Green Arrow

  • Title: Arrow – Sacrifice
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Arrow - Sacrifice

Arrow‘s First Season finale begins on the eve of The Undertaking with Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) in the clutches of Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman). After escaping, with the timely assistance of Diggle (David Ramsey), Starling City’s vigilante gathers the troops who include Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) and Detective Lance (Paul Blackthorne), who puts his career in jeopardy to help save lives. Oliver convinces Tommy (Colin Donnell) to confront his father and Moira (Susanna Thompson) to stand-up publicly and reveal Malcolm’s plan, but the threat of stopping the Dark Archer falls on the shoulders of Green Arrow alone in a season finale where not everyone will survive.

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  • Title: Arrow – Darkness on the Edge of Town
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Arrow - Darkness on the Edge of Town

Following last week’s revelations, Laurel (Katie Cassidy) makes and important decision concerning her feelings for Ollie (Stephen Amell), Walter (Colin Salmon) readjusts to life after captivity, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) concludes his final preparations for The Undertaking by killing every seismologist who has knowledge of the project, and Oliver, Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards), and Diggle (David Ramsey) work together to try and uncover what Malcolm has planned and just how Moira (Susanna Thompson) fits into the picture. With the help of Diggle, Ollie stages the kidnapping of himself and Moira, and through a little rough play acting gets all the information he needs about the seismic device from Unidac Industries and Merlyn’s plans to level the Glades.

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Arrow – The Undertaking

by Alan Rapp on May 2, 2013

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Arrow - The Undertaking

Following his fallout with both Diggle (David Ramsey) and Tommy (Colin Donnell), Oliver (Stephen Amell) throws himself into his work which includes liberating the laptop of Starling City’s dirtiest accountant. Felicity’s (Emily Bett Rickards) hacking of the man’s computer uncovers that one of his clients spent $2,000,000 to the city’s most notorious underground casino owner (Ray Galletti), who also dabbles in kidnapping, the same night Walter (Colin Salmon) disappeared. Not believing in coincidence, and too well known to hit the casino himself, Oliver has no choice but to send in a determined Felicity to gather more information.

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Arrow – Home Invasion

by Alan Rapp on April 25, 2013

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  • Title: Arrow – Home Invasion
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“You’re thinking too much.”
“Nobody ever accused me of that before.”

Arrow - Home Invasion

Deadshot (Michael Rowe) returns to Starling City, walking into a trap set for the assassin by Diggle‘s (David Ramsey) old friend Lyla (Audrey Marie Anderson) who is less than pleased to learn Diggle wasn’t completely honest for his reasons in wanting to see the hired killer taken down. Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) also steps in to help a young boy, a client of Laurel (Katie Cassidy), whose family was murdered by a hitman (J. August Richards) working for Starling City’s most crooked financier Edward Rasmus (Al Sapienza).

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Arrow – Unfinished Business

by Alan Rapp on April 4, 2013

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Arrow - Unfinished Business

When a young woman dies on the street after leaving their club where the police believe she scored the Vertigo which led to her demise, Oliver (Stephen Amell) pays The Count (Seth Gabel) a visit in the loony bin hoping to discover who has taken up production of the drug. However, neither he nor Detective Lance (Paul Blackthorne), who makes his own trip to the mad house, get any answers out of the crazed former drug lord. Once the villain escapes the mental institution both men are forced to reassess their opinion of just how crazy The Count truly has become and what his end game might be.

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Arrow – Salvation

by Alan Rapp on March 28, 2013

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  • Title: Green Arrow – Salvation
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“You’ve been home for eight months Oliver; I don’t think you’ve left that island yet.”

Arrow - Salvation

Oliver‘s (Stephen Amell) attempt to take down a local slum lord (Duncan Ollerenshaw) on his father’s list is thwarted by the arrival of a new vigilante known as The Savior (Christopher Redman). Inspired by Green Arrow, The Savior begins kidnapping and murdering people he believes have wronged the slums of Starling City known as the Glades who include Ollie’s slum lord and the city’s Assistant District Attorney (Peter Benson) and then broadcasts his deadly form of justice over the Internet. With Felicity’s (Emily Bett Rickards) help Oliver attempts to trace The Savior’s transmissions back to the source, but their killer is always one step ahead of the emerald archer.

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Arrow – The Huntress Returns

by Alan Rapp on March 21, 2013

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Arrow - The Huntress Returns

It’s a week of returns as not only does Oliver‘s (Stephen Amell) ex-lover and former crime fighting partner the Huntress (Jessica De Gouw) make her way back to Starling City leaving a trail of bodies while looking for her father (Jeffrey Nordling) before he disappears forever into Witness Protection, but Laurel (Katie Cassidy) and her father (Paul Blackthorne) deal with the shocking return of her mother Dinah (Alex Kingston) who believes Laurel’s sister Sarah (Jacqueline MacInnes Wood) may still be alive, and Roy Harper (Colton Haynes) makes his second appearance on the show after being offered a job as a valet at Oliver’s club by Thea (Willa Holland).

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Arrow – Dead to Rights

by Alan Rapp on February 28, 2013

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Arrow - Dead to Rights

Assassins start hitting town once Moira (Susanna Thompson) puts a hit out on Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman) to prevent his bloody vision of a new Starling City, the mysterious “undertaking,” from coming to pass. Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) dispatches a Spaniard (George Tchortov) in the episode’s opening scene, but with China White (Kelly Hu) recruiting Deadshot (Michael Rowe) back into the game to join her team not every threat will be dealt with so easily.

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Arrow – Dodger

by Alan Rapp on February 21, 2013

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Arrow - Dodger

A new jewel thief known as Dodger (James Callis), with a nasty habit of forcing others to commit his crimes through intimidation and explosive collars, begins hitting the wealthy elite of Starling City. With Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) very much on the fence about joining the team, Oliver (Stephen Amell) targets Dodger to prove he cares about more than just the names on his father’s list. Meanwhile Moria (Susanna Thompson) reaches out to an old friend (Chin Han) in an attempt to extricate herself from the secret group and the upcoming “undertaking” which they both agree has gotten out of hand.

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Arrow – The Odyssey

by Alan Rapp on February 15, 2013

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Arrow - The Odyssey

After Green Arrow (Stephen Amell) gets shot while trying to get information from Moira (Susanna Thompson) about “the undertaking” and her missing husband (Colin Salmon) a wounded vigilante hides out in the back of Felicity Smoak‘s (Emily Bett Rickards) car and convinces her to drive him to his hidden base under his father’s old factory. As Diggle (David Ramsey) and Felicity try to patch up his bullet wound and save their friend, an unconscious Oliver remembers back to his days of training with Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett) and their attempt to fly the island all those years ago.

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