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Email InsideLine tvline. Click here to subscribe. During an attack by Deadshot on Walter Steele 's life along with several other people from Starling City Diggle helped the Queen Family escape the attack.

After getting the family to safety he went in search of Oliver Queen wondering were he was he soon follows the sounds of a battle going on between Arrow and Deadshot. As the battle ends Diggle is injured by Deadshot he is quickly saved by Arrow who takes him back to his base and heals him.

As Diggle is recovering Arrow reveals himself to be Oliver Queen. After learning the truth Diggle is extremely angry and disapproving of learning the truth and for a brief time quits his job as bodyguard. However Diggle eventually relents all his negative views about learning the truth about Oliver Queen and eventually joins him as his partner in his crusade and overall voice of reason for him as well.

One of Diggle's first missions with Oliver Queen was to donning the Arrow Uniform to help him escape jail time. Diggle begins to be at odds with Oliver and disproves of his interaction with Helena Bertinelli after Oliver falls in love with her and begins to train her along with learning Oliver Secret as well.

Soon after that he and Oliver deal with a new threat known as The Dark Archer who begins killing people who were on Oliver's List. Six months later, Stewart begun visiting John's mother, eventually marrying her and becoming John and Andy's stepfather. John continued to hold a lot of resentment towards Stewart, which worsened when the man began to force him and Andy to undergo intensive military training every day in order to toughen the boys up and prepare them to the hardness of life.

On July 23, , John's unit was driving to the front lines in Afghanistan when they noticed a young girl standing in their path. John stopped the convoy and tried to help her, but the group ended up in a trap and were attacked by Taliban insurgents. During the fight, all the men in John's unit were eventually killed. Guilt-ridden and angry, John ruthlessly massacred the remaining insurgents. Afterwards, he saw the girl from earlier was injured from the battle and tended to her.

John brought the girl to safety with him and later narrated the experience to a superior. When he discovered that Andy was a drug dealer, John angrily beat him until his knuckles bled and convinced his brother to enroll in the army as well, hoping it would set him on the correct path. John and Andy went on a mission in Afghanistan, hoping to stop the local arms trade.

On the way, their armored truck was attacked and their group was pinned down. John rushed out and planted a land mine while Andy and the rest drew the hostile truck towards it.

The truck ran over the mine and exploded. Back at base camp, John and Andy were on guard duty. Joyner approached them and offered them a deal to confiscate some of the opium they recovered and sell it off.

Andy appeared to reject the offer which pleased John, but John later caught Andy talking to Joyner. Andy played it off as a casual conversation about teaching Joyner to count cards, but lied to John and was actually helping Joyner steal opium. At some point in Afghanistan, John met a tribal leader who told him stories about the League of Assassins , an ancient group of warriors comparable to ghosts. However, John dismissed the League as an urban legend, mainly since the tribal leader "was smoking what he was selling".

After one of his times back home, John saw the "ghost" of a fellow soldier who had died, a symptom of survivor's guilt, and only made it go away once he figured out what the ghost was trying to tell him. Lyla Michaels and John met in Afghanistan , and then got married.

At the end of John's second tour, they rotated back Stateside, where their marriage could not survive the peace, and they divorced. John went back to Afghanistan for a third tour, while Lyla joined A. Around , John retired from the army [16] and was honorably discharged. In February , he got a job for personal security with connections from Andy, guarding Tommy Merlyn 's birthday party. Later on, Andy was killed while on duty by the assassin Deadshot unbeknownst to John. After this, John grew closer to his brother's widow, Carly.

In October , John was hired by Moira Queen to protect her son, Oliver , after the latter was kidnapped following his recent rescue from an island.

As John was driving Oliver into town, the two made conversation over the former's experiences in the army. John informed Oliver that his main priority is to protect his client, regardless of personal discomfort.

Just then, Oliver suddenly vanished from the car, much to John's shock. The night after, John accompanied Oliver to his homecoming party, choosing to sit with him in the backseat to make sure his client wouldn't disappear again. At the party, John surveyed the area and watched on, impressed, as Oliver pickpocketed and disposed of his sister Thea 's drug stash.

