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 Bennett 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"-Oliver is unable to find any record of Zytle, and so he continues to interrogate criminals, searching for answers. Zytle becomes upset at his failure to takeover Tuckman's empire and attempts to stop the man in green once and for all. In the hospital, Zytle tells his goons about Smoak and sends his men to kidnap her. Smoak manages to contact Oliver in time to alert him of her kidnapping. The mob attempts to torture Oliver's name out of Smoak, only for Oliver to arrive and kill all of them. John and Roy don't get along very well when Roy is questioned about a shooting incident involving John and a suspect. John claims that he fired in self-defense, but his story doesn't add up. Rojas contemplates what he should do and opts for what he thinks is right, so he reports his actual observations, the forensic evidence, and the discrepancies with John's story to Internal Affairs, even though this will brand him as a rat. It turns out that the man John killed was a former Haitian terrorist militia member of the Tonton Macoute, whom he had encountered while in the army during Black Ops in Haiti, and John knew the suspect had committed awful crimes. In the end, the whole situation gets kicked under the rug. Roy, becoming suspicious of Oliver and John, decides to hire Ben Singleton, a private detective to investigate Oliver. In flashbacks, Following Dahlia's funeral, Zytle is bullied by Grace and her children. However, when he discovers evidence that they killed Dahlia, his mentally-unstable self returns and he kills the trio.
 * 12) "Childish Things"- Como Crank escapes from Slabside Maximum Prison and goes to Starling to kill Tommy's father Malcolm Merlyn to get revenge on him for stealing his toy ideas. Malcolm is then given protection from Crank by the FBI. A Daily Planet reporter named Clark Kent comes to Starling to do a story on Crank and saves Malcolm as the Blur and goes to Oliver for help, revealing that they are old friends. Tensions arise between Tommy and Malcolm when Malcolm wants Oliver to sign a document for Merlyn Corp. Oliver meets with Tommy, who demands that he does not sign the papers. While this happens, Tommy gets two phone calls from his mother and his father, with him playing both sides. All of a sudden, Tommy's mood swings and he tells Oliver to sign the papers. Oliver then changes the subject to talk about Dinah. Crank goes to kill Malcolm when he is being awarded for being Starling's White Archer. Crank threatens to kill the other guests with bombs he has planted. Oliver and Clark manage to save the guests while Malcolm kills Crank. In the meantime, Roy and Diggle have dinner with Diggle's mother. Diggle reveals to Roy that Singleton was a corrupt cop in Narcotics that Hilton worked with Internal Affairs to bring down and Roy contemplates whether or not he should trust Singleton and begins to question his actions in hiring him. Tommy destroys the papers that Oliver was told to sign. In flashbacks, Robert decides to send Oliver and Moira away for their safety while trying to investigate Anthony Ivo. Eddie takes Oliver and Moira to meet his old friend Jonathan Kent, whom he served in the army with before coming to the States. There, Oliver befriends Jonathan and Martha Kent's adopted son Clark. Oliver dismisses Clark as a nice kid from the sticks, before realizing that there is something odd about the farm boy and seeks to find out what it is.
 * 13) "Rehabilitation"- Diggle and Hilton investigate a series of unexplained suicides involving wealthy and powerful women such as Judge Janet Murillo and Regina Rachelle. Oliver and John both realize that Murillo, Rachelle, and all the other female victims were seeing a doctor named John Deegan, a doctor at Arkham Asylum for the Criminally Insane in Starling City. When John goes to see Deegan, he begins to suspect that Deegan might be crazier than the inmates he treats. When John is under hypnotic therapy, John begins to remember his painful experience at war. Mia gets mugged by a group of thugs in the Glades when doing work for CNRI and gets rescued by Roy. Roy and Mia become smitten with each other despite the fact that Mia is sixteen and Roy is twenty-one, which is something Felicity Smoak promises to keep secret when she is injecting a needle into Roy, who has a phobia of that. Roy then recognizes Mia as Oliver's cousin. Oliver realizes that Deegan has been urging those women to be suicidal and kills him. Oliver even sends the footage of his crimes to the SCPD as an anonymous tip, prompting the entire staff at Arkham Asylum to be under investigation. John tells Oliver that he has a darkness inside of him and that is why he decided to work outside the law knowing that Oliver likes to kill. Oliver denies it and John leaves to think about what just happened. Roy tries to stop Singleton's investigation and Singleton agrees to it but is later revealed to have photographs of Oliver, suspecting him of being The Hood. In flashbacks, John was married to Lyla Michaels and working as a private security contractor in Nigeria helping to protect an all-girls school. John is captured by terrorist organization Bono Hiram, prompting Waller to send in the Suicide Squad (former psychiatrist Carrie Cuttler, pyrokinetic ex-gangster Chato Santana, opportunistic thief Digger Harkness, genetic mutant Waylon Jones, and specialized assassin Christopher Weiss) to save him. John becomes enraged when the Bono Hiram leader kills one of the girls, named Mesa, that he has become fond of and kills him in cold blood with an ax .John then decides to end his relationship with Lyla due to a feeling that the darkness has consumed him.
