Arrow

Oliver Queen:
My name is Oliver Queen. For five years I was stranded on an island with only one goal - survive. Now I will fulfill my father's dying wish - to use the list of names he left me and bring down those who are poisoning my city. To do this, I must become someone else. I must become something else.

Oliver Queen:
You have failed this city!

[Season 2 opening]

Oliver Queen:
My name is Oliver Queen. After five years on a hellish island, I have come home with only one goal- to save my city. But to do that, I can't be the killer I once was. To honor my friend's memory, I must be someone else. I must be something else.

[Season 3 opening]

Oliver Queen:
My name is Oliver Queen, after five years in hell, I have come home with only one goal - to save my city. Now others have joined my crusade. To them, I'm Oliver Queen. To the rest of Starling City, I'm someone else. I am something else.

[Season 4 opening]

Oliver Queen:
My name is Oliver Queen. After five years in hell, I have come home with only one goal - to save my city. But my old approach wasn't enough. I had to become someone else. I had to become something else. I had to become the Green Arrow.

Slade Wilson:
I'm going to tear everything he cares about away from him, destroy those who choose to follow him, corrupt those he loves. Once he has lost everyone and everything he values, I will drive an arrow through his eye.

Sebastian Blood:
You know who he is under that hood, don't you?

Slade Wilson:
I know exactly who he is. He's my friend.

Sebastian Blood:
That's why you don't want him dead.

Slade Wilson:
Death would be a release from this life, and his sentence has yet to be carried out.

Felicity Smoak:
It feels really good having you inside me... And by you I mean your voice. And by me I mean my ear. I'm going to stop talking. Right now.

Oliver Queen:
That would be my preference.

Malcolm Merlyn:
There is nothing you can do to stop what is about to happen. And you shouldn't. This city needs what is about to happen in order to survive. The people who are destroying it from the inside need to be erased from the map.

Quentin Lance:
You're not exactly a hardened criminal, are you?

Felicity Smoak:
No, I'm not any kind of criminal.

Quentin Lance:
What do you call computer hacking?

Felicity Smoak:
A hobby. That I do not engage in.

Nyssa al Ghul:
I'm Nyssa, daughter of Ra's al Ghul. Heir to the demon.

Felicity Smoak:
Felicity Smoak. M.I.T. Class of '09.

John Diggle:
What is this about, Malcolm?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Well, this isn't going to be easy for all of you to believe.

Felicity Smoak:
Because you're a sociopath and a liar.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Be that as it may...

Damien Darhk:
[at a City Council meeting] So you're all fretting about this city dying. I'm here on behalf of an organization that wants you to let it die. See, death is a beautiful thing. We die, we go into the ground, our remains grow into flowers. It's only in the interval after dying that new things can sprout.

Damien Darhk:
Cities are like puppies. You see them writhing in agony on the street, you put them down. You don't let them suffer.

Ra's al Ghul:
I was 11 years old when I killed my first man. I remember the look in his face when the light went out behind his eyes. Such a sudden change, almost imperceptible, between life and death. And I felt ashamed. I had stolen from that man the most precious gift of all - life. But I also felt something else - pride, because I had taken up arms against someone who sought to do ill against my family. And I realized what I had done was necessary. You see... I have replaced evil with death. And that... is what the league exists to do. And I have killed several thousand more men since then. And the world is better for it.

Oliver Queen:
You've taken your last life.

Ra's al Ghul:
No. You have lived your last day.

Andy Diggle:
Uh, how you end up working out of a basement or wherever we are and fighting crime with a guy who wears a green hood?

John Diggle:
Well, he's a good man, and we're not fighting crime, Andy. We're taking a city that's holding itself together, and we are helping. Don't you remember when that was your mission?

Andy Diggle:
I told you, John. The railguns were a distraction. A.R.G.U.S. is the endgame.

Amanda Waller:
You really don't know her that well at all, do you?

Lyla Michaels:
Michaels is one of my most trusted agents. She knows better than anyone that I'm perfectly capable of watching you execute every person in this room, and I'll still never give you the Rubicon access codes.

Lieutenant Joyner:
Hmm. Is that right, Ms. Michaels?

Lyla Michaels:
It's right. It's why I left. Amanda Waller doesn't make decisions based on the values of human life.

Lieutenant Joyner:
Pity.

[Lt. Joyner shoots Amanda]

Lieutenant Joyner:
Well, Ms. Michaels, most trusted agent, looks like you now have 20 minutes.

Green Arrow:
Overwatch, we're on site.

Felicity Smoak:
Excuse me.

Green Arrow:
Well, I thought that it was time you got a code name. What do you think?

Felicity Smoak:
It's perfect.

Green Arrow:
Was gonna go with Oracle, but it was taken.

John Diggle:
Good job.

Andy Diggle:
It was like you said. It was the only way to get us both in here.

John Diggle:
Just remember whose idea this was.

Andy Diggle:
Eh, what were you expecting, a kiss from the president?

Andy Diggle:
[about his niece Sara] She's got Mom's eyes.

Amanda Waller:
I'm afraid you've overextended your welcome, Mr. Diggle.

John Diggle:
Which is A.R.G.U.S. speak for "Get the hell out of here".

Amanda Waller:
You always were a quick study.

Andy Diggle:
Who would think the reward for confiscating an opium shipment would be additional duty guarding it?

John Diggle:
What you expect, a kiss from the president?

John Diggle:
So how many evil organizations are you associated with? I'm beginning to lose count.

Andy Diggle:
What are you talking about?

John Diggle:
Shadowspire! Your old Army buddies are in Starling City. They tortured and killed an A.R.G.U.S. agent and abducted two others.

Andy Diggle:
Look, I have nothing to do with them anymore. After I got discharged, they cut ties. They only want enlisted men.

John Diggle:
How the hell could I not see this? You were with me the entire time!

Andy Diggle:
Because you saw what you wanted to see. Look, you wanted to believe that the Army had straightened me out. Look, I'm your brother, but I'm not built like you. I didn't take to the military like you did. You saw the world as something to be fixed. I only saw it as broken, so I made sure I had enough to survive in it.

Andy Diggle:
Look, I know how Shadowspire operates. If they're consistent, they'll use the nearest freeport as a base of operations. The best place to hide illicit things is right next to legitimate ones.

Felicity Smoak:
I love how playing superhero is what we consider normal.

Laurel Lance:
Felicity, she makes her own choices, you know. I am sure that's one of the reasons why you love her so much.

Felicity Smoak:
Thank you for always being on my side.

Oliver Queen:
No place I'd rather be.

Oliver Queen:
The doctor said your condition is permanent, and I don't think that it's healthy or productive for either of us to... live in denial, but I have seen people speed and shrink and fly. We watched a friend of ours come back from the dead. That is the world we live in now. And I will not stop searching it until we find a way to make you walk again.

Oliver Queen:
My name was Oliver Queen. I worked three years to save my city. But to save my sister, I had to become someone else. I had to become something else.

Felicity Smoak:
If you're gonna keep going out into the field, we should really design you some sort of...

John Diggle:
Do not say "costume."

Felicity Smoak:
Okay. Identity concealment.

Ra's al Ghul:
I can see now, you do not require a culling to solidify your reign. You have broken your rival, Al Sah-Him. Something I wasn't able to do as an heir. Spilling her blood will only serve as gluttony. Now, perhaps... her blood could be of another purpose. As a means to unite our families. You as husband... and you as wife.

Nyssa al Ghul:
I would rather die then become his betrothed.

Ra's al Ghul:
Well, your wishes are no longer my concern from the moment you betrayed me. So you will marry Al Sah-Him. And you will become bride of the demon.

Ra's al Ghul:
You have made great progress in three weeks. Al Sah-him. You no longer flinch upon hearing your new name.

Oliver Queen:
Oliver Queen is alive only in the past. He's forgotten.

Ra's al Ghul:
Indeed. You are Al Sah-Him. You are Warith al Ghul. Heir to the demon.

Lyla Michaels:
John... What's the house rule?

John Diggle:
No Glocks on the dinner table.

Skel:
Did you hear? Masks aren't wanted in Starling no more.

Black Canary:
Tell that to the woman you mugged.

Lyla Michaels:
Even if she know what that was, even if I knew what that was, I think Sara's still a little young for chicken cacciatore.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, my Mom used to feed me nachos from the bar at The Grand before I was off the bottle, and I turned out normal.

Thea Queen:
Ish.

Oliver Queen:
[Season 3, Episode 21] My name was Oliver Queen I worked three years to save my city. But to save my sister, I had to become someone else. I had to become something else

Oliver Queen:
Hello, Diggle's sister-in-law Carly. I'm Oliver Queen.

Carly Diggle:
I know who you are.

John Diggle:
No, you really don't.

Laurel Lance:
I didn't become a lawyer to break the law or hurt anybody.

Arrow:
I do what's necessary, what people like Peter Declan need.

Laurel Lance:
If what you're doing isn't wrong, then why are you hiding your face with a hood?

Arrow:
To protect the ones I care about.

Laurel Lance:
That sounds lonely.

Arrow:
It can be. But not today.

Arrow:
[handcuffs Matt Istook to train track] Matt Istook.

Matt Istook:
You're him, that hood guy. You're the guy that's been terrorizing the city.

Arrow:
Peter Declan, your lies put him on death row. Now, either it's time to tell me the truth, or it's time for the 10:15 to Bl?dhaven.

John Diggle:
You really did lose your mind on that island.

Oliver Queen:
Found a couple of things along the way.

John Diggle:
Like what? Archery classes?

Oliver Queen:
Clarity.

John Diggle:
[to the new body guard] Oh, that boys long gone, man.

Moira Queen:
You wanted to see me?

Malcolm Merlyn:
You look nervous, Moira.

Moira Queen:
Do I have a reason to be?

Malcolm Merlyn:
We all do. [shows her the police sketch of the vigilante]

Moira Queen:
A modern day Robin Hood? What, are you worried that your net worth makes you a target?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Jason Brodeur, Adam Hunt, Warren Patel. Tell me you see a connection, Moira!

Moira Queen:
He's not targeting the rich?

Malcolm Merlyn:
No, he's not. He's targeting the list.

Walter Steele:
[SCPD bursts into the manor to arrest Oliver] You can't just come bursting in here!

Quentin Lance:
I got a badge and gun that says different.

Tommy Merlyn:
Can I talk to you about something?

Oliver Queen:
Tommy, every time you want to talk to me about something and that something is Laurel, you look like you're about to tell me you have a terminal disease.

Moira Queen:
I've taken care of it. Carl Ballard will not be a problem anymore.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Given your propensity for squeamishness, I'm assuming that Mr. Ballard remains in good health.

Moira Queen:
I made it clear to him persuasively that his plans endangered the undertaking. I didn't have to make the usual threats.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Excellent. Now, one more matter to attend to. I need you to have the contents of this address removed and disposed of properly, the warehouse where you're storing the remains of the Queen's Gambit.

Moira Queen:
I already told you, I knew Robert's yacht was sabotaged.

Malcolm Merlyn:
And I don't think it serves for anyone to find evidence of that.

Arrow:
Moira Queen, you have failed this city!

Green Arrow:
Captain Lance.

Quentin Lance:
What, I don't get a code name like the rest of you?

Quentin Lance:
You have got to be kidding me.

Felicity Smoak:
[to Oliver] Oh, no, um, not to complain, but you do know you just brought a police captain into our secret lair?

Quentin Lance:
Don't worry, I've got enough to put you away for 25 years. Kidding.

Thea Queen:
I know this is a trap and all, but something about the drugs, the club, makes me feel like I'm in high school again.

Felicity Smoak:
Your texts were "911" "OMG" "ASAP" "!" I do not have time to respond to something that doesn't contain at least one actual word.

Damien Darhk:
I can give advice, father to father. If she were my daughter, I'd put her down.

Quentin Lance:
She's my baby girl.

Damien Darhk:
No, she isn't. She may look like your daughter, but she doesn't possess her soul. The most loving act you can commit is to return Sara to her final rest. I'm sorry.

Oliver Queen:
Three years you've looked at me with contempt and utter disdain, so I'm wondering, do I have that look on my face now?

Quentin Lance:
What the hell you talking about?

Oliver Queen:
I'm talking about you... and Damien Darhk.

Oliver Queen:
You know a funny thing. You're a main reason behind me running for Mayor. A part of me has always wanted you to see what kind of man I really am! I didn't expect to wind up finding out what kind of man you really are.

Quentin Lance:
We're all desperate. We've been made to do desperate things. Terrible things. But I've gotta believe that we are not beyond redemption. I've gotta believe that this city can still be saved cause once we stop believing that's when this city really dies and us right along with it. Maybe, just maybe we start saving our home by saving ourselves first.

Quentin Lance:
What is it, you wanna tell me you're running for president now?

Oliver Queen:
Your detectives aren't dead because of gang violence. They were killed by cops.

Quentin Lance:
What are you talking about?

Oliver Queen:
The SIM card that you gave us, it led to the killer's armory and all the equipment, the weapons, it was all SCPD issue.

Quentin Lance:
Who is it?

Oliver Queen:
It could be anyone in the department. These guys have been taking down drug busts, so I had Thea procure a couple kilos of cocaine...

Quentin Lance:
Your mayoral campaign is off to a fantastic start then.

Helena Bertinelli:
Oliver sure does like to dress up his girls.

Felicity Smoak:
Oliver, where are you? Are you okay?

Oliver Queen:
I'm with Lance as Oliver, and he just called the Arrow.

Felicity Smoak:
Oh. Oh! It's getting really hard to keep track of who knows whose secret identity.

Laurel Lance:
Are you one of the good guys?

Black Canary:
No, but I'm friends with them.

Helena Bertinelli:
Well, this is irony for you, Dad. Didn't you have Jimmy D'Agostino's body buried under the building next door?

Frank Bertinelli:
I'm sorry, my girl.

Helena Bertinelli:
Now you're about to die, I'm sure you are.

Frank Bertinelli:
No. I'm sorry for taking that little girl I used to take to ballet class. Go on ski trips with. The one I used to help with math homework. Oh, she hated math. Sorry that I caused her so much hurt. 'Cause she brought me so much joy.

Arrow:
Helena! Don't kill him. You can never come back from that.

Helena Bertinelli:
It's too late. I'm already gone. Bye, Dad.

Helena Bertinelli:
Last time this happened, I threw you out a window.

Black Canary:
I was holding back. I won't do that again.

Helena Bertinelli:
You know, I thought I'd feel different now that he's dead, but I don't. And you always told me that killing him wouldn't change anything. You were right.

Oliver Queen:
But I was wrong, too.

Helena Bertinelli:
About what?

Oliver Queen:
I thought I could help you. To stop you from being a killer, but... I was just starting. And I was a killer, too.

Helena Bertinelli:
And what are you know?

Oliver Queen:
I'm trying to be better.

Kate Spencer:
Look, on behalf on the entire D.A.'s office, I have to apologize. Adam Donner's employment here has been terminated. Obviously we had no idea what he was plotting.

Laurel Lance:
I would hope not.

Kate Spencer:
Unfortunately, Adam was not authorized to offer you your job back. I'm sorry. But nothing has changed.

Laurel Lance:
Yes, it has.

Kate Spencer:
Excuse me?

Laurel Lance:
You are going to rehire me, Kate. Unless you feel like explaining to the press that your own assistant district attorney was the brilliant mastermind behind tonight's hostage crisis.

Kate Spencer:
Welcome back. I have to say, I am impressed. I would have thought blackmail was a little dark for you.

Laurel Lance:
Someone recently told me, once you let the darkness inside, it never comes out.

Slade Wilson:
It's a dangerous city. You shouldn't be out in the streets alone.

Thea Queen:
Mr. Wilson?

Slade Wilson:
Please. Call me Slade.

John Diggle:
Helena Bertinelli. Daughter of mob boss Frank Bertinelli.

Felicity Smoak:
Or as I like to call her, Oliver's psycho ex-girlfriend hell-bent on revenge against her father.

Black Canary:
Ex-girlfriend?

Oliver Queen:
That's what you took from that sentence?

[Lance calls the Arrow and Oliver's mobile rings. Lance notices and looks over]

Oliver Queen:
[shows his phone's display to Lance] It's my mom.

[Oliver steps away and takes Lance's call for the Arrow]

Oliver Queen:
[disguised Arrow voice over phone] Detective.

Quentin Lance:
Helena Bertinelli just took ten hostages. Laurel's one of them.

Oliver Queen:
Yeah, I'm aware of the situation.

[Oliver hangs up and calls Felicity]

Quentin Lance:
Listen, I know you don't exactly believe in reading perps their Mirandas, but you can't just toss a guy out of a window.

Black Canary:
He shot you.

Quentin Lance:
And I'm still here, ain't I? Just next time, show a little restraint.

Black Canary:
That was me showing restraint.

Felicity Smoak:
According to the SCPD, the guy that gave Helena a ride into town is a 22-year-old Poly Sci major at SCU, and a member of Gamma Tau, which totally explains the whole "I didn't know I was aiding and abetting a known felon" thing. Anyone with b*obs can get a frat boy to do anything.

Oliver Queen:
I was a frat boy.

Felicity Smoak:
I rest my case.

John Diggle:
At least she didn't kill him. That's something.

Quentin Lance:
So you're back to dropping bodies?

Oliver Queen:
It's just this one.

Speedy:
Aren't we risking some crazy Bond villain stupidity here? I mean, this guy needs to be put away. Far, far away.

Oliver Queen:
I don't have time for a lecture, John.

John Diggle:
There's no lecture here, Oliver, but you should know that Andy gave me a lead on Darhk and I've been working on it.

Oliver Queen:
Good. What have you found?

John Diggle:
Unfortunately, it was a dead end, but you should know...

John Diggle:
But nothing. But nothing.

John Diggle:
Oliver, I know you're hurting, man, but you should know that whatever your play is... I got you back.

Oliver Queen:
But?

John Diggle:
But you've come so far, Oliver. You've recovered a humanity that you lost when I first met you. I know you want payback for what Darhk did to Felicity, and you should. But don't lose what made her fall in love with you in the first place.

Oliver Queen:
You know... I think I want to go to Bali.

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah.

Oliver Queen:
Want to come with me?

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah. I'd go anywhere with you.

Oliver Queen:
Yeah?

Felicity Smoak:
Just one question.

Oliver Queen:
Mm-hmm?

Felicity Smoak:
What's Damian Darhk doing in Bali? I only ask 'cause if he's still here, we have some work to do.

Oliver Queen:
How'd you get to be so strong?

Felicity Smoak:
I took my lead from you.

Oliver Queen:
There's a meta in Starling City that's killing people.

Ray Palmer:
A meta, as in human?

Oliver Queen:
Yeah.

Felicity Smoak:
So, obviously we need to catch this plasma death thing guy. Ugh, now I see why Cisco gives them all names. The police is all over Oliver, so... we need you.

Ray Palmer:
And you're okay with this?

Oliver Queen:
We need your help.

Ray Palmer:
So it's a team up. High-five!

Ray Palmer:
I thought the whole point of this team-up was you not being spotted out as a vigilante.

Oliver Queen:
Stop calling it a team-up, Ray. This Jake Simmons is not just a meta-human, he is a killer. And you're not ready for that.

Ray Palmer:
Look, I'm - I'm not going to try to equate our experiences, but superpowers are based in science, and I am a man of science. So if there's any way to defeat this guy, I'm the one who's best able to figure this out.

Oliver Queen:
Fine. The second that you get in over your head...

Ray Palmer:
I'll run. Fly, probably.

Ray Palmer:
Still nothing. Not a visual sighting or any other reading at all from The Atom. And I say Atom, I mean the suit, not myself in the third person.

Oliver Queen:
[to Felicity] There's a decent chance that you and Palmer are related?

Ray Palmer:
I need shields.

Oliver Queen:
That's not the answer. You need to anticipate your opponent. You need to trust your instincts and not just your tech.

Ray Palmer:
My instincts is to trust my tech.

Oliver Queen:
Ray, when I'm out in the field, my bow, my arrows, those are just tools. I'm the weapon.

Ray Palmer:
That's poetic.

Oliver Queen:
My point is that if you rely on your suit more than you rely on yourself... it's going to get you killed.

Inmate:
Let's see how good you are without your arrows.

Roy Harper:
Good enough.

[several inmates attack Roy and Roy fights them]

Roy Harper:
Just remember - that was without arrows.

Felicity Smoak:
So, uh, what's with the sunglasses, man? We're indoors, and it's well, night. Do you have a sensitivity to the...

Jake Simmons:
To light? No.

[removes his sunglasses showing his fiery eyes]

Jake Simmons:
I love the light.

Jake Simmons:
I'm sorry, but the blonde can't come to the phone at the moment.

Ray Palmer:
I swear to God, if you hurt her...

