Arrow s01e04 Episode Script

My name is Oliver Queen.
For five years, I was stranded on an island survive.
Oliver Queen is alive.
Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish.
You can survive this.
To use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city.
To do this, I must become someone else.
I must become something else.
Previously on Arrow: - Sarah! - How am I supposed to stay away if you won't stay away from me? John Diggle.
He'll be accompanying you from now on.
I'm just beginning to understand the kind of man you are.
Hey- Oliver? You're that vigilante.
Take it easy, Dig.
You were poisoned.
Son of a bitch! I could've taken you anywhere.
Could've taken you home.
I brought you here.
You did lose your mind on that island.
- Found a couple of things.
- What, archery classes? Clarity.
Starling City is dying.
It is being poisoned by a criminal elite who don't care who they hurt as long as they maintain wealth and power.
And what are you gonna do, take them all down by your lonesome? No.
No, I want you to join me.
Special Forces out of Kandahar.
It's perfect.
You're a fellow soldier.
Oliver, you're not a soldier.
You're a criminal.
And a murderer.
Where were you? What are you doing here? I heard about the shooting and wanted to make sure you were okay.
- You did? - Yeah.
I knocked on the door and I found a family terrified for you.
- They had no idea where you were.
- Oh.
Are you so self-centered that you don't think that people who care about you will wonder where you are after you got shot at? You're right.
I made peace with your selfishness a long time ago but Moira, Thea and Walter, they don't deserve that.
They deserve better someone who doesn't care only about himself.
Laurel.
Thank you for coming.
I care about the lives of other people, Oliver.
Maybe you should try it sometime.
Oh, man.
That was harsh.
- You okay? - Sure.
Second time tonight that a friend of mine has taken me to the woodshed.
- Kind of tires you out.
- Yeah.
- Good night.
- Night.
What am I supposed to do with that? Does that mean "bird"? I don't speak Chinese! I'm sorry, Laurel.
I'm so sorry.
There were no signs of forced entry or any evidence of a struggle but hours later, the police found the blood-stained kitchen knife - in the trunk of Peter Declan's car.
- Couldn't sleep either? No.
What are you watching? Peter Declan.
Hmm? Oh, a guy who killed his wife.
Right.
This guy killed his wife in their baby's room.
- Psycho.
- Camille was everything to me.
I couldn't kill her any more than I could kill myself.
So why can't you sleep? - Bad dreams.
- About? Laurel.
So why don't you make a play? I mean, she did come over here just to make sure you didn't get shot.
- There are reasons.
- What are they? Besides you sleeping with her sister and her sister dying and her father hating your guts and you being a jerk to everybody since you've been back.
Those are the top ones.
I know that it might not seem like it sometimes but I'm not the same person I used to be.
So show her.
Be yourself.
I mean, your new self.
- How did you sleep? - Just fine, thank you.
Mm.
- We have a visitor.
- Mm.
Mr.
Diggle's replacement.
- Replacement? - Yes.
He tendered his resignation this morning.
Did he say why? He said he didn't approve of the way you spend your evenings particularly given that they always begin with you ditching him.
- Hi.
- Mr.
Queen.
Rob Scott.
I'll be your new body man.
Firm grip you got there, Rob.
That's five years SWAT with Monument Point MCU.
I feel safer already.
Thank God we don't have to hear about this awful man anymore.
Declan's execution is set for midnight two days from now.
Camille Declan's former employer, Jason Brodeur released a statement saying, quote: "I hope this gives Camille the peace she deserves.
" Jason Brodeur.
- Thank you, Jessica.
- What? The dead wife worked for Jason Brodeur.
Apparently so.
What? Why? No reason.
I wanna go into town.
Could you please get the car for me? No offense, but I have been filled in on your tendency to slip the leash.
If it's all the same to you, I'd prefer keeping you in my sights at all times.
We're 20 miles from the city.
If you don't drive me, how else am I gonna get there? Right.
I like him.
Hey! They say Peter Declan murdered his wife in cold blood.
He had no alibi.
And all the evidence pointed toward it.
He was tried, convicted, sentenced to death.
An open-and-shut case except for one thing.
