After being marooned on a remote island for five years, billionaire Oliver Queen comes home with a mysterious agenda and lethal crime-fighting skills to use in Starling City. Wearing the dark hood of a vigilante archer, Oliver's fiercely determined to right the wrongs of his father and thwart those who have corrupted the city. But his crusade is complicated by his own family's dark secrets, a best friend's unwitting ties to evil and the woman he loves but betrayed in an earlier life.