Jake Simmons:
You'll what? Fly away again? I am talking to the man in the suit, right? The one who thinks a piece of scrap metal makes him some kind of hero? It doesn't.

Ray Palmer:
What about...

Ray Palmer, Cisco Ramon:
Deathbolt.

Cisco Ramon:
Nice! Mmm. You're the only other person who's good at the names.

Cisco Ramon:
You said Simmons is from Central City, right?

Ray Palmer:
Yes. Last known address, 4160 Dixie Canyon. Why?

Cisco Ramon:
According to this, Jake Simmons was a guest of the Opal City police department on December 11, 2013.

Ray Palmer:
What do I know that date from?

Cisco Ramon:
That was the day of the Particle Accelerator test. But if Simmons wasn't in Central City the night of the dark matter explosion, then... how can he be a meta-human?

Ra's al Ghul:
Do you know who I am, child?

Thea Queen:
You're the demon.

Ra's al Ghul:
I am the demon's head. As these were before me, and very soon, your brother.

Thea Queen:
He will never take your place.

Ra's al Ghul:
He will. Once I've given him sufficient motivation.

Thea Queen:
Oh, my brother's going to kill you.

Ra's al Ghul:
No. He's going to beg me.

Ra's al Ghul:
Protect me from your punishment... on the day your servants are resurrected.

Quentin Lance:
What the hell are you doing? I thought you were done killing people!

Arrow:
He'll live.

Quentin Lance:
Yeah, but he'll report me to my lieutenant!

Arrow:
He won't talk to anyone.

Quentin Lance:
What makes you so sure?

Arrow:
Because he has another shoulder.

[digs the arrow deeper into Tony Daniel's shoulder]

Quentin Lance:
So how did you get the charges dropped?

Laurel Lance:
Your friend Pike and I have been working together on the anti-vigilante task force. Do you remember?

Quentin Lance:
Hmm. Last year you were working with the Arrow. What a difference a few months makes.

Laurel Lance:
The Arrow?

Quentin Lance:
Yeah. Seems more appropriate than the Hood.

Alex Davis:
I think your brother's onto us.

Thea Queen:
No. No, and even if he was, it's not like he's not the boss of me.

Alex Davis:
No, he's the boss of me.

Thea Queen:
I know.

Alex Davis:
I'm just glad your brother's not a killer.

Quentin Lance:
Not bad. Not quite as powerful as the Green Arrows, but not bad.

Oliver Queen:
Yeah? Maybe I should get him to endorse me.

Green Arrow:
It's nice of you to show up.

John Diggle:
My brother needed me. The green one.

Oliver Queen:
Who are you? Where's my friend Tommy Merlyn? The guy who once rented out a football stadium so that he could play strip kickball with models?

Tommy Merlyn:
That guy needed a swift kick in his lazy ass.

Malcolm Merlyn:
It's been weeks since your return. I thought it was past time we spoke. Nanda Parbat is remote, but I wouldn't delude yourself into thinking that Ra's al Ghul missed your televised return to Starling City.

Oliver Queen:
And your point, Malcolm?

Malcolm Merlyn:
We can't merely wait for Ra's to mobilize his forces. It's time to bring Thea into the fold.

Oliver Queen:
She's not ready to know my secret.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I disagree. But in any case, if we have to protect Thea and to defeat the League, the three of us need to join forces. But I don't see how we can do that if she is still to believe that her brother is a reformed playboy and failed businessman.

Thea Queen:
You know how many times I've wished that I could thank the Arrow for things he's done for this city?

Oliver Queen:
Probably as many times as I've wished we could have this conversation.

Thea Queen:
Did Mom know?

Oliver Queen:
The night that she died, she told me that... she'd known for a while. I was worried that you'd be angry.

Thea Queen:
Only 'cause you broke my window. Although I did kind of kick your ass.

Oliver Queen:
You didn't. But you did have a good teacher.

Thea Queen:
You were looking for Malcolm that night.

Oliver Queen:
We know about each other.

Thea Queen:
Wait, Malcolm knows that you're the Arrow?

Oliver Queen:
I am amazed that he didn't tell you.

Thea Queen:
Then why did you tell me? Why now?

Oliver Queen:
Because Ra's al Ghul is coming for us. All of us. And the only chance that we have to survive is to work together. To trust each other.

Malcolm Merlyn:
He's right.

Thea Queen:
No. No, no, he's not. I turn my back on everyone I know, including my own brother, because you told me that was nobody else I could trust.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I was only trying to protect you.

Thea Queen:
By driving a wedge between me and Ollie? You manipulated me.

Laurel Lance:
I know what you're going to say, but I risked myself for this city while you were gone. That should earn me some respect.

Oliver Queen:
This isn't about respect. And it's not about you risking your life. I understand that you miss Sara. And I understand when you go out there like this, all of that pain goes away.

Laurel Lance:
It's the only time it ever does.

Oliver Queen:
And that relief isn't real. It's a drug.

Laurel Lance:
If you're implying...

Oliver Queen:
You an addict. And just like booze and pills, that high you're chasing every night is endangering your life.

Laurel Lance:
Go to hell, Oliver. You don't get to play that card with me. Ever. And if there is anyone who is using adrenaline to hide the pain of real feelings and real life, it's you.

Thea Queen:
You smell like smoke. Korean barbecue?

Oliver Queen:
C4. Yeah.

Thea Queen:
It's nice that we can tell each other this stuff now.

Oliver Queen:
It is, actually.

Thea Queen:
You always had the lamest excuses.

Oliver Queen:
Lame excuses are sort of an occupational hazard.

Thea Queen:
What was tonight's hazard?

Oliver Queen:
Roy and I were looking for the man that escaped from the courthouse earlier today. Found a bomb instead.

Thea Queen:
Yeah, I don't know how you do it. Just risk your life out there for people every night.

Oliver Queen:
It's my job. It is my job to keep the people of this city safe. And that includes you, too, Speedy. Listen to me. I'm always going to hate Malcolm Merlyn. But right now he's a necessary evil.

Thea Queen:
But we can take care of ourselves.

Oliver Queen:
Not against Ra's al Ghul. You have to trust me on this.

Thea Queen:
I do. But I don't trust him. I can't. And I won't.

Oliver Queen:
My family's going to be looking for me. Everyone is going to be looking for me!

Amanda Waller:
Because your mother issued a press release? We erased your message before she could hear a word of it. Be glad. If she had heard it, your mother would be dead right now.

Oliver Queen:
You would never risk the exposure.

Amanda Waller:
Hmm, you're right. Your mother's too public a figure. But your sister on the other hand. What's her name? Thea? Did you know she's developed something of a substance abuse problem since you've been gone? I guess the straing of losing two family members must have been too much for her to bear. One day, someone just find her in the back of a car, dead with a needle in her arm. Poor Speedy.

Oliver Queen:
You stay away from my sister.

Amanda Waller:
I will, if you answer one question. Where are the Yamashiros?

Thea Queen:
Now I've been wondering, how do you decide between the red hoodie and the one with the mask?

Roy Harper:
I'm glad you know.

Thea Queen:
I felt pretty lame not recognizing my own brother just because he's wearing a hood. I can't believe you knew before I did.

Roy Harper:
He saved my life, Thea.

Thea Queen:
He saved a lot of people's lives.

Malcolm Merlyn:
If you beg forgiveness for trying to harm my daughter, I'll grant you a quick death.

Chase:
I'd never give you the satisfaction, Al Sa-Her.

Malcolm Merlyn:
You're unarmed and have nowhere to run.

Chase:
But there's some place I can go where you won't dare to follow.

[Chase drinks cyanide and dies]

Thea Queen:
I thought that I was stronger. I thought that I could keep myself safe.

Oliver Queen:
Who was he?

Malcolm Merlyn:
One of Ra's agents.

Oliver Queen:
Roy, can you give us a minute?

Thea Queen:
Really hope you're expecting a thank you.

Malcolm Merlyn:
No parent needs gratitude for saving their child.

Thea Queen:
I didn't ask to be a part of this. I didn't ask for any of this. Maybe you're right. Maybe we can't do this without him. But I am never going to forget the things you've done. Or the person that you are.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Understood. But before we can begin, there's something only the two of you can do. Ra's al Ghul preys upon the fears of his enemies. Conquer your own fear, and you will eliminate that critical advantage. For you, there's only one place on earth uniquely suited to doing that.

Sara Lance:
Dinah Laurel Lance. Selfish b*tch. You're not a hero. You're a liar. A fraud. And an addict.

Felicity Smoak:
I don't even know why I'm crying. I didn't even like Moira. Terrible thing to say about someone after they've just died. In my defense, she was not nice. She was diabolical. Not a word you often hear at someone's funeral.

John Diggle:
You're not crying for her, Felicity, you're crying for Oliver.

Felicity Smoak:
Where is he? How could he not be here?

John Diggle:
I don't know...

Isabel Rochev:
If Oliver's smart... He ran back to his island to hide. But maybe he'll attend your funerals.

Felicity Smoak:
Seeing Roy like this reminds me of Barry. And Barry reminds me of S.T.A.R. Labs. S.T.A.R. Labs reminds me of the Mirakuru cure that they're working on, which we could really use... right now.

Felicity Smoak:
[to A.R.G.U.S. technician] Is that the satellite frequency communicator TX50? Can I touch it? I know that sounds a little weird and creepy, but I've never seen one in real life.

Amanda Waller:
It's classified equipment, Ms. Smoak.

Felicity Smoak:
You must feel very powerful knowing everything about everyone. Not powerful in an evil dictator Stalin way. More of a... knowledge is power, way.

Anatoly Knyazev:
Like riding bicycle. Underwater.

Oliver Queen:
Submarines have torpedoes, right? Can't we blast our way out?

Anatoly Knyazev:
I can see why you two are made for each other. You like your explosions.

Oliver Queen:
It ends tonight.

Felicity Smoak:
How?

Oliver Queen:
I turn myself over to Slade. I end this vendetta.

John Diggle:
Oliver, you think this ends with you turning yourself over to Slade?

Oliver Queen:
Yes, I do. After she was gone... he told me that one more person had to die. And then it would end. This ends for Slade when he kills me.

Felicity Smoak:
I don't accept that. You shouldn't either. You can't just accept things, Oliver. If I had accepted my life, I would be a cocktail waitress in Vegas like my mother, and I never would have gone to college, and I never would have moved a thousand miles away to work at Queen Consolidated, and I never would have believed some crazy guy in a hood when he told me I could be more than just some IT girl.

Laurel Lance:
You thought about telling me... the night of the undertaking.

Oliver Queen:
I thought about telling you almost every night.

Laurel Lance:
Why didn't you? Tommy knew. Didn't he? You were with him. You were with him at the end.

Oliver Queen:
His last words were about you. He wanted to know if you were safe. Sorry I couldn't save him. And my mother. But I can save you. And Thea. I can save the city if this ends tonight.

Laurel Lance:
No. No! You can't commit suicide, Ollie. You won't do that to me. Or to Sara, or to your friends. Or to Thea. Oliver... She just lost her mother. Losing you would destroy her.

Oliver Queen:
But she'll be alive.

Laurel Lance:
I don't know about hoods and masks or human weapons or any of this. But I know you. I know you like I know my own name. And I realize it may sound crazy in light of your secret, but I know who you are in your bones, Oliver. And that person - that person doesn't give up. That person, he always finds a way.

Oliver Queen:
Not this time.

Laurel Lance:
You're wrong. You want to protect the people who you love? Then the only way to do that is to stop Slade Wilson.

Oliver Queen:
Laurel, I can't!

Laurel Lance:
Yes, you can! By stopping Sebastian Blood, because Sebastian is working for Slade Wilson.

[Oliver has a shocked look]

Laurel Lance:
I have proof. Slade Wilson killed your mother so Sebastian could become mayor.

Oliver Queen:
You were right about him. The man in the skull mask works for for Slade Wilson. And this entire time, it was Sebastian.

Laurel Lance:
What's happening is bigger than you and Slade. The city needs the Arrow.

John Diggle:
Clinton Hogue. I have some questions for you.

Clinton Hogue:
Go to hell.

John Diggle:
You sure that's how you want to play it?

Clinton Hogue:
You think I've never taken a beating before?

John Diggle:
Pal, you're going to wish I beat you.

Felicity Smoak:
Hi. I'll be your interrogator.

Clinton Hogue:
Is this a joke?

Felicity Smoak:
Clinton Hogue. Social security number 306003894.

Clinton Hogue:
What the hell's this supposed to be?

Felicity Smoak:
Oh, look at this. You have a bank account in the Cayman Islands. Wow. $2 million, quite a the little nest egg. But... looks like you just approved a wire transfer of $1 million to a charity here in Starling City. Very generous. What should I do with the rest?

John Diggle:
Greenpeace.

Felicity Smoak:
Great cause! And they really appreciate support.

Clinton Hogue:
You b*tch!

Felicity Smoak:
B*tch with wi-fi.

Oliver Queen:
You're the mayor. Congratulations. You've always wanted that.

Sebastian Blood:
Believe me, Oliver, I wish it had happened a different way. Your mother and I, we - we didn't agree on much. But we both wanted what was best for Starling City. I will help this city find its heart again, I promise you that.

Oliver Queen:
Do you really think that he will let that happen? Slade Wilson.

Sebastian Blood:
How do you know I've been working with Slade Wilson?

Oliver Queen:
Because I'm the Arrow.

Oliver Queen:
The city still needs saving. But not by the Hood. Or some vigilante who's just crossing names off a list. It needs something more.

John Diggle:
It needs a hero, Oliver.

Felicity Smoak:
It's too bad The Hoods kind of ruined your nickname.

Oliver Queen:
No, it's good. I don't want to be called The Hood anymore.

John Diggle:
Okay. So what do you want to be called?

[close up of the green arrow on the shaft]

Felicity Smoak:
I really need you to take a look at these engagement party invites. My mom's been hounding me.

Oliver Queen:
The envelope is very pink.

Felicity Smoak:
I know. Wait! Don't...

[Oliver opens the invitation and glitter explodes everywhere]

Felicity Smoak:
...open it.

John Diggle:
Should have totally seen that one coming.

Felicity Smoak:
I'm so sorry. What do you think?

Oliver Queen:
Maybe less glitter.

Felicity Smoak:
You look good in glitter.

Laurel Lance:
Okay, so clearly we're not gonna find Darhk by tailing his wife.

John Diggle:
Yeah, well, it's not like we have a lot of moves left to make. Darhk has gone, well, dark ever since Machin attacked his family.

Oliver Queen:
But Darhk is not afraid of Machin. He's just... his plan's gone to a new phase.

Thea Queen:
And how do you know that?

Oliver Queen:
Because H.I.V.E. spent months trying to cripple this city's leadership. They discouraged people from running for mayor. They even tried to co-op my candidacy.

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah, then Mrs. Evil threw her hat in the ring.

Oliver Queen:
There has to be a reason. Darhk did not try and destroy Star City so that his wife could be mayor. There's something that we're not seeing.

Laurel Lance:
A 602's breaking and entering. Why would they need backup in the form of a police captain?

Quentin Lance:
I told you. We're shorthanded. Don't worry. It's not a job for Black Canary.

Donna Smoak:
[to protect her from Darhk, Quentin wants to put their relationship on hold] My ex-husband was a lying son of a b*tch. Only two good things came out of that marriage: my daughter and my B.S. detector, which is flawless, and right now, yeah, it's... it's red-lining.

Quentin Lance:
Donna, please don't be...

Donna Smoak:
Don't Donna... oh, my god. Don't "Donna" me. You know what? This is actually very simple. You either respect me enough to tell me the truth or you don't.

[Quentin doesn't know what to say]

Donna Smoak:
Clearly you don't.

Laurel Lance:
I got a look at the laptop before it got shot up, and there were blueprints on the screen.

Oliver Queen:
So they are gonna take down another building. Felicity?

Felicity Smoak:
I know. The first time we met, the first thing you asked me to do was pull data off a damaged laptop. It's kind of romantic.

Quentin Lance:
Donna called it quits.

Oliver Queen:
Oh. I'm sorry to hear that.

Quentin Lance:
Yeah, yeah, me, too. You're lucky you're with someone you don't need to keep secrets from.

Felicity Smoak:
Curtis, why is my face your screensaver?

Curtis Holt:
At the risk of early termination, um... none of your business.

Felicity Smoak:
Curtis!

Curtis Holt:
Please don't ask. I'm, like, super bad with secrets. Okay, it's an early wedding gift, but it's really bad luck if you see it, so stop trying to see it.

Felicity Smoak:
Okay, I think you're getting your wedding traditions confused, but fine, I will let it go. Lucky for you, I have more important concerns.

[handing him the shot-up laptop]

Felicity Smoak:
I maxed out the computer power in the lair again, and I was hoping maybe your mainframe might have better luck.

Curtis Holt:
I'll do my best.

Felicity Smoak:
[turning to leave] Thank you. Really? Me on a screensaver. Hmm. Whatever this surprise is, it better be good.

Curtis Holt:
Oh, it will be.

Quentin Lance:
How you kept this up for four years, huh... this double life, these secrets, lying? I mean, I...

Oliver Queen:
I'm trying not to live that way anymore. Trying.

Quentin Lance:
You know, in AA we say you're only as sick as the secrets you keep. You're looking pretty healthy these days. Let's just hope I can get back to that place with Donna.

Oliver Queen:
For what it's worth, you're in a tough spot, and you're trying to keep her safe. You know, sometimes a lie isn't wrong if it's for the good of someone that you love.

Felicity Smoak:
That was fast.

Curtis Holt:
You sound surprised. I don't know whether to be flattered or insulted.

Curtis Holt:
After my surprise was blown on my gift, I wanted to finish it as soon as possible.

Felicity Smoak:
[Curtis hands her a small, wrapped box] Thanks! We forgot to register for, uh, microchips.

Curtis Holt:
Actually, it's neither micro nor a chip. It's an implantable biostimulant.

Felicity Smoak:
And why would I need an implantable...

[realization dawns on her]

Felicity Smoak:
...biostimulant?

Curtis Holt:
For walking.

Oliver Queen:
Excuse me. Curtis...

Curtis Holt:
In a perfect world, it'll work in time for you to walk down the aisle. I mean, but it's pretty cutting edge, so I can't promise anything.

Felicity Smoak:
You're telling me that this little piece of technology's gonna help me walk again?

Curtis Holt:
After it's implanted in your spine, yes.

Curtis Holt:
He's been trying to crack it for a while, but he needed a power source; something that would last a lifetime.

Felicity Smoak:
Palmer Technologies' power cell.

Curtis Holt:
Exactly. Once I solved that, I knew this might actually work.

Felicity Smoak:
[getting emotional] Oh, my god. I don't know what to say.

Oliver Queen:
I do. Curtis, you're terrific. Thank you.

Curtis Holt:
[they shake hands] Well, don't thank me yet. Still has to work.

Felicity Smoak:
It'll work. I know it will. You, come with me. We're about to make my mother very happy.

Oliver Queen:
Did Alex call with the new poll numbers?

Felicity Smoak:
Well, Bethany Snow's right. He doesn't have to. Experts are saying that you already won.

Oliver Queen:
Experts aren't the voters.

Felicity Smoak:
Okay. Well, you at least have one voter in your camp.

[singsong]

Felicity Smoak:
Mee!

Oliver Queen:
[kissing her] Only one that matters.

[Oliver hits five enemies in five gunshots, causing Roy to look at him in shock]

Oliver Queen:
I never said I didn't know HOW to use a gun.

Sin:
You have family in Starling?

Sara Lance:
Yeah. My father, he's a - he's a policeman. And my sister, she's a lawyer.

Sin:
Well, they must be proud of their masked delinquent.

Sara Lance:
Yeah, they think I'm dead.

Sin:
Oh, cool. My folks think I'm dead, too. That, or they wish I'd never been born.

Arrow:
I want to see how you do in a real fight.

Black Canary:
Good. I was looking for a fight.

The Mayor:
Old school weapon. Respect. But can your arrows do this?

[fires grenade at Arrow]

Oliver Queen:
I see the signs and the graffiti; "Blood for Mayor." Now that the "Mayor" is in jail, maybe you should run.

Sebastian Blood:
There's more than one way to save a city.

Sebastian Blood:
Sooner or later, we all go through a crucible. I'm guessing yours was that island. Most believe there are two types of people who go into a crucible. The ones who become stronger from the experience and survive it, and the ones who die. But there's a third type. The ones who learn to love the fire and choose to stay in their crucible because it's easier to embrace the pain when it's all you know anymore.

Oliver Queen:
Hey.

Laurel Lance:
Please do not ask me if I'm okay, because I'm sick to death of everyone asking me that.

Oliver Queen:
I would never do that.

Laurel Lance:
Good.

Oliver Queen:
You okay?

