The Emerald Archer Season Eight

The eighth season of the American television series The Emerald Archer which is based on the DC Comics character Oliver Queen / Green Arrow, premiered on CBS. The season focuses on the Bat Family and G.C.P.D.'s investigations into a serial killer who is leaving playing cards behind at every scene of the crime. This season takes inspirations from Batman: The Killing Joke, Son of The Batman, Arrow Season 7 and Batman Beyond. 2016-2017

Main and Recurring Edit

 * Mike Vogel as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
 * Dorrian Missick as Mayor Lucas Hilton
 * Omari Hardwick as Agent John Diggle / Spartan
 * Chloe Bennet as Mia Deardren / Red Arrow
 * Helena Mattsson as Dinah Lance / Black Canary
 * Jake Weber as as Eddie Fyers / Recluse 
 * Matthew Daddarrio as Richard  "Roy" Harper / Arsenal 
 * Robert Pattinson as Adrian Chase / Vigilante
 * Cobie Smulders as Director Iman Avesta
 * Camrus Johnson as Michael 'Mike' Steele / Sleets  
 * Jake T. Austin as Simon McGinnis-Hawke  / Green Arrow  IIl (Flashfowards)
 * Paul Wesley as William Queen (Flashfowards)
 * Lili Reinhart as Olivia Lance / Mad Dog

Villains Edit

 * Jim Caviezel  as  Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer
 * Robert Patrick as Jackson Dale / Blight
 * Jeffrey Wright as Mr. Fixx

Guest Stars Edit

 * Brandon Routh as Dr. Ted Kord / Blue Beetle
 * Michelle Ryan as Captain Selina Kyle / White Cat
 * Tala Ashe as Zari Tomaz
 * Tyler Hoelchin as Clark Kent /Superman / Green Arrow
 * Amy Louise Pemberton as Gideon
 * Nick Zano as Dr. / Agent Nate Heywood / Steel
 * Johnny Lee Miller  as Mick Rory/Heat Wave
 * Sophia Cookson as Kara Danvers / Super-Girl
 * Keiynan Lonsdale as Wally West / The Flash
 * David Harewood as J'onn J'onzz/Hank Henshaw/Martian Manhunter

Episodes Edit
1."A Fresh Start..."- Six months after Oliver has been taken away by Mar Novu, the rest of the team continue protecting Star City. Hilton and the S.C.P.D. investigate a new serial killer, "Constantine Drakkon", who is killing victims and leaving behind playing cards. The S.C.P.D. gets unexpected help from psychopath expert Harlow  Arkham, who is the newly appointed head of Arkham Asylum. At the Glades, an activist for the homeless people, a woman named Caroline  Bennett, pleads with Mayor Pollard to put city resources towards the homeless shelter only for Pollard to refuse since he wants to continue construction for the stadium and the parking lots. This results in the homeless becoming angry at the mayor. When Pollard is entering his limousine making plans to enter a race for governor, he gets abducted by the Drakkon's Daughter, who takes him to the sewers under the Glades to torture him for not giving into Bennett's pleas. At a fancy restaurant, the rich and powerful are having dinner there discussing how pleased they are with Pollard's plan to turn the neighborhood into a central business district. A man in a mask stumbles into the building and the rich begin to act arrogant towards him. They become shocked when the masked figure removes his mask, revealing himself to be Pollard strapped to a bomb. Pollard is revealed to be suffering from trauma due to the torture he endured. The S.C.P.D. arrives there, however, the club explodes killing everyone there. Roy investigates this carefully to discover that Pollard was abducted hours ago by Constantine Drakkon's Daughter upon seeing the camera footage. The team later tracks Drakkon's  Daughter and she is revealed to be a woman named Duela, who believes that Drakkon is her father. Mar Novu allows Oliver to return home to his family not before warning him that there will be changes to his reality. At the time same, Tommy Merlyn is released with a clean bill of mental health. In flash forwards to 2039, at a party on Friday night, Connor  Newton is the DJ for a graduate school party and leads the crowd in a chant that would ultimately cause  Simon McGinnis-Hawke to leave. While being pursued by the Drakkonz (street punks enamored by the original ninja assassin), Simon gets help from the twenty eight year old William Queen (Paul Wesley) and accidentally discovers Green Arrow was his father Oliver. After Simon's father is murdered, Simon seeks William's help to avenge him upon finding out that Jackson Dale, CEO of Dale Technology, may have had something to do with it.

