Arrow | Season 5 Episode 9 - "What We Leave Behind"

Spoiler Alert!

And, another Mid Season Finale.

That's right, all of my series are going to hiatus and, just like The Flash, Arrow is one of them. That might be a good thing because it means we get an awesome episode, full of revelations and plot twists. And that was what we got with this episode!

My review last week, with the crossover, wasn't the best, but this episode make up for the previous one.

So, just like on The Flash, we get back to our 'usual' storyline, barely mentioning the crossover but mentioning it more than what was mentioned on The Flash. He saw a lot of comments about Barry messing up the timeline and all but that was not what really mattered on this episode, Prometheus was!

Just like in previews seasons, I was hoping to get a big revelation in the mid season episode, but this year it wasn't the case.

Anyway so, we start the episode with a scene that I had already seen before on CW's youtube channel (a tip for you, if you want to see exclusive scenes or behind the scenes things of the episodes before they come out, subscribe to CW's youtube channel, they always put online one or two scenes two days before the episode airs), with Evelyn telling more stuff about Team Arrow to Prometheus.

After that, on the Queen's Christmas Party, Prometheus attacks Curtis injecting him with an tuberculosis drug made by Justin Claybourne, a name on Oliver's previous kill list.

This leads me to tak about the flashbacks. That's right, I'm talking about the flashbacks right now instead of in the end of the rant like I usually do, and that's because they are major in this episode! This week the flashbacks are not from a few years ago, when Oliver was still missing but they are about Season 1! Yes, Season 1! In this episode we see some scenes that we didn't see on Season 1 of things that happened. We also see some that appeared on the episodes, like the first time Felicity and Oliver interacted. That scene... It was really nice to see that flashback. But, let's get back to Prometheus...

So, the Team tracks Prometheus and that's in that moment that Evelyn reveals her real allegiance with Prometheus and gets to escape with him.

Meanwhile, Billy, Felicity's boyfriend and the lead agent of the anti-crime team, starts digging on Prometheus and send Felicity some intel before Prometheus captures him.

This information is about Claybourne's illegitimate son, who might be seeking revenge (aka be Prometheus).

After this, Oliver remember that scene with Felicity and remembers about Claybourne's former office building and thinks that Prometheus might be there. He goes there and, apparently Prometheus is there, but... Not! He staged everything and Oliver ended up killing someone else. 

Well, but not just someone... Billy! That's right, Oliver ends up killing Billy thinking that it's Prometheus. Prometheus then says, through a pre-recorded track that he did this to show Oliver that everything he touches dies.

Oliver gets back to the Team and tells Felicity about Billy. Luckily, Felicity didn't react that badly. I mean, she is upset but didn't bame Oliver for it. Then, Oliver says that Prometheus is right about everything around him ending up dying and tells the Team to leave him, which, obviously, don't do.

As the episode ends we see everyone fallin apart. Curtis really upset because his husband, Paul just left him after finding out about Curtis working with the Green Arrow, Felicity sad about Billy's death and Diggle is set up and captured by the Army.

And, the biggest scene of the episode, Oliver gets back to the lair and finds Laurel alive and well. And, like that, the episode ends!

I have so many questions, oh my god! I bet it really isn't Laurel but you never know. And, to be honest, I don't really want it to be Laurel because it just gets boring the fact that characters keep dying but not really so... I hope it's an hallucination or Black Siren.

Anyway, we'll have to wait about two months for the next episode so... A lot of theories will come out until then.

In the mean time, let me know your theories and keep an eye on the blog because, although it's Arrow's mid season finale, there's still going to be a Supernatural rant tomorrow and a TVD one on Saturday so, I'll see you tomorrow!

Love,

Daniela.