The Archer Of Star City (TV Series)

The Archer Of Star City  is an American live-action television series based on the DC Comics superhero Green Arrow, originally created by Mort Wessinger and George Papp. Developed by Dane Brenson in collaboration with Steven S. DeKnight and Andrew Kriesberg and featuring Brenson and David S. Goyer as show runners and head writers, the series serves as a reboot of the Green Arrow media franchise. It follows the adventures of billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, who, after witnessing his mother and father's murder at the hands of a mugger, returns to his beloved Starling City to wage a one-man war on crime, taking the identity of a hooded vigilante known as the Hood.

2009-2010

Main Cast Edit
Recurring
 * Mike Vogel as Oliver Queen / The Hood- 24/24
 * Jake Weber as Eddie Fyers
 * Omari Hardwick as John Diggle
 * Dorian Missick as Lucas Hilton
 * William Levy as Tommy Merlyn
 * Helena Mattsson as Dinah Lance
 * Chris Noth as Robert Queen (Flashbacks)
 * Alice Krige as Moira Queen (Flashbacks)
 * Joel Courtney as Young Oliver Queen (Flashbacks)
 * Wendell Pierce as Frederick Tuckman
 * Jim Caviezel as Malcolm Merlyn / The Dark Archer
 * Michael Dorn as the voice of Dark Archer
 * Cary Elwes as Walter Steele
 * Matthew Daddario as Roy Harper
 * Chloe Benett as Mia Dearden

Episodes Edit
Season 1 (2009-2010)
 * 1) "The Pilot"- Oliver returns to Starling City after spending many years away studying science and martial arts. Oliver returns home deciding to join the Starling City Police Department to be with Commissioner Lucas Hilton, the only cop he trusts from the force. Hilton rejects Oliver since he was good friends with him and not wanting him to get hurt. Hilton's associate Sergeant John Diggle hates Oliver since he dismisses him as a thrill-seeking idiot. Oliver reunites with his butler Eddie, cousin Mia, and tries to rekindle his romance with Dinah Lance. Unfortunately, Dinah refuses to speak with Oliver due to Oliver leaving her and has started working at the District Attorney's office with Tommy Merlyn, Oliver's friend who is now the DA of Starling. Oliver contemplates on whether or not he should leave Starling City. Before he can do anything, Eddie calls him to report that John called him over to Tuckman Chemicals. Arriving there, and noticing the green pool of hazardous chemicals, Oliver and Diggle, only to learn neither one called the other. The access hatch closes and locks and water rushes in. In flashbacks, at 2 A.M. Robert Queen sits in the underground portion of his study, slowly realizing that he is hearing strange noises. After making a brief call to the police, he picks up a handgun and goes to find a ransacked study. Making his way to the foyer, Robert encounters three masked men in Halloween masks. After a brief shootout, Robert manages to kill one of the thugs and scare the others away. Just as Robert believes everything will be fine, the thought to be killed intruder aims a gun at him.
 * 2) "Welcome Back, Oliver Queen"- Working together, Oliver and John find a tunnel 20 feet overhead and using acrobatics, Oliver gets himself and John to safety. Both agree that someone wants them dead. Nearby, a mysterious man (Jim Caviezel) is watching them. The next morning, Hilton calls and tells Oliver that Tuckman Consolidated Middle Manager Walter Steele discovered weekly shipments of hazardous waste. Oliver wants to meet, but Hilton tells him to stay. Oliver gets an idea, alarming Eddie. Later, Oliver arrives at Queen Shippings, , dressed in a green hood, with a bow and arrow and follows John, Hilton, and Billy Malone. Suddenly, the three encounter the bad guys. Oliver helps but stays out of sight the whole time.After defeating the last guy (by killing the man with an arrow), he and Eddie leave. Oliver and Eddie meet Hilton, learning that the chemicals were drugs and that the head bad guy hung himself. Later, Oliver goes to a surprise birthday party where Eddie, Mia, Hilton, and Walter are. Tuckman Consolidated CEO Fredrick Tuckman arrives and tells Oliver that their stock might take a beating if word gets out about the drugs. Tuckman gives Oliver a book, "Business for Beginners", and after he leaves, Oliver tells everyone that he has a lot to learn and he's staying in Starling which pleases Mia. In flashbacks, just as Robert is about to be killed, he is saved by Eddie. Frank Pike and his partner Amanda Wong arrive. Pike flirts with Lacey White the newscaster and is chastised by Wong for it. Pike and Wong meet with the Queen couple and their butler. Pike notes that Eddie is a sniper and Moira Queen is quite attractive. The detectives depart from the scene believing that the break-in has nothing to do with the recent art thefts that have been plaguing Starling.
