The Emerald Archer Season Three

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

Created by Vince Gilligan and David S. Goyer

2012-2013

Cast Recurring Episodes
 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / The Arrow / Al-Sahim- 21/21
 * Katie Holmes as Laurel Lance / Black Canary- 4/21
 * Derek Luke as John Diggle / Spartan - 21/21
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Queen
 * Jason Issacs as Eddie Feyers
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak
 * Chris Wood as Roy Harper / Speedy- 5/21
 * Paul Johnason as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer
 * 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- 2/21
 * Matt Nable as Ra's Al Ghul- 7/21
 * Katrina Law as Nyssa Raatko / Nyssa Al Ghul- 5/21
 * Rachel Skarsten as Talia Al Ghul- 1/21
 * Nicholas Hoult as Barry Allen / The Flash- 1/21
 * 1) "The Calm"- The newly appointed Captain Haywood assembles a task force against The Arrow for being a vigilante. Elsewhere, Rupert Thorne, who has returned to Starling, attempts to kill The Arrow in a bid to raise his profile. After losing the first battle, Oliver and John  are able to stop Thorne, along with some help from Laurel as Black Canary. It is also revealed that Mallory Haywood only became captain after blackmailing Mayor Hamilton Hill into promoting her with evidence of his corruption. Meanwhile, businessman Jim Mason successfully acquires Thorne Consolidated under a plan of rebuilding Starling City, and giving it the name of "Star City". Oliver and Felicity go on a first date, but Oliver ends it explaining how he cannot be both The Arrow and Oliver Queen, although he acknowledges loving her. Laurel is shot in the chest with arrows by an unseen figure before falling from a rooftop to her death. Tommy  is stranded on a deserted island, with the world believing him to be dead. At the mansion, Jim accuses Bethany, revealed to be alive, of killing Tommy.
 * 2) "Laurel"- Eddie takes Laurel's body to the team. John alerts Oliver to another archer in the city killing people. Oliver  follows a lead and is able to identify the archer as Simon Lacroix. The team learns of Lacroix's next target and intercepts him. The team begins to suspect that Lacroix killed Laurel, but Lacroix reveals that he was not present in Starling  at the time of her death. The team buries Laurel; and they decide not to tell Lance  that she is dead. Felicity decides to work for Jim. Tommy returns home to the shock of Bethany. He quickly learns that Bethany attempted to kill him, and takes measures to ensure that doesn't happen again.
 * 3) "Identity"- Roy fails to stop a truck robbery committed by Hideo Katsu, who has revealed to have been alive when Oliver was known as The Hood since their last confrontation. When The Arrow attempts to convince Roy  to stop being a vigilante, the former discovers that medicine being sent to Leslie Thompkins' clinic in the Glades is being stolen. Oliver sets a trap for Hideo Katsu, who escapes having his clawed henchman Ben Turner fight him; the police arrive and the two escape. Meanwhile, John poses as The Arrow when breaking into Laurel's apartment to find clues to who may have killed her. However, John is forced to escape when he is discovered by Captain Haywood, who mistakenly believes the vigilante is connected to Laurel's disappearance. Oliver manages to stop Hideo Katsu and Ben Turner when they try to perform another robbery. Leslie Thompkins reveals to Oliver that when Mia was born, Robert  asked her to do a DNA test on Mia  to see if she was his daughter. Robert did know that Mia wasn't his daughter, but despite that, he still loved her as if she were his own. John meets with a woman named Tina Boland, someone that Laurel was suppose to meet at the night of her murder. John protects Tina  from her abusive boyfriend.
