Arrowcave, Morning

As the sun came up, Oliver and Roy began their sparing session; both using their Escrima sticks. Both circling each other and maintaining their pace. As Roy took a swing at Oliver he ducked, and before he could follow up; Oliver struck in his side with his stick. "You're not moving very quickly this morning," Oliver remarked as he halted the fight between him and Roy, their sticks interlocked.

"I just didn't sleep much last night." Roy filled him in, feeling a little groggy. Knocking his stick away, Oliver twirled around and tripped Roy at his feet, causing him to fall to on his face.

Wildcat Gym

In the boxing ring, Laurel and Ted Grant were doing their own sparing; rapidly exchanging punches. Throwing a few jabs at Laurel, she ducked, Ted Grant saw and felt his old student and friend deliver two gut punches which he shrugged off, and countered by throwing a corkscrew cross to her face. However, Laurel managed to throw a straight which connected hard while he narrowly missed her. "Nice move. You know I'm glad you've been dropping by lately; I need the competition." Ted expressed.

"Good thing too, you're slower than I remember." Laurel cockily teased causing Ted to chuckle.

Malcolm Merlyn's Hideout

Also, training was Thea and Malcolm, dressing in Japanese training gis and armed with swords. The father and daughter's training continued between high and low sword strikes. As they block one another's strikes, both spun around and stopped at the last second both their blades near each other's necks. "Impressive," Malcolm noted.

"How do normal people spend their mornings?" Thea asked as they both lowered their swords.

Felicity's Apartment

Felicity was not off to a good start this morning. "Four," Felicity grunted as she did an ab crunch, she was behind the video instructor on her television was already at 8 and quickly 9. "Five. Yes," She muttered and got off her yoga mat to turn off her tv. As she went to the bathroom, she heard knocking on her door. "Mr. Fernades." She said as she was brushing her teeth. "I already told you, I haven't seen your ... cat." She said awkwardly as opened her door to find Ray on the other side instead.

"I haven't seen him, either," Ray answered as he walked into her apartment. "Or is the cat a girl? Was I being misogynist just now or is it misogynistic I never can tell?" He asked and pondered as Felicity closed her door.

"Ray ... What are you-"

"Nice place you've got here. Lots of Space." He cheerfully commented ignored her attempted question. "So it occurred to me this morning, what's the one thing that Queen Consolidated has that we don't use to its maximum potential?"

"A doorbell?" She sassed.

"Have you heard of a process called Cogeneration?" He inquired.

"I haven't even look at a cup of coffee yet." She mentioned still holding her toothbrush in the air as she went to her kitchen.

"Well, Cogeneration is -"

"The repurposing or waste heat given off by electricity production." Felicity answered after finally spitting out her toothpaste in the sink."

"Exactly. It's a principle of Thermodynamic efficiency, which applied to me could be applied to a building which generates over 240,000 watts of electricity. Like Queen Consolidated." He suggested as she sipped her coffee.

"Mm-hmm."

"I did some preliminary calculations on the drive over." He showed a napkin with his math on it as they sat on her couch.

"You want to sell QC's excess energy back to the city?" She summarized.

"If by "sell" you mean, "give away for free", yes." He said happily. "Energy is something that should be given freely to the masses." However, before Ray could go on, he was interrupted by a knock on the door. "Uh, you haven't found Mrs. Fernandes' cat, I'm guessing."

Getting to the door, Felicity opened it up and Ray saw a blonde woman in her late forties to early fifties; wearing a tight blue cocktail dress. Both the woman and Felicity shrieked, one from embarrassment and the other from excitement as she hugged her daughter. "Oh, my beautiful girl." The woman said in happy excitement.

"Very friendly with your neighbors, I see," Ray remarked.

"Mom ..." Felicity uttered.

"Mom," Ray said surprised.

"What are you doing here?" Felicity asked.

"Honey, I came to see you," Donna mentioned. "For a visit. Look, look, look. Didn't you get my text?" She showed her daughter the message on her phone.

"Mom, to send a text, you actually have to press "send" on the text," Felicity told her, seeing that she didn't send it.

"Oh, ok, not a big deal, I'll do it right now," Donna replied doing it right now and Felicity heard her phone chirped with a text message alert.

"Are you adopted?" Ray asked quietly as Felicity was very different from her mom.

"Hmm. Oh! I'm sorry. I didn't know you had somebody staying over." Donna apologized.

"Oh, no, he's not staying over. He's not, like, we're not - this is my boss." Felicity babbled in embarrassment thinking her mom was thinking she had some "overnight" company.

"It's a pleasure to meet you, Miss Smoak." Ray greeted her politely with a handshake.

"Hi. You can call me Donna." Donna said shaking his hand.

"Mom..."

"I'm Ray."

"Oh, my god. Palmer?" Donna said realization, and Ray nodded. "You're that watch guy."

"We like to call them smart wearables." He clarified.

"I bought one of your watches! Look!" She said like an excited party girl. "See. Felicity here thinks I don't pay attention to all of her techy things." She said with a laugh as Felicity could only watch in embarrassment.

