Training Day

"Our partnership with the force is not working”
“Then we have to find a way to make it work. Compromise, do whatever you have to do because if you want a new future for this baby of yours, it won't be come by doing the same thing we used to do. We have to - We have to be something else... Something better"

—Oliver Queen and John Diggle

"Training Day"
Information
Season 7 » Episode 15
Episode number	153 of 170
Original airdate	March 11, 2019
Written by	Emilio Ortega Aldrich Rebecca Rosenberg
Directed by	Ruba Nadda
Guest stars
Michael Jai White as Ben Turner (special guest star) Katherine McNamara as Mia Smoak Ben Lewis as older William Clayton Andrew Kavadas as James Midas Laara Sadiq as Emily Pollard Danny Wattley as F. Bingsley
Chronology
Preceded by	"Brothers & Sisters"
Followed by	"Star City 2040"

"Training Day" is the fifteenth episode of the seventh season of Arrow, and the one-hundred-fifty-third episode overall. It aired on March 11, 2019.

Synopsis

Team Arrow attempts to work with the Star City Police Department but much to Oliver's frustration, things don't go as planned. Meanwhile, Dinah gets some life-changing news.

Trivia

• This is the first episode of the season not to credit Kirk Acevedo (Ricardo Diaz) in the main cast bill.
• Rene compares four Los Halcones gang members being found dead in a warehouse to the 1997 film Face/Off.
• Felicity likens the skin melting from the chlormethine bullets to the Wicked Witch of the West from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz, specifically in relation to her death when she screams "I'm melting" after having water thrown on her.
• The coordinates Felicity gives William and Mia in the flashforward at the end of the episode (47.6119 N, 122.301 W) point to Seattle, Washington in the real world.
  • Oliver, Roy and Emiko once relocated to Seattle in the comics.