The Emerald Archer Season Four

The Emerald Archer Season Four is the fourth season of The Emerald Archer. It deals with Oliver Queen finally becoming the Green Arrow, and stopping a new vigilante and a group of members of the Bratva.

Created by Vince Gillian and David S. Goyer

2013-2014

Cast Recurring
 * Charlie Hunnam as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow- 21/21
 * Katie Holmes as Laurel Lance / Black Canary- 21/21
 * Derek Luke as John Diggle / Spartan
 * Emma Roberts as Mia Queen / Arsenal
 * Shantel Yvonne VanSanten as Felicity Smoak
 * Jason Issacs as Eddie Feyers
 * Paul Johnason as Malcolm Merlyn / Ra's Al Ghul
 * Bryan Cranston as Captain Quentin Lance
 * Ray Stevenson as Anatoli Knyazev- 13/21 (Final Season)
 * Robert Buckley as Tommy Merlyn- 1/21
 * Robert  Pattinson as Adrian Chase / The Vigilante- 16/21
 * Ben Mckenzie as Young Quentin Lance
 * Nicole Beharie as Katia
 * Katrina Law as Nyssa Raatko / Nyssa Al Ghul- 3/21
 * Echo Kellum as Michael Holt-
 * Kristen Bell as Carrie Cutter / Cupid- 1/21
 * Sam Witwer as Constantine Drakon- 2/21
 * Darren Criss as Music Meister- 1/21
 * Mark Valley as Christopher Chance / Human Target- 1/21

Season 4 (2013-2014)
Episodes
 * 1) "Green Arrow"- John, Mia, and Laurel continue fighting crime in Starling City (Now renamed Star City) while Felicity  is busy running Thorne Consolidated, who has acquired Palmer Enterprises from Ray Palmer, who apparently died in an explosion. Detective Sam Evans  is murdered by a member of the Ukrainian mafia after finding a dead prostitute in his trunk. Laurel, Eddie, and Mia convince Oliver , who was trying to propose to Felicity , to return and help them investigate Evans' death. Oliver realizes that Felicity has been helping the team. Oliver  identifies the murderer as Luka Volk, a member of the Bratva. Laurel kills Volk and Oliver has Laurel removed from the team after noticing how murderous she has become. Afterward, taking the name "Green Arrow", Oliver  broadcasts a message vowing to be a beacon of hope and never to kill. Meanwhile, Anatoli Knyazev (Ray Stevenson), second in command of the Bratva , learns that Volk is dead and decides to go to Star City  to find out who killed him. As Timothy Munroe, the police officer whom Anatoli spoke to, is leaving the police station for the night, he gets killed by the Vigilante.
 * 2) "Inclination"- Tommy confronts Malcolm and then throws him out the Merlyn Global Group window to his death. After killing Malcolm, Tommy  begins to have hallucinations of his younger self who is angered at Tommy  for murdering his father. John and Felicity discover that Malcolm was murdered. Oliver confronts Tommy  at his mansion, informing him that he has proof Tommy  killed his father. Tommy begins to hold a number of hostages in his mansion and announces that he will let them live only if Oliver  shows up with the evidence against him. Oliver manages to get close to Tommy by speaking to his good side and stops Tommy's rampage by seizing his coin, leaving him indecisive. Following Tommy's arrest, Oliver vows to have him obtain help for his condition. Because of Tommy's  arrest, Adrian Chase is now the acting district attorney of Star City. Meanwhile, Anatoli arrives in Star City  to review the autopsy report on Luka Volk's death and wrongly concludes that Green Arrow  killed him. John gets friendly with a Russian stripper named Katia.
 * 3) "House of Cards"- Laurel and Mia arrive to Bhutan and request Nyssa to help Laurel with her violent urges. However, Malcolm, who is still alive and leading the League as the new Ra's Al Ghul, refuses and tells Laurel  that she needs to kill some people once in a while to suppress the lust. Nyssa destroys the Lazarus Pit in retaliation, and Malcolm has her imprisoned. Wanting revenge on Green Arrow for murdering Volk, Anatoli brings in a Meta-Human named Jeremy Tell, who can turn his playing card tattoos into physical projectiles. After Tells' initial failure, Anatoli convinces the club's bartender to be a scapegoat for Evans'  murder to the get the police away from the Bratva. Felicity reveals to her assistant Michael Holt  that she is aiding Green Arrow. John and Green Arrow  team up to take down Tell, who refuses to confess who hired him out of fearing Anatoli more. He is imprisoned in Blackgate Penitentiary. While on patrol, Mia gets ambushed by a new villain called the Music Meister (Darren Criss), who makes Mia wake up in a hallucination where she is a high school singer.
