Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: A- | 413 USERS: B YOU GRADE IT War Games
By Tippi Blevins | Season 9 | Episode 17 | Aired on 2010.04.09
Somewhere on a rooftop above them, Oliver, in Green Arrow mode, catches sight of the melee in progress. A car screeches around the corner. Oliver runs along a ledge, keeping up with it from above. He jumps from one rooftop to another, his balletic leap framed against the enormous, permanently full moon. On the streets below, the car has caught up with Tess. She takes her gun from her coat and rolls across the car's hood. When the driver starts to exit, she kicks the door, smashing his head through the glass. He falls to the ground. Tess runs into an alley, climbs and flips over a chain-link fence at the same moment Oliver is tumbling to a landing above. Tess touches ground near some weedy train tracks. A van speeds into view. Tess makes a run for another fence. The driver gets out, aims a gun at her and fires off several warning shots. Tess backs down from the fence, raising her arms in surrender. The driver looks sort of like Tom Bergeron, host of Dancing With the Stars. Oliver shoots the gun out of Tom's hand. "You could use some conflict resolution," Oliver says in a digitally altered voice. Oliver chastises Tom for shooting at his "date" and for his wardrobe. "Don't get me wrong, I love black on black," he says, "it's just a really hard look to pull off." Tess, coming to his side, smirks. Oliver clearly doesn't recognize her with the wig on. Tom goes for his gun and Oliver shoots him in the shoulder with a taser arrow. He twitches and falls. As Oliver turns, Tess cold-cocks him and injects something into his arm with her needle-tipped weapon. Another man walks into the scene -- it's the guy she kicked and punched the crap out of earlier in what was now obviously part of a ruse. He covers Oliver's head with a black bag. "Checkmate," Tess says with a smile. Somebody save Oliver! Or at least get that bag off his pretty face.