S08.E03: Leap Of Faith

[CabotCove]

  Fair points, I guess when I think about it some more, they would be two Zoes in the present instead one. The other three kids, don't have their younger selves where Team Arrow is. 

[AudienceofOne]

Starting to suspect this whole season is going to be a fan service Magical Mystery Tour. Not that I'm complaining too much, I love Thea. But it feels like fan service, quite a lot. 

[way2interested]

1 hour ago, AudienceofOne said:

Starting to suspect this whole season is going to be a fan service Magical Mystery Tour. Not that I'm complaining too much, I love Thea. But it feels like fan service, quite a lot. 

I'd be more surprised if they didn't bring back old guests for the final season when they know it's the final season. 

[tv echo]

If you're surprised at the shortness of my S8 transcriptions so far, please remember that I said, when I started my retrospective way back when with S1, that I was primarily focused on Felicity, Olicity (including the Olicity kids) and OTA - largely absent in S8...

803 (Leap of Faith) – No Felicity Smoak.

803 (Leap of Faith) – Oliver Queen’s voiceover intro:
(During this voiceover, we see a montage of past scenes, including scenes of Mia’s birth, Oliver and Felicity saying goodbye at the cabin, and both of them standing in the Arrow Bunker with the rest of Team Arrow in 722.)
Oliver (voiceover): "My name is Oliver Queen. For seven years I have fought with only one goal - to save my city. But now a new threat has emerged, a danger so severe it has forced me to leave my family in order to face it. And it won't be enough for me to just be the Green Arrow. To prevent the Crisis that's coming, I'm going to have to become someone else. I'm going to have to become something else."

803 (Leap of Faith) – Oliver shows Thea his photo of himself with Felicity and their newborn daughter Mia, when they meet on Nanda Parbat:
Thea (looking at photo): “Well, I’m guessing ‘Mia’’s for Mom and not my Corto Maltese alias.”
Oliver: “Good guess.”
Thea: “She’s beautiful, Ollie.”

803 (Leap of Faith) – In a flashforward scene, Mia, Connor and Adult Zoe rush back to the Arrow Bunker, fearful that the Deathstrokes might’ve hurt Adult William:
Mia: “William!”
Connor: “William?”
Mia: “Frak! William! Where is he? Ahhh!”
Adult William (emerging from hiding place): “Oh, it’s you. I’m here, I’m okay. I remembered how Mom hardwired the bunker’s power grid through the floor. Gave those guys the shock of their lives.”

803 (Leap of Faith) – Mia tells Adult William why she’s being so overprotective of his safety:
Mia: "You are the only family that I have left."

803 (Leap of Faith) – Oliver and Thea have a heart-to-heart conversation:
Thea: “Okay, what is going on with you, Ollie? You were never this over-protective when I left Star City.”
Oliver: “Things have changed. I left my family behind, Speedy, and I miss them. And every day I wrestle with whether or not I made the right decision because maybe I didn’t. And… I saw an entire world wiped out of existence. A world that you weren’t in, by the way, because I wasn’t around to protect you. I’m sorry, Thea, but the only way that I can bear this is if I become 100% certain that my sacrifice, that my death… will protect the people I love. I need my family to be safe.”

803 (Leap of Faith) – Oliver says good-bye to Thea:
Thea: “No hōzen this time?”
Oliver: “Uh, Felicity gave it to William.”

803 (Leap of Faith) – Future Team Arrow is transported back in time to the Arrow Bunker in present day:
(Diggle, Rene and Dinah are surprised to see Oliver magically appear in the Arrow Bunker in present day Star City.)
Dinah: "Oliver?"
Oliver: "What's going on?"
Rene (looking past Oliver): "That's a very good question."
(Oliver turns around and sees standing behind him Connor, Mia and Adult William. Mia and Adult William are shocked and stunned to see Oliver.)
Mia: "Dad?"

Edited March 31, 2020 by tv echo

[tv echo]

803 ending scene when Mia, William and Connor get transported back to Arrow Bunker in 2019 and come face-to-face with Oliver, Diggle, Dinah and Rene:

Edited May 6, 2020 by tv echo