 * 3) "Love American Style"- Oliver remembers seeing on the board that Hilton had in his office believing that Tuckman Consolidated is responsible for all the crime in Starling City. That makes Oliver decide to investigate Fredrick Tuckman by having Walter convince Tuckman to give him a job in the IT department where he meets Naomi Singh (Tania Raymonde). Unfortunately,Naomi  is disappointed since her best friend, who was illegally immigrating from Cuba, went missing which is why she asked her boyfriend Billy Malone to look into it. Oliver, showing sympathy for Naomi, decides to be a step ahead of Billy and investigate a salvage yard owner named Pete Leoncavallo and his mistress Susan McGuire. Oliver discovers that Pete and Susan have been murdering smuggled immigrants who cannot afford to pay for their freedom. Oliver frees the immigrants and sends the evidence he collects to Hilton which leads to their arrests. Mia and her friends break into the school swimming pool for a night of fun, but when a member of their group nearly drowns, the school threatens to expel the person responsible for the break-in. Eddie finds out that Mia is responsible and tries to get her to confess when it is causing tension between all her friends. Mia admits her mistakes which please Eddie. In flashbacks, while in Starling to meet with Pike regarding the break-in, Robert and Pike deal with s new vigilante called Balloon Man appears in Starling and kills a corrupt politician named Ronald Dancer as well as other corrupt officials such as Lt. Bill Scranton by tying them to weather balloons. Robert and Pike discover Balloon Man is social worker Davis Lamont, who wishes to clean Starling of its corruption. Pike gets taken hostage by him. Robert rescues him and Pike attempts to kill the Balloon Man the same his victims died only for Robert to intervene. Robert asks Davis who his next victim was, Davis tells him that it could be anyone since Starling is corrupt.
 * 4) "A Deadly Shot"- Oliver tracks down a corrupt millionaire named James Holder, who has been supplying defective fire alarms to people in the Glades, which resulted in numerous casualties. When Oliver confronts Holder with the intention of giving him a chance to right his wrongs, Holder is gunned down by Lawton, calling himself Dead Shot. Oliver decides to play the spoiled billionaire playboy routine in order to cover suspicion on him which disappoints Dinah. With assistance from his contact in the Bratva, Oliver deduces that Lawton is Dead Shot and that he was assigned to kill businessmen, including Tuckman at an auction. As the Hood, Oliver enlists the help of Hilton to prevent Lawton's plan while providing him with evidence that Gotham City businessman John Deleon, who is at the auction to bid for control over Candidacy Industries, contracted Lawton. Hilton then has Deleon arrested. Oliver stops Lawton, apparently killing him. However, Diggle is shot during the fight after saving Fredrick  Tuckman from being gunned down by the assassin. In order to save Diggle's life, Oliver is forced to reveal his dual identity to him. In flashbacks, Robert asks Eddie for the condition of Nigel the gate guard for Queen Manor, who was knocked unconscious during the attack on Queen Manor and hospitalized. Robert brings up the possibility that Nigel was involved in the attack which angers Eddie due to his previous association with Nigel. Robert later discusses the event with his son Oliver, who has a growing anger with injustice and believes that the solutions to the problems in the world are math and science which Oliver prefers over literature at school. Before Oliver leaves, he asks to take boxing lessons from Eddie which Moira  rejects. Moira brings up the possibility that the robbery was an inside job, which grants Robert an idea.
 * 5) "Father's Day"- Oliver offers John a chance to fight at his side and help the city, which the latter refuses. A new drug has been released into the streets of Starling called Viper which endows their user with superhuman strength but makes them unstable and out of control. One of the users is a man named Carl Linker, a convicted rapist who would abuse his daughter Jodie and wife Joanne. Carl kills his wife only for Jodie to escape through the window and go into hiding with two prostitutes named Fever and Louise. Carl tracks his daughter down where he kills Louise and before he could kill Fever to get to Jodie, they are both rescued by Oliver as the vigilante. Dinah gets involved since she prosecuted Carl while Fever is detained by Diggle for having illicit substances in her apartment. Dinah gives Fever legal protection in exchange for her help in finding Jodie and Oliver concerned for her safety after learning about this which is why he follows them. Dinah goes to the chemical plant where Carl takes Jodie when pursuing them. Carl attempts to kill her only for Oliver as The Hood to arrive and break his neck in front of his daughter. Carl's corpse falls and is run over by the vengeful Fever. Jodie, misunderstanding everything, blames Fever for what happened when Dinah saw the whole thing. After taking Jodie into the custody of her grandparents and giving her access to support services, Dinah tells her father what she saw and that the vigilante is a monster. Mia begins her first day at a high school and meets some new students, one of them, a popular student council president named Tim Otis, gives her an illicit substance with a fear toxin that causes her to hallucinate. John meets with a woman named Lyla Michaels, who is an agent of CADMUS, to discuss Oliver and Michaels tells John that the FBI has a file on Oliver due to having been away from the country for years. Back at the SCPD on that same afternoon, Frank and Amanda get to the Forensics Department to find some more answers about the man that was killed by Eddie Feyers. Temple Fugate quickly explains the background of the intruder after a quick clock game relating to the man's name. The intruder Byron Stone had been a former inmate of Blackgate Penitentiary after being released only two weeks prior. Frank quickly remembers the time he was arrested, and how Stone had worked as a freelancer for just about every faction around, Sal Maroni and Adam Hunt included.
