User blog:Nightslayer2/The Devil's Greatest Trick

During this episode, people who were wondering who killed Cayden James' son Owen Post and framed the Green Arrow for it. My suspects were Alena, Agent Watson, Ricardo Diaz, Earth-2 Laurel, and Anatoly (not Vigilante because I don't see why Vigilante would want to target a university or high school student). It's obviously not Earth-2 Laurel because she was working with Prometheus at the time of the murder, Anatoly wouldn't do that because he's an honorable man (as evidenced by the fact that he would not harm William despite him being Oliver's son or target William at his school), and I see no reason for Alena to do this. I thought it was Agent Watson at first thinking she did this just so she can bring down the Green Arrow, but then after doing some Calculus, I figured Ricardo has a motive since he would need someone like Cayden James to help take control of the criminal underworld which is why he joined and manipulated from the start. I figured that because of the fact James and his cabal stole a port that was the only thing the Bertinelli Crime Family and left. When I saw the episode, I then realized I was right, that it was Diaz all along (poor Cayden by the way).

Diaz said that he had a new police captain in his pocket when he killed Cayden James and that would be Kimberly Hill. This is kind of like in the Batman comics where Rupert Thorne and Carmine Falcone have city officials as well as cops in their payroll. This would be interesting to watch Quentin Lance deal with police corruption and try to take down Hill. Perhaps he won't be the deputy mayor anymore since he considers managing the police department as a captain to be more important in order to prevent certain things from happening again such as Cayden James' death. Perhaps that would leave Walter Steele free to become Oliver's deputy mayor instead of Quentin. I also had this storyline idea about Diaz from the comics and from Eobard95's blog as well as the one of Quentin being up against Hill.

After killing Cayden James, Diaz continues on with his plans by killing off the mob leaders like Jin Fang of Chinatown and Jimmy MacGowan, who controlled the waterfront. He even allies himself the Clock King (Billy Tockman), who controls the street corners. Like in the New 52, Tockman owns a nightclub called the Midnight Lounge, and vintage clock repair shop called the Clock King, which he uses as a front for his evil operations. Quentin, desperate to bring down Diaz and having trouble to do so due to Diaz having a lot of powerful people in his pocket, talks Tockman into taking down Diaz. However, Tockman betrays Quentin since Diaz gives him a better offer. However, Diaz and Tockman both get defeated in the aftermath.

I was also thinking that Diaz could place a 30-million dollar bounty on Green Arrow and a lot of people try to claim the money. That has never happened before in the show and I think that would be pretty interesting. However, he could do that during when Watson and the FBI try to take down the Green Arrow or when Watson fails to prove Oliver is the Green Arrow and the FBI walk away from the case or have her dismissed. Perhaps like Quentin, Watson then decides to work with Team Arrow after finding Diaz used her (which he is by the way) or knew that the FBI would come due to him having people on the inside (that would be cliche however which is something that should be avoided a lot) or she continues to bring down Oliver only for Diaz or someone to kill her (that would not be cliche).

In the upcoming episodes, Nyssa Al Ghul will come back to help deal with Malcolm Merlyn's former associate Athena. Perhaps, it'll be revealed that Diaz trained with the League of Assassins (like Eobard95's blog) and then resorted to crime after she disbanded the group. Nyssa could then recreate the League of Assassins so no one could return to crime again or do something horrible. I imagine if that were true, then Diaz could be working solo or with Talia Al Ghul. We could then finally see what has become of the others on the explosion of Lian Yu (like what happened to Talia and Evelyn or we could find that out before that when Nyssa returns).

What do you guys think?