John Diggle:
You know, Oliver, somebody once told me that secrets have weight. The more you keep, the harder it is to keep moving.

Arrow:
You see how hard I work out.

Yao Fei:
[shoots a rabbit] Dinner. Get.

Oliver Queen:
Ah, come - Hey, I got an idea. Why don't you let me shoot that thing and you can go pickup the bloody, dead, disgusting animal?

[Yao Fei tries to teach Oliver to shoot his bow. Oliver takes aim at a tree and misses, wide]

Yao Fei:
[speaks Mandarin]

Oliver Queen:
What does that mean?

Yao Fei:
You will die badly.

Laurel Lance:
Wow. I can't remember the last time I've been in this room.

Oliver Queen:
I can. Halloween, 2005. We were getting ready for Tommy's party.

Laurel Lance:
Ah. Yes. I wore those horrible fishnets.

Oliver Queen:
I thought you looked good.

Oliver Queen:
Do we have a legal meeting or something? 'Cause, I have friends over.

Oliver Queen:
[Laurel arrives at the last minute to represent him as his defense attorney] I knew you couldn't resist saving my ass.

Laurel Lance:
You're gonna make me regret this, aren't you?

Felicity Smoak:
If we can reduce just 40% of the toxicity that's produced by the bacterial micro-organisms that have just sprung up here...

Young Girl with Glasses:
We can swim in just 12 more days if the restitution rates stay consistent.

Felicity Smoak:
Yes.

Laurel Lance:
She's like a mini-you.

John Diggle:
My friends seem you're ready to talk. But I know better. You were always one stubborn son of a b*tch. Pictures of Carly and Andy Jr. A real man would have asked about them by now. You know Carly cried for two months because she thought you were killed. Andy Jr. grew up without a father. And you let them.

Andy Diggle:
It wasn't me. It was H.I.V.E. They fake our deaths so we're untraceable. Floyd Lawton shot me with ammo supplied by H.I.V.E. He didn't even know.

John Diggle:
But you destroyed your family, Andy. And you never reached out to them. Not even once. How could you do that? I get it. You didn't care then, you don't care now. Just so you know, your good friend Damien Darhk attacked the Star City Bay this morning. Hurt a whole lot of people. And the neuro-blockers he was using on you are no longer in your system. So, chemically speaking, Andy, you're no longer his b*tch.

Andy Diggle:
I'm not anyone's b*tch. And I'm not yours.

[about Captain Lance dating Felicity's mother]

Quentin Lance:
Listen, um, Laurel doesn't know.

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah, I'm gonna hit myself with something very heavy so that I don't know either.

Malcolm Merlyn:
[to Laurel] Excellent. You've got your bondage outfit on.

[to Quinton]

Malcolm Merlyn:
And no mask for you?

Quentin Lance:
Not my thing. If we're going after Oliver, wouldn't it make sense for you to bring along a few of your little ninja friends?

Malcolm Merlyn:
I can't afford to pit the League against H.I.V.E.

Damien Darhk:
Oh, Oliver, don't worry, there are plenty of fish. It it's blonde's you like, I can have one at your house in 20 minutes. One that I won't kill.

Laurel Lance:
Are you sure that Darhk didn't make it out of the explosion?

Felicity Smoak:
Have you seen any horror movies? These guys don't stay dead. Especially if you can't find the body.

Andy Diggle:
It's not a cult.

John Diggle:
The man has people, regular people, honest people, I'm thinking so brainwashed they're willing to die for him. Cult.

Andy Diggle:
Yeah, think what you want to think. It's a free country. For now.

John Diggle:
This isn't you, Andy. The man I knew pulled me out of dark waters, convinced me to keep going when I didn't see the point.

Andy Diggle:
No, what you didn't see, what you fail to see is the man I really am, right in front of you the whole time.

John Diggle:
So my brother's a ghost. Fine, we'll treat you like a ghost.

Thea Queen:
It's actually a pretty great turnout.

Alex Davis:
Who knew people would rather pick up garbage than celebrate the holidays, huh?

Oliver Queen:
Not bad for a hippie crunch campaign proposal, huh?

Alex Davis:
Nobody likes an "I told you so". Except, apparently, Star City. Your approval rating is up ten points.

Oliver Queen:
[pleased with himself] I have an approval rating.

Thea Queen:
Yes. Yes, you do.

Alex Davis:
Welcome to politics, Mr. Queen.

Oliver Queen:
We're gonna get Andy out from under Darhk's influence, John. That is a promise.

Oliver Queen:
[after Darhk's attack on his campaign cleanup of Star City Bay] Any news on the victims?

Felicity Smoak:
Some are being released. Some are still in surgery. It's a miracle no one died.

Malcolm Merlyn:
There are very few things in this world that scare me, Thea, but I'm beginning to suspect we're dealing with something that might fall into that category.

Donna Smoak:
[finding the engagement ring Oliver was planning on giving Felicity] I don't know who's more excited, you or me.

Oliver Queen:
Mr. Andrews got his lunch?

Felicity Smoak:
One Belly Buster with benzodiazepine. Hold the mayo.

Arrow:
Malcolm Merlyn... You have failed this city!

Malcolm Merlyn:
And how have I done that?

Arrow:
The Undertaking. It ends now!

John Diggle:
[on earpiece] Oliver, the device... It's gone.

Arrow:
Where's the device?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Safe. I don't know how you got that trojan onto my system, but it prompted me to take precautions. There is nothing you can do to stop what is about to happen. And you shouldn't. This city needs what is about to happen in order to survive the people who are destroying it from the inside need to be erased from the map.

Arrow:
Fine. Let's start with you!

[He fires an arrow at Merlyn, who effortlessly catches it and breaks in in half... finally revealing to Arrow/Oliver that he's not in league with the Dark Archer for he IS the Dark Archer]

Malcolm Merlyn:
Ironic, isn't it? Last Christmas, I almost killed you. A few months ago, you saved my life. And now you're here to trying to kill me. You should make up your mind.

Arrow:
Done.

Felicity Smoak:
Are you okay?

Oliver Queen:
My Mom and my best friend's Dad are involved in a conspiracy that may have dire consequences for the city. And I'm pretty sure they murdered my father. I'm not planning on using the word "okay" again any time soon.

Quentin Lance:
Arrows are black, not green.

Detective Lucas Hilton:
Copycat archer again.

Quentin Lance:
Psychopaths are color-coding themselves now. That's helpful.

Oliver Queen:
Felicity, are you hacking into the Merlyn Global mainframe?

Felicity Smoak:
"Hacking" is such an ugly word. No. I'm... Yeah. Totally hacking into the Merlyn Global mainframe.

Oliver Queen:
Roy. We haven't met. I'm Thea's disapproving older brother.

Roy Harper:
Yeah, I know. Good to meet you.

Oliver Queen:
Don't mess around with The Hood. He's a psychopath, he's dangerous, and anyone who gets near him winds up dead. That will not be my sister. Do you hear me?

Tommy Merlyn:
We have to find out what this Undertaking is.

Oliver Queen:
I got the ask her.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, no. The last time the vigilante paid your Mom a visit, you got shot, and I got to play doctor with you. Ahh! My brain thinks the worst way to say things.

Tommy Merlyn:
This time it'll just be me asking. Friendly mother-son chat.

Oliver Queen:
Felicity, hold onto me tight

Felicity Smoak:
I imagined you saying that under different circumstances, [pause] Very platonic circumstances.

Laurel Lance:
What are you trying to say?

Oliver Queen:
That you you know me better than anyone, and that you are more important to me than anyone. I just I didn't wait to long to say it. [Laurel kisses him]

Laurel Lance:
You didn't wait to long. [she wraps her legs around his waist] You're right on time.

Slade Wilson:
That's broken. It got busted during the crash.

Oliver Queen:
Did you try to get it to work?

Slade Wilson:
I'm better at pulling things apart.

Oliver Queen:
My father was a pilot and he used to do his own maintenance.

Slade Wilson:
So you're hoping that aircraft maintenance is genetic?

Oliver Queen:
No, I used to help him and I liked it. Then I got pretty good at it. So maybe I can make the radio work.

Slade Wilson:
You should be training for the inevitable fight that's looming.

Oliver Queen:
I think I have a better chance of making the radio work.

Floyd Lawton:
Look, I'm retired.

China White:
To drink and smoke your life away?

Floyd Lawton:
We all got to die some time.

China White:
I need someone to die at the right time. And no one does it better than you.

Floyd Lawton:
My vision ain't exactly what it used to be.

China White:
No. It's going to be better.

Floyd Lawton:
So... who needs two bullets in the chest?

China White:
[to the Triad] There are five exit routes from the main floor that need to be cut off. Once the fire alarm goes off, we'll have less than 30 seconds to disable Merlyn's private security and force him outside with the others. Once he's outside, the rest will be up to Mr. Lawton.

Floyd Lawton:
Roger that.

Arrow:
Why do you want Malcolm Merlyn dead?

China White:
I'll settle for you.

Tommy Merlyn:
You killed him!

Malcolm Merlyn:
Surely as he would have killed you.

Arrow:
Your father's been poisoned. An assassin named Floyd Lawton laces his bullets with curare. I've dealt with this before. We need to dilute the poison in bloodstream.

Tommy Merlyn:
I said stay the hell back!

Arrow:
In three minutes he's paralyzed. In four minutes, he suffocates. If you don't let me help you now, he's dead before anybody gets here!

Tommy Merlyn:
Help. How?

Arrow:
Fresh blood buys him time to get to the hospital.

Tommy Merlyn:
A blood transfusion? That's insane!

Arrow:
It's the only way. He needs your blood. You're out of time. You need to make a decision right now.

Tommy Merlyn:
Why should I trust you?

[removes his hood showing his face to Tommy]

Oliver Queen:
Because you always have.

Oliver Queen:
Who was Fyers talking to?

Slade Wilson:
I don't know. Sounds like someone off this island, maybe his benefactor. More importantly, who or what is Scylla?

Oliver Queen:
The Scylla and Charybdis. It's "The Odyssey" from one of the four nightmare chapters. Scylla was a monster.

Slade Wilson:
I want to meet this monster.

Slade Wilson:
I do have one idea. If you go into the forest and gather as much bamboo as you can find...

Oliver Queen:
Yeah?

Slade Wilson:
We can build ourselves a boat, like they did on Gilligan's Island.

Oliver Queen:
Oh, thank God she didn't cook.

Tommy Merlyn:
Amen.

Felicity Smoak:
You don't happen to speak spanish, do you?

John Diggle:
Arabic.

Felicity Smoak:
Oh, le sigh.

Oliver Queen:
Slade... You're working for him.

Isabel Rochev:
With. He knew planting me in your family's business would draw you back to Starling City. Truth be told, I was skeptical, but...

Oliver Queen:
Why are you doing this?

Isabel Rochev:
I think it's sad that you don't know. The sins of the father are the sins of the son.

Oliver Queen:
Where is she?

Isabel Rochev:
He's holding her at a storage depot just outside the city limits. Tusca Cartage.

Oliver Queen:
How do I know you're not lying?

Isabel Rochev:
[laughs] It's cute how you think this isn't all playing out exactly how he wants it to. And he wants you to come alone. If he even smells your partners, he will gut little Thea like a trout.

QC Security Guard:
[to Deathstroke] Halloween was six months ago, ass hat. Now get off the road or get put down. You hear me?

Slade Wilson:
Don't worry. I'm not here to harm you.

Laurel Lance:
Go to hell!

Slade Wilson:
All in good time, I'm sure. But before then, I have come to Starling City to see Oliver Queen suffer.

Laurel Lance:
Oliver... what? Why?

Slade Wilson:
Because he's not the man you think he is.

Laurel Lance:
And how would you know that?

Slade Wilson:
Because I know Oliver Queen is... the Arrow.

Roy Harper:
Sorry, I'm just having a hard time keeping my head in the game today.

Oliver Queen:
Thea?

Roy Harper:
I can't just stop thinking what's the worst that can happen if I just told her the truth.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, I told a guy the truth and he got struck by lightning. To be fair, probably won't happen again, statistically.

Oliver Queen:
With Slade out there, I don't have time for the company.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, you have to make time, Oliver. At least three hours. The annual board meeting. There's absolutely zero way that the CEO can avoid being there. And I know it's been a while, so in you case you've forgotten, that's you. Do you remember where you put your business suit? Or do you keep it in a cool glass case, too?

Moira Queen:
[to Oliver] And how is Ms. Rochev these days? Still angry about Dorothy dropped a house on her sister?

Roy Harper:
Are you sure we want me to go?

Oliver Queen:
Are you angry? Use that rage.

Roy Harper:
Well, you're just always telling me to hold back.

Oliver Queen:
Not tonight.

Sara Lance:
Can you remove the explosive?

Anatoly Knyazev:
Certainly. Without it going off, eh. Less certain. Ah, KGB. You taught me many, many things. Russian bomb, Japanese bomb, they both go...

[deactivates land mine]

Anatoly Knyazev:
...boom. Congratulations, we are not dead.

Lt. Frank Pike:
God, you're a special kind of stupid. The whole reason you're wearing that uniform instead of a detective shield is 'cause you were working with the vigilante.

Quentin Lance:
A young girl is missing, and you're just...

Lt. Frank Pike:
And now you arrest someone on his say-so? You'll be lucky if the next uniform that puts you in isn't prison gray.

Oliver Queen:
They're calling you Deathstroke.

Slade Wilson:
It's a bit flamboyant. I like it.

Slade Wilson:
I saw Oliver and your mother. They're all quite worried about you.

Thea Queen:
If you hurt them, I swear I...

Slade Wilson:
Please. Go on. Finish that sentence. I'm curious to know what kind of threat a 19-year-old girl can make.

Thea Queen:
What do you want with me?

Slade Wilson:
Well, that, Thea... is a very long story.

Thea Queen:
Looks like I've got time.

Slade Wilson:
Not at all. You're free to go.

Thea Queen:
What?

Slade Wilson:
I had to make a point, and I made it. The door is unlocked, so you can leave anytime you'd like.

Thea Queen:
But those guys who work for you will shoot me the second I walk out.

Slade Wilson:
No, they won't. Their instructions were to keep you until I returned. And they have. So... you're free to go. But, if you do, you may never know about your brother's secret.

Thea Queen:
What?

Slade Wilson:
Your brother has a secret, Thea. Would you like to know what it is?

Felicity Smoak:
Wait! Do you think that it's Oliver's fault that Slade took Thea?

Roy Harper:
I think it was his fault that I wasn't there to stop Slade.

Sara Lance:
And I think you're just blaming Oliver because you lost Slade.

Roy Harper:
Well, of course you're taking his side, you're screwing him.

Sara Lance:
Hey, where are you going?

Roy Harper:
Well, sitting around here isn't helping Thea, now is it?

John Diggle:
Neither is you running off half-cocked, Roy.

Roy Harper:
I know that you think this is the Mirakuru, but it's not. I'm right, and you know that I am. So you better get the hell out of my way.

Felicity Smoak:
Roy, just calm down. It's what Thea would want us to do.

John Diggle:
She's right, Roy. Come on, let's throttle back.

[Roy grabs Diggle and takes him down, Sara fires a warning arrow]

Sara Lance:
Next one goes into your chest. Let him go.

Roy Harper:
You would honestly kill me because I dare to criticize the almighty Oliver Queen?

Sara Lance:
No, I'd kill you because you're hurting my friend. Let him go.

Oliver Queen:
It's not how I typically get my information.

Felicity Smoak:
How do you typically do it?

Oliver Queen:
I find the person. And then I put the fear of god into them until they talk. But we can try it your way.

The Dodger:
Why are you doing this? I'm exactly like you. I only steal from the rich.

Arrow:
I'm not Robin Hood.

Felicity Smoak:
The first time anyone's ever been grateful for traffic cameras.

Felicity Smoak:
Where are we going to get our hands on a rare Spanish antiquity?

John Diggle:
You really have no idea how rich his family is, do you?

Oliver Queen:
Hey, I need your bike.

Biker:
Are you kidding me?

Oliver Queen:
No. [knocks him unconscious]

Ray Palmer:
A few months ago I made a promise to help revitalize Starling City. But I knew I couldn't do it alone. I needed help. A lot of help. From people who are even more intelligent and dedicated than I am. All of us are working very hard with one goal in mind - to save our city. But to do so, Queen Consolidated needs to be something else.

Dr. Avery Pressnall:
If you'll permit a professional observation... you could use a little therapy yourself.

Arrow:
What gives you that impression?

Dr. Avery Pressnall:
You mean, apart from the mask and the Robin Hood costume?

Oliver Queen:
Felicity Smoak... you have failed this omelet.

Felicity Smoak:
Hey, how'd you like company back as an early Christmas gift?

Oliver Queen:
You're doing a better job of running it than I would.

Felicity Smoak:
It's flirting with bankruptcy.

Oliver Queen:
Exactly. This is flirting.

Black Canary:
Speedy, behind you!

Speedy:
[turns around to take out a mercenary] I thought I told you guys to call me Red Arrow.

John Diggle:
A red arrow just means you can't make a left turn.

Quentin Lance:
Look, we'll get these guys eventually and things will turn around. I mean, look, we re-branded the city, we got the new tourism program, we got the new high-speed rail line to Central City.

Comptroller:
Hopefully from Central City.

Quentin Lance:
Well, maybe we can have a Flash Day, just like them.

Quentin Lance:
Prodigal Arrow returns.

Oliver Queen:
Captain Lance.

Quentin Lance:
I thought that was you last night, some mask over your head. Felt like old times.

Oliver Queen:
I'm only trying to help.

Quentin Lance:
That were true, you wouldn't have come back. This town started going to crap the moment you put on that hood. You brought madness into all of our lives, and the monster you were inspired monsters.

Oliver Queen:
Maybe. But I'm not a monster anymore.

Quentin Lance:
Then what are you?

Damien Darhk:
Situation report. Mr. Slater.

Green Arrow:
Sorry. He had to get off at an earlier stop.

Damien Darhk:
You can't be the Arrow, he died. So who are you?

Green Arrow:
You're about to find out.

Felicity Smoak:
How was your jog?

Oliver Queen:
It was good. I'm getting used to running without chasing after someone.

Damien Darhk:
So you're all fretting about this city dying. I'm here on behalf of an organization that wants you to let it die. See, death is a beautiful thing. We die, we go into the ground, our remains grow into flowers. It's only in the interval after dying that new things can sprout.

Damien Darhk:
None of you seem particularly likable, but if you do have any friends or anyone who does love you, I suggest you say goodbye. My people will be in touch.

[Oliver and Felicity are sitting at a fancy dinner]

Felicity Smoak:
So what's the occasion?

Oliver Queen:
Do we need an occasion for dinner?

Felicity Smoak:
No, ever since you discovered cooking life's been a never ending episode of Master Chef. But this isn't dinner, this is a production. Are we celebrating something?

Oliver Queen:
Sort of depends on how dessert goes.

Felicity Smoak:
Oh no. No, no. I'm almost disgustingly full.

Oliver Queen:
You are going to have to try a bite or two of this souffle.

[Doorbell rings]

Felicity Smoak:
Well, diet saved by the bell.

Laurel Lance:
We need the Arrow.

Oliver Queen:
The Arrow's dead.

Laurel Lance:
We're hoping that's not the case. We're hoping that you can't change who you are in your bones.

[as they drive towards Star City]

Oliver Queen:
It's tough not to look out of this window and wonder.

Felicity Smoak:
Wonder what?

Oliver Queen:
What did we really accomplish?

Oliver Queen:
Felicity, wanna play a game?

Felicity Smoak:
What game are we playing?

Oliver Queen:
We're playing the "reason that you know so much about these ghosts is because you've been helping the team behind my back" game.

Lyla Diggle:
[to Diggle] Oliver did what he thought he had to do to defeat Ra's. I'm not saying he made the right choice, but if Oliver Queen always made the right choice, he wouldn't need you.

Damien Darhk:
Gentlemen, the world's a funny place. It resists change. It fights progress. So the only way to move things forward is to fight back. And you men are here today because you understand that. But our cause is only as strong as our weakest man.

Oliver Queen:
I saw you took my advice on the identity concealment.

John Diggle:
Oliver what are we doing? Pretending everything's normal? That we are normal?

Oliver Queen:
I'm looking for a way in.

John Diggle:
I was furious to think that you trusted Malcolm Merlyn more than you trusted me, but then I realized that I'm not angry at you, I'm angry at myself for thinking you're someone that you clearly aren't.

Oliver Queen:
I don't know what that means.

John Diggle:
Oliver, after everything we've been through, man, I couldn't fathom why you didn't trust me. Then I realized you couldn't. It's not who you are. You don't trust. You don't love. You were able to fool Ra's and join the League because inside you are every bit as dark as they are.

Green Arrow:
Sorry. You had to get off at an earlier stop.