Declan's wife, Camille, worked for Jason Brodeur.
And Jason Brodeur is on the list.
- Mr.
Brodeur.
- Admiring your handiwork, Ankov? - You should've let me kill both of them.
- Peter Declan is worth more alive.
"Husband Kills Wife" is a much better headline than "Whistle-blower Uncovers Toxic Dumping," don't you think? Either way, 48 hours, all this will be over.
The odds are good Brodeur is involved in this woman's murder, which means an innocent man is facing execution.
He'll need a good attorney.
So I take it there's absolutely no point in asking if you'd like to grab a drink.
I can't.
I have to go over transcripts for the Fernands case.
If you go somewhere that's not work or your home your odds of meeting someone increase by a gazillion percent.
That's not true.
I could still get mugged on the way home.
In that case, I hope he's cute and single.
Good night, Joanna.
Hello, Laurel.
Don't move.
- I'm not gonna hurt you.
- Stay back.
My father is a cop.
You are making a huge mistake.
I'm not the person you think I am, and I need your help.
Peter Declan is gonna be executed in 48 hours.
I think he's innocent.
Declan's wife was gonna blow the whistle on Brodeur.
Brodeur had her murdered.
There are a thousand lawyers in Starling City.
Why me? We're both trying to help.
What makes you so sure I'm gonna help you? Because I know you'd do anything to save the life of an innocent man.
Ajury has found you guilty, Mr.
Declan.
The evidence was stacked against me, but I didn't kill my wife.
I didn't take my daughter's mother from her.
The murder weapon was a knife from your kitchen with your prints on it.
It was found, along with Camille's blood in the trunk of your car.
Your neighbors said they heard an argument that night.
We had a knockdown fight over Jason Brodeur.
Camille worked for him and his company had been dumping toxic waste into the Glades.
Camille told me she'd gone and told a supervisor about it.
I was afraid for my family's safety.
And we argued very loudly, Yes- Izzy started crying, so Camille went and stayed in her room.
In the morning, I went to apologize and that's when I found her.
So I just grabbed Izzy and I ran outside and I called 911.
I'm innocent, Ms.
Lance.
Well, it looks like someone forgot a lunch date with his wife.
What do you mean? Lunch isn't for another Forty-five minutes ago.
I'm so sorry.
It's all right.
The restaurant is holding our table.
Is there something wrong? Compliance department tagged $2.
6 million withdrawal from one of our Vancouver subsidiaries.
Are you saying that someone embezzled $2.
6 million from the company? It's probably a bookkeeping error, but Compliance is worried about an IRS audit.
Mm.
But don't worry.
I'm sure it's nothing.
Come on.
We're gonna be late.
I mean later.
Well, I wasn't the lead on this, but from what I recall we had fingerprints, we had blood, we got motive, everything.
Brodeur seems like the type of guy with resources needed to frame someone.
Laurel, in 24 hours, Peter Declan is lying down with a needle in his arm.
If I thought we didn't have the right guy you think I'd be doing anything now except get at what really happened? Declan said his wife went to her supervisor with allegations that Brodeur was dumping toxic waste.
Yeah, but that supervisor, he said that never happened.
Let me see.
What was his name? Here you go.
lstook, Matt lstook.
He said he didn't even see Camille that day.
- Happy now? - Yes.
I thought it'd be cold day in hell - before you started defending criminals.
- I'm not sure Declan is a criminal.
Like you said, he's on a clock.
Can't leave any stone unturned.
Oh, yeah.
- So when are you gonna tell me? - Hmm.
- About what happened to your arm.
- Oh, it's my shoulder, and it's fine.
I knew that Queen guy was trouble.
Hey, I never said this happened protecting Queen.
Oh, yeah? Then what's he doing here? - Area secure, sir.
- Thank you very much, Rob.
Hello, Diggle's sister-in-law Carly.
I'm Oliver Queen.
- I know who you are.
- No, you really don't.
Hello.
I couldn't help but notice a distinct lack of police cars when I got home.
I knew you wouldn't drop a dime on me.
- So have you considered my offer? - Offer? Heh.
- That's one hell of a way to put it.