2. "All The King's Horses"- Oliver returns to his reality where he is faced with several changes: Superman has been protecting the world years before he became the Hood, Dinah Lance is district attorney, and Walter Steele is alive. Strange, life-sized toy army men have started appearing all over Star City armed with real weapons! When Green Arrow investigates, however, he discovers that they are not toys, but people trapped inside explosive shells. All the clues lead to a former mob accountant named Humphrey Dumpier (AKA Humpty Dumpty) who used to work for crime boss Martin Homers. Dinah called upon Dumpier months when Oliver was away with Novu to testify against him. Dinah promised to protect Dumpler but failed. Dumpler was badly injured in an attempt on his life. This attack caused Dumpler to lose his mind and swear vengeance. He escaped protective custody and began his vendetta. Oliver as Green Arrow, Diggle as Spartan, Mia as Red Arrow, Roy as Arsenal, and Eddie as Recluse, with assistance from Mike who is operating as a hacker under the code name Sleets, to save her. Feeling upset that his revenge failed, Dumpty commits suicide by jumping off the castle where the action is taking place, to his death. Oliver recounts that during his time with Novu, he missed Dinah most of all and goes to speak to her to confess his feelings. Meanwhile, Tommy is trying to adjust to life outside of Arkham Asylum and tries to to talk to Dinah only to encounter Dinah's father Quentin Lance, who tells Tommy to stay away from his daughter because of his time as Two-Timer. Dinah returns Oliver's affections and the two make love while Tommy and Quentin are watching everything from outside Dinah's window before leaving. In flash forwards, Simon steals the Green Arrow suit to pursue Dale, who is secretly using the company's resources to develop a biological weapon. William, discovering the theft, deactivates the suit, but when seeing the now-helpless Simon being punched out reactivates it so he can continue pursuing Fixx, and in the end William appears at Simon's house to hire him as a "special assistant".

3. "Two-Timers"- Mia becomes paranoid upon learning that Harvey has been released from Arkham Asylum only for Oliver to remind Dinah of all the times that Tommy has been there for them before he became Two-Timer which prompts Mia to try to give him another chance. Meanwhile, the S.C.P.D. is attacked by Two-Timer injuring several officers, including Diggle. Oliver and the team suspect that Merlyn has become Two-Timer again since the security footage caught him attacking the officers. Eventually, they discover that Tommy has been captured and impersonated by actor Matt Haven. In flashbacks, Haven was a nerdy, unattractive, and untalented actor. Haven was seen repeatedly turned down in auditions for a dog food commercial when he heard that Basil Karloff was about to be cured. Haven then breaks into Queen Enterprises to consume a purified version of the formula that Anthony Ivo used on Karloff years ago, which makes him have shape-shifting powers. Haven assumes a handsome form, and believes that his rejection is the result of his poor appearance, but ended rejected once again for a dog-food commercial thanks to his lousy acting. Haven then kills the people who reject him. Upon seeing all the publicity that Tommy has gotten during his time as Two-Timer, Haven became inspired to be a criminal like him to get rich. Back to the present, Oliver, Mike, and Walter make an antidote for Haven. During the fight with Clay-Face when rescuing Tommy, they are almost killed until Tommy injects the antidote into Haven, curing him. Later, Mia decides to trust Tommy again after his name is cleared and offers him a job as COO of her company. Tommy humbly refuses since he needs to redeem himself on his own, which Mia accepts. Dinah tells Oliver she is pregnant with their child which is why she decides to retire from the field.

4. "Son Of Green Arrow"- At the headquarters of the Society of Shadows, Ra's Al Ghul grooms William Queen (son of his daughter, Nyssa, and Green Arrow) to succeed him as head of the league. The society is attacked by a group of assassins led by Wade Reforge, a former member that was removed from the League by Ra's because of his methods. During the battle, Ra's is defeated and fatally burned, dying before he can reach the Lazarus Pit. William stabs Wade's right eye during the battle, forcing him to flee. Nyssa takes William to Star City to meet his father and ask for his protection. In Star City, Green Arrow confronts Killer Croc, who is stealing mutagenic chemicals and steroids to enhance himself. Green Arrow gets ambushed by Croc before Nyssa electrocutes the latter from behind. She tells Green Arrow about her father's death and how her and Oliver slept together when they were imprisoned at Slabside which resulted in them having a son named William. William is then left in Oliver's care, though William believes that he can take care of himself and does not need Green Arrow. Wade, wearing the suit that belonged to Theo Galavan, captures Dr. Keith Kenyon, who conspired with both Croc and Ra's, promising the latter a formula for his soldiers. Wade threatens Kenyon's wife Francine and his daughter Rebecca to force him to recreate the Goldface formula for him. William bypasses Queen Towers security to speak to Oliver, telling him that Wade's contact Usu is stationed in Star City. Although William wants to avenge Ra's Al Ghul by killing Wade, Oliver objects to William's willingness to take lives only for William to tell Oliver that he knows he was once a killer. Nyssa is captured by Wade when she and her assassins attack his compound. In flashbacks, William reunites with his mother. However, William and Simon discover a dark secret: years ago, Ra's sacrificed Nyssa by using a computer to imprint his thoughts and memories into Nyssa's body, erasing her consciousness and replacing it with his own. After improving the computer, Ra's Al Ghul decides that it is time to move into a new body: William's. Fortunately, Simon intervenes as Green Arrow making that not happen and William leaves his grandfather to die in the explosion.

