Arrow Recap: Season 7 Episode 1 – Inmate #4587

Last season left Ollie in a bad way; Diaz escaped, Lance died, and Ollie gave himself up to the feds to give the rest of his team immunity from being vigilantes. Now, locked up with many of the criminals he put away himself, can Ollie survive prison life? Ollie Ain’t Bought That Life It’s been five months since Ollie gave up his identity and freedom, and he isn’t faring too well in prison. The inmates know who he is and make no bones about threatening to take him out. Ollie is trying to keep his head down and not cause any trouble so no extra time is added on to his sentence, but it’s hard when Bronze Tiger is eyeing to shank Ollie in the lunchroom. Even though he’s clearly protecting himself, the guards give Ollie a warning for being involved in a fight. I can’t tell if the guards are corrupt of just don’t give a sh*t but they clearly are bad dudes. When Diggle comes to visit I expected some kind of “we’ll make sure this prison is legit” or something along those lines, but Diggle is more concerned with how passive Ollie is being. I don’t know what he expects of him, but Ollie isn’t having it. All he cares about is serving his time, so he can return to Felicity and William.

Meanwhile, we see how the rest of the team is adjusting to life, post Arrow. Dinah is the new captain of police, Diggle is an Argus agent along with Curtis who’s the head of R&D, and Rene is teaching boxing to the local youth, along with his daughter. Felicity, sporting dyed hair and piercings, and is…