The Archer Of Star City Season Three

The Archer Of Star City Season Three is the third season, which deals with Oliver trying to understand if he can be both Oliver Queen and The Arrow.

2011-2012

Main Cast Edit Edit

 * Mike Vogel as Oliver Queen / The Arrow / Al-Sahim- 26/26
 * Jake Weber as Eddie Feyers- 26/26
 * Dorian Missick as Commissioner Lucas Hilton- 18/26
 * Helena Mattsson as Dinah Lance / Black Canary
 * Chloe Bennet as Mia Dearden
 * Tania Raymonde as Naomi Singh- 26/26
 * Matthew Daddario as Roy Harper / Arsenal
 * Omari Hardwick as John Diggle / Spartan- 26/26

Recurring Cast Edit Edit

 * Alexander Siddig as Ra's Al Ghul- 12/25
 * Rick Yune as Maseo Yamashiro- 4/25
 * Kristin Kreuk as Talia Al Ghul- 7/25
 * Jim Cazievel as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer- 10/25
 * William Levy as Tommy Merlyn
 * Joel Courtney as Oliver Queen(in flashbacks)- 9/25
 * Kiether Sutherland as Captain Frank Pike (in flashbacks)- 4/25
 * Lili Reinhart as Sara Drake (in flashbacks)- 1/25
 * Unknown as Nathaniel Sullivan / The Hangman (in flashbacks)- 1/25
 * Jenna DeWan Tatum as Lila Michaels / Harbinger- 6/25
 * B.D Wong as Professor Anthony Ivo- 6/25 (Final Season)
 * Cary Elwes as Walter Steele as Walter Steele Jr.- 1/25
 * Crystal Reed as Carla Vitti (in flashbacks)- 7/25
 * Guy Pearce as Lazlo Valentin / Professor Pyg- 5/25
 * Gemma Chan as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana- 3/25
 * James Roday as Ted Kord / Blue Beetle- 11/25

