My name is Oliver Queen.
After 5 years in Hell,
I returned home with only one goal--
to save my city.
Today, I fight that war on two fronts.
By day, I lead Star City as its mayor,
but by night, I am someone else.
I am...Something else.
I am the Green Arrow.
Previously on "Arrow"...
You cost me something dear to me--my son.
We decided to go our own way.
Good luck.
It's our new lair.
Helix used to operate out of here,
but it's not like they're using it anymore.
So we've got them fighting with each other
instead of fighting us.
Vincent's working with them, too.
Oliver saw him with James and the rest.
You don't understand.
You lying son of a bitch.
You were the Green Arrow for my dad.
That's right, William.
I'm sorry you had to step in,
and I'm sorry you had to lie to your son.
I don't want to lie to him,
but I can do it if it's temporary.
I may have solved the glitch in my chip.
It worked?
Looks like we're not as undermanned as we thought.
Yes! Ha!
I'm a city councilman!
I deserve some respect!
Hey. Didn't your shift end at 6:00, Doc?
That's what I keep asking myself, Gilbert.
- Hey, man. - Hey.
Joe and I are gonna watch the game tonight
if you want to join us, Frank.
I wish I could.
Today's gonna be a long one.
Aah!
All right, everybody. Stay calm.
Oh. What was that? What's happening?
Back away from the walls.
Everyone, back away from the walls.
No, no. We got to get out of here.
No, no, no, don't!
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Bull's-eye!
Indeed it was, young man.
- Try again, please. - Ok.
Yes! Ha!
These things are-- you win...Again.
Well, you must be out of practice
since you quit being the Green Arrow.
That must be it, yeah.
You all ready for your field trip, yeah?
- Yeah. - Ok.
It's the Coastal Biology Center, right?
Yeah. There's a prep sheet for the trip,
and I tried one of the extra credits.
Hold on.
Will you take a look at it?
Yeah, of course.
I meant Felicity.
Sure you did. Yep.
I'm sorry.
It's a math problem about hyperbolic geometry
in marine organisms like coral.
I do know what coral is, but that's ok.
This is a high-dimensional math problem
most people don't get until they're
in 12th grade AP,
and it's perfect.
Well, congratulations.
Take your flash backpack
and don't miss your bus, all right?
- Ok. - That's fine. Get out of here.
Go learn something.
- I know what coral is. - Mm-hmm.
- Good morning. - Morning.
Heh heh.
I think we've reached maximum-level domesticity.
Oh, God. I certainly hope not.
- What's up? - Councilman Grovner is dead.
- What? - So are 6 people in the hospital
and 5 more electrocuted by an elevator.
- In an elevator? - By an elevator.
What? That doesn't make any sense.
Yeah. Quentin.
We got a problem. An elevator--
Electrocuted 5 people.
Yeah. How do you know?
I just know. Look. Grab Thea,
and I will meet you at the SCPD, ok?
Oliver, one of the casualties,
it's Frank Pike.
Oh.
Ahem.
I will see you soon.
Frank Pike is dead.
Can you get your stuff, can you go to the bunker?
Can you find out what's going on, please?
- Mm-hmm. - Thank you.
Hey. That chip's really working.
- Yeah. I never felt better. - That's great.
Or stronger.
- Everything all right? - No. Not even close.
The city is under some sort of electronic attack.
- Cayden James? - You got to figure.
I mean, cars, cranes, life support systems,
even elevators are killing people all over town.
Yeah. Hacking electronics I always thought
was a bit of a bank shot when you have
a thermobaric bomb and amplifier.
- And control of the port. - Right.
It's Oliver.
Hey. I'm on with John.
What do we know?
"Hack-cidents" are happening all over the city.
Size of this attack,
you got to think it's Cayden James,
but to what end?
Well, should I get William home,
or should I be happy that he's heading out of the city?
Oh, for sure the second one.
Let's think about looping in Dinah, Curtis, and Rene.
We may have gone our separate ways,
but we have the same goals.
Do it. We need all the help we can get.
Mr. Mayor.
Quentin, I'm--I'm sorry about Frank.
He was a good cop, and he was a better man.
Yeah, yeah. He sure was,
but he wouldn't want us standing around here grieving, right?
