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Arrow - Season 3 Episode 05: The Secret Origin of Felicity Smoak
Crime is down, people feel safer, and Captain Lance even calls off the Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Oliver believes he can finally have a private life and asks Felicity out on a date. But the second Oliver takes his eye off the ball, a deadly villain reappears in Starling, forcing Oliver to realize that he can never be Oliver Queen – not as long as the city needs The Arrow. In Season Three, Oliver faces an even greater threat, when another lethal face emerges from his dark and tortured past – Ra’s Al Ghul!
The episode takes a character that could have been a one-off joke and turned her into a three-dimensional figure whose great power was her ability to raise a good daughter.
"The Secret Origin Of Felicity Smoak" is another strong entry for the season, mostly because it remains so difficult to resist the charms of a Felicity-centric episode.
The nice thing about getting to explore Felicity's origins beyond what we've heard in exposition, was to see that the character always had something of a heroically badass streak.
The writers manage to make a Felicity-heavy installment without it feeling like blatant fan pandering... If it weren't obvious already, this entry makes it clear that Felicity is one of the best characters on TV.