Previously on arrow...
I need you to help me find my son.
The men your son investigated,
when they discovered his arrest, they broke into prison.
Take him. They are called the jackals.
- You let my boy go. - We need your son.
After all, he's our boss.
Hello, father.
It's been a long time...
You should have stayed dead.
Slade: I heard you were in trouble, kid.
So I thought I'd offer my help.
My old man.
Here to save me. Last I saw,
you weren't all that concerned with saving anyone.
Apple doesn't fall that far.
What are you thinking?
- Patricide? - He's seen our operation.
Makes him a liability.
Yeah, you can have that choice.
But I'll give you another one.
Let me join you.
If I wanted a family reunion,
I would have sent an invitation.
Maybe you did.
But you just haven't realized it yet, kid.
See, I came all this way to speak with you.
And I will kill anybody who gets in my way
because I got nothing left to lose, only you.
So go ahead.
And make a decision.
I'd be lying if I said iwasn't swayed by the poetry of it all.
But can I trust you?
Trust is built upon honesty.
I'm sure you have a lot of questions to ask me.
And I have a lot of questions for you, Joe.
That's not my name anymore.
Your mother named you something different
to keep us apart.
Okay.
Guess we got some catching up to do.
I'm not leaving you.
Joe: Father.
- How are you feeling? - How did I get here?
Evac found you. Washed up on the philippine coast.
They said you were barely conscious.
Just muttering someone's name.
"Oliver." who is he?
Father?
It's just someone that owed me a debt.
Everyone left you for dead.
But I knew you'd come back.
I won't ever leave you again, Joe.
I promise.
Wild dog, terrific. You ready to do this?
Wild dog: Always, but I got bad news.
These guys aren'tjust thieves.
They killed a security guard.
Make that two.
These guys aren't playing around.
Neither are we.
Incoming! Fall back!
Now!
Curtis, you're right. The thieves were after the components of a 3D printer.
Two innocent people get killed
'cause some psycho wants to print plastic toys?
This wasn't a consumer 3D printer. This was military grade.
You're saying there's a printer that can print weapons?
Or drones, or chemicals.
Sorry I missed the fun, anyone want to catch me up?
Break-in, cadmus tech.
Thinking Cayden James?
That's what we were assuming, but this crew
doesn't look like the type he usually runs with.
That would track with some new street chatter scpd has been hearing lately.
- What kind of chatter? - New player.
No idea what his game is. All we have is his street name.
- Dragon. - Dragon?
- That's colorful. - Tomorrow's problem.
Why don't we all get some rack time, hit this fresh in the morning.
Kane: Excuse the poor accommodations.
Don't plan on staying in this stain of a country too long.
Well, there's a reason why they say the money is in the muck.
I did bring one luxury however.
Oh, there's a blast from the past.
My favorite. I never realized you'd acquired a taste for it too.
Like you told me, always drink good booze.
And only look out for yourself.
The jackals are an unruly bunch.
Must've been hard trying to keep asis in the dark for so long.
It's amazing what an agency overlooks
when it's willing to leave its own men for dead.
So what kind of operation are you planning on running here?
Drugs, weapons?
Perhaps a military coup.
Let's call it a re-assignment of resources.
A lucrative one.
Hey, babe.
Hey.
I didn't wanna wake you.
I am still on vlatava time.
Besides, I heard a rumor that the green arrow was gonna be here.
And I'd never miss a chance to see him.
You know, when you took this on,
I think I got a pretty good sense
of how you felt when I took Amanda waller's place at a.R.G.U.S.
Not that bad, I hope.
But seeing you like this,
being the green arrow,
it suits you.
- Let's go to bed. - Mmm.
Hey. Hey.
Let me clean up first.
Okay.
Don't be too long.
So, you and your boy,
one big happy family again, huh?
None of your business.
He told me about your new job, the reassignment of resources.
Tell me about that.
The boss didn't think to tell you.
And that means it's none of your business, comrade.
