- "That is the thing about teaching. It's not about what you want to say. It's about what they need to hear. Remember first thing I taught you?"
"Living is not for the weak."
"Your children are not weak, Oliver. They're also not children. Whatever it is you have to say, they can handle it. If you do not, they will never learn to be heroes." - —Anatoly's advice to Oliver on hiding the truth from his children.
"Prochnost" is the fifth episode of the eighth season of Arrow, and the one-hundred-sixty-fifth episode overall. It aired on November 19, 2019.
Synopsis[]
| Upon learning the key to oppose The Monitor, Oliver and team return to Russia on a mission to gather the necessary materials. Diggle reunites with a figure from his past.[src] |
Plot[]
Oliver and Mia are preparing in the Team Arrow shelter when William busts in with some news: Curtis has discovered a Russian general hoping to assemble a Pulse Wave Generator, something that is required for their Crisis-halting gadget. Oliver chooses to take both Mia and William.
Prior to the excursion, Laurel reveals the reality Lyla has been working with the Monitor and the two get together in a rear entryway. Lyla has a go at persuading Laurel he's been attempting to spare certain pieces of the multiverse. To help the Monitor, Lyla has a go at persuading Laurel to take the designs for the Pulse Wave Generator before Oliver gets his hands on them. In the long run, Laurel hesitantly acknowledges.
Once in Russia, Oliver, Laurel, and the children sync up with Anatoly. The three Queens are totally unconscious of Laurel's pre-decided plans with Lyla. Anatoly rapidly finds the person they're searching for at a nearby battle club and he consents to hand over the plans under one condition: Oliver needs to battle and thrashing the boss at the battle club. Oliver makes brisk work of the warrior and as he's going to get the plans from the general, individuals from the Bratva appear and slaughter him. They steal Oliver and Mia as Anatoly, Laurel, and William can get away.
The Bratva gets Mia through the chime test, the same one whom Oliver used in the past seasons. After she makes speedy work of the Bratva partners in crime, the big boss Oleg permits her and Oliver to stay alive — if and just in the event that they surrender the weapon plans. Oliver concurs and the Bratva take the drive to sell.
Oliver and Mia can get away and connect up with the remainder of the group, where they reveal the Bratva wanting to sell the plans. This prompts a run in the middle of Oliver and Mia as he needs both of his children to get back and avoid inconvenience. Mia stomps off and is trailed by Laurel as Oliver and Anatoly remain and visit. As destiny would have it, both Oliver and Mia chill off and offer some kind of reparation, permitting the group to reunite to find the Bratva and the plans.
The group comes back to the battle club, driving Oliver and Mia to battle six warriors without a moment's delay in order to distract the Bratva. It works and Laurel and Anatoly can get the arrangement and shoot the Bratva pioneer, permitting the entire group to get away.
During the Russian experience, Diggle finds Roy and requests that he help take plutonium to control the gadget. As the shipment shows up, Roy begins beating one of the equipped gatekeepers to death yet Diggle's ready to stop him. The two take the plutonium and leave. After the crucial, he reveals to Diggle about his return to Team Arrow.
At the point when everybody gets back, Laurel uncovers to Lyla she has no aim of helping her and the Monitor. It's uncovered Laurel set Lyla up and brought Diggle and Oliver along. As the two begin assembling pieces, they're shot with sedatives. The screen slices to dark as Diggle asks Lyla what she's finished.
Cast[]
Main cast[]
- Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen
- David Ramsey as John Diggle/Spartan
- Rick Gonzalez (credit only)
- Juliana Harkavy (credit only)
- Katherine McNamara as Mia Smoak
- Ben Lewis as older William Clayton
- Joseph David-Jones (credit only)
Special appearance by[]
Special guest star[]
Guest starring[]
- Audrey Marie Anderson as Director Lyla Michaels
- David Nykl as Anatoly Knyazev
- Barry Levy as General Alexi Burov
- Yurij Kis as Oleg
Co-starring[]
- Alex Bogomolov as Bratva #1
- Uri Burstyn as Russian Bruce Buffer
- Romeo Reyes as Manny Jr.
- Claire Smithies as Promoter
Production[]
Preparation ran from August 16 until August 26, 2019. Shooting ran from August 27 until September 9.[1]
Trivia[]
- The name of the episode means durability/endurance in Russian.
- This is the first episode of the series to not feature Joseph David-Jones (Connor Hawke) after being promoted to a series regular.
- Like the previous episodes of the season, this episode has also many references and callbacks to previous seasons, mainly from the flashbacks in Season 5.
- The name of the episode is likely a callback to "Crucible", in which one of Anatoly's first words to Oliver was "prochnost". Anatoly and Oliver also talk about Anatoly's first lesson to Oliver, which was "living is not for the weak", that also happened in Crucible.
- John meeting Roy is almost the exact same as Thea's meeting with Roy in "This Is Your Sword".
- When Anatoly and Oliver first meet, he jokes about not punching him, which he did upon first meeting him in "Bratva".
- Oliver first fighting a man bigger than his size, ending tied-up in a chair and getting interrogated by Bratva is very similar to what happened in "Legacy". When Oliver and Mia talk about getting out of the chair by dislocating thumbs, Oliver quotes Anatoly from the same episode, saying "it's a useful technique, if getting tied-up in chairs will become habit".
- Mia having to fight four Bratva thugs and ring the bell is same Oliver had to do in "The Recruits".
- Kapiushion is the nickname Bratva gave Oliver, originally in it was Kapot, but was changed, due to latter meaning "car hood".
- Anatoly says that both him and Oliver have matching tattoos, with Oliver replying not anymore, referencing the events of both flashbacks and present day of "Kapiushon".
- William says he met Mia in a fight club, referencing the events of flash-forwards in "Unmasked".
- The press originally had Connor Hawke in the description instead of Diggle, the former who doesn't appear at all in this episode.
- Mia tells Oliver that she doesn't cook much, to which Oliver quips that it makes sense, referencing that Mia may have inherited Felicity's bad cooking skills.
- The green robe that Oliver was wearing before he and Mia participate in the fight club is very foreshadowing to him becoming the Spectre in the episode "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four" where he wore a similar green robe after the Spectre possessed him.
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References[]
| Arrow season 8 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Starling City" • "Welcome to Hong Kong" • "Leap of Faith" • "Present Tense" • "Prochnost" • "Reset" • "Purgatory" • "Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four" • "Green Arrow & The Canaries" • "Fadeout" | ||||