In another flashback, Shado begins to train Oliver by having him hit water in a jug multiple times.
'Can you hook me up?' Tommy says he receives many messages like that and Veronica was only a client. Quentin is informed that Veronica was texting someone before her death, and that someone was Tommy. In flashback, Oliver watches as Shado and Slade spar. Oliver decides to pay the Count a visit but gets nothing and leaves. After a recent party, Quentin comes in to question Oliver and Tommy concerning Veronica.
In a flashback to the island, Oliver recalls the lessons he learned from Slade and Shado. After Detective Lance uncovers incriminating evidence against him, Tommy goes to great lengths to clear his name, and the fallout from his actions leads Tommy down a new, unexpected path. However, when The Count escapes and Starling City is flooded with even more Vertigo-related violence, Oliver and Diggle make it their mission to track him down. Oliver immediately pays a visit to the mental institution where The Count is locked up, but finds he is in no condition to deal drugs. Synopsis When a young woman meets a violent death after partying at Verdant, Detective Lance and his new partner, Detective Hilton inform Oliver and Tommy that she was on the drug Vertigo.
