Original Air date: Oct. 30, 2013
Well that had a twist ending I actually didn't see coming.
Oliver wants to stop the crazy amount of guns coming into
the city. We’re talking like really
deadly military grade weaponry that are being supplied by some guy calling himself
The Mayor. You see since the quake all
these new aspiring crime lords have been coming out of the woodwork. Oliver hosts a Cash for Guns event to try and
clean up the Glades as Oliver Queen.
Which turns bad as the Mayor shows up and demonstrates his personal inventory of hardware.
Also picking up where we left off last week on the Island, Oliver
finds himself on a ship. There are many other
prisoners. Their captives have been
searching for a grave site for years on several different islands and they've finally found the right one. As a test of strength each prisoner is shot
and then left to mend themselves.
And in a surprise (was anyone really surprised?) twist we
learn that Black Canary is actually Sara Lance. Oliver sets a trap for her
after Felicity figures out she’s not stalking Oliver but Laurel. Thinking Oliver was grateful for the info, not so much that Felicity c--kblocked him in order to share it. Sara didn't die aboard the Queen’s Gambit after
all. A lot happened in those five years
Oliver was on the island and none of it was good. So Oliver lied even though he knew she
survived the initial shipwreck. He’d
seen her a year later in a much harsher setting and thought it would hurt her family
too much to know any more than that .
We really got to see a new side of Oliver this episode. I don’t recall ever seeing him so shaken and
vulnerable (besides Island flashbacks that is) and honestly it was good. It
was beyond difficult for him to come face to face with someone he thought he’d
killed (or at least held himself responsible for her death… but I’m thinking he
tried to kill her too).
Between him keeping Sara’s secret, wanting to tell her family/her tell
her family, and Laurel’s recent downward spiral he had a lot on his plate this episode. Two different Lance sisters he was at a loss
on how to help.
Oliver and the gang figure out that the Mayor is about to get
his hands on SUPER-AWESOME- GRENADE-LAUNCHING guns. Oliver enlists Sara for help and together
they stop the Mayor in badass style. At least for one
more night Sterling City is safe. Or is
it? The second big reveal of the night is that Alderman Blood isn't exactly who he pretends to be. With a name
like Blood is anyone really surprised though?
He’s building an army of super soldiers to take control of the city. That shall be a formidable challenge for the
Arrow, don’t you think?
Favorite bits of the episode?
- “Who taught you to shave?” I just adore Oliver and Felicity moments, okay?
- Oliver and Isabel Rochev’s back and forth. Mostly because I just really love Summer Glau. Sorry. Not Sorry.
- Oliver almost crying anytime he came to terms with Sara not being dead or what had happened in his Island years.
- Sara and Sin. They’re a great team and I look forward to finding out more about them. They could be a show of themselves and I would so watch that. I imagine it'd be something similar to Birds of Prey (you can add that to the Shows I still Miss list).
- Oliver’s “Really? Now you’re just asking for it dumbass” face when the Mayor insulted Sara.
In conclusion: Beware of ear buds when your crime fighting
boss is late to his own investment party. Diggle and Felicity need to work on their definitions of “good
news.”
Even though this episode revealed somethings it also left us
with even more questions on what happened in those five years and about Sara (and
Slade. She asked about Slade) and Ra’s Al Ghul (mentioned last week if you
recall), and how things between Oliver and Sara really are.
I wish it was next week already.
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