Emerald Archer (T.V Series)

Emerald Archer  is a 2010 TV series  about Oliver Queen returning to Starling, and creating the Green Arrow persona. Created by Vince Gilligan and David. S Goyer

Main Cast Edit

 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / The Hood- 23/23
 * Sean Pertwee as Eddie Feyers- 21/23
 * Omari Hadwick as Special Agent John Diggle / Reese Houston- 18/23
 * J.K Simmons as Captain Quentin Lance- 14/23
 * Blake Lively as Laurel Lance- 19/23
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Dearden- Unknown
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak- 10/23
 * Robert Buckley as Tommy Merlyn- 14/23

Recurring Edit

 * Tom Welling as Quentin Lance (Flashbacks)- 11/23
 * Ty Simpkins Oliver Queen (Flashbacks)- 12/23
 * Jai Courtney as Eddie Feyers (Flashbacks)
 * Kiether Sutherland as Frank Pike- 8/23
 * Jamey Sheridan as Robert Queen (Flashbacks)- 2/23
 * Brette Taylor as Moira Queen- 1/23
 * Timothy Dalton as Rupert Thorne- 16/23
 * Ray Liotta as Able Crown- 2/23
 * Big Show as Ace- 1/23
 * Edgar Ramirez as Danny Brickwell / Brick- 2/23
 * Eva Mendes as McKenna Hall- 3/23
 * Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Roman Sionis/Black Mask- 2/23
 * Robert Knepper as Temple Fugate / Clock King- Unknown
 * Sean Penn as Chuckie Sol- 4/23
 * Idris Elba as Floyd Lawton / Deadshot- 3/23
 * Tobin Bell as Werner Zytle/ The Count- 1/23
 * Robin Lord Taylor as Werner Zytle (in flashbacks)- 5/23
 * Michael Dorn as The Dark Archer
 * Paul Johanson as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer- 11/23
 * David Zayas as Salvatore Maroni/The Italian- 4/23
 * Jon Doman as Adam Hunt / The Roman- 4/23
 * Chad Coleman as Buzz Bronski- 1/23
 * Charlbi Dean as Syonide- 3/23
 * Marvin Krondon Jones III as Warren White/The Great White Shark- 3/23
 * Gaalen Engin as Arthur Claybourne- 3/23 (Final Season)

Season 1 (2010-2011) Edit
1. "Pilot"- In Lian Yu, Oliver Queen is training with Nyssa (Katrina Law) under the tutorship of Maseo Yamashiro (Rick Yune) in order to cope with the pain of loosing his parents due to a violent crime at a young age. In Starling, Captain Quentin Lance  is at the train station to pick up John Diggle, a special agent for the FBI sent by the bureau to investigate Rupert Thorne, who has taken over Oliver's family business and renamed it to Thorne Industries. Lance and Diggle witness a group of police officers led by Sergeant Branden who are assaulting a elderly man who is homeless for fun. Diggle and Lance work together to defend the homeless man from Branden and the corrupt officers. Afterwards, Diggle gives the homeless man some money and demands to know from Lance why those police officers would do such a thing. Lance just responds that he dealt with corruption before and that it's not as bad as it used to be, however, Diggle still has his doubts. Lance and Detective McKenna Hall investigate Thorne Industries CFO Roman Sionis, who is hosting an illegal and deadly fight club where the champions are accepted for the company. Oliver's loyalty to Nyssa begins to falter when he discovers their plan to destroy Starling, since they believe the city is beyond saving from crime. Oliver fights Nyssa and manages to burn their base of operations down, however, he saves Maseo in the process and later decides to return to Starling. When Lance is caught at the site of the fight club, Diggle and Hall have the SCPD search for their police captain. After Sionis and those involved are arrested, Thorne denies having any knowledge of Sionis' activities and promises to cooperate with the authorities in this investigation. In flashbacks, Oliver spends the night with his parents Robert and Moira Queen. However, Robert and Moira are murdered by a mugger, which is witnessed by street orphan Sara Drake. Captain Frank Pike and his partner rookie detective Quentin Lance arrive to the scene, where Lance comforts Oliver promising him that things will get better.

