It’s hard enough to keep a secret in the film industry in general, but things are even more complicated nowadays when everyone has easy access to the Internet. It’s not rare that we get various leaks about TV shows and films long before they’ve come out officially, and sometimes this can spoil quite a lot about a production. Recently, we’ve been hearing some reports that the dialogue for the main villain in the fourth season of “Arrow” might have been leaked from the show’s auditions.
The leak is coming from ComicBook.com, who claim to have come across some recordings from auditions from the show, featuring a conversation between two characters – Oliver Queen and a “Villain”. The auditions were apparently for the role of someone named “Simon”, which has been speculated to be a codename for “Damien Darhk”, none other than the leader of H.I.V.E.
This could make the plot of the season very interesting – not that it was suffering in this regard so far, but still – as we will finally get to dig a bit deeper in the mysterious organization that has been referenced in the show previously. It wasn’t long ago that we saw a conversation between Ra’s al Ghul and Oliver in which Oliver was warned about Damien and his organization.
And Darhk was supposed to become the next Ra’s al Ghul at some point – or at least he had aspirations for that – but after he didn’t get the title, he left the League of Assassins and founded his own group of dedicated followers. Oliver then gets the information that Darhk’s organization has been directly responsible for quite a lot of the trouble over Starling City, and they are additionally the group that got John Diggle’s brother killed.
The conversation between the two characters is interesting to read, even though it seems really cryptic when taken out of context like that. There is an additional character joining in at some point and it sounds like they’re in trouble. The conversation between that character and the villain doesn’t go well, as he’s begging for his life but is met with a complete lack of understanding.
We also get to see a part of the motivations behind the character of the villain, who states that he was trying to avoid falling into the position of being vulnerable and put at someone else’s mercy, and he didn’t want to experience that terrible feeling so he completely cut ties with anyone that could hurt him, such as family and friends.