"Arrow" season 4 premiere, which aired on Wednesday, opened to solid ratings, improving by 10% compared to its third season's pilot.
The CW Network superhero series has a promising start. However, the ending of the first episode titled "Green Arrow" has a different effect.
The season just started but some fans will have no problem fast-forwarding the story to learn who's on that grave shown in the closing minutes.
Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen was joined by Grant Gustin's Barry Allen at the end of the "Arrow" season 4 premiere mourning over someone in a cemetery.
The show did not reveal who is sleeping six feet under but there are several speculations who might that be. Is it Felicity? Quentin Lance? Or Thea Queen? The gist is it is someone Barry met before for him to rush to Starling City after fighting Zoom.
Whoever in that grave is, there is no coming back for him/her. Executive producer Marc Guggenheim said that character will stay dead forever.
"It's not a fake-out," Guggenheim told TV Line.
EP Wendy Mericle also said this person will not be put in the Lazarus Pit which was used to revive Thea (Willa Holland) and Sarah Lance (Caity Lotz) in the third season.
"We want to bring stakes back to the show, and so, we'll be finding a way to handle the Lazarus Pit... in a new, inventive way that I can't reveal," she said. "But it'll be cool."
This must be the big moment in "Arrow" season 4 premiere Amell shared during the Dragon Con last month. He said they did something they've never done before.
"The fundamental part of the season, that nobody is really going to understand until they see the premiere, is that we do something in the premiere that we've never done in the history of the show," Amell said as reported by Comicbook.com.
"It does something for the remainder of the season that there's going to be a constant jeopardy in the show, even if times are good. It's a really interesting technique. I think it promotes a good story. I think it will pique people's interest."
"Arrow" season 4 episode two is called "The Candidate." Read synopsis here.