"Yeah, I see you've got a 3GS. I'm actually wearing a prototype for the new six." He said showing her said watch. "Yeah, it basically replaces your computer."

"Very fancy."

"You know what? It's yours." He said taking it off.

"Oh, no." She gasped in denial as he wrapped it around her wrist. "Seriously?"

"I'll let you two catch up. Let me know what you think about those Cogeneration numbers, and Donna, hope to see you again soon." He told her as he left through the door.

"Wouldn't count on it. She'll probably be really busy ..." Felicity said in earshot as she shut her door. "Planning my funeral after I die of embarrassment." She said dismayed as she crouched down on the floor.

Loft in Starling City, Night

"Hello?" Oliver said out loud as he entered a very large and spacious loft with a great view of the city. "Speedy?"

"Just signed the lease," Thea told him as she walked in. "What do you think?"

"Thea, you're signing a lease on a spot that you can't possibly afford." He answered as this place was way too expensive.

"I can, actually."

"With whose money?" He asked.

"Malcolm Merlyn's. His estate, I mean." She revealed reluctantly, and Oliver grew surprised and disappointed. "When I left Starling City, I mentioned something to Ned Foster about Malcolm being my father, and there's a lot of legal stuff I didn't understand, and -"

"He left you money." He cut to the end.

"The entire world thinks he's dead. So, yes, legally his estate goes to his last living heir." She explained.

"And, ahem, last week when you told me that you had investors for the club that was a lie?" He accused her, realizing the truth.

"I was afraid you wouldn't react well to the idea of me taking his money." She replied.

"Its blood money, Thea!" He shouted angrily at her. "You don't know what Malcolm Merlyn is capable of!"

"I know what his money is capable of - renting me this really sweet loft." She pointed out.

"Listen to me." He said trying to calm himself. "He's alive, and if you take his money, he has a hold on you."

"I think you're being a little melodramatic." She brushed him off. "I'm his daughter, ok? He's not going to put me in danger."

"He's responsible for the death of 503 innocent people, including his own son - your brother." He reminded her thinking of Tommy.

"Now that is a card that you do not get to play. You are my brother, but that does not mean you have the right to tell me what I can do with my life." She adamantly stated. "I am my own person. The movers are coming tomorrow, so you can stop by with popcorn or not stop by at all." She said walking away from this conversation, as Oliver bit his tongue in frustration. Immediately, afterward, Oliver looked outside the balcony and saw one of the buildings shut down. Soon after, the rest of the building began to lose power as well, as Oliver was beginning to watch the start of a city-wide blackout.

SCPD HQ

Sipping his late-night coffee, Quentin went to his desk, and immediately the building's power went off. "Oh, please," Quentin grunted at another problem popping up.

Felicity's Apartment

Sitting on the floor, and enjoying some Big Belly Burger with her daughter; Donna grew curious about her daughter's current life. "So ..." She started to say but then the apartment lost its power. Surprising the two women.

Streets of Starling City

Walking home on the sidewalk with Sara strapped to his chest, Dig and the crowd were startled when a fuse box blow. Causing his daughter to start crying.

Knowing the city was endangered, Oliver made his leave. "What is going on?" Thea asked startled from the second floor. "Ollie?" She shouted but she didn't see him and only saw her balcony door was opened.

Streets of Starling City

With a city blackout occurring, people were starting to panic and cars were beginning to crash. Rushing in to save a woman from being hit by a car, Oliver groaned in pain as he took the impact of the car. "You okay?" He asked and he left after she nodded. Walking past a tech store, Oliver stopped when he saw power returning on the tv screens; showing the image of a gigantic eye with flashing lights appeared.

"We are Brother Eye." The disguised voice proclaimed. "Judgement had been rendered against this city, a sentence carried out. An earthquake. A siege. This is what comes next - a new life you will live on your knees, and it will take nothing more than a push of a button." As the whole city was watching this message including Quentin, Laurel, Felicity, and Donna. "We are in control now. And this is all just the beginning. Let there be light." Once the message ended, Oliver looked around and saw the lights were coming back on around the city. But he headed to the foundry anyway, as he knew the threat wasn't over.

Verdant

"Ooh, a nightclub," Donna said enthusiastically as she messed with her hair as she and Felicity entered Verdant. "You know, I'm really not dressed for a nightclub." She said with a chuckle.

"Really?" Felicity asked turning around, commenting on her mother's tight and revealing dress.

"You think?"

"My friend owns the place. He just needs a little help turning the power back on, so ..." Felicity said making up an excuse.

"Oh."

"Why don't you ... come, come. Stay put." Felicity guided her mother to the stairs.

"Stay here?"

"Right here."

"Ok."

"Mm-hmm." Felicity and saw Oliver walk in.

"Hey. Any luck tracking this -" Oliver started to asked but changed the topic once he saw Felicity's guest. "Hello."

"Hi, uh, please tell me this is your friend," Donna said star-struck.

"No. Mom, this is Oliver ..." Felicity started to say.

