| Episode cast overview, first billed only: | |||
| Victor Garber | ... | Dr. Martin Stein | |
| Brandon Routh | ... | Ray Palmer / The Atom | |
| Arthur Darvill | ... | Rip Hunter | |
| Caity Lotz | ... | Sara Lance / White Canary | |
| Franz Drameh | ... | Jefferson Jackson / Firestorm | |
| Ciara Renée | ... | Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl | |
| Amy Louise Pemberton | ... | Gideon (voice) (as Amy Pemberton) | |
| Dominic Purcell | ... | Mick Rory / Heat Wave | |
| Wentworth Miller | ... | Leonard Snart / Captain Cold | |
| Stephen Amell | ... | Oliver Queen / Green Arrow | |
| Joseph David-Jones | ... | Connor Hawke / Green Arrow | |
| Jamie Andrew Cutler | ... | Grant Wilson / Deathstroke | |
| Ryan Jefferson Booth | ... | Andre | |
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David Attar | ... | Leather Jacket Thug |
| Patrick Sparling | ... | Mirakuru Thug | |
When a malfunction sends the Waverider crashing into 2046 Star City, our heroes face a startling version of their own future where they never stop Savage and never return home. The city is in ruins and overrun by criminals, which thrills Rory. Sara is despondent over the destruction of her home and stunned when she learns what happened to her old friend, Oliver Queen.
The team is stranded in 2046, and things don't seem to be very rosy, with Oliver Queen disappeared and supposedly dead, a new Deathstroke controlling Star City and not enough lighting on the streets. The team decides, though, that they don't have much time to help this not-really-real-people-because-we-are-in-the-future and center on finding a piece they need for the ship.
Of course, things don't happen as expected.
Bringing the team out of the Cold War period and into the future makes for a welcome change of atmosphere, and for some originality in a show that had decided to go around the same place in the last few episodes. On the other hand, it seems as if they didn't have enough bulbs and the action falls into the repetitive side (it looks amazing and the effects are really good, but it is basically the same as in previous episodes, with some shooting light (Cold & Heat), some punching and cutting (White Canary) etc. etc.).
The plot is not really important anymore, and it just seems to go from one level to another, as if it was a game, but the treatment of the characters continues to be really good (even if it has some strange incongruities), which makes up for the shortcomings in the plot department. Some characters have really nice moments in this episode, which will make fans quite happy.
All in all, the show continues to be fun enough, even if it falls short of its possibilities.