Cocky womanizer billionaire Oliver Queen is lost and presumed dead after going on a boat trip with father Robert Queen and Sara Lance, his girlfriend's sister. The boat reaches its fate and goes under leaving Sara sucked out of the boat and Oliver and his dad on a raft with little food or water.
After his dad kills himself persuading Oliver to live on for the both of them, Oliver drifts to a island. After five years on the hellish island, Oliver Queen returned home with only one goal, to honor his fathers memory by using the list of names he left him to bring down those who are poisoning his city.