(My Olicity feels are so strong they overpower the logical part of me that wants to know how he can hear Felicity talk to herself from so far away and through a thick glass window. Which is obviously a lot more worse for you than it is for me.”) As Oliver hides out of sight and overhears Felicity talk to two-dimensional Ollie, his face breaks out into a smile that only Felicity can charm out of him.
It’s a short but sweet scene at Queen Consolidated headquarters, with Felicity babbling to herself at a picture of Oliver that Moira Queen keeps in her office.
And the world that he hasn’t yet discovered: This episode reveals the first time that Oliver ever laid eyes on Felicity Smoak. But I’ll gladly overlook those few minor flaws for a chance to see flashback Ollie explore the world that he has left behind. I don’t envy the director charged with having to find a balance between Oliver bearing witness to the world around him and staying undetected. Plus, Maseo pulling a gun on Oliver in a crowd of people, with cops just a few feet away? That’s an Assassin 101 no-no. With his Unabomber hood up the whole time at the party, Ollie would only attract more attention. (And in desperate need of a haircut.) The party scene does nothing to bolster Ollie’s incognito status. Like, if Thea turned her head ever so slightly to the right, she’d see her dead brother is very much alive. In the cemetery, he and his Wayne’s World–esque hat/hair combo are laughably out in the open. In theory, Oliver needs to be close enough to overhear all of these conversations and yet remain out of sight. Maseo shows up during the police investigation to persuade Oliver, using a gun to the back, to leave the party and return to the mission at hand before Waller kills them both.Īdmittedly, the scenes at the cemetery and the party require a certain suspension of disbelief. Thanks to Oliver “Buzzkill” Queen, the party ends after the cops show up to investigate the murder, including an appearance by a drunk Detective Lance, who’s still reeling from Sara’s death at sea. The dealer, of course, recognizes Ollie right away, which prompts Ollie to break his neck. But that’s not too far off from what happens: When Ollie witnesses the cemetery drug dealer sell Thea drugs at the party, he corners the dealer on a secluded upstairs balcony. The scene is shot in sharp angles and overlaid with creepy music, which, combined with Oliver’s hoodie, gives off a major serial-killer vibe.
Ollie, in a black hoodie, wanders through the party with his face partially covered by the hood. She’s not the only Queen to show up uninvited. The flashback is not that far back.) Turns out Tommy is having a big birthday bash at the Merlyn mansion, and although Tommy warns the underage Thea at the cemetery not to come, that warning pretty much guarantees she’ll be there. (It’s always lovely to see the charming Colin Donnell as Tommy, even when his 1920s undercut hairstyle seems a bit out of place in 2010. Thea’s rebellion is quickly quashed by Tommy Merlyn (R.I.P.), who is sweetly attempting to look out for her in Oliver’s absence. What’s great about Arrow is that scenes often take unexpected turns: What could have been a maudlin exchange of a brother overhearing his sister cry over his grave instead became a portrait of an angry, restless teen who just wants to score some drugs from a local dealer. Oliver follows Thea to the cemetery, where she visits the graves of Oliver and her “father,” Robert Queen. But once he unexpectedly spies his sister Thea in the street, Oliver’s focus quickly unravels. At first, it seems like Oliver is going to obey Waller and stay focused on his mission. Amanda Waller certainly is not going to give Ollie any vacay from his secret government work, so she forbids him from making any contact with his family and friends. But the weapons auction is mere window dressing the heart of the flashback is Oliver’s sort-of homecoming. stop Chien Na Wei from selling Armageddon, a potent chemical weapon, to the highest bidder. Ollie is brought to Starling City (circa 2010) to help A.R.G.U.S. Oliver, not the most verbose of men, summed up this period best in season two as a time in his life “where nothing good happened.” Despite all of Ollie’s flashback trials, though, nothing has felt more cruel than having Ollie, in this week’s flashback, travel to his former home, Starling City. Arrow has never shied away from causing pain to flashback Ollie during his time on Lian Yu and in Hong Kong: betrayal, murder, torture.
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