Emerald Archer Season Five

Emerald Archer Season Five is the fifth season of Emerald Archer, that deals with Oliver Queen dealing with a mysterious opponent who has grudge against him for something he did in the past.

2014-2015

Main Cast

 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow- 23/23
 * Sean Pertwee as Eddie Feyers- 23/23


 * J.K Simmons as Quentin Lance- 21/23
 * Blake Lively as Laurel Lance / Black Canary- 9/23
 * Dan Stevens as Roy Harper / Arsenal- 18/23
 * Omari Hardwick as F.B.I Special Agent John Diggle / Reese Houston/ Spartan- 23/23
 * Eva Mendes as Mckenna Hall- 7/23

Recurring Cast

 * Paul Johanson as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer- 2/23
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Clayface Felicity Smoak- 1/23
 * Emma Roberts as Earth-12 Mia Dearden / Cheshire- 4/23
 * Sharif Atkins as Walter Steele Jr./ Mr. Terrific- 21/23
 * Robert Pattinson as Adrian Chase / The Vigilante- 20/23
 * Algee Smith as Virgil Hawkins / Static Shock- 21/23


 * Cameron Monaghan as Jeremiah Valeska/ Constantine Drakkon- 1/23
 * Gina Reverra as Lydia Cassamento- 6/23
 * Tom Hardy as Oscar Hamilton / Prometheus- 18/23
 * Daniel Radcliffe as Harvey Elliot (Final Season)- 3/23
 * Milo Ventimeligia as Victor Sage- 10/23
 * Robert G. McKay as Commissioner Brian Nudocerdo- 3/23

Episodes
1. "Challenge"- Five months after the defeat of Damian Bedlam, Oliver is distracted from his duties as CEO of Queen Enterprises to deal with being the Green Arrow and with Adrian Chase, who is still acting as Vigilante. Oliver gets informed by Commissioner Brian Nudocerdo that there have been gay people attacked all over the neighborhood. Oliver becomes personally involved in all of this when one of the victims include Walter Steele Jr.'s husband Paul. Confronting Walter Jr. at the hospital, Green Arrow and Oliver promise to find the people responsible. Posing as a homosexual, Oliver is attacked by thugs only for Eddie to come assist him as Green Arrow. They discover the thugs work for Lydia Cassmento, leader of the Scorpions. Kebo explains how business is great for the mob, with recruitment, drugs, prostitution, protection all doing well. Lydia Cassmento provides her people with cocaine, but he abstains because it gives him an edge over them. Suddenly, Adrian, disobeying Oliver's orders, confronts them. Oliver explains to Lydia Cassmento that Kebo has been drawing negative attention to her by coordinating the recent attacks against homosexuals. Adrian adds that Kebo has a personal vendetta against homosexuals because he was twice a victim of gang rape while in prison. Despite this, Lydia Cassmento states that Adrian won't have earned the right to be heard until he himself runs the mob's initiation challenge. Adrian agrees, taking a heavy beating, and eventually having to drag himself to the end of the line. While successful, he is badly hurt. When asked what he wants, Oliver explains that it's only a matter of time before the police follow the same trail he did to find Kebo and the police will have to act because of activists. With the pressure on, a desperate Kebo reveals that he contracted AIDS as a result of his rape, which he felt justified the murder of homosexuals. Adrian knocks his gun away, but Lydia Cassmento guns him down and allows them to leave. Walter Jr. later contacts Oliver wanting to join his crusade never wanting to feel helpless again and while in prison, Samandra Watson gets strangled by a mysterious hooded individual with a piano wire.

2."Green Arrow V.S Vigilante"- In flashbacks, Lydia Cassmento is an immigrant to Bludhaven. At school, Lydia gets harassed by several white girls due to her Spanish accent. In the present, Lydia starts the next phase of her plan by joining a criminal organization called the Quadrant, which consists of Dragos Ibaceru, Remy Cartier, and Sid Bunderslaw. Cartier doesn't think that Lydia is worthy enough due to being a woman, and orders his son to kill him. With help from Poison Ivy, Lydia wages a small war on the group, killing both Cartier and his son Eric, then taking his seat in the table. Later on, Lydia tracks down the girls who bullied her as a child and sets them on fire as Ivy watches. Elsewhere, Oliver investigates the murder of Samandra Watson believing that Adrian Chase is the culprit. Chase sets his sights on a man named Leonard Palmer, who has no relation to Ray Palmer, a man who Chase convicted of assault, rape and murder of a crime that Mr. Palmer didn't commit. When Mr.Palmer is released from prison, Vigilante believes it was due to a technicality so he goes and beats Mr. Palmer in front of his wife and mother without mercy until Oliver arrives to subdue him. Oliver later tells Chase that Palmer was actually innocent of the crime and that it was not a technicality. Chase contemplates giving up being The Vigilante, however, Oliver recruits him into his new team and wants Chase to follow his orders, which Chase accepts desperate to avoid making the same mistake again. Oliver rules out Chase as being the one who killed Samandra Watson. Elsewhere, Lydia is attacked by the bandaged man who killed Samandra Watson and calls himself Prometheus. Prometheus is enraged that Cassmento almost killed the Green Arrow through her initiation and warns her to stay away from him.

