User blog:Nightslayer2/Arrow Rewrite Part I (Nightslayer2 Version)

After seeing Taw2541's rewrite of Arrow, I decided to do one of my one while borrowing ideas from everyone's blogs that I liked and I even added some stuff from the comics.

Season 1
-Making Starling City have had problems before Oliver returned from his 5 years from the United States. The first problem would be where Justin Claybourne would illegally and forcibly evicts people from the houses standing on the sites chosen for the building of his hotels. Claybourne has also been testing a vaccine on illegal immigrants turning into monsters that Starling had problems with. Laurel's friend Joanna discovers the ties between the monsters and Claybourne Pharmaceuticals (after Oliver returns from Lian Yu, the monsters are terrorizing Starling City while he is away). Joanna then gets killed by Claybourne's associate Constatine Drakon and Oliver kills Claybourne as well as Drakon in revenge since he and Joanna started dating after he returns from Lian Yu much to Laurel's dismay. It's loosely based on Into the World of Heroes.

-Another issue Starling City and Quentin Lance would have before the Arrow is the Dark Archer (Malcolm tried to protect the Glades as the Dark Archer before feeling that the neighborhood was beyond saving). A young Quentin Lance and his partner Albert Davis would have been trying to catch the Dark Archer. When the Arrow suddenly appears, Lance believes the Arrow to be either a copycat or the Dark Archer with a new identity while hunting him down.

-Roy is a heroin addict living in the Glades. It's based on Green Lantern vol. 2, #85–86 in September and November 1971. Once Roy's secret was discovered, his mother throws Roy out on the street. Everything is the same with Roy meeting Thea. Roy eventually agrees to go to rehab for his heroin addiction after being saved by the Arrow from Joseph Falk, the Savior of the Glades.

-Introduce Eddie Feyers as the Queen family butler played by James Remar. Hackett would be the villain in the flashbacks played by Sebastian Dunn. Eddie deduces Oliver is the Arrow and starts killing people on the list to protect Ollie. Ollie finds out and makes Eddie join his team not before convincing him to give the criminals a list a chance to make things right before killing them if they fail. As for John Diggle, he is introduced as a police detective in Star City who tries to catch Dead Shot since Dead Shot killed his brother Andy. Diggle is shot during the fight. In order to save Diggle's life, Oliver is forced to reveal his dual identity to him. Oliver offers Diggle a chance to fight at his side and help the city, which the latter refuses. Diggle eventually accepts though. Like in the comics, Eddie is a former C.I.A. agent.

Season 2
-Laurel and Sara’s reconciliation is different as I disliked how Laurel was the one apologizing. Instead, Laurel explains to Sara all the events that happened to her since her apparent death. She tells Sara that for years she dealt with any grief or mishap like it didn’t affect her but eventually couldn’t do that anymore once Tommy died, so she instead start blaming others like the Arrow, Oliver, and eventually Sara. Laurel then mentions that she realizes that she has been unknowing blaming Sara for years, but Laurel tells Sara she is not at fault for her recent decisions as of late. She also tells Sara that as much as she has hated her and blamed her, she has loved and missed her more.I already made Roy a drug addict, Laurel is just stressed and getting therapy for treatment. -After Isabel Rochev takes Queen Consolidated away, Eddie opens up a tailor shop using his life savings and gives Oliver as well as Thea a roof over their heads for the time being and still does in season 3.

