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* TrashTheSet: Diaz's men torch Team Arrow's bunker.

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* TrashTheSet: Two for one; Diaz's men torch Team Arrow's bunker.bunker, and then, when Dinah, Curtis and Rene's hideout comes under attack, Oliver triggers its self-destruct mechanism.
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* AbsenteeActor: Neither Quentin nor Black Siren show up in this episode.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: [[OnceASeason As always]], the penultimate episode of the season is named after a Creator/BruceSpringsteen song.

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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: [[OnceASeason As always]], the penultimate episode of the season is named after a Creator/BruceSpringsteen Music/BruceSpringsteen song.
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* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, Cupid and Prometheus all ended up in ARGUS custody.

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* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't have any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, Cupid and Prometheus all ended up in ARGUS custody.
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* HollywoodHacking: The SCPD computer analyst managed to trace a copied hard drive...which is pretty much impossible unless Felicity were to be such a greenhorn that she'd allow drive auto-executables (typically found on program CDs) to be run. (in the real world, this is easily disabled in any major OS)

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* HollywoodHacking: The SCPD computer analyst managed to trace a copied hard drive...which is pretty much impossible unless Felicity were to be such a greenhorn that she'd allow drive auto-executables (typically found on program CDs) [=CDs=]) to be run. (in the real world, this is easily disabled in any major OS)
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* HollywoodHacking: The SCPD computer analyst managed to trace a copied hard drive...which is pretty much impossible unless Felicity were to be such a greenhorn that she'd allow drive auto-executables (typically found on program CDs) to be run. (in the real world, this is easily disabled in any major OS)
** Also, apparently interrupting the decryption process halfway triggered a self-destruct in the data. This is also impossible, as in the real world it's simply inert files sitting on a hard drive.
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* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: [[OnceASeason As always]], the penultimate episode of the season is named after a Creator/BruceSpringsteen song.

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* LoveIsAWeakness: Diaz calls love the real king-killer.



* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, Cupid and Prometheus all ended up in ARGUS custody.



* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, Cupid and Prometheus all ended up in ARGUS custody
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* TrashTheSet: Diaz's men just don't wreck Team Arrow's bunker, they '''''torch''''' it!

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* TrashTheSet: Diaz's men just don't wreck torch Team Arrow's bunker, they '''''torch''''' it!bunker.

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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz decides to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about. Luckily Anantoly, is back on Oliver's side.

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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz decides to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about. Luckily Anantoly, Anatoly is back on Oliver's side.



* AllForNOthing: At the end of the episode, Team Arrow is not one step closer to defeating Diaz.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Something that recurs over the course of the episode- Diaz and his men attack Oliver and his associates at their homes and their bases of operation.

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* AllForNOthing: AllForNothing: At the end of the episode, Team Arrow is not one step closer to defeating Diaz.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Something that recurs over the course of the episode- episode - Diaz and his men attack Oliver and his associates at their homes and their bases of operation.



* DealWithTheDevil: Oliver is forced to make one with Agent Watson to stop Diaz. She won't help unless he confessed to being the Green Arrow to her. The second condition is unrevealed (though it's implied when all is said and done Oliver will go for prison).

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* DealWithTheDevil: Oliver is forced to make one with Agent Watson to stop Diaz. She won't help unless he confessed confesses to being the Green Arrow to her. The second condition is unrevealed (though it's implied that when all is said and done Oliver will go for to prison).



* GodzillaThreshold: With nothing left to lose, Oliver is forced to go to Agent Watson to helps.



* GodzillaThreshold: With nothing left to lose, Oliver is forced to go to Agent Watson to help.



* KlingonPromotion: Diaz kills two other leaders of the Quadrant effectively giving entire control of the enterprise.



* KlingonPromotion: Diaz kills two other leaders of the Quadrant, effectively giving him total control of the enterprise.



* TheMole: Anatoly now acts as this for Team Arrow, telling them about Diaz's moves and feeding the latter with false information.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Diaz delivers one to Curtis, ending with a knife stuck in his stomach. If he wouldn't have been forced to flee, he could've easily killed him.

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* TheMole: Anatoly now acts as this for Team Arrow, telling them about Diaz's moves and feeding the latter with false information.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Diaz delivers one to Curtis, ending with a knife stuck in his stomach. If he wouldn't have hadn't been forced to flee, he could've easily killed him.
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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: With Diaz on the warpath and having settled their differences, New Team Arrow and Team Arrow team up again to finally end Diaz.

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* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: With Diaz on the warpath and having settled their differences, New Team Arrow and Original Team Arrow team up again to finally end Diaz.



* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, and Cupid all ended up in ARGUS custody

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* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, and Cupid and Prometheus all ended up in ARGUS custody

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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Something that recurs over the course of the episode- Diaz and his men attack Oliver and his associates at their homes and their bases of operation.


