The Arrow (Stephen Amell) In the fifth season premiere, Oliver is now the mayor of Star City and juggling his political roles and his role as a vigilante. Thea still doesn't want that type of life, Diggle is still on some sort of vacation after murdering his brother in the last season so Oliver is left to work alone with Felicity. She keeps telling him to recruit new people and train them but he refuses. Instead he works with Quentin Lance and some police officers to take down the new villain Tobias Church. Lance returned to his old drinking habits again but snaps out of it after listening to Oliver's speech. He realizes that he could do something other than wasting his life drinking and grieving so he helps out team Arrow. Tobias' main aim for now is to take down the Green Arrow, so he crashes the unveiling of the Black Canary's statue and kidnaps Oliver and three other people. Oliver is able to disentangle himself from the situation which takes us to...