Quentin Lance (T.V Series)

Quentin Lance is an American crime drama television series developed by Bruno Heller, based on characters published by DC Comics and appearing in the Green Arrow franchise, primarily those of Quentin Larry Lance and Oliver Jonas Queen. The series stars Joshua Jackson as the young Lance, while Heller executive produces, along with Danny Cannon, who also directed the pilot.

Cast

 * Joshua Jackson as Quentin Larry Lance


 * Donal Logue as Billy Malone
 * Ty Sympkins as Oliver Jonas Queen
 * Zabryna Guevara as Sara Evans
 * David Ramsey as Walter Steele
 * Seth Gabel as Werner Zytle/The Count
 * Donnelly Rhodes as Temple Fugate
 * Andrew-Stewart Jones as James Diggle
 * Bex Taylor-Klaus as Cindy "Sin" Martinez
 * Jada Pinkett Smith as Samandra Watson/Fish
 * Amy Gumenick as Carrie Cutter
 * Jon Doman as Adam Hunt

Episodes

 * 1) "The Pilot"-Rookie detective Quentin Lance and his partner Billy Malone are assigned to the case of the murders of Robert, Moira, and and Thea Queen, whose ship the Queens Gambit was sabotaged. Their investigation leads them to a parolee named Marcus Dale, whom Malone kills in Lance's defense. They discover that Dale had been framed, leading them to mobster Samandra  'Fish' Watson, an associate of Adam Hunt, an organized crime boss. Watson has them captured, but Hunt spares them upon his arrival, revealing that he intended to end the case so that the people of Starling City could feel safe, facilitating his illegal activities. In exchange, Hunt orders Lance to kill Werner Zytle, a low-level member of Watson's gang and informant for Starling City Major Crimes Unit (MCU) investigators Kimberly Hill and Altman  Diggle. Lance fakes Zytle's death, and tells him never to return to Starling City. Lance promises Robert and Moira's son as well as Thea's brother Oliver and his guardian, Walter Steele, to find the real killer. Zytle kills a fisher. A mysterious woman named Sin is seen watching the Queen Mansion. Meanwhile, Hill threatens Carrie, Lance's fiancee, to tell him about Carrie's unknown past.
 * 2) "Cindy Martinez"-Lance and Malone start investigating the abductions of street kids by Patti and Doug, operatives of Dr. Barton Mathis ,A.K.A. the Dollmaker, and have been posing as members of the Mayor's Homeless Outreach Program. Mayor Altman  announces plans to help Starling City's homeless kids, rounding them up and shipping them out of town. Patti and Doug hijack one of the buses of street kids, including Sin. After Malone's extreme interrogation of an informant, Lance obtains a clue. Lance and Malone arrive and catch Patti and Doug while encountering Sin. While Oliver has plans to find a way to help the children, Lance meets Sin who states that she has been watching him during his visits with Oliver and might have some information on the person who sabotaged the Queens Gambit. Meanwhile, Zytlet kills two teenagers after they mock his walking pattern. He takes refuge in a rented trailer after his faked death, plotting his return to Starling City City, having kidnapped one of the teenagers for ransom. Hunt confronts Watson for her plans to overthrow him, having heard from Zytle. The former warns her by having her lover beaten. Hill and Diggle meet with Zytle's mother Gertrude in hopes of finding her son.
 * 3) "The Balloon-Man"-Lance and Malone track a vigilante who targets corrupt Starling City officials and nicknamed "Balloon-Man" for strapping his victims to weather balloons, which eventually implode in the cold atmosphere, giving the victim a long fall. Hill and Diggle question Lance about Zytle, who returns to Starling to get revenge on Watson. He gets a job at Don Vincent Santini's restaurant, and is befriended by Santini himself. Watson arranges for Hunt's lover Natalia to be disfigured in response to her own lover's beating. Lance realizes that "Balloonman" is social worker Davis Lamond, who was driven to vigilantism because of corrupt officials refusing to aid children on the streets. After arrest, he warns Lance that more vigilantes will follow in his path. Hunt tells Watson that he will investigate what happened to Natalia, also telling about the Iron Heights Plan. At his apartment later, Lance receives a surprise visit from Zytle. Meanwhile, Carrie is revealed to be an addict and Hill's former girlfriend. Sin is given to Lance for his investigation; but she uses the chance to escape.
 * 4) "Iron Heights Prison"-Lance learns of the Iron Heights Plan when he visits Oliver Queen, where Walter mentions that Hunt and Mayor Altman  are backing the project that will improve the Iron Heights District. An unnamed hitman called Mr. Blank has been targeting the city council members involved in the Iron Heights Project. After an armed robbery of Santini's restaurant, Zytle is promoted to restaurant manager by Santini following the former's action of saving a bag of money and the death of the previous manager. Watson pits two female singers against each other for her nightclub job opening, with the winner being Liza. In order to prevent the war, Mayor Altman  holds a conference about a compromise on the Iron Heights  Plan, that Hunt will handle small housing development projects and Santini will be refurbishing the Prison. Lance urges Oliver not to lose hope in the city. Later, Zytle  fatally poisons the restaurant robbers, who are revealed to had been hired for just that purpose by Zytle  himself. Meanwhile, Carrie  confronts Lance about Zytle , telling him about her past with Hill. She decides to end the engagement when he refuses to talk.
