Original network Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/The Hood/Green Arrow 2. After an attack on Curtis, Oliver realizes Prometheus is planning to make a deadly move on all of Team Arrow; Felicity and Malone find a clue that ties Prometheus to Oliver's past. Rate. Prometheus goes to extreme lengths to destroy Oliver. Evelyn encounters Prometheus and engages him, managing to cut his arm before being overpowered. [43] The Arrow portion of the crossover is also the series' 100th episode. Worried that Prometheus may be right about him being a killer, Oliver finds a ray of hope in the apparent return of Laurel. Number of episodes Oliver then arrives, but Prometheus escapes. Diggle tries to talk Oliver out of it, reminding him that there are better ways of doing things. Arrow (TV Series 2012–2020) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. [92] Gonzalez confirmed it reflects who the character is. Ramsey said this new helmet can do "extraordinary things", apart from being just about conceallment. Felicity steals one of the stars from Billy to examine it. Source.
The team intercepts the. When Chase's guards try to arrest him, he kills them and leaves his safe house. The Vigilante starts targeting the former, but is opposed by Prometheus, who is revealed to be Chase. TV Schedule. 2. Rate. It helps that the flashbacks were used to fill in a key hole in the Arrow tapestry". In flashbacks, Oliver's violent tendencies come to a head in a confrontation with Anatoly. Anatoly learns that Kovar is planning a coup against the.
In flashbacks, Oliver wants to return to Lian Yu, so Anatoly plans one last heist to help sick children, hoping to convince Oliver to stay, but Oliver still intends to return to Lian Yu in order to stage his dramatic return to Starling City. 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She later tells Oliver that evidence she has discovered suggests that Prometheus could be an SCPD officer; Quentin is shown waking from an alcohol-induced sleep with a slash across his arm and a throwing star in his possession. He added that, since Diggle's codename is Spartan, he decided to make the helmet resemble "an actual spartan helmet design". She praised it for returning to the series' grounded and gritty nature, saying "This is what Arrow should always have been – the slightly grimy street level counterpart to the ever-expanding roster of cheesier, brighter series like Supergirl or Legends of Tomorrow. 1. Season 4 The series was renewed for its fifth season on March 11, 2016, and filming began in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada on July 5, 2016, and ended in April 2017. Season five had a lot riding on it, especially after the shark-jumping events of season four [...] In the end, the show did its job and delivered a complicated crime drama that factored masked heroes in as key cogs in the larger machine – with some aliens thrown in for good measure. In flashbacks, Oliver and Anatoly return to Lian Yu, where they arrange for Oliver's return to Starling City. [95], During the fifth season, Arrow was a part of the "Invasion!" The group defeats all of them, then leaves the dream and awakens inside the ship. [60] Guggenheim expanded upon this, saying John Diggle would be the most notable to be affected. In the fifth season, Oliver trains a new group of vigilantes, Rene Ramirez / Wild Dog (Rick Gonzalez), Curtis Holt / Mister Terrific, Evelyn Sharp / Artemis (Madison McLaughlin), and Rory Regan / Ragman (Joe Dinicol) to join his war on crime following Laurel Lance's death and Diggle and Thea's resignation. Stephen Amell stars as Oliver Queen, with principal cast members David Ramsey as John Diggle, Willa Holland as Thea Queen, Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak, and Paul Blackthorne as Quentin Lance also returning from previous seasons. Investigating Prometheus on his own, Billy sends information he discovers to Felicity just before the villain captures him. The team learns that the Dominator mothership is headed toward Earth. Afterward, Rory formally leaves the team, saying that he cannot work with Felicity. Sixteen months prior, Rene watched as his wife, an addict, was killed by a dealer in front of their daughter. [81] Rick Gonzalez recurs in the role of Wild Dog, based on the DC Comics character of the same name. The showrunners for this season were Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle. Wednesdays at 8:00 pm Oliver finds himself back at Queen Manor; both his parents are alive, he is about to be married to Laurel Lance, and Diggle is The Hood. Felicity and Curtis manage to decode Chase's pixelation device, revealing Prometheus' identity to the police. Oliver is sent a body, identified as Henry Goodwin. Helix tells Felicity they have a way to find Chase but they will need something big, and illegal, from her in return. [63] Although Guggenheim initially stated this Prometheus was an original creation not based on the comics character of the same name created by Grant Morrison,[64] his civilian identity is later revealed as Adrian Chase. Oliver allows the Bratva to steal diabetes medicine as a down-payment, but they are stopped by the team. [78] Former series regulars Susanna Thompson and Manu Bennett returned to the season in guest roles as Moira Queen and Slade Wilson, respectively. Oliver wakes up to a life in which his parents are alive and he is about to marry Laurel; Felicity faces a new threat with the help of The Flash and Supergirl. When Vigilante attacks Oliver while he's acting as mayor, Diggle leads the team on a mission to stop Vigilante for good. The Green Arrow is forced to face a powerful new drug dealer when Wild Dog goes off on his own. Oliver recruits Curtis, Wild Dog and Evelyn Sharp for his team, but his training methods prove to be too much for some to handle. Schedeen concluded with verdict that the series "bounced back from a prolonged slump in Season 5, proving that the series still has plenty of life left. The website's critical consensus reads, "No stranger to dramatic twists and turns, season five of Arrow continues to introduce new villains and surprise viewers despite some inconsistency. Meanwhile, Rene refuses to testify in court so as not to upset Zoe, leading to the judge dismissing his claim. He said the season's biggest flaw was "that it tried to juggle more characters and conflicts than was really feasible", but praised the writers for downplaying Oliver-Felicity's romance in favor of focusing on Felicity's induction into Helix. Disillusioned, Chase asks Oliver to kill him, but Oliver arrests him instead.
Meanwhile, Felicity, Curtis, and Cisco Ramon try to hack into the Dominators' mainframe using a piece of their technology. Currently, the show has 7.9 out of 10 IMDb rating. [71] Echo Kellum, who recurred as Curtis Holt in season four, was promoted to series regular for season five,[72] while Josh Segarra joined the season as Adrian Chase. While Curtis and Dinah track Sampson, the others investigate Goodwin, who is revealed to have been killed by Robert Queen, shocking Thea and Oliver. [69] Instead, the episode, titled "Lian Yu" takes place on the island of the same name. 12 Oct. 2016 The Recruits. Kovar buys sarin gas from Malcolm. S5, Ep2. The earlier helmet was criticized by fans for its resemblance to that worn by the Marvel Comics character Magneto and Poon, a comic book fan himself, thought the new helmet would fix "the issues regarding some of the fan feedback about [the older helmet] looking similar to other comic book characters". Flashbacks show that Oliver killed Claybourne after discovering that he financed a tuberculosis epidemic, then raised the price on his drug to boost his company's profits. Their escape attempt is blocked by manifestations of Malcolm Merlyn, Deathstroke, Damien Darhk, and their mercenaries. Oliver and Lyla team up on a secret mission for Diggle. Oliver tries to balance vigilantism with his new role as mayor, yet is threatened by the mysterious and deadly Prometheus (Josh Segarra), who has a connection to Oliver's past. Original run Oliver rejoins the team, taking out the Bratva and saving hostages that Anatoly had taken as leverage. "[75], Reviewing the season premiere, Caroline Preece of Den of Geek called it "a return to the heights of season one in all the best ways". Rate. Oliver takes him and Lyla to a, Oliver rescues Rene, who tells him that he gave up Green Arrow's true identity to Church.