History Recap / ArrowS3E19BrokenArrow

* OhCrap: Cisco and Ray realize that Simmons wasn't anywhere near Central City when the Particle Accelerator exploded, so he couldn't have got his powers that way.

** Quentin says he didn't want waste time getting a search warrant for the Verdant's basement before it was turned into [[ArrowS1E19UnfinishedBusiness a storage unit]] again.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Oliver wants to subvert this by calling Barry to deal with Deathbolt, but Felicity thinks he has enough going on in Central City with his hunt for the Reverse-Flash, so they don't.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Oliver wants to subvert this by calling Barry to deal with the meta-human, but Felicity thinks he has enough going on in Central City with his hunt for the Reverse-Flash, so they don't.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Averted, Ray gets his butt kicked during his first fight for trying to invoke this. Oliver chastises Ray for relying on his tech too much and not his instinct: after all he didn't have his suit when he took an arrow for Felicity.
* ContinuityNod:
** Oliver wants to call Barry to deal with the meta-human, but Felicity thinks he has enough going on in Central City with his hunt for the Reverse-Flash.

* DownerEnding: Oliver lost everything that he worked hard for, the woman he loves at the moment is now clearly being drawn to her new boyfriend, his {{Sidekick}} had to fake his death so he can clear Oliver's name and then leave town, and last but not the least, his only remaining relative may be dead at the end of the episode.

* FakingTheDead: Roy ends up doing this with the help of an ARGUS agent Diggle contacted.

* InsistentTerminology: Thea calls Ra's al Ghul "the Demon," and he corrects her; he's the Demon's ''Head''. The implication is that the League itself is the Demon.

** When dropping Simmons off in the Pipeline, Ray asks Cisco how they handle feeding the prisoners (or handling certain other biological functions), but Cisco's realisation over the origin of Simmons' powers cut off any answer.
** Cisco mentioned that the day the Particle Accelerator exploded was on December 11, 2013. That was the same date [[Recap/ArrowS2E9ThreeGhosts "Three Ghosts"]] aired.

* MythologyGag: The night of the Particle Accelerator explosion Simmons was in a jail cell in [[Comicbook/{{Starman}} Opal City]].

* ShoutOut: Ray's climatic battle with Deathbolt is clearly inspired by the FinalBattle of ''Film/RealSteel''. Bonus points for both having characters named Atom.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Oliver wants to subvert this by calling Barry to deal with the meta-human, but Felicity thinks he has enough going on in Central City with his hunt for the Reverse-Flash so they don't.

** On a wider 'verse-related note, Cisco and Ray realize that Simmons wasn't in Central City the night of the dark matter storm, meaning that there's apparently more than one way to create a Metahuman.
* WhatTheHellHero:

* WhatTheHellDad: In her only scene this episode, Laurel managed to give her dad a much needed scolding.

* ContinuityNod: Oliver wants to call Barry to deal with the meta-human, but Felicity thinks he has enough going on in Central City with his hunt for the Reverse-Flash.

** Lt.Pike gives one to Lance for still pursuing Oliver since there is no evidence against him and Roy is in custody. He warns him that he could destroy what's left of his career if he doesn't throttle back.

* TheBusCameBack: Lt. Pike.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Lance reaches a new low in his vendetta against Oliver by harassing him and Thea, searching both the club and the apartment and taking great joy in it. He even tries to turn Roy and Thea against Oliver. It's so bad that a fellow cop has to tell him to stop.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Lance reaches a new low in his vendetta against Oliver by harassing him and Thea, searching both the club and the apartment and taking great joy in it. He even tries to turn Ray and Thea against Oliver. It's so bad that a fellow cop has to tell him to stop.

* ActorAllusion: [[Film/SupermanReturns Ray]] fights Deathbolt, whose eye beams greatly resemble Franchise/{{Superman}}'s heat vision. He defeats him [[WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries by using his hands to cover up the eye beams at point blank range, resulting in blowback.]]

* TonightSomebodyDies: WordOfGod implied this before the episode aired. [[RedHerring Everything pointed to]] Roy, but Thea apparently bites it. [[spoiler: She gets better after a dip in the Lazarus Pit.]]

* TonightSomebodyDies: WordOfGod implied this before the episode aired. [[RedHerring Everything pointed to]] Roy, but Thea apparently bites it.

* DownerEnding: Oliver lost everything that he worked hard for, the woman he loves at the moment is now clearly being drawn to her new boyfriend, his {{Sidekick}} had to fake his death so he can clear Oliver's name and then leave town, and last but not the least, his only remaining relative may be dead at the end of the episode.

* TheReveal: Turns out it wasn't Waller who's been hunting Oliver and Maeso's family, it was General Shrieve.

* BitchInSheepsClothing: Oliver is gravely mistaken about General Shrives.

* ContinuitySnarl: It's not exactly clear when Ray and Felicity had time to visit Central City in the midst of all of Starling's chaos.
** WordOfGod says that episode 18 of the Flash takes place before episode 18 or 19 of Arrow.

* GeneralRipper: Shrives wants to use the Alpha/Omega virus to destroy China.

* InternalReveal: Turns out it wasn't Waller who's been hunting Oliver and Maeso's family, it was General Shrives.

** When dropping Simmons off in the Pipeline, Ray asks Cisco how they handle feeding the prisoners (or handling certain other biological functions), but Cisco's realization over the origin of Simmons' powers cut off any answer.

* SupermanStaysOutOfGotham: Oliver wants subvert this by calling Barry to deal with the meta-human, but Felicity thinks he has enough going on in Central City with his hunt for the Reverse-Flash so they don't.

* LeaningOnTheFourthWall:
-->'''Ray''': How many abandoned warehouses are in this city? No, no I'm genuinely curious.

* PlotHole: Lance has to cut Oliver lose, since Roy's in custody. So how he is still able to get warrants to search the club and Thea's apartment? Even more perplexing is he knows exactly where in the club to look for the Foundry.
** Not really, since both places are associated with Roy. The Foundry is his last known place of work and it stands to reason that the cops would also search his girlfriends place if they didn't find anything at his place.

* PlotHole: Lance has to cut Oliver lose, since Roy's in custody. So how he is still able to get warrants to search the club and Thea's apartment? Even more perplexing is he knows exactly where in the club to look for the Foundry

* BehindTheBlack: Ra's manages to move from one side of Thea's condo to the other end in the second he's off screen.

* ClothesMakeTheSuperman: Oliver chastises Ray for relying on his tech too much and not his instinct: after all he didn't have his suit when he took an arrow for Felicity.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The Final Episodes trailer of the show already featured Thea wearing a [[MovieSuperheroesWearBlack violet]] Mia Dearden costume (the hood-cape at least), so she'll be fine/brought BackFromTheDead eventually.

* PlotHole: Lance has to cut Oliver lose, since Roy's in custody. Yet, he's still able to get warrants to search the club and Thea's apartment.

* PutOnABus: Roy Harper leaves Starling City, saying good bye to the rest of Team Arrow.

** Lance accuses Oliver for being at fault for Roy being in prison.

* InternalReveal: Turns out it wasn't Waller who's been hunting Oliver and Maeso's family, it was Genereal Shrives.

* ContinuitySnarl: It's not exactly clear when Ray and Felicity had time to visit Central City in mist of all of Starling's chaos.