Year's End

{Episode }} "Year's End" is the ninth episode of season 1. It aired on December 12, 2012.
 * name= Year's End
 * image= The Queen family celebrate Christmas.png
 * number= 9
 * airdate= December 12, 2012
 * writer= Story: Greg Berlanti Marc Guggenheim Teleplay: Andrew Kreisberg Marc Guggenheim
 * director= John Dahl
 * guests=
 * before= "Vendetta"
 * after= "Burned"

Synopsis
Oliver discovers that after his disappearance, his family ceased celebrating Christmas. In knowing this, he decides to throw the family a Christmas party in order to bring things back to normal. Meanwhile, Tommy wants to spend Christmas with Laurel, but she insists that she needs to spend it with her father, because it's her late sister's birthday. Tommy suggests to Laurel that maybe making a change to things isn't a bad idea, though she's not totally certain about it. Meanwhile, Oliver discovers that someone is murdering the people on "the List" with arrows.

Production
Preparation ran from September 27 to October 5, 2012. Filming ran from October 9 until October 18, 2012.

Trivia

 * The vent by O'Neil and Adams street are references to Dennis O'Neil and Neal Adams: legendary writer and artist (respectively) at DC who revamped Green Arrow and Green Lantern in the 1970s.