Main hall, 30 minutes.
Oliver: Slade.
What are you doing here?
You should have gone home.
I don't abandon people.
Even when they leave me drugged.
Now, what is this reassignment of resources
that your son and his men are planning?
You overheard that?
Just like I overheard your plan to join his unit.
Your son is dangerous, Slade.
He's just a younger version of me.
No, you were never a gun for hire.
I was a killer.
Listen, kid, you better go home,
before you find yourself in trouble you can't get out of.
I can't walk away from this.
Can you?
Feeling at home yet, Slade? Hmm?
Or should I call you deathstroke?
Slight change in plans, gentlemen.
Forty percent of our semtex was compromised during transfer.
Conveniently, however, the kasnian army is doing some transferring of its own.
I'm gonna take a small team to intercept.
Does this jeopardize our timeline?
Not with the infamous deathstroke backing me up.
What do you say, father?
Interested in showing us how it's done?
As long as your dogs can keep up.
I'll go pack some gear.
- Hi, kid. - Comms are working.
Kane has me making a run for semtex.
Oliver: That's a high-yield explosive.
With nylander involved I should've expected it.
Well, he'll probably be handling the detonator.
If you can find the receiver, perhaps you can corrupt it.
- It might be in nylander's gear. - I'm on it.
You good?
Just find the receiver.
Keep varying your pace.
My pace is fine, old man.
So you say.
Dead.
Come on, get up.
How are you better with one eye than I am with two?
You must learn to move with your mind.
Not your eyes.
Come on.
Let's go again.
Hold on a second.
Here, happy one year back from the dead day.
- Don't look too excited. - I can't believe it's been so long.
Thank you.
You might change your mind about staying home after you see this.
New prototype. Should be ready in a year.
That's gotta be tempting, right?
Not in the slightest. Enough distractions.
Let's train.
Come on.
Come on!
Yes.
Damn it, father.
I'm sorry.
I think we're done with training today.
Shado: You tried to forget me.
Shado!
But you can't, my love.
Because you made me a promise.
Dealer: You want more drugs? You got to talk to the boss.
All right, man, make the introduction.
Man: Who the hell is this?
- The loyal customer. - This the guy you told me about?
Ricardo Diaz. So, you're a bouncer?
- Something like that, right? - That's right.
You're huge.
I wouldn't want to mess with you.
I'm just playing with you.
Till we get our fda approval, we got to be careful
- with the roll-out. You understand? - I get it.
Just trying to make it through a day.
Aren't we all?
- Hook him up. - Sure thing, Mr. Diaz.
I always knew you'd end up wearing this.
Kill the lights.
We don't leave witnesses.
Anybody in the mood to stress eat?
Always, what you got?
Quadruple cheese! Must be serious.
What's going on here?
Trying to get a line on this dragon guy,
find out what he and his crew are up to.
At least we know where they are. Just got a security alert.
Palmer tech bio division.
Suit up and stay sharp.
Remember, these guys aren't afraid of dropping bodies.
Thief: We got company! Go!
I've got the SUV, cover me.
You okay, hoss?
I ran facial recognition off of John's body cam footage.
Meet Ricardo Diaz and his extensive criminal record.
Does anyone want to guess what his street name is?
Anyone want to guess?
You guys are no fun. His street name is dragon.
Dinah: This jerk wad's been out of prison less than a month.
He's really racked up a body count.
Rene: This guy was doing double jolts of life plus one.
Curtis: What's that? Dinah: It's life without parole.
What's he doing walking around?
State supreme court overturned his convictions due to technicalities.
But before he was on the inside, he was running with a group called
the scorpions in the glades.
John, do you know anything about the scorpions?
John?
John, John, earth to John diggle. The scorpions?
The scorpions, yeah, I know them.
But Diaz is on something different. New muscle, new crew. Way too organized.
Rene: Wonder when he got himself a new crew.
How he got to be the boss of it.
Why he needs a weapons grade 3D printer.
