Arrow Recap: Dark Waters

Season 4 / Episode 9 / The CW And you say Star City! Yo. Son. Queen. God. Fam. Have you noticed how much Flash has leapfrogged and left Arrow in the dust, when it comes to the entertainment aspect of things? Have you noticed that shit in Star City has been quite grim? Have you noticed that the Flashback story has kinda gotten boring as all hell? Yeah well, the writers have begun to take notice and give a damn about what their fans think. They took the crossover episodes as an opportunity to remind everyone who the OG of today’s TV superhero genre is.

Let’s get into this Mid-Season finale that saw that foreshadowing finally (hopefully, probably, most likely) come to fruition, in a heartbreaking cliffhanger. The beginning and end of this episode are polar opposites and identical halves at the same time. We open up with a beautiful event at the Starling City Bay as Oliver Queen has asked the citizens of his home town to come out and lend a helping hand in cleaning up the clutter- and litter-ridden bay. Everything is going peachy until a mothalovin drone flies up and opens fire on all the volunteers!!

Safe to say Oliver is next-level pissed off and feels responsible for the injuries sustained by the innocent, kind-hearted victims and is getting to the breaking point with this cat-and-mouse game Damien Darhk has been playing. Thea, Diggle, Felicity, and Laurel aren’t sold on this being Darhk’s work, being the subtle maniac that he is, but Oliver can see through the cloud of doub…