Later, he caught Oliver trying to leave the party through the kitchen, not buying his client's excuse of wanting a moment alone. As they headed back inside, Oliver quietly knocked John out in order to confront Adam Hunt. Over the next week, Oliver continued to try and avoid John, even driving off in the car alone following his legal resurrection.

He tried to explain that his client didn't want his protection, which Moira was unsatisfied with and threatened to fire him. After Oliver returned home and agreed to accept his bodyguard, he apologized to John for giving him so much grief.

John quipped that having served three tours in Afghanistan, he can handle Oliver's antics, but stated he will quit himself if his client runs off again. The next day at Queen Consolidated , John witnessed Moira and Oliver's argument about the latter refusing to work at the company as was expected of him. While riding home with his client, John subtly empathized with Oliver's dilemma, reflecting on how after spending five years in Afghanistan, he realized that his home was just as much of a "battlefield"; your loved ones always try to get you to open up and be your old self again, which may not be possible anymore.

John then noted that Oliver seemed unusually mentally strong for someone who spent five years cut off from civilization. Later one night at Laurel Lance 's apartment , John realized something was off when he went to get a light from two officers parked just outside of the establishment, finding them slain in the car, and protected Oliver and Laurel from the Chinese Triad when they broke in. He briefly dueled with China White , who eventually overpowered and was about to kill him but Oliver saved John's life by throwing a knife, shooting the blade out of her hand.

When the police arrived, Detective Quentin Lance thanked John for saving his daughter. Afterwards, Oliver gave John an ice pack and also thanked him. John likewise reciprocated for his employer saving him, in turn, during the confrontation and commented on Oliver's ability to accurately throw a kitchen knife from 10 feet away, refusing to drop it when Oliver tries to make it sound like he got lucky when he threw it like that; but Diggle knows the difference between a beginner's luck and the skill of a legitimate expert, and Oliver's knife-throwing exhibited back at Laurel's place was definitely impressive as far as anyone with military experience like John is concerned.

Suspecting there to be more to his charge than previously thought, John gets upfront with Oliver and cryptically stated he is "just beginning to understand the kind of man [Oliver] [is]". Sure enough, after Oliver visited his father Robert Queen 's grave, John was visibly unsurprised when his client confirmed to be "going out" that night.

After Oliver ran out again on his watch by escaping through a bathroom window, John met him at the mansion the next morning and stated he would now be "watching [Oliver] pee", much to the latter's amusement. When Oliver decided to open a nightclub in his father's old factory , John was skeptical of the idea, pointing out his club's desired clientele wouldn't want to come into The Glades so late at night.

Oliver insisted they would due to his notoriety and the business would soon gentrify the neighborhood. Amused at "the white knight swooping in to save the disenfranchised" on his own, John praised how "perceptive" Oliver was. Carly warned him to be careful when protecting Oliver, reminding John how her husband and his brother, Andy Diggle , was killed while working as a bodyguard. At the Unidac Industries auction, John lead the Queen family 's security detail.

When Oliver arrived, he warned John to stay vigilant since the sniper responsible for targeting the bidders would attack before the event, eliciting confusion and suspicion from the bodyguard. Suddenly, a shooting suddenly commenced. John took Moira and Thea to safety before pursuing Oliver, only to end up caught in the crossfire of the Hood's battle with Deadshot. John's shoulder was wounded with a curare -laced bullet. The Hood brought John to his lair and healed him with an herbal concoction.

Once John recovered, he learned the Hood was in fact Oliver, much to his shock. Oliver explained he wanted to save the city and offered John the chance join him. However, John adamantly refused, deeming Oliver a "murderer", and left. The next morning, John tendered his resignation as Oliver's bodyguard, citing that he "didn't approve of the way [Oliver] [spent] [his] evenings". A couple nights later, John was eating dinner at Big Belly Burger when Oliver arrived in an effort to change John's mind about his offer.

John was initially dismissive until Oliver showed him The List , which he found on Robert's body while burying him. Oliver explained he is atoning for his father's sins by helping the people of the city who were wronged by the criminal deeds of the elite. Oliver then revealed that Deadshot, whom he took down at the Unidac auction, was Andy's killer, much to John's surprise.