2. "Welcome Back, Oliver Queen"- Oliver returns to Starling where he is reunited with his butler Eddie Feyers and best friend Tommy Merlyn. Oliver tries to make amends with his ex-girlfriend Laurel Lance, now an assistant district attorney, for leaving her years ago to train with Ra's. However, Laurel wants nothing to do with Oliver anymore since she is still angry at him for leaving her. Oliver gets a call from Eddie that Lance called for him at Queen Chemicals. Oliver arrives there and meets with Lance. However, they both learn neither one called the other. The access hatch then locks and closes, and water rushes in. Working together, Oliver and Lance find a tunnel 20 feet overhead, and using acrobatics, Oliver gets himself and Lance to safety. Both agree that someone wants them dead. Nearby, a mysterious man watches. Later, Lance tells Oliver that Walter informed him about weekly shipments of hazardous waste. Oliver wants to meet, but Lance tells Oliver to stay. Oliver gets an idea, alarming Eddie. Later, Oliver arrives at Queen Chemicals, dressed in a green hood, with a bow and arrow, and follows Lance, Hall, and Diggle. Suddenly, the three encounter the bad guys, who are all wearing the masks from Sionis' collection. Oliver helps, but stays out of sight the whole time. After defeating the last guy (by killing the man with an arrow),, he and Eddie leave, with Oliver commenting that he may have found something he's good at. Oliver and Eddie meet with Lance, learning the chemicals were drugs, and later hear that the head bad guy, Number 1, hung himself. Later, Oliver goes to a welcome home party thrown by Tommy. Thorne arrives to the party and tells Oliver that their stock might take a beating because of Sionis' actions. He gives him a book, "Business for Beginners", and after he leaves, Oliver tells everyone that he has a lot to learn and he's staying in Starling. Thorne is revealed to have hired Diggle to be his new head of security, while being unaware that Diggle is an FBI agent sent to investigate him. In flashbacks, Lance and Pike's investigation leads them to a parolee named Mario Pepper, whom Pike kills in Lance's defense. They discover that Pepper had been framed, leading them to mobster Liza Warner, an associate of Sal Maroni, an organized crime boss. Warner has them captured, however, Maroni spares them upon his arrival, revealing that he intended to end the case so that the people of Starling could feel safe, facilitating his illegal activities. Maroni ask the two detectives to kill Werner Zytle, a low-level member of Mooney's gang for stealing from him. Lance fakes Zytle's death, and tells him never to return to Starling. Lance later visits Queen Manor to tell Oliver and Eddie the truth. Lance promises them that he will find the real killer. Unknown to everyone, Sara Drake is watching Queen Manor.

3. "Love American Style"- Oliver remembers seeing on the board that Lance had in his office believing that Thorne Industries is responsible for all the crime in Starling City. That makes Oliver decide to investigate Rupert Thorne by having Walter convince Thorne to give him a job in the IT department where he meets Felicity Smoak. Unfortunately, Felicity is disappointed since her friend, who was illegally immigrating from Cuba, went missing which is why she asked her boyfriend Michael Sampson to look into it. Oliver, showing sympathy for Felicity, decides to be a step ahead of Michael, and as The Hood investigates a salvage yard owner named Pete Cavallo and his mistress Susan Macguire. Oliver discovers that Pete and Susan have been murdering smuggled immigrants who cannot afford to pay for their freedom. Oliver frees the immigrants and sends the evidence he collects to Michael Sampson which leads to their arrests.Mia and her friends break into the school swimming pool for a night of fun, but when a member of their group nearly drowns, the school threatens to expel the person responsible for the break-in. Eddie  finds out that Mia  is responsible and tries to get her confess when it is causing tension between all her friends. Mia admits her mistakes which please Eddie.

4. "Trust Issues"- After an armored truck is robbed, Oliver believes that one of the thieves is former marine Floyd Lawton. Lawton visits Diggle and is revealed to have been his commanding officer during Diggle's time in Afghanistan. Oliver finds Lawton and steals encrypted data, as Diggle prevents the former from getting any information directly from Lawton. Oliver takes the data to Felicity to analyze and Felicity informs Oliver that the data is composed of plans for robbing armored trucks, which Oliver uses to track the thieves. Diggle learns that Lawton was the mastermind behind the robberies, and is forced to join Lawton's team when Lawton holds his mother Billie hostage. Diggle backs out of helping them at last. Oliver arrives in time and shoots Lawton in the knee with an arrow. Thorne becomes suspicious of Diggle upon learning of the situation and Diggle tells Thorne that Lawton was his commanding officer in Afghanistan and was offering him a job at his security firm, which he declined. Thorne believes Diggle after researching his background. Thorne's associates Chuckie Sol and Buzz Bronski want to bring Diggle into their employment, however, Thorne has his reservations about trusting Diggle since he views his honesty as a threat if he were to be brought into serve his criminal empire. Oliver looks into Diggle's military background and contemplates whether or not he should ask Diggle to join his crusade. On a date, Diggle confides in Laurel that his real name is Reese Houston and that the FBI changed his as well as his mother's name in order to protect them. Lawton is later bailed from prison by a man named Adam Hunt, whom people refer to as 'The Roman'. In flashbacks, while in Afghanistan, Diggle and his crew were heading back to the base only to fall into a trap by terrorists. Enraged that all his colleagues are dead, Diggle slaughters all of them but spares the child soldier, reporting to his commanding officer he wants to save lives, not take them.

