2012 (Earth-1)

This is a timeline of events that occurred during **2012**.

	+ After driving all night, Mickey Aldrin excitely arrive at his daughter's house and shows his support and that he has changed.
	+ Following her big news report on New Year's Eve, Robin's career takes a more positive turn.
* **January 16**
	+ Marshall and Lily moves to Long Island.
* **January 18**
	+ Wade Hebert meets Trevor Philips for the first time.
* **January 26**
	+ $236 billion worth of carge passes through the Port of Los Santos.

#### February

* **February 5**
	+ A school shooting occurs at Davis High School in Davis, Los Santos, California.
* **February 13**
	+ Lily and Marshall invite Robin and Kevin on a Valentine's Day trip to Vermont.
	+ In New York City, Maria Ruiz is incarcerated during her pregnancy.
	+ Maritza Ramos, Lucifer's daughter, gives birth to a girl whom she names Juliana Fernanda Ramos.
* **February 14**
	+ Lily and Marshall worry about scores concerning the pregnancy. Kevin and Robin use the trip to talk about taking their relationship to the next level. Robin admits to Kevin that she can't have children and he proposes.
	+ While Barney realizes he has finally met his match as Kevin breaks up with Robin. After this, Ted confesses his feelings to her.

#### March

* **March 4**
	+ Poussey Washington's mother passes away. Due to a failed furlough application, Poussey isn't able to say goodbye in person.
* **March 19**
	+ Blanca Flores is incarcerated.
* **March 26**
	+ David Richards dies in Los Santos at the age of 103.

#### April

* **April 3**
	+ After funding an exhibition in India six months later, Julian finds the container sealed in the Indian caves. However, after opening it, Savitar is released and possess Julian and kills all the other members of the exhibition.
	+ While Julian tries to escape Savitar by fleeing to America, he continually possess Julian and he unwillingly becomes the newest Alchemy. For the next few years, Savitar, as Alchemy, sought out followers for his cult, seeking to slay a younger, less powerful version of Barry.
* **April 16**
	+ American biochemist Jennifer Doudna and French microbiologist Emmanuelle Charpentier develops CRISPR-Cas9, a method of editing genes - that is, making changes to DNA sequences. Gene editing has the potential to treat many diseases but also opens up the ethical gray area of creating designer humans.
* **April 20**
	+ Martha Term sells thirty copies of her book of complete biography.
* **April 27**
	+ Lorna Morello is incarcerated in Litchfield.

#### May

* **May 4**
	+ The Battle of New York occurs:
		- Lucifer and other superheroes officially form the Justice League, nicknamed Avengers.
		- The Avengers battle Loki and the Chitauri Army, eventually they win the battle and Loki is imprisoned, whom are later taken back to Asgard by Thor.
* **May 14**
	+ Marvin Waitforit Eriksen, called Marvin W. Eriksen, is born as the first born child of Marshall Eriksen and Lily Aldrin in New York City, New York.
* **May 18**
	+ Rip Hunter calls out for Lucifer Morningstar across the timeline. Lucifer drags Rip to May 2012, and the two discuss creating a organization like the Time Masters.
	+ Lucifer and Rip forms an organization created to protect history known as the Federal Time Bureau.

#### June

* **June 7**
	+ On Piper's 31st birthday, her boyfriend, Larry, proposes to Piper.
* **June 12**
	+ Henry Hill dies of heart disease.
* **June 26**
	+ Clifford and Marlize DeVoe builds a thinking cap to improve his brain capacity.

#### July

* **July 9**
	+ Over the past the year, Oliver Queen has been fighting in an underground fight club while trying to find Konstantin Kovar.
* **July 30**
	+ Oliver encounters his old friend Anatoly Knyazev in Russia. Anatoly agrees to help him kill Konstantin Kovar, the tyrant running Taiana Venediktov's village, by initiating him to the Bratva, the only group that can possibly defeat Kovar.
	+ Anatoly teaches Oliver the need to trust his brothers in the Bratva.

#### August

* **August 6**
	+ Anatoly tasks Oliver with gaining information from, and then killing, an associate of Kovar. Oliver completes the assignment and Anatoly welcomes him into Bratva.
* **August 15**
	+ Oliver is ambushed by other Bratva members. However, the men are killed by Christopher, whom Anatoly had hired to protect Oliver.
* **August 19**
	+ During a Bratva operation, Oliver is abducted by Kovar's men and is taken to him. Kovar introduces Oliver to his servant Galina Venediktov, Taiana's mother. He also claims that the Bratva have only been using Oliver for their own ends, including making a deal with him. Kovar then releases Oliver back to the Bratva. Gregor, the Bratva traitor, attempts to force Oliver's obedience, but Oliver is rescued by a female archer.

