Arrowcave Bunker, Night

Dig was checking on Roy, still lying down on the table unconscious. Felicity meanwhile was working at her computer desk. "No change?" Felicity asked.

"Nope. So much blood mixed in with so much Mirakuru, I don't know if it's good or bad." He sighed, "We could really use that cure."

"I talked to Caitlin this morning. They're working on it." She told him.

"No mention on Isabel Rochev's death?" He asked joining her at the desk.

"Not a thing." She mentioned surprisingly. "I wasn't expecting a glowing obituary, but she's a Fortune 500 CEO that's been missing for a week now. You'd think she'd have some column inches." She noted. Then a sudden noise caused her to gasp as it was Roy, who had jerked uncontrollably in his sleep. "Does the fact that him lying there freaks me out a little make me a bad person?" She asked.

"Felicity, I don't think there's a force on earth that can make you a bad person." He answered with a light chuckle and then went to grab his jacket. "But I am starving. Dinner?" He asked.

"Yeah. No Big Belly burger, though. It's giving me a big belly." She said.

"Sushi, then." He suggested.

"Sushi, then." She agreed as she distracted herself going through the news articles trying to find out anything on Isabel. "How can you be unconscious and freak me out at the same…" She said to Roy as she then turned around to the exam table, only to find that it was empty. "Time?" Getting up she walked to the table. "Roy?" She called out, but no response and couldn't find him as she looked around the room. Getting nervous, she went back to her computer to call for help but then jumped when she saw Roy standing next to her table. "Oh, my God! Oh, you scared me." She exclaimed in relief but noticed that Roy was acting differently, he was quiet and his body moving slightly out of his control. He was also looking at her, which began to unnerved her. "Roy?" She asked as she moved closer to him.

"Forgot my phone," Dig said out loud as he reentered the room but came to stop once he saw Roy, up and awake. Roy's hand was trembling and he grabbed threw the computer desk backward with his incredible strength. He then approached the stair and Dig tried to stop him. "Roy, listen -" He tried to say but Roy just threw him aside with no effort into a cart of equipment and crashed into the ground.

"Dig!" She said worriedly, as she then ran to help him up."You okay?" She asked but Dig ignored her and ran up the stairs to get Roy before he hurt someone else. Entering the crowded club, he looked around at the bar and saw a man in a red hoodie across the dance floor. Taking out his gun, he moved to the exit.

"Move!" He shouted to the crowd, trying to get past them. As he got to the door, he realized he had lost Roy.

Laurel Lance's Apartment

Laurel and Oliver walked out of the steamy bathroom together, their bodies still damp, warm and covered in towels; Oliver's around his waist and Laurel's covering her nakedness with the back of her hair tied up in a messy bun. "Mmmm. That was a really fun shower." Laurel said joyfully as she turned around to Oliver.

"Especially, what we got up to in there," Oliver said suggestively as he then wrapped his arms around her pulling in for a kiss. Laurel clasped his face, deepening it even further. "Mmmm." He hummed during the lip lock causing her to chuckle. "Thanks again for letting me stay with you for the last couple of days." He said gratefully.

"Not a problem." She replied. "You are ... a very fun ... house guest." She said in between the kisses of his chest and neck.

"Still I should probably figure out something since I no longer have my home and sleeping at the foundry is out of the question 'cause of Roy." He realized as he stroked her back gently.

"Not to mention, you'll need a place for us to alone together." She said as she started kissing his cheek.

"Yeah. That too." He chuckled in agreement. "Maybe we should consider making this a more permanent arrangement." He suggested slowly.

Surprised, Laurel ceased her kisses. "Wait, what?"

"Well, I'm here all the time anyway." He said as he began to kiss her neck. "So why not?"

Pulling her neck away from him slightly, she looked him straight in the eye. "So you want to move in with me?"

"Yeah." He said with a smile and moved in for a kiss but Laurel completely pulled away from him this time and took a seat on her bed. "Laurel is that a problem?"

"No, no it's just." She began to say but came to stop as she untied her bun and tussled her hair to get it to fall down to her shoulders.

"Just wait?" He asked reluctantly moving in closer.

"Ollie ... the last time we talked about moving in together, it ... it was the beginning of the end for us." She reminded him, as after she brought this up he then started cheating her with Sara. "You can't blame for being a little reluctant."

"This time's different." He replied standing in front of her at her bed.

"How?"

"Because I'm different. So are you." He explained and then dropped to his knees, looking directly at her. "Look I know this seems like I'm just moving in with you because I have to but it's not. I want to live with you because I want to." He told her as she started to smile, something he was doing too. "I want to see if ... if you and I can really have a life together."

