Emerald Archer Season Three

Emerald Archer Season Three is the third season of Emerald Archer,  which deals with Oliver trying to understand if he can be both Oliver Queen and The Arrow.

2012-2013

Main Cast Edit

 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / The Arrow / Al-Sahim- 25/25
 * Sean Pertwee as Eddie Feyers- 25/25
 * J.K Simmons as Commissioner Quentin Lance- 17/25
 * Blake Lively as Laurel Lance / Black Canary- 16/25
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Dearden- 18/25
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak- 25/25
 * Dan Stevens as Roy Harper / Speedy- 18/23
 * Omari Hardwick as F.B.I Special Agent John Diggle / Reese Houston / Spartan- 24/25

Recurring Cast Edit

 * Alexander Siddig as Ra's Al Ghul- 12/25
 * Rick Yune as Maseo Yamashiro- 4/25
 * Ernie Hudson as Walter Steele (final season)- 1/25
 * Kristin Kreuk as Talia Al Ghul- 7/25
 * Paul Johanson as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer- 10/25
 * Cole Sprouse Oliver Queen(in flashbacks)- 9/25
 * Tom Welling as Quentin Lance (in flashbacks)- 14/25
 * Jai Courtney as Eddie Feyers (in flashbacks)- 6/25
 * Kiether Sutherland as Captain Frank Pike (in flashbacks)- 4/25
 * Lili Reinhart as Sara Drake (in flashbacks)- 1/25
 * Unknown as Nathaniel Sullivan / The Hangman (in flashbacks)- 1/25
 * Jenna DeWan Tatum as Lila Michaels / Harbinger- 6/25
 * Erik King as Sgt. Lucas Hilton- 5/25
 * Eva Mendes as Detective McKenna Hall- 9/25
 * B.D Wong as Professor Anthony Ivo- 6/25 (Final Season)
 * Sharif Atkins as Walter Steele Jr.- 1/25
 * Kirk Avecedo as Ricardo Diaz Jr. / The Dragon- 3/25
 * Emma Stone as Melanie Walker / Tigress-7/25
 * Crystal Reed as Carla Vitti (in flashbacks)- 7/25
 * Guy Pearce as Lazlo Valentin / Professor Pyg- 5/25
 * Rila Fukushima as Tatsu Yamashiro / Katana- 3/25
 * James Roday as Ray Palmer / The Atom- 11/25

Episodes Edit

 * 1) "The Fear Reaper"- Several weeks following the death of Slade Wilson, Lance is called in for questioning and Zytle is arrested. Lance lies to the police, claiming that The Arrow murdered Wilson and Mia Dearden was not involved. Zytle is captured by Sergeant Lucas Hilton sent to Blackgate. Hall confides in Lucas his suspicions that Lance is protecting someone, however, Lucas advises Hall to give Lance the benefit of the doubt. The Anti-Vigilante Task Force is formed to bring in The Arrow and becomes led by Sergeant Max Keene. Much to Lance's dismay, the Mayor hires Anthony Ivo to serve as a consultant. A criminal known as the Scarecrow attempts to kill The Arrow to raise his profile by infecting inmates at Blackgate Penitentiary  influenced by his fear toxin. Oliver goes in and fights off dozens dozens of inmates influenced by the fear toxin and eventually gets dosed himself. He walks into a hallucination and sees his dying parents, but successfully overcomes his fear and uses water to nullify the inmates' reaction to the toxin, forcing Crane to run. Diggle, who is now appointed to be head of the F.B.I field office in Starling City, and Lila welcome a child into the world. Sara returns to Starling and is later shot with arrows by an unseen figure before falling from a rooftop to her death. In flashbacks, Oliver witnesses the Shaman assassinate all members of the Ninth Circle and Eddie discovers that Six is an impostor, however, Six subdues him and escapes.
 * 2) "Komodo"- Laurel takes Sara's body to the team. Lance alerts Oliver to an archer in the city killing people, unaware about Sara. The news of another archer makes Oliver rule out the Dark Knight of Gotham City when Diggle suggests it since the Dark Knight doesn't know Sara and is a reckless hothead. Oliver follows a lead and is able to identify the archer as Simon Lacroix (Colin Salmon). The team learns that Simon Lacroix's next target and intercepts him at Merlyn Global Group. Laurel arrives, determined to avenge Sara's death by killing Simon, whom she considers to be responsible since arrows were fired. As Oliver attempts to dissuade her, Simon reveals that he was in Corto Maltese, where Susan Williams'  aunt Sophia Williams went to take photographs of the war, at the time of Sara's death. The team buries Sara; and Laurel decides not to tell Lance that Sara is dead. Diggle asks Oliver to come to Corto Maltese with him. In flashbacks, learning about Oliver and Six, Lance and Pike discover that the Circle's crystal arrow statues contain maps of marked locations in Starling. They interrogate Maria for Oliver's whereabouts, but Sullivan attacks the SCPD and beheads her before she can reveal anything. Lance shoots off Sullivan's left hand; he is captured, but escapes again. Using the reassembled arrow that Oliver stole, the SCPD finds several locations where Oliver might be.
