<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article describes a work or element of fiction in a primarily in - universe style . Please help rewrite it to explain the fiction more clearly and provide non-fictional perspective . (June 2018) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Sara Lance first appears in the pilot episode of Arrow as the younger sister of Laurel Lance . It's shown that five years prior to the beginning of the series, she was having a secret affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver Queen and was with him on his family yacht when it shipwrecked . Everyone on board was presumed dead but flashbacks in season two reveal that, like Oliver, Sara actually survived the experience . She was rescued by a research boat, the Amazo, and when Oliver was captured by the ship's crew, Sara helped him escape . Together, along with Oliver's friend Slade Wilson, they attacked the ship . Due to Slade's love for Shado, an ally who was killed indirectly because of Oliver's feelings for Sara, Slade betrayed Oliver and took over both the ship and Oliver as his prisoner . Oliver and Sara confronted him on the freighter and Sara was swept away in the current, causing Oliver to believe that she died once again . However, Sara was found by Nyssa al Ghul who took her to Nanda Parbat . She and Nyssa became lovers, and Sara became a deadly fighter with the League of Assassins under the name Ta - er al - Sahfer, roughly translated to "Yellow Bird" or "Canary" from Arabic . </P> <P> In season two, Sara returns to Starling City after a six year absence as "The Canary" to protect her family . In keeping with a promise, she also befriends wayward teenager Sin and watches over her . Oliver manages to capture and unmask The Canary, revealing Sara to be alive . She eventually informs her father, SCPD Detective Quentin Lance, and looks after him and Laurel (who also later discovers she's alive as is a vigilante). Sara joins Team Arrow and revisits a brief relationship with Oliver . She aids him and his colleagues Felicity Smoak, John Diggle, and Roy Harper in taking down a drug - enhanced Slade Wilson, with help from the League of Assassins, which requires Sara to return to Nanda Parbat . </P> <P> In season three, Sara is killed on a rooftop with three arrows to the chest . Some time later, it was revealed that Thea Queen killed Sara after being drugged by her father Malcolm Merlyn / Dark Archer as part of a plot to pit Oliver against Ra's al Ghul . Meanwhile, Laurel takes up Sara's mantle to fight crime as the Black Canary . </P>

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