If Arrow wasn’t coming back for another season, the Season 3 finale sure could have functioned as a happy ending for Oliver Queen and Felicity Smoak, as the two took off together, leaving behind their dangerous life for parts unknown and some well deserved time alone.

But Arrow is coming back, which means one way or the other, something will have to happen to bring these two back to Starling City and Oliver back into that mask and hood.Season 4 doesn’t begin filming until later this summer, which means for now, the cast don’t know what’s coming next, but when I spoke to Emily Bett Rickards at the Upfronts in New York last month, she had a few amusing thoughts on where Arrow left the characters. We spoke about where Oliver and Felicity might be going, the struggle to keep a couple strong on a TV show once you move from “will they or won’t they?” into “they’re together” and whether Felicity’s use of the Atom suit in the finale could lead to something more in terms of an alter ego for her character.

Stephen Amell, Emily Bett Rickards and Katrina Law in Arrow.

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Maybe! Maybe they’ll send it back to Thea and she’ll rip it and be like, “I’m too busy for this.” Then she’ll throw it up in the air as confetti in the Foundry, which will be new because there is no Foundry any more. So we don’t know where her lair is going to be.I haven’t been told. It’s been very disappointing for everyone in your job position because I have not been told anything nor have I asked because it usually changes so quickly. I’ll say that Oliver and Felicity have gone away and I have no idea where they went. Hopefully Jamaica, an all-inclusive resort. I want lime sorbet, a pina colada, and I want to sit on the beach. [laughs] I want to have a goddamn good time!You know how they put Katherine Heigl in a coma in Grey’s Anatomy? I want them to put me on a beach.Can you sustain the passion and the power that comes from people who already have that momentum in that area… I mean I don’t know. Do you know?What characters?They all get married!I would like them to do things as a couple, as a team, as well as be part of a team. I want them to deal with couple stuff – honesty, vulnerability, sex. All that stuff.Costume-wise, maybe, but probably not the Atom suit again. I think we used that bubble, but that was fun. It was hard to wear that suit.Maybe, we’ll see. Or just a split-personality. I’ll United States of Tara her.They should make me a writer!

Arrow returns this fall on the CW.Eric Goldman is Executive Editor of IGN TV. You can follow him on Twitter at @TheEricGoldman , IGN at ericgoldman-ign and Facebook at Facebook.com/TheEricGoldman