Felicity is frantic when she learns that Ray is alive and being held by Damien Darhk. Felicity’s guilt over not finding Ray sooner causes tension between her and Oliver.

Unless you’ve been living in a cave, the return of Ray Palmer was a matter of time, just like Sarah. Both will be a part of the upcoming Legends of Tomorrow television series that brings together various characters from the Arrow/The Flash universe.

This latest episode of Arrow gets us to Palmer’s part of the story, since Sarah’s return has been told already. We learned in the previous episode that Palmer hadn’t died in a blast. Though we don’t get tons of details on he survived, there’s an issue of his being captured.

In one episode the team finds out the problem, puts together a plan, and launches an assault to rescue Palmer. It’s a hell of a lot to fit into one episode, and they do that and more.

Even while all of the action is going on, Arrow also manages to focus on Felicity, who is dealing with the revelation that Ray is alive. Of course that impacts her relationship with Oliver. Yes, it’s all explored and done so in a solid way.

Then there’s Sarah’s blood lust, that too is touched upon with some pretty big movement dealing with that.

This episode of Arrow is probably one of the best of the season mixing action, character development, just tons in the hour. Impressively packed episode, full of entertainment. It shows how to do this type of show right.

Overall rating: 8.75