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Team Arrow gears up to rescue Ray Palmer. Felicity and Oliver work out some issues with the help of Felicity's mom. Sarah struggles to control her bloodlust in the field. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight on Nov 12, 2015 - 15 comments

Oliver calls in a favor from old friend John Constantine when things with Sara take a turn for the worse. [more inside]
posted by numaner on Nov 6, 2015 - 12 comments

Oliver tells his team that he is running for mayor. They are not impressed. The new Arrow Cave is pretty shiny, though. Laurel reveals Sarah to Lance; Team Arrow confronts some rogue members of the anti-vigilante task force; Oliver confronts Lance about working with Damien Darhk. Subplots progress slightly. Sarah escapes.
posted by kittensofthenight on Oct 29, 2015 - 11 comments

The tension between Oliver and Diggle puts them at risk when they target Damien Darhk and a meta-human; Laurel convinces Thea to return to Nanda Parbat to request Sara be put into the Lazarus Pit.
posted by kittensofthenight on Oct 22, 2015 - 7 comments

Oliver and Thea are concerned when a family friend plans to run for mayor; Thea starts to exhibit side effects from the Lazarus Pit; Felicity asks an employee for help with a business decision.
posted by kittensofthenight on Oct 15, 2015 - 16 comments

Oliver and Felicity's blissful getaway comes to an abrupt end when Laurel and Thea ask for their help; Diggle is opposed to working with Oliver. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight on Oct 8, 2015 - 13 comments

Everyone's lives are in danger as Ra's al Ghul puts forth his final plan. Oliver/Al Sah-him must decide if he's strong enough to take on this new role and what it will mean for everyone on Team Arrow, and his soul. [more inside]
posted by inturnaround on May 14, 2015 - 39 comments

Barry and his allies try to prepare for the Reverse Flash's endgame, but their only way forward may be through Captain Cold and his Rogues. [more inside]
posted by Holy Zarquon's Singing Fish on May 13, 2015 - 20 comments

Malcolm convinces Team Arrow to return to Nanda Parbat to stop a Ra's fast-tracked plan to destroy Starling City. Oliver winks at the camera and ruins most of the tension. There are some amazing fights. Roy and Thea have some moments. [more inside]
posted by kittensofthenight on May 6, 2015 - 21 comments

Oliver (but not Oliver) spends time in Nada Parbat, and then visits Starling. [more inside]
posted by sardonyx on May 3, 2015 - 12 comments

Joe and Cisco head to Starling City to continue their investigation of Dr. Wells. While in town, the duo enlists the help of Captain Lance, and Cisco meets the Black Canary, who asks him for a favor. Meanwhile, back in Central City, Barry races to catch a meta-human named Hannibal Bates who can transform himself into every person he touches – which includes Eddie, Iris, Caitlin and even The Flash.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Apr 23, 2015 - 21 comments

Ra's al Ghul keeps demanding. Oliver keeps denying. Roy keeps confessing. Ray keeps failing. Captain Lance keeps seething. [more inside]
posted by inturnaround on Apr 16, 2015 - 17 comments

Barry is surprised when Felicity Smoak arrives from Starling City along with her boyfriend, Ray Palmer, who flies in as the Atom. They've come to visit S.T.A.R. Labs as Ray needs help with his suit. Their timing turns out to be fortuitous because it’s all hands on deck after a meta human named Brie Larvin unleashes hundreds of robotic bees to attack and kill her former co-workers, including Dr. Tina McGee. A group dinner with Barry, Felicity, Ray, Iris and Eddie turns into a disaster.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich on Apr 15, 2015 - 20 comments

During an attack on the mayor's office, Ray is critically injured. Felicity is pleasantly surprised when her mother, Donna Smoak, shows up at the hospital to offer her support. With the SCPD out in full force, looking for the assailant, Oliver and his team work hard to stay one step ahead of the police to find the man responsible.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Apr 1, 2015 - 17 comments

Dig and Lyla get some action (although not the kind they were expecting), the Suicide Squad pops up again, the League of Assassins continues to frame the Arrow for murder, Ray Palmer rubs everybody the wrong way, and the A.T.O.M. suit gets its first combat field test.
posted by soundguy99 on Mar 29, 2015 - 23 comments