Season 3
-Ra's Al Ghul's origin is similar to Batman: Birth of the Demon (1992) by Dennis O'Neil and Norm Breyfogle. As told in Birth of the Demon, Ra's al Ghul was born over 600 years before his first appearance in Batman comics, to a Bedouin tribe of nomads in a desert somewhere in the Arabian Peninsula, near a city whose inhabitants' ancestors had journeyed there from Morocco. Developing an interest in the sciences at an early age, Ra's abandoned his tribe to live in the city, where he pursued life as a researcher. He subsequently became a physician and married a woman named Sora. Ra's discovered the secret of the Lazarus Pit, and he saves a dying prince by lowering him into it. The prince, who is sadistic to begin with, is driven completely insane by the Lazarus Pit. He proceeds to strangle Sora, on whom he has already had his eye for some time. The sultan, unwilling to admit to himself his son's culpability, declares Ra's guilty of the crime and sentences him to a slow, tortured death in a cage with Sora's corpse.Ra's is set free by the son of a dying elderly woman, who Ra's had earlier examined. The son feels that he owes Ra's a debt for easing his mother's suffering during her last few hours. Ra's and the son head into the desert to seek the tribe of Ra's' birth. Ra's convinces the head of his tribe, his uncle, to follow Ra's in his quest for revenge by promising the downfall of the sultan. By understanding the germ theory of disease hundreds of years before anyone else, Ra's is able to infect the prince with a deadly virus by sending him contaminated fabrics. When the sultan comes to ask Ra's to cure the prince again, Ra's kills both him and his son. Ra's then leads his tribe to raze the city to the ground and kill all of its inhabitants. Subsequently, Ra's declares himself "Ra's al Ghul", the "Demon's Head". Like in Batman: Birth of the Demon this would provide a rough figure of 500 years for Ra's al Ghul's age. Due to living so long, he is assumed to have lost track of how old he is.

-Make Count Wallenstein a former member of the League of Assassins. It be like the Nest of Vipers. Team Arrow and team Flash seek to eliminate the bizarre energy that threatens to kill the Scarlet Speedster. They go to Markovia to confront Count Wallenstein. Everyone thinks that Wallenstein had Sara killed since Sara was sent by the League to dismantle his operations in Star City. However, it's still gonna be Thea who killed Sara because of Merlyn drugging her. Though of noble heritage, Wallenstein's family lost their fortunes and had to flee to Canada. While there, Wallenstein became involved with organized crime, using the profits from his illegal activities to finance return to Vlatava and reclaim his birthright. Though appearing to be a kind and benevolent monarch, he continues to be involved in organized crime, using the alias Count Vertigo.

-Eddie leaves Team Arrow feeling betrayed by Oliver for not trusting him in his plan to infiltrate the League.

Season 4
-Barely any magic. The only time there is magic is when Constantine comes to fix Sara after Malcolm revives her. It'll be just Team Arrow vs. the power couple of Damian Dark and Ruve Adams. Damian Dark will be a masked villain known as Death Dealer who is terrorizing the city through the Ghosts. The Ghosts are members of the Star City FBI that Dhark/Death Dealer successfully corrupted using his mind control pill. There will still be magic like in the flashbacks.

-Originally Willa Holland wanted to leave the show in the fourth season, so Damian Dhark/Death Dealer stabs her to death in prison and kills Felicity in the mid-season finale making Oliver go to the dark side.

-Rather than Oliver learning magic, he'll be training with Natas on Lian Yu to embrace his darker traits after Dark/Death Dealer kills Laurel. Like in the comics, Natas spends weeks beating him silly, attacking and trying to kill him, and always fighting dirty (Laurel compares this to the scenes in the Pink Panther that Quentin would enjoy when Inspector Clouseau is attacked by Cato, except less amusing). Natas puts Ollie through a brutal trial of martial combat. Over the course of many nights, Ollie hones his body to perfection and transforms himself into a living weapon. With Felicity gone, Palmer Tech is no longer funding his campaign, so Oliver uses Natas' resources to play the stock market, robbing several corrupt corporations of over a billion dollars as financial aid. Natas then says goodbye to Oliver, and leaves a note behind for him, the note reading "I have sent an army to kill you". Ollie calls Connor and Mia to attention and tells them to prepare for a fight. Natas leaves Oliver Queen and his friends with a parting gift – a squadron of some of the world's deadliest assassins – and they have all been assigned to kill him. Ollie brings all of his allied masters together inside of a cave. Before they can realize what he is doing, Ollie sets off a detonator, which seals the cave. He doesn't want to place Roy or Laurel into a situation where they might have to question their principles. Ollie runs off into the night to greet his attackers. For the next two hours, Ollie races about the island playing cat and mouse games with the hired killers. He baits several of them into any number of a series of traps, and uses their own skills and insights against them. He corrals many of them to one side of the island, then sets off another explosive charge, blocking their escape route. Ollie finally defeats enough of the hired guns that a stalemate is called. Roy and the others manage to free themselves from the cave, and apprehend the remaining killers.