 * 6) "Stormy Seas"- Judge Baden wishes to sentence Mia  to a long period of time in prison feeling that being tough on the new wave of drugs is best to reduce people taking them. Oliver decides to get involved hoping that Judge Baden will go easy on Mia. There is a news report on Tim being dead when trying to rip his eyes out after taking ecstasy only for him to die, saddening his parents Steve and Andrea Otis. This prompts Oliver to act after learning from Eddie that Tim went to Mia's school before he died and Mia admits to getting the drugs from Tim. Dinah, showing sympathy for Mia despite the fact that she dislikes Oliver, asks her father, Mayor Larry Lance, to use his political influence to get Mia to do community service. Oliver and Eddie work together to discover that Tobias Whale is smuggling the drugs in by ship. Oliver intervenes as the Hood only to be captured and almost unmasked by Whale only for Oliver to activate a sonic arrow. Oliver takes out the thugs only for Whale to escape when Eddie starts firing at the ship while in the submarine. Whale is able to escape and meets Tuckman, who is upset that this has happened and orders Whale to be locked in a freezer. Whale then pleads for Tuckman to not do this when dragged away by his thugs. John meets with Oliver and Eddie agreeing to work with them to protect Starling due to knowing that the legal system doesn't always work. In flashbacks, Robert recruits the services of Lucas Hilton, a former SCPD detective turned private investigator, who had been kept on a retainer by Robert for the past 10 years as a way of helping keep Anthony Ivo and his machinations in check. Robert remembers the awkward years where he allowed Ivo to operate unchecked, followed by the years after, where he funded the various victims of Ivo's experiments who over time either died of sickness and natural causes or just gradually disappeared. Hilton points out that Robert  should check up on Karen Jennings, the only living survivor of Pinewood Farms. Robert agrees and after a brief discussion about the break-in, he heads home. But after a series of attempts to contact Karen on the phone fails, he breaks off and heads toward her hideout instead.
 * 7) "Mister Freeze"- Oliver prepares to target one of Tuckman's criminal operations, but John and Eddie argue that Oliver should expand his work by helping the police when they investigate a kidnapping and murder spree, unaware that a scientist named Victor Fries and his colleague Ferris Boyle are the culprits. Fries has been killing people to see if they're organs are a perfect match for a woman he is obsessed with reviving named Nora Fields (Keira Knightley). Boyle determines that Nora needs an organ transplant, but due to her rare blood type there are no suitable donors available. Fries declares that they will use live donor, even if it means the donor will die in the process. Boyle is at first reluctant to kill an innocent girl, but Fries offers Boyle more money that will put an end to his financial problems. Dinah Lance is a perfect match, and Fries learns from her father Larry that Dinah is on a date with Tommy. Fries then attacks the restaurant and kidnaps Dinah, taking her to an abandoned oil rig where he and Boyle are. Oliver tries to rescue Dinah only to get injured and sent to the hospital. In flashbacks, Robert and Hilton locate Karen Jennings, a former Blackgate inmate on whom experiments were performed at Pinewood Farms, a Queen Enterprises facility, by Anthony Ivo. Robert decides to take her out of the country only for Ivo to send Fries to kill her. Jennings sacrifices herself to save Robert, whom she has come to view as a father and Robert swears revenge on Ivo and the man who killed her.
 * 8) "A Dead Man Feels No Cold"- Upon learning that Nora is still at Tuckman Consolidated, Victor Fries builds an armored suit. Fries arrives at the asylum and, after fighting through security and the police, manages to escape with Nora. Elsewhere, Oliver tries to find clues to where Dinah might be by searching Fries' house. Officer Roy Harper appears and asks Oliver what he is doing, and after a fist fight until John arrives to break it up and lies to Roy that Oliver came looking for him so that they can play basketball together. Despite this, Roy gets suspicious. Oliver deduces that Fries is at the oil rig and goes there to save Dinah. Fries and Boyle explain the situation to Dinah, who claims that she is willing to help Nora for the "blood transfusion", but not at the oil rig, prompting Fries to keep Dinah chained to a bed. When the time for the operation comes, Dinah realizes that they are lying when they say she will need to be put under for a mere transfusion. She escapes with the help of Koontz. Boyle gives pursuit and almost catches her, before Oliver arrives as The Hood. Fries arrives, and in the ensuing confrontation, Boyle accidentally shoots one of the fuel tanks and starts a rapidly spreading fire as Fries traps Oliver. Fries insists that Boyle perform the operation, despite the oil rig blazing and ready to explode, but Boyle betrays Fries and attempts to escape, only to be killed by falling wreckage. Oliver, John, and Dinah work together to save Nora and Koontz. Unfortunately, Fries is killed in the explosion despite Oliver's efforts to save him after he and Dinah take the other two to his boat. Oliver feels that he hasn't seen the last of Victor Fries and convinces Tuckman to revive Nora with an organ transplant operation funded by the company. In the end, Fries is pleased with this while in hiding at the Arctic and Dinah promises John that she will keep his alliance with the vigilante a secret.
