History Recap / ArrowS3E20TheFallen

* VillainRespect: When Felicity marches right up to Ra's and chews him out for forcing Oliver into this situation, an act which would likely get anyone else killed, he says outright that [[YouGotSpunk he admires her courage]].

* AbsenteeActor: Roy and Quentin did not appear in this episode.

** Ra's story about how he had to abandon his family [[spoiler:(specifically a wife, son and daughter) is remarkably similar to what the Monitor will call on Oliver to do in the final season. Given that we later find the Monitor is connected to the creation of the League of Assassins, this may not be a coincidence.]]

* {{Foreshadowing}}: ComicBook/RasAlGhul mentions that he has two daughters. ComicBook/TaliaAlGhul will be introduced in Season Five.

* RealityEnsues:
** Felicity's plan to escape with Oliver from the middle of an assassin's fortress. It works as well as you might expect.
** During the car chase, everyone shoots at each other from moving vehicles and [[ATeamFiring fail to hit anything]].

* EvilCostumeSwitch[=/=]EvilMakeover: Invoked when Oliver becomes an official member of the League.

* TheyDo: Oliver and Felicity finally went horizontal, a fact that they themselves jokingly lampshade afterwards. Funnily enough, ''Ra's'' of all people encouraged it (kind of), as a way for Oliver to gain some closure before he fully joins the League.

** Malcolm warns that the Thea "you get back would not be the one you lost", which is what Moira's doctor said about Oliver in the pilot episode.

* MeaningfulEcho: In the flashback Maseo wonders why they're risking their lives to save others, and Tatsu replies that they would be like an EmptyShell if they didn't. Maseo/Sarab repeats the line to explain why he's helping Team Arrow.

** Ra's reveals that he was recruited by a man who arrived in the dead of night and told him to leave his family without a word or watch them be tortured to death in front of him. Compared to that, his actions--especially encouraging Felicity to confess to Oliver--are downright cuddly.

** Ra's mentions he had a daughter other than Nyssa. Talia perhaps? He also mentions having had a son, possibly in reference to Dusan al Ghul.

* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Ray could tell from the way Felicity looked at Oliver during Roy Harper's goodbye that she loves him, as opposed to her underwhelming reaction to his LoveConfession.

* ChekhovsGun: While watching General Shrieve's men, Oliver notes that they are [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking preparing a binary chemical weapon and getting lunch from a noodle cart.]] Turns out the noodle cart is [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink how the bioweapon will be dispersed]], and the heavy military truck guarded by soldiers is [[YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle just a decoy]].

* BigDamnHeroes: A downplayed version, but when Team Arrow are trapped in a tunnel with archers on both sides, and Malcolm telling them it would be [[BetterToDieThanBeKilled best not to be taken alive]], Oliver recovers from being drugged and uses his authority as Heir to the Demon to make everyone back down. He then gets Team Arrow off on their jet before Ra's can find out and punish them.

* CallBack: Oliver tells Felicity of how he broke the neck of the drug dealer to protect Thea.

--> '''Malcolm:''' The waters change a person in the ''soul''. Even if they work, the Thea you get back would not be the one you lost.

* ResurrectionSickness: When Thea is resurrected by the Lazarus Pit, she attacks Oliver in animalistic rage and has to be knocked out by the priestess. Then when she wakes up, she doesn't recognise Oliver (saying [[LostAtSea her brother is dead]]) but [[DramaticIrony recognizes Malcolm as her father]] (presumably confusing him with Robert Queen) and asks where her (dead) mother is. She appears to recover by the time she gets to Starling City, but has no memory of the past few days.

* ResurrectionSickness: When Thea is resurrected by the Lazarus Pit, she attacks Oliver in a rage and has to be knocked out. Then when she wakes up, she doesn't recognise Oliver (saying [[LostAtSea her brother is dead]]) but [[DramaticIrony recognizes Malcolm as her father]] (presumably confusing him with Robert Queen) and asks where her (dead) mother is. She appears to recover by the time she gets to Starling City, but has no memory of the past few days.

* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scene between Oliver and Felicity. We basically briefly see as much of [[SexyBack topless]] Felicity as The CW would permit. And Oliver ain't too shabby either.

* {{Fanservice}}: The sex scene between Oliver and Felicity. We basically briefly see as much of topless Felicity as The CW would permit. And Oliver ain't too shabby either.

* MeaningfulEcho: In the flashback Maseo wonders why they're risking their lives to save others, and Tatsu replies that they would be like an EmptyShell if they didn't. Maseo/Sarab repeats the like to explain why he's helping Team Arrow.

* OnlyMostlyDead: Thea. She's not dead, but neither modern medicine or the genius of the S.T.A.R. Labs team can save her - hence the trip to the Lazarus Pit.