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[This post contains spoilers for the ARROW episode, “Seeing Red.” If you haven’t watched it yet, please go view it first, and then come back to see what Susanna Thompson had to say about the hour.]

ARROW’s Moira Queen may not have been the most honest person in the world, but the one consistent aspect of her character was she would do anything in her power to protect her children.

(Whether they wanted it or not.) And when Oliver was faced with the choice of having to choose between Slade killing his mother or his sister, Moira took the decision out of her son’s hands and volunteered herself to die in order to spare her children.

In light of Moira’s (devastating) death, I spoke with Susanna Thompson (Moira) about her character’s demise, why she opted to improvise a key element of her final scene, Moira’s secrets, what she’ll miss