Arrow

Oliver: My name is Oliver Queen.

After five years in hell,

I have come home with only one goal--

to save my city.

Now others have joined my crusade.

To them, I'm Oliver Queen.

To the rest of Starling City, I am someone else.

I am...something else.

Previously, on "Arrow"...

I killed Sara.

Malcolm gave me something that made me

susceptible to suggestion.

What happened wasn't your fault, Thea,

because it wasn't your decision.

Malcolm? He's going to face justice.

He's gone. Malcolm Merlyn will never be seen again.

Welcome to Nanda Parbat.

When I told you that Malcolm killed Sara,

he wanted her dead, but I am the one

who fired those arrows into her chest.

I promised you your vengeance.

So take it.

Kill me.

But spare John Diggle's life.

Let him go.

I will beg for it.

You've shown tremendous strength,

fortitude,

and power.

No, Mr. Queen...

I don't want to kill you.

I want you to take my place.

I want you to become the next Ra's al Ghul.

Ra's is a title greater than any one man.

Wing ta Lao wo chey.

Am I supposed to understand what that means?

No. It is from a dialect no longer spoken.

Said to me by a man whose place I took.

Contemplating the same offer.

And what it means is,

a tale to be told...

begins thus.

Ayy!

Don't let your footing betray you.

Let your power come not from the strength of your attack

but from the ground that holds your feet.

All men seek guidance, a purpose.

The means to live without pain.

Those who journey here have given such an exchange

for their fealty.

You mean they have to kill for you?

No, Mr. Queen, they have to die for me.

Is all of this supposed to impress me?

No.

It's to inform you.

Surely men have branded you a murderer,

a torturer.

But see, I would never shame you with such bluntness.

Because I see it in your eyes.

The struggle you have with your dual identity.

Oliver Queen and the Arrow.

Neither are giving you what you crave.

But becoming Ra's al Ghul will?

Oliver Queen is a man destined to be alone.

He loves a woman he knows he cannot have.

You don't know me.

But I know the Arrow.

"Al Sahhim." You will never be

anything more than a vigilante for those whose lives you save

at the risk of your own.

And the city will turn on you,

and your closest allies within the police department

will call you a criminal.

You will be scorned

and hunted,

and then killed.

Dying as you began your crusade...

Alone.

Your brother attempted to have me believe that he killed Sara.

Your confession is even less convincing.

I don't have any reason to lie!

Except to protect your father.

Why would I protect Malcolm

when I turned him over to you?

He gave me a drug called Votura.

I put three arrows into her chest,

and I had no idea what I was doing.

He used me.

Someone she trusted.

So I don't deserve to be living

any more than Malcolm does!

There would be no justice in killing you.

I killed Sara!

Kill me.

Do it.

Do it.

The blood debt ends with Malcolm's death.

Which, I can assure you, my father has taken care of already.

Laurel: Thea!

Roy: Get away from her!

Nyssa, no!

Are you ok?

How the hell...

Did she get out?

It's League training, probably.

What were you doing down here in the first place?

I just wanted to pay my respects.

It was Herodotus who first wrote of these waters.

And Ponce de Deon traveled the earth in search of them.

And their discovery by Al-Khidr

is chronicled in the Qu'ran.

And they have permitted me

to live way beyond my time.

You don't seem too fazed by what I've told you.

I've seen things that have helped me to believe

that this world is a much bigger place than people realize.

As I told you on the mountain, boy,

man can only evade death for so long.

The waters' powers

are losing their effect on me.

My time is almost over,

but my legacy won't be just ash and bone,

it will be history.

And you think that I'll help you secure that legacy?

You survived my sword.

Your resurrection wasn't a gift from these waters,

rather by force of your own will.

And what better heir to immortality

than someone who has already claimed victory over death?

I didn't defy death just to become an instrument of it.

We are justice.

Isn't that what you've dedicated your life to?

Then why confine your crusade to a single city...

When I can give you a whole world to save.

By executing anyone who stands in my way?

You would command resources that you cannot even fathom.

Numbers greater than any army.

And more loyal.

Now, if you wish for them to renounce killing as you did,

thy will be done.

I doubt that. It's called

the League of Assassins for a reason.

The League's reason would be your own.

You would be Ra's al Ghul.

And what if I say no?

Then you are free to leave.

With your compatriots,

as a gesture of good will.

All debts forgiven,

and all blood oaths waived.

Let's go home.

Really need to stop having these "thank god you're not dead" reunions.

I agree.

- I'm working on it. - You look ok.

Are you ok?

I'm fine. Not even a scratch.

How is that possible?

How did you get him back?

Doesn't matter. What matters is,

you didn't kill him.

No, I wanted Ra's to kill him.

And I still do.

Thea...

He's not staying here.

You and I both know there's nowhere else I can take him.

If you think I feel bad for him, you're wrong.

I'm not asking you to feel bad for him;

I'm not asking you to forgive him.

Just let him heal.

I have to go.

John: How did Thea react to her new house guest?

Fine.

That bad, huh?

Did she ask how we made it back from Nanda Parbat alive?

Well, I didn't get into it with her.

Well, how about me, Oliver?

Like I said,

Ra's had a change of heart.

Ra's Al Ghul doesn't have a heart.

Two months ago, he kicked you off the side of a mountain

and put a sword through you.

Now he's giving you Malcolm Merlyn back all gift wrapped?

Diggle, we're back. We're alive.

Let's just be grateful for that.

What's the Chinese word for ok?

Or, how do you say ok in Mandarin?

"Hao Ba."

Ok, everything is going to be "hao Ba."

I want to go home!

Yeah, I--I know, buddy,

but home's not really safe right now.

Because those men tried to hurt us?

Yeah. Because of those men.

In fact, Akio, we shouldn't

even really be out in open.

Akio!

Akio: Oliver?

Hey, look, you cannot disappear like that!

I thought I saw my father,

but it wasn't him.