<Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> In flashbacks, Maseo and Oliver go after Shreive to see if he has a cure . They only succeed in leading Shrieve to their location, while Akio dies in Tatsu's arms . In the present, Diggle and Laurel patrol Starling City, taking on any criminals they find . Thea finds Roy and reunites with him . Oliver learns that Maseo is the one who provided Ra's with the Omega virus when he originally came to Nanda Parbat . Sneaking away from the castle, Oliver, revealed to have been in league with Malcolm and that his agreement to become Ra's heir was a charade to get close to Ra's and slowly dismantle the League from within, tells Malcolm Ra's plan . On Oliver's advice, Malcolm uses Tatsu to convince the team of the truth . The team, including Tatsu, Ray, and Malcolm go to Nanda Parbat where Tatsu kills Maseo before they are overrun by the League and captured . Malcolm reveals Oliver's treachery to Ra's, whom Oliver manages to convince of his loyalty . Roy secretly leaves Thea . Ra's exposes the team, excluding Tatsu, to the virus before sealing them away in a cell . Afterward, Oliver and Nyssa get married . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 69 </Th> <Td> 23 </Td> <Td> "My Name Is Oliver Queen" </Td> <Td> John Behring </Td> <Td> Story by: Greg Berlanti & Andrew Kreisberg Teleplay by: Marc Guggenheim & Jake Coburn </Td> <Td> May 13, 2015 (2015 - 05 - 13) </Td> <Td> 3J5173 </Td> <Td> 2.83 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> While Ra's and Oliver head toward Starling City, the team wakes in the dungeon . Malcolm informs them that he secretly gave them the vaccine . Barry arrives and frees them . Oliver and Nyssa attack Ra's and other Assassins . Ra's escapes with a canister of the virus, vowing to destroy Starling . Ra's reveals to have four targets . Felicity locates them, and Oliver organizes the team, along with Quentin and the police, to those locations, with Thea arriving in Roy's suit to help . Oliver duels Ra's, as the team successfully stops the attack and minimizes the casualties . Oliver kills Ra's before being saved from the police by Felicity in the A.T.O.M. suit . Afterward, Oliver decides to have a normal life with Felicity instead of operating as a vigilante, knowing that there are other vigilantes that can take his place . Oliver cedes the title of Ra's to Malcolm, to whom Nyssa kneels, but promises vengeance . Ray begins testing a way to miniaturize his A.T.O.M. suit, which results in an explosion . In flashbacks, Oliver tortures Shrieve for hours before Maseo executes him . The trio separates and Oliver decides to live a lonely life away from his family . He boards a ship headed to Coast City . </Td> </Tr> <Table> <Tr> <Th> No . overall </Th> <Th> No. in season </Th> <Th> Title </Th> <Th> Directed by </Th> <Th> Written by </Th> <Th> Original air date </Th> <Th> Prod . code </Th> <Th> U.S. viewers (millions) </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 70 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Green Arrow" </Td> <Td> Thor Freudenthal </Td> <Td> Story by: Greg Berlanti & Beth Schwartz Teleplay by: Marc Guggenheim & Wendy Mericle </Td> <Td> October 7, 2015 (2015 - 10 - 07) </Td> <Td> 3J5801 </Td> <Td> 2.67 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Diggle, Thea, and Laurel continue fighting crime in Starling City, recently renamed' Star City' in honor of Ray, who apparently died in the explosion . The city's leadership, which includes Quentin, assemble to discuss a group of criminals named the "Ghosts" who are terrorizing the city . Damien Darhk, revealed to be controlling the Ghosts, systematically begins assassinating the city's leadership, but fails to kill Quentin . Laurel and Thea convince Oliver, who was trying to propose to Felicity, to return and help them, which Diggle reluctantly approves . Oliver realizes that Felicity has been helping the team, which tracks the Ghosts, where they witness Damien using some form of mystical energy manipulation . Oliver notices Speedy's excessive aggressiveness . Working together, the team stops Damien's terrorist attack . Diggle deduces that Damien is leading H.I.V.E. Afterward, taking the name "Green Arrow", Oliver broadcasts a message to the city vowing to be a beacon of hope, while Quentin is revealed to be working with Damien under duress . In flashbacks, Waller finds Oliver and forces him back on Lian Yu to assess a new threat . He is captured upon arrival . