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** In the BatmanColdOpen, a criminal is being chased by Diggle, only to lead him onto the rest of his gang who are waiting with automatic weapons. While he's EvilGloating about how he did this deliberately, Diggle explains that letting the crook lead him to his pals was his plan too, and [[MakeMeWannaShout puts in his earplugs...]]

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** In the BatmanColdOpen, a criminal is being chased by Diggle, only to lead him onto the rest of his gang who are waiting with automatic weapons. While he's EvilGloating about how he did this deliberately, Diggle explains that letting the crook lead him to his pals was his plan too, and [[MakeMeWannaShout [[SuperScream puts in his earplugs...]]

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* CoitusEnsues: Roy asks Thea if she just turned up to deliver his Arsenal outfit. Cue passionate makeout scene.

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* TheChick: Tatsu deals with reasoning with both the reluctant members (Diggle, Felicity and Laurel) of Oliver's "former" team as well as her conflicted husband.


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* TheSocialExpert: Tatsu deals with reasoning with both the reluctant members (Diggle, Felicity and Laurel) of Oliver's "former" team as well as her conflicted husband.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Notice that as everyone on Team Arrow dies of the bioweapon, none of them are bleeding from their mouths.
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* AbsenteeActor: Quentin did not appear in the episode.

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* KillTheOnesYouLove: Maseo swordfights Tatsu and is fully prepared to kill her, but she ends up killing him instead. Maseo is actually grateful to her, as she has freed him from his misery.

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* KillTheOnesYouLove: Maseo swordfights Tatsu and is fully prepared to kill her, but she ends up killing him instead. Maseo is actually grateful [[DeathSeeker grateful]] to her, as she has freed him from his misery.
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* AdultFear: Maseo and Tatsu witnessed Akio slowly dying.
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* FacialDialogue: Our first sign that Oliver is NotBrainwashed is the shocked look on his face at hearing Maseo was the one who gave to Omega to Ra's.

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* FacialDialogue: Our first sign that Oliver is NotBrainwashed is the shocked look on his face at hearing Maseo was the one who gave to Omega to Ra's.
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** In the BatmanColdOpen, a criminal is being chased by Diggle, only to lead him onto the rest of his gang who are waiting with automatic weapons. While he's EvilGloating about how he did this deliberately, Diggle explains that letting the crook lead him to his palls was his plan too, and [[MakeMeWannaShout puts in his earplugs...]]

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** In the BatmanColdOpen, a criminal is being chased by Diggle, only to lead him onto the rest of his gang who are waiting with automatic weapons. While he's EvilGloating about how he did this deliberately, Diggle explains that letting the crook lead him to his palls pals was his plan too, and [[MakeMeWannaShout puts in his earplugs...]]
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** Nyssa was also not brought into the plan, but Oliver and Malcolm (especially the latter) have no particular reason to trust her, unlike Laurel.

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** Nyssa was also not brought into the plan, but Oliver and Malcolm (especially the latter) have no particular reason to trust her, unlike Laurel.her.
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** Although not stated outright, it's implied he failed to mention the plan to Nyssa for similar reasons.

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** Although not stated outright, it's implied he failed to mention the plan to Nyssa for similar reasons.was also not brought into the plan, but Oliver and Malcolm (especially the latter) have no particular reason to trust her, unlike Laurel.
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* BookEnds: At the end of last season, Thea walked away from a life with Roy leaving a letter explaining her actions. This year Roy does the same with Thea.
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* PlayAlongPrisoner: General Shrieve pretended to have the cure, and claimed it had to be injected in a precise manner, so that Maseo and Oliver would take them to the others so Shrieve's men could finally kill off the last witnesses.

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* PlayAlongPrisoner: General Shrieve pretended to have the cure, and claimed it had to be injected in a precise manner, so that Maseo and Oliver would take them him to the others Tatsu so Shrieve's men could finally kill off the last witnesses.
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* NotWearingTights: Diggle still resists the idea of wearing a costume...erhm "identity concealment", with the criminal he's chasing wanting to know if he's working plainclothes.
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* ShootYourMate: Played straight this time, with Oliver locking his friends in a dungeon and smashing a vial of Omega on the floor.
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* PretendToBeBrainwashed

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* PretendToBeBrainwashedPretendToBeBrainwashed: It's not said how, but presumably it was a combination of HeroicWillpower and Malcolm briefing Oliver on the League's brainwashing techniques so he would be mentally prepared for them.

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Oliver was only PretendingToBeBrainwashed, and reveals to Malcolm the plan to destroy Starling City with the Alpha-Omega Virus. Malcolm has to convince Team Arrow to travel to Nanda Parbat to destroy it before it can be deployed.

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Oliver was only PretendingToBeBrainwashed, [[PretendToBeBrainwashed pretending to be brainwashed]], and reveals to Malcolm the plan to destroy Starling City with the Alpha-Omega Virus. Malcolm has to convince Team Arrow to travel to Nanda Parbat to destroy it before it can be deployed.


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