Alright, so Kate Spencer doesn’t get the full-name treatment, but rumor had it a while back that Ashley Scott from Birds of Prey was coming to Arrow to play the DA-turned-vigilante crimefighter. And the female DA in this episode is called “Spencer” a bunch of times. So you draw your own conclusions.The episode opens on the island, where Oliver isn’t comfortable handling the dead animals he and Yao Fei are hunting. He asks instead to take over the bow. Yao Fei hands it over to him, but Ollie’s first shot–aimed at a tree–goes wild and into the trees, where Yao Fei tells him to go recover it. When he goes there, Oliver is assaulted by a group of masked men who throw him into a cage in a pit.Back in the present, Detective Lance interrogates Oliver, who denies being Arrow. Moira Queen interrupts the interrogation, bursting in and terminating the questioning. Oliver demands Laurel as a lawyer, or he’ll represent himself.Moira heads to Laurel’s office–Laurel hesitates, on the grounds that she’s been in a relationship with Oliver before and that her father is the arresting officer. Moira says she understands and leaves.But during opening arguments at the trial, Laurel bursts in and gets Oliver bailed, and confined to home with an ankle monitor. At home, Oliver announces a prison-themed party, saying he wants to put on a brave face.Back at her place, Laurel confronts her father, saying in part, “You hate the Hood and you hate Oliver and you want more than anything for them to be the same person.” She tries to convince her father that Oliver didn’t hire her to mess with him, but to get through to him.Oliver calls Diggle, then, and reveals he got caught on purpose–he knew the security camera that caught him was there. His plan, basically, was to get himself exonerated of being Green Arrow because he knew that, logically, the timing of their arrivals in the city would be noticed sooner or later. To that end, he asks Diggle to keep an eye on a German arms dealer. When asked how to do that, his response is “You know us billionaire vigilantes. We do love our toys.”Diggle heads off to the warehouse where Green Arrow’s base has been set up, and he’s suitably impressed.At Queen, Steele calls in his head of security, telling him that he’s found the yacht and needs it transported to a more secure location while he figures out what’s going on.District Attorney Spencer offers Oliver an insanity plea, saying essentially that she believes he is Arrow but that it’s probably PTSD-related after having spent the years on the island. Oliver rejects the deal and demands a polygraph. Told that it wasn’t admissible in court, he says that he wants to take one anyway, to convince Detective Lance. Laurel at first objects, and pulls him aside, but he convinces her, promising that if he fails the test he’ll consider the plea deal.
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