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* DitchTheBodyguards: Diggle is fending the press away from Oliver's car when Oliver drives off without him. Moira chews him out and he threatens Oliver with resignation if he does this again. After turning up JustInTime to save Oliver and Laurel's life, he snaps at him that ''this'' is why he needs a bodyguard.
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* DitchTheBodyguards: Diggle is fending the press away from Oliver's car when Oliver drives off without him. Moira chews him out and he Diggle threatens Oliver with resignation if he does this again. After turning up JustInTime to save Oliver and Laurel's life, he snaps at him that ''this'' is why he needs a bodyguard.
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* DeadlyRotaryFan: The BatmanColdOpen has the Hood encouraging Marcus Redmond to rethink the ethics of his pension fund embezzlement by knocking the safety grill off a ventilator fan and pressing his face to it.
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* IronicEcho: Quentin gets annoyed when Laurel uses his own words about working with the system against him.
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* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it with Laurel however. and so makes an effort to reconcile with her. Unfortunately Oliver realises he can't save the city while being tied up in the business world, so he turns up at the dedication of the Applied Sciences building to his father while PlayingDrunk in front of his family and the media cameras. Later at his father's grave he apologizes to his father for disgracing his memory in this way.
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* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it with Laurel however. and so makes an effort to reconcile with her. Unfortunately Oliver realises he can't save the city while being tied up in the business world, so he turns up at the dedication of the Applied Sciences building Center to his father Robert Queen while PlayingDrunk in front of his family and the media cameras. Later at his father's grave he apologizes to his father for disgracing his memory in this way.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Somers recorded confession is inadmissible because he was being coerced at the time. Even if it wasn't, his lawyer could reasonably argue he was just telling the Vigilante what he wanted to hear to stop himself from being killed.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Somers Somers' recorded confession is inadmissible because he was being coerced at the time. Even if it wasn't, his lawyer could reasonably argue he was just telling the Vigilante what he wanted to hear to stop himself from being killed.
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* BlankBook: Oliver discovers the book containing the List on his father's dead body, but when he looks through it all the pages are blank.
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* BlankBook: Oliver Island!Oliver discovers the book containing the List on his father's dead body, but when he looks through it all the pages are blank.
* ChekhovsGun: The Robert Queen Applied Sciences Center.
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* InsaneTrollLogic: When assassins turn up to kill Laurel, Quentin puts the blame on Oliver just for being there. He then unsuccessfully tries to coerce his daughter into pulling out of the case. [[{{Foil}} Compare with Oliver]] who is just as furious that Laurel's life is in danger and looks ready to kill Somers, but gives him one last chance to confess his misdeeds.
* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone ithowever, with Laurel however. and so makes an effort to reconcile with Laurel. her. Unfortunately he Oliver realises he's he can't be a vigilante save the city while being tied up in the business world, so he turns up at the dedication of the Applied Sciences building to his father while PlayingDrunk in front of his family and the media cameras. Later at his father's grave he apologizes to his father for disgracing his memory in this way.
* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Painful as it was to witness, Oliver's drunk act does convince Moira that he's genuinely ignorant of anything that her late husband might have known.
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* ObfuscatingStupidity: Painful as it was for her to witness, Oliver's drunk act does convince Moira that he's genuinely ignorant of anything that her late husband might have known.
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* DitchTheBodyguards: Diggle is fending the press away from Oliver's car when Oliver drives off without him. Moira chews him out and he threatens Oliver with resignation if he does this again. After turning up JustInTime to save Oliver and Laurel's life, he snaps at him that ''this'' is why he needs a bodyguard.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Painful as it was to witness, Oliver's drunk act does convince Moira that he's genuinely ignorant of anything that her late husband might have known.
* RunningGag: Oliver ditches Diggle again, with him threatening to quit if Oliver does it again.
* VillainExitStageLeft: China White and the Vigilante have to break off their fight when the police turn up.
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* ArtisticLicenseLaw: Somers recorded confession is inadmissible because he was being coerced at the time. Even if it wasn't, his lawyer could reasonably argue he was just telling the Vigilante what he wanted to hear to stop himself from being killed.
* BlankBook: Oliver discovers the book containing the List on his father's dead body, but when he looks through it all the pages are blank.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Oliver knocks a knife from China White's hand as she's about to kill Diggle, and later uses a flechette to pin Quentin's gun to the side of a shipping container.
