S01E09 Year's End

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2448164/ Oliver Queen attempts to track down a mysterious copycat vigilante who is killing people on the list.

S01E06 Legacies

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2377368/plotsummary Oliver's next target is Scott Morgan, a power executive who jacks up prices for electricity when people most needed. John Dingle suggests they go after the gang of bank robbers that recently wounded a police officer during a daytime heist. Oliver is not so keen and John isn't the kind of guy who gives up very easily. Oliver quickly identifies one of them as a high school acquaintance, Derek Reston - and learns that Reston may have turned to crime because of something Oliver's father did. Tommy Meanwhile isn't having much luck with his hoped for romance with Laurel. He seeks Thea's advice. Flashbacks show Oliver's doubts about his survival on the island

S01E5 Damaged

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2338426/synopsis 5 YEARS AGO -- We see Oliver being taught how to use an arrow by Yao Fei. Queen goes to pick up a rabbit Yao has killed and is grabbed by three armed men in masks and stuck in a cell in the ground. In present day we see Queen arrested. Through voiceover, he is confident that he has a way out of this mess. Lance interrogates Queen. Queen assures him he's not a vigilante and has an excuse for being caught on video going into the bag with the hood. Moira and Walter show up and tells Lance the interrogation is over until their attorney arrives. Queen wants Laurel to represent him. Moira tells Laurel that Queen has requested her and won't accept representation if it isn't her. Laurel doesn't think it's a good idea. Queen shows up at his arraignment without counsel. The judge advises against it. But once the subject of bail comes up Laurel enters the courtroom and helps him get home confinement. It's clear Laurel doesn't think Queen could be Arrow. Queen has a tracking bracelet put on his ankle. He also wants to host a party at the house to prove he's okay with what's happening. Laurel argues with her father over going after Queen. He references Sarah and Laurel says Queen isn't to blame. Queen tells Diggle that what happened with the video was intentional. Queen tells Diggle about Leo Mueller, a German arms dealer who has arrived in town with military-grade hardware. He wants Diggle to track Mueller and figure out where the buy is happening. Diggle has access to Queen's Arrow hideout. He picks out some toys for his mission. Walter meets with Josiah Hudson, the head of Queen Consolidated's security, and tells him off the record that he has an assignment for him. He explains that he found the remains of Robert's yacht and wants Josiah to move them to a secure location. When Josiah wonders what's going on, Walter admits that he doesn't know yet. The prosecutor tells Laurel and Queen she'll consider a plea of insanity provided he agrees to spend time in an asylum. Queen wants no part of it and says he'll take a polygraph in front of Lance. Queen tells Laurel if he fails the polygraph he'll consider the deal. Another flashback to the island: the mercenaries take Queen to their commander, a man named Edward Fyers. Queen tells him he'll be well compensated should he be rescued. Fyers shows Queen a picture of Yao wearing a military uniform and asks if he knows him. Queen lies and says no and Fyers picks up on it. Fyers summons his masked enforcer, Slade, and tells Queen that he will suffer for not cooperating. Thea tells Queen she's worried about how he's been acting since he returned from the island. He