History Recap / ArrowS4E3Restoration

* RunningGag: At some point you'd think the mercs would start noticing they've been suffering an [[IncrediblyLamePun explosion of casualties due to landmines]] since Oliver showed up.

** Felicity celebrates the return of "Original Team Arrow", the PowerTrio of Oliver, Diggle and Felicity from Season One. Unfortunately it takes a while for the other two to share her enthusiasm.

* EverythingIsOnline: Felicity is able to operate a construction digger remotely, including a shot of the control levers moving by themselves.

* ItsALongStory
** But as Felicity points out, it's not.
--->'''Diggle:''' Sorry I couldn't help out. It's a long story.
--->'''Felicity:''' Oh, my God, it is not a long story. It is the shortest story in history. Two guys go take on criminals without asking for back-up and nearly get killed in the process!
** [[ToMakeALongStoryShort Inverted]] when Double Down attacks Felicity and Curtis.
--->'''Felicity:''' Ok, obviously there's a very long explanation to this. The short version is that I work with the Green Arrow, this man is trying to kill me--well, us, sorry--and I'm taking us down to the only place that we're going to be safe.

* NonindicativeName
-->'''Curtis:''' Have you ever considered how ironic your name is? "Felicity" refers to the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts, which is [[ThatCameOutWrong not exactly something you're particularly good at]].

* ContinuityNod: A few. The Dodger is mentioned, Thea's dip in the Lazarus Pit is once again touched on.

* AfterActionPatchUp: For once played without ShipTease.

* AHouseDivided: Oliver goes to take on a robbery without Diggle and is nearly killed by Double Down. This is because Diggle has gone to take on Fayid and is nearly killed by her security.

* AllForNothing: All that effort by Oliver to stop his sister from becoming a killer. Not only does Thea kill for the first time, taking open enjoyment in the act, but she has to keep doing so as the bloodlust will return in just a few weeks.

* DoWrongRight: Oliver points out that the mercenaries' method of getting information from prisoners (asking a few times, then shooting them and asking someone else) is counterproductive: not only isn't it getting the information, it's killing off the slave labor force. So he offers to torture them instead.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: Both Ollie and Diggle are absolutely stunned once Felicity loses her shit and tells them to solve their issues already.

* TortureTechnician: Oliver impresses Conklin with his abilities as a torturer, claiming that he learned what the body can stand from three years of his own experience dealing with injuries. The culprit is not the man being tortured, but someone else who confesses to spare them further pain.

* MissingFloor: Used for the secondary Arrowcave.

* ChekhovsGun: That small sphere with a T-shaped marking that Curtis is working on.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Nyssa and Merlyn's sparring match at the beginning, and Merlyn using the water of the Lazarus Pit to heal a small cut, while Nyssa watches.

* TheUnreveal: It's never explained why the Ghost in the opening didn't shoot Diggle, despite having the drop on him and his gun right in Dig's face.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Despite [[Recap/ArrowS3E14TheReturn saying that she would never again be Malcolm Merlyn's daughter]], Thea uses her status as the daughter of the current Ra's to gain admittance to Nanda Parbat, and more importantly calls him "Dad" when calling on Malcolm to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes act like a normal father for once]] and come up with a solution to her bloodlust that doesn't involve killing. Unfortunately Malcolm has no such solution, thereby failing another chance to repair his relations with his daughter.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Despite saying in "The Return" that she would never again be Malcolm Merlyn's daughter, Thea uses her status as the daughter of the current Ra's to gain admittance to Nanda Parbat, and more importantly calls him "Dad" when calling on Malcolm to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes act like a normal father for once]] and come up with a solution to her bloodlust that doesn't involve killing. Unfortunately Malcolm has no such solution, thereby failing another chance to repair his relations with his daughter.

* FantasticDrug: The mercenaries on Lian Yu in the flashbacks are growing plants that are hybrids of heroin and cocaine.

* TheBusCameBack: Mina Fayad, the HIVE agent who hired Deadshot comes to Star City to check up on how Darhk is doing. Turns out she cam BackForTheDead.

* DeadGuyOnDisplay: Oliver and Diggle track down Fayid's cell phone, only to find her body in a chair inside an AbandonedWarehouse, [[TheBait while Double Down goes to pay Felicity a visit.]]