#### September

* **September 4**
	+ Piper Chapman, Larry Bloom, Polly and Peter Harper enjoys Piper's last meal on the outside and her last day as a free woman.
* **September 5**
	+ Piper Chapman, Janae Watson, and Dayanara Diaz are all three incarcerated. On her first day in prison, Piper insults Red's food.
* **September 6**
	+ Red serves Piper sandwich with bloody tampon. Piper is reunited with Alex while inprison.
* **September 7**
	+ Larry visits Piper in prison.
* **September 8**
	+ Talia helps Oliver kill an important associate of Kovar's. She also urges Oliver to become the avenger his father wanted him to be for Starling City.
	+ Oliver and Talia kills a drug merchant from Robert Queen's list. Talia presses Oliver to return home, but he chooses to help Anatoly kill Gregor.
	+ Oliver and Anatoly engage Gregor and his men. Gregor prepares to kill Anatoly. Anatoly demands "spross dopross", the process by which the Pakhan may be overthrown.
	+ Oliver infiltrates Kovar's mansion and acquires evidence that Gregor has been embezzling the Bratva's money. The majority of the captains vote for Anatoly Knyazev, but Gregor starts a mutiny.
	+ Most of the Bratva captains are killed in the shootout before Gregor escapes. Oliver and Anatoly attack Gregor during a meeting with his loyal followers and subdue him.
* **September 14**
	+ Agent 47 assassinates Richard Strong.
* **September 15**
	+ Anatoly becomes the new Pakhan. Kovar buys sarin gas from Malcolm. Anatoly learns that Kovar is planning a coup against the Russian government.
	+ By torturing an operative of Kovar, Oliver learns that Kovar has invited key government officials to his casino, where he plans to assassinate all of them by the gas.
	+ Oliver convinces Galina, Taiana and Vlad's mother, to give him her keycard to the casino.
	+ Oliver and the Bratva infiltrate the casino, where Kovar learns about Galina's betrayal and kills her, angering Oliver, who fails to stop the spread of the gas in time, leading to Viktor's death. Anatoly fails to persuade Oliver from killing Kovar.
	+ Anatoly appoints Oliver as a Bratva captain. Malcolm helps Kovar's operatives revive him.
* **September 17**
	+ Oliver Queen wants to return to Lian Yu, so Anatoly Knyazev plans one last heist to help sick children, hoping to convince Oliver to stay, but Oliver still intends to return to Lian Yu in order to stage his dramatic return to Starling City.
	+ Oliver Queen and Anatoly Knyazev return to Lian Yu, where they arrange for Oliver's return to Starling City. Anatoly leaves to bribe the boatmen to sail towards the island in 48 hours, but Oliver gets captured by Kovar, who knows about Oliver's plan.
* **September 19**
	+ Kovar injects a drug into Oliver that forces him to suffer visceral hallucinations of painful moments from the last five years. After enduring visions of Yao Fei and Laurel, Oliver eventually finds the strength to escape.
	+ Oliver kills Kovar's men, and after which, Oliver kills Kovar by snapping his neck. Momentarily after, Oliver reaches the boat in time and is found and rescued by Chinese fishermen. On the boat, he calls his mother, Moira, saying he is alive and he is coming home to Starling City.
* **September 23**
	+ After his return, Oliver is taken to the hospital, to be examined by doctors. Oliver was given several medical exams at Starling General, where Dr. Neil Lamb revealed to Moira that he had multiple scars, burns, and bone fractures which never properly healed.
* **September 24**
	+ A news report is broadcasted on TV, telling the world that Oliver Queen, billionaire playboy and the son of Robert Queen, is alive and found in the North China Sea and returned home to Starling City the prior day.
	+ Oliver is welcomed home to Starling City by his mother, his new stepfather and his father's former CFO, Walter Steele, his younger sister Thea, and his best friend Tommy Merlyn, but they sense he hsa changed. Oliver hides the truth about the man he has become in those five years.
* **September 25**
	+ Oliver and Tommy drive out around Starling City, to see the city, particularly the Glades.
