The Dodger gets out of the building but runs into the Hood outside. While The Dodger shows the jewel to a new fence, Claire Abbott, McKenna and her team police raid the building. He tells a suspicious Oliver he was the only one who made it and that he was beaten by soldiers. Oliver calls Felicity and has her activate the bug on McKenna's phone.īack in the flashback, the beaten man tells Oliver he's an exchange student named Alan Durand who got lost during a fishing trip with his class. McKenna is called away from dinner for work. She points out that those years must have changed him and he agrees. He begins to have small flashbacks and becomes more and more withdrawn. Oliver's date is going well, until McKenna starts asking questions about the island. Felicity finds out online that he was probably a potential "fence".ĭuring John and Carly's date he accidentally brings up his brother and she wonders if perhaps the whole thing is too complicated. Oliver and John listen to a conversation in which McKenna talks about the man The Dodger had murdered. He turns around to leave but finds a badly beaten man stumble into the cave. A nervous Oliver tells her he has a date, and after he leaves, Thea gets a possible suspect and calls Laurel with his name: Roy Harper.įlashback to the island and Oliver is grabbing the herbs. This leads to Thea's trying to track down stores that might have bought the wallet from the thief. The guy gets Thea's purse but a piece of his wallet chain gets snagged on a fence. Laurel and Thea are walking through the Glades, when Thea gets mugged. Oliver visits the precinct, plants the bug in McKenna's cell phone when she steps away from her desk, and sets a dinner date for that night. Diggle awkwardly asks Carly out and agree to dinner that night. Felicity suggests they should also bug McKenna's phone in order to find out what the police know about The Dodger. This leads to Diggle agreeing to ask Carly on a date only if Oliver asks out McKenna Hall. Oliver explains the relationship and agrees with Felicity, saying that Dig should ask Carly out. Felicity interjects and asks about Diggle and Carly's relationship.
Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity, at the Big Belly Burger restaurant, talk about how to approach The Dodger. The Dodger tasers all three of them, and shoots Derenick in the head. The man attempts to rob The Dodger, and has three of his men put their guns to The Dodger's face.
The Dodger meets Cass Derenick to sell the stolen ruby.
To get her back on the team, Oliver asks Felicity to help them take him down. Seeing an opportunity to get Felicity to work with them again, Oliver explains that he does go after normal criminals sometimes. Felicity offhand mentions that it's too bad that that guy isn't in Oliver's book. A news report talks about a criminal named The Dodger who steals by forcing hostages to wear explosive collars and do the dirty work for him. Oliver and Diggle wait in Felicity's office to catch her, and he tries to put Felicity at ease about his vigilante actions by telling her that the man she was worried about is still alive, and he gave back the money he stole. He agrees to help her leave the organization, and organizes a meeting with Malcolm. The two of them had begun The Undertaking to fix the city, but have seen their goal crumble. She tells him that she wants to get out of The Undertaking because it's cost her too much - Walter's kidnapping, Robert's death, and her near death. Moira meets with Frank Chen, an old friend. Oliver remembers some herbs Yao Fei Gulong had in his cave that "healed everything". In a flashback to the island and Oliver is bringing water to Slade whose bullet wound is now infected. She overrides the security lock to go out of the Arrow cave, but when he still refuses to listen to her, she tells him that the idea of her helping him was a mistake and she quits. After he retrieves the jewel, he tasers the "hostage" unconscious.įelicity is concerned by how Oliver takes down criminals, and finds that the culprit, Ken Williams, is a widowed father with a ten-year-old son. A high-profile criminal known as The Dodger had placed an explosive device around the man's neck. The episode opens with a museum guard named Jerry, who appears to be helping a man steal the Sherwood Ruby because he was forced to.