Listen. 911 is on overload,
and now we got no one here to run the show.
Yes, we do.
Just when I thought I was out.
Can you catch me up on the status here?
Yeah. Well, the, uh, status keeps changing,
but I can tell you what we know so far.
Ahh. Not bad for one week's worth of work.
I would rather have a team I can trust
than any kind of technology.
Word.
It's Felicity.
She isn't bugging us again, is she?
No.
I'll do a sweep.
- Hey. - Hey.
Cayden is attacking the city with a series
of coordinated hacks.
He just crashed a plane.
Yeah, I know. I mean, he can hack anything
that is connected to the Internet,
which is practically everything these days,
so I was thinking that our teams,
our two separate teams,
could share information.
Yeah. Uh, that's a good idea.
We'll share any and all information that can help.
Ok. Thanks, Curtis. I'll, uh, send you what I've got so far.
I hope that was all right, guys.
I mean, I know we looked at each other,
but we didn't actually verbalize.
Oh, we agreed, Curtis.
Frank Pike is dead.
What?
He was killed by one of Cayden James' hacks.
Is Felicity doing this?
Wait. That--
that can't be.
You know what? The last time I saw it
doing this, it was tracking vigilante's visor.
I know, but he modified
his electronics to block our signal,
but this is real.
It's locking on to him.
Because your balls never malfunction?
Really?
Not this time, all right,
but, I mean, could he have messed up?
Did he forget we could track him?
No way. He's too devious.
I thing the son of a bitch is trying to draw us out,
trap us.
I say we trap him.
You all in?
1, 2, 3.
Suit up!
Yeah. I don't think we should say "suit up" all together.
It'd be really cool if we did, though.
I don't think it would be really cool.
I mean, let's just be different than OTA.
Let's be, like, NTA and say it together.
But we are NTA, and we're cooler without having to say "suit up"...
Just saying this is kind of what Oliver was always doing.
I'm just saying we should just try it one time.
I'm sorry I'm late. There was an airplane crash on State Street.
It's awful. Is this the Cayden James
that you've been talking about?
Most likely. Look. Quentin can bring you up to speed.
I've asked him to run things here with your help.
- Absolutely. - Yeah. Listen.
We've taken SCPD systems offline.
We're setting up communication trees
so officers can talk in person.
Ok. Cool. It's just like the old days.
I'm not that old.
Look. I think it's a great idea.
We should take everything in the city's government on analog,
and that way, we're out of James' reach.
In the meantime, we need to do everything
that we can to minimize panic.
Why don't we set up libraries,
uh, gyms, and civic centers with SCPD protection?
- Yeah. - We can take them
completely off-grid, people can come, feel safe.
Safe zones are a good idea.
Now I have to get back to city hall
with the death of councilman Grovner.
- No. Go. Don't worry. - Go. Go, go, go, go. We got it.
- Ok. - Good luck.
I got nothing in the alleyway.
Same for the parking garage.
Zilch here. Back to base?
What was that? The comms are breaking up.
Yeah. I'm getting some interference on my side, too.
Can you guys hear me?
No, they can't.
You're jamming us.
I'll be brief.
I'm on your side.
Cayden James is my target, too.
I'm undercover with his organization.
You think this "T" on my face stands for gullible?
You know what I mean.
I tried telling Dinah last week,
but she didn't give me the chance.
Right now, James is killing dozens of people.
By tonight, it will be hundreds.
I need your help.
Why should I trust you?
Go to the subway tunnels
where the red line and the gold line cross
an hour from now.
You might be able to save some lives.
Or I could lead my teammates into a trap.
I could have trapped you here,
but I didn't.
Harold Grovner was a dedicated civil servant,
who always wanted what was best for this city,
and we will not forget that,
but with everything that is happening,
we don't have the time to mourn at the moment,
so, please, let's get back to work.
Becky, I need councilmen Gattis, McCaskill, and Kullens.
In that order, please.
Your 10 am is here.
I don't have a 10 am on my schedule,
and even if I did, I--
I think you'll find this one's rather important.
Ben Gale. Pleasure to meet you, Mr. Mayor.
Thanks for making the time.
Thank you, Becky.