 * 4) "Mayhem of The Music Meister"- The Music Meister attacks and places Oliver  in a similar coma. He wakes up in a musical world and finds Mia. Meister tells them that if they follow the script, they will return to the real world. Oliver and Mia are singers in a school with Malcolm Merlyn as the principal, John is a gang leader, Laurel is a cheerleader, and Lance  is another gang leader opposing John. Oliver and Mia find Lance's son Roy  and John's sister in a forbidden relationship. Oliver and Mia  convince the pair to reveal their love. John and Lance  then decide to go to war in the school which puts the student body in danger. Oliver and Mia  are killed in the crossfire, however they wake up after admitting they care for one another. They wake up in the hideout and Meister reveals he just wanted them to realize their love for one another since Oliver has been spending more time as a vigilante and being with Felicity.  The songs sang were: "We Got The Beat" (Glee), "Total Eclipse of The Heart" (Glee), "Ready Aim Fire" (Imagine Dragons), "Power" (Kanye West), and others.
 * 5) "Arrow  In The Belfry"- A gang of criminals rob a Star City mob bank, double crossing and murdering each other until there is only one left: the mysterious Drakon. Drakon proposes to murder Green Arrow for the Bratva in exchange for half their funds, but the mob refuses since they trust Lau more. Meanwhile, Oliver and Felicity  learn that Lau wants to do business with the recently renamed Palmer Enterprises, however they both work together to go to Hong Kong to kidnap Lau when he escapes the law's jurisdiction. Adrian Chase and Laurel Lance  both make a deal with Lau to testify against the other mob bosses which makes them as well as Anatoli hire Drakon. Oliver as the Green Arrow  fails to stop Drakon  from killing police Captain Mallory Haywood and a judge presiding over the trial. At Haywood's funeral, Drakon  attempts to kill the mayor, but Lance  makes the ultimate sacrifice which upsets Laurel.
 * 6) "Mad City"- Oliver  learns a group of vigilantes, dressed like the "Green Arrow" are killing criminals all over Star City  which is why he decides to go after them. Meanwhile, John informs Laurel  that Raymond Earle, a suspect in two murders, is likely to kill again. However, Laurel  doesn't believe him. The vigilantes target Bratva member Yuri Dimitrov and Oliver  before kidnapping Felicity. Oliver as Green Arrow saves her without killing anyone else and leaves the vigilantes for John. Meanwhile, Drakon continues his killing spree and in the end, hangs one of the vigilantes at City Hall where Adrian is meeting with Hill, who warns him to walk away from the case and focus on capturing Drakon. Laurel follows Earle, but is forced to get involved when Earle traps his latest victim in a Minotauran labyrinth. John manages to save Laurel, but Earle escapes.
 * 7) "The Trap"- Earle is arrested by the police and admits to the murders, but the case is dismissed on a technicality and he is set free. While John pursues Earle, he is captured and trapped in Earle's labyrinth, but manages to escape. Drakon continues to kill people unless the Green Arrow reveals his identity to the public. Oliver decides to give into Drakon's  demands in order to get him to stop killing. Before Oliver could confess his secret, Adrian Chase claims to be the Green Arrow.  Chase is taken into protective custody, but Drakon appears and attacks the convoy. Oliver, Felicity, and Lance  manage to capture Drakon.  Hill is forced to reinstate Lance as an award for his bravery and Lance decides to start working with the Green Arrow, however Laurel  is angry at Lance  for faking his own death. John manages to kill Earle in self defense.
 * 8) "Shot"-Rupert Thorne and the Bratva  fight for control over the Glades. However, Anatoli  wants to focus the Bratva's  full attention in killing Green Arrow. When the Bratva  members are gunned down by an apparent "army", Anatoli  visits Chase and Laurel protection. Laurel visits the wounded Anatoli at the hospital, while Roy  learns from his father that the Blackgaters were murdered by the same "army" as the Bratva. Oliver, as Green Arrow,  investigates the cartels with help from Lance and learns that the cartel had all of their high-power weapons stolen by a single man. At the hospital, Laurel and Anatoli are attacked by Vigilante and barely escape alive. Green Arrow confronts the new vigilante in the rooftops near the hospital, and is shot in the head at point blank range.