 * 4) "Fly-fishing"- Oliver goes looking for Mia at the monastery in the Himalayas where he meets Talia Al Ghul, (Rachel Skarsten). Talia reveals that Mia  has left the monastery after meeting with Malcolm Merlyn, whom she now knows is her biological father. Meanwhile, Lance  tries to identify a body, which John recognizes as that of the drug dealer Fish's girlfriend, Jenny Paige (Candace King). Realizing that the Fish may have killed her, John assumes the Fish is still in town and races to find him for revenge on causing a cop in Narcotics to die from one of his drugs. Flashbacks show John's time in Narcotics with Mallory Haywood and Detective Briggs. Haywood developed a personal vendetta towards John for allowing Briggs to be consumed by an addiction from Fish's drugs which resulted in the officer in question shooting a man, paralyzing him from the waist down and then shooting himself in the head. John decides that Fish might never be convicted which is why he and Eddie take Fish to the docks and murder him. Oliver later on goes to Bhutan looking for Malcolm  and gets himself thrown into a prison for theft.
 * 5) "Survival of The Fittest"- While serving time in prison for theft and after being sent to solitary for attacking several prisoners in self defense, Oliver meets Nyssa Al Ghul (Katrina Law), who invites him to join the League of Assassins in exchange for his release from prison. Meanwhile back in Starling, John is upset when he realizes that he may be partially responsible for Fish's skinned doorman, Marc Owens, (Chris Warren). Oliver  goes on a trip searching for a blue poppy in order to gain entry into the League of Assassins while being alone for the first time. Oliver finds himself unprepared for the many dangers that await him, but ends up finding a poppy in the end. Felicity  suggests to John that police officer Dorian Chase might be responsible for killing Marc Owens due to a grudge that he has on him for being released on a case he worked on. While tailing Dorian, John observes him attack a man and shove him in the trunk of his car. He calls Lance and the two of them watch Dorian torture one of Fish's former hemp suppliers. They see Dorian release the man, proving his is not the one responsible for the murders. Lance  then arrests Dorian only for his brother Adrian Chase to call in a favor to have his brother released. Oliver finally meets Ra's Al Ghul (Matt Noble) and presents the blue poppy to Nyssa. Felicity continues to work for Jim.
 * 6) "Vigilante"- A new vigilante appears in Starling City, one who kills criminals in cold blood. Oliver wonders if he should just leave the League of Assassins and continue looking for Mia, however Nyssa refuses to let him leave. Becoming a vigilante known as Spartan , John intercepts the Vigilante during a bank robbery, but he gets away, so does the head of the robbers. Tommy Merlyn  forces one of the robbers to reveal the leader's location and Spartan saves him from the Vigilante. Oliver and Nyssa continue to grow closer as they train. John poses as a bank robber to lure out the Vigilante, who again escapes even after John defeats and nearly unmasks him. Oliver  and Nyssa both work together when they try to stop rouge League of Assassins member Kyodoi Ken, who is using his teachings for darkness.
 * 7) "Brave and The Bold"- While training with Ra's Al Ghul, Oliver begins torturing Kyodoi Ken to effectively get information. John, Eddie, and Felicity track down the home of Digger Harkness, the boomerang-wielding murderer, but they only find A.R.G.U.S operatives looking for the same man. Barry Allen arrives in Starling City to help Felicity investigate Laurel's death. Digger attempts to kill John's ex-wife Lila Michaels; however Spartan and The Flash arrive to stop him. Later, Lila reveals that Digger was part of the Suicide Squad. John's extreme interrogation methods lead Barry to question how emotionally stable John is. Digger traces Oliver's  hideout, where he wounds Lila before escaping. In order to leave town, Digger plants 5 bombs around the city. While John captures Digger, Barry uses both him, Felicity, and Eddie to defuse the bombs at the same time. Digger is sent to an A.R.G.U.S prison.
 * 8) "Savage"- Professor Harrison Wells  of S.T.A.R Labs sends Felicity the DNA results of who might have murdered Laurel Lance, and it appears to be Oliver's DNA.  Realizing something is not right, John begins to suspect that Mia may have killed Laurel. Oliver learns from torturing Kyodoi that Kyodoi is associated with a warlord named Vandal Savage. Against Ra's' orders, Oliver  travels to North Africa to stop Vandal Savage (Casper Crump). Realizing that Savage is much tougher than he expected, Oliver  seeks help from Lana Lang, who is now a vigilante known as the Angel of Plateau, to stop him. Roy, learning that Mia could still be in Starling  gets an offer from Captain Haywood to use as bait to capture the Skinner in exchange for her help in finding Mia.
