This week, Arrow returns for its seventh season. Picking up months after the events if the finale, there is a new normal in Star City with Oliver behind bars.
Here it is, the start of Arrow season 7 is here. Unlike last year’s premiere, there are not too many questions from the finale that need to be answered. The set up for where all the characters are to start the season is pretty straightforward.
Five months after the events of the season 6 finale, Oliver is in prison. The rest of Team Arrow has also been forced to give up the vigilante life. Diggle is still working for ARGUS. Felicity and William have gone into witness protection seeing as the entire world now knows Oliver is the Green Arrow.
However, a new threat has come to Star City that is going to change his things have worked for the past few months. The Green Arrow has returned. Is this Diggle or is Roy Harper underneath the green hood now?
Seeing as Ricardo Diaz has called the famed Longbow Hunters to help him wreak havoc on Star City, the members of Team Arrow not behind bars will need to get the band back together.
Here is the synopsis for the episode, “Inmate 4587”, from SpoilerTV.
"Following Oliver’s (Stephen Amell) shocking decision to turn himself over to the FBI and reveal his identity as the Green Arrow to the public, Oliver has spent the past five months in Slabside Maximum Security Prison. Determined to keep a low profile to shorten his sentence for the sake of his family, Oliver is tested when he runs into old foes. Meanwhile, Diggle (David Ramsey) and Dinah (Juliana Harkavy) have taken on new jobs and left their costumes behind but not everyone is following suit. With her focus on William (guest star Jack Moore), Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) tries to start over but when someone from her past resurfaces, things become complicated."
When it comes to Arrow, the length of the synopsis can reveal a lot. Short means the episode will contain a twist of some sort. But, a long one like this means this premiere is likely to be straightforward. It will establish what life is like for Oliver in prison.
Along with the Longbow Hunters, the premiere is likely to set up that Ricardo Diaz is still a threat. And seeing as Kirk Acevedo was just promoted to series regular, Diaz will likely be the big bad for this season as well. Get ready for a lot more whisper threatening again. It seems that Diaz will be around for a while.