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* AllForNOthing: At the end of the episode, Team Arrow is not one step closer to defeating Diaz.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Something that recurs over the course of the episode- Diaz and his men attack Oliver and his associates at their homes and their bases of operation.
* BackToBackBadasses: Lyla and John fight off Diaz's men in this manner.


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* EvilerThanThou: After killing Cassamento, Diaz proceeds to take over the Quadrant completely, killing Ibanescu and forcing Broderick to submit to him.


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* HeelFaceTurn: Anatoly warns Oliver and his friends about the attacks on them and goes on to act as TheMole for them.


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* ManipulativeBastard: Anatoly succeeds in convincing Diaz that Lydia Cassamento was the one to leak out his plans to Team Arrow, which later leads to him killing her.
* TheMole: Anatoly now acts as this for Team Arrow, telling them about Diaz's moves and feeding the latter with false information.
* NoHoldsBarredBeatdown: Diaz delivers one to Curtis, ending with a knife stuck in his stomach. If he wouldn't have been forced to flee, he could've easily killed him.
* NoKillLikeOverkill: After the failed trial, Diaz has dropped all subtleties and goes after Oliver and his friends with the full force of his criminal organization and the corrupt cops.


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* RevengeByProxy: Diaz's plan involves killing everybody Oliver loves.


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* SwappedRoles: Dinah warns Curtis not to act rashly over his boyfriend being attacked, like she reacted to Vincent being killed.
* TakingTheBullet: Curtis' boyfriend Nick takes one for him during the attack on them. Fortunately, he survives.

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* AbsenteeActor: Neither Quentin nor Black Siren show up in this episode.



* VillainousBreakdown: Diaz spends the whole episode in one as he loses all sense of pragmatism and starts all out war in Star City trying to kill Team Arrow.

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* VillainousBreakdown: Diaz spends the whole episode in having one as he loses all sense of pragmatism and starts all out war in Star City trying to kill Team Arrow.
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* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Something that recurs over the course of the episode- Diaz and his men attack Oliver and his associates at their homes and their bases of operation.
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* TheBusCameBack: Agent Watson, whom Oliver recruits to help stop Diaz.
* DealWithTheDevil: Oliver is forced to make one with Agent Watson to stop Diaz. She won't help unless he confessed to being the Green Arrow to her. The second condition is unrevealed (though it's implied when all is said and done Oliver will go for prison).


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* GodzillaThreshold: With nothing left to lose, Oliver is forced to go to Agent Watson to helps.


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* KlingonPromotion: Diaz kills two other leaders of the Quadrant effectively giving entire control of the enterprise.
* {{Jerkass}}: Agent Watson won't help Oliver unless he confesses to being the Green Arrow to her.
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* VillainousBreakdown: Diaz spends the whole episode in one as he loses all sense of pragmatism and

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* VillainousBreakdown: Diaz spends the whole episode in one as he loses all sense of pragmatism andand starts all out war in Star City trying to kill Team Arrow.
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* TrashTheSet: Diaz's men just don't wreck Team Arrow's bunker, they '''''torch''''' it!

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* TrashTheSet: Diaz's men just don't wreck Team Arrow's bunker, they '''''torch''''' it!it!
* VillainousBreakdown: Diaz spends the whole episode in one as he loses all sense of pragmatism and

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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz decides to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about.

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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz decides to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about. Luckily Anantoly, is back on Oliver's side.


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--> '''Curtis:''' Can I say it for old time's sake? Time to suit up!
* PlotHole: Lyla comments that ARGUS doesn't any authority to arrest Diaz. Yet several of Star City's criminals in the past like Deadshot, Bronze Tiger, Shrapnel, and Cupid all ended up in ARGUS custody

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Diaz's response to Oliver's trial not going the way he wanted is to declare all out war on Oliver and his comrades.

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* FiveSecondForeshadowing: Oliver gets a text from Anatoly seconds before Diaz's men attack his apartment.
* PuttingTheBandBackTogether: With Diaz on the warpath and having settled their differences, New Team Arrow and Team Arrow team up again to finally end Diaz.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Diaz's response to Oliver's trial not going the way he wanted is to declare all out war on Oliver and his comrades. The episode begins with his men targeting the vigilantes one by one.
* TrashTheSet: Diaz's men just don't wreck Team Arrow's bunker, they '''''torch''''' it!
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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz deices to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about.

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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz deices decides to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about.



* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Diaz's response to Oliver's trial not going the way he wanted. Declaring all out war on Oliver and his comrades.

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* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Diaz's response to Oliver's trial not going the way he wanted. Declaring wanted is to declare all out war on Oliver and his comrades.
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Furious that Oliver's trial ended with him walking free, Diaz deices to go for the brutal approach; murder Oliver and anyone he cares about.
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* DontCreateAMartyr: Subverted, Diaz is no longer following this line of thinking as he's so pissed at being beaten he loses all sense of pragmatism.
* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: Diaz's response to Oliver's trial not going the way he wanted. Declaring all out war on Oliver and his comrades.

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