 * 9) "Dogs To A Gunfight"- Roy finds Oliver  in the morning. Though his body armor saved his life, Oliver's head and heightened senses are damaged and scrambled, and Eddie insists that he rest and recover. Anatoli  demands that Chase go after the Green Arrow , whom he believes to be working with the Vigilante. Since all of his mob contacts are murdered, Chase only agrees if Anatoli wears a wire to a meeting with Rupert Thorne. After he recovers, Oliver gets Felicity and Walter  to make a new  improved suit, and hood before investigating the hideout where the Bratva members were murdered. Realizing that they had a now missing dog, Oliver gets Felicity  to track it to a nearby apartment, where the Vigilante, has been listening to Laurel's operation with Anatoli  on a police radio. When the Vigilante attacks the operation, police snipers fire at him as he and Green Arrow fight. Anatoli  escapes in the chaos not before unmasking Green Arrow to be Oliver , while Oliver  is injured and loses consciousness.
 * 10) "Star City's Finest"- Green Arrow  wakes up as the Vigilante's captive and gets surprised to discover that he is actually Adrian Chase, who decided to take up the mantle after his brother Dorian was killed in a mob war. Green Arrow pleads with him to stop killing, feeling that there is goodness within anyone, and that no criminal is beyond redemption. Chase insists that what he does is necessary, that by murdering criminals he stops them from doing wrong ever again, while Green Arrow  merely delays the inevitable by injuring them. Their debate culminates in Vigilante continue after Thorne, whom he caught stealing a car in an attempt to flee the city, and strapping a gun with a single bullet to Green Arrow's  hand, offering him the choice of killing Thorne, killing the Vigilante before he kills Thorne, or doing nothing and living with the fact that his actions caused someone's death anyway. Green Arrow shoots  the chains holding him and breaks free, but in doing so gives the Vigilante time to fatally shoot Grotto. As the dying Thorne asks why Green Arrow allowed him to die, the Vigilante attacks a nearby Blackgaters group. Green Arrow  manages to knock the Vigilante unconscious, and then fights his way through the angry gang members to safety. Laurel meanwhile feels guilty for everything that has happened and decides to give up being Black Canary out of remorse for killing Volk.
 * 11) "Human Target"- Anatoli  plans to kill Oliver  as a civilian instead of as the Green Arrow. John suggests that Oliver hire bodyguard Christopher Chance, the "Human Target", who would be able to help them. Christopher impersonates Oliver  at Thorne Consolidated and fakes his death when Anatoli's  mercenary attacks. Meanwhile, Laurel begins to suspect that Oliver is dead and confronts Anatoli about it revealing that she killed Volk. It is revealed that the only reason Anatoli  wants to kill the person responsible for Luka's death is because they were lovers. The team realizes from John that Yuri Dimitrov plans to consolidate the drug traffic of five cities through Star City, needing Green Arrow eliminated for his plan to succeed. Oliver, John, Mia, and Christopher raid Dimitrov's meeting and capture other crime lords while Yuri escapes. Oliver publicly claims that his faked death was part of a sting operation. Chase kills the other crime lords during transport, despite them pleading for mercy. Lance  begins to suspect that Oliver Queen and Green Arrow are the same person.
 * 12) "Penny and Dime"- Anatoli goes after Laurel  to seek revenge on her for killing Luka. Laurel lures Anatoli into a night club owned by Mickey Sullivan and the Sullivan Crime Family causing for there to be a shootout so Laurel  can tip off the police. Meanwhile, Oliver  tries to stop Chase from killing anyone else again while Yuri tries to get revenge on Vigilante for murdering all of his clients. John discovers that Chase only wanted to become a murderer because his brother Dorian was killed in a sting operation. The Bratva manages to lure Vigilante into a trap and unmask him to be Adrian Chase. Yuri violently tortures him, until Chase escapes and brutally murders all of them. Green Arrow and Arsenal  finds them and stops Chase from murdering anyone else, helping him escape. Chase tells Green Arrow about his brother, who was murdered, before allowing himself to be arrested, with Green Arrow and Arsenal giving credit for his capture to John in hopes of restoring the public's faith in the police rather than in vigilante justice. Laurel visits Anatoli in prison after there is enough forensic evidence to convict him, however Anatoli warns Laurel  that this is not over.
