Starling City (TV Series)

Starling City is an American crime television series developed by Bruno Heller, based on characters published by DC Comics and appearing in the Green Arrow franchise, primarily those of Quentin Lance and Robert Queen. The series stars Joshua Jackson as the young Lance and Josh Holloway as Robert Queen, while Heller executive produces along with Danny Cannon, who also directed the pilot.

2015-2016

Cast Recurring
 * Joshua Jackson as Quentin Lance- 22/22
 * Erik King as Tobias Church- 18/22
 * Josh Holloway as Robert Queen / The Hood- 15/22
 * Thandie Newton as Sarah Davies
 * Sean Pertwee as Eddie Fyers
 * Robin Lord Taylor as Werner Zytle
 * Brittany Snow as Dinah Drake
 * Camren Bicondova as Cindy Martinez - 11/22
 * Cory Michael Smith as Temple Fugate
 * Victoria Cartagena as McKenna Hall
 * Andrew Stewart Jones as John Diggle
 * Sanaa Lathan as Liza Warner
 * Cillian Murphy as Butch Mason
 * Morena Baccarin as Claire Wilson
 * Chelsea Spack as Kristin Kringle
 * George Clooney as Gabe
 * Steven Bauer as as Aubrey James
 * Clare Foley as Ivy Pepper

Season 1 Edit
A new recruit in Captain Sarah Davies' Starling City Police Department, Detective Quentin Lance is paired with Tobias Church to solve one of Starling's most high-profile cases ever: the murder of Oliver and Moria Queen. During his investigation, Lance meets Robert Queen, the father and husband of the victims, which further compels Lance to catch the killer. Along the way, Lance must confront gang boss Liza Warner, as well as many of Starling's future villains, such as Sin and Werner Zytle. Eventually, Lance is forced to form an unlikely friendship with a new vigilante that has come to Starling calling himself the Green Arrow.

Season 1 (2015-2016)

