- After Slade threatens to take everything Oliver loves away, Oliver decides the fastest way to stop further bloodshed is to surrender to his enemy. Knowing that surrender will surely lead to Oliver's death, Diggle and Felicity go to extreme measures to keep Oliver from confronting Slade. Meanwhile, Thea considers leaving town, and Laurel resumes her crusade against Sebastian Blood. Finally, Slade unleashes his assault on Starling City.—Anonymous
- We open with Moira's funeral. Queen is not there Simultaneously we see Blood sworn in as the city's new mayor.
At the reception Blood offers his condolences to Thea. Laurel tells him nobody's seen Queen for several days.
Isabel says something vaguely threatening to Digs and Felicity at the reception.
Thea tells Walter she's not doing well. She tells him about Slade. She's furious Queen never told them about the psycho on the loose.
Back on the island Queen, Sara and the others go inside the abandoned submarine. Queen asks Anatoli, who was in the Russian navy to fix the Japanese vessel so they can destroy Slade's ship. Anatoli says he'll try.
Lance is leading the effort to track down Slade. He tells Laurel that he doesn't know the location of Sara. Laurel tells her father she's worried about Blood and a possible connection to Blood.
Slade calls Blood while he's signing a piece of legislation. He tells Blood "you are the man now. Get to work."
Digs and Felicity continue to work on Roy. Digs thinks Isabel has also been given the Mirakuru. They can't find Queen or Sara.
Digs and Felicity meet with Amanda at ARGUS. Digs tells her about the impending danger with Slade's army.
Isabel tells Thea she a few days to close down the club. The building belongs to Queen Consolidated.
Laurel meets with Blood and shows him a case she's working on. He says he'll help and tells her he's looking forward to them working together. We see that while she was there she planted a bug under Blood's desk.
Laurel and Lance have an IT guy hack Blood's system. They find a press release about Moira's death that was written the day before she died.
Amanda's team finds that Queen is his "other lair."
Back on the sub, Anatoli struggles to free the sub. Queen suggests using a torpedo to blast themselves out and the verdict is that somebody will have to sacrifice themselves for the plan to work.
Digs and Felicity find Queen at a "secondary facility in case the foundry was compromised" he's been using for quite time. He tried going to the funeral but couldn't do it. He's feeling guilty he missed a chance to cure Slade. He tells them he thinks this whole situation ends with him dying and so he's planning to turn himself over to Slade. Felicity is emotional .
Queen stops by to see Thea, who is considering leaving the city and starting fresh elsewhere. He tells her he thinks her getting away from Starling City is a good idea and says she's the best of their family. After the conversation Queen calls Isabel and tells her he's going to be at the pier, alone.
In our flashback another guy on the submarine, Peter, offers to sacrifice himself, saying the radiation poisoning he got from Ivo will kill him either way.
While reflecting on his life at the pier Queen is hit with a poison dart. He wakes up surrounded by Digs, Felicity and....Laurel. She tells Queen she knows everything. Queen talks to Laurel about not being able to save Tommy or Moira and feeling he can now protect everybody else. She doesn't want to let him do it and thinks Thea will take it particularly hard. She tells him he needs to stop Blood, who she has proof is working with Slade. Queen realizes it's been Blood the whole time. Laurel says "the city needs the Arrow."
Back on the sub Queen asks Sara not to be on the sub for the mission. She agrees. When she's clear Anatoli launches a torpedo, which spins back around and hits them. Queen is knocked the to the ground.
Queen and Blood have dinner. Queen says he knows Blood is working with Slade and confesses to being the Arrow. Blood thinks Slade's army will help get the city "ready" for his vision of Starling City. Queen assures Blood that he's a pawn and Slade won't deliver on any promises. Blood tells him there's nothing Queen can do to stop them.
Thea ignores a call from Walter.
Queen and Digs prepare to go out. Felicity tells them Slade's army is using the sewer system. Laurel wants to join them as their "eyes and ears." Queen tells her no.
Blood is in charge of Slade's army. We see him give them a pep-talk before they "take back this city." Felicity gives Digs a place to plant an explosion that should bury them all.
Thea is waiting at the airport.
Queen attempts to fight a member of Blood's army. Just before he's killed Laurel knocks the assailant over the head, allowing Queen to escape and destroy the man.
Before Digs can detonate the explosives he's attacked by Isabel, who is in a costume of her own.
A Slade soldier plant at the police station begins taking out cops. A Slade soldier at the airport begins opening fire there.
Queen and Laurel find themselves cornered. Queen fires an arrow into the ceiling and it covers them.
Back on the island Queen's plan worked. The submarine is free. He attempts to contact Sara but she sounds panicked.
The episode ends with Slade's army walking through the street.
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