Arrow: Five Big Questions Raised by “Suicide Squad”

As the second season of Arrow nears its conclusion, tonight’s “Suicide Squad” installment saw the series pick up speed in a big way.Slade Wilson’s plans went on hold — at least apparently — for a week while Diggle took the spotlight in a story that revolved around he and his ex-wife making their way to Markovia in the hopes of capturing a terrorist that the pair had already captured back during their military days. He’d been released after playing ball with the U.S. government — just one of a number of such shady doings in this episode.The whole episode, in fact, was pretty morally gray:”I think that by the time this story ends, he’s been manipulated by A.R.G.U.S. with strong-arm tactics to combine forces with quote-unquote bad guys in order to take out a bigger bad guy,” star David Ramsey explained to ComicBook.com in an interview. “That, to him, is dishonorable. To Diggle, it’s not an honorable code but by the time the story ends, we’ll see that he and Oliver have realized that they’re going to have to look at the decisions that they’ve always made — you know, this being the honorable thing and that being the dishonorable thing — and they’re going to have to re-examine that. And if it means to work with the quote-unquote bad guy to bring down the bigger bad guy, then maybe we have to do that.”And so the episode ends with some characters pulled closer together by the experience while others seem to have parted ways more or less for good. And all of it is building toward Slade Wilson.But we had to wonder…