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| The Count, not to be confused with Dracula |
The episode begins with The Hood chasing down a drug dealer who sells Vertigo but all he can get out of the guy is that it is supplied by someone called The Count. Oliver tells Diggle how frustrated he is with trying to catch The Count but Diggle reminds him that Thea's hearing is soon. Outside the court house it is a media frenzy and inside is not much better as the judge wants to make Thea the poster child for the city's Vertigo problem and make an example out of her. We then get a Flashback to Oliver asking Yao Fei to let him go but Yao Fei refuses, in the present Oliver contacts an old friend, McKenna Hall, who is now a vice detective for information on The Count. Later The Count (Seth Gabel) injects a drug dealer with Vertigo which causes him terrible pain and he shoots himself, The Count only finds it just "interesting" that The Hood is after him. Oliver then goes to Laurel for help with Thea who in turns asks her father who says he will do what he can.
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| "So this is what I get for helping someone" |
Oliver later meets with his Bratva connections to get a meeting with The Count but only if he kills someone he agrees but only fakes the man's death, in a Flashback Oliver is pushed in to a circle and prepared to fight Yao Fei. Laurel manages to cut a deal for Thea which includes community service but Thea refuses saying she wants to go to jail so she can ruin Moira's life which forces Oliver to tell her it was their father who was the unfaithful one. Oliver and Diggle later meet The Count but the police soon arrive but not before Oliver is injected with Vertigo, in a Flashback Yao Fei fakes Oliver's death in the fight. Oliver seems to recover from Vertigo but soon collapses and has another Flashback to when Yao Fei dumped his body in a river. Felicity has found out where the Vertigo was made (after Oliver gave her a sample) and Oliver rushes there and even though he is still weak from Vertigo fights The Count and injects him with his own drug. Thea then makes up with Moira and agrees to the community service and The Count is arrested but battling for his life in hospital after overdosing on Vertigo. The episode ends in a Flashback where Oliver wakes up and finds a map Yao Fei put in his pocket and in the present Felicity gives him the journal Walter found.
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| Might as well have let her in on it now Oliver |
Just like I thought in my last review Count Vertigo in this is definitely not the same as his comic counterpart, he doesn't even have the name Count Vertigo. It was smart however that his powers are in the form of a drug so it is more realistic for the style of the show and how he is called The Count because of the puncture wounds his injections make, I did really like that. I also liked the actor who played The Count because he was completely crazy and didn't care about killing to perfect his drug and he is something different from the mob and businessmen The Hood usually has to take down. You could say I am two sides on this; I didn't like how Count Vertigo, one of my favourite Arrow villains in the comic, has been turned in to something more practical for the grounded tone of the show but I did like The Count overall and is probably one of my favourite Arrow TV series villains so far.
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| "A taste of your own medicine" |
As for the other major event in this, Thea's trial, I didn't like that at all. As I have said in my previous reviews I do not like Thea so far in the show and her attitude in this didn't help at all. I mean just to get back at her mom she wanted to go to jail? When I first saw this episode I thought that was one of the stupidest things I ever heard. Firstly I don't think she would survive five minutes in jail and also she was completely wrong about her mom in the end but no she just couldn't admit that straight away. Luckily the writers must have thought Thea has been a rubbish character so far because after this she thankfully does get less annoying and gets a better story. However Laurel and Quentin where good in their involvement in it because I liked how Laurel made the comparisons to Sara and this is showing that Quentin is being less of a jerk to the Queen family.
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| Flawless Victory |
Overall there isn't too much to say about this one; the Flashbacks where great as ever but they where short and far between (would have liked them to have lasted longer by cutting down some of Thea's trial) and the final fight between The Hood and The Count was good but that was all the way at the end.
SCORE: 6/10
Highlights: The Flashbacks
This grounded portrayal of The Count was good
The fighting in Flashbacks and present was good too
Let - Downs: Thea and everything involving her trial
Looks like there is going to be no actual Count Vertigo from the comics
The great screenshots of the episodes where provided by the great site Screencapped. You can look for yourself from the link below;
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