The Emerald Archer (TV series)

The Emerald Archer is a 2011 American TV series developed by Michael Green. It is the reinterpretation of Green Arrow as the show focuses on Oliver Queen returning to Starling, and creating the Green Arrow persona. It takes place on Earth-12 in the Arrowverse.

Created by Vince Gilligan and David S. Goyer

2011-2012

Cast
 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / The Hood- 21/21
 * Katie Holmes as Laurel Lance- 21/21
 * Jason Issacs as Eddie Feyers


 * Derek Luke as John Diggle- 18/21
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Queen- 21/21

Recurring
 * Danny Glover as Walter Steele
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak- 5/21
 * Bryan Cranston as Lieutenant Quentin Lance
 * Will Wheaton as Ray Palmer / The Atom- 1/21
 * Tommy Lee Jones as Adam Hunt / The Boss
 * Nick Zano as Detective Billy Malone
 * Seth Gabel as Werner Zytle / The Count
 * Terry Crews as Tobias Church
 * James Carpinello as Dr. Michael Hunt
 * Jamey Sheridan as Robert Queen
 * Brette Taylor as Moria Queen
 * Paul  Johanson as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer

Season One: 2011-2012

 * 1) "The Pilot"- Oliver Queen returns to Starling City after spending many years away studying science and martial arts. Oliver returns home deciding to join the Starling City Police Department to be with Lieutenant Quentin Lance, the only cop he trusts on the force. Lance rejects Oliver since he was good friends with Robert Queen  and doesn't want him to get hurt. Oliver reunites with his butler Eddie, sister Mia, and best friend Tommy Merlyn. Oliver tries to make an effort to rekindle his friendship with Laurel, but Laurel has begun a relationship with her new boss District Attorney Tommy Merlyn. Oliver  contemplates whether or not he should leave Starling City  since he wanted to have a purpose in fighting crime, but now he can't have it and he's facing a lot of problems. Before he can do anything, Oliver is informed by Eddie that Lance called for him at Queen Chemicals. Arriving there, and noticing the green pool of hazardous chemicals, Lance and Oliver, only to learn neither one called the other. The access hatch closes and locks, and water rushes in.
 * 2) "Rough Seas"- Working together, Lance and Oliver 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 (Paul Johanson) is watching them. The next morning, Lance  calls and tells him what Steele found : 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, John Diggle, and Detective Billy Malone. Suddenly, the three encounter the thugs. 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 hanged himself. Later, Oliver goes to a surprise birthday where Eddie, Mia, Tommy, Lance, and Walter are. Adam Hunt  arrives to tell Oliver  that their stock might take a beating if word gets out about the drugs. 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.
 * 3) "Love American Style"- Oliver remembers seeing on the board that Lance had in his office believing that Thorne Consolidated 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 Billy Malone to look into it. Oliver, showing sympathy for Felicity , decides to be a step ahead of Billy, 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 Billy Malone 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) "The Scientist"- When a masked thief with superhuman strength steals a centrifuge from Thorne Consolidated, A CSI from Central City named Barry Allen (Nicholas Hoult), arrives to help the investigation since he was sent over by Joe West to help do an investigation on the thief. Oliver recognizes the thief as a zombie called Solomon Grundy, who was created by the working class citizens of 19th century Starling City to wreak havoc on the rich landowners that polluted the local lake with industrial waste that converted it into Starling Swamp. Oliver as The Hood, is able to track down Solomon Grundy only to be injected with a fear toxin administered by Solomon Grundy's master the Scarecrow. Barry discovers Oliver's secret and takes him to Eddie for help. Meanwhile, John and Rojas investigates the murder of an officer, who was working undercover investigating drug baron, Franco Bertinelli. John is personally involved in the case since he was having an affair with the officer's wife, who was also attacked in the process.
