Arrow - Spoilers galore

Yeah, I really enjoyed this episode as well. It was GREAT to see that character back. I really liked his scenes with Oliver.

I’m still iffy on the possibility of an Emiko redemption. She’s not someone who simply thinks killing is the only way to stop bad people (Oliver’s cycle of violence). She is gleefully torturing him way beyond measure (just because she hates their dad), and murdering innocent people by the truckload.

And now she wants to set off a bio-weapon to kill even more innocent people. She’s literally the head of a mass-murderering terrorist organization.

The story definitely doesn’t need to end with her being killed (even though she deserves it). Oliver can capture her alive and they can make a great ending out of that.

But I kinda want her to rot in a cell somewhere. I think any kind of real redemption would be very difficult for the show to pull off.