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* RealityEnsues: What happens when Diggle stops taking Dragon's drugs? Withdrawal syndrome.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Averted, when Quentin finds out that Team Arrow didn't openly tell him than Black Siren is back, he shrugs it off as he no longer cares about her after what happened in the premiere.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Averted, WhatTheHellHero:
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when Quentin finds out that Team Arrow didn't openly tell him than Black Siren is back, he shrugs it off as he no longer cares about her after what happened in the premiere.
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* ConverseWithTheUnconscious: After falling out with Diggle, Oliver visits Thea's bedside and begs her to wake up. Maybe she did hear him after all, because she eventually does.
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-->'''Oliver:''' I've been mad at you before, John. This is the first time I've been...disappointed.

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-->'''Oliver:''' I've been mad at you before, John. This is is... the first time I've been...ever been disappointed.
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* DisappointedInYou
-->'''Oliver:''' I've been mad at you before, John. This is the first time I've been...disappointed.
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* ActorAllusion: It's impossible to see James as anything but an evil version of [[Series/PersonOfInterest Harold Finch]], complete with dry humor.
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* AxCrazy: Black Siren is complaining to Cayden James like a spoiled little child during the mission, as she hasn't been able to kill anybody yet.

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* AxCrazy: Black Siren is complaining to Cayden James like a spoiled little child during the mission, as she hasn't been able to kill anybody yet. She, much to her enjoyment, gets to ''smash all of the shit'' instead.
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** Oliver and Felicity are both upset about Diggle keeping his injuries and drug use from them. Felicity is also mad that Curtis used their prototype on Dig without telling her first.

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** Oliver and Felicity are both upset about Diggle keeping his injuries and drug use from them. Felicity is also mad that Curtis used their prototype on Dig without telling her first. Curtis fires back that it's ''his'' prototype seeing how he invented it and how [[{{Hypocrite}} she]] doesn't have much room to talk when she leaves him out of important decisions.
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* BailEqualsFreedom: Oliver is set free on bail, prolonging the trial. Subverted as the judge points out that with a five million bail, Oliver would be wise not to go anywhere.

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* BailEqualsFreedom: Oliver is set free on bail, prolonging the trial.bail. Subverted as the judge points out that with a five million bail, Oliver would be wise not to go anywhere.
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* BailEqualsFreedom: Oliver is set free on bail, prolonging the trial.

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* BailEqualsFreedom: Oliver is set free on bail, prolonging the trial. Subverted as the judge points out that with a five million bail, Oliver would be wise not to go anywhere.

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* AxCrazy: Black Siren is complaining to Cayden James like a spoiled little child during the mission, as she hasn't been able to kill anybody yet.
* BailEqualsFreedom: Oliver is set free on bail, prolonging the trial.



* CallBack: Diggle mentions the illusionary Star City during the Dominators crossover the team was trapped in, and actually admits that being the Green Arrow himself [[IJustWantToBeBadass is his deepest wish]] and he didn't realize it until then.



* GoneHorriblyWrong: The prototype made for John's nerve damage almost gets him killed during the mission.



* InternalReveal: Oliver and Felicity learn about Diggle's problems.

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* InternalReveal: InternalReveal:
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Oliver and Felicity learn about Diggle's problems.problems.
** Quentin learns about Black Siren working with Cayden James, as well as that Vigilante is Dinah's former lover. In turn, he tells Dinah that he had the chance to kill Black Siren, but didn't take it.
* ItsAllMyFault:
** Curtis beats himself up over John almost dying in the field, but John reassures him that it was his own descision to use the prototype.
** Both Dinah and Quentin blame themselves for not ending Vigilante and Black Siren when they had the chance to.
* ItsPersonal:
** Oliver gets ''very'' pissed about Watson arresting him right in front of his son and threatens to sue her with malicious prosecution once he is out.
** James thinks that Oliver cost him his son, though how is currently unknown.



