After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. He returned home to Starling City, bent on righting the wrongs of his family and fighting injustice. To do this, he created the persona of the Arrow and allied himself with former military man John Diggle, computer-science expert Felicity Smoak, billionaire inventor Ray Palmer, lawyer-turned-vigilante Laurel Lance, and his sister Thea. Uneasy alliances and rivalries will shift as Oliver faces his most difficult challenge yet.