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* HollywoodLaw: Apparently Laurel is being investigated by the Bar's disciplinary committee for her problems with drinking and pills. If lawyers could get disbarred for substance abuse problems, the legal profession would be half the size it is.


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* ImproperlyParanoid: The villain of the week hires Bronze Tiger to help with his attempt to get Merlyn's prototype earthquake machine. After all, why ''wouldn't'' the Arrow have gone over Merlyn's place with a fine-tooth comb and set up a system to alert him if anyone went after it? However, because of Oliver's grief over Tommy's death, he didn't do a proper follow-up and all of Merlyn's belongings are right where he left them, uninspected.


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* ProperlyParanoid: {{Subverted}}. See ImproperlyParanoid above.
* RevealingCoverUp: See ImproperlyParanoid. If the arms dealer trying to sell the prototype earthquake device had left Bronze Tiger in prison, Team Arrow would never have been clued in to who the dude was, what he was after, or where he was getting it from. They wouldn't have even known something was up until after the fact, if ever.
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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith

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* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWithYouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith: Or in this case, what.



'''Bronze Tiger:''' Yeah. I get paid.

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'''Bronze Tiger:''' Yeah. [[PunchClockVillain I get paid.
paid.]]
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* ThisIsThePartWhere: When Oliver takes Roy down to the Arrowcave, he asks if this is the part where he gets killed because YouKnowTooMuch.

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* ThisIsThePartWhere: When Oliver takes Roy down to the Arrowcave, he Roy asks if this is the part where he gets killed because YouKnowTooMuch.HeKnowsTooMuch.

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* OhCrap: When Oliver recognizes the drawings on the wall of the Mirakuru cave as firing equations and realizes that Slade is going to use Fyers's launcher to blow up the Amazo.

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* OhCrap: OhCrap:
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When Oliver recognizes the drawings on the wall of the Mirakuru cave as firing equations and realizes that Slade is going to use Fyers's launcher to blow up the Amazo.''Amazo''.
** The revelation that there's ''another'' earthquake machine out there.
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* TreasureChestCavity: Crosses over with JailBake in a pretty gruesome way. A man, to provide for his family, is bribed into smuggling Bronze Tiger's WolverineClaws into his cell by hiding the various components under his skin.

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* TreasureChestCavity: Crosses over with JailBake in a pretty gruesome way. A man, to provide for his family, is bribed into smuggling Bronze Tiger's WolverineClaws into his cell by hiding the various components under his skin. It's implied that he bleeds to death in the process of removing them.
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* PercussiveTherapy: Roy is getting frustrating with his training, so convinces Oliver to take him on a mission so he can pound on someone who fights back. It doesn't go well.

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* PercussiveTherapy: Roy is getting frustrating frustrated with his training, so convinces Oliver to take him on a mission so he can pound on someone who fights back. It doesn't go well.

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* InSeriesNickname:
-->'''Roy:''' Does this group have a name? Like "Team Arrow", or something? \\
'''Oliver:''' We don't call ourselves that. \\
'''Felicity:''' I do. Occasionally. \\
'''Oliver:''' Stop.



* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Felicity doesn't want to engage in Monday morning quarterbacking because it's actually Wednesday.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Roy is so busying pounding the truck driver he doesn't notice Bronze Tiger get into the truck and drive off. Oliver can't chase after him because he has to stop and pull Roy off the man.



* OpenSecret: Oliver admits that too many people already know his SecretIdentity.
* PercussiveTherapy: Roy is getting frustrating with his training, so convinces Oliver to take him on a mission so he can pound on someone who fights back. It doesn't go well.
* ThePowerOfLove: Lampshaded by Sara, and shown with both Slade and Roy.
* ThePowerOfTrust: Roy gets increasingly angry over how the Arrow is keeping things from him, like how he got his knowledge of the Mirakuru and who's helping him from MissionControl. Eventually Oliver does TheUnmasking as it's the only way to gain Roy's trust at a crucial moment.
* ShortDistancePhoneCall: Thea calls Oliver while he's in the Arrowcave and asks if he's anywhere near the nightclub. Oliver looks at the ceiling where the faint noise of music is coming from. "I'm pretty close."



* ThisIsThePartWhere: When Oliver takes Roy down to the Arrowcave, he asks if this is the part where he gets killed because YouKnowTooMuch.




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* WorkoutFanservice: Oliver works out his frustrations on the salmon ladder.
* YouHaveNoIdeaWhoYoureDealingWith
-->'''Arrow:''' You don't know what you're dealing with.\\
'''Bronze Tiger:''' Big machine, makes earthquakes. \\
'''Arrow:''' Don't you know what happens if the wrong people have it? \\
'''Bronze Tiger:''' Yeah. I get paid.

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* CallBack
** Oliver has Roy slap bowls of water like Shado had him do. He doesn’t find it any less frustrating.
** Quentin meets Sara in the Chinese restaurant from "League of Assassins."

