- "Time of death, 11:59."
- —Dr. Elisa Schwartz reporting Laurel Lance's death
"Eleven-Fifty-Nine" is the eighteenth episode of the fourth season of Arrow, and the eighty-seventh episode overall. It aired on April 6, 2016.
Synopsis
| Oliver and John learn that Malcolm is going to try to break Damien out of prison. Meanwhile, Laurel gets a surprising offer.[src] |
Plot
Andy opens a safe in Diggle's home, evacuates and stacks a firearm. Burrow discovers him, and they uncover that Dig revealed to Andy where to discover the firearm, so Andy would have a sense of security. Andy is frightened that H.I.V.E. thinks about him, and uncovers that Merlyn needs Andy's assistance.
Diggle and Andy fill in the remainder of the posse in the dugout, on Merlyn's arrangements to take a few rockets. Ollie takes a gander at the symbol, they have put away now, and confesses to having seen it on Lian Yu.0 He's concerned that Merlyn needs to take the icon. Diggle recommends utilizing Andy as a twofold specialist with H.I.V.E. Ollie is uncertain about that, he's not persuaded Andy can be trusted. They see on the TV that Ruve Adams has been chosen Mayor.
Ollie, Laurel, and Thea go to Ruve's acknowledgment discourse. An individual from the press reveals to Ollie that he got 40% of the write-in votes. Ruve approaches the group and offers Laurel an advancement, to District Attorney.
Flashback, Ollie attempts to converse with Taiana about the need to slaughter individuals. She takes a gander at a photograph of herself and her sibling as youngsters and recollects more joyful occasions. Ollie disclosed to her that he no longer ganders at the photograph he conveys from his previous lifestyle. The individual Taiana was before the island would not endure it. She gets to her feet and consents to battle.
Straightforward and The Green Arrow sit in their van, trusting that the Ghosts will desire the rockets. Tree and Thea stay in the fortification. The women talk about Laurel's proposition for employment and Merlyn's contribution with H.I.V.E. Thea will not call him "Father," something Merlyn sees when he strolls in, joined by a few men dressed as individuals from the League of Assassins. He's there for the symbol.
The rocket burglary starts, with Green Arrow and Spartan giving pursue.
Shrub battles the men while Thea follows Merlyn, who rapidly finds the icon. Thea battles him.
With Andy's assistance, Green Arrow and Spartan stop the theft without any problem. Too effectively, which doesn't get away from Green Arrow's notification.
Thea and Merlyn keep battling, with her picking up the advantage and nailing him down, two cutting edges to his throat. She delays, and Merlyn gets free. In the interim, Laurel wins her battle and tracks down Thea. In any case, Merlyn and the icon are no more.
Ollie and Dig come back to the dugout and realize what occurred. Thea is irate and goes to hit the road with expectations of discovering Merlyn. Ollie wouldn't like to utilize Andy further, yet Dig is tenacious. Ollie and Laurel talk secretly, she can see that he presumes Andy. Shrub advises Ollie to be sure before he does whatever could break his companionship with Dig. They are hindered by a call from Lance.
Taiana goes to where a few warriors are guarding the detainees. She wails about something ghastly occurring in the cavern, and two of the men go to the cavern to check, where Ollie is pausing. Taiana takes out the third man and gets the keys, discharging the detainees from their confines.
Arrow and Laurel eat at a Chinese eatery. She's enticed to take the D.A. work, with the goal that she can be a government operative in Ruve's internal circle. Arrow calls attention to that the D.A. has 24 hour security, in the event that she takes it she can't be The Black Canary any longer. He's happy she's The Black Canary and needs her to proceed.
Ollie and Diggle discover Thea honing an edge, still irate. Andy calls them, he's found Merlyn and a portion of his supporters in a production line.
Green Arrow, Spartan, and Speedy join Andy at the manufacturing plant. As they search for Merlyn, Green Arrow and Andy get isolated from the gathering and a booby trap sends bolts flying at them. Andy hops before The Green Arrow, taking a bolt to the shoulder.
Merlyn visits Darhk at Iron Heights, presenting to him the icon. They obviously have an arrangement that if Merlyn helps Darhk, Merlyn and Thea will be saved from Genesis. Darhk brings up that a piece is missing, and the symbol is in this way futile. He sends Merlyn to locate the missing piece.