assures her isn't the Arrow person. Moira meets with the well-dressed man. He's concerned about the investigation into Queen. During the polygraph Oliver flashes back to his interrogation on the island. He passes with flying colors and we see him being tortured by Slade. Lance asks about his scars. Oliver said he wasn't alone on the island and admits to being tortured. Lance then asks if he's killed anyone: "Yes," is the answer, though he's talking about Sarah. Lance still isn't going to drop the charges. During his party Queen tells Diggle he wants him to dress up as Arrow and stop the arms deal. Diggle doesn't like the fact he was lied to but agrees to do it. Walter is told the Hudson was killed in a car accident. Laurel apologizes to Queen for how Lance acted. She tells him that after her sister died Lance threw himself into his work and her mother ended up leaving. She says she used to hate him, but is now starting to think about what happened to Queen on the island. She wants to see the scars. He shows them to her and she is stunned. He says he survived because there was something he wanted more than death. They start to kiss but then Laurel pulls away and runs out. Queen flashes back to the island. Fyers begins to suspect that Queen does not have the information he wants, and orders Slade to kill him, but Yao breaks in and knocks Fyers out. Slade attacks him, resulting in furious martial arts duel. The two seem to be evenly matched, but Yao manages to incapacitate Slade long enough to escape with Queen.. As Mueller cuts a deal with a street gang for his weapons, the lights in the warehouse go out. As Mueller and his men drive away with the weapons, Diggle takes on the gang members and knocks them out. Walter tells Moira about finding the boat and the security chief dying. He's doesn't trust her. She doesn't want him to look into it any further. Diggle calls Queen to warn him that Mueller got away. While he's on the phone, a man posing as a butler tries to kill him, and the tracking bracelet is broken in the ensuing scuffle. Lance comes in and shoots the attacker. Lance tells the family he's not sure who attacked Queen. He then takes off the ankle monitor because the vigilante was spotted across town. Queen thanks Lance. Moira meets with the well-dressed man again. He was the one who went after Queen, thinking he was the vigilante. He also had the security chief killed. Moira warns him that if he touches anybody in her family she'll take him down. Another island flashback. Yao Fei takes Queen back to the cave and admits that he's impressed that Oliver didn't break under torture. He reminds him to breathe, gives him the pouch, and heads out to hold off the mercs, sealing the cave mouth with an explosive before Queen has a chance to follow. Laurel brings Queen the polygraph. It turns out there was a slight flutter on an answer she knows he lied about. Queen says if she knew what happened to him on the island she would look at him differently. He tells her there's no way he could possibly aim a bow and arrow, as he's suffering from what happened to him on the island. She says nothing can ever happen between them and he agrees. Queen and Diggle talk about him lying to Laurel. Diggle doesn't think Queen realizes the impact he's having on his family. Queen says he thinks about it all the time. Walter tells Moira he will be flying to Australia on an extended "business trip," he doesn't know how long he will be gone. Lance drowns his sorrows in a bar, and is picked up by Laurel after he has too much to drink. Queen, back in his Arrow guise, corners Mueller and tells him he has failed his city.

