History Recap / ArrowS1E13Betrayal

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Cyrus Vanch certainly feels that killing the Hood will bring him authority in the crime world. We never get to see if he's right or not since he failed the asskicking part.

* AluminumChristmasTrees: Many viewers were surprised to learn that is such a thing as the [[http://www.asis.gov.au/ Australian Secret Intelligence Service]]. Even some [[LandDownunder Australian viewers]].

Newly released from prison, Cyrus Vanch goes with Vivian to the house of his lawyer, whom Vanch kills and whose home he takes over. Laurel introduces Thea to Anastasia, a woman on pro bono sabbatical at CNRI. When Laurel learns of Vanch’s release, she calls the Hood for help gaining evidence against Vanch. The Hood records that Vanch wants to lead the Triad.

Tommy has plans with Laurel, but she abandons them after receiving a call from the Hood. Having overheard the conversation, Detective Lance and a squad interrupt the Hood’s rooftop meeting with Laurel. The Hood gives her the recording and successfully escapes.

With knowledge from Vivian’s police source, two men invade Laurel’s apartment. She takes them down, only to be taken down herself by Vanch’s taser. Later there, Tommy finds a recording from Vanch demanding the Hood and gives it to Lance. The Hood and Lance rescue Laurel and capture Vanch. Laurel tells her father to stay away. The Hood tells her, “Goodbye,” before busting through the window of Moira’s office and telling her she “has failed this city.”

** A newspaper headline refers to “Wolfman and Perez.” This is a nod to the two creators of Slade Wilson, a.k.a. Deathstroke.

* ThisCannotBe: Oliver refuses to believe his mother is involved in anything criminal until Diggle hands him the recording of her voice in which she talks of coercing people on the List and the sabotage of the ''Queen's Gambit''.

** The Hood fires his bugging arrow into the wall near Vanch, but he finds it and leaves it stuck in the wall of Laurel's apartment with a message for the Hood.

* AllGirlsWantBadBoys: Tommy notes Laurel's liking for dangerous rulebreakers and thinks this is why she's working with the Hood.

** The Hood fires his bugging arrow into the wall near Vanch, but he finds it and leaves it stuck in the wall of Laurel's apartment with a message from the Hood.

* ThisCannotBe: Oliver refuses to believe his mother is involved until Diggle hands him the recording of her voice in which she talks of coercing people on the list and the sabotage of the Queen's Gambit.

* ChekhovsSkill:
** Being able to dislocate your thumb to escape from your bonds is another skill Oliver learnt on the island that will come in handy years later.

** The bug that Quentin planted in the mobile phone he gave to Laurel finally bears fruit.

* ChekhovsSkill: Being able to dislocate your thumb to escape from your bonds is another skill Oliver learnt on the island that will come in handy years later.

* BatmanGambit: Initially pulled of by Vanch, relating to the CountingBullets example below. Had Oliver retrieved one of his arrows before entering the house, or taken down one henchman without an arrow or flechette, or simply decided the elevated security at the mansion demanded more ammo, he'd have entered the building with an arrow, and Vanch wouldn't even have had a chance to hold even a temporary standoff. Still foiled in the end, though, as he didn't anticipate Oliver bringing backup in the form of Quentin.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: The bugged conversation contains a reference to The Undertaking.

* BaitAndSwitch: Turns out the man in the Deathstroke mask and bandolier was actually Slade Wilson's renegade partner, Wintergreen.

* DynamicEntry: Our introduction to [[ComicBook/{{Deathstroke}} SladeWilson]] involves him leaping down through a hole in top of the crashed aircraft and holding a sword to Oliver's neck.

* DramaticDislocation: Oliver's first when he dislocates his thumb in desperation to free himself from his bonds to stop Slade killing him.

* IMadeCopies: Moira burning the List makes no difference as Oliver already knows all the names on it.

* DynamicEntry: Our introduction to ComicBook/SladeWilson involves him leaping down through a hole in top of the crashed aircraft and holding a sword to Oliver's neck.

* DynamicEntry: Our introduction to Slade Wilson involves him leaping down from a hole in top of the crashed aircraft and holding a sword to Oliver's throat.