Thea realizes, while a bunch of guys are sticking a gun in her face, that Moira only worked with Malcolm Merlyn because she was afraid. She makes up with Moira - who frigging works her prison uniform. Thea happily informs Roy of her reconciliation with her mother, but he ends the call to go stop what looks to be one of those sad moments on network TV when male extras awkwardly shove a female extra around and try to make it look sexually intimidating. Roy gets his ass kicked for his trouble, but before the male extras can really hurt him, he gets saved - by a blonde, leather-clad woman. Could it be Laurel?
God, I hope so, because Laurel breaks my heart in this episode. It's not because she's sad. It's because she decided that, although she cares for Ollie, and forgives him, she can't be in a romantic relationship with him. But they'll still be close. And she thinks the Hood is the worst of the worst, and his vigilante activity brought all the trouble to Starling City. And she's kind of involved with a different guy.
And all of that? Is exactly where she was in episode two of season one. That's so depressing. How can the actress stand it? How does Katie Cassidy not wake, completely motionless, and stare with dead eyes up at the ceiling until someone comes in and forces her out of bed? The entire show is the Indy 500 and her character's in a car up on cinder blocks with weeds growing through the holes in the floor.