Damien Darhk:
You can't be the Arrow. He died. So who are you?

Green Arrow:
You're about to find out.

[loads and aims his bow at Damien]

Green Arrow:
Stop the train!

Damien Darhk:
No, I don't want to. Even if I did, I couldn't. I destroyed the braking system 20 miles away.

Green Arrow:
Willing to die to destroy a train station?

Damien Darhk:
No, that would be ridiculous.

Green Arrow:
Then how are you planning on getting off the train?

Damien Darhk:
Oh you don't know who I am, do you? I'm Damien Darhk.

Thea Queen:
So what are you gonna call yourself now? Everybody thinks Roy was the Arrow.

John Diggle:
Well he won't need a code name if he's headed back to Ivy Town.

Oliver Queen:
[looks at Felicity] Well I guess I need a code name. Felicity and I, we have missed this. We've missed all of you. And the city is far worse off than we thought.

Laurel Lance:
What are you talking about?

Oliver Queen:
The man leading the Ghosts is Damien Darhk.

Laurel Lance:
Darhk left Star City months ago. Why would he come back?

John Diggle:
Did Ra's tell you anything about Darhk that would give us any idea about his agenda?

Oliver Queen:
He said that Damien Darhk had a hive of operatives at his disposal.

John Diggle:
Hive. That was the exact word he used?

Oliver Queen:
Yes. Why? Does it mean something to you?

[Diggle flashes back]

John Diggle:
Who would want to kill Andy?

Deadshot:
I don't know their names. Just an alias. H.I.V.E.

[back in the present day]

John Diggle:
No. No, nothing.

Green Arrow:
[broadcasting on the emergency channel] Six months ago, the Arrow died. But what he stood for didn't. It lived on, and the heroes took up his mantle. People who believe that this city should never descend into hopelessness. Who believe that although life is full of darkness, that darkness can be defeated by light. And tonight, I am declaring my intention to stand with them, to fight for this city, to be the symbol of hope that the Arrow never was. I am the Green Arrow.

Damien Darhk:
Sorry about the arm. A necessary subterfuge to prevent anyone from suspecting your involvement with H.I.V.E.

Quentin Lance:
What do you want?

Damien Darhk:
Well, I'm a little bit disappointed the train station isn't a smoldering pile of ash.

Quentin Lance:
I'm not. Mass murder, killing innocents. I didn't sign up for this.

Damien Darhk:
You signed up to follow my instructions, to do my will. I want to know everything about this Green Arrow. Where he lives and who he loves, and I want him off the boards by the time my associates arrive.

Quentin Lance:
And if I don't help you?

Damien Darhk:
Well. Then I would be surprised, because I think I made it abundantly clear. You don't have a choice.

Felicity Smoak:
So my guilt for displacing Thea is only slightly outweighed by how amazing this place is.

Oliver Queen:
Thea's actually been living with Laurel for the past few months. Ra's stabbed her right over there. We can get a rug.

Ted Grant:
Make sure you get some protein within the hour, all right?

Laurel Lance:
Yeah, egg whites. They're my new BFF.

Ted Grant:
Oh, that's disgusting. No, no, no, two blocks from here - Korean tacos.

Laurel Lance:
Korean tacos?

Ted Grant:
Trust me. They're heaven. Come on, I'm buying.

Arrow:
Second time I found you with a body!

Ted Grant:
I never killed anybody. I'm being set up.

Arrow:
Why should I believe you?

Ted Grant:
Because I used to be a vigilante. I used to be you.

Ted Grant:
This is were I kept my supplies. A safe place separate from my day job. I'm sure you've got one just like it.

Arrow:
Mine's bigger.

Isaac Stanzler:
Don't you get it! He's using you! You're not a human being, man. You were just another weapon in his arsenal. And the second you do something wrong, he'll turn his back on you. He'll abandon you!

Arsenal:
I'm not you. Don't abandon me.

Arrow:
Never.

Roy Harper:
That guy? He said I was just another weapon in your arsenal.

Oliver Queen:
Well, maybe that's what we should call you, then. Arsenal.

Isaac Stanzler:
Who the hell are you?

Carrie Cutter:
I'm Cupid, stupid.

Maseo Yamashiro:
Do you know steganography?

Oliver Queen:
Is that the dinosaur with the plates on its back?

Conklin:
Look, we're on this island eight months without single problem. He shows up, suddenly two guys find landmines and a bunch of drugs go missing.

Oliver Queen:
[sarcastically] Yeah, Conklin, you got me. I didn't, uh, wash up on shore here after a boating accident, I parachuted in on a secret spy mission.

Oliver Queen:
Why didn't you come to me with this?

Laurel Lance:
Come to you for what? Your expertise with magical resurrection? Or that judgmental look on your face?

Oliver Queen:
For help finding your sister, Laurel, before she gets hurt, or she hurts anyone else. And If I have a judgmental look on my face right now, it's because you played with forces that you do not understand, and now people are dying because of it.

John Constantine:
You know, if I knew you were surrounded by so many pretty girls, Oliver, I would have stopped by sooner.

John Diggle:
Where did Oliver find this guy, The Luxor?

John Constantine:
You know, the hair on the back of my neck has been standing up since the moment I got into town.

Oliver Queen:
That is probably our current problem - Damien Dhark. Ohh, you've heard of him.

John Constantine:
You watch yourself on that one, mate. He'll make what you saw in the other realm look like a bloody gnat.

Oliver Queen:
Any helpful advice?

John Constantine:
Yeah. Leave town. While you still can.

Oliver Queen:
I need you to punch me in the face.

John Constantine:
Right. My, uh, escape attempt left a bruise, right? All right. I must warn you, I've got a hell of a right hook.

Oliver Queen:
Laurel, you were right... I haven't always been the best friend for you but... I'd be grateful for the opportunity to try to start to be.

Laurel Lance:
How can I say no to the man who helped me save my sister's soul?

Thea Queen:
[Referring to Constantine] Well, he's a specific kind of yummy.

Oliver Queen:
Oh, I'm going to pretend I didn't hear you say that.

Sara Lance:
Okay, Laurel, I wasn't trying to be a b*tch.

Laurel Lance:
The title of your autobiography.

Quentin Lance:
You know, you never did tell me how you joined up with the Arrow in the first place. Where'd you two even meet?

Sara Lance:
Vigilante Club.

Quentin Lance:
Same old Sara. Well, not exactly the same.

Oliver Queen:
For the past year, I have stood by your side... and I have fought, because I didn't to believe that you were this... monster. And I needed to believe that still had a mother.

Moira Queen:
You do, Oliver. Oliver, I only lied about Thea to protect her from Malcolm.

Oliver Queen:
No, you lied because that is what you do. And that is who you are, Mom. Lies. And now you have made a liar out of me. Because Thea can never find out about Merlyn. And she can never learn the truth about us. Which is that as of right now, we have no relationship. I will keep up appearance for Thea's sake. And publicly I will support your campaign. But privately... you and I are done.

Sara Lance:
I know you have a lot of questions.

Laurel Lance:
Nope.

Sara Lance:
How could you not have any questions?

Laurel Lance:
Because I already know all of the answers to them. How could you still be alive; Where have you been all this time? Why didn't you call us. And the answer to all of them... is because it's Sara.

Quentin Lance:
Baby, don't to this...

Laurel Lance:
Dad, I swear, if you say one more word.

Sara Lance:
Laurel, look, I know you're angry. And you have every right to be. Please don't take this out on Dad. If you need someone to blame, blame me.

Laurel Lance:
Oh, I do blame you, Sara. Every single thing that's gone wrong with our lives is your fault. You got on that stupid boat with my boyfriend. You didn't call us to tell us that you were still alive, even though it probably would have saved Mom and Dad's marriage. And you brought some crazy assassin into Starling City who nearly killed Mom and poisoned me. You. You stole my whole life away from me. Now get out.

Moira Queen:
I hope my decision to run against you for mayor against you doesn't affect your relationship.

Sebastian Blood:
Out of respect for that relationship, can I offer for some advice?

Moira Queen:
Please.

Sebastian Blood:
Get out. Now.

Moira Queen:
The fact that you are advising me to get out before I announce my candidacy suggests that you are threatened.

Sebastian Blood:
I'm apprehensive about destroying my friend's mother.

Moira Queen:
I can take care of myself.

Sebastian Blood:
Really? During your trial you portrayed yourself as a fragile creature living under Malcolm Merlyn's thumb. So, which is it? The woman strong enough to lead this city, or the one too weak willed to save it?

Moira Queen:
The one who should not be underestimated.

Felicity Smoak:
I thought it would be helpful to track A.R.G.U.S' manhunt for Floyd Lawton aka Deadshot. So I decrypted their communication logs. Which means, I just hacked a federal agency. Kind of makes me a cyber-terrorist, which is bad because I really don't see myself fitting in well at Guantanamo Bay.

Oliver Queen:
Don't worry, Felicity. They don't send blondes there.

Felicity Smoak:
I dye it, actually. [to Oliver] I keep your secret!

Quentin Lance:
You look after them, all right?

Tommy Merlyn:
I spend most night at your daughter's anyway. There was probably a better time to tell you that.

Quentin Lance:
Probably not.

John Diggle:
I'll kill you for what you did to Andy.

Deadshot:
I'd be pulling these triggers right now, except there's no way except there's nobody paying me. There's space for you right here, right next to your brother. You'd do best to remember that.

[hits John]

Yao Fei:
[to Oliver] Your time on this island is at and end.

Oliver Queen:
I'm sorry.

Laurel Lance:
You've apologised already.

Oliver Queen:
And it will never be enough.

Oliver Queen:
I got lucky.

John Diggle:
I'm not the man you wanna take for a fool, Mr. Queen. You understand me?

Oliver Queen:
Yes.

John Diggle:
I think I'm just beginning to understand what kind of man you are.

Oliver Queen:
Shouldn't take you very long. I'm shallow.

Oliver Queen:
[voice over] I wanted to give Martin Sommers the chance to confess in face of court's justice. But he chose to go after someone I care about instead. He's still going to face justice. It'll just be a different kind.

Oliver Queen:
All that time plotting my return at the island, I didn't realize how hard it would be to reconnect with Mom, Thea... Laurel... and I didn't... I didn't know how painful it would be to keep my secret. You asked me to save the city. To right your wrongs. I will. I swear. But to do that, I can't be the Oliver that everyone wants me to be, which means sometimes, to honor your wishes... I need to dishonor your memory. I'm sorry...

Laurel Lance:
You know what Oliver? You're wrong that island did change you. At least now you're honest.

Oliver Queen:
Before the island i was a jerk, but now i'm a damaged jerk.

Moira Queen:
You know five years ago irresponsibility was somewhat charming. It is a lot less so now.

Laurel Lance:
Oliver just got back from five years on an unchartered island. Before that he was cheating on me with my sister.

John Diggle:
Home is a battlefield.

Quentin Lance:
[after Diggle saves Oliver and Laurel from assassins] Mr. Diggle, thank you. You feel free to run as many red lights as you want in this city, all right?

John Diggle:
I was just doing my job, sir.

Quentin Lance:
No, your job is protecting him. [advances on Oliver] It seems that whenever you're around one of my daughters, people die.

[last lines]

John Diggle:
Will you be going out tonight, sir?

Oliver Queen:
Definitely.

Moira Queen:
I hired you to protect my son. Now, I'm not a professional bodyguard, but it seems to me that the first requirement of the job is staying close to the person you're protecting.

John Diggle:
I've never had a client who didn't want my protection before, ma'am.

Oliver Queen:
[tosses Diggle an ice-pack] I'd say thanks, but I really don't think that would cover it.

John Diggle:
Well, like I told your cop friend, I was just doing my job. Besides, I think I'm the one who should be thanking you.

Oliver Queen:
[confused] For what?

John Diggle:
The knife.

Oliver Queen:
The knife. I got lucky.

John Diggle:
That was a kitchen knife. It wasn't even weighted properly, yet you threw it for accuracy across a ten-foot room.

Oliver Queen:
Exactly. I got lucky.

Oliver Queen:
[about Green Hood news report] This guy gets more air time than the Kardashians.

Oliver Queen:
I hired you to protect my son. Now, I'm not a professional body guard, but it seems to me that the first requirement would be managing to stay next to the man that you're hired to protect!

Oliver Queen:
Where are you going?

Thea Queen:
Uh... somewhere loud and smoky. And don't bother trying to pickpocket my stash this time, 'cause I'm gonna go get drunk instead.

Oliver Queen:
Thea. Do you think this is what dad would want for you?

Thea Queen:
Dead people don't want anything. It's one of the benefits of being dead.

Oliver Queen:
I was dead. And I wanted a lot.

Thea Queen:
Except for your family. You've been home a week, and all you do is avoid mom, ignore Walter, and judge me. Don't wait up.

Oliver Queen:
[apologizing for ditching Diggle] Sorry to give you so much grief.

John Diggle:
I served three tours in Afghanistan, Mr. Queen. You don't even come close to my definition of grief.

Laurel Lance:
I'm a lawyer. I live to argue.

Quentin Lance:
I'm your father. I live to protect you.

Oliver Queen:
My mother wants me to join the company. Yeah, take my rightful place.

Laurel Lance:
I can't exactly picture you as master of the universe.

Thea Queen:
What happened? Are you hurt?

Roy Harper:
Fender bender.

Laurel Lance:
He totaled his car playing Hood Junior.

Roy Harper:
At least it wasn't my car.

Felicity Smoak:
Did you know I went to M.I.T.? Guess what I majored in? Hint - Not the secretarial arts.

Oliver Queen:
Felicity! We all need to have secret identities now. If I'm going to be Oliver Queen CEO, then I can't very well travel down 18 floors every time you and I need to discuss how we spend our nights.

Felicity Smoak:
And I love spending the night with you. 3, 2, 1. I worked very hard to get where I am, and it wasn't so I can fetch you coffee.

John Diggle:
Well, it could be worse. My secret identity is his black driver.

Bronze Tiger:
No kill shots? I was promised a fight. I hope you haven't lost your nerve.

Arrow:
Find out.

Oliver Queen:
Ms. Smoak. Would you get my guest and I some coffee?

Felicity Smoak:
You know, I would Mr. Queen, but it seems that someone has broken the coffeemaker. Violently.

China White:
They still won't see you as anything more than the enemy. You'll never be anything but a criminal to them. Which means you'll never be a hero.

Arrow:
As long as this city is safe, it doesn't matter.

John Diggle:
Who are you people? NSA? CIA?

Amanda Waller:
My name is Amanda Waller.

John Diggle:
I thought you A.R.G.U.S. guys were supposed to be more subtle.

Amanda Waller:
For us, this was subtle.

John Diggle:
Then I want to see Lyla Michaels.

Amanda Waller:
So do I. Agent Michaels has gone dark.

John Diggle:
Lyla's missing? What happened?

Amanda Waller:
She was running down a lead in Moscow. She's missed two of her scheduled call-ins.

John Diggle:
What are you doing about it?

Amanda Waller:
Speaking to you. Even if we knew where in Russia Lyla is, my superiors believe sending in an extraction team could cause an international incident. As far as they're concerned, she's already framed a picture on our lobby wall.

John Diggle:
Why are you telling all me of this?

Amanda Waller:
Because I know how you and Oliver Queen spend your nights.

Isabel Rochev:
On if I think you use the corporate jet for a weekend of fun with your assistant?

Oliver Queen:
Excuse me?

Isabel Rochev:
A blonde I.T. girl all of sudden gets promoted to be assistant to the C.E.O.? There are only two ways how that happens. One is nepotism, and she doesn't look like your cousin.

Oliver Queen:
That... is... absolutely not happening.

Isabel Rochev:
What were her qualifications? Aside from an abundance of short skirts.

Oliver Queen:
Her skirts aren't that... short.

Felicity Smoak:
This is Knyazev's man inside the prison. A guard.

Oliver Queen:
He'll know where in the Gulag Lyla is being held.

Felicity Smoak:
When all hell breaks loose, you need to meet us at the rendevous point with Lyla, or...

John Diggle:
Or I'm a permanent Russian.

Felicity Smoak:
What happens in Russia stays in Russia. Even when it makes no sense whatsoever.

Felicity Smoak:
What were you thinking?

Oliver Queen:
What?

Felicity Smoak:
Over 64 million woman over the consent in Russia and you sleep with her.

Oliver Queen:
So we're not doing the "What happens in Russia stays in Russia?"

Felicity Smoak:
We're still in Russia.

Deadshot:
If I say she's in there, what's keeping you from shooting me?

John Diggle:
Honor. You should try it sometime.

Felicity Smoak:
Why her? I mean, besides the obvious leggy model reason.

Oliver Queen:
It just kind of happened. It didn't mean anything. [pause] Hey. Because of the life that I lead, I just think that it's better to not be with someone that I could really care about.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, I think... I think you deserve better than her.

Assassin:
Gun's are a coward's weapon. What are you without your sidearm?

[shoots assassin]

Quentin Lance:
A guy with a spare.

Dennis Fisk:
Who the hell are you?

Black Canary:
I'm the justice you can't run from.

Tommy Merlyn:
Wow. You look just really lovely.

Laurel Lance:
Lovely. Well, it's nice that you've extended your vocabulary from words like hot and mega hot.

Tommy Merlyn:
You can just say thank you, you know.

John Diggle:
Please tell me you're not going where I think you're going.

Oliver Queen:
Diggle, why do you even ask?

Oliver Queen:
My father made mistakes. He hurt people. When people are hurt, people are in trouble, they tend to make the wrong choices. Right, Derek? But those choices don't have to define you. They don't have to define who your family will be. Because there's always one moment when you can turn it all around. If my father had another chance, I think he'd do things differently, but time ran out for him.

Derek Reston:
How poetic. That doesn't help me get my house back, now does it?

Oliver Queen:
No, it doesn't. No, all I can offer you is an apology and a job. Queen Consolidated has subsidiaries all over the country. I make one phone call, you start next week. So what do you say?

Derek Reston:
How about "I still have some pride left"? Now, I don't need charity from the son of the man who screwed me over.

Oliver Queen:
Okay.

[Oliver pulls a business card out of his pocket and puts it on the table]

Oliver Queen:
You change your mind?

[Oliver stands up to leave]

Oliver Queen:
You and I have one thing in common. We're both dealing with the consequences of my father's actions. What he did then, that's on him. What we do now, that's on us.

Laurel Lance:
Tommy?

Tommy Merlyn:
Yeah.

Laurel Lance:
Is Thea okay?

Tommy Merlyn:
Oh, yeah. She just ate some bad crab cakes.

Laurel Lance:
Are you sure it wasn't something she drank?

Tommy Merlyn:
Don't worry, I got this. You can go back inside. Keep having fun. Looked like you were having a nice little do-si-do with the good doctor.

Laurel Lance:
Tommy, I'm gonna let you in on a little-known secret about Dr. Carter Bowen: the man is a gigantic ass. And the only reason why I danced with him is because he wrote a massive check to CNRI. Why would you think anything else?

Tommy Merlyn:
I guess when it comes to you, I tend not to think straight.

Khufu:
Priestess. You spoke with quite the tongue in there.

Chay-Ara:
Did I overact?

Khufu:
No. I love your tongue.

Thea Queen:
A bunch of superheroes in a farmhouse? I feel like I've seen that in a movie before.

Oliver Queen:
We need a secure location.

Caitlin Snow:
What's wrong with S.T.A.R. Labs?

Oliver Queen:
Well, I mean, absolutely nothing if you forget about the revolving doors you installed so the bad guys to come and go as they please.

Caitlin Snow:
Remind me again what happened to your old lair, or the one before that.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, lair number one was compromised by the police, and...

[Oliver looks at her]

Felicity Smoak:
I will stop helping.

Thea Queen:
Well, I Googled reincarnated nutjobs and came up with nothing.

Carter Hall:
Kendra and I are the reincarnated nutjobs. Savage is merely immortal.

Laurel Lance:
Merely?

Thea Queen:
Welcome to the new normal.

Oliver Queen:
Thank you for coming. I know this is more than a little crazy.

Barry Allen:
Yeah, well, your friend with the creepy ring asked so nicely. Please tell me we're not going to negotiate with terrorists. Or, you know, 4,000 year old bad guys.

Oliver Queen:
Just think of this war as a fact-finding mission. Maybe Savage slips up and gives us something that we can use to our advantage.

Malcolm Merlyn:
[scoffs] Thea said you were being a little more humorous lately.

Barry Allen:
I'm sorry, how do you know so much about Savage, anyway?

Malcolm Merlyn:
I don't know anything about him, Mr. Allen. No one does. That is why I'm afraid of him.

Vandal Savage:
That's not the only reason to be afraid of me. I assure you.

Vandal Savage:
Why would you risk the lives of your friends and family for two strangers? 206 times I have killed them. What hubris possesses you that makes you think that you can prevent me from doing so again?

