From the shadows a dart is shot into Barry's neck and he falls over unconscious. Realizing he's going to be in trouble, but conceding that it's out of his control, he sits on a bench to wait. She says she know someone else who can help.Īt the train station, Barry has missed his train to Central City and will have to wait until the morning. Unable to identify what entered his body, Diggle tries to call 911, but Felicity stops him to protect the Arrow's identity. Felicity and Diggle arrive and find Oliver weak. He loses consciousness, having been injected with an unknown substance. Oliver fights him, losing, and is badly injured.
Oliver tracks the thief to an A.R.G.U.S bunker,where the robber reveals that he is only a follower of "his brother" who "saved" him with the serum. Frustrated, Roy says he and his friends will investigate themselves, so Oliver shoots Roy in the leg to prevent him (and possibly Thea) from getting further involved. He contacts Oliver to ask him to investigate, but Oliver brushes him off, telling Roy to stay away, as he is already on the case albeit from a different angle. He was a test subject of Alderman Blood's that didn't survive after being lured in by a blood drive. Roy and Thea stumble upon Oliver's case after helping Sin to find her missing friend. Felicity warns Oliver that that he may not be able to fight the thief due to his strength and muscle density. He relays to Diggle and Felicity that the serum needs a strong sedative as well, which leads Felicity (aided by Barry) to find the next place the robber will hit. He reveals this information to Diggle (who had previously suspected he knew more than he was telling) and Felicity adding that he destroyed the entire supply of the serum and all survivors were subsequently killed. It's implied that the strangeness of his testimony and the fact that he was so far away led the police to believe he was covering for his father, who was arrested and convicted of his mother's murder.Īfter a blood bank is robbed and Oliver fails to stop the thief, he recognizes the combination of blood and serum and realizes that the thief was enhanced using the same serum that Dr. Barry went to help but somehow found himself twenty blocks away. He explains the night his mother died, when a blur-like figure entered his home and his father went to fight it. When confronted with the fact that there is no similar case in Central City and he's only an assistant CSI, Barry reveals that he is searching for super-powered beings in the hope that he will prove one case true and subsequently, find answers to clear his father for the his mother's murder. Oliver suspects that Barry is hiding something and has him investigated by Diggle. He reveals all of this to Felicity, telling her he's interested because his mother was murdered and a person like The Arrow may have been able to stop it. When a masked thief with superhuman strength steals a centrifuge from Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences Division, Oliver and his team investigate, with the help of Central City CSI Barry Allen, who is a fan of the Vigilante and has many observations and theories about him. Paul Blackthorne as Officer Quentin Lance.Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/The Arrow.Unfortunately, Sin's friend is connected to Brother Blood, and their search ultimately gets one of them seriously injured. Roy is surprised when Thea not only encourages him to help, but joins the search. Sin asks Roy for help when a friend of hers goes missing. Meanwhile, Felicity takes a liking to Barry, which doesn't go unnoticed by Oliver. Oliver senses there is more to Barry than meets the eye, but he's distracted by the similarities between this current case and something that happened on the island.
Citing a similar case back home, Barry offers to help Oliver and team with the investigation. Synopsis A seemingly impossible robbery at Queen Consolidated's Applied Sciences Division brings Central City police scientist Barry Allen to town.