- For the eponymous island, see Lian Yu (Earth-1).
- For other uses of Purgatory, see Purgatory (disambiguation).
- "The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for purgatory. Now I understand why. The memories, the pain, I've never escaped them. They're always with me, a reminder of what I had to endure with only one thought, one goal-- survive. To save the multiverse, I must become something else. To do that, I have to return to where my journey began-- purgatory."
- —Oliver Queen
"Purgatory" is the seventh and midseason finale episode of the eighth season of Arrow, and the one-hundred-sixty-seventh episode overall. It aired on December 3, 2019.
Synopsis
| Oliver’s mission takes him to Lian Yu where he tries to ignore the repercussions of the looming Crisis until he receives help from an old friend. Meanwhile, a united Team Arrow faces a recognizable villain.[src] |
Cast
Main cast
- Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
- David Ramsey as John Diggle/Spartan
- Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog
- Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake/Black Canary
- Katherine McNamara as Mia Queen/Blackstar
- Ben Lewis as Older William Clayton
- Joseph David-Jones as Connor Hawke
Special appearance by
Special guest star
Guest starring
- Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels/Harbinger
- Byron Mann as Yao Fei Gulong
- Sebastian Dunn as Edward Fyers
Uncredited
- Tom Cavanagh as Harrison Nash Wells
- Jeffrey Robinson as Billy Wintergreen
- LaMonica Garrett as Mobius/Anti-Monitor (voice)
Production
Preparation ran from September 10 until September 18, 2019. Shooting ran from September 19 until October 1, 2019.[1]
Trivia
- The title references the English translation for Lian Yu.
- This marks the first appearance of Edward Fyers since the Season 1 finale, "Sacrifice", and his only appearance in the present day.
- Billy Wintergreen also appears for the first time since "The Odyssey" and this marks his only appearance in the present day.
- This is the first appearance of Yao Fei Gulong in the present day; having previously appeared in Season 1 through flashbacks and in "Missing" as a vision in a flashback.
- Interestingly enough, Yao Fei wears his green hood and and his Carbon fiber longbow, both of which he gave to Oliver, instead his army outfit he wore before his death.
- Like "Reset", this episode doesn't have many callbacks to previous seasons, mostly from the Season 1 flashbacks on Lian Yu.
- The episode starts with Oliver delivering the similar narration he did at the beginning of "Pilot".
- Fyers mentions several times his death that happened on Season 1 finale.
- Like in the comics, Roy loses his arm.
- This is the last episode of Arrow to centrally take place on Earth-1.
Gallery
Arrow Season 8 Episode 7 Purgatory Promo The CW
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" | ||||