At the beginning ofArrow’s seventh season, the powers that be stated that this season’stheme was redemption.
But just because Oliver is out of prison doesn’t mean the show’s done with that topic.
Of course, Oliver feels loads of guilt after this discovery.

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Oliver does bare some of the responsibility in this instance, and he acknowledges that.
He steps out to confront Samuel and apologizes for his part in his pain for the past few years.
While all of this was going on, Laurel was dealing with problems of her own.
Naturally, Laurel assumes that Earth-2 Brett Collins somehow jumped over to this Earth and is terrorizing her.
So the SCPD locks him up and that’s that…or is it?
are morally bankrupt and the worst.
Let’s be honest, season 7 is a pretty odd one.
That’s not the case this time around.