Barry Allen:
Not hubris. Hope.

Vandal Savage:
I came to this meeting out of curiosity. It is now sated. Bring Khufu and Chay-Ara to Jurgens Industrial in twenty-four hours or I will see you dead and buried under the bodies of your loved ones.

Vandal Savage:
The sky rocks have come to do their work. And my hatred will be everlasting. My enmity will never die. And I'll follow you from this life to the next, and to the next and to the next.

Kendra Saunders:
It's the calamity Professor Boardman was referencing. The meteors, they had a glow about them. And Savage's staff had two gemstones with the exact same glow.

Barry Allen:
Yeah, the gemstones might be made up of the same element as the meteorite.

Felicity Smoak:
The Egyptians would use meteorite in their craftsmanship.

Caitlin Snow:
And the minerals glow proximity to each other.

Cisco Ramon:
Like Sankara Stones.

Thea Queen:
Oh, wait, the Indiana Jones reference is the only thing I understood.

Malcolm Merlyn:
[gathering Vandal Savage's ashes] Your hate will be everlasting. Your enmity will never die. It will follow them from this life into the next, and the next... and the next. You owe me one, buddy.

Oliver Queen:
Barry, you're late.

Barry Allen:
Sorry. It turns out it's not easy finding the ass end of nowhere.

Vandal Savage:
[to Barry] The only way for you and yours to live through this is to render onto me what is mine. Turn over Prince Khufu and Princess Chay-ara within 24 hours or I will lay waste to this city, killing everyone that you hold dear.

[to Oliver]

Vandal Savage:
And after that, I will travel to your home and do the same thing there.

Barry Allen:
All right, I'm just curious: did you rehearse that speech in a mirror this morning, or is this all just off the cuff?

Barry Allen:
Savage may be immortal, but he's not a God.

Malcolm Merlyn:
No, but he's the next best thing.

Kendra Saunders:
Everyone in there is willing to die to protect us. You don't think that's a little bit insane?

Carter Hall:
No. I think it's noble. I think it's what makes them all heroes.

Felicity Smoak:
Oliver, you are the only person on this planet who considers the truth complicated.

John Diggle:
So how was your evening, sir?

Oliver Queen:
You mean after I said I had to go the bathroom at dinner and never came back?

John Diggle:
I guess from now on I'll be watching you pee.

Moira Queen:
You're grounded for two weeks.

Thea Queen:
Grounded? I've never been grounded.

Moira Queen:
Well, you never committed larceny before.

Thea Queen:
Since when do you care?

Moira Queen:
I've always cared. I'm your mother.

Thea Queen:
Look, we've had a good thing for the last five years. Why mess with that now?

Moira Queen:
No, we are paying off store owners to keep your record clean, so clearly, it hasn't been working.

Thea Queen:
And you're going to teach me? It's Oliver, isn't it? His judgmental hypocrisy is rubbing off on you.

Moira Queen:
No, I don't need Oliver to teach me how to parent you. You'll be home by 4:00.

Thea Queen:
Or what? You're going to call the cops on me? Tell them I say hi.

Thea Queen:
[to Oliver] You're not my father. And you're barely my brother.

Deadshot:
I admire your work. Guess you won't be extending me any professional courtesy.

Arrow:
We're not in the same line of work. Your profession is murder.

Deadshot:
You've taken lives.

Arrow:
For the good of others. You're out for yourself.

Oliver Queen:
You don't think much of me, do you?

John Diggle:
Actually, sir, I have a very high regard for how... perceptive you are.

Oliver Queen:
I'm having some trouble with my computer and they told me that you were the person to come and see. I was at my coffee shop surfing the web and I spilt a latte on it.

Felicity Smoak:
Really?

Oliver Queen:
Yeah.

Felicity Smoak:
'Cause these look like bullet holes.

Oliver Queen:
My coffee shop is in a bad neighborhood.

[Diggle leads Oliver and Tommy into a burger restaurant and waves hello to Carly, who smiles and waves back]

Tommy Merlyn:
[waves back] Wow, girl's pretty cute.

John Diggle:
That's my sister-in-law.

Tommy Merlyn:
...Who I will never speak to or look at. Ever.

John Diggle:
So how was your evening, sir?

Oliver Queen:
You mean after I said I had to go to the bathroom at dinner and never came back?

John Diggle:
I guess from now on I'll be watching you pee.

Oliver Queen:
Do you know what I miss about our old space?

John Diggle:
[They point at each other in understanding] That trunk with a bottle of Russian Vodka in it?

[Diggle goes to a trunk and retrieves a bottle]

John Diggle:
Vodka is for wimps anyway.

Oliver Queen:
Tennessee Whiskey.

Felicity Smoak:
He's wonderful - in a million different ways. But that's the problem, it's too easy to lose myself in him.

Donna Smoak:
Baby, that's how it's supposed to feel. when you love someone. Believe it or not, he's lost himself in you. And you'll find yourself in each other. Just don't get in your own way. Don't ruin something that most people never get. Cause trust me, you'll never find a guy that hot who cooks.

Donna Smoak:
I um, came to town to visit my daughter. But, she kicked me out of her apartment to finish a fight with a man I *hope* will be my future son-in-law. Okay, it's your turn.

Quentin Lance:
Well, one of my daughters is leaving town after being back a whole five minutes.

Donna Smoak:
Sounds like a reason to drink.

Quentin Lance:
Oh, I always got a reason. But this [Lance holds up his glass] is club soda. [Lance offer his hand] Quentin.

Donna Smoak:
[Taking Lance's hand] Donna.

Oliver Queen:
Curtis. What you doin'?

Curtis Holt:
The Green Arrow showed up right about the time that you came back into town. Nah, it's not you, though. Jaw's not right.

Curtis Holt:
Awesome. The Green Arrow's going to be kicking some ass tonight.

Felicity Smoak:
If I don't kick his first.

Oliver Queen:
I thought it would be a good thing.

Felicity Smoak:
A good thing? What on earth made you agree to this?

Oliver Queen:
Well, you know, your mom doesn't really take no for an answer.

Felicity Smoak:
You've faced down Mirakuru soldiers and the League of Assassins. Are you honestly telling me that you couldn't say no to my mom?

Oliver Queen:
She said she missed you and then she texted me one of those emojis with the single tear.

Felicity Smoak:
You have been texting with my mother? How long has that been going on?

John Diggle:
You guys think we can find a better time to fight about this?

Felicity Smoak:
John? I thought only Oliver's line was open.

John Diggle:
Nope. Mine is open.

Thea Queen, Laurel Lance:
And mine.

Oliver Queen:
Your mother's in town, spend some time with her. We could do dinner. I'll cook.

Felicity Smoak:
You already made dinner plans with my mother, didn't you?

Oliver Queen:
What? No. [Felicity gives Oliver the 'look']... Yes.

Felicity Smoak:
Oh! Oh, my God! It is like a sickness with you!

Oliver Queen:
It wasn't intentional. We were having a nice conversation; the subject turned to cooking, I mentioned that I make a spectacular Chicken Cordon Bleu. She said she'd never had one. It's just dinner.

John Diggle:
He's right, Felicity. Besides, you look like you haven't... eaten or slept.

Felicity Smoak:
A man's life, a friend's life is in danger. Doesn't seem like the right time for Cordon Bleu.

Donna Smoak:
[to Felicity] A man who cooks. You put a ring on that.

[Felicity and Curtis parachute through a window to enter the building]

John Diggle:
You two okay?

Felicity Smoak:
Uh-huh.

Curtis Holt:
We're not dead.

John Diggle:
Good.

Felicity Smoak:
You've faced down Mirakuru soldiers *and* the League of Assassins. Are you honestly telling me you couldn't say "No" to my mom?

Oliver Queen:
She said she missed you then she texted me one of those emojis with a single tear.

Felicity Smoak:
You have been texting with my mother? How long has that been going on?

John Diggle:
You think we could find a better time to fight about this?

Felicity Smoak:
JOHN? I thought only Oliver's line was open.

John Diggle:
Nope. Mine is open.

Laurel Lance, Thea Queen:
And mine.

The Canary:
Can't believe there's so much chatter on this mission.

Felicity Smoak:
And by help, you mean money and counsel, and not a suit powered by... dwarf star alloy that fires lasers at people?

Ray Palmer:
Well, they aren't lasers. That would be ridiculous. They're compressed hard light beams.

[after Brick and his men abduct three alderman from City Hall]

Ray Palmer:
[to Felicity] See? That's why I need a technosuit.

Danny Brickwell:
What are you doing here, Palmer? Just want to make yourself look important? Good luck with that. Star City. Seems more like Brick City to me.

Ray Palmer:
Night is young.

Danny Brickwell:
Tough talk. Too bad all you got is money to back it up. But you can't fix this with money, Palmer.

Ray Palmer:
I don't know. I got a lot of money.

Quentin Lance:
We need help, we need it now. Look, I know you said the Arrow is gone. Are you sure about that?

Felicity Smoak:
Yes, I am. But I know where to find the Canary.

John Diggle:
Sometimes, me and Oliver come down here after, you know, tough nights. He would pour this, look up and say "Prochnost."

Roy Harper:
What does that mean?

John Diggle:
I have no earthly idea. To Oliver.

Roy Harper:
To Oliver.

Helena Bertinelli:
Oliver Queen. The rich man's Lindsay Lohan.

Thea Queen:
[on the phone] Mom says I'm supposed to remind you to pick her up for lunch.

Oliver Queen:
Was I supposed to have lunch with her today?

Thea Queen:
She says she left you, like, five messages. Just bite the bullet and have a Cobb salad with the woman.

Oliver Queen:
You know, Thea, sometimes it's difficult to remember which one of you is my mother. [he hangs up on her]

Helena Bertinelli:
I know it must have been hell for you. Alone on that island, for five years. But, um...

Oliver Queen:
But, what?

Helena Bertinelli:
But was there ever a day when you were just... happy to be away from everything? No pressure from your family, no need to be the person that everyone else expect you to be. Was there ever a day when...

Oliver Queen:
When I didn't feel lost, I felt free? More than one. And those are the days that I miss.

Ra's al Ghul:
You were asleep.

Oliver Queen:
I was dreaming.

Ra's al Ghul:
Ibn Sirin once wrote there are three types of dreams - there are ones about truth, there are ones about desire, and they are ones about temptation. What did you dream of?

Oliver Queen:
Rebirth... as Ra's al Ghul.

Ra's al Ghul:
There is no greater burden than the one you are about to take on - the annihilation of one's home.

Oliver Queen:
It is necessary to complete my ascension.

Ra's al Ghul:
And I will be there to steady your hand when the time comes.

Oliver Queen:
I appreciate your assistance.

Ra's al Ghul:
Soon you will wear this. And you will command a multitude, and I shall call you Ra's.

Ray Palmer:
...Why aren't we dead? Not that I'm complaining.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Oliver was vaccinated against the Alpha Omega virus five years ago. An associate was able to draw a version of the vaccine from his blood.

Ray Palmer:
A synthetic skin graft.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Upon our incarceration, I was able to vaccinate each one of you cutaneously. I saved your lives. I believe the words you're searching for are "thank" and "you."

Felicity Smoak:
Okay. Assuming this is all some part of a double double cross or a triple cross - I'm losing count - your master plan still has one major flaw, we're still chained in a dungeon.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Patience, Miss Smoak. All we have to do is wait.

Laurel Lance:
Wait for what?

Malcolm Merlyn:
The thunder.

[hears thunder as The Flash enters the dungeon]

The Flash:
[looking at the Lazarus Pit] You guys have a hot tub? Nice.

The Flash:
Hi, you guys! Wow! This is like a real dungeon!

Felicity Smoak:
Barry!

The Flash:
Thank you, Felicity. You just outed my secret identity to a super villain. No offense.

Malcolm Merlyn:
None taken. Now get us out of here!

Felicity Smoak:
Thank you. And not to be greedy, but we could really use your help on this whole Starling City super virus thing.

The Flash:
And you know I would, but I am overdue with for a very pointed conversation with Harrison Wells. I'm sure Oliver's got this.

John Diggle:
I wouldn't count on it.

Laurel Lance:
Oliver hasn't been very forthcoming with his plans lately.

The Flash:
Well, I don't know what's been going on with him lately, apart from a recent wardrobe change. But one thing that hasn't changed is, he needs you guys. Even if he doesn't think so. Good luck.

[he speeds away]

John Diggle:
I'll never get used to that.

Ra's al Ghul:
You were delivered by the prophecy. You wed my daughter. Your name is Al Sah-Him and you are Warith al Ghul!

Oliver Queen:
My name is Oliver Queen!

Ra's al Ghul:
Oliver Queen is dead. And soon, you will be, too!

John Diggle:
You trusted Malcolm Merlyn more than you did the two people closest to you!

Oliver Queen:
John, it wasn't about trust! It was about making sure that you and you were safe. I had to keep the circle as small as possible.

Felicity Smoak:
How did you expect to repair all this after you got back?

Oliver Queen:
I didn't. I flew with Ra's and the virus to Starling and I sabotaged the plane. A plan that was to kill Ra's and destroy the virus. It didn't work.

Felicity Smoak:
How did you expect to survive the plane crash? You didn't. You never expected to have this conversation. You were planning on dying. So that was your big plan? Sacrificing yourself to take out Ra's?

Oliver Queen:
It was the only way. At least now it didn't work, I get a chance to tell both of you how sorry I am.

John Diggle:
Sorry won't cut it, Oliver. Not this time. But we have bigger problems than hurt feelings and broken trusts.

Oliver Queen:
Laurel needs to contact her father. Ray needs a way to counteract the virus. I'm sure Malcolm told you we don't have a lot of time.

[Oliver has shot arrows into General Grieve]

Tatsu Yamashiro:
Oliver! What have you done?

Oliver Queen:
He failed this city. And I'm giving him the justice he deserves.

Tatsu Yamashiro:
This isn't justice. This... is wrong.

Maseo Yamashiro:
He's still alive. Just passed out from the pain.

[Maseo shoots Grieve]

Oliver Queen:
Felicity... I can't defeat Ra's al Ghul.

Felicity Smoak:
Oliver Queen can't. The Arrow can't. Both those men tried and both those men failed. You remember what you said to me during that night in Nanda Parbat? You're no longer either of those men. You've become... someone else. Become something else. This... is different now. Because despite your best efforts, you've allowed yourself to feel something. I know you think that's a weakness, it's not. It's your key to beating Ra's. Don't fight to die. Fight to live.

John Diggle:
I'm no superhero.

Oliver Queen:
You're a hero. For three years, you've been a rock. The city's rock, my rock. For three years, you have been the person I can count on. I'm still counting on you.

John Diggle:
Oliver, I don't know if I can get past what happened between the two of us.

Oliver Queen:
I'm not asking you to.

John Diggle:
I'll think on it.

Oliver Queen:
Be safe out there, okay?

Thea Queen:
As safe as anybody with a mask on can be. But, actually, I was thinking, um, maybe I can call myself the Red Arrow.

Oliver Queen:
Hmm. I think I already told everyone to call you Speedy.

Malcolm Merlyn:
We've come along way, you and I. I've always looked at you as a son, Oliver. And I'm glad that we got to work together to trust as we did.

Oliver Queen:
I will never forgive you for what you did to Sara. And my sister. Ever.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Does that mean we're enemies once more?

Oliver Queen:
That depends what you do with your end of the bargain.

Nyssa al Ghul:
At least admit this was your goal all along.

Malcolm Merlyn:
My only aspiration was to free myself of your fathers grasp. A feat we both managed to achieve.

Nyssa al Ghul:
I don't see how it was possible in your case.

Malcolm Merlyn:
When I was your father's captive three months ago, he tortured me with his blade.

Nyssa al Ghul:
And you survived because my father chose to release you.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Funny thing, prophecies.

Nyssa al Ghul:
Fate and my father have shown you mercy. I will not. You took Sara from me and I will have justice.

Malcolm Merlyn:
You are welcomed to try. Until then... kneel before Ra's al Ghul.

Oliver Queen:
My name is Oliver Queen. After five years in hell, I've returned home for only one goal - to save my city. And I did. I became a hero who helped people. But now it's time to be someone else. It's time for me to be something else.

Ra's al Ghul:
Unlike you, thousands of honorable men will honor my death when I leave this Earth.

Oliver Queen:
[stabs Ra's] No, they will kneel before the next Ra's al Ghul.

[in Arabic]

Oliver Queen:
Forgive and have mercy on him. Protect him from the punishment of the grave, and the torment of the Fire.

Ra's al Ghul:
[last words] I knew I chose you well, boy.

[last lines]

Oliver Queen:
Can I say something strange? I'm happy.

Oliver Queen:
[crashes through a window] Damien Darhk.

Damian Darhk's Assistant:
You know, the hotel's gonna bill me for that window.

Assassin:
I have weapons. And I have no virus. Ra's al Ghul awaits you on the Starling City dam. He wishes to be in your presence as your city dies.

Oliver Queen:
And what makes him think that I won't just stay focused on saving my city?

Assassin:
Because he knows of your deluded belief that you can defeat him in battle. And you know as long as the Demon's Head lives, he will continue to threaten your home.

Oliver Queen:
When I started this, I wanted keep you away from it as far as possible, because that has always been my instinct - to go it alone. But the truth is that we won tonight because I wasn't alone. I thought that this crusade would only end with my death. But even if I had died tonight, it would live on because of you.

Oliver Queen:
[to Ray] And you.

Oliver Queen:
[to Thea] Oh, and you.

Laurel Lance:
That's true. This city isn't lacking masks.

Oliver Queen:
Heroes. Which is why I no longer to be one.

Felicity Smoak:
What are you saying?

Oliver Queen:
[to Felicity] Ra's took the Arrow identity from me. I couldn't be that person even I wanted to be. And I don't want to be. I told you that I couldn't be the Arrow and be with you. I want to be with you. You told me that I have become someone else, and I would like to... maybe discover a little more about that person. If you come with me.

Thea Queen:
With you where?

Oliver Queen:
Um... someplace far away from here. Even without me, Starling still had has heroes to watch it.

Felicity Smoak:
So. where are we going? I'm thinking of a state can annul a Nanda Parbat wedding.

Oliver Queen:
[chuckles] Can I say something strange? I'm happy.

Malcolm Merlyn:
That is remarkably ruthless and coldblooded. I approve.

The Flash:
Hi, guys! Wow, this is like a real, actual dungeon!

Felicity Smoak:
Barry!

The Flash:
Thank you, Felicity. You just outed my secret identity to a super-villain. No offense.

Oliver Queen:
I told you not to tell anyone.

Thea Queen:
I guess I'm just not as good at keeping secrets as you are.

Oliver Queen:
Thea, I'm not going to pretend I understand all the different kinds of pain that you're in, but the threat, it is very real. And the only way we are going to survive is by acting in unison.

Thea Queen:
Are you really quoting Malcolm Merlyn to me right now?

Oliver Queen:
Yes, because he, better than anyone, understands the danger the three of us are facing.

Thea Queen:
We're not in any danger. Not anymore. Not you are me. But Malcolm - he's going to face justice.

Oliver Queen:
Thea, what have you done?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Coordinate your attacks. If you don't fight in unison, your numbers become my advantage. You both have a long way to go. Particularly you, Oliver. You've spent years preparing to bring a bow and arrow to a sword fight.

Thea Queen:
That's almost funny coming from you, considering you're the reason the League is coming for us.

Malcolm Merlyn:
John.

John Diggle:
My friends call me Dig. You shouldn't even speak to me.

Malcolm Merlyn:
That's right. I forgot. Oliver mentioned you were having some identity issues, though he didn't mention your delusions of grandeur.

Black Canary:
You killed my sister, you stupid son of a b*tch!

Malcolm Merlyn:
Now you're just embarrassing yourself. Your sister's teacher was my teacher. Did you really think you could really dispatch me with a stick?

Nyssa al Ghul:
[to Laurel] It is admirable to honor your sister, but you can rest now. Sara's murder is avenged.

Oliver Queen:
Hey! I told you Merlyn was off limits.

Laurel Lance:
I know. And then I realized that I didn't really give a damn.

Oliver Queen:
This is why I keep secrets from you. Because you let your emotions dictate your emotions and it is going to get you killed. Did you really think you had a chance against Malcolm Merlyn?

Nyssa al Ghul:
Your sister told us Merlyn killed Sara. Are you so lost you'd deprive me of my justice?

Arrow:
This isn't justice. It's vengeance.

Nyssa al Ghul:
Vengeance is justice.

Roy Harper:
Look, I may not agree with it, but I understand what you're trying to say. You don't want Thea to live the guilt of getting her own father killed. But how is getting her brother killed any better?

Oliver Queen:
I don't plan on dying.