"Queen." Donna finished shaking his hand.

"Very nice to meet you," Oliver said happily and a little awkwardly.

"Yes, it's so nice to meet you, too. How many billionaires do you know?" Donna asked her daughter.

Catching Diggle, Oliver introduced them. "Diggle, meet Felicity's mom." He told him.

"Mom. John Diggle." Dig said extending his hand.

"Hi."

"Very nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, too. Oh! Hello!" Donna said turning her attention to baby Sara. "Who is this little nugget?"

"This is my daughter Sara." Dig explained.

"Ooh!"

"Mom. Mom. Ahem, Mom!" Felicity said cutting in her mom's baby talk.

"What?"

"We have to go downstairs." Felicity pressed.

"Oh, I'm so sorry. I didn't mean to stop you. I'm so sorry. Little baby moment. So sorry." Donna shamelessly apologized as Dig left.

"It's great to meet you, finally," Oliver said shaking her hand.

"Yes, yes, definitely," Donna said as Oliver went over to join Diggle.

"Why is Sara here?" Oliver asked Dig.

"Lyla's on an assignment in Santa Prisca and the nanny called in sick." Dig informed him.

"But - we can't bring her down there," Oliver said uncomfortably.

Taking a pause, Dig stared at his daughter as Felicity joined them. "Why not, Oliver, who's she going to tell?"

"Well, she - I'm not comfortable with her down there," Oliver admitted.

"God help me. My mother loves babies. Just ..." Felicity suggested.

"Really?" Dig asked taking a quick look at Donna, noting that Oliver would prefer his baby with an almost stranger than let her down in the Arrowcave.

Arrowcave

"Whoever this Brother Eye group is somehow got access to the city's protected network and uploaded a system-wide virus," Felicity explained to the team showing the results on her computer station.

"Anyway to trace it?" Oliver asked her.

"No, it deleted itself as soon as it completed its task." She revealed.

"They said the power outage was just the beginning." Dig reminded them of Brother Eye's message.

"Then let's find them before there's a next time," Oliver told them.

SCPD

Walking into SCPD, Laurel saw her dad. "Hey, Laurel, are you all right? Did you get here ok?" Quentin asked her worrying if something happened during the blackout.

"I'm fine. I was close. But why do I get the emergency services alert? Why didn't they call the District Attorney?" Laurel asked.

"Because he's visiting his niece in Coast City. You are the acting District Attorney. Congratulations." Quentin revealed as and left a surprised Laurel and went to call Oliver's team.

"Hello, Detective - Captain," Felicity answered and quickly corrected herself.

"Look, you're on this Brother Eye thing, right?"

"We are." She assured him.

"Good, 'cause there's no one here knows computers better than you." He told Felicity.

Arrowcave

"We said this was just the beginning. Electricity is not the only power in this city. Consider money, for example. The banks are next to go dark." Brother Eye proclaimed their new message as Team Arrow and the city was watching and listening. "Your beloved dollars wiped away as your accounts will finally all be equal, at zero."

"Felicity ..." Oliver said as the computer specialist was immediately beginning her work.

"I'm working on it. I set up some trace IP packets before Brother Eye's last broadcast. As soon as he opened up the channel, I scooped up the bread crumbs." Felicity said typing quickly.

"Bread crumbs we can follow?" Oliver asked.

"I hope so," Felicity muttered.

SCPD

"Where's Captain Lance?" An officer asked Laurel as she was going through some papers.

"Coordinating squad car patrols with dispatch," Laurel answered. "Why? What's wrong?" She asked finally turning around to face him.

"There's a situation at Starling National." The cop said.

"Send in an ESU Squad," Laurel told him.

"Sorry, Ma'am but you don't have the power to -"

"I'm acting District Attorney. The City Charter gives me operational authority in times of crisis, which this clearly is. And I'm not letting anyone get hurt. Send in an ESU now." Laurel ordered with some of her newfound authority.

Arrowcave

"What's going on?" Felicity asked as the boys were watching the monitors.

"SCPD just dispatched a riot squad to Starling National," Oliver told her looking a the police alert.

"It's like fighting a fire with gasoline." Dig mentioned.

"Suit up," Oliver told Roy as he grabbed his bow.

Outside Starling National Bank

As the crowd began to roar, one of the citizens trying to break down the windows with a trashcan. SCPD's riot squad just appeared armed with their gear. "This group is ordered to disperse!" The lead officer shouted. "Back behind the line!" He said through the megaphone.

Nearby, Oliver and Roy, on their motorcycle were driving there as quickly as possible. "Oliver, the riot is getting out of control. You need to hurry up." Felicity told him on comms as she was watching the riot from her computer.

"You are trespassing!" The cop shouted as the officers were trying to hold off the crowd.

As a man from the crowd moved forward, Oliver fired an arrow with a line on it and used it to yanked the man away from the officers. "Get away from the bank!" Oliver yelled at the crowd. Seeing the crowd wasn't listening, Oliver and Roy draw and fired arrows into the crowd. The arrows then released teargas which caused the crowd to disperse. "The teargas is dispersing them, but we can't calm the entire city, Felicity," Oliver told her on comms hoping she had something.