 * 13) "Sins of The Father"- Nyssa returns to ask Oliver to kill Malcolm, however Oliver  refuses and tries to convince Malcolm  to relinquish control of the League to Nyssa to ensure peace. John convinces Laurel  to help defend Chase from Vargas out of sympathy for his dead brother Dorian. At the exchange, Malcolm double-crosses Nyssa and a war starts between the two Assassin factions in Star City. Oliver convinces Malcolm to challenge Nyssa to a duel. Oliver uses ancient rules to trade places with Nyssa as her husband. The former bests Malcolm but, instead of killing him, knocks him out cold, and gives the ring on his hand to Nyssa. However, Nyssa disbands the League and destroys the ring. Laurel reveals to Chase that she  knows about his past, eventually earning his cooperation. However, in front of Vargas, Chase refuses a plea deal that would give him life in prison and instead pleads not guilty which angers Vargas. The People V.S Adrian Chase is set to begin within a week.
 * 14) "Beacon of Hope"- Brie Larvan orchestrates her release from prison and travels to Star City  in search of the bio-mechanical chip that helps Felicity walk. Brie attacks Thorne Consolidated, holding the board hostage until Felicity  turns herself over. Michael tracks down Oliver's  hideout, discovering his secret in the process, so that he can offer his help to the team to save Felicity and Mia. Oliver is stung by one of Brie's robotic bees. Michael realizes the sting actually implanted a bee within Oliver that is replicating itself. Eddie uses sound waves to save Oliver. Felicity is able to evacuate the board members, while Brie reveals she is after the chip because she has a tumor that is going to leave her paralyzed. Michael develops a virus to shut down the bees and uses them to stop Brie. Meanwhile at Chase's trial, Lila refuses to let Laurel use a PTSD defense from Chase's time in A.R.G.U.S since the government agency is to remain a secret from the public. Laurel  cross-examines the chief medical examiner, who likely doctored Dorian Chase's death certificates for Vargas, but before he can do so in court the man confesses; he had been tortured the night before into revealing the truth which shocks the court.
 * 15) "Mad Affection"- At Arkham Asylum, Carrie Cutter  meets Drakon  and soon falls in love with him due to Drakon's  seduction of her. Drakon revealed to Carrie how he was abused as a child by his alcoholic father. After more interviews, Carrie  determined that Green Arrow was the source of Drakon's  anger, but also that she was falling in love with him. Carrie takes the identity of Cupid and became Drakon's  partner in escaping from the asylum in hopes that she could win his love. Oliver  goes looking for Carrie as Green Arrow. Drakon and Carrie  go on a killing spree, and they get stopped when they attempt to kill Lance. Drakon  retreats to one of his hideouts to plan his next move, but is being annoyed by his love-struck sidekick Cupid and kicks her out of their hideout. That prompts Carrie to get revenge on Green Arrow for her lover's affections. In court, Laurel begins to sway the jury in Chase's favor, but Chase takes the stand and purposefully wrecks his own defense. Carrie kidnaps Green Arrow  and attempts to kill him until Green Arrow  manipulates her into contacting Drakon. Drakon arrives and pushes Carrie out the window and attempts to kill Green Arrow  only to fail. Green Arrow taunts Drakon by saying that Carrie came closer to killing him than he ever did. Drakon  attacks him in rage, but Green Arrow sends him lunging into a burning smokestack. Chase enters prison, and is led by a guard to a meeting with Waylon Jones.
 * 16) "Seven Minutes In Heaven"- Anatoli offers Chase a chance at Waylon Jones AKA Killer Croc, the one who runs the prison and whom Anatoli  believes organized the deal-gone-wrong which lead to the deaths of Chase's family. Anatoli admits that this will allow him  to take control of the prison himself. Chase attacks Killer Croc, who reveals that he organized the deal for a crime lord called Mother. Anatoli  then betrays Chase by releasing Killer Croc's supporters on him, but Castle slaughters them all. Realizing that Chase could be an asset to distract Green Arrow while he goes after Laurel for revenge. Anatoli arranges for Chase to escape the prison. Meanwhile, Oliver  gets abducted and assumes that the Bratva is behind the kidnapping. However, it  turned out that Oliver was actually kidnapped by John, Eddie, Felicity, Mia, and Walter for Oliver's  surprise birthday party. It was because Mia  revealed that Oliver never had an actual party, however, the party is crashed by Pamela Isely (Maggie Geha) and her friends since Pamela develops a grudge on Mia for becoming captain of the cheerleaders instead of her. Laurel  contemplates telling Lance the truth about her being Black Canary, but decides against it.
