Emerald Archer Season Two

Emerald Archer Season Two, is the second season that deals with Oliver trying to be more than a vigilante, by becoming a hero by the name of The Arrow  as well as dealing with the Longbow Hunters who have arrived in Starling City to seek revenge on the Queen family.

Created by Vince Gilligan and David. S Goyer

2011-2012

Main Cast Edit

 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / The Arrow- 22/23
 * Sean Pertwee as Eddie Feyers- 16/23
 * J.K Simmons as Commissioner Quentin Lance- 17/23
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Dearden
 * Blake Lively as Laurel Lance- 20/23
 * Dan Stevens as Roy Harper- 10/23
 * James Frain as Slade Wilson / Morgan Davies / Deathstroke- 16/23 (Final Season)

Recurring Cast Edit

 * Kaley Cuoco as Sara Drake / The Canary-14/23
 * Ernie Hudson as Walter Steele- 6/23
 * Forrest Whitaker as Lieutenant Gregory Loeb- 5/23
 * Clancy Brown as Chief Clancy O'Hara (Final season)
 * Zooey Deschanel as Isabel Rochev / Ravager- 13/23
 * Cole Sprouse Oliver Queen (Flashbacks), Six- 10/23
 * Tom Welling as Quentin Lance (Flashbacks)- 10/23
 * Jai Courtney as Eddie Feyers (Flashbacks)- 4/23
 * Kiether Sutherland as Captain Frank Pike (Flashbacks)- 4/23
 * Lili Reinhart as Sara Drake (in flashbacks)- 4/23
 * Michael Cera as Jervis Tetch / Mad Hatter (Flashbacks)- 5/23
 * Unknown as Nathaniel Sullivan / The Hangman- 3/23
 * Leslie Hendrix as Maria Luthor- 2/23
 * Emma Thompson as Regina  Devereaux (Final Season)- 9/23
 * Omari Hardwick as FBI Special Agent John Diggle / Reese Houston- 10/23
 * Sam Elliot as Charles Palantine
 * Danny Trejo as William Earle- Unkown
 * Ray Stevenson as Anatoli Knyasev- 2/23
 * Jenna Dewan Tatum as Lila Michaels / Harbringer- 2/23
 * Bill Skarsgard as Lonnie Machin / Anarchy- 1/23

Episodes Edit (2011-2012)

 * 1) "The Emerald Archer Returns"- In the aftermath of Project Avalon, Oliver is living a new life in Lian Yu  as a penance for failing to save Tommy. Felicity and Eddie track Oliver down and convince Oliver to return, informing him that Regina, Palentine, Earle, and several other corrupt executives are awaiting trial while Oliver's family business is under the threat of a takeover and dissolution by HSC International Banking Vice-President Isabel Rochev. Felicity and Eddie bring Oliver back to Starling City. Oliver learns that a group of vigilantes, dressed like the "Hood" are killing criminals since Starling has come to its crime-ridden state with Oliver gone. A teenager dies when using drugs, which has been combined with a fear toxin. The Chechen learns of this and makes arrangements to meet with a man named Johnathan Crane, the chief-psychiatrist of  Blackgate Penitentiary  who is revealed to have manufactured the drug. The vigilante group targets the Mayor before going after the Chechen when he is meeting with Crane. Oliver subdues the vigilantes without killing anyone and leaves the vigilantes for Lance. Elsewhere, a breakout occurs in Blackgate Penitentiary  where several inmates escape such as Carrie Cutter, Andrew Helzinger, Lonnie Machin, Alexander Dobkins, Roman Sionis and Thomas Greenwood are broken out by Morgan Davies and his enforcer Sara Drake. Sionis is then strangled for his refusal. With Walter's' help, Oliver saves his company and forces Isabel to accept partnership, which she is happy to comply by. Chief O'Hara and Lieutenant Loeb later inform Lance about the breakout at Blackgate Penitentiary . In flashbacks, Oliver and Eddie call a meeting with the Queen Enterprises Board of Directors, whom Oliver threatens with disseminating his alleged evidence pertaining to the cabal in charge behind the scenes, unless they contact him. The cabal sends an enforcer to kidnap Oliver.
