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During the episode, Oliver gave Mia her very own Green Arrow suit so she could take over his legacy. This ties in with the backdoor pilot that will air as a final episode of Arrow in 2020 for a possible spinoff with Katherine McNamara‘s Mia, Katie Cassidy‘s Laurel and Juliana Harkavy‘s Dinah.
At the end of the episode, Oliver sacrificed his own life to save the people of Earth-38.
“The dilemma that we presented to ourselves was that we spoiled our own story,” Arrow EP Marc Guggenheim said, via THR. “So if Oliver dying isn’t the surprise, what is the surprise? The timing of him dying?”
“We’ve kind of figured that the audience is expecting that Oliver will die in the climax in the fifth hour,” he added. “So if we went in the exact opposite direction, and killed him off at the end of hour one, we accomplished two things — we hopefully do surprise the audience. That’s absolutely the intention. And we also really establish the stakes that going into the next four hours, if Oliver Queen can die, then no one is safe.”
“The leads [of the various shows] all have a different take on how to grieve or handle Oliver’s death,” Batwoman showrunner Caroline Dries said. “Some believe it’s over, and some of them believe that ‘we can fix this.’ Some of them are not wanting to even think about it so there’s everyone has a different approach to it and that helps generate the story for the episodes.”
