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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Oliver forces a confession out of Midas by threatening to dunk him into a vat of dangerous chemicals. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}; Midas' confession is thrown out almost immediately, as [[RealityEnsues police officers obviously aren't allowed to do that]]. Oliver admits that he was bluffing about the threat, but that does him no good, as Midas clearly didn't know he was bluffing.

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* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Oliver forces a confession out of Midas by threatening to dunk him into a vat of dangerous chemicals. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}; Midas' confession is thrown out almost immediately, as [[RealityEnsues police officers obviously aren't allowed to do that]].that. Oliver admits that he was bluffing about the threat, but that does him no good, as Midas clearly didn't know he was bluffing.



* RealityEnsues:
** The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissible.
** Despite Oliver's promise to Turner, it takes time for Laurel to ensure his release considering the scale of his past crimes, even if Oliver vouches for Turner's desire to atone.


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** The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissible.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The team are repeatedly described as vigilantes, even being dubbed the Vigilante Task Force, while working ''within'' the law (in other words, the opposite of what vigilantes actually do).
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* IdiotBall: It seems the team has forgotten about their friends. Can't Felicity just ask [[Series/TheFlash2014 Barry]] to let her connect to the STAR Labs satellites? That solves her problem. As for Dinah, someone should get in touch with [[Series/LegendsOfTomorrow Sara]], since the Waverider should be able to heal the injury that depowered her.

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* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissible.

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* RealityEnsues: RealityEnsues:
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The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissible.inadmissible.
** Despite Oliver's promise to Turner, it takes time for Laurel to ensure his release considering the scale of his past crimes, even if Oliver vouches for Turner's desire to atone.
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* GeneralFailure: The SCPD sergeant, while clearly having his heart in the right place, dismisses anything that steps outside of SCPD protocol. While many of Oliver's tactics are explicitly illegal, the sergeant also refuses to follow Oliver's simple suggestion to split up in order to better surround the targets and take them by surprise.

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* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissable.

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* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissable.inadmissible.
* RebuiltSet: The Arrow Cave has been rebuilt, and by the end of the episode Team Arrow is operating out of it again.
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Dinah breaks it to Team Arrow that from now on they have to go into the field with standard-issue SCPD firearms and wearing regulation SCPD SWAT gear...then the very next scene shows them joining a raid with their pretty CW channel faces exposed.

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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Dinah breaks it to Team Arrow that from now on they have to go into the field with standard-issue SCPD firearms and wearing regulation SCPD SWAT gear...then the very next scene shows them joining a raid with their pretty CW channel faces exposed.

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* BenevolentBoss: James Midas actually promises his men that he'll raise their salary if they'll get him to safety.



* BroughtDownToBadass: Dinah has to come to terms with losing her Canary Cry.

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* BothSidesHaveAPoint: Both Dinah's and Oliver's point of view are understandable. They eventually reach a compromise.
* BrokenAce: Initially, Dinah is pretty devastated about not being able to use her Canary Cry anymore.
* BroughtDownToBadass: Dinah has to come comes to terms with losing her Canary Cry.Cry during the course of the episode.



* ByTheBookCop: Sergeant Bingsley, who is especially annoyed with Team Arrow's antics.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: James Midas, the VillainOfTheWeek, who produces the poisonous bullets for the gangs of the city.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: The poisoned bullets painfully melt people.
* DeadGuyJunior: Mia is short for Moira, meaning that Oliver named his daughter after his deceased mother.



* HonestJohnsDealership: Felix, who charges William an extremely high price for the vintage dictaphone and then has somebody steal it back.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Emiko smugly points out that Team Arrow would never take Black Siren's word over hers regarding Diaz's murder, as she is ''also'' pretending to be somebody. Laurel's expression shows that she realises this as well.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Emiko smugly points out that Team Arrow would never take Black Siren's word over hers regarding Diaz's murder. Laurel's expression shows that she realises this as well.



* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Oliver just violently confronting Midas and forcing him to confess almost ruins the entire mission.



* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy. Forcing a confession also makes the whole thing inadmissable.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: What Rene, Oliver and Felicity constantly try at first. They eventually work out a compromise with the SCPD.



* TheReveal: Emiko Queen is the one who killed Diaz under Dante's orders.
* SlaveToPR: Slabside covers up Diaz's manner of death, claiming that he was just shivved by another inmate, to fight off the bad publicity that resulted from Oliver's stay in the prison.



* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy.
* TheReveal: Emiko Queen is the one who killed Diaz under Dante's orders.
* SlaveToPR: Slabside covers up Diaz's manner of death, claiming that he was just shivved by another inmate, to fight off the bad publicity that resulted from Oliver's stay in the prison.

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* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of TakeAThirdOption: Dinah and Oliver eventually reach a compromise by effectively making Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy.
* TheReveal: Emiko Queen is the one who killed Diaz under Dante's orders.
* SlaveToPR: Slabside covers up Diaz's manner of death, claiming that he was just shivved by another inmate, to fight off the bad publicity that resulted from Oliver's stay in the prison.
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* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The team are repeatedly described as vigilantes, even being dubbed the Vigilante Task Force, while working ''within'' the law (in other words, the opposite of what vigilantes actually do).

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* WhatTheHellHero: Dinah is not happy with the rest of the team constantly going against protocoll, as she is risking her neck for them.
* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: Rene encourages a devastated Dinah, telling her that she ''is'' the Black Canary, no matter if she can use her Canary Cry or not.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The team are repeatedly described as vigilantes, even being dubbed the Vigilante Task Force, while working ''within'' the law (in other words, the opposite of what vigilantes actually do).do).
* YouRemindMeOfX: William tells Mia that she reminds him of their father.
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* HelmetsAreHardlyHeroic: Dinah breaks it to Team Arrow that from now on they have to go into the field with standard-issue SCPD firearms and wearing regulation SCPD SWAT gear...then the very next scene shows them joining a raid with their pretty CW channel faces exposed.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Emiko smugly points out that Team Arrow would never take Black Siren's word over hers regarding Diaz's murder. Laurel's expression shows that she thinks Emiko is right on the money.

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Emiko smugly points out that Team Arrow would never take Black Siren's word over hers regarding Diaz's murder. Laurel's expression shows that she thinks Emiko is right on the money.realises this as well.


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* LoopholeAbuse: Felicity gets around not being allowed to hack into government satellite feeds by hacking into publicly owned satellites. The distinction doesn't do much to improve her standing with the SCPD.
* NeverMyFault: Oliver and Felicity refuse to accept responsibility for their vigilante methods screwing up a case, instead blaming the restrictive SCPD regulations. [[OnlySaneMan Diggle]] sets them straight.
* NotHelpingYourCase: Oliver defends his interrogation of Midas by claiming that he was bluffing. [[SarcasmMode Because that completely justifies threatening to shove a suspect's face into a vat of corrosive chemicals]].
* OhCrap: Laurel, when she realises that Emiko both knows her true identity and has more credibility with Team Arrow than she does.

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* AssholeVictim: Neither Turner nor Laurel waste any time pretending to be sorry about Diaz's death. Laurel explicitly says that he got exactly what he deserved.
* BlackComedy: Felicity cracks a ''[[Film/TheWizardOfOz Wizard of Oz]]'' joke about the effects of the poisoned bullets. Nobody else finds it very funny.
* BodyHorror: The poisoned bullets basically ''melt'' people from the inside out.



* CoverUp: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruption became revealed to the public.

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* CoverUp: Slabside is trying DidntThinkThisThrough:
** Oliver's zeal to see Star City made safe for his and Felicity's unborn child makes him prone to acting without thinking. He destroys a case of poisoned bullets
to keep Diaz's death them from being used against the cops, failing to consider that blowing up the ''evidence'' might be a secret ever since their corruption became revealed bad idea. Later, he assaults and violently interrogates Midas to get a confession, not realising that such a confession is worthless in the legal system. Once he calms down and starts thinking things through, the final operation goes off without a hitch.
** Felicity comes off as no better; her proposed solution
to the public.team being criticised for acting like vigilantes, is to ''keep acting like vigilantes''. One has to wonder how that idea survived being considered for more than a second.