* BlastingItOutOfTheirHands: Oliver knocks a knife from China White's hand as she's about to kill Diggle, and later uses a flechette to pin Quentin's gun to the side of a shipping container.
* TheFaceless: Moira is shown getting into a car and discussing events with a fellow conspirator whose face is concealed from the audience.
* IAmNotMyFather: What Oliver says while rejecting the idea that he'll become the heir apparent to Queen Consolidated.
* IAmNotMyFather: What Oliver says while rejecting the idea that he'll become the heir apparent to Queen Consolidated.
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* IOweYouMyLife: When China White and her Triad gunmen burst into Laurel's flat to assassinate her, Oliver is only armed with a kitchen knife, but Diggles arrives JustInTime for a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind. Then Oliver throws the knife to save Diggle from being killed by China White. Although they're far from FireForgedFriends, these actions are appreciated by both parties.
* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it however, and so makes an effort to reconcile with Laurel.
* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it however, and so makes an effort to reconcile with Laurel.
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* IOweYouMyLife: When China White and her Triad gunmen burst into Laurel's flat to assassinate her, Oliver is only armed with a kitchen knife, but Diggles arrives JustInTime for a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind. Then Oliver throws the knife to save Diggle from being killed by China White. Although they're far from FireForgedFriends, FireForgedFriends at this stage, these actions are appreciated by both parties.
* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it however, and so makes an effort to reconcile with Laurel. Unfortunately he realises he's can't be a vigilante while being tied up in the business world, so he turns up at the dedication of the Applied Sciences building to his father while PlayingDrunk in front of his family and the media cameras. Later at his father's grave he apologizes to his father for disgracing his memory this way.
* JerkassFacade: Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it however, and so makes an effort to reconcile with Laurel. Unfortunately he realises he's can't be a vigilante while being tied up in the business world, so he turns up at the dedication of the Applied Sciences building to his father while PlayingDrunk in front of his family and the media cameras. Later at his father's grave he apologizes to his father for disgracing his memory this way.
* KnifeOutline: To make him confess, the Hood pins Somers to the wall with arrows, at least one of them coming [[FreudianThreat perilously close to a tender place]].
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* TalkingToTheDead: Thea tells Oliver of how she would visit Oliver's headstone to pour out her troubles, and laments how she felt closer to him then than to the emotionally-distant brother who returned to her.
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* TalkingToTheDead: Thea tells Oliver of how she would visit Oliver's headstone to pour out her troubles, and laments how she felt closer to him then than to the emotionally-distant brother who returned to her. Oliver does the same with his father's headstone, before ordering the workmen to remove his own.
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* RevealingSkill: Oliver saves the life of John Diggle by throwing an unbalanced kitchen knife from across the room. Oliver tries to pass this off as a fluke, but Diggle knows the skill required to pull that off and starts to suspect his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob act is a façade.
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* RevealingSkill: Oliver saves the life of John Diggle by throwing an unbalanced kitchen knife from across ten feet away, accurately enough to knock the room. knife from China White's hand. Oliver tries to pass this off as a fluke, luck, but Diggle knows the skill required to pull that off and starts to suspect his Oliver's RichIdiotWithNoDayJob act is a façade.
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* DeathByTransceiver: One of Somer's goons makes a radio call to a perimeter guard, only for The Hood to answer.
* IOweYouMyLife: When China White and her Triad gunmen burst into Laurel's flat to assassinate her, Oliver is only armed with a kitchen knife, but Diggles arrives JustInTime for a ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind. Then Oliver throws the knife to save Diggle from being killed by China White. Although they're far from FireForgedFriends, these actions are appreciated by both parties.
* RevealingSkill: Oliver saves the life of John Diggle by throwing an unbalanced kitchen knife from across the room. Oliver tries to pass this off as a fluke, but Diggle knows the skill required to pull that off and starts to suspect his RichIdiotWithNoDayJob act is a façade.
* ScarSurvey: Thea is shocked when she walks in on her brother putting on his shirt and sees just how extensive his scars are, and gets angry when he clams up in the face of her questions.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the assassination of Laurel fails, Martin Somers realises the Triads next step will be to burn their bridges by killing him, so he prepares to jump on a ship and run. The Hood gets to him first.
* SummonBiggerFish: After the Hood tries to intimidate Somers into confessing his guilt in court, he calls on China White to handle the problem. She decides that [[MurderIsTheBestSolution the best way to stop the trial is to kill Laurel Lance]] and when that fails, Somers knows full well that [[YouKnowTooMuch he'll be next on the list.]]
