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Previously, on "arrow"... I'm going to run for mayor.

Mr. Palmer's last recorded statement

Could shed some light on how he died.

Ahh!

What's happening to me?

We're going to nanda parbat.

You need to feed this impulse.

Once you do, it will subside for a time.

Laurel: I want you to bring my sister back to life.

Even if sara went into the pit,

What came out of the pit would not be sara.

Your daughter is alive.

The most loving act you can commit

Is to return sara to her final rest.

You are not going to kill your own daughter.

She's not my daughter!

Sara?

Ohh, damn it!

Hey, honey.

Why don't you just leave that right there?

Get off, bitch.

Oh, my god, thank you!

Hal ha-tha an-tea?

I cannot thank you enough for coming on board, alex.

Well, then it is a good thing you're paying me, also.

Sorry for the wait.

Ollie, this is alex davis,

The new political strategist that walter recommended.

Old enough to vote, alex?

I owned a bar and I wasn't even old enough to drink.

I am old enough to do both.

Well, I'm glad that you're joining the team,

But I don't entirely know why I need a political strategist.

Well... I guess the question then is,

Do you want to take office with ten percent of the vote or 90?

After you win, you still need to be able to govern.

Well, what has you concerned?

My lack of experience? No, we can spin that.

No, I'm talking about the kind of closet skeletons

That could cripple you on your first day in office.

Your personal chappaquiddick.

Wait, like that game from harry potter?

uh, chappaquiddick was a scandal

Involving a can't-lose candidate

Whose campaign fell apart when he was caught having an affair

After his vehicle went underwater

And the girl he was with drowned.

Does that sound at all familiar?

Ah, referencing the "queen's gambit" and sara lance.

Yeah, got it.

You're about to do your first on-air sit down, right?

Yeah. Bethany snow?

Ten'll get you twenty, she brings up sara and her sister.

Alex, all due respect, I don't think that people care

About my friendship with laurel lance

And an eight-year-old scandal

When the city is disintegrating

And there are masked armed men helping it.

Not to mention, there's a woman in pennytown

That's just running around killing people.

You're right.

I'm sorry. For a moment,

I forgot how the electorate always cares about the issues

And has zero appetite for scandal.

You want this city united?

You can't do it as the rich kid playboy from the tabloids.

And like it or not, laurel lance is a constant reminder of that.

So from this day forward, when anyone brings up miss lance,

You distance yourself from her.

Hey, just in time.

I was looking for you.

Why? I want to talk to you

About something you forgot.

What's that?

Is that how you want to play this?

It's fine by me, pal. Let's go.

I don't appreciate the intrusion, gentlemen.

There's communications gear in here.

We got ourselves a mole.

You believe it's mr. Queen.

Look, we've been on this island eight months

Without a single problem. He shows up; suddenly two guys

Find landmines and a bunch of drugs go missing.

Yeah, conklin, you got me.

I didn't, uh, wash up on shore here after a boating accident;

I parachuted in on a secret spy mission.

You want to die a liar, that's fine by me.

Man, that's enough. Enough!

There are more pressing matters at hand.

Perhaps if you were focused more on external threats

Rather than witch hunts, you would have caught this man

Spying on us in the fields.

Oh, I wasn't spying, mate.

Any of you squabblers got a cigarette?

She mumbled something.

It sounded, I don't know, middle eastern?

All right, um, I'm going to have you sit down

With a sketch artist, ok?

Take care of that.

Dad. Hey.

What happened? You tell me.

These two bodies, dropped by a woman.

Probably the same woman that's been linked

To the murders of three other skels in the past few days.

A blonde woman. Dad, I...

I didn't know what to make of it until tonight,

And then this woman here, she suspects,

Speaks some kind of middle eastern language,

Just like sara. Is she still at your place?

I've been looking for her.

Why didn't you tell me, huh?! You tell queen? No!

Because he would just see this the same way as you.

Oh, yeah, and how is that, huh? How is that?!

That sara is just... A thing

That needs to be stopped.

This is my daughter.

Then why did I find you

With a gun pointed at her head?

I'm not proud of that, laurel.

But people are dying.

And if I pulled that trigger,

Maybe they wouldn't be.

I'm going to go find sara, and hopefully

I do before you or oliver.

Curtis, I need you to do something for me.

Felicity, look at me.

Gym clothes, gym bag... Do either of those

Suggest anything to you?

Physical fitness, but then I remembered you're a tech guy.

I'm also a bronze metal decathlete.

Bronze medal, huh?

Beijing, 2008.

Beijing, as in the olympics?

Mr. Palmer's recording. Did you play it?

Yes. There's something off about it.

You sure it's not the fact that it's a dying declaration from your ex?

I mean, that is some serious nicholas sparks-level stuff.

Don't judge. The man can write emotion.

No, not that. I mean, yes, there's that,

But there's still some artifacts playing

That shouldn't be there.

What about your work-out?

Didn't seem to concern you 20 seconds ago.

Ray, on recording: I'm sorry, felicity, this is my fault.

you hear that?

Like there's more to the recording.

Something overlapping with it.

I was hoping you could clean it up for me.

I mean, after your workout.

It can wait. I'm glad you changed your mind

About hearing mr. Palmer's final words.

Thank you, curtis.

Ah, thank you for coming.

I think we both know I didn't have too much choice.

No. Well, certainly not since

You literally doubled the number of daughters

I have to hold over you.

Or did you take my advice

And return sara to the grave?

You didn't take my advice. Pity.

What do you want?!

Oh, a new beginning for the world,

A nice glass of merlot...

Not necessarily in that order.

Oh!

And for you to do me a favor.

There's a federal server farm 30 miles outside of the city.

I want you to gain access and plug this little baby into one of the computers.

And what's this thing going to do?

Oh, it's of no concern of yours.

But don't worry. It's not like

It's going to destroy the city or anything.

Whatever that spa weekend did to clear your head,

It also improved your technique.

You're effortless.

Yeah, well, you know

How I love my hot stone massages.

By the way, that political strategist was a good call.

But his advice was a little harsh.

I mean, distancing yourself from laurel?

I wasn't expecting that, but he made a few good points.

What, like kicking your friends to the curb?

Well, my friendship with laurel is... Complicated.

We have been in each other's lives for like forever.

I mean, you have been in love with laurel and sara,

And laurel, she... She took me in at cnri

When I was completely lost.

Even captain lance, ok,

He has been there for us since mom died.

Ok, but your point?

My point is that...

Pretending that you don't know who your friends are,

It... Just doesn't feel very united.

Felicity on p.A.: This is your overlord, felicity smoak.

We have a p.A. System?

Yet another decision I might live to regret.

Hi, what's going on?

Code 47 at a nightclub on ninth.

A blonde woman going cray cray.

And since I'm down here,