TV Line provides us with a small preview by Wendy Mericle as to what to expect when Arrow comes back from its winter hiatus.
Warning: spoilers
*Seeing Laurel (?!) “is a very welcome surprise” for Oliver, says showrunner Wendy Mericle. “But there will be… whatever the reverse of a ‘silver lining’ is… when he finds out what’s really going on. It will have a lot of emotional resonance, particularly for him and Felicity.”
*On top of that is the “significant fallout” of Malone’s murder, a tragic accident that steers Felicity to “a darker place” as she sets her own sights on Prometheus. That, coupled with the question of the Big Bad’s identity, “is a gift that keeps on giving for the rest of the season,” says Mericle.
*Elsewhere, Diggle emerges from his latest imprisonment “with a much bigger drive, and not the same fatalism that he had earlier in the season,” the EP previews. “He’s going to come up against Colonel Walker” as well as “grow closer to Adrian Chase.”
*Among new faces, Talia al Ghul plays a “crucial part” in unraveling the Prometheus mystery, while SCPD Detective Tina Boland will form a connection with Oliver, seeing as “she has been through her own hell, her own sort of ‘island.'”
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TVLine