Felicity Smoak:
That's what you said the last time you went to go face Ra's, and how did that turn out for you?

Felicity Smoak:
Did you get locked out of the Palmer Technologies server? That's a shame.

Ray Palmer:
You did this?

Felicity Smoak:
I just came from a friend of mine who has his head shoved so far up his colon that - and I'm pretty sure this is true - he's literally going to get himself killed. *Him*, I can't do anything about. You're a different story.

Ray Palmer:
Great. Why don't you tell me the story while you unlock the atom subroutine directory?

Felicity Smoak:
You have two options, Ray. Option one - you can find the way to break through the encryption that I used to lock up your server, which by my calculations, will take you roughly 6.25 hours. Or you can use that time to eat a proper meal, take a shower, and get no less than five hours of sleep, at the completion of which I will give you the password.

Ray Palmer:
I see.

Felicity Smoak:
It's your choice, but I highly recommend option two, because this whole situation has gone from endearingly eccentric to creepily not okay.

Ray Palmer:
If I'd had the energy, I think I'd be getting angry right now, but instead... I'll just take option two.

Felicity Smoak:
That's a wise choice. After your dinner and a shower, I am taking you straight to bed.

[pauses]

Felicity Smoak:
Putting you. Why do I do that?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Please. I was your horseman. Let me hunt for you once more. Allow me to prove to you my reborn loyalty.

Ra's al Ghul:
Al Sa-Her, face your death with honor. Or at least dignity.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Please don't do this.

Ra's al Ghul:
There is a price you must pay for your crimes that can only be measured in agony and blood, but know I will take no pleasure in this. Take him away.

Laurel Lance:
Can you remember the sound of Sara's laugh?

Nyssa al Ghul:
When Sara was first brought to my father, the moment he weighed her apprenticeship or her execution, she bore witness to a demonstration of his power, one that inspired her and all that come before, but Sara... laughed. It was so innocent, so genuine. That was the moment I fell in love with her, I think. All I knew, all I craved was to her laugh once more.

Thea Queen:
Roy, why are you stalking some random family?

Roy Harper:
They're not random.

Thea Queen:
That's them. That's the police officer's family?

Roy Harper:
I give them cash, I bring them groceries. I even got Rory a Boba Fett for Christmas.

Ra's al Ghul:
You tasted death, and you wanted more, but the truth is everyone and everything must come to an end. Even from one such as me.

Oliver Queen:
Kill me, but spare John Diggle's life. Let him go. I will beg for it.

Ra's al Ghul:
You have shown tremendous strength, fortitude, power. No, Mr. Queen, I do not want to kill you. I want you take my place. I want you to become the next Ra's al Ghul.

[first lines]

Oliver Queen:
The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for "purgatory." I've been stranded here for five years. I've dreamt of my rescue every cold black night since then. For five years I've had only one thought, one goal - survive. Survive and one day return home. The island held many dangers. To live, I had make myself more than what I was, to forge myself into a weapon. I am returning not the boy who was shipwrecked, but the man who will bring justice to those who have poisoned my city. My name is Oliver Queen.

Thea Queen:
You did not come back from a deserted island with a souvenir.

Oliver Queen:
It's a hozen. And in Buddhism it means reconnecting. I kept it in hopes in one day, it would reconnect me with you.

Tommy Merlyn:
A rock! That is sweet. You know, I want one of those t-shirts that says "my friend was a castaway and all I got was this crappy shirt."

Tommy Merlyn:
Now by my rough estimate, you have not had sex in 1,839 days. As your wingman, I highly recommend Carmen Golden.

Oliver Queen:
Which one is she?

Tommy Merlyn:
The one that looks like the chick from Twilight.

Oliver Queen:
What's Twilight?

Tommy Merlyn:
You're so better off not knowing.

Adam Hunt:
You missed.

Arrow:
Really?

Tommy Merlyn:
[leaving Thea's room] Did you notice how hot your sister is getting?

[Ollie glares at him]

Tommy Merlyn:
Because I haven't.

Oliver Queen:
I never meant to...

Laurel Lance:
She was my sister. I couldn't be angry because she was dead. I couldn't grieve because I was so angry. That's what happens when your sister dies while screwing your boyfriend.

Arrow:
You're gonna transfer $40 million dollars into Starling City bank account number 1141 by 10 pm tomorrow night.

Adam Hunt:
Or what?

Arrow:
Or I'm gonna take it and you won't like how.

Thea Queen:
I missed you so much.

Oliver Queen:
You were with me the whole time.

Tommy Merlyn:
Everyone is happy you're live, and you wanna see the one person who isn't?

Walter Steele:
I didn't realize you took Russian in college, Oliver.

Oliver Queen:
I didn't realize you wanted to sleep with my mother, Walter.

Oliver Queen:
[to the Criminal] You have failed this city.

Robert Queen:
Survive. Right my wrongs.

Dr. Neil Lamb:
[speaking of Oliver Queen] Twenty per-cent of his body is covered in scar tissue. Second degree burns on his back and arms. X-rays show at least twelve fractures that never properly healed.

Tommy Merlyn:
By my rough estimate, you have no had sex in 1,839 days, as your wingman I highly recommend Carmen Golden.

Oliver Queen:
Which one is she?

Tommy Merlyn:
The one that looks like the chick from Twilight.

Oliver Queen:
What's Twilight?

Tommy Merlyn:
You're so better off not knowing.

Robert Queen:
You can survive this, make it home, make it better, right my wrongs, but you got to live through this first.

Oliver Queen:
I just wanted a second to myself.

John Diggle:
I would believe you, Mr. Queen, if you weren't so full of crap.

Oliver Queen:
[spotting Thea at his homecoming party] Who let you in here?

Thea Queen:
I believe it was somebody who said "Right this way, Miss Queen."

Tommy Merlyn:
[first words after Oliver's rescue] What did I tell you. Yachts suck.

John Diggle:
[driving] My ability to keep you from harm will out weigh your comfort. [but Oliver is suddenly gone from the car]

Oliver Queen:
I want to be the person you always told me I could be.

Oliver Queen:
[SCPD interrupts his homecoming party] Detective. This is a private party.

Quentin Lance:
Yeah, well, there was an incident at Adam Hunt's building tonight. Know anything about that?

Oliver Queen:
[feigning ignorance] Who's Adam Hunt?

Quentin Lance:
He's a millionaire bottom feeder. And I'm kind of surprised you aren't friends.

Oliver Queen:
I've been out of town for a while.

Adam Hunt:
[on the phone] What the hell are you talking about? $40 million doesn't just up and vanish. Untraceable? IT IS $40 MILLION! FIND IT!

Laurel Lance:
You have no idea why Sara was killed.

Quentin Lance:
She ended up in the League of Assassins 'cause she was marooned on Lian Yu. 'Cause she got in that boat with Queen.

Laurel Lance:
So what? Now Oliver's to blame?

Quentin Lance:
Oliver, the Arrow, either way, same guy.

Donna Smoak:
Oh, my God. Did you and Ray just do it in this hospital? Did you just have hospital sex?

Felicity Smoak:
No!

Donna Smoak:
Oh! I've always wanted to have hospital sex!

Felicity Smoak:
Way TMI! Gross!

Oliver Queen:
The only move that Ra's has left me is telling the truth. You have no idea how powerful the truth can be.

Quentin Lance:
Lian Yu.

Oliver Queen:
What about it?

Quentin Lance:
This, uh, Ra's character, he told me that Sara made it to the island with you. You didn't feel like sharing that with me? Huh? I mean, I'm only her father. Well, I was. When did you decide that you knew what was best for my family?

Oliver Queen:
I love your family.

Quentin Lance:
[slugs Oliver] You got to right to remain silent. Take it!

Oliver Queen:
Just ask me what you want to know.

Quentin Lance:
[scoffs] What do I want to know? Well, was it worth it? All that pain and misery you brought back from the island? Merlyn, Slade Wilson? Wouldn't it be better if you just died there?

Oliver Queen:
The reason I came back was to try and save the people of the city.

Quentin Lance:
I hate to break it to you, but saving people isn't your specialty. Tommy. Hilton. Your mother. My daughter. And now you're set on killing Laurel, too.

Oliver Queen:
I didn't want her to be involved in this. I didn't want anyone to be involved in this.

Quentin Lance:
But you involved me. You spent a year making me look like a fool. You spent a year making me your accomplice. You have any idea what you've done, huh? What you've done to all of us, to the people you claim to care so much about? You've made us criminals! You've made us liars and victims. You, Mr. Queen, are not a hero. You're a villain. But you know that, don't you?

Curtis Holt:
Since when are you such a bad ass?

Felicity Smoak:
Since always.

Curtis Holt:
You want me to take a look at your phone for you, Miss Smoak?

Felicity Smoak:
I think we've reached the point in our working relationship where you can call me Felicity.

Curtis Holt:
Have you ever considered how ironic your name is? "Felicity" refers to the ability to find appropriate expression for one's thoughts, which is not exactly something you're particularly good at.

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah, you're right. Let's stick with Miss Smoak.

John Diggle:
You took a bullet for me.

Oliver Queen:
They were meta-human tattoo playing cards.

John Diggle:
Still counts, Oliver. Still counts.

John Diggle:
You crossed the line, man.

Oliver Queen:
I get it. I understand that I crossed a line. I understand that I lost your trust. What I do not understand is why you won't give me a chance to earn it back.

John Diggle:
I thought Merlyn broke your bow.

Oliver Queen:
I have another.

Edward Fyers:
[about Shado] Tell me, Mr. Queen. Are you prepared to sacrifice your freedom for her.

[kills Fyers with an arrow]

Oliver Queen:
Guess so.

Oliver Queen:
I spoke to Malcolm.

Moira Queen:
You what? He could have killed you. He killed your father.

Oliver Queen:
No, he didn't. After the "Gambit" went down, Dad and I both made it to the life raft. Then we drifted, for days. In the end, there wasn't enough food and water for both of us. So he shot himself in the head.

Moira Queen:
I don't want to hear this.

Oliver Queen:
He sacrificed himself so that I could live. Do you really think that I could go on living knowing that you sacrificed thousands more in my name? Mom. Please. You have to help me stop Malcolm. We need to know where the device is.

Tommy Merlyn:
It's over. Laurel and me, I mean. She's with Oliver, again. Always.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I'm sorry, son.

Tommy Merlyn:
Yeah, and he said you wanted to nuke The Glades or something. You know, it's funny, scotch doesn't make it any more believable. Maybe after your Jihad, we can grab some steaks.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Your mother built her clinic in The Glades because she wanted to save this city. It can't be saved. Because the people there don't want it to be saved.

Tommy Merlyn:
So you killed them all?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Yes! They deserved to die! All of them! The way she died.

Slade Wilson:
[to Oliver] Boy, I should have figured. You couldn't save the day without making a mess.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Welcome, gentlemen. I've been waiting for you. I wanted to see you watch your city die.

Oliver Queen:
Where's the transmitter?

Malcolm Merlyn:
Somewhere I can easily get to it.

John Diggle:
I doubt it. You'd be too dead.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Don't struggle. It's over. There was never any doubt in the outcome. Don't worry. Your mother and sister will be joining you in death.

[stabs Malcolm with arrow]

Oliver Queen:
Thank you for teaching me what I'm fighting for. But my father taught me how.

Felicity Smoak:
Nothing. It's just - you went over there to get all "Grrr. Stop being bad or I'll arrow you." And now you want to rescue him?

Oliver Queen:
I don't like the idea that somebody dangerous is out there... Somebody else. Because typically they don't show my level of restraint.

Thea Queen:
Why do you have a gun?

Roy Harper:
Because I'm no good with knives.

Oliver Queen:
Laurel, if you wanna have a dinner, or coffee, I don't know... Call me.

Laurel Lance:
Why?

Oliver Queen:
[pauses] I don't wanna be on an island anymore.

Dinah Lance:
Better get going to the airport, got red eye to Central City.

Dinah Lance:
I should be home in a Flash.

Arrow:
What is it, detective?

Quentin Lance:
You okay? You look like someone peed in your cornflakes.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Well done.

Thea Queen:
Thanks, Dad.

Felicity Smoak:
Do you even know how difficult it is to ping a clone off a hacked transband multiplex?

Roy Harper:
No, but only because you weren't speaking English just now.

Laurel Lance:
You're really cute when you're mopey.

Oliver Queen:
I'm not mopey.

Laurel Lance:
Mopey's your default, Ollie. It's part of your smoldering charm.

Oliver Queen:
I do have smoldering charm.

Thea Queen:
What part of "I want nothing to do with you" are just not understanding?

Oliver Queen:
I came by to see Sara.

Thea Queen:
[looks at Diggle] And what about him? He's been stalking me.

Oliver Queen:
He's protecting you.

Thea Queen:
From what?

Oliver Queen:
Slade Wilson is still at large. He already tried hurting you once.

Thea Queen:
He didn't hurt me. He told me the truth, which I know you think is a bad thing, but it's actually not.

Oliver Queen:
It is if it costs me you.

Thea Queen:
Your lies did that. Now, I'm going up to the stock room, and if I get attacked by some shot glasses, I'll call 911.

Doctor Lockhart:
A full moon tonight. That really brings out the whack jobs. Good news, it can't get any stranger.

Black Canary:
My friend needs your help.

Doctor Lockhart:
I was wrong. Got to call you back.

Doctor Lockhart:
Some of this damage is chronic. The cost of jumping off rooftops, I guess.

Arrow:
I need to get back on my feet.

Doctor Lockhart:
I can give you a brace, but you'll still be in horrendous amounts of pain. Six months ago, this cabinet would have been empty. The Chinese Triad was stopping all our med shipments - until someone stopped them. Ever since, I've been looking for a way to thank you.

John Diggle:
Family's hard. Sometimes they're the hardest in the world. Loving someone so much and letting them love you back.

Thea Queen:
You know, you're right... you should go back to lurking.

John Diggle:
I've spent a lot of time with your family.

Thea Queen:
If you think that gives you the right to weigh in, you're wrong. Plus, Oliver will be out of money soon and you'll be unemployed.

Oliver Queen:
Mom, what's happening with Thea right now isn't because you weren't spending enough time with her.

Moira Queen:
Well, maybe not. I have to do something. And I'm not sure what else to do.

Oliver Queen:
Thea hates you right now because of the things that you've done. Terrible things. So let her see you do something good. As mayor. Mom, I know a little something about... sacrificing the people closets to me for the good of this city. It's what you need to do now.

Moira Queen:
I know.

Oliver Queen:
Good.

Moira Queen:
Oliver, I know. I know. I've known... since last year, I suppose. The night of the undertaking, everything became to so clear. It was pretty much the night I stopped sleeping.

Oliver Queen:
Before you say anything else...

Moira Queen:
There's nothing else to say. Nothing I need to say. Except I could not be more proud.

Felicity Smoak:
Anyone else crave dim sum after fisticuffs? No? Okay. Dumplings for one, then.

Sara Lance:
I wanted to kill Roy. Because that's what I do. That's who I am. I spent six years in the darkness. And I looked into the eyes of the Devil and I gave him my soul.

Moira Queen:
Slade... You were on the island with Oliver?

Slade Wilson:
I thought I had known true despair, until I met your son. I trusted him to make the right choice.

Oliver Queen:
Let me make the right choice now. Kill me.

Moira Queen, Thea Queen:
No!

Slade Wilson:
I am killing you, Oliver. Only more slowly than you would like.

Noah Kuttler:
We are the same, you and I.

Felicity Smoak:
I am pretty sure that I didn't try to kill 8,000 people.

Taiana:
Do we have a deal?

Baron Reiter:
A deal? You misunderstood. It's mine either way.

Taiana:
I cannot stay here, Reiter. This man killed my brother.

Baron Reiter:
And you'll continue to care for him as if he were your brother. Mr. Queen is an important piece of my endeavor on this island. You'll stay with him until he's well. If his health gets worse, you'll join him in his fate.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I'm a little disappointed I must say.

Oliver Queen:
You're the one who put us in this position, Malcolm.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Can I remind you the role you played in putting this ring on my finger?

Oliver Queen:
Oh, I remember. Tonight I correct that mistake.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I can't believe it. You've grown even more foolish with experience.

Oliver Queen:
3 years! Let's finish this.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I thought of you a son once, Oliver. I had more common with you than my own blood, but that's not the reason why I'm going to kill you. Neither the fact that you are my daughter's brother. The reason you get to live is because death would be a mercy compared to the debt I know owe you.

Oliver Queen:
Don't you dare threaten me, Malcolm.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I've been holding off telling you this for years, Oliver. You're very handsome, not especially bright.

Taiana:
There is a Russian saying..."Tot zhe molot chto drobit steklo, kuyet stal." The same hammer that shatters glass forges steel. If you want to be the man that your father wishes you to be, then this is how you'll get there. You save us from Reiter, but you cannot do that shattered.

Felicity Smoak:
[revealing her father is the Calculator] He showed up at my Palmer Tech presentation. I had coffee with him yesterday, where he dropped the Calculator bomb on me.

John Diggle:
And why would he do that?

Felicity Smoak:
Apparently, now that he knows what I do, that we're both "vigilantes", we have something in common. The sickest part is I want to believe him. I wish there were some sort of test I could do that would prove that is who he says he is.

Malcolm Merlyn:
What's unfolding here is larger than I, and it is bigger than my daughter. It's not just her life that hangs in the balance, Oliver. For all your dealings with the League, you still remain ignorant to what it is they do for the world.

Oliver Queen:
Enough about the League. You're a group of assassins.

Malcolm Merlyn:
It is a force of change silently manipulating global events for hundreds of years, and I cannot - I *WILL NOT* - put that kind of power into Nyssa al Ghul's hands!

Felicity Smoak:
When I was a girl, I hated myself. I thought I was broken; that no one could, or ever would, love me. It's the only way a child can grow up when their father abandons them.

Noah Kuttler:
Felicity...

Felicity Smoak:
All I ever wanted to know was why. What was so wrong with me that you would leave?

Noah Kuttler:
There was nothing wrong with you, sweetheart. There was everything wrong with me. The police, the FBI, they were never going to stop looking for me. I realized a life on the run, that wasn't the life that I owed you or your mother, so I disappeared.

Felicity Smoak:
You thought you were doing the right thing for us.

Noah Kuttler:
Exactly.

Felicity Smoak:
I have waited my entire life for that explanation, and the thing is I don't even know if I believe it.

Noah Kuttler:
It's the truth.

Felicity Smoak:
There is only one part of your story that I know to be true, and that is that you are wanted by the police

Noah Kuttler:
[Captain Lance enters with a handful of patrol cops] Felicity...

Felicity Smoak:
I just need you to know one thing. You are wrong. I am nothing like you.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Hello, Moira.

Moira Queen:
They said you were dead!

Malcolm Merlyn:
There are parts of the world where death is an illusion. I've been to one. I learned to be very convincing. But I returned, you needed my help.

Moira Queen:
Help?

Malcolm Merlyn:
With your trial. You didn't think that jury acquitted you without a little persuasion?

Moira Queen:
Dear God. What do you want, Malcolm?

Malcolm Merlyn:
I still have resources in Starling. Associates. Including one in the D.A.'s office. I followed Mr. Donner's investigation of you with interest. The ease with which you lied about us for years, it made me wonder whether you lied to me.

Moira Queen:
No. No.

Malcolm Merlyn:
It was a matter of a simple surreptitious genetics test to confirm my suspicions.

Moira Queen:
Don't.

Malcolm Merlyn:
Imagine my joy that Thea is my daughter.

Oliver Queen:
What do you want?

Count Vertigo:
World peace and personal satisfaction.

Count Vertigo:
Though not necessarily in that order.

Sara Lance:
You don't know, Laurel, about me. About who I am, and who I've become.

Laurel Lance:
I know you're a hero.

Sara Lance:
I'm not a hero... Laurel. I'm the furthest thing from it. I am "Ta-er Sah-fer." That was my new name. Because of the woman that I was, the girl that I was, was gone.

Laurel Lance:
I'm not going to pretend that I've been through anything that you have. But one thing that I've learned in the past year is that these things... they don't break us. They make us who we are.

Sara Lance:
And what I am... is irredeemable.

Laurel Lance:
What was that word you said before?

Sara Lance:
Ta-er Sah-fer.

Laurel Lance:
What does that mean?

Sara Lance:
It means "The Canary".

Laurel Lance:
If you're so far gone and so irredeemable... then why would they know you by such a beautiful name?

Oliver Queen:
You're a good man, Anatoly. If this is good-bye, be safe.

Anatoly Knyazev:
I will see you soon. You and Sara.

Oliver Queen:
I meant what I said. If we're not back in an hour, you sink the freighter and get yourself home.

Anatoly Knyazev:
I think maybe I prefer Bahamas.

