to take Andy Jr. as far away from the glades as possible." "I did that, oliver, the moment we found out MerIyn's plan." "[GROANS]" "[PHONE RINGING]" "oliver, are you okay?" "I woke up and you were gone." "Yeah, laurel." "I'm sorry, I should have left a note or called." "Can I call you in a little bit?" "Sure." "I'm here if you need me." "I know that." "You know, oliver, I know you never wanted her to know the truth but with all this going on maybe it's time." "[PHONE RINGING]" "Yeah, Felicity, I got him." "Thank God." "Is he okay?" "mostly." "Okay." "I'm on my way." "LANCE:" "Miss Smoak." "Where are you off to in such a hurry?" "So now what?" "We need to find out where MerIyn's keeping the device." "Okay." "How do you plan on doing that?" "I ask my mother." "oliver, she said she didn't know anything." "It doesn't mean she can't get MaIcoIm to tell her where it is." "oliver, you got company." "Okay, I want you to start with the computers, the hard drives then on to the paper filing." "Get everything out of here." "I picked a hell of a week to come back." "We need to get everything out." "AII of our case files, our depositions, claims, evidence in hundreds of cases." "If this building is destroyed, then those cases disappear forever." "laurel, it is like Judgment Day out there." "I know." "Our clients are about to lose their homes, theirjobs, their lives." "But at Ieast we can save their hope." "[PEOPLE SHOUTING INDISTINCTLY]" "Roy?" "Roy!" "Roy?" "Roy!" "Trust, loyalty, betrayal everyone relates to them." "And there's nothing more dramatic than secrets." "MERLYN:" "Were you ever gonna tell me?" "KREISBERG:" "oliver Queen is not Superman." "He really has turned himself into this machine-for-good." "His father died to save his life and now he has to atone for his father's sins." "What is justice?" "What is your definition of it?" "Whose definition of it is right and wrong?" "Each of our characters are engaged in those kind of questions." "AII of the things that he had to bury on the island are gonna bubble up to the surface." "GUGGENHEIM:" "For the longest time the idea that oliver Queen was on this deserted island was maybe two panels in an entire comic book." "Um, and it wasn't until relatively recently that Andy DiggIe and an artist named Jock came up with what's called Green Arrow:" "Year One which, for us, was sort of proof of concept." "We'd always had this idea of telling the island years of oliver's origin story over the course of a five-season period." "But it was Year One that was really the first Green Arrow comic that told the story entirely on the island and sort of proved to us oh, you know, what?" "You really can tell a very compelling drama um, about oliver Queen learning how to defend himself on this island by reading, you know, Green Arrow:" "Year One." "usually, in the comic books, he's either 20 or 40." "You know, so making him in his late 20s gave him a little bit of gravitas that, you know he's had some life experiences and he's been damaged." "You know, we always talk about oliver as being like a soldier back from war." "You know, we weren't looking to sort of, Iike, reshape the Green Arrow canon." "We were just looking to take something that exists in the canon and try and make it our own." "GUGGENHEIM:" "The idea of, you know, he's not going after colorful villains he's going after a serial killer, you know." "He's dealing with the Japanese yakuza." "Um, real life, you know, bad guys who exist in the world outside your window." "[MEN GRUNTING]" "You don't have to do this." "Yes, I do." "Nobody can know my secret." "[BONES CRUNCH]" "BERLANTI:" "By having oliver kill somebody in the pilot with his bare hands and also watching his father-- You know, basically a murder-suicide." "Um, you know, we knew that tonaIIy that would sort of set the show apart from perhaps what people might expect about the sunny, cheery version of the Green Arrow." "You know, that we were going to deal with real themes that were darker." "[THUNDER ROLLING]" "KREISBERG:" "We were heavily influenced by the Christopher NoIan trilogy the Dark Knight trilogy, because there was a real fidelity to the comic books but then also a Iot of changes that served the story well." "One of the other things we always talk about is the movie Se7en." "You know, that sort of nameless city where it's always raining heh, that's sort of the way we think of starling City." "We're urban where bad guys come out at night." "It's that kind of look, you know?" "[GRUNTS]" "But we weren't trying to turn it into a comic book." "We were grounded in a reality that is our reality." "KREISBERG:" "Expanding it out and giving oliver his family and setting things on the island it really allowed for people who might not have been familiar with the source material to come into it fresh and be excited by it." "But it had enough connection to the comic book that people who were fans went:" ""Oh, wait." "I see the DNA of the thing that I Iove in this new thing, so I have license to enjoy it."" "[GRUNTING]" "OLIVER:" "I've been stranded here for five years." "I've dreamt of my rescue every cold, black night since then." "For five years, I've had only one thought." "AMELL:" "When I read the pilot what I saw in my mind's eye was essentially the tone that David Nutter and Andrew and Marc had envisioned." "As we've moved through the first season, playing oliver 10 on the island and seeing him broken down to essentially nothing..." "Dad?" "...and then having that interaction with his father, albeit in a dream we got the first just little, teeny, tiny inkling that maybe there was something of more substance to him." "He obviously came back to StarIing City with a very clear, straightforward, linear objective." "GUGGENHEIM:" "His father basically died to save his life and now he has to atone for his father's sins." "That his way, not only of redeeming his father's soul but also redeeming his own soul." "AII of the little peripheral things that are happening with his family they're forcing him to craft another character." "The overall series is, you know, "Who is oliver Queen?"" "And I'm not sure he can answer that in any time frame." "And that's one of the things we wanna get to as the series progresses that he really begins to figure out who he is." "And it's not just, you know, under the orders of his father and it's really, you know, what his mission is, that he decides for himself." "RAMSEY:" "oliver is the guy who will jump off a building." "He is the guy who will jump in the fire." "And DiggIe is the one who is saying:" ""You gotta put on some equipment if you wanna run into the fire."" "You have to have that." "Otherwise, I think you don't have the superhero I think you just have a vigilante." "You did lose your mind on that island." "Found a couple things along the way." "Like what, archery classes?" "clarity." "KREISBERG:" "I think one of the most successful things we've done is develop this relationship between oliver and DiggIe." "Dig played by David Ramsey." "And it just makes so much sense for oliver Queen to have this, you know, bodyguard by day who's actually helping him out, and serves as his friend and moral compass and, you know, his backstop and, um, um, his conscience." "I don't want there to be any confusion." "My ability to keep you from harm will outweigh your comfort." "RAMSEY:" "He comes to Iearn to respect DiggIe through the cat-and-mouse game he plays with him." "Sir." "And comes to respect him as a soldier and kind of someone who sticks to the mission." "I think he sees something in oliver that's worth saving that I think reminds him of his brother." "MERICLE:" "I've always gotten the sense that DiggIe has seen people kind of go the direction that oliver has gone." "And he's seen that it doesn't-- It doesn't end well." "Through the course of this season, you've seen these guys learn to trust each other and form a union and a relationship that they both inherently have problems doing because of their trauma." "You might've gotten used to lying to everyone else in your life but I'm the one guy you don't lie to." "And they both have found counseling through each other." "I don't think Arrow would've made it without John." "DIGGLE:" "His blood, he stored it for a rainy day." "And I say right now, it's pouring." "clear." "Come on, come on, come on." "Try again." "[MACHINE BEEPING]" "MERLYN:" "Why'd you wanna drive through this neighborhood anyway?" "No reason." "MERLYN:" "So, what did you miss the most?" "Steaks at the palm?" "Drinks at the Station?" "meaningless sex?" "laurel." "DONNELL:" "obviously, his best friend is a brand-new person." "I don't think he fully realizes that the friendship has been broken." "We're sort of passing each other like this