Although the midseason finale of "Arrow" ended with a major cliffhanger, leaving viewers wondering for weeks whether Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) was alive, the show's executive producer assured fans that the next episode will be well worth the wait.

The Season 4 winter finale ended with a shocking twist, when Felicity was shot by Damien Darhk's (Neal McDonough) ghosts when they opened fired on Oliver's (Stephen Amell) limo, not long after Oliver proposed to her. It remains to be seen if she will survive the gunshot wounds and, if so, what affect the experience will have on her.

Despite the month-long wait to find out Felicity's fate, showrunner Andrew Kreisberg said that fans can expect to see "great stuff" in the next episode.

"I realize we're being especially cruel this year, and for that I apologize, but there's some great stuff coming up on that show," the executive producer told Entertainment Weekly. "Midseason finales are incredibly hard, but I think even harder is the one after Christmas, the one where you come back. I will say both The Flash and the Arrow episodes are two of our best come-back-from-the-long-Christmas-break episodes. They're not placeholder episodes before the good stuff gets going. So much happens in both of these shows."

Executive producer Marc Guggenheim also teased a surprised twist involving the season's big bad later on in the season.

"The back half of the season, we're pretty much following the same structure that we have in seasons past where obviously the Big Bad gears up. That said, we're going to throw a hard six in episode 15 that I think will surprise people," he told IGN at the Television Critics Association winter press tour. "We're going to do something that's never been done before on Arrow with the Big Bad. 15 is a real game-changer episode for us."

Although he didn't give many details, the EP clarified that the big twist "doesn't involve a character death. It's a move that we've never made with one of our Big Bads."

Guggenheim added that his goal each season is to "always try to do something differently."

The midseason premiere of "Arrow" will air on Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016 at 8 p.m. ET on The CW.

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