"Did you see how Felicity was working with that hacker group? I can't believe Ollie let that happen." Thea said.

"Me either. I think she also had something to do with the earth 2 Laurel going bad as well. I think if she wouldn't have had the other members of the team attack Laurel, she might would have joined up with Ollie." Sara said.

"I didn't think of that. You might be right. Anyways, if we decide to bring her on the team in the future, we will have to nip all of this in the bud. We can't have her going rogue." Laurel said.

"So, are you starting to see what I was talking about with mom? She reacts on emotion without thinking a lot of the time and it ends up causing trouble. You will see what working with that hacker group, is going to do to the team early on in the coming up year, early on." Mia said.

"Let's see what happens. I just hope it doesn't get too bad." Laurel said.

Following the explosion on the island Thea is in a coma and Diggle was injured trying to save Felicity. Laurel attacks the bunker, and the team finds out that she stole a T-Sphere which is Curtis's weapon of choice. Quentin had the chance to stop her, but he couldn't. Also, while out on a mission Diggle could have shot a bad guy but he couldn't pull the trigger because of his injury and that cause Rene to get injured. Channel 52 receives pictures showing that Oliver is the Green Arrow.

Oliver has a press conference to say that he is not the Green Arrow. He is now being hounded by an FBI agent who is starting to investigate the charges of him being the Green Arrow. Anatoly captures some delegates from another country, most of who Team Arrow save, though Anatoly does kill one of them. The media finds out that the pictures of Oliver as the Green Arrow are not real, but this does not stop Watson from investigating him. Oliver asks Diggle to take the hood and become the Green Arrow so that he will not have to leave Conner alone with no parents.

The city council comes up with a bill that they want Oliver to sign so that being vigilantes in the city will be illegal. Oliver said that he would not sign it, but he does put it up for a vote so that the citizens of the city can vote on it. Team Arrow is having a hard time with Oliver gone and he is asked to resume being Green Arrow by some of the team. The team goes out without Oliver again and this time they stop a terrorist attack, and everyone is now happy with Diggle as a leader. Oliver and Felicity start a relationship again.

Cayden James is shown to be the man behind all of the attacks lately, working with Anatoly and Laurel. He wants to get control of the internet worldwide, which causes Team Arrow to try and stop him. Felicity ends up stopping him or so she thinks, when in reality she enabled James to be able what he was trying to do all along. Slade is now trying to get Oliver to help him out with something.

Slade finds out that his son has been put in a prison in Kasnia and he needs Oliver's help as a politician and not the Green Arrow. Oliver goes and talks to the people at the prison and finds out that Slade's son is dead. It is later found out that Slade's son is being held captive by a group known as the Jackels. It turns out that Joe is not being held captive after all, because he ends up being the leader of the group.

Slade tries to turn his son, but it does not work. Oliver is taken captive and Slade has to choose between Oliver and his son. He chooses Oliver and the father and son fight each other. Joe ends up getting away. Oliver goes home to Star City to Conner and his friends. The team is now going after a man named Ricardo Diaz. The team now knows about the injury that Diggle got during the explosion on Lian Yu, and Curtis says that he can install a chip in his arm to help with the problem.

It is Thanksgiving and Oliver has decided to do a charity event that is interrupted by agent Watson coming to arrest him. Oliver is able to pay his bail and is let go. Oliver is forced to become Green Arrow again when Diggle gets injured. Oliver lets Diggle know that once he has healed that he will give the hood back to him. Thea comes out of her coma and is surrounded by her friends and family.

Some of the team go to Central City for the for Barry's wedding. While there they end up facing off with versions of themselves from Earth X, who are Nazis. They are here to take over Earth 1 and also to get Supergirl's heart because their version of her, Overgirl, is dying from too much sunlight. The team ends up defeating the Nazis and Barry and Iris get Diggle to marry them, and then Oliver and Felicity decide to get married as well.

All of Oliver and Felicity's friends and family are in town for the reception for their wedding. It is found out that someone on the team is going to give testimony against Oliver in court. It is decided that the newer members of Team Arrow will be followed until they find out who is responsible for this. Quentin is later captured by Laurel. Rene is found to be the person who gave Oliver up. The team goes and finds Quentin who was surprisingly released by Laurel. The new members of Team Arrow leave the team. Then it is seen who all is working with James. Laurel, Anatoly, Diaz, Vigilante, and a man named Sheck.