 * 17) "The Man In The Box"- Oliver asks John to send the several children who are used as victims for a human trafficking ring to Leslie Thompkins for hospital treatment. Learning of Chase's escape, Vargas meets with John, Lance, and Laurel  in her office. She confirms that she organized the sting on Mother's drug deal with Rupert Thorne, Micky Sullivan, and the Bratva and explains that she chose not to clear the area so as not to tip off the criminals, leading to the deaths of Dorian Chase and other civilians when the deal went south. Now, she believes that Chase is targeting her daughter, and pleads for help in bringing him in. However, Vargas is gunned down in front of them by an unidentified shooter. Laurel visits Anatoli in prison to confirm her suspicions, that Anatoli is running it and orchestrated Chase's release. Chase saves Laurel from a similar attack to the one on Vargas. At the hospital, the children awake as Green Arrow, Arsenal, and Spartan  prepare to defend the building from Mother's associates.
 * 18) ".380"- Green Arrow, Arsenal, and Spartan  save Leslie from Mother's thugs, but the children willingly leave with ninjas and drain themselves of their blood to feed the chemicals into an ancient device. Some of Mother's thugs died during the fight, and an attempted autopsy on one of them shows the scars of a prior autopsy. The hospital board chooses to cover this up, compelling Leslie to quit. Chase and Laurel are confronted by Mother's men, and Chase violently beats her location out of them before murdering them. He then leaves the horrified Laurel. Green Arrow confronts Yuri and tortures him into giving up the information of where Mother is, sending him to a pier. Chase attacks a boat there, used to smuggle drugs, and attempts to kill a woman claiming to be the Mother; Green Arrow stops him, but the Mother's men arrive and attack the boat, and Chase escapes in the chaos. Dimitrov tries to bribe John into stealing the evidence against Anatoli in order to get him released from prison, but John refuses.
 * 19) "Trust But Verify"- After an armored truck is robbed, Oliver believes that one of the thieves is former black ops member Hank Henshaw (David Harewood). John dismisses Oliver 's assumption, as Hank was John's colleague and saved him onetime on a mission in South America Afghanistan. Oliver as Green Arrow  finds Hank and steals encrypted data, as John prevents the former from getting any information directly from Hank. The data is revealed to be plans for robbing armored trucks, which Oliver uses to track the thieves. John learns that Hank was the mastermind behind the robberies, and is force to join Hank's crew when Hank has his mother hostage, but backs out of helping them at last. Oliver as Green Arrow arrives in time and takes out the thugs. Dimitrov manages to succeed in blackmailing John to steal the blood work incriminating Anatoli  by threatening to kill Katia. The police believe that Chase is dead and Laurel  agrees with it.
 * 20) "Hit-Or-Miss"- After Anatoli tries to gun down Laurel at Big Belly Burger, the Bratva hires two hit men to find and kill Anatoli since they believe his reckless behavior is bad for business. In a desperate move, Anatoli kidnaps Lance  in order to enlist Laurel's help to protect him which is why Laurel asks John and Eddie  for help. John confesses to Laurel his involvement in getting Anatoli released from prison. John, Laurel, Anatoli, and Eddie work together and kill all the thugs sent to kill Anatoli, however Anatoli is shot and killed by Yuri Dimitrov, the manager of the Foxhole. Felicity manages to find Lance leading for Oliver and Mia  to save his life. Laurel  finally confesses the truth to Lance that she is Black Canary and Lance decides to approve of her activities despite the danger. Flashbacks show a younger Laurel Drake (Carmen Bicondova) and how she became the foster daughter to a younger Quentin  Lance.
 * 21) "The Dark At The End of The Pit"- Mother has the police station raided for information on people that Green Arrow has helped. They take hostages, including Laurel and criminal Matches Malone. Because Malone is on house arrest, police officers tracking him report the situation before they are killed by Mother. Oliver, Nyssa, and Mia use this call to find the hostages, and free them. They are then confronted by a horde of ninjas. Nyssa sacrifices herself to save everyone and the team defeats the ninjas with help from Chase, who looks to move on from his past and accept the Vigilante mantle. Oliver and the team mourn Nyssa. After Yuri threatens to send Nadia to a sex club in Dubai, John shoots and kills him, then falsifies a motive. However, John feels guilty for the unethical things he has done and decides to leave for the NYPD while Eddie decides to leave for England after being contacted by his cousin. Laurel  even decides to resign being district attorney to work for millionaire businessman Justin Claybourne. The board of directors appoint Oliver to be the new CEO of Thorne Consolidated, however Oliver  is renaming the company as Queen Enterprises.