 * 14) "Back From The Deadshot"- Oliver kills an assassin named Anthony Menotti and realizes that Menotti's target is not yet protected. Frederick Tuckman and his co-conspirator Warren Powers hires a woman named Syonide, leader of the 100s branch in Starling, to kill Malcolm Merlyn after Menotti's death and Syonide recruits Lawton, who is revealed to have survived Oliver's attack, by giving him a cybernetic eye-patch. The cybernetic eye-patch has been upgraded by Tuckman to act as a sniper rifle scope and also possesses thermal imaging. Malcolm holds a fundraiser for Larry Lance and the Lance Administration, which Dinah and Tommy, who has to keep up with appearances, are attending. At the last moment, Oliver realizes that Malcolm is the target and races to the event to save him. Although he is almost caught by Hilton, Oliver manages to get Malcolm away from Syonide. Lawton shoots Malcolm with one of his poisonous bullets, and Oliver is forced to reveal his identity to Tommy so that he can save his father's life. Malcolm and Tommy reconcile. Malcolm later contacts Tuckman telling him his belief that someone from an organization called Tempest ordered the hit on him. Malcolm then tasks Tuckman to find out who the traitor is. Roy feels betrayed when he discovers that Singleton signed out surveillance equipment under his name and tries to find him, but to no avail. In flashbacks, Malcolm tries to fight crime in the Glades as The Dark Archer. Malcolm first attacks one of Adam Hunt's operations and injuries corrupt Detective Brian Nudocerdo. Nudocerdo's superior, Commissioner Peter Pauling (Corbin Bernsen) then sends out a task-force after the mysterious archer. Feeling that the Glades is beyond saving, Malcolm forms a group called Tempest to cure Starling. Malcolm compiled a list of the names of people responsible for allowing the city to become as it was under their control, with the exception of Hunt, and used that list as collateral. Malcolm tries to recruit Robert in the group, but Robert rejects his offer due to wanting to deal with Anthony Ivo.
 * 15) "Spirit Of The Goat"- Two years before Oliver returned to Starling, a masked killer calling himself the "Spirit of the Goat" targets the firstborn of Starling's elite, leading Diggle and his partner Dix to investigate the case. They find the killer Randall Mickie, who is arrested by Diggle after Dix falls through a trap door and is badly injured. In the present day, Tommy is still struggling to accept the fact that Oliver is a serial killer and is doing good at the same time such as saving his father's life. John begins to suspect that Mickie might kill again and contacts Oliver and Tommy for help. Tommy follows Mickie, and is forced to get involved when Mickie traps his latest victim in a Minotauran labyrinth. Oliver manages to save Tommy and John arrests Mickie. Mickie admits to the murders, but the case is dismissed on a technicality when one of the police officers assaults him. Oliver goes to kill Mickie but is captured and trapped in his labyrinth. Oliver manages to escape in time and captures Mickie. After turning the fires of the cremation vault on, as if ready to kill him with the flames, Mickie screams over and over about how he's going to kill Oliver. He jokingly mocks him, eventually using the stake he had in hand to pierce his heart and kill him. Outside, Oliver meets with Tommy and tells him the news. Tommy then watches smoke come out of the chimney with a look of awe. Oliver asks Tommy how that made him feel and Tommy says he is grateful, before asking what the makes him. Oliver simply says "human" and Tommy begins to feel that Oliver being a vigilante is a necessary evil. In the meantime, Singleton discovers Oliver's secret and takes the footage to Roy, believing that Oliver is The Hood. Giving him the last of his cash, Roy tells him to back off, due to falling in love with Mia and aware hiring Singleton was a betrayal to her. Singleton, however, refuses, believing what he stumbled on could revive his career and embarrass Hilton. Singleton offers to show Mia what her cousin was up to. Enraged, Roy pins Singleton to the door and tells him to never come near Mia or himself. Unafraid, Singleton laughs at Roy's attempt to scare him and walks away, leaving behind the surveillance equipment that he took.
