Car horns and the sound of rain hitting glass fill the air just like any other late night at the office. Except, Oliver Queen is not known for staying at Queen's Consolidated for longer than normal business hours. Oliver sits at his desk deep in thought remembering that night, and thinking about what the past year brought onto him and the people he loves. His mother is dead. Sara is dead. All because of the decisions Oliver made on the island. He sees himself in front of Shado and Sara, but their faces change to Thea and his mother, blood and tears cover their faces. His mother stands,

"Both my children will live."

"You have true courage…You did not pass that on to your son"

Oliver hears her last inhale, and Slade's sword go into her heart. Oliver looks up at him, but only sees himself. He is the only one to blame for the mourning that washed over this town and his family.

"Oliver...Oliver...Oliver!" Felicity says snapping him out of his haze. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah...Yeah just thinking…" He trails off.

"Last time you said that you isolated yourself from everyone for two weeks."

"What do you want Felicity? I am not in the mood to talk right now." Oliver starts to raise his voice.

"You've been in that mood for a while now. We need you, the city is literally tearing itself into pieces."

"The Arrow isn't needed any more S.C.P.D. can handle it."

"No they can't!" She says, starting to get frustrated. "Oliver, a man named Jonathan Reed a.k.a The Doc. He stole 'the chain reaction' a serum injected into the bloodstream that forces the lysosomes in the cells to not only digest the unwanted proteins, but the rest of the cell. In other words, the body will eat itself inside out, literally… That sounded so much worse in my head…"

"Felicity!"

"Right, anyway, I don't know what he plans on doing with it, but he already put it out on the street. People's cells are literally eating each other. Their bodies' start to shake that is uncontrollable until the serum reaches the heart and they die."

"Ok. Why do you need me then? Diggle can handle it."

"Dig and Roy said they need you." She said handing the phone over to him.

"Oliver, I need you down here! Now!" He hears Diggle's voice and gunshots in the background. "Shit! I got to go Roy is about to…" The sound stops and the signal goes dead.

"Fine. But this is the one time! Let's go!"

Oliver and Felicity leave Queen's Consolidated and make their way back to the club. Going down the stairs, Oliver states, "Felicity do what you can to track this guy cell phone records, anything, and get me an address so I can go help Dig…" He stops dead in his tracks and sees Dig and Roy perfectly fine sitting on the table. Not a scratch.

"Are you freaking kidding me?" Oliver said, more frustrated than before.

"Don't blame them, it was my idea," Squeaks Felicity's voice from behind him. "You needed to get out of there and anyway there is a guy named Jonathan Reed who did steal 'The Chain Reaction.'" Oliver turns around and starts right back up the stairs. Diggle is right behind him.

"Where are you going? We need you down there; the city needs you down there, fighting for the people."

"No one needs my help! I can't do anything anymore. I can't help anyone anymore!" Oliver screamed with frustration.

"What about Thea, Felicity, Laurel, and Roy huh? Or, what about all the innocent people who are getting killed just because you don't want to get off your royal ass and do something about it. You need to face reality, you are not the only one who has lost people they cared and loved about. There are people out there right now losing their families because you will never have enough time to mope."

"Then why can't you do it!"

"Because I am not the Arrow! I am not the person people look up to and I am not the one who promised this city that I will save it from the evil and corruption!"Diggle reminds him as Oliver falls to the ground and begins to sob. Diggle slides down next to Oliver.

"How can I save a city when I can't save my family?" He lets out in between sobs. Oliver flashes back and sees nothing but his sister and mother, again. Her body cold on the ground with Slade over her, promising Oliver that he is not done destroying his life. The scenery changes he is holding his bow aimed at Ivo. When Slade walked up behind him. When Slade found out about Shado. When Slade promised him that his life will burn in hell. When Slade showed emotion for the first time. Oliver sees his eyes tear, but the anger on his face never went away.

"You know what hurts the most that it was you. I trusted you. It was you the whole time! You are the reason Shado, the only one who I loved, is dead. It's all your fault!" Slade screamed at Oliver. A tear rolled off Oliver's face bringing him back to the stairway with Diggle next to him.

"If I can't beat him Dig; I can't help anyone. He changed right in front of me, Dig. I put the Mirakuru into him. It is all my fault that everyone is dying."

Diggle reassures him, "You cannot change what happened between you two in the past, but we can fix this city, and take down that son of a bitch." Diggle stands up. He offers his hand to Oliver. Oliver accepts. They both go down the stairs, where Roy and Felicity inconspicuously walk away from the bottom of the stairs as if there were not listening in.

"Felicity what do you have on Jonathan Reed?"Olive says giving Felicity a glare.

"Does this mean I still keep my job? Right...He's a bio-medical engineer, he already injected the serum into a few dozen people, but not sure how yet. Where are you going?"

"Out. I need to visit someone."

"Hello Detective, there is a man named Jonathan Reed a.k.a The Doc, what do you know about him?" Oliver asked.

"He sent multiple people to the hospital already, once you're injected, your toast. No one found a cure yet. The bodies are piling up, high. He was declared mentally insane five years ago. He claimed that he solved the world's problems babbling about creating world peace. His company was shut down when they found C-4 lining the entire building ready to blow at any moment." Lance informed.

"Thanks. I'll be in contact."

"You know… It's good to have the arrow back, maybe some good will finally come to this damn city."