"The trace led me to the virus they're using. It is a mile past complex. I'm combing through now." Felicity told him as began her work but something unthinkable happened as this virus program looked familiar to her. "No, no, no, no, no, no, no!" She said worryingly.

"What's wrong?" Oliver asked.

"The virus ... I can't stop it!" She told him.

"How do you know?" He asked.

"Because it's mine. I wrote it five years ago." She revealed still in shock.

Arrowcave

With her glasses off, Felicity rubbed her eyes anxiously at the stress she was getting to her. "Ok, ok, before you say anything, just know that I never imagined the virus being used for something like this." Felicity defended herself as Oliver and Roy returned. "I mean, sure, I could have imagined it. I actually have a very vivid imagination. Like cronuts! I had a vision of them before -"

"Hey," Oliver said softly as he interrupted her panic babbling. "Relax. Take a deep breath." He suggested and she did just that. "Good. Now start at the beginning."

"I was in this, I guess you could call it a group, in college. We were hacktivists. For lack of a better word." She revealed and look back at her computer. "Civil disobedience via the World Wide Web. I created this. This ... super virus. That could give us remote access to any infected server. We could expose government fraud and start virtual sit-ins. And digitally deface criminals. I guess you could say it was my first attempt at being a hero." She recalled and she was starting to tear up thinking about her old life.

"Felicity." He said with a sigh. "Why didn't you tell me about any of this?"

"Do we even know a fraction of what happened to you the five years that you were away?" She countered politely and Oliver realized she had him there.

"Who else had access to the program?" He asked going to join Roy.

"Myron Forest. He was my ... I had a boyfriend in college, and Myron was his roommate." She revealed.

"And he was a member of this hacktivist group?" He guessed and Felicity nodded. "What about the boyfriend?"

"Oh, he couldn't have done this. He's ... not in the picture, but Myron always somewhat of an edge." She said thinking Oliver didn't need to know about Cooper's fate.

"Can you get me an address?" He asked.

"Sure." She replied putting her glasses back on and started to work. "Just one small problem - not small, necessarily, but short." She said and Oliver saw Thea walking in Verdant on the computer screen. "Just take the alleyway entrance." She suggested to him.

"Ok." He left as she went back to work.

SCPD

"Hey. Got a minute?" Quentin asked Laurel as he took her by her arm into his office. "Congratulations, you call in a riot squad, you nearly started one! And! You did it behind my back." He accused after slamming the door.

"You were busy, and the situation at Starling National was escalating." She reminded feeling like a kid who was in trouble, again.

"You escalated it, Laurel! Please tell me you can at least see that now." He reminded her.

"I do, Dad! Look, I made a judgment call ... and it was the wrong one. I'm sorry." She apologized.

"Laurel, baby ... what's bothering you okay." He asked placing his hands on her shoulders. "Is it Oliver? Is there something about your other job?" Laurel just remained quiet. "Honey, after you got me out of the slammer. I asked you to promise me - to not keep secrets when it comes to us. To our family." He reminded her.

"I know, Dad. And you're right there is something you need to know." She admitted knowing that he still hadn't told her about her "ability" recently. "When this over. I'll tell you. And you can hold me to that."

Verdant

"Ahh," Thea grunted in annoyance as she struggled to open the door that lead to the bunker.

"Back-up generator keeps that locked," Oliver said walking up behind her. "Or ... so they told me. I could never get that stupid door to open. Contractor says the entire sub-level is flooded, though. It was a water main break." He said making up a story to keep her out of there in the future.

"What are doing here, Ollie?" She asked curiously.

"A super hacker is trying to take over the city and I'm worried about you." He told as she seemed to accept the reason. "I still get to be worried, right?"

"Yes. And if you really have to, you can even be judgmental - occasionally. But someone told me recently that a family is pretty precious and love, in spite of everything, is what makes it precious. Right now, the Queen family is just you and me." She stated.

"So let it just be you and me. And don't take Merlyn's money." He added at the last moment.

"I'm trying to meet you halfway here, Ollie. The other half is up to you." She told as she walked away but as Oliver was contemplating his phone went off. Looking at a text from Felicity, she told him she found Myron.

Building in Starling City

As Myron Forest was working on his computer, he saw in his screen's reflection the Green Arrow and his red-suited partner. "Myron Forest," Roy said as he turned to face him.

"You have failed this city." Oliver finished as both he and Roy fired their arrows into a respective computer screen.

"Tell him he has to retract all the infected packets from subsystem mainframes within the city," Felicity said on comms guiding Oliver on how to stop this.

"Tell me how to shut down the virus. Do it now." Oliver ordered Myron.

"You think I'm behind the cyber attacks?" Myron said frighten.

"Sounds like a Brother Eye to me," Roy cracked,

"I swear to god, I'm not. I head up the IT department of an accounting firm. I drive a hybrid. It's blue. I'm one of the sheep lunatics like these guys hate. Why would I do this?" He defended himself.