"I want to find that out too." She said quietly.

"So?"

"So, let's do it. For real this time." She said happily as he moved up to kiss her, which she returned.

"Now, what do you say we pick up were left off in the shower?" He asked in between their kisses.

"Definitely." She smirked as he proceeded to unwrap her towel and laid himself on top of her nude body as they fell back on the bed to resume their kiss. Laurel, in turn, moved her hands down his muscular back and yanked off his towel, then threw it aside. They both giggled a little when she did that. As Oliver, continued to taste her full lips, the two then heard his cellphone rang. "That's your phone." She said.

"Uh-huh." He muttered as then went to her neck with his mouth, causing her to close her eyes in enjoyment. As she felt his lips on hers, once again his phone rang along with hers's causing the two lovers to stare at them on her nightstand. "Both of our phones ringing at the same time, something must be wrong." He guessed.

"It better be 'cause we're missing out on some really hot sex." She said with some frustration as they both looked over to see it was Felicity calling them both.

Arrowcave Bunker

Oliver and Laurel walked in to find Dig resetting Felicity's work station, as the computers sparked. "What happened?" Oliver asked with concern.

"I don't know," Dig said after deeply exhaling. "I don't know. One minute he's comatose, the next, he's flipping over computer equipment." He said, "He was a lot more out of control than Slade was at your house."

"He looked like Roy but he wasn't Roy." Felicity finished still shaken up.

"Where do you think he's headed?" Laurel asked.

"I don't know, but we have to find him." Oliver with urgency as he went to grab his bow.

Queen Mansion

"Despite predictions, you've managed to pull ahead of Sebastian Blood in recent polls." The reporter asked while using a voice recorder, as he sat down in the mansion with Moira and Mark Frances.

"Yes. I think our message is resonating with the voters. The people of Star City know that I have a vision and the experienced apparatus to make that vision a reality." Moira stated.

"What is the main reason they should vote for you over Alderman Blood?" The reporter asked.

"Well, um … Alderman Blood isn't a parent." She answered after a bit of thought. "And the soul of a being a parent is making sure that your children have a bright future and I have been very lucky to be able to do that for my own."

"Yeah, mother of the year." Thea snarked as she walked into the room catching their attention.

"Uh, we're in the middle of an interview," Moira told her.

"I'll keep it short. You can't have your rally at Verdant." Thea stated causing Moira and Mark to stand up. "It's the only place I have that hasn't been poisoned by you."

Thea then took off, with Moira following her. "Can you give me a moment please?" Moira asked the reporter briefly as resumed to catch up.

"Turn it off," Mark asked.

"Thea, I know you're upset and you have every right to be but we need to talk somewhere else," Moira said.

"I'm done talking. I just came by to tell you it'll be a cold day in hell before you can use my club." Thea stated.

"We can't just change the venue the day before," Moira told her.

"I'm sure you can figure something out," Thea replied. "I mean, you have such an experienced apparatus."

"You signed a contract," Moira told her.

"Huh. Just when I thought you couldn't go any lower you threaten your own daughter." Thea commented then walked away from her, while Mark excuses the reporter who also takes his leave.

"Moira. What's going on?" Mark asked walking over to her.

"Sorry you had to witness that," Moira said hanging her head down.

"After her abduction, I'd think the two of you'd be closer than ever." He assumed.

"It's a very complicated situation." She admitted.

"Well, my advice. Simplify it." He suggested in a slightly harsh tone. "You have to be either a mother or a candidate. You can't be both. Not right now. You cannot split your focus"

"You're absolutely right." She agreed.

Streets of Star City

Oliver and Laurel on their motorcycles came to stop on the streets. "Oliver, we're not going to find Roy just driving around aimlessly. Laurel pointed out.

"Diggle," Oliver said addressing him comms.

"His place is clean. I don't think he's been back here." Dig said walking to his car.

"A call just went out for an ambulance at 14th and Hobart," Felicity said on comms checking her computer. "There's four men seriously assaulted by someone wearing a red hoodie."

Turning their bikes around, Oliver and Laurel drove to the location. Arriving at the scene the two got off their bikes and saw the street urchins on the ground. One was still standing, barely.

"What happened?" Oliver asked.

"Guy jumped us. It came out of nowhere." He answered still messed up and bleeding. "Dude is "roided out" or something. Crazy-like."

Elsewhere

Sin departed from her favorite bar and passed a friend. "See you, Sin." Her friend told her.

