Arrow Recap: Unfinished Business
The episode begins with a packed house at Oliver and Tommy’s hit new club, Verdant. A girl at the club, later identified to be a party goer of the club was hit by car early in the morning. However, when the body was recovered the drug Vertigo was found and this leads Quentin to question Oliver and Tommy on their connection with drug. Both claim that their club is strictly a drug free zone, but thanks to their past history with drugs Quentin isn’t taking their word for face value.
Quentin and The Hood both have the same idea to visit The Count at the psychiatric facility he is current locked up at. When The Hood starts to question his former foe, it is evident that The Count has completely lost his mind, so he isn’t the source of the recent influx of Vertigo. However, when news reports surface of a The Count’s breakout, it seems like what The Hood witnessed back at the facility was just an act.
Flashback: Shado and Slade are having a good time testing each others fighting skills. Oliver, on the other hand, is not pleased with his current situation of not being able to fight. Shado deciding that Oliver needs to stop whining appoints herself as Oliver’s new instructor. First lesson, continuously slap your hand on a bowl full of water.
Back in present time Quentin questions Tommy once again about his possible link to Vertigo, after information surfaces that last call the dead club girl made was to Tommy and that $10,000 is missing from his books that cannot be accounted for. Tommy of course, take offense stating that he is changed man, but Quentin still sees the wild Meryln boy for only just a few years prior.
The Hood gets word of a Vertigo drug deal going down and interrupts the sale with the only way he knows how, lots of arrows, flare and blowing up cars. One of the buyers of Vertigo is up getting away, but thanks to extreme side effects of the drug he ends up losing and fires a gun inside the local aquarium filled with people.
As for Diggle, well he still on the Deadshot warpath. He has been secretly having Felicity track Deadshot behind Oliver’s back. She has found information that connects Deadshot to an Alberto Garcia, a underworld “talent scout” that is notorious for brokering deals for Deadshot. Felicity hands over all the information she has gathered to Diggle, who then gives the information to a former military colleague and current administrative member of ARGUS (The Advanced Research Group Uniting Super-Humans). He hands over all the data that has been collective with the hopes they can stop Deadshot, before he kills anyone else.
The Hood is able to disarm the man, but unfortunately is too late to administer an antidote to combat the effects of the drug, before the man overdoses. Oliver is beyond upset that he wasn’t able to save him, but is even more upset with Diggle who wasn’t there to back him up, as his friend was to busy focusing on tracking Deadshot.
Back at Verdant, Quentin visits Tommy yet again, but with proof that Tommy had paid a local zoning commissioner to forgo the main inspection of the club. Tommy once again claims innocence and tells Quentin that if he wants to search his club he needs to come back with a warrant. He does, while in front of Laurel and Oliver. He knows about the secret sub-basement (The Hoods main base of operation) that seems to be off record. With everyone present, Oliver is forced to open up the door, but instead of finding the usually setup, there are just boxes upon boxes of various types of alcohol. Looks like someone had the foresight to clear up the place before the cops arrive.
When the search is over and everyone has Oliver and Tommy get into a heated argument bringing up the past and the current state of their friendship. In the end, Tommy ends up quitting due to Oliver’s lack of confidence in him. Oliver the other hand, doesn’t have the opportunity to let what just happen sink in as he believes he knows the whereabouts of The Count. He heads back to the psychiatric facility where he finds an unresponsive Count and comes to the realization that The Count has just been a puppet all a long and the one pulling the strings is actually the head psychiatric doctor for the facility.
The Hood ends up being knocked out and ends up being “unmasked” as Olive Queen. When he comes to, the doctor forces Oliver to drink his new spin on Vertigo. Diggle shows up to rescue Oliver and they are able to take down the doctor. Back at their base, Oliver apologizes to Diggle for his outburst earlier and decides that they he will now make Deadshot a priority.
As for Tommy, well he goes to ask his father for a job to which Malcolm is all to happy give, thus bringing his son further under his watch and guidance.
Originally posted on Affairs Magazine
