User blog comment:Gifist8/Lazarus Pit Return---Season 5 Arrow/@comment-3221148-20160829141646/@comment-3221148-20160829141958

Oh, and on "why would he do that if he hates Lazarus Pit effects and tried to make the good guys refuse to use it?"

What if Malcolm did so SPECIFICALLY so that nobody would ask to bring Tommy Merlyn back? Sort of like the spirit medium case in the second Ace Attorney. There the victim tried to speak with the ghost of a person that never actually tried. What if Merlyn is trying to dissuade anybody from using the pit so that they won't find out that Tommy is already rezzed?