This hebdomad ’s Arrow showers us with priceless jewel . Each second sparkles , all of them in different ways , build into an astounding tapestry ( and I ’m commingle my metaphors deliberately ) of drug out hallucinations , towering tantrums , and a villain that outshines even Barrowman . That ’s tough to do .
You know that scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory where he opens the door to the umber elbow room and sings , “ derive with me , and you ’ll be , in a wooooorld of saturated imagination ! ” That was what this episode was . It was a collection of unlike sweet , each of which I require to gorge myself on . From Ollie popping a dude back to life and then punch him out again , to Thea and Moira reenact a Euripides play , to a few characters actually being smart about things . Truly , this was a delicious junket in the Arrowverse .
Ollie start the installment by tag down a drug principal with a very tough leather jacket , and getting him to name the source of the Vertigo drug . The bozo betray it is called “ The Count . ” Ollie leave behind the fashion plate hang by his arm , and as the cat is fall there shouting , you may really hear Batman filing legal papers for copyright misdemeanour .
He was probably keep from charge them because the court building is swamped by newsman covering Thea ’s inebriated drive hearing . She has a supplication accord , but the justice throws it out and orders her to face trial . Afterwards , Moira promises Thea that she ’ll encounter a way to help her . Thea turns on her with a brattiness heat level that resemble a mighty redwood being set on ardour and roam down a hill , call “ Like you promised Walter you ’d be close to him ? ” I know that Moira is technically the stealth villain of this piece , but the fact that she does n’t hit down Thea ’s pharynx and rip out her wisdom tooth and scream , “ I made you and I can undo you piece by piece , ” qualifies her for sainthood .
Ollie heads to the police station and meets a woman who is apparently an one-time Quaker and a detective , but has the face , hair , and name of a love life interest group . Mckenna Hall is working frailty , but she knows about The Count . Ollie call for if she can , perhaps , hurry up her small major drug tear so that his sister wo n’t be a bill poster child for rough drug sentencing . Mckenna says she ca n’t , and men over the full leaflet that they have on The Count . To a civilian . And the brother of a daughter being prosecuted for doing the drug that The Count is betray . She then asks Ollie if he needs a wire spigot or mayhap would care to take up her gun . Perhaps he ’d enjoy ingest one of the cop cars out for a tailspin , or mayhap a police force horse . If he want , he can grab a helicopter . Anything is available to a cat she kind of knew five eld ago .
But I ca n’t be vex at that , because the most wonderful reference of the episode comes in . I once heard that Sean Connery got the role of James Bond because Ian Fleming think he move like a painter . Seth Gabel is dressed to look like a brunet Billy Idol , but he moves like The Leprechaun . Everything about his performance says demented elf . It is a treasure and a delectation . The Count meets up with the dealer Ollie questioned . He shoots the guy full of “ Vertigo in its purest form ” through a double syringe , explaining that it provoke the parts of the brainiac that find hurting . The suffering lasts for days until the heart render out . The Count then gives the dealer a gun and says that he can either shoot The Count and have his revenge , or snap himself and end the painful sensation . The man shoots himself . I have to say , I ’m usually a wimp about tantrum like this , but the incredible performance makes me spat my bridge player together like a five - class - old . I require nothing more than The Count to go into a dance procedure . Maybe to “ Ice Ice Baby . ” He could pull it off .
Ollie ’s next Thea Rehabilitation Stop is Laurel ’s star sign , where he ask Laurel to intermediate with her Dad , who will then intercede with the judge . Laurel does , convince her dad with a talk of the town about how Sarah also had destructive pulsing , and that ’s what makes her want to facilitate Thea . When Quentin balks , enunciate Sarah was n’t like that , Laurel tells him that they have to admit that Sarah was as creditworthy as Ollie was for her decease . Now , normally I would think that it was extraordinary pointless and cruel to make a father admit that his girl was partly at fault for her own death , but since Quentin seems to be the only cop in Ithiel Town , and the Queens are always take with him , he does require to get over his bias . Plus it sets up a nice little point about Laurel experience Thea as a foster babe .
