Line #28 Recap/ArrowS1E17TheHuntressReturns


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3	On the island, Oliver and Slade work to stop Fyers and his missiles. Oliver, disguised as a man from Fyers’ camp, escorts Slade onto the base. They plan to blow up a launcher, but Oliver decides instead to take the circuit board as leverage. They radio Fyers and ask for a way off the island in exchange for the circuit board.
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5	Diggle shows Oliver camera footage of Helena Bertinelli murdering Gus Sabatoni, her father’s attorney, after he failed to provider her father’s whereabouts. Helena threatens Oliver’s family to force him into helping her. While working, Thea offers Roy Harper a job at the club, Verdant, with Tommy’s approval. After Thea scolds Roy for never showing up, she is surrounded by a group of guys intimidating her. Roy speeds to her rescue.
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7	During the club’s booming opening, Helena takes Tommy hostage and harms him until Oliver takes her side. Since there is a decoy van when Bertinelli is being transported, Oliver and Helena split up the pursuit. The police catch on, and Detective [=McKenna=] Hall arrests Helena. Detective Lance and [=McKenna=] try to persuade her to give them the Vigilante’s name. She outs Oliver, but they don’t believe her because she makes it look like a sardonic taunt. Oliver busts her out. He hands her a passport and plane ticket, but she sticks around.
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9	While Oliver is busy apologizing to [=McKenna=], Felicity leaves him a voicemail about a crossbow being stolen from a sporting goods store. Helena forces Felicity to give her her father’s safe house address. Helena invades, but is halted by Oliver. [=McKenna=] arrives on scene and is shot by Helena. Recovering in the hospital, [=McKenna=] reveals she’s moving to Coast City for physical therapy.
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11	Laurel invites her father to breakfast, failing to mention that her mother is also coming. Dinah suggests that Sarah could be on one of the numerous islands surrounding the island Oliver was on. Laurel believes they should look into it to be sure, but Quentin is initially hesitant. Later, Dinah meets Quentin at the station; he’s ready to listen.
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13	!!Tropes applying to this Episode:
14	* AfterActionPatchUp: Different from the usual in that Roy is being patched up by a third party in the hospital, but there's the obligatory ShirtlessScene and RelationshipUpgrade.
15	* ArchaicWeaponForAnAdvancedAge: Zigzagged; Helena uses crossbows for the assault on the safehouse, but when Oliver appears she picks up a shotgun to counter his superior archery skills.
16	* AngerBornOfWorry: When Felicity walks into the Arrowcave, Oliver barks at her to GetOut because Helena is there and is using threats against his friends as leverage.
17	* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Oliver is surprised when Huntress turns up at his house to ask him to team up with her. Given that this would involve slaughtering their way through the US Marshalls guarding her father, Oliver refuses but Huntress makes it clear she's entirely willing to apply more pressure. "Fortunately, [[AndYourLittleDogToo you have a family too]]."
18	* ArrowCatch: How Helena avoids being killed by Oliver. [[CrazyPrepared She's been practicing that move just in case.]]
19	* BelligerentSexualTension: Apart from Helena and Oliver, there's also Roy and Thea snarking away at each other.
20	* CassandraTruth:
21	** Huntress, of all people. She flatly reveals the Hood's identity to the police, and they simply refuse to believe her... because Ollie was smart enough to get himself ruled out as the vigilante earlier in the year, and Huntress disguises it as a taunt towards Quentin and [=McKenna=].
22	** Helena also warns [=McKenna=] to break off things with Oliver before she gets hurt (also counts as an ImpliedDeathThreat given her ongoing jealousy).
23	* CondescendingCompassion: Roy regards Thea as doing this and is not impressed by the charity she's offering him, such as a legitimate job at Verdant.
24	* CutHimselfShaving: Lampshaded when Tommy has to explain away the injury Helena gave him.
25	* DecoyConvoy: Two identical vans are used to transport Helena's father to his court hearing, so Oliver and Helena have to split up. Turns out one's a decoy and the other is full of SWAT officers. Though it's not explained why ''both'' vans wouldn't be a TrojanHorse.
26	* HostageMacGuffin: On Lian Yu, Oliver and Slade don't have enough time to blow up the missile launcher, so they steal the circuit board. He then calls Fyers on the radio and claims that he wants a way off the island in exchange for its return.
27	* ICanExplain: Oliver offers to explain to his best friend how and why he became the Vigilante, but Tommy cuts him off, saying he wouldn't believe a word of it anyway.
28	* InadvertentEntranceCue: When Quentin demands the vigilante's name, Helena replies, "The Hood." Cue power cut and the police station filling with tear gas as the Hood turns up to rescue her.
29	* IShallTauntYou: Helena throws her fling with Oliver in [=McKenna's=] face, and [[KickTheDog makes a point of mentioning how Oliver slept with both Lance daughters]] as well. Quentin can be seen struggling to contain his rage.
30	* KindaBusyHere: Oliver is having sex with [=McKenna=] when Felicity calls to warn him that Helena is still around.
