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Arrow Season 6, Episode 11 Recap: We Fall

This article contains spoilers for the Arrow season 6 episode We Fall'.

In what continues to be one of the best seasons since the first, Arrow had a strong episode with 'We Fall', showing the chess game that Cayden James (Michael Emerson) is playing — and that perhaps not all of the pieces are what he believes them to be.

The episode starts with a handful of people being attacked by things like elevators, cars, and other forms of technology that James now controls. This action cost the life of long-time supporting character Frank Pike (Adrian Holmes) and moved Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) back to running the Star City Police in the interim. James appeared at the office of Mayor Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) and stated that it was the one-year anniversary of the Green Arrow taking his son away from him. James demands $10 Million by 11:30 that night and every night after until further notice.

Lots comes out of this. First, OTA (original Team Arrow) shares intel with NTA (new Team Arrow), which isn't as good as working together, but it's a start. Also, we learn that someone else is involved here as Oliver was in Hub City recruiting Dinah (Juliana Harkavy). Someone gave false information to James to send him after Oliver. I'm guessing this was a little care package left over from Adrian Chase (Josh Segarra).

Other big things from this episode were Vigilante (Johann Urb) allowing Curtis (Echo Kellum) to track him again so Vincent could explain that he was on their side and working undercover in James's group. He tells Curtis where the next attack will be, and NTA gets there in time to stop it. William (Jack Moore) is trapped in the tunnels out of the city as James cut off all exits. When the fires start, he jumps into action, showing how much like his father he is. He even went back for the kid who had tried to bully him earlier. William gets the other kids out but is trapped by a collapse, and Green Arrow and Spartan have to save him. William learns that Oliver has been back in the hood for a few months and had been lying to him about it.

Oliver has the police create safe zones that are off the grid for the people of the city to go to for safety. He then goes on television and makes the promise that the people would be safe if they go there. This was exactly what James expected, and he had a team ready to attack one of the safe zones. Vigilante uses Morse code to let Curtis know which site they were going to attack. NTA calls in OTA and everyone fights off the attackers. At one point, James henchman Boots (Tobias Jelinek) has the drop on Wild Dog, but Vigilante kills Boots instead. James reacts by shutting down communication and internet to the city — Oliver gives in and transfers the $10 million.

William gets to see what Oliver does as Green Arrow and understands better, saying it's okay for him to continue suiting up. That will make Diggle (David Ramsey) a little sad, as he was looking forward to putting the hood on again. But he did get an upgraded suit of his own thanks to Cisco. Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) reaches out to Alena (Kacey Rohl) for help, but the best they can do about who send James the information about his son was track it to Corto Maltese.

We come out of the episode wondering: is William really okay with Oliver suiting up again? Is Vigilante really is on the good guys' side, or is it another ploy by James? Who gave James the information about his son? And how long before each member of NTA does something like Oliver, as Curtis did in this episode, before they realize and reform the full team? And even if they can prove Oliver didn't kill James's son, will that make him stop?

Next week things seem to continue immediately from where this week left off. And Vigilante may be burned already after selling out James.

https://youtu.be/a3nchCbUyLA

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