When Laurel and Ollie bump the skillful news that they sustain her slammer clock time down to five hundred hours of community service to Thea , she shrugs it by for number two of Mourning Becomes Electra . She basically spit on her deal and rub it in Laurel ’s fuzz when rejecting the go , and then reveals — to Ollie — her big plan . Pointing to the sky , like a Fury cross with a disco dancer , she cry , that she ’s doing it all to ruin Moira ’s life because , “ I hate her and she bewray dad ! ” Yes , Thea will ruin her own life so she can vicariously ruin Moira ’s . Thea , honey , this is why you do n’t come up with revenge plans at 18 . Try again at 25 or something . At last Ollie has had enough and says that , no , actually , their dad was the one who chisel on Moira . Thea does n’t believe him , and storms out . She pull up stakes just in time to show that Moira has come in , and is spitting mad at Ollie for telling .
resolve that the Russian syndicate is saner and more cooperative than his menage , Ollie , with Digg , heads out to talk with them . Ollie pretends that he ’s looking to get into the drug business and wants to start with Vertigo . The mob cat is happy to aid , but first need Ollie to kill a man . Ollie , I blaspheme , looks alleviated that finally he has been demonstrate with a problem that does n’t necessitate awkward emotional talks about who his parents Did It with , and chokes the guy to death . He then say he ’ll give The Count all the entropy the police have on him as a “ present . ”
Outside the Russian lair , Ollie is carrying the body to his railcar . When Digg questions him about the violent death , he nonchalantly dumps the guy in the trunk , does a small toggling motion at the guy rope ’s neck that brings him back to living — technically making Ollie the messiah — and then punch him unconscious . bonk it . Love . It .
Ollie get together up with The Count . The Russian guy says that he ’s called The Count because he used to try the drug on national by knife them in the neck with a double syringe . police force would find bodies with two puncture wounding on the cervix . Sadly , this is the one time when the constabulary force are on top of things . They come rolling up , and everyone runs . The Count pang Ollie in the dresser with the syringes and order , “ No witnesses . ” Again , this does n’t go like much , but the way he says it make up him count like a cross between an evil Mickey Mouse and a marshmallow that someone briefly took a match to . It ’s priceless .
Digg gets the needle out before it delivers the full dot and haul Ollie to the hideout . For a pain - filled drug overdose , it looks reasonably tamed . I would say that the only remarkable thing that happened was Ollie wake up handcuffed to the board in the hideout , but Ollie flashes back to The Archer , Deathstroke , and Fyers , dumping his “ trunk ” over the side of a cliff into a river . Say what you like about the methods of developing it , if Vertigo can facilitate you remember stuff you technically were n’t witting for , that ’s a hell of a drug .
The next day , a very hungover and scantily functioning Ollie blind staggers back to the Queen ’s Mansion to find the copper . It seems that Mckenna realise him , and being an actual smart and estimable person , immediately told her genus Bos . Aside from making me like her , this does nothing though , since Ollie enounce he was just make an inexpert stab at find The Count . As the fuzz leave , Thea comes in , quick to “ forgive ” Moira for doing nothing amiss . Moira says that she hop one day Thea is “ lucky enough to have a daughter . ” There are two mode to read that sentiment , and if Thea had suppose about it , she might have had doubtfulness before run in for the hug . Instead she falls for the implied compliment , and sob in Moira ’s coat of arms .
Ollie , meanwhile , realise that he ’s still getting drug flashbacks , and staggers to Felicity to enquire if she can do a “ spectrographic psychoanalysis ” on the water system left in the drug syringes to rule its origin rootage . I love this moment because up until now , the show at least try out to make Felicity ’s subject of expertness stay in the area of computers . At this percentage point Ollie is basically tell , “ You ’re a nerd . Nerd this for me , Nerd . Nerd it up skilful . ” And she does ! She manages to spoil over from computer hacking to biophysics and environmental chemical substance psychoanalysis , giving Ollie the location of The Count ’s lair .
Ollie ’s battle at The Count ’s is yet another source of pleasure , in that The Hood , still tripping , kick ass fleetly and decisively whenever a toughie approaches him , but at several points seems to be losing a struggle to a curing of steps . The fact that The Count jumps up on a table to get away from him is , therefore , the most intelligent affair a bad bozo can do . Alas , Ollie stabs him with a filled double - syringe of Vertigo and dispatches him . The last we see of The Count , he ’s working his personal appeal on the shoulder strap of a gurney in a mental hospital . Do n’t seek to bunk the straps that way , Count ! It will only make them require to hold you taut !
The instalment wraps up with Thea going to bring volunteer at Laurel ’s legal practice . Mckenna calls to prompt Ollie that she ’s going to be his love interest for the next few episodes . Ollie muses about how the Archer , when cast off him over the drop into the waterfall , give him back his map and toggled his throat so he amount back to life-time during the gloam . It looks like we ’re fading out — but then !
Felicity interrupts his rumination to show him the book that Walter gave her , and reveal that Walter suspect Moira of malfeasance just before he disappear . Ollie looks scourge . That ’s right . Just when Thea was done being Electra , you becameOrestes ! And you recollect being Hamlet was tough ! Good luck , soft touch !
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