Episodes Edit Edit

 * 1) "Terror In The Sky"- It starts with Oliver in a major fight with Goldface, who continuously attacks Oliver pinning him and throwing him against the wall. Clearly injured, Oliver grabs his side and Goldface slams him against the wall nearly killing him. Goldface then flies off, before Oliver tells the team that they have a problem. 48 hours before, Oliver and Diggle are called into questioning by Hilton, Dinah, and the district attorney to discuss the incident involving Wilson. Oliver and Diggle lie to the police, by telling them it was too dark to see who fired the RPG at Wilson when he attacked Queen Manor. Hilton warns Diggle to not make him regret trusting him. Meanwhile, a scientist named Keith Kenyon walks into his lab and begins shaking. Another one of his lab partners Dr. Riotous asks if he is okay, but Keith continues to talk frantically about his super serum. Dr. Riotous and a few other scientists walk up to him slowly. Keith then attacks them as he reveals his mutated hand and brutally murders every scientist. He then steals the vial of his serum and destroys the camera. Hilton and the Strike Force investigate the scene of the crime, and interviews Walter, who was revealed to have witnessed Keith murder everyone and he noticed that Keith had enhanced speed and strength. He also mentions that Keith was looking for a mysterious compound. Oliver decides to go alone as The Arrow  and heads to the lab investigating the secret serum Keith created, and interrogates one of the lead scientists for information. He reveals that Keith created the serum to cure his wife's disease  and decided to test it on himself. Oliver delivers the evidence to Walter and he tries to track him down. Later, Walter tracks down a location and Oliver suits up as The Arrow and goes to that location. Oliver and Roy go to the same room, and Diggle stands guard outside managing to take out some guards who are using high tech weaponry. Goldface then arrives and knocks out Roy, injuring him badly as Oliver engages Goldface in hand to hand combat. In the major fight, Goldface continuously attacks Oliver pinning him and throwing him against the wall. Clearly injured, Oliver grabs his side and Goldface slams him against the wall nearly killing him. Goldface then flies off, before Oliver tells Diggle that they have a problem. Oliver feels responsible when Roy has serious injuries. Diggle decides to leave the field upon learning that Michaels is pregnant with his child. A group of people hidden in the shadows targets Goldface with their hi-tech gadgetry and take him captive. In flashbacks, In the aftermath of the Mirakuru virus incident, a young Zytle (Robin Lord Taylor) has regained control of Starling's underworld and begun issuing "Licenses of Misconduct", allowing criminals to commit "legal crimes," though not approved by Hilton and Oliver. Oliver steals the list of licensed criminals, but is then found on the scene of a robbery by the SCPD.
 * 2) "The Fastest Man Alive"- Arsenal and Eddie investigate another nightclub where wagers are placed on hero/villain battle outcomes. Arsenal raids the gambling den and takes down all of the goons. He is surprised however by the hi-tech weaponry that these low-level thugs now have access to. When a group of criminals called the Red Fists is causing trouble, Wally, who is out of his coma, intervenes and uses his super speed to stop them. Mario Hunt, leader of the Red Fists, learns of Wally's abilities and forces Wally to work with him or Hunt will harm Wally's family. Oliver goes to a Queen Enterprises board meeting where businessman Ted Kord successfully acquires Queen Enterprises. Because of this, Diggle offers Oliver a job as a consultant for the SCPD, which Oliver will think about. Oliver takes down members of the Red Fists gang and tells Wally that he should make a better choice to not throw his life away since he believes that Wally is meant to do better things in life. Oliver and Wally defeat the last few members of the gang, as Oliver knocks out Mario. Later, Oliver persuades Wally to train and to learn how to use his powers as a member of his team. Wally accepts the offer, and has Roy and Diggle train him. At Giovanni's Stentorian, Mario and the Gallants, meet to discuss territory. Their meeting is interrupted by Bruno Mannheim who announces his intention of taking control of Starling's underworld. In flashbacks, Hilton releases Oliver from custody. After Oliver almost gets killed during his vigilantism when he targets an operation on Zytle's list, Steele, who seems to be aware of his activities, provides him with a "Prototype Suit," making him faster and more resilient.
 * 3) "The Slabside Redemption"- Wally continues to be cocky in the field, which is why Eddie, Roy, and Diggle decide to teach him about teamwork. Wally then proceeds to annoy everyone in Queen Manor by using his super speed when Diggle tells Wally of their decision. Oliver learns that before Steven Mandragora  came to Freeland, he was kicked out of Metropolis by Bruno Mannheim, whom the team deduces is responsible for those low-level thugs having high tech weaponry. Oliver then decides to go to Slabside to visit Mandragora. Mannheim's associate Johnny 'Stitches' Ghetto (Justin Hartley), arrives at Slabside on prisoner transport, but kills all of the guards and then visits Mandragora, mocking him about his sister's death. After guards refuse to take his warnings about Ghetto seriously, Mandragora breaks out of his cell and Oliver, who arrives at the scene, finds Mandragora. Mandragora explains the situation to Oliver and Oliver tries to contact Commissioner Hilton, only for Ghetto to cut communications from prison, preventing Oliver and Mandragora from getting outside help, and releases all prisoners, starting a riot. While there, Oliver is saddened to learn from Mandragora that the federal government executed Sandra. Mandragora kills Derek Sampson to protect Oliver by throwing him in a fire. Oliver goes after Ghetto and stabs him in Mandragora's cell. Oliver then locks Ghetto in it. Mandragora then kills Bane and escapes. In flashbacks, Johnny was a low level drug dealer working for Mandragora in Metropolis. Mandragora accuses Johnny of stealing his drug profits and refuses to believe him when Johnny blames Superman for it. Mandragora has Johnny's skin peeled off and leaves him to die until he is rescued by Bruno Mannheim and Intergang. Bruno then has Desaad sew new skin on Johnny and Bruno welcomes him into the Intergang.
