Description: Spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen is missing and presumed dead when his yacht is lost at sea. He returns five years later a changed man, determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.
Character:
In episode 13 of season 1, David Anders portrays a career criminal named Cyrus Vanch, who is just being released from prison.
Cyrus was sentenced to three consecutive life-sentences due to drugdealing, human trafficking and was connected to more than 52 murders.
He was released after an eigth-month term in prison, due to lack of evidence.
During the episode, Vanch swears that he will claim a piece of the underworld for his own, and that the best way to do so, is take down the biggest guy.
The Hood listens to that conversation and Cyrus soon finds the arrow which allows the Hood to listen to the conversation.
After this, Cyrus Vanch manages to capture Laurel Lance, who works closely together with the Hood for the Starling City police department.
Vanch keeps her hidden inside the mansion of a former associate, who had been killed by Cyrus before. But even though he has a platoon of armed soliders waiting for the Hood, he still manages to knock them all out and enter the mansion.
Cyrus Vanch knows that the Hood has exactly 24 arrows, and one of his soldiers manages to capture the Hood after he anticipated his amount of arrows.
The situation seems hopeless for the Hood and Laurel, when suddenly Laurel's father, Captain Lance comes for the rescue and takes out the last soldier, as well as Cyrus Vanch himself.
Cyrus Vanch ends up getting send back to prison for the rest of his life.