Arrow will “team up with a surprising force” to defeat Damien Darhk during the Season 4 finale episode, “Schism.” Who will it be? John Constantine? The Arsenal? Vixen? The Flash? White Canary? Felicity’s crazy ex-hacker boyfriend? Machin? Nyssa al Ghul?
As much as it makes Malcolm cringe, he’s probably siding with team Arrow on this one, considering how passionately he feels about living out the League of Assassins legacy. Darhk wants to “burn it all,” and I doubt Malcolm is on board with that.
Now that Darhk’s wife, Ruve, is dead, his underground bunker destroyed, and his plan ruined, he’s basically just on a quest to make everyone’s life a living hell. Like Dig says in the clip, “He’s lost all hope, just like all of us.” So much so, that he’s willing to sacrifice his own life, his daughter's life, and everyone in the world to clense the world with Project Genesis.
Like a true hero, not just a vigilante, Oliver is seen addressing the frightened citizens of Star City in the finale teaser. Standing on top of a taxi cab, he says, “We will survive this!” He’ll have help from Felicity, Dig, Lyla, Curtis, but Thea may be siding with Merlyn on this one.
Showrunner Wendy Mericle teased to Collider that Thea has a big decision to make. “She had bloodlust earlier in the season and since then has been questioning her place on the team, and questioning whether or not she is Speedy, which goes back to her character’s struggle with whether she’s more of a Queen or a Merlyn. She’s going to answer that question in [the finale] and come up with, what we hope, is a pretty surprising answer.”
Stephen Amell caught up with Entertainment Weekly, and said tonight's episode will put a definite end to the Damien Darhk story arc we’ve seen since the very first episode of Season 4.
“It calls back a little bit of our premiere from this year, which I think is always a fun technique. We get some resolution. Not just for Oliver, not just for Darhk, but for most of our core cast members.”
Moving on to next season, the cast is looking forward to going back to the powerless superhero show Arrow once was in the first and second seasons. Season 5’s villain won’t have powers, but Amell also warned don’t expect to meet he/she in the Season 4 finale.
During an interview with Comicbook.com, Amell added that he’d like to see the “public visage and version of Oliver Queen within Star City” explored in Season 5, and there will be something in the finale that makes that possible. Hmmmm….
“I can tease that there is an ultimate showdown, and that ultimate showdown takes place on a level playing field. And I know the hook from the last episode made it feel like the whole episode would be about rescuing Felicity, and that’s really not the case at all. We solve that problem pretty early on.”
During a recent interview with Larry King, Amell decided to take finale speculation a step further. After he was asked to summarize the episode in three words, the he said, “Where’d everybody go?”
There was a ton of mystery in last season’s finale, but Amell said this year is the opposite.Does this mean Oliver and Felicity stay in Star City while the rest of Team Arrow parts ways?
What do you think? Let us know in the comments below! Watch Arrow at 8 p.m. tonight on the CW.
