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Michael Rowe in Arrow (2012)

Plot

Keep Your Enemies Closer

Arrow

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  • Amanda Waller sends A.R.G.U.S. agents to kidnap Diggle. Waller informs Diggle that Lyla has gone missing after following a lead on Deadshot in Moscow. When Diggle tells the team he's headed to Russia to rescue Lyla, Oliver and Felicity decide to join, but things get messy when Isabel shows up on the tarmac and insists on joining Oliver's "work trip". Meanwhile, Moira's lawyer, Jean, tells Thea that dating Roy, a known criminal, is hurting her mother's case.—salman ali
  • After Digg learns that Lyla Michaels has disappeared in Moscow while tracking down Deadshot, he decides to head to Russia to find her. Oliver and Felicity decide to join him, officially to check out their subsidiary there. Isabel Rochev, who recently took Oliver to task for not spending more time on Queen Consolidated business and particularly for missing a board meeting, decides she will go with him to see just what kind of business trip this is. With Moira's trial soon to start, her lawyer warns Thea that her relationship with Roy may harm her mother's case. Flashbacks reveal that Oliver spent time on the freighter with Ivo and Sara.—garykmcd

Synopsis

  • Open with Isabel upset with Queen about his lack of commitment to the company.

    While Roy does some recon Arrow shows up and advises him to be more careful. Roy's discovered a huge criminal purchase going down, but Arrow tells him he's got it covered. With help from Digs Arrow is able to break up the party, but Roy is arrested in the process for hitting one of the bad guys. At the end someone tases Digs and takes him away.

    Digs wakes up tied to a chair. A woman named Amanda comes in and tells him that Lyla has gone missing in Russia hunting down info on Deadshot. Amanda knows about Queen's work as Arrow and asks him to find Lyla.

    Roy tells Lance he's on Arrow's "team" and is aware that Lance is a fellow teammate. An angry Thea arrives at the station but Lance tells her it was all a mistake.

    Digs tells Queen he needs a few personal days to find Lyla. Queen and Felicity think it's time for a trip to Moscow under the pretenses of visiting one of the company's subsidiaries.

    Back on the boat Queen gives Ivo a false name and tells him he was the only survivor of a shipwreck. Ivo asks about stem cell therapy practiced by the Japanese during WWII. They had a theorem, called Mirakuru, which gave soldiers super-strength. The technology was lost and he believes it is on the island.

    Isabel arrives unexpectedly at the airport and says she's going with them. When they land she tell Queen she's arranged a meeting with their subsidiary. She also suspects that Queen is having an affair with Felicity.

    Moira's lawyer tells Thea she needs to end the relationship with Roy to help her mother's image.

    Queen and Digs meet with Queen's Russian buddy Anatoli, who was placed in the cell next to his on the boat. He tells Digs he's been told Lyla was caught trying to break in and is now in one of the country's worst labor camps. The only way to get in is as a prison and Anatoli has friends on staff. Digs says it should be him. Digs tells Felicity he was briefly married to Lyla. They split and she joined ARGUS.

    Digs intentionally gets himself arrested with a bag full of drugs. He's brought to the gulag and processed. The jacket Felicity gave him is logged into evidence. Digs' cellmate tells him people of color aren't popular there.

    Queen, Felicity and Anatoli meet with some gangsters. They pulls out weapons but Queen is able to talk them out of it.

    Back on the ship Queen tells Sara his friends aren't dead. We cut to Shado patching up a badly wounded Slade. He tells her to leave, but she stays with him. She lies with him to raise his plummeting body temperature.

    Thea breaks up with Roy.

    Digs is attacked by one of the prison gangs and has to fight his way out. He's locked up in a refrigerated room and told he'll be there for six hours. He looks across the room and sees Deadshot in the same predicament.

    Isabel and Queen have a conversation. She tells him she thinks he's lonely, much like herself.

    Anatoli's guard buddy gets Digs free, telling him "you don't have much time."

    Queen and Isabel end up in a hotel room together fooling around.

    Deadshot sneaks up from behind and kills the guard Digs is with. He tells Digs he'll take him to Lyla if he gets him out of the gulag.

    Felicity comes up to Queen's room and sees that he and Isabel were together. Later she asks him what he was thinking sleeping with her.

    Back on the boat Queen is taken away by Sara. He promises Anatoli he'll be back for him. Sara brings Queen to a radio and tells him to call for his friends. As soon as Shado picks up Sara rips the radio away from him and Ivo appears. Sara was working with Ivo to trick Queen and confirm his friends were still alive.

    Deadshot brings Digs to Lyla. At this point the jacket Digs brought with him to prison explodes., ripping a hole in the prison. With help from a guard on the inside Digs, Deadshot and Lyla are able to get out and jump into Queen's vehicle.

    After some time Digs orders Deadshot out of the vehicle at gunpoint. But he honors his promise not to kill him and lets Deadshot go. At this point Deadshot tells him that his brother was his contract. He was paid by someone named HIVE.

    Moira calls Roy to prison and she tells him about her lawyer. Thea says she thought their relationship hurt the case, but Moira disagrees. She tells them to get back together.

    We see Lyla and Digs in bed together. When she leaves he Googles H.I.V.E.

    Queen tells Felicity he thinks based on his life he doesn't want to be with anybody he "could really care about." She says she thinks he deserves better.

    Back on the boat Queen is about to be killed by the captain. Ivo and Sara think he'll be useful in bringing them to the graves. Ivo tells Queen he's going back to the island and makes it clear he's known who he was the whole time.

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