The Search For Ray Palmer Continues in a New Arrow Clip

In this episode, Team Green Arrow finds out that Ray Palmer is still alive and is now held captive by Damien Dahrk.

If you’ve been wondering what it would be like to have Oliver and Curtis (aka Mr. Terrific) interact on Arrow, well, you don’t have to wonder any more. Conklin brought Oliver to Baron Reiter, who let Oliver go. She gets a bit testy with him, but still leaves.

Now that Caity Lotz’s Sara Lance is back, she will be joining the team in looking for the miniaturized Ray. They’ve found Ray and his device to bring him back to normal size has worked. One aspect requires them to break into a rival tech company and steal a part.

One of the things that the Arrow producers addressed early on was the fact that the Hood appeared in Starling City at the same time that Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) suddenly returned from a deserted island. All of this while Oliver wandered off to eat his lunch in peace. Team Arrow is busy planning and getting ready for the rescue mission, but the impact of Lazarus Pit is expected to be felt again.

Now that Oliver and Felicity are finally together, how long will “Olicity” last? Oliver and Felicity make up. Ray definitely needs rescuing too because when he manages to get another message to Felicity, she sees his captor. He thinks that there is something mystical going on and that the head of the operation is interested in more than drugs. Darhk tries to reason for Ray’s cooperation. Ollie offers to go with Felicity, but she tells him it’s not like he could build a second suit (so he’s pretty useless). Unfortunately, this leads to probably the most expected moment of the night: Sara kills. What could be more humbling than spending six months trying to play “Honey, I Shrunk Myself!” with an absent Felicity while fending off cockroaches? But seeing proof that Oliver and Diggle are totally cool again also helps tremendously with the overall relaxed vibe of the show. Diggle receives a message from Lance who is meeting with Darhk soon.

Oliver is attacked by the worker that was summoned by the mercenary in a flashback. Felicity is, of course, preoccupied with saving her former love’s life, so she first deals with the all-hands break-in at Kord. Felicity blames herself for what’s happening with and to Ray because she thinks that if she had been in town in the weeks following the explosion, she would’ve received his distress calls.

Diggle gives the team the location for Darhk but it seems impossible to get in. When Oliver gets ready to make his way into the building, he is attacked by a ghost and apparently knocked out.

He wakes up chained up in Darhk’s basement. The Green Arrow allows himself to be captured, giving the rest of the team the distraction and security vulnerabilities they need to get inside. But the highlight of this set piece has to be Laurel, Sara and Thea fighting: especially when they circle up and start destroying the Ghosts. Damien uses magic to stop him and get a chain around his neck, but Oliver outsmarts him and escapes.

“Because of the way season three ended, we haven’t seen Felicity grieving the loss of Ray”, she stated.

“He’s very wrong”, Arrow star Echo Kellum told ET during a recent visit to the Burbank, California offices. She says she’s going to go visit their mom in Central City and then travel until she figures things out.

The only aspect that felt particularly underserved came from Sara’s return to active duty, a laughably premature insistence of Laurel’s among a string of awful decisions this season.