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* GetOut: Laurel gave Sara this ''thrice'' near the end of the episode after giving her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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* GetOut: Laurel gave Sara this ''thrice'' ''[[RuleOfThrees thrice]]'' near the end of the episode after giving her a TheReasonYouSuckSpeech.
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-->'''Laurel:''' Now
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-->'''Laurel:''' (throws her glass of wine at the door) I said '''GetOut'''!
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: After Nyssa kisses Sara, Oliver gave a subtle yet still very suspicious grin.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: After Nyssa kisses Sara, Oliver gave a subtle yet still very suspicious grin.
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-->'''Laurel:''' (throws ''(throws her glass of wine at the door) door)'' I said '''GetOut'''!
'''GET OUT!'''!
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: After Nyssa kisses Sara, Olivergave has a subtle yet still very suspicious grin.
* GirlOnGirlIsHot: After Nyssa kisses Sara, Oliver
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* ComeAlone: Sara tells her father to come alone and not bring the Arrow. Oliver works out what she's doing and turns up with his all-purpose HealingHerb to save her life (along with Dinah and Quentin whom Nyssa was about to slay in her grief). The final shot shows that Laurel followed her father as well, as she's staring in shock at Sara.
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* ComeAlone: Sara tells her father to come alone and not bring the Arrow. Oliver works out what she's doing and turns up with his all-purpose HealingHerb to save her life (along with Dinah and Quentin whom Nyssa was about to slay in her grief). The final shot shows that When everything over we see Laurel followed her father as well, as she's shown staring in shock at Sara.
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* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Averted; Nyssa refers to Oliver as Sara's boyfriend, but he simply ignores it.
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* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Averted; Nyssa refers to Oliver as Sara's boyfriend, but he simply ignores it. However the {{foreshadowing}} version applies as Oliver/Sara have a RelationshipUpgrade at the end of the episode.
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* CallBack: Quentin meets Sara in the Chinese restaurant from "League of Assassins."
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* DramaticallyMissingThePoint: When Blood tries to warn off Moira from running for Mayor, she thinks it's because he's worried she might win, when it's actually because her life will be in danger if she gets in the way of Slade and Blood's conspiracy.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Our first mention of Felicity's DisappearedDad and awkward relationship with her mother.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Our {{Foreshadowing}}:
** When asks on arrival at the airport if the reason for her trip is business or personal, Nyssa replies "Personal".
** We get our first mention of Felicity's DisappearedDad and awkward relationship with her mother.
** When asks on arrival at the airport if the reason for her trip is business or personal, Nyssa replies "Personal".
** We get our first mention of Felicity's DisappearedDad and awkward relationship with her mother.
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* KeepingSecretsSucks: Quentin has to hide from Laurel and Dinah that Sarah is still alive. Felicity and then Oliver is burdened by the secret of Thea's parentage.
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* NothingPersonal: Sebastian Blood doesn't take offense when Oliver has to withdraw his support for Blood's campaign to back Moira. Of course Blood is Slade's puppet anyway.
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* StepfordSmiler: Oliver tells Moira he will keep up the façade of a loving and supporting son for Thea's sake, but from now on their relationship is finished.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The revelation about Thea's parentage is one revelation too far for Oliver.
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* StepfordSmiler: Oliver tells Moira he will keep up the façade of a loving and supporting supportive son for Thea's sake, but from now on their relationship is finished.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The revelation about Thea's parentage is onerevelation lie too far much for Oliver.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The revelation about Thea's parentage is one
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** Moira tries to explain her actions to Oliver as protecting Thea from Malcolm Merlyn, but Oliver isn't having it.
-->'''Oliver:''' No, you lied because that is what you do. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And that is who you are, Mom. Lies.]]
-->'''Oliver:''' No, you lied because that is what you do. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech And that is who you are, Mom. Lies.]]
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* StepfordSmiler: Oliver tells Moira he will keep up the façade of a loving and supporting son for Thea's sake, but from now on their relationship is finished.
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* FastRoping: A variation when Nyssa and her fellow Assassin [[RuleOfCool unfurl themselves down a long banner-like cloth]].
