Arrow Recap: Beyond

Season 4 / Episode 4 / The CW And you say Star City! This week we start off with a gang of thugs making a drug deal. After the drop, a SWAT team rolls through and a shootout goes down. They demolish the criminals. Seconds after SWAT handles the perps, SCPD rolls through off the strength of a tip from their Criminal Investigator. The SWAT team (led by True Blood’s Rutina Wesley) turns rogue and murders the Star City officers. Let me upgrade ya… The writers seem to have remembered that Oliver Queen recently decided to run for mayor. He reveals to his team that he decided to run and they all start to go IN on his liiiife. Felicity throws him a girlfriend bone and tells them that Palmer Technologies has decided to fund the start of the campaign. But the team members quickly point out that he has no idea what it takes to be a politician, so he needs to get his shit straight. They decide to use Blood’s old office as their campaign headquarters. But they don’t just take his campaign office. Oh no no no! They take his super secret lair, throw some D’s on it, and upgrade it on some archery-customized-next-level S.T.A.R. Labs shit. Cisco comes through and helps Felicity trick out the new pad.

Felicity finds out some cops were murdered and the team is on it. As they investigate, Felicity goes to work. She and Black Cisco, Curtis Holt, are at Palmer Tech figuring out how she’s getting these crazy code texts. The Code is 2 years old and coming from there in Ray’s lab. I mean, do I eve…