"Adios." Sin replied and then catches Roy, in his signature red hoodie. "Yo, Abercrombie." She said getting in front of him. "Hold up. Where you been man? I went over your place, like, 20 times. Thea said you skipped town." Roy remained unresponsive and she looked down and took his hand once she noticed the bruises. "Holy crap. Have you been in a fight?" Roy then shoved her slightly into a car. "Hey!"

"Hey Sin, is this guy bothering you?" Her friend asked.

"No, no, no. It's chill. Seriously, just step off." Sin asked.

"We gonna have a problem, guy?" Sin's friend addressed Roy.

"Seriously? Just leave him alone. He's fine." Sin pleaded to try to get him to leave.

"What, you got nothing smart to say?" The guy said placing his hand on his shoulder, Roy immediately turned around to snap it causing him to scream. One guy struck Roy in the face twice but it did nothing to him, Roy then flipped the guy over on his head to the hood of the car causing the glass to break. Roy then shoved another guy through a car window, reacting on instinct, he then back-fisted Sin. Roy then took his leave, as Sin just watched worried out of her mind.

Verdant, Next Day

Oliver and Laurel walked through the club as it was gathering for Moira's political rally for the night. "Felicity's running facial recognition on traffic cameras throughout the city," Oliver told her as they walked.

"Which could take forever. We need to stop Roy, immediately" Laurel said and then the two came to a stop once they saw Thea with Dig.

"What part of "I want nothing to do with you" are you not understanding?" Thea brought up bitterly.

"This is were Laurel wanted to meet up," Oliver said as she and him both smiled.

"And what about him? He's been stalking me." Thea said looking and addressing Dig.

"He's protecting you," Oliver told her.

"From What?" Thea asked.

"Slade Wilson is still at large. He already tried hurting you once." Oliver reminded.

"He didn't hurt me. He told me the truth." Thea countered. "Which I know you think is a bad thing but it's actually not."

"It is if it cost me you," Oliver said.

"Your lies did that," Thea corrected him. "I'm gonna go up to the stockroom, and if I get attacked by some shot glasses I'll call 911."

"Thanks for taking care of her," Oliver said to Dig, as Thea left.

"Lucky for me, she's not as good at disappearing as you are." Dig quipped as he left.

Laurel then catches Sin walking in and goes to see her. "I'll be right back." She told Oliver.

"Have you seen, Thea?" Sin asked her.

"What happened to your eye?" Laurel asked ignoring her question after she took notice of her bruise.

"It's okay. I could cover it with makeup if I wore makeup." Sin said as Laurel tried to better look. "It's fine."

"Who did this to you?" Laurel asked again.

"It's a long story." Sin mentioned.

"I asked you who?" Laurel.

"Roy. But he's not right in his head. He got injected with something, a drug, I don't know but it made him strong. Like comic-book strong. Look, I know it sounds nuts-" Sin said a little franticly.

"Yeah, it does." Laurel acknowledged. "But I believe you."

"Laurel, Roy's a friend. He needs help, not a beatdown." Sin told her Laurel as she began comforting her.

"I know, I'll do what I can," Laurel assured her.

Sebastian Blood's Campaign Office

"I'll have to call you right back." Blood said hanging up the as Moira Queen was being escorted into his office.

"Want me to stay Mr. Blood?" His bodyguard, Clinton, asked.

"Uh, no, Clinton, thank you. We'll be fine." Blood said as Clinton then left the room and shut the door.

"My new body man, he's a little overprotective. Please." Blood asked for her to take a seat.

"No, thank you." Moira protested, choosing to still stand.

"I'd say this visit is unexpected, but I despise understatement." He commented.

"I'm dropping out of the race. I'm making a concession speech at my rally tonight." She revealed.

"You're ahead in the latest polls. Even the most skeptical pundits are saying you could pull this out." He said puzzled.

"I felt I owed you the courtesy of informing you in person. I don't, however, owe you an explanation as well." She reminded him.

"No, you don't. But I'd appreciate one." He said as Moira was about to leave. "What you're doing, Moira, as much as it benefits me doesn't make much sense."

"It's my daughter. At the moment, she needs me more than Star City does." She told him.

"Well, you're doing the right thing. I am going to change this city, Moira. A new day is coming. A better day for all of us." He assuredly.

Arrowcave Bunker, Night

"Verdant, 14th and Hobart and the bar Sin spotted him at. He looks to be moving east." Felicity mentions looking at the computer screen on her desk.

"What's east? Laurel asked.

"Queen Mansion." Oliver realized.

"If he still remembers where Thea lives. Well, used to live but Roy doesn't know that there might something of Roy still left in there." Felicity pointed out.

"It could a coincidence he's moving east," Laurel mentioned she walked away to get her gear.