* UnflinchingWalk: Black Siren walks away from an explosion like this.



* YoureInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that insanity is not a thing.

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* YoureInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that (according to the late, famous psychiatrist Thomas Szasz) insanity is not a thing.

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* BatmanGambit: James uses the threat of his bomb to lure Team Arrow to the stadium, where his {{Mooks}}, dressed as police officers, fight them, before leaking the footage. To the public's view, the vigilantes are attacking the police, so vote for the anti-vigilante law.

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* BatmanGambit: James uses the threat of his bomb to lure Team Arrow to the stadium, where his {{Mooks}}, dressed as police officers, fight them, before leaking the footage. To the public's view, the vigilantes are attacking the police, so vote for the anti-vigilante law. If they had realized there was no bomb in time, the plan would not have worked.
** He also set up the whole thing so he could talk to the Green Arrow. Ironically, he almost ended up with the wrong Green Arrow.



* ForegoneConclusion: The "Crisis on Earth-X" trailers and publicity show Thea awake and Ollie as the Green Arrow again, and this is the last Arrow episode before the crossover.



* HiddenDepths: Rene is a Billy Joel fan.

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* HiddenDepths: Rene is a Billy Joel fan. The team is surprised, and he says [[LampshadeHanging he has a wide range of musical tastes]].


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* StealthPun: The team follows leads to a concert to look for James thermobaric bomb. Turns out there's no bomb, he just wanted to talk to Ollie. It's Billy Joel concert, and James ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFTLKWw542g didn't start the fire]]''.
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* ActorAllusion: It's impossible to see James as anything but an evil version of [[Series/PersonOfInterest Harold Finch]], complete with dry humor.
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* BittersweetEnding: Nobody is killed in this episode, and Thea finally wakes up from her coma. But thanks to Cayden James' manipulations the city has voted for the anti-vigilante bill and Oliver is facing trial for being the Green Arrow.

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* BittersweetEnding: Nobody is killed in this episode, and Thea finally wakes up from her coma. But thanks to Cayden James' manipulations the city has voted for the anti-vigilante bill and Oliver is facing trial for being the Green Arrow.Arrow, while Diggle's nerve damage turns out to be much worse than previously thought.
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* YouAreInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that insanity is not a thing.

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* YouAreInsane: YoureInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that insanity is not a thing.

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* PutOnABus: Agent Watson leaves town to go back to DC, promising to return for Oliver's trial.



* TheUnReveal: We don't find out what the evidence is for the base of Agent Watson's case against Oliver

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* TheUnReveal: We don't find out what the evidence is for the base basis of Agent Watson's case against Oliver



YourInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that insanity is not a thing.

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YourInsane: * YouAreInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that insanity is not a thing.
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** Oliver and Felicity are both upset about Diggle keeping his injuries and drug use from them. Felicity is also mad that Curtis used their prototype on Dig without telling her first.

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** Oliver and Felicity are both upset about Diggle keeping his injuries and drug use from them. Felicity is also mad that Curtis used their prototype on Dig without telling her first.first.
YourInsane: Oliver says this when he finds out that Cayden James faked a bomb situation just so they could talk. James merely replies that insanity is not a thing.
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* TheReveal: Why is Cayden James targeting Star City? Because he blames the Green Arrow for costing him his son. The team actually looks into this, and are baffled ''why'' James blames them -- he has a son but he's currently missing.

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* TheReveal: Why is Cayden James targeting Star City? Because he blames the Green Arrow for costing him his son. The team actually looks into this, and are baffled ''why'' James blames them -- he has a son but he's currently missing.missing, they've never encountered him or were involved in his disappearance, and he disappeared while James was in ARGUS custody which the team had nothing to do with.
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* ActorAllusion: It's impossible to see James as anything but an evil version of [[Series/PersonOfInterest Harold Finch]], complete with dry humor.

