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In the aftermath of last week’s reveal, Diggle resigns and is replaced. At home, Oliver hears about Peter Declan’s upcoming execution for murdering his wife, Camille. Once Oliver realizes that Camille worked for Jason Brodeur (Creator/KirbyMorrow), a name on the list, he investigates and finds that she planned to turn in Brodeur for dumping toxic waste. Laurel comes home to find Arrow asking for help in proving that Declan was framed. Later, Arrow coerces Matt Istook, Camille’s supervisor, to give up the incriminating file. Arrow gives the file to Laurel, but the judge will not delay the execution. While forcing Brodeur to confess, Arrow hears that his men are executing Declan themselves. Arrow breaks into the jail and leads Laurel and Declan out. Something Laurel says prompts her father to review surveillance footage from the Unidac auction and he sees Oliver with his gear. After Diggle accepts Oliver’s offer to work with him, Detective Lance arrests Oliver for a variety of offenses, including acting as a vigilante and murder.

Meanwhile, Walter discovers that 2.6 million dollars was withdrawn from the company. Moira says she used the money on a friend’s start-up venture. Suspicious, Walter secretly enlists Felicity Smoak’s help, and she finds that a warehouse in Starling City was purchased. Inside, Walter sees the Queen’s Gambit split in half. Moira meets the Well-Dressed man, who informs her that Arrow is taking out “the list.”

Back on the island, Yeo Fei gives Oliver a trapped bird, indicating that Oliver has to kill it to eat. Oliver takes a while to do so, after which, Yao Fei reveals that he speaks English. Noticing that Oliver constantly stares at a picture of Laurel, he warns Oliver to forget her or he will not survive.

