Arrow Speculations, Revelations, Season 4
Just me and my Brain. Thinking. Things. I swear, THIS SEASON I'm going to get Malcolm figured out! You're not fooling me again, buster!! (okay, the writers did. ah well.)
Andrew Diggle:
I know I put this down somewhere... around here. Didn't I? Possibly on the BloodRavens posts.
Back around the time after they were getting Deadshot in Russia... after Deadshot revealed that Andy's death was not a mistake... and maybe around the time in Season 3, when Malcolm was trying to get Thea to run away from Raz al Ghul... I kept thinking, who IS that driving Malcolm's car around?? And then, one day, I mentioned in a crack-y comment to Dark Empress, "Andrew Diggle is Malcolm's driver; he's not really dead!"
HAH!
Yes, I am smug.
Then in the Flashback Year 3 (Hong Kong), Oliver returns to Starling City with Maseo, and we see a glimpse of John Diggle just off his tour of Afghanistan, who's gotten a bodyguard gig with his brother Andy. Doing what? Guarding a party of a spoiled rich brat. Which spoiled rich brat? Tommy Merlyn. Meaning Andrew Diggle works for... who? Yep. Malcolm Merlyn.
In the last episode (Beacon of Hope), at the end, it appears that Andy is actually working for DD. But maybe NOT. Malcolm walks out to a car (his car :P), and says to Andrew: "Our mutual friends at HIVE are going on without our other mutual friend, DD..." and then, while smirking!, goes on to say how DD told him that Andrew Diggle is DD's ace in the hole. You know, I can't help but read this scene as Malcolm snickering at DD the whole time that DD thinks Andrew is working for HIM, when he's been working for Malcolm this whole time.
Thea & Killing:
At the end of Season 3, I kept wondering to myself... did Thea mean to kill that guy who had the Alpha/Omega briefcase? I mean, she technically didn't; he killed himself. But she shot him, 3 to the chest (her daddy would be so proud!), so... Did she actually intend to kill him?
Well, finally, my inner Malcolm said, "That doesn't matter. The actual question is, if she hadn't already killed once, would she have been able to make such a decision so easily?"
Well... DAMN!
So it seems, it was Malcolm's intention for Thea to find out about that. Perhaps not at the time that Oliver spilled it to her, but... eventually. And he did it to spare her the anguish and grief and entire moral dilemma of 'should I take a life'? Instead of hesitating and worrying if it is justified, if it is right or wrong, or evil or... anything, all she had to do was shrug, say, 'well, it's not like i haven't killed already,' and boom. shoot the guy.
So kinda in his own twisted way, Malcolm spared her this moral anguish.
The Grave:
Okay, I sorta cheated on this one. Well, it's the CW's fault for airing Arrow promo commercials while I'm watching Arrow (and Flash and Legends of Tomorrow). So I've seen hints of SPOILERS for future episodes. Those bums.
Anyway, I think I've got it figured out. It's Thea.
Malcolm needs to get Thea out of Starling City before 'genesis' or 'the bloom' or whatever evil HIVE plot it is to kill everyone in the city. She, of course, refuses to run away. She's a part of the Vigilante team, she's the 'beacon of hope,' and she's one of the ones who needs to fight to stop HIVE. Malcolm thinks they're going to fail.
They get into a fight. Malcolm kills Thea and flees.
He kills her with... I don't know the exact name, but that zombie poison stuff. You know, it sends a person into a suspended deathlike state for a day or two. They get buried. Then they wake back up and try to dig their way out. Anyway. So, Thea's dead, and Malcolm absconds with the 'body' (the real one, anyhow) before anything permanent like embalming happens.... and sticks her in a safe place. That is escape-proof. Or so he hopes....
Malcolm's Hand:
So Dark Empress and I were discussing of the Lazarus pit could restore Malcolm's hand. Well, presuming Malcolm can get it fixed, after whatever Nyssa did to it. The Pit generally just heals wounds. But it can bring people back to life. So it seems weird to me, but Empress is pretty sure it can regenerate a whole hand.
The other morning I had this horrible thought: If Malcolm puts his (let's be frank, here) stump into the (repaired) Lazarus Pit, and it restores his hand... it will be a demon hand. Like Vampire Hunter D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EpznIMr3CSo#t=58
Vampire Hunter D has a demon hand. It has a face. It... talks to him. Which I guess is good, since he leads a sort of lonely life. So does Malcolm. Uh... so maybe it will keep him company. But... just... EEEUW!
