This installment , “ The Darkness on the Edge of Town , ” is jam - pack full of plot , and most of that plot is labored stuff and nonsense . Fortunately , to lighten the load , there are some import of pure strong-arm comedy in there , and they see us through .
We pop the installment with a massacre of scientist at Unidac , the society that was making the mystery equipment for Malcolm Merlyn . That , I stress , is not funny , but it provide help to our our first comedy duo , Thea and Roy . Roy ’s fixation with finding the vigilante includes both slip a car and getting Thea to use her law house to quest record in an — as far as I can tell — trumped up lawsuit against the cop of the metropolis so she can hang around the law station and spy on Quentin Lance . She learns that the scientists made some calls to Merlyn Industries ; there , they run into Ollie , who we will get to afterwards . Thea spills the bean on their little foreign mission to Ollie , and Ollie greets Roy with a stern warning about leaving the vigilance man alone . He does this via angry whispering and , uproariously , a Stupid Man ’s Handshake . This handshake , where two guys go stone - face as their workforce seek to crush and subsequently brook each other , is one of the elemental reasons we involve to fight the patriarchy . Honestly , guy wire . You launch the world for thousands of years and you ca n’t do better than hairgrip strength as control ? Whenever I see this sort of nonsense , I bear on people to the NSFW teachings of Eddie Izzard .
Thea , who has let her fellow speak her into stalking the copper in a steal car , and getting spurious warrants ( from Judge Grell — I see what you did there , DC ) , both while she ’s on probation , adjudicate that her brother ’s dislike is too much . Roy , still smarting from being the hand - rat to Ollie ’s hand - anaconda , calls Ollie a chicken and break up with Thea .
A disconsolate Thea head home and has her speculative solar day compounded by Moira ’s bad day . Moira and Walter are having job with him not being an idiot . He connect the fact that he was poking into a giant conspiracy that Moira was involved with to the fact that he got kidnapped . I was hop that he ’d gyrate that English accent into being Arrow ’s James Bond , seducing evil ladies for justice and the crown ; sadly , he plainly file for divorce . Thea arrives just as he ’s walk out the door . Since he ’s too much of a gentleman to criticize her out of the fashion and ladder , he develop into the next priceless piece of forcible comedy . He wordlessly pulls her into a hug so awkward that I swan they did n’t tell the actress — Willa Holland — what was happening , or even that they were shoot . you may see her thinking , “ Oh god . Stephen Amell died and they ’re re - swan the Ollie part with Ashton Kutcher . ”
Moira Queen spent the intact episode chock up through crap waist - deep , which is a shame because at several spot she wears wonderful outfits . ( Not everyone can pull off wear upon scarlet — just enquire comic Roy . ) She not only has to deal with the desertion of her husband , but also of her son . Ollie , not wanting to hail down with another case of “ shot through the shoulder joint by his amazing badass of a mother , ” staged his and Moira ’s kidnapping . Dig play the part of Green Arrow , and beat up Ollie to get Moira to verbalize . Moira confess that she was forced into a plan to help oneself Barrowmerlyn put down the clearing with an earthquake . But that ’s not the drollery — the comedy is the imitation snatch . Ollie come in to Moira ’s elbow room , all soft eyes and questioning look . The scene build intensity as he questions her and she frantically denies everything . Just as it reaches a crescendo , the lights go out , they both hesitate and look confused and then — FWIP ! — flit in the neck for them both . They tumble over like ancient redwoods .
With the new information about Barrowmerlyn ’s earthquake machine , Team Ollie have to pull an Ocean ’s 11 style prank to get into Merlyn Global ’s information processing system system and hack it to chance the gimmick ’s location . This include Dig toy a security guard , Felicity recreate the world ’s best - tipped delivery mortal , and Ollie play the guy who did n’t plan the system well enough . In trying to get felicitousness up to and down off the upper trading floor of a officious office edifice , Ollie never seems to count on anyone else require to take the lift . On the head trip up he has to smack some files out of a guy cable ’s hand to get him to step off the elevator to retrieve them . It ’s funny , but intend . As before long as he endeavor to see Felicity back down , he ’s delay first by Barrowmerlyn and then by Thea , while his middle grow ever more baseless . It ’s marvelous to see . It start out with mild annoyance and concern and escalates until it face like his forefront is occupy with tempestuous bees . When Felicity gets catch , Dig passes her off as Tommy ’s clingy ex , and see her out while she wail , “ But I love him ! He ’s my man ! ”
Tommy ’s available to be someone ’s man . During Ollie ’s meeting with Tommy at Merlyn Global — as a pretext to help Felicity get in — Ollie seemed to push him to get back with Laurel . When Ollie discover Barrowmerlyn ’s program , he thinks he may be able to stop being the Green Arrow when he baffle it , and goes to proposition Laurel himself . She accepts , and they hook up … right in front of the window that Tommy is looking in on his agency to get back together with Laurel . I would make a joke , but Tommy ’s poor sad face does me in . It ’s like he ’s reckon , “ For crying out loud . Arrow has three female bare-breasted scenes per season , and they give them all to Amell . ” ( There . It looks like I had a joke in me after all . )
With the hacked information , Ollie hunt down Barrowmerlyn while Dig goes to find the temblor twist . Ollie confronts Barrowmerlyn in his office . Again , a scene builds tensity and construct tension . And when Ollie releases the pointer — bam . Barrowmerlyn catches it . And also he move the equipment . And ? He mops the base with Ollie . Hell , he wash the windows , dusts the knick - hang , and straightens out the linen W.C. with Ollie . This is a drubbing that ’s so monolithic that it could be frame and pass down through multiple generations as an heirloom . At last , when Ollie is lying unconscious at his ft , Barrowmerlyn scald back Ollie ’s cowling and read , “ Oh no . ” Oh no , what ? You , devout lecturer , can choose what comes next , but I care to think it was , “ Oh no , I thought they put a stunt bozo in the courtship for the combat scenes . Well , we ’ll have to tell Willa she ’s getting a Modern co - genius . ”
Or it could be a reference to this episode ’s flashback , where Ollie gets punched so heavily you could actually see his eyes tracking little cartoon birds dance around his caput , but the suspicious moment is punctured when Fyers kills Yao Fei , and make to shoot down down an airliner .
What will happen on the close ? Who will get the chop ? I ’m still bet that Barrowmerlyn will end up being the one pining for the fjord , but what are your guesses ?
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