* TalkingToTheDead: Thea tells Oliver of how she would visit Oliver's headstone to pour out her troubles, and laments how she felt closer to him then than to the emotionally-distant brother who returned to her.
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: After the assassination of Laurel fails, Martin Somers realises the Triads next step will be to burn their bridges by killing him, so he prepares to jump on a ship and run. The Hood gets to him first.
* SummonBiggerFish: After the Hood tries to intimidate Somers into confessing his guilt in court, he calls on China White to handle the problem. She decides that [[MurderIsTheBestSolution the best way to stop the trial is to kill Laurel Lance]] and when that fails, Somers knows full well that [[YouKnowTooMuch he'll be next on the list.]]
* TalkingToTheDead: Thea tells Oliver of how she would visit Oliver's headstone to pour out her troubles, and laments how she felt closer to him then than to the emotionally-distant brother who returned to her.
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* UnwillingSuspension: The Hood hangs Martin Somers upside down and grazes his face with arrows. Martin is not amused and calls on his Triad contact for help.
* VomitDiscretionShot: Flashback!Oliver after getting near the decomposing body ofis his dead father.
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* JerkassFacade: Oliver, unlike the pilot, Oliver begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility. He realises he may have overdone it however, and so makes an effort to reconcile with Laurel.
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* JerkassFacade: Oliver, unlike the pilot, begins playing the RichIdiotWithNoDayJob to the hilt so people won't expect him to shoulder responsibility.
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* TastesLikeFriendship: Oliver realises his JerkassFacade is alienating people he'd rather have as friends, so reconciles with Laurel over mint ice cream.
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* DueToTheDead: The first thing Oliver does when he gets to the island is find a place to bury his father's body and cover it with stones so animals cannot get to it.
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Since the mention of TWD in \'\'The Flash 2014\'\' was nothing more than a Shout Out, it wouldn\'t really count as spoiler-y.
* CelebrityParadox: ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' will later be acknowledged to exist in this universe. Laurel's client in this episode is played by Emma Bell, who was a cast member of that show's inaugural season (aired two years before this show's series premiere) and was the very first major casualty of that show.
* ExactWords: Oliver mentions during his legal hearing that he was the SoleSurvivor in the yacht incident and that his father didn't make it. He didn't say [[HeroicSacrifice how]] [[BoomHeadshot he died]].
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* ParentalAbandonment: Laurel's client's MissingMom died when she was a baby, implying DeathByChildbirth. Her DisappearedDad was killed via SlashedThroat because HeKnowsTooMuch about the organization he's working in for and about to turn over.
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* CelebrityParadox: In retrospect. A future ''Arrow'' SpinOff [[Series/TheFlash2014 show]] will mention ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Laurel's client in this episode is played by Emma Bell, who was a cast member of ''The Walking Dead'' in its inaugural season and was the very first major casualty of that show.
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* CelebrityParadox: In retrospect. A future ''Arrow'' SpinOff [[Series/TheFlash2014 show]] will mention ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Laurel's client in this episode is played by Emma Bell, who is was a cast member of ''The Walking Dead'' in its inaugural season and was the very first major casualty in of that show.
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* ArtifactTitle: The titular father refers to the long-departed Robert Queen.
* BackFromTheDead: The episode opens with Oliver being legally resurrected.
* BackFromTheDead: The episode opens with Oliver being legally resurrected.
* BlackWidow: It's revealed that Moira had a hand on the yacht being sabotaged.
* CelebrityParadox: In retrospect. A future ''Arrow'' SpinOff [[Series/TheFlash2014 show]] will mention ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Laurel's client is played by Emma Bell, who is the very first major casualty in that show.
* CelebrityParadox: In retrospect. A future ''Arrow'' SpinOff [[Series/TheFlash2014 show]] will mention ''Series/TheWalkingDead''. Laurel's client is played by Emma Bell, who is the very first major casualty in that show.
* EventTitle: The title refers to Oliver's road on being TheAtoner for his father's [[RedemptionEqualsDeath dying wish]].
* IncestSubtext: Thea looking at Oliver's scars can be wrongly misinterpreted by the audience...
* IncestSubtext: Thea looking at Oliver's scars can be wrongly misinterpreted by the audience...
