The process is successful, but Sara is brought back to life without a soul, making her feral and dangerous. In season four, Laurel resurrects Sara using the League's mystical Lazarus Pit. Meanwhile, Laurel takes up Sara's mantle to fight crime as the Black Canary. Some time later, it is revealed that Thea Queen killed Sara after being drugged by her father Malcolm Merlyn/Dark Archer as part of a plot to pit Oliver against Ra's al Ghul. In season three, Sara is killed on a rooftop with three arrows to the chest. She aids him and his colleagues Felicity Smoak, John Diggle, and Roy Harper in taking down a drug-enhanced Slade Wilson, with help from the League of Assassins, which requires Sara to return to Nanda Parbat. Sara joins Team Arrow and revisits a brief relationship with Oliver. She eventually informs her father, SCPD Detective Quentin Lance, and looks after him and Laurel (who also later discovers she's alive and is a vigilante).
Oliver manages to capture and unmask The Canary, revealing Sara to be alive. In keeping with a promise, she also befriends wayward teenager Sin and watches over her. In season two, Sara returns to Starling City after a six-year absence as "The Canary" to protect her family. She and Nyssa became lovers, and Sara became a deadly fighter with the League of Assassins under the name Ta-er al-Sahfer, roughly translated to "Yellow Bird" or "Canary" from Arabic. However, Sara was found by Nyssa al Ghul, who took her to Nanda Parbat. Oliver and Sara confronted him on the freighter and Sara was swept away in the current, causing Oliver to believe that she died once again. Due to Slade's love for Shado, an ally who was killed indirectly because of Oliver who was being forced to choose who to live between Sara and Shado, Slade betrayed Oliver and took over both the ship and Oliver as his prisoner. Together, along with Oliver's friend Slade Wilson, they attacked the ship. She was rescued by a research boat, the Amazo, and when Oliver was captured by the ship's crew, Sara helped him escape. Everyone on board was presumed dead but flashbacks in season two reveal that, like Oliver, Sara actually survived the experience. It's shown that five years prior to the beginning of the series, she was having a secret affair with her sister's boyfriend Oliver Queen and was with him on his family yacht when it shipwrecked. Sara Lance first appears in the pilot episode of Arrow as the younger sister of Laurel Lance. The character has also appeared in a digital comic book series. Lotz has appeared as Sara Lance and her superhero persona in crossovers on The Flash, Supergirl and Batwoman, all set within the Arrowverse.
She later adopts the code name of White Canary before joining the Legends of Tomorrow, and eventually becoming the captain of the team. Sara initially goes by the moniker of The Canary, a translation of her Arabic League of Assassins name الطائر الصافر ( Ta-er al-Sahfer). Sara Lance was originally portrayed by Jacqueline MacInnes Wood in the pilot episode, and has since been continually portrayed by Caity Lotz. The character is an original character to the television series, created by Greg Berlanti, Marc Guggenheim and Andrew Kreisberg, but incorporates character and plot elements of the DC Comics character Black Canary.
Sara Lance, also known by her alter-ego White Canary, is a fictional character in The CW's Arrowverse franchise, first introduced in the 2012 pilot episode of the television series Arrow, and later starring in Legends of Tomorrow.