I think I have the answer to that.
Drugs. High-end ones.
I cross-referenced the two models that were stolen
and what they have in common is their capacity to simultaneously print
inert polypropernes and soft material catalyst composites.
Did anyone understand a word of that?
You think Diaz is making reactionware?
- Anyone normal. - With this equipment?
- Diaz cuts out the middle man. - He can make designer drugs
more cheaply and efficiently than anyone else on the street.
Yeah, well, the hell he is. Whatever science experiment
he's got going on, we're shutting it down.
Curtis, let's work up a location for Diaz's operation.
Mmm-hmm.
- You okay, chief? - Yeah.
Been a while since a perp got the drop on me. That's all.
We'll make sure Diaz pays for that.
So what are you planning with all these explosives?
I'd like to know.
You missed your kill shot with the soldier back there.
Well, when I lost this eye, I lost my depth perception.
Most of my men think you joined me under false pretenses.
There's nothing false about trying to find my son.
But if they doubt me...
Then maybe I don't have your trust.
Of course, you do.
That's why I got you a little gift.
You told me not to worry, brother.
Kane: Nylanderfound him with my detonator.
Some might see this as coincidence. But I see it as fate.
It's time to collect on that debt he owes your father.
Oliver queen! I've waited a very,
very long time for this.
An eye for an eye.
You're lying to yourself, Slade.
You know he's alive.
You've always known.
But still you do nothing.
You know what he did to me.
You know what he took from us.
Yet here you are, hiding like a coward.
Getting weak.
Pathetic.
Give me what you promised.
Get out of my head!
Not until Oliver queen is dead.
He is dead. He died on the amazo.
Newscaster: Oliver queen is alive.
The starling city resident was found by fishermen
in the north China sea five days ago.
Listen, love,
you're the only one who can avenge me.
You're the only one who can make him suffer.
You know why?
I keep my promises.
Trainee: Sir, is everything okay?
Come on!
You are telling me you became the green arrow
after you knew about the tremor?
I was gonna tell Oliver.
But then he asked me to take over for him. I couldn't let him down.
- I couldn't let the team down. - But you were physically compromised.
I came up with a temporary solution.
An experimental steroid.
Lyla, I wanted to tell you so bad, I know it was the wrong call.
- I'm sorry. - I'm just glad you finally told me.
But now that I have, I need your help.
Is there anything,
anything that a.R.G.U.S. Is working on that could help my condition?
I thought it was just some kind of steroid.
Yeah, we found out that the manufacturer's involved in
criminal activity.
He and his crew have killed at least two people.
I don't know, maybe more.
Right, so your experimental steroid is actually an illegal drug.
Look, if this is what it's taken for you to come clean,
and get this guy off of the street, then I guess I should be grateful.
What?
You're still using the drug.
And I guess that means that the drug dealer is out there too.
To be green arrow means I have to be physically capable
of protecting the city, no matter what.
Lyla, you make the same choices ata.R.G.U.S. All the time.
Choices you've condemned me for making.
I know I'm wrong, but I couldn't let Oliver down.
So you let yourself down instead.
Johnny, you are the most moral man I know.
I can't even begin to fathom how you could do this.
As soon as a.R.G.U.S. Has a solution, I'll get my guy off the street.
Until then, how many more people is this guy going to kill?
It's not that simple. It's not that simple.
You're the one who taught me that it is.
Lyla, can we please...
No, I just... I want to be alone right now.
Years ago, I made you a promise.
Do you remember?
I promised that you would suffer
the same way that I suffered.
What are you doing?
You are not this person anymore.
What I am is a father
reunited with my son.
I made him a promise too.
And I'm not going to break it again.
We made each other a promise, Slade.
To save our sons.
To save Joe, to save William.
He has a son.
I'll make sure he suffers too.
Slade.
Do it.
Slade!
That was a little too convincing.
We gotta go.
Come on.
- There's no way out. - Let's make our own way. Come on.
