Arrow Season 7: 10 Easter Eggs & References You Might Have Missed In 'Inmate 4587'
5. Hope Springs
After agreeing to take part in the witness protection programme, Felicity and William were given new identities and moved to a new location. As the Season 7 premiere revealed, that new location was the quiet town known as Hope Springs.
If you're familiar with some of the early Green Lantern/Green Arrow crossover comics, you'll probably know that Hope Springs made its first appearance in a DC story all the way back in 1970, where it debuted as an impoverished mining town in West Virginia. Back then, it was simply known as Desolation.
It's nice to see the Arrow writers pulling from some of the lesser-known DC locations and Hope Springs wasn't the only one to get a shout-out...