Over the next day, John began to rethink his role as a bodyguard. He talked with Carly about his desire to make a difference again, like back in Afghanistan. Carly encouraged John to pursue something he believed in, which was what mattered the most. The next morning, John showed up at the Queen Mansion to see Oliver. Accepting that Starling City needs someone to fight for it, he agreed to join Oliver, acknowledging how the latter needed someone at his side when fighting a "war".

Just then, John witnessed Lance arrest Oliver. After Oliver was put under house arrest for being accused of being the vigilante, which was actually true, Diggle was told about a crime lord that was in trading arms.

Diggle thought Oliver intended to head out himself but Oliver told Diggle himself to observe his closet men. Later, Oliver, had Diggle go out himself donned the Vigilante costume in order to save Oliver from incarceration.

Diggle learned that Officer Stan Washington was shot while attempting to stop a robbery by the Royal Flush Gang and tried to convince Oliver to branch out from The List to help the city.

Oliver at first refused until Diggle arranged for him to pay Stan's medical bills at Starling General Hospital. John tricked Oliver into coming to the hospital and see Stan's wife, Jana , who thanked him for helping her husband. Oliver then agreed to help catch the Royal Flush Gang. That night, they hacked the bank cameras and attempted to find footage to help identify the members of the gang. However, the camera footage isn't enough and Oliver decided to break into the police station to get the information needed.

Upon identifying the members of the Royal Flush gang, Oliver and Diggle found out they were one of the families hurt by Robert's corruption in selling a factory that employed them. Oliver attempted to give them a second chance by offering Derek Reston , the father of the gang, a new job. Upon being refused, they decided to take down the Royal Flush Gang. While Oliver trains at the hideout, John suggests that he take some time off, given the recent events.

Oliver tells John that Paul worked for a man named Frank Bertinelli. John pulled Oliver out of his dinner because Nick has been going around town violently anyone who owes Frank protection money. Back at the hideout, Oliver is adamant that Helena must have a good reason for targeting her family. John isn't interested in her reasons, just that she's a killer, who will start a mob war if she isn't stopped. Oliver insists he knows what he's doing, but John doesn't believe him.

John tries to convince Oliver that Helena cannot be saved and that she is very dangerous, but Oliver refuses to listen. Oliver then brings her to his lair and tries to teach her archery, with John still trying to convince Oliver to think things through about her. John then tries to comfort Oliver over dinner. After Oliver failed in taking down the Dark Archer , Diggle drove Oliver to a hospital and told everyone he was hit by a semi while riding his motorbike.

Oliver tells John about his contact with Laurel and asks him to look into Danny. He wants John to alert the police to anything he finds. John wants the Hood to get back to work.

John has found a pickup truck he can link to the fire deaths. Oliver pauses when John tells him this is a time for the Hood. John isn't happy Oliver left Laurel by herself to battle the killer. This leads to a brief fight between the two as John tries to figure out what is wrong with Oliver. He thinks the other archer got into his head. Oliver talks to John about what happened to him during his battle with the other archer. In past years he'd never been worried about death because he had nothing to lose.

But his life is different now because of what would happen to his loved ones if they lose him. John thinks having something to live for should give him an edge. Oliver tells John it's time to return to The List. John tried to convince Oliver that his former commanding officer, Ted Gaynor , was a good man. Unfortunately, he was wrong, and it nearly cost him Carly's life. Oliver tells John of his mission to find " The Count ". John reminds him that Thea's hearing is coming up in a few hours.

Oliver and John meet with The Count. Oliver claims he wants to have something to offer his night club customers. The Count reveals that 56 people died to perfect his product. The Count gets away, on his way injecting Oliver in the chest with the pure form of Vertigo. Oliver and John manage to get away. John mixes up an antidote with Lian Yu herbs and gives it to Oliver.

Oliver wakes up from his drugged state, with John telling him that The Count only got a half dose into him. John and Oliver arrive at Queen Consolidated. John suggests Oliver go to the hospital but he declines. Oliver brings the Vertigo sample to Felicity Smoak, claiming it is an "energy drink" manufactured by his friend "Kevin" to cure hangovers. Oliver hopes she can analyze it and find out where in the city it was produced.

When Felicity wonders why the "energy drink" is in a syringe, Oliver replies, "I ran out of sports bottles", much to her and Diggle's exasperation.