 * 9) "Al-Sah Him"- Ra's prepares to grant Oliver Queen membership into the League of Assassins for taking down Vandal Savage and Kyodoi Ken. Ra's recounts his time in a tribe of nomads in a desert somewhere in Arabia, near a city whose inhabitants' ancestors had journeyed to the Arabian Peninsula from China. Developing an interest in the sciences at an early age, Ra's abandoned his tribe to live in the city where he pursued life as a researcher. He subsequently became a physician and married a woman named Sora. However, Sora was killed by a prince whom Ra's had cured upon discovering the Lazarus Pit and Ra's was given blame for her death by the sultan. Ra's eventually managed to get his revenge on the Sultan and then went on to found the League of Assassins. After completing his training and purging his fears, Oliver learns that the League intends to destroy Starling, believing it to be corrupt and beyond saving. Oliver rejects the League's cause and burns down their temple during his escape. Ra's is killed by falling debris, while Oliver saves the unconscious Nyssa. John discovers that The Skinner is a tree-trimmer named Victor Zassz and Lance  discovers that John never had Roy registered as an informant.
 * 10) "Corto Maltese"- Oliver returns to Starling and learns from Felicity that Mia might have murdered Laurel, which is why Oliver decides to bring Mia  home. Felicity tracks Mia to Corto Maltese. Mia initially refuses to return. While he waits to convince her, Oliver assists Lila  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. Oliver and Lila manage to stop him, who convinces Lila  to tell Director Amanda Waller that he is dead. After a last minute plea and revealing how Robert  was aware that Mia wasn't his biological daughter but still loved her as if she were his own, Mia agrees to return, which Malcolm  allows. John realizes that Roy has been kidnapped by The Skinner, whom the police believe to be Victor Zassz (Jesse Borrego)). Unfortunately, the only witness, Zassz's employee Marcus ( Donald Glover), is too afraid to talk to the police.
 * 11) "Dodger"- Oliver  learns of a jewel thief named "Dodger", who uses hostages tagged with bomb collars. Felicity suggests that Oliver  bug the phone of Captain Mallory Haywood, an old friend of Oliver's, to gain information on the Dodger. She also convinces Oliver  to ask Haywood out on a date so that he can have some down time. Through the wire tap, Oliver is able to determine the Dodger's next location, but is stunned by a bomb thrown by the thief, who gets away. To draw out the Dodger, Oliver  donates antique jewels to an auction. It works; but when Felicity  confronts the thief, he places a collar on her to ensure his getaway. Oliver as The Arrow  manages to stop the Dodger and deactivate the collar. John visits Rupert Thorne at prison and discovers that Thorne is still managing his criminal enterprises while behind bars. Thorne was the one who ordered Victor Zassz to start killing people in order to find the drug dealer Fish, who owes Thorne money. However, Thorne is unaware that Fish is actually dead because of John. Oliver  gets abducted later on while leaving Thorne Consolidated.
 * 12) "Suicidal Tendencies"- Oliver,  while in the trunk of the car, manages to free his hands of the tape when the car comes to a stop and prepares to fight his way out. The trunk opens and Oliver swings and hits Felicity, squarely in the eye. As it turned out, Oliver  was only abducted by his coworkers to celebrate the fact that Oliver  is employee of the month at Thorne Consolidated. Waller recruits John and Lila or a Suicide Squad mission to rescue Senator Evan Morgan  from a kidnapping. The kidnapping turns out to be a ruse by Morgan , to help his bid for President. The team rescues the hostages, but Lawton seemingly sacrifices himself so everyone can get out safely. He is announced responsible for the kidnapping, and Morgan's involvement is covered up. The police issue a warrant for The Arrow. Oliver discovers that someone is impersonating him when it was actually assassins sent by Nyssa. In his A.T.O.M suit, Ray locates The Arrow and uses facial scans on him. Lance 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 set up. Ray  later visits Tommy Merlyn, Lance,  Jim, Haywood, and Mayor Hill to convince them that The Arrow is being framed. However, an assassin dressed as The Arrow kills Hill and aims his bow and arrow at Felicity.