 * 3) "Corto Maltese"- With no more leads on Sara's murder, Oliver assists Lila and A.R.G.U.S. on a mission to ascertain the whereabouts of one of its agents, Paul Kirk. Paul is revealed to have broken into an ARGUS database and stolen information to sell on the black market. Oliver and Lila manage to stop Kirk. Kirk then convinces Lila to tell Waller that he is dead. Meanwhile, trying to emulate Sara, Laurel attempts to exact vengeance on an abusive boyfriend of a fellow A.A. member, but she is overpowered and ends up in the hospital. Later, she seeks out boxer Ted Grant to train her to fight after Oliver's refusal. Lance assists Lucas and Hall in investigating the murder of an officer, who was working undercover investigating Helena Bertinelli's brother Pino to see if their father Frank was back in Starling. Lucas is personally involved in the case, he confides in Hall that he was having an affair with the officer's wife, who was also attacked. Lucas arrests the hit-man responsible, however, Pino has an associating impersonating a corrections officer assassinate him fearing that he would talk. In flashbacks, the Shaman prepares Oliver to detonate the bomb from Queen Enterprises. Eddie interrogates Ivo and learns Oliver's location, telling Frank. Eddie then arrives at Queen Enterprises and kills the Shaman, who, in his last words, redirects Oliver to "the Demon's Head," while the bomb, which was triggered when the Shaman grabbed Oliver's hand, unleashes the virus across the city.
 * 4) "The Conjurer"- Oliver informs Nyssa that Sara was killed; and Nyssa reveals to Oliver that she knows Merlyn is alive and Sara was sent by the League to assassinate him. After tracking Merlyn, Oliver agrees to meet him in a public location, where Merlyn tells Oliver again that he did not kill her, but only returned to  Starling City to save him. Nyssa kidnaps Oliver in an attempt to draw out Merlyn, known by the League as the "Conjurer."; but Diggle arrives to rescue Oliver. Merlyn arrives shortly after to clear his name and insinuates to Nyssa that it was Ra's who had Sara killed. Nyssa does not believe him; but Diggle does and vows to protect Merlyn for as long as he is in Starling. Nyssa warns Oliver that he has made a serious enemy in the League before leaving and reporting back to Ra's. Lance gets worried about Sara's status. Elsewhere, Sergeant Lucas Hilton continues to harass Pino, as a group of renegade police officers decide to take matters involving Pino into their own hands by breaking into his mansion and breaking his legs. Lucas backs out at the last minute and flees the scene. Unknown to everyone, McKenna Hall was assessing the situation. In flashbacks, Oliver escapes from police custody when they are overwhelmed by the infected and seeks out the Demon's Head, a.k.a. Ra's Al Ghul, the leader of the League. Ra's has Oliver prove his worth by impaling Eddie with a sword.
 * 5) "The Secret Origin Of Felicity Smoak"- A cyber terrorist attacks Starling City, threatening to shut down all banks and set everyone on an even socioeconomic status. While Oliver and Roy  attempt to keep the peace on the streets, Felicity works to locate the virus. She quickly realizes that she designed the virus five years earlier, and that it is unstoppable. Her mother Donna  shows up unannounced, and the two have a falling out over how different they are from each other. Felicity soon realizes that Donna  was unknowingly sent by the cyber terrorist—revealed to be Felicity's ex-boyfriend Henry—who kidnaps them both. Using Donna as leverage, Henry forces Felicity to divert a set of armored vehicles, carrying newly minted money, to their location. She secretly uses a smart watch presented by Walter to Donna to also contact Oliver, who arrives with Roy and Diggle and stops Henry and his team. Felicity reconciles with Donna. Roy begins having nightmares that he was the one who killed Sara. Meanwhile, Laurel continues to train with Ted, and reveals to him the real reason that she is learning to fight. Mia buys a house using her parents inherited funds and convinces Oliver to stay with her.
 * 6) "Night Of The Huntress"- Oliver and Roy assist the police when they raid one of Frank Bertinelli's money laundering facilities. Frank is arrested and charged for the kidnapping as well as the attempted murder of Sgt. Lucas Hilton. Oliver anticipates that Helena will return to try to kill Frank once she hears the news. Laurel is tasked by District Attorney's office to try Frank's case. Helena shows up at the courthouse and takes hostages in exchange for Frank. Roy goes to the courthouse to rescue Laurel, but Helena overpowers the former and demands that Oliver deliver Frank in exchange for Laurel. Oliver complies; but Frank is killed in a crossfire by Sgt. Keene; Lance ultimately arrests Helena, after Laurel stops her. Helena tells Oliver that he was right to discourage vengeance. Helena is then recruited by Amanda Waller  to join the Suicide Squad. In flashbacks, in the aftermath of the Tetch virus incident,  Count Vertigo has regained control of Starling's underworld and begun issuing "Licenses of Misconduct", allowing criminals to commit "legal crimes," though not approved by Lance and Oliver. Sara and a reluctant Tabitha agree to a license. Oliver steals the list of licensed criminals, but is then found on the scene of a robbery by the SCPD.