 * 16) "Grundy's Night"- A real scare comes in store for the people of Starling when Solomon Grundy, a zombie legend  of Starling, comes to life and begins going after the descendants of those who founded Starling, such as the Queens, Keynes, and the Crones. As Oliver, John, and Eddie work to stop him, Oliver becomes concerned when Solomon Grundy is robbing the descendants and taking everything they own and begins to suspect that Grundy is not at all what he appears to be. Singleton kidnaps Oliver and takes him into a black van, driving him to a secluded location where he intends to have Roy make the bust for him. After overhearing a phone conversation, Oliver discovers that Roy no longer supports Singleton's investigation and Singleton is the only one who wants to make a profit from it. Singleton shows Oliver digital footage he captures using hidden cameras on his laptop, but admits that he did not have the legal right to obtain any of it, so none of it could be used in court. However, he offers Oliver a deal: if Oliver gives him a full confession, Singleton promises to leave John and Eddie out of everything. After procuring a video camera, Singleton stands up begins to videotape Oliver again, when he is suddenly kicked in the face and sent flying towards the front seat of the van. Despite having his hands and feet bound, Oliver manages to struggle with Singleton, who pulls a knife to tries and kill Oliver with it. Oliver, however, is able to turn the blade enough to force it slowly into Singleton's chest while responding in self-defense. Singleton resists at first, but as the knife sinks in deeper his eyes widen and he is unable to struggle any longer. He dies quickly. Roy then arrives at the scene just as Singleton takes his last breath and checks the van (which is locked in the front, then on the side doors by Oliver himself). Roy even tries calling Singleton's phone but Oliver cancels out the call so that he can't be found out. Roy gets frustrated and gives up, but before he walks away a drop of Singleton's blood leaks out of the van and lands on his shoe, though Roy fails to notice. After Roy drives away, Oliver emerges from the van. Though he says he does not have time to deal with Singleton's body, he does take the time to remove the tape from Singleton's camera and take his laptop with him. John discovers that Oliver was right and that Grundy is actually a criminal known as Basil Karlo who is secretly a Meta-Human known as Clayface. Clayface manages to fake his own death. Oliver tells John and Eddie what happened with Singleton and destroys the laptop. The police find Singleton's body and Hilton orders Roy to be taken into custody after seeing a drop of blood on Roy's shoes as well as because Roy made several phone calls to Singleton before his death. In flashbacks, Hilton is framed by Basil, whom Ivo granted shapeshifting abilities by splicing his DNA with "octopod DNA", for the attempted murder of Walter Steele. Robert vows to do everything in his power to get Hilton out of prison.
 * 17) "Inmates"- Another masked vigilante calling himself Comrade appears in Starling City and kidnaps one of Oliver's targets, a slumlord named Jubal Sade who attempted to blow up one of his buildings, killing a couple as well as their infant son who refused to leave. Comrade  kills Sade over a live broadcast. The Comrade then kidnaps Alison Kim for administering illicit performance enhancers to place the bets in her favor. Oliver as The Hood fails to get to the farm in time to stop Kim from getting her arms and legs ripped off when Comrade ties them to four horses. Oliver contemplates letting Roy rot in prison only to discover that he was in a relationship with Mia and they truly do care for each other. Wanting Mia to be happy, Oliver has John switch the blood found on Roy's shoe with another false sample in order for Hilton to eliminate Roy as a suspect. The Comrade then kidnaps Roy believing that him getting released is police corruption. John finds out that the Comrade is using an abandoned subway car, and Oliver is able to catch the car and kill him. Roy later meets with Oliver apologizing for his actions and hands over copies of the evidence Singleton gathered proving that he is The Hood. Mia refuses to see Roy upon hearing Roy's confession over the live broadcast that he hired Singleton to investigate Oliver. Malcolm contacts the 100s to find the traitors. Tuckman turns over his co-conspirator, Warren Powers, to Malcolm. As The Dark Archer, Malcolm  uses his chokuto to stab Powers in the back. The Dark Archer tells Tuckman that Malcolm Merlyn will award him for his loyalty and announces his plans to kill Powers' family. Tuckman, showing some humanity, pleads a request for no harm to come to Powers' family by pointing out that they are innocent. Dark Archer complies to it and leaves. Tuckman is then disturbed by everything and looks to see Powers' blood on his hands. In flashbacks, Hilton is adjusting to life in Blackgate Penitentiary. Commissioner Peter Pauling announces to Hilton that he will be transferred to the gen-pop quarter dubbed "the World's End," part of Pauling's plan to kill Hilton. He's constantly aided by guard Wilson Bishop (Marc Damon Johnson). Later, he is defended from attackers by convict Peter "Puck" Davies (Peter Mark Kendall), who is beaten and sent to the infirmary. In an attempt to save Hilton, Robert meets with Adam Hunt, remembering that time when Robert saved Hunt's son Mario from a gunshot wound administered to him by Salvatore Marconi. Hilton's death is successfully staged and he and Puck escape. Puck dies from his injuries, while Hilton is given a safe house by Hunt so he can clear his name.