 * 13) "Survivor Syndrome"- Jim takes the arrow for Felicity. Haywood issues an arrest warrant for The Arrow, with shoot to kill orders in effect. Ra's kidnaps Haywood and reveals The Arrow's  identity, which is why Haywood visits Rupert Thorne with an offer that he cannot refuse. Oliver and Ray later on work together to locate a missing Olympic athlete named Tom Dalton. Eddie  wants John to help, but John wants to bring down Victor Zassz and Rupert Thorne. As it turns out, Dalton is actually impersonating The Arrow  since he wants to takeout the gangster Pete Galavant, who shot his fiance a long time ago when he was at war with the Bertinelli Crime Family. Oliver  manages to save Galavant, but Dalton dies and the police start to suspect he was The Arrow. Meanwhile, Jim is revealed to have developed a deadly thrombus that has no known cure. Ray reveals to have nanobots that can destroy the clot. Felicity  injects them and saves him by the help of Leslie Thompkins.
 * 14) "Night Fall"- Eddie, Ray, John, and Felicity  plants evidence to steer Haywood and Lance's  investigation away from Oliver. Meanwhile, Rupert Thorne, is unexpectedly released on parole, and Oliver plots to bring him down once and for all. Oliver enlists Ray's help to stop a meta-human killer named Jake Simmons. After a failed first attempt, Oliver and Ray sync their movements through a neural network, but when the network malfunctions during the battle, The Atom  defeats Simmons himself, and places him under S.T.A.R. Labs' custody. Oliver  attempts to kill Thorne after realizing that he would never be convicted, but discovers that he is being set up by Haywood, who pulled strings to have Thorne released from prison in hopes that Oliver will go after him. Oliver  reluctantly lets Thorne go so he can escape but Haywood deduces what was about to happen when she sees the killing room.
 * 15) "The Damage A Person Can Do"- Haywood has Oliver  arrested for killing Rupert Thorne, who is in fact still alive, but is forced to let him go when forensics provides evidence proving Oliver is innocent. This turn of events only strengthens Haywood's resolve to arrest Oliver, even as her career teeters on ruin. Meanwhile, Thorne orders Victor Zassz to interrogate John to see what he knows so far and to then kill him. Zassz intends to torture and skin John or information, but instead John effectively strips him of his control (by revealing the truth that Fish is long dead), then breaks free. In a brutal fist-fight, John breaks Zassz's neck, killing him. Oliver  arrives to save John only for John to drop Zsasz's body in front of his car. Malcolm, who has returned to Starling , is stunned at Tommy's reaction after Jim reveals that he is a clone of Murray Merlyn. Later when Jim and Malcolm  are just finishing a long and enjoyable steak dinner, they get mugged and Jim gets murdered by an assassin hired by Tommy.
 * 16) "Never Fear"- Jonathan Crane invents a new toxin that can make people overcome their worst fears. Oliver meanwhile tries to keep Roy off the streets as a vigilante, Malcolm informs him he'll have to eventually tell Mia the truth about his activities. Oliver reveals the truth to Mia, who accepts and praises him for the work he has been doing as The Arrow. Roy tracks down Crane and takes him on alone, only to be affected by his fear toxin making him not afraid to take a life. Oliver tries to stop Roy before he could kill again. Oliver realizes that his team does not fight for him anymore, but for the city. The Arrow and Speedy successfully capture Crane together. On Malcolm's advice, Oliver takes Mia to an island called Lian Yu for training. Meanwhile, Tommy seeks a psychologist to help him with his ordeal.
