Tonight’s episode of Arrow picked up right where we left off last week with Oliver having just returned to the lair after being captured and brutally tortured by Prometheus. Now that Prometheus has forced Oliver to face the truth that his crusade to save Star City was a lie to cover up the fact that he enjoyed being a murderer, the Green Arrow is left broken and has decided to hang up the hood and disband the team.
Diggle, Felicity, and Curtis try to talk to Oliver. Curtis feels he at least owes the team an explanation. But Oliver has fallen to a new low that we’ve never seen before and simply tells them that everyone around him either suffers or dies. The following morning Team Arrow meets at Felicity’s apartment to decide what do with Oliver’s decision to disband the team. Diggle has faith Oliver will bounce back and explains the team must push forward.
Since they won’t be able to suit up in their costumes as Oliver has changed the access codes to the lair, Diggle has asked Lyla to loan the team tactical gear from Argus. In the meantime, Team Arrow will continue to protect Star City but Felicity has a plan up her sleeve and veers off to Helix on her own.
With no options left, Oliver turns to Anatoli and the Bratva in present day for help to take down Prometheus. But in exchange for their help, Oliver has to give up the location of a shipment of a diabetes drug called Oplimid. This becomes a problem for Oliver when the Team gets alerted of the break-in at the medical research lab and they make a move on the Bratva.
Diggle confronts Oliver several times over his deal with the Bratva in this episode. First, he is ordered to stand down as Oliver isn’t letting anyone else get hurt. After Felicity tells Diggle he shouldn’t stand in Oliver’s, Diggle is shaken. He pleads with Oliver to not continue on the path he is on and Oliver reveals to him the truth that his crusade was built on a lie. He orders Diggle to let the team die.
Back in Russia, Oliver is getting ready to head back to Lian Yu. Anatoli wishes Oliver would stick around because he’s afraid he can’t rebuild the brotherhood without him but Oliver has already decided he’s going back to the island. Anatoli has 48 hours left with him in Russia. Later they participate in one last heist together to provide children with Tuberculosis medicine the hospital is too poor to provide.
At Helix, Felicity discovers the hacktivist group has found a video of Chase unmasking himself as Prometheus on camera. But there’s only one problem: Chase is using an optic scrambler to prevent his face from being captured on camera. Alena is confident they can reverse engineer the technology and the two get to work. Felicity discovers the optic scrambler Chase is using is a technology being developed by Kord Industries. Helix can use an algorithm to remove the distortion from the image of Prometheus but she needs access to Chase’s scrambler first.
When the team prevents the Bratva from killing Chase, Curtis manages to use one of his T-Spheres to capture the optical scrambler off of chase. This gives us yet another confrontation between Oliver and Diggle only this time it’s meaningful as Diggle finally breaks through to Oliver using the exact lesson he taught him when he was in prison and motivated him to use his crusade as a way to atone for his sins as a murderer.
Curtis then uses tracking nanites to follow Felicity to Helix and brings her the optic scrambler he stole from Chase but in order to break the installation algorithm, he and Felicity have to break into Kord Industries. Together they infiltrate Kord at the same time that the team goes up against the Russians and stops them from stealing more drugs from the Zarn Corporation.
While Oliver has managed to pull himself back together and they now have the hard evidence they need to prove that Chase is Prometheus — which Felicity says she is uploading to YouTube — it has all come at a great cost as Team Arrow has made yet another major enemy for themselves with the Bratva and Felicity has further compromised her moral integrity.
Lance then presents the evidence to the SCPD but before Chase can be taken into custody, he savagely murders the officers who have been protecting him and escapes from witness protection.
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