 * 1) "Pilot"- Rookie detective Quentin Lance and his partner Tobias Church are assigned to the case of the murder of Moira Queen (Susanna Thompson), and Oliver Queen (Jacob Hoppenbrouwer), which was witnessed by street orphan Cindy Diez. Lance meets Robert Queen and promises to find the person who killed his family. Their investigation leads them to a parolee named Mario Pepper, whom Church shoots when he flees and attacks Lance. They discover that Pepper had been framed, leading them to mobster Liza Warner, an associate of Don Adam Hunt. Warner has them captured, but Hunt spares them upon his arrival. In exchange, Hunt orders Lance to kill Werner Zytle, a low-level member of Warner's gang and informant for Starling MCU investigators McKenna Hall and John Diggle. Lance fakes Zytle's death, and tells him never to return to Starling. Lance and Church are celebrated for solving the Queen murders, but Lance confesses the truth to Robert and his butler, Eddie Fyers. As Lance leaves, Cindy is seen lingering around the borders of Queen Manor.
 * 2) "Cindy Martinez"- The murder of a homeless man leads Lance and Church to investigate the abductions of street kids by Patti (Lili Taylor) and Doug (Frank Whaley), who are underlings of Dr. Francis Dulmacher, A.K.A the Dollmaker, and have been posing as members of the Mayor's Homeless Outreach Program. Meanwhile, Werner Zytle takes refuge in a rented trailer after his faked death, plotting his return to Starling City . After Patti and Doug escape, with Quillin former worker Morry Quillan (Wayne Duvall) captured, Mayor Aubrey James (Steven Bauer)announces plans to help Starling's homeless kids, which involves rounding them up and shipping them out of town. Patti and Doug return and hijack one of the buses of street kids, including Cindy Martinez. After Church's interrogation of Quillan, Lance obtains a clue that leads to Trident International Shipping. Lance and Church arrive and catch Patti and Doug while encountering Martinez. While Robert as plans to find a way to help the children, Lance meets with Martinez who states that she has been watching him during his visits with Robert and might have some information on the person who shot the Queens.
 * 3) "The Balloonman"- Lance and Church track a vigilante who targets corrupt Starling citizens and nicknamed "Balloonman" for strapping his victims to weather balloons. Hall and Diggle question Lance about Zytle who returns to Starling to get revenge on Warner. He gets a job at Boss Salvatore Maroni 's restaurant, and is befriended by Maroni (David Zayas) himself. Warner arranges for Hunt's lover Natalia to be disfigured in a phony mugging after Hunt's men severely beat a waiter with whom Warner had been sexually coupled. Lance realizes that "Balloonman" is social worker Davis Lamond ( Jason Clarke), who was driven to become the Balloonman because of corrupt officials refusing to aid children on the streets. He warns Lance that more vigilantes will follow in his path. At his apartment later, Lance receives a surprise visit from Zytle.
 * 4) "Arkham"- Lance learns of the Arkham Plan when he visits Robert Queen, where Eddie mentions that Hunt and Mayor James are backing the project that will improve the Arkham District. An unnamed hitman (Hakeem Kae-Kazim) has been targeting the city council members involved in the Arkham Project. Robert decides to go after the hitman while dressed in a green hood and suit and despite the pleas that Lance makes, Green Arrow kills the hitman by breaking his neck. After an attack on Maroni 's restaurant by three masked men, Zytle is promoted to restaurant manager by Maroni , following his action of saving a bag of money and the death of the previous manager. Warner its two female singers against each other for her nightclub job opening, with the winner being Lara. Mayor James holds a conference about the Arkham Plan, announcing that Hunt will handle small housing development projects and Maroni will be refurbishing the Asylum. Later, Zytle kills the three masked robbers who had attacked Maroni 's restaurant, who it turns out had been hired for just that purpose by Zytle himself, by serving them poisoned cannoli.
 * 5) "Viper"- Robert plans to find a way to speak to the board members of Queen Enterprises to learn their connections to the Arkham District Project. A new drug called "Viper" (which is a prototype of Mirakuru) is hitting the street, which endows the user with super-strength, but eventually kills them. Maroni plans to rob a casino owned by Hunt, and Zytle reveals his past. Lance learns that "Viper" is being distributed at a charity event held by WellZyn and Queen Enterprises. Lance hoots the canister on the roof and former WellZyn employee Stan Potolsky (Stephen Dorff)is exposed, jumping off as he suggests they check out Warehouse 39, where Lance and Church later find nothing. As Warner makes plans to conspire against Huntwith her lover and Russian mob boss Nikolai, a disguised Lara visits him in the park where she shares her opera music with him.
