When a young woman meets a unhappy passing after partying at Verdant, Detective Lance and his new partner, Detective Hilton inform Oliver and Tommy that she was on the drug Vertigo. 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. 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. 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. In a flashback to the island, Oliver recalls the lessons he learned from Slade and Shado.
Season 1 Episode 19 of Arrow resulted in a 0.90 rating in the 18-49 demographic.
s01e01 - Pilot
s01e02 - Honor Thy Father
s01e03 - Lone Gunmen
s01e04 - An Innocent Man
s01e05 - Damaged
s01e06 - Legacies
s01e07 - Muse of Fire
s01e08 - Vendetta
s01e09 - Year's End
s01e10 - Burned
s01e11 - Trust But Verify
s01e12 - Vertigo
s01e13 - Betrayal
s01e14 - The Odyssey
s01e15 - Dodger
s01e16 - Dead to Rights
s01e17 - The Huntress Returns
s01e18 - Salvation
s01e19 - Unfinished Business
s01e20 - Home Invasion
s01e21 - The Undertaking
s01e22 - Darkness on the Edge of Town
s01e23 - Sacrifice
After a unhappy shipwreck, billionaire playboy Oliver Queen was missing and presumed dead for five years before being discovered alive on a remote island in the Pacific. When he returns home to Starling City Oliver has been changed by his ordeal on the island. While he hides the truth about the man he's become, he desperately wants to make amends for the actions he took as the boy he was.
As the Green Arrow - a vigilante - he protects his city with the help of former soldier John Diggle, computer-science expert Felicity Smoak, his vigilante-trained sister Thea Queen, Deputy Mayor Quentin Lance, brilliant inventor Curtis Holt, and his new recruits, street-savvy Rene Ramirez and meta-human Dinah Drake.
Oliver has finally solidified and strengthened his crime-fighting team only to have it threatened when unexpected enemies from his past return to Star City, forcing Oliver to rethink his relationship with each member of his 'family'.