The Emerald Archer Season Three

The Emerald Archer Season Three is the third season of The Emerald Archer. It deals with Oliver Queen finally becoming the Green Arrow, and stopping a new vigilante, who is targeting each member of the Bratva in Star City.

Created by Vince Gilligan and David S. Goyer

2012-2013

Cast Recurring Episodes
 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow- 21/21
 * Katie Holmes as Laurel Lance / Black Canary- 21/21
 * Derek Luke as John Diggle / Spartan- 21/21
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Queen / Speedy
 * Jason Issacs as Eddie Feyers
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak / Overwatch
 * Paul Johnason as Malcolm Merlyn
 * Bryan Cranston as Captain Quentin Lance
 * Will Wheaton as Ray Palmer / The Atom- 1/21
 * Seth Gabel as Werner Zytle / Count Vertigo- 8/21
 * Robert Pattinson as D.A Adrian Chase / The Vigilante- 11/21
 * Idris Elba as Hank Henshaw
 * Grant Gustin as Barry Allen / The Flash- 2/21
 * Carlos Valdes as Cisco Ramon- 2/21
 * Danielle Panabaker as Dr. Caitlin Snow- 2/21
 * Nicholas Hoult as Albert Wells / Firestorm- 2/21
 * Luc Roderique as Jason Rutsch / Firestorm- 2/21
 * Gina Carono as Helena Bertinelli / The Huntress- 1/21
 * 1) "The Darkest Place"- Six Months  after the death of Slade Wilson, Mia  is in Corto Maltese training with Malcolm since she never wants anyone to hurt her again just like Malcolm  did by having an affair with Moira resulting in her. Malcolm begins training Mia in calming her mind and healing her emotional pain while learning to master control over physical pain. Laurel has given up being Black Canary to take care of Lance,, who is on crutches for a while due to the injuries he received at the hands of Wilson.  John has been protecting the people of Starling City (now known as Star City),  as Spartan with help from Oliver and Felicity since The Arrow is "dead". . Unfortunately, a new vigilante appears in Star City and starts killing some of the criminals John secures. Oliver deduces that the vigilante targets the murderers who were exonerated. The former finds the next target, with John managing to defeat the serial killer, who is arrested.
 * 2) "Green Arrow"- Oliver  learns that medicine being sent to Leslie Thompkins' clinic is being stolen by China White. John sets up a trap for China White, who escapes after having her clawed henchman Ben Turner AKA Bronze Tiger fight him; the police arrive and the two escape. Oliver  learns from Leslie that Robert did know that Mia  wasn't his daughter after he had her do a DNA test on Mia, but Robert still loved Mia  as if she were his own. And with that, Oliver is able to convince Mia  to come back home. Oliver takes the name "Green Arrow", and broadcasts a message to the city vowing to be a hero, and to never kill. Lance  arranges for John to get a high paying security job with Hank Henshaw (David Harewood) at his firm.
 * 3) "Trust But Verify"- After an armored truck is robbed, Oliver  believes that one of the thieves is Hank Henshaw. Oliver visits Hank and steals encrypted data, as John prevents the former from getting any information directly from Hank. Felicity  reveals that the data are plans for robbing armored trucks, which Oliver uses to track the thieves. John discovers that Hank was the mastermind behind the robberies, and is forced to join Hank's team when Hank kidnaps his mother, but backs out of helping them at last. Oliver as the Green Arrow  arrives in time and subdues Hank for the police. Later on, Hank gets released from prison to go back to running the D.E.O.
 * 4) "Corto Maltese"- Oliver  focuses his attention on bringing Mia home. Felicity is able to track her to Corto Maltese. Mia initially refuses to return. While he waits to convince her, Oliver assists John on a mission for A.R.G.U.S. to ascertain the whereabouts of one of its agents, Mark Shaw. Mark is revealed to have broken into the A.R.G.U.S. database and stolen information to sell on the black market. John and Oliver manage to stop him, but Shaw convinces John to tell Waller that he is dead. Using Felicity's help, Ray opens a file of details of advanced weaponry. Oliver reveals to Mia that Robert did know that she wasn't his daughter, but still loved her as if she were his own. But Mia still refuses to return since  she is still angry at everything that has happened.