all the time and really trying to connect, but not succeeding very well." "What did I tell you?" "Yachts suck." "[MERLYN CHUCKLES]" "DONNELL:" "Tommy obviously respects the relationship he has with oliver but he wants to move on with his own life at the same time and explore this new side of him with laurel." "I remember some of the mornings when you and I were together." "DONNELL:" "And he realizes that his relationship with laurel can really make him into a person that he desperately wants and needs to be." "I think something really cool happens once I find out who he is because then it's not just about their relationship being awkward." "It's a very tenuous balance between Tommy knowing this thing about his best friend and not being able to tell the woman that he loves who he knows could very well still be in love with his best friend." "So you two were together?" "And now you're dating his best friend?" "Yeah, we're just primed for a reality show, aren't we?" "Everybody's been involved in a love triangle at one point." "KREISBERG:" "My favorite stories are ones about, you know, divided loyalty." "You know, and your duty, um, you know, being pulled in two directions." "And it just makes for the best conflict and the best drama." "I Iike the concept that I think that we're exploring nicely on the show specifically with Tommy." "The idea that potentially my ultimate nemesis..." "Were you ever gonna tell me?" "...could be crafted by my presence is a really interesting idea." "So you met up with the Hood guy?" "knowingly?" "I just can't believe that laurel, of all people, would lie to my face." "DONNELL:" "I think they're setting Tommy up in a really cool way to be at really terrible odds with oliver." "BERLANTI:" "One thing we were really cognizant about at the beginning of the year and really aware of was not necessarily holding back." "If we've got stuff in our arsenal, Iet's get the darker archer in season one." "You know, Iet's get Count Vertigo, Iet's get China White, Iet's get SIade wilson." "Let's get them in there and we'II figure out ways to change them and flip them and evolve them." "It's going to be better." "BERLANTI:" "It's a little bit of a callback to when we were kids watching Batman." "It was like, "Okay." "Oh, my God." "You mean the riddler and the Joker are gonna team up?"" "So first, I think you have to spend that first year really introducing the warehouse of characters into the universe." "Let's get it out there." "Let's start explaining." "Let's show all the nooks and crannies that we can of this world." "And then we can start twisting it again and again and again." "KREISBERG:" "oliver Queen is not Superman." "He's not from another planet." "He's just imbued with these incredible abilities to go out and do what he does." "He really has turned himself into this machine-for-good." "He's in this constant state of battIe-readiness." "Might wanna take it easy if you're taking someone off that list tonight." "This is me taking it easy." "KREISBERG:" "Whenever he takes his shirt off he also reveals all these terrible scars on his body." "So while at the same time that you're seeing you know, his incredible physique that's been chiseled on this island you also see what cost it came at." "You can't ever see, you know, him shirtless without seeing, you know all of these bites and bullet wounds and scars and burns that, you know, only a fraction of which we've seen him get on the island so far." "You can't ever really just fully enjoy it like it's from a male sex-appeaI point of view because you're always reminded of you know, the pain and suffering that it took to get that body." "We're always very cognizant of making oliver strong but never appearing superhumanIy strong because he is a, you know, quote-unquote "regular guy" albeit in very, very, very good conditioning." "We're not doing any visual effects." "There's no camera gags." "That's all real." "That's all Stephen." "I think it sends a message to the audience that everything that they're gonna see the Arrow do is stemming from, you know, actual ability in real life." "Superhero, sure, yes." "It's based on a comic book, yes." "But we always want it to be as grounded, uh, and relatable as possible." "The flashbacks are this added sauce on top of everything else that really, you know, make it-- Make the present-day story resonant." "And even though we are telling this separate story line we're always looking for different ways to link the present and the past." "For exampIe, in episode 11  oliver tries to go and, you know, get Yao Fei out of the clutches of Fyers our bad guy on the island." "And at the end of the episode he discovers that he's been betrayed by Yao Fei." "And this all speaks to an episode where oliver's trying to decide if he can trust DiggIe." "So his mentor in the past, he learned he couldn't trust and that's why he's having so much trust issues with DiggIe in the present day." "It's always our intention, from the very beginning that the" "How ever long, you know, we're fortunate enough to do this that the Iast flashback in the Iast episode of the series will be oliver looking up and seeing the boat that rescued him in the pilot so that it really is this one great loop." "And because of that, you know we really are having two different television series at the same time." "And, you know, probably the trickiest aspect of the show is figuring out how to meld those two." "And we didn't know." "You know, usually when you do these kind of wraparound or these you know, concurrent kind of narratives you can maybe get away with them for an episode or two but they're usually rejected, um, and they don't make it." "But this seems to be working." "What reason could you possibly have for staying here?" "Not what." "Who." "MERICLE:" "I think laurel is a great character and she has a Iot of potential in terms of what we might do with her down the road with black Canary." "I think it's very interesting, and I think what draws viewers is that she's very strong, but she's also very flawed." "She came from a very middIe-cIass, good, solid family and she's watched her family fall apart." "And also had to deal with the fact that her sister betrayed her and had an affair with oliver." "LANCE:" "Damn it, laurel!" "I thought after what happened with Sara, you'd stop being just so reckless." "It's not about being reckless." "There are a thousand lawyers in starling City, why me?" "CASSIDY:" "I think it's the danger that she thrives off of." "And I think she's curious to what this Hood is about." "I knew the risks." "CASSIDY:" "The Arrow, at this point, has certainly opened the door for her." "And she's allowed it to be opened." "I think there will be one specific thing that happens that pushes her over the edge." "hello, laurel." "Mom?" "[POLICE CHATTER OVER RADIO]" "It doesn't make sense." "holder fits the profile." "wealthy dirtbag." "Red meat for the Hood." "This was his town." "He grew up in this town." "This town's in his blood." "It's in his blood." "His blood is in this city." "Do you know what I mean?" "It's like...." "This is his realm." "And then all of a sudden, this Hood guy comes along and he's just ripping it out from under his feet." "LANCE:" "You tell the press the Hood...?" "MERICLE:" "Lance is such a complex character." "He's got a number of things that he's kind of grappling with." "In terms of oliver, I think that's kind of given him a focus." "It's enabled him to take all of his demons and focus them on one person in particular." "[CHEERING]" "BLACKTHORNE:" "If there's one thing that just gets him down it's entitlement." "You know what I mean?" "When people can just buy off their crimes." "Buy off their ridiculous behavior." "Their" " ExpIetive, expletive." "When they can just do that and just live on their own level." "I ain't got respect for anyone like that." "I know a guilty man when I see one." "He is guilty, whether you can see it or not." "MERICLE:" "It's interesting to kind of watch his journey through the first season especially and see how he's gone from focusing on oliver to really becoming more and more determined to take down the Hood." "Maybe you should hold on to this." "BLACKTHORNE:" "When I see this peculiar opportunity present itself with my daughter and this phone...." "It's something for my own personal sense of worth which is just diminished beyond belief in the city's eyes in my daughter's eyes, in my own eyes." "And it's just something." "I'm just hoping and knowing it's for the greater good and for the bigger picture." "This guy's gotta go, I will just have to do this." "I know you swore to bring this guy down, detective but using your own daughter as bait, that's stone-coId." "And she won't come to any harm." "She