This was the one I waited the longest to see over the Fall Break. We all did. Had to find out just what became of Ollie after his "death" scene at the tail end of the mid-season finale. Now I never for once thought he had actually perished. No one did, because that would be the end of the show. It was all about how he would survive. Many had speculated he would be revived via the Lazarus Pit. He wasn't. More on that later. This episode was really about how everyone is reacting to the fact that he hasn't returned. With the team basically having to do double duty in his absence, it's left to Diggle, Roy and Felicity to pick up the slack and carry on. How cool was it to see Diggle donning the Green Hood? Very cool!

As the episode wore on, and the team started to come to terms that Ollie was never coming back and that he was dead, it affected the drive of the team to basically break up and call it quits. This leads into something that I wasn't expecting at all: the reveal of Black Canary. All along I have been trying to pinpoint when and why Laurel would don the Canary suit and they couldn't have picked a better moment for her grand unveiling. Since the gang is no more, she felt the need to pick up the slack herself and it was great. As for Ollie, I actually got it right that it would be Maseo that would find him. But I didn't see the return of Tatsu as the reason why he would be alive. Nice twist.