The crossover event continues as the Arrow and Arsenal try to track down Digger Harkness, a former ARGUS agent and member of the Suicide Squad. It was his boomerang that they've been investigating. Meanwhile, Cisco and Caitlin have come to Starling to retrieve the DNA sample mentioned before, and Cisco really wants to see the "Arrow Cave". (The name catches on.) Harkness (eventually named Captain Boomerang) straight up attacks ARGUS headquarters, and holds his own against several agents (including Diggle and Lyla) plus the Arrow and Arsenal. Luckily for them, Barry gets called in and arrives in a Flash. Again, we have a unique title card for the episode. The arrowhead behind the Arrow logo is missing, and we see a yellow streak running around inside the logo before it disappears into a Flash lightning bolt.
Oliver, while appreciative, seems even less eager to team up in this episode than he was before. He eventually relents on the condition that he follows Oliver's orders. Barry reassembles Harkness's boomerangs left at the scene, which leads them to his supplier. The Flash is a bit put off once he sees the Arrow's interrogation techniques first-hand.
The flashbacks for this episode center around how he learned these techniques. Amanda Waller told him to get the location of a bomb out of a terror suspect, but Ollie couldn't get the information in time, which is motivation enough not to let it happen again.
Our heroes get a phone from the supplier, and Felicity tries to trace the number. Unfortunately, the phone is instead used by Harkness as a tracer for the location of the Arrow Cave. He shows up, causes some damage, and one of his boomerangs gets embedded in Lyla's shoulder.
Once she's stable, Barry runs her to the hospital. The whole thing shakes Diggle up a bit, but he keeps a clear head. Captain Boomerang gets tracked down again, but he has a contingency. Five bombs are placed in different locations all around the city. The Flash is fast enough to find them once Felicity homes in on the detonator frequency, but they all have to be disarmed at the same time or they all blow. While the Arrow fights off Harkness, the Flash puts Felicity, Roy, Cisco, and Caitlin each at a different bomb, and they disable them all at once. He then regroups with the Arrow, and Captain Boomerang is sent back to the ARGUS holding facility.
Lyla regains consciousness, and Diggle proposes. She says yes. Caitlin and Cisco say their goodbyes, and Oliver sets up a mannequin in the Arrow Cave where Barry can hang his costume whenever he's in town. But before he leaves, the Arrow and the Flash decide to settle once and for all who would win in a fight. And the episode ends just as it's about to get under way.
The Flash episode had the two heroes fighting, and this Arrow episode had our two heroes working together, so they balance each other out. Similarly, Barry and Oliver balance each other out with Barry's brighter outlook and Oliver's darker methods. Even the other characters point out how much lighter the tone is in Central City compared to Starling. With all the metahumans running around, it doesn't seem quite as real to them in contrast to all the non-powered but highly skilled criminals in who show up in Starling City. The episode was also a nice break from Laurel's subplot, who gets limited to a cameo in this one with her father (who accidentally calls Barry "Bart" in reference to another comic speedster Impulse). These episodes show what a DC Cinematic Universe could have been if the upcoming movies had decided to build on continuity from established sources rather than start from scratch. These two shows have already given us hints at the Atom, Firestorm, and the Elongated Man, and should provide enough material for a wonderful TV presence for these heroes, even without tying in to the big screen. This is DC Comics done right.
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