-Eddie Feyers returns after learning Thea has died and tries to reason with Oliver to not kill Dhark by pointing out that if he kills him, then he will be destroying a part of himself. Oliver refuses to listen. During the street fight, Eddie is the one who kills Dhark before Oliver could. Oliver admits to Laurel that he would've killed Dhark if Eddie had not beat him to it.

Season 5
-I like Chad Coleman, I really do. But I would make him portray Reggie Mandell (look him up) rather than Tobias Church. Mandell would still have Church's role where he tries to reunite Star City's criminal enterprises into his own leadership.

- Here's why Curtis would join the team, it be based on the Green Arrow story arc Gauntlet. Oliver is informed by Captain Pike and D.A. Chase that a series of attacks have happened towards homosexuals. Curtis and Paul buy one white rose to celebrate their seventh anniversary. The couple leaves, wandering down Broadway happily, until an unseen figure brandishing a wrench brutally attacks them, leaving their bloodied bodies in the middle of the street. Green Arrow visits Curtis in the hospital and promises to catch his Paul's killer. Oliver disguises himself as a gay man and he is soon attacked by three young gang members. He overpowers them. Elsewhere, Reggi Mandell, the leader of the Warhogs, performs a surprise inspection on operations in Star City where his man Kebo has been running things for him. Business is booming, with recruitment, drugs, prostitution, protection all doing well. Reggie provides his people with cocaine, but he abstains because it gives him an edge over them. Suddenly, an arrow shoots through the couch beside, and a surprised Reggie finds that Green Arrow has his bow trained on him. Oliver reveals that Kebo has been drawing negative attention to the Warhogs by coordinating the recent attacks against homosexuals. Oliver adds that Kebo has a personal vendetta against homosexuals because he was twice a victim of gang rape while in prison. Despite this, Reggie states that Oliver won't have earned the right to be heard until he himself runs the Warhogs' initiation gauntlet. Oliver agrees, taking a heavy beating, and eventually having to drag himself to the end of the line. While successful, he is badly hurt. When asked what he wants, Oliver explains that it's only a matter of time before the police follow the same trail he did to find Kebo. With the pressure on, a desperate Kebo reveals that he contracted AIDS as a result of his rape, which he felt justified the murder of homosexuals. Green Arrow knocks his gun away, but Reggie shoots Kebo dead, claiming that the Warhogs take care of their own. Before leaving, Oliver states that he is going to make himself a problem for the Warhogs in Star City. Like Church, Mandell still comes into conflict with Prometheus since his initiation almost killed the Green Arrow. Rather than Janet Carol and AmerTek being the ones who provide free healthcare in the Glades, its Sapphire Stagg and Stagg Industries. However, Sapphire has followed her father's footsteps and attempts to sell weapons to Mandell since Damian Dark/Death Dealer was using her company missiles in an attempt to nuke the world which leads to Rag-Man targeting her.

-After the Invasion Crossover, Oliver now realizing that he’s still in love with Laurel after being put in the Dominator’s virtual reality tries to tell her. Eventually, after Oliver is tricked to kill Detective Malone by Prometheus; Oliver goes to see Laurel where he confesses to Laurel that he loves her, that they were getting married in the Dominator’s reality, and that her very memory kept him alive during his five years in hell. Although hesitant, Laurel reveals to Oliver that she kept the photo she gave to him before he got on the Gambit, she also acknowledges that maybe the reason they haven’t been able to move forward in their lives is because they have been doing it alone and maybe the people they are now can make it work. This leads the two to passionately make love, while they are both unknowingly being watched by Prometheus.

-Laurel finds herself unable to help John get out prison as his lawyer, due to Prometheus manipulation of the state department causing them to temporary suspend Laurel’s legal license pending investigation. This causes Oliver to go ask Adrian for help with getting John out of prison, especially when John is placed in solitary confinement.

