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Arrow's latest episode saw the return of Colin Donnell's Tommy Merlyn, who died in Season 1. 1 / 11

The episode picked up in the aftermath of an explosion, with Oliver trapped between concrete pillars. 2 / 11

Tommy appeared as a hallucination to impart advice on Oliver's situation with Emiko. 3 / 11

"You are a figment of my imagination that has been sent over here to test my resolve." 4 / 11

Oliver was determined to stop Emiko by any means necessary, even if that meant killing her. 5 / 11

Tommy insisted this would only perpetuate the cycle of violence and hatred Robert Queen created. 6 / 11

Though Oliver resisted at first, Tommy's words eventually got under Oliver's skin. 7 / 11

Oliver later found Emiko in the midst of a Ninth Circle massacre at SCPD. 8 / 11

Instead of killing her, like he told Tommy he would do, he tried to reason with her. 9 / 11

"I want you to help me end our family's cycle of violence," he begged. 10 / 11

She spurned him and took off holding a weapon that could destroy Star City. 11 / 11