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“Arrow” recap (4.8): Legends of Flarrow

Hello, and welcome to the mashup crossover extravaganza the Arrow writers on Twitter hilariously dubbed Legends of Flarrow and I promptly adopted. This two-night event was technically an Arrow/The Flash crossover, but it also served as an early backdoor pilot for Legends of Tomorrow, which begins in late January. The episodes were even called “Legends of Today” (The Flash) and “Legends of Yesterday” (Arrow) in case you were unclear on this point.

So this is a mashup recap, and I’ll try to only focus on the important points, mostly focusing on our Arrow characters, since that’s why you’re here. However, Sara and Nyssa were nowhere to be found (presumably making up for lost time in Nanda Parbat if you know what I mean), so it will not be super extensive or too feeling-ful. We do have a new badass chick to meet though, so it’s definitely worth sticking around.

Also, if you like knowing what’s going on across the universe, and since Sara will be zipadeedoodahing over to Legends of Tomorrow come January, maybe I’ll start doing mashcaps every week, covering The Flash, Arrow AND Legends. Or maybe my recaps will be all LoT and only check in on Arrow if/when Nyssa returns? We’ll fly over that bridge when we come to it, but feel free to drop your preference in the comments section.

Okay, let’s get going then. We begin in Central City.

To catch you up a little, the lovable goof Cisco has found himself a lady friend who works at the local coffee shop. He’s on a date with this girl, Kendra, when a slick and slimy bad guy shows up to try to kill her. Cisco presses the emergency lightning bolt on his phone and The Flash zips in to save her just in time, but Barry decides the need Team Arrow’s help if they have any chance of keeping Kendra safe.

Meanwhile in Star City, Damien Darhk and some of his Ghosts are checking out a chemical bomb when our favorite archers show up. Green Arrow, Speedy and the Black Canary shoot arrows in the baddies’ general direction and Darhk laughs at their puny weapons…until all of his Ghosts’ weapons fly in the direction of the magnetic arrows the Team had just shot behind them.

Felicity is back at HQ patting herself on the pack for her genius idea.

Darhk gets Oliver by the chest and is about to make his heart implode when Barry Flashes in to save him. Darhk doesn’t know how the heck that happened but he’s pretty amused.

Thea is a little starstruck-she didn’t know we knew the famous Flash. They take him, Cisco and Kendra to the new lair and Barry is pretty impressed by the upgrade. Felicity gives him a hard time for almost dying and not telling her, and they hug in happy reunion. Cisco is slightly less impressed by the remodeling because it is not up to code with the designs he sent, but he halts his rant enough to introduce Kendra, his female kissing companion.

Kendra is staring wide-eyed at Barry, Oliver, Laurel and Thea like she just met the Avengers but eventually remembers why she needed a team of above-average badasses in the first place. Barry helps out by quick-sketching the guy who attacked them, and Felicity runs it through her database and finds a guy who looks just like that…from 1975.

Oliver asks Kendra what brought her to Central City, hoping she’d say something like “Well, I’m in witness protection for seeing a high-profile murder,” but, alas, she can only say she was drawn to it and has never seen this man before in her life.

Oliver yells at Barry for bringing a human target and her unknown enemies into his city, but Felicity tells him to check the S1 Oliver ‘tude and discuss this over drinks.

They all gather at The Loft to drink and chat, Thea having to swat away Cisco’s advances…for giving her a nickname. He thinks he can do better than Speedy, but considering what he’s about to come up with, I’m not sure he can. Thea tells him to get a haircut before he starts giving other people advice and Thea’s smiling and everything feels…NORMAL for once.

Barry and Felicity giggle and bond over their new baes, until Oliver pulls Barry away. They apologize to each other for the pissing match earlier, and Oliver tells Barry that coming to him for help was actually really brave and mature. Admitting you’re wrong and apologizing is brave and mature too, though, so Oliver is growing.

Barry recognizes this too and Oliver attributes it to Felicity and the happiness she brings. Barry thought Oliver didn’t believe heroes and vigilantes could get the girl, but Oliver says he was wrong about that, too.

But you can’t have too many good guys in the room at one time or the balance of the universe tips, so the new big bad crashes the party, springing everyone into action. Barry flashes Oliver’s bow and arrow to him and Thea gets hers the old-fashioned way. Eventually the Bad Guy stumbles backwards, and a final arrow from Thea sends him over the banister and plummeting doom. Oliver is mildly horrified that Thea took a killshot, but Thea has no regrets.

But when Barry and Oliver look down to the ground, the man is nowhere to be seen.

