season 3 episode 2 recap 

Who Is The Mystery Archer?- Arrow Season 3 Episode 2- “Sara”

Last week’s Arrow shocked viewers with a quick glimpse of romance, a life lost and a new one brought into the world. Sara’s death last week shocked viewers, and this week’s episode, entitled “Sara” sadly did not end up bringing insight into her death.

We open up with Sara’s body lying on a table in the Arrow Lair. Laurel brought her there, feeling like she had nowhere left to go. The team is shocked and angered by her death, and they vow to find her killer. Laurel wants to wait to tell her father about Sara’s death until they find the man who did it.

Meanwhile, Thea has cut off communication with the team. Oliver has left her dozens of phone messages and she has not returned any of them. Roy decides to use Felicity’s computer to look for her. When Felicity confronts him about it, he shows her a letter that Thea gave to him. Felicity implores him to show Oliver. He does, and Oliver is not too surprised to learn that she ran away.

Felicity gets a call from Palmer, who is continuing to relentlessly flirting with her and offering her employment. He even went as far as buying the company she works for so she had no choice but to be his employee.

Detective Lance is hot on the trail of a “mystery archer” but has no idea as to the connection with his daughter. Arrow goes to investigate the crime scene of his latest victim. There he finds a drug dealer who he beats up for some info. The guy tells him that the archer wears a black mask. Arrow knows of a man who fits the description, Simon Lacroix, a.k.a. the mercenary Komodo.

Fans are treated to a fast paced and well choreographed archery fight between Lacroix and Arrow, but unfortunately, Arrow takes a hit and Lacroix gets away. Arrow returns to his lair to regroup and the team try to find a connection between the victims.

Laurel finds the victim in the hospital and goes to interrogate him. She turns bad-ass for a minute and forces valuable intel out of him. He tells her that he was working together on a team that was building an oil pipeline for an company called Ameritek.

The team deduces that Lacroix’ next victim will be attending Palmer’s upcoming soiree, where he promises to donate 1/2 of his net worth to help clean up and reinvent the city. Lacroix interrupts the party, but Arrow interrupts his interruption.

Just as Arrow has Lacroix in his grips, Laurel shows up hoping to pull the final trigger. She tries to, but not after Oliver tries to talk her out of it. He also took the bullets out of her gun, thinking that she might try to shoot him. He was right, but as it turns out, Lacroix was not the one who killed Sara. His alibi was that he was drunk at a bar. Felicity ends up taking Palmer up on his job offer, and John names his baby girl Sara.

In Hong Kong, the flashback continues and Oliver is tasked to kill Tommy, his best friend, who came looking for him when Oliver checked his email which triggered an alert. He ends up improvising and stages a fake hostage situation and turns Tommy over to the police.

Just before we cut we see a glimpse of a beautiful Mediterranean villa, where there is someone in what looks like hardcore ninja training. Turns out it’s Thea, and it’s her father, Malcolm Merlyn, that is training her.

Who is the mystery archer that killed Sara? Is Laurel becoming the Black Canary? Be sure to tune in next week!

Who Is The Mystery Archer?- Arrow Season 3 Episode 2- “Sara” was last modified: October 16th, 2014 by

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