Conklin (Arrowverse)

"That restraint you showed back there...bury it! Violence is the only thing these losers understand!"

- Conklin after Oliver spared a worker who was trying to escape

Conklin is a mercenary and the cruel main enforcer of Baron Reiter during his operation on Lian Yu. He is an antagonist in the flashback storyline of the fourth season of "Arrow".

History
After Oliver Queen has seemingly joined Reiter's cause he guards the drug field, also guarding the slave workers. When one slave runs away, Oliver tackles him before another guard can shoot the man. Conklin then arrives and brutally hits the man in the face with his rifle, telling Oliver that this is the way he should act. While he and Oliver drag the unconscious worker back to the station Conklin tells Oliver that violence is the only thing the workers understand. When Oliver asks about the operation Conklin reveals that the plant on the fieds is a hybrid called Slam,one part heroin poppy and one part coca leaf. They are then disturbed when a guard arrives to report to Conklin that a whole Slam cake disappeared. Conklin deduces that the runner was only a distraction and orders his men to round up the workers.

After herding the workers together Conklin expresses his disappointment in the slave workers. stating that he now has issues trusting them. He points his gun at one of them and threatens to kill him unless the thief of the Slam turns himself in. When noone speaks up, Conklin executes the worker. When threatening to kill another Oliver volunteers to get the information out of them via torture to prevent another death. Conklin gives in.

During Oliver's torture of one of the workers, Conklin jokingly asks on which private school Oliver had picked that up. When the torture continues. When the true thief of the Slam gives herself up, stating that she stole it to treat wounded workers, Conklin plans to shoot her but Oliver convinces him that Reiter wouldn't be happy to hear that Conklin killed two of his workforce in one day. Oliver offers to take the woman into the woods and make her "disappear", stating that no one will find the body. Again, Conklin allows it but sends one of the guards with them.

In the woods, Oliver tricks Conklins guard to step on a landmine. After the guard is dead Oliver frees the worker.