3."A Shock To Your System"- Along with Adrian, the new recruits for the team are Evelyn Sharp and Walter Steele Jr. Oliver makes them go through a procedure where they have to defeat him in order to ring the bell in an attempt to encourage teamwork. A street urchin named Virgil Hawkins, (Algee Smith) uses his powers to stop the Scorpions from committing a crime. An impressed Lydia Cassamento forces Virgil to work for her or she will harm her sister Sharon, who is studying to be a doctor in National City. Cassmento gets targeted by a woman named Poison Ivy and the team discovers Cassamento worked with Ivy before Ivy decided to takeover her organization. Cassmento sends the remnants of her gang and Virgil to take down the Ivy which leads to an all out war in the city. Black Canary has a battle against Poison Ivy once again, but Laurel lets her guard down and is defeated which leads to Ivy escaping. Green Arrow takes down members of the Scorpions, and tells Virgil that he should make a better choice not to throw his life away, since he believes that Virgil is meant to do better things in life. Green Arrow and Virgil defeat the last few members of the gang, as Oliver knocks out Cassamento. Later, Oliver persuades Virgil to train and to learn how to use his powers as a member of Team Arrow. Virgil accepts the offer, and has Roy and Eddie train him. In order to gain Evelyn's trust, Oliver reveals his identity to her. While in the Army, during a mission, Diggle is ambushed by his superior General Phillip Hunter, who plans to sell a nuclear missile and frame Diggle for the crime.

4."A Matter Of Trust"- Green Arrow investigates a new drug, "Stardust", but still believes his team is not ready for the streets. While he is being informed about Prometheus, Adrian and Evelyn secretly raid Stardust dealer Derek Jones' warehouse. The raid goes wrong and Jones ends up with superhuman strength and an inability to feel pain. Oliver learns what happened from FBI Victor Sage, convincing him that he still cannot trust his recruits. Laurel advises him to accept the recruits as they are and Green Arrow finally uses his new team to stop Jones from creating more superhumans. Oliver also publicly endorses Eddie's decision to appoint Lance as Deputy CEO after negative news stories almost cause him to resign. Walter Jr. admits to Virgil (Static Shock) that he and his deceased friend Felicity were both responsible for Dakota. Diggle is incarcerated and hallucinates Floyd Lawton as his cellmate due to guilt over killing his brother. Afterward, he tells Lila that he will not fight the charges against him, so she asks Oliver to help her break Diggle out of prison.

5."Atonement"- Oliver's team captures an associate of Cassemento's and delivers him and his loot to the SCPD. Afterward, Virgil formally leaves the team, saying that he cannot work with Walter Jr. Oliver leaves Star City to help Lila break Diggle out of prison over Walter Jr. and the team's objections. Lance and Victor personally deliver the evidence to the SCPD, which turns out to be a disguised bomb. The explosion allows Cassemento's group to break in and steal weapons from evidence. Oliver infiltrates a federal prison and locates Diggle, who agrees to escape to safeguard Oliver. Oliver takes him and Lila to a H.I.V.E safe house. Walter Jr. attempts to reconcile matters with Virgil. He and the team determine that Cassemento is planning an assault on the SCPD's strike force, where Victor is interrogating Cassemento's man. Virgil rejoins the team and they help everyone inside escape the attack. However, Laurel is injured and Cassemento captures Adrian, intending to torture him to death. Oliver returns and vows to rescue Adrian, while Victor decides to trust the vigilantes' motives.