* HeroicBSOD: Dinah spends a chunk of the episode in a depression after realising that her Canary Cry won't work anymore.



* {{Irony}}: Between Black Siren, the team's former enemy, and Emiko, Oliver's long-lost sister on a mission for justice, it turns out that the former is more trustworthy.
* JackBauerInterrogationTechnique: Oliver forces a confession out of Midas by threatening to dunk him into a vat of dangerous chemicals. {{Deconstructed|Trope}}; Midas' confession is thrown out almost immediately, as [[RealityEnsues police officers obviously aren't allowed to do that]]. Oliver admits that he was bluffing about the threat, but that does him no good, as Midas clearly didn't know he was bluffing.



* JerkassHasAPoint: Emiko smugly points out that Team Arrow would never take Black Siren's word over hers regarding Diaz's murder. Laurel's expression shows that she thinks Emiko is right on the money.
* [[LikeFatherLikeSon Like Father, Like Daughter]]: Mia inherited Oliver's aggression and take charge attitude, to the point that William admits that he half-expected her to shout "you have failed this city" at Felix.



* PercussivePickpocket: In the future, William purchases a vintage dictaphone in order to play the microcassette, only for a little girl to take it from his pocket in this manner. Mia immediately knows it was the girl was working for the guy who sold the device to William.

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* PercussivePickpocket: In the future, William purchases a vintage dictaphone in order to play the microcassette, only for a little girl to take it from his pocket in this manner. Mia immediately knows it was the girl girl, and that she was working for the guy who sold the device to William.



* ShoutOut: Felicity compares the effects of the poisoned bullets to the Wicked Witch's demise from ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''.
* SmugSnake:
** James Midas is incredibly smug in his villainy, feeling untouchable thanks to his wealth and friendship with the mayor. Borders into TooDumbToLive in the climax, as he confidently tells Dinah that he'll have both her badge and her costume... after being caught red-handed trying to destroy evidence and while pointing a gun at a police captain.
** Felix, the junk dealer, cracks a wide smile while threatening to sic the cops on Mia if she attacks him. As soon as that advantage is gone, she knocks him on his back with a smile.
** Emiko smugly tells Laurel that Team Arrow would never believe that she murdered Diaz, but she was careless enough to kill him while wearing her Green Arrow costume and failed to realise that there was a witness (Bronze Tiger) who could place her at the scene.



* SlaveToPR: Slabside covers up Diaz's manner of death, claiming that he was just shivved by another inmate, to fight off the bad publicity that resulted from Oliver's stay in the prison.



** Bronze Tiger calls his son Connor "little hawk," revealing that he's the Connor Hawke who Diggle will later adopt.

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** Bronze Tiger calls his son Connor "little hawk," revealing that he's the Connor Hawke who Diggle will later adopt.adopt.
* YouKeepUsingThatWord: The team are repeatedly described as vigilantes, even being dubbed the Vigilante Task Force, while working ''within'' the law (in other words, the opposite of what vigilantes actually do).
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* PercussivePickpocket: In the future, William purchases a vintage dictaphone in order to play the microcassette, only for a little girl to take it from his pocket in this manner. Mia immediately knows it was the girl was working for the guy who sold the device to William.
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* BroughtDownToBadass: Dinah has to come with terms of losing her Canary Cry.

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* BroughtDownToBadass: Dinah has to come with to terms of with losing her Canary Cry.



** Oliver and Felicity tell Diggle their expecting a child.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite asking Dinah to deputize Team Arrow, Mayor Pollard really hasn't changed as she's ''still'' looking for any excuse to have them disbanded. And if they get disbanded, Dinah looses her job as Police Captain.

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** Oliver and Felicity tell Diggle about their expecting a child.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite asking Dinah to deputize Team Arrow, Mayor Pollard really hasn't changed as she's ''still'' looking for any excuse to have them disbanded. And if they get disbanded, Dinah looses loses her job as Police Captain.

