New "Arrow" season 4 details will likely feature a character's death in episode 18 and Deathstroke's return to the show might not happen soon.
Executive producer Marc Guggenheim tweeted an image of the episode 18's script titled "Eleven-Fifty-Nine" which is also co-wrote by Keto Shimuzo. The episode is speculated to be the moment a character from the TV series will die at the hands of Damien Darhk (Neal McDonough) and his organization H.I.V.E., thus enabling Oliver Queen/Green Arrow to once again kill someone because close to him is gone.
Episode 18 is also speculated that that title itself will also hint that cemetery scene from episode 1 is been six months in the future, CarterMatt reported. Technically speaking the show will be hitting the six month period next month. Several characters, both regular and guess appearances are being targeted for death in the series such as John Diggle (David Ramsey), Quetin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), Donna Smoak (Charlotte Ross), Laurel Lance/Black Canary (Katie Cassidy), Samantha Clayton (Anna Hopkins) and his son William, who also happens to be Oliver Queen's biological son.
Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) has already given the name of Oliver's son to Damien Darhk as way to hurt him after his leadership of the League of Assassins has been taken and eventually disbanded. This gives viewers a slight chance that William will likely die in season 4, giving a reason to kill Darhk once for all.
In other news, it seems that Slade Wilson/Deathstrokes (Manu Bennett) return to the show might be cut short as Guggenheim stated in an interview that the Deathstroke character will be used in another DC based project, Screenrant reported.
"TMNT 2" star Stephen Amell wanted Deathstroke back from the show because Bennett's character is transformative" villain which provides that missing piece of the puzzle within "Arrow" season 4.
Several fans have speculated that the reasons why Deathstroke will be absent for "Arrow" is that DC might be putting him into several movies such as "Suicide Squad" who us rumored to be played by Scoot Eastwood and the new Batman film starring Ben Affleck. While another claim is that Deathstorke will be put into the live-action "Teen Titans" series since Slade is the main antagonist of the team in the comics.
"Arrow" season 4 returns on Wednesdays at 8/7pm central on the CW Network.