 * 17) "The Return of Death Stroke"- While on Lian Yu, Oliver begins Mia's training. He goes to the A.R.G.U.S prison to visit Grant Wilson, but discovers that the guard is dead and Grant is missing. Oliver warns Mia and they find out that Malcolm had Grant freed as part of their training. Grant 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 she killed Laurel. Grant arrives and engages them. Oliver dissuades Mia from killing Grant, who gets imprisoned back in the cell. The duo returns to Starling City, where Mia confronts Malcolm for forcing her to kill Laurel. Mia decides to work with him to fight Tommy , but denounces their personal relationship. Still getting used to his ordeal, Tommy starts to have meetings with Rupert Thorne, who was one who arranged for Jim to be murdered on his own behalf.
 * 18) "Double Trouble"- Oliver and Mia continue their training with Malcolm. Mia confesses the whole truth to Eddie, who instead blames Malcolm. Tommy gets kidnapped by a new gang of criminals known as the Spades, who decides to have him hostage for Lance's capture. The city goes into chaos when the police and others want to capture Lance and free their DA. As it turned out, Malcolm was the one who hired the Spades to get revenge on Tommy for killing Jim. Malcolm makes sure no one would interfere by releasing a group of vicious dogs brainwashed to kill Oliver and his team. Oliver must now find a way to stop the dogs and the ongoing outcry while getting help from Eddie, John, Roy, and Felicity. Ray tests the flight capabilities of his upgraded version of the A.T.O.M exo-suit. Tommy ends up having half of his face damaged in an explosion.
 * 19) "The Fallen"- Tommy  is taken to hospital due to the injuries he obtained from the explosion. Ra's Al Ghul contacts Oliver to let him know that if he accepts his offer, he will be able to use the Lazarus Pit to revive Laurel. Malcolm warns against this, stating that the pit changes a person in their soul, but Oliver decides to take her to Bhutan regardless. Laurel is dipped into the pit and returns healed but in a state of confusion, and her memories jumbled. Felicity makes love with Oliver before drugging him so the team can sneak him out of the fortress, which is aided by Nyssa. 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. Laurel 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 Sah-him until he is ready to take over as the new Ra's.
 * 20) "This Is Your Sword"- John and Laurel patrol Starling City, taking on any criminals they find. Mia finds Roy and reunites with him. Oliver  learns that Hugo Strange (B.D Wong), a man that he had encountered before in his youth, gave Ra's the Omega Virus. Sneaking away from the castle, Oliver, revealed to have been in league with Malcolm 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 about Ra's plan. Malcolm convinces the team that he is telling the truth with a recording of his conversation with Oliver. Eddie, Laurel, Ray, Felicity, and Malcolm go to Bhutan where they face off against the League.  However, 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 Eddie, to the virus before sealing them away in a cell. Afterward, Oliver and Nyssa get married.
 * 21) "My Name Is Oliver Queen"- While Ra's and Oliver  head toward Starling City, the team wakes in the dungeon. Malcolm  informs them that he secretly gave them the vaccine. A Kryptonian hero  called Superboy (Dylan Sprayberry), who has been sent by Oliver , arrives and frees them. Oliver  and Nyssa attack Ra's and the other Assassins. Ra's escapes with a canister of the virus, vowing to destroy Starling City. Ra's reveals to have four targets. Felicity locates them, and Oliver organizes the team, along with John and the police, to those locations, with Roy arriving to help. Oliver  duels Ra's, as the team successfully stops the attack and minimizes the casualties. Oliver  defeats Ra's before being saved from the police by Felicity in the A.T.O.M suit. Afterward, 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 also has Ra's sent to Arkham Asylum by making it look like he is suffering from mental health. Oliver cedes the title of Ra's to Malcolm , to whom Nyssa kneels, but promises vengeance. Ray gets killed in an explosion while testing his A.T.O.M suit.