The Emerald Archer Season Five

The Emerald Archer Season Five is the fifth season of The Emerald Archer Season Five. It deals with Oliver continuing to protect Star City with Mia and Felicity while Eddie  is in England, John is with the NYPD, and Laurel  now working as a lawyer for Justin Claybourne. Oliver defeating Ra's has inspired a new crop of masked heroes to step up and defend the city, however, their painful inexperience makes them obstacles, rather than allies, in the field. Divers accidentally stumble about a new serial killer's underwater burial ground, discovering the many bags containing the body parts of his victims. Realizing this dumping ground is the work of a serial killer, the media dubs these bodies the work of the "Star City Butcher". When it's revealed that each victim was a criminal and killer, some members of the public openly support the Star City Butcher while considering the Green Arrow and his team to be a disgrace. To oversee the investigation of the Butcher's crimes, an FBI special team is assigned to Star City, led by FBI Deputy Director Victor Sage. Working with SCPD, Victor Sage  brings in Angel Rojas, John Diggle, and several other SCPD  members to join his task force. However, Sage at first dislikes the Green Arrow before fully trusting him. Both Justin Claybourne and the Star City Butcher will force Oliver  to confront questions about his own legacy, both as CEO of Queen Enterprises and as the Green Arrow.

Created by Vince Gillian and David S. Goyer.

2015-2016

Cast Recurring
 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow / 514A / Prometheus- 22/22 8/22
 * Michael Dorn as the voice of Prometheus
 * Derek Luke as John Diggle / Spartan- 18/22
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Queen / Arsenal- 16/22
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak / Overwatch- 22/22
 * Jason Issacs as Eddie Feyers- 15/22
 * Katie Holmes as Laurel Lance / Black Canary- 8/22
 * Bryan Cranston as Commissioner Quentin Lance- 7/22
 * Paul Johanson as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer- 3/22 (Final Season)
 * John Boyega as  Virgil Hawkins / Static Shock- 14/22
 * Chris Wood as Roy Harper / Speedy- 14/22
 * Brett Dalton as Rory Regan / Ragman- 11/22
 * Danny Glover as Walter Steele- 2/22
 * Josh Segarra as FBI Agent Victor Sage- 11/22
 * Stephen Amell as Simon Morrison- 5/22
 * Michael Chernus as Arthur Brown / Clue Master- 1/22
 * Maddie Hasson as Pamela Isley- 3/22
 * Eric Christian Olsen as Michael Carter / Booster Gold- 2/22
 * Grant Gustin as Barry Allen / The Flash- 2/22
 * Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon- 2/22
 * Danielle Panabaker as Caitlin Snow-2/22
 * Falk Hentschel as Prince Khufu / Carter Hall / Hawkman- 2/22
 * Troian Bellisario as Princess Shayara / Kendra Saunders / Hawkgirl- 2/22
 * Sam Worthington as Gabriel- 3/22
 * Karen Fukuhara as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana- 4/22

Season 5 (2015-2016)
Episodes
 * 1) ""The Killing Joke"-   Five months after the death of Nyssa Al Ghul,  Oliver is distracted from his new duties as CEO due to working as the Green Arrow.  He is encouraged by Felicity  to build a new team by recruiting amateur vigilantes now working in Star City, like Rory Regan. A break-out of inmates at Arkham Asylum leads Green Arrow  to discover that Constantine Drakon is at it again while using a gas to make victims paralyzed with a fixed, yellow-teeth smile on their faces. Green Arrow  quickly discovers that Drakon  plans to use the gas on Star City  and attempts to stop him with help from Mia, Walter, and Felicity . Meanwhile, Drakon kidnaps medical surgeon Simon Morrison  and forces him to separate his new henchmen Hammer and Sickle. Green Arrow  is able to stop Drakon with help from  Quentin Lance  and the entire police department. Oliver still refuses to recruit new people into his team. Elsewhere, a team of scuba divers at the Star City Bay has found over 30 garbage bags, each containing parts of mutilated victims.
