Synopsis:
With no more leads in Sara's murder, Oliver focuses his attention on bringing Thea home. Felicity is able to track her to the island of Corto Maltese. Oliver finds Thea working at a restaurant, but she refuses to return to Starling City. While he waits to convince Thea to return, Oliver assists Diggle on a mission for A.R.G.U.S. to ascertain the whereabouts of one of its agents, Mark Shaw. The agent informs Diggle that someone broke into the A.R.G.U.S. database and stole information to sell on the black market. Later, Shaw double crosses Diggle, and reveals that he was the one that is selling A.R.G.U.S. secrets. Felicity helps Oliver and Diggle track down Shaw, and they stop him from selling any secrets. After a last minute plea, and Oliver revealing the truth about how their father died, Thea agrees to return to Starling City. Meanwhile, trying to emulate her sister, Laurel attempts to exact vengeance on an abusive boyfriend of a fellow A.A. member, but she is no match and ends up in the hospital. Later, she seeks out boxer Ted Grant to train her to fight after Oliver's refusal. In flashbacks to six months prior, Merlyn begins training Thea to calm her mind and heal her emotional pain, while also mastering control over physical pain.
This was a better episode - good to see the family dynamics and the Merlin story develop.
And Laurel's fail at being a vigilante.
But are we seriously expected to believe that Thea has become a hardcore trained martial artist after just 5 months?? It feels like we're being set up to have Thea and Laurel duke it out with their new training at some point later this season.
Better, though.
With no more leads in Sara's murder, Oliver focuses his attention on bringing Thea home. Felicity is able to track her to the island of Corto Maltese. Oliver finds Thea working at a restaurant, but she refuses to return to Starling City. While he waits to convince Thea to return, Oliver assists Diggle on a mission for A.R.G.U.S. to ascertain the whereabouts of one of its agents, Mark Shaw. The agent informs Diggle that someone broke into the A.R.G.U.S. database and stole information to sell on the black market. Later, Shaw double crosses Diggle, and reveals that he was the one that is selling A.R.G.U.S. secrets. Felicity helps Oliver and Diggle track down Shaw, and they stop him from selling any secrets. After a last minute plea, and Oliver revealing the truth about how their father died, Thea agrees to return to Starling City. Meanwhile, trying to emulate her sister, Laurel attempts to exact vengeance on an abusive boyfriend of a fellow A.A. member, but she is no match and ends up in the hospital. Later, she seeks out boxer Ted Grant to train her to fight after Oliver's refusal. In flashbacks to six months prior, Merlyn begins training Thea to calm her mind and heal her emotional pain, while also mastering control over physical pain.
This was a better episode - good to see the family dynamics and the Merlin story develop.
And Laurel's fail at being a vigilante.
But are we seriously expected to believe that Thea has become a hardcore trained martial artist after just 5 months?? It feels like we're being set up to have Thea and Laurel duke it out with their new training at some point later this season.
Better, though.