-Dinah Drake appears as the new Black Canary. Laurel leaves Oliver for a short while when Oliver goes back to killing. -Instead of Black Siren, Prometheus releases Rainbow Raider (the guy who made Oliver and Barry fight in Flash vs Arrow), Raider causes rage induced riots and eventually affects Laurel; which cause her and Oliver to physically fight with Laurel bringing up all the pain he has caused her and her family. Eventually after defeating Rainbow Raider, Oliver and Laurel talk were Laurel assures him that while she has forgiven him for the pain he has caused her it does not mean she will ever forget it or be anger about it sometimes but that’s for her to deal with and that she wouldn’t still love him if she couldn’t forgive him.

-Adrian Chase is Vigilante, not Prometheus and Susan Williams is connected to Prometheus. Prometheus has been pretending to be in Justin Claybourne's son this whole time. Adrian and Susan were born to Amanda Westfield but Claybourne forced Amanda to give Adrian up for adaption to the wealthy Chase family. While Adrian knew about his father Justin Claybourne, Adrian hated the monster he was whereas Susan loved him which often brought both brother and sister into conflict. As an adult Adrian became a lawyer to end his father’s corruption while Susan became a vice-president for Claybourne's company and in 2012 Claybourne was killed by Oliver. While Adrian was glad that his father’s evil had been ended Susan became vengeful yet both brother and sister agreed that the Hood is a serial killer who will only create more evil. However Adrian hated the fact that he admired him somewhat as he was bringing an effective form of justice to a corrupted city. Adrian then got inspired to become Vigilante feeling that the Green Arrow was not getting the job done. He's like season 1 Oliver.

-Prometheus is not Adrian Chase. Prometheus is actually Susan William's cameraman who is a member of Talia's cult and Susan is Justin Claybourne's daughter. Susan wanted to kill Claybourne after learning her father wanted to disown her because of her insanity (we flashbacks of what Susan and Adrian's relationship was like Claybourne as well as each other before Claybourne's death). Adrian kidnaps Susan when he realizes what his sister is doing and uses her to try to get Team Arrow off his back. Prometheus lures Doris to the place and Susan stabs her when Doris tries to get Adrian to give up being Vigilante. Adrian, becoming unstable, shoots Susan in the head causing the explosions on Lian Yu when Susan and her team kidnap William.

Season 6
-In the aftermath of the explosion, Lyla sends an A.R.G.U.S. boat to rescue them all and while Oliver lets Slade go as per their agreement. Eddie is left in a coma but eventually wakes up. Nyssa parts ways to go find Talia and ensure she won’t keep targeting Oliver in Susan's place. Finally William is left to grief for his mother and Oliver takes the boy into his custody. Adrian manages to give everyone the slip.

-The leader of the cabal is Cayden James. Cayden tells Team Arrow that his vision for Helix is to liberate the world from the shackles of corruption and Star City has always been a primary source of this. However he also admires Team Arrow for their efforts in trying to save an almost broken city and extends an invitation to join him and really save the city but Oliver refuses. Cayden tries to bomb Star City only for Team Arrow to use Cayden's son Owen Post to convince his father to surrender.

- The members of Cayden's cabal are Anatoly Knyazev, Ricardo Diaz Jr./Richard Dragon, Cayden James, China White, and Adrian Chase. Dragon kills Cayden after he is in custody since he doesn't need him anymore. Diaz has bribed or blackmailed the city's police and officials and used Cayden to get the FBI to investigate Oliver so that he could take over Star City without being seen. -Diggle is still retired from being Spartan but has started learning more of the ropes at A.R.G.U.S. and has begun to see things more clearly from Lyla’s perspective and the tough calls she has to make, but understands she doesn’t just make Waller-based choices unless she is left with no other option which has allowed them to make more amends over Cayden. However Cayden takes control of the computers at A.R.G.U.S. and appears on them accusing Lyla of corruption and intents to get payback for his wrongful imprisonment. Several A.R.G.U.S. agents then turn out to be Helix spies and kill several other agents and Lyla is fatally shot, but Diggle intervenes and stops them from killing her. Lyla is then taken to a hospital in Central City for extensive surgeries but Diggle is surprised when the next in line for director of A.R.G.U.S. is him, approved by Lyla herself. Though feeling unready to take on a role like this Diggle doesn’t refuse out of respect for his wife’s wishes and reluctantly becomes the man charged with protecting the world.