	+ Oliver pays a visit to Laurel, now a lawyer prosecuting Adam Hunt, at CNRI, to apologize for cheating on her and his role in Sara's death. Laurel does not care for his apology, as she is still angry over his betrayal.
	+ While in the Glades, a group of men arrive in front of Oliver and Tommy, and shoots the two with tranquilizers and kidnaps them.
	+ While Tommy is still unconscious, the kidnappers attempts to interrogate Oliver, but he frees himself and wakes Tommy before running to hunt down the kidnappers and he kills them stating "No one can know my secret".
* **September 26**
	+ The police, led by Quentin Lance, asks about their kidnapping, but Oliver tells them that a man wearing a green hood flew in and saved them both. Before they leave, the police draw up a photo of "the Hood".
	+ With Oliver's kidnapping accelerating his plans, he quickly begin his crusade as a vigilante, but Moira's concern for her son's safety after the incident lead her to assigns John Diggle as his bodyguard. Oliver has to continually ditch Diggle to proceed with his vigilantism.
	+ Oliver sets up his lair in the abandoned Queen Industrial Inc. factory in the Glades, where he trains and forces his arrows.
	+ Oliver Queen takes up a hood and bow and debuts as the hooded vigilante archer later known as "the Hood", going into the streets to kill people on a specific list, if they didn't fulfill something to pay back to the they "failed".
	+ Oliver's first goal is to take down corrupt millionaire Adam Hunt, who has scammed millions from various people in the city.
	+ Police Detective Quentin Lance becomes determined to arrest the vigilante.
	+ Oliver ambushes Hunt and demands that he transfer $40 million into Starling bank account 1141, but Hunt refuses to comply.
* **September 27**
	+ Using Tommy's welcome back party for him as a cover, Oliver waits for the deadline to confront Hunt. He is upset upon seeing Thea buying drugs at his party and secretly threw away her stash.
	+ Oliver then runs into Laurel again and lies about how the island did not change him, claiming he is still a careless playboy and she is wrong to try and see the good in him.
	+ Oliver, as the Hood, storms Hunt Multinational, using a grappling arrow to break into the executive floor, where he takes out Hunt's security team. Upon cornering Hunt, Oliver is confronted by Drakon, who he manage to kill after some struggle, though he is knocked out. Oliver escapes and returns to the party just as the Starling City Police Department arrive.
	+ Using a trick arrow with a transmitter he left at Hunt Multinational, Oliver untraceably withdraws $40 million from the company's bank account and anonymously return it to those it was stolen from. He then crosses Adam Hunt's name, the first of many, off the list.
* **September 28**
	+ The next night, Oliver keeps watch over Laurel, only to learn she have moved on with Tommy, meanwhile, a man working for Moira tells her that the police has failed to identify the men who was hired to kidnap Oliver, and they never will. Moira, determant to find out what Robert told Oliver after the shipwreck, says that there are other ways to find out what her son knows.
* **September 29**
	+ Oliver, as the Hood, fights Redman's men, before threatening Marcus Redman to call his partner to tell him to give the pensioners back their money, before leaving.
	+ Later at Oliver's vigilante lair, he looks over who the next target is on the list as Lucifer enters the Industrial warehouse and makes his way down to Oliver's lair, and tells Oliver that he knows everything about Oliver's return. Lucifer goes on to say that he knew the second he heard about a hooded vigilante dressed as Robin Hood fighting criminals and saving Starling City, he knew it was Oliver.
	+ Afterwards, Lucifer quickly beats Oliver before angrily leaving.
* **September 30**
	+ A week after his return, Oliver has his death in absentia revoked at the courthouse.
	+ Oliver targets another notable individual on the list, Martin Somers, whom Laurel is also prosecuting on behalf of a client whose father, Victor Nocenti, had been murdered on Somer's orders.
	+ Wanting to help Laurel and her client, Emily Noscenti, Oliver breaks into Starling Port and threatens Somers into testifying at the trial and confess to having Victor killed.

