Oliver should have fallen off his chair at the revelation of that name but keeps his composure long enough to help begin their assault on the airstrip.Ī brief trip back to the Diggle/Felicity M*A*S*H unit shows Diggle catching Felicity up on some of the Arrow/Oliver backstory before we return to flashback mode as one-man army Slade tells Oliver what the plan is – basically that Slade kills 37 people and Ollie kills one – the airport control tower officer. Slade and Oliver then have a bonding session – alas, without hot cocoa and s’mores – whereupon Slade reveals that DeathStroke is his former partner and worse yet, his real name is Billy Wintergreen. No problem says Slade as the soldiers surround Oliver, who pretends he is lost, points out the mine and then Slade rips in and does a double half gainer with a twist to kill all three – then pushes Oliver’s foot off the mine and replaces it with the weight of one of the soldier’s dead body in a classic “indian Jones” sack of gold maneuver. Oliver has to sleep before the pair go on the attack and he has a dream where he’s in bed with Laurel, and in an incredible display of poor timing, says he’s sorry for sleeping with her sister, Sarah – and she responds by killing him with her mind – Happy Valentine’s Day!īack to the flashbacks, clumsy Oliver steps on an old Japanese World War II land mine and – oh great – now here come three soldiers. With Oliver successfully not dying, Slade then reveals The Escape Plan – which is, essentially, Slade doing all the work and killing everybody except for one guy in the airport control tower and then taking the only plane to come in three months off the island. But before they can begin their escape attempt, Oliver first must pass the much-ballyhooed Slade Wilson’s How Not To Die Boot Camp. With Oliver stabilized at Arrow Lair Hospital, we then begin the flashback scene parade, beginning with the re-introduction of Slade Wilson starring as a pure ball of raging testosterone and also as Oliver’s force-fed partner in attempting to get off the prison island resort spa. Diggle and Felicity then proceed to do their best “M*A*S*H episode re-enactment with Diggle portraying a BJ Hunnicutt-style persona and Felicity taking on a definite Hot Lips persona. Oliver instructs Felicity to take him to the Arrow lair instead of the hospital where, in turns out, he has planned ahead and proactively stored several bags of his own blood in case of just such an emergency. But before we can get to those, the bleeding and injured Arrow/Oliver flops into the car of company superwoman/IT specialist Felicity Smoak, pulls off the hoodie and reveals the poor sweaty makeup job that reminds every kid of Halloween after about 10 blocks of trick-or-treating. Needless to say, we can chew on that fat for a week because this episode was nearly all about the flashbacks. This move means one of two things – either you fully drink the Kool-Aid and believe she can make that kind of move as an innocent person in heels or she has officially stamped herself as having some sort of nefarious involvement as only a true evil-hearted criminal-type can anticipate, premeditate and execute fancy heel maneuvers like that.
With everybody but Moira knowing that these are the words of a son talking to his mom, they seem fairly silly…until Moira pulls out the old female sentimentality ploy of using the family picture as an emotional shield before taking advantage of Arrow/Oliver’s expected wilting and pegging him with deft move and quick shot from her gun. Diggle and Felicity try to figure out of the heartbone is connected to the arterybone.ĭetails: Now that we are – mercifully – done with in-show narrations except for the opening “Previously on Arrow…” segments, we can get right to the action, which, in the case of this week’s episode picks right up from last week with Arrow tumbling into Moira’s office to inform her that she has failed Starling City. Synopsis: No Criminal of the Week as this nearly All-Flashback episode features Oliver’s life on the prison island as no five-star resort spa experience, the fact that he read a book once and the demise of Deathstroke.
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