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* CallBack
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CallBack: Oliver has Roy slap bowls of water like Shado had him do. He doesn’t find it any less frustrating.
** Quentin meets Sara in the Chinese restaurant from "League of Assassins."
frustrating.



** Laurel collapses in her apartment, seeing Sara before she passes out.



* InternalReveal: Oliver reveals to Roy that he's the Arrow, and Laurel finds out that Sara's alive.

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* InadvertentEntranceCue: A mook wants to know why they needed Bronze Tiger for a simple break-and-enter job. Bronze Tiger indicates Roy and the Arrow who have just made an appearance. "For them."
* InternalReveal: Oliver reveals to Roy that he's the Arrow, and Laurel finds out that Sara's alive.Arrow.

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* CommonalityConnection: When the Arrow tells Roy to think of his love for Thea, it only makes him angry because he thinks the Arrow knows nothing of her. Discovering that Oliver is Thea's brother makes all the difference.
* DoesNotKnowHisOwnStrength: Roy breaks his training equipment and hurts Thea when he grabs her too hard.
* DrowningMySorrows: Laurel turns up at Verdant getting plastered. She finds it ironic that [[CharacterDevelopment Thea of all people]] is the one cutting her off.
* EarthquakeMachine: An ArmsDealer wants to get hold of a prototype earthquake machine stored in the Merlyn mansion.
* {{Foreshadowing}}
** Amanda Waller recruits Bronze Tiger for a [[Recap/ArrowS2E16SuicideSquad squad]].
** Oliver on the island will 'kill' Slade with an arrow in the eye, explaining present day Slade's desire to return the favour.
* GetIntoJailFree: The guards have a good laugh at their latest inmate who tried robbing a store across the road from the police station. Turns out he's been paid to smuggle Bronze Tiger's claws inside the prison.



** With nother earthquake machine about to go off, Ollie reveals his identity to Roy to get him to listen and cooperate so he can use his strength to punch a hole in the armoured shipping container.

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** With nother another earthquake machine about to go off, Ollie reveals his identity to Roy to get him to listen and cooperate so he can use his strength to punch a hole in the armoured reinforced shipping container.



* HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries (and fails) to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.

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* HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries (and fails) to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is job because she's about to be disbarred disbarred, and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: It looks like Oliver is going to confess to Slade what happened with Shado's death, but instead he says that Shado loved them both, and she would want Slade to get off the island instead of destroying their only chance of doing so.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Throughout the episode Ollie strives to teach Roy how to control his SuperStrength.
* CharacterDevelopment: Not character development per se, but Oliver seems to not have forgotten the events of the last episode. Whereas before Ollie would have driven Laurel home from the bar, he coldly shrugs her off and tells Thea to call a cab.
* ChekhovsGun: Slade is planning to use the missile launcher from Season One to destroy the freighter.
* GodzillaThreshold: Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gotten so bad that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City. In another instance in the episode, with the prospect of another earthquake machine going off Ollie reveals his identity to Roy to get him to listen and cooperate so he can use his strength to destroy the machine.

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* BaitAndSwitchComment: It looks like Oliver is going to confess to Slade what happened with Shado's death, but instead he says that Shado loved them both, and she would want Slade to get off the island instead of destroying their only chance of doing so.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Throughout the episode Ollie strives to teach Roy how to control his SuperStrength.
* CharacterDevelopment: Not character development per se, but
AesopAmnesia: Averted as Oliver seems to not have forgotten the events of the last episode. Whereas before Ollie would have driven Laurel home from the bar, he coldly shrugs her off and tells Thea to call a cab.
* ChekhovsGun: TheAtoner: Olvier thinks that helping Roy can help atone for his failure to help Slade.
* BaitAndSwitchComment: It looks like Oliver is going to confess to Slade what happened with Shado's death, but instead he says that Shado loved them both, and she would want Slade to get off the island and return to his family, instead of destroying their only chance of doing so.
* BloodKnight: Even though Bronze Tiger has already been paid off with a huge sum, he still attacks Oliver rather than abandon his former employer.
* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Throughout the episode Ollie strives to teach Roy how to control his anger and SuperStrength.
* CallBack
** Oliver has Roy slap bowls of water like Shado had him do. He doesn’t find it any less frustrating.
** Quentin meets Sara in the Chinese restaurant from "League of Assassins."
* ChekhovsGun:
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Slade is planning to use the missile launcher from Season One to destroy the freighter.
** For the next episode when Moira tells Walter that the obstetrician who handled Thea's delivery is the only person who can reveal her parentage, and they need to take steps to deal with that.
* GodzillaThreshold: GodzillaThreshold:
** With nother earthquake machine about to go off, Ollie reveals his identity to Roy to get him to listen and cooperate so he can use his strength to punch a hole in the armoured shipping container.
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Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gotten so bad that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City. In another instance in the episode, with the prospect of another earthquake machine going off Ollie reveals his identity to Roy to get him to listen and cooperate so he can use his strength to destroy the machine.City.
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* HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries (and fails)to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.

