Katrina said she’s been tuning in to watch Caity soar as the White Canary/Sara Lance on “Arrow”/”The Flash” spinoff, “Legends”. She really wants to believe in him. He refuses to give up his power for Thea’s sake, saying he can’t afford to give the power of Ra’s to Nyssa. Nyssa asks Laurel, “How is my beloved?”
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We’ll have our review of “Sins of the Father” up a bit later tonight. Could she convince her to help them? Meanwhile in the loft, Mama Smoak comes to see Felicity and when she reveals her Dad is in town, the typically-bubbly Mama Smoak turns into “no one is having anymore fun here” Mama Smoak. If it feels like his lie has been deliberate or he doesn’t willingly tell her, we imagine that there is going to be trouble. She gives him a brief tour, setting the bait for her own test. Laurel tracks down Nyssa and stalls her from attacking Merlyn, but his forces have already arrived and they engage each other.
Oliver had the ideal chance to kill Malcolm and now it’s going to put his son’s life in danger, as Malcolm shares Oliver’s secret life with Damien Darhk.
The line between friend and foe was pretty blurry on Arrow as Malcolm Merlyn refused to relinquish his reign over the League of Assassins to save Thea Queen.
There is the set up for the big rooftop showdown between Nyssa and Malcolm. She agrees, and offers Team Arrow proof that the Lotus cure is actually in her possession.
Was Diggle talking to Oliver from behind a pillar as he came down the stairs, while Laurel was waiting behind another pillar deeper in the lair? She tries to reason with the assassin, but Nyssa threatens to kill her instead.
Prediction Time!: The episode ends with Merlyn vowing dark and disturbing revenge on Oliver for disarming him and causing the disillusion of the League, so he goes to Damien Darhk to create a truly unholy alliance. He drops the bombshell that Oliver has a son. Malcolm might as well be the second understudy of a baddie of the week with how swiftly Oliver secures the upper hand. He suggests that he challenge Nyssa to a trial by combat. Merely has always been set-up as one of the baddest bad guys on the roster, but now Oliver can beat him up without breaking a sweat? “I have an even crazier one coming”. Convincing Malcolm to give up his post wasn’t an easy task.
Even less successful family bonding happens with Felicity and her father, who’s recently reappeared.
The team attempts to work out a diplomatic solution with Malcolm giving Nyssa the ring of Ra’s al Ghul and Nyssa giving up the serum to save Thea.
This gives her a certain edge over the rest of our heroes as, while still being humanised at various points thanks to her aforementioned romance with Sara, she’s often more level-headed than anyone else on the show.
Well, Thea’s been cured, so hopefully we can all stop using the word “bloodlust” now, and Merlyn pivoted into the next awful deed unlikely to end in his death. But our goal would be to have him play a part in Felicity’s life going forward. If I’m wrong, someone please explain it to me in the comments.
Felicity and Oliver meet up, both frustrated that the subjects of their tests failed.
She said that with a disability like that there was no other way to deal with it but just to simply try to adapt and move on. Malcolm tells Oliver that death would be a mercy compared to the debt he now owes him. Killing Malcolm would make Thea an orphan, and Oliver couldn’t bring himself to do that. “You know that, right?”
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Now that the Felicity problem, the Thea problem and the civil war problem are all fixed, Oliver thinks he can relax. She tells him, “You were faced with an impossible situation and you found the best way out of it”.