 * 2) "Q&A"- The Star City  Police Department, led by FBI Special Agent Victor Sage, begins the hunt for the "Star City Butcher".  Meanwhile, Lance  investigates a series of kidnappings and Oliver realizes that those victims were once the producers of a game show called Think, Thank, Thunk and realizes that the culprit is none other than Arthur Brown, (Michael Chernus),  who now goes by the name Clue Master and has a grudge on the producers for rigging the show as well as the contestant who beat him. Oliver  now must stop Brown before they get killed. Mia befriends Pamela Isely when they both have to do some volunteering for the environmental club. Justin Claybourne arrives to do business with Oliver Queen , however Eddie , while in MI5, tries to convince Oliver not to accept Claybourne's offer by telling him about Malcolm, Robert, and Claybourne's rise in the business world, but it was Claybourne who took the more criminal route to undermine his corporation's potential success. However, Claybourne felt it was Malcolm and Robert who undermined him. Oliver then rejects Claybourne's aid which makes him swear vengeance.
 * 3) "Code of Silence"-Justin Claybourne's businesses are attacked by a team of mercenaries, known as the Demolition Team. They try to take out Claybourne, whom Laurel as Black Canary saves. Unknown to everyone else, Pamela is the brains behind a string of attacks. The Demolition Team goes after Pamela after wondering why they have not been paid for their work as promised, placing her and Mia  in extreme danger. Meanwhile, Eddie back in  the MI5 and on a covert operation, is ambushed by Director Payne, who plans to sell a nuclear trigger and frame Eddie. Oliver and Mia have to deal with a superhero named Booster Gold, who shows up from the future to try to take the spotlight from the Green Arrow. Unfortunately, Booster Gold keeps interfering in one of Oliver and Mia's attempts to stop the Demolition Team until he eventually manages to be of use.
 * 4) "Pretty Poison"- Pamela's chemical accident during the fight between Booster Gold, Green Arrow, Arsenal and the Demolition Team, caused her body to mutate and give her power over plants and spores that can mind-control men. Becoming Poison Ivy, she soon continues her attacks against waste-dumping corporations led by Justin Claybourne. However, when she kidnaps Commissioner Lance and places Green Arrow  under her control, Mia  tries to stop her former friend. Eddie is incarcerated and hallucinates Grant Wilson as his cellmate due to the guilt he had for having him removed from the CIA. Oliver  confronts Booster and warns him not to go out onto the streets again for what happened to Pamela. Eddie  decides to not fight the charges against him which is why Lila goes to tell Oliver about it. Oliver then decides to break Eddie out of prison. Simon Morrison gets visited by Victor Sage with an offer to join his task force against the Star City Butcher and Victor  notices a string of patterns in the murders.
 * 5) "A Shock To Your System"- John returns to Star City and helps Mia capture a member of the Red Ninjas and turns him and his loot to the SCPD.  Afterward, Oliver  orders John to leave since he cannot trust him due to his past with Anatoli Knyazev and the Bratva. Oliver leaves Star City with Lila  to break Eddie out of prison over Felicity and Mia's objections. Meanwhile, a boy named Virgil Hawkins comes to Star City  for college with his friend Richard Williams, however he gets pressured into joining the Red Ninjas by their leader. Oliver  infiltrates a British prison and locates Eddie, who agrees to escape to safeguard Oliver. Oliver takes him and Lila  to a safe house. John still stays in Star City  instead of returning to New York and convinces Virgil to use his powers for good in order to make him avoid the same mistake he did. Virgil tells John, Mia and Felicity that the Red Ninjas are planning an assault on the FBI task force assembled by Victor Sage.  Virgil uses his powers to help everyone inside escape the attack. However, Mia is injured and the Red Ninjas  capture John, intending to torture him to death. Oliver returns and vows to rescue John, while Victor Sage  decides to trust the vigilantes' motives.