 * 18) "The Damage That A Man Can Do"- After Roy is rescued from the Comrade by the Hood, he, Oliver, and John are called by Merlyn and Hilton to question them about the incident. Roy admits to hiring Singleton to investigate Oliver but denies killing him. John explains that this is because of the misunderstanding that happened when John told Oliver to meet him at a crime scene to pick him up for a game of basketball. Hilton reluctantly allows the two to leave and decides that Oliver should be a suspect in Singleton's murder while hoping that Oliver didn't actually do it. Oliver offers to take a polygraph test to prove his innocence, which he passes. While Oliver is throwing a party, he has Roy pose as the vigilante and stops a Russian arms dealer who is in the city to sell automatic weapons to U.S Army General Timothy Ashcroft. Ashcroft vows to get even with The Hood while Oliver is confident that he has created reasonable doubt of being a vigilante. John and Eddie work with Michaels to frame a corrupt CSI named Jim Corrigan for killing Singleton by making it look like Singleton was looking into him as a side project in an attempt to get reinstated into the SCPD. Corrigan was under the suspicion of being in a rape case, but the situation was kicked under the rug due to forensic evidence being sabotaged. The plan works because of Argus having several agents in the SCPD and Corrigan is charged for his crimes. In flashbacks, Robert goes to visit Walter in the hospital trying to convince him that Hilton is not responsible only for Walter to refuse to listen. Pike finds Hilton as Hilton is trying to clear his name and saves him when he is shot by Nudocerdo. Pike takes Hilton to Queen Manor and Robert decides to keep him there until his name is cleared.
 * 19) "Malice Part One"- Oliver works with John to save a girl from a group of kidnappers only to fail to save her from drowning. Disappointed by his failure, Oliver goes to the girl's father, chemist Randolph Porter to apologize for his actions as the vigilante. Porter seemingly shows understanding toward The Hood and shows him that he was developing drugs to enhance human potential which is why the kidnappers tried to exploit him of his research. Porter convinces Oliver that he needs his pills to increase his strength and prevent another innocent life from being lost because Oliver did not have the physical strength to save them. Porter gives him them and begins taking the strength enhancing pills from Porter. Oliver becomes a mind-numbed addict to the pills. Porter is revealed to be in league with General Ashcroft. The two men are aware that Oliver is the vigilante and are testing the effects on him since Ashcroft wants revenge. They are also revealed to have kidnapped Porter's daughter in an attempt to make Oliver feel guilt for failing to save her. John and Eddie become concerned with Oliver's behavior as he becomes more arrogant and unstable because of the pills as he is fighting crime. When Oliver needs more, he goes to Porter and Porter tasks him to assassinate John, whom Ashcroft fears will uncover his crimes since it is revealed that Ashcroft was John's commanding officer during his tour in Afghanistan. Oliver impulsively agrees and goes to kill his friend. In flashbacks, Pike arrives with a warrant to inspect Ivo's office. Ivo is, unfortunately, one step ahead of Pike since he shredded the documents before they arrived and points out that the warrant only covers his office, not Arkham. Robert is disappointed when he is told by Pike and Hilton that there isn't enough evidence to imprison Ivo.
