Sara has accused her before of using other people as test subjects in her quest to hack time to save her family. She knows that accusation isn't going to get any better with this latest one. The brief mention of losing a sister has Zari digging deep into the Lance family timeline. It doesn't take long to discover the Laurel that returned was not the one that died. The answer becomes obvious once she discovers the whole Black Siren deal. Why couldn't the real Laurel Lance return? It'd be so easy to kidnap Laurel to play out the lie Earth-2 Laurel told. She even thinks of how to plant the seed of doubt that she ever truly died to make her return more plausible.
She knows Sara will never go for it. She's accepted Laurel's death. Here's the thing: Zari thinks she doesn't have to. She'll prove it to her before the captain can do anything to stop her. It helps she has access to a criminal who cares about Sara enough to rescue her sister even if he hates her profession and a wizard with a bleeding heart who has his own agenda for seeing if Zari can tweak the timeline to her benefit.
Between the three of them, it's actually ridiculously easy to kidnap Laurel and stage a good death scene that is just off enough to raise questions down the line. Mick knows how to evade authorities, lockdown a hospital wing while successfully framing other (HIVE) criminals for doing it with John using magic and Zari using hacking to help fill in the gaps. All that's left really is to get Sara out of the way long enough to sneak onto the Waverider to treat only the injuries that will kill Laurel and back to an old safehouse from Mick's dead ex-partner to let Laurel heal from the rest. After all, the scar that arrow will leave behind won't be easy to contest down the line.
That leaves Zari to wait until Laurel wakes up from whatever hocus pocus John did to keep her knocked out while they staged a dramatic attack and death scene with no body left behind. She'll find a Perisan woman eating a pudding cup in a makeshift hospital room that is definitely full of stolen equipment when she does wake up.
"So you probably have some questions." Here she is answering none of them. The truth is she can meticulously plan how to fake a murder, kidnap the Black Canary under the nose of a superhero team, hack the timeline to save her life, and get two dummies to go along with her insane plan. The trouble is how the person involved in her scheme is going to react to all of this. She can't account for Laurel anymore than she could Stein. At least the arrow to the gut will buy her sometime to think of a way to sell this plan to the elder Lance.
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She knows Sara will never go for it. She's accepted Laurel's death. Here's the thing: Zari thinks she doesn't have to. She'll prove it to her before the captain can do anything to stop her. It helps she has access to a criminal who cares about Sara enough to rescue her sister even if he hates her profession and a wizard with a bleeding heart who has his own agenda for seeing if Zari can tweak the timeline to her benefit.
Between the three of them, it's actually ridiculously easy to kidnap Laurel and stage a good death scene that is just off enough to raise questions down the line. Mick knows how to evade authorities, lockdown a hospital wing while successfully framing other (HIVE) criminals for doing it with John using magic and Zari using hacking to help fill in the gaps. All that's left really is to get Sara out of the way long enough to sneak onto the Waverider to treat only the injuries that will kill Laurel and back to an old safehouse from Mick's dead ex-partner to let Laurel heal from the rest. After all, the scar that arrow will leave behind won't be easy to contest down the line.
That leaves Zari to wait until Laurel wakes up from whatever hocus pocus John did to keep her knocked out while they staged a dramatic attack and death scene with no body left behind. She'll find a Perisan woman eating a pudding cup in a makeshift hospital room that is definitely full of stolen equipment when she does wake up.
"So you probably have some questions." Here she is answering none of them. The truth is she can meticulously plan how to fake a murder, kidnap the Black Canary under the nose of a superhero team, hack the timeline to save her life, and get two dummies to go along with her insane plan. The trouble is how the person involved in her scheme is going to react to all of this. She can't account for Laurel anymore than she could Stein. At least the arrow to the gut will buy her sometime to think of a way to sell this plan to the elder Lance.