 * 6) "The Darkness Below"- John gets tortured by the Red Ninjas, however Oliver is able to save him. John then tells Oliver about how some of the Red Fists were murdered in a mine and Felicity does some research to find out that workers in the mine were experiencing scary sounds and vibrations when digging which prompts Oliver to call in his old friend, Gabriel, an archangel.  Gabriel deduces that the Coblynau, the normally benign spirits of deceased workers, are forced by a person to kill others. They become suspicious of a former priest named Deacon Blackfire since he lost his son in the mine, but find out he is innocent. Gabriel decides to prevent anyone from entering the mine, setting explosives inside and giving the trigger to Blackfire, who detonates it. Gabriel finds out that the person forcing the Coblynau is a Romani, the wife of a mine foreman who was recently killed. The woman summons the Coblynau to kill Green Arrow and Gabriel , who summons her husband, another Coblynau who kills her and frees them. Meanwhile, Oliver  and John are still at odds with each other, however Mia  refuses to allow John to return to New York by offering him a high paid security job at Queen  Enterprises behind Oliver's back. Victor Sage  investigates Frank Pike  as a suspect in the Star City Butcher Case after Rojas informs him about how Pike was involved in human trafficking before being discharged. Victor  goes to check on Pike,  who is now a bouncer in a strip club, only to find that he has been murdered by the Star City Butcher himself.
 * 7) "Ragman"- Green Arrow makes Virgil, Mia, and Roy begin training them from an exercise to provide them the essence of teamwork. Meanwhile, Justin Claybourne discovers that the new vigilante Rag Man is actually Rory Regan and forces him to kill Green Arrow and Quentin Lance by threatening to harm his sick father. Virgil leaves Green Arrow  because he doesn't trust him. Eventually, Green Arrow  stopped Rory in time to convince him about being a hero. Together they are able to stop Claybourne's men from killing Rory's father. Green Arrow then threatens Claybourne into staying away from Rory's father. Later, Oliver reveals his identity to Virgil as a sign of trust and he agrees to join him. Walter  finds out that John is working at Queen Enterprises without Oliver's approval and confronts Mia about this, however he decides to keep this a secret. Meanwhile, Simon Morrison  discovers that forensics discovered something crucial to the Star City Butcher case and tries to find out what it is in his efforts to sabotage the investigation.
 * 8) "Trust Issues"- Green Arrow  investigates a new drug, "Stardust", but still believes his team is not ready for the streets. While he is being informed by Victor Sage about the Star City Butcher, Roy and Mia secretly raid Stardust dealer Tony Woodward's warehouse. The raid goes wrong and Woodward ends up becoming a Meta-Human who renames himself as Girder. Oliver  learns what happened from Lance, convincing him that he still cannot trust his recruits. Felicity advises him to accept the recruits as they are and Green Arrow finally uses his new team to stop Woodward from creating more superhumans. Oliver also publicly endorses Mia's decision to appoint John as head of security after negative news stories made by reporter Susan Williams almost cause her to resign. Meanwhile, Prometheus stalks Robert Jenkins , a pastor who rapes and murders young boys, kidnaps him, and then murders him.
 * 9) "Butchered"- A mock killer mimics, claiming to be inspired by the Star City Butcher, and unless the police find him, the FBI may take over the case completely. Simon Morrison learns that Prometheus was filmed while disposing Robert Jenkin's remains and seeks to erase the video footage in the marina. The public begins to panic because of the Star City Butcher until the Green Arrow and his team arrive to restore order. Quentin Lance manages to calm the public down after learning from Victor Sage  that the Star City Butcher only kills criminals. Felicity uses the mock killer's pattern to predict future victims and the team splits up. Mia encounters the copycat killer and manages to fight him before being overpowered. Oliver  then arrives and captures the pretender. Oliver's secretary drives a car and rams it at Oliver, , causing him to get hit and fall into the water left to die when Oliver is meeting with Felicity.