- It is an offer.
It's a chance to do the kind of good that compelled you to join the military.
Please.
You were born with a platinum spoon in your mouth, Queen.
What, you spent five years on an island with no room service and suddenly you found religion? This was my father's.
I found it when I buried him.
You said your father died when the boat went down.
We both made it to a life raft.
There wasn't enough food and water for both of us, so he shot himself in the head.
As much as he was doing it to give me a chance to survive I believe that he was also atoning for his sins.
I need to right the wrongs done by my family and I'm offering you the chance - to right the wrongs done to yours.
- Oliver, what are you talking about? Police never caught your brother's shooter.
- You leave Andy out of this.
- The bullets were laced with curare.
That's Floyd Lawton's M.
O.
He is the sniper that I stopped.
Are you trying to tell me that you took down Andy's killer? I'm giving you the chance a chance to help other people's families.
Do you remember when the people in this city helped each other? They can't do that anymore, because a group of people people like my father they see nothing wrong with raising themselves up by stepping on other people's throats.
It does need to stop, and if it's not gonna be the courts and it's not gonna be the cops then it's gonna be me.
And, I hope, you.
I'm gonna go to the washroom, Rob.
Oh, that boy is long gone now.
- You still following the money trail? - Mm-hm.
Don't we have accountants for that sort of thing? They're being singularly ineffective in this instance.
Well, then it's fortunate that I've solved the mystery.
I think I'm the culprit.
Two-point-six million is a rather specific figure.
That's the exact amount the company invested in a friend's start-up venture three years ago.
I will call Accounting.
They'll clean it up, then there's nothing to worry about.
Okay.
You really are putting a lot of hours into this Declan thing.
- You actually think he's innocent? - Someone does.
So you said, but you didn't say was who.
A guardian angel.
The guy in the hood? Wha-- ? You're kidding.
He tracked me down, asked me to look into the case.
But you've met him? But he goes against everything that I was ever taught to believe in.
He breaks the law and God knows what else.
How are you not afraid he won't do "God knows what" to you? He won't.
I don't know, I can feel it.
When I told you to meet someone, this is far, far away from what I meant.
I got your message.
Is there a reason we can't do this face to face? You've met with Peter Declan.
You were right.
He might be innocent.
Declan said his wife blew whistle on Brodeur the day she was murdered.
Then we need to get whoever she told about Brodeur to testify.
He already has.
Matt lstook, Camille's supervisor.
Only he says that she didn't say a word to him.
- He could be lying.
- Well, if he is, then he's very convincing.
He had the jury and police believing him.
He hasn't been questioned by me.
I didn't become a lawyer to break the law or hurt anybody.
I do what's necessary, what people like Peter Declan need.
If what you're doing isn't wrong then why are you hiding your face with a hood? To protect the ones I care about.
- That sounds lonely.
- It can be.
But not today.
I've got one question.
Why am I being fired? - Ms.
Smoak, isn't it? - Yes.
And I am, without a doubt, the single most valuable member of your technical division.
That's including my so called "supervisor.
" Letting me go would be a major error for this company.
I agree, which is why you're not being fired.
I assumed when you brought me up here it was because It's because I wanted you to look into something for me.
A variance of $2.
6 million on a failed investment from three years ago.
It was authorized by my wife.
I was hoping you could find out some of the details - of the transaction for me.
- Find out? Dig up.
Discreetly.
I'm your girl.
I mean, I'm not your girl.
I wasn't making a pass at you.
Thank you for not firing me.
What the-- ? Matt lstook.
You're him.
That hood guy who's been terrorizing the city.
Peter Declan.
Your lies helped put him on death row.
Now, either it's time to tell me the truth, or it's time for the 10:15 to Bltidhaven.
Ah.
Okay.
Okay.
Brodeur paid me to say that Camille never spoke to me.
But I didn't have anything to do with her death.
Oh, God.
Please let me go.
I'll do anything.
- You can have the file.
- What file? Camille gave me a file of evidence against Jason Brodeur.
- Where is it? - Let me go, and I'll tell you.