 * 7) "Suicidal Tendencies"- In flashbacks, genius, billionaire, and playboy Ray Palmer, who has inherited the defense contractor Palmer Industries from his father, is in war-torn Afghanistan with his friend and military liaison Master Sergeant John Diggle to demonstrate the new "Jericho" missile. After the demonstration, the convoy is ambushed and Palmer is critically wounded by one of his own company's rocket-propelled grenades. He is captured and imprisoned in a cave by a terrorist group called Onslaught, which is led by Khem Adam. In the present day, Waller recruits Diggle and Lila to rescue Ray Palmer from captivity when Khem Adam kidnaps school girls from a government sanctioned school. Diggle gets captured by Khem-Adam and learns that Palmer has been blackmailed by Khem-Adam into creating weapons for him. Diggle convinces Kord that Khem-Adam will not keep his word. Later, the Onslaught members take Diggle to Khem Adam. In front of Diggle, Khem-Adam allows a Kahndaqi general to claim a wife from the group of women they'd kidnapped, with the man picking Mesi Natifah. After the general gets killed by Mesi, Khem-Adam gets angry, deciding that none of the girls were worthy of life. Believing that they have to be made an example of, he begins another broadcast, about to slit a little girl's throat. However, before it could happen, Ray Palmer attacks using a prototypical suit of armor, but is subdued. Then the Suicide Squad arrives. Lila takes the girls to safety and Bronze Tiger takes on Khem Adam. Diggle stabs Khem-Adam in the foot with a knife and Bronze Tiger kills him. Ray is then taken back to Starling City and Ra's recruits Mesi into the League of Assassins.
 * 8) "The Brave And The Bold"- Oliver and Roy track down the home of Owen Mercer, the boomerang-wielding murderer, but they only find A.R.G.U.S operatives looking for the same man. Caitlin and Cisco arrive in Starling City to help Felicity investigate Sara's death. Owen attempts to kill Lila; Roy, Oliver and Barry  arrive and stop him. Later, Lila reveals Owen was part of the Suicide Squad. Oliver's extreme interrogation methods lead Barry to question how emotionally stable Oliver is. Owen traces Oliver's hideout, where he wounds Lila  before escaping. In order to leave town, Owen  plants 5 bombs around the city. While Arrow captures Owen, The Flash uses both his and Oliver's teams to defuse the bombs at the same time. Owen is incarcerated in the island with Brick. Lila accepts Diggle's marriage proposal. Before Barry and his team's departure, he and Oliver decide to have a friendly duel. In flashbacks, Lance releases Oliver from custody. After Oliver almost gets killed during his vigilantism, Steele, who seems to be aware of his activities, provides him with a "Prototype Suit," making him faster and more resilient.
 * 9) "Clock"- While investigating the Count Vertigo, who has been released from Blackgate Penitentiary , at his casino called the Vertigo Lounge, Oliver witnesses Vertigo confronted by a man in a gray hood, whom Eddie identifies as Temple Fugate AKA The Clock King,who has escaped from his icy prison to complete an old score.  As Clock King and his men take over the casino, Eddie informs Lance, and Roy suits up. Team Arrow return and prepares a plan of attack and confronts the Clock King and his men. After subduing the henchmen including Clock King's second-in-command Elijah Parrish, he orders Lance to attack and confronts Clock King. After a fierce battle, Clock King escapes by destroying the supports of a statue forcing Oliver to let him leave to save Lucas and Lance, and leaves a puzzle box. Oliver and Roy take it to the Arrowcave to encrypt it, but Felicity is unable to determine what the box is. Oliver takes it to Walter so he can solve the riddle. Unfortunately, Walter is mysteriously killed in an explosion, upsetting Walter's son Walter Fox Jr. Felicity gets shocked to hear Walter was killed and cries. When Iman Ivesta and Lila Michaels are abducted after the A.R.G.U.S tries to catch the Clock King, Oliver interrogates Zytle at the casino and steals the information he has as well as injuring Vertigo. Felicity uses it to locate the Clock King's hangout. After escaping another deadly game set up by Clock King, The Arrow manages to redirect the missiles and defeats the criminal. As he is interrogated by the vigilante, Clock King is shot with a poisoned dart by a mysterious woman and dies. A.R.G.U.S and SCPD arrive, Waller blames Lance for what happened and has him relieved of his position. In flashbacks, the Clock King escapes from Blackgate Penitentiary  and goes on a killing spree. He even chooses Walter Steele to be his arch nemesis. Eventually, Vertigo learns about Clock King and believes he would make a fine attraction for his night club and has Mr. Freeze put the Clock King in a block of ice.