Against John's wishes, Oliver goes after The Count. John finds it suspicious that Moira would have a copy of Robert's list, but Oliver attempts to write it off as a coincidence.

John understands Oliver wanting to believe that his mother is innocent, but the evidence is suggesting otherwise, especially Walter's recent disappearance. Oliver returns to the Arrowcave and tells John about the destruction of the notebook.

John sees it as a confirmation that Moira is hiding something, and says that if it were anyone else, Oliver would be donning his Hood gear and confronting them. Their conversation is interrupted when Laurel calls Oliver's ghost phone.

As Oliver leaves to help her, John asks if he is just using this as an excuse to run away from the truth about Moira. When Moira's regular chauffeur mysteriously calls in sick, John arranges to take his place. Moira has him drop her off at a restaurant. Once Moira goes inside, John follows her in, only to discover that she's attending a friend's birthday party.

When Moira asks why he's there, John lies that he was looking for the restroom. Oliver tells John about the ambush, and John suggests that Oliver "cannot see straight" with either Laurel or Moira. He has been keeping Moira under surveillance, because someone with an unbiased perspective needs to keep an eye on her. Oliver initially disapproves, but John convinces him that there is nothing wrong with driving her around for a few days.

John drops off Moira, who claims to be meeting with her accountant. Once she goes inside, John follows her and sneaks into a supply closet next to the office. Using a listening device, John overhears Moira talking to Malcolm although John doesn't know who it is , telling him that she's made sure that Carl Ballard won't interfere with "The Undertaking".

Malcolm's bodyguard comes into the closet and sees John, and asks what he's doing there. John claims that he was looking for a place to smoke and shows the bodyguard a cigarette lighter, which he substituted for the listening device. John plays Oliver the recording of the conversation between Moira and her contact whose voice is distorted and unrecognizable , and Oliver is shocked that the accident with the yacht was no accident.

However, he insists that Moira couldn't have been involved. John doesn't believe it and figures that the recording shows that she's involved, but they are interrupted when Quentin calls on Oliver's cell phone.

Oliver reviews John's recording and is devastated to learn of Moira's complicity in his father's death. John suggests that blind trust can be dangerous and they figure that they need to know what "the undertaking" is and how Moira is involved. Diggle was surprised to see Felicity Smoak come to the Arrowcave but discovered Oliver was shot. He saved Oliver's life with blood that Oliver stored away for a "Rainy Day" which Diggle referred to as it "Pouring" as Oliver was near death.

He later used defibrillators to resuscitate Oliver when he went into cardiac arrest. Afterwards, he was talking to Felicity, about him and Oliver, and she commented on how bad all their lies had been and Diggle told her that it was thanks to her, that they'd been able to do half of their work.

Concerned with the rising danger of their missions, John tried training Felicity, wanting her to be capable of defending herself. Oliver then informed John and Felicity that his target was Guillermo Barrera , an assassin, and he needed Felicity to hack his phone in order to figure out who Barrera's target was.

When Felicity hacked Barrera's phone she was able to see that the last number that was called was to a restaurant called Jade Dragon, and John revealed that it is a front for the Chinese Mafia. Then when Felicity had hacked the phone they saw that the target is Malcolm Merlyn.

After Oliver got back from saving Malcolm, Oliver informed John that Malcolm was taken to the hospital stating that it was good he wore a bulletproof vest. Oliver tells him that Malcolm is not at the hospital for being shot, he is there because of being poisoned by curare. John then realized that Floyd Lawton, his brother's killer, was still alive. John was reading a Starling City Sentinel report of Deadshot's kill until Oliver arrived and John showed him a video of Helena Bertinelli killing Gus Sabatoni , and he warned Oliver of that she might tell someone about them and their operation.

Oliver told John he wanted him to get in touch with their contacts in the Bratva and ask anyone in the street if they know why Helena is back and what she wants. Later Oliver told him that Helena paid a visit to his house and made a treat and he wants security on his mother and sister. John told him that he was way ahead of him. Later when Helena had blackmailed Oliver into helping her kill her father, John talked to him about Helena thinking Oliver should kill her, the Oliver asked him what he would do if it was Floyd Lawton and he answered not what Helena is doing.

