History Recap / ArrowS3E18PublicEnemy

* TheILoveYouStigma: Ray tells Felicity that he loves her, only for her to not return it and excuse herself from the room. Ray sits in stunned silence while outside the hospital room, Felicity's mom points out to her crying daughter that her refusal stems from being in love with Oliver.

** It's also mentioned that the IdentityImpersonator trick won't work because Oliver hasn't been arrested yet. So Roy intercepts the van taking Oliver to prison, after he gets arrested.

* InternalReveal: Quentin Lance finds out that Oliver is the Arrow, as does the rest of Starling City.

-->Roy Harper: "You’ve got the wrong guy! Oliver Queen isn't the Arrow! I am!!"

* InternalReveal:
** Quentin Lance finds out that Oliver is the Arrow.
** All of Starling City finds out Oliver's secret identity as well.

* WhamLine: "You’ve got the wrong man! Oliver Queen isn't the Arrow! I am!!", spoken by Roy as he takes the blame on Arrow on himself.

* WhamLine: "You have got the wrong man! Oliver Queen isn't the Arrow! I am!!", spoken by Roy as he takes the blame on Arrow on himself.

* BigDamnHeroes: Maseo and Tatsu save Oliver, their son and Mei from A.R.G.U.S. {{Mook mook}}s in the flashback.

Ra's Al-Ghul's actions turn the city against the Arrow, leading the team to make a major decision. In the flashbacks, Oliver encounters a familiar face in Hong Kong.

* BigDamnHeroes: Maseo and Tatsu save Oliver, their son and Mei from A.R.G.U.S. {{Mook}}s in the flashback.
* TheBusCameBack: Felicity's mom.

* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The city has been overrun by criminals for years, including one time letting two seperate criminals (The Mayor and Brick) take over the Glades. Arrow essentially helped clean up most of it in the small time he has been active. Despite it obvious he is being framed, '''NOW''' the cops know how to do a manhunt.

-->'''Captain Lance:''' No, a ''current'' one, one with the...scruff he's always wearing.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer for the next ''Series/TheFlash2014'' crossover shows Ray appearing in his ATOM suit, making it clear that he's going to survive the events of this episode, and he does. And even if it hadn't, it was already announced that he was getting his own spinoff next season.

** Let's see. An officer's daughter is dead, the officer blames the hero who was not involved, changes from supporting the hero to doing everything in his power to take down the hero and anyone associated with him. It is pretty much a LiveActionAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'''s "[[Recap/TheNewBatmanAdventuresE12OverTheEdge Over the Edge]]".

* WhamLine: 'You have got the wrong man! Oliver Queen isn't the Arrow! I am!!', spoken by Roy as he takes the blame on Arrow on himself.
* WholePlotReference: Let's see. An officers' daughter is dead, the officer blames the hero who was not involved, changes from supporting the hero to doing everything in his power to take down the hero and anyone associated with him. It is pretty much a LiveActionAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'''s "[[TheNewBatmanAdventuresE12OverTheEdge Over the Edge]]".

* ContinuitySnarl: Roy publicly identifies himself as the Arrow, which makes no sense when in the season 1 episode "[[Recap/ArrowS1E18Salvation Salvation]]" Joseph Falk's attempted execution of Roy Harper (whose name Falk correctly identifies) is thwarted by the Arrow, and broadcast to the city. Anyone who remembers this incident should see the holes.

* FollowTheLeader: Quentin accuses Oliver of being the paragon of masked people looming around the Arrowverse.

* LikeYouWouldReallyDoIt: The previous episode ended with Maseo firing an arrow with Felicity in his sights right after putting one in the mayor; the top of the episode plays out with Ray noticing the shot coming and takes it for Felicity.

* {{Irony}}: Lance blames Oliver for somehow causing the appearance of masks in Starling City and metahumans in Central City, in an episode airing the day after [[TheFlash2014S1E17Tricksters the episode]] of ''[[TheFlash2014 The Flash]]'' that revealed a masked, costumed terrorist (the Trickster) had been operating 25 years before and that fifteen years before the Reverse-Flash had killed Nora Allen, as well as several others to establish his secret identity.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Roy brings up the suggestion of Diggle posing as the Arrow again and confesses to Thea that he wanted to be caught to atone for his crimes. At the end of the episode, he ends up turning himself in while posing as the Arrow.

* MythologyGag: Ray mentions that he invented {{Nanomachines}} that can shrink. That is exactly what his comic counterpart's power is.

* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The city has been overrun by criminals for years, including one time letting two seperate criminals (The Mayor and Brick) take over the Glades. Arrow essentially helped clean up most of it in the small time he has been active. Despite it obvious he is being framed '''NOW''' the cops know how to do a manhunt.

* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The city has been overrun by criminals for years, including one time letting two seperate criminala (The Mayor and Brick) take over the Glades. Arrow essentially helped clean up most of it in the small time he has been active. Now despite it obvious he is being framed '''NOW''' the cops know how to do a manhunt.

** Quentin mentions Malcolm, Tommy, Moira, Slade, Hilton and Sara in his TheReasonYouSuckSpeech to Oliver.

** Quentin mentions "[[Series/TheFlash2014 the freak in Central City]]".

* TheLopsidedArmOfTheLaw: The city has been overrun by criminals for years (including one time letting a criminal take over the Glades). Arrow essentially helped clean up most of it in the small time he has been active. Now despite it obvious he is being framed '''NOW''' the cops know how to do a manhunt.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer for the next ''Series/TheFlash2014'' crossover shows Ray appearing in his ATOM suit, making it clear that he's going to survive the events of this episode, and he does. And even if it hadn't, it was already announced that he was getting his own spinoff next season. Even worse, however, is that, while the clips are fairly quick, a well-timed pause or a careful rewind will show ''multiple'' scenes of Oliver wearing a League of Assassin's uniform, meaning Oliver has made his decision to at least acknowledge his status as Heir to the Demon.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The trailer for the next ''Series/TheFlash2014'' crossover shows Ray appearing in his ATOM suit, making it clear that he's going to survive the events of this episode, and he does. And even if it hadn't, it was already announced that he was getting his own spinoff next season.

* MysteriousParent: Papa Smoak is mentioned in multiple [[ChekovMIA suspicious]] throwaway lines...

* AbsenteeActor: Malcolm is again not seen for the second straight week; justified as neither Oliver or Thea are staying at the apartment he's recuperating in.

* WholePlotReference: Let's see. An officers' daughter is dead, the officer blames the hero who was not involved, changes from supporting the hero to doing everything in his power to take down the hero and anyone associated with him. It is pretty much a LiveActionAdaptation of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'''s "Over the Edge".

* WhamEpisode: Marc Guggenheim said that after this episode "the show will never be the same", and he wasn't kidding. The Arrow is on the run from the police for the killings he for which he is being framed. Quentin Lance and the rest of Starling City finds out Oliver is the Arrow. Oliver turns himself into the police and finally Roy takes the fall for Oliver by dressing up in his green hood.