5. "A Deadly Shot"- Oliver tracks down a corrupt millionaire named James Marshall, who has been supplying defective fire alarms to people in the Glades , which resulted in numerous casualties. When Oliver confronts Marshall with the intention of giving him a chance to right his wrongs, Marshall is gunned down by Lawton, now calling himself Dead Shot and equipped with a suit as well as equipment provided by Hunt. Oliver decides to play the spoiled billionaire playboy routine in order to cover suspicion on him. John Diggle meets with Laurel Lance and the two start liking each other when they're meeting with Lance to discuss their case against Thorne. Laurel and Diggle start to date. Oliver deduces that Lawton is Dead Shot and that he was assigned to kill businessmen, including Thorne at an auction. As the Hood, Oliver enlists the help of Lance to prevent Lawton's plan while providing him with evidence that Gotham City businessman John Deleon, who is at the auction to bid for control over Unidac Industries, contracted Lawton. Lance then has Deleon arrested. Oliver stops Lawton, apparently killing him. However, Diggle is shot during the fight after saving Rupert Thorne from being gunned down by the assassin. In order to save Diggle's life, Oliver is forced to reveal his dual identity to him. While tending to his chickens, Hunt meets with Amanda Waller, the director of A.R.G.U.S. Waller thanks Hunt for having Lawton join her special task force and Hunt thanks Waller for having had A.R.G.U.S pulled strings with the FBI to set their sights on Thorne, who is revealed to be his criminal rival. In flashbacks, Oliver returns to prep school where he is bullied by Tommy Merlyn and his friends, since Tommy insulted his dead mother. Eddie then teaches Oliver how to fight. Oliver and Eddie later visit Tommy at his home where Oliver beats Tommy using Robert Queen's watch as a weapon. Oliver and Eddie then warn Tommy to speak ill of Moira again before leaving. Tommy complains about it to his father Malcolm, who is revealed to be the mysterious man. However, Malcolm ignores Tommy telling him that a lesson had to be taught.

6. "Birthrights"- Oliver begins preparing to attack another individual from the list, but Eddie and Diggle argues that he should expand his work and help the police stop a group of bank robbers. Oliver refuses, believing that it detracts from his mission to right Robert's wrongs, but agrees finally. The former deduces that the robbers are actually a family unit, and that the leader Derek Reston worked for Queen Industries before Robert outsourced 1500 jobs to China and the Reston family lost their home as a result. Feeling guilty, Oliver tries to persuade Derek to right his own wrongs, but learns that the family are going to rob another bank. During Oliver's confrontation, Derek is fatally shot. Meanwhile, Merlyn throws Laurel a fundraiser to support her law firm, CNRI, hoping to prove to her he has changed. Oliver and Walter manage to regain their emotional connection. Flashbacks show Oliver having a dream of Robert blaming him for his idleness and reveal how Oliver first discovered the target names in his father's notebook.

7. "The Big Heat"-When a firefighter is killed in the line of duty at Thorne Consolidated, Diggle suspects that he was murdered and asks Oliver for help in finding the culprit feeling that Lance and the SCPD are incapable of handling the threat. Tracking down the suspect, Oliver is overpowered during the confrontation, but discovers that the murderer is a mercenary named Garfield Lynns, who was contracted by Rupert Thorne to sabotage rival companies. As The Hood, Oliver confronts Thorne at his company and threatens to drop him out a window after brutalizing him unless he gives the next name of his target, and Thorne tells him its' Malcolm Merlyn, prompting Oliver to spare him. However, Oliver is attacked by Diggle who wishes to defend his employer and Oliver escapes. Malcolm attends a fundraiser to support the victims until Lynns arrives to kill him. Oliver saves Malcolm before Lynns commits suicide due to not wanting to face Thorne for his failure. The media begins calling the vigilante a hero while Oliver decides to bring down Thorne once and for all. Thorne later meets with Sol and Bronski admitting that he should bring Diggle into their business and Diggle gets approached at his apartment by a man named Boyer claiming to be an FBI agent.