 * 5) "All Fear The Scarecrow"- Barry manages to save Oliver's life, but Oliver is angry to find out that Barry found out his secret as he regains consciousness. Oliver and Barry are able to locate Solomon Grundy. The Scarecrow is revealed to be Mia's high school biology teacher Jonathan Crane, whose wife died in a fire that he was too scared to rescue her from; believing fear is a human flaw, he is now harvesting adrenal glands in order to create a serum that makes people confront and overcome their greatest fears. As the Scarecrow, Crane attempts to test the serum on Mia until Oliver arrives as The Hood to stop Solomon Grundy, simultaneously destroying the centrifuge and the remaining serum. Oliver then injects Crane with a serum as revenge for nearly killing his sister. Crane is rushed to the hospital, but the serum has sent him into a state of constant terror, and he may never stop hallucinating his greatest fear: animated scarecrows. Meanwhile, Elsewhere, John continues to harass Bertinelli, as a group of renegade police officers led by Billy Malone decides to take matters involving Bertinelli into their own hands.
 * 6) "There Was A Crooked Man"- Oliver discovers a connection between Peter Declan, a prison inmate, and Palmer Cokes. He enlists the help of Laurel to prove Declan's innocence. Working together, the pair uncovers the truth, but Cokes has his mercenaries stage a prison riot so that they can have Laurel and Declan killed before the truth is revealed. Oliver sneaks into prison dressed as a guard and saves the two. Declan is exonerated while Cokes is arrested. John and Rojas don't get along very well when Rojas is questioned about a shooting incident involving John and a suspect. John claims that he fired in self-defense, but his story doesn't add up. Rojas contemplates what he should do and opts for what he thinks is right, so he reports his actual observations, the forensic evidence, and the discrepancies with John's story to Internal Affairs, even though this will brand him as a rat. It turns out that the man John killed was a former Haitian terrorist militia member of the Tonton Macoute, whom he had encountered while in the army during Black Ops in Haiti, and John knew the suspect had committed awful crimes. In the end, the whole situation gets kicked under the rug.
 * 7) "Home Invasion"- Laurel  represents the Moore family who are suing a corrupt businessman, 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 Hood from the hitman's attempt. Laurel suggests that they go to the Queen Mansion for protection. The pressure on John begins to escalate when Bertinelli's associates begin tailing him. Oliver forces the businessman Edward Rasmus to confess his crimes, leading to the latter's arrest. After killing the latter, the hitman comes to the Queen Mansion to kill all remaining witnesses, but The Hood kills him. John is kidnapped as soon as he gets home by Bertinelli's men. As Bertinelli moves in to finish John off, Billy Malone and the police burst in and arrest them. Using him as bait was the plan all along. Tommy decides to end things with Laurel since he feels that Laurel has feelings for Oliver.
 * 8) "Dead To Rights"- Oliver  takes out a hired gunman and realizes that the latter's target is not safe yet. Rupert Thorne hires Lawton to take out Malcolm Merlyn (Paul Johanson), after the previous gunman's death. Malcolm asks Tommy to attend an award ceremony where Malcolm will be receiving a humanitarian award. At the last moment, Oliver discovers that Malcolm is the target and races to the event to save him. Although he is almost caught by Hall, Oliver manages to get Malcolm away from Chien's men. Malcolm is shot with one of Lawton's poisonous bullets, and Oliver is forced to reveal his identity to Tommy so that he can save Malcolm's life. Malcolm and Tommy reconcile. The former tells his associate about his belief that someone who knows about Project Avalon attempted to kill him. Laurel confronts Tommy about their breakup and Tommy reveals that he knows how Laurel still loves Oliver, a belief that he confirms.
 * 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, Billy Malone 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 Billy , whom the real Dark Archer set up as himself to trick Oliver. Felicity starts to mourn Billy's death and Oliver decides to give up being The Hood since he feels guilty for murdering Billy.