I'll let you make the usual threats in a minute,
but before we get to that, you should know
that my colleagues are expecting to hear from me in 6,
and if they don't, well, you would be remiss
in forgetting the thermobaric explosive
that remains in my possession.
What...Do you want?
I've already told you.
Vengeance for my son.
I cared for him, protected him, loved him
just as you do this city,
but now...your city's entire infrastructure
is under my control--
buildings, institutions, even people,
all under my dominion.
These are innocent people.
And you can save them...
by wiring $10 million
into that offshore account
no later than 11:30 tonight...
And every night until further notice.
That will bankrupt us!
Well, I certainly hope so.
Please don't imagine that I've gone
to these lengths for money.
No. This is for you so that you'll suffer.
I didn't kill your son.
Yes, you did.
One year ago this very day
right here in Star City,
you missed your intended target,
but your arrow found its way into my boy.
Well, if you're seeking vengeance,
if you want revenge...
Why haven't you just outed me
as the Green Arrow?
If my understanding is correct,
that's already been done.
Star City will not negotiate with a terrorist.
Oh, spare me the political claptrap, Mr. Queen.
By tonight, that will sound hollow, even to you.
Come on.
You ok?
I have tried every trick
to counter-hack what Cayden is doing,
and I am completely boxed out,
so I contacted Alena to help me figure out why,
and the answer is, is that it's my fault.
Felicity, what are you talking about?
When we stopped Cayden and Laurel from blowing up the Internet vault...
Uh-huh.
That was all a ruse.
Cayden just wanted us to think that people
were in trouble so that I would break
through his firewall,
but instead of blocking him,
I was actually just helping him plant a virus,
and now he has complete control of the entire city.
A hack-cident is killing one person every 18 minutes,
and I have no idea how to stop it.
I do thanks to Cayden James,
who was kind enough to pay me a visit at city hall.
- What'd he want? - He wants $10 million a day.
That is not the actionable part.
He told me the details of his son's death.
He was killed one year ago today.
Cayden thinks that he was collateral damage
from a fight that I had in Star City.
It's not possible.
You were in Hub City recruiting Dinah.
Yep.
If Cayden James is motivated by revenge,
maybe we can get him to stand down.
Well, I like that idea because I have no way
of stopping him my way, and I have no location
for you to find him your way.
Felicity, we need incontrovertible proof.
Yeah. I know. I'm on it.
I can't believe we didn't catch Vincent.
He had a 20-minute lead on us.
- Where have you been? - Long story.
I need to check on something.
- Hey. - Hey. If we're still sharing
Intel, I need you to check on something for me.
- Yeah. Shoot. - The subway system,
specifically where the Red and Gold line meet.
I'm trying to stave off a disaster.
Yeah. The automatic track signals just went offline.
- How'd you know? - Lucky guess.
- You want backup? - Felicity, I appreciate
the Intel, but we're not working together anymore.
My team can handle it.
Handle what?
Cayden James is gonna attack the subway
in less than an hour.
I'd say "suit up," but we already are.
Let's go.
Hey, guys. Take a look at this.
This is the city's transportation system,
and these are all the accidents that have happened so far.
A lot around the edges.
The train lines and the freeways.
He's laying siege to the city.
That's probably why he wanted the port.
It's exactly what he's doing.
He wants to block off all the exit routes.
And stop all the reinforcements from the outside.
Any roads he hasn't hit yet?
Yeah. There's one exit left out of the city,
and it's the tunnel.
William.
I saw your new mom on TV.
She's pretty hot. Heh heh.
She read you bedtime stories?
Well, at least she can read, unlike your mom.
This field trip, it's gonna be fun.
- You sure you're good? - Yep. Never better.
Had Cisco put this together.
You ok?
Yeah. Yeah.
Suit up!
Let's go save your son.
Careful around these metal lines.
Sometimes, they can be electrified.
I know that, T. I'm not 6.
I didn't know that.
Hey. These tracks are set to cross.
The trains are gonna collide.
That could be the switch, that lever.
Pull it.
Uh! It's stuck.
These switch boxes are locked, though.
All right. Stand back.
There we go.
Ok. Well, plan B-- actually, there is no plan B
because Cayden James has completely overwritten
everything we could do here.
- Maybe plan C will be-- - Guys.
