Oliver, Felicity and Roy are burying their friend and the titular hero is going to find the murderer.
- Oct 9, 2014
AceShowbiz - "Arrow" kicked off its third season with a shocking death. In the season premiere, one of the protagonists and Oliver's allies [SPOILER ALERT!] was killed by a mysterious archer. When the show returns next week, Oliver and friends are still mourning the loss and he is determined to find the person responsible for this.
The mysterious archer apparently starts skewering businessmen and Lance calls the Arrow regarding this. Diggle uses A.R.G.U.S. to find the archer's identity; he is a man named Simon Lacroix (guest star Matt Ward), who goes by the codename Komodo. However, the team hits a rough patch with the mission and gets help from a surprising source, Laurel.
Meanwhile, Oliver begins to worry that he hasn't heard from Thea, which forces Roy to tell him the truth about why she left town. Ray Palmer pursues Felicity. In the flashback, Maseo (guest star Karl Yune) tells Oliver that Amanda Waller has ordered his first kill. As Oliver looks down the scope of the rifle, he sees the target is his best friend, Tommy (guest star Colin Donnell). Despite her promise to her sister, Laurel debates sharing a secret about Sara with Lance.
The new episode titled "Sara" airs Wednesday, October 15 at 8/7c on The CW. Executive producer Marc Gugggenheim says the episode focuses on the immediate aftermath of her death, with special attention paid to Laurel "who's at the center" of it.
"It's probably our most emotionally gut-wrenching episode - as it needs to be, as it should be - because this character's death affects all of the characters on the show. It's kind of brutal," Gugggenheim says. He adds, "It's a hard episode to watch. If you're prone to tears or capable of crying during a TV show, you'll probably be crying on this one."
As to why Sara had to die, Gugggenheim explains, "Any time we kill off a character from the show it's always incredibly hard. We're not 'Game of Thrones'. We're not 'Sons of Anarchy'. It's really, really, really, really difficult. But as with Tommy's death, as with Moira's death, the story implications for this development are so far-reaching for the show and affect all of the characters. We always call it the terrible story math. It really kicks off a mystery that will drive us for at least the first half of the year, it will set Laurel on a trajectory she's never had before on the show, it will create all these other complications and dynamics that I can't talk about because it would spoil stuff, and it buys us a lot of story."
He, however, promises that it's not the last time fans saw Sara. "One of the beautiful parts of the show is we do flashbacks," he teases, "We still want to tell the story of what happened when Sara washed up on the shores of Lian Yu after the sinking of the Amazo and how she met Nyssa and how she joined the League of Assassins. There is still a lot of story left to be told with Sara."
