Felicity has said one thing all season long on Arrow: She’s willing to do whatever it takes to catch Diaz. Of course, the show has made it clear that this is a dangerous mentality which threatens to push Felicity beyond the point of no return. And the show returned to this idea in “Due Process,” which saw Team Arrow receive a new lead on Diaz’s whereabouts and make some meaningful headway on finally capturing the Dragon.
After visiting Anatoly in Russia (read: massacring the Bratva and torturing our favorite KGBeast), Diaz and Silencer return to the U.S. Felicity’s tracer picks up on their location, so she, Laurel, and Rene, who isn’t too happy about teaming up with Black Siren, head out to catch themselves a dragon. However, instead of finding Diaz at a nondescript warehouse, they find Anatoly stuffed into a crate with the Silencer’s silencer and a bomb. Luckily, ARGUS and the SCPD arrive in time to help them all evacuate before the bomb blows up.
Naturally, Diggle isn’t too pleased with Felicity interfering with one of his field missions once again, especially with Laurel in tow. Going against his better judgement, Diggle agrees to let Felicity and Rene in on his mission, but he establishes two rules: no new Green Arrow, and no people from different Earths. Laurel takes offense to this rule, not only because she and Felicity were bonding, but because she’s been trying to turn over a new leaf and is even hard at work on freeing Oliver. You’d think Diggle would show some appreciation for that? But alas, he doesn’t. Nevertheless, Laurel agrees to keep working on Oliver’s case after Felicity promises she’ll text her when they get another lead on Diaz.
Anatoly reveals to Felicity and Diggle that Diaz made him contact one of his old KGB friends so he could acquire some bomb to destroy the thing Oliver Queen loves the most: Star City. (Minus 100 points for unoriginality). Felicity and Diggle decide to send Anatoly into the field to make contact with his KGB friend, which obviously doesn’t go as planned, and Anatoly finds himself on the other side of his frenemy’s fists and shoes. Felicity, who is in full-on ruthless mode, chooses to let Anatoly get beaten so she can finish downloading the information she needs off the Russian’s computers. But Diggle can’t stand to watch this happen and rushes in to save Anatoly, who is unconscious by the time the former Spartan arrives.
Once the mission is done, Diggle lectures Felicity about her willingness to sacrifice an innocent-ish man to get what she wants, and warns her that she might not still view herself as a hero when this war is over. That does give her a lot to think about, and she ends up apologizing to Anatoly for risking his life like that. But Anatoly has no interest in apologies because “You cannot take away mistake by wishing it so. In my line of work, you make choice and you do not look back.” He suggests that she stop embracing half-measures and fully embrace her demons; that’s what Bratva Oliver would’ve done. (Clearly, Anatoly isn’t watching Arrow, or else he’d know “That’s what old Oliver would do” is usually the bad option, since the show is all about Oliver’s growth.)
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