It is finally realized that the bunker has been bugged by Cayden James, so they have to go to ARGUS so that they are not spied on. Oliver tries to bring the team back together because he can't stop James's group on his own. The members that left the team decide not to join back up, but they do decide that it is best to create a team of their own. Felicity finally installs a chip in Diggle's arm which repairs all of the damage that had been done.

James starts to attack people through the internet. He demands $10 million a day and he will stop the attacks. Oliver finds out that James thinks that he killed his son and that is why he is after Oliver. Conner finds out that Oliver is the Green Arrow again, which doesn't really bother him because Oliver has been the Green Arrow since they had met. Oliver can't find anything that he can use to prove that he didn't kill James's son, so he decides to pay the money.

Oliver is given information from their inside man, who is Vigilante. Vigilante is captured, so the new team decides to go and help him while Oliver and Diggle go after the bomb that James has. They are not able to stop the bomb from getting away. Vigilante ends up being killed by Laurel using her scream in his ear. Dinah tells Oliver that she is going to kill every member of James's team, especially Laurel.

The bomb is going to blow at midnight if Oliver can't prove that he is not responsible for James's son's death. They find the proof which makes James conclude that it was one of his own team who was responsible. Team Arrow finds the members of James's team and bring them to him. All of James's team get away because of a distraction and James is arrested. He ends up find out that Diaz is responsible before Diaz kills him.

Quentin has been harboring Laurel ever since the whole deal with James being arrested. She had been shot and he was nursing her back to health. The new team try to track her down. Thea follows Quentin and finds out what he has been doing and she decides that she has to tell Oliver. Laurel decides that she will give the money that James took from Oliver back if they decide to protect her. The new team finds them, and they fight each other. Laurel uses her scream and is able to get away and she finds her way back into the city and makes it look like she is the real Laurel and tells the man she has been held captive for a while.

It is found out that Diaz has somehow found out that Roy is alive and beating him until he decides to give testimony against Oliver in court. Oliver and Thea try to go and save him. They are eventually able to get Roy away from Diaz, unfortunately Diaz got away. Laurel tries to make it look like she is changing but it is seen that she is not. A person is seen spying on Roy and Thea in what looks to be League attire.

Nyssa comes to town and rescues Roy and Thea when they are trying to leave town. It is found out that Malcolm started another group called the Thanatos Guild. They are after Thea because they think that she knows the location of a map they are looking for. They are able to find the map, but it is a blank page, so they think that fire with make the map appear, but it doesn't. They later find out that it is Thea's blood that makes it appear. The map is something that everyone in the room dreads because the map leads to more Lazarus Pits around the word. Thea decides that she is going to leave with Nyssa and Roy and that they are going to destroy the pits. Before she leaves, she finds out why Oliver is having such a hard time giving the hood back to Diggle.

Oliver finds out that he has dirty people in his administration when the police arrest Anatoly and he is released for no reason. Oliver ends up letting go his DA and Captain of police because of this. John is wondering why he is not the Green Arrow again yet being that he has healed, and Oliver gives him his explanation. They end up fighting each other. Oliver and Diggle decide that they can work together, and they go after the Vertigo and destroy it. After this is over Diggle decides that he can't work with Oliver anymore and decides that he is done with the team. Oliver is again facing an impeachment trial.

Oliver is somehow dosed with Vertigo and he see the error in his ways, given to him by an old foe and also the older version of himself, the Hood. Oliver decides that he should have always been going at this alone and he decides to go after Diaz alone. He puts on his old Hood uniform and becomes the brutal man that he was as the Hood taking down dirty police officers who are protecting Diaz. Felicity gets to him before he can get killed because as it turns out Oliver would have been walking into a group of police officers that would have been too much for him to take on. Oliver is really impeached this time which leaves Quentin to become the new mayor of the city. Now that Oliver is out of the way Diaz opens up the city to any criminal organizations that are interest in doing any kind of work there.

Oliver decides that he needs help so he goes to Russia and does something for the new leader of the Bratva so that Anatoly will be allowed to live his old live. When Oliver goes to Anatoly, Oliver is taken hostage and is delivered to Diaz. The two of them end up fighting and it is seen that Oliver is the better fighter, but Diaz cheats and he stabs Oliver so that he can win. Oliver is then arrested, and he will be put on trial sooner then was expected. Diaz decides to go to Quentin to get him to sign over some assets to him and Quentin does not agree. He finally ends up signing the papers so that he can protect Laurel because she thinks she will be in danger if Quentin does not sign.