 * 5) "Viper"-Oliver plans to find a way to speak to the board members of Queen Consolidated  to learn their connections to the Iron Heights District Project. A new drug called "Viper", a prototype of Venom, is hitting the street, endowing the user with super-strength, but eventually killing them. Santini plans to rob a casino owned by Hunt, and Zytle offers a less-casualty plan, forcing him to reveal his past, which Santini believes after Lance confirms it. The latter learns that "Viper" is being distributed at a charity event held by WellZyn and Queen Consolidated . Lance shoots the canister on the roof and former WellZyn employee Stan Potolsky is exposed, committing suicide after he suggests they check out Warehouse 39, where Lance and Malone later find nothing, observed by Queen Consolidated  operative Mathis. Santini successfully robs the casino, admiring Zytle. As Watson  makes plans to conspire against Hunt with her lover and Russian mob boss Nikolai, a disguised Liza visits Hunt and begins seducing him with memories of Hunt's mother, whom Hunt loved very much.
 * 6) "Curse of The Goat"-Ten years ago, a masked killer calling himself the "Spirit of the Goat" targets the firstborn of Starling City's elite, leading Malone and his partner Dix to investigate the case. They find the killer, Randall Milkie, who is shot down by Malone after Dix falls through a trap door and ends up badly injured. In the present day, Malone finds another elite firstborn murdered by someone with the same "Goat" motive. Upon surgery, Malone sees Milkie's trademark, which only he and Dix knew, meaning that he was not an copycat. During a debrief, Dix tells Lance about Malone's enthusiasm for justice, to Lance's surprise. Malone deduces that hypnotherapist Marks coerced both Milkie and the new killer to become the Goat to scare Starling City's rich and corrupt, leading to Marks' arrest. The "murder" of Zytle is also investigated, with Lance the prime suspect as Hill and Diggle finally find a witness near the river. When they attempt to arrest Lance and Malone, Zytle enters the precinct, causing friction between Malone and Lance. Meanwhile, CSU operative Fugate is revealed to be in love with archivist Kristen Kringle, who ignores him. Sin infiltrates the the Queen Mansion and steals a component of Oliver's investigation.
 * 7) "My Bad"-Exonerated, Lance tells Carrie to leave Starling City. Zytle leads Santini enforcer Frankie Carbone and two other henchmen to Nikolai's hideout, killing the latter and Carbone by buying the loyalties of the henchmen. Hill and Diggle begin cooperating with Lance. The escalating mob war is settled with a land trade between Santini and Hunt. A drunken Malone re-evaluates his choice for helping Lance, and the two partners attempt to arrest Mayor James and Hunt, but they give up when it is revealed that Hunt and hitman Hannibal Bates have Carrie, who had returned to try and negotiate with Hunt for Lance. Hunt allows the trio to leave. In a flashback to the night they had met Lance, it is shown that Zytle and Hunt had formed a deal, in which Hunt would place Lance in charge of killing Zytle, giving Zytle a chance at surviving, and in exchange, Zytle would forge an alliance with Santini, snitching for Hunt; and Zytle told Hunt about Mooney and Nikolai and their plan. It is revealed that Hunt spared Lance's life due to Zytle's request.
 * 8) "Adrian Chase"-Liza's loyalty to Watson begins to falter when she learns of the latter's plan to eventually kill Hunt, but Watson presses her to steal a ledger from the Hunt's office that may be used to incriminate him. During a prison transport from Iron Heights Prison to St. Henry Psychiatric Hospital, bomb maker Jeffrey Coopersmith is taken by the Russian mob, known as the Bratva, who are working against Hunt following Nikolai's death. Lance meets with Adrian Chase, who suspects tycoon Justin Claybourne is responsible for the Queen murders. Lance and Malone realize from Coopersmith's brother that Coopersmith intends no harm. Manipulated by Watson, the Bratva target Hunt's cache of money, but when a police standoff ensues, the Bratva's armored truck explodes via remote control by Mooney's enforcer, Butch Gilzean. Zytle confronts Liza for spying on Hill, whom the former claims will not tell. Mayor Altman announces his plans to reopen Iron Heights Prison to house the mentally ill criminals, including Coopersmith. Oliver returns to school, where he has some trouble with bully Simon Morrison, and Walter has Ted Grant teach the former how to fight.