- For the eponymous celebration, see Thanksgiving (event).
- "And yet... you cost me something dear to me. Someone very dear: My son. That's why I've arranged this little tête à tête. So that when your city burns, you'll know why."
- —Cayden James to Oliver Queen
"Thanksgiving" is the seventh episode of the sixth season of Arrow, and the one-hundred-twenty-second episode overall. It aired on November 23, 2017.
Synopsis
| Oliver celebrates Thanksgiving with his family but the happy moment is interrupted. Meanwhile, Black Siren returns to wreak havoc on the holiday.[src] |
Cast
Main Cast
- Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Green Arrow
- David Ramsey as John Diggle/Green Arrow
- Willa Holland as Thea Queen
- Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
- Echo Kellum as Curtis Holt/Mr. Terrific
- Rick Gonzalez as Rene Ramirez/Wild Dog
- Juliana Harkavy as Dinah Drake/Black Canary
- Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/Black Siren
- Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance
Guest Starring
- Sydelle Noel as Samanda Watson
- Pej Vahdat as Sam Armand
- Teryl Rothery as Jean Loring
- Venus Terzo as Dr. Elisa Schwartz
- Michael Emerson as Cayden James
Co-Starring
- Alison Araya as Officer Lopez
- Gaalen Engen as Judge McGarvey
- Kelly Richard Fenning as Baliff
- Justin Fortier as SCPD Uni #3
- Brian Johnston as Desk Sergeant
- Lia Lam as Terrified Fan
- Jaeson Lee as SCPD Uni #1
- Jack Moore as William Clayton
- Lisa Penz as Reporter
- Hugo Raymond as SCPD Uni #2
- Angelo Renai as Nate Parsons
Production
Preparation ran from September 7 until September 15, 2017. Shooting ran from September 18 until September 27, 2017.[1]
Trivia
- This episode features an uncredited appearance from Billy Joel.[2]
- Joel's appearance is archive footage from his August 4, 2015 concert at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York, performing "No Man's Land".
- Rene claims Billy Joel's album The Stranger to be a "treasured piece of rock and roll history".
- Curtis mentions having seen every episode of the TV series The Closer twice.
- Cayden quotes an infamous phrase from the William Shakespeare play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar to Laurel: "Cry 'Havoc!', and let slip the dogs of war".
- Curtis likens Team Arrow to Big Brother, the totalitarian leader of Oceania in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four. The phrase itself has come to be known as referring to the idea of constant surveillance.
- Felicity informs the team that the thermobaric bomb is down corridor 52, a reference to The New 52, a 2011 relaunch and revamp of DC's comics or even to the 52 comic book series.
- This episode aired on Thanksgiving Day in real life and is the first Thanksgiving-themed episode of Arrow.
Goofs
- Several times throughout this episode, people refer to Star City as "Starling City", even though the city's name had officially been changed two years previously.
- Felicity says the name of the drug that "woke up Thea's brain" is a new form of Zolpidem. Zolpidem is generic Ambien, which is a sedative drug that treats insomnia.
Gallery
Videos
Arrow Thanksgiving Trailer The CW
Arrow Inside Thanksgiving The CW
References
| Arrow season 6 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| "Fallout" • "Tribute" • "Next of Kin" • "Reversal" • "Deathstroke Returns" • "Promises Kept" • "Thanksgiving" • "Crisis on Earth-X, Part 2" • "Irreconcilable Differences" • "Divided" • "We Fall" • "All for Nothing" • "The Devil's Greatest Trick" • "Collision Course" • "Doppelganger" • "The Thanatos Guild" • "Brothers in Arms" • "Fundamentals" • "The Dragon" • "Shifting Allegiances" • "Docket No. 11-19-41-73" • "The Ties That Bind" • "Life Sentence" | ||||