8. "The Secret Experiments"- Seeking revenge on the vigilante for threatening him, Thorne and U.S Army General Sebastian Michaels experiment on a gang leader with a special venom pumped into his body by a unique infusion system, making him become Brick. Oliver encounters Brick and Brick injures him, however, Oliver is rescued by Eddie before Lance and Hall could get to him. Because of Oliver being injured, Diggle becomes The Hood and goes looking for Brick. Lance and Hall investigate when the victim is Susan Williams, a journalist whose body was found melting in a vat of acid, her skull smashed and separated from her body. The killer turns out to be Sebastian Michaels. Michaels was secretly developing a super soldier serum, which promoted excessive bone growth and turned men into war machines. Though once the army learned of his dangerous human test trials, they ordered Michaels to stop. However, the general continued the project with funding from Thorne. Michaels is then arrested for his crimes. Fearing that Michaels will talk, Thorne sends Brick to assassinate him. Diggle is able to defeat Brick as The Hood and leaves. Out of fear for his life, Michaels refuses to implicate Thorne into this and his daughter Lila (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) resigns from the military out of disgust for her father's actions. Agent Boyer enlists Diggle's help in bringing down Thorne, however, Diggle is well aware Boyer isn't actually an FBI agent and he was sent by Thorne as a test, which he goes along with after meeting with Lila, revealed to be his ex-wife, that Boyer isn't actually part of the FBI. In flashbacks, Oliver plans to find a way to speak to the board members of Queen Enterprises to learn their connections to Robert Queen's list. A new drug called "Viper", a prototype of Venom, is hitting the street, endowing the user with super-strength, but eventually killing them. Lance learns that "Viper" is being distributed at a charity event held by WellZyn and Queen Enterprises. Lance shoots the canister on the roof and former WellZyn employee Stan Potolsky is exposed, committing suicide after he suggests they check out Warehouse 39, where Lance and Pike later find nothing, observed by Queen Enterprises operative Maria Luthor.

9. "Years End"- The Dark Archer attacks and hospitalizes Walter, injecting him with a tuberculosis vaccine developed by Roland Daggett, a corrupt pharmaceutical manufacturer. Oliver investigates Daggett and discovers that he financed a TB epidemic, then raised the price on his drug to boost his company's profits. But Daggett then gets killed by Dark Archer upon Lance trying to arrest him after Oliver anonymously sends the evidence of Daggett's plan to him. Investigating The Dark Archer on his own, Michael Sampson sends information he discovers to Felicity just before the villain captures him. The information turns out to be a project that was thought to be extinct. Oliver deduces that Dark Archer is at Daggett's former office building and goes there alone. The Hood kills Dark Archer, only to discover he has actually killed a gagged Michael, whom the real Dark Archer set up as himself to trick Oliver. Felicity starts to mourn Michael's death and Oliver decides to give up being The Hood since he feels guilty for murdering Michael. Elsewhere, Agent Boyer asks Diggle to put a bug in Rupert Thorne's office. However, Diggle reports it to Thorne and Thorne reveals that this was all a test after having his associate Jay drive Diggle to meet him in the forest. Diggle then accept Thorne's offer to join the other side of his business empire to make some extra cash, which Diggle accepts. In flashbacks ,junior executive Walter Steele tells Oliver that Robert did not approve of the company's crimes. Believing his father led a secret life and remembering a subtle clue from Steele, Oliver discovers a hidden stairwell behind the fireplace.

10. "Dead To Rights"- Six weeks after his fight with Dark Archer, Oliver avoids any activities as his vigilante, despite insistence from Diggle and Eddie which is why Diggle decides to masquerade as The Hood for the time until Oliver comes to his senses. Diggle kills a hired gunman working for Rupert Thorne, however, he realizes that Thorne's target is not safe yet. Syonide, an enforcer for Chuckie Sol, hires a mercenary to take out Malcolm after the previous gunman's death. Malcolm invites his son Tommy to attend an award ceremony at Merlyn Global Group where Malcolm will be receiving an award for being Starling's White Knight. At the last moment, Diggle discovers that Malcolm is the target and Oliver decides to race to the event to save him since he feels that this his fight while donning his vigilante suit. Although he is almost caught by Hall, Oliver manages to get Malcolm away from Syonide's men. Malcolm is shot with a poisonous bullet, and Oliver is forced to reveal his secret identity to Tommy so that he can save his father's life. Malcolm later contacts his associate Arthur Claybourne, whose name is on Robert Queen's list, and expresses his belief that someone involved with Project Hades tried to kill him. In flashbacks, Oliver and Eddie discover a secret office at the end of the staircase, with a letter from Robert, urging Oliver to choose between happiness and the truth. Eddie destroys the computer in the secret room, intending to protect Oliver, who gets angry and fires him. Eddie later agrees to return with the condition of training Oliver how to fight. Oliver has Steele begin fixing the computer.

11. "Rough Seas"- Tommy goes to visit his father in the hospital. In flashbacks, Malcolm returns to Starling as the masked archer known as Dark Archer and begins killing criminals in the Glades which was where his wife/Tommy's mother Charlotte Merlyn was murdered, however, he gets opposed by Captain Pike and gets publicity when the media starts calling his alter-ego 'The Throwing Star Killer'. Malcolm then decides to use his alter ego for only personal reasons. In the present, an armed man attacks Thorne Industries, killing seven business people and wounding several others, including Thorne. Oliver and Diggle both suspect that Adam Hunt ordered the attack to happen since he and Thorne are rivals as well as the shooter using the same weapon that the Hunt Crime Family has frequently used in their assassinations. Oliver and Eddie then work together to stop an arms shipment that Tobias Whale is delivering for Hunt by ship. Whale manages to escape and reports to Hunt at the docks. Enraged at this, Hunt has his associate Able Crown imprison Whale in a freezer as punishment for his failure. Walter and Felicity work together to discover that the shooter is James Edlund, a former clerk and a proponent of gun control who lost his family in a shootout months prior. At the hospital, Diggle is guarding Thorne as he is recovering. Edlund arrives and Walter dissuades him from killing anyone else, convincing him to surrender, which makes Walter hailed as hero by the media. Claybourne discovers that Sol ordered the hit on Malcolm and hands the evidence over to him. When Sol is meeting with Claybourne, The Dark Archer arrives to kill Sol. Claybourne then becomes disturbed by The Dark Archer and looks at the blood on his hands which belongs to Sol.