 * 2) "Anarchy"- Davies kidnaps Palentine while his group of "Maniax", excluding Carrie, begin a killing spree for the sake of publicity. Walter  learns that Regina is under suicide watch and begins to contemplate whether or not he should forgive her. Dobkins is arrested before being killed by Sara using a sniper rifle. While Carrie lures Lance out of SCPD, the Maniax attack and kill several police officers; Helzinger beats up Lance until he is stopped by Carrie. Machin kills Greenwood and fatally wounds a police officer. Walter and Regina reconcile. Oliver decides to work with Milton Fine, the warden of Supermax Prison, to bring awareness and help for the people in need, but is forced to abandon his appearance at the charity event to instead stop the Maniax. Davies lambastes him in the press for that. The vigilante convinces Roy to stop fighting in his name, but instead provide him Intel in the Glades. In flashbacks, Oliver is brought before Maria Luthor, a high-ranking member of the secret council. He recognizes her as the owner of the Luthor Hotel, a luxurious hotel chain. Oliver agrees to cease all his investigation in exchange for the lives of those closest to him.
 * 3) "Childish Things"- Winslow Schott Sr. escapes from prison and goes to Starling to look for his son Winn Schott Jr. (Nicholas Hoult) . He leaves a message for his son to meet him. Winn tells the FBI about it while Lance and the SCPD are searching for Machin since he is enraged that Machin murdered a fellow officer. They find it a trap, however, Clark saves them as the Blur and goes to Oliver for help, revealing that they are old friends. Winn reveals that his bother's boss, revealed to be Malcolm Merlyn, stole his toy designs, leading to Toy-Man trying to kill Merlyn, killing other people instead and going to jail. The Toyman kidnaps Winn, demanding him to attend a ceremony to kill Merlyn and threatening to kill the other guests by the bombs he has planted. Oliver and Clark  manage to save the guests, however, Davies who is attending the ceremony, kills Toy-Man and is perceived as a hero, especially by Winn, who is grateful that his father's evil has ended. The District Attorney announces his intention to seek the death penalty for Regina and the other corrupt executives. Regina tells her lawyer Dan Richards not to fight it, since  Moira Queen had connections with Malcolm Merlyn that she does not want revealed to Oliver, which Regina seems to be aware of. In flashbacks, Eddie takes Oliver to Smallville to meet his old friend Johnathan Kent, whom he served in the army with before coming to the States. There, Oliver befriends Johnathan and Martha Kent's adopted son Clark. Oliver dismisses Clark as a nice kid from the sticks, before realizing that there is something odd about the farm boy and seeks to find out what it is.
 * 4) "Inquiry"- Felicity realizes that the female vigilante has been following Laurel, not Oliver. Oliver manages to ambush her and discovers that she is Sara Drake, Laurel's foster sister, who was believed to have perished. Meanwhile, weapons shipments keep being intercepted by a gang leader calling himself "The Mayor", who assaults a gun rally hosted by Oliver and Davies. Cindy is shot in the process; but Roy  saves her. Felicity manages to identify the Mayor as Xander Jones and track him down. Oliver recruits Sara  to assist him in capturing Jones. Afterwards, a corrupt police officer brings Jones to an unknown location, where a man, called Brother Blood  by his associates, injects him with a red substance that kills him. He orders another person to be brought for the substance. Meanwhile, Laurel develops a drinking problem and refuses help from Lance and Oliver. In response, Oliver asks Sara to reveal herself to her family, knowing they will stop talking to him for lying. In flashbacks, hypnotist Jervis Tetch hires Lance to find his sister Alice, an Indian Hill escapee whose blood contains a virus. Lance gets into a brawl and is stitched up by young Adam Hunt who was a doctor, at the ER. After Alice tells Lance she wants nothing to do with Jervis, Lance questions him, who hypnotizes him into being suicidal.
