Sara Lance – you just got Constantine’d!
[dropcap size=small]W[/dropcap]hen Arrow started back in 2012, I don’t think anyone believed that superhumans could exist in the same universe, much less that one with super speed might need Oliver’s help with anything. Now though, we’re dealing with magic, exorcism and rebirth; three more things that should never work on Arrow. And yet somehow, they do.
Even when Arrow was bad, the show still had no problem working in metahumans and the supernatural. Now that the show is getting back to something like its best, it’s not only doable, it’s super god damn cool.
This week, Ollie learns of Sara’s resurrection, because she was all up in his sister’s grill, but it’s OK, because he knows a demon hunter who owes him a favour.
We are reintroduced to John Constantine on Lian Yu, where he gets the sh*t beaten out of him by Baron Blitzkrieg, but not before asking around for a cigarette. Constantine takes the beating like a pro, and is even able to swing it so that he has a gun pointed at short hair Ollie.
For some, inexplicable reason, super bad guy Baron gets down on his knees to save the life of a guy he met like two days ago, and Constantine escapes with Ollie, who leads him to where he wants to go.
Constantine handcuffs Ollie so he can go and get a magical orb thing, but Ollie breaks free because he’s Ollie, and he saves Constantine’s life from a trap set by whatever magical sh*t put that orb there. In return, Constantine gives Ollie a tattoo, which he says will come in useful when the time is right (it’s definitely not going to help him take on Damien Darhk. That would be way too easy. Oh no, wait, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.)
But Constantine still owes Ollie his life, so in the present, Ollie calls him to Star City to retrieve Sara’s soul. To do so, he needs to transport two people to another realm. Thea offers, as she feels responsible for killing Sara in the first place, but Constantine wants to take Laurel because she’s Sara’s sister and also it’s a Laurel episode.
She and Ollie hold hands over evil Sara’s body, which is literally the closest they’ve been to one another for over two seasons, and they cross realms with Constantine. While Ollie and Laurel drag Sara’s body from the (sort of) lazarus pit, Constantine uses the force to put down an assassin, and they return to their basement with Sara’s soul.
Laurel later pays a visit to Ollie’s office to thank him. Ollie’s new campaign manager doesn’t want them seen together, because Ollie cheated on Laurel with her sister and then supposedly killed said sister and that might damage his campaign, but Ollie doesn’t think so. Even though he totally did do all those things.
He accepts Laurel’s apology, and has a seriously overdue apology to make himself. Earlier in the episode, Laurel brings up that Ollie has never seen her as an equal (like he did Roy, Diggle and even Felicity), and she’s completely right. He judged every decision she made without taking the time to train her, and it’s good to know that he knows he played it wrong.
Hopefully now, Ollie will train Laurel, and turn her into something like the Black Canary from the comics, Ollie’s partner, equal and wife; there have been no signs that there’s any chance of the last one happening, but maybe now that they’ve connected again, old feelings will resurface, and we’ll get the Green Arrow/Black Canary relationship that we were promised from the pilot. Felicity will do just fine. I actually liked her better with Ray.
Speaking of, Felicity is still trying to uncover Ray’s final words, but she leaves Curtis on the case while she deals with the whole Sara thing. Mr. Terrific has to skip the gym and drink so much caffeine that he fears for his life before he is able to crack this particular code.
Ray reveals he isn’t dead in a somewhat anticlimactic ending – I mean, he’s getting his own CW show. Obviously he was never dead – but it doesn’t take anything away from what is another step in the right direction for the show.
Arrow returns to The CW next Wednesday.
