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* ArtificialLimbs: Malcolm now seemingly has his hand back, or at least an artificial one of some kind. Oddly enough, no one comments on this.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Apparently Malcolm now seemingly has his hand back, or at least an artificial one of some kind. Oddly enough, no one comments on this.
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There's still Faking The Dead to fall back on. Considering her mysterious final conversation with Oliver, let's take a few episodes before we call it.
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* KilledOffForReal: Laurel Lance. And since Nyssa took pains to destroy the Lazarus Pit, there is no way in hell she's coming back.
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* ADeathInTheLimelight: Laurel gets a lot of focus in this episode between her relationship with Oliver and the rest of Team Arrow as well as her double life and the possibility of her possibly leaving the Black Canary behind and focusing entirely on being a DA. Which, for GenreSauvy fans are all huge red flags. Sure enough she dies at the end of the episode.
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* OneTrueLove: Laurel admits to Oliver that despite all of the rough patches their relationship has gone through, and the fact that she knows he doesn't feel the same way anymore, he's still the one she loves.
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* ShipTease: The episode has a quite a few moments between Oliver and Laurel with the two of them offering each other heartfelt advice and Flashback!Oliver even shows the photo he has of her for the first time in forever. Unfortunately any hope that these two would get back together is [[ShipSinking sunk]] by the episodes end.
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* TakeThat: At Donald Trump, by having an overtly villainous political leader saying that she'll "make the city great again", a play on Trump's campaign motto.
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* MayorPain: Ruvé is officially sworn in as mayor.
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* RippedFromTheHeadlines: Upon becoming mayor, Ruvé says that she wants to "[[Creator/DonaldTrump make this city great again]]".
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** Whoever Oliver vowed to kill in the flash-forward (a vow that Felicity agreed with) has not been revealed; while Darhk was directly the one who killed Laurel, Malcolm and Andy Diggle both played major parts in it as well.
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* TrailerAlwaysLie: The official synopsis mentioned that Felicity would have a heart-to-heart conversation with Curtis. In fact, Curtis does not appear in this episode nor is even mentioned, and Felicity herself only appears at the very end after Laurel is hospitalized.
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* TrailerAlwaysLie: TrailersAlwaysLie: The official synopsis mentioned that Felicity would have a heart-to-heart conversation with Curtis. In fact, Curtis does not appear in this episode nor is even mentioned, and Felicity herself only appears at the very end after Laurel is hospitalized.
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* TrailerAlwaysLie: The official synopsis mentioned that Felicity would have a heart-to-heart conversation with Curtis. In fact, Curtis does not appear in this episode nor is even mentioned, and Felicity herself only appears at the very end after Laurel is hospitalized.
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* {{Retirony}}: Laurel decides to quit being the Black Canary to work full time as the DA to keep tabs on Ruvé, with the mission at Iron Heights being her final mission as Black Canary. Of course, it ends up being her final mission ''period''.
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* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Apparently Malcolm now seemingly has his hand back, or at least an artificial one of some kind. Oddly enough, no one comments on this.
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* MythologyGag: Darhk reveals that the idol was forged by the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_magi homo magi]].
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* HeelFaceMole: Andy Diggle. Only Oliver is suspicious of him, and rightly so.
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** Later on, it's revealed that Andy ''does'' indeed have the missing piece, which Team Arrow should have at least accounted for before entering Iron Heights.
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* ManipulativeBastard: Andy does a very convincing job of pretending that he's on Team Arrow's side, and has been like this the whole season.
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* BondVillainStupidity: Darhk simply leaves (with Merlyn, Andy, and other lackeys in tow) after stabbing Laurel, despite the fact that he easily could kill ''all'' of Team Arrow right then and there.
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While the official synopsis said that Felicity would have a heart-to-heart talk with Curtis, this does not happen, and in fact Curtis does not appear in the episode at all nor is even mentioned.
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* ArcWelding: The idol Darhk uses for his powers is confirmed to be the same one Reiter searched for on Lian Yu.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Malcolm and his minions break into the bunker in order to steal Darhk's idol back.
* BaitAndSwitch: At first it seems like Laurel is going to recover, but then you remember there's ten minutes in the episodeleft ...left...
* BuriedAlive: Oliver and Tania try to seal the tunnels in order to trap Reiter.
* AllYourBaseAreBelongToUs: Malcolm and his minions break into the bunker in order to steal Darhk's idol back.
* BaitAndSwitch: At first it seems like Laurel is going to recover, but then you remember there's ten minutes in the episode
* BuriedAlive: Oliver and Tania try to seal the tunnels in order to trap Reiter.
* InternalReveal: Darhk reveals that he's worked out the identities of Team Arrow.
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* ProperlyParanoid: Oliver is very suspicious of Andy. It turns out, Andy is a mole still loyal to Darhk.
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* SwissCheeseSecurity: The bunker's security is upgraded to try and avert this, but Malcolm and some assassin goons still get in.
* TakingTheBullet: Andy takes an arrow forOliver.Oliver, as part of his cover.
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* TitleDrop: Courtesy of the paramedic/nurse who records the time of death for whover is in the grave.
* TonightSomeoneDies: We finally see who fills the grave teased all season. And the main advertisement for the episode has been featuring paramedics announcing the time of death.
* TonightSomeoneDies: We finally see who fills the grave teased all season. And the main advertisement for the episode has been featuring paramedics announcing the time of death.
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* TheUnreveal: Whatever request it is Laurel asks of Oliver right before her death.
