Arrow 401: Green Arrow
by Bobby Doherty @thehorndogg

Show starts off with Oliver running through a bunch of trees. He comes out of the trees into a middle class neighborhood saying Hi to everyone. Felicity is at home waiting for Oliver with breakfast. She give Oliver a taste of her cooking and Oliver lets her know that “She failed this omelet”. Oliver and Felicity are now in bed. She ask Oliver why he got his tattoo removed. He said he didn’t need it anymore. Felicity says she has a board meeting with Palmer Tech and offers Oliver his company back. Oliver refuses and lets her know she’s doing a good job. Oliver leaves bed to go to the Market.

We cut to Speedy and Laurel on a motorcycle chasing a big rig with a bunch of baddies shooting at them. Speedy is overly excited about the chase. Speedy wants everyone to know she wants to be known as the Red Arrow from now on. DIggle in his new diggle gear arrives just in time to take out the last bad guy. Laurel stops the truck and it dumps its load on the street. A back up van picks up the fallen cargo and escapes.

Diggle and crew are back at the lair now and they research what was on the truck. It was a load of weapons from Kord Industries. We find out that these ‘Ghost’ are escalating attacks on the city. Laurel says they need help. Diggle is reluctant to ask and says they can do it on their own.

The police are out hunting the Ghost too. We find Capt Lance talking with a group of people about the state of the city. We find out that they are calling the new criminals Ghost because they just disappear and that they can’t get any of them to talk because they have sinacide tabs in there teeth. We find out the city is the middle of a rebranding to try to bring people back to the city. I man interrupts the meeting we find out he is the man who is control of the Ghost. He encourages them to let the city to die because when things die it’s the only chance you can let new things to grow. He lets them know that they are going to die. That they should say goodbye to anyone they love.

Oliver and Felicity are having brunch with the neighbors. Felicity gets all nervous about the talk of kids and leaves the table for a second. Oliver shows the ring he’s going to use to propose to Felicity.

Flashback to five years earlier. Oliver is battling a drug dealer on a roof. Oliver gets knocked off the roof and caught up in wires. We Amada Walker from ARGUS. Flashback over.

Laurel is walking back from a press conference with the DA. She was one of the people in the room. The DA falls to the ground and Laurel calls Diggle to get the team together and to get her dad. The team couldn’t get to everyone in time simultaneous attacks on all the leaders of the city everyone but Capt Lance was killed Laurel got to her dad in time.

Felicity and Oliver are about to have desert. Oliver places the ring in a sufelt but before he can serve and pop the question the doorbell rings. Laurel and Thea are coming to Oliver for help with the Ghost. Thea says they are over there heads and Laurel says we need the Arrow. Felicity is quiet Oliver ask why? Felicity says they should already be in the car. That their friends need help.

Flashback to Amanda and Oliver in a bar in Coast City discussing why Oliver hasn’t returned home yet. If you blink you miss the Hal Jordan easter egg. Amanda drugs Oliver and ARGUS agents take him. Flashback over.

Arrow — “Green Arrow” — Image AR401B_0070b — Pictured: Willa Holland as Speedy — Photo: Dean Buscher /The CW — © 2015 The CW Network, LLC. All Rights Reserved.

Team Arrow is now driving back into what is now Star City. We find that the city was renamed in memory of Dr Ray Palmer. Oliver lets Felicity know he doesn’t planning on staying long. Diggle is in the liar when they return. He still doesn’t want Oliver arround. Says he can’t go to battle with someone he can’t trust. Felicity hacks into Kord Industries and find out the weapons stolen earlier in the show were Cluster Bomb. Diggle says he’s going to do what it takes to save his city. Oliver starts to give orders. No one really listens. Oliver figures out that Felicity might be helping the team behind Oliver’s back.

Laurel is now in letting her father know about the cluster bombs and wants to know if there’s any targets that they should research.

Diggle is getting some family time. We find out that his wife has forgiven Oliver for what he did. She lets Diggle know she should forgiven him too.

Back at the lair Oliver is questioning Felicity about all the times she’s missed events over the 6 months. We find out Felicity is happy being with Oliver but is bored with her life. Felicity’s computer goes off they’ve found the ghost.

Team Arrow is perched up watching the man from earlier giving the Ghost a speech. The man puts his hand on the chest of the Ghost who led the truck robbery earlier in the show and starts to suck out his life force. Team Arrow springs into action to try to stop him. Oliver is now dressed like Diggle use to. After taking out a team of Ghost one lets Oliver know they are planning to blow up the train station.

We are now back at the lair. They talk about the man killing the Ghost by touch they think it’s a metahuman. Oliver says no its different its mystical and that he’s seen things. Diggle wants to know more but Oliver wants them to focus.

Oliver and Speedy are now walking around the train station looking for the bomb. Oliver starts lecturing her about control when she’s fighting. He thinks something is wrong. Oliver walks to Diggle and they have a heart to heart about what’s happened in the past. Diggle tells Oliver he’s just as dark inside as the league. Captain Lance arrives at that station and starts lecturing Oliver how he’s brought all this to the city and he should leave.
Flashback. Oliver is now in the back of a plane an ARGUS agent is making him jump off a plane to access a threat in the area. Oliver is getting dumped back on the island. End Flashback

Oliver is back with Felicity and questioning why did they come back. The lecture from Captain Lance has got to him. Oliver said the only way he knows how to fight darkness is to be dark and he doesn’t want to be that anymore. The team arrives back at the lair no bombs on the trains. They figure out that the bombs aren’t at the station they are going to be arriving at the station. The team suits up. Oliver gets his new suit.

The first high speed train is racing to Star City. DIggle is driving the van and Oliver is trying to mount it. Speedy is in the station and fires and smoke arrow to and lets everyone know to run that it’s not safe. Oliver takes the train. Damien Darhk finally lets Oliver know who he is. Oliver tries to fight him but he uses his powers to stop him. Just as Darhk is starts to suck the life force out of Oliver Diggle saves the day but shooting Darhk in the back. Diggle and Oliver jump off the train and blow it up

Team Arrow is back at the lair. He announces to the team that he is staying and that he knows the man is Damien Darhk. Oliver makes mention of H.I.V.E and Diggle flashback to Deadshot mentioning H.I.V.E in a previous show. Diggle lies to Oliver about knowing anything. Diggle want to leave but Oliver wants him to wait. Oliver still dressed in the new costume takes over all the emergency broadcast channels and announces his intentions and says he’s here to be a symbol of hope that he’s the Green Arrow.

Dark is making blood offering to some idol when a Ghost lets him know that someone is here to see him. We find that Captain Lance is working with Dark. Dark wants to know everything about The Green Arrow

Oliver and Felicity are moving into Speedy’s old apartment. Oliver hits the ring he intends to give Felicity in a bowl while they talk. The start to kiss and the shot fades to a grave site with a the caption 6 months later. Oliver is standing saddened looking over it, Barry walks up and says he’s sorry he missed the funeral. Barry and Oliver talk about fault and responsibility. Oliver says he knows how to end it he has to kill. Oliver puts his hand on the gravestone as a tear runs down his face. Arrow Logo……..

What does it all mean? I really don’t know but I have my theories as much as I would like to share that here with you now I can’t you are going to have to tune into my show DC On CW where my co-hosts Ryan Denton, Angelica Dawn and I will review The Flash, Arrow and eventually Legends of Tomorrow. If you enjoy my writing come over to the show and listen. We are DC on CW and we are coming.

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