#### October

* **October 1**
	+ The next day, Oliver rebuffs Moira and Walter's request that he would take a position at Queen Consolidated.
	+ That night, at Thea's urging, Oliver visits Laurel at her apartment, apologizing for his earlier behavior and trying to reconnect.
	+ Suddenly, the two are attacked by the Chinese Triad, sent by Somers to kill Laurel. Diggle, who is guarding Oliver, barges inside and shoots one of the assassins. Diggle then battles and is almost killed by Chien Na Wei, but Oliver saves him by throwing a knife to disarm the assassin. Oliver's intervention is the first hint Diggle had that his client was much more capable than he let on.
	+ Oliver, as the Hood, then attacks Somers at the Starling City Docks as retribution for the hit on Laurel. Oliver pursue Somers, killing his men and taping his confession of Victor's murder. After a battle with Na Wei, Oliver encounters Lance, but manage to escape. He left behind Somers' confession, allowing Lance to arrest him.
* **October 2**
	+ After crossing Somers' name off the list, Oliver makes a "drunken" scene at the groundbreaking of the Robert Queen Applied Science Center, voicing his belief of never wanting to be like his father. Oliver then visits and speaks to Robert's grave on the mansion grounds. Believing he couldn't uphold his father's name and honor his wishes at the same time, Oliver regretfully admits he would need to dishonor Robert's memory for the sake of his crusade.
	+ Oliver tracks down and targets another millionaire, James Holder, from his list and confronts him over selling defective smoke detectors. Suddenly, Holder is killed by a sniper, who wounds Oliver with a poisonous bullet.
	+ Oliver manages to heal his injury using herbs from Lian Yu.
* **October 3**
	+ Initially, the police suspect that The Hood is responsible for the murder, but the evidence begins to prove otherwise.
	+ After analyizing the bullet, Oliver discovers it was laced with curare, a modus operandi belonging to an assassin known to Interpol as "Deadshot".
	+ Oliver founds a nightclub which he then names Verdant as a cover for his base of operations.
	+ After a retrieving a bullet from the crime scene, Oliver discovers Deadshot was once hired by the SoIntsevskaya Bratva.
	+ Using his rank as a Bratva captain, Oliver tracked down Alexei Leonov, whom he ask to find the identity of the sniper, Deadshot.
	+ While scoping out the competition with Tommy at Poison, Oliver finds Thea, who reveals that Laurel and Tommy had slept together during his absence. Laurel becomes suspicious when Oliver does not react to the news.
* **October 4**
	+ Using his contacts in the SoIntsevskaya Bratva, Oliver learns the assassins's true identity, Floyd Lawton. He is able to track Lawton down, but the latter escapes after a shootout. Oliver retrieves a bullet-ridden laptop from Lawton.
* **October 5**
	+ The next day, Oliver takes the computer to Felicity Smoak, an IT specialist at Queen Consolidated, in hopes she can retrieve information from it. Felicity is able to do so and reveals the laptop is actually owned by Warren Patel and contains blueprints for the Exchange Building, where an auction for a company called Unidac Industries is taking place.
	+ Oliver realizes that Deadshot has been hired by Patel to take out the competition for the bidding of Unidac. He enlists Quentin Lance's help to protect the building and stop Deadshot from assassinating more potential buyers.
	+ At the auction, Oliver manages to stop Deadshot by shooting an arrow through his eyepiece, seemingly killing Lawton, but his bodyguard John Diggle is shot by one of Deadshot's stray bullets. Oliver is forced to reveal his true identity as the vigilante to John in order to save his life.
	+ John awakens in Oliver's hideout, where Oliver offers John a chance to fight at his side and help Starling City. John turns him down, labeling him a murderer.
* **October 8**
	+ Barney and Quinn breaks up and calls off their wedding.
* **October 10**
	+ While watching the news, Oliver discovers a connection between Peter Declan, a death row inmate, and Jason Brodeur, one of the men on the list.
	+ In his Hood persona, Oliver enlists the help of Laurel to prove Declan innocent before he is executed.
* **October 11**
	+ Walter discovers that Moira has been keeping the salvaged and sabotaged family yacht, the Queen's Gambit, hidden in a warehouse.
	+ Working together, the two uncover the truth, but Brodeur has his bodyguard stage a prison break so that he can have Laurel Lance and Peter Declan killed before the truth is revealed.
	+ Oliver sneaks into the Iron Heights Penitentiary dressed as a guard, with a ski mask to hide his face, and saves Laurel and Declan.
	+ After being convinced by the Hood, Declan's late wife's supervisor Matt Istook ultimately confesses to Declan's innocence.
* **October 12**
	+ Malcolm also calls a meeting with Moira, having discovered the Hood was not targeting the rich, but the list.
	+ John meets with Oliver and agrees to work with him so that he can both protect the city and keep Oliver from losing his humanity.
	+ However, Detective Lance arrests Oliver on suspicion of being the Hood, after seeing footage of him recovering his disguise from a garbage bin before the recent Deadshot confrontation.
	+ Oliver is taken to the police station, booked and then interrogated by Quentin Lance. The questioning is soon interrupted by Moira and Walter demanding Oliver be set free and not say anything until his lawyer arrives. Oliver is let go, but tells a distressed Moira that he will only let Laurel defend him.
* **October 17**