I'll send out the dogs.
We've got the op.
That's where they'll be.
You sure?
That my father would try to stop us?
That's what fathers do.
And that's why I'm gonna kill him.
Before they captured me, I saw what Kane was going after.
Attacking the water supply, it's a death sentence for half the country.
If we move now, we might be able to stop them.
If that's what you want.
I spared your life back there.
I know.
Back there, it didn't feel like an act
the same way it did with chase back on lian yu.
Because when I saw my son,
I was tempted.
I would have done anything to keep us together.
But when you mentioned William,
I realized that's not my boy.
It's Kane.
And what I fear is there's only one way to stop him.
Slade.
There are other ways to deal with this that don't involve killing your son.
Deep down, he's your boy so you have to reason with him.
And I swear, he will listen to you.
But I didn't tell you what happened after lian yu.
I went home to my son and I promised him
I would stay and never leave.
And I broke that promise.
You broke the promise because of the Mirakuru.
The Mirakuru faded for a while.
But when it came back, it was like a storm
I could not control.
And that monster is what my son is trying to emulate.
But it's not Mirakuru with Joe. It's anger and resentment.
And I don't know how that can be redeemed.
Well, I didn't think that you could be redeemed.
But I'm here, miles from home,
miles from my son,
trying to help you save yours.
And I can do that because I knew the man that you were
before the Mirakuru.
That is who your son needs to see. He needs to see his father.
The man you are right now, tonight.
Father?
Drop your weapon.
No. Not until you tell me what you're doing.
They were trying to stop me.
What the hell are you talking about?
Stop you from what?
Keeping my promise.
Stay out of my way.
He doesn't show up on traffic cams. He doesn't leave a paper trail.
Ricardo Diaz is good.
How's the research on his old associates going?
Going lousy. Everybody mentioned in his arrest records
is either missing or dead.
Explains why no one's willing to talk to the department about dragon.
John: I've got something.
Diaz's address. His base of operations.
How the hell did you get that?
It's a contact. That's all I can say.
Felicity: Got it.
Thermal imaging shows a lot of activity inside.
Curtis: Got to figure Diaz is in there.
Even if he's not, we can still disrupt his drug operation.
Let's take this guy down.
Suit up.
Green arrow has found us, and his friends too.
Clear out our stash.
Nothing gets confiscated.
Go, go!
Stop!
We gotta move!
Arrow, let's go.
Black canary: Arrow, let's go!
- Kane: Where are we? - All charges are set.
- Looks like it should be you. - I hired you to pull the trigger.
Move out! Get to a safe distance.
Semtex makes for a pretty big bang.
- You're not coming with? - I want a good view.
You're crazy. I love it.
Don't forget what you said about the semtex.
I knew you'd show up.
I think it's time we had ourselves an honest talk.
Trust begins with honesty.
That's what you said to me. But you lied.
You know life is not that simple, Joe.
That's not my name.
How could you forgive Oliver queen after what he did to you?
Because he forgave me for far worse.
Sins that I have to carry to the grave.
A curse I didn't want to pass on to you.
All of this anger and resentment.
It's time to bring it to an end, son.
This is just the beginning.
You used to be ruthless. What happened?
What you saw was the Mirakuru.
Stop lying!
I saw you kill before the Mirakuru.
Milford sound.
That little father-son trip.
The one you promised
would be all about you and me.
I saw what you did to that Chinese spy.
I was on a mission for asis.
Well, here's something you don't know.
Something mother never told you.
I have a brother.
His name is Grant.
Mother didn't want him in this world.
But me,
I'm my father's son.
I made my first kill six months after our camping trip.
I slit his throat,
just like you did.
I wanted to be exactly like my father.
Like deathstroke.
I'm not deathstroke
anymore.
Then you're not my father anymore.
You're just in my way.
Don't move. Slade, you all right?
Oliver, lower your gun.
I wish that you'd stayed dead.
He's gone.