S01E04 An Innocent Man

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2319602/synopsis We open with a little bit of the end of last week, as Arrow makes Diggs an antidote for the poison from Dead Shot. For some reason Diggs decides he should take a swing at Queen. Arrow explains he wants him to join his mission, saying his background as a soldier is perfect. Diggs doesn't seem interested and calls him a criminal and a murderer. Queen comes home to Laurel waiting on him. She says his family doesn't deserve the selfishness of him keeping his family in the dark after he was shot at. Queen mentions to Laurel that she's the second friend to rip him a new one that night Queen dreams about the island and trying to communicate with the arrow-wielding gentleman who appears to speak only Chinese. He wakes up and comes downstairs to find Thea watching TV show about a man named Declan who killed his wife a few years back. The two talk about Laurel and he tells her he's not the same guy he used to be. The next morning Moira tells Queen that Diggs has resigned, telling her he didn't approve of "Queen's evenings." The new guy's name is Rob. Moira is also watching a report about Declan, who is set to be executed at midnight the following night. Queen sees that Declan's wife Camille had worked for a man named Brodeur. Queen quickly ditches Rob on his motorcycle. At the Arrow hideout we see that Brodeur's name is on Queen's list. Cut to Brodeur talking to an employee about the fact he had Camille killed because she was going to blow the whistle on his company's chemical dumping. Queen is well aware that Brodeur was probably responsible for Camille's death, meaning an innocent man is about to die. Queen pays Laurel a visit dressed as Arrow. He tells her about Camille wanting to blow the whistle on Brodeur and Declan being innocent. Laurel meets with Declan. She goes through the evidence, which sounds damning. He swears that he's innocent. Walter tells Moira that there is $2 million missing from the company. He thinks it is probably a bookkeeping error. Laurel tells her father what she heard from Declan. Lance says that Camille's supervisor contradicted her story about going to him about the dumping. Queen finds Diggs at the restaurant where his sister Carly works. Queen asks him once again to help him do the same kind of good he did in the military. To convince him, Queen shows him his father's journal. Queen tells him he needs to right the wrongs done by his family. He says he thinks the sniper he took out was his brother-in-law Andy's killer. If he helps him, Diggs will have the chance to help other people's families. Moira tells Walter she thinks the missing money was invested in a friend's start-up a few years back. She'll talk to accounting and have it cleaned up. Walter doesn't look convinced. Laurel tells Joanna who suggested she look into Declan. Laurel meets with Arrow. She tells him about the supervisor, a man named Istook, contradicting Camille's story. Arrow tells her that Istook "hasn't been questioned by me." He says he's hiding his face to protect the people he cares about. Walter asks IT wiz Felicity to discretely look into the disappeared $2.6 million. Arrow pays Istook a visit. After chaining him to some train tracks Istook says he'll give him a file on Brodeur that will help Declan. Another flashback to Queen on the island. He's hungry and the man hints that to eat he'll need to kill a bird. Arrow drops off the file to Laurel. She says the city needs somebody like him. Queen comes home and Thea points out he had a huge grin. He says it's because he's been showing his true self to Laurel. Lance doesn't like the fact Laurel has been working with Arrow. She points out she wouldn't have to be breaking the law if the police had done their job correctly in the first place. He's not happy. Laurel shows a judge the file and asks for a stay of the execution. The judge doesn't agree. Brodeur's lawyer Garrett comes in during the conversation and Laurel promises Brodeur she'll come after him. Brodeur's associates point out to their boss that Laurel will be meeting with Declan at his prison. They have friends in the prison and hint that something bad will happen during the meeting. Laurel tells Arrow about the problems she's having. Arrow says he'll get a confession. Felicity tells Walter the money was used to set up an offshore LLC. It's completely off the books. A few years ago it purchased a warehouse in the city. Diggs tells Carly he misses not making a difference. Arrow tells Brodeur to confess. After Arrow shoots an arrow through Brodeur's hand his phone rings. Arrow learns what is about to happen to Declan. During Laurel's meeting with Declan the lights are turned off and an alarm sounds. A virtual riot breaks out and during the confusion Laurel finds herself in the middle of a bunch of cons. Queen, dressed as a security guard, shows up in the nick of time to get her and Declan to safety. In the process he pounds on a con who tried to choke Laurel and she seems disturbed by his brutality. Outside the prison Lance comes to see his daughter, telling her that Brodeur has confessed. Laurels says she now agrees with him about Arrow, that "he's a killer." She looked in his eyes and saw no remorse. Flash back to a now-starving Queen on the island. He says he's never killed anything before. He grabs the bird and apologizes before breaking its neck. Laurel tells Lance that the vigilante was wearing a guard uniform. This seems to give Lance an idea. Walter pays a visit to the warehouse from Moira's LLC. The password "ROBERT" gets him inside. Inside he finds the wreckage of the Queen's Gambit, the boat Queen and his father were on. Lance has the security footage from the Exchange building shooting examined more closely. He finds video of Queen changing into the Arrow outfit. Queen crosses Brodeur off the list. It turns out the man Queen is with does speak English. He says the only way he'll survive is if he's willing to kill more than the bird and he forgets about the picture of Laurel. Moira meets with a man who shows him a picture of Arrow and says the vigilante it targeting "the list." Diggs pays Queen a visit. He says Queen will need somebody to remind him who he really is. At this point Queen is placed under arrest by Lance.