12. "Muse of Fire"- Eddie is almost shot by a mysterious assailant who was attempting to assassinate an associate of mob boss Frank Bertinelli. Oliver attempts to infiltrate Frank's business to discover the identity of the attacker. Frank blames Syonide and the Triad gang for the murders of his people. Oliver learns that the attacker is Helena Bertinelli, (Phoebe Tonkin) Frank's daughter, with whom the former had just been on a date. Helena reveals that she is looking for revenge against her father, who she blames for the murder of her fiancé, who according to Frank was gathering evidence against him to give FBI. Helena and Oliver are abducted by Frank's right-hand man, Nick Savelli in connection to the deaths; she reveals that she was the one gathering evidence and kills Savelli after learning he was the one who killed her fiance. She also deduces Oliver's identity as the vigilante after witnessing him fight Frank's henchmen.Meanwhile, Eddie comes to Mia's aid at a party when an egotistical sex-addicted teenager is attempting to rape her. In the end, Helena and Oliver share a kiss. In flashbacks, Lance learns that Sara was apprehended after skillfully robbing a dress store. Sara reveals that she witnessed who shot the Queen's and Lance has her taken to Queen Manor to be safe. Oliver and Sara establish a friendship.

13. "Feud"- Oliver decides to teach Helena that there is justice outside of revenge after witnessing her try to kill the head of the Triad. Diggle expresses his disapproval, but to no avail. She dresses as a purple vigilante and the duo has another man from the list arrested. Helena starts to buy into the idea, but leaves him after finding out that Laurel was his former girlfriend and believing that they are still together. Helena goes after the Triad, killing their leader. As a result, Syonide and her men go after Frank, believing him to be responsible, but Oliver gets there in time to stop them. Oliver also stops Helena from killing Frank, who is arrested; and she threatens to reveal his identity if he tries to come after her in the future. Mia is horrified by her friend's boyfriend is slut shaming her to the rest to the school and when he refuses to stop, she and her friends try to find evidence linking him and his friends to the shaming. Meanwhile, Tommy finally tells Oliver about Malcolm's action and asks for a job at the club that Oliver is attempting to build, which is accepted. Using Felicity Smoak's help, Walter learns more about the secret organization that Robert Queen was a part of, finding a notebook containing the list.Mia's psychologist Damon Billings gives her the evidence she needs and gets her friend's boyfriend and those involved removed from the football team. In flashbacks, assassins led by Copper Head (Jessica Lucas) infiltrate Queen Manor, however, Oliver and Sara escape into the city. Eddie seeks Lance and Pike's help to find the pair. Merlyn suspects that Lovecraft hired the assassins to cover his tracks. However, Lance learns Lovecraft is also being targeted to hide what he knows; the assassins kill Lovecraft. Sara determines the assassins are after her, and she and Oliver encounter Ivy Pepper, Mario's daughter. The assassins find Sara and Oliver, but she escapes while Pike and Eddie, who convinces Warner to help, arrive and rescue Oliver. Sara later kisses Oliver and returns to living on the streets.

14. "Power Outage"- Oliver targets millionaire Arthur Claybourne, who runs an electric generating company in the Glades. Claybourne was having his company drain electricity from the Glades they operated in order to make more profit. As the vigilante, Oliver forces Claybourne to turn the company's daily wattage logs over to the police within six hours. Claybourne acts quickly and arrives to the plant, arranging for an employee to put all of the records on to a hard drive. Mia and Billings continue to get closer to one another which results in the both of them having an affair. The man delivers the hard drive to Claybourne, only to be shot in the head. He flees, but is stopped in his path by Oliver. Oliver attempts to kill Claybourne only for him to be attacked by Claybourne's bodyguard, a former Israeli military, or Tzahal. Oliver subdues the guard and Claybourne activates explosives in the plant. Oliver then decides to assassinate Claybourne believing that the evidence against him was destroyed. With help from Felicity, Oliver tracks Claybourne to his hideout on 1852 West Maple, on the 30th floor, kills a group of his bodyguards, and corners Claybourne. Claybourne begins to argue that what he was doing was a necessary evil in order to make Starling great again, however, Oliver argues back that he drained electricity in the Glades only for Claybourne to laugh and explain how he believes the people in that neighborhood to be a blight since that was where Tommy lost his mother and Oliver lost his parents. Oliver then explains that the Glades was where he was born. When Claybourne ask what he means by that, Oliver kills him and leaves. Elsewhere, Hunt sends his associate Able Crown to meet with Buzz Bronski for a peace arrangement. High tensions result. Able goes for a cigarette and is assumed to be reaching for a weapon. A firefight breaks out, leaving Able and many other crime bosses dead. Lance later tells Hall and his officers to standby since now there is a mob war between Rupert Thorne and Adam Hunt because of what happened as Thorne is attacking Hunt's men. In flashbacks, Zytle allies himself with Irish hitmen in hopes of killing Maroni, who visits the club and reveals to the former's mother that her son is a psychopathic killer.