 * 4) "Things You Can't Outrun"- Oliver, Eddie, and Diggle decide to take Wally back to Central City after weeks of training him.  Clyde Mardon, is robbing banks with his ability to control the weather. Later, Wally and Diggle confront Dr. Wells about the other "metahumans" created from the explosion. Feeling lost and hurt, Wally goes to Oliver for advice. Oliver tells Wally that he believes in him and his heroic potential. Wally returns to S.T.A.R.L.A.B.S  and convinces Caitlin and Cisco to help him stop the super-powered individuals. To that end, Cisco gives Wally a suit he designed for firefighters that will withstand the friction created by his high-speed movements. Joe and Detective Eddie Thawne, his new partner, track Clyde down to his old hideout but are unable to stop him. Oliver and Wally arrive and is overwhelmed by Clyde's powers. Wells, speaking to Wally through a com-link, coaches him on how to stop Clyde. It works, but Wally is too tired to continue fighting. Joe shoots and kills Clyde before he can kill Wally. He has discovered Wally's secret. Joe thanks Oliver for his help and asks Wally to keep this secret from Iris. With his new powers, Wally vows to protect Central City from metahumans created by the particle accelerator. Oliver tells John and Eddie of his plans to find Mia, who is revealed to training with Malcolm and an unnamed woman. In flashbacks, Wally meets Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon. Wells, now wheelchair-bound following the explosion, arrives and attempts to explain to Wally that he has undergone genetic changes. Wally is too preoccupied with getting back to his life and seeing Iris to listen. Eventually, he begins to experience superhuman abilities and flees to Starling.
 * 5) "Working Through Pain"- With no more leads on Mandragora's whereabouts and on Intergang, Oliver decides to focus his attention on bringing Mia home. Walter is able to track her to India. Mia initially refuses to return to Starling. While he and Eddie wait to convince her, Oliver assists Diggle on a mission for C.A.D.M.U.S to ascertain the whereabouts of one of its agents, Paul Kirk. Kirk is revealed to have broken into the C.A.D.M.U.S database and stolen information to sell to a group called S.H.A.D.O.W.S.P.I.R.E. Oliver and Diggle manage to stop him, who convinces Diggle to tell Waller that he is dead. Eddie is able to persuade Mia to return home by revealing that her father Phillip Kane did know Malcolm was her father, but loved Mia as if she were his own. Mia agrees to return, which Malcolm allows. Meanwhile, Tommy gets into trouble by using a golf club to destroy a meter maid's vehicle which is why the Courts order Tommy to take anger-management classes. Tommy meets Dr. Bethany Bancroft, who explains that she drop kicked an orderly. Not wasting an opportunity, Tommy asks her out on a date. In flashbacks, Mia was volunteering with a relief effort and assisting a doctor in performing surgery without anesthesia. Malcolm meets his foster-daughter Emiko, who was cast out of her community for disguising herself as a boy in an attempt to become a Fakir. Over several months, she teaches Mia to minimize his pain to the point where he can control it, sleeping on a bed of needles or standing on hot coals without reacting. One night, several young men appear to harass Emiko, who takes their blows without seeming to feel them. Malcolm doesn't do anything and watches as Mia steps in to defend her. Mia demonstrates her ability to withstand their attacks but defeats them all with the martial art skills that she learns from Emiko and Malcolm. Emiko then tells Malcolm on how Mia's pain was beyond her or possibly even his ability to handle, but how it also appeared to be leading him down a path he desired.
 * 6) "Tranquility"- Steven Mandragora reluctantly calls a truce with Vertigo in order to stop Bruno Mannheim and Intergang. Oliver and Naomi go on a first date, but Oliver ends it explaining how he cannot be both the Arrow and Oliver, although he acknowledges loving her. Mannheim sends Vertigo a package containing Mr. Jess's cut-up body and glasses. When Vertigo has a talk with Mannheim, he mentions that Steven Mandragora is not on "Vertigo's side" anymore. Mannheim also mentions that he has threatened the families of those fighting on Vertigo's side and tells Vertigo that he is giving him a day to get out of town. When Vertigo is busy at the Iceberg Lounge, members of Intergang attack. Things were not looking good for the Count Vertigo until Oliver as The Arrow arrives and comes to his rescue. However, Oliver is not here just to save his life. He lets Vertigo know that he owes him now and that he will report everything to Oliver concerning Intergang and what is going on in Starling, to which Vertigo was actually quite happy to agree. In flashbacks, In modern-day Starling, the knife is sold at auction by Vertigo; Oliver, playing a wealthy spoiled brat, outbids Sofia for it. She is revealed to have been revived by Ra's and tasked with retrieving the knife. She sends Shado to convince Oliver to yield it, but to no avail. Sofia seduces Ra's.
