On the latest episode of The CW’s Arrow, the Canary’s story wraps with the much-anticipated ‘League of Assassins’ installment. I’ll miss Caity Lotz, but I’m sure we’ll see her again very soon. Anyway, here are the 6 Qs of Arrow, episode #205.
1. What is it?
Arrow Season 2, Episode 205, titled ‘League of Assassins.’
2. Who’s in it?
Stephen Amell stars as Oliver Queen/Arrow; Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance; David Ramsey as John Diggle; Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak; Willa Holland as Thea Queen; Susanna Thompson as Moira Queen; Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance; Guest stars this week include Caity Lotz as Canary; Dylan Neal as Professor Anthony Ivo; Navid Negahban as Al-Owal; Dylan Bruce as D.A. Adam Donner; Teryl Rothery as Jean, the Queen Family attorney.
3. Who made it?
League of Assassins was written by Jake Coburn and Drew Z. Greenberg. The episode was directed by Wendey Stanzler.
4. What is it about? (**spoilers galore**)
‘League of Assassins’ opens with an attack on the Queen mansion by a mysterious dark hooded fellow. Ollie and Sara, who has moved into the Queen mansion temporarily, are able to fight the assassin off, and Ollie thinks that the attack is tied to the deceased Malcolm Merlyn and was against the Queens personally.
Sara explains that the assassin was actually after her, and that she is a member of the League of Assassins, a mysterious group of hired killers that are known worldwide. She says that they are after her because she tried to leave their little club.
Felicity (Rickards) is able to track down the assassin to a local abandoned factory, and Arrow and Canary go after him. The assassin, a man named Al-Owal (Negahban), is not alone and a fight ensues. Al-Owal threatens to get to Sara through her family.
Ollie and the gang decide to try and get Quentin (Blackthorne) and Laurel (Cassidy) to safety, and Felicity offers to go after Quentin due to their limited interactions, and Ollie will go protect Laurel.
Quentin refuses Felicity’s help and doesn’t believe her that a group of shadowy assassins are after him, so she goes back to the Arrow Lair dejected. Sara, learning that her father refused help, leaves to change his mind.
Laurel and Ollie have a moment in the hallway outside her apartment, and then she notices her door slightly ajar. Ollie investigates and finds a dagger embedded in the wall–a message, obviously. He leaves to go tell Sara and Laurel–who did not have a drink at dinner–then downs a few pills. Oh boy.
Quentin leaves his apartment and is confronted on the street by his long dead daughter. They have a few moments together, and she explains that she had to stay in hiding. She takes her dad to the clock tower to try and explain what is going on and Quentin, who has already guessed that she is the Canary (but for some reason cannot connect the Oliver dots), tries to make her stay.
Al-Owal bursts in with two other assassins to kill the Lances and Arrow shows up. There is another fight and Sara kills Al-Owal in front of her father. She lets one of the assassins go with a message for Ra’s Al Ghul that her family is off limits.
The episode ends with Sara making Quentin promise to keep her secret and then leaving town, and Ollie wondering if he’ll ever see her again.
Two subplots feature Moira Queen (Thompson) being offered a plea bargain for life with the possibility of parole, with the complication that Laurel Lance is now sitting on the case with the D.A. Moira doesn’t want to deal, but Ollie and Thea (Holland) talk her into it by promising to love and forgive their mother no matter what comes out in the trial.
On the Amazo, we essentially get to see how Sara went from being sucked into an angry South China Sea six years ago to being a masked vigilante in the present. The subplot shows how she was rescued and then offered help by Professor Anthony Ivo, who is trying to create the perfect being. Hmmm….
5. Any revelations, tie-ins, easter eggs, etc.? (**possible spoilers**)
A mention of Nanda Parbat; Al-Owal mentions the “Child of Ra’s Al Ghul”; The Canary has a line that calls back to Batman Begins, “be mindful of your surroundings”; The character of Ivo on a ship called Amazo means that neat things are on the way.
6. Will we watch next week?
Yes. This episode basically wrapped up the Canary story for the time being, allowing Ollie and the gang to get back to saving Starling City. It is very evident that the Canary will be back, and the island/Amazo stuff is starting to heat up, too. Besides, a certain Central City Forensics Officer (if they keep that origin) is soon to make an appearance on the show, and the results could change the status quo in a “flash.”
