History Recap / ArrowS8E3LeapOfFaith

* AbsenteeActor:
** Laurel doesn't appear, most likely since Katie Cassidy is directing the episode.
** Likewise Creator/KatrinaLaw, despite Nyssa having left Star City with Thea, who says Nyssa had gone to Thailand after they finished destroying the Lazarus Pits.

* NotSoDifferent: When Oliver complains that the Monitor isn't much into sharing information, Thea can't help quipping that this reminds her of Oliver.

* RealityEnsues:
** Fighting in an unstable structure is a bad idea. [[DroppedABridgeOnHim Athena finds out the hard way]].
** Mia's plan to derail the Deathstroke gang's plans involves engaging a superior force on their own turf. As soon as the fighting starts, things start to go sideways, with Mia losing her fight with JJ, Zoe being killed, and most of the gang escaping.
** Zoe learns, to her detriment, that [[TalkingIsAFreeAction talking is]] ''[[SubvertedTrope not]]'' [[TalkingIsAFreeAction a free action]]; JJ fatally stabs her in the back while Zoe is talking to Mia.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted; Thea has a scar from the facial wound that Athena gave her in "The Thanatos Guild".

* VillainExitStageLeft: Thanks to the inconveniently timed time travel, JJ escapes near-death at his brother's hands to fight another day (possibly as the Deathstroke II featured in the next episode).

* ContinuityNod: [[Recap/ArrowS7E5TheDemon Oliver and Talia's time together in Slabside]] is mentioned, along with confirmation that she killed Dr. Parker (as a scene of her confronting him [[GoryDiscretionShot cut away]] and merely implied it). [[AssholeVictim Not that he's missed]].

** Likewise Creator/KatrinaLaw, despite Nyssa having left Star City with Thea, who says she's gone to Thailand after they finished destroying the Lazarus Pits.

* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: Thea has been fighting a [[OneManArmy One Woman]] RoaringRampageOfRevenge against the Thanatos Guild for 'killing' Roy Harper.

** Likewise Creator/KatrinaLaw, despite Nyssa having left Star City with Thea, who says she's gone to Thailand after they finished destroying the Lazarus Pits. Unfortunately this deprives the audience of a final confrontation between the two sisters of Ra's.

* AbsenteeActor: Laurel doesn't appear, most likely since Katie Cassidy is directing the episode.

* AttackHello: While snooping around in the opening scene, Oliver does an ArrowCatch from a red-hooded figure who turns out to be Speedy. Talia's people also attack on site, as she notes that hesitation can be fatal in their line of business.

* WeNeedADistraction: Diggle worries that Farzad will recognize Lyla, but she decides to make that work for them by deliberately bumping into Farzad so he will.

* BattleCouple: Diggle is happy to hook up with Lyla again for one more mission. There's also Oliver and Thea as a BrotherSisterTeam. However Lyla and Thea are thrown when Diggle and Oliver try to stop them risking their lives, as they've been shaken by the total destruction of Earth-2.

* IWorkAlone: This attitude actually comes back to bite Oliver in the ass, as Talia betrays him once he sent Thea away.

* BattleCouple: Diggle is happy to hook up with Lyla again for one more mission. There's also Oliver and Thea as a BrotherSisterTeam.

* AttackHello: While snooping around in the opening scene, Oliver does an ArrowCatch from a red-hooded figure who turns out to be Speedy.

** Diggle says that dancing with Lyla while undercover is like deja vu, referring to their BlackTieInfiltration in "Suicide Squad".

* CallBack: The tomb of Al-Fatih is in the same mountain that Oliver dueled Ra's al Ghul atop back in Season 3.