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* * ADayInTheLimelight: This episode focuses a lot more on Sara than Oliver. Instead of the standard flashbacks to the island, we get flashes to the Lance family before Sara got on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After [[spoiler: Laurel is poisoned by the League of Assassins]], she suffers what the doctors describe as a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage. As the name suggests, in real life, this would leave a blood-red patch in the white of her eye, but in the series it is shown as some [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished pretty golden sparkles]].
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After [[spoiler: Laurel is poisoned by the League of Assassins]], Assassins, she suffers what the doctors describe as a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage. As the name suggests, in real life, this would leave a blood-red patch in the white of her eye, but in the series it is shown as some [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished pretty golden sparkles]].
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* IHaveYourWife: Nyssa kidnaps Dinah and gives Sara 24 hours to surrender herself.
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* IHaveYourWife: Nyssa poisoned Laurel to draw Sara back to Starling City, then kidnaps Dinah and gives Sara 24 hours to surrender herself.
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* OhCrap: The airport security officer scans Ms. Raatko's passport only to find it's flagged with an ARGUS security alert.
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* ADayInTheLimelight: For the entire Lance family, but mostly Sara.
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* * ADayInTheLimelight: For This episode focuses a lot more on Sara than Oliver. Instead of the entire standard flashbacks to the island, we get flashes to the Lance family, but mostly Sara.family before Sara got on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver.
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* {{Hallucination}}: Laurel regards seeing Sara in the previous episode as this, but it tips of Quentin that she's back in town and he rings the Arrow to demand a meeting.
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* {{Hallucination}}: {{Hallucinations}}: Laurel regards seeing Sara in the previous episode as this, but it tips of Quentin that she's back in town and he rings the Arrow to demand a meeting.
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* IHaveYourWife: Nyssa kidnaps Dinah and gives Sara [[YouHaveFortyEightHours 24 hours to surrender herself.]]
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* IHaveYourWife: Nyssa kidnaps Dinah and gives Sara [[YouHaveFortyEightHours 24 hours to surrender herself.]]
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* ADayInTheLimelight: This episode focuses a lot more on Sara than Oliver. Instead of the standard flashbacks to the island, we get flashes to the Lance family before Sara got on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver.
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* LostInACrowd: The perps in the opening theft ditch their coveralls and lose themselves in a protest rally marching up the street near the building they just robbed.
* LowerDeckEpisode: This episode focuses a lot more on Sara than Oliver. Instead of the standard flashbacks to the island, we get flashes to the Lance family before Sara got on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver.
* LowerDeckEpisode: This episode focuses a lot more on Sara than Oliver. Instead of the standard flashbacks to the island, we get flashes to the Lance family before Sara got on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver.
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* LostInACrowd: The perps in the opening theft ditch their coveralls and lose themselves in a protest rally marching up the street near the building they just robbed.
* LowerDeckEpisode:ADayInTheLimelight: This episode focuses a lot more on Sara than Oliver. Instead of the standard flashbacks to the island, we get flashes to the Lance family before Sara got on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver.
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* BaitAndSwitch: Oliver aims his bow as the black-clad female Assassin advances on Sara with her knife drawn...and grabs her for a BigDamnKiss.
* BearerOfBadNews:
** Moira has [[EveryoneCanSeeIt seen how Felicity looks at her son]] and tries to convince her that if she reveals the secret about Thea it will tear apart their family and Oliver will always blame her for that. It doesn't work because Felicity isn't an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling but Oliver's FireForgedFriend--he gets the truth from her anyway and Moira's actions remove any sympathy Oliver might have had for his mother.
** In the final flashback Moira has the unpleasant task of telling the Lances that Sara absconded on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver. Given that she witnessed the subsequent destruction of their family and Quentin's hatred of hers, it's likely she's thinking of her own experience when she threatens Felicity.
* BearerOfBadNews:
** Moira has [[EveryoneCanSeeIt seen how Felicity looks at her son]] and tries to convince her that if she reveals the secret about Thea it will tear apart their family and Oliver will always blame her for that. It doesn't work because Felicity isn't an IgnoredEnamoredUnderling but Oliver's FireForgedFriend--he gets the truth from her anyway and Moira's actions remove any sympathy Oliver might have had for his mother.
