At the end of last week’s episode Oliver was arrested by Detective Lance for a slew of charges including obstruction of justice and murder. But we start the beginning of this week back on the island where Oliver and Arrow the First (hereby known as ATF) are trotting through the forest in search of a meal. Oliver can’t yet handle the bow and arrow, so he’s been tasked with fetching whatever ATF kills. Unfortunately for him, black hooded ninjas are waiting to take him hostage near the dead fowl. Take this as a note boys and girls: forests and abandoned secluded islands are no place for t...

“Arrow” opens with more muscle flexing and a quick reveal on this week’s target: James Holder, the corrupt businessman behind a company that installed faulty fire detectors in the homes of the poor resulting in a literal death for some of the disenfranchised. So Arrow goes over to Holder’s house to dispatch some justice but mid-way into his [boring] spiel the bad guy is mercifully executed by a long-range gun shot.

Oliver is also hit by a bullet in the shoot-out and once back at his compound as he starts to faint, he figures out that the bullets are dipped in a rare poison – assassins ar...

Previously on "Arrow": We were introduced to Oliver Queen, a billionaire play-boy, just as his yacht capsized. He was canoodling with a girl later identified as his former girlfriend’s sister. She dies. He ends up stranded on a life boat with his dad and some other guy, and his father perhaps delirious from the recent events, decides that Oliver is the sole person that can right all of his wrongs, and promptly kills the other guy, and then himself. Oliver ends up on an island – gets rescued – and returns to his home where he is a care-free play-boy by day and a green hooded archer by n...