We could literally just start pulling things out
till we get the right circuit.
Guys!
Pull it all out, pull it all out.
It's not working. Hurry!
Hey. What's plan D?
- There is no plan D. - What?
Yes, there is!
Whoo!
All right. I'm gonna go see what's going on.
You kids stay put.
I'm bored, Clayton.
Read us a story.
We have to get out of here.
Everyone stay calm and follow me.
We have to get out the back!
We can still make it out.
Ok. Come on. Move it, move it!
You two, help them out!
Hurry, hurry!
Donnie.
We need to get out of here. Come on, come on.
- I can't, I can't. - We need to go! Go!
I need you to go. Go!
William! William!
Where's William's bus?
Go. I'll take care of everyone else.
Go for the door, go for the door! Move!
Come on, come on! Get to the door!
Move, move!
Through here, through here.
Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!
Come on.
Where's William Clayton?
He's stuck behind the sign.
Go, go!
Come on!
William, William.
You ok?
Dad?
We got everyone out safely.
Unfortunately, that tunnel was the last way out of the city.
So this is your secret hideout?
Yeah.
You said you weren't the Green Arrow anymore.
John did take over for me,
but he got injured.
He's not injured anymore.
No, he's not.
We've lost the other members of our team, William,
and I can't have him out there on his own right now
with everything that's going on.
Listen, buddy. I promise--
You've promised before.
I need to go meet your aunt Thea.
Could you please hang here?
Damn, that was on fire!
Hey, man. New team Arrow's kicking ass.
You know what? I really have to say
that I think we should change our name.
Like, what do you guys think about The Outsiders?
Ooh. Um, I think it was a really awesome book.
You know, guys, talking to Felicity actually was a good idea.
I mean, if she hadn't given us that Intel,
those people would be dead.
About that.
I got that information from Vincent Sobel.
I'm sorry. What?
I didn't trust him at first either, ok,
but I called Felicity to confirm
if his Intel checked out, and it did, clearly.
And that's why you were late getting back here earlier.
You were talking to him?
So you didn't bother telling us?
How very Oliver Queen of you.
I had to get all the information first
before I looped you guys in.
Then once I did have all the information,
we had to stop a subway collision,
but we did, and now here I am,
telling you guys.
Telling us what?
Why would Vince help us?
He says he's a double agent working
to take down Cayden James from the inside.
I mean, that does track.
I mean, the guy used to be undercover.
Which makes him a professional liar.
He has had so many opportunities to tell me
he is a double agent.
Why hasn't he?
He just somehow forgot to mention it?
He says he tried to.
That is absolute crap.
Maybe, but if he turns out to be legit,
he could offer a tactical advantage
that we can't turn down.
Well, I can, because I will never work
with him again, ever.
Well, obviously, Curtis and I disagree, so...
So nothing.
We all have to agree, don't we,
or are we just screwing consensus now?
Ok. So maybe you can get some of your officers
and have them stand over there.
- You bet. - That'd be great. Thank you.
Thought that would put a little extra pep in your step.
You are my savior.
What, me or the coffee?
Why can't it just be both?
- Hey. How are things going here? -Hi.
Well, it's not good. No. We got no customers at all.
There's so much happening right now
that people are too scared to even come to the safe zones.
And worse still, I got cops standing around here
doing nothing when they could be out there helping people.
I would like to redeploy them.
No. If--if we get people here,
then we don't need to worry about protecting them out there.
We have no idea where Cayden James is going to attack next.
The best thing that we can do for the city
is to get people to the safe zones.
Could you please call the press?
I have an idea.
Ok.
- Yes! - You got something?
A bull's-eye. Alena remembered that
last May, Cayden received a package from Corto Maltese,
and she thinks that in that package was the evidence that
made Cayden think that Oliver killed Owen.
And how exactly is that a bull's-eye?
Because we know Oliver didn't kill Owen,
so whatever was in that package, that evidence--
That evidence had to have been faked somehow.
- Bull's-eye! Boom. - Right.
You ok?
Yeah. Yeah, it's just-- just stupid.
Well, you don't do stupid, so...
I don't know. I was just hoping that
since the implant was working so well that maybe--
You'd be putting the hood back on?