15. "All Happy Families Are Alike"-The mob war between Thorne and Hunt escalates. Zytle attempts to kill Hunt himself and take his place, but Oliver intervenes  without dressing as The Hood. As Thorne's men approach, Oliver and Eddie bring Hunt, Zytle, and a thug to a safe house, but Tobias Whale's new gang, including Syonide, take them captive. Thorne arrives, accompanied by Diggle, but Zytle manipulates him and Whale into a dispute over mob leadership. Whale injures Thorne by shooting him in the head when Thorne insults his appearance while Diggle blows his cover with Thorne by rescuing Oliver, Eddie, Zytle, and Hunt. Oliver, Eddie, Diggle, and Hunt escape during the chaos that occurs. Zytle fights and throws Whale off the roof into the water, calling himself Starling's new crime lord. Hunt decides to retire feeling that Starling needs a lawman now and not a criminal like him. Hunt leaves after urging Oliver to continue fighting crime due to being aware he is the vigilante. Thorne is later getting an illegal medical operation from his brother Matthew Thorne, who lost his medical license years ago for not reporting Rupert's henchman getting shot wit a bullet. Thorne has kept Matthew around since then with the promise to have his license reinstated, and nicknamed his brother as the Crime Doctor. Walter gets abducted when leaving Thorne Industries for a business trip in Australia. In flashbacks. Werner manages to convince a bar owner to do business by killing his daughter's boyfriend, but his real intention is to kill Maroni in the bar since he told his mother the truth about him. Zytle then succeeds in killing Maroni and takes over his criminal empire.

16. "Warming Up a Frozen Heart"- Victor Fries, a criminal known as Mr. Freeze, learns that a woman named Nora Fields is in a medical wing at Thorne Industries after killing a detective named Charlie Fields when he and Mckenna Hall are investigating a kidnapping. Fries builds an armored suit. Fries arrives at the company and, manages to escape with Nora. Lance deduces that Victor will return to his home laboratory that he formerly lived in and has the police surround the building. Fries is then subdued by the SCPD. Thorne becomes suspicious of Diggle of why he betrayed him and begins to obsessively do research on him, not discovering his background and true identity. Diggle decides to stay at Queen Manor for his own protection and gets his mother to leave Starling in case Thorne comes after her. He even breaks up with Laurel to protect her which makes Laurel seek comfort in Tommy. Oliver threatens to take back his company from Thorne, however, Thorne refuses to take Oliver's threat seriously. Believing that Thorne would never be convicted by the legal system, Oliver decides to kill him as the vigilante. Felicity reveals to Oliver that Walter is missing. In flashbacks, Oliver, Walter, and Eddie search through the secret files on Robert's computer with the goal of finding a clue to his and Moira's murder. Oliver and Eddie track a lead from Robert's computer and find Kara Johns, a former Arkham Asylum inmate on whom experiments were performed at Pinewood Farms, a Queen Enterprises facility, by the Philosopher. She offers to identify the Philosopher, but Fries is sent to kill her. Following Johns' death, Walter does further research and discovers that Ivo is the Philosopher.

17. "Crusade"- Oliver is critically shot by Thorne and escapes. He exposes his secret to Felicity, and asks her to take him to his hideout. With Eddie's help, the bullet is removed and Oliver is stabilized. Felicity refuses to join Oliver's fight, but decides to help them find Walter. Oliver convinces Diggle to stop investigating Thorne until they can come up with a plan to deal with him.Meanwhile, Eddie discovers the affair that Mia  is having with Billings and threatens to bring Billings to court. However, Billings then decides to resign from his position. Lance begins to suspect Oliver might be on to something when he learns from Pike that Bridgit's body has been moved somewhere. Bridgit is revealed to be alive with her suit had melted onto her, rendering her fireproof. She is taken to Indian Hill, an underground division of Queen Enterprises in Blackgate Penitentiary where illicit experiments are performed by Anthony Ivo. In flashbacks, Oliver tries to convince Lance to see his point of view. In flashbacks, Lance and Pike find the Church brothers dead. As it turned out, Bridgit Church is responsible for killing her brothers and now calls herself Firebug, being dedicated to killing criminals. After Bridgit fatally burns an officer to death and dismisses it as collateral damage, Sara tells Lance where to find her. However, Bridgit is incapacitated in a struggle with the SCPD, publicly announced to be dead which upsets Sara and makes her blame Lance for this.

