New ARROW Featurette Takes A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Merlyn's Final Test

One of this season's biggest mysteries has been the agenda of master villain Malcolm Merlyn, who has spent most of the season training and manipulating Thea. Come check out this brand new featurette where we're given a BTS look at his final test for Thea!

By RohanPatel - Jan 27, 2015 09:01 PM EST

Filed Under: Arrow

Source: CW

SUIT UP - Arsenal (Colton Haynes) and Diggle (David Ramsey) confront Laurel (Katie Cassidy) about trying to step into her sister's shoes and warn her to stop before she gets herself killed. However, when Brick (guest star Vinnie Jones) kidnaps the city's Aldermen and threatens to kill them all unless the police evacuate The Glades, it's all suits on deck. Meanwhile, Ray (Brandon Routh) steps in to help Lance (Paul Blackthorne) and the police force fight Brick, showing Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) a new side of her boss. Malcom (John Barrowman) tells Thea (Willa Holland) that Ra's al Ghul (Matt Nable) is after him and his family and they must leave town immediately. Nick Copus directed the episode written by Wendy Mericle & Ben Sokolowski (#311).

In the aftermath of this victory, Season 3 opens with Arrow now a hero to the citizens of Starling. Crime is down, people feel safer, and Captain Lance even calls off the Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Basking in his success, Oliver believes he can finally have a private life and asks Felicity out on a date. But the second Oliver takes his eye off the ball, a deadly villain reappears in Starling, forcing Oliver to realize that he can never be Oliver Queen — not as long as the city needs The Arrow.

Arrow features:
Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/Arrow
Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
David Ramsey as John Diggle
Willa Holland as Thea Queen
Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance/Black Canary
Colton Haynes as Roy Harper/Arsenal
Paul Blackthorne as Captain Quentin Lance
John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer
Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer/Atom
Karl Yune as Maseo Yamashiro/Sarab
Rila Fukushima as Tatsu Yamashiro/Katana
Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul
Matt Nable as Ra's al Ghul

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18 Comments

TheEpicJuicebox - 1/27/2015, 9:46 PM

When is the suicide squad coming back with Cupid, slade, and Captain Boomerang

JoeMomma29 - 1/27/2015, 9:51 PM

This is the only or should I say first season I find Thea freakin hot! Her voice is annoying as hell but she is just hot this season!

JoeMomma29 - 1/27/2015, 9:54 PM

By the way Arrow has the best choreography and fight scenes out all the CBTVS right now hands down!

GhostDog - 1/27/2015, 9:58 PM

Until daredevil...

JoeMomma29 - 1/27/2015, 10:03 PM

@comicsbornandbred

No DareDevil is going to be on a uncharted medium......Right now you have the following..

1. Cinematic Movies

2. Animated Movies and television shows

3. Network Live Action Shows

4. Cable Live Action Shows like The Walking Dead and The Strain

5. Netflix Live Action Shows (Shows that are being produced for Netflix only)

Yes Netflix, Hulu, and Amazon are uncharted waters for comic book based shows.

JoeMomma29 - 1/27/2015, 10:07 PM

By the way hats off for Marvel having the balls to do a show for directly for Netflix.

Hopefully WB gets some balls and do something for HBO Go or whatever their new platform is going to be to compete with Netflix and Amazon. They can really do a something dark and very adult oriented.

DeusExSponge - 1/27/2015, 10:33 PM

JoeMomma - If NBC drops Constantine, HBO should pick it up! Just imagine all the possibilities with a HBO budget and what not.

Heder - 1/28/2015, 3:55 AM

Arrow turned a pathetic show.

AbhiShake - 1/28/2015, 4:16 AM

Thea is really growing on me.

Jayman - 1/28/2015, 8:45 AM

enjoying season 3 of Arrow its been pretty good. It would be great to see Thea become Oliver's sidekick she's really developed well this season and she has some training and I really like her scenes with Oliver which are nice. So i hope it happens. It would be cool if arrow could do there own justice league on the show too that would be cool to see.

ShadowakaTankD - 1/28/2015, 10:01 AM

Malcom merlin is a [frick]in homo. and Arrows little sister looks [frick]ing ridiculous trying to act after her double does martial arts. this show is beyond cringe worthy...

Foolsgoldfinger - 1/28/2015, 1:40 PM

Still the BEST CB series on TV!

New ARROW Featurette Takes A Behind-The-Scenes Look At Merlyn's Final Test

One of this season's biggest mysteries has been the agenda of master villain Malcolm Merlyn, who has spent most of the season training and manipulating Thea. Come check out this brand new featurette where we're given a BTS look at his final test for Thea!

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