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Despite saying in "The Return" that she would never again be Malcolm Merlyn's daughter, Thea uses her status as the daughter of the current Ra's to gain admittance to Nanda Parbat, and more importantly calls him "Dad" when calling on Malcolm to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes act like a normal father for once]] and come up with a solution to her bloodlust that doesn't involve killing. Unfortunately Malcolm has no such solution, another chance to repair his relations with his daughter.

* AllForNothing: All that effort by Oliver to stop his sister from becoming a killer. Not only does Thea kill for the first time (taking open enjoyment in the act) but she has to keep doing so as the bloodlust will return in just a few weeks.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Double Down breaks into Palmer Tech and attacks Felicity and Curtis, then follows them when they flee down to the lair in the building's subbasement. As a longer term problem, Team Arrow can't be certain that he didn't tell Darhk where to find the lair, so now they'll have to relocate it. Luckily Ollie has a surprise just for this occasion.

* TheBusCameBack: Mina Fayad, the HIVE agent who hired Deadshot comes to Star City to check up on how Darhk is doing.
* BrutalHonesty: Merlyn tells Thea that there's really no cure for her bloodlust and tells Laurel that there's no guarantee that the Pit could bring Sara back to life and even if it did, Sara won't come back like Laurel thinks she will.

** Felicity, as the CEO of Palmer Tech (formerly Queen Consolidated), enlists the help of Curtis to examine strange items under false pretenses and with poorly made excuses--much as Oliver did with ''her'' three years earlier. She however cuts to the chase and tells Curtis that she works with Green Arrow (while keeping Ollie's identity a secret).

** Malcolm explains Thea's problem is that someone using the pit to save their life (or restore it) absorbs fragments of previous users of the pit, which causes a bloodlust until they've taken revenge on the person who injured them. And since Ollie already killed Ra's the best Thea can do is to go on short killing sprees that will suppress the bloodlust for weeks at a time.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Desperate to get back in his daughter's good books, Malcolm Merlyn finally agrees to restore Sara. This is despite knowing that the Lazarus Pit will give Sara an uncontrollable urge to kill the person who killed her, which happens to be Thea. Presumably he never thought it would actually work, but it has.
* DoWrongRight: Oliver points out that the mercenaries' method of getting information from prisoners (asking a few times, then shooting them and asking someone else) is counterproductive: not only isn't it getting the information, it's killing off the slave labor force.

* YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious: Despite saying in "The Return" that she would never again be Malcolm Merlyn's daughter, Thea uses her status as the daughter of the current Ra's to gain admittance to Nanda Parbat and, more importantly, calls him "Dad" when calling on Malcolm to [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes act like a normal father for once]] and come up with a solution to her bloodlust that doesn't involve killing. Unfortunately Malcolm has no such solution, once again ruining any chance he might have had of repairing his relations with his daughter.

* DidNotThinkThisThrough: Desperate to get back in his daughter's good books, Malcolm Merlyn finally agrees to restore Sara. This is despite knowing that the Lazarus Pit will give Sara an uncontrollable urge to kill the person who killed her, which happens to be Thea. Presumably he never though it would actually work, but it has.

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* CallBack: Felicity, as the CEO of Palmer Tech (formerly Queen Consolidated), enlists the help of Curtis to examine strange items under false pretenses and with poorly made excuses--much as Oliver did with ''her'' three years earlier. She however cuts to the chase and tells Curtis that she works with Green Arrow (while keeping Ollie's identity a secret).

* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Laurel goes ahead with reviving Sara with the Lazarus Pit against the advice of Nyssa (Sara's lover), Malcolm (the man who owns the pit), and Thea (the most recent person to be revived by it and exhibiting the side effects). Nyssa in particular accuses Laurel of doing it not out of love for Sara, but a selfish desire to relieve her own grief.

* OhCrap: Felicity, when she realizes that Double Down has tracked the card she has Curtis analyzing in the Palmer Tech labs.

* AllForNothing: All that effort by Oliver to stop his sister from becoming a killer. Not only does Thea kill two men in this episode (taking open enjoyment in the act) but she has to keep doing so as the bloodlust will return in just a few weeks.

** Lampshaded when Diggle tells Oliver that there was a time he would have taken a bullet for him, but now he wonders if he still would. Oliver being willing to "take the bullet" for him goes a long way to restoring his trust for Oliver.
-->'''Diggle:''' You took a bullet for me.
-->'''Oliver:''' They were meta-human tattoo playing cards.
-->'''Diggle:''' Still counts, Oliver. Still counts.