Arrow

My name is Oliver Queen.

After 5 years in hell,

I returned home with only one goal--

to save my city,

but my old approach wasn't enough.

I had to become someone else.

I had to become

something else.

I had to become the Green Arrow.

Previously on "Arrow"...

You won't be able to stop him.

We need to trap him.

Dad?

We are the same, you and I.

You are wrong.

I am nothing like you.

John, voice-over: I had to put him down, Lyla.

He had reached for my gun.

Alex, where are we?

- Thea. - No. I can't.

Where are you going?

Rubicon-- designed to prevent

any country, even our own,

from firing a nuclear missile.

Darhk ripped it out.

Darhk would control the world's nuclear stockpile.

Andy told me that Genesis was coming.

God wanted to give the world a do-over, so he destroyed it.

He destroyed it with a flood.

So nuclear annihilation is Darhk's flood.

What's he planning on building as his ark?

Rubicon security compromised.

Russia, Markovia, Corto Maltese, us,

every NATO Ally-- Rubicon has control

over all their nuclear systems.

You mean HIVE does.

I know it's a little late for this,

but whoever created an algorithm

that could override any country's nuclear weapons

really screwed up.

That would be Amanda Waller.

How much time do we have?

We?

Oliver, I'm the director of Argus,

and this goes way over my head.

This is executive level,

and this is Department of Defense.

Right, right, right, right, but how much time?

There's a start-up sequence

before Darhk can actually launch a nuke.

We have just under 21 hours.

You're gonna have to find a way to interrupt that sequence.

Rubicon is a failsafe against nuclear Armageddon.

Argus designed it to be 100% unhackable.

No. She can do it. She's the best.

Well, actually, that would be my father

as far as Rubicon is concerned.

It uses Fourier protocols.

Noah practically wrote the book on them.

The world is facing nuclear Armageddon.

My pride and my general dislike for my father

can take a backseat for the next 20-plus hours.

Felicity, this isn't about pride.

Your father's a criminal.

He can't be trusted.

I'm not saying we should trust him.

I'm saying we need to.

Ok. He got out in Darhk's jailbreak. How do we find him?

I'm already running a search.

Can you try to get in touch with Thea, too?

Please. We need her back here.

John, can I talk to you for a second?

- How you doing? - Been better.

Well, I'm not gonna pretend to understand what you're going through.

Well, Oliver, you've been through this with your mother,

which is why I can't quite understand

why you're putting the fate of the world

in the hands of another evil parent.

I'm not trusting Kuttler.

I trust Felicity,

and we should just let her do her job, ok?

We have one of our own.

Yeah, stopping Darhk.

His magic is powered by death,

so if even one of those nukes hits--

he will be unstoppable.

Ok. What's your play?

Well, if he is planning on harnessing

all of this death, he's gonna be in something

called a Nexus chamber.

Basically, it's a collector magic.

And here I thought earthquake machines were as strange as it got.

Esrin Fortuna told me that one of these chambers

exists in Star City.

I'm betting it falls on a Ley line.

What did Vixen call them--Wi-Fi for magic?

- Yeah. - It's a big city, Oliver.

We got 21 hours.

One step at a time.

We have to help them!

We're gonna help these people!

What are you looking for?

Reiter's men found a way on the island.

There has to be a way off.

There's a plane east end of the island,

and it's far.

We'll make it.

What's that?

This may be a way to call for help.

Let's go!

And...

Woof.

I know.

The predictability was a terrible flaw in the design.

Predictability is your flaw, too.

Every time my life starts to suck, you show up.

Heh.

Leave us.

Is that hand a present from your new best friend?

I'm not doing this for a prosthetic, Thea.

I'm doing it to keep you safe.

Keep me safe.

- Yes. Keep you safe. - Hmm. Yeah.

Like I said, predictable.

Only thing I don't get is how is brainwashing

some guy I really like in your plan to keep me safe?

His conditioning wasn't my idea.

Ruvé Darhk wanted to ensure his compliance

in the final phase.

Final phase of what?

Something called Genesis.

Darhk plans to burn the world in a nuclear fire

while we are protected down here.

Oh, God.

Then he and his followers can rebuild.

Truth be told, it's not dissimilar

to the plan I had for the Glades once upon a time,

but on a much, much larger scale.

Let me guess-- you don't think

that destroying the entire world is completely insane?

The world is what's insane.

It is beyond saving.

It needs a do-over, a reset.

Look. Once I realized Darhk's plan was inevitable,

the math was simple.

Save yourself.

And my daughter...

Even if she doesn't want to be saved.

Look. I am way, way past the point of telling you

that you are crazy.

I just want to see Alex.

I just want to know he's ok,

and look, I--I get it.

I'm stuck here,

but I can be stuck here and compliant,

or I can be a pain in your ass,

so take me to him now.

Heh.

Hey.

- Hey, hon. - Hi.

What's up?

Um...

When I was at your place this morning, I, um...

I found this.

Ooh. What are you doing going through my stuff?

Snooping.

But--but--but this isn't any of your business, Donna.

No, no, babe. It is my business actually,

you getting suspended.

It is kind of.

- Donna. - Hey!

What is this?

It's--it's, um-- it's an affidavit.

Pike said if I put my name to it,

then--then I get my badge back.

It says you didn't know that Laurel was the Black Canary.

I may not be in mansa,

but I know how to read, sweetie.

I think it's Mensa actually.

You told me that you knew what Laurel was doing.

- Yeah. - Yeah.

So this is a lie.

Yeah, but it's a complicated lie.

- Is it? - Yeah.

Yeah.

Because according to Pike,

IAB are willing to look the other way

about my working with Darhk because I was...

protecting Laurel.

Why would you have to protect her if she was a superhero?

Yeah, exactly. Now you see.

I see that they're asking you to lie.

Sweetheart, come on.

All I ever wanted was to--was to be a cop,

and what's a small lie if it means I can do some good for this city?

No. No. That's just it.

There aren't any small lies, hon.

Take it from someone who had a child

with a man who was a liar.

I'm not Noah Kuttler.