 * 10) "The Climb"- In Arabia, AD 125, a deceased warrior is taken from the battlefield and placed into a healing pool known as the Lazarus Pit; once revived, the future Ra's is tasked by his master to find his future heir and given a ceremonial knife. The League demands Oliver to find and turn over Sara's killer in 48 hours or they will begin murdering Starling City citizens, a mission led by Maseo, revealed to have joined the League. S.T.A.R. Labs sends Felicity the DNA results, which appears to be Roy's D.N.A. Malcolm and Talia, revealed to be the mysterious woman who killed Fugate, informs Oliver that Malcolm drugged Roy and manipulated him into killing Sara as well as not remembering it. Talia filmed the event to use as leverage to force Oliver to take the blame and challenge Ra's to a duel, which no one has dared in 67 years. Talia wants to betray her father to takeover the League of Assassins and Malcolm is cooperating with Talia since Talia promised to call off the hunt on Malcolm once she becomes in control. Ra's overpowers Oliver before impaling him and kicking him over the side of a cliff, telling Oliver he is no longer worthy to be his heir. Waller has Grogan replace Lance as the new police commissioner. Laurel reveals Sara's death to Lance and reveals how she wants to assassinate the person responsible. Although he is devastated by this, Lance urges Laurel to not kill the person responsible and hand the culprit over to the justice system, telling her that she has to be better. Diggle arrives to Palmer Industries to check on Ray and Ray shows the A.T.O.M design to Diggle, telling him of his plan to protect Starling as a vigilante.
 * 11) "Left Standing"-  Diggle and Roy work to continue protecting the city in Oliver's absence. With the Arrow  missing, a new crime lord named Ricardo "The Dragon" Diaz ( Kirk Acevedo), who has come from Gotham City, plots to take over the Glades. After Mia expresses concern over Oliver's  absence, Malcolm investigates the site of the duel and brings the bloodied sword back to the team, proclaiming Oliver's death. Diggle discovers Diaz's plan, to secure all the evidence against street enforcers so they are released from jail and forced to join his crew, and heads to the police warehouse with Roy to stop him. Fearing for their lives, Felicity decides to trap the duo in the warehouse and let Diaz escape. Afterward, Felicity proclaims the group non-existent without Oliver and quits the group. Diggle refuses with helping Ray with A.T.O.M. Laurel starts fighting Diaz's operatives, donning an altered Canary costume. Malcolm advises Mia to leave Starling City with him. In flashbacks, Lance visits Adam Hunt and his family in Miami. Adam's father Vincent declines Lance's request to stop Vertigo, revealing his imminent demise. Adam's sister Carla Vitti, however, comes to Starling to help Lance and they share a kiss.
 * 12) "Midnight City"-While Oliver  attempts to rest and heal, members of the League arrive, forcing Maseo and Tatsu  to kill them to protect Oliver. Maseo wounds himself so Ra's will believe Oliver escaped the former. Roy and Diggle warn Laurel to stay off the streets after Roy saves her from another fight. The Dragon kidnaps the city's aldermen, killing one during a rescue attempt. In exchange for the remaining aldermen, Dragon demands that all police presence evacuate the Glades  for good. The team is able to locate the aldermen and successfully rescue them, but the Mayor still agrees to remove the police after the Dragon reveals that he has targeted every legislative body member. Meanwhile, Felicity decides to rejoin the team and help Ray  with his plan. Malcolm tells Mia about Ra's, and she convinces him to stay and fight instead of flight. Vincent, the DJ for Rave, is revealed to be a spy for the League, informing Mesi about Malcolm's decision. In flashbacks, the knife is sold at auction by Vertigo; Oliver, playing a wealthy spoiled brat, outbids a woman named Carla Vitti for it. She is revealed to have been revived by Ra's and tasked with retrieving the knife. She sends Sara to convince Oliver to yield it, but to no avail.