	+ In the courtroom for his bail hearing, Oliver insists on representing himself and assures Judge Moss that he is innocent. However, the DA, Kate Spencer, moves that bail to be refused, as Oliver could escape during this time.
	+ Laurel comes in, objects, suggests that Oliver be tagged with a GPS bracelet, confined to his home. As Oliver starts to object, the judge agrees and assigns bail. As the spectators leave the courtroom, Oliver thanks Laurel for coming to his help, and she says that they both know he couldn't be the vigilante because the Hood is trying to make a difference, which isn't Oliver's style.
	+ Back at the manor, an officer attaches the bracelet to Oliver's ankle. Oliver has decided to throw a prison-themed rave on the estate grounds in celebration of his coming freedom. Tommy warns that its not a good idea, but Oliver wants to make it clear that everyone knows that he isn't worried.
* **October 18**
	+ At home, Quentin confronts Laurel about her new client. He insists that Oliver got Sara killed, but Laurel points out that he's biased and that he's letting that guide his prosecution of Oliver. Her father doesn't believe it, insisting that even the evidecen is solid, but Laurel tells him that Oliver wasn't the one who killed Sara or drove off Quentin's wife.
	+ As Quentin storms out, Laurel tells him that he's not the only one who misses them.
	+ Diggle visits Oliver in his room and asks what he is up to. Oliver says that he knew the security camera was in the stairwell, and he figured out that someone would eventually review the footage. He set the whole thing up so that he could divert suspicion from himself, since someone would eventually tie the appearance of the Hood to Oliver's return to civilization.
	+ John points out that Oliver is putting his family through hell, but Oliver insists that the mission comes first. He shows John an Internet article on Leo Mueller, a German arms dealer who has stolen military weapons and is bringing them to Starling City to sell to street gangs. John wonders how Oliver plans to go after Leo when he's under house arrest and Oliver asks him to just shadow Leo for the time being.
	+ Oliver sends John to the hideout where he gets some transponders from Oliver's collection of high-tech equipment.
	+ Walter meets with Josiah Hudson, the head of Queen Consolidated's security, and tells him, off the record, that he has an assignment for him. He explains that he found the remains of Robert's boat and wants Josiah to move them to a secure location. When Josiah wonders what is going on, Walter admits that he doesn't know yet.
	+ The DA calls for a meeting with Laurel and her client and brings in Quentin. Kate explains that Quentin bypassed her office when he arrested Oliver, and that she is willing to let Oliver make an insanity plea. Oliver refuses, insisting that he is sane, and says that he will undergo a polygraph test. It isn't admissible in court, but he will do it in front of Quentin to convince the sergeant that he is innocent.
	+ Laurel talks to him privately and says that he should take Kate's deal. All Oliver will agree to is to accept the deal if he fails the polygraph test. Laurel is satisfied for the moment, but warns him that he is not the only one with something to lose.
* **October 19**
	+ As the worker set-up for the party, Oliver comes out to chat with Thea Queen. He tells Thea that everything will be okay, but she points out that he's been acting weird ever since he came back. She reminds him of the arrowhead that he gave her, but Oliver says that its just a coincidence and that he bought it at an airport gift shop. Reassured, Thea says that she knew Oliver couldn't be a killer and worried that she'll lose him gain. Oliver promises that she won't.
	+ Moira goes to see Malcolm Merlyn when he summons her. She tells him that the charges against Oliver are false, but he wonders if there is something that Oliver has to hide, and warns her that they need to know if her son is hiding something.
	+ Oliver and Laurel meet with Quentin and the polygraph technician. After calibrating the machine on Oliver's truthful answers, Quentin first asks Oliver if he was at Iron Heights Penitentiary and then if he is the vigilante.
	+ Oliver says that he has never been to Iron Heights Penitentiary and that he is not the Hood. The polygraph technician confirms that he is telling the truth and Quentin starts to ask Oliver about the island.
	+ Quentin asks Oliver if he was alone on the island and Oliver admits that he wasn't. He explains that people were there and tortured him and he didn't want to talk about it. When Quentin asks Oliver if he has killed anyone, Oliver says that he killed Sara by inviting her onto his father's yacht.
	+ Rattled, Oliver takes off the leads and walks out. The technician tells Quentin that Oliver told the truth and Laurel asks if her father will be releasing him. Quentin refuses, saying that he can tell that Oliver is guilty of something, whether he will admit it or not.
	+ That night, Oliver throws his party and greets the guests, inviting them to make as much noise as they want. Quentin watches from the crowd as Oliver goes inside and meets privately with John.
	+ John has Leo Mueller's current location from the transponders and Oliver says that the Hood will stop him, but not Oliver. John realizes that Oliver set the whole thing up so that he would have a perfect alibi while John dons the costume and goes after Mueller. Oliver admits that he wasn't expecting John to have to stop an arms deal and John says that he is okay with the risk. What he doesn't like is Oliver lying to him, so Oliver apologizes. John tells him that he'll stop the deal.
