Oliver had just finished a board meeting discussing the future of both Queen Consolidated and the Queen Cares foundation when his phone rang.

"Hello?" Oliver asked.

"Ollie, hey, any chance you can swing by the DA's office real quickly, I have something to show you." Laurel said.

"Yeah, I'm on my way." Oliver said.


"Hey." Oliver said as he kissed Laurel.

"Hey. you brought lunch?" Laurel asked, since Oliver had a bag of Big Belly Burger with him.

"I did, now would you mind bringing me up to speed?" Oliver asked.

"Yeah, I did some digging into your mother's case and found out who insisted that I be assigned to it. A new city alderman, Sebastian Blood." Laurel said.

"As in Blood for Mayor?" Oliver asked, since that was common graffiti in the Glades these days.

"The self proclaimed savior of Starling city, even though we seemed to have already taken that title." Laurel said.

"Any ideas why Blood would do that?" Oliver asked.

"My best guess would be is that he wants to get in my pants and is trying to drive a wedge between us by putting me on your mom's case." Laurel said.

"Maybe, but it feels deeper than that. But is that all you wanted to tell me?" Oliver asked.

"No, actually, what I really wanted to show you was these." Laurel said as she pulled up images on her computer of Xavier Reed.

"The police found his body this morning and look at his skull. Seem familiar?" Laurel asked and Oliver's blood ran cold.

"Unfortunately. See if you can get a copy of the bloodwork taken from him to figure out he died, we need to know if our suspicions are correct." Oliver said.

"And if they are?" Laurel asked, though she had an idea.

"Then we have a bigger problem than we possibly could've imagined. You remember what happened the last time we dealt with this?" Oliver asked.

"I do and I'm not opting for a repeat performance." Laurel said as Oliver left.


"You sort of ran out in a hurry there Oliver." Walter said when Oliver entered his office.

"Something important came up. But anyways, why did you want to see me?" Oliver asked.

"Because I think that you're ready to take the reins of this company." Walter said, shocking Oliver.

"Look Walter, I appreciate that, but right now is just not a good time, what with my mother's trial coming up and some other things that are going on right now, I'm not ready. I promise, when I'm sure I'm ready for that responsibility, I will take charge, but for right now, I think things should stay the way they are." Oliver said and Walter nodded.

"I understand Oliver. Queen Consolidated is not going anywhere, so take your time." Walter said.

"Thank you." Oliver said.


"Did you get the results back?" Oliver asked Laurel as he entered the foundry.

"Yep and while I'm not a doctor, the symptoms and the bloodwork confirm exactly what we feared." Laurel said and Oliver sighed in acceptance.

"What are you guys talking about?" Thea asked.

"Xavier Reed's death. We've seen those symptoms before." Oliver said.

"When?" John asked.

"About 5 years ago on Lian Yu." Laurel said.

"Care to elaborate?" Thea asked.

"These are the effects of a drug called Mirakuru. We discovered a crashed japanese sub on the island carrying a shipment of it." Laurel said.

"What exactly is Mirakuru?" John asked.

"It translates from Japanese to English to miracle, but this drug is anything but. It was developed by the Japanese during world war 2, intending for it to be a super soldier serum. But it was defective. It killed most men who were injected with it and they were the lucky ones." Oliver said.

"Why, what happened to the people who survived?" Thea asked.

"They went insane. Oliver and I saw that first hand, when in order to save a friend's life, we had to inject him with the Mirakuru. It turned a man that we once called our friend into a man who tried to kill us." Laurel said.

"What happened to him?" John asked.

"I put an arrow through his eye. No way anyone could've survived that." Oliver said.

"The bottomline is that we need to figure out who it is that injected Reed with the drug and more importantly, where they got it from." Laurel said.

"So, where do we start the search?" Thea asked.

"I don't know." Oliver said.

"Maybe our friends at STAR labs can help." Laurel suggested and Oliver shrugged, thinking it couldn't hurt, right as the computers went off.

"What's going on?" Oliver asked.

"Looks like reports of a metahuman causing the weather to act all strange." Laurel said.

"Better check it out. Is there any more info on it." Oliver asked.

"No, but this doesn't seem like it was intentional. My best guess would be is that whoever it is just discovered they have powers." Laurel said.

"Thea, call Star labs, tell them they're about to get a new patient." Oliver said and she nodded.