"His digital fingerprints are all over this code. There's an X-Axis Bionumeric Algorithm." Felicity informed Oliver.

"The code's an X-Axis Bionumeric Algorithm that you've used before!" Oliver said aggressively.

"In college," Myron said starting to realize some things. "My roommate and his girlfriend. Yeah, yeah, sure, we developed it. We called it a super virus, but that doesn't mean I'm the Eye guy! Have you tried Felicity Smoak?" He suggested.

"She's innocent," Oliver told him.

"Then it's got to be someone else. After we graduated I might have shown the code off to a few people." Myron admitted.

"Who were they?!" Oliver yelled.

"I don't remember. It was five years ago. I didn't think it was a big deal. We were just kids playing with matches." Myron told him and Oliver trusting his instincts believed him.

Arrowcave

Frustrated and hitting a dead end, Felicity put down her tablet. "I am running out of expletives!" She cried out.

"We need to track down whoever Myron shared your code with," Oliver told her.

"I hacked all of his emails and all his text messages from five years ago and all I got was depressed." She said ahead of him.

"Ok. What about your ex?" He asked.

"I already told you, he didn't do it." She said defensively.

"Why? Because he's your ex-boyfriend?" He figured.

"Because ... my senior year of college, Cooper and I did a stupid thing. He got arrested and he went to prison." She said in a low and soft tone.

"So he went to prison. Maybe he got out." He suggested brushing her off.

"He didn't."

"How do you know?" He pressed harshly.

"Because he's dead. He hung himself before sentencing." She revealed causing all her teammates to feel sympathy for her loss.

"Felicity, I ..." He said trying to apologize feeling like a jerk.

"I just really need to be alone right now," Felicity said walking away from Oliver and out of the bunker trying not to cry.

Felicity's Office, Queen Consolidated

While Felicity was moping, Ray came to greet her office. "Ah. I'm glad you're here. When I launched my plan to rebrand Starling into Star City, I didn't count on Cyber terrorism." He said noticing her crying. "I'm looking for a partner with whom to drown my sorrows and you definitely look like someone who could use a drink." He said and went to poor himself and Felicity, a scotch.

"I'm sorry. My mother ... I didn't have anywhere else to go." Felicity lied wiping away her tears before putting her glasses back on.

"You ok?"

"You're an inventor. Did you ever create anything you didn't think was important, turns out, it's very important?" She asked him.

"Of course. Those turn out to be the best inventions." He told her.

"Not always." She countered thinking of her viruses capabilities.

"You wanna talk about it." He asked and eventually, Donna came up from the elevator and cut in.

"Of course I find you here," Donna told her.

"Could you just wait one second?" Felicity asked her mom.

"Wait?" Donna and scoffed at the notion. "I'm sorry; I've already waited two hours for you at your apartment, and before that, it was two hours in that club." She said frustratedly.

"Is there any way that you could be anywhere else but here?" Felicity asked Ray after taking a sigh. Ray gave a nod and made himself scarce. "Thanks, mom. That wasn't the least bit mortifying. Only half as bad as parents' week in freshman year." She said getting up.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry I've been reduced to stalking my own daughter. " Donna said sarcastically.

"Because you can't seem to comprehend that I can't make the whole world stop because you decided to show up on my doorstep. I have responsibilities." Felicity yelled at her.

"Yes, I know. Felicity. You have work. You have work, work, work, work." Donna ranted.

"No, no, no, you don't understand. It is so much more than work. But all you care about is my love life or how much cleavage I don't show." Felicity accused.

"That is not true!"

"That is completely true! And I'm sorry. I'm sorry that I'm terminally single. I'm sorry I have an actual job. I'm sorry that I don't dress like a porn star!" Felicity whined. "Which I realize is a compliment to you. So I'm so sorry that I am such a disappointment to you!" She cried out.

"I'm not as smart as you, Felicity, or your father. I know that. Even when you were only six years old, I could barely keep up with you two." She recollected. "And ... maybe I wasn't always the mother you wanted, but I was always there. I stayed and I tried. He ... he left me. He left us." She reminded her daughter, who was starting to feel guilty. "But when I look at you, all I see is what he gave you. There is nothing of me ... in you. You know, it's so funny. I was - I was always so afraid that one day you were going to me, too." Donna then chuckled. " But now I finally realize ... you already did." She added shedding a tear, grabbing her purse, Felicity watched her mom leaving QC.

Verdant

"There are people on the other end of this thing, right?" Roy asked Oliver and Dig. "People we can hit."

"We need Felicity," Oliver said.

"I'm here," Felicity said coming from the steps. "My super-virus has 3,407 traceable access nodes. Hopefully, I didn't put a firewall in everyone, though. Of course, I did, because I'm smarter than that." She said already typing at her desk. "Seriously, if I had two less IQ points, we never would have gotten in this mess." She said blaming herself for what was happening in this city and with her mother.

"Are you alright?" Oliver asked as he took notice of Felicity's grief-cracking voice. "Where's your mom?"

