Arrow Season 3 Spoilers: First Official Photo of Brandon Routh as Atom

Season 3 of the CW's Arrow returns tonight with an all new episode, but fans have another reason to be excited, as the first official photo of Brandon Routh in the full Atom costume has been released.

You can see the photo at the top of the page. Routh will don the suit for the first time in the February 25 episode, according to EW.

In case you missed it, the official description for tonight's episode, entitled "Uprising," reveals that Team Arrow must look for help from an unlikely source: Malcolm Merlyn!

The description also reveals that Malcolm's journey toward becoming the Dark Archer will be told in flashbacks. Check it out below:

"MALCOLM MAKES AN OFFER TO HELP TEAM ARROW - Still operating without Oliver (Stephen Amell) and desperate to stop Brick (guest star Vinnie Jones), Team Arrow is forced to consider Malcolm's (John Barrowman) offer to help shut Brick down as Malcolm has a personal score to settle with the felon. Roy (Colton Haynes) and Laurel (Katie Cassidy) point out that the team could use some help to save the innocents of The Glades, but Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) is adamantly against it. They look to Diggle to make the final decision. Meanwhile, the flashbacks chronicle Malcolm's descent from kind-hearted father and husband to cold-blooded killer after the murder of his wife. Jesse Warn directed the episode written by Beth Schwartz & Brian Ford Sullivan."

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