"I know that Sin's involved but don't let that cloud your judgment," Oliver asked of her.

"She's not. Believe me, I know exactly what it's like to not have control over yourself." Laurel reminded him and her phone rang. "Sin."

"I found Roy." Sin told her.

"Well, I thought I told you to go home." Laurel reminded her.

"Yeah, that's where I am right now. And so is he." Sin referred to the clock tower that was above her place.

The Clocktower

Walking into the top floor of the clocktower, Oliver and Laurel in their uniforms armed with their weapons began to search for Roy. "Roy." Oliver yelled out loud but there was no answer. "I never knew that Sin lived below here?" Oliver mentioned.

"It was her idea," Laurel told him. Searching the floor, Laurel and Oliver look over and uncovered the places covered by the plastic tarps; but again, found nothing. "I don't think he's here Ollie," She told him.

The moment she spoke, however, Roy, hiding above them then dropped to the ground catching their attention. Laurel moved to him as she spun her staff and struck Roy in the face and the torso, but even though he was out of it he still showed Oliver's training as he blocked her following strikes with his forearms. Grabbing her staff, Roy then shoved Laurel in her chest; sending her flying and knocking her out.

Oliver then fired an arrow at Roy, but the young man effortlessly caught it and kept it in his hand. Taking off his hood and mask, Oliver tried to talk sense into him. "It's Oliver. It's me. What you're doing right now … it's because of the Mirakuru. You're a good person, Roy. You have a conscience and a soul." He said approaching Roy. "I need you to use those and fight this. You can do it." His voice getting louder.

But Roy then took a swing at him but Oliver deflected it with his bow but Roy then grabbed him and pushed him into a metal support beam, falling to the ground. Oliver tried to get up but Roy then kicked him behind his knee, causing it to break.

"AHHHHHH!" Oliver screamed in pain.

Roy turned around and punched a hole through the floor and dove inside it to the bottom floor. Making his way outside with the arrow he caught from Oliver still in his hand, he stopped once he heard the police sirens as the car pulled up to him. The cops got out of the car and pointed their guns at him. "Drop the arrow. Drop it." Cop orders and the slowly move to encircle him.

Limping to get a view from the shattered window, Oliver, as well as Sin who was on the ground floor bared witness to what would do next. Twisting the arm of one of the cops, Roy then stabbed the other in the heart with the arrow in his hand. "No!" Oliver screamed. Roy then flipped the other cop to the ground. Dropping the arrow, he then made a run for it; as Oliver, Sin, and later an awakened Laurel watched on.

Glades Memorial Hospital

"A full moon tonight, that really brings out the whack jobs. Good news is it can't get any stranger." The doctor said on the phone walking into the room and sees the vigilantes.

"I need you to help my boyfriend," Laurel asked him using her voice modulator.

"I was wrong. Gotta call you back." The doctor said hanging up his phone.

The doctor on duty then managed to discreetly get an X-Ray of the Green Arrow's knee and then put it up for the Black Canary to see. "Some of his damage is chronic. The cost of jumping off rooftops, I guess." He explained looking at the Green Arrow.

"I need to get back on my feet," Oliver muttered in pain that his modulator couldn't disguise.

"I can give you a brace, but you'll still be in horrendous amounts of pain. Six months ago, this cabinet would have been empty. The Chinese Triad was stopping all our med shipments … until someone stopped them." The doctor reminisced as he went through the med cabinet. "Ever since, I've been looking for a way to thank you."

Verdant

Thea began run checks and catalog her club's inventory. "If you're gonna have to follow me everywhere at least don't lurk, all right?" Thea commented as Dig came into the inventory room.

"I can't let you out of my sight … and you're sick of seeing me everywhere you go. Lurking seemed like a good compromise." Dig mentioned while browsing around.

"Yeah, well it's not." She stated then left the room with Dig following her.

"Family's hard. Sometimes they're the hardest in the world. Loving someone so much and letting them love you back." He commented as he continued shadowing her.

"You know you're right you should go back to lurking." She snarked.

"I spend a lot of time with your family." He said as they went down the steps.

"If you think that gives you the right to weigh in, you're wrong. Plus, Oliver will be out of money soon and you'll be unemployed." She sassed.

"Right. Then I guess I should get this in under the wire. You know, your mother isn't perfect. Her judgment definitely isn't. But there's one thing she's consistent about, is that she loves you and Oliver." He reminded her as he and Thea got to the bar.

"And that should buy her what, in your mind?" She asked.

"Hell, I don't know, Thea. But she is your mother that should buy her something. A second chance maybe." He brought up.