Cisco decides that now is a good time to tell everyone that he’s actually kind of maybe a little bit of a metahuman and gets Vibes. And that those Vibes told him that Kendra can fly with her giant wings. This is more information than Felicity was prepared to receive.

Merlyn decides it’s time for his big entrance, so he shows up with some assassins behind him. He says that the bad guy they’re looking for is called Vandal Savage, a name even Cisco could have come up with. He’s apparently legend-wait for it-ary. The League knows of him, but only that he’s been alive pretty much forever. He’s an immortal, and Kendra is doomed. Kendra has had juuuust about enough of all of this.

She storms off to try to process, and Cisco tries to follow her, but a man with wings swoops down and carries her off like a hawk grabbing a chihuahua.

The Team springs to action, but Kendra isn’t in danger. At least, according to the man who took her. He says his name is Khufu and calls Kendra “Chay-Ara.” At the sound of those names, Kendra has flashes of memories long gone.

Team Arrow catches up to them and eventually captures Hawkman. chained up, Khufu tries to explain that he and Chay-Ara have been soulmates for 4000 years, doomed to die and be reborn and find each other again, lifetime after lifetime. And in every lifetime, Vandal kills them to absorb power and regenerate his own life force.

Together they conclude that Vandal is looking for the Staff of Horace. Khufu tries to get Kendra to remember who she is but she is still very weirded out by this entire day.

Khufu leads Kendra and some of their new friends to the roof and says that Kendra will “emerge” (aka remember her past lives) if she just jumps off the building; it’s been the most effective method to date. Kendra’s getting used to the idea when Koof the Goof SHOVES HER. Barry saves her and starts shouting about how they brought her here to save her not to launch her off buildings but Oliver tells him (and hopes Koof is listening) that sure they can protect her but Kendra has to save herself.

They decide to go back to Central City to find the Staff of Horace before Vandal does, and maybe pick up a Canary on the way.

On yet another rooftop, Kendra tells Cisco that she has always felt different, and she wants to learn what that means. She wants to embrace her destiny. So she climbs up and jumps. This time, wings appear and she flies.

She has some trouble with the landing but all-in-all a great first flight, baby bird! Cisco names her Hawkgirl and they beam at each other.

Downstairs in the coffee shop, Oliver is teasing Barry about the coffee named after him when a tiny Oliver-shaped child bumps into them and drops his Flash action figure, then runs to his mom, Berlin. Okay fine she was Berlin in Defiance, but she’s the woman Mama Queen paid to disappear when she found out she was pregnant thanks to billionaire playboy Oliver Queen.

Dun dun dunnnnnn.

Without further ado, on to the Arrow episode!

Since Arrow hearts flashbacks, we actually begin in Ancient Egypt, where Prince Khufu presents his father with an offering for Horace. Priestess Chay-Ara is not impressed.

At least, in front of everyone else. When alone, they kiss. But Vandal saw them.

Present-day Kendra snaps out of the memory, and lies to Hawkman, saying she just has a headache, she remembers nothing.

Team Arrow and Team Flash pull up to a farmhouse, which reminds Thea of HawkEYE in the latest Avenger movie. Barry couldn’t touch the staff, so the smarties in the group start imagining special gloves they can build to help. While they figure that out, the rest of the team tries to strategies how to handle their new everlasting friends and immortal enemy.

Oliver has to run down something and Felicity is suspicious.

Oliver says he promises to tell her all about it later.

Hawkman brings Kendra a box and she opens it reluctantly to find a helmet. His constant predicting of her sentences, tricking her into speaking new languages, etc is freaking her out but he promises her she’s a warrior and she’ll be better for remembering.

Oliver’s secret mission was to find his baby mama. He not-so-subtly asks about her son and she insists he’s not Oliver’s child. But Oliver snuck a hair off the kid’s baseball cap just in case.

Merlyn, Oliver and Barry meet up with Vandal to discuss their little problem. Vandal references Robin of Locksley as he pulls an arrow from his chest. He asks for the prince and priestess in 24 hours or he will kill everyone.

He asks why they care about Kendra and Carter, two strangers, and why they think they even CAN save them, and Barry says the thing that makes up his entire essence: Hope.

Merlyn tells Oliver that if Thea dies, he’s going to go bananas.

Oliver reports back to the team. Kendra doesn’t want other people to die for her.

Barry finds Cisco and tells him that he thinks he’s going to go back in time because he saw himself running in his own time stream. They’re both nervous about that.

Kendra asks Carter if they’ve ever killed themselves to save themselves and others from Vandal, but Carter doesn’t want to consider that. Carter decides to start training her and they go at it in the fields. He is relentless until her wings come out and she tackles him.