Wait! Wait! Wait! Don't go! Wait! Wait! Wait! Don't go! Uh, it's in my desk! The file, it's in my desk at the office! You can have it! Get me out of here! What is that? I'm so hungry.
It smells really good.
Hey, fine, don't share.
Hey- I'm not gonna kill the bird.
Compliments of Matt lstook.
- What's in here? - Leverage on Jason Brodeur.
Enough to help save Peter Declan's life.
As an attorney, I never would've gotten a file like this.
I always thought the law was sacred.
It fixed everything.
And now, Laurel? Now what do you think? I think there's too many people in this city who only care about themselves.
People who are selfish.
I think they need someone who cares about the lives of other people.
Someone like you.
Oh, my God.
- What's wrong with your face? - What do you mean? There's something really weird on it, like this thing with your mouth.
- It looks like it's in the shape of a smile.
- Yes.
That's cute.
- So why are you grinning? - I took your advice with Laurel - to be myself.
- And? - It's helping.
- I got mad relationship skills, bro.
Let me know if you need trendy places to propose.
I think you're getting a little bit ahead of yourself.
Little bit.
Rob.
You gotta keep up.
Hey, you look busy.
Is that the Declan case? There was a funny development on that.
Matt lstook, he, uh, filed a police report.
He said the Hood harassed him last night.
And that's funny, because I gave my daughter lstook's name.
- Dad, I-- - He's a vigilante.
He's a damn criminal, and you working with him.
- That makes you an accessory.
- I'm trying to save an innocent man's life.
No, you're breaking the law.
I wouldn't have to if the police had done their job right in the first place.
I asked you how you got this case.
You lied to me straight to my face.
Eh? I thought you and I didn't do that.
Guess I was wrong.
Your Honor, the mere existence of the file proves that Mr.
lstook perjured himself for Jason Brodeur's benefit.
That's slander.
Jared Swanstrom, Your Honor.
I represent Jason Brodeur and Brodeur Chemical.
The interests of justice requires you to stay the defendant's execution pending exploration of the newly discovered evidence.
Ours isn't a court ofjustice, Ms.
Lance.
It's a court of law.
And under the law, your evidence is sufficient to warrant a stay of execution.
Your motion for habeas corpus is denied.
This isn't over.
I've got the loose end now.
And no matter what happens, I'll pull on it until your whole world unravels.
STOCK".
Declan's lawyer is pulling me into this.
I'm gonna go to prison, if not for murder, then this dumping thing! That won't happen.
There are steps we can take.
You saw her.
She's going after me! She'll wanna meet with her client after what happened in court today.
We have friends up in Iron Heights.
Prison can be a dangerous place.
We're not done yet.
I'm an attorney.
Trust me, we're done.
What do you need to free Peter Declan? At this point nothing short of a signed confession from Brodeur.
- Where are you going? - To get a confession.
The company Mrs.
Queen-- Steele.
Mrs.
Queen-Steele.
Is she hyphenate? She seems like a woman who would hyphenate.
Right.
The company she invested in doesn't exist.
- I don't understand.
- There was no investment.
The money was used to set up an offshore LLC called Tempest.
Don't recall the name being under Queen Consolidated.
It's not.
There's nothing registered with the secretary of state.
No federal tax records, no patent applications filed.
But in 2009 Tempest purchased a warehouse in Starling City.
- Enough moping.
- Mm.
You quit.
It's done.
My advice would be to move on.
Ah.
If it were only that easy.
Except it is.
Personal security is dangerous.
Your nephew already lost his father.
He can't lose his uncle too.
Does it ever bother you they never caught the guy who killed Andy? You know, when I was in Afghanistan, I had a job and I did it.
When I could, I'd help out the people there so that in some small way, when I left, I could believe I left it a better place.
But ever since I've been home, all I do is protect punks and spoiled one-percenters.
I miss feeling like I'm making a difference.
Then get out of personal security and go do something you believe in.
- Yeah, what if it's wrong? - John, if you believe in something how can it be wrong? Jason Brodeur.
- What do you want? - You'll confess you arranged to have Peter Declan's wife murdered.
What, so I can take his place in prison? So you can avoid the death penalty.
