After a violent shipwreck billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was presumed dead for 5 years until he is found on an island near Asia known as "Lian Yu", Mandarin for Purgatory. When he returns to his home, Starling City, his devoted mother Moira, loving but judgmental sister Thea and childhood friend Tommy Merlyn all welcome, but can feel that Oliver has changed after those 5 years. While Oliver struggles to reconnect with his family and friends while at the same time hiding his secret. But over all he seeks reconciliation with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance whom he cheated on with her sister, Sara Lance. As Oliver reconnects with old, (and new), friends by day- By night he rights his fathers wrongs by bringing down the people on the list of names his father left him. Taking on the persona of "The Arrow" (a vigilante) to take on the illness of Starling City and restore it to it's former glory. Flanked by his team of... "associates"... Including the friendly rogue, Roy Harper, the ex-military solider, John Diggle, and his trusty I.T girl Felicity Smoak.