Diggle watches out for Andy's shoulder. Andy is alarmed since he has been undermined. Diggle attempts to quiet Andy by uncovering that they expelled a piece from the symbol and that Dig himself concealed it. They are hindered by The Green Arrow, who prevents Dig from disclosing to Andy where the concealing spot is. Tree chooses to utilize her capacity as A.D.A. to have Darhk's cell looked. Green Arrow sends Thea and Diggle ahead while he runs down a lead and advises Andy to return home.
Taiana and Ollie keep on killing Reiter's men. They send the detainees to the pontoons, however Ollie needs to design a snare for Reiter.
Tree looks as Darhk's cell is looked. Darhk is quiet, realizing they won't discover anything. He enigmatically compromises Laurel, and blames Lance for having dementia. Tree's not scared.
In John's home, Andy look. The Green Arrow appears and blames Andy for searching for the missing stone. Andy demands that he's simply checking for bugs, however The Green Arrow doesn't trust him and assaults, harming Andy. Uncover shows and takes steps to shoot The Green Arrow. Green Arrow eases off, and Dig sends him away.
In the fortification, Dig and Ollie contend about Andy while Thea watches. Ollie simply doesn't figure Andy can return from what he was. Burrow accuses Ollie's conduct for his separation, blaming Ollie for being trapped. Thea attempts to comfort Ollie, when Laurel shows up. She didn't discover the icon. They watch the Iron Heights surveillance camera feed.
Mumble pushes a truck of books through the jail, giving books to a few detainees in their cells.
Ollie concedes he ought to have tuned in to Laurel about how to deal with Andy. She discloses to him that she is turning down the D.A. position so she can keep on being a piece of the group. Ollie reveals to her the group is self-destructing. He additionally reminds Laurel she was attempting to be D.A. until Sara passing changed her strategic. Presently that Sara isn't dead any longer, she ought to return to her old dream.
In Iron Heights, the cell entryways open. Mumble presents to Darhk the symbol, covered up on his book truck. The books he gave out had blades in them. The detainees revolt, cutting a few monitors and abducting others.
The group gets some answers concerning the mob in the dugout. Shrub sees her veil and says "One final time."
Arrow drives up to Iron Heights and causes a scene with the police, demanding seeing Pike. As Green Arrow, Spartan, Black Canary, and Speedy look on, Lance punches Pike, causing the interruption they have to get inside. Andy goes along with them, demanding substantiating himself. They split up.
Mumble and a few detainees connect with Black Canary and Speedy in a battle, while Spartan and Andy likewise battle with detainees. Merlyn discovers Speedy and Black Canary proceeds onward as Father and little girl battle again.
Darhk knows the saints are in the jail. He arranges the prisoners murdered, yet Green Arrow, Spartan, Black Canary, and Andy all appear and start battling the detainees holding up with Darhk.
As yet battling in the lobby, Merlyn pins Speedy against the bars of a cell. He says that the lost blood desire is the reason she can't murder him, it harmed her to lose it. He flees.
Andy is abducted by a detainee. Darhk orders the legends to drop their weapons, and they do. When The Green Arrow, Spartan, and Black Canary are caught, Andy is discharged. He hands Darhk the missing stone, having been working for H.I.V.E. the entire time. Darhk assembles the icon back, just to take two bolts in the middle, civility of Speedy.
The battle begins again as Darhk evacuates the bolts and holds his ridiculous hands to the symbol. There's insufficient blood, so Darhk takes shots at an injured prisoner on the ground and uses his blood to recover his otherworldly powers. He mysteriously gets all the legends, holding them set up.
Merlyn shows up simply at that point. Darhk uncovers that he knows all the saints' genuine personalities. Not from Merlyn, yet from Andy, who surrendered Spartan's way of life as his sibling. From that point, Darhk had the option to figure out who the others were. He throws Spartan and Speedy away, they collide with a divider, before turning on The Black Canary.
The Green Arrow oversees himself to shoot a bolt at Darhk, yet Darhk gets the bolt and recovers The Green Arrow. Darhk discloses to The Black Canary to give her dad a message, at that point cuts her with the bolt. Darhk, Merlyn, and Andy all getaway.
The Green Arrow lifts The Black Canary and runs her to the hospital. He finds a specialist who consents to help, yet she sends The Green Arrow away before he can be found.
As Ollie and Taiana set up explosives to trap Reiter in the cavern, she gets some information about the image from his previous lifestyle that Ollie referenced before. Ollie gives her an image of Laurel, and says that before the island, Laurel was home to him. She requests that he go to Russia and mention to her family what befell her and Vlad in the event that she passes on.
What's more, offers to do likewise with Laurel if Ollie doesn't endure.
