Arrow season 3, episode 6, “Guilty,” aired tonight. Read our recap and discuss the episode with fellow fans.
Guilty
We open a Team Arrow mission to take down a cartel, but when the Arrow enters the cartel’s lair, he finds the members dead. They’ve been suspended upside down from the ceiling and the word “Guilty” was written in blood on the floor. The lone survivor says “Paco” before dying.
Meanwhile, Laurel trains with Ted. After they finish up, they go out for Korean tacos.
Back in the foundry, Roy, who was given the night off, asks Felicity to test his blood for Mirakuru.
Across town, the “Paco” lead puts the Arrow on the trail of a gang member whose cell phone signal leads to his suspended corpse with the word “Guilty” on the floor in Wildcat Gym. When the lights turn on, Ted walks in and the Arrow draws.
History repeating
Laurel comes in after Ted and gives Ted an alibi, so the Arrow drops his bow.
When Roy’s blood test comes back clean, he confesses to Felicity that he’s having dreams about killing Sara that feel like memories.
When the cops arrive at Wildcat Gym, Laurel defends Ted to her father before meeting Oliver. She tells him that Ted thinks someone from his past is sending him a message, and Oliver warns Laurel against Ted.
In the foundry, the MO of the current murders — beaten to death with brass knuckles — matches the murder of a drug dealer from six years earlier. Oliver, convinced of Ted’s guilt, tracks Ted to a storage locker that doubles as a vigilante lair where another body is suspended. But before the Arrow can investigate, Ted attacks and a fight ensues.
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After the Arrow knocks him down, Ted says he’s been set up because he used to be a vigilante himself — six years ago in the Glades.
Dangerous game
Ted says he found a key to the storage locker at his gym, so he’s being led on a chase. He offers to help the Arrow, so they go to Laurel, who finds the identity of the latest victim. The Arrow fills her in on Ted’s bloody history and tells her she’s playing a dangerous game, trying to follow in Sara’s footsteps.
While Ted and the Arrow follow a lead from the latest victim, Felicity shows Roy a virtual autopsy she did on Sara. The abnormalities related to her death would be explained by arrows being thrown with Mirakuru force.
Meanwhile, Ted and the Arrow are confronted by a man in vigilante gear who Ted clearly knows. The confrontation, though, is interrupted by the cops arresting Ted for murder.
Incriminating
Laurel is furious Oliver had Ted arrested, but Oliver now knows Ted is innocent. They head down to the foundry, where Roy admits to killing Sara. Laurel is incredibly upset, and Roy leaves. Though Oliver manages to get Laurel to focus on Ted’s case, Felicity admits the evidence against Roy is incriminating.
At SCPD, Laurel interrupts Ted’s interrogation and gets him to admit to taking an apprentice named Isaac Stanzler. He was the one who killed the drug dealer, and Ted cut ties after that. Laurel has the charges against Ted dropped.
Back in the foundry, Diggle confronts Oliver about having two sets of rules, one for the bad guys and one for Team Arrow. He says Oliver needs to do whatever it takes to get justice for Sara.
Meanwhile, Laurel and Ted leave SCPD, but Stanzler confronts them at gunpoint.
Vigilante chase
Stanzler forces Laurel to drive him and Ted. Laurel discreetly calls Felicity, who tracks the phone so Diggle and the Arrow can follow. Between flying bullets and arrows, Laurel swerves and knocks Stanzler out of the car. However, they crash. Diggle and the Arrow, though, get them out before the car explodes.
Meanwhile, Roy appears and fights Stanzler. Stanzler says Roy is “just another weapon in [the Arrow’s] arsenal” and that the Arrow will abandon him, but Roy knocks him out and says, “I’m not you.”
But when the Arrow arrives, Roy pleads, “Don’t abandon me.”
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“Never,” the Arrow says.
Keeping the faith
Back at the gym, Ted and the Arrow talk. Ted thanks the Arrow for his help, and the Arrow asks him to stay away from Laurel. Ted replies that it’s her choice then advises the Arrow to cut his sidekick loose when he loses it. The Arrow replies Ted’s mistake was not having faith in Stanzler.
Later, Oliver and Laurel have a heartfelt talk at the hospital.
In the foundry, Roy tells Oliver about what Stanzler said, and Oliver suggests they call Roy Arsenal. Oliver wants to help him figure out what his mind is trying to tell him so guides Roy in meditation. It turns out Roy’s remembering killing the cops while on Mirakuru, not Sara, but he’s still upset.
Meanwhile, Laurel asks Ted to teach her to get justice outside of the court room so she can avenge Sara’s death.
The episode closes as the cops transferring Stanzler are shot by Mary Winchester a woman calling herself Cupid.
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Meanwhile, in Hong Kong…
Oliver and Maseo track a courier with a package related to China White. Oliver spots him and chases him, but the chase leads to the courier being hit by a car and killed. Maseo checks his body, and the package is missing. Oliver, though, doesn’t remember seeing the courier ditch it.
Back at Maseo’s, Oliver struggles to remember and is pulled into a memory game with Maseo’s son, Akio. Meanwhile, Maseo convinces his wife, Tatsu, to help Oliver. After warning Oliver to stay away from Akio, she lights a candle and guides him in meditation until Oliver remembers where the package is.
Oliver and Maseo find the package — an envelope containing a message that Maseo decodes as a lead on China White.
