Arrow - 'The Calm'

Damnit! I call tease!

Starling City is virtually free of crime, thanks to the Arrow and the efforts of a revitalised SCPD under the guidance of newly-minted Captain Quentin Lance. Unfortunately, the fact that substantial parts of it keep being invaded or falling over means that it is also largely free of industry, investment and population.

A new Vertigo tries to muscle in on the underworld by taking on the Arrow, spooking Oliver out of pursuing a relationship with Felicity by getting a budget Scarecrow act on and showing him that his greatest fear is Oliver Queen. Between Felicty getting hurt in a bazooka attack, Lance practically having a heart attack on the job and Diggle and Lyla's baby girl being born, Oliver starts to wonder if he shouldn't be putting people back at arm's length.

Meanwhile, Felicity has been putting together the process for Oliver to regain control of Queen Consolidated, only for their bid to be hammered by amiable genius inventor Ray Palmer, whom I would probably suspect of being the bad guy for the season if he wasn't a) Ray Palmer and b) in a couple of crossover episodes to The Flash. He gets into a doomed hack off with Felicity, but gets Queen Consolidated with his proposal to save not only the company, but the city as well.

That's right, season launch poster; a total mystery.

And Sara/Canary drops in briefly to say hi to Laurel and then get shot with Arrows by a mystery woman with a voice synthesiser like her own and Oliver's.

Oh, and Barr Allen turns up to ask for advice (for which see episode 1 of The Flash.)