* TitleDrop: Courtesy of the paramedic/nurse who records the time of death forwhover is in the grave.
Laurel.
* TonightSomeoneDies: We finally see who fills the grave teased all season. And the main advertisement for the episodehas been featuring featured paramedics announcing the time of death.death.
* UndyingLoyalty: A number of former League of Assassin members are revealed to still be loyal to Malcolm.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: We finally see who fills the grave teased all season. And the main advertisement for the episode
* UndyingLoyalty: A number of former League of Assassin members are revealed to still be loyal to Malcolm.
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* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Thanks to Diggle not believing in Oliver's warning about Andy possibly being a traitor, Darhk was able to regain his magic and escape Iron Heights, but not before fatally wounding Laurel.
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* {{Irony:}} Laurel's death, since she resurrected her sister, earlier in the season.
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* {{Irony:}} {{Irony}}: Laurel's death, since she resurrected her sister, earlier in the season.
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* BaitAndSwitch: At first it seems like Laurel is going to recover, but then ......
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm looks uncharacteristically troubled during
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* IdiotBall: For some reason, Team Arrow thought it was good
* ItsAllMyFault: Diggle blames himself for Laurel's death, since he ignored Oliver's warning about Andy.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm looks uncharacteristically troubled during
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* IdiotBall: For some reason, Team Arrow thought it was good
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* BaitAndSwitch: At first it seems like Laurel is going to recover, but then ......
then you remember there's ten minutes in the episode left ......
* DarkestHour: Laurel is dead, Ruve Adams is now mayor of Star City, and Darhk has escaped from Iron Heights with his magic regained and about 60 inmates have now escaped.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm looks uncharacteristically troubledduring
during Darhk's gloating at the Prison.
* EvilAllAlong: Andy never changed, he was still loyal to Darhk through and through.
* EvilIsPetty: Darhk kills Laurel to get back at Captain Lance.
* HesBack: Darhk when he's reunited with hisidol.
idol, and he becomes the killing machine he was back in the beginning.
* IdiotBall: For some reason, Team Arrow thought it wasgood
good to rebuild Darhk's idol.
* ItsAllMyFault: Diggle blames himself for Laurel's death, since he ignored Oliver's warning aboutAndy.Andy being a traitor.
* {{Irony:}} Laurel's death, since she resurrected her sister, earlier in the season.
* KilledOffForReal: Laurel Lance. And since Nyssa took pains to destroy the Lazarus Pit, there is no way in hell she's coming back.
* PapaWolf: The reason why Malcolm stole the Idol for Darhk - he wants to make sure Thea is spared from Genesis.
* DarkestHour: Laurel is dead, Ruve Adams is now mayor of Star City, and Darhk has escaped from Iron Heights with his magic regained and about 60 inmates have now escaped.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm looks uncharacteristically troubled
* EvilAllAlong: Andy never changed, he was still loyal to Darhk through and through.
* EvilIsPetty: Darhk kills Laurel to get back at Captain Lance.
* HesBack: Darhk when he's reunited with his
* IdiotBall: For some reason, Team Arrow thought it was
* ItsAllMyFault: Diggle blames himself for Laurel's death, since he ignored Oliver's warning about
* {{Irony:}} Laurel's death, since she resurrected her sister, earlier in the season.
* KilledOffForReal: Laurel Lance. And since Nyssa took pains to destroy the Lazarus Pit, there is no way in hell she's coming back.
* PapaWolf: The reason why Malcolm stole the Idol for Darhk - he wants to make sure Thea is spared from Genesis.
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* SpareThemMyLiege: The reason why Malcolm stole the Idol for Darhk - he wants to make sure Thea is spared from Genesis.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm looks uncharacteristically troubled during
* HesBack: Darhk when he's reunited with his idol.
* IdiotBall: For some reason, Team Arrow thought it was good
* ItsAllMyFault: Diggle blames himself for Laurel's death, since he ignored Oliver's warning about Andy.
* ProperlyParanoid: Oliver is very suspicious of Andy.
* SpareThemMyLiege: The reason why Malcolm stole the Idol for Darhk - he wants to make sure Thea is spared from Genesis.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Malcolm looks uncharacteristically troubled during
* HesBack: Darhk when he's reunited with his idol.
* IdiotBall: For some reason, Team Arrow thought it was good
* ItsAllMyFault: Diggle blames himself for Laurel's death, since he ignored Oliver's warning about Andy.
* ProperlyParanoid: Oliver is very suspicious of Andy.
* SpareThemMyLiege: The reason why Malcolm stole the Idol for Darhk - he wants to make sure Thea is spared from Genesis.
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* RakingTheBullet: Andy takes an arrow for Oliver.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Damian and Malcolm's partnership is this, consisting of thinly-veiled threats and insults.
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->''Life was...a series of cycles. A time to be born, a time to die...a time to kill.''\\
-- '''Damien Darhk'''
-- '''Damien Darhk'''
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Oliver and Diggle learn that Merlyn is going to try to break Darhk out of prison. Meanwhile, Laurel gets a surprising offer and Felicity has a heart-to-heart talk with Curtis.
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* TonightSomeoneDies: See WhamEpisode below.
* WhamEpisode: This is the episode that contains the major character death foreshadowed since the [[Recap/ArrowS4E1GreenArrow]].
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* TonightSomeoneDies: See WhamEpisode below.
* WhamEpisode: This is the episode that contains the major character death foreshadowed since the [[Recap/ArrowS4E1GreenArrow]].