won't." "But it'II get a little bit sticky." "So this guy who was once one of the top dogs of the city just sort of turned into this little tattered, torn, little, ratty, little lap dog whilst everyone's going, "Oh, the Hood."" "AMELL:" "I think it'd be interesting what would happen if Detective Lance knew." "I think his hatred of the vigilante has a little bit more to do with him than it has to do with the vigilante." "I'm coming after you." "[BELL RINGS]" "And action." "Marc and Greg and I, we want the emotion to jump off of the page." "Survive." "No!" "No!" "KREISBERG:" "The fact that they're biIIionaires like, is far less important than the fact that, you know, on one terrible day, Moira Queen lost her husband and her son and Thea Queen lost her brother and her father." "MERICLE:" "We don't start from:" ""Oh, what kind of cool action thing can oliver do in this episode?"" "It starts much more from a place of, "Okay, what is oliver's emotional journey here?" "What's going on with him and Moira, or him and laurel, or him and Tommy?"" "My beautiful boy." "THOMPSON:" "She does start off as a concerned parent with her son coming home." "But she also then becomes this sort of mysterious...." "What is she?" "You know, who is she?" "Who is she?" "She's the one who kidnapped her son to get the information so that MaIcoIm didn't do the dirty business." "She has to hold her family together, and she's struggling to keep their" "Keep them alive as well." "I've done everything you asked." "But if any member of my family so much as gets a paper cut I will burn your entire world to ashes." "THOMPSON:" "To threaten somebody like malcolm she's gotta have something in her back pocket." "And I always thought she did." "She's a little bit Lady Macbeth in the sense that she's ultimately got a much larger scheme." "And she is-- She's got a Iot of blood on her hands." "And by the end of the season, she has a Iot more." "Because she kind of gives up the fight, where she's" "You know, with the threats MaIcoIm makes against her family she makes her stand in 16 to try to take him out." "And once that faiIs, she knows she's really kind of out of options." "And yet she still is-- First and foremost, she's a mother who would do anything to protect her children." "And that's ultimately what keeps her so human and so relatable." "I think there's going to be ajourney of redemption." "But we'II see." "[CROWD CHATTERING AND CHEERING]" "[CLUB MUSIC PLAYING]" "HOLLAND:" "Before all was said and done with the Queen's Gambit she was, you know, a very happy-go-Iucky, bookworm, very smart, put-together girl." "Then when everything happened her world just got completely rocked upside down and didn't necessarily have her mother to release her emotions to." "And I think she kind ofjust needed to find something as a release and it just inevitably ended up being drugs." "THEA:" "Where did you get these?" "Roxies." "Thank you, Daddy's ACL tear." "See you at school, Speedy." "GUGGENHEIM:" "The idea ofjust giving her the nickname Speedy that was just a fun, you know, um, tip-of-the-hat to the comic books." "especially, since what Speedy, the Roy Harper character is most known for is this infamous comic-book cover where Green Arrow discovers that Speedy is a heroine junky." "You can't come back here and judge me." "MERICLE:" "There's a certain fatalism to her that she's just gonna follow in her brother's path and his footsteps." "And it's almost as if she has no choice." "Even though they're very tight, he can't always be there for her." "And she doesn't know the full truth about him." "I don't wanna talk about it." "[SCOFFS]" "Of course you don't." "You never wanna talk to me about anything." "Except for my social life." "Wait." "HOLLAND:" "So there is this level of resentment against oliver for not opening up to Thea because they used to be so close before he left." "And, um, I think that she wouldn't necessarily take on it in the best way if oliver came down on her with a strong hand." "[PEOPLE CHATTERING]" "AMELL:" "Even when she sniffs trouble, he just" " He goes off." "Back in a minute." "AMELL:" "We see him as such a measured individual such a measured character and yet when anything happens with Thea he loses his mind." "You and me, we're done for the night." "Take your hands off of me." "MERICLE:" "I think Thea's going to be in a dark place." "And I do think she'II probably go to some even darker places in the course of season two." "[BOTH GRUNTING]" "[MAN YELLS]" "[GRUNTING]" "BERLANTI:" "Part of the fun of the writers' room is painting yourselves into a corner that you don't know how you're going to get out of." "usually those conversations start with, "WouIdn't it be cool if...?"" "You know? "WouIdn't it be cool if Moira Queen shot her own son?"" "I've listened to this 15 times." "AII of a sudden, it's like a firework." ""If we did that, we could do this and we could do that."" "And all these other story lines open to us." "Whenever we pitch something that we don't know how to get out of but we're excited by it we always head in that direction." "We all have blind spots when it comes to family." "We've had this big moment between oliver and his mother but it's not the ultimate resolution." "Because even at the end of the day he's still in the dark and he has to say to DiggIe:" ""Listen, whatever she's involved in, whatever it is, we don't know what it is."" "What are you gonna do?" "AMELL:" "He goes from being completely in the dark about his mother all the way through episode 12 to, boom, there's the book." "And then he spends all of episode 13 just kind of going, "No, no, no."" "And then, bang, and he crashes through the window and, you know, puts her right in his sights." "Moira Queen, you have failed this city." "AMELL:" "I Iike that we're not afraid to have those big moments." "Don't move!" "I'm a mother." "I have a son, oliver." "THOMPSON:" "What started going in her wheelhouse to say:" ""I need to say, 'I have a daughter, I have a son"'?" "And if it was genuine" "I believe it was-- You know, I played it genuine." "But it also could be turned a different direction." "Was she just doing that to get close enough to that gun and shoot him?" "AMELL:" "Whatever the grand plan is for the totality of the series we've been dancing around the dynamic between oliver and Moira for 19 episodes now." "It came to a head once, it's dissipated." "I would anticipate that it will bubble up again." "Just when I think we've had our big moment we're clearly gonna take it to the next level." "I'm oliver Queen." "Of course." "I know who you are." "You're Mr. Queen." "No, Mr. Queen was my father." "Right, but he's dead." "I mean, he drowned, but you didn't." "Which means you could come down to the IT Department and listen to me babble." "Which will end in three, two, one." "RICKARDS:" "people are comfortable around her because" "I mean, people get awkward around her because she is awkward but it is comforting for some people just to be, you know" "She's easy to be around, in that sense." "She might ramble off and say the wrong thing, and she might come back." "But as long as you get her on track, she's real and she's there." "It's not gonna be easy to break." "RICKARDS:" "She's not hating what she's doing." "She's helping." "She feels they're making a difference, and that's something felicity always wanted to do." "That's why she signs on at the beginning with the primary focus of saving waiter because she wants to help and make a change." "Get away from me." "If this thing blows...." "It's not gonna happen." "She's definitely been put in harm's way and" "Something she's never probably done in front of a computer before, heh." "If her version of hero is helping oliver and hopefully showing him the compassion that you can have while you're helping then I think-- I think she'II be okay with that." "MAN:" "And action." "Mr. MerIyn phoned." "He wants to join you for dinner." "wonderful." "KREISBERG:" "The shows are always about family because that's what makes all of us tick." "I mean, that's what's, you know, in our lives and how we deal with our parents and, you know, these very universal themes." "And I think that's what's allowed the show to be more than just, you know oliver Queen putting arrows in bad guys." "It's let it be something that people can really sink their teeth into." "And also let you care about the characters." "When you see characters caring about each other, it helps you care for them too." "Everybody is in this life for themselves." "BERLANTI:" "I mean, when you're dealing with big themes like trust, loyalty, uh, betrayal, you know the reason that they're used sort of again and again in these kind of shows is that everyone relates to them." "Everybody