** In the final flashback Moira has the unpleasant task of telling the Lances that Sara absconded on the ''Queen's Gambit'' with Oliver. Given that she witnessed the subsequent destruction of their family and Quentin's hatred of hers, it's likely she's thinking of her own experience when she threatens Felicity.
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* ComeAlone: Sara tells her father to come alone and not bring the Arrow. Oliver works out what she's doing and turns up with his all-purpose HealingHerb to save her life (along with Dinah and Quentin whom Nyssa was about to slay in her grief). The final shot shows that Laurel followed her father as well, as she's staring in shock at Sara.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Our first mention of Felicity's DisappearedDad and awkward relationship with her mother.
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* {{Hallucination}}: Laurel regards seeing Sara in the previous episode as this, but it tips of Quentin that she's back in town and he rings the Arrow to demand a meeting.
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* HaveYouToldAnyoneElse: The non-lethal version; Felicity approaches Moira to give her a chance to come clean with her children. Moira instead tries to coerce Felicity into silence.
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* ImprovisedWeapon: Nyssa uses a pen and a barrier strap to take out a couple of airport guards.
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* KissDiss: Nyssa tells Sara that she's had warmer greetings from her, though the fact that Sara didn't know [[DeadlyHug if she was about to be killed]] was a MomentKiller.
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* ObligatoryEarpieceTouch: Done as FiveSecondForeshadowing before an airport guard draws a gun on Nyssa.
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* RevealingCoverup: Moira paying off the obstetrician only draws Felicity's attention, because she's been keeping an eye on the Tempest account in case Moira uses it for anything else illegal. Moira makes things worse by trying to coerce Felicity into silence, removing any sympathy Oliver might have had for her.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After [[spoiler: Laurel is poisoned by the League of Assassins]], she suffers what the doctors describe as a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage. As the name suggests, in real life, this would leave a blood-red patch in the white of her eye, but in the series it is shown as some pretty golden sparkles.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Nyssa and Sara have a couple moments were it looks like they will kill each other, only to be subverted. At one point Sara gets her hands on some powerful poison and everyone thinks she is going to kill Nyssa with it, but instead drinks it herself. She then powers through the poison enough to stop Oliver from killing Nyssa.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Nyssa and Sara have a couple moments were it looks like they will kill each other, only to be subverted. At one point Sara gets her hands on some powerful poison and everyone thinks she is going to kill Nyssa with it, but instead drinks it herself. She then powers through the poison enough to stop Oliver from killing Nyssa.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After [[spoiler: Laurel is poisoned by the League of Assassins]], she suffers what the doctors describe as a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage. As the name suggests, in real life, this would leave a blood-red patch in the white of her eye, but in the series it is shown as some [[BeautyIsNeverTarnished pretty golden sparkles.
sparkles]].
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Nyssa and Sara have a couple moments were it looks like they will kill each other, only to be subverted.At one point Nyssa rejects a DeadlyHug, while Sara gets her hands on some powerful poison and everyone thinks she is going to kill Nyssa with it, but instead drinks it herself. She then powers through the poison enough to stop Oliver from killing Nyssa.Nyssa.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The 'hallucination' of Sara she witnessed after she was poisoned makes Laurel happy, but the return of the real Sara brings back her anger over her sister's betrayal and the disintegration of her family that followed.
* AwLookTheyReallyDoLoveEachOther: Nyssa and Sara have a couple moments were it looks like they will kill each other, only to be subverted.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: The 'hallucination' of Sara she witnessed after she was poisoned makes Laurel happy, but the return of the real Sara brings back her anger over her sister's betrayal and the disintegration of her family that followed.
* DramaticDrop: Laurel drops a plate on seeing a news report on the ''Queen's Gambit'' sinking.
* HappyFlashback: Of better times at the Lance house.
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* ICanExplain: Sara to Oliver when Nyssa turns up, but [[FriendshipMoment Oliver just says she doesn't have to]].
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** Sara to Oliver when Nyssa turns up, but [[FriendshipMoment Oliver just says she doesn't haveto]].to]].
