Season 5
🎬 23 Episodes 📅 2016 ⏱ 43 min
A privileged playboy emerges from five years of isolation transformed into something darker and more dangerous than anyone imagined. Arrow stalks Starling City's nights, armed with a bow and a ruthless mission to destroy the criminals his family's wealth protected. What begins as vengeance evolves into a redemption story that questions whether a broken man can ever truly save a broken city, or if his own darkness will consume everything he touches.
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📊 Season Stats
23
Episodes
2016
Year
43
min / ep
16.5
Watch Hours
5/8
Season No.
⭐ 8.6
Best Episode
Ep. 23 · Lian Yu
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🎬 Episodes 23 episodes
1
⭐ 7.3
Legacy
A deadly new criminal, Tobias Church, threatens Star City, which forces Oliver to consider forming a new team of superheroes to help him do battle. In flashbacks, Oliver faces off against the Bratva in Russia.
🎬 James Bamford
2
⭐ 7.3
The Recruits
Oliver recruits Curtis, Wild Dog and Evelyn Sharp for his team, but his training methods prove to be too much for some to handle. In flashbacks, Oliver continues his initiation into the Bratva.
🎬 James Bamford ✍️ Beth Schwartz
3
⭐ 7.5
A Matter of Trust
The Green Arrow is forced to face a powerful new drug dealer when Wild Dog goes off on his own.
🎬 Gregory Smith ✍️ Ben Sokolowski
4
⭐ 7.5
Penance
Oliver and Lyla team up on a secret mission for Diggle. Felicity finds out and disapproves of the plan and opts to stay behind. When Tobias Church launches a deadly assault against the city, Felicity must decide if she wants to send the recruits out sans the Green Arrow.
🎬 Dermott Downs ✍️ Brian Ford Sullivan
5
⭐ 7.8
Human Target
When Tobias Church captures and tortures one of Oliver's new recruits, Oliver must turn to an old friend, Christopher Chance AKA the Human Target, for help. Meanwhile, Felicity's worlds collide when Detective Malone joins the ACU.
🎬 Laura Belsey ✍️ Oscar Balderrama
6
⭐ 7.3
So It Begins
Prometheus claims two more victims, and Oliver realizes that the killings are related to the people on his father's list. His recruits aren't happy to hear that Oliver used to be a serial killer. In the past, Oliver finally meets Kovar and may not live to regret it.
🎬 John Behring ✍️ Wendy Mericle
7
⭐ 7.3
Vigilante
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 Lance who confesses a shocking secr…
🎬 Gordon Verheul ✍️ Ben Sokolowski
8
⭐ 7.6
Invasion! (III)
Oliver wakes up to a life where he never got on The Queen’s Gambit. Robert and Moira Queen are alive and well. Laurel 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, Fel…
🎬 James Bamford
9
⭐ 7.8
What We Leave Behind
After Prometheus attacks Curtis, Oliver realizes Prometheus knows all of Team Arrow's secret identities and is planning to come for them one by one. Felicity and Detective Malone discover a clue that links Prometheus to Oliver's past.
🎬 Antonio Negret ✍️ Wendy Mericle
10
⭐ 7.2
Who Are You?
Worried that Prometheus is right and he is truly a killer at heart, Oliver looks for any ray of hope and finds it in what seems to be the miraculous return of Laurel Lance. However Felicity, still reeling from Detective Malone's murder, is bent on revenge - she wants to stop Prometheus at any cost. …
🎬 Gregory Smith ✍️ Ben Sokolowski
11
⭐ 7.5
Second Chances
In his quest to take down Kovar, Oliver gets help from a surprising source - Talia al Ghul. 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 face…
🎬 Mark Bunting ✍️ Speed Weed
12
⭐ 7.2
Bratva
A mission takes Oliver, Felicity and team to Russia where they meet up with Oliver's old friend, Anatoly. Meanwhile, fresh out of rehab, Lance returns to the mayor's office ready to get back to work. However, when Susan asks for an interview with Lance to discuss his addiction, he balks and it's up …
🎬 Ben Hernandez Bray ✍️ Emilio Ortega Aldrich
13
⭐ 6.9
Spectre of the Gun
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…
🎬 Kristin Windell ✍️ Marc Guggenheim
14
⭐ 7.4
The Sin-Eater
China White, Cupid and Liza Warner break out of Iron Heights and head to Star City for revenge. Oliver tries to bring in the newly formed girl gang but the ACU intervenes mid-fight. To his surprise, they are there to arrest the Green Arrow for the murder of Det. Malone. Meanwhile, Lance feels respon…
🎬 Mary Lambert ✍️ Jenny Lynn
15
⭐ 7.4
Fighting Fire with Fire
Oliver faces his biggest challenge yet as mayor. Felicity continues down her dark path with Helix. After Vigilante attacks Oliver while he's acting as the mayor, Diggle leads the team in a mission to stop Vigilante once and for all.
🎬 Michael Schultz ✍️ Ben Sokolowski
16
⭐ 7.5
Checkmate
Oliver gets closer to the truth about Prometheus. Meanwhile, Helix refuses to continue helping Felicity until she does a favor for them.
🎬 Ken Shane ✍️ Beth Schwartz
17
⭐ 8.0
Kapiushon
Prometheus goes to extreme lengths to destroy Oliver. In flashbacks, Oliver's violent tendencies come to a head in a confrontation with Anatoly.
🎬 Kevin Tancharoen ✍️ Emilio Ortega Aldrich
18
⭐ 7.4
Disbanded
Diggle and Felicity are shocked by Oliver's decision to ask the Bratva for help in taking down Prometheus.
🎬 J.J. Makaro ✍️ Rebecca Bellotto
19
⭐ 6.9
Dangerous Liaisons
Oliver, Team Arrow, ARGUS 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.
🎬 Joel Novoa ✍️ Speed Weed
20
⭐ 7.2
Underneath
Oliver and Felicity get trapped in the bunker together, while Diggle and Lyla deal with marital issues.
🎬 Wendey Stanzler ✍️ Wendy Mericle
21
⭐ 7.1
Honor Thy Fathers
Oliver faces the forced release of criminals prosecuted by Adrian Chase, while a crate is delivered to Oliver's office containing a corpse in concrete.
🎬 Laura Belsey ✍️ Marc Guggenheim
22
⭐ 7.5
Missing
Black Siren returns to give Chase help; Felicity plans a birthday party for Oliver; Lance is angry with Rene for missing the custody hearing about his daughter.
🎬 Mairzee Almas ✍️ Oscar Balderrama
23
⭐ 8.6
Lian Yu
Oliver assembles a group of unlikely allies - Slade, Nyssa, Merlyn and Digger Harkness - to engage in an epic battle against Chase and his army.
🎬 Jesse Warn ✍️ Marc Guggenheim