Arrow Recap With Spoilers: Deathstroke

In the car, Slade is talking to Thea; he asks her why she's crying, and when she says Roy broke up [...]

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In the car, Slade is talking to Thea; he asks her why she's crying, and when she says Roy broke up with her, he tells her that heartbreak is something he knows all too well. He stops in a bad neighborhood and bellows at her to get out, then she runs from him and into the arms of Brother Blood. At the Arrowcave, Diggle tells Oliver that a new wing in the prison will reopen just in time; letting the villains stay alive this year has filled Iron Heights to capacity. Roy is worried about Thea, asking whether she would have been better off just telling her the truth. Oliver tells him no, with Felicity joking that she told Barry and he got struck by lightning.. Felicity tries to give Oliver some messages from Queen Consolidated, and he wants them tossed out but she tells him he has to make time for the stockholder meeting.

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Back on the island, the prisoners on the island are debating whether they should hand the bound and gagged Hendrik over to Slade. Anatoli says they have no other option, and Sara tells them that it gives them a window of opportunity to kill Slade. At Queen, Oliver shows up to discover that the Board isn't there yet; Isabel has bumped the meeting a half an hour in anticipation of his being late. She thanks him for showing up and he thanks her for picking up the slack. Moira arrives, asking Oliver how Isabel is and then asking him about Thea. She checks to make sure Oliver is coming to a debate between her and Blood tonight; cut to the debate later, and Oliver is finally starting to get worried looking for Thea. Blood says that's his fault -- that his motorcade tied up traffic all over town. During the debate, they're taking video questions on the monitors behind the candidates and the moderator introduces one as coming from Thea Queen. The message that pops up is Thea, bound to a chair and crying; Deathstroke holds a hand over her mouth and the caption "How much is Thea Queen's life worth?" flashes onscreen.

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In an elevator, Diggle is trying to give Roy a pep talk; Roy is worried that they won't be able to find Thea alive. Reporters swarm the two as they enter Oliver's office. On TV, Blood is announcing that he's suspending his campaign to contribute all of his resources to finding Thea. When the police ask Moira who might have a motive to take Thea, she flashes to Merlyn, but says only that maybe it was someone who lost a loved one in the earthquake. Oliver tells the police that's not it, and when questioned, tells them they just need to work whatever they have. Outside, Isabel shoots Oliver a look and he goes with her. She tells Oliver that there's an SEC rule that as CEO he has to validate the vote they took at the shareholders' meeting within twenty-four hours. He tells her that he can't think about that right now and scribbles out a note naming her the CEO pro tempore. Felicity comes to get Oliver, telling him that through computer voodoo, she found a photo of a car registered to Slade leaving Verdant last night around the time Thea left. It has a GPS and is parked outside a defunct bar on Roosevelt. Diggle objects that it's clearly a trap because they figured it out so easily, but Oliver says that if he's there and Thea's there, they have to go. Sara brings along some pit viper venom -- the League of Assassin's sedative of choice -- while Oliver tells Roy to come along and not to hold back his rage this time. On the island, Knyazev is taking apart a land mine so they can rig the explosive to kill Slade. Sara wants to attach it to Hendrik.

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In Starling, Slade is waiting for Team Arrow when they show up. Slade challenges Oliver to kill him, saying then he'll never find out where Thea is. Oliver shoots Slade with an arrow tipped with the venom and tells Roy to call Lance in to arrest Slade. At the police department later, Lance is talking to Sara; he asks if Oliver knows about Arrow, but she says no. When Oliver and Moira show up, one of the other cops says he's got a Costa Rican alibi, and that Lance will be lucky if they don't arrest him when they find out he's been working with the Arrow again. In an interrogation room, Oliver approaches Slade and asks how he got back from the Island. Slade tells him he swam, and that while the process often injured and mangled his body, everything regenerated except his eye. Oliver asks him why he's doing this, and Slade tells him he knows why. He tells him that the island still has a hold on him -- and on Oliver, too, if the hood is any indication. Oliver tells him to leave Thea out of his vendetta; that Shado is dead because of a decision he made. He begs Slade to let her go. Just before Slade can pretend he's about to tell Oliver where Thea is, he's released from custody. He tells the police not to pursue charges against Lance on his account -- that he doesn't hold grudges.