Felicity comes out and says the Team has something. Laurel gives her a VHS from a conspiracy theory group who is suspicious about Vandal Savage. The man in the video thinks objects from Vandal’s past might be able to help them kill Savage.

They want to tell Oliver and Barry, but those two are busy playing Maury. Barry confirms Oliver’s paternity, and Felicity comes in and demands to know what Barry is hiding. Unlike Barry, Felicity knows what the DNA test is for just by looking at it.

Oliver goes back to Samantha and says he knows.

She explains that his mother paid her off and he has a hard time believing it. Samantha brings him the check that she never cashed as proof. She didn’t want her kid around the Queens, and even now that he’s changed, she doesn’t want him in this world.

Samantha says she’ll let him get to know her son but he will not know Oliver is his father; he’s happy, he’s adjusted. Also, Oliver isn’t allowed to tell anyone, not even Felicity.

Felicity confronts Oliver when he finally returns to the farmhouse, and when he lies, she presents him with the page she took from Barry. Much like Delphine knew that Cosima was 324B21, Felicity can recognize Oliver’s DNA sequence.

Felicity asks for the truth. Oliver wants to process the information, and Felicity wishes he had just come to her in the first place.

Felicity is fed up with his lack of trust and wonders about their relationship if they can’t even tell each other truths.

Oliver storms in and starts issuing orders. Kendra is going to be secret-wing bait, Carter is coming too, and Barry will come in with the steal. Vandal makes fun of their new outfits, but I think they suit Kendra just fine.

They fight, but when it counts, Kendra can’t get her wings to spread. Vandal kills them both and sucks the life right out of them.

Barry takes the staff and starts to kill Vandal but he can tell it’s going to be messy, so Oliver tells him to run. He runs as Vandal gets the staff back, and the staff explodes, and everyone-Oliver, Felicity, Diggle, Laurel-all burn up in the blue flame.

But Barry runs and runs and runs until he catches up with himself and ends up back in time at the first meeting with Merlyn and Vandal.

The 24 hour time limit is reset.

Barry tries to explain to Oliver what happened and Oliver says they can use this as a second chance.

Barry says Oliver’s head wasn’t in the game, and then tells him the exact information that took him out of the game last time. But they decide to try to do everything they can to make sure everyone doesn’t die this time.

Oliver convinces Cisco to talk to Kendra, and says that Hawkman has it all wrong. Cisco says forget the warrior, think of the kind, smart, empathetic priestess.

Kendra is having a hard time with the reincarnation thing. Cisco tells her to close her eyes and let herself remember, and she does just that.

In this memory, Vandal walks in on Chay-Ara and Khufu in bed, and threatens to rape Chay-Ara and murder everyone else. Vandal decides to skip the rape part and kill them both, and as soon as they are both stabbed, sky rocks fall while Vandal chants creepy things and the dying Chay-Ara prays to Horace.

Kendra tells them about her memory (one the Koof hasn’t been able to access yet) and about the sky rocks. Felicity says it’s true Ancient Egypt had heavy meteor activity and is annoyed everyone is still surprised she knows everything. Laurel tells her she loves her and asks her how that helps.

Kendra explains that the rocks were glowing just like the staff did. Barry grabs a rock from a museum that will help make the gauntlets helpful, and this time when his OG team asks what they can do, Oliver says, “Suit up.”

The final meeting with Vandal starts out the same way it did before, but this time Kendra can spread her wings on demand and a van full of vigilantes swings in.

Barry grabs the staff again but the gauntlets are working this time. Oliver helps him and this time it looks way less dire. Together, they make Vandal and the staff disappear.

Oliver asks the Hawks what’s next, and Kendra says they’re going to go help people. Somewhere that’s not Central City. She says goodbye to sweet Cisco, who gives her a GPS talisman thing in case she’s ever in trouble and needs Team Flash’s help.

Oliver’s meeting with Samantha goes the same way too, and promises once more he won’t tell Felicity. Oliver goes upstairs as a friend of his mommy, opening the conversation by saying he’s met the Flash. They play action figures together and it’s kind of adorable.

Felicity and Oliver get back to the Loft and Felicity tells him to treat their relationship like a team, they have to share their own weaknesses to help each other. Oliver plays it off and lies to her but she probably won’t let this go.

Back in Central City, Merlyn scoops up the Vandal dust and keeps some of it in a little box because apparently no one thought to scatter the ashes after they vanquished their demon.

PHEW That was a lot! What did you think of the crossover? Did it get you even more pumped for Legends of Tomorrow or will you be glad when everyone goes back to their own nights?

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