 * 10) "Comatose"- Oliver  finds himself back at Queen Manor; both is parents are alive, he is about to be married to Laurel Lance, and Quentin Lance is Green Arrow.  However, it is revealed that Oliver  is in a coma following the car crash. Meanwhile, Felicity  and the team wait for Oliver to come out of a coma. Malcolm  investigates to discover that Justin Claybouurne masterminded the crash and tells Mia  about it. However, Claybourne tries to seek a pardon by offering them key information regarding the explicit involvement of Oliver's secretary. Mia refuses and wants to punish Claybourne the same, however, Claybourne and Malcolm make a deal; Claybourne won't be involved in Oliver's attempted murder if he gets 10% of Merlyn Global Group. Mia is outraged, but Malcolm tells Claybourne its a deal. Oliver  begins seeing flashes of his real life and soon realizes that it is a hallucination. Oliver 's attempt to escape is blocked by manifestations of Malcolm Merlyn, Grant Wilson, Ra's Al Ghul, and the League of Assassin members. Oliver  defeats all of them, leaves the dream, and awakens inside the hospital. Laurel finds out what Claybourne did and attempts to go to Lance, however, Claybourne silences Laurel by pushing out the window to her death.
 * 11) "Fighting Fire With Fire"- A group of canaries swarm around Laurel and she suddenly regains consciousness. Traumatized, Laurel develops dissociative identity disorder and, after having a mental breakdown and trashing her apartment, she decides to become Black Canary again. Adrian Chase returns to Star City to target Justin Claybourne as the Vigilante, however, Adrian is opposed by Prometheus, who wants to have a word with Claybourne. Using a piece of Adrian's suit, Felicity  manages to track his location, where he plans to kill Claybourne, who is making a press conference about leaving for England. Chase then escapes. Laurel gets her revenge on Claybourne by blowing up is pharmaceutical company as Black Canary, however, Chase is blamed for that. Felicity gets an offer by a girl named Elena  to join a hacker group called Pandora. Prometheus attacks Claybourne as he is leaving the country and kills him for ordering Oliver's  attempt to be murdered. In the flashbacks, it is revealed that Chase is actually Claybourne's illegitimate son who hated his father after being disowned by him because of psychiatric issues.
 * 12) "Canary Cry"- In flashbacks, Eddie  and Tatsu's father murder an illegal drug merchant associating with the war criminal Red Claw. Tatsu's father presses Eddie to return home, but he chooses instead to stay and help fight in the war. In the present, Laurel continues sabotaging Justin Claybourne while being unaware that he was killed by Prometheus.  This brings Laurel  into conflict with Oliver  and the team. Laurel gets recruited by Arnold Wesker, a janitor with a split personality disorder who has a gangster-like puppet named Scar Face, who wants to rob Claybourne of all his money, and has seen Laurel blow up Claybourne's factory. However, the real victim is Laurel  herself, since she has been secretly set up by Scar Face to take the fall for stealing a jade jaguar totem. Meanwhile, Eddie gets surprised when he gets confronted by Tatsu Yamushiro and her son Akio. It is revealed that Tatsu is actually his goddaughter, however, Eddie is unaware that Tatsu was sent by the British Government to capture him.
 * 13) "Katana"- Oliver  investigates the presence of a new serial killer called Professor Pyg, someone who kidnaps people across the country under his front "The Circus of Strange" where he brings them back to Star City  and turns them to what he calls "Dollotrons." Any failed attempt to turn victims to Dollotrons are left behind mutilated as what Pyg calls his failed "flawed" experiments (in which rejected victims have distinctive features: shark bite, six fingers on one hand, etc.). Oliver  and the team must act fast to stop the killer. Meanwhile, Mia learns about Tatsu's history with Eddie and confronts her about betraying him to Sir Reginald after being told about this by Prometheus.  Meanwhile, Lance convinces Victor Sage  to represent Eddie. Eddie's corrupt superior, Sir Reginald Payne, arrives to transfer him into custody, however, Victor manages to keep Eddie  in his jurisdiction. Flashbacks show Eddie's  time in war where Tatsu's father dies and Eddie promises her father to take care of Tatsu.
 * 14) "Dangerous  Liaisons"- Felicity gets an offer from Elena to help free former Pandora leader Cayden James in exchange for a file against Sir Reginald along with 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 Felicity , to the rescue. They are interrupted by Team Arrow ; but Felicity forces them to allow Pandora to escape with James. Pandora end their connection to Felicity , but provide her with the information on Sir Reginald. With the file, Sage manages to get Eddie released.  Tatsu believes herself to be an unsuitable mother and leaves her son Akio at Queen Manor  despite Eddie forgiving her. John confronts Lila for her moral ambiguity, however, he later on decides to accept it.
