SPOILER ALERT! (stop reading if you don’t want to know what happens in this episode)
So part one of this three part season finale totally left us hanging and after this episode we’re about to be on a very intense ride. Read the recap below!
We start the episode off the same way we ended last week, on a sad note with Moira’s funeral. Her funeral is juxtaposed by Sebastian being sworn in as mayor. Oliver is not taking his mother’s death well, not even showing up to her funeral.
No one knows where he is with Sebastian and even Isabel, making her first appearance since her “death”, weighing in on what’s going on with him. After the reception, Laurel tries to convince her father that Sebastian is not who they think he is and asks him to trust her. Meanwhile, Felicity is can’t track Oliver or Sara anywhere and she’s pretty much out of options. She thinks one or both are dead, but Diggle tells her they’re not and that he believes Isabel was injected with Mirakuru since she should’ve died from her gunshot wound. Out of options Diggle turns to the only person who he believes can help them, Amanda Waller and asks her to help save Starling City by finding Oliver.
Isabel shows up at the club to tell Thea she’s being evicted since the warehouse belongs to Queen’s Consolidated. She tells her she has a couple of days to evacuate. Laurel meets with Sebastian as a way to bug his laptop. Laurel and her father get into his files and find out that he wrote a press release about Moria’s death the day before she actually died.
Waller locates Oliver at his secret second lair. Diggle and Felicity go there and Oliver tells them that he’s going to turn himself over to Slade since he said one more person had to die. He tells them that his mother’s death is his fault and he could’ve stopped this five years ago by curing Slade but he didn’t. Diggle and Felicity try to talk him out of it but he tells them there’s no other way.
Thea tells Walter that she’s going to leave because she doesn’t have anything in Starling City anymore. Oliver walks in and talks to her and tells her it’s a good idea that she get out of town for her own safety.
Oliver calls Slade and tells him that he’ll meet him alone to end this fight. While on the rooftop talking to himself about how he got to where he is now he’s shot in the neck with a dart and passes out. He wakes up back in the lair and sees Laurel walk in. She tells him that the city need shim and that she’s not going to let him commit suicide. She tells him that she has proof that Sebastian is connected to Slade and that Slade killed his mother so that Sebastian could be mayor. She tells him that whatever is going on is bigger than him and Slade.
Diggle and Felicity team up and kidnap a guy (who’s name escapes me) for information. Instead of Diggle beating him up for answers, Felicity uses her hacking abilities to get him to talk by messing with his money and he finally caves telling them when Sebastian’s army will attack.
Oliver interrupts Sebastian’s dinner and tells him that he knows that he’s been working with Sebastian and reveals to him that he’s the Arrow. Sebastian tells him that after the storm the Mirakuru army will wreck on the city, the people of Starling City will follow his every beck and call. Oliver tells him that he’s just a pawn in Slade’s game and that he’s really after him. Sebastian tells him that Slade has followed through on his promises so far and tells him that he should worry about the promise Slade made Oliver. He then leaves after telling him that he can’t do anything to him now because he’s the mayor.
Oliver, Diggle and Felicity go to the meeting site after barely convincing Laurel to stay behind. They plan to blow up the block over where they’re meeting to kill them all at once. Oliver is in the building and turns to leave but comes face to face with one of the “soldiers”. He tells Felicity to tell Diggle to blow it up as soon as he’s ready and faces off with the soldier who finally gets a hold over Olive punching him and getting him in a choke hold. Laurel comes out of nowhere and hits him in the back stopping the man.
They try to escape but more of them follow so Oliver shoots a bomb arrow blocking them in. Meanwhile all over the city “soldiers” are breaking out causing havoc. The first one is at the police station where Officer Lance is and another at the train station where Thea is trying to leave the city. Diggle goes to activate the bombs but he’s stopped by Isabel who plans to kill him like he killed her. We end with a shot of Mirakuru soldiers marching the streets into the city.
Some takeaways…
– On the island we see sort of kind of the process into Oliver and crew going to kill Slade. Not much is revealed, but we do know that something causes a crash and when Oliver tries to get in contact with Sara but she comes over the walkie talkie screaming for help.
– I’m still sticking to my original predictions because to be honest I don’t know what’s going to happen. I do hope that Roy wakes up during some part of this fight to help out Team Arrow. I’ve also heard rumors that the League if Assassins may be coming to help as well. I do know that this was part 1 of a 3 part finale and boy will I be on the edge of my seat for the final two episodes!
Do you think they’ll be able to stop the Mirakuru army? Are you feeling this 3 part finale so far? Let me know below!
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