Arrow Season 4: 12 Questions We're Asking After 'Code Of Silence'

2. What Will Darhk Do To William?

Now we get to the episode's big twist, which follows on from the end of last week's episode and Merlyn telling Darhk about William. The question then was how would he act on that information, and we get an answer here. He's somehow gotten hold of Oliver's son, introducing him as a playdate for his daughter, and that he's going to be spending some time with them. Darhk has always been presented as an extremely dangerous foe, but this takes it to another level, and you wonder - and worry - just what he has planned for William. Has he really just kidnapped him as a way of hurting Oliver, and doesn't have any plans to harm the boy? Or does he have something much more sinister in mind, that would lead to William being the person in that grave we're headed towards? Killing William would make sense in terms of Oliver wanting to kill the person responsible. But even just having possession of him, to use as a way of baiting Oliver into doing something stupid, or forcing his hand - for something like making him withdraw from the Mayoral race, perhaps? - would be exactly the kind of thing Darhk would do.
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