understands the power of that." "KREISBERG:" "I think moving forward into season two one of the things we're gonna explore is, you know, oliver realizing, um, for himself that he can do more good if he doesn't have this sort of very narrow, selfish, you know, view ofjustice that's about crossing names off of the list and that, you know, being a hero, you know, it's" "It's gonna be his transformation from vigilante into hero." "AMELL:" "Greg, Andrew, Marc, they have a plan." "And they're already talking to me about how high-IeveI their concept for the second season is." "And how fleshed out they already have, um you know, some of the Iong arcs." "And that's really exciting for me." "KREISBERG:" "You know, the best heroes are the reluctant heroes." "And, you know, I think he's gonna get" "You know, it's very easy to be sort of a stealthy killing machine that sneaks off into the shadows." "I think it takes quite a bit of internal fortitude to stand up and say, "I'm here to help you."" "And I think that, you know, that's something oliver, certainly in the pilot was not ready to do." "And over the course of the season, we've seen him grow into that a bit." "oliver, I'm not finished talking." "Where you going?" "To go make a difference." "Let's catch some bank robbers." "BERLANTI:" "None of these characters are" "Have arrived at where they're gonna be when the comic book starts." "It's called Arrow, not because we didn't wanna put "Green" in the title but he's not the Green Arrow yet." "You know, he'II become, hopefully, in series-- Or by the end of the series." "He'II be the character that the comic-book audiences know and love." "You have failed this city." "[ARROW THWACKS]" "MAN:" "still rolling." "Set, and action." "OLIVER:" "He's not here, Felicity." "MAKARO:" "Arrow is running from one place to another and he realizes he's in the wrong place so what he's doing is he's heading towards a different part of town but he's up on top of the roof of a building." "So now instead of going all the way down to the bottom and starting from there he's just taking off from this point and going across the rooftops." "On my way." "BAMFORD:" "When I designed the fight, I discussed with the director, basically, story." "Once that's been established with Andrew and Marc down in L.A we have a very open dialogue as to what they wanna see with each script." "And a Iot of direction that we get is, "Make it cool."" "MAKARO:" "I need you to go up top of that rig up there." "We're doing a handful of big gags up here." "The first one we're doing is we're doing ajump that's about 12 feet from one parapet to the next over here." "And this is just gonna be totally freestyle." "After that's done, we're gonna come over and do a really, really big jump over here which is 28 feet across, just to get across the span and a drop of about 12 feet to the ground." "This is Simon Burnett." "He's our test dummy for Stephen." "We do most of the gags, we test them and work them out with Simon." "And we try to make them in a way that Stephen can actually do them." "And if, due to scheduling and other factors, we're not able to use Stephen that's when we put Simon in for the gags." "MAN:" "And three, two, one, action." "WOMAN:" "Two, one, action." "BURNETT:" "We'II actually sometimes use a single frame from the comic book as inspiration for the gags." "So one single frame of Arrow posed up coming through in a certain thing, we go:" ""Man, that's cool." "How could we put that into our gag but still have it be a realistic type of movement, and blending the two together?"" "MAN:" "Two, one, action." "WOMAN:" "Two, one, action." "MAKARO:" "We wanna go to the limits." "We want them to believe that he's the best martial artist the best parkour guy the best acrobat." "We do kind of wanna push those limits so if I can find something on the web that somebody's done that's really cool we try to incorporate those kind of moves into things." "This building across the street on Rumble in the Bronx Jackie Chan, I think at the end of the movie he leaps up onto a car and jumps across the alleyway..." "...and lands in the fire escape..." "MAKARO:" "On the fire escape." "BURNETT:" "...just below this roof." "It shows that the jump's possible." "Um...." "Like just." "To keep it real, two of our riggers, Monte Thompson and Dustin Brooks designed this sIackIine rig." "The jump is still under my own power." "I'm jumping." "There's a pulley on the cable that comes along with me." "It allows them only to scrub off the necessary portions that are gonna make it safe yet still keeping it real." "MAKARO:" "Each day, we would do a bunch of runs." "And as he did it, we would safety him less and less and less until he finally got to the point where he's now doing it all himself." "We're just there in case something goes wrong." "And you're gonna pull me earlier like you did yesterday?" "MAN 2:" "Exact same as yesterday." "Everything the same." "Then I'm gonna try to roll out the beginning until I get into it, so I'm not running." "It's as much about the rhythm and the performance as it is about anything else." "And building up the confidence that, "Yes, I can do this." "Yes, I can do this."" "MAN 2:" "Okay." "Okay, Iet's take her up." "MAN 3:" "Okay?" "Bring out the units." "Sure." "Yeah, we're ready." "I stood over there looking at that jump and it's like:" ""I can't believe that people did this."" "When they first brought me here and asked me if we could do this I actually had to swallow before I said yes." "It feels like it's all over the place?" "BAMFORD:" "I was very fortunate in my original training to have a full spectrum of martial arts." "So I have classic training but I've also had training over here and over here and over here." "MAKARO:" "AII I have to worry about is who's gonna grab my head." "James, by the time he walks in the door, already has a full fight in his head." "How it's all scoped out, how it's gonna be." "They'II start playing with it allow the performers to put a little bit of character of their own in it." "If somebody has an idea that takes him in a different direction he's ready to move and adapt." "Every time I think of what I don't like about a stunt fight it's one of the things that he's already crossed off the list to not do." "BAMFORD:" "The main difference, and I've said this many times between the old style of fighting and what we're doing now, is a tightIy-timed fight." "You don't want any gaps in timing." "But you see Bruce Lee's just going bam, bam, bam, all over." "But it's not him that I watch when I'm studying a fight choreographer or a stunt coordinator it's the guys that are standing there waiting, what the hell are they doing?" "If you just watch the Bourne films, there's no waiting, there's no pauses." "If there is a pause there's a reason for the pause." "AMELL:" "They work really, really hard to put an intention behind the action." "MAN:" "Go, go, go!" "Get him!" "BERLANTI:" "We always talked about wanting the fighting on the show and everything to still feel very grounded, you know so that even though there was a bit of a heightened reality to it that the action and the danger of it wouId feel real." "They're always coming up with, you know, new and different ways that oliver can work out when he's sparring with DiggIe, you know, what techniques he's using." "David Ramsey is an accomplished martial artist in his own right." "When they're working out or sparring, they are doing real things that JJ and Bam-Bam have orchestrated and choreographed kind of like a dance, Iike a musical number." "WOMAN:" "There." "Good." "That's it." "See how when you take...?" "BAMFORD:" "In this particular instance, to expedite the shooting of a fight what we do on set is we'II shoot the whole fight from beginning to end with our stunt doubles." "Action." "BAMFORD:" "We always do a previs." "We pre-shoot these from a wide perspective." "several different cameras, several different angles." "Then we edit it and throw music on it." "And what you get is basically a completed version." "You'II have to teach me that move." "If you show me where you hid that knife." "MAKARO:" "When we do our previses, we put everything we can into it." "MAN:" "Watch your daughter die." "Our performers, even though they aren't good actors say the lines so that we know how long they're gonna be within the action." "We go from one end of the sequence to the other and try to think of every element we possibly can." "Every detail that we can brush up beforehand just makes our day go so much smoother." "I think you're sidestepping a little...." "BAMFORD:" "I have to rely on my performers' strengths and avoid their weaknesses." "WOMAN:" "Yeah." "Okay, I get it." "BAMFORD:" "Certain performers