-Eventually Diggle is relieved of his duties as A.R.G.U.S. director once Lyla wakes up though is kept hidden in a disclosed location with John Jr. for their safety and continues her job from there, but Diggle has gained a clearer understanding of how messy the world can get having been forced to make some tough calls that have been weighing on him since. After getting himself checked up his injuries have also fully healed and he decides to return to being Spartan and as soon as he does Adrian makes another appearance targeting corrupt officials. Diggle then arrests Adrian. During this whole time, Adrian's identity as Vigilante is revealed to the public. Diggle beats him in rage due to Lyla’s near death experience but Adrian, while remorseful for Lyla, still stands by his views that the world is corrupt and it needs to end and Star City is the first step in bringing that vision to life. He also reveals Talia’s involvement with Cayden’s agenda as she’s the only reason Team Arrow hasn’t been killed yet, but Diggle admits that he is part of Team Arrow. Adrian is quite surprised to learn this but thinks back to earlier encounters and it clicks, but Diggle asks Adrian to make things right and tell him what Helix is planning. However Adrian doesn’t actually know, he just points and shoots at targets, but does know it will involve the entire city but refuses to help him stop it as he still believes in Helix plan and doesn't believe they can be stopped. His only advice is for Diggle to take his family and team out of the city and leave it behind for good and don't make the same mistake he did.

- FBI Agent Samandra Watson is investigating Oliver and everything's the same with her. Watson's investigation gets sidetracked when Lyla reaches out to President Brayden, who pardons the Green Arrow and his team and calls off the FBI investigation into Oliver. Oliver also sues the FBI because Watson accepted evidence from Cayden James against Rene that was used to arrest him. Cayden James was wanted by the FBI before A.R.G.U.S. got their hands on him. When out of options upon learning that Dragon has most of the S.C.P.D. in his pocket, Oliver makes a proposal to Watson's boss o drop the charges against the FBI in exchange for arresting everyone on Dragon's list which Watson's boss agrees to seeing Diaz as the threat. Watson also flees the country to a bar in Cuba.

-Rather than Oliver being on trial, it's Roy for being the Arrow after Diaz has the S.C.P.D. arrest him. Fortunately, the Human Target saves the day by making it look like Tommy Merlyn is the Arrow. Sam Armand and Kimberly Hill are still working with Diaz, but Oliver proves to be more convincing to get them on his side. To protect Hill's family, Oliver makes arrangements with Diggle and A.R.G.U.S. to protect Hill and Armand's families. As for treating Armand's boy with his cancer, Oliver gets Barry Allen at S.T.A.R. Labs to treat Armand's son at a cheap price. Because of this, Armand and Hill begin feeding information to Oliver about Dragon's operations.

- Nyssa was brainwashed by Talia by repeatedly killing her and bringing her back to life turning into a obediently loyal and even more ruthless killer. Talia and Nyssa have been hunting down and killing the Thanatos Guild that Malcolm established, but not before delivering Malcolm's last will which contains the locations of multiple Lazarus Pits to Thea. Team Arrow fight Nyssa and Talia, with Laurel trying in vein to bring Nyssa to her senses. Eventually, Talia escapes and Nyssa is captured and put in an ARGUS facility to help her regain herself. Afterwards, Roy and a cured Nyssa to destroy the remaining Lazarus Pits so what happened to Nyssa never happens to another person and to keep them out of Talia's hands

-Ricardo's backstory is the same as he was raised in a church and tortured by Jessie who beat him, burned him, stole his food, and treated him like he was a worthless nobody. However, Jessie was also a child drug dealer when he was about to be busted he put all evidence on Ricardo and Diaz went to juvie for a crime he did not commit (This was the writer's original plan for Diaz to be a wrongfully convicted felon who became a monster because of our justice system, but they later changed it for some reason). While in juvie Diaz joined the Scorpions. After being humiliated by the Arrow (John Diggle), Ricardo started his training with League of Assassins after he was humiliated years ago by the Arrow (John Diggle). Junior learned from Richard Dragon and then killed him after Richard taught him peace, patience, compassion, things Junior thought would make him soft. In a morbid fashion of honoring his fallen mentor, Diaz took the name Richard Dragon for himself. Eventually, Diaz kills Jesse by setting him on fire in front of Anatoly when joining the Quadrant.