 * 7) "Irresolute"- Oliver meets one of his underworld informants, Tremor, atop Starling's Statue of Liberty. Tremor says he's been running errands for a mysterious organization, the Society of Shadows . He mentions that they are planning a heist of a high-tech weapon, and their leader goes by the name "Spellbinder ". Just then, two agents of the Society appear and attack. In the fight, Tremor is thrown off the statue's head into the sea (though he appears to survive). Oliver overcomes the two agents, but before he can interrogate them, they release gas canisters in their masks, sending them both into catatonic states. Oliver appears at the firing range at Starling Police Headquarters, where Diggle is practicing alone. Oliver relates the night's events, then guesses that the target of the planned heist is Kord Tech's new ultrasonic drill, being delivered that night by train. At the rail station, when the drill is unloaded, Ted, Walter and the entire security detail is disabled by waves of vertigo, caused by waves emitted by an eye-patch worn by Spellbinder himself. As his men take the drill, Oliver as The Arrow appears and tries to intervene, but is likewise disoriented by the vertigo effect. Spellbinder is about to attack, but a dart is fired before him. He turns and sees Talia aiming another shot at him, and flees with the drill. Oliver and Roy track the Society to an abandoned cathedral outside Starling. Oliver and Roy eventually learn from Talia that Spellbinder's real name is Delbert Billings and that he was a servant of Ra's before Ra's had him dismissed due to Delbert using his teachings for darkness. After Spellbinder seemingly falls to his death, Talia betrays Oliver and Roy for the ultrasonic drill. Later, on top a building, Talia reports her success to Ra's, who orders his daughter to come home. Before Talia does, she is shot with arrows fired by an unknown person. Talia falls to her death and Dinah finds her when she is coming home from work. In flashbacks, Oliver has antiquist Niles Winthrop and his grandson, Alex, study the knife. Ra's later kills Niles, forcing Alex to escape with the knife. Oliver and Hilton find Alex and are attacked by Ra's' psychotic enforcers; Oliver and Alex escape the scene.
 * 8) "Talia"- Dinah takes Talia's body to Oliver, revealing that she has known his secret since last year because of Wilson, who thought Catherine still blamed him and The Arrow for her father's death. Diggle alerts Oliver to another archer in the city killing people. Eddie suspects that the Batman killed Talia, but Oliver doubts it since he believes that Batman is a myth made by Gotham City mayor James Gordon to frighten criminals. Oliver follows a lead and is able to identify the archer as Simon Lacroix. The team learns of Lacroix's next target and intercepts him. Dinah arrives, revealed to have feelings of guilt for Talia's death since Dinah felt she could have prevented it. Lacroix reveals that he was in Jump City at the time of Talia's death. The team buries Talia and Oliver wonders how Ra's will react to his daughter's murder. Diggle decides to return to field duty again feeling that the team will need him now more than ever. Roy and Mia reconcile. Naomi decides to work for Ted. In flashbacks, Ra's visits the SCPD as a Nanda Parbat official before Robert arrives and tells Hilton about the previous activities of Ra's, who escapes. Alex and Oliver return to Niles' museum, where the former has hidden the knife. After recovering it, the enforcers attack them just as Hilton arrives and fights them off. Ra's holds Alex hostage, demanding the knife, which Oliver deems too important. An impressed Ra's kills Alex and, as part of his scheme, allows Hilton to arrest him.
 * 9) "The Blades Path"- Oliver lies to Ra's that Mannheim killed Talia and Ra's orders the League to kill all of Mannheim's associates. Walter sends Oliver the DNA results, which appears to be Michaels' D.N.A. Diggle confronts Michaels about this, only for her to not know what Diggle is talking about. Later, Director Waller informs Oliver that she drugged Michaels and manipulated her into killing Talia and not remembering it. Oliver is shocked by this at first only for Waller to hand Oliver the stolen ultrasonic drill, which was never recovered, as proof. Waller filmed the event to use as leverage to force Oliver to take the blame and challenge Ra's to a duel, which no one has dared in centuries. Oliver asks Waller why she would do this and Waller tells Oliver that this is to takeout Ra's and the League for good. Ra's overpowers Oliver before impaling him and kicking him over the side of a cliff. Ted shows the B.L.U.E B.E.E.T.L.E. design to Naomi and states his intention to use the exosuit to protect the city as a vigilante. In flashbacks, Following Alex's funeral and learning that Ra's has applied for diplomatic immunity, Oliver takes the knife and vows to kill him at Blackgate. Ra's grants Sara an unknown mystical power and says goodbye. Upon arriving, Oliver is ambushed by Ra's and the League posed as COs. When Robert and Moira report him missing to Hilton, they arrive at Blackgate and subdue the League. Ra's states that he is cursed with immortality and provokes Oliver into stabbing him with the knife, breaking the curse and rendering him a decayed corpse. Oliver suspends his vigilantism and Moira burns the suit grateful for Oliver suspending his vigilantism.
 * 10) "Rotation"-
 * 11) "Guilty"-
 * 12) "A Day In The Glades"-
 * 13) "Without An Arrow"-
 * 14) "Rebellion"-
 * 15) "Let Them Eat Pie"-
 * 16) "All Fear The Scarecrow"-
 * 17) "King Takes Arrow"-
 * 18) "Nanda Parbat"-
 * 19) "Big Picture"-
 * 20) "The Man Who Would Be Green"-
 * 21) "Public Enemy No.1 "-
 * 22) "A Beautiful Darkness"-
 * 23) "Homecoming"-
 * 24) "Al-Sahim"-
 * 25) "This Is Your Sword"-
 * 26) "To Our Deaths And Beyond"-