Arrow 405: Haunted
by Bobby Doherty @thehorndogg

We see a waitress dumping trash in an alley two thugs trap her. Sara jumps into action and kills the thugs then turns her attack on the waitress, sirens from a SCPD car ring out and Sara runs away.

Now at Queen HQ: Speedy introduces Oliver to their new political strategist Alex Davis. Oliver cracks a joke on how young he looks. Alex starts giving Oliver advice about his previous scandals. Oliver doesn’t believe people will worry about scandals with the state of the city and a woman killing people in Pennytown. Alex advices Oliver to keep his distance from Laurel because it’s just a reminder of his rich playboy ways.

Flashback- Oliver is confronted with his ARGUS bag. Oliver is brought into the commander’s tent. We get our first look at John Constantine who is getting beat up by Baron Reiter for spying. Constantine looks at the camera and ask for a cigarette.

Lance is investigating the murders. He finds out that Sara is loose and killing people. He questions Laurel why she didn’t let him know.

Felicity is in Palmer Tech’s lab looking for Terrific to clean up the last recording of Ray Palmer. She thinks there’s something more on the recording.

Darhk and Lance are having a meeting Darhk gives Lance a harddrive that he wants him to plug into a server farm. Lance ask what is it going to do? Darhk lets him know it’s not like its going to destroy the city or anything.

Speedy and Oliver are training. They start to discuss the political strategist idea of distance himself from his past. Speedy doesn’t like the idea. Felicity interrupts the conversation with news that a blond woman is going crazy at a nightclub. Oliver and Speedy suit up to investigate.

Laurel is first to arrive at the club she tries to take Sara down. Sara gets the best of her. Oliver arrives just in time to rescue Laurel and is shocked to see Sara.

Back at Lair Oliver starts questioning how Sara is alive. He knows they went to the pit. Oliver says they are playing with forces that Speedy and Laurel don’t understand and now people are dying.

Flashback- Constantine has a map of the island. Reiter wants Oliver to bring back whatever is on the map. Constantine has freed himself from the cuffs escapes and takes Oliver hostage. Constantine wants Oliver to take him to the locations on the map.

Lance has brought the hard drive to Oliver. It’s a trojan horse. Oliver doesn’t want Lance to break into the building alone. He suggest Diggle goes with him. Diggle ask why he working with Darhk because of Darhk connection with HIVE. Lance explains how Darhk threatened him with Laurel. Diggle agrees to help him only because it’s going to get them closer to take down HIVE.

Oliver and Felicity are back home. They both are talking about the people they have lost and how Sara is back. They figure out Sara is attacking girls that look like Thea. Oliver tries to contact Thea but she ignores his calls. Sara leaps through the apartment window and attacks Speedy. Speedy escapes after slashing Sara’s face with a piece of broken glass. Speed hides in the stairwell as Sara searches for her.

Speedy is now in the hospital with Oliver and Felicity. Speedy says that Sara is going through the same thing she is. She admits to Oliver she’s only doing better because she killed the two people. Laurel walks in. Oliver takes her into the hallway and starts to lecture her. Laurel says Oliver doesn’t see her as an equal because Oliver is so hypocritical with his choices on what he tells people and what he doesn’t. Laurel says he loves Olivers family but wishes Oliver cared as much for hers.

Flashback- We are at the first stop on the map. Constantine tells Oliver that there are things on the island that bad people can’t get there hands on. Constantine grabs some of a plant and does a spell. It exposes a trap door in the dirt.

Lance and Diggle have broken into the server farm. Lance hooks it up to the computer and the program starts deleting files on people.

Laurel is bedside with Speedy. Speedy wakes up and tells Laurel the only way to fix Sara is for Sara to kill her. Speedy knows this because it’s the way she feels about Ra’s except she will never be able to feed that lust because Ra’s is already dead.

Back at the server farm Diggle sees his brother as one of the names getting deleted. He tries to stop it which triggers an alarm. Diggle refuses to leave the computer trying to get his brother info back. Lance acting quick his Diggle with his gun and pulls out his badge when security arrives. Lance tells security that he tracked the hacker her and to go get backup. Diggle and Lance sneak out after they leave.

In the hospital while Laurel and Oliver are in the hallway Sara sneeks in on Speedy as she’s sleeping. Speedy wakes up and tells Sara that it’s okay. That she wants Sara to kill her. Durning Sara choking Speedy her ivy bag is knocked over and that triggers Oliver and Laurel to come in the room. Sara escapes out the window.

Back in the Lair the team is figuring out how Sara keeps figuring out where Speedy is. Speedy thinks they might be able to use their pit connection to find Sara. Oliver doesn’t want to do it but the team is behind Speedy’s plan. Oliver is convinced that the body is back but Sara soul isn’t there.

Flashback- Oliver and Constantine are now in the cave. Oliver doesn’t understand the magic that Constantine. Constantine handcuffs Oliver as he enters a chamber that says only for the pure of heart. Oliver escapes the handcuffs follows Constantine in. Constantine removes an artifact from the middle of the room. When he does this it triggers a trap. Oliver saves him from the falling spikes and explains to Constantine that he’s not a bad person either.

Lance confronts Darhk on why they are deleting the info on dead. He ask why Darhk deleted info Diggles brother. We find out that Diggle’s brother was a crime lord in Afghanistan.

Team Arrow is set up in the old club waiting for Sara to come try to kill Speedy again. The team is hidden and Speedy is out in the open for bait. Speedy doesn’t think it’s going to work just as she says it Sara leaps in through a window. In the middle of the fight Laurel pulls out a gun and wants to shoot Sara. While Sara is distracted by Laurel and the gun Oliver puts a tranq arrow in Sara’s back. Oliver takes the gun from Laurel and says let’s get her soul back. Oliver calls Constantine and says he’s cashing in that favor.

Back in the lair with the team around Sara with Constantine. Constantine says he needs to perform a restoration of a soul and gives Felicity a list of what he needs. They lay Sara on the floor as Lance walks in. Diggle ask what if everything goes wrong? Constantine assures him if it goes wrong they won’t know because everyone will be dead. Felicity brings in the bowl.  Constantine says he only has enough to take two people with him to the other side. Oliver and Laurel are the two that are going over. Constantine lights the bowl and starts with a spell. The spell shuts down the electronics. The team wakes up in the other world. Sara is screaming out. Laurel runs after the noise through a door. The door is leads right back to the same room. Constantine says they need a tour guide and puts a spell on his lighter that brings them to the pit and two assassins guarding Sara. Oliver takes out both Assassins. Laurel tries to pull Sara out of the pit but she’s getting pulled back in by a ton of arms. Constantine fights off a third guard as Laurel and Oliver pull her from it. They all wake up in Lair and Sara’s soul is restored.

Oliver and Constantine are walking through the Lair. Oliver lets Constantine know that if he ever needs anything to let him know. Constantine says he’s had a weird feeling since he got into down. Oliver mentions Darhk and Constantine warns him about Darhk. Says his best bet is leave town.

Flashback- Oliver and Constantine leave the cave with the Orb of Horus. Constantine transfers a protection tattoo to Oliver and says he’ll know when to use it against Reiter. Constantine also breaks the Orb off the staff so Oliver can return to Reiter. Constantine punches Oliver so it looks like he escaped.

Back in Oliver’s mayor headquarters. Laurel walks in and thanks Oliver for saving Sara.

Lance is now at Diggle’s place and gives Diggle info on his brother that Darhk gave him. Diggle reads the file and is upset but at least he knows why his brother was killed by HIVE.

Terrific has broke the code on Ray Palmer’s message. The recording says ‘I’m alive and I’m in trouble’….

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