Oliver called him and when he came to Felicity's office where he found Oliver freeing a tied up Felicity. Oliver tried to take down John Nickel , a corrupt real estate developer, but Nickel had already been kidnapped by someone else. After Oliver attempted to go after another name on The List, John took the notebook from him and insisted that Oliver take a break. The two went to Big Belly Burger, where Dig expressed his concern about how Oliver is handling the drama in his life while being the Hood, such as his failed relationships with McKenna and Helena.

Suddenly, everyone in the restaurant got a video streamed onto their phones from Glades Betrayed of a man who had Nickel tied up and executed him. Oliver tried to find him with Felicity's assistance, but was too late. That night while trying to find a way to track Joseph when Roy Harper was kidnapped, John noticed sounds of a train moving in the background of his broadcasts and realized they were in a moving subway car in the abandoned Starling City Subway.

Oliver was able to save Roy and killed Joseph. When The Count escapes and Starling City is flooded with even more Vertigo-related violence, Oliver and Diggle make it their mission to track him down. John and Oliver planned to take down Deadshot. With Felicity hacking A. S setting a trap for Deadshot.

When John went to the mall, the trap was already taking place. He observed the A. S agents including Lyla while waiting for Floyd to show up and when Floyd was started sniping the agents John quickly ran towards Lyla and was able to save her and then he ran to stop Floyd from escaping. John ran into Floyd in the staircase, the two fought, and Floyd got hold of John's gun.

Floyd held John's gun at his face, and he forced him to fall on his knees with his hands behind his head. John told Floyd "I'm gonna kill you for what you did to Andy". Floyd answered, "I would pull the trigger right now, but no one is paying me" and he told John, "I got space for you right here next to your brother", showing John his victim tattoo of Andy.

Floyd then punched him in the face with his gun and left John on the floor. Felicity later tended to his wound and when Oliver came back, John was angry at him for not showing up when he needed him. When Oliver later tried to get on the same page as John, John told him they were done with each other and quit being a member of the team. Felicity went to John and told him about the new lead. He said he would come back as soon as Oliver apologized, but because of his stubbornness to admitting he had been wrong, he knew Oliver wouldn't.

After overhearing Moira and Malcolm talking, Oliver realized that he would need all the help that he could get. Oliver apologized to John, and told him about Moira's involvement in The Undertaking, saying he needed John's help to stop it.

John was back on the team. He pretended to be the Vigilante to get information from Moira, hitting Oliver to gain information. He was meant to draw back his punches, but Oliver came back limping and injured. Later Dig assisted in getting Oliver and Felicity into Merlyn Global to find out Malcolm's plan with Dig posing as a security guard and even helping Felicity out of trouble when she was almost compromised.

Later Oliver confessed that once Malcolm was dead that he would stop being the Hood to a surprised John and Felicity. Later when Felicity found the device Oliver sent John to disarm it while he handled Merlyn. The pair first met each other when they were both serving with the US Army in Afghanistan which is where they got married for the first time. They would later get a divorce due to their relationship being difficult to maintain while they were civilians. They later got re-married in season 3 not too long after the birth of their daughter, Sara.

Together, John and Lyla had a child together named Sara, who was initially erased from the timeline by Barry due to the events of Flashpoint, and replaced by a son , John Diggle Jr.

However, later on account of Oliver's sacrifice in Crisis on Infinite Earths , Sara was brought back, allowing the two to co-exist.

Viewers also learned, thanks to the future flashbacks in season 7, that Diggle would eventually go on to adopt Connor Hawke, the son of Ben Turner aka Bronze Tiger in a potential future timeline. After going out with Oliver in the field on numerous occasions, he was finally given the official codename of "Spartan" , a direct reference to the drills his step-father used to make him and his brother do, as well as his own uniform and helmet in the show's 4th season.

While the original look would be updated various times over the years to add more colors and alter the material, the general design of the outfit remained the same. After reenlisting and while on a mission with his men to retrieve a piece of a bomb from Genesis Day, Diggle found himself in a shootout that he learned was designed to falsely accuse him of trying to steal the weapon.

He was then sent to a military prison where he started to have hallucinations of Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot.