Arrow Season 5 Episode 2 Trailer: The Recruits

The show that really started it all for the CW will be back for at least one more season. This article is your one-stop location for everything you need to know about Arrowseason 5...

The next episode of Arrowis called "The Recruits" and it airs on October 12th.

Here's the official synopsis:

Oliver’s (Stephen Amell) new recruits for Team Arrow are Curtis (Echo Kellum), Wild Dog (guest star Rick Gonzalez) and Evelyn Sharp (guest star Madison McLaughlin). Unfortunately, the Green Arrow’s training methods prove to be too much for some of them to handle.  Meanwhile, in the flashbacks, Oliver’s initiation into the Bratva continues.

Watch the trailer here:

Arrow Season 5 Review

There's a real sense of fun on display in "Legacy," like the show has once again found confidence in its own voice and what it brings to the table. Oliver Queen's multi-season arc from driven vigilante to genuine superhero and now, to a completely different kind of leadership and responsibility, is one of the most interesting we're ever likely to get from a show like this. 

Read the full spoiler-free review right here.

Arrow Season 5 Trailer

There's a trailer for ArrowSeason 5, and it's your best look yet at this season's baddie, Tobias Church.

Watch it here...

What's amazing is how Wild Dog looks exactly like the comic book version, even though that was a faintly ridiculous character design in the first place. 

There's also another trailer, focusing on the new members of Team Arrow...

This extended trailer is the best yet...

Arrow Season 5 Release Date

Arrow Season 5 will premiere on Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 at 8 pm with the episode, "Legacy."

We've also got some new photos from the Arrow season 5 premiere, which can all be viewed in the gallery at the top of the article. The various images preview Oliver fighting some Russian gang members in his mayoral digs rather than his suit, the return of Anatoly, and our first real look at Prometheus...

Arrow Season 5 Episodes

Arrow Season 5 Episode 1: Legacy

Arrow Season 5 officially kicked off production on the first episode, which is called "Legacy" on July 6th. It boasts a story by Greg Berlanti, a script by Marc Guggenheim and Wendy Mericle (so that's all three of the showrunners accounted for), and it will be directed by James Bamford. 

Mr. Bamford is also the stunt coordinator on Arrow, and helped give the show its action-identity. This is the episode that Stephen Amell is teasing will have one of the most punishing single take action sequences in TV history. Get ready!

air date: October 5, 2016.

Arrow Season 5 Episode 2: The Recruits

Oliver’s (Stephen Amell) new recruits for Team Arrow are Curtis (Echo Kellum), Wild Dog (guest star Rick Gonzalez) and Evelyn Sharp (guest star Madison McLaughlin). Unfortunately, the Green Arrow’s training methods prove to be too much for some of them to handle.  Meanwhile, in the flashbacks, Oliver’s initiation into the Bratva continues.

air date: October 12, 2016

Arrow Season 5 Episode 3: A Matter of Trust

Now that Oliver (Stephen Amell) has his new team, they are ready to hit the streets but Oliver doesn’t feel they are ready.  Headstrong Wild Dog (guest star Rick Gonzalez) defies the Green Arrow’s orders and sets out on his own after a new drug dealer, Garret Runnels (guest star Cody Rhodes), who is terrorizing Star City.  Runnels proves more powerful than Wild Dog and it is up to the Green Arrow to go head to head with Runnels to save his teammate.

air date: October 19, 2016

Arrow Season 5 Episode 4: Penance

Oliver (Stephen Amell) and Lyla (guest star Audrey Marie Anderson) team up on a secret mission for Diggle (David Ramsey).  Felicity (Emily Bett Rickards) finds out and disapproves of the plan and opts to stay behind.  When Tobias Church (guest star Chad L. Coleman) launches a deadly assault against the city, Felicity must decide if she wants to send the recruits out sans the Green Arrow.

air date: October 26, 2016

Arrow Season 5 Episode 5: Human Target

air date: TBA

Arrow Season 5 Episode 6: So It Begins

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Arrow Season 5 Episode 7: Vigilante

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Arrow Season 5 Story

There aren't too many new details in here, but we figured you'd like to see it anyway...

After a violent shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen (Stephen Amell) was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the North China Sea. Oliver returned home to Star City, bent on righting the wrongs of his family and fighting injustice. As the Green Arrow, he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle (David Ramsey), computer science expert Felicity Smoak (Emily Bett Rickards), his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen (Willa Holland), former police captain Quentin Lance (Paul Blackthorne) and brilliant inventor Curtis Holt (Echo Kellum). Newly appointed Mayor Oliver Queen finds himself challenged as he fights on two fronts for the future of Star City. 

With Diggle back in the military and Thea adamant about hanging up her hood as Speedy, Team Green Arrow is down to just Oliver and Felicity – but they’re no longer the only vigilantes in town. Green Arrow’s public defeat of Damien Darhk at the end of Season Four has inspired a new crop of masked heroes to step up and defend the city, though their painful inexperience makes them obstacles, rather than allies, in the field. The arrival of a deadly new adversary will force Oliver to confront questions about his own legacy, both as mayor and as the Green Arrow.

Mericle also teased the de-mystification of Star City. (Thank god.) After a season particularly ruled by magic, Arrow is looking to return to the gritty groundedness of its first season. Speaking on the subject, Mericle teased...

This year we’ve gone back to the real criminal underworld of Star City. We’ll be dealing a lot with the criminal underworld and the kind of gangs and mobs that are there. We’ll see Bratva, we’ll see Triad, we’ll see the Los Halcones, and we’ll see some of the Bertinelli family, as well. You won’t necessarily see some of the same faces, but you’ll see some of those same groups from earlier on. It’s much more of a gritty crime threat to the city ...

For us, it’s a little more real. If you look at where the world is right now, there is this focus on what’s happening in our cities and what’s happening with violence in the streets. We’re able to reflect that back, in some way, and have dialogues about it in the writers room, and have our characters talk about it, too. It’s not magic. It’s not metas. It feels very much of the world we set out to explore, in Season 1.