	+ Laurel comes to the party, and asks to see Oliver privately. He takes her to his bedroom and she apologizes for her father's behavior. Oliver says that he understands why Quentin is angry and that Quentin has every right. Laurel interrupts, telling Oliver that after Sara died, Quentin threw himself in his work and drove his wife away. Since then, Laurel has been so focused on her family that she didn't realize what Oliver went through. She asks to see his scars and Oliver opens his chest to reveal them. He tells her that there were times when he wanted to die but that the fact that he wanted something more kept him alive. They start to kiss but then Laurel pulls away and runs out.
	+ As Mueller cuts a deal with a street gang for his weapons, the lights in the warehouse go out. As Mueller and his men drive away with the weapons, John (as The Hood) takes on the gang members and knocks them out.
	+ Walter summarily calls Moira to his office and tells her that he knows Moira recovered Robert's yacht and had it shipped to Starling City. He tells her that Josiah was killed while moving it to a more secure location and accuses Moira of lying to him. She warns Walter that he is on a dangerous path and that the people behind it will stop at nothing.
	+ John calls to tell Oliver that he has disposed of the gang, but Mueller escaped. A waiter knocks at the door, reminding Oliver that he has to be at the party. When Oliver comes out, he realizes that the waiter has a gun and is going to kill him. They struggle and Quentin arrives just in time to shoot the killer dead.
	+ Quentin takes Oliver downstairs to meet with Moira and Walter.
	+ Moira, realing the killer works for Malcolm, makes the best of the situation by suggesting that Quentin accusing Oliver of being the Hood made him a target for criminals.
	+ Quentin gets a call from the station and removes the GPS bracelet from Oliver's ankle. He explains that multiple witnesses placed the Hood across town busting up a street gang and he has been told that all charges against Oliver have been dropped.
	+ As Quentin leaves, Oliver thanks him for saving his life.
* **October 20**
	+ The next day, Moira bursts into Malcolm's office and demands to know why he is targeting her son. He says that he had to take steps to dispose of Oliver if he was their enemy as Quentin claimed. Malcolm apologizes, assuring Moira that its clear her son isn't the person who is after them. He does admit that he had Josiah killed to protect their secrets.
	+ Moira warns him that while she will do whatever he asks, but she will destroy him if he ever touches her family again.
	+ At the manor, Oliver finds a pouch that he dropped on the bedroom floor.
	+ Laurel comes to see Oliver and tells him that she studied that polygraph results. She realized that Oliver lied when he said that he hadn't been to Iron Heights Penitentiary, because they visited it together on a field trip in the eighth grade. She figures that he might have forgot until she looked at the readings and realized there were several suspicious flutters.
	+ Laurel wonders what else he lied about and Oliver says that he doesn't like to talk about what happened on the island because people would consider him damaged. He claims that since returning he can't sleep, barely eats, and can't sign his name much less use a bow and arrow.
	+ After a moemnt, Laurel says that they are clearly attracted to each other but that nothing can happen between them. Oliver agrees and Laurel gives him the polygraph results as she leaves.
	+ Later, Oliver and John go to the hideout and Oliver defends his decision to keep Laurel in the dark. John doesn't believe it, figuring that things didn't happen the way Oliver planned and that those close to him are questioning his answers.
	+ Walter packs up and leaves the manor. As he goes, he tells Moira that he is taking a long business trip to Melbourne and doesn't know how long he will be gone. Though this was just a cover story for him needing to spend time away from Moira after finding out she had the Queen's Gambit salvaged and lied about it.
	+ John asks if Oliver has considered how his plan would affect his friends and family.
	+ Laurel tracks down Quentin, drinking in a bar, and takes him home.
	+ Oliver says that he is all too aware of the effects of his lying and explains that it hurts him worse than anyone else. He then dons his costume, tracks down Leo Mueller and breaks up his second attempt to sell the arms. After taking out Mueller's men, the Hood point his arrow at Mueller before he shoots it says he had a change and blew it and that Leo Mueller failed the city.
* **October 29**
	+ The Royal Flush Gang, led by Derek Reston and founded in Keystone City, robs Starling City Trust, shooting and putting an off-duty police officer in a coma in the process.
	+ Oliver and Diggle trains. Oliver begins preparing to attack another individual from the list, Scott Morgan, but Diggle argues that he should expand his work and help the police stop a group of bank robbers. Oliver initially refuses, believing that it detracts from his mission to right Robert's wrong, but agrees finally.
* **October 30**
	+ Tommy Merlyn throws Laurel a fundraiser to support her law firm, CNRI, hoping to prove his love for her that way.
	+ Oliver deduces that the bank robbers are actually a family unit, and that the leader Derek Reston worked for Queen Industries before Robert outsourced 1500 jobs to China and the Reston family lost their home as a result.
	+ Feeling guilty, Oliver tries to persuade Derek to right his own wrongs, but learns that the family are going to rob another bank.
	+ During Oliver Queen's confrontation with the Royal Flush Gang, Derek is fatally shot and dies moments after as the rest of the Reston family is incarcerated.
	+ Oliver and Moira Queen manage to regain their emotional connection.

