Arrow
The Sin-Eater
TV Flash files “The Sin-Eater” as hour 106 of 170 in the TV Flash guide — Arrow (2012–2020) on The CW, season 5, episode 14, aired 2017-02-22, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S05E14: listed hour 106 of 170 in the Arrow guide, hour 14 of 23 in season 5. It aired 2017-02-22 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Spectre of the Gun” (S05E13). Next is “Fighting Fire with Fire” (S05E15).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Cupid, China White, and Liza Warner escape prison and seek out a stash of Tobias Church's money. Green Arrow and the team prepare to go after them, but the ACU receives a tip tying Arrow to Billy's murder and go after the vigilante. Meanwhile Quentin deals with the new Black Canary, and Thea takes steps to discredit Susan before she can reveal that Oliver is Green Arrow.
Viewer FAQ
Where does The Sin-Eater sit in the Arrow guide?
S05E14 is listed hour 106 of 170 — hour 14 of 23 in season 5, season 5 episode 14.
When did Arrow S05E14 air?
The Sin-Eater aired 2017-02-22 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,…