- Yeah. - I'm sure you will,
you know, once this whole Cayden thing is dealt with.
I hope so.
I hope so for his sake.
Oh, man. He just found out
that his father's been lying to him for a month.
I've been trying to work up the courage to talk with him,
but, like, step-mom in training over here.
You'll do fine, Felicity.
Mr. Mayor. Mr. Mayor...
Hey, Will. Your dad's on TV.
What is happening to this city?
Are we under some kind of attack?
Ahem. A hacker--
goes by the name Cayden James--
has taken over the electronic infrastructure of Star City.
In his hands, anything-- anything that is connected
to the Internet can be used as a weapon.
Now, sadly, this has already led
to a number of casualties,
including our police captain, Frank Pike,
and councilman Harold Grovner.
But Mr. James has made his demands,
but make no mistake, he is a terrorist,
and Star City does not negotiate with terrorists, period.
Instead, we are gonna focus on the safety and well-being
of our citizens.
In that spirit, the SCPD has set up safe houses throughout the city.
These locations are entirely analog,
and you will be safe there.
I promise you, you will be safe there.
Mr. James, Star City has survived far worse than you.
We will band together, we will be united,
and we will survive this.
Thank you very much.
So predictable.
Almost takes the fun out of it.
Time to proceed to the next phase.
Nice speech, and it worked.
Safe zones are filling up, they're completely offline,
and hack-cident free, and in other news...Yeah--
I might have a thing on our other thing.
On Cayden James' son?
So Alena thinks that Cayden believes that you killed his son
because of something that arrived in a package from Corto Maltese in May.
Through a pretty cool sequence of hacks on the mail systems
of several different countries-- not that you need to know
about it, but it was, like, really intense and really cool,
and I did it, and it was really hard, but you don't need
to know about those. In that package was a USB drive,
and we actually have that USB drive's serial number, so Alena's just working
on trying to find the computer in Corto Maltese that uploaded
the information onto that drive that Cayden received,
the information that made him think
that you killed his son.
You see how I came full circle on that, right?
- 100%. - Awesome.
You should go talk to him.
I will.
- Dinah. - Hey.
If you don't want to work with him,
we won't.
We do it by consensus like we agreed.
Hey. Look. I--I acknowledge
that Vince is a complicated variable, ok?
Well, let's break it down.
You know, pro/con style.
All right.
Pro--he's really good,
and he gets deep into his assignments.
Con--on our last assignment, he got in too deep.
He can forget what side he's on.
Pro--he's in with Cayden James and his crew,
and his last Intel worked.
If you didn't know Vincent,
if you could remove this history with him,
if, as a cop, he came to you with some Intel,
what would your gut tell you?
Do we have new Intel from him?
No.
Well, then I'm not gonna answer that yet.
You know, there's, um, a study I was reading
that was saying that actually talking to a child
is one of the most effective parenting techniques.
- No kidding? - Yeah.
- That true? - Yeah.
Well, I've learned several times the hard way
that sometimes kids just want to be left alone.
I know I have to talk to him.
I'm just trying to respect that.
Ok. And I might totally be projecting here
because my dad was
a, you know, supervillain evil hacktivist,
but he did a lot of things
that I didn't like or approve of,
and the way he chose to live his life,
that's not the part that bugged me.
Ok. What bugged you?
The lie.
All I ever wanted was for him
to tell me the truth, you know,
and that's all William wants.
All he wants to know is the truth--
the good, the bad, the ugly.
He just wants to know the truth.
William knows the truth,
or he--he knew the truth,
and he decided that he didn't want me
in situations where he might lose me.
Ok, but here we are, and everything
that's happened with John
and everything that's happened with the team,
and everything that is happening right now with Cayden James.
Here we are,
and you know what I think?
I think William can handle it.
- I don't know. - I do
because, you know, genetics.
Aren't you ready yet?
We're moving out.
I'll be right there.
- What's going on? - Vincent's using the link
to my T-sphere to send a message.
Morse code.
Clever. What does it say?
"Attack...
"Oak...
"Street...
Now."
I'm assuming that's a warning, not a directive.
Oak Street is one of the safe zones
Oliver and Quentin set up.
What do we do?
Suit up.
Officers marching, guns out,
city under siege.
It's like "Escape From Detroit."