5. "Star City 2039"- In flash forwards, Simon and William return to Star City. When Simon is patrolling Star City as Green Arrow, he learns about a group of meta-human heroes endorsed by the Governor. After being exposed to high levels of radiation during a particle fusion experiment, Dr. Nicholas Morgan, Dr. Mary Michael, and Dr. Stuart Lowe underwent dramatic genetic changes. The accident altered their DNA and bestowed them with superpowers, so the three decided to use their abilities for good. Dr. Hodges analyzes a DNA sample from the Trio and found that their condition was worsening. He informs Morgan of this, and Morgan jumps at the chance to attack the Trio tower and kill the Trio solely because Hodges had claimed that there was a slight possibility that it would affect their minds as well. escapes and he as well as William meet with Mia, who is revealed to be governor of the state that Star City is in. Mia is revealed to have come to tell them that Dinah is dead. In the present, against Green Arrow's orders, William leaves the Arrowcave and, after a chase and a long fight, defeats Usu, whom he located by accessing the Arrow-Computer. Before William can kill him, Roy arrives, mistakes him for a criminal and subdues him before bringing him back to the Arrowcave. Oliver berates William for his recklessness, willingness to kill and exposing their operation. Green Arrow then has William don the mantle of Speedy to teach him discipline.

6. "Theory Of Evolution"- Searching for a lead on Kenyon's location, Green Arrow goes to Arkham to interrogate a rabid Killer Croc, who supplied the mutagens to Kenyon in exchange for his enhancements and is currently going through drastic, agonizing withdrawal symptoms that cause him to shed his scales and tail. Since others are too afraid of him to medicate him without being harmed, Green Arrow promises Croc help in exchange for information. Green Arrow follows Croc's lead about the formula's mutagen to Kenyon's apartment, where he finds a throwing star that he takes evidence of Wade's involvement. Before he leaves, he goes throughout the building and finds a storage room filled with caged gold creatures, with one larger cage being empty and broken open from inside. Green Arrow then finds a rabid gorilla with gold-like mutations, one of Kenyon's unstable subjects, and it attacks him until it dies from its mutations. A drone aircraft sent by Wade then flies past and crashes on the building, destroying it, though Green Arrow evades the explosion. Commissioner Hilton warns them about an abandoned stadium believed to house Wade's men. At the stadium, Green Arrow and William question Kenyon but are attacked when William becomes violent. Before they successfully escape, they fight off a swarm of Goldfaces. In the cave, Kenyon reveals Wade's plan to create superhuman, flight-capable assassins. In flash forwards, Simon, William, Mia, and Beth track down a cage fighter named Mad Dog, who Dinah last saw before she died. Everyone discovers that Mad Dog is a woman named Olivia, a rookie officer in the S.C.P.D. who has had enough of vigilantes. Olivia denies knowing what Dinah's plans were.

7. Genesis"- Roy learns that Wade is operating in an oil rig off the Scottish coast, and when Oliver is distracted, William goes to the rig. He finds Wade and Nyssa in an underwater base with a swarm of Gold Faces and another Lazarus Pit, whose fluid Wade intends to sell. William pulls a gun on Wade, who holds one against Nyssa's head until William drops his gun. Wade fires at him, but Nyssa is hit instead after she jumps in the path of Wade's gunfire. As Wade corners William, Green Arrow appears and the Goldfaces attack. Green Arrow wards them off with sonar-emitting arrows, while Wade flees with William giving chase. Oliver heals Nyssa in the Lazarus Pit, while Arsenal and Kenyon reach the oil rig and cure the Gold Faces. At the same time, William fights and defeats Wade, but refuses to kill him because he is his father's son. The elevator from the rig to the underwater base is destroyed when the Golden Faces, overwhelmed by the sonar devices, overcrowd the glass elevator shaft, flooding the base. Green Arrow, Nyssa and William escape, but Wade gets left behind. Green Arrow believes that William should stay with him and remain as Speedy while Nyssa still wishes to recreate the League with Green Arrow, who would rather disband the League, and William at her side. She decides to let him care for their son and leaves with the Society of Shadows though she says she will return for him. In flash forwards, Simon, William, Mia, and Beth encounter Nyssa in Ra's body, who barely has time to live. Before she dies, she informs from old age, she gives them plans to destroy Star City. Nyssa is unable to tell the team whose plans they are.