Seeing something on the TV news, Thea grabbed the remote to turn up the volume. The news anchor mentioned an attacker who injured one officer and killer another. The reporter then showed video footage of the incident taken by a local bystander. Thea then saw that the attacker was wearing a red hoodie, and she knew that person anywhere; it was Roy.

"Oh, my god." She exclaimed.

"Thea?" He said concerned.

"I have to go see a friend. If you have to follow, follow." She told him as she left and Dig soon after.

Arrowcave Bunker

At a workbench, Oliver began grounding up herbs that he got up from Lian Yu when Laurel walked up to him from behind him. "These aren't going to fix your knee," Laurel told him.

"They'll help it heal faster," Oliver replied.

"And until then?" She asked.

Oliver then turned to address Felicity at her computer station. "Where are we with facial recognition?"

"Traffic cams can't get a clear shot. Now I see why you wear that hood." Felicity remarked looking at the screen.

"Felicity. We need to find Roy before the police do." He said urgently and then said something he hated himself for saying. "We're the only ones who have a chance at killing him."

Both Laurel and Felicity then looked at him after saying that. "I'm sorry, did you just say kill him?" Felicity said shaken. "Oliver, S.T.A.R. Labs is working on a cure." She reminded him.

"Which we don't know when or if they'll finish." He countered in frustration. "How many people are we gonna let Roy kill in the meantime before we stop him."

Unable to think about what to say, Felicity fell silent, which was rare for her. "Felicity, can you give me and Oliver a sidebar?" Laurel asked and Felicity nodded as left to go elsewhere in the Arrowcave.

"What is going on with you?" She asked kneeling down next to him.

"What's going on is that Roy killed a cop and I couldn't stop him from doing it. Just like I couldn't stop Slade." He mentioned in frustration.

"Roy isn't Slade." She reminded him.

"No, but he's not himself either." He countered. "Laurel I have tried ... I have tried to help him with the Mirakuru, but I couldn't. I can't. Just like I couldn't help Slade." He said sadly.

"What's going on with Roy is not the same as Slade." She countered.

"That's what I thought too the last time. Five years ago, I had this exact same conversation with your sister while we were freezing on Lian Yu." He revealed." And didn't listen to her, I thought I could save Slade but I was wrong. If I had listened to Sara, maybe ... maybe she would still be alive."

Pausing for a moment, after he brought up another new fact about her sister; albeit not a huge one, Laurel eventually responded. "Oliver your acting like this can only go one way, like your not even considering there's a chance that Roy can be saved." She commented.

"Because there isn't!" He snapped at her. "And I was deluding myself into thinking otherwise."

"Is this what you were like when you first came home? To believe that ... that things could can go only one way or another; to not even consider ... that there's an alternative?" She expressed her concern.

Sighing in disappointment, he answered. "After those five years ... after everything, I went through. I had lost the ability to hope ... or to believe in anything even resembling it." He admitted lowly.

"You're not on that island anymore, Ollie." She reminded him. "I know it's hard, especially now with everything that's going on. But believe that things don't always have to end in the worst way possible, I know you've come to see to that, I know it." She said as he listened and kissed his cheek and went to the nearby weapon's drawer where she pulled out a gun and a syringe of animal tranquilizer.

"What are you doing?" He asked.

She turned and put the gun on her thigh holster. "I'm the only one who's not out of commission to find Roy. Besides, your mother's rally starts in half an hour. I'd start getting dressed if I were you." She said as she walked away leaving Oliver alone with his thoughts.

Back Alley behind Verdant

Thea with Dig behind went outside her club and saw a hooded Sin. "Thanks for coming," Thea said walking up to her alone.

"It's chill. Who's that?" Sin asked referring to Dig.

"Uh, my shadow," Thea answered sarcastically. "Uh, listen, something is going on with Roy."

"I know. I saw him. He's totally crazed." Sin explained.

"What's happening to him?" Thea asked.

"Do you remember around Christmas when he bailed on us?" Sin brought up.

"Yeah?"

"He got shot up with something, this drug and it's been messing with his head." Sin went into detail.

"Did you tell my brother any of this?" Thea asked realizing that Oliver kept something else from her.

"No. Why?" Sin replied.

"He's had this bodyguard all over me. He must know about Roy; thinks he's coming after me or something." Thea realized.

"What are you gonna do?" Sin asked her.

Streets of Star City

Roy was walking alone by himself when he caught a reflection of himself in the car's window. Immediately, he began to see Thea slowly approach him.

