SPOILER ALERT! (stop reading if you don’t want to know what happens in this episode)
Now y’all know if there’s one person I’m rooting for in this show it’s Roy. They tried to give me a heart attack at the end of last week’s episode and we got plenty of answers tonight. Read the recap below!
Roy is having issues focusing thanks to his dreams about killing Sara. Team Arrow are trying to take down a group of guys trying to steal weapons. Everything seems to be clear but when they walk into the warehouse all of the guys are dead except for one who whispers Backo before dying. Oliver believes it was personal and they find guilty written in blood on the ground.
Oliver tells Roy to take the night off and rest because he’s not thinking well on his feet while he and Diggle go out to track down the gang’s enemies to find Backo. At the lair, Roy asks Felicity to test his blood for traces of Mirakuru but she tells him she doesn’t need to because he’s been cured. She asks him if he’s okay and he tells her he’s just looking for a something to help him sleep. Felicity tests his blood and it comes back negative. She insists he tell her what’s going on and he tells her about the dreams he’s been having. In the dreams he’s not himself, he’s super strong and he killed Sara. He reveals that the dreams didn’t feel like dreams, but like memories.
Laurel is training with Ted and he decides to call it quits and invites her out for dinner. Meanwhile, Oliver gets a name from on of the gang members and it leads him to the boxing ring where he finds another body with Guilty. Ted walks in and Oliver accuses him of killing the guys but Laurel walks in and tells him that he had been with her for the past two hours. The police show up and Laurel gives her father the same alibi. She meets with Olivier who’s a little upset about her training with someone after he told her he wouldn’t train her. He tells her to be careful around Ted before leaving.
The Flashback
Oliver and Maseo are tracking a new target, Waller’s delivery man, to track his whereabouts. The guys realizes he’s being followed and tries to escape but he gets hit by a car. Maseo checks him for the envelope he had but it’s missing. Oliver bonds with Maseo’s son who plays a memory game with him and tells him that his memory is fine. Maseo’s wife, Tatsu, enters and dismisses her son telling Oliver he’s off limits. She then sits with a candle and tells him she’s going to help him remember.
Tatsu helps Oliver go through his memory and he finally remembers where the guy put the envelope. He and Maseo go back to the spot and find the envelope which is a picture with a hidden message. Oliver tries to thank Tatsu for helping him remember but she only wants him to get out of their lives as soon as possible.
Team Arrow dig into Ted’s background and we find out that he used to be a really good professional boxer. The bodies were beaten to death with something similar to brass knuckles which is similar to a murder that happened in the past.
The tracker goes off and Oliver goes to the location and he finds another body and brass knuckles. Ted attacks him from the back and he and Oliver go toe to toe. Ted starts to get the upper hand but Oliver shoots him with an arrowed boxing glove knocking him out. He accuses him of killing all of the people but Ted denies again that he had anything to do with it and tells him that he used to be a vigilante just like Oliver.
Ted tells him about his vigilante past and how the person he killed in a past was a mistake. He believes there’s a copycat who’s leaving a trail for him to find and that they both want to know who it is. They go to Laurel to find out who the dead guy is and try to make connections. Oliver still doesn’t trust him and tells Laurel she needs to stay away from him. He asks her if Ted knows what driving her to fight and that Laurel wants to follow in her footsteps, but she tells him she’s handling it.
They think deaths are connected to the murder of the guy from Ted’s past and they go to a club that may be connected. Diggle and Roy are about to leave to go help Oliver when Felicity stops Roy and tells him that he can’t go. She tells him that the autopsy she did on Sara shows that the angle of the arrows suggest that they could’ve been thrown and Roy could’ve had residual Mirakuru in his system.
Oliver and Ted show up at the location and the guy is there with a gun and starts shooting at them. Oliver shoots an arrow at him and the guy runs just as the police show up and arrest Ted for multiple homicides.