-Before Cayden died, he made an A.I. program with his original thoughts. Cayden's A.I. appears on every television in Star City telling the people to take back freedom from the corruption of their leaders, the ones who oppress them for their own gain and fills people’s computers with all the information on Diaz's empire. Additionally the city's power grids shutdown disabling the response cabilities of the F.B.I. and A.R.G.U.S. In the space of an hour people quickly succumb to killing each other to take back what’s theirs in what's called the "uprising". Team Arrow is helpless to do anything but watch the city fall, to watch their 6 years of efforts be undone in a matter of hours. What Oliver is most hurt by is that Cayden hasn’t actually killed anyone to achieve his plans either he’s just exposed the truth, and showed the true face of Star City. Curtis eventually terminates the A.I. while Oliver fights Diaz. Diaz then gets away. -Slade has a bigger role. He helps Team Arrow with their battle against Richard Dragon.

- In the aftermath the city is restored to order and Oliver as mayor promises to make Star City free of the corruption and make it a place people are glad to call home.When Oliver and William go to their apartment, they find water coming from the bathtub. The two go to investigate and discover Agent Watson's corpse there. The next thing that happens, several F.B.I. agents led by Watson's boss arrive and they arrest Oliver believing that he killed Watson.

Season 7
-Everything is the same with Oliver being in Slabside such as meeting Stanley, stabbing himself to sabotage Yorke, the fight club, going down to Level 2, meeting/teaming up with Talia there, Stanley killing Officer Dunbar, and Oliver teaming up with Turner to deal with the prison riot orchestrated by Ricardo Diaz Jr./Richard Dragon.Oliver only gets out of Slabside because Diggle, Laurel, Eddie, Dinah, Rene, Curtis, and Quentin conducted their own investigation to find proof that Oliver didn't kill Watson. According to Diggle, it was Watson who leaked the photo of Oliver being the Green Arrow last year since she believes that Oliver killed her brother John Watson, a Star City police sergeant, with a misfired arrow. However, they find the footage was fabricated meaning that Watson was being manipulated this whole time.

-Rather than Kevin Meltzer being Chimera, the vigilante hunter, it's Peter Yorke. Upon being fired, Yorke turned to drinking.This drinking was to the point that he couldn't hold a job or even socialize with people. Things take a turn for the worse when Yorke discovers Oliver being cleared of all charges. He finally lost his nerve telling Jenna that she does not understand about what happened to him and starts hitting her. Noah tries to stop Peter and Peter strikes him the face. Afterward, Yorke pulls back ashamed. His actions destroyed the last bit of trust his family had. This led to Jenna having him arrested and a restraining order put in place. Blaming Oliver for all of his problems, Yorke steals Wayne Enterprises' exoskeleton and starts a anti-vigilante crusade knowing Oliver enjoyed having a close personal relationship with them. Yorke takes Ragman and Huntress' mask leaving it unclear if he killed them or not. He attacks Rene and Emiko. In Hunt Multinational building, he faces John and Oliver. After escaping them they found his lair.

-The Because of Agent Watson and the FBI’s investigation as well as Cayden James and Ricardo Diaz’s attacks on the Queen Administration, the City Council are saddened to want Oliver to go because they feel he is unstable to run the city. However, they do allow Oliver to appoint a successor to the role and gives him some time to be the mayor. Oliver appoints Quentin to be the new mayor. During the announcement, Yorke attempts to kill Oliver only for Team Arrow to save the day. Yorke's identity is revealed to the public. Yorke blames Oliver for all his problems even though Lance, Diggle, Eddie, and Laurel reassure Oliver that it was Yorke's choice to ignore his warnings about Brick wanting him dead, his choice to start drinking, his choice to abuse his family, and his choice to conduct his crusade. -Rather than Oliver being a deputized member of the S.C.P.D., it's Adrian. Diggle and Lyla recruit Adrian in the Ghost Initiative among Richard Dragon/Ricardo Diaz Jr., China White, Cupid, and Joe Wilson. Adrian is the one who kills Diaz when Diaz attempts to sabotage the mission. Adrian decides to own up to what he does and confesses his identity to the people of Star City. Everyone decides to trust Chase since Chase was the one who get Diggle out of prison when Laurel couldn't. Adrian even resumes work in the D.A.'s office and goes through redemption similar to Black Siren.