 * 10) "Avalon"- Six weeks after his fight with The Dark Archer, Oliver avoids any activities as The Hood out of guilt for killing Billy Malone, despite insistence from Eddie. Lance visits Walter in the hospital and Walter tells Lance about a secret project that was thought to be extinct, but things get more bizarre when it traces back to Robert Queen and Thorne Consolidated. Oliver discovers this and tries to piece together everything. Oliver meets his godmother Leslie Thompkins who believes that the project may have had something to do with Oliver's parents' death and Malcolm was one of the creators of the project. Oliver hunts Malcolm for the real truth even though he's placing himself in mortal danger.
 * 11) "Purgatory"- After the events of Project Avalon weeks ago, Starling City is stunned with the surprise death of Malcolm Merlyn, but did he really die? Meanwhile, Oliver wakes up from a long slumber and has no memory of what happened; Tommy is being investigated by two FBI agents, and everyone will find a surprise that will be a blast when a rouge FBI agent has to be dealt with. Malcolm checks into a motel in Central City and is revealed to have The Dark Archer's costume in his briefcase, thus revealing that he was the archer all along.
 * 12) "Werner Zytle"- Laurel tries to prosecute millionaire Martin Somers, who is also one of Oliver's targets. Eddie hands Oliver a card from his childhood friend, Werner "Wern" Zytle (Seth Gabel), whom he has not seen in 20 years. Oliver contemplates whether or not he should trust Zytle after learning that he is one of Adam Hunt's thugs. Both men reunite with one another at Zytle Park, where Werner reveals that he is testifying in court against Somers for his crimes. The Triads, because they were contacted by Somers, sends the assassin Hideo Katsu to kill Werner. Oliver as The Hood saves Werner from Katsu, then kills him. He later obtains Somers' confession and gives an audio recording of it to Lance. Meanwhile, Eddie comes to Mia's aid at a party when an egotistical sex-addicted teenager is attempting to rape her. Tommy learns more about Malcolm's disappearance. Zytle visits Thorne to reveal to him a secret about Hunt that can bring him down.
 * 13) "Chatter"- A snooty reporter, Alice Foster, tries to find some newsworthy story, and she soon discovers a case about Malcolm Merlyn ; with her dubious skills, she will stop at nothing to get what she wants and Tommy is determined to stop her. Meanwhile, 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, Rupert Thorne arranges for his son Randall to kidnap a boy named Alberto who comes from a family of immigrants. Mia's psychologist Delbert Billings gives her the evidence she needs and gets her friend's boyfriend and those involved removed from the football team.
 * 14) "Cut Man"- After failing to rescue Alberto,  Oliver  is found in a dumpster by Dr. Michael Calvi, the son of Adam Hunt. Mia and Billings continue to get closer to one another which results in the both of them having an affair. Mario takes Oliver to his apartment, tends to his injuries, and removes his hood,  discovering his face. He refuses to reveal his name, but does anticipate that Randall Thorne is searching the apartment building, giving Mario time to hide Oliver and convince the man that he knows nothing. Oliver realizes that Randall doesn't trust Mario since he is well aware that Michael is Hunt's son and Oliver as The Hood  overpowers him, taking him to the roof. Oliver and Michael torture him into revealing Alberto's location, before The Hood kills him. Oliver as The Hood, enters the building where they are keeping the boy, kills the guards,  and rescues him. Meanwhile, Hunt confides in Hill that Alberto is secretly his illegitimate son when Hill pressures Lance and the entire police force to find the boy.
 * 15) "Scorched"- When an employee of the singer Cassidy is murdered in a fire, Oliver  suspects that he was murdered. Tracking down the suspect, The Hood is overpowered during the confrontation, but discovers that the murderer is Cassidy's former boyfriend Garfield Lynns, a special effects engineer working on her tour. Cassidy didn't show any sensitivity when she ended the relationship, and Garfield became violent and obsessed with her. She had hoped they could still work together as colleagues, but that was too much to ask from Lynns. Shortly before one concert, the two came to blows, and Cassidy fired him. Lynns shows up at Cassidy's concert in order to kill Cassidy. As the Hood, Oliver saves Cassidy before Lynns commits suicide. The media calls the Hood a hero. Meanwhile, Zytle continues to gain more loyalty from Hunt  by saving a bag of money in a restaurant when the previous manager is murdered during a robbery. Zytle  later on kills the three masked robbers who had attacked Hunt's restaurant, who is turns out had been hired for just that by purpose by Zytle himself, by serving him a poisoned cannoli.
