History Recap / ArrowS1E12Vertigo

* LaserGuidedKarma: The Count is injected by an overdose of his own drugs. He escapes a KarmicDeath only because Quentin talks the Hood out of giving him a full dose to avenge Thea, but is dragged off to hospital strapped to a gurney and totally insane.

* DoYouTrustMe: An inversion when Felicity Smoak asks Oliver "Can I trust you?" Oliver has been dropping some BlatantLies about why he's asking for her help for his secret vigilante activities. It's not this she's asking about, but whether Oliver can be trusted with a dark secret that she has uncovered about his own family--his father's book containing The List.

** The judge is not impressed with Thea's delinquency once again being swept under the rug, especially as she's no longer a juvenile, and refuses to allow the plea bargain to make an example of others who might want to try Vertigo, showing that if the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Queens can't get away with this]] no-one else can.
** The Count inflicts a CruelAndUnusualDeath on the pusher who gave up his name to the Hood.

* MakeAnExampleOfThem: The judge is not impressed with Thea's delinquency once again being swept under the rug, especially as she's no longer a juvenile, and refuses to allow the plea bargain to make an example of others who might want to try Vertigo, showing that if the [[ScrewTheRulesIHaveMoney Queens can't get away with this]] no-one else can.

Judge Brackett denies Thea’s plea bargain, saying he wishes to [[MakeAnExampleOfThem make an example out of her]], so Oliver asks Laurel to have her dad pull some strings. Detective Lance initially declines, but after Laurel equates Thea to Sara, he persuades the judge to agree to community service and probation under Laurel’s supervision.

** The Count is the series' adaptation of Count Vertigo with his powers being made as part of the drug called Vertigo.

Judge Brackett denies Thea’s plea bargain, saying he wishes to make an example out of her, so Oliver asks Laurel to have her dad pull some strings. Detective Lance initially declines, but after Laurel equates Thea to Sara, he persuades the judge to agree to community service and probation under Laurel’s supervision.

* DoYouTrustMe: An inversion when Felicity Smoak asks Oliver "Can I trust you?" Oliver has been dropping some BlatantLies about why he's asking for her help for his secret vigilante activities. It's not this she's asking about, but whether Oliver can be trusted with a dark secret that she has uncovered about his own family.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The Count is injected by an overdose of his own drugs. He escapes a KarmicDeath only because Quentin talks the Hood out of giving him a full dose to avenge Thea.

*** He mentions that 56 homeless people died perfecting this strain of vertigo, an arc number in DC comics.

-->'''Diggs:''' Your bullshit stories are getting worse.

* ChekhovsSkill: The island flashbacks reveal where Oliver first learned the trick he used to fake the death of Alexi's prisoner.

At the police department, Oliver runs into an old friend, Detective [=McKenna=] Hall, and asks her for information after learning that the man supplying vertigo is the Count. Oliver brings Diggle to the Bratva HQ, where Oliver must kill a man before Alexi will arrange a meeting with the Count. Choking the man enough for him to appear dead, Oliver later orders Diggle to help the man flee. During the meet, police swarm the place, allowing the Count to escape, but not before he injects Oliver with liquid vertigo.

'''Notes:'''
* The Count is the series' adaptation of Count Vertigo with his powers being made as part of the drug called Vertigo.
* Thea’s middle name is “Dearden,” a reference to Mia Dearden, the second Speedy and first female Speedy of the comics.
* It is mentioned that Oliver saved one Anatoli Knyazev (which led to his becoming a Captain of the Bratva). In the comics, this gentleman is also known as the [=KGBeast=], a Franchise/{{Batman}} villain.