* ParentalAbandonment: Laurel's client's MissingMom died when she was a baby, implying DeathByChildbirth. Her DisappearedDad was killed via SlashedThroat because HeKnowsTooMuch about the organization he's working in and about to turn over.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Oliver finally makes it clear that he's not OK with his mom remarrying his late dad's CFO.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Oliver finally makes it clear that he's not OK with his mom remarrying his late dad's CFO.
* SecondEpisodeIntroduction: The episode introduced major recurring villain China White, as well as Oliver's first mentor Yao Fei.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Oliver saves Diggle from China White by throwing a kitchen knife at her.
* ThrowingYourSwordAlwaysWorks: Oliver saves Diggle from China White by throwing a kitchen knife at her.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Ollie shows up at Laurel's apartment with a bag, and when she asks him what's in it, he tells her, "Every day I was on the island, there was something I thought about doing, and I told myself that if I ever got to do it again, I would do it with you." It seems like he's talking about sex, and the bag contains condoms. However, he then says, "Eat ice cream," and it's revealed that the bag has mint ice cream in it.
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** Following the trend of naming characters after creators associated with the comics, Victor and Emily Nocenti are named after comic writer Ann Nocenti.
** Following the trend of naming characters after creators associated with the comics, Victor and Emily Nocenti are named after comic writer Ann Nocenti.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: Oliver's presentation may have left something to be desired, but he ''doesn't'' have experience running a Fortune 500 company.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Thea begins showing hints of not being an ItsAllAboutMe SpoiledBrat, telling Oliver that things were shitty for five years with him dead, and his return doesn't magically fix that, and he has to meet them halfway.
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* Following the trend of naming characters after creators associated with the comics, Victor and Emily Nocenti are named after comic writer Ann Nocenti.
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When Oliver goes to court to repeal the death in absentia declaration filed on his behalf, he runs into Laurel, who is trying a case against a crooked shipping magnate with ties to the Chinese Triad criminal society. Laurel argues that, while attempting to hide his involvement in drug trade, Martin Somers ordered the father of her client killed.
Somers’ name also appears in Robert Queen’s book and Oliver goes after him in his vigilante persona. Spooked, Somers calls on the triad for help in the form of drug trafficker China White. After Thea tells her brother he needs to open up to someone, Oliver visits with Laurel. They are attacked by White and crew, but Diggle and Oliver manage to fend them off. Quentin Lance, not wanting to lose another daughter, warns Oliver to stay away from Laurel.
As the Arrow, Oliver confronts Somers to get his confession about the murdered man. He fights with China White again before Lance and the police arrive. Cornered by Lance, Oliver escapes by giving up a recording of Somers admitting his crime.
Meanwhile, as Walter and Moira attempt to bring Oliver back into the business fold, Oliver makes the decision that he can’t do what he wants to accomplish by giving in to what everyone else wants him to be. Flashbacks to the island reveal Oliver burying his father’s body and discovering a book with the drawing of a strange symbol in it. As Oliver says goodbye to his father, he’s shot in the shoulder by an arrow. In pain, Oliver turns to see a man in the distance in a green hood…
'''Notes:'''
* The ending confirms there was someone else on the island with Oliver.
* Following the trend of naming characters after creators associated with the comics, Victor and Emily Nocenti are named after comic writer Ann Nocenti.
Somers’ name also appears in Robert Queen’s book and Oliver goes after him in his vigilante persona. Spooked, Somers calls on the triad for help in the form of drug trafficker China White. After Thea tells her brother he needs to open up to someone, Oliver visits with Laurel. They are attacked by White and crew, but Diggle and Oliver manage to fend them off. Quentin Lance, not wanting to lose another daughter, warns Oliver to stay away from Laurel.
As the Arrow, Oliver confronts Somers to get his confession about the murdered man. He fights with China White again before Lance and the police arrive. Cornered by Lance, Oliver escapes by giving up a recording of Somers admitting his crime.
Meanwhile, as Walter and Moira attempt to bring Oliver back into the business fold, Oliver makes the decision that he can’t do what he wants to accomplish by giving in to what everyone else wants him to be. Flashbacks to the island reveal Oliver burying his father’s body and discovering a book with the drawing of a strange symbol in it. As Oliver says goodbye to his father, he’s shot in the shoulder by an arrow. In pain, Oliver turns to see a man in the distance in a green hood…
'''Notes:'''
* The ending confirms there was someone else on the island with Oliver.
* Following the trend of naming characters after creators associated with the comics, Victor and Emily Nocenti are named after comic writer Ann Nocenti.
