Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Three Ghosts

After a fight with Cyrus Gold AKA the Acolyte, Oliver Queen is drugged and left for dead. Determined to cure him, Felicity makes a risky decision. The cure causes Oliver to hallucinate, and what he sees forces him to confron

Three Ghosts is an episode of season 2 of Arrow. It premiered on December 11, 2013.

Synopsis for "Three Ghosts"

After a fight with Cyrus Gold AKA the Acolyte, Oliver Queen is drugged and left for dead. Determined to cure him, Felicity makes a risky decision. The cure causes Oliver to hallucinate, and what he sees forces him to confront his past. Meanwhile, Barry continues to help Felicity, and their connection grows stronger. The Arrow asks Lance to look into Gold, but when the stakeout on Gold goes bad, someone gets killed. Roy is captured and tortured by Brother Blood.

Appearing in "Three Ghosts"

Featured Character:

• The Arrow (Oliver Queen)

Supporting Characters:

• Central City Police Department (First appearance) (Cameo)
  • Barry Allen (Apparent Death)
• Laurel Lance
• Roy Harper (Flashback and main story) (Infected)
• Sara Lance (Flashback only)
• Shado (Dies in flashback) (Also as an hallucination)
• Sin
• Starling City Police Department
  • Evans (Single appearance; dies)
  • Officer Jones (Single appearance; dies)
  • Det. Lucas Hilton (Dies)
  • McCarthy (Single appearance; dies)
  • Off. Quentin Lance
• Team Arrow (Unnamed)
  • Felicity Smoak
  • John Diggle
• Thea "Speedy" Queen
• Tommy Merlyn (Hallucination)

Antagonists:

• League of Assassins (Flashback only) (Behind the scenes)
  • Dr. Anthony Ivo (Flashback only)
    • The Amazo's Crew (Flashback only)
      • Butcher
• Slade Wilson (Revealed to be alive) (Flashback and main story) (Also as an hallucination)
  • Brother Blood (Sebastian Blood) (Flashback and main story)
    • Church of Blood (Flashback and main story)
      • The Acolyte/Brother Cyrus (Cyrus Gold) (Real identity revealed) (Dies)
      • Officer Daily
      • I. Vasak (Flashback and main story) (Dies)

Other Characters:

• Henry Allen (First appearance) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• KSFZ Channel 8 (First appearance)
  • Linda Park (First appearance) (On a TV or computer screen)
• Maxwell "Max" Stanton (Sin's friend) (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• Moira Queen
• Nora Allen (First appearance) (Deceased) (In a photograph only) (Cameo)
• WEBG
• Mayor Altman (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• The Central City Tribune (Mentioned only)
• Count Vertigo (Mentioned only)
• Dodger (Mentioned only)
• The Dollmaker (Barton Mathis) (Mentioned only)
• Ghosts (Mentioned only)
• Huntress (Helena Bertinelli) (Mentioned only)
• The Hoods (Mentioned only)
• Iris West (Unnamed) (Mentioned only)
• Jeannie Hilton (Mentioned only)
• Malcolm Merlyn (Mentioned only)
• Robert Queen (Deceased) (Mentioned only)
• S.T.A.R. Labs (Mentioned only)
  • "Harrison Wells" (Mentioned only)
• United States Army (Mentioned only)
• Yao Fei (Mentioned only)

Locations:

• Earth-1 (Unnamed)
  • 2008
    • Lian Yu (Flashback only)
  • 2013
    • United States of America
      • Central City (First appearance)
        • CCPD Headquarters (First appearance)
          • Central City Crime Lab (First appearance)
      • Starling City
        • Cyrus Gold's Apartment (Single appearance)
        • The Glades
          • Verdant
            • Arrowcave
        • Hotel Patricia (First appearance)
        • Langford Institute (Single appearance)
        • Queen Mansion
        • Starling General Hospital
        • Starling Metro Police
        • Big Belly Burger (Mentioned only)
        • Queen Consolidated (Mentioned only)
    • Afghanistan (Mentioned only)
    • Lian Yu (Mentioned only)
      • The Fuselage (Real name revealed) (Mentioned only)
• Speed Force (First appearance; unnamed) (Behind the scenes)

Items:

• Dark Matter (First appearance; unnamed)
• Kord Enterprises 2BX 900 (Destroyed)
• Mirakuru
• Oliver Queen's Bow
  • Trick Arrows
• S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator (First appearance)

Vehicles:

• Japanese Submarine (Flashback only)

Concepts:

• S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator Explosion

Notes

• The epilogue of the episode takes place on December 11, 2013 which is the night of the S.T.A.R. Labs Particle Accelerator Explosion.
  • Barry Allen's story is continued in The Flash series premiere, "Pilot".
• Although it is not named, this episode marks the first appearance of the Speed Force in the Arrowverse continuity.

Trivia

• The title of the episode references Oliver seeing the "ghosts" of Shado, Slade and Tommy.
• The poem on "Solomon Grundy" in Cyrus Gold's apartment is obviously a nod to Gold becoming Solomon Grundy in the comics.

See Also

• 6 Images from Arrow (TV Series) Episode: Three Ghosts
• Episodes of Arrow (TV Series)
• Images from Arrow (TV Series)
• Gallery for the Arrow (TV Series) series

Recommended Media

• None.

Links and References

• None.

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