S01E03 Lone Gunmen

While Queen trains, he explains through voiceover what Arrow is all about. His latest target is James Holder (Tobias Slezak), responsible for defective fire detectors in low-income housing. Arrow confronts Holder, but someone else is watching through a rifle scope. Before Arrow can finish his speech, the rifleman kills Holder and grazes Arrow with another shot. Back in his lair Queen crosses Holder off his list, then falls to the ground, the result of a what he identifies as a poison bullet. He retrieves some herbs from his kit and ingests them as he passes out. Flash back to Queen meeting the mysterious hooded man who shot him when he first arrived on the island. He tells him he shot him to protect him and then pulls out the arrow and disappears. Queen gets to his feet. A drunken Thea (Willa Holland) is brought home by police after stealing some things from a clothing store. Queen criticizes his mother for letting her stay home from school. Lance wonders if Arrow might be behind Holder's shooting death. Queen analyzes the poison, figuring out the shooter was a well-known assassin known as "Dead Shot." He doesn't like this guy because he doesn't kill for justice or honor. Dead Shot is now at the top of Queen's list. Queen is planning to open up a new nightclub. Tommy wants them to check out the competition, a club named "Poison" owned by Max Fuller (Marcus Rosner), whose fiancé Queen happened to have slept with. Diggs points out that the new club Queen wants to open is in a rough part of town. Joanna talks to Laurel about still having feelings for Queen. She wants them to go out that night to help Laurel move on. Moira grounds Thea for two weeks. Queen climbs the side of a building to pull something out of a wall. The police gets back the ballistic report on Holder's murder. Lance still isn't sure and goes to get "my own evidence." Queen determines the shooter was probably working on behalf of the Russian mob. He goes to a garage and asks, in Russian, for someone named Alexi Leonov (Barry Nerling). He shows a tattoo and says his name is "Bratva." He asks for information about Dead Shot. A man named Karl Rasmussen is killed. Lance points out to Walter and Moira that Rasmussen was interested in purchasing a company they were also looking at. The auction for the sale is the following day. Queen and Tommy drop by Poison, making sure to leave Diggle (David Ramsey) at the door. Laurel is there, as is a very drunk Thea. She spills the beans about Tommy and Laurel's romantic relationship and things get awkward. Fuller shows up and promptly punches Queen in the face. Tommy and Queen end up fighting his bodyguards, with Laurel coming to their rescue with some snappy moves of her own. Another flashback to Queen on the island. He wakes up next to the man who shot him and runs outside. He quickly runs into a net. At a restaurant the guys meet Diggle's sister-in-law Carly (Christie Laing). Tommy apologizes to Queen about not telling him about Laurel. Queen doesn't seem worried about it. We learn that Diggle's job somehow got his brother (Carly's husband) killed. Queen gets a call from the Russians, who give him an address for where Dead Shot stayed the last time he was in town. We see Dead Shot looking at blueprints online. Arrow arrives at the hotel room, leading to a fight with Dead Shot. Dead Shot jumps out the window and gets away. Queen pays a visit to a woman named Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) in his IT department. He gives her Dead Shot's damaged laptop in the hopes she can salvage some information. Moira tells Thea a story about how good her father had been at getting through to her. This is first time he's come up in years. Felicity finds the blueprints on Dead Shot's laptop. They are of the place where the auction for that company will be taking place. Queen realizes there are too many locations for Dead Shot to fire from. He'll need help. Arrow grabs Lance and forcefully tells him what he knows about Dead Shot and his weapon of choice. Thea joins her mother and Walter (Colin Salmon) at the auction. Lance has a large team protecting the area. But Dead Shot has already killed one of the officers and taken his post. Tommy drops by Laurel's work to talk about the other night. She says she thinks it was obvious Queen already knew about them. Tommy says he wants to be the kind of man she'll want to be with. Queen is at the auction. He mentions the potential for a shooting to Diggle. At the last minute Lance pushes Walter out of the way, preventing him from being killed. Queen rushes up the stairs, grabbing his Arrow gear on the way. Diggle follows. Arrow and Dead Shot battle. Arrow eventually drops him with a shot through his right eye, but sees that Diggle has been hit. We flashback to the island, as the mystery man releases Queen from the net with a warning about others on the island. Arrow gives Diggle some of his organic antidote for the poison. Diggle struggles into consciousness and sees it was Oliver Queen, unmasked but in his Arrow leathers, who has saved him.

S01E02 Honor Thy Father

Arrow further moves along his fathers list, along with battling his family issues that he has with his mother and especially his sister. He also makes amends on past difficulties with Laurel.

S01E01 Pilot

Billionaire playboy, Oliver Queen, has been considered dead for five years. Now, he has returned. But something, during those five years, has changed him into a mysterious green hooded archer.