 * 9) "The End Of The Year"- The Dark Archer attacks and hospitalizes Tuckman, injecting him with a tuberculosis vaccine developed by Roland Dagger, a corrupt pharmaceutical manufacturer. Oliver investigates Dagger and discovers that he is financing a TB epidemic, then raised the price on his drug to boost his company's profits. But Dagger then gets killed by The Dark Archer upon Oliver trying to kill him. Investigating Dark Archer on his own, Roy sends information he discovers to John just before the villain captures him. The information turns out to be a project that was thought to be extinct. Oliver deduces that Roy is at Dagger's former office building and goes there alone. Dark Archer' experience and weaponry (including cross bow arrows) prove too much for Oliver, who is left bloodied, broken, and forced to flee before he is killed. Upon returning to Queen Manor, Queen angrily admits that his best was not enough, and that perhaps the only way to confront a killer like the Dark Archer is by killing them. Queen retrieves the arrow that was used to kill his parents and begins to prepare for the coming battle. Dark Archer allows Roy to leave and is revealed to be the mysterious man who watched Oliver eand John survive the incident at Ace Chemicals. In the meantime, to get everyone back to the holiday spirit, Oliver decides to throw a Christmas party in Queen Manor. In flashbacks, Hilton questions Ivo about his activities while Ivo is running a few tests on an inmate named Werner Zytle (Robin Lord Taylor). Ivo declares him sane and releases him from Arkham, all the while stating that he still has "deeper plans" for him. Zytle visits his mother Gertrude's grave, meeting his father Elijah Van Dahlia, who had an affair with Gertrude when she served his wealthy family, who forcefully separated the pair. Dahlia welcomes Zytle into his family, with his wife Grace Van Dahlia and her children Charles, as well as Sasha, despising Zytle.
 * 10) "Call Of The Zytle"- Tobias Whale is released from his icy prison and swears revenge on Tuckman which is why he goes to Werner Zytle, owner of the Iceberg Lounge and the criminal known as the Count Vertigoto explain a secret that Tuckman has. Zytle then kidnaps a young girl named Olivia who comes from a family of bakers and Tuckman tries to rescue Olivia since Olivia is his daughter after Zytle tries to get Tuckman to sign over his businesses over to him. Meanwhile, Mia is horrified by her friend's boyfriend is slut shaming her to the rest to the school and when he refuses to stop, she and her friends try to find evidence linking him and his friends to the shaming. Oliver tries to rescue Olivia only to fail and is found in a dumpster by Dr. Felicity Smoak. Felicity takes Oliver to her apartment, tends to his injuries, and removes his hood,  discovering his true identity. Oliver anticipates that Zytle is searching the apartment building, giving Felicity time to hide Oliver and convince the man that he knows nothing. Oliver realizes that Zytle distrusts Felicity and overpowers him as The Hood, taking him to the roof. Oliver and Felicity torture Zytle into revealing Olivia's location before Oliver pushes Zytle into a dumpster, breaking his legs. Oliver as The Knight, enters the building where Olivia is being kept and kills the guards to rescue Olivia. With help from Eddie, Mia finds evidence and uses it to get her friend's boyfriend and those involved removed from the football team. In flashbacks, Werner reveals his criminal past to Dahlia, who forgives him. Dahlia learns from his physician that he has little time to live. After several failed attempts to expel Werner and claim Dahlia's fortune, his wife Grace and her children Sasha and Charles poison a drink for Werner to ingest. However, Dahlia drinks from the bottle and dies, after stating to Werner his intentions of changing his will in favor of him.
 * 11) "In The Clot"-
 * 12) "Childish Things"-
 * 13) "Rehabilitation"-
 * 14) "Back From The Deadshot"-
 * 15) "Spirit Of The Goat"-
 * 16) "Grundy's Night"-
 * 17) "Inmates"-
 * 18) "The Damage That A Man Can Do"-
 * 19) "Malice Part One"-
 * 20) "Malice Part Two"-
 * 21) "Speed"-
 * 22) "Shado"-
 * 23) "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"-
 * 24) "Jail For Life"-