Nocking Point: Arrow Episode 502, "The Recruits"

Last week, we saw the first appearance of the big bad whom we assumed to be Prometheus. This episode, he confirms the name, but again only in the brief amount of time that we see him. However, that time is enough to conclude affirmatively that he has a grudge against Green Arrow, with the warning that he gives to the new criminal kingpin in town, Tobias Church (CHAD L. COLEMAN).

But that's not the focus of this week's episode, "The Recruits." Oliver (STEPHEN AMELL) decides he can't go it alone after all, and relents to recruiting local would-be vigilantes Wild Dog (RICK GONZALEZ) and Evelyn Sharp (MADISON MCLAUGHLING), as well as volunteer Curtis Holt (ECHO KELLUM). His training is harsh, and harkens back to yet another "5 Years Ago" flashback when Oliver was infiltrating Russian gangs.

Naturally, they hate him for his methods, and almost quit.

But before Oliver can even begin to train them properly, there seems to be a new threat on the streets -- a mystical one, in the form of a certain tattered tatterdemalion who's attacking high-ranking employees of a company looking to boost its stock price by assisting Oliver in the promotion of a new clinic for Star City. It's up to Team Arrow Oliver and Felicity (EMILY BETT RICKARDS) to find this person's identity and take him down before he can do any lasting harm. But when Thea (WILLA HOLLAND) makes a discovery on her own, the definitions of who is the good guy and who is the bad guy go topsy-turvy, and Oliver may have actually found another new recruit instead in this Ragman (JOE DINICOL).

In yet another side adventure (because going back and forth to Oliver's pre-show history just wasn't enough), John Diggle (DAVID RAMSEY) is back in active duty military, working with a unit to recover a nuclear device. But when that plan gets FUBARed and he learns what his chain of command is actually attempting, he may wish he'd stuck with the easier job of playing Spartan to Oliver's Green Arrow.