Quentin Lance:
Lieutenant. Listen to me, these guys, have you seem them? Huh? Have you seen these guys? They do not go down. We gotta call in the National Guard.

Lt. Frank Pike:
That's a call for the mayor. And he hasn't made that yet.

Quentin Lance:
And he won't. Mayor Blood let this happen.

Lt. Frank Pike:
What?

Quentin Lance:
Trust me. Blood's behind this.

Lt. Frank Pike:
Look, even if I believe you, I don't have that kind of authority.

Quentin Lance:
Well, in an emergency, the chief of police does, so get him on the line.

Lt. Frank Pike:
Chief's dead.

Quentin Lance:
Well, then... There's only one more guy to we can call. You're not gonna like it.

Lt. Frank Pike:
The vigilante.

Quentin Lance:
The Arrow. Lieutenant, I know he's breaking the law. But what we're up against, it's not about the law. It's about survival. We got masks tearing our city to pieces, but we're gonna need a mask to stop 'em.

Lt. Frank Pike:
Make the call.

Sebastian Blood:
We had a deal.

Slade Wilson:
And do you feel that I've not lived up to my end of it?

Sebastian Blood:
Those are innocent people. Dying out there. You do not need to kill them.

Slade Wilson:
Yes, I do! I made a promise to someone once, and I will uphold it.

Sebastian Blood:
So this is really all about you just trying to hurt Oliver Queen?

Slade Wilson:
I vowed to him that I would take away everything and everyone he loves. And he loves this city.

Sebastian Blood:
But this city... it's mine, too.

Slade Wilson:
Not anymore. As of tomorrow night, it will be nothing but rubble, ash, and death. A land only good for one thing. Graves.

Oliver Queen:
I didn't know, Felicity. Five years ago, I was a completely different person. And I had... no idea that something like this was even... possible. I couldn't have imagined. When you and Diggle brought me back to Starling City, I made a vow to myself that I would never let anything like the undertaking happen again.

Felicity Smoak:
What's happening now is not your fault.

Oliver Queen:
Yes, it is. I have failed this city. Yao Fei. Shado. Tommy. My father, my mother. All that I ever wanted to do is honor those people.

Felicity Smoak:
You honor the dead by fighting. And you're not done fighting! Malcolm Merlyn, The Count, The Clock King, the Triad - everyone who is trying to hurt this city, you stopped them. And you will stop Slade.

Oliver Queen:
I don't know how.

Felicity Smoak:
Neither do I. But I do know two things: You are not alone. And I believe in you.

Oliver Queen:
Hey. I need you to stay with Roy.

Felicity Smoak:
Okay. Oliver, John - um, maybe this is obvious, but are we sure this isn't a trap?

Oliver Queen:
No.

Felicity Smoak:
I'm just saying, if you guys don't come back alive, I'm going to be really pissed.

Sebastian Blood:
As a young boy, I was plagued by nightmares. Every night, I would wake up in a cold sweat, frightened and alone. It was my father's face that haunted me. And this is how I saw him. The embodiment of desperation and despair. I made this mask to conquer my fears. And to remind myself why I fight, every day, to give this city's most desperate a chance. All I ever wanted to do was help people, Oliver.

Oliver Queen:
Then help me believe. Where's the cure?

Sebastian Blood:
Slade Wilson will not rest until he honors the promise that he made you.

Oliver Queen:
I won't be easy to kill once we level the playing field.

Sebastian Blood:
He's not interested in killing you. Not until he's taken away everyone and everything you love.

Oliver Queen:
After he murdered my mother, he said one more person had to die.

Sebastian Blood:
Whoever you love the most.

Sebastian Blood:
I hope you can beat him with this. For all our sakes. And when this is over, I promise you... I will do everything in my power to rebuild Starling City. And I just won't make it what it was. I will make it better. Like I always planned.

Oliver Queen:
You really think after everything that's happened, after what you've done, that they'll still let you be mayor?

Sebastian Blood:
Why not? No one know that I've done anything but try and save this city. And if you tell anyone about my mask, I will tell them about yours.

Oliver Queen:
Do what you have to, Sebastian.

John Diggle:
You seeing anybody, Cutter?

Carrie Cutter:
Of course I am. The Arrow. And our special day is going to be the most glorious day. And then, afterwards, we'll make strong beautiful babies.

Floyd Lawton:
And does he know this? Listen, I got news for you, stalker - you don't get to do what we do and have a family.

John Diggle:
Yeah, well, I have a wife right here and a child who say otherwise. Let's hold up here.

Floyd Lawton:
Yeah, well, let's hope you make it home to her. But love, children, family - it's all just a distraction to people like us.

Lyla Michaels:
They make us better, and give us something worth fighting for.

Floyd Lawton:
Love is a bullet in the brain, and if you believe any different, you're as crazy as she is.

Felicity Smoak:
Last year, Ray's fianc?e was killed by Mirakuru men. And now he wants to protect the city, so he built a suit out of military-grade technology and he wants to put you in jail, so he used my software to track you down, and he scanned you with his x-rays and now he knows you're the Arrow and he's going to tell the cops.

Oliver Queen:
Palmer knows I'm the Arrow? And he has his own mission to protect the city? When were going to tell me this?

Felicity Smoak:
I have been getting that a lot today. Look, it's not important. Here's what is - he's going to tell the police who you are!

Roy Harper:
Wait, Ray built a super suit? That's kind of awesome. And reckless.

Ray Palmer:
Arrow.

Oliver Queen:
Super Suit.

Ray Palmer:
I prefer "The Atom."

Oliver Queen:
[to Felicity] I told you I couldn't be with you and save the city. Neither can Ray. He's just too new at this to know it.

Amanda Waller:
I don't need you to get the nerve agent out. I need you to get your team in.

John Diggle:
My team?

Amanda Waller:
They're designated "Task Force X."

Deadshot:
[steps out of cell] Give me a break. This ain't no task force. Let's call it as it is - Welcome to the Suicide Squad.

John Diggle:
So this is your unit, huh, Waller? What, O.J. and Charles Manson weren't available?

John Diggle:
Save a man's life once, get a silver star. Save it twice, bring a tux.

Amanda Waller:
Fall back to the rally point. A Nine inbound and hot. Mockingbird out.

John Diggle:
What the hell are Nines?

Lyla Michaels:
MQ-9s. Predators. Waller's called in a drone strike. Everyone here is dead inside of 10 minutes.

Sara Lance:
I thought you hated swimming.

Oliver Queen:
I detest swimming. So does Thea. My mother sometimes enjoys a casual relationship with the truth.

Deranged Squad Female:
Do you cuties need some counseling? I'm a trained therapist.

John Diggle:
What about Constantine?

Oliver Queen:
He's in Hell.

Thea Queen:
Really? What's going on?

Oliver Queen:
I mean, he's actually literally in Hell.

Thug #1:
Come on out. Face us like a man!

Vixen:
I've got a better idea. How about I kick your ass like a woman instead?

Oliver Queen:
Mari and I had an animated encounter last year, and we've stayed in touch ever since.

Laurel Lance:
You don't seem surprised.

Quentin Lance:
What, that party boy Oliver Queen knocked up some girl? I'm amazed there isn't any army of little Olivers running around out there.

Damien Darhk:
I wondered how long it would take for your buddy Oliver to drag you into this.

Green Arrow:
Where's the boy?

Damien Darhk:
Oh, he's fine. I had him moved about two minutes before you and your posse disturbed my evening in. You know what? You might want to learn to be a little bit more discreet. Have you considered black instead of green?

Green Arrow:
You tell me where you've taken him.

Damien Darhk:
Or what? You'll fire an arrow at me? I think we've seen that movie before. I win, you lose, rinse, repeat.

Green Arrow:
This time, it's different.

Damien Darhk:
Oh, really?

William:
I'm kind of over The Flash. I want a Green Arrow action figure.

Samantha Clayton:
Well, the Green Arrow is pretty amazing.

Arsenal:
Are we gonna let this go?

Arrow:
What do you think?

Cisco Ramon:
[sees the Arrow suit] Incredible! I have so many ideas for improvements.

[Cisco moves on to the Arsenal suit]

Cisco Ramon:
And this! Oh! Oh, man. This-this is the bomb, and I mean, red is so much cooler than green, am I right?

Roy Harper:
Hm. I'm really starting to like this guy.

[Barry runs into the Arrow lair with sushi and takes his mask off, without thinking about Lyla being there]

Caitlin Snow:
Hey! Secret identity?

Barry Allen:
They're married!

John Diggle, Lyla Michaels:
We're not married.

Barry Allen:
Or together. Whatever, he told her about me.

[Diggle shakes his head]

Barry Allen:
You didn't...?

John Diggle:
I keep secrets for a living, man.

Barry Allen:
Ah. My bad.

Lyla Michaels:
You... you're...

Barry Allen:
The Flash. Sushi?

Oliver Queen:
I appreciate your help back at A.R.G.U.S., but we have this handled.

Barry Allen:
Wait, you don't wanna team up again?

Oliver Queen:
Things work differently here. Starling City is meaner.

Barry Allen:
I seem to remember helping you pretty good last year, and that was without powers. I've been practicing everything you taught me. I-I-I'm facing new environments, I'm not running in blind... [looks at him hopefully]

Oliver Queen:
[sighs] We do this my way.

Barry Allen:
[excitedly] Yes! This is gonna be awesome. Okay, what's our first move?

Oliver Queen:
We need to reassemble the evidence. It will take some time... [Barry uses his super speed to put together the boomerangs in the matter of a few seconds]... but it'll be worth it.

Cisco Ramon:
[after seeing Thea] Yo, who was the hottie?

Roy Harper:
[simultanously with Felicity] My ex-girlfriend.

Felicity Smoak:
[simultanously with Roy] Oliver's sister.

Cisco Ramon:
So stay away, is what you're saying.

Oliver Queen:
This is all my fault.

Barry Allen:
It's really not.

Oliver Queen:
I tortured Markos to give up that phone. None of this would have happened if it wasn't for me.

Barry Allen:
I get the feeling you don't say that very often.

Oliver Queen:
To do what I do, Barry, takes conviction. But more often than not is the will to do what's ugly. Every time I do that, I'm... I'm trading away little pieces of myself. So you asked what's wrong with me. That's-that's what's wrong. Because the part that I'm trading away is Oliver Queen. And lately I've been feeling like there is nothing left, except the Arrow.

Barry Allen:
I think you're full of crap. Look, you've convinced yourself that everything you've been through took away your humanity. But I think it's because of your humanity that you made it through. You wouldn't have survived, much less come out the other end a hero, somebody who wants to do good, if you didn't have a light inside of you.

Barry Allen:
[looking at the new suit] This is for me?

Oliver Queen:
For the next time you're in town.

Barry Allen:
There'll be a next time?

Oliver Queen:
I'm still calling the shots.

Barry Allen:
We'll talk about that.

Oliver Queen:
Yes, we will. And then I'll call the shots.

Barry Allen:
You were wrong when you said you couldn't inspire people. Not the Arrow, that guy's a douche. But, as Oliver Queen.

Cisco Ramon:
We want to see the Arrow Cave.

Felicity Smoak:
We don't call it that. Ever.

Cisco Ramon:
I want to see the toys! I need to see the toys. Do you guys have an Arrowmobile?

Roy Harper:
Since when did we start selling admission to the Arrow Cave?

Oliver Queen:
It's...

[to Felicity]

Oliver Queen:
Do you see what you've done?

[repeated line]

Lyla Michaels:
[to John] You only call me "sweetie" when you want something.

[watching Barry working out on the salmon ladder]

Caitlin Snow:
How often does Oliver do this?

Felicity Smoak:
At least every Wednesday. There's a lot of sweating.

Barry Allen:
That dude was tossing exploding boomerangs. They needed some back-up. And I need some dinner. That salmon ladder made me hungry for sushi.

[Barry super-speeds off causing papers fly off the desk]

Felicity Smoak:
And I need to get some paper weights down here!

Arrow:
The only thing that hurts worse than an arrow going in is an arrow coming out!

Barry Allen:
You tortured that guy.

Oliver Queen:
I interrogated him.

Barry Allen:
When my friend said your tactics made you a criminal, I defended you because I thought you were supposed to be a hero. I thought we were supposed to be better than them.

Oliver Queen:
Barry... you live in Central City where it's sunny all the time, and your enemies get cute nicknames. You're not in Central City.

Barry Allen:
Yeah.

Oliver Queen:
I live in a city where my best friend was murdered, where a woman that I loved was shot full of arrows and sent tumbling off a rooftop. Where my mother was murdered right in front of me. So before you...

Barry Allen:
My mother was murdered in front of me, too. But I don't use my personal tragedies as an excuse to just torture whoever pisses me off.

Oliver Queen:
Well, I'm sorry, Barry, I'm not as emotionally healthy as you are.

Barry Allen:
What's wrong with you?

Oliver Queen:
When we agreed that you were staying, we decided that it would be on my terms, if that is proving too difficult to you, you know your way back to Central City.

Lyla Michaels:
Is everything all right between you and speedy?

Oliver Queen:
What? Roy? Yeah, we're fine.

Lyla Michaels:
[looks at Barry] I meant him.

Oliver Queen:
Oh. We had a... difference of opinion about the way the world works.

Lyla Michaels:
Yep. I know what that's like.

Oliver Queen:
Well, sometimes they don't see it.

Lyla Michaels:
There are people in the world who deal only in extremes...

Oliver Queen:
And it would be naive to think that anything less than extreme measures will stop them.

Lyla Michaels:
Sometimes bravery isn't enough. Sometimes the world requires us to be bold.

Oliver Queen:
Whatever the personal cost.

Cisco Ramon:
Screw you, Captain Boomerang.

A.R.G.U.S. Guard:
Something strange with your ID. I'm going to have to detain you for a minute.

Digger Harkness:
Hmm.

A.R.G.U.S. Guard:
If that's a problem, I really don't care.

Digger Harkness:
You know, you should be careful how you treat people, my friend. After all...

[throws boomerang at the guard killing him]

Digger Harkness:
...what goes around, comes around.

Oliver Queen:
When are people gonna realize that I don't speak Chinese?

Tatsu Yamashiro:
Japanese.

Oliver Queen:
You speak English?

Tatsu Yamashiro:
Better than you speak Chinese.

Ray Palmer:
Hey!

Felicity Smoak:
What are you doing here? And the answer better not be "stalking me".

Ray Palmer:
Well, that depends on whether you consider pinging your phone's GPS stalking... Okay, guilty.

[first lines]

Arrow:
Vincent Steelgrave... You have failed this city!

John Diggle:
I'm going to roll out, too. Lyla has me trying to build the bassinet from hell.

John Diggle:
Well, you know, you should try it some time.

Oliver Queen:
Last girlfriend, she's in the League of Assassins. My girlfriend before that, she shot my girlfriend before that. I'm not... exactly a catch at the moment.

John Diggle:
Maybe Felicity will change all that.

Oliver Queen:
So you like Italian?

Felicity Smoak:
What?

Oliver Queen:
For tonight. You like Italian, right? Everyone likes Italian.

Felicity Smoak:
Oliver, you're in the middle of a high speed chase.

Oliver Queen:
I'm multitasking.

Arrow:
I gotta go. Someplace I have to be.

Quentin Lance:
You got a hot date or something?

Dr. Lockhart:
You're not even four centimeters dilated.

Lyla Michaels:
I feel like I'm an M1-A1.

John Diggle:
It's a tank. Think a big, big tank.

Lyla Michaels:
You look a little scared.

John Diggle:
Honey, please, I've thrown down the Taliban, Malcolm Merlyn, and a host of mirakuru-powered super weapons. I'm terrified.

Werner Zytle:
I'm Werner Zytle. But you can call me Vertigo.

Arrow:
The Count's dead!

Werner Zytle:
Some things never die. You, for example. It's frustrating. Just means I have to try a little bit harder.

Ray Palmer:
I parked on your roof. I hope that's okay. You guys validate, right?

Thug #2:
[pulls out knife] Come on! What are you waiting for?

[Roys takes him down]

Arrow:
My partner.

Werner Zytle:
Tie me up and lock me down, it doesn't matter. There will always be a Vertigo, always someone to pick up the mantle. You have given it power. Don't you see? Don't you see?

Ray Palmer:
All my data's been replaced with audio files of porcupine flatulence. And so I was hoping that whoever did it might be willing to undo it if I apologized for misleading them in any way.

Felicity Smoak:
That would probably work. Oh, unless, of course, you did all that to steal that person's friend's company, in which case I would suggest getting used to the sound of spiky rodents farting.

Maseo Yamashiro:
My father had a proverb he was once fond of. A man cannot live by two names.

Oliver Queen:
And what does that mean?

Maseo Yamashiro:
In your case... I believe it means not having any choice.

Oliver Queen:
We need to talk.

Felicity Smoak:
I don't want to talk. Which, for me, I know is a little unprecedented. But... as soon as we talk, it's over.

Oliver Queen:
I'm so sorry. I thought that I could be me and The Arrow. But I can't. Not now. Maybe not ever.

Felicity Smoak:
Then say never. Stop... dangling maybes. Say it's never going to work out between us. Say you never loved me. Say...

Oliver Queen:
Felicity. *he kisses her* Don't ask me to say that I don't love you.

Felicity Smoak:
told you as soon as we talked... it would be over.

Oliver Queen:
He left behind evidence.

John Diggle:
Fingerprints.

Laurel Lance:
How'd you get the owner to part with his windshield?

Oliver Queen:
I bought his truck. It's one of the benefits of your girlfriend inheriting a multi-billion dollar conglomerate. We have money now.

Felicity Smoak:
I don't exactly think that was money well spent.

Quentin Lance:
What this city needs is somebody who can stand out in the light of day, not lurk around in the shadows. You said you were gonna be different this time, huh? How?

Felicity Smoak:
Let's get one thing straight. The only person who gets to talk in sentence fragments around here is me.

Laurel Lance:
You've been investigating this for two years and you haven't told anyone?

John Diggle:
It's a family thing Laurel. I would think you. of all people, would understand keeping secrets when it comes to the death of a sibling.

Laurel Lance:
I do. And because I do, I can tell you carrying a burden like that never ends in any way but bad.

Oliver Queen:
Both Lance and Jessica Danforth said something to me about this city needing something that the Green Arrow can't offer them.

Felicity Smoak:
A decent sushi restaurant?

Oliver Queen:
Hope. Inspiration. Someone who can do things in the light who isn't afraid. Someone who can protect himself. Felicity, I'm gonna run for Mayor.

Felicity Smoak:
I want a code name.

Oliver Queen:
What?

Felicity Smoak:
Everyone's got a code name; you even got a new one. I want a code name.

Oliver Queen:
Find the bomb, and then we'll talk.

[Oliver fights off a fake bodyguard]

Oliver Queen:
Get back to the atrium!

Jessica Danforth:
Oliver, how...

Oliver Queen:
Um, self-defense classes. [leaps off of a two-story ledge]

Quentin Lance:
Caught your TV debut. Guess you decided to stick around.

Oliver Queen:
It's going to be different this time.

Quentin Lance:
Yeah, yeah, sure, well, 'cause you got a new name now, right, with a color. Green Arrow. It's catchy.

Damien Darhk:
I respect order, Mr. Machin. Discipline, precision. You are sloppy. All you represent is anarchy. You made a mess. I suggest you clean it up. Either way, our relationship is concluded.

Lonnie Machin:
Wait! [grabs Darhk's arm] You can't.

Damien Darhk:
You know your hand... is on me... [stares uncomfortably at Machin] Clean it up.

Oliver Queen:
Any news?

Felicity Smoak:
Only the bad kind.

Oliver Queen:
Hey, we're going to catch this guy.

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah, and when we do, there's going to be another one waiting for us, and another, and another. It's like the most depressing game of whack-a-mole ever.

Quentin Lance:
You stay the hell away from my daughter you son of a b*tch!

Damien Darhk:
[calmly] Language.

Quentin Lance:
You weren't kidding about doing things differently, were you? Instead of pincushioning guys you're burning them alive?

Arrow:
Merry Christmas.

Quentin Lance:
Well, I feel bad. I didn't get you anything.

Arrow:
You keep the city safe.

Quentin Lance:
So do you. You know, these days, you're the closest thing to a partner I got. Happy holidays.

Nyssa al Ghul:
In civilization's past, when someone in the village is murdered, the league would come and kill 50 people a day until the true criminal is rooted out. Find and deliver the one who killed Ta-Er Al-Sahfer. You have 48 hours, or the citizens of Starling City will see what the League of Assassins are capable of.

Oliver Queen:
You're going to slaughter innocent people?

Nyssa al Ghul:
The cleansing of Starling City will fall to Sarab.

Oliver Queen:
Maseo?

Maseo Yamashiro:
Maseo is no longer. As she said... I am Sarab.

