Arrow

2012
4.7
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Season 5 episodes (24)

1 Legacy
10/5/16
Season-only
After Laurel’s death and the departures of both Diggle and Thea from Team Arrow, Oliver takes to the streets solo to protect Star City’s citizens as the Green Arrow. With Felicity guiding him from the bunker, Oliver is forced to deal with a city that has become overrun with both criminals and a slew of new (and painfully inexperienced) vigilantes. Watching Oliver try to balance his jobs as both the mayor and also the protector of Star City, Felicity suggests he form a new team, but Oliver resists. However, when a deadly new criminal, Tobias Church (guest star CHAD L. COLEMAN), enters the picture, Oliver realizes the best thing for the city might be a new team of super heroes. Meanwhile, the flashbacks take us to Russia where Oliver faces off against the Bratva.
2 Recruits
10/12/16
Season-only
Oliver’s new recruits for Team Arrow are Curtis, Wild Dog (guest star RICK GONZALEZ) and Evelyn Sharp (guest star MADISON McLAUGHLIN). Unfortunately, the Green Arrow’s training methods prove to be too much for some of them to handle. Meanwhile, in the flashbacks, Oliver’s initiation into the Bratva continues.
3 A Matter of Trust
10/19/16
Season-only
Now that Oliver has his new team, they are ready to hit the streets but Oliver doesn’t feel they are ready. Headstrong Wild Dog defies the Green Arrow’s orders and sets out on his own after a new drug dealer, Garret Runnels (guest star CODY RHODES), who is terrorizing Star City. Runnels proves more powerful than Wild Dog, leaving it up to the Green Arrow to go head-to-head with Runnels to save his teammate.
4 Penance
10/26/16
Season-only
Oliver and Lyla (recurring guest star AUDREY MARIE ANDERSON) team up on a secret mission for Diggle. When Felicity finds out, she disapproves of the plan and opts to stay behind. But when Tobias Church launches a deadly assault against the city, Felicity must decide if she wants to send the recruits out without the Green Arrow to lead them.
5 Human Target
11/2/16
Season-only
When Tobias Church captures and tortures one of Oliver’s new recruits, Oliver must turn to an old friend, Christopher Chance (guest star WIL TRAVAL) aka the Human Target, for help. Meanwhile, Felicity’s worlds collide when Detective Malone (guest star TYLER RITTER) joins the ACU.
6 So It Begins
11/9/16
Season-only
When Prometheus ups his killing spree, Oliver searches for connections between the victims. Felicity and Curtis discover the victims have a mysterious link to Oliver’s past and this new secret could upend his new team. Meanwhile, Thea has a heart-to-heart with Quentin, and Felicity considers telling Malone the truth about her work.
7 Vigilante
11/16/16
Season-only
When the bodies of two criminals are dropped at SCPD, Oliver realizes there is a new Vigilante in Star City. The team is split about whether they should stop someone who is helping keep the city safe. Diggle is frustrated with his new situation and Thea fights for Quentin who confesses a shocking secret. Meanwhile, in the flashbacks, Oliver finally sits down with Konstantin Kovar (guest star DOLPH LUNDGREN).
8 Invasion!
11/30/16
Season-only
In the 100th episode and second part of the epic Super Hero Crossover, Oliver wakes up to a life where he never got on The Queen’s Gambit. Robert (guest star JAMEY SHERIDAN) and Moira Queen (guest star SUSANNA THOMPSON) are alive and well. Laurel (guest star KATIE CASSIDY) is his loving fiancée and their wedding is imminent. Everything seems perfect, but Oliver starts to notice small imperfections that make him question this new reality. Meanwhile, Felicity and the Recruits take on a new threat with help from The Flash (guest star GRANT GUSTIN) and Supergirl (guest star MELISSA BENOIST).
9 What We Leave Behind
12/7/16
Season-only
After Prometheus attacks Curtis, Oliver realizes that Prometheus knows all of Team Arrow’s secret identities and is planning to come for them one by one. Felicity and Detective Malone (guest star TYLER RITTER) discover a clue that links Prometheus to Oliver’s past.
10 Who Are You?
1/25/17
Season-only
Worried that Prometheus is right and that he truly is a killer, Oliver looks for any ray of hope and finds it in what seems to be the miraculous return of Laurel Lance (guest star KATIE CASSIDY). Felicity, however, is still reeling from Billy Malone’s murder and bent on revenge – wanting to stop Prometheus at any cost. Meanwhile, Diggle fights for his life in prison.
11 Second Chances
2/1/17
Season-only
In his quest to take down Kovar, Oliver gets help from a surprising source – Talia al Ghul (guest star LEXA DOIG). However, when she reveals what she wants from him in exchange, Oliver isn’t sure he can accept her help. Felicity attempts to hack the NSA to help free Diggle, but when her online efforts are flagged, she faces off against an unknown adversary. Meanwhile, Curtis tells the team about a female vigilante, Tina Boland (guest star JULIANA HARKAVAY), he uncovered online who has been wreaking havoc all over the country.
12 Bratva
2/8/17
Season-only
A mission takes Oliver, Felicity and the team to Russia where they meet up with Oliver’s old friend, Anatoly (guest star DAVID NYKL). Meanwhile, fresh out of rehab, Quentin Lance returns to the Mayor’s Office ready to get back to work. However, when Susan (guest star CARLY POPE) asks for an interview with Lance to discuss his addiction, he balks and it’s up to Rene to help keep things on track.
13 Spectre of the Gun
2/15/17
Season-only
A traumatic attack on City Hall triggers painful memories for Rene about his family. Flashbacks reveal how Rene went from simple family man to a hero named Wild Dog. Meanwhile, Oliver must deal with the perpetrator behind the attack and realizes the best way to do so is as Mayor Queen instead of the Green Arrow. And tensions run high in the Arrow bunker.
14 The Sin-Eater
2/22/17
Season-only
China White (guest star KELLY HU), Cupid (guest star AMY GUMENICK) and Liza Warner (guest star RUTINA WESLEY) break out of Iron Heights and head to Star City for revenge. While Oliver tries to bring in the newly formed girl gang, the ACU intervenes mid-fight. To his surprise, they are there to arrest the Green Arrow for the murder of Detective Malone. Meanwhile, Lance feels responsible for the prison break after Warner tells him she heard about him working with Damien Darhk..
15 Fighting Fire With Fire
3/1/17
Season-only
While Felicity continues down her dark path with Helix, Oliver faces his biggest challenge yet as mayor. After Vigilante attacks Oliver while he’s acting as mayor, Diggle leads the team in a mission to stop Vigilante once and for all.
16 Checkmate
3/15/17
Season-only
Oliver gets closer to the truth about Prometheus. Meanwhile, Helix refuses to continue helping Felicity until she does a favor for them.
17 Kapiushon
3/22/17
Season-only
Prometheus (JOSH SEGARRA) goes to great lengths to break Oliver. Meanwhile, in flashbacks, Anatoly becomes worried about Oliver’s increasingly violent tendencies, which come to a head in a brutal confrontation.
18 Disbanded
3/29/17
Season-only
Diggle and Felicity are shocked by Oliver’s decision to call on the Bratva to help take down Prometheus. Concerned that the Bratva may overstep, Diggle has a hard conversation with Oliver about what happens if things go wrong. Meanwhile, Felicity learns something shocking at Helix.
19 Dangerous Liaisons
4/26/17
Season-only
Oliver, Team Arrow and the SCPD kick off a citywide manhunt for Adrian Chase. Helix tells Felicity they have a way to find Chase, but they will need something – big and illegal – from her in return.
20 Underneath
5/3/17
Season-only
Things get intense when Oliver and Felicity are trapped in the bunker together. Meanwhile, Lyla and Diggle deal with their marital issues.
21 Honor Thy Fathers
5/10/17
Season-only
Oliver returns to the Mayor’s Office and faces one of his most pressing issues yet – the forced release of dozens of violent criminals prosecuted by Adrian Chase. Meanwhile, a crate is delivered to Oliver’s office containing a mysterious corpse encased in concrete.
22 Missing
5/17/17
Season-only
Black Siren (KATIE CASSIDY) returns to help Chase. Felicity organizes a birthday party for Oliver while Lance is furious when Rene misses the custody hearing for his daughter.
23 Lian Yu
5/24/17
Season-only
The battle between Oliver and Adrian Chase culminates in a final epic battle on the island of Lian Yu. After recent events, Oliver decides to recruit a group of unlikely allies – Slade Wilson/Deathstroke (guest star MANU BENNETT), Nyssa (guest star KATRINA LAW), Malcolm Merlyn and Digger Harkness (guest star NICK. E. TARABAY) – to defeat Chase. However, Chase has his own army – Black Siren, Evelyn Sharp and Talia al Ghul – and the forces collide in an explosive season finale.
101 2016 Comic-Con Panel
9/5/16
Season-only
The cast and executive producers of Arrow talk about the upcoming season at the San Diego Comic-Con.