6."Human Target"- Oliver rescues Adrian, who tells him that he gave up Green Arrow's true identity to Cassemento. Cassemento plans to kill Oliver as the CEO instead of as the vigilante. Diggle and Roy rejoins the team and suggests that bodyguard Christopher Chance, the "Human Target", could be able to help them. Christopher impersonates Oliver at Queen Enterprises and fakes the CEO's death when Cassemento's mercenary attacks. The team realizes that Cassemento plans to consolidate the drug traffic of five cities through Star City, needing Green Arrow eliminated for his plan to succeed. Oliver and his team, joined by Diggle, Roy and Christopher, raid Cassemento's meeting and capture her along with several other crime lords. Lance publicly claims that Oliver's faked death was part of a sting operation. Prometheus kills Cassemento during transport, despite Cassemento telling him Green Arrow's identity. Roy leaves Star City for Hub City, feeling that he has nothing to fight for anymore.Television reporter Selena McGuire obtains evidence that Oliver was in Lian Yu during the time he was traveling the world. Meanwhile, Oliver finds out that Laurel is dating Victor Sage, an FBI agent sent to replace Diggle as head of their field office.

7. "Prometheus"- Oliver, Diggle, and the team track Prometheus, who starts killing the opponents that Quentin Lance encountered in the past such as the Julian Day who dies from sharpened needles (the Count Vertigo's weapon of choice). When Vic Sage is investigating who killed Cassamento, Laurel steals the arrows used to kill her. Attempting to stay ahead of their foe, Oliver and the team search out Jervis Tetch, who is being held in a hospital. Prometheus arrives and breaks Tetch's neck while Oliver and the team keep an eye on the former Signal-Man. Evelyn goes after Prometheus only for Prometheus to escape not before Evelyn cuts him. Quentin Lance struggles to find out what this all means since Prometheus is killing the villains he has encountered in the past. Laurel discovers that Lance never quit drinking. Laurel tells Victor that she is Black Canary and works with the Green Arrow, which intrigues him. When Oliver is meeting with his childhood friend Harvey Elliot, Walter Jr. contacts Oliver telling him that evidence he has discovered suggests that Prometheus could be a SCPD officer; Lance is shown waking from an alcohol-induced sleep with a slash across his arm and a gun in his possession.

8."Invasion"-Oliver finds himself back at Wayne Manor; both his parents are alive, he is about to be married to Felicity Smoak, and Diggle is The Hood. However, it is revealed that he, Diggle, Laurel, Sara, and Ray are all being held unconscious inside pods aboard the Dominator mothership. Meanwhile, Walter Jr., Eddie Thawne and Cisco Ramon try to hack into the Dominators' mainframe using a piece of their technology. The team recovers a necessary device with the help of The Flash and Superman and manages to locate the others. Oliver begins seeing flashes of his former life, as do Sara and Ray. All five captives soon realize that they are inside a shared hallucination of simulated reality. Their escape attempt is blocked by manifestations of Malcolm Merlyn, Deathstroke, Damian Bedlam, and their mercenaries. The group defeats all of them, then leaves the dream and awakens inside the ship. Escaping in a shuttle, they are rescued by the Waverider. Ray deduces that the Dominators were gathering information from their minds to help them complete a special "weapon", using the hallucination as a distraction. The team learns that the Dominator mothership is headed toward Earth.

9."Heart Of Prometheus"-At an abandoned hospital, Prometheus has been renovating the inside. His staff consists of a strange menagerie of zombie-life drifters wandering aimlessly through the halls. Some of these people are used for menial labor. Others are used as organ donors. Evelyn is revealed to be in league with Prometheus and provides further information on the team to him. Laurel and Victor Sage decide to go outside of the law by going after the Chechen who is beating his wife. Laurel protects her as Black Canary and advises to go to the FBI field office in Star City with all the documents she has on the mob without mentioning her involvement. Prometheus then captures Laurel worrying Sage. Harvey learns Laurel is Black Canary when Prometheus removes Laurel's heart and leaves her hooked to a cardiopulmonary machine and then delivers her to the hospital. Harvey promises Victor to keep Laurel's secret because of doctor-patient confidentiality. When the team tracks down Prometheus to an abandoned hospital where Prometheus removed Laurel's heart, Evelyn reveals her true allegiance since Prometheus gave her proof that Oliver was The Arrow instead of Anthony Ivo and escapes with Prometheus. Queen angrily admits that his best was not enough, and that perhaps the only way to confront a killer like the Reaper is by using something he is loath to do: killing once again. Queen retrieves the bow and arrow that was used to kill criminals when he was known as The Hood and begins to prepare for the coming battle. Investigating Prometheus on his own, Commissioner Nudocerdo sends information he discovers to Lance just before the villain captures him. The information turns out to be about Arthur Claybourne's illegitimate son, who may now be seeking retribution. Oliver deduces Prometheus is hiding in Claybourne's former penthouse and goes there alone. He finds that Prometheus has staged it to resemble Oliver's prior attack. Oliver shoots Prometheus only to realize that he put a gagged Nudocerdo into a coma. Prometheus sets up Nudocerdo to trick Oliver. Diggle is recaptured by the FBI because of Prometheus posing as Lila. Oliver encounters Mia and Felicity in his lair, who are still alive.

