Season 3 (Arrow)

The third season of Arrow premiered on October 8, 2014 on The CW, the day after The Flash. The season will consist of 23 episodes.

Official synopsis
In the aftermath of his victory, Season Three opens with The Arrow now a hero to the citizens of Starling. Crime is down, people feel safer, and Captain Lance even calls off the Anti-Vigilante Task Force. Basking in his success, Oliver believes he can finally have a private life and asks Felicity out on a date. But the second Oliver takes his eye off the ball, a deadly villain reappears in Starling, forcing Oliver to realize that he can never be Oliver Queen – not as long as the city needs The Arrow.

Main cast

 * Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen/The Arrow
 * Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance
 * David Ramsey as John Diggle
 * Willa Holland as Thea Queen
 * Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
 * Colton Haynes as Roy Harper/Arsenal
 * John Barrowman as Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer
 * Paul Blackthorne as Captain Quentin Lance

Recurring cast

 * Karl Yune as Maseo Yamashiro
 * Brandon Routh as Ray Palmer
 * Cynthia Addai-Robinson as Amanda Waller
 * J.R. Ramirez as Ted Grant
 * Audrey Marie Anderson as Lyla Michaels
 * Katrina Law as Nyssa al Ghul
 * Matt Nable as Ra's al Ghul
 * Rila Fukushima as Tatsu Yamashiro
 * Austin Butler as Chase
 * Peter Stormare as Werner Zytle/Vertigo
 * David Nykl as Anatoly Knyazev
 * Marc Singer as General Matthew Shrieve
 * Caity Lotz as Sara Lance/The Canary
 * Grant Gustin as Barry Allen/The Flash

Confirmed plot points

 * Ra's al Ghul will be the season's main antagonist.
 * This season was initially intended not to revisit super powers and abilities and be much more grounded. However, after the major success of the two-episode crossover with The Flash, executive producer Marc Guggenheim stated "he had a change of heart".
 * Malcolm Merlyn will have a considerably major role from episode 10,, and onwards.
 * There will be a Malcolm-centric episode, flashing back to the very beginnings of his road to becoming the Dark Archer.
 * There will be 1 or 2 Suicide Squad-themed episodes.
 * Episode 13,, will flash back to around the time of Sara Lance's death in . It will include both Sara and Werner Zytle, and many things that have happened since the beginning of the season will come full circle. By the end, it was stated that "there will be a big payoff".