Sam uses his knowledge of electrical systems to, umm, somehow electrocute people at will and tries to force the Star City PD to turn on Oliver? Yeah, his plan and powers are a little wonky, but his motivations certainly make sense. The truth about Oliver’s father came out during his therapy at Slabside, and those transcripts conveniently leaked all the way down to David’s son Sam. Before shooting himself, Robert shot and killed his bodyguard David Hackett - and now the bodyguard’s son wants some revenge.
Keeping with the theme, this week we finally get some payoff on the murder Robert Queen committed in order to keep Oliver alive after the Queen’s Gambit went down. He’s had to deal with the shock that his father had a secret family in Emiko, and tracked down Emiko to make the case that he’s nothing like his father.
With Oliver’s surprise half-sister in town and running around with her own bow and arrow, the OG Green Arrow has spent the past few weeks grappling with the lingering sins of his father (which, yeah, it’s right there in the title). Spoilers ahead for “Past Sins,” the latest episode of The CW’s Arrow, which aired Monday, Jan. That said, Oliver’s story deftly paid off a plot point that had been years in the making. As tends to happen when a show has been on for seven years, the latest episode of Arrow had a whole lot of moving parts - and some worked better than others.