Jason Todd can't help but notice the anxiety in the faces of the people who call themselves his friends when he asks them what kind of man he was. Despite wilfully having had his memory erased, he has decided that he can't move forward in his life without knowing what the darkness in his past is. Jason asks their computer to access all of the files on the costumed criminal known as the Red Hood. The computer returns data showing that he, the Red Hood, has a confirmed kill-count of 83 people.

Meanwhile, Roy Harper lies awake after a night of passion with Starfire. He thinks back on his time in Seattle, when his psychiatrist had been Dr. Hugo Strange. Roy had been frustrated at the time with the fact that he had lost the trust of his mentor, the Green Arrow.

Earlier that week, Roy had been frustrated by Oliver's failure to use the technology he was hired to design for him. Oliver's neglect had driven Roy to drinking, and he hoped that if Oliver wasn't going to use the technology he was designing, he could at least let him come out with him on missions. Oliver had refused. That lack of trust had been the end of their friendship.

Roy is shaken from his reverie by the perimeter alarms, and gets out of bed, pausing to look down on Kori. Thinking her asleep, he mutters that they need to talk. Since returning from the Acres of All, he had learned that she was lying to him for months, claiming to lack a long-term memory in order to avoid having to maintain long-term relationships. Having seen what a lack of trust does to relationships first hand, he doesn't want the same thing to happen to their relationship.

Despite having hit rock bottom, years ago, finding himself in a jail cell after getting drunk and digitally robbing ATMs, Roy was saved by Oliver Queen. Ollie had seen what kind of man Roy was, under the drinking and delinquency, and had recruited Roy to help him with cleaning up the city. Their relationship had been like brothers, and it had been one of the best feelings of his life, until it came to an end.

While investigating the perimeter, Roy is disturbed to discover that his security bots have been destroyed by Green Arrow, who has come to warn him of some kind of danger, and isn't especially pleased about the cold reception the robots gave him.

Meanwhile, Koriand'r gets dressed, cursing herself for failing to speak up when Roy spoke his mind to her. She chases after him, but on her way to find him, the lights in the base shut down, and she hears a voice speaking her name in the darkness.

Oliver warns that there is a bounty of five hundred million dollars each on Roy, Kori, and Jason - and that he has only come to help. Roy, however, notes that this island and base are a secret, and if Oliver knows where the island is, then someone could have followed him there, assuming that he and Roy are still close. This was probably a trap.

Kori calls out, thinking the voice belongs to Roy, and explains that the memories she had were like a poison killing her from the inside out. She had no choice but to bury them. She was trying to keep him at arm's length so that she wouldn't get hurt again. Suddenly, though, she smells something unusual, and unsure of what it is, she produces some fire, to see. That's when the voice announces that the smell was gasoline, and the base explodes. Outside, Roy is alerted by the blast, and he and Oliver rush back.

After the fire dies down, burning up all of the oxygen in the room, Kori begins to choke. The voice explains that once the oxygen was gone, it allowed an aerosol toxin to enter the room, and enter Kori's lungs. Kori collapses just as Roy arrives in time to see the woman who poisoned her. She introduces herself as Cheshire, and warns that he is her next target - but Jason is her primary target.

Unfortunately, Roy soon discovers that this Cheshire can make herself intangible, and therefore is not so easily filled with arrows. As

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