 * 5) "Brotherhood"- Oliver decides to return home and hunt down drug dealer Derek Sampson, but Sampson  kills a police officer who happens to be the younger brother of Laurel Lance's  boss District Attorney Adrian Chase. Lance refuses Internal Affairs officer Tina Boland's request to cooperate in an investigation of John since Boland  believes that John was involved with Hank Henshaw's armored car robberies and might be a corrupt cop. Mia meanwhile decides to return to Star City and Malcolm  allows her to do so.
 * 6) "Crocodile"- Lance tries to identify a body, but realizes that the body is Sampson's  girlfriend and goes looking for  Sampson  after realizing that he might have killed her. Mia,   who has returned to Star City without the team's knowledge, secretly raids Sampson's  warehouse. The raid goes wrong and Jones ends up with superhuman strength as well as skin that resembles a crocodile. Oliver  learns of what happened from Adrian Chase and decides to not trust Mia. Green Arrow finally decides to accept Mia's help to stop Sampson from making more people like him. Adrian Chase also searches for Sampson,  now renaming himself as Killer Crock, so he can get revenge for his brother's death. John tells Lance that the only reason Tina Boland dislikes him so much is before she blames him for the death of his partner when John was in Narcotics.
 * 7) "The Damage That Anyone Can Do"- Adrian Chase tells Oliver about a debt enforcer named Lawrence 'Crock' Crocker, a former athlete who gave up sports for gambling. John uses Lawrence to help train Chase on how to research his targets, how to stalk, and subdue them after illegally collecting evidence with Green Arrow's help. Chase begins to admire Green Arrow  and the team for being able to do what he couldn't be able to do legally. Meanwhile, Mia has returned to school and her friends decide to throw a party to celebrate. However, Mia's  friend is in trouble when an egotistical sex-addicted teenager attempts to rape her and Mia  almost kills him until Eddie arrives to calm her down.
 * 8) "Vigilante"- A new vigilante appears in Star City, known as "Vigilante", one who kills criminals in cold blood. The team intercepts vigilante during a bank robbery, but he gets away, as does Eric Dunn, the head of the robbers. D.A Chase forces one of the robbers to reveal Dunn's location and Green Arrow  saves him from the Vigilante. The team poses as the bank robbers to lure in the Vigilante, who again escapes even after Oliver defeats and nearly unmasks him. John gets angry at Oliver upon learning he had to miss his son John Diggle Jr.'s birthday.
 * 9) "Read My Lips"- A new criminal crew appears, headed by Scar Face and the Ventriloquist, and kidnaps Oliver Queen in a bid to draw out and kill the Green Arrow,  thereby taking over the city. He is rescued by Mia as Speedy, but Oliver orders her to not be involved after seeing that Mia is willing to kill. Green Arrow, Black Canary,  and Adrian Chase's Special Crimes Unit  manage to capture Scar Face and Ventriloquist. Later during a prison transfer, the Ventriloquist and Scar Face are killed by the Vigilante despite Scar Face pleading for his life and not Wesker's.
 * 10) "Dogs To A Gunfight"- The Vigilante appears again this time murdering all the members of the Bratva which is why Oliver  seeks to bring him in since he dislikes the idea that there is a killer out loose in the streets. District Attorney Adrian Chase agrees to have the Special Crimes Unit go after Green Arrow only if Zytle wears a wire to a meeting with a high-level drug lord. Church  is against that idea, but Zytle  is in favor of it. Oliver,  realizing that the Irish had a now missing dog, has Felicity  track it to a nearby apartment. Vigilante, who is listening to the DA's operation with Zytle on the radio, attacks the operation. Oliver as Green Arrow, arrives to attack Vigilante. Zytle escapes in the chaos while Vigilante takes Oliver with him.