10. "Who Are You?"- Oliver welcomes the seemingly-revived Felicity and Mia into the team, but it becomes clear that she is a creation of Clayface and Mia's Earth-Twelve doppelganger Cheshire, having been broken out of S.T.A.R. Labs by Prometheus. The duo escapes and calls Oliver for a meeting, which ends in their capture. Learning about Paul, Adrian convinces Walter Jr. to focus on his capabilities, not his flaws. Oliver places them in an A.R.G.U.S facility, hoping to change her one day. Oliver reveals his plans to follow their Mia's dying wish, to have Roy be the Arsenal again. In Hub City, a man wearing a hood stops an attempted assault in a bar revealed to be Roy. Meanwhile, Oliver convinces Victor to represent John whose corrupt superior, General Hunter, arrives to transfer him into custody. However, Victor manages to keep John in his jurisdiction.

11."Second Chances"- Five years ago, Roy watched as his mother, an addict, was killed by a dealer in front of his brother, who was transferred to foster care, barring Roy from seeing her. He was inspired by The Hood to become a vigilante. In the present day, Victor tells Oliver that the NSA has been investigating Hunter, whose file has vanished. While Walter Jr. tries to locate it, Oliver takes Adrian and Eddie to Hub City to find Roy. Roy refuses to return until he brings in Sean Sonus, who was responsible for the drugs that his mother was addicted to. With a last-minute plea and telling Roy what Mia's last wish for him was, Roy agrees to let the team help him. Oliver, Adrian, and Eddie help Roy defeat the dealers during a shipment, however, Oliver fails to convince Roy of killing Sonus. Meanwhile, Walter Jr. meets a hacktivist whom Felicity inspired during her college days and obtains a file against Hunter. With the file, Sage manages to get Diggle released and Hunter arrested. Roy meets with Oliver and agrees to return to honor Mia. Meanwhile, Oscar Hamilton, the mayor of Star City, is sent a video of Green Arrow shooting Commissioner Nudocerdo and contacts Peter Bennett ordering for a manhunt to take place.

12."Guy's Night"-During a prison transfer, the prison guards are assassinated by a therianthropic Fox, a therianthropic Shark, and a therianthropic Vulture. Those individuals are revealed to be university students and social outcasts named David, Justin, and Amber. Instead of costumes, they mutated by using stolen formulas from Kirk Langstorm. Roy becomes appointed to be a member of the SCPD. Oliver is spending time with Harvey, however, he has to leave him when Lance has located the trio. Oliver and Lance attempt to arrest them, however, they escape due to the intervention of Peter Bennett, Mayor Hamilton, and the Strike Force. Oliver correctly deduces that Prometheus is responsible for sending the footage. Susan asks Oliver if he is the Green Arrow and he says no. Eddie discredits her by hacking Susan's files and inserting proof that she committed plagiarism. Susan gets angry when she gets fired and Oliver confronts Eddie in anger. Lance meets with Hamilton and Bennett to explain the circumstances surrounding Nudocerdo being sent into comatose. The team intercepts the trio when they attempt to kill the students that bullied them and are able to cure them enabling Bennett and the Strike Force to arrest them. Mayor Hamilton then allows the team to leave with Green Arrow telling him of how he regrets shooting Nudocerdo. Meanwhile, Adrian goes to Opal City to meet with Celia Kazantzakis (Corina Akeson). Celia recognizes Adrian as the district attorney of Star City. Adrian asks for her son's name, explaining how he is believed to be Prometheus as well as her son erasing all traces of his existence. However, Celia refuses to give Adrian the name of her son, considering it justified and due to her grudge towards Anthony Ivo believing that Ivo killed Claybourne, who was her lover. Walter Jr., who is with Adrian hacks into Celia's computer and learns that she has been in contact with her son whose name is Richard. Adrian and Walter Jr. then get marijuana while bonding over their issues, such as Doris constantly worrying about Adrian and Walter Jr. losing Paul.

