1. Pilot

Complete story — includes the ending

Billionaire playboy Oliver Queen, missing and presumed dead after a shipwreck that claimed the life of his father, Robert, is discovered alive after five years on a remote Pacific island. He is welcomed home to Starling City by his mother Moira, stepfather Walter Steele, younger sister Thea, and best friend Tommy Merlyn, but they sense he has changed. Moira assigns John Diggle as Oliver's bodyguard. Oliver hides the truth about the man he has become and tries to reconcile with his former girlfriend, Laurel Lance, on whom he cheated with her sister Sara, another victim of the shipwreck. While reconnecting with those closest to him, Oliver secretly masquerades as a hooded vigilante archer by night, attempting to fulfill his father's dying request: to right the wrongs of his family. Oliver's first goal is to take down corrupt millionaire Adam Hunt, who has scammed millions from various people in the city. Laurel's father, police detective Quentin Lance, becomes determined to arrest the vigilante and works with Adam to stop him. In the end, Adam's security guard, Constantine Drakon, and many other henchmen are killed. Meanwhile, it is revealed Oliver's mother has an agenda at odds with her son's, having orchestrated a kidnapping to determine what Robert told him after the shipwreck.