"I don't know." She answered and Dig and Roy decided to leave the two alone to talk. "Probably back at my place, wishing she had a different daughter. It's a long story."

"So go see her. Take an hour." He suggested.

"The city is under attack." She snapped back.

"You're our best chance of stopping it, but not like this, Felicity." He told her calmly. "You're head's not in the game."

"I will get it together." She promised.

"Your trace hack's running. Take an hour. Go talk to your mom." He told her.

"I do not have anything to say to her." She said under her breath.

"Look, Felicity. I don't know what your relationship is like with your mom, but take it from someone who doesn't have a mother anymore. If she cares about you, and from what I saw she does, keep her in your life. Even if it's complicated sometimes." He told her. "Go." He suggested as she left.

Felicity's Apartment

Walking into her apartment, Felicity saw her mom was already starting to pack her things away. "Where's Sara?" Felicity asked about Dig's daughter.

"The nanny came to pick her up. Said he was from a company called ARGUS. I don't know, I've never heard of it." Donna said folding her clothes.

"I think that's the point," Felicity said not bothering to correct her mom that ARGUS is a government agency. "Well, I'm glad you're still here."

"You are a terrible liar, Felicity." Donna scoffed. "Might be the only thing we have in common."

"I have blonde hair."

"You dye it."

"You're right," Felicity admitted. "We're different, and it's always going to be that way. And it's not easy -"

"No, you know what, it's - it's totally my fault for just showing up here uninvited," Donna confessed. "Seriously. I think I just got so excited about this free flight."

"What?"

"My plane ticket. I got an email that said I'd won some contest. Free first-class round trip to Starling." Donna revealed.

"Email?" Felicity uttered as the neurons in her brain started to fire, which made her think that her mom was lured to Starling. "Mom. Mom. Someone wanted you to be here." She told her and immediately two thugs, wearing balaclavas, busted down Felicity's door. Both Smoak women screamed in panic. One of the goons grabbed Donna and threw her to the ground.

"Mom!" Felicity uttered as they then throw her to the floor as well, looking at her mother, Felicity saw black bags going over both of their heads.

Undisclosed Location

Bound to a chair, Felicity had her bag taken off her, she looked to her side and saw her mother bound next to her. "Baby!" Donna said worriedly

"Mom!"

"Are you ok?"

"I'm ok," Felicity said scared.

"Oh! Oh, thank god." Donna said starting to sob a little. "Where are we?" She asked and Felicity looked around and saw a high-tech computer system in front of them and tv screens with the Brother Eye symbol on them. Looking over they saw someone walking in.

"Felicity Smoak, just the woman I wanted to see." The man said using a voice modulator to disguise his voice.

"What the hell do you want from me?!" Felicity demanded. "Who are you?"

"You really don't know?" He said and stepped out of the shadow turning off the modulator. "I thought you'd never forget your first love." Cooper Seldon said as Felicity, fell speechless at seeing her dead college boyfriend in front of her.

"You died. They told me -" She said tearfully.

"That I committed suicide, right? The NSA needed a hacker with game for cyber espionage, and I needed to not be in prison for the rest of my life." Cooper explained. "Because of what the NSA wanted me doing, it was ... advantageous for me to be dead." He said with some discomfort.

"When I found out you died, I was devasted. I loved you." She said weepingly.

"I loved you, too." He admitted. "After I finished my time with the NSA, I was going to find you. To let you in on this. And then I discovered you'd become this corporate lap dog. That broke my heart. You changed."

"If you ever thought I was capable of doing something like this, you never really knew me at all." She said was a mixture of sadness and anger.

"When you wrote this virus, Felicity, you knew exactly what it was capable of. All I'm doing is unleashing the true potential of what you made." He rationalized.

"Why?! This isn't who you are!" She cried.

"Five years with the NSA, you learn a lot about how the world works. How we can't be saved or salvaged. How it's every man for himself." He pointed out. "You also learn that when a city bank goes under, say, financial cyberattack, the Mayor will reach out to the Treasury Department and request an influx of fresh cash. Cash which is transported by armored trucks navigating according to a closed-end GPS system, which directs them to city deposit. If the drivers deviate from the route, the trucks are shut down." He explained his plan as said events were already in motion. "You are going to hack into the system and direct the cash to come here."

"It was about money, and I'm the sell-out?" She tearfully accused.

"No. No, babe. You're the one who's going to help me. See, breaking into the treasury's asymmetric encryption is beyond even my capabilities," He told her.

"I'm going to politely decline." She said angrily. And quickly, Cooper pulled out his gun and aimed it at Donna. "Don't!"

"That's why I flew some motivation into town for you." He revealed at a startled Donna.

Arrowcave

"She's been MIA for over an hour," Oliver noted to Dig, Roy, and Laurel.

"Well, you told her to go home. I just had an ARGUS agent pick up Sara there. I could have them go back, check things out." Dig offered.

"Yep."

"Ok," Dig said as he left.

Picking up his phone, Oliver dialed Felicity as Roy and Laurel watched him. "Felicity's never more than five feet from her phone," Oliver noted with a sigh.