Except if I'm dead, well, then you got no one to pin Camille's murder on.
You need me to exonerate Peter Declan.
Maybe you could try to force me to sign a confession or something-- Ahh! That might be difficult.
My hand! Just answer it.
- What? - It's Ankov.
It's going down.
One hour.
What's going down in an hour? What? Let's just say Peter Declan's execution is getting moved up.
Okay, you have to listen to me.
We still have a shot.
You remember the friend I mentioned? The one who believes in you? He's working on something.
I told you, Jason Brodeur is powerful.
Time to unlock the cages.
I've been here before.
These lawyers holding out these little nuggets of hope.
What? What the-- ? Secure all corners in cell block C.
The warden is setting up a secure perimeter in C block.
- Stay here, Ms.
Lance.
- Wait! Let's go.
GO, go! Stop! - Open up the generator area! - Laurel.
Ms.
Lance, stay back.
Area secured.
Laurel.
Sweetie.
- What are you? - I'm all right.
- You sure? - I'm sorry about what I said to you.
You were right.
Brodeur's bodyguard confessed to Camille Declan's murder.
We got the wrong guy.
But listen to me.
I'm right too, about him.
He's dangerous.
He's outside the law.
I know.
He's a killer.
He would have killed that man.
I looked in his eyes.
It's like he had no remorse.
Hey- Please.
I'm starving.
I never killed anything before.
I'm sorry.
Let's get you home, sweetie.
How did he get into that prison anyway, huh? A grown man in an outfit and a hood that kind of stands out a little, doesn't it? He actually wasn't wearing the outfit this time.
He was in a prison guard uniform and a ski mask.
- What? - Nothing.
I just had an idea.
Get in the car.
Okay, here's the security footage from the Exchange Building shooting.
- I've already scrubbed through all of it.
- Yeah, well, we're gonna do it again.
When you went through the security tapes you were looking for a guy in a green hood? And what do you want me to look for, a man in a wig and a tutu? I want you to look for anything that's out of the ordinary, okay? Just look.
Hey, whoa, whoa.
Wait.
Wait.
Go back 10 seconds.
What is that? I'll be damned.
Play that again.
Thank you, Laurel.
Don't thank me.
Thank Brodeur's bodyguard Ankov for flipping him.
I think there's someone that wants to see you.
Izzy.
At least five federal, state, and local agencies are seeking millions of dollars in fines and environmental cleanup costs from Brodeur Chemical.
New facts have come to light that Brodeur Chemical employee Camille Declan had discovered Brodeur was illegally disposing waste and had collected a file of evidence against her employer before her murder in 2007.
Peter Decian, who was convicted of killing his wife has been released and the case has been reopened.
Yeah.
Bird.
I know.
Shengcun not mean "bird.
" Shengcun mean "survive.
" You speak English? You want survive this place, bird not last thing you kill.
And forget her.
You look at that all day, you not survive this place.
You wanted to see me? You look nervous, Moira.
Do I have a reason to be? We all do.
A modern-day Robin Hood.
What? Are you worried that your net worth makes you a target? Jason Brodeur.
Adam Hunt.
Warren Patel.
Tell me you see a connection, Moira.
- He's not targeting the rich.
- No, he's not.
He's targeting the list.
You here for the bodyguard position? Because the new guy just quit.
No, I'm not.
I'm here about the other position.
Just to be clear, I'm not signing on to be a sidekick.
But you're right.
Fighting for this city needs to be done and you'll do this with or without me.
- Yeah.
- But with me there'll be fewer casualties, including you.
Diggle, I'm not looking for anybody to save me.
Maybe not, but you need someone just the same.
You are fighting a war, Queen except you have no idea what war does to you.
How it scrapes off little pieces of your soul.
And you need someone to remind you of who you are, not this thing you're becoming.
- Oliver Queen.
- What is this? - You can't barge in here.
- I got a badge and a gun that say different.
- What the hell is going on? - Oliver, what's happening? You're under arrest for obstruction ofjustice, aggravated assault - Walter, stop them.
- trespassing, acting as a vigilante - Are you out of your mind? - and murder.
You have the right to remain silent.
If you give up that right