Changes: Checkmate

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"Oh... I'm ten steps ahead of you and you haven't even figured out what game we're playing yet."

—Adrian Chase/Prometheus gloating to Oliver about his plan

"Checkmate" is the sixteenth episode of the fifth season of Arrow, and the one-hundred-eighth episode overall. It aired on March 15, 2017.

Oliver gets closer to the truth about Prometheus. Meanwhile, Helix refuses to continue helping Felicity until she does a favor for them.^[1]

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Arrow 5x16 Sneak Peek 2 "Checkmate" (HD) Season 5 Episode 16 Sneak Peek 2

Preparation ran from January 9, 2016 until January 17, 2017. Shooting ran from January 18 until January 27, 2017.^[2]

Oliver and the rest of Team Arrow find out that Adrian Chase is Prometheus.
When Curtis and Dinah go to find Adrian's mother, Amanda Westfield, in Opal City, they see her house is empty and Curtis says, "--Norma Bates got the hell out of dodge". This is a reference to the mother of serial killer Norman Bates from the Psycho film series.
This is the first appearance of Talia al Ghul in Season 5 in the present day rather than flashbacks.
In the flashbacks, Oliver mentions that he doesn't know anyone who could get data off a bullet-ridden laptop, referencing what he asks Felicity to do in the Season 1 episode "Lone Gunmen".

Arrow season 5
"Legacy" • "The Recruits" • "A Matter of Trust" • "Penance" • "Human Target" • "So It Begins" • "Vigilante" • "Invasion!" • "What We Leave Behind" • "Who Are You?" • "Second Chances" • "Bratva" • "Spectre of the Gun" • "The Sin-Eater" • "Fighting Fire With Fire" • "Checkmate" • "Kapiushon" • "Disbanded" • "Dangerous Liaisons" • "Underneath" • "Honor Thy Fathers" • "Missing" • "Lian Yu"

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 |writer= [[Beth Schwartz]]<br/>[[Sarah Tarkoff]]
 |director= [[Ken Shane]]
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+|guests=[[Rick Gonzalez]] as [[Rene Ramirez|Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog]]<br/>[[Juliana Harkavy]] as [[Dinah Drake]]<br/>[[Carly Pope]] as [[Susan Williams]]<br/>[[Lexa Doig]] as [[Talia al Ghul]]<br/>[[David Meunier]] as [[Ishmael Gregor]]<br/>[[Mike Dopud]] as [[Viktor]]<br/>[[Adrian Holmes]] as [[Frank Pike]]<br/>[[David Nykl]] as [[Anatoly Knyazev]]<br>[[Kacey Rohl]] as [[Alena|Alena Whitlock]]
 |before= {{Ep|Fighting Fire With Fire}}
 |after= {{Ep|Kapiushon}}