Team Arrow were learning-and losing-from Oliver as he trained them on escrima sticks. Oliver wanted to keep training even though half the team was on the floor. Everyone else excused themselves to take a break, but Allie stayed. Their last mission had been catching Anti-Cupid, and she could see that Oliver was reeling through some emotions. Maybe she could use this opportunity to get some answers to some burning questions.

Oliver was whacking at the wing chun when Allie crafted a stick and attempted to surprise attack him. To no surprise, he quickly turned around and caught it.

"Wow, you really do have eyes in the back of your head, huh?" Allie stepped back and the energy stick vanished. Oliver curiously catalogued the weapon as he shook his hand clear of the sting.

"Practice," he replied and stepped aside. "Anything on your mind?"

"Not mine, no," Allie followed. "But if I didn't know any better, I'd say you were heartbroken."

Oliver chuckled. "Don't worry, I'm not about to go on a murder spree."

Allie scoffed. "Lucky us," she joked back, and dragged her feet as she contemplated her words. "You still in love with Felicity?"

"Felicity?" Oliver repeated, shocked.

"Yeah, you know. I know you two dated a while back. So... maybe watching her fake marry her real boyfriend..."

"No! No, no," Oliver brushed as he tried to find something to do. "No, Felicity and I are definitively over."

"Oh," Allie whispered, while Olivia high fived herself. "Is she... dead?"

"Who?" Oliver raised his head as he picked up the bar for the salmon ladder.

"Whoever you're missing?"

"Laure...?" Oliver caught himself and Olivia smiled. "No, she's not dead." He began the exercise.

"Then why isn't she here? Way I see it, You deserve happiness somewhere in your life."

"Yeah. But she deserves better, than me," Oliver dropped down, no longer in the mind. "God, with the things I've been through, the villains I've faced, you'd think I'd be a bit tougher than this by now." He chuckled, embarrassed that he was behaving like a school boy.

"That's a different kind of pain, and this, takes longer to heal. But I'm here for you if you ever wanna talk about it," Allie offered her dad heartbreak advice.

"Thanks," Oliver smiled appreciatively and walked past her.

"So, where... is she?" Allie asked as she conjured up a bow.

Oliver decided to set up targets for her. "You're nosy, aren't you?"

Allie chuckled. "Well, she is my predecessor. It's only natural for me to know what happened to her." She set herself up against the targets, slightly incorrectly on purpose.

"Here, your stance's a bit rough," Oliver commented, and came over to guide her to the proper position. "Nothing happened to her. She just, left Star City. For her best," Oliver told her what he knew.

The machine fired balls and Allie conjured a splitting arrow that split and hit most of the targets.

"Show off," Oliver scoffed.

Allie smiled. "As if you can do better," she goaded.

"Not called the Arrow for nothing, sweetheart," Oliver went and grabbed his bow, and Allie went to grab some normal arrows for herself. "Winner gets..."

"A day in the castle," Allie suggested for herself.

Oliver chuckled. "Of course you're a princess type."

Allie watched her father settle up beside her. She wanted to correct him, tell him she'd lived anything but the princess life. Because he hadn't come for her, and she'd grown up in places he'd found to be tough. But this wasn't Allie's to say. This was Olivia's right.

They went a few rounds of shooting arrows and then Allie summoned a stick to suddenly switch it up. Oliver was game and kept up with her, and the father daughter heroes had a sparring match until the tv buzzed on.

At their first fight, Allie got stung and upon Curtis's suggestion, aimed her powers internally, short circuiting the bee and herself for sometime. When she woke, Curtis jumped the celebration train too early, getting chewed out by Oliver until Allie knocked him into a corner and gave him the beacon of hope talk.

Team Arrow went to Palmer Tech again, and finally captured Larvan with Atom as their secret weapon. Palmer took Felicity home and team Arrow took Brie to the hospital.

The heroes weren't the only ones with an Ace in the hole, nor did they have the only Diggle.

"First, kidnapping, then stealing missiles. Merlyn's trying really hard to be friends with Darhk," Allie shivered at the thought of the man. The Darhk she knew had powers, powers similar to her, powers that came from an idol similar to the one they were all standing around. The more she stood near it, the more it affected her, so she placed herself farthest from it, thankful for the plexiglass containment it was in.

"Why does that thing creep me out the way it does?" John said as he stood beside it.

"Because it's creepy," Felicity doubled.

"There's something that I haven't told you guys," Oliver revealed as he stood staring at it.

"Shocker," Thea said, and her brother glared at her. "Sorry."

"I've seen this idol before."

"What? Where?" Allie asked, shocked.

"Lian Yu."

"You really love not talking about that place, don't you?" Felicity chided him and Oliver sighed.

"Okay, okay. Can we focus on the present please?" Allie diverted them. "What are we going to do about the hijack?"

"Oliver, I think we keep Andy right where he is," Diggle came up to Oliver. "That way, we have someone on the inside."

"Are you sure that's a good idea?"

"Well, he's out from under the influence of Darhk. We can trust him."

"Trust is one thing. Installing him as a double agent, that's another. That's a lot of pressure to put on someone, especially someone that is still in recovery," Oliver warned.

"Oliver, Andy is a standup guy. He's got this."

At the end of the day, they were lead on a wild goose chase. Andy had told them about an impressive missile theft, and Team Arrow had put all their focus on stopping it while the Assassins didn't even sweat a brow. Among the thieves, however, was the maskless ghost from the campaign announcement, and he took a special interest in Allie. Hopped up on round two and influenced by the idol, Allie went beyond extreme measures, and had to be put down by Oliver.

"What the hell was that?!" Oliver yelled as he followed Allie into the layer.

"What do you mean what the hell was that? The guy was coming at me!" Allie put away some of her stuff. "He was the same guy from your announcement day."

"So what? You were gonna kill him?"

"And what if I had!?" Allie spun around to face him. "It's not like he's some helpless grandma I knocked over," she went to walk past, but Oliver held her arm tight.

"There is a line between us and them. I allowed you on our team because I thought you knew the difference. If you can't handle yourself..."

Allie was fuming. "Well excuse me if I got a little hot headed. I guess it runs in my blood. If you expect to know me maybe you should've been there..."

"You're benched," Oliver shut her up.

"You can't..."

Oliver held up a warning finger. "I don't wanna hear one more word out of you." He left her standing, walking past Andy as he lay unconscious on their medbay.