Arrow Season 3 Spoilers: Charlotte Ross Returns as Felicity Smoak's Mom to Bring Some Light to Starling City

Season 3 of the CW's Arrow will be back next week, and fans likely know that Charlotte Ross returns as Felicity's mother, Donna Smoak, in Episode 18, entitled "Public Enemy."

TVLine now has some photos of the bright and sunny character's return, and you can check them out here.

But here's the real question. The episode also focuses heavily on Captain Lance (Paul Blackthorne), so could the two characters wind up...together?

The buzz started when Blackthorne posted a behind-the-scenes photo of himself and Ross goofing around. TVLine asked the actor about the possibility of a romantic spark between the two characters.

"What are the chances for SmoaknLance happening on Arrow? –Nikki
I like your thinking, giving Laurel’s sad dad some happiness in the form of Felicity’s got-it-going-on mom. And Paul Blackthorne himself noticed that when he tweeted out this selfie of him and Charlotte Ross, 'It did seem to go down well!' He thus seconds the 'SmoaknLance' idea, saying, 'I think that Lance deserves some loving in his life, don’t you? And I think it’d be hilarious. He’d be sitting there across from her at dinner thinking, ‘What is this in front of me?’ and at the same time, ‘Why am I so attracted to what’s in front of me?’ I think it’d be a brilliant couple, because they’re obviously so different yet seemingly so perfect in a crazy way, so I hope it happens.' As for whether it does happen during Ross’ Episode 18 encore, you’ll just have to stay tuned."

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