Arrow Season 3 Official Summary

The Green Hooded Hero Returns

CW released the official summary for season three of Arrow, executive produced by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, Andrew Kreisberg, and Sarah Schechter. The super hero drama tells the story of billionaire, playboy Oliver Queen’s (Stephen Amell) transformation into the green hooded hero we know and love as the Arrow. After a terrible shipwreck he is missing for five years, he is presumed dead. He returns home to his family in Starling City and creates an alter ego to fix the misdoings of his family and fight society’s injustice.

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The series also stars Katie Cassidy (Dinah “Laurel” Lance), David Ramsey (John Diggle), Emily Bett Rickards (Felicity Smoak), Willa Holland (Thea Queen), Colton Haynes (Roy Harper), John Barrowman (Malcom Merlyn) and Paul Blackthorne (Detective Lance). New additions to the series third season include, J.R. Ramirez, Brandon Routh, Matt Ward, Rila Fukushima and Amy Gumenick Take a look at the official Arrow season 3 description below and make sure not to miss the season 3 promo at the bottom.

Official Summary:

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. He returned home to Starling City, welcomed by his devoted mother Moira (Susanna Thompson), beloved sister Thea (Willa Holland) and former flame Laurel Lance.

With the aid of his trusted chauffeur/bodyguard John Diggle (David Ramsey), the computer-hacking skills of Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards) and the occasional, reluctant assistance of former police detective, now police captain, Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne), Oliver has been waging a one-man war on crime.

After suffering a massive defeat at the end of Season One, Oliver started Season Two determined to fight his battles without causing bloodshed. But this new credo was challenged when his sworn enemy, Slade Wilson (Manu Bennett), returned to Starling City bent on destroying Oliver’s life. Though Slade succeeded in hurting Oliver, killing his mother and driving his sister Thea to her biological father, Malcolm Merlyn (John Barrowman), Oliver ultimately defeated Slade and saved Starling City from Slade’s brutal army.

In the aftermath of this victory, Season Three opens with 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.

Arrow Season 3 returns Wednesdays, OCT 8 at 8/7c on The CW