 * 15) "Heroes of Today"- Vandal Savage arrives in Central City looking to kill Kendra Saunders. After he attacks Kendra and Cisco Ramon, Barry Allen  takes Kendra to Star City  and enlist the help of Team Arrow to protect her. The team is visited by Gabriel, who informs that Savage is an immortal. Later, Kendra is kidnapped by Hawkman, but Oliver and Barry  rescue her and capture him. He introduces himself as Carter Hall, and tells them he and Kendra are soulmates who have been connected for millennia. They are destined to die, be reborn, and find each other in each lifetime. Carter also reveals that Savage has killed the pair several times, each time growing stronger. Savage acquires the Staff of Horus, a deadly weapon. Kendra unlocks her abilities and becomes Hawkgirl and the team decides to regroup in Central City. John sees Lila  with a child and realizes that the child is likely his.
 * 16) "Heroes of Yesterday"- -Gabriel orchestrates a meeting between Savage, Green Arrow, and The Flash.Savage demands they turn over Kendra and Carter or he will destroy both Central City and Star City with the Staff of Horus. They devise a plan to deliver the pair as a ruse to get close enough to destroy the staff. The plan fails; Kendra and Carter are killed and Savage uses the staff to destroy everyone else in the city. Barry escapes and runs fast enough to go back in time to the point of the original negotiation. Barry informs Oliver of his time travel and the mistakes that led to their defeat such as Mia's son Conner being erased from existence. They change their approach to the plan and Barry is able to steal the staff. He and Oliver use it on Savage, burning his body. Afterward, Kendra and Carter decide to use their powers to help others in another city. Cisco gives her a tracking device. Meanwhile, John learns about his son, Rex, and decides to not tell anyone about it. Prometheus manages to acquire the ash reciting the words that Savage said the first time he killed the pair.
 * 17) "Ukraine"- The team learns from Tatsu that Sir Reginald is in Ukraine for a deal with Markovian terrorists. Oliver takes everyone except Virgil, who is tasked with helping John in his interview. Jacob Volk refuses to help Oliver unless he does something criminal in return, which Oliver initially refuses. After Felicity blackmails a Ukrainian analyst, the team manages to capture Sir Reginald's henchman, whom Tatsu tortures, but to no avail. In order to prevent Tatsu and Felicity from acting against their own morals, Eddie convinces Oliver  to accept Jacob's terms and attacks a rival with help from Roy. Team Arrow and the Bratva intercept Sir Reginald's deal; and Tatsu decides to spare Sir Reginald, who is arrested by the Military Police, while Rory uses his rags to contain the nuclear blast. Rory tells Felicity  that his rags do not function anymore, and he needs to leave temporarily. Meanwhile, with Virgil's help, John's interview is successful, and they become friends. Prometheus confronts Mia with proof that her son Conner was erased from existence and reveals his identity when Mia is reluctant to trust him.
 * 18) "Paging The Crime Doctor"-Oliver meets Amanda Waller after discovering that Victor Sage  is actually A.R.G.U.S. Waller reveals that Prometheus  is actually a renegade clone of Oliver Queen created for Project Green Arrow Beyond. Meanwhile, Victor Sage  investigates recent killings happening in the Glades  thinking that the Star City Butcher may be involved. However, the culprit is none other than Simon Morrison, who calls himself the Crime Doctor and is only killing people to harvest organs for his employer Justin Claybourne, who survived Prometheus'  attempt on his life. Oliver engages Simon when Simon kidnaps Lee Thompkins to help him with the operation with the intention of killing her afterward. Oliver and the team save Lee, however, Laurel arrives to finish off Claybourne only to get into conflict with Oliver. Mia helps Prometheus overpower and abduct Oliver. Prometheus tells Oliver that he plans to help Oliver  learn who he really is. In flashbacks, it shows how Oliver was one time in prep school being bullied by Simon , who was insulting his dead mother which is why Eddie  had to teach him how to defend himself.
