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"Green Arrow & The Canaries" (also known as "Livin' in the Future") is the ninth episode of the eighth season of the American television series Arrow, based on the DC Comics character Green Arrow, revolving around billionaire playboy Oliver Queen as he returns to Starling City (later renamed Star City), after having been shipwrecked for five years, and becomes a bow-wielding, hooded vigilante who sets out to fight crime and corruption. It is set in the Arrowverse, sharing continuity with the other television series of the universe. The episode was written by showrunners Beth Schwartz and Marc Guggenheim alongside Jill Blankenship and Oscar Balderrama, and directed by Tara Miele. Principal cast members Juliana Harkavy, Katherine McNamara, Ben Lewis, Joseph David-Jones and Katie Cassidy appear. The episode is the only one not to feature series star Stephen Amell, who plays Oliver Queen / Green Arrow. Set in 2040, it focuses Oliver's daughter Mia Smoak joining forces with Laurel Lance and Dinah Drake to rescue a kidnapped woman. "Green Arrow & The Canaries" first aired in the United States on The CW on January 21, 2020, and was watched live by 0.89 million viewers with a 0.3/2 share among adults aged 18 to 49, marking a season high in overnight ratings. The episode received generally positive reviews from critics. Though it was developed as a backdoor pilot for a potential Arrow spin-off series named Green Arrow and the Canaries, that series was ultimately not picked up by The CW. Plot Two decades after Oliver Queen sacrificed himself to restore the multiverse, crime in Star City has been quiet. Oliver's daughter Mia, who has just graduated from college, lives in Queen Manor and is in a relationship with John Diggle Jr. who proposes to Mia which she accepts. When Helena Bertinelli's adopted daughter and socialite Bianca is abducted, Laurel Lance tells Dinah Drake, who awakened in 2040 after Oliver's funeral for unknown reasons and that the current timeline does not remember who Dinah was, about Bianca's abduction. Laurel shows Dinah footage of a possible future of Star City falling back into crime if Bianca is not rescued and dies. A reluctant Dinah agrees to help Laurel rescue Bianca, but for Oliver rather than herself. Mia celebrates her proposal as a party which an alive Zoe Ramirez, her brother William, and J.J.'s ex-alcoholic brother Connor Hawke attend. Laurel uses a device on Mia which restores her pre-Crisis memories including J.J. being Deathstroke who had Zoe killed. Laurel reveals the device was created by Cisco Ramon containing J'onn J'onzz's Martian abilities. Laurel informs Mia of Bianca's situation which she disbelieves. However, Mia agrees to join upon recovering her Green Arrow training. Laurel plans for Mia to interrogate the Bertinelli's to gain information. Having suspicions on the Bertinelli's having to do with Bianca's abduction, Mia, Laurel, and Dinah infiltrate the Bertinelli's house and places tracking devices around the house. Dinah gets a notification from the tracking device notifying them that Bianca's cousin Logan is having precautions and wants to move "it" out of the city which Laurel believes is Bianca. Laurel, Dinah, and Mia head to Bianca's location. However, they discover Logan is transferring a drug, not Bianca. The group are then attacked by a man wearing a Deathstroke mask and retreat to their headquarters. Laurel argues if J.J. is or is not behind the Deathstroke mask prompting Mia to break into J.J.'s office only to find out he was planning a honeymoon to Fiji and that Bianca is socially active on the internet. Although, Laurel and Dinah still suspect she is kidnapped and is being covered up. That night, J.J. breaks up with Mia. Dinah encrypts a video of Bianca revealing her captivity at a greenhouse. Laurel eventually convinces Mia to become Green Arrow and help them save Bianca. Dinah shows Mia the decrypted footage which Mia deduces the background design is biophilic, meant to power the building photosynthetically. They track Bianca at a downtown guarded building containing metahuman dampeners. Upon infiltrating the building, they discover Bianca's ex-boyfriend Trevor had kidnapped Bianca because of their breakup and was Deathstroke. The team manage to rescue Bianca and flee to the rooftop where they confront Trevor. Before burning the building down killing himself, Trevor threatens that they cannot stop "her"; the group escape with Bianca. In the aftermath, Mia and J.J. reconcile. Laurel decides to move in with Dinah, who encourages to set up a base of operations and train a new generation of Black Canaries. While visiting Oliver's memorial statue, Mia recalls the symbol on Trevor's arm is the same as the Queen family hozen just before the two are ambushed by cloaked figures who kidnap William. Another cloak figure then invades J.J.'s apartment who uses Cisco's memory device on J.J. Production Development In September 2019, it was announced that The CW was developing a female-led spin-off series of Arrow, with Katherine McNamara, Katie Cassidy, and Juliana Harkavy as the leads, reprising their roles from Arrow. The report also confirmed that an episode of Arrow's eighth and final season would serve as a backdoor pilot for the potential series. In October, Arrow co-creator Marc Guggenheim released an image indicating Green Arrow and the Canaries as the name for the new series. In January 2020, Guggenheim stated that when Arrow was renewed for its final season, series star Stephen Amell was contracted only for nine episodes; The CW later asked Guggenheim for an additional episode to bring the season's count to 10 episodes. Guggenheim realized this episode could become the backdoor pilot for the potential series, so he agreed. The episode, which is the season's ninth, was originally intended to be titled after the Bruce Springsteen song "Livin' in the Future", continuing the series' tradition of having the penultimate episode of every season titled after a Springsteen song. Because the studio mandated that the backdoor pilot be titled "Green Arrow & The Canaries," after the planned spin-off series, the writers were forced to scrap the original title, though Guggenheim considers it the "real" title. The episode was directed by Tara Miele, and written by season 8 co-showrunner Beth Schwartz, Guggenheim, Jill Blankenship and Oscar Balderrama. Casting "Green Arrow & The Canaries" is the only episode of the series not to feature Amell, due to the death of his character Oliver Queen in the "Crisis on Infinite Earths" crossover event. Main cast members Harkavy, McNamara, Ben Lewis, Joseph David-Jones and Cassidy return as Dinah Drake / Black Canary, Mia Queen, William Clayton, Connor Hawke and Laurel Lance / Black Canary. The guest cast includes Charlie Barnett as John Diggle Jr., Andrea Sixtos as Zoe Ramirez, Raigan Harris as Bianca Bertinelli and Chad Duell as Trevor. Filming The episode was filmed in Octob.... Discover the Jill Grunenwald popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Jill Grunenwald books.