Arrow

My name is Oliver Queen.

After 5 years in Hell, I returned home

with only one goal-- to save my city.

Today, I fight that war on two fronts.

By day, I lead Star City as its mayor,

but by night, I am someone else.

I am...Something else.

I am the Green Arrow.

Previously on "Arrow"...

You have to promise me

that you will be his father.

I promise.

William blames me for Samantha's death.

Now you don't have to like me.

I'm your dad. I am gonna be there for you

whether you want me to be or not.

Curtis and Lance took Rene to Dr. Schwartz for treatment.

Saw you take the shot at that merc.

Never seen you miss.

Turn on channel 52 right now.

This photo provides unequivocal proof

of the identity of the vigilante known as the Green Arrow.

What are we gonna do?

I--I don't know.

Anything interesting on the news last night?

Can you comment on the photo released last night?

How do you feel about the accusation

of being the Green Arrow?

Ladies and gentlemen.

Ladies and gentlemen, please.

If you want to know what I have to say,

it would probably help if you could hear me.

Thank you.

Gonna tell you two things,

both of which you probably already know.

First. This is important. I am not the Green Arrow.

If you're not the Green Arrow, then who is?

Number two. Photos can be doctored.

They could have put Bruce Wayne's head on that body.

Has Bruce Wayne left Gotham to hang out in Star City recently?

No. Now if I was running around the city

during the day and managing it as mayor

while running around at night frightening criminals

as a vigilante, that really would

make me a superhero,

but I'm not.

I'm just the mayor.

Thank you very much.

You seem to be taking this in your stride.

I've been here before with you.

Ugh. Yeah, but I didn't have a photograph

of you in flagrante de-arrow.

Where did channel 52 get the photo?

Anonymous source. Arrived in yesterday's mail,

no return address.

Let's get the envelope, let's get it to forensics,

and let's figure out who leaked it.

And why.

Can't let this distract us.

Where are with rebuilding the SCPD?

Well, I fast tracked the insurance claim,

so we should have 20 million burning a hole

in our account by the end of the day.

- "Our" account? - I figure we peel off

a few bucks and fly off to Vegas.

Heh heh heh. That's cute.

Think it might be a little suspicious

if Oliver left town right about now.

I need to be in town

for the Markovian delegation.

So it's all right for me to go to Vegas is what you're saying?

Hello.

I don't think you have an appointment.

No, but I really don't need one.

Special Agent Samanda Watson.

Uh, can we help you with something?

Not really. I'm here as a courtesy

to inform you of the investigation

I'll be conducting in your city.

Investigation into what?

You.

Ohh. You've got to be kidding.

Yeah, because the FBI is world renowned

for its sense of humor.

You were on the news last night, wearing

the outfit of a known criminal.

Can you honestly say you're surprised

there's an investigation?

No, but I wasn't expecting the FBI.

Well, quite frankly, the local

law enforcement has proven ineffective

where the Green Arrow is concerned.

Uh, Agent...Watson?

Yes.

I was cleared 5 years ago.

Of being the Hood, not the Green Arrow,

and you were cleared by the guy who's now your deputy mayor.

Would you like me to send you a copy

of the polygraph that Mr. Queen passed?

For starters. The local AG will be

issuing subpoenas later on today.

It was nice meeting you, gentlemen.

I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot more of each other.

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At least they caught his good side.

Sorry. Not funny.

All right. John said you guys have experience

putting this particular genie back in the bottle.

Well, yeah. I mean, John's put on the hood before,

but I don't see how that's gonna work now,

not with photographic evidence.

What about the human target?

The human what now?

Best cosplayer ever. He can literally

make himself look like someone else?

Yeah. Chance is out of the country right now,

only God knows where.

We have to think of a new way of getting out of this.

And if we can't?

Because assuming Oliver does not go to prison,

he's not gonna be able to do anything

with a million eyes on him.

Not to mention that if he's outed,

rather if he stays outed,

it won't be much of a leap to the rest of us.

One step at a time.

Ok. First step being figuring out

where this picture came from.

It came from nowhere.

What do you mean?

I mean this envelope wasn't mailed,

delivered, or sent.

It came from inside the channel 52 news offices.

How do we know that?

Bar code. Channel 52 uses it

for internal traffic.

How many people work there?

568.

All right. I'm just gonna say to say it.

What if this was Chase, huh?

He could have put this in motion months ago,

a little parting gift.

Seems like his style, messing with you like this.

It is more than possible.

How's your boy holding up with all this?

Ok. I wanted to keep him home from school,

but he insisted on going.

Like his father, huh?

I wasn't much of a student.

I mean, he's tough.

Where's he standing?

If we could figure out when and where this was taken,

it would give us something to go on.

I wrote an image analysis algorithm,

but there's just not very much for the computer to chew on.

Was the original photo taken digitally,

or was it taken he old-fashioned way?

Digital. Printed on standard inkjet stock.

- Hmm. - Ok. Maybe if we get the file,

there might be some meta data on it,

and we can figure out who took the photo.

That's a pretty epic maybe.

Yeah. Well, like you said,

if we don't figure this out and fast,

we're screwed!

- I did say that, didn't I? - Yeah, you did.

This could destroy our whole lives.

It's hard to think that before

my biggest worry was getting a new job,

and now it's about whether or not we'll end up in jail.

I thought you were sitting pretty from your Palmer Tech severance.

Yeah, from, like, a year ago.

What are you gonna do--

assuming that we're all not in jail.

I mean, I'd definitely rather go to Iron Heights

than work at Tech Village again.

That place was horrendous. What about you?

I mean, you've been out of a job as long as I have.

Not really. I've been doing some freelance coding

in my spare time.

What? What spare time?

Yeah. Tell me about it. Barely any,

but I did not take a dime from Paul in the divorce,

and a man's got to eat.

So you just had, like, a secret job this whole time.

You didn't tell anyone about it?

I thought we all, like, had, like, secret jobs.

- No. - Except for John maybe.

What does he do for money?

That's something that's been perplexing me.

He's--he's married to the director of Argus.

Yeah. That's right. She does make a lot of money. Heh.

This building has been vacant

since being claimed by the city under eminent domain

4 years ago.

Do you have any comment

on the FBI investigating you under murder charges?

We're not gonna talk about that.

Except to say it's a load of crap.

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