

China White ends up in Waller's custody, and Oliver and Maseo manage to capture Kang and his briefcase full of bioweapons.A.T.O.M Suit Inspired by Dc’s Arrow/Legends of tomorrow He arrives just in time to save Maseo, who alone remains after White's goons mow down the A.R.G.U.S. He can start by helping to shut down China White's weapon auction. He tells Oliver of the book that will guide him in his quest to right wrongs. Robert Queen himself ( Jamey Sheridan) makes an appearance as well, via a recorded video message. Guess that killer instinct was alive and well back then. make that too rough, because he kills the criminal and throws him over the balcony. Oliver - hooded up - plays rough with the drug dealer. "I guess they had to work him into the story somehow"), and almost runs into Laurel, Thea, and Mr. Oliver makes his way to Tommy's party (where Diggle is running security for rich kids. (I guess they had to work her into the story somehow.) They learn the time of the auction and attempt to find its location in a short time. It's one of the more heavy-handed flashback scenes this season, but I appreciate that they're trying to heighten the emotional tension between Ollie and Thea in the present.īack to the task at hand, Oliver runs a program on Kang's computer at Queen Consolidated, and almost gets busted. Luckily, Tommy Merlyn ( Colin Donnell) busts onto the scene to chase the dealer away. Rather than following Kang, they follow Thea instead she pays her respects at Oliver's grave, but also gets a drug fix from her dealer who meets her there. Having returned to Starling City for the first time in years, Ollie's emotionally taken aback when he spies a somewhat grown-up Thea in her school uniform. (Though who exactly is the superior she mentions?) Oliver and Maseo track Kang, but it's the former's job to access the CEO's computer directly. This is exactly why Waller needs them both alive. She plans on meet up with Peter Kang, a wealthy business man and family friend of the Queen's. Waller briefs Oliver and Maseo on China White's arrival in the country in order to auction off her half of the bioweapon. She agrees to be his student, his partner, and his soldier, but refuses to be his daughter. Thea takes her father to task, not for unleashing Slade upon them, but for making her kill Sara. Ollie gets Thea to promise that she won't tell Laurel about the truth behind Sara's death, or about Malcolm's hand in it. The Queens' little camping trip comes to an early end and they head home. fully grown men" and gets Thea to press the conveniently placed cell door-release switch (after dislocating her shoulder, of course). Oliver sidesteps Thea's questions about his past when he realizes that the prison cell "was made for men.

He leaves them to their own devices for a while, and the Queens' own unshared secrets start to make their captivity even uglier. Slade uses this opportunity to gloat over his captives and to play more mind games regarding the deaths of Shado and Moira Queen. He gets the drop on the Queens, and leaves them unconscious in the same prison Slade has occupied for months. They visit Robert Queen's grave on the island to retrieve a weapons cache Ollie stocked there.
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Oliver gets a call from his new mentor, Malcolm Merlyn, who let Deathstroke free in order for Oliver and Thea to reawaken their killer instincts, or die trying. Thea's safe - for the moment - and Oliver tells her that he imprisoned Slade on the island and that he's escaped. Oliver remembers Slade's last words to him - ya know, the ones about killing everyone he holds dear - and rushes back to Thea. guard and leaving him dead on the cot as a decoy. Surprise, surprise, Slade Wilson has flown the coop, killing his A.R.G.U.S. At this point, it dawns on Oliver that perhaps he should check on the prisoner he left marooned on the island many episodes ago: the one and only Deathstroke ( Manu Bennett). Oliver and Thea get to share in some campfire stories, martial arts training, and peaceful nights asleep out in the island air. Replace these training sticks with sharpened blades and you're in for one hell of a fight.

Opening up tonight's hour is a fun little brother-sister stick fight, but not the kind you probably had as a kid. Tonight's episode title, "The Return", could refer to a number of things: Oliver Queen's post-island return to Starling City in the past, his return to Lian Yu in the present, or perhaps a return of a worthy adversary in the unforeseen future.