 * 11) "Penny And Dime"- Oliver  wakes up as the Vigilante's captive and pleads for him to stop killing, feeling that there is good in people. The Vigilante refuses to listen to Oliver since he feels that criminals deserve to die and reveals himself to be Adrian Chase. Meanwhile, Tobias Church earns the Vigilante's identity after tracking the dog to his apartment. Church manages to capture Chase and torture him, but Chase escapes killing his torturers. Oliver as the Green Arrow  arrives and stops Chase from murdering anyone else, helping him escape. Chase tells Oliver  that he became a crime fighter only to avenge his dead brother before allowing himself to be arrested. Oliver  gives credit for Chase's capture to John in hopes of restoring the public's faith in the system and John agrees to it since he wants to become a lieutenant.
 * 12) "Seven Minutes In Heaven"- Zytle offers Chase a chance at Derek Sampson, AKA Killer Croc, the king of Blackgate Penitentiary. Zytle admits that this will allow him to take control of the prison himself so he can survive until he comes up with a plan to get him out, Chase attacks Killer Croc. Zytle then betrays Chase by releasing Killer Croc's supporters on him, but Chase slaughters them all. Realizing that Chase could kill the Green Arrow  for interfering, Zylte makes arrangements for Chase to escape the prison. Oliver tries to help Lance top a dangerous street gang only for Barry  to come to Star City requesting their help.
 * 13) "The Nuclear Man"- Barry asks Oliver to track Albert Wells' whereabouts after Albert attacks a scientist in Star City. Oliver and Barry convince Albert to come back to his father Dr. Harrison Wells so he can be tested. Wells discovers that his son and Jason Rutsch's atoms are in conflict, and if it continues they will become nuclear while Barry explains to Oliver how it happened.  Cisco and Caitlin arrive and use a device Wells made from the tachyon to separate the bodies, but it apparently does not work, and the duo escapes the explosion, which alerts Eiling, who orders a team to recover "Firestorm". Meanwhile, Laurel visits Zytle  in prison and confirms her suspicions, that Zytle is running it and orchestrated Chase's escape.
 * 14) "Outcome"- Barry  and Caitlin find Albert and Jason alive and separated, which Eiling also finds out. Albert and Jason  realize that their minds are partially connected. Wells visits Eiling, who reveals that he knows Barry's secret identity as The Flash,  and demands the F.I.R.E.S.T.O.R.M. project. Wells refuses which is why Eiling kidnaps Jason, who tortures him until Green Arrow, Spartan, The Flash,  and Albert save him. Albert and Jason reunite by the tachyon piece to survive the military onslaught. The duo gains enough control to be able to merge and separate on command. They decide to leave to stay ahead of Eiling and learn more about their new powers. Chase shows up as the Vigilante and murders the dangerous street gang members whom Oliver  failed to capture since he was too busy helping Barry.
 * 15) "Beauty & The Beast"- Judge Maria Vargas has a meeting with Lance to explain how she believes that Chase is targeting her daughter since her daughter is missing and since she organized the police operation that got his brother, who was a police officer, killed in the line of duty while they were going after a major drug trafficker called The Ghost. However, Maria is gunned down in front of Lance  by an unseen shooter. Zytle's associate Ignatius Ogilvy blackmails Frank Pike into getting his boss out of prison by shooting Marion Grange so she wouldn't be around to testify by threatening his girlfriend Isabelle, whom forensic scientist Temple Fugate  takes a liking to. Felicity  manages to track Judge Vargas' daughter's phone and confirms that she has been abducted by a group of serial rapists led by William Stryker. Chase saves Judge Vargas' daughter from Stryker and kills him which makes Oliver and Laurel believe that Chase didn't kill Vargas.
 * 16) "Duty of The Huntress"- Frank Bertinelli's trial is coming up and Oliver  reveals to the team that Bertinelli's daughter Helena has been killing off members of her father's organization. Lance is asked to testify at Frank's trial. Helena shows up at the courthouse and takes hostages in exchange for Frank. Laurel as Black Canary goes to the courthouse to rescue Lance,, but Helena overpowers the former and demands that the Green Arrow  deliver Frank in exchange for Lance. Oliver  manages to talk Helena into turning her father over to the police and let him be prosecuted for his crimes. Oliver points out that there is good in people, that Frank dislikes the violence in Star City, and that she can be a better person than him. Helena then turns herself over to John. Fugate has a paranoid outburst and speaks to a second personality. Meanwhile, Fugate tries to protect Isabella  from her abusive boyfriend Frank Pike,  but goes too far when he stabs him to death and has a psychotic breakdown.
