Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Purgatory

"Purgatory"
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Arrow  Season 8: Episode 7
December 3, 2019
Directors	James Bamford
Writers	Rebecca Bellotto Rebecca Rosenberg
Previous Episode	"Reset" (November 26, 2019)
Next Episode	"Crisis on Infinite Earths: Part Four" (January 14, 2020)

The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for purgatory. Now I understand why. The memories, the pain, I've never escaped them. They're always with me, a reminder of what I had to endure. With only one thought, one goal -- survive. To save the multiverse, I must become something else. To do that, I have to return to where my journey began. Purgatory.

—Oliver Queen

Purgatory is an episode of season 8 of Arrow. It premiered on December 3, 2019.

Appearing in "Purgatory"

Featured Characters:

• Green Arrow (Oliver Queen)

Supporting Characters:

• A.R.G.U.S.
  • Harbinger (Lyla Michaels)
• Team Arrow
  • Black Canary (Dinah Drake)
  • Black Canary/Laurel Lance (Earth-2)
  • Connor Hawke (Star City 2040))
  • Mia Smoak (Star City 2040)
  • Roy Harper
  • Spartan (John Diggle)
  • Wild Dog (Rene Ramirez)
  • William Harris (Star City 2040)
• Yao Fei (Resurrected) (Dies)

Antagonists:

• Edward Fyers (Resurrected) (Dies)
  • Billy Wintergreen (Resurrected) (Dies)

Other Characters:

• Harrison Nash Wells (Unknown Earth) (Cameo)
• The "Monitor" (Voice) (Cameo)
• Shado (Grave) (Cameo)
• Adrian Chase (Mentioned only)
• Felicity Smoak (Mentioned only)
• Felicity Smoak (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• Ghosts (Mentioned only)
• J.J. Diggle (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• Knightwatch (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
  • John Diggle (Mentioned only)
  • Lyla Michaels (Mentioned only)
• Mia Queen (Mentioned only)
• The Monitor (Mar Novu) (Mentioned only)
• Oliver Queen (Star City 2040) (Mentioned only)
• Robert Queen (Mentioned only)
• Robert Wong (Mentioned only)
• William Clayton (Mentioned only)

Locations

• Multiverse (Mentioned only)
  • Earth-1
    • Lian Yu
    • United States of America
      • Central City (Cameo)
        • Central City Sewers
      • Star City (Mentioned only)
      • Hub City (Mentioned only)
    • China
      • Hong Kong (Mentioned only)
  • The Nexus (Cameo)
  • Alternate Earth-1 (Mentioned only)
  • Star City 2040 (Mentioned only)
    • Lian Yu (Mentioned only)

Items:

• Hosen
• Trick Arrows

Concepts:

• The Crisis
• Red Skies Crossover

Notes

• This episode marks the last time that an Arrow episode takes place on Earth-1 as the following three episodes will be respectively set on Purgatory/Vanishing Point/Antimatter Universe, Star City 2040 and Earth-Prime.
• It is revealed that Lyla Michaels had been saved from death in Afghanistan by the Monitor many years before in order to become his enforcer, Harbinger.

Trivia

• No trivia.

See Also

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Recommended Media

• None.

Links and References

• None.

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