 * 13) "Uprising"- Flashbacks chronicle a younger Diaz being shown in an orphanage being harassed by a bully. In the present, Diaz tracks down the man who bullied him as a child, and sets him on fire as Sin watches uncomfortably. Oliver decides to return to Starling City. Tatsu informs him that if he wants to defeat Ra's, he will need to seek swordsman training from a student, like Maseo. With the police out of the Glades, Roy and Laurel are tasked with fighting Diaz's men to keep the peace. Hall, who has grudgingly decided to bend the rules, gives the team information the police have on Diaz to help locate him. Malcolm spies on the team as they review the evidence against Diaz, and discovers that Diaz was responsible for the death of his wife, Charlotte. Malcolm propositions the team to join forces to take down Diaz, but the team refuses. Instead, they rally the citizens of the Glades, including Sin, to take on Diaz and his men. Malcolm overpowers Diaz before Oliver arrives and persuades him to spare Diaz's life and let the police arrest him. Sin tells Lance her knowledge that the new female vigilante is not Sara. In the aftermath, Oliver requests that Malcolm train him so that he can take on Ra's. In flashbacks, Oliver has antiquist Niles Winthrop and his grandson, Alex, study the knife. Ra's later kills Niles, forcing Alex to escape with the knife. Oliver and Lance find Alex and are attacked by Ra's' psychotic enforcers; Oliver and Alex escape the scene. Ra's visits the SCPD as a Nanda Parbat official before Eddie arrives and tells Lance about the previous activities of Ra's, who escapes. Alex and Oliver return to Niles' museum, where the former has hidden the knife. After recovering it, the enforcers attack them just as Lance arrives and fights them off. Ra's holds Alex hostage, demanding the knife, which Oliver deems too important. An impressed Ra's kills Alex and, as part of his scheme, allows Lance to arrest him.
 * 14) "My Bad"- The S.C.P.D has their work cut out when a grisly decapitation murder scene is found in the swamps were several women are found in barrels electrocuted to death. As Oliver tries to keep Laurel off the streets as a vigilante, Malcolm informs Oliver that to beat Ra's he will need to bring Mia into the team. Oliver reveals the truth to her, who accepts and praises him for the work he has been doing as The Arrow. Diggle discovers that criminal Lester Buchinsky is the culprit and seeks to bring him down. Buchinsky attempts to kill Diggle, however, Diggle shorts out Buchinsky's electrical apparatus with water. Diggle becomes shocked when he discovers a frightened woman that Buchinsky held hostage whose name is Melanie Walker. Oliver realizes that his team does not fight for him anymore, but for the city. Vincent attempts to kill Mia, but Roy and Malcolm show up and Vincent commits suicide. Diggle contacts Oliver and Laurel to help him decide what to do with Melanie. Oliver takes Mia to Lian Yu for training and Laurel urges Melanie to move on with her life. However, Melanie pretends to leave Starling for Hub City, however, she comes back to get revenge on the men who abducted and raped her. In flashbacks, following Alex's funeral and learning that Ra's has applied for diplomatic immunity, Oliver takes the knife and vows to kill him at Arkham. Ra's grants Dinah an unknown mystical power and says goodbye. Upon arriving, Oliver is ambushed by Ra's and the League posed as COs. When Eddie reports him missing to Lance, they arrive at Arkham and subdue the League. Ra's states that he is cursed with immortality and provokes Oliver into stabbing him with the knife, breaking the curse and rendering him a decayed corpse. Oliver suspends his vigilantism and Eddie keeps the suit until he can move on.
 * 15) "The Return"- While on the island of Lian Yu, Oliver begins Mia's  training. He goes to the A.R.G.U.S prison to visit with Brick, but he discovers the guard dead and Brick missing. Oliver warns Mia and they find out that Merlyn had Brick freed as part of their training. Brick arrives and captures them, imprisoning them in the A.R.G.U.S cell. The duo manages to open the doors and escape. Oliver reveals to Mia that Roy killed Sara. Brick  arrives and engages them. Oliver dissuades Mia from killing Brick, who gets imprisoned back in the cell. The duo returns to Starling City, where Oliver confronts Malcolm for forcing Roy to kill Sara. They decide to work with him to fight Ra's, but denounces their personal relationship. Lance blames Laurel for hiding the truth and Laurel becomes concerned of his behavior as Lance continues to spiral into depression. Laurel suspects that this is because of Grogan replacing Lance as commissioner. Diggle discovers that Melanie has come back to Starling to get revenge on the men who abducted and raped her. Melanie attempts to kill a man in the Glades thinking that he was involved in her rape, however, Diggle diffuses the situation after reporting his discovery to Melanie that the the man had a rock solid alibi at the time. In flashbacks, A man wearing a pig's head begins killing police officers acting as Zytle's bagmen. Deducing that the killer intends to fight corruption, Lance and Pike find the last target, but are too late to prevent his death, leading to the duo's capture. Lance frees himself before the killer cuts Pike's throat to facilitate his escape. Lance tells Pike that he knows the latter has also been on Zytles payroll, demanding him to cease it. "Professor Pyg" is revealed to have larger-scale plans.