 * 5) "League Of Assassins"- Sara and Oliver  are attacked at by a man dressed like Malcolm Merlyn. Oliver  reveals that the man, Al-Owal, is a member of the League of Assassins, which Malcolm  is revealed to have been a member of, and is targeting him for leaving. Al-Owal threatens to kill his family. Oliver manages to protect Laurel, but Lance refuses to heed Felicity's warning. Oliver reveals himself to him and seeks refuge in a clock tower. They seek Sara's  help to stop another attack, with Oliver killing Al-Owal and sending a warning to Ra's. Afterwards, Sara decides to leave Starling City to keep her family safe, entrusting her secret to Lance. Mia and Oliver tell Regina  that her secrets will not make them leave her. She agrees to fight death penalty. Laurel is revealed to have a drinking problem. In flashbacks, Alice saves Lance, who brings her into SCPD. Tetch hypnotizes the wrestling Tweedle Brothers to help him break into SCPD and kidnap Alice, but Lance and Pike track them down. Lance finds himself still under the suicidal influence of Tetch's hypnosis; realizing his suicidal urges are connected to his issues with his father, Lance overcomes them and breaks the hypnosis. Alice falls and is impaled on a pipe, leaving a grief-stricken Tetch to escape.
 * 6) "The Tea Party"- Lance discovers that his old enemy Jervis Tetch, has escaped from Blackgate Penitentiary  and is kidnapping children for some strange reason. Believing the vigilante's claim to have changed, Lance enlists his help. The team are able to discover the link between all of the victims. Oliver learns that Tetch has kidnapped Laurel and is forced to be in a twisted tea party with the other kidnapped children. Oliver and Lance finally save Laurel and bring down Tetch. When Regina Deveraux is on trial, Laurel uses an affair between Regina and Malcolm to cast doubts on Regina's defense. Ultimately, Regina is exonerated by the jury; she later learns that Malcolm, alive and well, had rigged the trial. He also reveals that he now knows Oliver is his biological son. Oliver later gets a call from Diggle asking to come to Russia, since he needs his help. In flashbacks, a young Jervis Tetch begins a killing spree, hypnotizing several civilians into life-threatening situations and forcing Lance to choose whom to save, leading to the other persons' deaths. Eventually, Tetch demands Lance to kill one of the hostages himself. Lance refuses; and Tetch kills both. He later kidnaps Sophia and Lee, demanding Lance to go to Mario's alone. Lance enlists Adam's help without involving the SCPD. While Mario recovers his gun from the basement, Lance joins Tetch's "tea party", which Adam interrupts in order to rescue the women. However, Tetch is revealed to have unloaded the gun, having Adam locked. He then forces Lance to choose the victim. He picks Lee, resulting in Tetch shooting Sophia instead. She is rushed to the hospital.
 * 7) "Russia"- Diggle reveals to Oliver that Lila Michaels is his ex-wife and that she went missing while infiltrating in Kiev, Ukraine, since Lila was engaged in a mission for Amanda Waller and A.R.G.U.S in order to locate Floyd Lawton. Isabel Rochev joins Oliver, Eddie, and Felicity on their flight, believing that Oliver is trying to meet with a sub division of Thorne Industries behind her back. Once there, Oliver meets with Diggle and learns that Lila is being held in a gulag. They enlist the help of a Russian mobster named Anatoli  Knyasev (Ray Stevenson), a mobster with a Russian accent and leader of the Bratva. Based on Knyasev's plan, Diggle is arrested and sent to the gulag to rescue Lila. Oliver has a one-night stand with Isabel. Diggle finds Lawton among the inmates. The pair is forced to team up to save Lila and escape. Afterward, Diggle lets him go for helping him save Lila; in return, Lawton reveals that he was contracted to kill Diggle's brother by an organization called H.I.V.E. Diggle and Lila get involved again. In flashbacks, Sophia recovers, but ends her relationship with Lance, knowing he manipulated Tetch into shooting her instead of Lee. Tetch breaks into the morgue and drains the blood from Alice's corpse.Pike and Sullivan learn Tetch is planning to unleash the virus on the city founder's party and arrests him in time. However, during the investigation, Sullivan gets infected by the Tetch Virus.
