The episode opens at a funeral, where Oliver is invited up to deliver the eulogy but can’t be there. Instead, Laurel stands up to say a few words.

The funeral, which took place in May of 2013, was for Tommy Merlyn, where Laurel delivers an impromptu eulogy complete with a veiled swipe at Oliver, while he watches from the sidelines. Then, she says something to redeem him as he walks away.

In the present day, Lance walks through the various members of Team Arrow and steps into Laurel’s room, where she’s still there on the bed. He cries, and the doctor hands off the Black Canary costume to Oliver. Lance can barely speak and staggers away from the room.

At the Lair, Oliver and Diggle talk about the situation with his brother. Diggle feels bad that if he had listened to Oliver instead of trusting his brother, Laurel would be alive now.

On News 52, Alex announces via a press conference that ADA Laurel Lance has died and that her presumed killer, Damien Darhk, is still at large. An arms deal is going on in a parking lot when a woman dressed like Black Canary uses her sonic scream to knock the men down, steals everything from an open car trunk, and make off.

At the lair, Felicity, Thea, and Diggle show up to respond to Oliver’s call for Team Arrow. Lance shows up soon after with a newspaper that indicates Black Canary was back in action last night. Lance is desperate to believe Laurel is still alive, which the team tries to discourage, but they can’t come up with a better idea. When they head to the morgue to check on Laurel, her body is still in the drawer, taking the wind out of Lance’s sails. He runs out, but Oliver stops to tell Laurel’s doctor that he believes somebody stole the sonic device from her belongings. The doctor says that there’s a fairly regular patient who might be a good suspect, but she can’t tell him who it is due to confidentiality rules. In the flashback, Oliver goes to Oliver’s apartment to talk to her about Tommy’s funeral. Oliver tells her that he stayed up all night working on a eulogy, but couldn’t get past the idea that he failed Tommy. She tells him that he can’t blame himself for what happened to Tommy, but Oliver says she would blame him too, if she knew the truth.

At the Lair, Felicity is trying to track the new Canary via facial recognition, but Diggle is distracted. He admits to Felicity that his brother was working with Darhk and responsible for what happened. Alex and Thea are on a date, trying to distract Thea from everything that’s going on. She asks him why he became a political operative, but before he can answer, the woman wearing Black Canary’s costume and sonic device attacks him. She nearly kills him before Thea stops her, and then calls Oliver in. When he goes to challenge her, she hits him repeatedly with the sonics, saying that he “failed this city” when he “left us to die” at Reddington. She runs away. Since Cisco had keyed the device to Laurel’s voice, it shouldn’t be working for this girl — but somehow it is working. Oliver says Reddington was the place where HIVE was holding Team Arrow hostage during the Christmas party. Apparently this girl’s parents died that night, and she blames Green Arrow.