The Queens' little camping trip comes to an early end and they head home. Ollie gets Thea to promise that she won't tell Laurel about the truth behind Sara's death, or about Malcolm's hand in it. Thea takes her father to task, not for unleashing Slade upon them, but for making her kill Sara. She agrees to be his student, his partner, and his soldier, but refuses to be his daughter. Waller briefs Oliver and Maseo on China White's arrival in the country in order to auction off her half of the bioweapon. She plans on meet up with Peter Kang, a wealthy business man and family friend of the Queen's. This is exactly why Waller needs them both alive. (Though who exactly is the superior she mentions?) Oliver and Maseo track Kang, but it's the former's job to access the CEO's computer directly. Having returned to Starling City for the first time in years, Ollie's emotionally taken aback when he spies a somewhat grown-up Thea in her school uniform. Rather than following Kang, they follow Thea instead she pays her respects at Oliver's grave, but also gets a drug fix from her dealer who meets her there. Luckily, Tommy Merlyn ( Colin Donnell) busts onto the scene to chase the dealer away. MOSCOW - Do you know any children with 2,500,000 “likes” on their Facebook pages? A nine-year-old Russian girl living in Moscow, Kristina Pimenova, just topped that number.It's one of the more heavy-handed flashback scenes this season, but I appreciate that they're trying to heighten the emotional tension between Ollie and Thea in the present.īack to the task at hand, Oliver runs a program on Kang's computer at Queen Consolidated, and almost gets busted. She’s probably a very likeable kid, in fact, but the popularity is all about the pictures. One fashion blog named her recently as “the most beautiful girl in the world,” full stop. And while the “beautiful” is evident, especially those penetrating grey-blue eyes, there’s an uncomfortable edge to some of the photographs that blurs the difference between “girl” and “woman.”īrooke Shields, 49, who started modeling when she was less than a year old, posed nude when she was ten, and played a child prostitute in the Louis Malle film “Pretty Baby” when she was 12, recently said she didn’t think the pictures of Pimenova she’d seen were particularly suggestive. “I don’t think they’re that bad, these photos,” Shields told Meredith Viera. But Shields said she was concerned about the social media environment today, which spreads the images so far and fast, and often with disturbing anonymous comments. (Ironically, perhaps, this video segment is posted on Kristina’s Facebook page.) “It just becomes dangerous,” said Shields. The Pimenova sensation has been growing for a while. Three years ago, a program on Russian state television, “Vesti,” called Kristina "a million dollar baby." Kristina's long blonde hair, sometimes curled or fixed up in a bun like an adult, her puffy childish cheeks and lips often covered in make-up, have appeared on the cover of Vogue Bambini, and shined for Dolce & Gabbana, Benetton, and Armani. Kristina’s family has a certain star power. Her father, Ruslan Pimenov, was a well known soccer player for Lokomotiv Moscow, among other teams. And her mother, Glikeriya Pimenova, is a model herself who acts as her daughter’s personal agent, posting new photographs on social networks every few days. Images of Kristina sitting on the edge of a bathtub or in bed in her pajamas have come in for particular criticism, including on Kristina’s own Facebook page. The little girl’s admirers ask her parents not to be in a hurry with the fashion business and let Kristina have a normal childhood.In the most recent image posted by her mother, Kristina is wearing a black vest over her skinny shoulders. More than 1,000 “likes” appeared instantly, as soon as the picture appeared. The girl's blue, piercing eyes look very adult. "When did she have time to grow up so fast?" one of her “friends” commented. Russian mothers of beautiful girls often treat the fashion business as a window of opportunity for their daughters to become famous, successful, and travel around the world.
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