Peter Yorke

"Morning 4587, beautiful day!"

- Peter Yorke

Peter Yorke (born January 1, 1978) is a former prison guard of Slabside Maximum Security Prison. He was fired after (apparently) attempting to kill Oliver Queen. Peter is also the husband of Jenna Yorke and the father of Noah Yorke.

Biography
Peter was born on January 1, 1978, at the age 19, he joins the army serves 8 years in the military, after being injured in line of duty, he started working at Slabside Maximum Security Prison, he has been working there for 12 years, although Peter has a clean record as a prison guard, he is not well-liked by the other inmates; due to how badly he treats them.

At some point, Peter met and married a woman named Jenna, and they have a son, named Noah.

After Oliver Queen's fight with Ricardo Diaz and surrendering himself to the FBI, Yorke oversaw Oliver's arrival to Slabside Maximum Security Prison. After Oliver Queen became an inmate, Yorke would greet him in his cell every morning when the latter woke up. After breaking up a fight with Oliver against Danny Brickwell, Ben Turner and Derek Sampson, Yorke had Turner sent to solitary confinement. Yorke goes to Oliver's cell and warns him to not get involved in a fight again before telling him he has a visitor. One day later, Yorke goes to Oliver's cell to inform him he had another visitor. One day when the inmates are released into the courtyard, Oliver knocks out Brickwell before proceeding to attack another inmate who knocked him out in an earlier fight and Yorke orders him to stand down but Oliver ignored him, leaving Yorke to take him into solitary.

After two days, Yorke releases Oliver. While inspecting Oliver's cell, Oliver tries to warn him that Brickwell wants him dead, but he ignored his warning and tells Oliver that he's nothing but a vigilante. Oliver later took matters in his owns hands, where he stabbed himself and blamed it on Yorke to get him fired despite Yorke denying it.

Personality
"The right thing? Is that what you were doing, running around in that costume? You turned the law into a joke. The Green Arrow's very existence invited criminals into your city. You think you're some kind of hero. Have you ever stopped to think maybe all you've done is make things worse?"

- Peter Yorke to Oliver Queen

Yorke is very arrogant to the point of being delusional similar to Samanda Watson, as he believes that he runs Slabside Maximum Security Prison, according to Oliver Queen; he is a hardass and dick, as he treats the other inmates like slaves. Yorke is arrogant towards individuals that he believes are inferior to him, like Oliver, as the only thing that Yorke knows about Oliver is that he was once a billionaire and vigilante. He also ignores warnings from other inmates, as Oliver was trying to warn him that someone (Danny Brickwell) wants him dead. Yorke also seems to enjoy treating Oliver badly since he would rudely wake him every morning, refusing to let him spend more time with Felicity after seeing they were no longer conversing, and listening in on Oliver's talk with John Diggle. Similar to Quentin Lance, Yorke was prejudice towards Oliver due to his past experiences with the wealthy believing that Oliver is like them and blames him for making Star City dangerous by being the Green Arrow even though Yorke does not live in there with his family. Yorke has a very childish sense of humor since he would mock Oliver that everyday is a beautiful day at Slabside even though he treats everyone badly.

Eventually, Yorke started to get on every inmates' nerves, to the point that they wanted him out of the prison; dead or fired, these negative traits of his made it easy for his co-workers to believe he tried to kill Oliver, especially due to several complaints made about him by the other inmates. His self-righteous nature aside, as Oliver noted, he was at his core still a law-abiding man and kept the other guards in line which is why Brickwell wanted him gone since he had Dunbar and several others on his side.Yorke's attitude came from a long period of setbacks in life, leading him to be very by the book in a self-righteous manner. As noted by Stanley Dover, Yorke considers the safety of his wife and son to be more important than the law. This is evidence by when Yorke was about to assault Oliver with his baton upon Oliver mentioning the names of his loved ones which makes Yorke somewhat of a hypocrite and very self-centered.