18. "Deliverance"- Another vigilante appears in Starling City and kidnaps one of Oliver's targets, a slumlord who had charges dropped against him because he was able to pay off the District Attorney. The new vigilante, who is identified as Jason Ashton, kills the slumlord over a live broadcast. The former kills several prosecutors the same way before going after Harper. Diggle finds out that Ashton is using an abandoned subway car, and Oliver  is able to catch the car and kill Nash. Oliver realizes the secret organization's plans involve The Glades, a neighborhood filled with crime. Laurel proves to Lance that Sara is not alive. It is revealed that Lance knew of Sara's plan to escape with Oliver. Malcolm contacts the Triad to find the traitors. Regina turns over her co-conspirator, Frank Chen, to Malcolm, who kills Chen as Dark Archer , believing her to be innocent. In flashbacks, Lance questions Ivo about his activities, which makes Ivo send a revived and brainwashed man named Charles Wilson (Richard Armitage), now under the name Deathstroke, to take out Lance. Fugate overhears Ivo and Peabody complaining about Lance's interference, offering help in defeating Lance, but Ivo refuses. Lance has Pike placed into SCPD protection. Deathstroke arrives, killing a few officers and making an unsuccessful attempt on Lance's life. Pike and Lance flee to the roof, where Pike fights Deathstroke with a pipe, breaks his supposedly legendary sword, and rips off his mask, revealing Deathstroke's identity to the public. In the end, Pike is sent to the hospital and Lance heads home, watched by Deathstroke from a distance. Fugate uses some inmates under his influence to infiltrate Ivo's secret ward.

19. "Unfinished Trade"- When a girl dies after using a new form of Venom, Oliver sets out to interrogate Brick and determines the latter has lost his mind from the Venom overdose When news reports state that Brick  escaped the penitentiary, Oliver  suspects that Brick was faking his mental illness. Meanwhile, Lance finds loose connections between Tommy and Venom, and attempts to uncover the truth, which almost leads him to discovering Oliver's hideout. Oliver realizes that Brick's psychiatrist is behind the re-emergence of Venom. Oliver as The Hood kills the doctor, and opts not to kill Brick, who has truly lost his mind and was the scapegoat of the doctor's actions. Tommy quits the club after realizing that Oliver suspected him with the drug dealing. Malcolm gives him a job. Oliver decides to help Diggle find Lawton, who killed Diggle's brother. Together with Pike and a crew of police officers, Lance arrives at Blackgate with a warrant to inspect Ivo's office. Ivo is one step ahead, having shredded all of his documents. Fugate, in the meantime, is disturbed by what he saw at Indian Hill and determines to escape. A man named Nathaniel Sullivan (Michael Chiklis) becomes the acting captain due to Pike being in a coma. Deathstroke tries to kill Lance again only for Lance to shoot him. However, Zytle comes to Lance's rescue with his associate Butch, who kill Deathstroke with a RPG.

20. "House Invasion"- Laurel represents the Morrison family who are suing a corrupt businessman, Richard Daniel, who puts a hit on the family, and the couple's young child is the sole survivor. Laurel takes the boy into her custody and is saved by the vigilante from the hitman's attempt. Tommy suggests that Laurel and the boy go to Oliver's for protection. An operation headed up by A.R.G.U.S, a government organization, is set to capture Lawton, but Oliver chooses the Morrison family's case. As a result, Lawton escapes and Diggle decides to leave Oliver, who forces Daniel to confess to his crimes, leading to the latter's arrest. After killing the latter, the hit-man, calling himself Mr. Blank, comes to Queen Manor to assassinate all remaining witnesses, but Oliver manages to kill him. Tommy decides to leave Laurel, believing that he could never compete with Oliver should she discover that he is the vigilante. Elsewhere, Roy Harper starts searching for the vigilante; despite Lance wanting him to stop. In flashbacks, Lance and Pike inform Oliver that there is not enough evidence against Anthony Ivo for his crimes. Because of this, Lance visits Sara at her loft and convinces her to sneak into Blackgate. Sara agrees only to rescue her friend Bridgit. She meets with Fugate who is trying to break out. Fugate then gets captured by the prison guards. Sara finds Bridgit only for her to brainwashed believing to be Firebug.