13."Sins Of The Father"- Victor Sage gets targeted by Floyd Lawton, who is still alive and wants revenge on Sage. Dead Shot gets opposed by Prometheus, who is then enraged that Dead Shot is alive. Using a piece of Dead Shot's technology, Walter Jr. manages to track Dead Shot down where he plans to assassinate Sage, when he is visiting Laurel at the hospital. Dead Shot then escapes. Eddie gets Susan her job back by providing an anonymous testimony and leaves to work on his morality. Adrian begins to search through legal records regarding Celia's son Richard and discovers that Richard was a disturbed individual and that he changed his name to Victor Sage. In flashbacks, Floyd Lawton came from a family of wealthy real-estate tycoons, Floyd witnessed his older brother killed by his abusive parents when he was a child and later murdered them when he was fourteen while setting it up to make it look like they killed themselves Lawton later discovers that despite his parents being sent to Blackgate Penitentiary on accounts of child abuse before his brother's death, they were not committed to the prison as their doctor, Victor's father Arthur Claybourne, agreed to keep them out of the asylum as long as they give him a large peace of property that would eventually become Claybourne's Department Store. Lawton then starts working on his shooting skills.

14."Dangerous Liaison"- Walter Jr. gets an offer from Elena to help free former Pandora leader Cayden James in exchange for a cache of secret information. James is currently in A.R.G.U.S custody without due process. Lila plans to use James as bait to destroy Pandora, however, Elena, having already anticipated it, finds James' true location and leads her team, including Walter Jr,  to the rescue. They are interrupted by Team Arrow ; but Walter Jr. forces them to allow Pandora to escape with James. Pandora ends their connection to Walter Jr. Roy believes herself to be an unsuitable brother and leaves his brother at Queen Manor despite Eddie forgiving him. John confronts Lila for her moral ambiguity, however, he later on decides to accept it. Adrian starts to keep an eye on Sage believing him to be Prometheus since Richard Kazantkakis was a disturbed individual long before the death of his father. In flashbacks, Victor Sage was once Richard Kazanthkakis, a high-ranked executive in his father's company. However, Richard conducted a psychopathic streak that greatly disturbed Claybourne which is why Claybourne secretly planned to disown him. When Richard discovers his father is draining power with his plant, he goes to confront him. Claybourne then has his son beaten by his security team and thrown out of the office building. Richard later goes home to his penthouse to see the news that his father has been murdered by the Hood, thus inspiring him to fight crime.

15."Bratva"- General Hunter escapes from the military police and goes to Kiev, Ukraine, for a deal with Markovian terrorists. Oliver takes everyone except Adrian, who is helping Lance prepare for his interview with Susan. When Oliver and his team arrive to Kiev by a company jet, Oliver is greeted by Anatoli. However, Anatoli hits Oliver in the face and wants nothing to do with anymore due to hating Oliver for not helping Ottavio, who was a part of the Bratva, during his time of need. After Walter Jr. blackmails a Ukrainian analyst, the team captures Walker's thug, whom Diggle tortures to no avail. To prevent Diggle and Walter Jr. from acting against their morals, Oliver, Eddie, and Virgil do something criminal for Anatoli by attacking a rival named Justin Rhodes, who is a sex trafficker. The team and the Bratva intercept Hunter's deal. Diggle decides to spare Hunter, who is arrested by the Military Police, while Walter Jr. deals wit the fail safe bomb. Upon returning, Oliver sleeps with Susan. Meanwhile, with help from Adrian, Lance's interview is successful and they become friends.