can come to the table and say, "well, I can do this."" "And I had no idea that they were capable of that." "Great." "well, we can use that right here." "It's like a puzzle." "So we have a fake front kick, round kick." "He throws a punch which she sidesteps." "slowly, circles out." "Ducks underneath, bang." "She's one step ahead of him." "Hook kick and blocks." "MAN 1 Three, two, one, action." "Hey." "BAMFORD:" "Stephen can take a shot as well as give a shot." "He's incredibly strong." "You can see that in his face." "You can see that in his performance." "He knows exactly why he's doing what he's doing." "When he's using a stick, a knife, the bow, whatever, what he's doing he knows when he's supposed to be breaking a bone." "He knows where the subclavian artery is, you know." "He knows where all the kill points are." "He brings that and it shows." "MAKARO:" "But my favorite moment of the whole series so far is actually when Stephen parkours over the bar in the pilot." "And he's up in a really heroic pose and he just looks like this predator on the fly." "And to me, that's the signature of the whole series." "MAN 1 Now, Darren." "MAKARO:" "If we can bring the strength of the story the actor and the stunt person that has to perform the rest of the sequences for them when we meld all of those together, that's how we end up with a character." "We could do all sorts of great action." "But if we don't all love and believe in the characters and wanna be them, I just think we're just all wasting our time." "BAMFORD:" "You'd think a bow and arrow...." "I haven't really seen on another film a bow used like we use it." "Where is the balance point?" "What does it feel like?" "Does this feel more like a staff?" "Or does it feel like a stick, Iike an escrima stick?" "So I'm gonna use that more like a sword, so that's what I've employed." "On this end, aside from you know, hitting somebody like so, with the other butt end you can use the other end as a hook." "You can use it to trap...." "Trap opponents before you hit them with this end." "In the center of the bow where the handhold is there's a brass knuckle on there built in too." "So I decided, right when I saw that I'm gonna use that to knock somebody's teeth out." "MAKARO:" "We actually sent Stephen to an archer and that was part of the process of starting the series." "MAN 1 Action." "He actually did archery lessons every day for two hours so that we would get him into the rhythm." "And we actually have an archery consultant on-set to make sure that the poses are proper." "Every arrow is a CG arrow." "We have rigs that we are able to point arrows at people where the arrow is trapped and can't go anywhere." "Is there a name on the gravestone?" "We have another one that's in a posed position that we use for when we're doing long dialogue pieces." "And waiting." "You're firing a ballistic missile across a room." "They can bounce off anything and get to people." "So we have a mandate on this show that we're not allowed to fire any arrows." "You don't look so good." "I doubt you could aim a single arrow." "MAKARO:" "double arrows, triple arrows." "We can actually fire double arrows and have done it on the range." "We do know it can be done." "It's just, you know, we enhance a little bit because he is the Arrow after all and should be way better than anybody else." "The show is grounded." "It's a superhero show, yes." "It's based on a comic book, yes." "But we always want it to be as grounded and relatable as possible." "KREISBERG:" "Episode 19 , "Unfinished Business" where there's a girl in Verdant, the nightclub, who's high on Vertigo and she walks out into the street and she gets hit by a car you know, JJ pressed for us to find a stunt actor who could also play the girl so we wouldn't have to double her so we could see that girl actually get hit by the car." "When you have stunt people like that, there's, you know" "You know, there's sequences in the show that I wish, as writers we could take credit for, but it was really their idea." "Every week we do an episode and we're like, "How are we gonna do that again?"" "We'II go in tight for it." "We got wide on B." "MAKARO:" "This show is, by far, the most creative thing I've been involved with yet." "This show here, everything happens fast and furious." "Yes." "MAKARO:" "Everyone is part of my stunt crew." "They all bring forward great ideas or solutions to problems which sometimes is why things are creative because it's not so much what you're able to do it's what you're not allowed to do and how do you solve that problem." "Down below." "And action." "MAKARO:" "It's his body language his understanding of the character that really makes everything matter." "You see anything?" "I'm only on the first floor." "Just six more to go." "So it's necessary that he do as much of his own action as we can possibly get him to do." "Can't find him!" "He's not here, felicity." "FELICITY:" "What?" "I've searched every office on every floor." "He's not here." "Is this the right place?" "Are you sure?" "FELICITY:" "Yeah, I" "Oh, crap." "What?" "How is this possible?" "This can't happen." "He's" "talk to me." "Wait." "He moved just north of you." "Ocean and Grand." "On my way." "MAN 1 Three, two, one, action." "Our reality explains where the mythology came later that created the comic book." "But I'm always trying to catch that heroic moment with our hero." "Which goes back to why we need Stephen doing as much stuff as he possibly can." "KREISBERG:" "We have an incredible team." "We spend, you know, a week sometimes storyboarding those sequences." "You know, they're discussed at length." "If it's just action for the sake of action, I think it's sort ofjust like white noise to the audience." "But if they're learning about the character or if something surprising is happening or interesting is happening, or if it's a character they care about that's in jeopardy we know that that's one of the earmarks about what makes the show different." "We're excited by that." "We're excited to sort of generate those kind of events for the audience so that it gives something for, you know, people to sort of sit back and enjoy every week." "You're right here like that, right?" "The best thing about our crew is that we all really love the show." "You know, this isn't just ajob for most people and, you know, you talk to the crew members, even down to the gaffers and the riggers and they're all really proud to be part of this show." "They wanna put some black...." "MAKARO:" "It's a very challenging job, so they definitely got me hooked here." "The adrenaline here is fantastic." "We're really proud to be the torchbearers for DC Comics on television right now." "And we take that very seriously." "We're very humbled and awed by the fan response and we really wanna honor that." "[CAR HORN BLARES]" "[GROANS]" "[GROANS]" "Ahem." "Wah, wah." "[BABBLING]" "MAN:" "AII right." "Ready?" "I'm in." "Way to go, FeIicit" "[BABBLING]" "A subIeveI is not listed on the inspIections." "InspIections." "So you're hopening a" " Hopening." "Are you hopening?" "[BABBLING]" "How could you Iike a guy with hair like this?" "And Max fuller owns it." "Max fuller?" "Mm-hm." "I banged his fiancée." "I ****** his fiancée." "I ****** his fiancée in the ***." "I hope she sees it that way." "[LAUGHING]" "I can eat you under the table, Roy Harper." "Don't forget that." "Heh." "[PASSES WIND]" "What is that?" "[PASSES WIND]" "MAN:" "Action!" "****." "Sorry." "Okay." "MAN:" "And action!" "****, it didn't light." "Ha, ha." "[DOORBELL RINGS]" "[DOORKNOB CLICKING]" "[LAUGHING]" "Sorry, the door came off." "MAN:" "It's all right." "Keep going." "Don't worry." "Don't you worry." "It's the door handle." "MAN:" "It's just been broken since july." "If it doesn't work, this" "[MAN SNORING]" "Sorry." "J.P. is snoring." "Sorry." "J.P. is snoring." "It's so, so distracting." "[LAUGHING]" "You're trying something." "To not just be a vigilante, to be a hero." "And heroes give people second chances." "Second chances aren't paying off." "Sorry." "I got a ******* itch on my nose." "MAN:" "Are you okay?" "[WOMAN LAUGHING]" "I hope they ******* pissed some McEwan's Export in my ******* blood." "What kind of **** is that all about?" "Ha-ha-ha!" "******* hell." "OLIVER:" "My name is Oliver Queen." "To my family, I'm the brother and son who just returned home after being lost at sea five years ago." "They don't know I came back with a mission, to bring justice to our city." "[AUDIENCE CHEERING AND APPLAUDING]" "Thank you all for making the trip down here." "I know everyone appreciates it." "I appreciate it." "I'm excited to talk to all you guys." "Um...." "First off, I gotta start with Greg because I know you're a huge fan of the all the comic books." "Why, out of everybody--?" "Because you could do anyone you want." "Why, out everybody, did you choose Green Arrow?" "Um, well, first thing I'II say before I answer is just how wonderful this moment is to thank everybody that came out." "[ALL CLAPPING AND CHEERING]" "We work so hard on these things and everybody kills themselves, but we're just" "You know, in TV, you just don't get to always meet the people that love the show, the audience." "And so we're so grateful just for everyone's commitment to the show and for everybody that spread the word, so thank you for that." "JOHNS:" "This is kind of like..." "...an upscale Comic-Con." "Yeah, ha, ha." "It is." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "Um, we picked Ar" " Arrow was always, to me, it seemed like ripe for a TV show." "In part, because he's a crusader for social justice which you kind of knew in the DNA of the show." "It felt Iike" " well, that's-- There's many episodes of a TV series there." "And then I would say the other thing that was appealing to us was, you know" "Was always exciting and interesting was the possibility of doing an origin story." "In a movie you do an origin story and it's the first 20 minutes of the film." "But in a series, you can do an origin in this instance, for us, it's the island, you get to tell that over multiple years and so much of the DNA of who that character was and the origin of that character and his development on that island just seemed ripe for storytelling." "Uh, and then there was aIso" "I think the ability that he was really of our world, you know?" "Uh, and that he was one of us, and so there was that element of it." "I think the second half of it, just the desire to" "You know, for all of us that were involved at the outset was our experience" " Our experience." "and Marc's experience along with us working together before and wanting to work together again." "And then our experience working with" "Marc and I both, and Andrew, all came over from ABC where we had worked with Mark Pedowitz, who is at CW now, at the time." "So it's really one of those great kind of things of we all really wanted to work together and bring a character to life." "And this just seemed Iike-- He just seemed like the right one." "And the final thing I'II sort of say about it is you have all those ideas and you have all those notions but truthfully, until you have uh, you know, the director of the pilot and your cast you don't know if you" " You don't-- You just have scripts on a page" "Pages of a script and you don't know that you have a TV show." "And this was" " We were so fortunate from Stephen through everyone that were able to get here, and David Nutter and everything that everybody brought to really bring it all to life." "And as much as you Iike to think you kind of create the show before that happens that's really when the show's created." "And so that was incredible." "Can you talk a bit--?" "I was there that day that Stephen walked in." "Can you talk about that casting process?" "Because I remember the script was fantastic but" "Everybody talked about, "Who is he?"" "Yeah, I mean, it was" "I've never had it actually happen that quickly on a show." "Everybody ran down to my office." "I said" "Okay, you know, I had other things I had to go do." "And I said to Andrew and Marc, "If you guys--" And to you." ""If you see someone you Iike, just come knock."" "And I walked 10 feet away, it was like two minutes later and you guys are knocking on my door, and I'm like, "That's" " I think you're a little eager." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "But I'II go in and I'II see whoever." And we walked in and Stephen was brilliant." "And, you know, the thing that" "There were two or three scenes he had to do, and he" "obviously, you know, you're looking for a couple things." "You're looking for a great actor that you know can do all the emotion and all the heart and still the damage of this character." "You're also gonna have a character" "He's playing a completely different character on the island can he do both those levels?" "And then in addition to that how much of the DNA of the original character does he sort of--?" "Do you feel like you're really sort of seeing oliver Queen when you're sort of around him?" "And we all kind of had that collective feeling." "So, Marc and Andrew, I know you guys are big fans as well can you talk a little about what comic books you guys drew from?" "And also, what film and television that you and Greg and everybody else drew from?" "Because I know that you were inspired by a Iot of different things." "well, we clearly were very influenced by the Christopher NoIan Dark Knight trilogy." "He really took what had previously been a very fantastical world and, you know, brought it down to Earth and made it feel very grounded and realistic and that was always sort of our touchstone for the character." "In addition to The Dark Knight there was also just this sort of, in a way, this Brothers  Sisters which is a show Greg developed, with the family stuff." "You know, and shows like Revenge with, you know, ongoing family saga." "It really was this sort of, Iike, you know, perfect sense of alchemy that everything came together that, you know, as Greg said we weren't quite sure was going to work." "And yet finding the cast that we did and, you know, and refining the script and, you know, every episode has a little bit of these elements." "And, you know" " And I don't know why they don't all cIank together but somehow it all sort of like works as one." "In terms of the comic-book influences, I think the first two sort of series that we looked at were Mike GreII's The Longbow Hunters which is this series that Mike GreII wrote and drew back in the '80s that basically sort of reinvented oliver Queen, Green Arrow, for a modern-day" "A quote-unquote "modern-day" audience." "A post-SiIver-Age audience." "And it was a very grounded, very realistic take." "He didn't even go by the name Green Arrow, much like in our show." "Um, and the second was Andy DiggIe's" "Yeah, that's a coincidence, folks." "[AUDIENCE LAUGHS]" "Uh, Andy DiggIe and Jock's six-issue Green Arrow:" "Year One miniseries which" "It takes place, as the title implies, over the course of one year but it's on the island." "And that, for us, was proof of concept that you could tell an extended story with a cool beginning, middle and end and interesting plot twists all set on the island." "Which, obviously, was a big component of the sh" "Of Greg's original conception for the show." "KREISBERG:" "It was also the first time, in that book" "You know, every previous iteration of his time on the island, he was alone." "He was basically just castaway." "He just, you know, felt bad and got thin and learned to fish." "[AMELL LAUGHS]" "And, you know, that comic book was reaIIy" "GUGGENHEIM:" "I Ioved that issue." "KREISBERG:" "Yeah." "Um...." "You know, that book was the first time anybody had suggested that he'd had adventures on the island that he actually became the Green Arrow on the island." "And that was really such a massive touchtone because, obviously, in the course of the pilot it was just about getting oliver to the island but if we were blessed enough to get to go to series we always knew that we were gonna populate the island with this cast of characters and put oliver through, you know, this incredible crucible you know, that would explain why when we saw him at the beginning of the pilot he came back this very cold, damaged but lethal character." "Speaking of comic books, too, the action." "The amount of action in the show is crazy." "I think Stephen is doing most of it himself." "Which I find unbelievable." "[GRUNTS]" "How do you get it done?" "AMELL:" "So, uh, JJ is our stunt coordinator and our fight choreographer's name is Bam-Bam." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "James Bamford." "And, uh, they" "I mean, they get the script, and, you know, the stage direction is there and, you know, whether it's a parkouring sequence or whether it's a fight sequence, um, they map it out." "If it's a chase sequence, they actually map out the chase sequence with like little toy mini cars." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "And then Simon, my stunt double, and Jon KraIt who's sort of our stuntman extraordinaire, he" "If someone falls down the stairs or fails from a high object, it's John." "And they shoot videos that they deliver to you guys." "BERLANTI:" "Yes." "Yes." "And then I do some rehearsal and away we go." "[ALL GRUNTING]" "[AUDIENCE CHEERING]" "So you're halfway through this" "well, we're more than halfway through the season now." "What do you love playing about oliver Queen?" "What do you love about the character?" "AMELL:" "I mean, I've become a big sucker for the island." "I Iove the island stuff." "And, you know, because when we began on the island I was just laying around in the cave like an idiot." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "You know?" "KREISBERG:" "You know we wrote that, right?" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "I know, but I mean, you know" "But I knew, I always knew that eventually, at a certain point my spine would begin to form, so to speak." "And, you know, I think that we saw that in episode 14  when we actually took some time, "The Odyssey" and we spent more time on the island than we did in the present day for that episode." "And it was just really, really fun for me to all of a sudden" "You start to see these little shifts in the character." "JOHNS:" "But what's--?" "Him revealing Iike--?" "obviously, spoiler alert if you haven't seen the episode a couple weeks ago, but" "AMELL:" "That Geoff wrote." "Yeah, that I wrote." "But" " Yeah." "You revealed yourself to Tommy." "Right?" "AMELL:" "Yeah." "JOHNS:" "So obviously that's gonna be very different reaction than revealing yourself to DiggIe or felicity." "How is that gonna play out?" "Can you give us a little hint of what's up next for oliver?" "well, it changes everything about their friendship." "I mean, aside from him being the vigilante Tommy's big problem is that whether or not I'm doing something virtuous or not I kill people, you know." "He saw me in the pilot, and I confirmed it to him, kill three guys." "And, um, that's not" "I mean, Tommy, colin's character, he's a good guy." "I mean, he doesn't wanna see that." "He doesn't wanna have to reconcile that his friend will do that." "And for me it's terrible because I told DiggIe by design and I told felicity by design." "I did not tell Tommy by design." "And my buffer to my family and to laurel is now way too thin for my comfort level." "I mean, he could just roll over in bed and say, "Hey, oliver's the vigilante."" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "And I didn't want that." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "JOHNS:" "well, well said." "Uh...." "KREISBERG:" "What's also interesting is that Tommy is the first person to find out who knew the old oliver, you know." "For us as writers, Dig and felicity are people that oliver's met you know, since he came back from the island." "Tommy's the first person who knew oliver essentially his entire life and his entire" "You know, everyone else who's found out has sort ofjoined the crusade." "And Tommy finding out, it's the first person who's entire world view of oliver Queen is is really blown out of the water." "And watching that conflict between them is gonna fuel the rest of the season." "You did mention DiggIe, John DiggIe." "I think he's an amazing addition to the Green Arrow mythos." "[AUDIENCE CHEERING]" "So, David, do you feel you have more freedom because there aren't--?" "There isn't a comic book version?" "There's not added pressure of:" ""Hey, this character has be this specific way."" "Um...." "Yeah, I do feel some type of a leeway to that." "You know, listen, every time I Iook at a script, I just look for the back to see if I die." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "Like, yo-- CASSIDY:" "We have that." "My brother's not dead, so I'm good." "I'm good." "But I mean" " No, but" "Yeah, I do" " Listen, there's no canon, there's no DC canon for John DiggIe so that's great." "But, you know, when I did meet Andrew and, um, and David Nutter you know, when I went in for the role they, you know, had such a clear vision of who DiggIe was and where he was going, how he would find out." "They knew that it was gonna be either the third or fourth episode that he would find" "I mean, they had a very cIear-cut life for John DiggIe." "So it's great that though he doesn't necessarily have a future that's in stone like maybe a DC universe I'm in excellent hands." "I trust Andrew and Marc not to kill me." "[ALL LAUGHING AND APPLAUDING]" "Besides that...." "Um...." "I Iove what they're doing." "I Iove what they're doing with DiggIe." "KREISBERG:" "So you guys want him to live?" "ALL:" "Yes!" "[ALL YELLING AND CHEERING]" "well, there you go." "well, first round's on me." "So one" " Speaking of death and returns." "One of the things, Greg, you push really hard for in the episode I wrote, at the end is the very end" " Again, spoilers, hopefully you guys have seen it." "But laurel's mother returns and says, "I think Sara's alive."" "And there was some debate about whether that line was even gonna be in that episode and you really were the one that, I think, expertly and geniusIy put that in there." "Right." "So, what was the motivation behind that?" "Laying that huge--?" "I would say from the" "You know, hopefully, when we're all doing ourjobs right, it's" "A Iot of the stuff is set up even in the pilot." "You know, and Sara and who she is and what she means to the Lance family and what she means to oliver's past, and, you know, all of that is stuff that we've really wanted to get to at some point in this year." "And we knew, at the end of your episode, that we were heading into sort of" "A Iot of times we sort of see the whole season as a whole, almost like three acts of a film." "And the winter episodes are in a Iot of ways the second act, you know." "And the final run of episodes should feel like almost like the third act." "And that was just something, if we didn't" "If we hadn't sort of planted our flag in the ground on that and certain other story lines, by the time you go in the audience wants to pay attention to the other story lines that have been set up." "So that was something that we definitely wanted to get back to and evolve the characters." "And, in part, because of the lore of what that means of who we would bring in." "And then also for, you know, the beginning of some things that we have planned throughout the rest of the year." "What are you doing here?" "It's about Sara." "What about her?" "I think she's may be alive." "JOHNS:" "And I thought, Katie, you did that beautifully." "That scene was wonderful." "Thank you." "JOHNS:" "How does--?" "Can you tell the audience a little bit about where that's gonna take laurel, what she has to deal with what the fallout of that visit from her estranged mother will bring?" "Yes." "Um, ahem" "As if laurel doesn't have it hard enough, Iike, the poor girl has gone through a Iot." "Her mom obviously shows back up and says this, and I think...." "You know, the first initial reaction was the same reaction that I had." "I couldn't quite figure out how to wrap my head around this as a character." "And thinking about laurel and everything she's gone through, to hear" "First off, her mother show up and then her mother obviously delivers some information." "Um...." "I think her" " My initial reaction to it was very sincere ofjust, Iike, complete shock, you know." "And then, I think, you know, laurel being a lawyer she has reaction to things, but then she will, you know, start to over" "She starts to sort of get in to it and rationalize and think if whether, you know" "Is she's telling the truth?" "Does she have the correct information, and how?" "And she kind of gets sucked in, I think, by her mother a bit." "But you'II definitely get a chance to see her mother kind of challenge her father and the dynamic within the family." "It's really fun to have these scenes with, obviously, alex." "She's amazing, and" "[AUDIENCE CHEERS]" "Yeah, she's fantastic." "And paul is fantastic and working with them and sort of exploring that family dynamic has been awesome." "Yeah, I mean, the family dynamics in this show throughout you guys have created wonderful characters." "Susanna, one of the favorite characters." "I really, really love her, and then I'm very, very afraid of her." "So...." "[ALL APPLAUDING]" "I need to know, is she a good guy or a bad guy?" "[ALL LAUGH]" "I have something that I wrote down that I keep with me." ""Moira Queen, mother of mystery."" "And I think that just" "I just wait for the next script to come out to give me more information." "I've created a back-story for her, but the pilot caught me off guard." "It was as much a shock to me, the ending on the pilot." "And now what we're exploring through this first season is really interesting to me." "Her relationship with waiter um, and this dynamic, hard relationship with malcolm and her parenting." "There are other ways of finding out what my son knows." "JOHNS:" "Yeah, the parenting's very unique." "Yep." "Yeah." "It is." "And the pare" "BERLANTI:" "She shot her son." "WeII" " And why didn't she know that that was her son?" