Arrow

Last season on "arrow"...

Star city's seen better days.

They built a wall.

Star city is a wall-free zone once again.

Restoring the glades won't be easy.

The four of you are the heroes that this city needs.

We're stepping back. We're leaving star city.

What now?

A crisis is imminent.

What does the multiverse require?

We seek to prevent the inevitable.

What are you not telling me?

I've seen your future, Oliver,

inexorable and unavoidable.

[Have watched you die.

Among the many misconceptions humanity holds dear

is the fallacy that all beings are created equal.

In truth, there are those who are greater.

They are called heroes.

But even among heroes, there are different echelons.

The highest belong to those known as the paragons.

And they are the only hope of all creation.

Oliver?

Hi, mom.

Ohh. Ohh.

I missed you so much.

Oh, my beautiful boy. My beautiful boy.

Your room is exactly as you left it.

I never had the heart to change anything.

I can't tell you how great it feels to be home.

Oliver, it's really you.

Hi, Malcolm.

Welcome home.

Ok, what... where's... Where's Walter?

He sold his shares of the company

when the gambit went down.

Okay. Okay.

What'd I tell you?

Yachts suck.

I knew it. I knew you were too stubborn to be dead.

Tommy.

Come on, man. Why are you looking at me like

I'm the one who's been gone a decade?

I just missed you.

Where's thea?

Sweetheart, um, why don't you settle in?

I mean, you must be exhausted.

Yeah, but I'd like to see thea.

Oliver, when you and your father disappeared...

It wasn't easy on her.

She took things really hard.

And there is this new drug called vertigo.

- I swear to you... - Tommy.

I tried my best to look...

Tommy, it wasn't your fault.

What wasn't his fault?

Thea, on her 18th birthday...

She overdosed.

Raisa's famous chicken marsala?

I used to make this for William all the time.

Who's William?

Oh, I know.

He was, like, your Wilson on the island, right?

Something like that.

How did you manage to survive by yourself all that time?

It's a long story.

So, uh, things you missed

while you were gone.

I got married and divorced twice.

Ah, let's see. What other gossip did you miss?

Our parents getting married.

- It's, um... - Complicated.

Oliver, I know this must all be a lot.

Well, mom, my apologies, but I actually am a little tired,

and I think I'm gonna head up to my bedroom.

Thank you for dinner.

Hey.

Your bed has been made.

And there are fresh towels in the bathroom.

Thank you.

I know the changes must be overwhelming,

and you must feel like you're

on a different planet or something.

You could say that.

It couldn't have been easy all those years on that island.

Sounds like it wasn't that easy here.

Now, you're not the same man as when you left.

And don't take this the wrong way,

but I get the sense that it's...

It's for the better.

I'm not so sure.

Mom, when we were growing up,

if you had to leave me and thea to protect us...

Would you have done it?

Oliver, whether right or wrong,

everything I've ever done was to protect my children.

It's all a parent can do.

And someday, hmm, when you have children,

you'll understand.

Mom, I'm so sorry.

Ohh. Ohh.

Everything's okay.

You're home. You're safe.

Close your eyes, sweetheart.

Get some rest, okay?

All right.

You have failed this city.

Hyah!

Stand down.

Oliver,

what the hell are you doing on my earth?

Showoff.

Jealous?

Nostalgic.

It seems Adrian and I have the same design sense.

If by that you mean Felicity, yeah.

But this is my bunker.

Chase?

He's one of the good guys, literally.

And you're helping him in star city.

Starling city. And he's helping me.

We make a pretty good team, actually.

Not that kind of a team.

So how much small talk do I have to endure

before you tell me what it is exactly you're doing on my earth?

Yeah, it's a long story.

Why don't you start by telling me

what you were doing on lian yu?

You know, if you wanted to pretend to be back from the dead,

you could've just showed up in town.

I wasn't given a choice.

I was sent to your earth, and I arrived on lian yu.

Sent? Sent by who?

You get him to tell you the truth yet, pretty bird?

And nothing but.

Seems Mr. Queen survived the gambit

and has spent the last 12 years on an island called lian yu.

That means "purgatory" if I'm not mistaken.

It still doesn't explain what you're doing

running around in my hood.

I needed an identity to work under,

and yours seemed convenient.

Sorry.

What were you doing at queen-merlyn?

Not killing those scientists,

if that's what you are implying.

Well, I'm using Laurel's equipment to compare

the metallurgy of your arrows to the ones that we found

in those men and women, so we'll see.

Speak of the devil.

Literally.

The dark Archer? Name's a bit on the nose,

but it's descriptive.

Dark costume, Jade pendant.

It's Malcolm merlyn.

- Yeah, we thought so, too. - Ruled him out months ago.

It's Malcolm merlyn.

And he killed those scientists for a reason.

Where are you going?

I'm gonna have a conversation with my stepdad.

It never ceases to impress...

Humanity's capacity for invention.

Hmm. Infinite number of worlds,

and not a single one where man fails to emerge from caves

and hold dominion over the earth.

What are you doing here?

Reminding you what you are doing here,

which does not include interfering

in the events of this earth.

I have no intention of interfering.

Are you not here to confront Malcolm merlyn

with your suspicion that he is the dark Archer?

Well, I went to applied sciences last night

to retrieve the dwarf star particles

just like you asked me to.

You make it sound like a trifle.

Those specific particles can only be found

on this earth out of a multitude.

My point is that when I arrived, Malcolm had already stolen them.

You know what might help?

If I actually knew why I was after them.

That I have tasked you should be reason enough.

Or have you come to doubt your commitment to this mission?

No, I have not.

At Harris consolidated, we see the wall coming down as an opportunity.

For the criminals of star city to Rob the glades blind?

To reunite the city.

I don't think people in the glades got that memo

'cause last I checked, crime's up 300%

since the wall went down.

There's an old saying... There are 3 kinds of liars:

Liars, damn liars, and statisticians.

You're focusing on the glades to the exclusion of star city

while net, there's been a citywide reduction in crime.

And we have the vigilantes who brought down the wall in the first place

to thank for that.

Hear that, guys? We're famous.

Really? 'Cause it sounds like we got a long way to go.

Which is why we're here, to make sure

nothing happens to Mr. Vasquez.