No, unfortunately this week doesn’t feature Green Arrow facing off against a trio of conspiracy theorists the villain de jour is Deadshot (who I mistook for female in last week’s preview), a hired gun who tattoos the names of his victims into his skin, because maybe he’s really into Memento or something. Deadshot kill steals Oliver’s target in the cold open, a businessman who profits off of arson in The Glades, Starling City’s economically depressed district that still sounds nicer than 90% of most gated communities. Like last week’s episode, “Lone Gunmen” gets in a bit of fan service by adding a named DC comics character to the villain roster, but it gets more mileage out of Deadshot than it did China White, who sorta just hung around in background of “Honor Thy Father” until her fight scene with Ollie. While China White presented a physical challenge, Deadshot provides more of a logistical one: when you’re going up against a sniper who can pinpoint targets from over 100 yards away, your bow and arrow might feel a little inadequate by comparison.Įpisode three has a nice noire feel to it -ignoring the parkour-, with Oliver engaging full-on gumshoe mode in order to track down Deadshot, who’s been making short work of some of the suits trying to buy the Unidex Corporation. There’s some CSI-ing of bullet fragments found at the crime scene, and Oliver nearly dies of poisoning from the special sauce Deadshot coats his bullets with (curare being the equivalent of double-tap as writer code for “professional assassin”), but the most intriguing development involves Oliver making contact with a Russian mafioso. The scene raises some interesting questions, with Oliver’s chest tattoo marking him as a Bratva, (a member of the Russian mob), something we’ll hopefully learn more about later, along with an explanation for his fluency in Russian other than “his maid speaks it”. Once his background checks out with the capo, he gets information on Deadshot’s location, as well as an ominous warning as to the repercussions that come with betraying the mob.
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