Andrew Diggle:
I know I put this down somewhere... around here. Didn't I? Possibly on the BloodRavens posts.
Back around the time after they were getting Deadshot in Russia... after Deadshot revealed that Andy's death was not a mistake... and maybe around the time in Season 3, when Malcolm was trying to get Thea to run away from Raz al Ghul... I kept thinking, who IS that driving Malcolm's car around?? And then, one day, I mentioned in a crack-y comment to Dark Empress, "Andrew Diggle is Malcolm's driver; he's not really dead!"
HAH!
Yes, I am smug.
Then in the Flashback Year 3 (Hong Kong), Oliver returns to Starling City with Maseo, and we see a glimpse of John Diggle just off his tour of Afghanistan, who's gotten a bodyguard gig with his brother Andy. Doing what? Guarding a party of a spoiled rich brat. Which spoiled rich brat? Tommy Merlyn. Meaning Andrew Diggle works for... who? Yep. Malcolm Merlyn.
In the last episode (Beacon of Hope), at the end, it appears that Andy is actually working for DD. But maybe NOT. Malcolm walks out to a car (his car :P), and says to Andrew: "Our mutual friends at HIVE are going on without our other mutual friend, DD..." and then, while smirking!, goes on to say how DD told him that Andrew Diggle is DD's ace in the hole. You know, I can't help but read this scene as Malcolm snickering at DD the whole time that DD thinks Andrew is working for HIM, when he's been working for Malcolm this whole time.
Thea & Killing:
At the end of Season 3, I kept wondering to myself... did Thea mean to kill that guy who had the Alpha/Omega briefcase? I mean, she technically didn't; he killed himself. But she shot him, 3 to the chest (her daddy would be so proud!), so... Did she actually intend to kill him?
Well, finally, my inner Malcolm said, "That doesn't matter. The actual question is, if she hadn't already killed once, would she have been able to make such a decision so easily?"
Well... DAMN!
So it seems, it was Malcolm's intention for Thea to find out about that. Perhaps not at the time that Oliver spilled it to her, but... eventually. And he did it to spare her the anguish and grief and entire moral dilemma of 'should I take a life'? Instead of hesitating and worrying if it is justified, if it is right or wrong, or evil or... anything, all she had to do was shrug, say, 'well, it's not like i haven't killed already,' and boom. shoot the guy.
So kinda in his own twisted way, Malcolm spared her this moral anguish.
The Grave:
Okay, I sorta cheated on this one. Well, it's the CW's fault for airing Arrow promo commercials while I'm watching Arrow (and Flash and Legends of Tomorrow). So I've seen hints of SPOILERS for future episodes. Those bums.
Anyway, I think I've got it figured out. It's Thea.
Malcolm needs to get Thea out of Starling City before 'genesis' or 'the bloom' or whatever evil HIVE plot it is to kill everyone in the city. She, of course, refuses to run away. She's a part of the Vigilante team, she's the 'beacon of hope,' and she's one of the ones who needs to fight to stop HIVE. Malcolm thinks they're going to fail.
They get into a fight. Malcolm kills Thea and flees.
He kills her with... I don't know the exact name, but that zombie poison stuff. You know, it sends a person into a suspended deathlike state for a day or two. They get buried. Then they wake back up and try to dig their way out. Anyway. So, Thea's dead, and Malcolm absconds with the 'body' (the real one, anyhow) before anything permanent like embalming happens.... and sticks her in a safe place. That is escape-proof. Or so he hopes....
Malcolm's Hand:
So Dark Empress and I were discussing of the Lazarus pit could restore Malcolm's hand. Well, presuming Malcolm can get it fixed, after whatever Nyssa did to it. The Pit generally just heals wounds. But it can bring people back to life. So it seems weird to me, but Empress is pretty sure it can regenerate a whole hand.
The other morning I had this horrible thought: If Malcolm puts his (let's be frank, here) stump into the (repaired) Lazarus Pit, and it restores his hand... it will be a demon hand. Like Vampire Hunter D.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=EpznIMr3CSo#t=58
Vampire Hunter D has a demon hand. It has a face. It... talks to him. Which I guess is good, since he leads a sort of lonely life. So does Malcolm. Uh... so maybe it will keep him company. But... just... EEEUW!