In the cavern, Reiter and two of his men are with the symbol when they hear the blast catching them. Reiter is uninterested, and executes his men, utilizing their blood to draw power from the icon.
At police central station, Lance is in a seat, bound to a work area. A female cop fills him in on The Black Canary's physical issue, and he implores her to place him in contact with Pike. He'll give up himself back in, however he needs to go now.
Ollie holds up at the clinic as Dig, Thea, and Felicity appear. Thea uncovers that alongside Darhk, around fifty detainees got away. Diggle reprimands himself for trusting Andy and can't pardon himself. The posse looks as Laurel is wheeled into a room, a similar Doctor from the jail reveals to them that she will be alright and is requesting them. In her medical clinic room, Laurel gets some information about Darhk, however they all urge her to rest. She disclosed to them that she had moved toward it being her last night as The Black Canary, yet adjusted her perspective. Battling with them is the thing that causes her to feel alive. Felicity, Thea, and Dig all disclose to Laurel that they love her and leave her with Ollie.
Shrub advises Ollie to rest as well, however he won't leave. She requests that he bring something from her pocket. It is a similar image of her that Ollie carried on Lian Yu. She needs Ollie to discover his way back to Felicity, and discloses to him that she realizes she isn't the affection for his life, however he was consistently the adoration for hers. She approaches Ollie for some help.
Thea advises the pack she conversed with Lance and he is in transit, when Laurel begins coding. The posse follows the specialists into Laurel's room, where she is having a seizure. They join Ollie and watch weakly as Laurel is given CPR and the oars, however it is nothing but bad. Her heart halted. The specialist calls the hour of death, 11:59.
The entire pack cries as Ollie strolls into the lobby, shocked. Arrow hustles a few doors down, however one glance at Ollie's face and he knows. Arrow sinks to the ground as the two men gaze at one another, crying.
Cast
Starring
- Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
- Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/Black Canary
- David Ramsey as John Diggle/Spartan
- Willa Holland as Thea Queen/Speedy
- Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
- John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer
- Paul Blackthorne as Captain Quentin Lance
Special appearance by
Guest starring
- Eugene Byrd as Andy Diggle
- Jimmy Akingbola as Baron Reiter
- Janet Kidder as Ruvé Adams
- Adrian Glynn McMorran as Michael Amar
- Elysia Rotaru as Taiana Venediktov
- Venus Terzo as Dr. Elisa Schwartz
Co-starring
- Alison Araya as Officer Lopez
- Justin Doran as Mercenary #1
- Marrett Green as Reporter
- Donald Heng as ESU Officer
- Charles Jarman as Mercenary #3
- Rene Wang as Waitress
Trivia
- The title is a reference to Laurel Lance's time of death, as announced by the presiding doctor.
- Laurel's death in this episode has received almost universal backlash from fans and has been the subject of much controversy among critics.
- Damien Darhk mentions the Khushu Idol was made by the Homo Magi. In DC comics, the Homo Magi are a sub-race species of humanity who naturally have magical powers.
Goofs
- Despite an official synopsis referring to Felicity talking to Curtis, this never occurs, nor does the latter even appear.
- During an attempted resuscitation on Laurel, the medical staff deliver cardiac stimulation via a defibrillator and apply conductive patches, as is standard practice. However, they place the patches top of Laurel's hospital gown instead of directly on her skin; this would interfere with the delivery of the electrical current, potentially causing her gown to melt or catch fire as a result.
- In the scene where Laurel goes into cardiac arrest, the medical staff are seen working on her resuscitation for barely 60 seconds before declaring her deceased. That amount of time is far too short to give up on resuscitation.
- When Dr. Schwartz gives the time of death for Laurel, she only says 11:59 without saying PM. Regardless, time of death is given in 24h time, which would put Laurel's death at 23:59.
Gallery
Promos
Production
Preparation ran from February 2 until February 11, 2016. Shooting ran from February 12 until February 23, 2016.[1]
References
| Arrow season 4 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Green Arrow" • "The Candidate" • "Restoration" • "Beyond Redemption" • "Haunted" • "Lost Souls" • "Brotherhood" • "Legends of Yesterday" • "Dark Waters" • "Blood Debts" • "A.W.O.L." • "Unchained" • "Sins of the Father" • "Code of Silence" • "Taken" • "Broken Hearts" • "Beacon of Hope" • "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" • "Canary Cry" • "Genesis" • "Monument Point" • "Lost in the Flood" • "Schism" | ||||