<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> <P> In season four, Laurel resurrects Sara using the League's mystical Lazarus Pit . The process is successful, but Sara is brought back to life without a soul, making her feral and dangerous . Oliver calls his old friend John Constantine to assist them in restoring Sara's soul . Days later, Sara aids in rescuing Ray Palmer / The Atom from the hands of Damien Darhk, before leaving town to find herself, eventually joining the Legends along with Ray . During her time away with the Legends, Laurel is killed by Darhk and she is later made aware of it by Quentin when she briefly returns to present - day Star City at the end of season one of Legends of Tomorrow, where she and Quentin mourn her together . </P> <P> Sara, along with Ray and the rest of the Legends, return for the season five crossover "Invasion!" when Barry Allen / The Flash and his team contact her, informing her and the Legends that them and the rest of the heroes in the present day need help fighting an invasion from an alien race known as the Dominators . The Legends arrive and meet up with Team Flash and Team Arrow, then introduce themselves to Barry's friend from Earth - 38 Kara Danvers / Supergirl, whom he had brought over to help combat the Dominators . After Oliver appoints Barry leader of the group, they all spar with Kara to practice fighting aliens, and are repeatedly defeated, while Sara develops an attraction to Kara . When Barry is forced to reveal that he had went back in time to save his mother then reversed the decision which now altered some of the group's lives a bit, Sara scolds him and everyone except Oliver and a few others lose faith in him . Kara leads Sara and the others while Barry and Oliver stay behind to rescue the president from the Dominators, which ends up with the president being killed and the Dominators using a device to mind control the entire group . She returns with the rest of the mind - controlled heroes and attack Barry and Oliver, until Barry tricks Kara into destroying the device, freeing them . They regroup and after they reaffirm their faith in Barry, five of them (Sara, Oliver, Ray, Thea, and Diggle) are abducted by the Dominators and placed in pods which puts them in a shared dream world, where Sara, Oliver, and his father never got on the Queen's Gambit and all of Oliver fallen friends including Laurel are still alive . Oliver and Laurel are engaged and Sara helps Laurel get ready for their wedding, and begins having memory flashes of her actual life . She later saves Oliver and Diggle from a manifestation of Deathstroke, and the three realize that the world they're in isn't real . They later rally Ray and Thea and attempt to leave, but are forced to fight manifestations of Malcolm, Slade, Darhk, and their mercenaries before killing all of them and Sara and Oliver share a heartbreaking goodbye with Laurel . They wake up on the Dominator ship in the real world and escape in a pod before being rescued by the Legends' timeship Waverider . They conclude the dream world was a distraction meant to keep them busy while the Dominators probe their minds for information on metahumans . They return to earth and as some of the Legends along with Felicity and Cisco Ramon head to the past and attempt to abduct a dominator, Sara, Barry, Oliver, and Ray confront a group of secret service agents who attempt to kill them, but are defeated . Their leader informs them that the Dominators are after metahumas due to being aware Barry's changing of the timeline and perceive them as a threat . After Barry attempts to surrender himself to the Dominators in exchange for them leaving earth, Sara and the rest of the heroes persuade him not to, and she pilots the Waverider with Cisco to hold the Dominator's freefalling metabomb in place using a tractor beam while Jefferson Jackson / Firestorm transforms it into harmless water and the heroes on the ground use a pain - inflicting device to force the Dominators to flee . Sara and the other heroes are honored by the new President later that night and celebrate, before sharing a hug with Oliver and returning to the Waverider with the rest of the Legends . </P>

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