Diggle wasn’t in a good place by the time “Arrow” season 4 came to an end. He was forced to kill his own brother, and he later left Star City so he could take some time away, and figure things out.
When we catch up with Diggle in season 5 he will be working as a member of the Special Forces in Chechnya.
“He is searching for that moral compass that he lost at the end of season 4,” EP Marc Guggenheim revealed to EW. “He discovers that Chechnya is the wrong place for him to discover his moral compass.”
It doesn’t sound like Diggle will be spending more than a few episodes in Chechnya as Guggenheim also revealed that the fourth episode of the season will be a “very Dig and Oliver-centric” episode.
“Things do not go according to plan for him, and there’s something that happens in the first three episodes that is fairly significant and it’s the circumstances that will ultimately bring him back to Star City, but he’s not going to be the same. He’s not going to be able to live his life the way he had been living it before.”
While Diggle is away Oliver will be training a new Team Arrow, which is just one more thing that Diggle will have to get used to when he returns.
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“Arrow” returns on Wednesday, October 5.
