"So, what is going to happen in year five? I mean it can't be worse than year four can it?" Quentin asked.

"Don't tempt fate dad. You never know what can happen." Sara said.

"So, are you going to try and get out of the League and come home to us as soon as you can?" Laurel asked.

"That is the plan. I have been working on something for the both of us that I will give to you when it is time to go." Sara said.

"Sounds good. It would be nice to have you around. I know it looked like I was a bitch to you in the videos, but I am not that person now, and plus I know that you didn't Ollie didn't cheat with you now." Laurel said.

"I will get there as soon as I can. I have to find a way to convince Ras to release me." Sara said.

"I know you will find a way." Quentin said as everyone got quite for year five of videos.

With Team arrow being disbanded Oliver is out in the city trying to save it alone. Felicity tries to talk him into putting together a new team. He is also having to deal with being the mayor of his city. Oliver is taken captive by the new crime boss in the city. Thea returns long enough to save him. She quits when she sees that Oliver has no problem killing people again. Oliver finally sees the point of making a new team because he is running himself in too many different directions right now. A new bad guy shows up in a suit that resembles Oliver's and kill a policeman outside of the precinct.

Oliver decides who he wants to recruit for his team. He beings in Rene Ramirez, Evelyn Sharpe, and Curtis Holt. The new team ends up quitting because they don't know who Oliver is and they can't trust him because of that. Oliver comes up against a person known as Ragman and they end up being on the same side and stop a deal between Church (The new crime boss in the city) and another person. Oliver reveals himself to the new team and everyone rejoins, including Ragman. Quentin is named deputy mayor. Church ends up having the other person dressed like Green Arrow com after him. His name is Prometheus.

Team Arrow is now going after a man known as Derek Sampson who is making a new drug called Stardust. Some of the recruits go after Sampson and cause him to become enhanced when he falls in the drugs. They later take down Sampson before he can create more people like himself. Oliver announces Quentin as his deputy mayor. Diggle is put in prison because he was framed by the people he was working with in the military. Lyla goes to Oliver to break Diggle out.

Oliver leaves the team to go and break Diggle out of prison. While he is gone Church is able to get into the precinct because of a bomb and steal a lot of the weapon kept there. Oliver gets Diggle out of prison and takes him to a safehouse in Star City. Chase attacks a building to get one of his men back and Rene is captured in the process. He is tortured for information about the team.

Rene is rescued but it ends up that he told Church who Green Arrow really is. Church comes after Oliver, who ends up faking his death with the help of a man who is named Christopher Chance, who can become the target and take the hit. In this case he became Oliver. Oliver and his team take out Church and he then goes back to work as the mayor. Church is killed by Prometheus for going after Green Arrow.

The team begins to distrust Oliver when they find out about his list because of Prometheus using it to kill people around the city. The people's names were anagrams of people on the list. Prometheus becomes known as the Throwing Star Killer. Thea finds out that Quentin is still getting drunk. Quentin wakes up one night and finds a throwing star and his arm is cut in the exact place as Prometheus's would be, so he assumes that he is Prometheus when he blackout from being drunk.

Quentin decides that he is going to quit being deputy mayor and he tells Thea what he found the night before. Thea ends up taking Quentin to a rehab facility and then she tells Oliver what Quentin told her about the throwing star and also the cut on his arm. Oliver is starting to date a reporter named Susan Williams. Evelyn is now seen to be teaming up with Prometheus.

Barry Allen comes to town and gets the team together and they go to Central City to fight aliens called Dominators. The Dominators take all the human with no powers and put them in a simulation. In this simulation the team which included, Oliver, Thea, Sara, Diggle, and Ray Palmer are at the rehearsal dinner for Oliver and Laurel's wedding. Everyone that has died in their past is alive in this simulation. They are able to escape the simulation and get back to earth. Where they were able to take down the Dominators. The simulation was a look at what would be all of their perfect lives which Sara and Oliver admit to each other as they went their separate ways.

Oliver finally finds out why Prometheus is after him when Curtis is attacked, and they find a vaccine in his system. Oliver knows that Prometheus has something to do with Justin Clayborne who he took down in his first year. Prometheus takes a detective named Billy Malone hostage. He also happens to be Felicity's new boyfriend. The team goes to take down Prometheus and Evelyn shows that she is working with Prometheus. Oliver goes after Prometheus again and takes him out but finds out that it was all staged and it was really Malone that he killed. Diggle is found and taken back into custody. Oliver walks back into the bunker and finds that Laurel is there waiting for him.

After trying to get Laurel back into the team he finds out that she is not the Laurel that they all know and love. She is from a different earth and she was held in the STAR Labs prison until she was eventually released by Prometheus. Oliver has a meeting with Laurel where the team finally captures her. Felicity lets her go to help take down Prometheus, but she turns on them and joins Prometheus. The DA is now going to try and help Diggle. He is able to keep the military from moving Diggle while he comes up with a defense.

Oliver goes to Hub City to try and find a person to take Laurel's place as the Black Canary like he promised her. The find the woman who is trying to kill the man who killed her old partner. At first, she is reluctant to join the team but after the team helped her get her revenge, she decides to join the team. Felicity starts to work with a group named Helix, who are a group of hackers.

Oliver and the team go to Russia to take down the corrupt General who is trying to frame Diggle. The General set the bomb to go off and Ragman uses his rags to stop it in effect causing his rags to become useless. Diggle turns the General over to the military to face the justice for what Diggle was initially charged with. While the team was gone Quentin is going to have an interview with Susan Williams. He was helped preparing for the interview by Rene.

