SPOILER WARNING: This article contains major spoilers for "Fadeout," the Arrow series finale.
The Arrow series finale finally answered a Season 7 mystery.
"Fadeout" closed out by picking up where the Season 7 finale left off: in 2040. Felicity bid her children William and Mia goodbye and met the Monitor on a path in the woods. "I'm ready," she told him.
"Where I'm taking you, there is no return," he replied.
"I've waited a very long time to see him," she said with a smile. "I'm ready." The Monitor opened a portal, and the two walked through it together.
As revealed in the series finale, Felicity emerged from the portal alone. She found herself in Oliver's office at Queen Consolidated -- and about 20 years younger. She turned around, taking in her surroundings, and chuckled to herself when she realized where she was. She approached his desk, running her fingers along the wood. When she touched a red pen, much like the one she was chewing on in her introductory scene, she picked it up and held it to her chest.
As she smiled at a photo of Oliver and his father Robert, he emerged in the doorway, smiling. "Glad you could finally make it," he said. Without a moment's hesitation, she ran into his arms and they kissed.
"This is so nice," she replied, her voice quivering. "Not to complain, I just thought that the afterlife would look a little less like your old office."
"It's my mom's office," he corrected her. "I wanted to be where I first saw you."
"Well, that would be in the IT department, seven floors down," she insisted.
"You sure?" he asked. With that, the scene cut to a flashback, where Oliver surreptitiously watched her in this same office. He wore a hat and a long wig, suggesting he was in disguise at the time. When the scene came back to the present, he continued, "It's a long story. Lucky for us, we have all the time in the world for me to tell it to you."
As they held hands and leaned into one another, the camera panned out, revealing that they stood in the window of Queen Consolidated as they remembered it from Season 1. The series closed out on this wide shot of this Star City, which exists in Oliver's version of heaven.
Arrow stars Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen, David Ramsey as John Diggle, Rick Gonzalez as Wild Dog, Juliana Harkavy as Black Canary, Katie Cassidy as Black Siren, Katherine McNamara as Mia Smoak, Joseph David-Jones as Connor Hawke and Ben Lewis as William Clayton-Queen.