"Roy. Roy it's me. It's Thea. I'm so glad I found you. I've been looking everywhere." She told him in a desperate voice. "This all my fault. I did this to you. When you broke up with me it was a cry for help … and I didn't listen. I should be punished. I deserve to be punished. Someone hurts you, you hurt them worse. You hurt them permanently." She told Roy, as he was unable to realize that Thea was not truly there. "You should just kill me. Kill me. Kill me." The hallucination of Thea continued to urge Roy on.

Verdant

"Oliver, where have you been? Haven't you gotten any of my calls?" Mark said approaching him and Dig.

"I've been busy," Oliver grunted trying to control his pain. "What's wrong?"

"It's your mother," Mark answered.

"She'll do fine," Oliver told him.

"No, she won't. She's not using this event to rally the troops. She's using it … to tell people she's dropping out of the race." Mark revealed to him.

Making the final notes to her withdrawal speech, Moira took a good look at herself in the mirror when she then saw Oliver enter and took notice of his limp. "Oliver. What happened?" She asked worriedly.

"It's a motorcycle accident." He lied as he took a seat on a nearby table. "It was stupid."

"Yes, this would be the second accident in as many weeks if my math is correct." She said.

"Mark says you're dropping out of the race." He ignored her worries getting to the topic at hand.

"The truth is I should have done it weeks ago … after Thea was abducted. My complete focus needs to be about repairing our relationship." She explained to her son.

"Mom, what's happening with Thea right now isn't because you weren't spending enough time with her." He reminded her.

"Well, maybe not. But I have to do something, and I'm not sure what else to do." She said going looking out the window.

"Thea hates you right now because of the things you've done. Terrible things. So let her see you do something good … as mayor. Mom, I know a little something about … sacrificing the people closest to me … for the good of this city. It's what you need to do now." He expressed.

"I know." She said looking at him.

"Good." He smiled as he got up to leave.

"Oliver, I know." She said causing him to stop his tracks. "I know". He turns around to her stunned that she knows he's the Green Arrow. "I've known since last year, I suppose. The night of the Undertaking everything became so clear. It's pretty much the night I stopped sleeping." She expressed getting closer to him.

"Before you say anything else-"

"There's nothing else to say. Nothing I need to say." She cut him off as she then takes his hands with her own. "Except I could not be more proud." She said causing him to smile.

Verdant

The crowd clapped and cheered for Moira as she walked out onto the stage and got to the podium and the microphone. "When I was first approached about entering this race the prospect of winning seemed a distant, nearly impossible feat. How could a city that had suffered so much place it's faith in someone so responsible for its suffering? But as the weeks progressed … good people such as you raise your voices in support and I began to think that I could make a difference." Moira told the crowd.

"And as she did Sebastian Blood watched her from his office on his tv. "I could help save this city. But … recent events have changed things, and …" She began to say but then saw Thea in the crowd and after taking a good look at her and then Oliver, she knew what she had to do. "And now I know I can make a difference." She proclaimed as Oliver and the crowd began to clap in applause. "Should the honor become mine, I promise with every breath I take to do what is necessary. To sacrifice what is necessary for the good of this city. Star City is my home, you are my family and there is nothing more important to me than family. Thank you. Thank you, all." The crowd cheers on, while Blood only looked stunned from his office.

After watching her mother's speech, Thea looked at the tv screen behind her and got an idea for Roy.

As Moira walked off the stage she went to speak to Mark and Oliver. "Greet speech, Moira. A little too off the book for my liking but will work out that." Mark chuckled as he shook her hand.

"Thank you," Moira said cheerfully.

"I thought it was perfect," Oliver said as she hugged and kissed him.

"Uh. Um. Hi, I just wanted to come up here and say a few words." Thea said into the mic which got Oliver, Moira, Mark, and the crowds' attention. "I am so proud of my mom here tonight. At my club, Verdant, in the Glades."

"What is she doing?" Dig asked Oliver as Thea continued her speech.

"She knows this being televised. She's sending a message to Roy. Trying to draw him out." Oliver explained and left to the bunker.

"So, Vote Queen. Tell your friends. Thanks." Thea said raising a glass and left the stage as the crowd clapped.

"Thea." Moira tried to get her attention.

"That was not for you," Thea said walking away quickly from her.

Heading down the staircase, Oliver lost his footing for a second but Felicity, who was at the bottom floor managed to grab and hold on to him. "Oh, my god you're heavy," Felicity commented as she helped him walk. "Is this really all muscle?"

"How many of those tranq arrows do we have?" Oliver said as he took a bench rest.

"About 20." She answered.

"I need all of them." He ordered.

"Okay. Are you sure that's a good idea? Can you even get those pants off with that knee?" She asked as he limped over to him.