I don't know whether to correct you
or to just embrace your attempt
at referencing one of my favorite John Carpenter films.
- Huh? - I think the point
is that people are scared.
It's not good.
They should be scared.
That's why they need us.
When you say, "us," do you mean just you
and it's a passive dig at our team--
no pun intended-- or do you mean
all of us and you recognize our own team as being independent--
Curtis, we got your message.
Thanks for reaching out.
So what are we dealing with here?
We have it on good authority
this place is Cayden James' next target.
- How do you know? - We know.
That's all that matters.
Not to spoil the really awkward team reunion,
but you have incoming.
Whoa. You have lots of incoming.
We need to move out right now!
Is dad gonna be ok?
Yeah, he's gonna be fine.
Look. I know you're not all that happy with your dad right now,
but this--this is what he does best,
and nobody does it better.
But everybody makes mistakes.
Things go wrong.
He can't plan for everything.
Yeah, you're right.
What your dad does, it's---it's very dangerous,
and heroes don't always make it home.
I never forget that.
But, you know, I've loved your dad
from the first time he brought me
a bullet-riddled computer.
Remind me to tell you about that one.
That was a long time ago,
which means I've loved him for a long time,
which means I've worried about him for a long time,
and he--he hasn't always been truthful.
He's lied, he's kept secrets.
He's not perfect.
This life, it's-- it's not ideal--heh--
but he makes his sacrifices,
so we have to make ours.
I sometimes think to myself that that's what makes this love
deeper than other kinds of love.
You know, it sounds cheesy,
but it does because we can't take things for granted.
We have to live with the fear and the uncertainty
that everything can be taken from us in an instant...
Traitor! I'm taking you to hell with--
Because that's the price we pay
for choosing the people that we love.
Everything he does he does for a good reason
or what he thinks is a good reason,
so you can worry about your dad,
but you have to believe
that he's going to be ok
because that's the only way that this works.
Ok?
Ok. Now watch.
Now after he takes these two down,
he's going to spin,
disarm him...Kick.
He's probably gonna use the arrow right here!
Oh! Ooh. Wow! You probably should not
have been allowed to watch that.
That's definitely in parenting 101.
Good work.
Doesn't change anything, Hoss.
Come on.
Wow. He's--he's pretty--
Amazing, yeah.
Well, I was gonna say badass.
Badass.
Well, for two teams that do not trust each other,
you guys worked together pretty well.
Well, except for the fact that they never shared
with us where they got their information.
What's happening?
Cayden's shutting down all communications--
e-mail, TV, cell phones, Internet traffic, everything.
We didn't meet his 11:30 deadline.
Can you please talk to Alena and tell her
that we are running out of time?
I already did. She's working as fast as she can.
What are we gonna do?
I need to go talk to my son.
You saved Rene's life tonight.
Thank you.
I'm on your side, D.
I wasn't so sure before.
So...What now?
When I was growing up, if something happened,
my dad would call a family meeting
so that we could all talk about it.
And I know we've already both talked to you separately,
but we just thought we'd all get together
and just sort of talk it out, put it all in the open.
I'm terribly sorry that I lied to you.
There is no excuse for it,
and I'm new at this whole dad thing,
but that's not an excuse either.
I've just--I've...
Been trying to work my way through it,
and I've hit more bumps in the road
than I thought that I would, as you know,
but no more secrets and no more lies,
and, William, if you need me to stop being the Green Arrow...
I will.
Felicity showed me what you did tonight.
I got to say it was-- it was really cool.
The city needs you, and I get that now.
Are you sure?
Yeah. I mean, I was worried before
that I'd become an orphan,
but it's different now.
I have Felicity.
I understand why you have to go out there.
I'm gonna get to bed.
Sleep well, William, ok?
What he said was touching.
It was kind of awful, too.
I think that's the actual definition of bittersweet.
Ok. Well, don't let it get to you.
- I mean, it's--it's not. - Oliver.
It's not. It's--
if I've learned one thing about parenting so far
that I'm sure of...
you can't win them all.
Hmm.
It's Alena.
She went through all the computers in Corto Maltese.
She didn't find anything. I'm sorry.
I've got to get to city hall.
What are you gonna do?
Wire the money.
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