Who's Leaving Arrow After Tonight's Incredible Game-Changing Episode? Plus, Who Might Be Dead?!

A series regular is moving on.

By Lauren Piester Apr 16, 2015 1:52 AMTags
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FEELINGS!

That's not the most dignified way to start a recap but it is probably the most appropriate, all-encompassing word we could come up with to describe our current state after watching tonight's episode of Arrow. That was pretty amazing. We're amazed.

Tonight we bid a fond farewell to Roy Harper (Colton Haynes), who did not die, although for a minute there we totally thought he did. Instead, he headed off to start a new life, and executive producers Greg Berlanti and Marc Guggenheim confirmed in an interview with Buzzfeed that Roy, and therefore Colton Haynes, have officially exited the show

They also revealed that Haynes' role on the show was always going to be relatively short-lived so that he could feel free to commit to other projects.  

"He was such a wonderful element as a character and a person," Berlanti told Buzzfeed. "It was super sad, but everybody kinda looked at each other and realized that he's at the start of what I'm sure will be an incredibly, incredibly impressive career."

So how did Roy's exit go down?   

After taking the fall for Oliver and pretending to be the Arrow, to say Roy had a tough time in jail is an understatement. He got beaten up pretty badly, which made Oliver and Company feel all the more guilty about "letting" him do it.

Despite all this, Detective Lance was pulling out all the stops to somehow catch Oliver in the act of Arrow-ing. Oliver's team, meanwhile, was pulling out an equal number of stops to make sure that didn't happen, which included planting Roy's fingerprints all over the Arrow cave and hiring a dude to fake stab Roy to his fake death.

Lance, Oliver, and Thea were all led to believe that Roy was dead, until Felicity and Diggle revealed the truth to a slightly angry (because when is he not?) Oliver. So Roy Harper, officially, is dead, but unofficially, he's now on the run, off to live some other sort of life in some other sort of place. 

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What did you think of the episode? Were you sad to see Roy go? Do you think Thea will survive that sword? Let us know in the comments!

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