 * 16) "Nanda Parbat"- Oliver and Mia continue their training with Merlyn, within Melanie taking part. Mia confesses the whole truth to Laurel, who instead blames Talia; Mia makes a deal to turn her over to the League. Laurel confronts Merlyn and is outmatched, but they are interrupted by Nyssa and the League, and both Merlyn and Talia are captured. Having imprisoned Nyssa, Oliver decides to go back to a city in Nanda Parbat to rescue Merlyn to prevent Mia from blaming herself when she realizes that she has sentenced her foster brother's father to death. Oliver and Diggle infiltrate Nanda Parbat , but walk into a trap set by Ra's. Oliver tells Diggle that Mia was not his only motive and he could not accept the defeat from someone else. Diggle states that he considers him a brother. Mia confesses the truth to Nyssa and offers her the chance at revenge, and Ray tests the flight capabilities of his completed A.T.O.M  exo-suit. Instead of killing Oliver, Ra's expresses his praise for Oliver's courage and strength, and asks Oliver to replace him as the head of the League. In flashbacks, Pyg kidnaps three officers. Zytle and his temporary enforcer Headhunter ally with the SCPD to take down Pyg, disapproved by Lance. They find one officer murdered, and the second one, Solis, critically wounded. While Solis is taken away in an ambulance, the alliance traps Pyg in an abandoned courthouse with the third officer, Patel. However, it is a trap and Pike shoots Patel. Lance saves them alone, reclaiming the SCPD's publicity and ruining Zytle's. Vertigo stabs Headhunter in rage, while Solis, revealed to be Pyg in disguise, escapes to enact further plans.
 * 17) "Heir To The Demon"- Ra's explains that the localized pool of water in Nanda Parbat has healing effects that have allowed him to live far longer than any mortal man. The pool is becoming less effective on him, so Ra's is looking for a replacement. In a show of good faith to convince Oliver, Ra's releases Diggle and Merlyn and forgives all blood debts. Oliver returns to Starling and releases Nyssa. Oliver discovers that a series of murders has been occurring in the Glades and discovers that Lyle Bolton, a bodyguard for Anthony Ivo, is responsible for this under the mask persona Lock-Up. Oliver goes to Lance for information, however, Lance wants nothing to do with Oliver anymore because of him hiding Sara's death. Lance then returns to his law and order mindset where he threatens to come after Oliver if he goes anywhere near Lock-Up. Using a suit designed by Felicity, Diggle goes after Lock-Up as Spartan and is able to subdue him with help from Melanie, who now calls herself Tigress. Oliver informs Maseo of his decision, who warns Oliver of the consequences of defying Ra's. Upset with Ra's for his offer to Oliver, Nyssa leaves him and returns to Starling City, befriending Laurel and deciding to train her. In flashbacks, Lance is offered a promotion to be the new Captain of Starling Central, arranged by Carla. Although initially hesitant, he takes the position when Pike's bitterness leads to him missing out on a police officers ceremony.
 * 18) "Public Enemy"- The police issue a warrant for The Arrow when an impostor starts murdering criminals. That impostor is discovered to be Sgt. Max Keene, who was hypnotized by Ivo to believe that he can be like Arrow, but "better". Ivo even gave Keene a makeshift costume, complete with a hood and a pair of samurai swords before sending him home. Ray supports the warrant that the police put out on the Arrow. In his new A.T.O.M  suit, Ray locates The Arrow and through facial scans learns his identity. Laurel refuses to accept Ray's evidence against Oliver. Ray engages Oliver in a fight, but Oliver disables Ray's suit. Oliver convinces Ray that he is being framed. Keene, posing as The Arrow, murders Grogan and fires an arrow at Laurel. Diggle learns that Melanie has gone after Daniel Wheeler, a kids dentist, after she discovers that Wheeler was involved in her rape. To protect Melanie after Melanie stabs Daniel, Diggle breaks Wheeler's neck to protect her and lies to Lance about what happened. In flashbacks, In a plot to launch an attack on Carla's orphanage, Pyg kills several homeless people and cooks their insides, stuffing them into pies. His base of operations is exposed by the SCPD, prompting Pyg to kidnap Harper, using her as leverage against Captain Lance. When a dinner at the orphanage rounds up several of the rich and powerful, including Zytle, Pyg launches his plan into motion, torturing the rich into cannibalism by way of eating the pies. Lance is subdued while trying to find Pyg and with Harper's help, he defeats Pyg in combat and arrests him.