 * 17) "Mother's Day"- At the Star City Hospital, the children willingly leave with a woman named Mother, a human trafficker seeking to remake the world using trauma to mold children to her image. The hospital board chooses to cover this up, prompting Mario Hunt  to quit and go to Oliver for help. Chase goes to a reporter named Susan Williams for help. Susan feels sympathy for Chase since she is well aware of what happened to his brother, but they are confronted by the Ghosts' men. Chase violently beats the thugs to death and leaves the horrified Susan. Lance reveals to Oliver  that Mother is hiding out in the pier after speaking with Zytle. Chase attacks Mother and a man claiming to be the Ghost. Green Arrow  stops Chase, but then the Ghost's men arrive and attack the boat causing Chase to escape in the chaos. Mother accidentally gets killed by the Ghost.
 * 18) "Patriot Act"- Eiling starts to review how the Justice Society acquired the "Captain Nazi" serum during World War II and steals it from ARGUS so he can inject it into himself in order to "protect" the world from meta-humans. Oliver leads his team against Eiling after Amanda Waller informs him of what happened. Eiling almost kills Green Arrow until a civilian points out that Eiling's reason for attacking the heroes is non-existent, as his entire reason for the attack was to rid the world of meta-humans and he was the only one there with super powers. Eiling decides to leave the meta humans alone but vows to come back if they represent a threat to humanity. Detective Tina Boland tells Lance that the Green Arrow, and his team are a menace to Star City. Zytle meanwhile reunites with his biological father Elijah Van Dahl when visiting his mother's grave.
 * 19) "Lone Hunter"- Tina Boland tries to capture the Green Arrow. Oliver saves Tina from the Dragon's Claw gang after an undercover police officer is captured and convinces Tina  into believing that he is trying to help people. Meanwhile, the Ghost has Zytle  kidnapped as Zytle continues to bond with his father Elijah and step family. Zytle  escapes and confesses his criminal life to Elijah, who forgives him. Zytle begins to consider giving up his life of crime for a normal life. Elijah is told by the doctor that his heart is infected and he has little time to live. Upset that Zytle may receive what they perceive to be "their" inheritance, Elijah's wife Grace and her children Sasha and Charles poison a drink for Zytle  to ingest. However, Elijah drinks from the bottle and dies, after stating to Zytle his intentions of changing will be in favor of him.
 * 20) "Two-Faces"- When a friend of Oliver's  troubled past, Ethan Bennett (Andrew Stewart-Jones) returns, Oliver tries to help him from repeating mistakes and going back to jail. But when Ethan ends up helping a rival corporate executive steal a mutagen from a Queen Corp lab, he is betrayed and executed after doing so. Ethan then mutates into Hannibal Bates and decides to commit crimes disguised as Tommy Merlyn. John investigates Vernon Fields' death and learns that he had connections to H.I.V.E, who ordered his brother Andy killed because he was the leader of a drug cartel. Following the death of his father, Zytle  is bullied by his step-family. However, when he discovers evidence that they killed his father, his former self returns and he murders his step-family.
 * 21) "Kinship"- John gives Oliver  information that H.I.V.E murdered his brother Andy  because he was a criminal rival. Oliver and the team try to stop a bank robbery going on at the city bank and John discovers that Andy is still alive operating as a crime lord known as The Ghost. John refuses to see Andy  as anything more than a traitor, unworthy of saving. Andy uses pills to control a the homeless populations' minds. The team locates Andy and the rest of his crew and defeats them with help from Chase. Chase looks to move on from his past and accept the Vigilante mantle. Chase shoots Andy in the left side of his head before leaving, but Eddie  is able to save his life. John  confronts Andy  with the documents, which Andy confirms.