Nyssa al Ghul:
Deliver us Sara's killer, or blood will flow in your streets.

Oliver Queen:
This isn't Sara would want!

Nyssa al Ghul:
Sara is dead. It's time you remember that.

[Oliver watches a recording of Thea killing Sara]

Malcolm Merlyn:
I don't think you want the league to see that. And if you kill me, they will.

Oliver Queen:
This isn't her.

Malcolm Merlyn:
You ever heard of a plant called Votura? It grows in South America. In facts, it thrives in Corto Maltese, making the subject extremely susceptible to suggestion, or retaining no memory of their actions.

Oliver Queen:
I will tell Ra's this was you, that Thea was under your control.

Malcolm Merlyn:
And he will still kill her. She fired the arrows.

Oliver Queen:
You have given her a death sentence.

Malcolm Merlyn:
No. What I've done is given you incentive.

Oliver Queen:
To do what?

Malcolm Merlyn:
To tell Ra's that you killed Sara Lance. By right, you'll be given a trial by combat - with Ra's. His death will erase any blood debt from his reign, including Thea's.

Oliver Queen:
And yours.

Malcolm Merlyn:
I have to be honest - it was my concern that the whole killing thing would have been a deal breaker for you. But, uh, I'm gratified to see that Thea is still sufficient motivation. Don't take too long making up your mind. Ra's isn't known for his patience.

Ra's al Ghul:
You're just a boy. Well, Mr. Queen, you failed to protect the city you love. Now you will watch it bleed.

Oliver Queen:
Nobody in my city will die tonight.

Ra's al Ghul:
Well, there was only one way to prevent that. You were to produce for me the one who killed Ta-Er Al-Sahfer. And yet you've come alone.

Oliver Queen:
Because it was me. I killed Sara.

Nyssa al Ghul:
Why would you kill a woman you once professed to love?

Oliver Queen:
Because she begged me to.

Nyssa al Ghul:
You lie.

Oliver Queen:
It wasn't the first time Sara chose death over a life in the league. And meeting you now, I can see why.

Ra's al Ghul:
I should have Sarab cleave your head off your shoulders. Not for killing my daughter's beloved, but for thinking me a fool.

Oliver Queen:
By league law, I have the right to challenge you to a trail by combat.

Ra's al Ghul:
It's been 67 years since a man challenged me. You covet death that much?

Oliver Queen:
Do you accept?

Ra's al Ghul:
Oh, yes.

Oliver Queen:
Maseo...

Maseo Yamashiro:
My name is Sarab.

Oliver Queen:
You told me once a man cannot live by two names.

Maseo Yamashiro:
And I don't. Maseo is dead. I am all that's left, Sarab. A phantom.

Oliver Queen:
After it happened, you went to Nanda Parbat.

Maseo Yamashiro:
I arrived the same year as Ta-Er Al-Sahfer. She was a great warrior. You did not kill her. When you face the demon, it will be my duty to bear witness. I have no desire to watch you die. Under our code, you have 12 hours to settle your affairs. The 13th hour, be at this place. This location is consecrated ground for the league. A place for the settlement of blood debts - if one survives the climb. If you do.

Oliver Queen:
See you on the mountain.

Laurel Lance:
Mom, can I tell you something? Whoever did this so Sara, I'm gonna find them no matter what it takes. And I'm gonna make them pay.

Dinah Lance:
Then you make them pay. And you make them suffer.

Felicity Smoak:
Whoa. What is it?

Ray Palmer:
OMAC is a Queen Consolidated designation. But I'm kinda partial to A.T.O.M. Advanced Technology Operating Mechanism. A.T.O.M.

Felicity Smoak:
What are you going to use it for?

Ray Palmer:
To protect the people of this city. And I want you to help me.

Felicity Smoak:
Why does this keep happening to me?

Felicity Smoak:
But there is one thing I need to ask you to do. And you're not going to want to.

Oliver Queen:
Well, if it's you asking, I'll do it.

Felicity Smoak:
Kill him. You have to kill Ra's al Ghul. This is a duel... Oliver, with one of the most dangerous men that has ever walked the Earth.

Oliver Queen:
I wouldn't be doing it if I didn't think I can win.

Felicity Smoak:
I don't doubt that. I don't doubt that you can beat him. I am terrified that you won't kill him. Because that's not who you are anymore. And I am so afraid that Ra's al Ghul will use your humanity against you.

Oliver Queen:
Felicity, I honestly don't know if I'm a killer anymore. But I do know two things - the first is that whoever I am, I am someone who will do whatever - *whatever* - it takes to save my sister.

Felicity Smoak:
And the second thing?

Oliver Queen:
I love you.

Ra's al Ghul:
I was 11 years old when I killed my first man. I remember the look in his face when the light went out behind his eyes. Such a sudden change, almost imperceptible, between life and death. And I felt ashamed. I had stolen from that man the most precious gift of all - life. But I also felt something else - pride, because I had taken up arms against someone who sought to do ill against my family. And I realized what I had done was necessary. You see... I have replaced evil with death. And that... is what the league exists to do. And I have killed several thousand more men since then. And the world is better for it.

Oliver Queen:
You've taken your last life.

Ra's al Ghul:
No. You have lived your last day. We are ready.

Nyssa al Ghul:
I am envious of you. You will see her before I do.

Ra's al Ghul:
Fight me, boy.

Oliver Queen:
You're unarmed.

Ra's al Ghul:
I'll take your blades from you once you are through with them.

Ra's al Ghul:
You should take pride. You survived longer than most. Don't be afraid, my son. Death comes for us all. We can only evade it so long. Consider this an honorable exit.

[stabs Oliver in his chest, speaks in Arabic]

Ra's al Ghul:
Forgive and have mercy upon him... Excuse him and pardon him... Make honorable his reception... Protect him from the punishment of the grave... And the torment of fire.

Ra's al Ghul:
Oliver Queen is dead. Eventually to be reborn as Ra's al Ghul. But for now, only the Arrow, Al Sah-Him shall remain. Al Sah-Him. Heir to the Demon.

Oliver Queen:
I am Al Sah-Him Warith Al Ghul, heir to the Demon, and you will obey!

Maseo Yamashiro:
I hope you find the accommodations acceptable. Such luxuries are a small glimpse of the life that awaits Oliver.

John Diggle:
You trying to reassure me or yourself?

Maseo Yamashiro:
I don't know what you mean.

John Diggle:
You're Oliver's friend. Maseo, right?

Maseo Yamashiro:
I am Sarab.

John Diggle:
Call yourself whatever you want. If you gave a damn about Oliver you wouldn't be working for the man who practically killed his sister.

Maseo Yamashiro:
Oliver will be spared grief, in a manner that was denied to me. And he'll receive an honor, greater than you can imagine.

John Diggle:
League of Assassins. You're feared for your bravery and power, but all I see are a bunch of weak men running from their lives, trying to escape. That's not powerful, Maseo, or brave. That's cowardly.

Maseo Yamashiro:
Do not presume to know me. Until you've held your dying child in your arms. Until you've told him everything will be okay. So that the last words he ever hears are a lie. You know nothing.

John Diggle:
I'm sorry. What was your child's name?

Maseo Yamashiro:
Akio.

John Diggle:
Do you think Akio would be proud of his father right now?

Ra's al Ghul:
You know, many lifetimes ago, I loved a woman immeasurably. And she loved me. And we had a son and then a daughter. And for many years, I felt I was the most fortunate man in the world. My life was bliss. And one night, a man came to my door and he gave me a horrible choice - to leave without saying a word to them, or to stand and watch them tortured and then killed. And I left without a farewell. And to spare them pain, I endured an agony worse than death.

Felicity Smoak:
Sounds like you gave up too easily.

Ra's al Ghul:
If there's one immutable truth about life... it's often more cruel than it is fair, and rarely provides an opportunity for any of us to find closure. And all your posture and all your threats of war will merely deal the inevitable, causing you to forfeit you the opportunity you have... that was denied me. You need to tell Oliver goodbye. Tell him how much you love him. Tell him whatever it is your heart needs to express. And do it now. Before he is lost to you forever.

Felicity Smoak:
I wish that I could change your mind about staying here, but I know I can't. Just like I know that leaving you here is going to destroy me. I don't regret a single moment. And you shouldn't either. You have done so much. You have saved so many people's lived and you have changed so many for the better, including mine. Knowing you has changed my life. You've opened up my heart in a way I didn't even know was possible. I love you.

John Diggle:
Oliver. Oliver, I don't know what to say

Oliver Queen:
I do. John, you're the best man I've ever known. Whatever happens, you're my brother.

[Oliver and Diggle embrace]

Felicity Smoak:
I'm afraid I will never forgive myself for leaving you here.

Oliver Queen:
You told me once that life's precious and that you wanted more from it than I could offer you. Don't give up on that. The only way that I'm gonna survive this is if I know that you're out there living your life, happy.

Felicity Smoak:
We're always saying goodbye to each other. You'd think I'd be good at it by now.

Oliver Queen:
Well, let's not say goodbye this time.

[Oliver and Felicity kiss]

John Diggle:
Oliver, if you still didn't have feelings for this girl, you would have followed a different solution than letting her extort you into killing someone.

Oliver Queen:
So what do you want me to do? You want me to kill her?

John Diggle:
I think you would have along time ago if she looked like me instead of the T-Mobile girl. She's a stone cold killer, Oliver.

Helena Bertinelli:
Sorry, am I... interrupting something?

Oliver Queen:
We were just... talking about you.

Helena Bertinelli:
And here I thought you didn't care much about me.

John Diggle:
Still don't.

Thea Queen:
You didn't show up for the job I got you.

Roy Harper:
Yeah, I had second thoughts on parking your brother's Bentley.

Thea Queen:
What, being a valet is beneath you?

Roy Harper:
No, but accepting charity from some rich girl is.

Thea Queen:
Why are you so obsessed with the fact that I have money? You know, money isn't everything.

Roy Harper:
[scoffs] Spoken like someone who's got it. Now, uh, if you excuse me, I need to get back to my life of crime.

Oliver Queen:
Just your father. Anyone else gets hurt and I'll put an arrow in you.

The Huntress:
That's sweet. Now I know how you charmed your cop girlfriend.

Nyssa al Ghul:
You have my condolences. And that of my father, Ra's al Ghul.

Laurel Lance:
I don't want your condolences. And I definitely don't want your fathers. She died with arrows in her chest. Did you think that would have happened if she hadn't met you? You were the one who that showed her the darkness inside. You, and your father.

Nyssa al Ghul:
I know you grieve. But so do I. I didn't show Sara the darkness, Laurel. It was already inside of her when we met. When I found her, alone, starving and terrified, I protected her. I took Sara into my heart and loved with all my soul. And that jacket... I gave it to Sara as a gift. You are not fit to wear it.

Oliver Queen:
The tracer arrow program...

John Diggle:
You have Felicity monitoring remote from Central City?

Oliver Queen:
No, she told me an idiot can run it.

John Diggle:
[heads for the computer] I will try very heard not to take that personally.

John Diggle:
Listen, I understand why you can't kill Merlyn, all of the reasons. Maybe he killed Sara, maybe he didn't.

Oliver Queen:
He didn't.

John Diggle:
Either way! The world is a better place without Malcolm Merlyn it. You made a vow not to kill. Nyssa didn't.

Oliver Queen:
Where's your wife?

Maseo Yamashiro:
Tatsu. She needed to be someplace else.

Oliver Queen:
Ah. She doesn't like me.

Maseo Yamashiro:
You're wrong. She hates you.

Akio Yamashiro:
My Dad said I shouldn't let you use my computer.

Oliver Queen:
Okay. Why don't we make a deal, then?

Akio Yamashiro:
You don't have anything. You're a bum.

Oliver Queen:
Well, this bum has something you don't have. Height.

Ra's al Ghul:
There is a sadness in your voice.

Nyssa al Ghul:
Ta-er al-Sahfer. She has fallen

Ra's al Ghul:
Sara Lance is dead?

Malcolm Merlyn:
[to Nyssa] Your father doubted Sara's loyalties the moment you brought her home. You know your father, what he is capable of. He will kill without hesitation. Do you really need me to tell you what he would do to the degenerate who would steal his daughter's heart?

Sara Lance:
Don't be nervous.

Felicity Smoak:
I'm a lot nervous. This is a big move, even for us, and we've cornered the market on big moves.

Oliver Queen:
Slade didn't give us any choice.

Felicity Smoak:
Yeah, but as far as plans go, this is not a good one.

Oliver Queen:
Felicity, this was your plan.

Felicity Smoak:
I didn't think you'd actually say yes.

Quentin Lance:
Listen to me, there was a time when I would have sold out my badge to find out his name. You know that. But then I realize I didn't care who he was. In fact I didn't even want to know who he was.

Laurel Lance:
Why not?

Quentin Lance:
Cause if I knew I knew who he really was, then he'd become a person right? Maybe he's got a family. Friends. People that care about him. Someone with a life. That he couldn't be what I needed him to be. What this city needs him to be. It's the Arrow that matters. The man under the hood isn't important. Look at me. Can you imagine what it's like to be him? What he has to live with day in and day out, what that's gotta be like. Hey. The least I can do is sit here and do a little bit of time for him.

Laurel Lance:
Sometimes it's people closest to us who lie to us best.

Anatoly Knyazev:
They say living well is the best revenge? Ha. I prefer torture.

Kate Spencer:
How's your father?

Laurel Lance:
He'll be better once you drop all charges and sign his release papers.

Kate Spencer:
He is facing eighteen months.

Laurel Lance:
Yes, but he is not going to stay here another day unless you want me to resign and embark on an exciting new career as a criminal defense attorney whose sole ambition will be to sue the district attorney's office for wrongful arrest and reckless endangerment.

Kate Spencer:
Your father will be released on his own recognizance within the hour. And reinstated. Tomorrow.

[Sara takes down a security guard]

Oliver Queen:
Hey! That man used to work for me.

Sara Lance:
And now he works for our enemy.

Cisco Ramon:
The combined inventory of every scientist who ever worked at S.T.A.R. Labs. All housed right in here. I hereby christen this building "da bomb."

Caitlin Snow:
Nobody says that anymore.

Cisco Ramon:
I say it. I define my own cool.

Felicity Smoak:
Well, I'll come visit again, as soon as I can.

Cisco Ramon:
That would be cool. Don't worry, Barry gets lots of visitors. Iris is there a lot.

Felicity Smoak:
Iris?

Cisco Ramon:
She's, um, his... Something.

Felicity Smoak:
Oh. Sure. Good. That's just swell. Barry's in a coma and he's already moved on.

Slade Wilson:
[after Oliver laughs] What?

Oliver Queen:
I'm trapped on an island, and my only friend is named Wilson.

Ra's al Ghul:
Ra's is a title greater than one man. Wing Ta Leo Wo Chey.

Oliver Queen:
Am I supposed to understand what that means?

Ra's al Ghul:
No. It is from a dialect no longer spoken. Said to me by a man whose place I took. Contemplating the same offer. And what it means is, a tale to be told begins thus.

Oliver Queen:
Is all of this suppose to impress me?

Ra's al Ghul:
No. It's to inform you. Surely men have branded you a murderer, a torturer. But see, I would never shame you with such bluntness. Because I see it in your eyes. The struggle you have with your dual identity. Oliver Queen and the Arrow. Neither are giving you what you crave.

Oliver Queen:
But becoming Ra's al Ghul will?

Ra's al Ghul:
Oliver Queen is a man destined to be alone. He loves a woman who knows he cannot have.

Oliver Queen:
You don't know me.

Ra's al Ghul:
But I know the Arrow. "Al Sahhim." You will never be anything more than a vigilante for those whose lives he saves at the risk of your own. And the city will turn on you, and your closets allies within the police department will call you a criminal. You will be scorned and hunted, and then killed. Dying as you began your crusade... alone.

Arrow:
Look out!

[Arrow pulls Black Canary out of the speeding van's way]

Arrow:
You still need training.

Black Canary:
When are you going to stop telling me what to do?

Arrow:
When you no longer need training.

Felicity Smoak:
You okay?

Oliver Queen:
I handed some of Amar's men over to Lance. He knows the Arrow knew about Sara, didn't tell him.

Felicity Smoak:
What did Lance say?

Oliver Queen:
Some variation of "go to hell."

Oliver Queen:
Target's name is Michael Amar.

John Diggle:
Yeah, got him here. Got out of Iron Heights two months ago.

Oliver Queen:
He escaped?

John Diggle:
No, released. Turns out he was serving a sentence based on a coerced confession. Cops beat it out of him.

Roy Harper:
He confessed to a crime he didn't commit? I might sew my mouth shut, too.

John Diggle:
You want to tell me what's going on now?

Oliver Queen:
Ra's predicted this. He said the city would turn against me and I would die alone. And when we come back, and the first thing that happens is Lance shutting me out, and... I see Felicity with Palmer. It's like he looked into my future.

John Diggle:
Sounds to me Ra's is playing with your head. Question is, why are you letting him?

Oliver Queen:
He wants me to take his place in the League of Assassins. That's why he let us go. As a sign of good faith.

John Diggle:
Is there even a world where he can imagine you saying yes?

Oliver Queen:
He said I can do more as the new Ra's than I can ever do as Oliver Queen or the Arrow. That I would have unlimited resources. That I could make a difference, not just a dent.

John Diggle:
You're not really considering this. Just because Captain Lance is angry and Felicity is momentarily unavailable.

Oliver Queen:
It's more than that. I just... John, tell my honestly... What have we accomplished?

John Diggle:
[sighs] Oliver...

Oliver Queen:
All the people that we put away, John, they got out. The city is no better off. The Arrow is not... is not making a difference. And if I just can't be me... and the Arrow isn't enough...

John Diggle:
Oliver...

Oliver Queen:
Then maybe I should be Ra's al Ghul.

Oliver Queen:
Is Malcolm still alive?

Thea Queen:
In my head, I've already slit his throat seven times. Broke his neck twice.

Oliver Queen:
Where are you going?

Thea Queen:
To go buy my evil dad some soup.

Quentin Lance:
What, are you waiting around for a thank you?

Arrow:
That's not why I do this.

[ziplines away]

Felicity Smoak:
[whistles] Nice work.

Oliver Queen:
Not without a few casualties, but Amar is in custody.

Felicity Smoak:
So that's a no on the whole victory dance thing, then?

Oliver Queen:
You know me. I don't dance. But I do occasionally say... thank you.

Felicity Smoak:
You're welcome.

Oliver Queen:
And you were right.

Felicity Smoak:
Ah, a "thank you" and a "you were right." I should really be recording this.

Oliver Queen:
We went up against a new crew last night. One of them had his lips sewn shut.

Felicity Smoak:
Is that a real thing?

Oliver Queen:
Apparently.

Felicity Smoak:
Ugh. If only I had known I had that option.

Dr. Anthony Ivo:
It's harder than it looks, isn't it? Killing an unarmed man.

Oliver Queen:
It seemed pretty easy when you murdered Shado.

Dr. Anthony Ivo:
I didn't murder her, Oliver.

Oliver Queen:
Ivo, you shot her in the head.

Dr. Anthony Ivo:
I gave you a choice! You chose Sara. You blame me, but that's because you can't face your own guilt. I loaded the bullets, yes, I pulled the trigger, but you... you aimed the gun. And you hold yourself responsible. Don't you?

Oliver Queen:
Yes. But that doesn't mean I won't kill you.

Oliver Queen:
Cyrus Gold, the man in the skull mask, all this was you. They worked for you.

Slade Wilson:
Well, I have my allies, just as you have yours. John Diggle, for example. I suppose you're wondering why he hasn't taken his head shot. Don't worry. He's still alive - for now.

John Diggle:
Nothing like a rich kid's party to remind me of what I miss about being shot at in Afghanistan.

Andy Diggle:
When I hooked up my big brother with this first stateside job, I somehow expected more gratitude and less complaining.

John Diggle:
Oh, less complaining. You sound like Lyla.

Andy Diggle:
You should have never divorced her. You big dummy.

Oliver Queen:
How did you learn all this in nine months?

Thea Queen:
Malcolm's a good teacher.

Oliver Queen:
Did he teach you to cheat?

Thea Queen:
There's no such thing. There's only survival and death.

Oliver Queen:
He's not wrong.

Quentin Lance:
This is Laurel. The other daughter that lived.

Laurel Lance:
Is there a bartender in the city that doesn't already know that?

Quentin Lance:
Well, excuse me for seeking a sympathetic ear. Take's more than some fancy corporate law firm job for some of us to get over Sara's death.

Tommy Merlyn:
You shouldn't grow up too fast.

Thea Queen:
Yeah, well, you're not my brother.

Tommy Merlyn:
You're right, no, I'm not. But I think about him every single day. For the first time, I'm glad he's gone. 'Cause seeing you like this would break his heart.