#### November

* **November 8**
	+ Larry Bloom publishes his article in the New York Times.
* **November 10**
	+ In cahoots with AK Desmond Group, Justin Claybourne releases their weaponized tuberculosis in Lamb Valley, threatening many lives.
* **November 11**
	+ Claybourne's company acquire the rights to a cure, Dycloseral, the price of which went from $10 a pill to $1,000 overnight as a means to profit from the outbreak.
* **November 13**
	+ Finn Harper is born.
	+ During a meeting with his associates, The Hood tries to intimidate Justin Claybourne into stopping the operations and making things right.
* **November 14**
	+ The next night when this didn't work, The Hood goes on a killing spree though Claybourne's guards at the AK Desmond Group's Starling City hideout.
	+ The Hood finally corner and kills Justin Claybourne on the roof by shooting an arrow into his chest. This death of Justin Claybourne angers his illegitimate son, Simon Morrison, and he begins to relentlessly for the next four years when he begins to put his plan in motion to take revenge on The Hood.
* **November 15**
	+ Pepa Ruiz is born.
* **November 16**
	+ Moira Queen is almost shot by a mysterious assailant who was attempting to assassinate an associate of mob boss Frank Bertinelli named Paul Copani.
	+ Oliver runs after and attempts to stop the assailant, but ultimately fails.
	+ Oliver attempts to infiltrate Frank Bertinelli's business to discover the identity of the attacker.
	+ Bertinelli blames Chien Na Wei and the Triad gang for the murders of his people.
	+ Oliver learns that the attacker is Helena Bertinelli, Frank's daughter, with whom he had just been on a date.
* **November 17**
	+ Tommy is cut off financially by his father, Malcolm Merlyn, who is Moira's co-conspirator.
	+ Helena reveals that she is looking for revenge against her father, who she blames for the murder of her fiancé, Michael Station, who according to Bertinelli was gathering evidence against him to give FBI.
	+ Helena and Oliver are abducted by Bertinelli's right-hand man, Nick Salvati, in connection to the deaths; she reveals that she was the one gathering evidence and kills Salvati after learning he was the one who killed her fiancé.
	+ Helena also deduces Oliver's identity as the vigilante after witnessing him fight Bertinelli's henchmen.
	+ Laurel sticks with Tommy, stating that she does not want him for money.
	+ Walter returns home to Starling City.
	+ Later that night, Helena and Oliver shares a kiss before they have sex.
	+ After their night together, Helena goes out and attempts to assassinate the head of the Triad, but The Hood interrupts. Despite her frustration at Oliver for meddling, she agrees to dinner with him to try and convince her to change her ways of achieving justice, but she turns him down.
* **November 18**
	+ Diggle expresses his disapproval, telling Oliver that Helena cannot be saved and that she is very dangerous, but to no avail.
	+ Walter and Moira have a heartfelt conversation, where she tells him that she is still the woman he fell in love with and married. Walter wants Moira and him to be completely honest with each other moving forward, before Walter drives Thea out to school.
	+ Oliver visits the Bertinelli home once more and he brings Helena to the gravestone of Sara Lance and tells her what happened to them. Their shared grief and guilt over the losses of their loved ones finally convinces Helena to listen to Oliver, who promises to never hurt her like she was before.
	+ Oliver brings her to his lair and tries to teach her archery, with Diggle still trying to convince Oliver to think things through about her.
	+ Laurel tries to convince Tommy to ask Oliver for a job to help with his finances.
	+ At Queen Consolidated, Felicity informs Walter of more information she has found on Moira, but he shuts her down and tells her to stop digging.
	+ Helena dresses as a purple vigilante and the duo goes after another man on the list, Anthony Venza, after which Venza is arrested.
* **November 19**
	+ Helena starts to buy into the idea, but leaves him after finding out that Laurel was his former girlfriend and believing that they are still together.
	+ Walter Steele starts suspecting the same list that Oliver has and does his own investigations, enlisting the help of IT Specialist of Queen Consolidated, Felicity Smoak.
	+ Using Felicity Smoak's help, Walter learns more about the secret organization that Moira is a part of, which is in fact the Undertaking which is set to occur in May 2013, after Malcolm Merlyn's plan.
	+ Helena Bertinelli aka Huntress goes after the Triad, killing their leader.
	+ As a result, Chien Na Wei and her men goes after Frank Bertinelli, believing him to be responsible, but Oliver gets there in time to stop them.
	+ Oliver also stops Huntress from killing Bertinelli, but Helena is shot and wounded by Bertinelli, who is arrested. After Oliver saves Helena, she threatens to reveal his identity if he tries to come after her in the future.
	+ Tommy tells Oliver about his father's action and asks for a job at the club that Oliver is attempting to build, which is accepted.
	+ Helena Bertinelli leaves Starling City.
* **November 24**
	+ Simon Morrison changes his name to Adrian Chase, and he later takes on the mantle of "Prometheus".
* **November 28**
	+ During Jefferson's parole party, Piper Chapman is sent to the SHU. Taystee Jefferson is released on parole.