-Batwoman takes place on Earth 38. The Crossover takes place on Earth 38 where John Deegan is manipulating events on Earth 1 with the Book of Destiny that the Monitor gives him. James Olsen decides to come to Earth 1 to train with Team Arrow after meeting with Oliver during the crossover and watching him train Barry.

-Olsen discovers that Oliver was a serial killer known as the Hood many years ago and decides to return to National City not wanting to have anything to do with him anymore since Olsen does not associate with serial killers. Olsen even has trouble accepting Adrian Chase being deputized by the S.C.P.D. since he reminds him of Karnowsky. Before Olsen could leave Star City, the entire team (not including Oliver and Adrian) locates him and convinces him to give Oliver and Adrian a second chance. Olsen scolds them for associating with cold blooded killers. However, those four tell Olsen that Oliver and Adrian have learned from their mistakes and have helped them become better. In other words, they convince Olsen to give Oliver and Adrian a second chance. Olsen eventually does return to Earth-38 just in time for the Supergirl season finale.

-Oliver gets a call from Mr. Dennis (one of the high ranked executives at Palmer Tech), who reveals that even though his term as mayor his ended, he is still wanted by the Board to become their new CEO due to having successfully managed a city for two years as mayor. Oliver then reluctantly agrees to the offer, thus, launching Queen Incorporated. Oliver even starts taking business lessons from Walter Steele.

- Mayor Lance has to deal with corrupt politician Freddy Dreyfus, who feels Oliver made a mistake appointing Lance to takeover his role since Lance was working for Death Dealer under duress as well as the city council being corrupted by Diaz. Lance then discovers that Dreyfus has been abusing his customers in order to force them to pay him for unreasonable prices. Quentin attempts to have this happen to himself so he can press charges on Dreyfus, however, he becomes smitten with a stripper and spends the night with her. However, the stripper is found dead in his car which is why Dinah and Sergeant Bingley refuse to allow Quentin anywhere near the crime scene. Black Siren learns of this and decides to bring her Earth-1 doppelganger back from the dead. Eventually, the CSIs find evidence to exonerate Lance of any wrongdoing, but are unable to find the culprit even though Lance knows Freddy Dreyfus is responsible.

-Freddy Dreyfus has James Midas' role. However, Dreyfus is actually Dante's associate and Dante kills Lance before Emiko kills Dante due to finding out from Oliver that Dante killed her mother.

-Dinah becomes shocked to discover she is Laurel’s biological mother even though the two women have the same age. She learns this from Sara in Birds of Prey. Eventually, Dinah confides this to Laurel and agrees to return to her timeline so that her daughters can be born. Before she leaves, Dinah resigns from the SCPD prompting Commissioner Westberg to run her precinct. Dinah says goodbye to Team Arrow and in particular thanks Oliver for giving her a second chance at life. She also says goodbye to Laurel and Sara saying she was proud to be a part of the Canary legacy and loves her daughters. After Sara takes Dinah back to the 1960s, Laurel goes to visit her mother, who is surprised she is still alive and doesn’t want her to be the Black Canary again since that cost Laurel her life three years ago. Laurel then responds that she has no say in how she lives her life especially given the fact she hasn't really been a part of her life in sometime.

-Eddie becomes interested in rehabilitating Emiko like Oliver. Before Robert died, he left a letter behind asking Eddie and Walter to take care of his daughter and the mother of his child. However, Moira hid the letter. Eddie is also feeling responsible for what has happened to Emiko.