!!Tropes applying to this Episode:
* TenMinuteRetirement: Diggle's response to being invited to join Oliver is to say YoureInsane and quit his job, but by the end of the episode Oliver has convinced him otherwise.
* AnalogyBackfire: During his recruitment pitch, Oliver describes Diggle as a fellow soldier. Given that he's a war veteran, Diggle naturally snaps back that Oliver is ''not'' a soldier--he's a criminal and a murderer.
* AngerBornOfWorry: After getting "taken to the woodshed" by Laurel over running out on his family after a shooting, Thea points out that the fact that Laurel came round in the first place is rather telling.
* TheAtoner: Oliver thinks that his father shooting himself wasn't just to ensure his son's survival, but to atone for his sins.
* BadBoss: Jason Brodeur.
* BerserkButton: The Hood inflicts a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on a prisoner who attacks Laurel. Unfortunately this changes Laurel's mind about the Hood, undoing all his efforts to win her over as his alter ego.
* BeYourself: Thea's advice to Oliver regarding Laurel. So he visits her in his Hood alter ego and gains her admiration...until she witnesses him savagely beating a man who attacked her.
* CallBack: A footage of Oliver taking out something from the trashcan was used by SCPD against him.
* ChainedToARailway: The Hood shoots Istook with a TranquilizerDart and he wakes up manacled to the railroad before an oncoming train. When he talks the Hood shoots the manacle chain at the last moment so he can jump free.
* {{Cliffhanger}}: Oliver is arrested after Detective Lance discovers evidence that he is the Hood.
* ContinuitySnarl: While [[JackBauerInterrogationTechnique interrogating]] Brodeur, Oliver shot his left hand. However, footage of him being arrested shows his bandages on his right.
* DebutQueue: SCPD's recurring hacker makes his debut this episode.
* DitchTheBodyguards: Poor Rob.
* DoubleMeaning: Diggle resigns as Oliver's bodyguard, telling his mother that he doesn't like how her son spends his evenings.
* DramaticIrony: After witnessing The Hood snapping, Laurel tells her father that he was right about The Hood and calls him someone with no remorse. The accompanying flashback shows Oliver reluctantly killing a bird.
* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The screech of tires pulling up in the driveway can be heard outside right before the police burst in to arrest Oliver.
* FrameUp: Laurel's client was made to look like his wife's killer.
* ImpaledPalm: Oliver does this to Jason Brodeur.
* JerkassHasAPoint:
** Yao Fei forces Oliver to kill his own food, but he's not going to survive by being squeamish about such things.
** Quentin points out to his daughter that working with the Vigilante means she can be charged as an accessory to his crimes.
* LikesClarkKentHatesSuperman: Played with given that Laurel is estranged from the self-centered Oliver (though clearly still feels for him, as Thea points out) but is also a touch smitten with the mysterious vigilante with his selfless passion for justice.
* MacGuffin: We see Oliver's photo of Laurel for the first time on the island.
* MeaningfulEcho: Robert's LastWords to his son are repeated by Yao Fei: Survive.
* MistakenForMurderer: Laurel's client due to being framed up for killing his wife. The actual culprit was her BadBoss.
* MoodWhiplash: Diggle has just agreed to join Oliver's cause, when Quentin bursts in and arrests him for being the vigilante.
* MoralityChain: Cited by Diggle as why Oliver needs him.
* MuggedForDisguise:
** Oliver to a prison guard so he can infiltrate the building (he uses a balaclava to hide his face). This gives Quentin the idea of going back over the CCTV footage from the previous episode to find out who else the Vigilante might have impersonated.
** Averted with the hitman sent after Laurel and her client, who just pays a guard to let him inside and provide a set of prison overalls.
* MythologyGag:
** Oliver mentions Bludhaven, the city where ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} makes his home.
** The Starling City prison is called Iron Heights which is where Franchise/TheFlash villains are usually locked up in the comics.
* TheNameless: Moira's secret partner in crime finally makes an appearance in the form of Creator/JohnBarrowman. Fans dubbed him the [[SharpDressedMan Well-Dressed Man]] in the absence of any given name.
* ThePasswordIsAlwaysSwordfish: When Walter goes to investigate the warehouse being held by Tempest, he tries "Tempest", then "Oliver", "Thea" and finally "Robert" before gaining entry.
* PinnedToTheWall / ImpaledPalm: The Hood convincing Brodeur to confess. He ends up finding out about his murder plan instead.
* ThePowerOfTrust: Oliver takes the incredible risk of revealing his SecretIdentity as the Hood. Diggle is ''not'' impressed, calling him a murderer and a madman, but [[IOweYouMyLife doesn't call the police either.]]
* PreciousPhoto: On seeing how Flashback-Oliver stares at his photo of Laurel Lance, Yao Fei tells him to [[LoveIsAWeakness forget her or he will not survive]].
* PrisonRiot: Arranged by the VillainOfTheWeek to cover their murder of Laurel's client. It failed.
* RaceAgainstTheClock: Peter Declan will be executed in 24 hours.
* ARealManIsAKiller: Yao Fei leaves a caged bird for Oliver and refuses to let him have his own food so he will be forced to kill it. Oliver has never killed any living thing before, but gets so hungry he eventually does his first NeckSnap.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: Laurel gave Oliver one after he disappeared last episode and made his family worry.
* RefugeInAudacity: The Hood risks being shot by Laurel by [[TrespassingToTalk turning up in her apartment at night]], then walking right up to the [[YouWouldntShootMe gun she's holding on him]].
* RunningGag:
** After Diggle resigns, Oliver gets a new bodyguard and proceeds to ditch him as well.
** Felicity's ThatCameOutWrong habit.
--->"I'm your girl! I mean I'm not...your girl. I wasn't making a pass at you."
* SecondaryCharacterTitle: The title refers to Laurel's client, who is MistakenForMurderer.
* SecretIdentityVocalShift: While visiting Laurel in his Hood guise, Oliver can be seen activating a voice modulator which deepens his voice so she doesn't recognise it.
* ShipperOnDeck: Thea doesn't hide the fact that she wants her brother and Laurel to get back together.
* {{Sidekick}}: Rejected by John Diggle on becoming the first recruit to Team Arrow. He's more interested in being TheLancer and MoralityChain.
* SwitchToEnglish: Turns out Yao Fei can speak English. "Shengeun", the word in Chinese he keeps repeating to Oliver, means not "bird", but "survive".
* TitleDrop
-->'''Laurel:''' What makes you think I can help?
-->'''The Hood:''' Because I know you'd do anything to save the life of an innocent man.
* TrespassingToTalk: The Hood not only introduces himself to Laurel by showing up in her apartment in the dark, he even walks right up to her [[YouWouldntShootMe despite the gun she's pointing at him]].
* {{Tuckerization}}: Diggle's brother who was killed by Deadshot is named Andy, after Andy Diggle who wrote ''Green Arrow: Year One''.
* WhamShot: Walter tracks down a warehouse that holds the salvaged remains of the ''Queen's Gambit''.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Oliver gets a lot of crap this episode. Diggle ''immediately'' takes a swing at him for being the Vigilante, then denounces him as insane, a criminal and a murderer. Oliver then returns home to find Laurel who calls him out for being so selfish as to leave his family in the dark following the shooting.
** Quentin quickly scolds Laurel after figuring out that his daughter is working with the vigilante.
* WhenHeSmiles: Thea ribs her brother over the [[NotSoStoic uncharacteristic grin]] Oliver is wearing the day after his Hood activities impress Laurel.
* YouOweMe: Implied when Oliver tells Diggle that Floyd Lawton was the man who killed his brother. He offers Diggle the chance to deliver justice to other people as well.
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