 * 19) "Injustice For All"- In flashbacks during the period after Nyssa Al Ghul's death, Amanda Waller decided to respect Green Arrow  which is why she orders Victor Sage, Lila Michaels,  and Anthony Ivo to acquire DNA samples of the Emerald Archer. Oliver, Michael, and Felicity continue working together. However, Michael and his fiance both get murdered which is why Oliver  has to go through an initiation with the Count Vertigo after finding out one of his men was responsible. Victor Sage manages to obtain the sample. In the present, Prometheus continues torturing Oliver to make him confess a "secret". The former brings a seemingly reluctant Mia, apparently murdering her after Oliver  refuses to do it. Oliver reveals that he killed people back then because he liked it, which Prometheus wanted to hear. Mia is revealed to be alive and still working with Prometheus since she blames Oliver and his team for Conner being erased from existence. Prometheus lets Oliver go, and he returns to Queen Manor and tells the team about his decision to end his vigilantism.
 * 20) "Demobilize"- With Prometheus having broken him, Oliver disbands his team and pays the Bratva to take out Prometheus. Eddie manages to talk Oliver  out of it, reminding him that there are better ways of doing things. Victor Sage, not wanting to risk Oliver's secret being exposed to the public, asks John and Felicity to help implicate a corrupt cop involved in human trafficking for being the Star City Butcher. Oliver allows the Bratva to steal pharmaceuticals before they are stopped by Team Arrow. Eddie  eventually tells Oliver they can fix him if he asks for help. Oliver  rejoins Team Arrow , taking out the Bratva and saving hostages that Jacob had taken as leverage. John, Felicity, and Sage manage to frame a corrupt cop for being the Star City Butcher  and the FBI is prepared to leave Star City while A.R.G.U.S stays behind to help fight. Oliver claims he's not ready to be Green Arrow just yet, but with his team, it will be sooner rather than later.
 * 21) "Missing"- The team holds a birthday party for Laurel, however, Virgil, Eddie, and Laurel are abducted by Prometheus' outside team. Realizing that Prometheus  is picking them off after Roy and Lance  are kidnapped by Laurel and Mia, who are both working for Prometheus, Oliver accepts Malcolm Merlyn's aid to help him stop Prometheus. Prometheus gives Oliver a challenge to save John's son Rex. Even though Prometheus  is luring him into a trap, Oliver  still helps John try to save Rex's life. John and Felicity  are also captured by Ra's and the League of Assassins, and Oliver recruits Adrian to help him fight Prometheus' army. Tracking a plane carrying Prometheus, they realize they are going to Lian Yu. Arriving on the island, Oliver visits Brick and asks for his help. Flashbacks show what Prometheus'  life was like back then and how Simon Morrison  betrays everyone by secretly helping him escape.
 * 22) "Lian Yu"- Oliver recruits Brick, who is now sane due to the Mirakuru completely out of his system. Harkness is revealed to be working with Prometheus. Oliver's  party frees Felicity, Virgil, and Lila, locking Mia. Malcolm convinces Mia  to come back into the light by pointing out she had become what she hates most by helping Prometheus kidnap Rex. Oliver gets Malcolm to take Felicity's  party to Prometheus' plane in order to escape Lian Yu. However, Lila plans to stay behind with Oliver  to rescue her son. Oliver's party manages to free John, Eddie, and Lance , who knocks Laurel unconscious while Adrian kills Ra's. Meanwhile, Mia sets foot on a landmine. Malcolm quickly takes her place and tells the others to escape, using the mine to seemingly kill himself and Harkness when he arrives. Felicity's  party reaches the plane but learns the whole island is rigged with C4, which will explode upon Prometheus' death. Oliver tasks Eddie  to lead the others to escape while he, Lila, and John rescue Rex from Prometheus. Rex has learned his relation to John. The plane is revealed to have been sabotaged by Prometheus. Oliver tells the others to run to a ship on the eastern shore. Prometheus  kills himself, with the island exploding, and others' fates unknown as Oliver, John, Rex, and Lila watch in horror despite them being with each other. In flashbacks, Prometheus kills all of Waller's men and escapes just in time to be in hiding with money given to him by Simon.