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 71 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "The Candidate" </Td> <Td> John Behring </Td> <Td> Marc Guggenheim & Keto Shimizu </Td> <Td> October 14, 2015 (2015 - 10 - 14) </Td> <Td> 3J5802 </Td> <Td> 2.50 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> The Queen family friend Jessica Danforth decides to run for mayor . During her announcement, she is attacked by Lonnie Machin, an anarchist for hire working for Damien . Queen explains to his sister that her aggressiveness is a result of being in the Lazarus Pit . Diggle tells Laurel about H.I.V.E. The team successfully stops Machin, but Speedy sets him on fire in the process . Later, Machin escapes police custody . Laurel decides to take Thea back to Nanda Parbat both to find a way to stop the aggression and to bring Sara's body to the pit . Queen decides to run for mayor after Danforth backs out of the race . Meanwhile, Felicity takes over for Ray at the company and tasks an operative named Curtis Holt to find a way to save the financial crisis . In flashbacks, Oliver kills the soldier and is tasked by Waller to infiltrate the local military operation run by an officer named Reiter . Reiter decides to recruit Oliver for his cause instead of killing him . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 72 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Restoration" </Td> <Td> Wendey Stanzler </Td> <Td> Wendy Mericle & Speed Weed </Td> <Td> October 21, 2015 (2015 - 10 - 21) </Td> <Td> 3J5803 </Td> <Td> 2.40 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Laurel and Thea arrive in Nanda Parbat and request Merlyn to use the Lazarus Pit for Sara . He initially refuses and tells Thea that she needs to kill some people once in a while to suppress the lust . In order to appease her, he eventually agrees to revive Sara . When Sara returns feral, Nyssa destroys the Lazarus Pit in retaliation, and Merlyn has her imprisoned . Meanwhile, an A.R.G.U.S. operative delivers Diggle information on a H.I.V.E. operative, Mina Fayad . Fayad meets with Damien about the growing issue with the vigilantes in Star City . She brings in a metahuman named Jeremy Tell, who can turn his playing card tattoos into physical projectiles . After Tell's initial failure, Damien kills Fayad for challenging him . Felicity reveals to Holt that she is aiding Green Arrow . Diggle and Green Arrow team up and take down Tell, who refuses to talk because of fearing Damien more . He is imprisoned in Iron Heights . In flashbacks, in order to impress his handler, Queen uses torture techniques to interrogate the prisoners who are being used to harvest heroin - cocaine hybrid plants . He secretly frees a woman . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 73 </Th> <Td> </Td> <Td> "Beyond Redemption" </Td> <Td> Lexi Alexander </Td> <Td> Beth Schwartz & Ben Sokolowski </Td> <Td> October 28, 2015 (2015 - 10 - 28) </Td> <Td> 3J5805 </Td> <Td> 2.64 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Quentin has Green Arrow look into the death of two police officers and the team discovers they were killed by members of the Anti-Vigilante Task Force . Laurel brings Quentin to see Sara, who is chained up in the basement of Laurel's apartment . Smoak identifies Liza Warner as a suspect and, while searching for her, Oliver discovers Quentin meeting with Darhk and confronts Quentin, who reveals that Darhk threatened to kill Laurel . Darhk advises Quentin to kill Sara; but Laurel dissuades him . Green Arrow and the team stop the corrupt officers before Liza attempts to kill the vigilante; but Quentin convinces her to surrender . Later, Queen asks Quentin to spy on Darhk and announces his candidacy, Smoak opens an audio of Palmer's apparent final moments, and Laurel discovers that Sara has escaped . In flashbacks, Queen gets Taiana, the woman, to a cave and convinces officer Conklin of her death; but he discovers his communication device with Waller . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 74 </Th> <Td> 5 </Td> <Td> "Haunted" </Td> <Td> John Badham </Td> <Td> Brian Ford Sullivan & Oscar Balderrama </Td> <Td> November 4, 2015 (2015 - 11 - 04) </Td> <Td> 3J5804 </Td> <Td> 2.60 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> In flashbacks, Reiter dismisses Conklin's accusation . Instead, he introduces them to a recent captive named John Constantine, who escapes and forces Queen to help him locate a mystical object on the island . Afterwards, Constantine warns Queen to be wary of Reiter's real plans and uses the object to cast a spell on the him . In the present, Sara starts killing women and Green Arrow discovers she is alive . The team realizes that Sara is looking for Thea and plans to kill her . They capture Sara and Oliver contacts John, who helps restore Sara's soul . Meanwhile, Darhk gives Quentin a new task to install a computer virus in a security company . Diggle goes along and sees his brother's name among the list of individuals being deleted by the virus . Later, Smoak and Holt learn that Palmer is still alive and Diggle learns that his brother was killed because he was a drug cartel leader . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 75 </Th> <Td> 6 </Td> <Td> "Lost Souls" </Td> <Td> Antonio Negret </Td> <Td> Beth Schwartz & Emilio Ortega Aldrich </Td> <Td> November 11, 2015 (2015 - 11 - 11) </Td> <Td> 3J5806 </Td> <Td> 2.30 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> As Oliver works on his campaign, Felicity continues searching for Ray with the help of Curtis . Ray is able to send a new message, letting Felicity know that he survived the explosion because his suit successfully shrank him down to a small size, that he is being held prisoner, and where to find the schematics to build a device to return him to his normal size . In a second message, Felicity discovers that Darhk is the one imprisoning Ray, hoping to get the technology from his suit . The team tracks Darhk to his hideout and, with the device created by Curtis, they successfully save and restore Ray . Thea starts dating Alex while Quentin and Donna start their own date . Darhk orders tests a power source made from Ray's technology on a mystical board . Meanwhile, Sara struggles with the bloodlust and decides to leave Star City to gain control . In flashbacks, Reiter sends Oliver on a search for another ancient ruin that is supposed to yield a "gift" for Reiter . Conklin has a worker turn on Oliver, who kills him, giving the former the opportunity to question Oliver's motives . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 76 </Th> <Td> 7 </Td> <Td> "Brotherhood" </Td> <Td> James Bamford </Td> <Td> Speed Weed & Keto Shimizu </Td> <Td> November 18, 2015 (2015 - 11 - 18) </Td> <Td> 3J5807 </Td> <Td> 2.69 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> While Ray refuses to return to Palmer Tech, H.I.V.E. destroy money meant for the city bank . John gives Oliver information that H.I.V.E. murdered his brother Andy because he was a criminal rival . Darhk tells Quentin about his knowledge of Quentin's betrayal . The team heads to a lab, where they are attacked by Darhk's group and John discovers that Andy is still alive, working for H.I.V.E. John refuses to see Andy as anything more than a traitor, unworthy of saving . The team finds out that Darhk uses pills to control his operatives' minds, which could have been administered to Andy . They locate him and the rest of H.I.V.E, successfully extracting Andy with help from Ray and John, who confronts Andy with the documents, which Andy confirms . After an encounter with Darhk, Thea learns that his powers may help cure her bloodlust permanently after Darhk's failure to drain her lifeforce . In flashbacks, Conklin reveals that the worker Oliver killed was Taiana's brother, diverting accusation from the former . However, Reiter finds the truth by a mystical object and has Oliver whip Conklin as punishment . Oliver later convinces Taiana to help him find a map . