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" This week&amp;#039;s Arrow introduces a revamped version of DC Comics villains the Royal Flush Gang - Oliver (Stephen Amell) is taking a break from thrusting his way up a salmon ladder to engage in a little shirtless training with Diggle (like something out of a Rocky III montage) when he learns of the criminal outfit&amp;#039;s activities...  Dig (David Ramsey) flags up the case, but our hero&amp;#039;s not interested in tackling street crime - &amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s a symptom of what&amp;#039;s wrong with this city - I&amp;#039;m trying to fight the disease,&amp;quot; Ollie argues. &amp;quot;There&amp;#039;s more than one way to save this city - it sounds like you have a narrow definition of being a hero,&amp;quot; his partner snaps back - we&amp;#039;ve said it before, but Diggle is by far this show&amp;#039;s best character. We love the way he constantly challenges Oliver, who does his best but is frequently misguided by his thirst for brutal justice.  Confronted with the wife of a man badly injured in the bank heist, Ollie finally agrees to tackle some &amp;#039;low-level&amp;#039; crime, but it transpires that there&amp;#039;s a connection to his father Robert Queen in any case - the &amp;#039;gang&amp;#039; are the family of high school drop-out Kyle Reston (Kyle Schmid) and Reston&amp;#039;s father Derek (Currie Graham) worked for Queen Consolidated as a factory foreman until his employment was unfairly terminated... Oliver decides to give Derek a chance to redeem himself - we just wish his dialogue didn&amp;#039;t so frequently sound like he&amp;#039;s reading a plot description. &amp;quot;I am hell-bent on making this right,&amp;quot; he growls at one point - we&amp;#039;re surprised he didn&amp;#039;t follow it up with: &amp;quot;But can I possibly fix things in time?&amp;quot; Queen reaches out to Derek in his civilian identity - offering him a job and an apology - but the thief won&amp;#039;t take his &amp;quot;charity&amp;quot; and ultimately ends up dying - shot by a security guard - while trying to pull off &amp;#039;one last heist&amp;#039;...  Ollie originally turned his nose up at the Royal Flush Gang&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;low-level&amp;#039; crime and we have to say we agree with him - the family bank heist plot does feel small fry and unimpressive when compared to the threats of previous weeks - deadly archer Deadshot or the broader menace of John Barrowman&amp;#039;s mysterious villain. &amp;#039;Legacies&amp;#039; is kept afloat though by the 50% of the episode that takes on a more personal slant - Tommy Merlyn (Colin Donnell) finally re-emerges to make another play for Laurel (Katie Cassidy) but she&amp;#039;s still flustered after glimpsing Ollie&amp;#039;s abs last week and cruelly shoots him down...  The playful brother/sister relationship between Ollie and Thea (Willa Holland) is one of this show&amp;#039;s strongest components, though Holland has been underused in recent weeks. The Arrow writers are now attempting to kill two birds with one stone, with hints of a Thea/Tommy romance. The only thing better than a love triangle is a love square. Tommy though is ignorant of Thea&amp;#039;s affections and wants to throw a fundraiser to accrue funds for Laurel&amp;#039;s struggling law firm. Poor little rich boy Tommy is tiring of his playboy lifestyle - he has real feelings for Laurel... But even when she&amp;#039;s not ogling Amell&amp;#039;s abs, Laurel&amp;#039;s being a complete cow and treating Tommy like a sap - flirting with handsome rich dude Carter Bowen (Warren Christie) right in front of him, at the fundraiser that Tommy paid for! We&amp;#039;re a sucker for an unrequited love story and always champion the underdog\u2026 but poor Tommy - he really doesn&amp;#039;t stand a chance, does he? &amp;#039;Legacies&amp;#039; is less busy than recent Arrow episodes with just two major plot threads to hold our attention. The family/heist gang dynamic isn&amp;#039;t the most engaging, but the personal ups and downs of Oliver, Laurel, Tommy and Thea helped keep us hooked this week. Arrow continues on Mondays at 8pm on Sky1.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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