- Oliver awakens to find himself Malcolm Merlyn's prisoner. He manages to escape and away with help from Digg. Malcolm accelerates his timetable as a result. Felicity is questioned by Det. Lance about her hacking activities but is interrupted by Oliver who tells him about Malcolm's plan to destroy the Glades. Tommy confronts Oliver about Laurel but refuses to believe that his father is up to no good. Malcolm comes clean about his plans and Tommy realizes that his father is insane. Moira goes public with what she knows, urging the residents of the Glades to evacuate. Roy and Thea get caught up in the mayhem. While Oliver and Digg go after Malcolm, Felicity tries to neutralize the device via Lance. Malcolm has planned it all very well, however. In a flashback to his time on the island, Fyers attempts to bring down an airliner.—garykmcd
- Malcolm has Queen strung up by his hands in his basement. Malcolm apologizes for what happened to Queen's father and him ending up on the island. Malcolm thinks Queen's problem is he doesn't really know what he's fighting for.
Flash back to the island: Fyers orders the missile be locked on the plane. Queen, Wilson and Shado manage to break out of custody but are unable to stop the launch.
Present day: Queen frees himself from the chain connecting him to the ceiling and takes out several guards just as Digds finally arrives, drawn to him by a tracking device Queen keeps in his boot.
Felicity is grabbed by Lance and brought downtown. He knows she is somehow connected to The Hood. Queen calls Lance using his voice modulator. He tells him Malcolm is planning to level the Glades and he should begin evacuating. Lance has no choice but to let her go.
Tommy confronts Queen about kissing Laurel. Queen tells him about their fathers' plan to destroy the Glades. Tommy doesn't want to believe what Queen's saying about Malcolm.
Flash back to the island: Queen is able to reprogram the missile at the last second. It misses the plan and turns around, leveling Fyers' camp.
Present day: Lance tells a superior about the vigilante's intel related to the Glades and Unidac. He is promptly suspended.
Queen tells Moira they need to stop what is happening. He says he's spoken to Malcolm. Queen tells Moira that Robert, after killing the other shipwreck survivor, killed himself when they were on the life raft. They need to figure out the location of the quake device, he says. Malcolm calls Moira and says he's accelerated the timetable, the operation will be taking place that night.
Laurel shows up at Queen's place and asks where they are and if she should be worried about history repeating itself. He reassures her that things are different and she is all that matters. He asks her to stay out of the Glades.
Malcolm tells Tommy that what he's heard about the Glades is true. He plays for Tommy the voicemail from the night his mother died. Malcolm yells that everyone there deserves to die the way she died.
Felicity thinks the device must be underground near a fault that runs under the Glades. Queen thinks he knows where it is. Thea calls Queen to tell him Moira is holding a press conference. Queen turns on the TV and sees his mother confess to a five-year plan ("the undertaking") related to destroying the Glades. She says the architect is Malcolm and she has proof he's killed to keep the plan moving forward. She tells everyone in the Glades they need to leave immediately. A tearful Thea tells Moira she can't leave Roy there.
Malcolm confirms for Tommy that he killed people. Malcolm opens a safe and reveals his costume. Malcolm takes out several police officers and knocks Tommy unconscious when he tries to stop him.
The plan is for Diggs to find the quake device and for Queen to go after Malcolm. Instead Diggs wants to join him in the fight. Felicity is charged with deactivating the device. Arrow tells Lance he knows where the device is located, the subway station where Malcolm's wife was killed. He wants Lance to help Felicity.
The Glades is in complete chaos as people attempt to leave. Lance heads into the subway.
Queen and Diggs just miss Malcolm at his office. This leads to an island flashback. After the missile dust settles Queen finds a bow and arrow in a box. Fyers walks up with a gun to Shado's head, using her as a shield. Fyers orders Queen to surrender. Instead Queen puts an arrow in Fyers' head.
Present day: Queen finds Tommy on the ground. Diggs and Arrow find Malcolm behind a false wall. The three fight and Malcolm ends up throwing a knife into Diggs' chest. Malcolm runs to the roof and Arrow follows.
Felicity begins to talk Lance though deactivating the device.
Thea helps Roy get out of a tough spot and the two leave the Glades together.
Arrow and Malcolm fight.
Lance cuts a wire, but all that does is accelerate the timer. It's now at two minutes and Lance thinks they won't be able to stop it. He calls Laurel and tells her to get out. Lance says he won't make it and make her promise to go on with her life. He tells her he loves her and hangs up. Felicity begins to give her more instructions.
Roy stops to help people trapped in a bus on their way out of town. They kiss and Thea leaves.
Arrow gets caught in a chokehold and it seems he's not going to make it. Arrow is able to grab an arrow and stick it into himself and Malcolm behind him.
With only seconds to spare Felicity helps Lance stop the device. She calls and gives Queen the good news. But just as Malcolm dies he tells Queen there is another device.
The second device goes off. Queen and Diggs watch as the Glades begin to crumble.
Laurel is knocked to the floor as her building crumbles. Felicity is okay, telling Queen the damage is centered on one part of town.
Tommy shows up to save Laurel. He struggles to lift a piece of wall off of her and tells her he loves her. Laurel runs to safety but Tommy is trapped as the building falls. Queen rushes inside to find a huge piece of rebar has pierced his chest. Queen tells Tommy he's nothing like his father as he dies. Queen weeps.
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