User blog comment:Itamar20112/Arrow 8x01 - A good episode, but kinda breaks the Arrowverse/@comment-27008720-20191110052753

yeah, I think the must've forgotten the whole Robert Queen thing as the Hood, and they wanted to use Laurel's connection with Adrian from E-1 and bring his E-2 doppelganger to interact with Oliver in that capacity we saw, as allies