“Arrow” returned for season 6 last week, and the show wasted no time cranking up the drama. At the end of the season premiere, it seemed that Oliver Queen had been exposed as the Green Arrow when a picture of Oliver unmasked in the Green Arrow suit surfaced on the news.
Now in this week’s episode, Oliver will have to deal with the consequences, and he’ll have to find a way to cover up the truth. Luckily this is a situation that Oliver Queen is familiar with.
“I love the way that he handles it,” Stephen Amell told EW. “We end the first episode with people being like, “Oh God, look at this, this is a photo,” and I was so pleasantly surprised to see the next episode. I come in and talk with the reporters, and one of the things that I’m enjoying doing as mayor this year, and Oliver as a character to a certain extent, is I’ve tried to up the charm factor a little bit. He should be a little more comfortable in his shoes as a public figure. He steps in and deals with the press in a very, very relaxed way. Quentin says to him, “You seem pretty good with this,” and Oliver’s like, “I’ve been here before.”
Amell also teased that while Oliver is trying to convince people he’s not the Green Arrow, he will also drop a cool name.
“In that scene, we get to do the coolest name drop that we’ve ever done on the show, which I was really fired up about. What he hasn’t counted on is the one FBI agent that will just stop at nothing to prove — Special Agent Watson [Sydelle Noel] just thinks I’m full of sh—. She is 100 percent sure. If Lance in season 1 was 100 percent sure, Special Agent Watson is like 400 percent sure that he is totally f—ing lying and that he is the Green Arrow and she doesn’t care.”
Who is it going to be? Most fans are likely hoping that it’s a Bruce Wayne name drop, but we’ll find out for sure on Thursday.