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 77 </Th> <Td> 8 </Td> <Td> "Legends of Yesterday" </Td> <Td> Thor Freudenthal </Td> <Td> Story by: Greg Berlanti & Marc Guggenheim Teleplay by: Brian Ford Sullivan & Marc Guggenheim </Td> <Td> December 2, 2015 (2015 - 12 - 02) </Td> <Td> 3J5808 </Td> <Td> 3.66 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> <P> Malcolm orchestrates a meeting between Savage, Barry, and Oliver . Savage demands they turn over Kendra and Carter or he will destroy both Central City and Star City with the Staff of Horus . They devise a plan to deliver the pair as a ruse to get close enough to destroy the staff . The plan fails; Kendra and Carter are killed and Savage uses the staff to destroy everyone else in the city . Barry escapes and runs fast enough to go back in time to the point of the original negotiation . Barry informs Oliver of his time travel and the mistakes that led to their defeat . They change their approach to the plan and Barry is able to steal the staff . He and Oliver use it on Savage, burning his body . Afterward, Kendra and Carter decide to use their powers to help others in another city . Cisco gives her a tracking device . Meanwhile, Oliver learns about his son, William, and accepts Samantha's condition not to tell William or anyone else about the paternity in order to be able to see William . Malcolm collects Savage's ashes, repeating the words Savage said the first time he killed the pair . </P> This episode concludes a crossover event that begins on The Flash season 2 episode 8 . The two episodes also set up Legends of Tomorrow . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 78 </Th> <Td> 9 </Td> <Td> "Dark Waters" </Td> <Td> John Behring </Td> <Td> Wendy Mericle & Ben Sokolowski </Td> <Td> December 9, 2015 (2015 - 12 - 09) </Td> <Td> 3J5809 </Td> <Td> 2.82 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Oliver's campaign starts an initiative to clean up the Star City bay . Darhk sends a drone to the bay and begins shooting at the citizens helping, injuring several . In response, Oliver reveals Darhk to the media as the leader of H.I.V.E. and the Ghosts . In retaliation, Darhk crashes Oliver's campaign holiday party and kidnaps John, Felicity, and Thea . Oliver makes contact and agrees to exchange himself for them . Darhk tricks Oliver and attempts to kill them all in front of him . Malcolm, dressed as Green Arrow, and Laurel arrive and rescue everyone . Afterward, Oliver proposes to Felicity, who accepts . As they leave, Darhk's men shoot up Oliver's limo and hit Felicity while Darhk reunites with his wife and daughter . Meanwhile, H.I.V.E's plan, entitled Genesis, is revealed to include mass growing of corn in a large field . In flashbacks, Oliver returns to the ship the Amazo and acquires the maps . However, Conklin finds Taiana alive and confronts Oliver . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 79 </Th> <Td> 10 </Td> <Td> "Blood Debts" </Td> <Td> Jesse Warn </Td> <Td> Oscar Balderrama & Sarah Tarkoff </Td> <Td> January 20, 2016 (2016 - 01 - 20) </Td> <Td> 3J5810 </Td> <Td> 2.83 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> While Felicity goes under multiple surgeries, Oliver and the team continue searching for Darhk . Oliver turns to Quentin for information on Darhk's location, while John interrogates his brother Andy . They track down Darhk's location, but find only several dead Ghost soldiers and an anarchy symbol, deducing that Machin is back and out for revenge against Darhk . Machin is caught and Oliver interrogates him before freeing him to go after Darhk, tracking him in the process . Andy reveals Darhk's family house, where Machin goes too; the team arrives and saves Darhk's family, but Machin escapes . Darhk grants Oliver time to spend with his own family before Darhk can kill him . Meanwhile, Felicity is left paralyzed from being shot . John regains his relationship with Andy . Darhk's wife, Ruvé, is revealed to be his accomplice and H.I.V.E's plan is revealed to be destroying the world and rebuilding it . In flashbacks, Conklin presents his proof to Reiter, who allows the former to whip Oliver as punishment, until Reiter notices the spell on Oliver's abdomen . In exchange for Taiana's safety, Oliver agrees to help Reiter . