Arrow 411: AWOL
By Bobby Doherty @thehorndogg
Diggle and Lyla are out on a date night. Alan approaches them on the street saying that he’s been compromised. A van and men come shooting. Diggle is hit and the van gets away with Alan.
Oliver is carrying Felicity downstairs in the apartment and Oliver is trying to convince Felicity that she’s still a part of the team. Oliver gets a message that DIggle has been shot.
Oliver is questioning if it could have been Ghost. Diggle is convinced they are military. Diggle has a bag of food that he’s taking down to Andy in the cell. Andy ask Diggle why he can ask him all these questions but Andy can’t ask any in return. Andy can’t believe Diggle is working with someone like Arrow. Diggle reminds him that saving city’s use to be Andy’s mission.
Diggle Flashback: Andy and Diggle are getting an assignment to cut off some arms from Terrorist. While on patrol the Humvee they are driving in gets attacked with an RPG. Diggle is able take out the truck with a homemade land mine.
Felicity is now at home alone. She is hitting the pills hard. A voice is talking to her. Felicity thinks she’s losing it and talking to herself. A dark hair Felicity appears across from her.
Laurel is investigating a body that matches the description of Alan. After the cops leave Diggle comes over and ID’s him as Alan. The pull back the sheet to reveal that the murder removed his finger and one eye.
Diggle and Lyla are now at ARGUS talking about Chans death. They are basically told to leave. While they leave a thumb drive is slipped to Lyla.
Back at the Apartment is Felicity is still talking to her other self as she researches side effects from drugs.
Back at the liar the team is looking over the thumb drive that was given to them at ARGUS. It has information on a group of people that Diggle and Andy ran into while deployed in Afghanistan.
Diggle Flashback: Andy/Diggle are standing guard on the base. The suggestion that they could take a brick of the Afghan drugs and make some money. Andy and Diggle both refuse.
Diggle confronts Andy about his ties with Shadowspire. Andy tells Diggle he hasn’t had any run-ins with them since he was kicked out. They only deal with enlisted men. Andy offers to help with finding the two missing agents from the flash drive. He gives him some info on where to look.
The team is there and needs Felicity’s help. Oliver calls her but she is still battling her other personality. She’s able to disable the security system and direct the team around. The team finds the other agents but they are both dead. Felicity is starting to lose it and get Oliver and Diggle captured by Shadowspire. Just as Diggle is going to get exposed Oliver is able to use an explosive Arrow to escape and take out the soldiers.
Oliver is back at the apartment with Felicity. Oliver apologises for pushing her back into action to soon. Felicity tells Oliver that she can’t be part of the team anymore. As she’s having the discussion the hallucination is in the room and talking over Oliver. Felicity tells the other her to shut up.
Diggle has turned Andy over to Argus. Argus wants to know about the railguns and how Andy knew so much. Andy said it’s not about rail guns they are after something bigger.
At the lair Laurel and Oliver are training. Oliver explains to Laurel about how Barry can change the past and how the past can fight back. Oliver thinks he might be the cause of what’s going on with Felicity. Oliver gets the call from Diggle about the rail guns.
Back at the apartment Felicity and her other self are arguing with each other. Dark Felicity starts to tell her to stop pretending. That she’s been hiding all these years with the bottle blonde.
The team is waiting at the site of the rail guns waiting to see what Shadowspire is doing with the guns. Diggle and Lyla are at ARGUS with Andy. Oliver knows something is wrong at the site of the railguns. The Shadowspire breaks into ARGUS.
The Shadowspire are in ARGUS for Rubacon. Shadowspire start killing the hostages one at a time until ARGUS lets it up. Diggle is trying to contact the team but is unable to. Andy wants to help his brother.
DIggle Flashback: DIggle believes he’s catching Andy backsliding into his former life.
Back in the Lair Oliver is trying to contact Diggle. Felicity shows up. She’s back on the team and explains how her old self being angry didn’t help anything. Felicity tells Oliver that it’s neither of their fault that she’s in the wheelchair it’s Darhk. The computer starts to flash and it’s the video feed from ARGUS. Oliver knows its been compromised. Amanda Waller wont give up the codes still after 20 mins. She is the next to be killed. Diggle sees the gun put to his wife and he goes to leave to help. Andy says Diggle doesn’t stand a chance alone and he needs his help.
Speedy, Laurel and Oliver are in ARGUS. Felicity running the computer as her new name is Overwatch. Andy convinces the Shadowspire to release him and Andy tells him Diggle is in the ventilation shafts. Diggle gets caught and brought back to get the codes. Lyla is trying to use the codes but Felicity is blocking her. Just as Diggle is about to get shot Andy leaps into action and Oliver drops in. Team Arrow and the ARGUS agents are able to take down Shadowspire.
Back in the lair the team is celebrating the battle with Shadowspire. Diggle is trying to figure out what to do with Andy after Andy saved his life.
Diggle Flashback: Andy meets Baron.
Oliver and Felicity are both talking about how much they’ve both grown over the years. Oliver tells Felicity that they’ve seen so much happen that he believes they can make him walk again.
Diggle decided to take Andy out of the cell and bring Andy to their house.
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