"You think something's wrong?" Laurel asked.

"Definitely," Oliver replied.

Undisclosed Location

Having Felicity's phone on hand, Cooper saw that someone named Oliver was calling and he gave a nod as one of his subordinates to cut Felicity's restraints. "No, No!" Felicity said as she was being dragged to the computer station, as Cooper then dropped and smashed her phone.

"That terminal's configured to only connect with the treasury's IP. I mention this so you don't try to do anything stupid, like alert the police." Cooper warned her.

"I'm so sorry," Donna told her daughter she began her crazy ex's demands and for being stupid.

"Mom ... right now's not really the best time, ok?" She said afraid for both their lives.

"But it might be the last time, hon, and I want you to know that all I've ever wanted ... is for you to be happy," Donna told her as Felicity gave her a quick look.

"What say we hit pause on the "Dr. Phil" episode," Cooper told Donna as he held her gun to her face to prevent further distractions.

"It's done! It's done." Felicity told Cooper.

"That quick." He said joining her as he put his gun away.

"There's a reason you wanted me, right? They'll be at your front door in five minutes." She explained.

"Guards will be armed." He told his men as they left to prepare for the robbery.

Immediately, Cooper zip-tied Felicity to the computer station and took her chin to stare her down. "Stay put, okay. Just because we used to screw doesn't mean I won't use this gun." He threatened her as he left and Felicity sobbed, unable to believe that a man she used to love could become this. Immediately, Felicity heard beeping. "What's that?"

"Huh? Oh, that, that's the watch. It's the watch Mr. Palmer gave me." Donna told her. "It chimes on the hour, and I guess when we're about to be killed."

"We're not going to be killed," Felicity told her mom, immediately figuring a way out of this mess. "We're going to get out of here. It basically replaces your computer." She said remembering Ray's words about the smart wearable's capabilities.

"You know I don't know what that means." Donna reminded her.

"It means it has Wi-Fi." She said hacking into the watch.

"Really?" Donna said and Felicity activated the watch's GPS.

Opening the hanger, Cooper and his men, all heavily waited for the trucks' arrival. "When they're in range you know what to do." He told his men as he left.

Typing in her coordinates to get to Oliver, Felicity stopped once she saw Cooper returned. "I did what you wanted. You don't have to kill us." She pleaded.

"Really." He said circling her and harshly grabbed her face. "Who would have thought that I'd become the Grue?" As he aimed his gun at her face.

"Hey!" Donna spoke up getting Cooper's attention. "Hey. You want to wave that gun at me, fine, but don't you dare threaten my daughter."

"Here I thought you were all nails and hair." He remarked as he lowered his firearm.

"Try single mom who's worked 60 hour weeks in six-inch heels for tips in order to raise that genius child you see right there. I may not understand all this cyber whatever, but I know without that gun, you wouldn't last 10 seconds against my girl." Donna proudly proclaimed.

"Too bad she doesn't have 10 seconds." He mentioned raising his gun again.

"I disagree!" Oliver said dressed as the Green Arrow, as the rest of them looked at him. "Put the gun down." He told Cooper at arrow-point.

"You were always good, Felicity. So good." Cooper said impressed that found a way to get help. "But so am I." He immediately, two laser-pointed machine guns activated and pointed themselves at Oliver. "Motion sensored. They can hit almost any target.

Activate the grappling line on his arrow, Oliver jumped up to one of the gun turrets as they began firing. Getting behind one of them, Oliver let one of the turrets destroy the other for him and he then fired an explosive arrow destroying the second turret. Removing the zip tie, Cooper took Felicity hostage. "Come on."

"Something's wrong." The driver of the treasury department said as they reached their destination.

"All right, boy. Light them up!" One of the goons order, as they began firing heavily at the armored truck. It withstood the barrage of gunfire, but one of the men armed with a bazooka took aim. Roy and Laurel appeared from the shadows dressed for battle, and Roy's arrow flew and pierced the bazooka stopping him. Cooper's men immediately began firing, and Laurel threw one of her sonic devices on the ground causing it activate. The deafening sound it unleashed caused the thugs to tightly clutch their ears in pain, as Laurel and Roy were unaffected.

As Laurel rushed forward, Roy fired two arrows, one for each thug. While Laurel delivered a flying knee that knocked one thug out, she turned around to deal with the other two and delivered a kidney punch and then a roundhouse kick to the knee, respectively to each of them causing him to lose balance before smacking them in the face with her tonfa as they hit the ground. "I think we're good." She told Roy.

Dealing with the last machine gun, Oliver jumped down on the ground and began running to avoid the gunfire. Taking cover behind a scaffold it was under, he quickly climbed it and stabbed it with an arrow destroying the last turret. Jumping down, Oliver notched another arrow and aimed it at Cooper as he approached him.