31	* KissOfDistraction: Roy gets stabbed saving Thea from an AttemptedRape. In the hospital it turns out he's AfraidOfNeedles, so Thea kisses him as the doctor is injecting him. [[RescueRomance Given the circumstances]] it also counts as a SmoochOfVictory.
32	* TheMissusAndTheEx: For Oliver, again, involving Helena, ''again''. Only this time Helena is the ex, and Ollie is DatingCatwoman with Detective Hall, who is on the task force hunting the Hood.
33	* MsFanservice: Helena in her stripper outfit, ending in a MaleGaze view of her [[BadassBiker straddling a motorcycle]] in stiletto boots.
34	* MythologyGag:
35	** [=McKenna=] moves in with her sister in Coast City. Coast City is famous as the home of Hal Jordan, the Franchise/GreenLantern.
36	** Helena's stripper outfit at the beginning resembles ComicBook/{{Huntress}}'s comic outfit with the cross on the chest.
37	** Roy is AfraidOfNeedles, gee [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snowbirds_Don%27t_Fly I wonder why?]]
38	** An article about the assassination of the Bialyan president is seen on a screen at one point. Like [[Recap/ArrowS1E3LoneGunmen Markovia and Corto Maltese]], Bialya is a fictional country in the DCU.
39	* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
40	** Huntress has taken on board [[APupilOfMineUntilHeTurnedToEvil what Oliver taught her]] about finding weaknesses and applying leverage on those points to get what you want. Like taking Tommy hostage and threatening to break his fingers unless Oliver agrees to help her.
41	** Oliver is just telling Huntress that he can't find her father when Felicity [[WalkInChimeIn walks in bragging]] that she can do it by hacking into the FBI's security system, so Huntress knows to go looking for Felicity later.
42	** Oliver rescues Helena from the police station and gives her a ticket out of the country. Instead she stays to continue her vendetta, [[NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished killing several US Marshalls and crippling Oliver's girlfriend]].
43	* PsychoExGirlfriend: Diggle uses exactly this phrase to describe Helena.
44	* PutOnABus: [=McKenna=], who moves in with her sister at Coast City for physical therapy after being shot and breaks up with Oliver.
45	* RightBehindMe: Felicity calls to warn Oliver that his PsychoExGirlfriend (using those exact words) is still in town, only to turn and find the Huntress behind her.
46	* RescueRomance
47	** Roy Harper gets stabbed saving Thea from a couple of rapists in the Glades. When he gets nervous about being injected by the doctor, she gives him a KissOfDistraction with [[SmoochOfVictory overt romantic subtext]].
48	** Helena says that Oliver coming to rescue her means that he still has feels for her. Although Oliver never admits this to her, it's obvious that he does given his reluctance to arrow her.
49	* SarcasticConfession: When asks who the Hood is, Huntress replies, "Oliver Queen" but then goes on to make it look like a spiteful comment regarding Hall dating Oliver.
50	* SecretKeeper:
51	** Dramatic tension is provided by the fear that Helena will reveal the Hood's SecretIdentity to the police, though when it comes down to it she doesn't. And although threatening otherwise, she only applies 'leverage' to his friends who are also {{Secret Keeper}}s, thus [[PragmaticVillainy avoiding the police attention]] that would come if she went after his family.
52	** Tommy finds that KeepingSecretsSucks, as Laurel knows something is up with him but he can't tell her what. This helps him reconcile with Oliver, whom he realises was in the same position with him.
53	* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend:
54	** Averted. When Felicity enters the Arrowcave, Helena gets a dangerous smile and asks Oliver exactly how many girlfriends he has. Oliver simply ignores the question.
55	** While in the hospital, [[FriendshipDenial Roy denies that Thea is his friend]]. The kiss she gives him tells a different story.
56	* ShipperOnDeck: Thea is quite happy a beautiful ex-girlfriend of her brother has come to visit, and [[LeaveTheTwoLovebirdsAlone eagerly takes Oliver's suggestion that she leave]] to call Tommy about arranging a job for Roy.
57	* TranquilizerDart: Quentin tries to stop the Hood escaping with the Huntress, only for Oliver to throw a tranq dart into his neck.
58	* TrojanPrisoner: Oliver DressingAsTheEnemy brings in a captive Slade.
59	-->'''Mercenary:''' You killed a few of my friends, you son-of-a-bitch!
60	-->'''Slade:''' [[PreAssKickingOneLiner And I'm gonna to kill a few more.]] ''(takes [[GunsAkimbo two pistols]] out from behind his back and guns them down)''
61	* WhatTheHellHero
62	-->'''Diggle:''' Oliver, if you didn't still have feelings for this girl, you would have thought of a different solution than letting her extort you into killing someone.
63	-->'''Oliver:''' So what do you want me to do? You want me to kill her?
64	-->'''Diggle:''' I think you would have a long time ago if [[DistractedByTheSexy she looked like me instead of the T-Mobile girl]].
65	* WhatYouAreInTheDark: Helena could have given up the identity of the Hood for at least a more comfortable prison, yet despite not being particularly fond of Oliver by that stage, she doesn't.

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