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* WhamLine: Emiko's reveal that "Laurel" is actually Black Siren means that she (or Dante) know a lot about Team Arrow.

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* WhamLine: WhamLine:
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Emiko's reveal that "Laurel" is actually Black Siren means that she (or Dante) know a lot about Team Arrow.Arrow.
** Bronze Tiger calls his son Connor "little hawk," revealing that he's the Connor Hawke who Diggle will later adopt.
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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Dinah manages to convince Pollard to make Team Arrow a special ops unit within the SPCD, giving them antimony that makes them work better.

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* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Dinah manages to convince Pollard to make Team Arrow a special ops unit within the SPCD, giving them antimony autonomy that makes them work better.
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* CoverUp: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness became revealed to the public.

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* CoverUp: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness corruption became revealed to the public.
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* Cover Up: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness became revealed to the public.

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* Cover Up: CoverUp: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness became revealed to the public.

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Team Arrow struggles to adjust to working under the SPCD.

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Team Arrow struggles to adjust to working under the SPCD. Meanwhile Black Siren looks into Diaz's murder at Slabside.



* BroughtDownToBadass: Dinah has to come with terms of losing her Canary Cry.



* CoverUp: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness became revealed to the public.

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* CoverUp: Cover Up: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness became revealed to the public.public.
* DramaticIrony: Felicity and Oliver want to make Star City a better place for their future child. As the audience knows, things don't work out they way they hope.
* ElitesAreMoreGlamorous: Dinah manages to convince Pollard to make Team Arrow a special ops unit within the SPCD, giving them antimony that makes them work better.



* InternalReveal:
** Dinah confides to Rene and then the rest of her team that her Canary Cry isn't working ever since Dover slashed her throat.
** Oliver and Felicity tell Diggle their expecting a child.



* PowerPowerIncontinence: Dinah's Canary Cry is on the fritz ever since the Star City Slayer slashed her throat.

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* PowerPowerIncontinence: OnlySaneMan: Diggle convinces Oliver to give the partnership with the SPCD another shot since trying to work by themselves will only get them sent to prison.
* PowerIncontinence:
Dinah's Canary Cry is on the fritz ever since the Star City Slayer slashed her throat.



* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Rene really chafes working with the SPCD due to a lifetime of resentment of them constantly neglecting the Glades. Oliver tries to make the best of it, but even he finds himself butting heads.

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* TheReveal: Emiko Queen is the one who killed Diaz under Dante's orders.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Rene really chafes working with the SPCD due to a lifetime of resentment of them constantly neglecting the Glades. Oliver tries to make the best of it, but even he finds himself butting heads.heads.
* WhamLine: Emiko's reveal that "Laurel" is actually Black Siren means that she (or Dante) know a lot about Team Arrow.
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Team Arrow struggles to adjust to working under the SPCD.
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* TheBusCameBack: Bronze Tiger having not been seen since "Slabside Redemption".
* CoverUp: Slabside is trying to keep Diaz's death a secret ever since their corruptness became revealed to the public.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Turns out Bronze Tiger has a son. If Black Siren can't speed up his release, then he wants a private visit with his son.
* JerkWithAHeartOfJerk: Despite asking Dinah to deputize Team Arrow, Mayor Pollard really hasn't changed as she's ''still'' looking for any excuse to have them disbanded. And if they get disbanded, Dinah looses her job as Police Captain.
* PowerPowerIncontinence: Dinah's Canary Cry is on the fritz ever since the Star City Slayer slashed her throat.
* RealityEnsues: The inevitable clash of Team Arrow now working under the SPCD. The special treatment that Dinah gave Oliver has come to an end under Pollard's orders. For starters, Felicity can't use any of her trademark hacking tricks and Team Arrow struggles to fit in under the SPCD hierarchy.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Rene really chafes working with the SPCD due to a lifetime of resentment of them constantly neglecting the Glades. Oliver tries to make the best of it, but even he finds himself butting heads.

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