Geekscape Recaps: ‘Arrow’ – Haunted
Note: Catch our recap of this week’s Flash episode and last week’s episode of Arrow!
For Arrow fans new and old, the folks behind the show delivered what I thought was one of the best episodes of the series to date. This episode was a treat for many reasons. The most prominent reason? John Constantine. So let’s get to it!
Warning: Spoilers Ahead!
I believe the biggest reason why this episode was so great was the elimination of any love-interest and/or Felicity drama. Not a single tear was shed this week! Aside from that, this episode delivered on multiple fronts, which included a guest appearance of Matt Ryan’s Constantine.
Just as many suspected, Constantine had his hand in restoring Sara Lance to her former self. His relationship with Oliver was also added to Oliver’s past on Lian Yu. As convenient as that sounds, I think any Arrow fan has accepted that Oliver has just about seen everything in his past before becoming a vigilante – so becoming acquainted with the mystic arts isn’t that big a stretch.
Turns out, Constantine visited Lian Yu in search for a Grimoire, or a book of spells. (Don’t bother googling the word. You’ll just run into a story belonging to video game that’s not actually featured in said video game.) After he abducts Oliver, the two embark in search for the artifact on the island, which leads Constantine summing a hatch in which they find Desmond a mystic realm.
In the end, Constantine informs Oliver that the organization on the island isn’t all about drugs and promptly transfers a tattoo to Oliver that we’ll be seeing at some point later this season. The tattoo presumably offers protection against the dark arts, which is pretty cool.
In present day, Constantine tells Oliver he’s been on edge ever since arriving in Star City. Oliver tells Constantine that Damien Darhk is in the city, which scares Constantine enough to tell Oliver to just leave the city altogether. It’s a shame Constantine won’t be sticking around, but before Constantine’s departure, Oliver gave the same promise he gave the Flash: The ol’ “anytime, anywhere.” Let’s hope that’s sometime soon.
The Darhk Files and Andrew Diggle Connection
The subplot for this episode had Diggle finally finding out why HIVE had his brother killed. This reveal came as Diggle was sent to help Captain Lance do Darhk’s dirty work in hacking into a federal network. The objective was to erase files Darhk deemed necessary. One of the files happened to belong to Andrew Diggle. The files were erased, but now Team Arrow has some information as to who’s files were erased. On top of that, Lance was able to get a physical copy of Andrew Diggle’s file, which had some not so great stuff in it. Andrew Diggle was somewhat of a criminal in the middle east during the war and HIVE saw him as an obstacle when it came to arms dealing.
It’s a little strange that Darhk had the files of a dead man, and other possible deceased persons erased. It could be that Darhk just sent Lance to do some dirty work that really meant nothing to the overall objective of taking over Star City while simultaneously testing Lance’s loyalty. Another possibility, which is a little more farfetched, is that those erased files are those of current HIVE agents. If that’s true, it would mean Andrew Diggle is alive, and is continuing to do bad things.
Ray Palmer
Well, Ray Palmer continues to be in trouble. Felicity and Mr. Terrific were able to decipher Palmer’s message and learned that he’s still alive.
Without getting too much into it, Team Arrow might have their hands full when trying to get Ray Palmer back into Team Arrow. Check the promo out below, if you’re into that sort of thing.
That’s it for this week! Thanks for reading!