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* BatmanGambit: James uses the threat of his bomb to lure Team Arrow to the stadium, where his {{Mooks}}, dressed as police officers, fight them, before leaking the footage. To the public's view, the vigilantes are attacking the police, so vote for the anti-vigilante law.



* HesBack: Oliver dons the hood again because Diggle can't.
** Thea waking up from her coma.
* HiddenDepths: Rene is a Billy Joel fan.
* InternalReveal: Oliver and Felicity learn about Diggle's problems.



* RealityEnsues: What happens when Diggle stops taking Dragon's drugs?. Withdrawal syndromes.
* TheReveal: Why is Cayden James targeting Star City? Because he blames the Green Arrow for costing him in his son. The team actually looks into this, and are baffled ''why'' James blames them -- he has a son but he's currently missing.

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* RealityEnsues: What happens when Diggle stops taking Dragon's drugs?. drugs? Withdrawal syndromes.
syndrome.
* TheReveal: Why is Cayden James targeting Star City? Because he blames the Green Arrow for costing him in his son. The team actually looks into this, and are baffled ''why'' James blames them -- he has a son but he's currently missing.



* WhatTheHellHero: Averted, when Quentin finds out that Team Arrow didn't openly tell him than Black Siren is back, he shrugs it off as he no longer cares about her after what happened in the premiere.

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* WhatTheHellHero: Averted, when Quentin finds out that Team Arrow didn't openly tell him than Black Siren is back, he shrugs it off as he no longer cares about her after what happened in the premiere.premiere.
** Oliver and Felicity are both upset about Diggle keeping his injuries and drug use from them. Felicity is also mad that Curtis used their prototype on Dig without telling her first.

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* BittersweetEnding: Nobody is killed in this episode, and Thea finally wakes up from her coma. But thanks to Cayden James' manipulations the city has voted for the anti-vigilante bill and Oliver is facing trial for being the Green Arrow.



* {{Jerkass}}: Agent Watson arranges it so the District Attorney who happens to be Oliver's friend is the one prosecuting the case.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Agent Watson arrests Oliver right in front of his son ''and'' arranges it so the District Attorney who happens to be Oliver's friend is the one prosecuting the case.


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* TheReveal: Why is Cayden James targeting Star City? Because he blames the Green Arrow for costing him in his son. The team actually looks into this, and are baffled ''why'' James blames them -- he has a son but he's currently missing.
* TheUnReveal: We don't find out what the evidence is for the base of Agent Watson's case against Oliver
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* TheCameo: Footage of Music/BillyJoel performing in concert is shown while Team Arrow tries to stop the bomb.

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* TheComicallySerious: James of all people when directing Black Siren what to do.



* {{Jerkass}}: Agent Watson arranges it so the District Attorney who happens to be Oliver's friend is the one prosecuting case.

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* {{Jerkass}}: Agent Watson arranges it so the District Attorney who happens to be Oliver's friend is the one prosecuting case.the case.
* RealityEnsues: What happens when Diggle stops taking Dragon's drugs?. Withdrawal syndromes.
* WhatTheHellHero: Averted, when Quentin finds out that Team Arrow didn't openly tell him than Black Siren is back, he shrugs it off as he no longer cares about her after what happened in the premiere.
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* FromBadToWorse: Agent Watson arrests Oliver for his vigilante actives. Then Cayden James and Black Siren come back.

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* FromBadToWorse: Agent Watson arrests Oliver for his vigilante actives. Then Cayden James and Black Siren come back.back.
* {{Jerkass}}: Agent Watson arranges it so the District Attorney who happens to be Oliver's friend is the one prosecuting case.
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Agent Watson finally makes her move and arrests Oliver for being the Green Arrow. While he's in custody, Cayden James and Black Siren return to kick their evil plan into high gear.
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* FromBadToWorse: Agent Watson arrests Oliver for his vigilante actives. Then Cayden James and Black Siren come back.

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