Arrow Recap: Haunted

Season 2/ Episode 5 / The CW And you say Star City! And I say a whoooleeee lot more than just Star City! I like to save the Flashback recap for later in the recap, but the relevance begins early, so let’s get into this. Oliver gets pressed by Conklin about the bag full of communication devices and spy things that he found by the cave. He keeps bringing up the point that everything was gravy train up until Oliver’s arrival and now supplies are being stolen and 2 guys have mysteriously walked into mines. He has no evidence linking billionaire mischief-maker to all of this, so the torturer redirects their attention to the blonde man who he actually caught spying on them. John Constantine DUN DUN DUN!! Welcome to our Flash/Arrow-verse, Constantine. The world of superhero television just flexed a little bit. Not bodybuilding competition levels of flex, but enough to get yourself a few hundred Instagram followers levels of flex.

Constantine whispers a few words while Oliver, the torturer, and Conklin are distracted chatting, then is out of his cuffs with ease. He rocks one dude and holds Ollie up, then steals a truck. He makes Ollie bring him to some spot and Constantine begins to poke around until he finds some herbs. He says a few words, tosses the herbs in the sky and boom, a secret entrance appears. They walk through some tunnels as Constantine drops a few preaches and speeches until he reaches the end of the tunnel and cuffs Ollie. Constantine goes to retrieve some magical lo…