"This is all your fault," Cooper told a crying Felicity. Seeing her chance, Felicity grabbed the barrel of his gun and elbowed him in the gut before finally pistol-whipping him in the face with his sidearm. Thank you, Oliver, Dig, and Laurel for the self-defense lessons; Felicity thought to herself. As Cooper fell on the floor, Donna impressed and surprised by her daughter saw her come to her.

"Mom! Mom, are you ok?" Are you ok?" She asked she untied her and Oliver lowered his bow as he watched.

"Oh, baby," Donna said as they both began crying in relief. Looking over her shoulder to Oliver, Felicity saw her friend give her a quick nod.

Arrowcave, Morning

Putting his suit back on display, Oliver turned to see Felicity. "Before, you were right to keep pressing on Cooper. Turns out he's not as dead I thought." Felicity told him.

"I've had some experience with that," Oliver said thinking about Slade, Malcolm, and at one point Sara. "And you learn not to judge."

"Yes."

"Are you ok?"

"I guess so. Old lovers have a way of opening old wounds. Lovers ... sounds creepy no matter how you say it." She quipped causing Oliver to chuckle.

"Felicity ... I want you to know that whatever experiences you had to go through, I'm glad that you did. They shaped the person you are today. And she is an invaluable friend to me." He told her causing her to smile.

"Thank you. I need to go, there's something I need to tell my mother. Something I should've said a long time ago." Felicity admitted.

The rooftop of Laurel and Oliver's Apartment building

Exiting the rooftop door with her dad right behind her, Laurel took a deep breath and finished her beer bottle which she bought on their way here; she needed something to use and to calm her nerves, to be honest. "So, what exactly is it that you want to show me?" Quentin asked.

Closing the door behind him, Laurel took a long look at her dad. "You remember what happened to me in Central City right? The Particle Accelerator explosion?" Laurel brought rhetorically.

"Yeah, how could I forget?" He said light-heartedly.

"Well, it turns out there were some ... side effects, to my injury." She reluctantly confessed.

"What kind of side effects?" He asked worrying if she might be sick or something.

Immediately, Laurel threw the empty beer bottle in the air and screamed at it with the sound wave of her cry shattering the glass bottle. Watching the whole thing, Quentin looked back at her in utter disbelief at what he saw. "Those kinds of side effects." She told him plainly.

Thea's Loft

Going through her moving boxes, Thea heard a knock on the door and answered it seeing it was Oliver. "It was popcorn, right?" He asked having a big bag of popcorn in his hand, and Thea let out a small breath. "You said you were meeting me halfway. This is me doing my part." Letting him in, Oliver took another look at her place. "Wow. I missed you, Speedy." He said with a hug.

"Let's not miss each other anymore. You know if you weren't already living with Laurel I'd offer you to stay here, I mean I clearly have enough space." She suggested.

"No thanks, I'm pretty happy living with my girlfriend." He said flattered.

"So I've been thinking about it a lot and ... I swear once the club starts making a profit, I will donate all of Malcolm's money to an Earthquake Relief charity thing." She promised.

"I can live with that." He agreed and tossed her the popcorn. "You got a TV in here?" He asked and eventually, the two siblings sat down to watch the old 1931 movie, Possessed. Not knowing that Malcolm was watching the sibilings from the building across from their's wondering if it came down to it, would Thea choose Oliver over him.

Felicity's Office, Queen Consolidated

"Well, I'm officially off," Donna said walking in with her luggage as Felicity was at her desk. "I mean, my flight doesn't leave till, tonight, but I figured you'd be working, so we can - we can just say goodbye now." She said and Felicity just hugged her.

"You were right," Felicity told her.

"About what?" Donna asked as they parted.

"I haven't always been appreciative of you. You were always there for me every day and night. So if I haven't said thank enough, thank you." Felicity said while Donna just laughed appreciatively. "But you were wrong, too."

"Mm-hmm?"

"When you said all you saw in me was dad; there was nothing of you in me. Well, I can't really explain it, but over the past two years, I have been through a lot. And I have learned that I am a lot tougher than I thought." Felicity revealed impressed with herself. "That ... I get from you." She said and Donna immediately teared up and touched her face. "Don't cry." She asked.

"Felicity, I took another look at those Cogeneration numbers. You want to ..." Ray said walking in on Felicity and her mom hugging it out. "Oh. Hi again." He greeted Donna.

"Hi," Donna said.

"How's that new smart wearable working out for you?" He asked.

"Oh, it's, um, it's a real lifesaver." She revealed after looking at it.

"Yeah," Felicity replied. "Ray, I can't come into work today. I am ..." She said and gave a fake cough. "Calling in sick."

"Feel better." He exclaimed with a hand gesture, knowing she wanted to spend the day with her mom.

"Thank you. See you later." Felicity said as she and her mom left.

"Yeah. You need to do something about him." Donna told her quietly.

"Mom, shh," Felicity replied.

"That's actually, pretty genius," Ray noted to himself as continued to work on Cogeneration numbers on his tablet.

Roy's House

Deciding to crash after last night's events, Roy continued to sleep but like his previous nights, he was struggling. Having a nightmare, he dreamt that he had killed someone and that he stabbed them to death with an arrow.