Who Is Wearing Oliver’s Costume on Arrow?

The final moments of tonight’s episode of Arrow appeared to show Oliver Queen returning to his old, murderous ways, with the Arrow taking out a group of criminals associated with Murmur, the villain who attacked the police station in tonight’s episode.

Of course, anyone who was confused by this was then struck by the next interesting visual of the episode: the face of the man under the hood — who wasn’t wearing a mask and definitely wasn’t Oliver Queen.

Final chance to turn back before SPOILERS.

…But why?

Well, the obvious is that he’s trying to make his own prophecy about Oliver Queen come true, so that Oliver might be more amenable to making the prophecy about Ra’s al Ghul come true. There’s some symmetry to that.

He’s also clearly sabotaging the reputation of the Arrow, at a time when he’s vulnerable to just that sort of attack with Captain Lance, his closest ally in the police, turned against him.

You can check out the synopsis for next week’s episode, “Suicidal Tendencies,” below.

DIGGLE MARRIES LYLA; THE SUICIDE SQUAD RIDES AGAIN — It’s celebration time as Diggle (David Ramsey) and Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson) get married. However, Deadshot (guest star Michael Rowe) interrupts their honeymoon and tells them the Suicide Squad has been given a new mission – rescue United States Senator Joseph Cray (guest star Steven Culp) from a hostage situation in the Republic of Kasnia. Amanda Waller (guest star Cynthia Addai-Robinson) breaks down the mission and introduces them to the newest member of the Suicide Squad, Cupid (guest star Amy Gumenick). Meanwhile, Oliver (Stephen Amell) learns about Ray’s new Atom costume and the two have a heated stand-off. Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Ray hit a rough patch. Jess