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He goes outside and tells the reporters that he was in Costa Rica, but that he's offering a $5 million reward for information leading to Thea's return. He drives away and is pursued by Team Arrow, but they lose him after he clones the tracker on his car. He returns to where he's holding Thea and tells her that she's free to go, but that if she does, he won't tell her Oliver's secret. In the Cave, Roy starts to question Oliver's decision to hand Slade over to the police instead of keeping him in their own custody to torture him for answers. Back at the mansion, Thea is worried about Thea and she's reminiscing about when Thea was younger. She's worried that Thea might not be alive, but Oliver assures her that she is. She tells Oliver that she can't bear to lose one of the kids again, especially since Oliver hates her. She finally apologizes for all the lies. Oliver tells her that what's happening now is not her fault, but she doesn't believe him. He goes to hold her hand, to console her. Back on the island, Slade brings Oliver and Ivo and leaves them in the bunker, and hand Hendrik over to him. Slade smells the TNT and threatens to kill Sara, but Oliver stands in front of the gun, and then Shado appears behind him. Back at the cave, Roy decides he's going after Slade. When Diggle tries to stop him, he attacks Diggle and Sara threatens to put an arrow through him. Oliver shows up to break it up, and Roy quits the team and leaves -- then there's a beep on a computer screen and Felicity tells Oliver there's another problem. Cut to Oliver at Queen Consolidated, where he interrupts a meeting. Rochev has used her role as CEO pro tempore to sell the remaining stock to herself. She confirms that she's been working with Slade, that she's after Oliver for something his father did. He grabs her and demands to know where Thea is, and when she attacks him, he pins her down and demands to know where Thea is, or he's going to kill her.

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She tells him that Slade wants Oliver to come to a storage depot outside of town, alone, or he'll kill Thea. Back at the cave, the rest of the team object but Felicity tells Oliver to go, do whatever he has to in order to bring Thea back safely. When Oliver arrives, Slade has a gang of minions waiting for him; Oliver takes them out with brutal efficiency. On the road outside of town, a Department of Corrections bus carrying a load of prisoners is headed down the street when it's flagged down by Slade in his full Deathstroke attire. At the end of a long hallway, Oliver comes ot the room where Thea had been held, and it's empty. On the road, Deathstroke kills the three DOC drivers and tells the prisoners that he has a proposal for them. At the storage facility, Oliver gets a phone call from Felicity; Thea walked into the police precinct unaccompanied five minutes ago. At the Starling City Police Department, Team Arrow tells Oliver that abducting Thea was all a diversion so that Slade could staff up. Oliver and Moira run to Thea and hug her. She confronts them, though, telling them that Slade revealed that Merlyn was her father. On the Island, the ghost of Shado tells Slade that death is too good for Oliver and company -- that the island should be their prison. Ivo offers to help Slade, but Slade punches him and tells him to stay there. He tells Oliver that as soon as the Amazo is fixed, he's going to pay the Queen family a visit. Thea gets into a car and drives out of Starling City.

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Back at the police department, a detective calls Lance over; Spencer doesn't want to press charges, but that if he can't tell him who the Arrow is, he's under arrest. Since Lance doesn't know, they place him under arrest. At Wilson's office, he, Rochev and Blood are watching a news broadcast where Moira has pulled far ahead in the mayoral race. Blood is furious; Queen Consolidated has been dedicated to building the Mirakuru serum full time so that Slade can raise an army to take the city. He leaves, saying that Oliver needs one more distraction. At the cave, Oliver meets up with Diggle and Felicity, whom he's surprised are waiting for him. He tells them that Roy was right; that this has all been his fault. He tells them that being so focused on Slade prevented him from stopping everything else from falling apart. The two give him a pep talk that ends with Oliver deciding that "now we fight back." That night, Laurel is watching TV -- a news report saying that a warrant is out for Slade's arrest. There's a knock at her door. It's Slade, who reveals to her that Oliver is Arrow and then leaves.

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