 * 19) "The Nightmare"- Ray takes an arrow for Laurel. Lance, now becoming the commissioner again, issues an arrest warrant for The Arrow and his team, with shoot to kill orders in effect. Oliver deduces that Ivo must have a hand in framing him. The Arrow confronts Ivo in his penthouse and demands to know the identity of the person who framed him, and his role in Grogran's murder. Ivo taunts the Arrow without revealing any information and hits him with a hallucinogenic gas that causes him to relive the night his parents were murdered. Completely disoriented, the Arrow falls off a balcony, but not before audibly crying out for his mother and father, which makes Ivo realize that he is actually Oliver Queen. Oliver survives, but continues to suffer from the effects of the hallucinogen. Believing he is once again a little boy, and is being chased by his parents' killer, Oliver runs from a police officer trying to arrest him, escapes by jumping into the sewers, and nearly drowns as he is washed out to sea. Oliver wakes up the next morning under a pier, bruised and battered. When he walks back onto shore he is attacked by a mob of civilians. Oliver manages to escape but is shocked by how much the public hates him and how little fear they showed. When Oliver returns to the apartment he finds Mia unconscious, the victim of assault. He is also greeted by what appears to be his mother and father sitting the dining room. The apparitions of his parents begin to taunt him for being a failure and blame their deaths on him. As he runs around the apartment in fear, the voices and figures of his parents seem to chase him from room to room. Mia, who has regained consciousness, tries to calm Oliver, explaining that the figures that he thinks are his parents are just elaborate mannequins with tape recorders placed inside them, but Oliver, still suffering from the residual effects of the hallucinogen, strikes him and flees to the safety of the Arrowcave where he collapses in exhaustion. Meanwhile, Ray is revealed to have developed a deadly thrombus that has no known cure. He reveals to have nanobots that can destroy the clot. Diggle injects them and saves him by the help of Laurel. In flashbacks, Lance visits the Pyg in Blackgate Penitentiary, after Steele has realized that the Pyg has undergone numerous facial surgeries. Steele learns that he was a serial killer named Lazlo Valentin. The Pyg later breaks out of Blackgate.
 * 20) "Fractured"- After cloistering himself within the Arrowcave for three days, Oliver regains his bearings but remains shaken by the visions he experienced. He considers whether the path of the Arrow is one that his parents would have approved of or if it is simply the course of an insane man as Ivo suggested. After reflecting, Oliver rationalizes that being The Arrow represents an act of sanity and order that defies the madness and chaos represented by crime and injustice. Keene continues his vigilante killing spree which is why Oliver enlists help from Ray to stop him. Oliver goes to Ivo's penthouse and finds him once again dressed as the Arrow and conversing with a mannequin. Oliver appeals to Ivo's ego and lets him gloat about staging the frame-up. But when Ivo turns the subject towards Oliver's true identity, Oliver simply plays ignorant to Ivo’s ravings, saying he has no idea what Ivo is talking about, and points out the Doctor’s erratic and bizarre behavior as evidence that it is he who is mad and his profiling work is based on delusion. Diggle and the F.B.I then burst through Ivo’s door and Diggle reveals that he has been recording their entire meeting, including Ivo’s confession to the kidnapping. When Diggle attempts to arrest Ivo, the doctor runs outside and finds himself in front of more cops. Mistaking him for The Arrow because of his costume, they act on Lance's shoot-to-kill orders, and open fire. Ivo is hit numerous times before falling into a river. After a failed first attempt in defeating Keene, Ray and Roy sync their movements through a neural network, but when the network malfunctions during the battle, Ray defeats Keene and hands him over to A.R.G.U.S. The S.C.P.D wrongly concludes that Ivo was The Arrow, however, Lance knows that is not true. Ra's visits Mia and impales her with his sword. In flashbacks, Pyg becomes involved in a conspiracy with Carla to assassinate her father Vincent and blame Zytle for the hit. After Vincent's funeral, Carla manipulates Lance into arresting Zytle for Martin's supposed murder, and Zsasz, revealed also to be working for Carla, sells him out to the SCPD. Carla kills Pyg and reveals her true alliance to Ra's Al Ghul.
 * 21) "Surprise, Motherfucker!"--A criminal known as Basil Karlos who is a known meta-human called Clay-Face, causes a massive shootout with the SCPD, resulting in several lives being loss. Diggle meets with Oliver and Oliver explains to him how Karlos became Clay-Face as a result of Anthony Ivo's experiments. Clay-Face kidnaps Anthony Ivo's assistant Igor Oddt since Ivo is revealed to have promised him a way to reduce hearing voices in his head in exchange for creating Lucas Hilton and having Lucas infiltrate the S.C.P.D to leak information on the fish in the barrels case. Hall discovers Lucas on a security camera working with Clay-Face to kill S.C.P.D. police officers. When Oliver and Hall confront him, Lucas sacrifices himself to save Hall from Clay-Face when Clay-Face attempts to re-absorb Lucas. Oddt betrays Clay-Face by using the technology he stole to manipulate him into going on a criminal rampage, however, Ray helps Diggle, otherwise known as Spartan, defeat him in the end. Hall decides to accept the vigilantes as a necessary evil and reveals she and Lucas were lovers. Oliver leaves after giving Hall his contact information so Hall can contact him when in need of assistance.Oliver rushes Mia to a hospital, where her death is said to be apparently inevitable. Ra's contacts Oliver to let him know that if he accepts his offer, he will be able to use the Lazarus Pit to heal her. Malcolm warns against this, stating that the pit changes a person in their soul, but Oliver decides to take her to Nanda Parbat regardless. Flashbacks reveal Hall and Lucas were in a relationship.