Oliver gets a job offer and takes a grand tour. Thea has a house guest. Captain Lance gives up something for Lent. [more inside]
posted by inturnaround on Mar 19, 2015 - 18 comments

Merlyn is captured by the League. Ray becomes obsessed with finishing the A.T.O.M. suit. [more inside]
posted by inturnaround on Feb 26, 2015 - 17 comments

Truth is busting out all over! Thea finds out Oliver's secret identity and actually takes it pretty well. Laurel gets shot up with Vertigo and hallucinates an angry Sara all over the place, and... well, eventually another ugly truth has to come out. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Feb 12, 2015 - 10 comments

Oliver returns to town, while Team Arrow does something about that Brick guy once and for all. Malcolm Merlyn's on the killing warpath again and wants to join Team Arrow. But will they let him? [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on Feb 5, 2015 - 29 comments

As Diggle, Felicity and Roy start to fear the worst after Oliver's disappearance, Melyn continues to scheme, Ray gets a new suit, and another vigilante appears in Starling.
posted by the man of twists and turns on Jan 22, 2015 - 25 comments

Part 2 of the Flash/Arrow crossover. Part 1 is The Flash: Flash vs. Arrow, in which Oliver & the team visited the Flash to ask for S.T.A.R. Labs' assistance in analyzing a boomerang used as a murder weapon. Now, back in Starling City, tracking the boomerang winds up putting Arrow into the middle of an A.R.G.U.S. operation. [more inside]
posted by soundguy99 on Dec 4, 2014 - 22 comments

Central City meets Starling City! The Flash teams up with the Arrow to take on a rage-inducing, bank robbing metahuman.
posted by brundlefly on Dec 2, 2014 - 20 comments

Arrow and the team try to make a major bust, only to find the criminals dead and hung by their heels. There may be new vigilantes in Starling City, and murderous ones at that. More murders send them down the trail of Laurel's boxing trainer, Ted Grant, who has secrets in his past. Roy confesses that he's been having visions of killing Sara. [more inside]
posted by soundguy99 on Nov 15, 2014 - 6 comments

Nyssa al Ghul returns to Starling City looking for Sara. Oliver informs her that Sara was killed; Oliver sends Roy to follow Nyssa after it is clear that she knows more about who could have killed Sara. Nyssa is tracked to Sara's old safe house, where Nyssa reveals to Oliver that Malcolm Merlyn is alive and Sara was sent by the League to confirm his existence. After tracking Malcolm, Oliver agrees to meet him in a public location to discuss Sara's death. Malcolm tells Oliver that he did not kill Sara, but only returned to Starling City to take care of Thea. Nyssa kidnaps Thea in an attempt to draw Malcolm out, but Oliver arrives to rescue Thea. Malcolm arrives shortly after to clear his name and insinuates to Nyssa that it was her father, Ra's al Ghul, that had Sara killed. Nyssa does not believe him, but Oliver does and vows to protect Malcolm for as long as he is in Starling. Nyssa warns Oliver that he has made a serious enemy in the League before leaving and reporting back to her father. In flashbacks, Oliver completes his first assassination, and learns that Amanda Waller was behind Edward Fyers' actions on the island.
posted by Kitteh on Nov 1, 2014 - 13 comments

Oliver, Roy, and Diggle go on "vacation" and Thea's life gets complicated again. Meanwhile, back in Starling City, Laurel searches for ways to cope with her sister's death.
posted by soundguy99 on Oct 22, 2014 - 18 comments

Team Arrow mourns Sara's death by searching for her killer.
posted by rue72 on Oct 16, 2014 - 18 comments

With crime at an all-time low, Oliver lets his guard down and is taken by surprise by a new villain.
posted by oh yeah! on Oct 8, 2014 - 28 comments

Slade moves forward with his plan to kill one more person in Oliver’s life. While Oliver has fought all year to be more than the killer he once was, when Slade kidnaps someone close to Oliver’s heart, Oliver is pushed to the edge and realizes sometimes it takes doing the unthinkable to stop the monster. Meanwhile, Diggle takes on Amanda Waller with a little help from some friends, and Thea turns to Roy in her time of need. [more inside]
posted by royalsong on May 15, 2014 - 29 comments

Oliver marches toward a city-wide confrontation. [more inside]
posted by Quonab on May 7, 2014 - 19 comments