BWW Recap: Whose Grave is Ollie Crying over on ARROW?

When we last saw Ollie (Stephen Amell) and Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) on ARROW, the pair were heading off into the sunset. So, how long before the criminal element shatters their domestic bliss, forcing them to return to Starling City? We've got a full quiver of arrows and an eye on the target. We'll get you caught up.

We open with Ollie wearing a green hooded sweatshirt on his morning run. He smiles and waves to the neighbors and enters a picture-perfect suburban house to find Felicity perched on top of a kitchen counter. She's reading a book "Cooking to Impress" and trying to make breakfast. It's adorbs."Felicity Smoak, you have failed this omlette," he says after tasting her creation. Can a lighter side of ARROW be in the cards this season?

Back in bed, she reveals that she has a web conference call with the board of Palmer Technologies (she's inherited the job of running the company as Ray Palmer aka The Atom is presumed dead). Ollie, meanwhile, has to head to the farmer's market to buy provisions for the following day's brunch.

Back in Starling City, Black Canary (aka Laurel Lance, played by Katie Cassidy) and Speedy (aka Thea Queen, played by Willa Holland) are on a motorcycle and being shot at by baddies in a moving van. Thea is super pumped about the danger and excitement. Laurel not so much. Speedy jumps on the truck and admonishes Team Arrow for not calling her by her prefered alias --Red Arrow. One of the baddies pulls a gun on Speedy. Diggle (David Ramsey) enters wearing his new mask and disarms the guy. Canary blows the back wheels off the truck. The baddies have back up and the trio come under heavy fire. The baddies escape with weapons.

Laurel and Thea want to call in Ollie. Diggle disagrees. Ollie walked away because he thought they could handle it and Diggle still thinks they can.

Things are not any better for chief of police Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne). He is also under pressure to catch the bad guys (called "ghosts" by the media because of their ability to quickly disappear). The instability has meant that no one wants to run for mayor (and who can blame them, the last four mayors have all been assasinated).

Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) crashes the private meeting. He admits he is behind the ghosts and he wants the council to late Starling City die. He tells all of them to say goodbye to their loved ones and that his people will be in touch. Ominous, much?

At brunch, Ollie shows off the engagement ring he plans to give Felicity. Felicity returns from the kitchen with a bottle of champagne and trips. Ollie catches the bottle while remaining seated and we have our first flashback of season 4.

A rough-looking Ollie is chasing a bad guy on a roof. The guy draws a gun, Ollie fires an arrow that misses the guy. The guy pushes Ollie off the roof onto some wires and he is somehow not eletrocuted. Amanda Waller (Cynthia Addai-Robinson) appears to tell him he's chosen an unusual hobby.

Darhk is wasting no time in carrying out his threat. Laruel is walking with her boss the district attorney and the D.A. suddenly drops dead from poison, the head of emergency services is stabbed to death at the hospital, the city comptroller is shot to death (despite Speedy's effort to save him) and Quentin takes a bullet to the shoulder, but is saved by Black Canary.

Thea and Laurel visit The Queens in the suburbs. They beg him to come back. "Our friends need our help, we should already be in the car," Felicity tells him. Once Team Arrow, always Team Arrow.

Flashback #2: Amanda and Ollie share a drink in a dive bar. She tells him he hasn't returned home because he can't change who he is. She encourages him to embrace his inner darkness. He then passes out because she has drugged his drink.

Ollie and Felcity are in a Limo back to Star City. The city has been renamed in the memory of Ray Palmer (Brandon Routh). Back at the compound, Diggle is pissed the ladies have asked Ollie back. Felicity is there all of two seconds and she's hacked into a computer and discovered what was stolen from the truck at the beginning: cluster bombs that are slightly less powerful than nuclear bombs. Ollie confronts her with the obvious: she has continued to help the team behind his back. They have a bit of a fight. Felicity hates the suburbs and misses the adventure of saving the city. Their spat is interrupted when Felicity's computer alerts her: the bombs have GPS and she has their last location. Oh, and Cisco Ramon (from THE FLASH) has left a new and improved version of ARROW's suit for Ollie.

Team Arrow infiltrates Dahrk's hideout. Dahrk is admonishing the sloppy work of the weapons heist and touches one of the soldier's chests and drains the life out of him (the supernatural comes to ARROW). Team Arrow springs into action. Dahrk escapes and the police arrive as Ollie gets the drop on Dahrk's endgame: to blow up the new train station.

Thea and Ollie search the train station for the bomb and Ollie uses the time to express his concern that Thea might like the punching, kicking and beating a bit too much. She's out of control. She tells him she owe's Laurel $50 because Ollie can't go 24 hours without lecturing her.

Fashback #3. Ollie wakes up from the mickey finn. He is told he is either putting on a parachute and taking on Waller's mission or getting shot in the head. He chooses to do the mission.

Back at the compound, Ollie tells Felicity they should have never come back. Felicity tells him she will return to suburbia if Ollie wants. Ollie thinks he is responsible for the darkness in the city (as Quentin told him). She tells him maybe it's time for a new identity. Oh, and the bombs aren't at the station because they are on the train that will be pulling into the station. She tells him to suit up and proudly unveils the new suit.

Green ARROW hops on the bullet train and confronts Darhk. Darhk tells him he has destroyed the brakes on the train and couldn't stop it if he wanted to. Ollie fires an arrow at Darhk and he stops it mid air. He pounds Ollie on the chest, draining his life. Diggle shoots a tranquilizer dart, momentarily stopping Darhk. Darhk disappears. Diggle and Ollie jump off the train and Ollie shoots an arrow at it, blowing it up a safe distance from the city.

We end with Felicity hacking the airwaves so Ollie can send a message to Star City. The ARROW is dead, but he plans to be the thing the ARROW could never be: a symbo of hope. His name? The Green ARROW.

Darhk, meanwhile, opens a wardrobe in his hideout. It contains some sort of a shrine. He cuts his arm and makes a blood sacrifice. He's interrupted by a visitor. It's Quentin Lance. The chief of police is working with Darhk.

We flash to six months later. Ollie is at a gravesite. Barry Allen (aka THE FLASH, played by Grant Gustin) drops by to pay his respects. Ollie is torn up and vows to kill Darhk.

So, just who is dead? We cut away before the tombstone is revealed. Felicity is the obvious choice, but I think it might be Diggle. Your thoughts? Comment below and follow me @triggercric and follow @BWWTVWorld for all the latest updates, scoops and recaps.

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