Oliver tries to find a way to stop Prometheus and he goes to talk to the man's mother. She was not willing to help him because she would not turn on her son. The news later gets a hold of a story that has to do with the details of Detective Malone's death being covered up by the mayor's office. This information had to be given to them by Prometheus. Oliver is now possibly going to be impeached for this.

Oliver is now in impeachment hearings and he is using his DA, Adrian Chase as his council. Vigilante is now back in town and is trying to take out Oliver. He and Prometheus end up fighting each other. Prometheus takes off his mask to call the police on Vigilante and we see that he is Adrian Chase. Oliver is not impeached Thea decides to leave her job with Oliver so she can work on becoming a better person. Chase takes Susan Williams hostage to use against Oliver.

Oliver goes to his former teacher to find out who Prometheus is. She tells him that Prometheus is Adrian Chase and that she helped him because Oliver killed her father, Ras Al Ghul. Oliver goes after chase only to find out that he has captured Susan, so Oliver can do nothing. The team finds out the location of where Susan is being held from Helix because Felicity did them a favor. The team goes and saves Susan and tries to use Chase's wife to stop him. He ends up killing her. Oliver confronts Chase but is outmanned once Talia shows us and they take him captive.

Chase has Oliver locked in a cell where he is torturing him. He finally gets Oliver to admit that his first year back from the island when he killed people, he did it because he was a killer and not because he was doing what was best in the situation. Chase releases Oliver, who then goes back to the bunker and tells the team that there is no more team, and he tells them all to leave because this was all over.

Oliver tries to use the Bratva to take out Chase. Diggle ends up talking some sense into Oliver and the team goes and stops the Bratva. Felicity uses her contacts at Helix to find a picture or anything to reveal Chase as Prometheus. They end up finding a picture and she ends up cleaning it up to reveal that Chase is really Prometheus and sends it to the police. Chase is in protective custody so that the Green Arrow couldn't get to him. The guards find out who he really is, and he kills them and escapes.

Felicity knows that Helix can help her find a way to find where Chase is hiding. In exchange for their help Helix makes Felicity help them break a prisoner named Cayden James out of ARGUS custody, which she is willing to do in order to take Chase down because of what he did to her boyfriend. She works against the team to help the man escape and she is given the device to help find Chase but is also cut lose by Helix in the process. Chase ends up being at the bunker when she uses the device to find him.

The bunker is rendered useless when Chase sets off a EMP. It also shuts down Felicity's chip which enables her to walk. Oliver tries to get out but falls and injures himself badly. Oliver and Felicity end up finding another way out of the bunker and they are helped by Diggle. Oliver is taken to ARGUS so that he can be worked on by doctors. It is later seen that Chase knows about Oliver and Laurel's son Conner.

All of Chase's cases that he had tried as DA were overturned and the criminals were released. Chase worked with Sampson in order to find a way to send Clayborne's disease out into the city. Oliver and the team went to stop Chase and Sampson. Oliver took down Chase and told him that Chase was going to be disowned by his father because even as bad a Clayborne was he knew that Chase was crazy and wanted nothing to do with him. Chase tried to get Oliver to kill him, but Oliver would not fall for that. Chase was taken into custody.

The team thought that they were going to have some off time sooner this year then they had in the past which meant that they could have a party for Oliver's birthday. This did not turn out to be the case when Oliver finds out that members of his team are being taken one by one. Laurel from earth 2 ended up taking her father and Thea. Oliver sends Felicity and Diggle out of the city and they were captured as well. Oliver gets help from Malcolm but while his and Malcolm are off checking out the scene where Felicity and Diggle were taken someone breaks in and takes Conner. Oliver goes to get information from Chase and finds out that somehow, he got a hold of Conner. He releases Chase but keeps tabs on where he is going. Nyssa arrives and helps Oliver which Malcolm is not happy with. They find out that Chase and his time are heading to Lian Yu, so they leave to go and find their friends. When Oliver gets to the island he goes and releases Slade and gets him to help him save his friends and family.

Oliver and his team go and find a group of their friends and release them. Oliver sends Felicity, Curtis, and Thea with Malcolm to get off the island. While on their way to the plane Thea steps on a landmine and Malcolm saves her by taking her place and using himself to take out the men following them when he steps off the mine. The rest of the team finds Chase and the rest of his team and they all engage each other. Everyone is defeated except Chase who runs. Oliver chases him and they end up on a boat and Chase brings out Conner. Oliver shoots Chase in the leg and hugs Conner. Chase kills himself which sets off the bombs that are set all over the island blowing it up. Oliver and Conner are terrified because they know that their friends and family had not been able to get off the island.

"So that was worse than the year before. I didn't think that was going to be possible, but I guess it is." Laurel said.

"Unfortunately, that is not the worst of it yet." Mia said.

"Seriously, what can be worse than that?" Thea asked.

"You will find out very soon." Conner said.

"I am sorry you had to go through this baby. I never would want you brought into this until you got older." Laurel said.

"It's fine. It made me grow up quick and it turned me into who I am now." Conner said.

"I see what you meant a while ago about finally seeing that Oliver saw me as the love of his life when I saw that simulation. That makes me feel better about going after him once he returns." Laurel said.

"I told you so. Mom was always his second choice even though she ended up being his first because you weren't there." Mia said.

"So, you say it gets worse than this in the future?" Quentin said.

"Yes. I know that is a surprise, but it is true." Conner said.

"I guess we will see when we get there." Diggle said and they all nodded knowing that they were about to see things get worse than they already were.