 * 20) "Malice Part Two"- Oliver goes to John and rather than kill him, he tells him about Ashcroft and Porter working together as well as being behind the kidnapping of Porter's daughter. Oliver goes into seclusion to fight effects of the addiction while John and Eddie travel to Santa Prisca to stop Porter and Ashcroft, who have fled there to continue their work in creating a small band of mind-controlled-super-soldiers. Porter and the General manage to use their mind controlled subjects to subdue and capture John and Eddie and lock them in the dungeon of a Spanish fort. Porter then leaves the pills with the duo, pointing out that the only way to move the massive stone door preventing his escape would be to use the pills to enhance his strength once again. Porter also notes that he has improved the formula, making them far more addictive. Porter is also revealed to be addicted to pills he developed to boost his intellect and numb his emotional responses began to take over. General Ashcroft begins to fear that Porter is unreliable and has him tortured in order to obtain the formula. Ashcroft kills Porter and is attacked by John and Eddie, who have escaped without the pills. In the melee, John manages to turn Ashcroft's son against him by playing a voice recording of Ashcroft giving the out-of-context command, "kill me". The robot-like Timothy Jr. then has no choice but to obey his father and snaps the General's neck. Back in Starling, while Oliver is in seclusion, Roy reconciles with Mia and admits to having nothing to do with Singleton's death in order to cover up the fact that Oliver killed him. In flashbacks, Robert meets a thief named Shado who was attempting to steal his wallet and gives her an offer she cannot refuse.
 * 21) "Speed"- Upon returning to Gotham, John meets his colleague Detective Eddie Thawne (Chris Hemsworth) and his girlfriend Iris West(Zoe Kravitz), who comes to Starling seeking help to locate Iris' younger brother Wally West (Tyler James Williams), who has started street racing. As Oliver is recovering from the events of consuming Malice, he lies to Mia that he was away in Detroit at the time seeing an old friend. Oliver and Mia are nearly hit by a couple of streetcars and Oliver  discover that the person is Wally, whom John asked Oliver to do research on. Eddie and Iris confide in John that Wally is Joe West 's son and that they haven't told Joe yet. When Wally refuses to throw a race, Nathan Finch and his bodyguards beat Wally up and threaten to kill the West family if he doesn't come up with the money. John then asks Oliver for money. Oliver warns John that if he pays off thugs once, they will be back for more, so Oliver hatches a new plan by using an armored car that Walter developed. Wally will offer the car to Finch as the prize in a race against him. If Finch wins, the car is his. If Wally wins, the debt is settled. Wally will drive the Mustang he always races. Finch has never lost a race, so John plans to sabotage Finch's engine. Wally is excited about the plan, but Iris is angry about taking items from Oliver and doing various unethical things to get her brother out of trouble. Finch makes plans to cheat during the race by placing a bomb in Wally's car that will explode when he reaches 100 miles per hour. Oliver causes Finch to die in a terrible crash. John urges Iris to tell her father the truth about Wally. Although Wally promises that this will never again, Iris is not ready to forgive and forget, but will tell Joe the truth. Oliver later returns the vehicle to Walter, who was aware it went missing. Walter tells Oliver: "If you don't want to tell me exactly what you're doing, when I'm asked, I don't have to lie. But don't think of me as an idiot."Oliver then realizes that Walter knows his secret. Malcolm throws Tommy a fundraiser when he learns that Tuckman plans to throw one for him. In flashbacks, Murray Merlyn t was Tommy's older brother. The two brothers had a tense relationship and Murray proved to be a temperamentally difficult child whose constantly misbehavior got Tommy in trouble. When Murray dared his brother to play with matches in the Glades, the fire got out of control. Tommy couldn't put the fire out, got scared and went into shock. Murray died as a result of the arson blaming his younger brother. This tragedy destroyed the Merlyn family. Tommy's mother Lucy committed suicide by slitting her wrists when taking a bath and Malcolm leaves Tommy under the care of the family butler to travel to Nanda Parbat, a place where he would never get hurt again.