21. "Project Avalon"-Oliver tracks down Humprey Dumpler, an accountant of the secret organization and steals his laptop. While decrypting it, Felicity uncovers a link to Walter—a money transfer was made to Ricardo Diaz (Kirk Avecedo), an underground casino owner who was hired to kidnap Walter. The pair infiltrate the casino in Gotham City ; and Diaz claims that Walter was killed. When returning to Starling, Oliver informs everyone at Queen Enterprises about this. Regina Devereaux, the chairwoman at Thorne Industries, confronts Thorne about this, who proves to her that Walter is still alive. Oliver, listening in, discovers Thorne is involved with Project Avalon and his father started it before shutting the project down believing it to be dangerous. Oliver uses Felicity to track Walter's location. As the vigilante, Oliver frees Walter. Meanwhile, Laurel asks Tommy for the truth about why he left, and Tommy states that Oliver still loves her, a claim he confirms. Oliver later asks Diggle to help him stop the Project Avalon. In a flashback, Seeing Firebug's defeat improbable, Sara convinces her to accept her as a "servant". Lance learns of her capture. As Ivo's unknown female employer pushes him for results, his project continues; and he successfully resurrects a woman named Liza Warner, who is revealed to have been killed by Zytle after taking over Maroni's crime family. Warner becomes the first subject to retain full mental function.

22. "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"- Malcolm kills the scientists who worked on the device. Diggle dresses as the vigilante and kidnaps Oliver and Regina in an attempt to uncover the truth. The plan works and Oliver's team breaks into Malcolm's for information. Lance finally approves of Laurel's feelings for Oliver, who realizes that he could cease being the vigilante if he stops the Avalon. Thus, Oliver gets involved with her again, which is seen by Tommy. Malcolm has the device moved. The vigilante attempts to kill him, who reveals that he is the other archer; the two fight until Malcolm gets the upper hand, discovering Oliver's secret. Malcolm publicly goes missing while Tommy gets investigated by Diggle's boss Deputy Director Ralph Bundy. Tommy confronts Thorne's son Eric Thorne, who ends up killing him. Meanwhile, Walter files for divorce, revealing to know Regina's involvement in his kidnapping. Roy reveals to Mia that he wants to find the vigilante so that the latter can train the former, pushing her away from himself. In flashbacks, Oliver believes that there is a secret room in Blackgate where Ivo is experimenting on the dead and that the only way to be certain is if they head in themselves. Oliver, Lance, and Steele visit Blackgate to execute their plan, but their motives are revealed and all three are captured. Liza learns that she can control the mind of the person she touches. Oliver and Steele are put in a chamber and interrogated by Fugate on Ivo's behalf while Lance is taken into another room with Iv and introduced to Basil, a patient whose skin stretches more than humanly possible. As Sullivan leads a Strike Force team to Blackgate, Ivo places Lance in a machine and replicates his visage onto Basil's face.

23. "Excalibur"- -The search for the blue crystal sparks a war between Malcolm Merlyn and Rupert Thorne and the people of Starling fall right into the middle of the war. Learning of the information from Regina, Oliver tries to find the crystal before all hell breaks loose. During the war, Thorne kills Tommy to avenge his son while Oliver is captured by Malcolm, however, he manages to escape. With the information given to him by Diggle, Bundy arrests all the Thorne Industries executives involved in Rupert Thorne's criminal activities, such as Regina, Charles Palatine, and William Earle. Malcolm learns of what happened to Tommy and decides to revive Project Avalon to finally get his revenge on Thorne. Eddie, with help from Walter, disables the device for the project. To protect himself from Thorne, Eddie throws the blue crystal to him. Thorne catches it, but suddenly disappears. Oliver, Diggle, and Felicity go after Malcolm. Felicity hesitates killing Malcolm at the last minute when pointing a gun at him in order to avenge her boyfriend Michael. However, Oliver mortally wounds Malcolm with one of his arrows. In the aftermath, Diggle is assigned by Bundy and the FBI to go to Oregon to track down a serial killer, however, Diggle promises to keep in touch with Oliver, Eddie, and Felicity. Oliver and Laurel are broken by Tommy's death which is why Oliver decides to leave Starling. In flashbacks, disguised as Lance, Basil pulls the SCPD off of Blackgate; however, SCPD forensics scientist Lee Thompkins later exposes Basil as an impostor. Strange prepares to detonate a bomb beneath Blackgate and tells Peabody to transfer the patients to another facility. Warner gains control of Peabody, but Ivo starts the bomb's countdown anyway. With Fugate's help, Lance and Walter stop the bomb. Warner escapes in a bus with the other enhanced inmates, and encounters a shocked Vertigo on the street; she knocks him out, prompting Butch and his gang to flee. Oliver tells Eddie of his plans to find the secret council that wants him dead. A homeless woman opens the abandoned bus, unwittingly releasing the inmates upon Starling; among them is a boy identical to Oliver.

