Arrow Recap: Restoration

Season 4 / Episode 3 / The CW And you say Star City! Let me just start this recap off by saying that sometimes I have to remind myself that I’m watching a CW program that had what it took. “Restoration” officially marks the first time I’ve watched Arrow and fully understood how this show can be so idiotic yet entertaining as all hell at the same damn time. Bring it Back We jump off with the OG Arrow trio of Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity hunting down some ghosts. Ollie and Dig still on that untrustworthy flow. Dig tries to take down a ghost and gets blasted and put on his ass before Ollie can come help, so the perp escapes, but not before Dig extracts his cyanide suicide tooth. They bring it back to Smoake so she can work her magic.

She tries to work her friendship magic and get the guys to go out for drinks but Dig squashes that on some family man excuse bull. Ollie is fed all the way up and ain’t waitin’ on Dig to come around anymore. Only so much apologizing one man can do! Laurel and Thea are down in Nanda Parbat asking Thea’s pops, Malcolm Merlyn, the new Ra’s al Ghul for help bringing Sara back from the dead. He busy putting in that Last Samurai work with Nyssa.

He finishes his steel sparring and hits these chicks with the neck breaking: “You fuckin’ serious? That shit hasn’t been done in ages, and even then that was only in Parbat legend. Not to mention, Thea wasn’t dead when they put her in to be revived and look at her tormented ass! Laurel, you down to force your si…