16."Triumph"- Oliver meets Lady Shiva, who reveals that she was Ra's Al Ghul's step-daughter. She tells Oliver that she hates him for killing her step-father, so she helped Oscar become Prometheus. Oliver confronts Oscar, who says that he has kidnapped McGuire and she will starve if Oliver kills him. The Green Arrow breaks into Oscar's house and tries to reason with Oscar's wife, Dawn, until the Strike Force storms in, forcing him to escape. Walter Jr, agrees to hack Department of Homeland Security drones for Pandora in exchange for assistance in finding McGuire's' location. Oliver's team enters the building, finding and rescuing McGuire before Oliver confronts Oscar. Diggle brings Dawn to try and convince Oscar to surrender, only for him to mortally stab her. Oliver engages Oscar while the others take McGuire and Dawn away. Shiva arrives and helps Oscar overpower and abduct Oliver. Oscar tells Oliver that he plans to help him learn who he really is. Meanwhile, Oscar continues acting normally at City Hall, angering the team. In flashbacks, after being excluded for acting arrogantly against Oliver, Oscar went through a mental breakdown in the prep school which led to him being sent to an asylum. Oscar was then released by Jeremiah Blackgate. However despite this, Oscar blamed Oliver and his mother for his mental breakdown.

17."Kapushon"- In flashbacks during the period after Mia's death, Lila Micahels-Diggle decided to respect Green Arrow which is why she orders Victor Sage, and Hugo Strange to acquire DNA samples of the Emerald Archer. Oliver, Eddie, and Walter Jr. continue working together. However, Oliver must go after the Count Vertigo when he starts a gang war. Victor Sage manages to obtain the sample. In the present, Oscar continues torturing Oliver to make him confess a "secret". The former brings a seemingly reluctant Evelyn, apparently murdering her after Oliver refuses to do it. Oliver reveals that he killed people back then because he liked it, which Oscar wanted to hear. Oscar then kills Evelyn as Prometheus, since she didn't want to kill Oliver and his team. Oscar lets Oliver go, and he returns to Queen Manor and tells the team about his decision to end his vigilantism.

18."Broken Up"- With Oscar having broken him, Oliver disbands the team and calls in Anatoli and the Bratva to take out Oscar. Eddie tries to reason with Oliver, reminding him that there are better ways of doing things. Walter Jr. goes to Pandora and manages to find pixelated footage of Oscar without his Prometheus mask stabbing his wife Dawn to death when Dawn, who is devastated that her husband killed a lot of people, tries to plead with him to turn himself over to the authorities or she would go to the police to tell them what he did. Oliver allows Anatoli and the Bratva to steal diabetes medicine as a downpayment, but they are stopped by the team. When the Bratva are targeting Hamilton, Diggle arrives as Spartan to save the Mayor. When Anatoli asks Eddie why he is doing this and if he wants Hamilton dead. Eddie admits that he does want Hamilton dead, but not like this. After saving Hamilton, Diggle and Sage are forced to assign FBI agents to protect Hamilton since someone hacked into find his schedule of when the assassination happened. Eddie tells Oliver that they can fix him if he is willing to accept help. Oliver rejoins the team, taking out the Bratva and saving hostages that Anatoli had taken as leverage. Walter Jr. manage to decode Hamilton's pixelation device, revealing Prometheus' identity to the police. Oliver claims he's not ready to put the hood back on yet but, with his team, it will be sooner rather than later. When Hamilton is being protected by the FBI, the FBI agents see footage of Hamilton murdering his wife and proceed to arrest him. However, Hamilton kills all of them and leaves the safe house.

19. "The Strange Case of Rupert Thorne- Hamilton goes into hiding with Rupert Thorne, who has returned to Star City and revealed to be the childhood friend of his father, the late Roger Hamilton. Thorne goes to meet with his childhood friend Lew Moxon. Rupert reveals to Moxon that he knows Lew has betrayed him by taking some of his money, and as per policy, Lew takes out a gun and shoots himself. After feeling really good about himself, Thorne gets haunted by strange visions and sounds of his old friend. Oscar helps Thorne make an illegal transfer of drugs into Star City and then drugs him with a chemical causing Thorne to hallucinate Moxon. Thorne then believes that his right-hand man Johnny Gnetto and Deputy Mayor David Hull are behind this since Hamilton gives Thorne proof about Thorne's mistress. Thorne goes crazy and tries to gun the two men down when Oliver is opening the Moira Queen Foundation. Oliver and the team arrive at the event to fight Thorne and his thugs. Walter Jr. stays behind in the Arrow Cave to use drones to lead everyone to safety so they can get away from the gunfire. Thorne then kills Hull and then gets subdued by Lance. Later, Thorne is sent to Blackgate Penitentiary due to not being charged for Hull's murder because of insanity. Johnny takes over Thorne's mob, however Johnny and Thorne's mistress are killed by Prometheus for adultery. In flashbacks, Thorne and Claybourne help Oscar kill his mother Marla due to believing Marla to be a gold digger which is why she married his old friend Roger.