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 80 </Th> <Td> 11 </Td> <Td> "A.W.O.L." </Td> <Td> Charlotte Brandström </Td> <Td> Brian Ford Sullivan & Emilio Ortega Aldrich </Td> <Td> January 27, 2016 (2016 - 01 - 27) </Td> <Td> 3J5811 </Td> <Td> 2.78 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Felicity returns home from the hospital, trying to figure out her place on the team now that she is a paraplegic . An A.R.G.U.S. agent seeks out John and Lyla for assistance, but is kidnapped before he can tell the pair anything . The pair goes to Waller, who secretly gives her a portable hard drive that reveals the operative was taken by an organization known as "Shadowspire". John recognizes the name and recounts first meeting the war profiteering group in Afghanistan . With Andy's help, the team tracks Shadowspire . Oliver pressures Felicity for help, who has started having hallucinations of her hacker past self . Shadowspire infiltrates A.R.G.U.S. looking for the access codes to a project known as "Rubicon", killing Waller when she refuses to help . Oliver and the team, with Felicity's assistance, enter A.R.G.U.S. and stop Shadowspire . Oliver vows to look for a way to cure Felicity's paralysis; and John takes Andy to his house . In flashbacks, Reiter is revealed as the leader of Shadowspire . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 81 </Th> <Td> 12 </Td> <Td> "Unchained" </Td> <Td> Kevin Fair </Td> <Td> Speed Weed & Beth Schwartz </Td> <Td> February 3, 2016 (2016 - 02 - 03) </Td> <Td> 3J5812 </Td> <Td> 2.48 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> The team goes after a burglar and Oliver and Thea manage to corner him . He escapes when Thea loses consciousness . Malcolm reveals to Oliver that since she has not taken a life, the bloodlust is killing her . Oliver finds out that the burglar is Roy . They free Roy from the control of a man who goes by the name Calculator . Felicity tracks the Calculator through the web, who reveals he intends to shut down the entire city, killing everyone in the process . The team manages to stop the plan . Meanwhile, Ruve enters the mayoral race, Thea slips into a coma, the Calculator is revealed to be Felicity's father, Noah Kuttler . Roy decides to leave again . Nyssa escapes her cell in Nanda Parbat, visits Tatsu and somehow convinces her to give her Lotus, a cure for Thea's bloodlust . She demands Oliver to kill Malcolm in exchange for Lotus . In flashbacks, Reiter tortures Oliver for information on the maps he acquired . Oliver has a mystical meeting with the soul of Shado, who gives him a special stone . He reveals to Taiana that he killed her brother . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 82 </Th> <Td> 13 </Td> <Td> "Sins of the Father" </Td> <Td> Gordon Verheul </Td> <Td> Ben Sokolowski & Keto Shimizu </Td> <Td> February 10, 2016 (2016 - 02 - 10) </Td> <Td> 3J5813 </Td> <Td> 2.44 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Oliver refuses Nyssa's offer; instead, he manages to convince Malcolm to relinquish control of the League to Nyssa in exchange for the Lotus . At the exchange, Malcolm double - crosses Nyssa and a war starts between the two Assassin factions in Star City . Oliver convinces Malcolm to challenge Nyssa to a duel . Oliver uses ancient rules to trade places with Nyssa as her husband . The former bests Malcolm but, instead of killing him, cuts off the hand wearing the Demon's Head ring and exchanges the ring for the Lotus . However, Nyssa disbands the League and destroys the ring . Malcolm informs Darhk about Oliver's son, William . Meanwhile, Noah reveals to Felicity that he is the Calculator, claiming to have changed into a good person . She finds out that he is lying and turns him over to the police . In flashbacks, Taiana takes the stone from Oliver and gives it to Reiter, demanding her freedom, which Reiter refuses to do and tasks her to help Oliver recover . She later reconciles with him . Reiter informs Oliver that the stone led to the location of what he seeks; and they are going to "dig". </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 83 </Th> <Td> 14 </Td> <Td> "Code of Silence" </Td> <Td> James Bamford </Td> <Td> Wendy Mericle & Oscar Balderrama </Td> <Td> February 17, 2016 (2016 - 02 - 17) </Td> <Td> 3J5814 </Td> <Td> 2.44 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Malcolm joins Darhk, Ruvé, and the other leaders of H.I.V.E. and it is revealed that they are moving on to "Phase 5" of their plan . Darhk sends a group of mercenaries, known as the Demolition Team, to take out Quentin, whom Laurel saves . With Curtis' help, Felicity realizes that the Demolition Team is planning to destroy the building of the mayoral debate between Oliver and Ruvé, leaving her alive as a sympathetic survivor . Oliver and his team stop the mercenaries in time for Oliver to win the debate . Oliver and Felicity