 * 16) "Friend"- While learning more about the final clue, Walter  soon learns from Rupert Thorne that the charismatic businessman Ray Palmer, has come to Starling City for a business conference in hopes that Thorne Consolidated would do business with Palmer Industries. However, what Walter doesn't know is that Ray Palmer  is actually an armored crime fighter known as The Atom. Zytle sends the Irish hitmen to kill Hunt, but it is a setup designed by Zytle  to frame Thorne and start a war between the two mob bosses. Oliver and Ray  are at odds with each other because of Oliver's methods. Tommy thinks Ray can help him find his father. Oliver and Ray are forced to work together to stop a group of criminals plotting to steal information. Hunt begins attacking Thorne's men, and Lance calls all SCPD  officers to remain on duty during the upcoming gang war.
 * 17) "All Happy Families Are Alike"- The mob war between Thorne and Hunt  escalates. Zytle attempts to kill Hunt himself and take his place, but John intervenes. As Mayor Hamilton Hill and Thorne's men approach, John and Rojas bring Hunt, Zytle, and Butch to a safe house, but Randall Thorne shows up to capture them with help from Carl Hayes' (Terry Crew)'s new crew. Zytle manipulates him and Church  into a dispute over mob leadership. Church eventually shoots Randall dead. John, Rojas, and Hunt  escape in the chaos with help from Oliver, who was posing as a gangster known as Matches Malone. Zytle fights and kills Church  by throwing him off the roof into the water, becoming Starling's new crime lord. 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.
 * 18) "Onlooker"- While out clubbing, Mia  gets arrested by the police. Mia learns she is being accused of killing Deputy Mayor Harrison Kane. Oliver  learns about it and searches for the real killer. Laurel  is put in a tough spot when she learns that the prosecutor Thomas Williams  wants to convict Mia for life, until Oliver probes Williams' past and discovers something quite shocking. The Hood and Lance discover that Harrison Kane was never shot, but stabbed. The M.E's report was supposed to go to John and Rojas, but Williams intercepted it. Oliver  then takes a look at the tape of Mia killing Kane and realizes that the video is fake because of the static interference that happened before showing Mia kill Kane. Lance  discovers that Kane is actually being impersonated by Delbert Billings, who has a grudge on Mia  for when their affair had to end. Mia's name manages to get cleared in the end and Billings is sent to prison, however he still has possession of his ring that can create illusions.
 * 19) "The Odyssey"- Oliver is critically shot by Thorne when confronting him as The Hood and escapes. He exposes his secret to Felicity, and asks her to take him to Queen Manor. With Eddie's  help, the bullet is removed and Oliver  is stabilized. Oliver contemplates telling Felicity the truth about him being responsible for the murder of Billy Malone. Oliver does and Felicity surprisingly shows an understanding to Oliver since she blames it all on The Dark Archer.  Flashbacks show what happened on the night that Robert and Moira Queen  were murdered. Robert and Moira were being threatened by Thorne. Robert was angry at Moira  for asking Malcolm  to threaten Thorne into backing off since they were no longer friends because of Project Avalon. This serves as a motivation for Oliver  to stop Thorne and Malcolm when he wakes up from his coma. Tommy tries to find his father after killing Sal Maroni with his Big Bad Tom persona and gets surprised when Malcolm shows up alive.
 * 20) "Talisman"- The search for the blue crystal sparks a war between Malcolm Merlyn  and Rupert Thorne and the people of Starling City falls right in the middle. Distracted by his dream, Oliver gets a cryptic message and must learn the true origins of the crystal before all hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Tommy's life is in danger resulting to a life-altering decision; Walter and Lance learn the solution of the puzzlebox.
 * 21) "Excalibur"- As the battle for the control of the crystal begins, Malcolm attempts to finally stop Rupert Thorne and the Red Fists by reviving Project Avalon again and the outcome won't be pretty, as Oliver goes after The Dark Archer for a final fight. While, Hamilton Hill High is putting a Spring Fling dance and Mia  as well as her friends are desperate to find a date. Meanwhile, Eddie  takes a sabbatical.