 * 8) "The Scientist"-When a masked thief with superhuman strength steals a centrifuge from Thorne Industries, Central City City CSI Barry Allen (Nicholas Hoult), arrives to help the investigation. Later, he reveals that he is searching for super-powered beings in the hope that he will find the murderer of his mother Nora Allen , and exonerate his father for the accusation. Oliver realizes that the thief was enhanced using the same serum that Tetch made. Roy starts helping Holly  to find her missing friend, who was a failed subject of Blood's experiment. Oliver shoots Roy in the leg to prevent him getting further involved. Oliver tracks the thief, revealed to be Cyrus, but is injected with an unknown toxin. In order to save Oliver's life, Felicity  reveals his identity to Barry  to help find an antidote. Meanwhile, Merlyn puts pressure on Regina to tell the truth to Oliver. Regina  instead contacts Ra's, who wants to kill Merlyn for breaking the League's code by reviving Project Avalon. In flashbacks, after losing control and killing a criminal, Sullivan visits Tetch at Blackgate and demands to know if the virus can be cured, but Tetch refuses the possibility. Sullivan begins hearing "voices" that urge him to kill more criminals. He finds the mastermind, plastic surgeon Maxwell Symon, who removes his victims' faces to insert on customers who intend to change their faces. Sullivan arrests Symon after overcoming the voices. Later, Sullivan's psychosis overpowers him when he learns Symon has been released due bribing the victim into not pressing charges. Losing faith in Starling's justice system, Sullivan  throws Symon off a window and plans to murder criminals on a larger scale. Symon tells Lance about Sullivan.
 * 9) "Three Phantoms"- Barry manages to save Oliver's life. The former and Felicity are able to identify and locate Cyrus Gold. While continuing to investigate the death of Holly's friend Micah, Roy  is captured by Cyrus and brought before Blood, who injects him with the serum, the Tetch virus, which kills Roy. Oliver arrives as The Arrow  and kills Cyrus, simultaneously destroying the centrifuge and the remaining serum. The former revives Roy, but worries that the serum may affect him negatively. Davies orders Blood to leave the vigilante alone, so that he can deal with him personally. While Roy recovers at the Queen manor, the serum injection heals the arrow wound in his leg. Barry leaves an armored suit and mask for Oliver, to better hide his identity, and also to protect him from bullets or knives. He returns to Central City. While in his lab, Barry is hit by strange lightning created by an accident at the new particle accelerator lab. In flashbacks, Sullivan begins his killing spree. Knowing Lance's awareness, Sullivan attempts to frame him for a murder, but is unable to convince the SCPD after Pike convinces Lee to confirm the accusation. Lance overpowers Sullivan in a duel. The latter is arrested and incarcerated in Blackgate.
 * 10) "The Damage That A Man Can Do"- Davies kidnaps Zytle's foster son, an emotionally unstable deaf boy named Ignatius, and blackmails Zytle into murdering all the other mayoral candidates so that he can can run for mayor unopposed. Felicity leaves Starling for Central City to visit Barry after learning that Barry got into comatose and is being treated at S.T.A.R Labs. Zytle tasks his henchman Gabe to quietly search for his foster son. Lance learns that Zytle is responsible and Zytle confesses to Lance that Davies has his son which is why Lance decides to go outside the law to work with Zytle to get him back and bring down Davies. Isabel later tasks Zytle to burn buildings owned by Thorne Industries; and he lures her into believing that he has become paranoid with his henchmen's loyalties. After Zytle steals an old knife with Palentine's eye, Lance learns from an antique shop owner that 200 years prior, the Queen's destroyed the Dumas family. During an Easter party at Queen Manor, Caleb Dumas along with Celeste Queen went missing, and were later found in an illicit embrace by Queen men. Though Caleb insisted to everyone that they were in love, Celeste denied it, swearing on her mother's grave that Caleb had forced himself on her. A large part of his arm was soon after cut off by Jonathan Queen as punishment. Caleb later went into exile over seas and the Queen's destroyed the Dumas. The Dumas' remnants changed their family name to Wilson. Lance then tasks Chief O'Hara with investigating Davies while Zytle gives the knife to Davies.