About this show

Reinventing the DC Comics character, the Arrow is not a superhero … but a hero – every bit as dangerous as the criminals he's hunting. After being marooned for five years on a remote island, billionaire Oliver Queen returns home with a mysterious agenda and lethal set of new skills that he uses in a war on crime in this action series.

Ratings and reviews

4.7
1.55K reviews
handsome DRAC
November 21, 2016
I hope this is the last season (5) because if Oliver Queen spent 5 years shipwrecked before returning to Star city and each season represents a year spent on that "island" (thru flashbacks), then this should be the last season. The flashbacks are getting ridiculous anyways. Season 1 he always talks about his 5 years of hell on the island. Then later seasons he is hong kong and goes back to star city momentarily then back to the island and now he is in Russia. Just want season 5 to be the last.
23 people found this review helpful
Skye
April 9, 2018
Most of the shows for DC are good but I find that arrow has such bad arks in it. Good guys who dick moves to there "friends" that they dont really want to be pissing off. God like bad guys that could only be killed to really solve the problem. I cant even remember if the bad guy for this season even has a face yet. The first reason I stopped watching arrow was because of the relationship between Oliver and felicity was teased for years and when they finally got together Felicity just ended it out of no where. It didn't make any sense to her character at all, it just added drama for the show. Yes action happens but it doesnt really have good story behind any of it. I would suggest any of the other DC shows but not Arrow as the story telling is really just lacking in this show.
21 people found this review helpful
Ilia Draznin
November 25, 2014
The first season of Arrow started a bit weak, but towards the end and especially starting with season 2 it has picked up steam and has been getting better since. Stories are interesting, the action is good, but to me it's really the cast that makes it. They're all pretty awesome and infuse the characters with a lot of personality and fun.