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "Because she's had lots of help parenting them, right?" "You know, she's a billionaire." "Can you talk a little bit about where she's going to go now that--?" "You know, last we saw, her attempted hit on malcolm MerIyn failed and now she's been tasked with finding out, from malcolm, who put the hit on his head." "I think she's, once again, being put between a rock and hard place." "And she's making another deal with this particular devil." "That she's been making deals with along the way hoping against all hope for the ultimate not to happen." "And she makes these little bargains with herself and...." "And it's all for her family." "KREISBERG:" "I think that's the key." "for us as writers too." "Like, we talk about this a Iot." "Yeah." "Like, whatever Moira does, she does to keep her family safe." "And, you know, sometimes that means trying to knock off MaIcoIm sometimes that means" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "Sometimes that means torturing her son to make sure that he doesn't know, you know, information..." "...that could ultimately get him killed, so" "But torture" "Kidnapping her son so that someone else doesn't kidnap her son." "Yeah, yeah, yeah." "No, she had somebody else do it." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "JOHNS:" "Justified." "Yeah." "But in our heads, that's what keeps her" "That's her morality and her love for her family." "And that's what's great about the character and the way Susanna portrays her because, you know, she's" "You know, just" " In one episode, she's completely loving and there for them and then the next episode, she's plotting to have somebody killed." "But it's all coming from the same place, and I think that" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "THOMPSON:" "Oops!" "KREISBERG:" "A loving mother." "You know, I wasn't a comic-book reader when I joined this." "And I just look at it as classical, you know, literature." "These type of big stories, big moments, big conflicting circumstances." "And it's fun to play and it's wonderful to work with these actors." "We have a traitor in our midst." "I want you to find out who." "He just made his last mistake." "JOHNS:" "So speaking of questionable parents, the Dark Archer" "So the Dark Archer, is oliver gonna regret, um, saving his life?" "Is this gonna change--?" "KREISBERG:" "Yeah." "Yeah, yeah." "Yeah." "JOHNS:" "Is this gonna change--?" "KREISBERG:" "Yes." "JOHNS:" "Can you guys give us a little hint at how MaIcoIm's gonna change or potentially change his viewpoint on who this vigilante is and what his role is?" "I think what's interesting about malcolm and you've heard a little bit about it, and it's gonna be explored further is, you know, that he lost his wife, um, and, you know...." "KREISBERG:" "For us, in a way, malcolm is sort of evil Bruce Wayne, you know." "We" " You know, we talk a Iot about, you know, Batman Begins that moment in the movie where Bruce goes through the training with Ra's AI GhuI and then he's told to execute a criminal." "You know, in our minds, you know" "In the movie, Bruce doesn't do it." "In our minds, malcolm did." "And, you know" "I think, you know, that was really important to us." "And Greg, you know, really forced us to, you know, really think about it in terms of, Iike" "You know, the villain has to have sympathy." "Everyone's the hero of their own story." "And, you know, what's really interesting about, you know, malcolm versus oliver is they both want the same thing in an odd way." "They both want what's best for the city, they both wanna clean up the city." "You know, I think MaIcoIm would say that oliver is going about it very slowly." "And...." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "He's gonna get a hundred episodes that way, so in his defense." "But we have great stuff coming up where, you know, you're really going to find out a Iot more about malcolm and what's driving him and obviously, you know, what the Undertaking is the very scary sounding Undertaking." "JOHNS:" "He's the hero of his own story, so...." "Yes." "Speaking of villains, because I Iove villains you guys set up Deathstroke early on." "There's a great dynamic going on on the island now." "obviously something happened because he's got his mask with an arrow through it." "KREISBERG:" "But first I have to say David Nutter, when we were doing the pilot, said:" ""We need one more secret on the island." "We need one more mystery." "There's not enough." "We need something."" "We were sitting around talking about it, and were like:" ""I don't know, maybe there's like a totem pole or something."" "And it was Geoff Johns who said:" ""Deathstroke's mask sitting somewhere."" "And it's funny because, you know, it was a small little moment that, you know, worked, you know, for us in so many ways." "Because, you know, for one thing, it told the comic-book fans I think right away, that, you know, first, we weren't screwing around." "And" " But then also it's provided, you know, Deathstroke the character being part of the show played by Manu Bennett." "So that's all due to Geoff Johns." "[ALL APPLAUDING]" "What--?" "Can you tell us a little bit about that relationship?" "Because it's become like the heart of the island now." "It's a wonderful relationship." "I think seeing Stephen trying to do one of those puII-ups was hysterical." "But those two together, it's a really great dynamic." "Is that gonna be a big part of the show going forward?" "GUGGENHEIM:" "well, that's our" " I mean, that's our hope." "A Iot of that's gonna depend upon Manu and, you know, his availability and whatnot." "But we love him, and we love writing oliver and SIade together." "I mean, they are sort of like a proto-Butch and Sundance on the island." "And that's a huge, you know, source of fun for us." "But then, soon we'II be complicating that relationship, uh, in future episodes." "Not necessarily drawing tension to it, but adding an unexpected third element to it." "One of the new additions to the show and she's a series regular next season, is felicity Smoak." "[ALL APPLAUDING]" "JOHNS:" "So can you guys talk a little bit about--?" "This is a minor supporting cast member from The Fury of Firestorm comic book." "It has nothing to do with-- It was great, but it's" "So how did--?" "Showing my roots." "How did she go from that to a regular in the Green Arrow show?" "well, you know" "And are you guys are surprised by--?" "Because she's blown up, obviously." "people really respond to her." "CASSIDY:" "She's awesome." "We're less surprised than gratified, I think." "It's really all because of emily." "I mean, truthfully, we wrote that as, you know-- We never intended to do like:" ""Hey, we're introducing this new recurring character who one day is gonna find out oliver Queen's secret."" "It was, oh, we just-- oliver needed to go to an IT girl and we decided to make it somebody in Queen consolidated and we gave her a little bit of edge, which we thought was fun." "And, you know, Marc and I saw, Iike, you know" "Like the casting people, they send you the videos of the, um, the readings of people who come in to read, and she was clearly the best one." "And we did it once, and, you know, well, what's gonna happen?" "You know, we were watching, you know" "You know, sometimes we'II watch the show, Iike, with Twitter." "And by sometimes, we mean every week." "We mean every Wednesday night." "[ALL LAUGHING]" "You know, that first episode that she was on, Iike, all of a sudden it was like:" ""Hey, who's the blond IT girl?" "Who's the blond IT girl?" And, you know" "You know, and then we were getting feedback from, you know, um...." "Peter Roth, who's the president of Warner Bros., called us and said:" ""I Iove the blond computer girl."" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "And, you know, in that first scene, you know, with her like, really became proof of concept for what she could be because, you know, Stephen was so funny in that scene." "You know, with that first scene with her." "AMELL:" "I don't think my character had cracked a smile..." "KREISBERG:" "Yeah." "...before episode three, when I saw her." "And we were shooting that" "I remember calling you guys afterwards." "I just remembered saying:" ""emily was really great and that was a really fun scene to shoot."" "GUGGENHEIM:" "Yeah." "You know, I'm legitimately laughing at her as she's bumbling away." "And I'm so happy." "We have, you know" "It was getting lonely in the foundry with Dig." "RAMSEY:" "It was." "It was." "It was." "It was." "I mean, how--?" "How many sit-ups can I watch this dude do?" "[ALL LAUGHING]" "well, guys, thanks so much for coming out." "[AUDIENCE CHEERING]" "Thanks for watching the show."