 * 11) "Blast Radius"- When Chief O'Hara is investigating to see whether Charles Wilson ever had a son, he gets gunned down by an unknown individual whom O'Hara seems to know and Lance assigns Hall to investigate. Machin, now calling himself "Anarky", begins setting off bombs across Starling City as an anti-government movement. Mayor Hill decides to organize a Unity Rally for the city. Machin targets the rally, but Oliver is able to stop Machin, who is arrested; and the bombs are disarmed. Later as the vigilante, Oliver makes an alliance with Davies. Hall discovers that Lieutenant Gregory  B. Loeb killed O'Hara and goes to his office to arrest him where Loeb is meeting with Lance. Lance refuses to believe Loeb is the killer, however, O'Hara confesses that he indeed killed O'Hara. Lance then demanded answers from Loeb. However, Loeb pointed a gun to his head and tells the two officers that working with them has been a honor, before shooting himself to death in a tragic outcome. Gabe is able to locate Ignatius and Zytle begins to rally a rescue party to rescue Ignatius. Flashbacks reveal Zytle meeting Ignatius in an orphanage and then taking him under his wing, which involved adopting him.
 * 12) "Call of the Zytle"- Gabe leads Zytle to Ignatius' location, where Davies and Isabel are waiting. Davies reveals that his real name is Slade Wilson and Gabe betrays Zytle citing that Wilson gave him a better offer. To Isabel watches uncomfortably as Wilson kills Ignatius by slitting his throat before Zytle manages to escape, vowing to get revenge. At Loeb and O'Hara's funeral, Loeb's wife and daughter asks Hall and Lance to find Loeb's medal so he can buried with it. Wilson, now elected mayor, convinces the SCPD that Zytle assaulted him and has Laurel obtain a warrant for Zytle's arrest. Lance, however, knows the truth and tells the vigilante about Wilson. Hall manages to find Loeb's medal and Lance tells him how Loeb, back then as a sergeant, rescued a little boy from a burning building and got rewarded by the city council for his bravery. Hall and Lance then both start to suspect that Loeb killed O'Hara under duress, however, Lance denies knowing the reason why which makes Hall suspicious. Wilson attends his victory celebration party where the SCPD are secretly stationed, ready to capture Zytle if he arrives. Zytle shows up with his henchmen, but is quickly ambushed by the police and narrowly escapes. Hall vows to find out what Lance is hiding from her. Oliver decides to continue his support for Wilson in order to keep a closer eye on him. Isabel hesitates murdering Zytle which is why Wilson later threatens Isabel into being loyal to him by choking her.
 * 13) "Heir To The Demon"- Nyssa al Ghul, the daughter of Ra's and a member of the League, arrives in Starling City to convince Oliver to return to Nanda Parbat with her. It is revealed that the two have a romantic history. Oliver refuses, so Nyssa kidnaps Eddie and threatens to kill him if Oliver does not agree to return. Instead, Oliver drinks snake venom. Canary arrives with an antidote and Nyssa releases Oliver from his obligations to the League. Meanwhile, Felicity discovers that Oliver's true father is Malcolm and reveals it to Walter, who decides to be respectful to Regina publicly while privately renouncing their relationship. Although Sara is welcomed back by Lance, Laurel shows displeasure to her. Sara later joins Oliver; and they make love. In addition, Wilson develops an interest in Regina. Lance discovers that Loeb has been in league with a cult called the Longbow Hunter longer by covering up their crimes and ensuring that the police would never investigate them. In flashbacks, Sara comes to Oliver for help when her friend Ivy is being followed by crossbow-wielding mercenaries seeking to kill her for a necklace she stole. The trio escapes and later finds the necklace's original owner dead; the necklace is revealed to contain a key.