 * 22) "The Fallen"- Mia is dipped into the pit and returns healed but in a state of confusion, and her memories jumbled. Felicity has sex with Oliver before drugging him so the team can sneak him out of the fortress, which is aided by Maseo. Cornered by the Assassins, Oliver wakes in time to order them to stand down. Afterward, Oliver returns to take his place as head of the League, alone. Mia wakes up in her apartment, her mind clear and distraught that Oliver sacrificed himself for her. Oliver renounces his old life, taking on an apprentice role in the League and the name Al-Sahim until he is ready to take over as the new Ra's. Flashbacks reveal Eddie as a young British secret agent being against Ra's Al Ghul with assistance from Tatsu's father. Tatsu's father betrays Eddie by attempting to use the soul taker sword on him, however, he hesitates at the last moment, causing his soul to be drained. Eddie then flees in horror.
 * 23) "Al-Sahim"- Oliver begins his training, which includes breaking down his psyche so that his allegiance is only to the League and his new identity as Al Sahim. Ra's recounts the moment that he was chosen to become the leader of the League, and a duel with his best friend Damien Bedlam who saw himself as the heir. Ra's hesitated and Damien fled, stealing from the Lazarus Pit and starting his own group. Damien is revealed to had hired Paul Kirk. Subsequently, Oliver is directed to kill Nyssa. Oliver and the League come to Starling City, where the team announce their protection of Nyssa. Oliver kidnaps Lila to force the team to give her up. At the exchange, a fight breaks out and Nyssa is taken by the League. Oliver almost kills Diggle, but Roy  arrives and stops him. In Nanda Parbat, Ra's orders Nyssa to marry Oliver and Oliver has to use the fear toxin to cleanse Starling City as a final act of commitment. In flashbacks, Simultaneously, Carla forcibly takes control of the Glades and has Lee thrown into the streets, leading to Lance turning to Pike for help and deciding to take Carla down. Carla becomes affected by Ra's Al Ghul's powers.
 * 24) "This Is Your Sword"- In the present, Diggle and Laurel patrol Starling City, taking on any criminals they find. Mia finds Roy and reunites with him. Oliver learns that Crane was the one who provided Ra's with his fear toxin. Sneaking away from the castle, Oliver, revealed to have been in league with Malcolm as well as Talia and that his agreement to become Ra's heir was a charade to get close to Ra's and slowly dismantle the League from within, tells Malcolm Ra's plan. On Oliver's advice, Malcolm uses Tatsu to convince the team of the truth. The team, including Tatsu, Ray, Melanie, and Malcolm go to Nanda Parbat where Tatsu kills Maseo before they are overrun by the League and captured. Malcolm reveals Oliver's treachery to Ra's, whom Oliver manages to convince of his loyalty. Ra's exposes the team, excluding Tatsu, to the virus before sealing them away in a cell. Afterward, Oliver and Nyssa get married. In flashbacks, the renegade League faction uses Oliver's blood in a ritual to resurrect Ra's Al Ghul, who disdains Carla's limited ambitions and tries to take back the power of the Demon's Head. Carla's fights Ra's, but returns the power to him when he threatens Adam's life. Carla reconciles with Adam, while the female League members recognize her worth as a leader and continue to serve her.
 * 25) "My Name Is Oliver Queen"- While Ra's, Crane, and Oliver head toward Starling City, the team wakes in the dungeon. Malcolm informs them that he secretly gave them the vaccine. Barry arrives and frees them. Oliver and Talia attack Ra's, Nyssa, and other Assassins. Talia kills Crane and Ra's escapes with the toxin, vowing to destroy Starling. Ra's reveals to have four targets. Felicity locates them, and Oliver organizes the team, along with Lance and the police, to those locations, with Melanie arriving to help. Oliver duels Ra's, as the team successfully stops the attack and minimizes the casualties. Oliver kills Ra's before being saved from the police by Ray in the  A.T.O.M suit. Afterward, Eddie decides to leave Starling. Oliver decides to have a normal life with Felicity instead of operating as a vigilante, knowing that there are other vigilantes that can take his place. Oliver cedes the title of Ra's to Talia, to whom Nyssa kneels, but promises vengeance. Ray begins experimenting with his A.T.O.M  suit, but causes an explosion. In flashbacks, Lance and Pike go after Mr. Penn, an accountant for Carla's organization. Carla attempts to kill Lance only to end up in a coma by the vengeful Lee. In the hospital, Lance plans on confessing to the SCPD but Pike forces him to live with the guilt instead.