Arrow (Season 3) Episode 3: Corto Maltese

This week’s episode of Arrow has the team doing some traveling. After another dead end we find out that Thea has been hanging in Corto Maltese (a fictional South American island in the DC Universe). Ollie intends to head there and bring her back home along with Roy. Diggle was going to finally get some peace but his wife asks him to go with them to check in on an ARGUS agent that hasn’t made contact for a few days. I get being asked to bring back some milk, diapers, or even rent a video from the red box cause the DVR is on the fritz again but to check up on an agent in the Kenny Loggins (DANGER ZONE) side of the world when he just wanna stay at home with his daughter?

Meanwhile back in Starling City. Laurel is investigating an eye witness account of a kid Tom Bronson being at the scene of the crime. If that name sounds familiar then thats because Tom Bronson is the (illegitimate) son of JSA’s Prize Fighter Ted Grant aka Wildcat. That’s right folks Laurel is talking to THEE Ted Grant and he lets her know that Tommy was with him sparring that night. Laurel knows he is lying, which Grant is aware of. Grant isn’t trying to see a kid go down for a dumb mistake. Which is why he runs Wildcat Gym, to give folks a release from the mistakes, the anger and shitty hand the city can deal you. He sees that anger in Laurel and offers her some lessons. She on her stuck up bs tho, ignoring the Grant gospel. Listen, the appearance of the Golden Gloves Gawd Ted Grant on Arrow? This is pretty …