become engaged and Curtis presents her a device that can cure her paralysis . Darhk kidnaps William . Meanwhile, Thea finds out about William and supports Oliver's decision to hide it from Felicity . Quentin tells Donna about his previous involvement with Darhk . In flashbacks, in order to gain the approval of the prisoners, Oliver kills Conklin, who reveals that Reiter plans to kill all the prisoners after he finds his "ultimate power". </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 84 </Th> <Td> 15 </Td> <Td> "Taken" </Td> <Td> Gregory Smith </Td> <Td> Story by: Marc Guggenheim Teleplay by: Keto Shimizu & Brian Ford Sullivan </Td> <Td> February 24, 2016 (2016 - 02 - 24) </Td> <Td> 3J5815 </Td> <Td> 2.70 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Darhk demands Oliver withdraw from the mayoral race in exchange for William . Oliver reveals the truth about William to the rest of the team while revealing his alter ego to Samantha . He asks a Detroit - based vigilante named Mari McCabe for help, as her powers are derived from magic . Mari tracks William's location; but they fail to rescue him . Oliver withdraws from the race while the team discovers the root of Darhk's powers and sets a plan to destroy his mystical idol . The plan works; Darhk is left powerless and arrested, while William is saved . They also discover that Malcolm was the one who kidnapped William . Later, Oliver sends William and his mother away for safety, planning to reveal the truth to William when he is 18 . Felicity decides to break up with Oliver while she recovers her ability to walk . In flashbacks, a passage is discovered that leads to Reiter's "ultimate power" and the spell on Oliver's stomach allows him to pass unharmed . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 85 </Th> <Td> 16 </Td> <Td> "Broken Hearts" </Td> <Td> John Showalter </Td> <Td> Rebecca Bellotto & Nolan Dunbar </Td> <Td> March 23, 2016 (2016 - 03 - 23) </Td> <Td> 3J5816 </Td> <Td> 2.09 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Carrie Cutter returns to Star City and begins targeting high profile couples . While the team works to track her whereabouts and prevent any more killings, Laurel works on Darhk's prosecution . After several failed attempts to find a suitable witness, Quentin testifies to his involvement . The team discovers that Carrie is targeting couples that have recently been married . In order to draw her out, Oliver convinces Felicity to stage a "secret" wedding with him to set themselves up as targets, intentionally leaking the information to the media . The plan works and Carrie attacks Oliver and Felicity at the ceremony . Felicity distracts her long enough for Diggle and Thea to apprehend her . Darhk's bail is denied and is remanded into custody . Quentin is suspended pending an investigation, while Felicity quits the team for good . In custody, Darhk is shown wearing a mystical ring he secretly carried inside . In flashbacks, Oliver leads Reiter to a mystical idol, but steals it and runs off into the tunnels with Taiana . The pair incapacitate two mercenaries and acquire their guns . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 86 </Th> <Td> 17 </Td> <Td> "Beacon of Hope" </Td> <Td> Michael Schultz </Td> <Td> Ben Sokolowski & Brian Ford Sullivan </Td> <Td> March 30, 2016 (2016 - 03 - 30) </Td> <Td> 3J5817 </Td> <Td> 2.34 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Brie Larvan orchestrates her release from prison and travels to Star City in search of the bio-mechanical chip that helps Felicity walk . Brie attacks Palmer Tech, holding the board hostage until Felicity turns herself over . Curtis tracks down Oliver's hideout, discovering his secret in the process, so that he can offer his help to the team to save Felicity, Donna, and Thea . Oliver is stung by one of Brie's robotic bees . Curtis realizes the sting actually implanted a bee within Oliver that is replicating itself . Laurel uses her Canary Cry to save Oliver . Felicity is able to evacuate the board members, while Brie reveals she is after the chip because she has a tumor that is going to leave her paralyzed . Curtis develops a virus to shut down the bees and uses them to stop Brie . Meanwhile, Malcolm visits Darhk and informs him that H.I.V.E. is proceeding with "Genesis" without Darhk, who later gains the loyalty of Michael Amar . Andy is revealed to be still allegiant to Darhk . In flashbacks, Oliver engages Reiter, whose powers from the idol dwindle; and Reiter escapes into the tunnels to recover it . Oliver and Taiana decide to save the prisoners instead . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 87 </Th> <Td> 18 </Td> <Td> "Eleven - Fifty - Nine" </Td> <Td> Rob Hardy </Td> <Td> Marc Guggenheim & Keto Shimizu </Td> <Td> April 6, 2016 (2016 - 04 - 06) </Td> <Td> 3J5818 </Td> <Td> 2.24 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Andy tells John that he was approached by Malcolm about a plan to break Darhk out of prison . Oliver and John foil H.I.V.E.'s plan, but it turns out to be a ruse designed to let Malcolm and his loyal Assassins invade the bunker and steal Darhk's idol . Malcolm delivers the idol to Darhk, who finds out that it is incomplete . John reveals to Andy that he personally hid the missing piece in another location . Oliver becomes suspicious of Andy . Darhk and Amar orchestrate a prison riot and the team sets out to stop him with Andy joining them . However, when the team reaches Darhk, Andy turns on them and gives Darhk the missing piece to his idol . With his powers restored, Darhk subdues the team and stabs Laurel before escaping with Malcolm, Andy, and tens of other inmates . Laurel later dies at the hospital . In flashbacks, Oliver and Taiana help the prisoners escape and set off a bomb to bury Reiter in the tunnels . Reiter kills his two accompanying mercenaries in order to survive by the idol . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 88 </Th> <Td> 19 </Td> <Td> "Canary Cry" </Td> <Td> Laura Belsey </Td> <Td> Wendy Mericle & Beth Schwartz </Td> <Td> April 27, 2016 (2016 - 04 - 27) </Td> <Td> 3J5819 </Td> <Td> 2.27 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> As the team, including the rejoined Felicity, mourns Laurel's death and tries to determine their next move against Darhk, another woman posing as the Black Canary appears in Star City . She turns out to be Evelyn Sharp, the daughter of H.I.V.E. prisoners who were left behind after Oliver saved his team when they were kidnapped by Darhk previously . John, angry at being betrayed by Andy, goes after Ruvé, the new mayor; but Oliver intervenes . Ruvé issues arrest warrants for all vigilantes . Sharp goes after Ruvé publicly, but Oliver is able to dissuade her from killing Ruvé . Meanwhile, Quentin starts looking for ways to revive Laurel; but Oliver manages to dissuade him . At Laurel's funeral, Oliver reveals her as the Black Canary to preserve her image with the city . Afterwards, Oliver vows to find a way to defeat and kill Darhk . In flashbacks, Oliver and Laurel struggle to come to terms with Tommy Merlyn's death . In the end, Oliver leaves Laurel to cope on her own and returns to Lian Yu . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 89 </Th> <Td> 20 </Td> <Td> "Genesis" </Td> <Td> Gregory Smith </Td> <Td> Oscar Balderrama & Emilio Ortega Aldrich </Td> <Td> May 4, 2016 (2016 - 05 - 04) </Td> <Td> 3J5820 </Td> <Td> 2.07 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Darhk returns to H.I.V.E. and kills two of the board members before renewing his plans for "Genesis". Oliver and Felicity go to Hub City and meet an immortal shaman, Fortuna, who starts educating Oliver about dark magic . After a mystical ritual, Fortuna tells Oliver that the darkness inside him is too strong to channel the light . In Star City, John locates Andy, but is captured after a brief shootout . Andy puts a tracking device on him, then allows John to escape so that Darhk and his team can go after John and Lyla and steal "Rubicon", the key to the world's nuclear weapons . Oliver manages to stop Darhk by channeling the power of light, nullifying Darhk's powers and forcing him to retreat . John kills Andy . Meanwhile, Thea and Alex, who is working for Ruve now, go to an unknown city for vacation . She soon realizes that the city is atypical and finds out that Alex is using Darhk's mind control pills . She is subdued by Darhk's operatives and the city is revealed to be under Star City . The team realizes that Darhk plans to detonate nuclear weapons and build a new world over the ashes . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 90 </Th> <Td> 21 </Td> <Td> "Monument Point" </Td> <Td> Kevin Tancharoen </Td> <Td> Speed Weed & Jenny Lynn </Td> <Td> May 11, 2016 (2016 - 05 - 11) </Td> <Td> 3J5821 </Td> <Td> 2.16 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Darhk begins taking control of the world's nuclear missiles . The team seeks out Noah to help disable Rubicon . Darhk sends Danny Brickwell and Amar to find and kill Noah, but Oliver and his team are able to rescue him . Noah agrees to help, but it requires a high - powered processor from Palmer Tech . Felicity learns she has been fired as CEO and is unable to get the processor, forcing the team to break in and steal it . H.I.V.E. locates the team when Noah hacks into Rubicon . As H.I.V.E. attacks, Felicity and Noah shut down Rubicon and stop all the missiles but one, which launches and heads to Monument Point . Felicity only manages to redirect it to Havenrock, reducing the casualties to tens of thousands . Oliver and Diggle find Darhk in the Star City nexus chamber, gathering more power from all the deaths caused by the explosion . Meanwhile in the underground city, Malcolm tells Thea it is designed to protect Darhk and his chosen people from the nuclear apocalypse . Lonnie attacks the city and kills Alex . In flashbacks, Reiter escapes the cave - in, but Oliver and Taiana steal the idol back . The idol then begins to affect Taiana . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 91 </Th> <Td> 22 </Td> <Td> "Lost in the Flood" </Td> <Td> Glen Winter </Td> <Td> Brian Ford Sullivan & Oscar Balderrama </Td> <Td> May 18, 2016 (2016 - 05 - 18) </Td> <Td> 3J5822 </Td> <Td> 1.94 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> His power grown exponentially, Darhk attempts to reactivate "Rubicon" with the help of Felicity's former boyfriend, Cooper, and launch the remaining missiles . However, Noah, Felicity, and Curtis successfully shut down "Rubicon" for good . Meanwhile, Oliver and Diggle discover the underground town and track Thea's whereabouts . Malcolm uses a mind - controlling drug on her which makes her turn on Oliver, but Oliver manages to talk her back to reality . Just then, Machin takes over H.I.V.E.'s command center and threatens to destroy Darhk's town . Oliver, Diggle, and Thea intercede, but the main power source gets ruptured and explodes, destroying the city . The town is evacuated and Machin escapes, but not before killing Ruvé . Donna convinces Noah to leave and never come back . Darhk decides to use "Rubicon" to destroy the whole Earth and shows up at Oliver's home, where Felicity, Donna, and Curtis are . In flashbacks, the idol begins to slowly corrupt Taiana, feeding her ever more power from each soldier she and Oliver kill . Oliver takes the idol and tries to talk her down, but Reiter suddenly arrives and confronts them both . </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> 92 </Th> <Td> 23 </Td> <Td> "Schism" </Td> <Td> John Behring </Td> <Td> Story by: Greg Berlanti Teleplay by: Wendy Mericle & Marc Guggenheim </Td> <Td> May 25, 2016 (2016 - 05 - 25) </Td> <Td> 3J5823 </Td> <Td> 2.19 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="8"> Darhk steals the laptop keeping him locked out of "Rubicon" and launches over 15,000 nuclear missiles, giving the team two hours to prevent worldwide annihilation . With Star City citizens rioting, Oliver addresses everyone directly, inspiring hope in them to stay strong, while Felicity and Curtis divert the missile aimed at Star City . Oliver goes after Darhk, while Felicity, Merlyn, and Thea track down "Rubicon". Felicity convinces Cooper to stop helping Darhk, at the cost of his life . Curtis devises a means to stop the missiles . Oliver is able to nullify Darhk's powers with the hope he inspired throughout the city . While the citizens of Star City take on Darhk's remaining men, Oliver duels and kills Darhk . Afterward, Thea, Diggle and Lance, who gets fired from SCPD, leave the team for new lives, and the city council appoints Oliver as the interim mayor . In flashbacks, Oliver and Taiana manage to kill Reiter . She then convinces him to kill her when she is unable to escape the darkness within . Oliver radios Waller to rescue the rest of the prisoners and keep the idol safe, intending to go to Russia to meet Taiana's family as he promised . </Td> </Tr> </Table>

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