"What are you doing?" Roy asked as Alena exposed the parchment to a bunsen burner.
" She's heating it. The League writes in hidden text that can only be revealed through flame." Nyssa reminded him.
"You don't remember?" John asked, since Roy had been there 3 years ago when Nyssa had shown them this originally.
"I don't want to." Roy said as he walked away.
"I don't know what's going on with him, but just keep working on it." Thea said as she walked after him.
"Why isn't the flame working?" Laurel asked.
"There's two possibilities for that. Either Malcolm was using a different type of invisible ink or." Alena said.
"Or there's nothing on this, and we are wasting our time." Oliver said.
"Considering the lengths Malcolm went to to keep this map hidden, I doubt it's that option." Laurel said as Alena began using some type of scanner on the map.
"What's this?" Nyssa asked.
"I thought since old school wasn't working, I'd try some new school. This scanner can make a 3D voxel-based re-creation." Alena said.
"I didn't start using a computer until I was 25." Nyssa said bluntly.
"Ha, that's funny." Alena said.
"She's not joking Alena. Until she met us, Nyssa was rather old school, anything invented in the 20th and 21st centuries were mysteries for her." Oliver said with a slight smile.
"I would not be that dramatic." Nyssa said, only to have Oliver raise an eyebrow at her.
"It's mostly technology from the 21st century." She then conceded.
"Anyways, If I can duplicate the map digitally, there might be some hidden markers on there that we can trace." Alena said.
"Sounds complicated." Nyssa said.
"It is very." Alena said.
"Then we'll leave you to it." Oliver said as they all left Alena alone.
"Hey, I didn't get a chance to ask you earlier, but how did it feel being back out there today?" Oliver asked Laurel.
"It felt good. I can't believe I ever wanted to give that up." Laurel said.
"Yeah, I saw you out there tonight. You looked more complete than I have seen you look in a long time." Oliver told her and Laurel smiled.
"That's exactly how I felt tonight." Laurel said.
"Then maybe you should consider law enforcement as your new day job." Oliver said.
"What?" Laurel asked.
"You said it yourself. There's no way the DA's office is going to take you back due to any potential side effects of your imprisonment, so maybe you should become a cop. After all, isn't that what you originally wanted to be in the first place when you were a kid?" Oliver asked her.
"I'm not sure if I'd pass the psych test to become a cop." Laurel said.
"You won't know if you don't try." Oliver said.
"So somebody's grumpy." Thea said as she sat down on the steps next Roy.
"I'm sorry. I'm-I'm trying to be supportive." Roy said.
"But?" Thea asked.
"But-but I don't understand why you think that this is your responsibility." Roy asked.
"He died for me, ok, and I don't know what it is, but ever since I found out about this, I just-i f I feel like I can't run away from it yet." Thea said.
"Well, you see, that's where we're different. You see this as us running away from something, but I see this as us running towards something, something way better." Roy argued.
"You know, I just- I don't know." Thea said.
"I just feel like recently you've just been finding any excuse you can for us to stay here." Roy said.
"Unlike all my boyfriends in the past, I-I do find it kind of cute when you're being insecure." Thea said with a smile.
"I just don't want to lose you again, Thea." Roy said as Thea placed her head on his shoulder.
"That map is not my future. You are." Thea assured him.
Oliver walked up to Thea, who was looking at her suit.
"You ok?" he asked her.
"And why wouldn't I be? I mean, Roy only thinks I'm gonna leave him, and a bunch of crazy assassins my dead dad organized are trying to kill me, so my life is just Great." Thea said sarcastically.
"You know, Thea, you don't have to do this. You don't have to leave everything to Nyssa. Myself, John, Laurel and Alena, we will deal with Athena. You can go. You can- you can live your happily ever after with Roy." Oliver said.
"Here I thought you were supposed to go live yours," Thea said, looking at Oliver, who looked at her confused, " Felicity-she told me you stopped being the Green Arrow."
"Yeah. That was the plan. Life interfered." Oliver said.
"- John got hurt." Thea said.
"- He did." Oliver said.
"He's not hurt anymore." Thea said.
"I-I- I gave it up because I wanted to be a better father, but William accepts the idea that I'm the Green Arrow, plus I don't want to give it up. I don't know why." Oliver said.
"I do. Because being the Green Arrow's what makes you feel complete." Thea said.
"- For some reason, when you- you put that hood on, it enables you to become the best version of yourself." Thea said.
"We're supposed to be talking about you." Oliver said.
"Maybe we are." Thea said.
"Huh." Oliver asked.
"I don't know. Maybe that's the reason why I can't seem to give this life up. I don't know. Maybe I'm hoping that somehow I'll get the same thing and find the best version of myself, whoever she is." Thea said.
"Maybe." Oliver agreed.
"And by the way, being the Green Arrow isn't the only thing that makes you the best version of yourself." Thea added.
"What?" Oliver asked.
"Ollie, even before the Gambit, Laurel brought out the best side of you and you know it. I think it's time you see where things go with her." Thea said and Oliver smiled.
"Maybe you're right Speedy. Once this thing with Athena is over with, I might try that." Oliver agreed.