 * 6) " Spirit of The Goat- Ten years ago, a masked killer calling himself the "Spirit of the Goat" targeted the first born of Starling City's elite. The Goat targets a girl named Shelley Lawson, which leads a younger Church and his partner Detective Dix (Dan Hedaya) to try and rescue her. When Lawson is found dead, they find the killer, Randall Milkie, who claims that "Randall Milkie is dead" as he tries to attack them. Milkie is shot down by Church after Dix falls through a trap door and ends up badly injured. Ten years later, Church finds Thomas Hastings' daughter, Amanda, murdered by someone with the same "Goat" motive. Upon surgery, Tobias sees a penny inside her neck, Milkie's trademark, which only he and Dix knew, which meant that he was not an imposter. They find out that Hastings' psychotherapist Dr. Marks ( Winona Ryder), hypnotized both Milkie and the new killer to become the Goat to scare Starling City's rich and corrupt. The "murder" of Zytle is also investigated, with Lance the prime suspect as Hall and Diggle finally find a witness near the river. When they attempt to arrest Lance and Church, Zytle enters the police station, causing friction between Church and Lance.
 * 7) "Call of The Zytle"- Lance takes Dinah to the bus station, telling her to leave Starling. Zytle leads Maroni enforcer Frankie Carbone and two other henchmen to Nikolai's hideout, killing him and Carbone. The escalating mob war is put down with a land trade between the two mafia families. A drunken Church re-evaluates his choice for helping Lance, and the two partners attempt to arrest the mayor and Hunt, but they give up when it is revealed that Hunt and hitman Victor Zsasz (Anthony Carrigan) have Dinah, who had come back to try and negotiate with Hunt for Lance. As Hunt later tends to his chickens, Zytle visits him, and Hunt tells him that everything is going as Zytle predicted. In a flashback to the night they had met Lance, it is shown that Zytle and Hunt had formed a deal, in which Hunt would place Lance in charge of killing Zytle, giving Zytle chance at surviving, and in exchange, Zytle would forge an alliance with Maroni , snitching for Hunt. Zytle tells Hunt that Warner and Nikolai are conspiring against him.
 * 8) "The Mask"- Robert goes in disguise on a surveillance mission in the seedy East End, where teenage prostitute Tina Boland propositions him. He is drawn into a brawl with her pimp and several prostitutes, including dominatrix Cindy Martinez . One of the two reporting police officers shoot him and take him in their squad car, but a dazed and bleeding Queen maneuvers his handcuffed hands in front of himself, and demands the police get out. The cops try to subdue him, but the ensuing struggle causes the police car to careen out of control, and flips. Queen flees, but not before dragging the police to a safe distance. He reaches Queen Manor, barely alive, and sits before his father’s bust, requesting guidance in his war on crime. An arrow is shown into a target, Robert giving him inspiration. Lance and Church investigate Richard Sionis (Julian McMahon) who is hosting an illegal and deadly fight club where the victims are those who applied for Sionis Investments. Meanwhile, Lara's loyalty to Liza Warner begins to falter when she learns of Warner's plan to eventually kill Don Hunt, but Warner presses her to steal a ledger from the Hunt's office that may be used to incriminate him. When Lance is caught at the site of the fight club, Church asks SCPD for help finding Lance . After "The Mask" and those involved are arrested, Lance is informed by Detective Alvarez that Cindy was apprehended after robbing a dress store owned by Justin Clayborne.
 * 9) "Tommy Merlyn"- Lance has Cindy placed at Queen Manor for her safety. During a prison transport from Blackgate Penitentiary to St. Mark Psychiatric Hospital, insane bomb maker Ian Hoffman (Lance Gross) is taken by the Russian mob, who are working against Hunt following Nikolai's death. Lance meets Tommy Merlyn, who suspects tycoon Dick Lovecraft may be behind the Queen murders. When Lance and Church find Hoffman at an abandoned metal factory, they are ambushed by Russian mob thugs who make off with Hoffman. Manipulated by Liza Warner , the new Russian boss Gregor Kasyanov ( Steve Cirbus) and his crew targets Hunt's cache of money, but when a police standoff ensues, the Russians' armored truck explodes via remote control by Butch Gilzean. Werner visits Lara at her apartment, telling her that he knows that she is a spy for Liza and that he won't tell Hunt. At a press conference, Mayor James states that Arkham Asylum will be reopened to house the criminally insane, including Ian Hoffman. Later that night, Lance leaves a message on Dinah's phone, unaware that she has gone back to sleeping with McKenna Hall. 
 * 10) Lovecraft"- Assassins led by Copperhead infiltrate Queen Manor, but Cindy escapes into the city. Eddie seeks Lance and Church's help to find the pair while Robert goes on his search as Green Arrow. Merlyn suspects that Dick Lovecraft is connected to the Queen murders and hired the assassins to cover his tracks. However, Lance learns Lovecraft is also being targeted to hide what he knows; the assassins kill Lovecraft in a staged suicide, planting Lance's gun at the scene. Following the armory fiasco, Zytle tells Hunt that Warner has a mole in his ranks, but lies that he doesn't yet know who it is. Cindy determines the assassins are after her, and she and Green Arrow encounter Ivy Pepper. The assassins find Green Arrow and Cindy, but Cindy escapes while Green Arrow kills all of them. Cindy sneaks out of Queen Manor to go back to living on the streets. Following Lovecraft's "suicide", Mayor James reassigns Lance to Arkham Asylum.
 * 11) "Rogues' Gallery-
 * 12) "What The Little Bird Told Him-
 * 13) "Welcome Back, Quentin Lance"-
 * 14) " The Fearsome Doctor Crane"-
 * 15) "The Scarecrow"-
 * 16) "The Blind Fortune Teller"-
 * 17) "Komodo"-
 * 18) "Everyone Has A Zytle"-
 * 19) "Beasts Of Quarry"-
 * 20) "Under The Knife"-
 * 21) "The Anvil or The Hammer-
 * 22) "All Happy Families Are Alike-