 * 14) "Time of Death"- Noah Kuttler orchestrates a heist of an electronic device that will allow him to access any bank vault. Oliver and Sara start working together to stop him, foiling one of his robberies. In response, Kuttler uses the device to hack into the computer servers at Oliver's hideout and overload them so they explode. Felicity, feeling left out with Sara now part of the team, attempts to bait Kuttler into coming after one last heist. Oliver, Sara, and Diggle  arrive in time to protect Felicity, but the latter takes a bullet to save Sara before knocking Kuttler unconscious, feeling part of the team again. Meanwhile, the Lance's attempt to have dinner together and it is revealed that Sara and Oliver are in a relationship, much to Laurel's anger. Later, Laurel reconciles with Sara and attends an A.A. meeting with Lance. Wilson makes his presence known to Oliver by coming to his home and meeting with Regina during a party. In flashbacks, Ivy uses her poison to control Eddie's mind and escape. Oliver learns the "Bratva" after the key is out to destroy the secret council, a.k.a. the Ninth Circle and is therefore not his enemy. Soon after, the Court enforcer kills the Gang leader.
 * 15) "The Promise"-  Oliver, Regina and Mia give Wilson, who wishes to do provide a contract to Regina, a tour of the house. Sara and the rest of the team are notified and arrive to assist Oliver, forcing Wilson to leave without engaging. Oliver deduces that Wilson is the one controlling the man in the skull mask, and attempting to create more of Tetch's virus.  Wilson informs Oliver that he is there to follow through with a promise he made to his father Charles to get revenge on the Queen family before leaving. Later, it is revealed that Wilson used the tour to plant cameras throughout the house. In flashbacks, Using information provided by the Bratva, Oliver's party uses the key to open the Circle's vault and steal its contents – a crystalline arrow statue – but are intercepted by Talon, the Circle's enforcer; Sara's mother reveals herself and helps them kill Talon.
 * 16) "Suicide Squad"-  In a flashback to years prior in Afghanistan, Diggle and Lila  lead a group of Afghan villagers when a wanted man, Gholem Nadir, is identified among the group. During an ambush by the Taliban, Diggle saves Nadir's life. In the present, Diggle and Lila are called upon by Waller  to lead her "Task Force X", also known as the "Suicide Squad", which consists of Deadshot, Bronze Tiger and Shrapnel being used as expendable assets. The Squad is sent after Nadir, who has developed a deadly nerve agent. Shrapnel attempts to escape and is killed. After saving Nadir's life again, through a faked assassination attempt, Diggle  is invited to Nadir's home for a party. Once there, Deadshot locates the agent and is expected to be used as a targeting reference for a drone strike on the house. Diggle  decides to save Deadshot while Bronze Tiger kills Nadir; as a result, the drone misses the house and a Navy SEAL team is forced to destroy the agent. Oliver is forced to go to Amanda for help, revealed to have interacted with her before. She tells him that A.R.G.U.S. has been tracking an individual who has replaced Charles Wilson as "Deathstroke", whom the pair realize is actually Slade.
 * 17) "The Killing Joke"- A group of robbers attack a mafia owned bank, killing and double crossing each other. The mastermind is then revealed to be  Drakkon, whom Oliver and Lance are revealed to have encountered in the past. Zytle becomes upset at this and holds a video conference with his corrupt accountant, Lau, who has taken his funds for safekeeping and fled to Hong Kong. Constantine Drakkon interrupts and warns them that the vigilante has no jurisdiction and is unhindered by the law, offering to kill him in exchange for half of their money. Diggle tells Oliver that there is nothing that law enforcement can do to bring Lau back into the country which is why Oliver and Eddie decide to go there to abduct Lau and bring back to the country. In the meantime, Oliver allows Diggle to patrol Starling as the vigilante where Diggle encounters Drakkon and must stop him before he spreads his laughing gas onto the people of Starling. In flashbacks, Lance and Lee investigate the murder of Lila Valeska, a snake dancer with Haly's Circus, and the contesting families Flying Harpers and the Lloyds are suspects. Lance determines that Lila's son Jerome is the killer, which he eventually admits maniacally. Joe Harper and Trina Lloyd get engaged after the dispute between the two families are resolved.