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* HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries (and fails)to fails) to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.
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* BaitAndSwitchComment: It looks like Oliver is going to confess to Slade what happened with Shado's death, but instead he says that Shado loved them both, and she would want Slade to get off the island instead of destroying their only chance of doing so.


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* ChekhovsGun: Slade is planning to use the missile launcher from Season One to destroy the freighter.
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* HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.

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* HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries to (and fails)to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.
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* InternalReveal: Oliver reveals to Roy that he's the Arrow, and Laurel finds out that Sara's alive.

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In the present, Oliver tries to teach Roy to control his anger and manage the Mirakuru. On the Island, Oliver and Sara are trying to find Slade before he can do something they'll regret.



* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Subverted. Roy nearly delivers one to Bronze Tiger, but Ollie stops him while also revealing his true identity.

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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Subverted. Roy nearly delivers one to Bronze Tiger, but Ollie stops him while also revealing his true identity. Earlier, Roy ''did'' deliver one to one of the mooks Tiger was working with.
* OhCrap: When Oliver recognizes the drawings on the wall of the Mirakuru cave as firing equations and realizes that Slade is going to use Fyers's launcher to blow up the Amazo.
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* GodzillaThreshold: Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gotten so bad that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City.

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* GodzillaThreshold: Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gotten so bad that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City. In another instance in the episode, with the prospect of another earthquake machine going off Ollie reveals his identity to Roy to get him to listen and cooperate so he can use his strength to destroy the machine.
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* TreasureChestCavity: Crosses over with JailBake in a pretty gruesome way. A man, to provide for his family, is bribed into smuggling Bronze Tiger's WolverineClaws into his sell by hiding the various components under his skin.

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* TreasureChestCavity: Crosses over with JailBake in a pretty gruesome way. A man, to provide for his family, is bribed into smuggling Bronze Tiger's WolverineClaws into his sell cell by hiding the various components under his skin.
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* TreasureChestCavity: Crosses over with JailBake in a pretty gruesome way. A man, to provide for his family, is bribed into smuggling Bronze Tiger's WolverineClaws into his sell by hiding the various components under his skin.
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* HumiliationCongaLine: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.

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* HumiliationCongaLine: HumiliationConga: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.
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* CharacterDevelopment: Not character development per se, but Oliver seems to not have forgotten the events of the last episode. Whereas before Ollie would have driven Laurel home from the bar, he coldly shrugs her off and tells Thea to call a cab.


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* HumiliationCongaLine: Continued from last episode. After Laurel is fired, her father tries to take her to AA, she loses a chance at a job, is about to be disbarred and she gets wasted at Thea's bar.
* MoralityChain: Thea is unknowingly this for Roy. His love for her is what calms him down. Shado's memory was also this for Slade, at least temporarily.


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* TameHisAnger: Arrow spends the entire episode trying to teach Roy to channel his anger without letting it control him.
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* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Subverted. Roy nearly delivers one to Bronze Tiger, but Ollie stops him while also revealing his true identity.
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* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Throughout the episode Ollie strives to learn Roy how to control his SuperStrength.
* GodzillaThreshold: Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gone so far that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City.

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* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Throughout the episode Ollie strives to learn teach Roy how to control his SuperStrength.
* GodzillaThreshold: Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gone gotten so far bad that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City.



** Near the end we see Amanda Waller recruit Bronze Tiger for something she describes as a [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad "squad".]]

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** Near the end end, we see Amanda Waller recruit Bronze Tiger for something she describes as a [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad "squad".]]"squad"]].
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* GodzillaThreshold: Laurel's problems with drugs and alcohol have gone so far that Oliver ends up calling Sara, at the risk of the League of Assassins coming back to Starling City.
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** Near the end we see Amanda Waller starting to assemble the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.
* WhamEpisode: In that Ollie reveals his true identity to Roy and that Sara reveals that she's alive to Laurel.

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** Near the end we see Amanda Waller starting to assemble the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.
recruit Bronze Tiger for something she describes as a [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad "squad".]]
* WhamEpisode: In that Ollie reveals his true identity to Roy and that Roy, Sara reveals that she's alive to Laurel.
Laurel, and Amanda Waller starts assembling the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.
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!Tropes Applying to This Episode

* BoxingLessonsForSuperman: Throughout the episode Ollie strives to learn Roy how to control his SuperStrength.
* MythologyGag
** Milo Armitage is a minor villain from the comics.
** The state of Markovia gets another mention, as the intended target for the earthquake machine.
** Near the end we see Amanda Waller starting to assemble the ComicBook/SuicideSquad.
* WhamEpisode: In that Ollie reveals his true identity to Roy and that Sara reveals that she's alive to Laurel.

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