"Lidocaine, now." He said in pain.

"Okay." She said pulled out a lidocaine syringe from the med drawer in front of them. "Let's see the bottle says the proper does is- " She said withdrawing the stuff but it was then taken by Oliver.

"Is all of it." He said doing just that.

"I don't think that's a good idea." She said but Oliver immediately injects it into his leg.

"Oh," Felicity mutters as Oliver walks away leaving her slightly disgusted.

As Moira began socializing with her voters, gunfire was heard and Roy came in and threw aside a security guard. The crowd then starts to scatter in fear at Roy's arrival.

"We need to go now," Dig told Moira

"I can't leave without my daughter," Moira told him.

"I'll assure the safety of your daughter. Go, go!" Dig yelled and gave Moira to someone else as they disperse into the crowd. Dig then saw Thea.

"Thea, we have to go now!" He told her.

"No, it's Roy. I'm not leaving him. He came for me." Thea told him.

Dig then saw Roy and aimed his gun at him, taking a nearby security guard, Roy threw the guard at Dig knocking him down. He then grabbed a metal entrance pole and hit Dig in the face with it.

"Roy. Roy, listen to me," Thea said to him which got the crazed man's attention. "Listen to my voice. I don't know what's going on, but I have to believe the man I fell in love with is still inside there, somewhere. You have to fight. You're strong, you can fight this." She told him but Roy then grabbed her by the throat and lifted her with one hand.

"Roy!" Laurel said with her voice modulator pointed a gun at him. "Put her down."

"No. Please, don't," Thea told the Black Canary. "He can't control it."

"I know," Laurel said removing the safety.

Sin came into the Verdant and saw Laurel pointing a gun at Roy, she then proceeded to get in the way of her shot. "Get out of the way," Laurel ordered her friend.

"Don't do this." Sin pleaded but then Roy dropped Thea and moved toward Sin and Laurel, pushing Sin out of the way. Crouching down, Sara fired a round into Roy's kneecap, bringing him down. While Sin goes to help Thea up, Laure points the gun directly at his head.

"Kill me," Roy begged. "Please, kill me."

"Please, don't do it," Thea begged.

"I never was," Laurel said and pulled out the animal tranquilizer and stuck in Roy's neck, however before she could inject him with it, he grabbed a hold of her by her neck. As Roy got to his feet, Oliver, dressed as the Green Arrow emerged from the shadows and fired three tranqs into Roy's chest causing him to collapse into unconsciousness dropping Laurel.

"No one dies tonight," Oliver told Laurel as he helped her up.

"You've got the police," Thea mentioned to the Green Arrow as she heard the sirens.

"Go outside. We'll get Roy the help he needs I promise. Go." Oliver told Thea as he and Laurel then grabbed Roy and took him to the Bunker.

Arrowcave Bunker

Later, Felicity and Laurel watched as Dig strapped down Roy to a medical table with an IV tube in his arm. "With your funding cut we're going to run out of animal tranq soon," Laurel commented.

"Can't you ask Sin to get more?" Felicity asked.

"Oh sure I'll ask my teenage friend to score some more drugs from a dealer," Laurel said sarcastically.

"Yeah, that's probably not a good thing." Felicity realized then looked on at Roy. "Still a constant dose of that can't be good for you, right?" Felicity asked all of them.

"It'll keep him sedated like it did Slade," Dig said finishing the straps.

"Until when? What happens when we run out? Felicity said as Oliver limped to them.

"We'll take care of him," Oliver said as he looked at Roy and then Laurel. "Whatever happens I'm not giving up on Roy." Causing her to smile.

"Anyone else crave dim sum after fisticuffs?" Felicity said but no one answered and Dig just left. "No? Okay, dumplings for one then." She said as she then just went elsewhere in the bunker leaving.

"I'm going to go check on Sin," Laurel told Oliver as he put his jacket back on.

"Say, Hi for me." He asked and she turned around. "Laurel." He said causing her to face him again. "Thank you, for ... reminding me that things don't always have to end one way; that the worse doesn't have always happen. That ... I'm not on that island anymore."

"Anytime." She said gently squeezing his hand as she left again.

Verdant

"We've got every guy in the station looking for him, we'll find him." The cop told Moira and Thea as she finished questioning them.

"Thank you." Thea and Moira both said.

"You okay?" Oliver said limping toward them

"Fine. Where were you?" Thea said angrily.

"He was with me," Moira answered for them as the two glanced at each other.

"Odd to see the two of you are getting along again," Thea said walking away.

"Thea," Moira said as followed her. Eventually exiting Verdant, the three get into a limo together and car began to drive them home.