 * 18) "Tonight Is The Night"- Oliver brings Lau back into the country and because of that, Laurel offers a deal to Lau which Lau decides to accept. This then makes Lance arrest all the powerful mobsters in league with Zytle while Zytle is in hiding plotting his revenge on Wilson. In the meantime, Wilson grants permission to Carrie Cutter to kill Quentin Lance. Carrie surrenders to SCPD and offers information against Slade. While en route to an unknown location on her instructions, they are ambushed by Slade's operatives. Lance wakes up in a church. Carrie brings an abducted Laurel for execution. Hall deduces the location. When the the SCPD engages Isabel's crew and rescue Laurel, Lance briefly fights Carrie, leading to her severe injuries after due to a fall. Following information provided by Carrie, the SCPD rescues Palentine. When Oliver is meeting with Isabel, they are kidnapped by a mercenary named Tom, who manipulates her into seemingly revealing Wilson's plan. Tom is revealed to have been hired by Oliver and Sara to extract the truth from Isabel, who later claims that she lied. In flashbacks, Oliver convinces Sara to accept her mother back into her life, however, Sara later discovers that her mother owes money to criminal Chad Colton.
 * 19) "The Man Under The Hood"-  Oliver's team destroys Isabel's  lab so that Wilson cannot use it to mass-produce the Tetch virus. In response, Wilson steals an electronic Skeleton Key from Oliver's hideout. He uses it to steal a bio-transfuser from a S.T.A.R. Labs facility that Caitlin Snow and Cisco Ramon work at that will allow the former to transfer the Tetch virus-infused blood to the freed convicts (S.T.A.R. Labs was responsible for the "accidental" particle accelerator explosion). Oliver tracks Brother Blood and discovers that he has kidnapped Roy and is using him to transfuse the blood. Oliver rescues Roy and Isabel is shot. Later, Oliver reveals there is a cure for the Tetch virus and Felicity enlists the help of Caitlin and Cisco. Blood's super soldiers gather and he uses his blood to heal and empower Isabel as well. Meanwhile, Laurel discovers that Sara is the female vigilante. The former tries to tell Lance about The Arrow's identity; but he dissuades her from telling anyone. Laurel later blackmails her supervisor into releasing and reinstating Lance. Oliver leaves home even after Eddie reveals to him that Robert knew about his non-paternity but still loved him as if he were his own. In flashbacks, Oliver agrees to pay Maria's debt to Chad, but Sara becomes furious upon discovering the whole thing was a con Maria and Chad ran together, and that Oliver even suspected this but did not want Sara to learn the truth.
 * 20) "Spotting Red"- Roy  goes on a rampage, overwhelmed by the Tetch virus and no longer thinking for himself. During a fight, Oliver's  leg is significantly injured and Roy escapes. Sara decides that Roy must be killed; but Oliver disagrees. Roy comes to Rave and Oliver uses the opportunity to inject Roy with pit viper venom to knock him unconscious and keep him sedated until a cure can be found. Sara decides that she is not good enough for Oliver and leaves the city to find a friend. Meanwhile, Oliver continues to distance himself from his friends; so Regina decides to resign from the company. Oliver dissuades her; and she reveals that she has known Oliver was The Arrow since last year when Malcolm attempted to revive Project Avalon; and that she is proud of the man he has become. Regina, Mia, and Oliver are attacked by Brother Blood, who murders Regina when she suggests herself to save Mia and Oliver. In flashbacks, Maria Luthor locates Six on the street and abducts him. The Ninth Circle continues to brainwash him while Lance is reunited with his uncle Frank, who is secretly a member of the Circle, that continues to brainwash Six.
