Arrow
Public Enemy
TV Flash files “Public Enemy” as hour 64 of 170 in the TV Flash guide — Arrow (2012–2020) on The CW, season 3, episode 18, aired 2015-04-01, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E18: listed hour 64 of 170 in the Arrow guide, hour 18 of 23 in season 3. It aired 2015-04-01 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Suicidal Tendencies” (S03E17). Next is “Broken Arrow” (S03E19).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
During an attack on the mayor's office, Ray is critically injured. Felicity is pleasantly surprised when her mother, Donna Smoak, shows up at the hospital to offer her support. With the SCPD out in full force looking for the assailant, Oliver and his team work hard to stay one step ahead of the police to find the man responsible. However, things come to a head when Ra's al Ghul kidnaps Captain Lance.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Public Enemy sit in the Arrow guide?
S03E18 is listed hour 64 of 170 — hour 18 of 23 in season 3, season 3 episode 18.
When did Arrow S03E18 air?
Public Enemy aired 2015-04-01 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need every Arrowverse show?
Arrow is the seed. It launched Flash, Legends, Supergirl crossovers. You can watch Oliver's run as street-level soap; the multiverse toybox arrives whether you clocked the spinoffs or not.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Oliver Queen comes back from the island in a hood and The CW builds an industrial complex around him. Grounded grit, Olicity wars, then multiverse toybox. Franchise seed: the show that made weekly superhero soap a decade-long strategy, crossovers as event television, and Stephen Amell's grimace a brand.
So about the Olicity wars: they were the second show, and the group chat never demobilized. (I said spoiler-free. The crossovers are the spoiler calendar.) Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim, and Andrew Kreisberg's CW series (2012–2020) sends Stephen Amell's Oliver Queen back from a nightmare island in a hood, saving a corrupt city, and then builds an industrial complex around the grimace. Katie Cassidy, David Ramsey's Diggle, Emily Bett Rickards's Felicity, Manu Bennett, Colton Haynes. Grounded grit evolves into…
Filed against
- Stephen Amell as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow
Stephen Amell hooded up Arrow as Oliver Queen / Green Arrow — a CW industrial complex built around an island return, grounded grit, then multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as a decade-long strategy, crossovers as event television.…
- Katie Cassidy as Laurel Lance
Katie Cassidy's Laurel Lance kept Arrow's hooded weekly soap from being a one-man island story — CW grit, then crossovers as event television, a franchise seed that treated superhero serial as decade-long strategy. We file her as 2010s…
- David Ramsey as John Diggle
David Ramsey’s John Diggle grounded Arrow as the island’s leftover conscience — Oliver Queen in a hood, The CW building an industrial complex, weekly superhero soap as a decade-long strategy. Olicity wars, then multiverse toybox. TV Flash…
- Emily Bett Rickards as Felicity Smoak
Emily Bett Rickards made Felicity Smoak the Arrowverse's laptop-and-heart engine — Oliver Queen's hood, The CW's industrial complex, Olicity wars, then a multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as decade-long strategy. TV Flash files her…
- Manu Bennett as Slade Wilson
Manu Bennett put a sword through the origin as Slade Wilson on Arrow — Oliver Queen back from the island in a hood, The CW building an industrial complex, grounded grit then multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as a decade-long…
- Colton Haynes as Roy Harper
Colton Haynes played Roy Harper on Arrow — Oliver Queen back from the island in a hood, The CW building an industrial complex around grounded grit, Olicity wars, then a multiverse toybox. Weekly superhero soap as a decade-long strategy,…