20."Talk To The Hand"- Roy is able to rescue Diggle just in time before he is killed while going after Prometheus. Oscar as Prometheus tasks Beth Ontiveros with unleashing a deadly gas in the SCPD squad room in an attempt to assassinate Lance since Oscar finds him to be to be a problem. However, Beth is stopped by Oliver, saving everyone's life. As the team decide to throw a baby shower for Hall after Gabriel returns and is informed that he is about to be a father. Aware that Oscar wants to take over the city, Oliver draws out Oscar, who is captured himself and Oliver gets defeated when they fight. However, he is able to escape when Oscar attempts to set him on fire.

21."Fathers"- Hamilton bribes the judge to release dangerous convicts, including Killer Croc, on bail. Oliver is sent a body at Queen Enterprises, identified as Henry Goodwin. While Walter Jr. and Roy track Croc, the others investigate Goodwin, who is revealed to have been killed by Celia, shocking Victor Sage, who is helping the team in their investigation as well as investigating a series of murders made by a serial killer called the Identity Thief, who is removing faces on the victims he kills. Oliver convinces Sage to go to Harvey for help and Harvey agrees to it out of respect for Laurel since Laurel was his friend. The team deduces that Hamilton and Croc are stealing Star City's power supply, which is wrecking havoc for the people of Star City. With Oliver wearing the Green Arrow costume again, they track the power plant absorbing the electricity and engage Crock's party while Oliver duels Hamilton. Crock is captured as Walter Jr. defuses the capacitor. Oliver explains that Claybourne is Victor Sage's father and that Hamilton is mentally ill. Disillusioned, Hamilton asks Oliver to kill him, but Oliver arrests him instead. Meanwhile, Roy refuses to testify in court so as not to upset his brother leading to the judge dismissing his claim.

22. "Identity Theft"- The team holds a party for Oliver to celebrate his 33rd birthday, who is not the celebrating mood due to Laurel still being in hospital. Adrian, Walter Jr., and Roy are later kidnapped by Hamilton's outside team. Realizing that Hamilton is picking them off after Lance is abducted by Clay-Face and Cheshire, Oliver accepts his father Malcolm's aid to help him stop on Hamilton. However, Hamilton revealed he has has kidnapped Connor and Oliver is forced to free Hamilton from FBI custody. Hamilton also reveals that he knows he is not Arthur Claybourne's son and that he only pretended to show Oliver the consequences of his actions. Diggle is kidnapped by Lady Shiva and her League of Assassins. Oliver recruits Nyssa to help him fight Hamilton's army. Harvey and Sage team up to investigate when victims are being found in the Glades with their faces removed. Harvey and Sage arrive to a crude surgery theater. It is revealed that Prometheus is now mimicking Oliver Queen down to the smallest detail, having used Blackgate Penitentiary inmates as "donors" for his facial reconstruction. Hamilton then kills Harvey and injures Victor when Victor tries to arrest him.

23."Guardian Angel"- Oliver recruits Malcolm, Nyssa, Lila, Clay-Face and Owen Mercer. Oliver's party frees Samantha, Diggle and Walter Jr. Oliver tasks Malcolm with taking Samantha's party to A.R.G.U.S in order for her to be safe and manages to free Adrian, Virgil, and Lance who knock Cheshire out while Nyssa kills Lady Shiva. Malcolm kills Mercer in order to protect Julie when Mercer betrays Oliver. Hamilton, who is impersonating Oliver, takes Connor to Queen Tower. He uses Connor to bypass the retina scan to steal Oliver's fortune. When confronted by Green Arrow, the Emerald Archer reveals his identity of Oliver Queen to Connor. When Prometheus turns his bow and arrow on Green Arrow during the confusion, the Emerald Archer disarms him and Connor is freed after slamming a glass jar onto Hamilton's face, before Green Arrow knocks him out. As Green Arrow can't take Prometheus to the Star City Police Department or to ARGUS and the FBI, Adrian takes Hamilton to a private prison in Bhutan, where Hamilton vows to escape and kill everyone Oliver loves. In the aftermath, Samantha decides to let Connor visit Oliver for a while. Feeling good about himself, Adrian returns to find the water running in his home from his bathtub and rushes over to discover his wife Doris, who has been killed, lying in the bath tub in a pool of blood. Adrian is then sent a video of Hamilton, before he was imprisoned on Bhutan, mocking him about his wife's death.