 * 21) "The Son of Starling"- Oliver continues to distance himself which is he doesn't appear at Regina's funeral. The monks known as the Longbow Hunters begin a killing spree, which Lance connects to the Wilsons. Slade is released after Palentine lies, framing Zytle for the kidnapping. Lance is abducted by Slade, who reveals the history of his family to Lance, and overpowers him in a duel; but Lance is rescued by Zytle. Eddie  grows suspicious of Oliver's whereabouts and searches Slade's residence, where he is wounded in a fight with Isabel, whom he narrowly escapes from. Slade goes to Queen Manor where he abducts Oliver. In flashbacks, Oliver is summoned by Sara through a letter, but she denies sending the letter and demands him to stay away from her. Oliver later realizes the letter was sent by Six, who then drugs him and usurps his identity while the real Oliver is sent to a Circle dungeon. Lance reconnects with Frank, who states that he and Peter, Lance's father, were members of the Circle until they became disillusioned, leading to Peter's murder and making it look like an accident. Frank asks Lance to join the Court and help him destroy it from the inside.
 * 22) "Worse Then a Crime"- Lance wakes up in Zytle's house only to learn from Zytle that he is now a fugitive for assaulting Slade. Lance and Zytle begin making plans to break into Slade's residence, save Oliver and defeat the Hunters. Lila tells Diggle that she is pregnant. Slade tasks Isabel to seduce Oliver again, warning to execute her if she fails. Oliver learns of Isabel's mission and decides to lure Slade into believing her success. Lance, Diggle, Eddie, Sara, Zytlet and his gang all arrive at Slade's residence just as the Hunters are about to kill Oliver. As the Hunters are defeated, Slade and Isabel make their escape. Slade escapes, but leaves Isabel behind to be arrested by Lance. Now deciding to be the second Deathstroke fully, Slade  goes onto the media offering millions of dollars to gold to anyone who assassinates Quentin Lance since Wilson is enraged that his plan failed. In flashbacks, Lance investigates the Circle further and realizes his father's death was a hit organized by Frank, who is later ordered to kill Lance, but he instead commits suicide. On Frank's final instructions, Lance tells Maria that he killed Frank and intends to join the Circle, welcomed by her.
 * 23) "There Will Be Blood"- Wanting to collect the bounty that Deathstroke offers, a group of mercenaries, known as the Demolition Team try to take out with Lance, whom Sara saves. With help from Walter, who is still grieving from Regina's death, Felicity realizes that the Demolition Team is planning to destroy the building where Isabel is being protected by the SCPD. Diggle and the team are able to stop the mercenaries while Oliver goes as himself to protect Isabel. Deathstroke then arrives killing all the police officers prompting Oliver and Isabel to flee. Wilson expressing his belief that Starling belongs to the Dumas family. Wilson also explains how his ancestor, Caleb stole gold from the First Natives people. Caleb seduced a First Natives woman to invoke a feast between her people and the Pilgrims. That was when the Longbow Hunters acted in assassinating everyone. After all this, Caleb seized the gold mine for the Dumas family's financial benefit, although Johnathan Queen did not approve of this. Wilson prepared to kill Oliver and Isabel with his handgun, however, Mia shoots Wilson to protect them. Wanting to protect Mia, Oliver and Isabel blame The Arrow for it. Isabel is then taken by Diggle and the FBI to a federal prison for aiding Wilson in his crimes, not before handing Oliver back his company. Eddie convinces Oliver to be his own man and to show respect for Robert since Robert loved him as if he were his own. Oliver then agrees to it. Malcolm is later seen watching Oliver, proud at the man he has become. In flashbacks, Oliver manages to overcome his rage during his training and the Shaman deems him ready to return to Starling and embrace his power, but all is revealed to be a scheme made by a mysterious individual known as Ra's Al Ghul.