A Hostage Situation
Laurel shows up at the club upset that Ted has been arrested. He telsl her that he doesn’t believe he did it and they return to the lair. Roy is there and tells them that he killed Sara. Felicity explains about the Mirakuru and Laurel is upset. Roy leaves and Oliver lets him go, but Laurel doesn’t take it well. Oliver tells her that if Roy killed Sara they’ll deal with it but he needs her to deal with Ted and find out who the guy is. Oliver asks Felicity how sure she is that Roy killed Sara and she explains his testimony with her autopsy results and that it’s all very incriminating.
Detective Lance is questioning Ted when Laurel shows up and asks for the room. She asks him who framed him because he knows who it is. He tells her it’s Isaac and tells her about when he became a vigilante and that Isaac was his guy in red (like Roy). He tells her about what really happened when the guy was murdered six years ago, that Isaac killed him and he told him to get out of Starling. He tells her he’s been lying because everything that’s happened is his fault.
Felicity tells Oliver and Diggle that the charges against Ted have been dropped. Diggle wants to go after Roy and bring him in but Oliver doesn’t want to. Diggle tells him he needs to cut him loose and bring Roy to justice for Sara’s death. As Ted and Laurel are leaving the precinct Isaac shows up and puts a gun to his head. He tells that the gang found him and tortured him for months before he escaped and he plans to kill Ted because he abandoned him.
Isaac forces Laurel to drive them to an unknown situation and while Ted is trying to convince Isaac to let her go she discreetly calls Felicity who tracks her location. Diggle and Oliver show up but Oliver’s motorcycle gets knocked out of commission. Oliver gets into Diggle’s van and Roy shows up to assist. Laurel maneuvers the car and Isaac gets thrown out of the car before it crashes.
Ted gets out and Oliver pulls Laurel out before it blow up while Roy goes head to head with Isaac who tries to get into his head and tells him that Oliver is just using him. Roy knocks him out and tells him that he’s not like Isaac and Oliver walks up. Roy then says the most heart wrenching line of the episode to Oliver, “Don’t abandon me.” Oliver responds with “Never”.
Following the night’s events Oliver pays Ted a visit as Arrow and asks him to stay away from Laurel. He tells her that Laurel will stop coming and Ted tells him not to make the same mistakes he did because it will end badly. He tells him that the mistake Ted made was cutting Isaac loose and loosing faith in him.
Oliver shows up at the hospital to take Laurel home and tells her that he’s always going to watch after her but that doesn’t mean she’s weak. He then asks her to trust him in relation to Roy. Back at the lair, Roy has hung up his suit and tells Oliver what Isaac said to him. Oliver tells him that they should call Roy Arsenal but Roy tells him that he’s going to turn himself in for murdering Sara. Oliver pulls out the candle and tells him that he’s going to help him remember because he’s mind is trying to tel him something.
Roy remembers that he killed a police officer when he had the Mirakuru in his system and Roy gets upset and leaves because he believes he’s a murderer. Laurel shows up at the the boxing rink and tells him that she wants Ted to teach her how to avenge her sister’s death outside of the courtroom. As Isaac is being transported Cupid show up, takes down the guards and kills Isaac… at least that’s what we’re left to believe.
Some takeaways…
– I really liked this episode. I knew Roy was not Sara’s killer, but I’m glad they explained what was really going on and the Oliver didn’t abandon him. I’m not sure how long Roy will be upset for, but Oliver gave him a name (Arsenal!) so I’m sure he’ll be back with Team Arrow soon.
– Oh Laurel. Many people, like a lot, have voiced their hatred for her and I was never apart of that bandwagon… until this season. This episode has kind of pushed me back off (along with the pictured of Katie Cassidy as Black Canary) and I’m a little excited to see Laurel transform into Black Canary. I just need for her to tone down the dramatics a notch or two.
– So next week’s episode we get properly introduced to Cupid. That’s all fine and dandy, it’s just that I would like to see some of what going on with Thea and Malcolm since they were absent from this episode. It looks like next week may be a “throwaway” episode but with Arrow you never know– everything eventually ties up to something.
Did you believe Roy was innocent? Let me know in the comments!
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