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On the island, Oliver hallucinates that his father is with him in the cave and hands him a gun, but it does not work when Oliver attempts to shoot himself. After waking up, Oliver is about to throw a page of the book into the dying fire when he sees the names appear, the invisible ink revealed by the heat.

While Oliver and Diggle train, Oliver suggests they go after Scott Morgan, a man who overprices for utilities, but Diggle would rather stop the Royal Flush Gang, a group of dangerous bank robbers. Later, Diggle tells Oliver that Morgan attempted suicide, so Oliver rushes to the hospital, where he learns that Diggle actually lured him to help the cop who was shot at the first robbery. Oliver agrees to join Diggle’s mission and identifies the gang as the Reston family. During brunch, another bank is hit, so Oliver runs out, but could not stop them. To dig up information on the father, Oliver enlists Felicity Smoak. She finds that Derek Reston worked at a Queen steel factory, but was unjustly laid off. Oliver gives Derek the opportunity to make it right, but he declines.

CNRI’s largest donor pulled their funding, so Tommy attempts to woo Laurel by offering to host a benefit. While they are planning, Tommy tells Laurel that he misses the way he felt with her. At the benefit, Thea gets drunk after realizing that Tommy wasn’t wanting to impress her when he asked for advice on how to properly express his affection for an unnamed woman. Diggle and Oliver leave when a third bank is robbed. In the skirmish between Arrow and the gang, Derek is killed. At the end, Moira admits to Oliver that she is lonely and misses how their relationship used to be. He takes her out for a burger and milkshake.