#### December

* **December 5**
	+ The Hood pays a visit to Nelson Ravich, and less than five minutes after the Hood left, Ravich wires back $70 million he embezzled. Oliver crosses Ravich's name of the list.
* **December 6**
	+ Red loses the kitchen.
* **December 9**
	+ Adam Hunt is killed the Dark Archer.
* **December 10**
	+ After Hunt is killed by a mysterious archer, Quentin Lance deduces that a copycat is at work, but his superior publicly blames the Hood.
	+ Oliver and Diggle try to work out who killed Hunt. Oliver points out the placing of the three arrows in Hunt's chest and figures that the killer is an expert archer. He figures the archer used custom arrows that can be traced and tells Diggle that they will get one from the police.
* **December 11**
	+ At the police station, Quentin Lance receives a disposable cellphone, which begins ringing almost immediately after he picks up. Using a voice distorter, Oliver tells Quentin The Hood is not a very good nickname for him. He then insists that he didn't kill Adam Hunt, but he needs Quentin's help to track the real killer. He insists that he can go places that the police can't Quentin isn't interested, but Oliver warns that the killer will likely strike again, and instructs him to call the pre-programmed number if he changes his mind.
	+ Walter calls Dr. Douglas Miller into his office and tells him that security red-flagged him as someone The Hood might come after. Miller claims that he has no idea why the vigilante wound want him.
	+ Oliver plans a Christmas party at the mansion to bring back the spirit of the holidays to his family.
	+ Moira Queen meets with Malcolm Merlyn at a secret location. He tells her that Douglas Miller reported to him, and that Walter knows more than he should about the list. Moira suggests she talk with him, but Merlyn says they are past the point of conversation. He recalls how she blackmailed him in staying away from her family. He has honored that agreement, but now it seems her family isn't staying away from him. He wonders if they need to bring in their "associate" to clean things up. Moira nervously assures him that she will handle it.
	+ Nelson Ravich is killed by the Dark Archer.
	+ Commissioner Nudocerdo tells Quentin to accuse The Hood of the two murders but Quentin refuses, pointing out that it doesn't match The Hood's normal pattern of leaving his victims alive once he gets what he wants from them. Nudocerdo takes Detective Lance off the case.
	+ At the police station, Detective Lance calls The Hood and tells him that he left one of the black arrows at a heating vent. However, he warns The Hood that he has until Christmas to find the killer, after that, he will come after him, copycat or not.
* **December 12**
	+ Oliver recovers the black arrow and goes over it with John. They confirm that its a custom job and that The Dark Archer is deliberately trying to call Oliver out. Oliver enlists Felicity Smoak's help, which prove to be successful.
	+ Oliver dons his Hood costume and goes to the address that received the black arrows. When he enters the warehouse, Oliver realizes that its a dead end before escaping the warehouse as it explodes.
	+ During the Queen Christmas party, Tommy and Laurel arrive. When Walter finds Moira, the two goes to have a private conversation, where Walter reminds Moira that Robert was his oldest friend and that he had not intention of letting the murderers go free, before they both goes back to the party.
	+ Oliver finds Thea making out with Shane in her room, and tells him to leave. When confronting Thea, he realizes his attempt at using the Christmas party to bring the family together was in vain.
	+ Oliver goes out as The Hood. He saves five hostages from the Dark Archer, and the two archers are injured after fighting, with Oliver realizing that Robert wasn't the author of the list. The Dark Archer, who is Malcolm Merlyn, escapes.
	+ Walter Steele finds out about the vigilante's objective and is kidnapped by one of Merlyn's associates.
	+ In a secret location, Merlyn tells Moira that he won't harm Walter and he also reveals to Moira that the organization's plan is starting six months later, in May, when thousands of people will die for what it believes to be for the greater good.
* **December 17**
	+ Dick Grayson and Donna Troy gets engaged.
* **December 24**
	+ During a Christmas pageant at Litchfield Minimum Facility, Piper Chapman and Tiffany Doggett are both sent to the SHU, for a fight that Doggett started.
* **December 27**
	+ Lucifer arrives at Litchfield Federal Penitentiary Minimum Facility. After he got inside, he makes his way towards the SHU.
	+ When Lucifer gets down there, he opens the cell door to Doggett, and talks to her, afterwards, he reveals that he is indeed The Devil, by showing her his Devil Face. As she screams and cries, Lucifer tells her never to even think about going after Chapman, and if she does try to hurt of go after Piper Chapman ever again, he will drag her damned soul down to Hell, where she will be tortured for eternity, she frighteningly agrees out of eternal fear of knowing that Hell and the Devil is completely real and exists. Afterwards, Lucifer leaves Litchfield Penitentiary on Earth-1 and flies back to Los Angeles, California on Earth-666.