 * 22) "Shado"- While responding to a break-in at the Starling City Hall, Oliver engages in combat with a group of mercenaries and The Canary, the latter having broken into Mayor Larry Lance's safe and stolen a drive. During the fight, Oliver steals the drive whilst she manages to escape. Oliver then goes to Merlyn Manor where Malcolm is holding a fundraiser for his son. At the party, Oliver meets his childhood friend Shado and they both deduce each other's identities. Oliver intimidates Shado into giving him the address of a meeting place with her employer: a warehouse at the Starling City docks. Investigating as the Hood, he finds the location to be the site of a shootout between the SCPD and the same mercenaries from City Hall. Believing Tuckman to be involved, Oliver also finds evidence of an earthquake being stored there. After finishing decryption of the drive, Oliver discovers evidence of Tuckman's criminal organization while being confused as to how Lance got it. Oliver hands the drive over to Hilton and confronts Tuckman as the Hood to interrogate him about the shootout. Tuckman admits to having had Queen Enterprises build the device, but denies involvement in the shootout. After brutalizing Tuckman in front of the horrified press, Tuckman tells him that he made the device for Malcolm, who plans to use it in the Glades. Malone arrives to arrest The Hood only for Diggle to stand in the way prompting the police to not fire and for Oliver to escape. In flashbacks, Robert decides to go off with Shado to find a way into Arkham. Shado accepts because Robert paid her, but insists she go in on her own. Shado begs to be Bridget's servant, making use of Bridget's alter-ego. Robert is troubled after Shado fails to meet with him and learns of her capture.
 * 23) "Darkness On The Edge Of Town"- Malcolm kills Tuckman and the scientists who worked on the device. Oliver's team break into Merlyn Corp for more information. Lance continues to disapprove of Dinah's feelings for Oliver, who realizes that he could cease being the Hood if he stops Malcolm from carrying out his mad plan. Thus, Oliver reconciles his romance with Dinah and the two make love, which is witnessed by Lance. Malcolm has the device moved. The vigilante attempts to kill him, who reveals that he is the Dark Archer; the two fight until Malcolm gets the upper hand, discovering Oliver's secret. In flashbacks, Robert is troubled after Shado fails to meet with him and learns of her capture. Robert, Hilton, and Steele visit Arkham to execute their plan, but their motives are revealed and all three are captured. Robert and Steele are put in a chamber and interrogated by Fugate on Ivo's behalf. Meanwhile, Hilton is brought into another room with Ivo and re-introduced to Basil.
 * 24) "Jail For Life"- Malcolm imprisons Oliver, but later manages to escape because of Diggle. Oliver decides to increase the people in the Glades' chances of survival by holding a press conference and making a false revelation that he has been in league with Malcolm to destroy the Glades. Oliver is arrested by Malone while Malcolm confirms his claims to Tommy and reveals that he is The Dark Archer. Eddie, with help from Walter, is able to dismantle the device while Roy goes into the Glades looking for Mia. Diggle, Hilton, and the Strike Force head to Merlyn Corp to deal with Malcolm. Tommy gives Diggle permission to kill his father. Diggle defeats Malcolm and hesitates at the last moment. When Tommy stabs his father in the back with a sword, it activates a deadman's switch activating the second device in the Glades. The device then begins to level the west side of the Glades. Dinah is trapped in her office, but Mayor Lance arrives and helps her escape before being trapped himself. Hilton arrives too late, as Lance had already been mortally wounded by debris. Before he dies, Lance asks Hilton to look after his daughter, which Hilton agrees to. Lance dies, leaving him grief-stricken. Later, at a press conference, Tommy resigns from being the district attorney so he can run Merlyn Corp in order to make amends for his father's actions and Acting Mayor David Hull promises to make Starling  better as Lance would have wanted. Oliver is taken by the FBI to Slabside Maximum Prison, where he is greeted by several violent inmates. Before Oliver is arrested, he leaves behind a video for Roy, John, Eddie, and Walter, urging them to continue fighting for Starling and to look after Mia. In flashbacks, Disguised as Hilton, Basil pulls the SCPD off of Arkham; however, Sara later exposes Basil as an impostor. Ivo prepares to detonate a bomb beneath Arkham and tells Ms. Peabody to transfer the patients to another facility. Ivo starts the bomb's countdown under the White-Haired Lady's orders. With Fugate's help, Hilton and Walter stop the bomb. Ivo is arrested, and Robert becomes shocked when all the people experimented on are not found and tells Walter of his plans to locate this secret council . A homeless woman opens the abandoned bus, unwittingly releasing the monsters upon Starling; among them is a boy identical to Oliver.