At Oliver's trial things seem to be going very bad for him. He had a lot of people saying that he is the Green Arrow, including Rene, who had to, or Diaz would kill his daughter. Oliver decides to take the stand and as he was about to testify a person in a Green Arrow suit drops in from the ceiling. It turns out to be Tommy Merlyn who is arrested. It turns out that it was Christopher Chance who was masquerading as the Green Arrow. Laurel testifies and ends up telling everyone that the Green Arrow is Tommy Merlyn as well. Oliver ends up being found guilty. Oliver's lawyer asks for another motion and it ends up working and Oliver is released from custody. The judge ended up being Christopher Chance as well which Oliver thanked him for. Oliver then told Rene that he understood why he testified against him because he would have done the same thing for his child. Laurel goes to take out Diaz, but she is stopped, and he then takes her hostage.

All of team Arrow is attacked because Diaz didn't take Oliver winning his trial well. He needed them out of the way to do what he needed to do in the city. All of the team meets at the lair of the new team. Anatoly who has now decided to switch sides because of the way that Diaz fought Oliver gives them a tip on a way to stop Diaz. Diaz was able to get away, but Curtis was injured because he went rogue because Diaz injured his boyfriend. They saw that Diaz had a jump drive that must be important, so they knew that they needed to get that. They ended up sending Lyla into the police department because the police couldn't turn her away without it looking bad for them. Team Arrow now had the information that they needed they just had to decrypt it. The list was of all the people that were on the take from Diaz. Diaz goes after the bunker and everyone on team Arrow was able to get away before the place exploded. Unfortunately, they lost all the information. Oliver now knows that the only way to stop Diaz is to go to the FBI. They decide to help him, but he also has to out himself as the Green Arrow for this help.

When the team goes after Diaz again, they are able to get a copy of the list so that they know everyone who is on the take for Diaz. Oliver gives this list to the FBI for them to use to end the corruption in the city. Quentin was with Laurel during the attack, for which he had turned himself over to Diaz so that they team could use him to find the two of them by tracking his pacemaker. Quentin is shot trying to save Laurel. Once they are all out of danger, they all go to the hospital to be with Quentin. Sara shows up to be with her father as well. The surgery doesn't go well, and Quentin ends up dying. The FBI shows up and takes Oliver in. He outs himself on national television and is taken off to prison. Diaz is seen watching Oliver as he outs himself as the Green Arrow.

"Well, that's different. Usually the bad guy is taken down." Tommy said.

"Yeah, I guess that will happen in the next year sometime. I can't believe they are actually going to put Ollie in prison after all the good he has done." Sara said.

"I know. It just doesn't seem right. I mean I know what he is doing is illegal, it just doesn't seem right though." Laurel said.

"I just got one question. What is it about someone having to die pretty much every year?" Roy asked.

"I don't know, but at least we know how to stop it now." Thea said.

"You know, I didn't think it could get much worse than year five but, I find that I was wrong about this. It seems that there was more corruption in the city then anyone knew about." Quentin said.

"Looks like we will all have to work on that as well." Laurel said.

"Yeah. Sorry to say this about your mom, Mia but she was the cause of most of this happening. If she wouldn't have let James out of in year five, the first half of this year would have never been able to happen." Diggle said.

"Hey, I told y'all before, she has been known to make so stupid decisions when she is emotional." Mia said.

"I wonder how Oliver is going to fair in prison?" Tommy asked.

"I have a feeling he is going to be fine. He is a highly trained fighter. I bet he beats the shit out of some people in there." Sara said.

"I hope you are right. I know he will be ok though. At least for now anyways." Laurel said.

"I want to get my hands on Diaz though. He seems like a nasty piece of work. You know it would be easier if Ollie would have just killed him." Sara said.

"Yeah, but Ollie gave up killing." Thea said.

"And look where that got him. He is in prison now because he wouldn't kill Diaz and look at what happened to Laurel because he put Darhk in prison." Sara said.

"I know, it needs to be done in certain situations. It is for the greater good." Thea said.

"Good. We can't make him think that he is a murderer like Chase did or like Tommy did, no offense." Sara said.

"None taken, and I agree with you." Tommy said.

"Wow, y'all are coming along well. You understand pretty much all that needs to be done. There are a few more things that you need to know that happen in the next two years, then you will be ready to go and help dad." Conner said.