** When Sara offers to explain to Laurel, she just tells her to GetOut!
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* SilkHidingSteel: Moira really shows this in the episode, and Blood notes the inherent contradiction between the woman who is tough enough to run for Mayor versus the DamselInDistress who was supposedly coerced by Malcolm Merlyn.
* ThisIsUnforgivable: The revelation about Thea's parentage is one revelation too far for Oliver.
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* TrackingDevice: Oliver concealed one on Sara, having no intention of losing her again. It also explains Sara's earlier question of how Oliver was able to contact her in the first place.
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* WorkoutFanservice: This time we have Sara on the salmon ladder, while Oliver whacks a truck tire with a sledgehammer and does some shirtless PercussiveTherapy on his martial arts dummy. The later leads to a different kind of fanservice when Sara and Oliver start making out.
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* DoubleMeaning: Blood advises Moira not to run for Mayor. Referring to the inevitably political mudslinging he says, "I'm apprehensive about destroying my friend's mother." Of course we already know Blood has arranged the death of the previous Mayor...
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** Blood advises Moira not to run for Mayor. Referring to the inevitably political mudslinging he says, "I'm apprehensive about destroying my friend's mother." Of course we already know Blood has arranged the death of the previousMayor...Mayor...
** After Felicity drops the bombshell about Thea, Oliver gives a speech in support of Moira's mayoral race about how people don't know his mother and what she's capable of.
** Blood advises Moira not to run for Mayor. Referring to the inevitably political mudslinging he says, "I'm apprehensive about destroying my friend's mother." Of course we already know Blood has arranged the death of the previous
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* DoubleMeaning: Blood advises Moira not to run for mayor. "I'm apprehensive about destroying my friend's mother."
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* DoubleMeaning: Blood advises Moira not to run for mayor. "I'm apprehensive about destroying my friend's mother."
* HeIsNotMyBoyfriend: Averted; Nyssa refers to Oliver as Sara's boyfriend, but he simply ignores it.
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* GraveMarkingScene: Subverted when Sara is shown visiting her own grave, the headstone put up when she was LostAtSea.
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* DeathGlare: Oliver picks up on the hostile looks between his mother and Felicity, and coaxes Felicity into saying what's bothering her. After hearing the news, Oliver gets a death glare of his own.
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Sara begs a moment with Oliver before walking off with Nyssa, who says she has no problem because goodbyes can be difficult. After all, Nyssa says pointedly, ''she'' never got one from Sara.
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Sara begs a moment with Oliver before walking off with Nyssa, who says she has no problem because acknowledges that goodbyes can be difficult. difficult. After all, Nyssa says pointedly, ''she'' never got one from Sara.
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* NeverGotToSayGoodbye: Sara begs a moment with Oliver before walking off with Nyssa, who says she has no problem because goodbyes can be difficult. After all, Nyssa says pointedly, ''she'' never got one from Sara.
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** Subverted in Season 5, when the actual Dinah Drake appears.
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* TheGloriousWarOfSisterlyRivalry: Sara and Laurel. On top of FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling dynamics, it seems that [[SiblingTriangle both sisters competed for Ollie's affections]]
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* ICanExplain: Sara to Oliver when Nyssa turns up, but [[FriendshipMoment Oliver just says she doesn't have to]].
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* DeadlyHug: A deliberate version when Sara refuses to return to the League and tells Nyssa to "do what you have to". Nyssa hugs her close, goes to draw her dagger...then pushes her away.
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* PsychoLesbian: Nyssa comes across as this. Although despite her definite {{Yandere}} tendencies, her love for Sara is perhaps her only redeeeming trait.
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* PsychoLesbian: Nyssa comes across as this. Although despite her definite {{Yandere}} tendencies, her love for Sara is perhaps her only redeeeming redeeming trait.
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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: After [[spoiler: Laurel is poisoned by the League of Assassins]], she suffers what the doctors describe as a sub-conjunctival haemorrhage. As the name suggests, in real life, this would leave a blood-red patch in the white of her eye, but in the series it is shown as some pretty golden sparkles.
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* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Mother]]: Nyssa kidnaps Dinah to bring Sara out.
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* [[IHaveYourWife I Have Your Mother]]: IHaveYourWife: Nyssa kidnaps Dinah to bring Sara out.