!!Tropes applying to this Episode:
* TheAce: How Oliver and Thea see Carter Bowen, son of family friends.
* [[MillionairePlayboy Billionaire Playboy]]:
-->'''Tommy:''' There's this girl that I'm interested in. And I am really not sure how to pursue it.
-->'''Thea:''' Have you tried using your usual lines? Hi, my name is Tommy Merlyn and I'm a billionaire, but I don't look like Warren Buffet.
* BlatantLies: [[RunningGag With Felicity again]]; Oliver asks her to investigate his old friend Derek Reston, yet doesn't know his old pal used to work at the Queen Consolidated factory before it was shut down.
* BrokenPedestal: Oliver discovers that the Reston family and thousands of others lost their jobs when Robert outsourced their work to China. They were even screwed out of their severance pay.
* CeilingCling: Oliver uses this to avoid being spotted while breaking into the police station.
* ChekhovsGunman: The woman who urges the off-duty police officer not to intervene (which tips off the robber who shoots him) turns out to be a member of the Royal Flush gang.
* DeathBySecretIdentity: Oliver takes off his hood when talking to a dying Derek Reston.
* DefrostingIceQueen: When Tommy offers to put on a fundraiser for CNRI, Laurel's first instinct is to reject the offer out-of-hand, thinking Tommy is just trying to get into her pants again. Fortunately Jo talks sense into her, and Tommy explains that he's interested in more than an occasional FriendWithBenefits relationship, so when the fundraiser actually does work she warms up to him.
* DisguisedHostageGambit: Played with when as a distraction the bank customers are sent out the front door wearing the Royal Flush masks, so the police have to waste time rounding them up and checking they're not the criminals. Meanwhile the gang use a jackhammer to break through the floor and escape out a manhole elsewhere.
* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: Tommy asks Thea for advice on wooing a girl that he's known for a long time who would not be impressed by the mere fact that he's a billionaire. Given that Thea is his UnluckyChildhoodFriend from an equally wealthy family, she assumes he's making an indirect pass at her.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Tommy says that [[spoiler:Thea is like a little sister to him. [[Recap/ArrowS2E7StateVQueen It'll later turn out]] that he was more right than he thought.]]
* EnhanceButton: Downplayed as the image is not clear enough to identify the high school ring worn by a robber, but Oliver knows it would have left an impression when the robber punched the bank manager, so he breaks into the police station and steals their files.
* FriendshipMoment: After Thea makes an embarrassing pass at him in public, then gets so drunk she throws up, Tommy has to cut short his attendance at the benefit to drive her home. Feeling wretched over her behavior, Thea begs Tommy not to hate her. Tommy only replies, "Never."
* GreenEyedMonster:
** Tommy gets ''very'' jealous of Laurel dancing with Carter Bowen. Of course, that Carter also mentioned wanting to set up a free clinic in the Glades... just like Tommy's dead mother did...
** Likewise Thea proceeds to get very drunk after realising the girl Tommy wanted to impress was Laurel, not her.
* HeroicBSOD: On Lian Yui, Oliver is trapped in the cave dying of hunger and thirst, with no idea if Yao Fei is still alive. He finds himself facing a hallucination of his father who offers him the gun he used to kill himself. The gun doesn't work and his father accuses him of letting him down by not carrying out his last request to right his wrongs. Given that he's marooned on an island, Oliver has no idea how to even start doing so...until he goes to burn a page from the BlankBook as kindling, and the warmth of the fire makes the [[InvisibleWriting words written in invisible ink]] appear.
* ImprovisedArmour: After his first encounter with the Hood, Kyle carries a riot shield to deflect his arrows.
* InVinoVeritas: Thea gets drunk and makes a pass at Tommy [[ObliviousToLove that even he can't ignore.]]
* JustAKid: Thea is not happy to have Tommy think of her as being [[JailbaitTaboo like a baby]] [[LikeBrotherAndSister sister]] when SheIsAllGrownUp.
* LadykillerInLove: Tommy talks of how he took a woman home from a bar only to remember that he'd already slept with her a couple of years ago and forgotten about it. Yet he remembers how good it felt to [[TastesLikeFriendship make breakfast for Laurel]] when they were dating.
* TheLancer: Diggle thinks Oliver should be doing more than just working his way down an EnemiesList, and doesn't hesitate to nudge Oliver in the right direction by lying to him so he'll turn up at the hospital to see the police officer injured during the latest robbery.
-->'''Diggle:''' You asked me to work with you, not for you.
* MythologyGag:
** The Royal Flush Gang appear as a normal family that rob banks, wearing masks with a playing card motif.
** References are made to Keystone City (home of Franchise/TheFlash) and Coast City (home of [[Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan]]).
** “Stagg” is a reference to Simon Stagg, a known businessman in the DC Universe.
* PoliceAreUseless: Averted; after the Royal Flash gang escape through the tunnels underneath the bank, the police are waiting for them the next time they try this trick. So the gang break into their third bank at night and have a getaway car outside.
* RuleOfThrees: Three bank robberies are committed by the Royal Flash gang in Starling City.
* SoProudOfYou: Diggle tells Oliver that his father would have felt honored over how his son tried to help people this week and fix his mistakes.
* TakingTheBullet: Derek gives his life to save his son Kyle by jumping in front of a security officer's shotgun blast.
* TastesLikeFriendship: After Oliver walks out on her during a social event twice, Moira laments how distant her relationship with her son is now. So Oliver takes his upper class mother out to Big Belly Burger.
* ThrowTheDogABone: Laurel is openly skeptical about Tommy's efforts to help her, knowing he's only doing this to gain her affections. Tommy then suffers various humiliations from seeing Laurel dance with Carter to having Thea get drunk, make a pass and tell him that Laurel doesn't even like him. When he has to leave to take Thea home, Laurel admits she doesn't like Carter, gives Tommy a kiss on the cheek and says she owes him a dance.
* TravellingAtTheSpeedOfPlot: Diggle whispers in Oliver's ear that there's a robbery in progress, and he somehow suits up and makes it from the Queen mansion (stated to be 20 miles from the city in "An Innocent Man") to the bank in question before the robbers have left.
* TriggerHappy: Kyle who shoots the off-duty cop and is the first to open fire during the second robbery.
* {{Tuckerization}}: “Broome’s” is a reference to John Broome, prolific writer from DC Comics’ Silver Age.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: The other two members of the Royal Flush gang are shown waiting outside the bank in the getaway car, but we're not shown if they escaped or were arrested.
* WorkoutFanservice: Oliver training Diggle in stick fighting.
* YouMustBeCold: Thea is wearing Tommy's jacket while she's throwing up in the alley.
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