"You knew about Roy," Thea told Oliver.

"What?" He said surprised.

"That's why you had your bodyguard stalking me. Somehow, you knew what was going on with him." She told him.

Oliver scoffs. "I'm just trying to protect you."

"Buy not telling me the truth. Just like with Malcolm Merlyn. You know the two of you … you think you're protecting me by lying and by keeping secrets. But that's what's actually hurting me." She explained feed up with that.

"You're absolutely right," Moira spoke up in agreement. "We need to turn a new page."

"It's not going to be that simple, or easy," Thea mentioned.

"I know." Moira conceded. "If the truth were easy for me, we wouldn't be in this situation. But to start… there's something about Malcolm that both you and Oliver need to know." She said taking a deep breath, "Malcolm—"

But before finishing, their limousine was hit with another car. Knocking the three of them out cold.

Unknown location

Slowly, Oliver began to regain consciousness. As he awoke, he soon realized his hands were bound and tied behind him; very well as he was having trouble getting free from them. His vision coming too, Oliver saw a woman crying and for a split-second, he thought it was Shado; but as his vision came into focus and it was Thea. Beside her was their mother and they were on their knees and like him, their hands were bound just as he was.

"Oliver!" Moira cried out to her son as Thea was crying next to her. From behind them, Slade appeared.

"I was dead the last time you were offered this choice," Slade told Oliver as he walked towards him.

"Slade," Oliver said on the ground as he sat himself up on his knees; struggling to slip out of his restraints but unable to.

"What's happening?" Thea asked crying scared out of her mind.

"I often wonder how you looked … when he pointed the gun at Shado… and took her from me." Slade said to Oliver as he knelt down toward him, he was recreating the same scenario that Ivo did when he forced Oliver to chose between Shado and Sara; between who would live and who would die.

"You psychopath." Oliver growled in anger, "Shado … Shado wasn't yours!"

"No, she was yours." Slade replied vengefully, "Until you chose another woman over her."

"That's not what happened!" Oliver shouted.

"It is what happened! It is!" Slade shouted back at him as he back to his feet. "She told me!" He pointed behind himself, but Oliver looked in confusion and seeing nothing.

"What do you mean, she? There's nobody there!" He told the madman.

"Slade … you were on the island with Oliver?" Moira said slowly as the revelation dawned on her, as Thea just looked on at her brother in shock.

"I thought I had known true despair until I met your son," Slade told Moira. "I trusted him to make the right choice."

"Let me make the right choice now. Kill me." Oliver begged.

"No!" Both Moira and Thea protested.

"Choose me, please!" Oliver begged Slade as he continued to ignore them.

"I am killing you, Oliver." Slade reminded him as he pulled out his gun and cocked it. "Only more slowly than you would like."

"Don't," Oliver begged.

"Choose," Slade demanded.

"Don't…."

"Choose," Slade repeated.

"Please…." Thea tearfully begged.

"CHOOSE!" Slade roared at him like an animal.

"I swear to God, I am going to kill you!" Oliver threatened Slade as pointed the gun at Thea. "No! No!"

"No." Moira proclaimed getting Slade's attention as rose to her feet.

"No!" Thea said horrifically looking at her mother. "Mom, no." She said crying.

"Mom, what are you doing?" Oliver asked terrified.

"There's only one way this night can end," Moira said knowing fearfully as she turned to face Slade. "And we both know that. Don't we, Mr. Wilson?"

"No!" Thea pleaded.

"Mom!" Oliver shouted trying in vain to get out of his restraints "Please, don't!"

"Both my children will live," Moira stated Slade.

"Mom! What are you doing?!" Thea cried out.

"Thea, I love you." Moira cried. "Close your eyes, baby!" She begged as Slade pointed the gun at her head.

"No!" Oliver screamed.

"You possess true courage." Slade acknowledged to the Queen Matriarch as he then lowered his gun, put it back into his holster. "I am truly sorry-" Slade continued, turning away from Moira and pulled out his katana. "-You did not pass that on to your son." He finished as he spun around and stabbed Moira in the heart with the blade.

As Thea cried out in anguish, Oliver fell on his side overcome with grief and despair. As Slade pulled out his sword, Moira fell on her back, dead, her eyes still open. "There is still one person … who needs to die-," He told Oliver as he moved to a heartbroken Thea as Oliver nodded his head, begging for her not to be killed too."-before this can end." He said as he used his sword to remove her restraints.

As Slade walked away, Thea crawled over to her mother's body and broken. "Mom. Mom." She muttered as both she and Oliver grieved for their mother.