Oliver: Thank you.
Spoke with our friend, the warden.
Jackals are in custody, and he is very relieved.
You all right?
My son.
He saw me kill a man before the Mirakuru.
Before deathstroke.
He followed in my path, Oliver.
No. Don't blame yourself, Slade, it doesn't help.
You know why I do.
Never give up on family.
That's what you told me.
It's time for you to go home.
Where will you go?
I'm gonna keep searching for my son.
Both of them.
- I can't give up. - You ever need my help again,
you don't hesitate to ask.
You have your own son to protect.
I'm not gonna put that at risk again.
You've seen what can happen.
Thank you, kid.
Hey.
I just saw a news report on the lab explosion.
Looks like you took down his operation.
With plenty of collateral damage.
Yeah, well, that part was all Diaz.
He was willing to blow up the works.
Kill all of his men.
So, you didn't mean to destroy the drugs?
I planned to take as much as I could carry.
When I realized I was losing the very thing
that allowed me to put on that hood,
I wanted to run straight into the explosion.
Johnny.
I was a hypocrite and I am sorry.
I'm sorry.
Don't be sorry.
Be safe.
Be okay.
Come here, you.
I missed you.
I missed you, daddy.
I have, uh, one more stop tonight with some other people,
deserve an apology,
an explanation.
Okay.
William: I'm going to win. Felicity: No! I almost got you.
William: Yes! Yes! Felicity: No!
Rematch? Rematch.
- All right. - I got you on this one.
- Hey. - Hey.
Hey, buddy.
Come here.
- Okay. You weren't gone that long. - I know. I know.
Well, I'm happy to see you, it's allowed.
So, what happened with your friend?
He found his son.
- That's good. - So what did I miss?
Well, raisa made me clean my room.
Felice and I ate ice cream for dinner.
And I got an a on my science project.
You got an a?
- Yeah. - That's fantastic.
- Is it here, can I see it? - Yeah, sure.
It's a bottle rocket, went 300 feet, farthest in the whole school.
- Unbelievable. All right. - I'll go get it.
Pretty cool!
I hope you don't mind that I'm here. William said that he was kind of
getting sick of raisa, and the ice cream for dinner,
it was rocky road, so technically the nut should count as protein.
- I'm so happy you're here. - Me too.
Slade got his happy ending?
Not like that.
It's a long story.
It's a sad story.
Sensing a but.
I learned something.
I made the right decision to not be the green arrow.
- For William and for me. - Good.
If we can go up to the roof, I can show you how it works.
- Yup. - Yes.
The moment I hesitated, even as the flames grew closer,
That was my rock bottom.
I should have told you all about the tremor from the beginning.
- I'm truly sorry I didn't. - So you're saying
the tremor started before black siren showed her face
- in star city? - Yes.
And that's why, Rene, I owe you the biggest apology of all.
You should've known what was going on before we ever got to that bridge, man.
My pride almost got you killed.
I betrayed your trust.
Put your lives in danger.
All I can ask is that you forgive me, but I understand if you can't.
Getting shot wasn't great.
But if I'm counting the times you saved my life
against the times you almost got me killed,
you're still ahead.
I, for one, am incredibly offended.
And you have every right to be, Curtis.
That you didn't come to me first for help treating you.
I created a chip to help a woman walk, people.
He's got a point, John.
Might be time to outsource this little problem.
Yeah.
Outstanding.
So have you already had an electromyogram?
Wait, what am I talking about? We need to start off with an ncv test first.
Curtis, it's been a long night.
Is there any way we can do this in the morning?
Sure thing.
It would be my honor.
- It would be my pleasure. - Kiss-ass.
What the... I'm trying to...
You waiting on a special apology? Because you deserve one.
Just wanted to make sure you're okay.
- Really? - Really.
Well, I'm gonna give you one anyway.
Dinah, I lied to you and I'm sorry,
but I'll make one more promise.
There'll be no more secrets between you and me.
No more secrets.
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