[comes home to find Oliver sitting there] You know I got a heart condition, right?
OliverFor years you've looked at me with contempt and utter disdain, so I'm wondering, do I have that look on my face now?
What the hell you talking about?
Oliver
I'm talking about you... and Damien Darhk.
Oliver
I didn't know if you knew who he was, or what he's been doing to this city. And now I see this look on your face. You know.
Oliver
No, it's not. Do you have any idea how many people he's killed?
Yeah, I got more of an idea than you. And listen, you, you of all people, you don't get to come in to my house and pass judgement on me, all right?!
Oliver
You always held yourself out as better than me. More righteous. And you were. Until tonight.
Actually, it's been a little more than 2 months now, me working with Darhk. It started out benign. He said he had resources, he had people, money. He held himself out as just another guy who wanted to help this city. And we needed the help. You weren't here. By the time I figured out who he was... what he was, that's when he threatened Laurel.
Oliver
Laurel can take care of herself. You see what she does out there.
That's what I thought about Sara, too–
Oliver
Stop, stop it! Stop hiding behind your daughters!
You don't know what I'm going through.
Oliver
You know a funny thing? You were the 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.
Oliver
Why didn't you come to me with this?
Come to you for what? Your expertise with magical resurrection? Or that judgmental look on your face?
Oliver
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.
Oliver
Laurel, come with me.
Oliver
No. Not only is Thea hospitalized, but she has Merlyn influencing her to kill people.
What are you talking about?
Oliver
Oh, just another thing that happened on your secret trip to Nanda Parbat.
Hey! I didn't tell you that I took my sister to Nanda Parbat because I knew that you wouldn't approve. Why didn't you tell me that you took Thea?
Oliver
What does that have to do with anything?!
It's the hypocrisy that I can't stand. What? It's okay for you to do whatever you have to for your sister, but it's not okay for me to do the same to mine?
Oliver
Sara was dead. Thea wasn't.
Then why didn't you tell me about Thea seven months ago? Because you don't see me as an equal.
Oliver
What? Oh, come on, Laurel, of course I see you as an equal.
No, you don't! You never have. You never told me that you were the Arrow–
Oliver
Keep your voice down!
You never supported me becoming the Black Canary, and you never would have told me that there's a way to save my sister. My sister, she's out of her mind right now because of something that I did, a decision that I made. Did you ever just stop and think for one second about what I might be going through? I'm sorry about what happened to Thea. I really am. I love your family, I always have. I just wish that sometimes you would give a damn about mine.
JCJohn Constantine
You know, the hair on the back of my neck has been standing up since the moment I got into town.
Oliver
That is probably our current problem - Damien Dhark. Ohh, you've heard of him.
CConstantine
You watch yourself on that one, mate. He'll make what you saw in the other realm look like a bloody gnat.
Oliver
Any helpful advice?
CConstantine
Yeah. Leave town. While you still can.
Oliver
Okay. Inviting your mother for a surprise visit wasn't the best idea.
Oliver
I totally accept that. What I'm accepting, or understanding, is just you shutting me out.
I am not shutting you out. I'm trying to focus on finding Ray, but I can't do that with all of these distractions.
Oliver
Distractions? What is going on with you? You're acting like it's my fault that Ray–
It's my fault! What's happening with Ray, to Ray, is my fault.
Oliver
Felicity, it really isn't.
Ray was sending me distress calls for weeks after the accident. I wasn't here to receive them because I was too busy traveling the world with you. I took the police's word for it that no body could be recovered because I was so swept up in being with you. I'm sorry. It was my choice to uproot my entire life, leave my home and my job, which turns out I am very good at it. I lost myself in you. But I was never that girl, that girl who just loses herself in a guy. That is not who I am.
Oliver
This isn't about Ray. It's about us.
No.... Yes.... I don't know.
Oliver
Okay. I'm gonna give you some space until you figure it out. [walks out]
I think we should... clear the air. Um... I wanted to thank you for helping me save Ray and for being so understanding in the midst of my mini– Gargantuan freak-out.
Oliver
Well, I'm sorry that I'm not the best listener. But all of this, is just... it's kind of new to me.
And to me. I didn't exactly grow up with the best example of a normal, healthy relationship.
Oliver
Line forms behind me. it's kind of amazing that we've made it this far.
Oliver
How can you be so sure?
Because we found ourselves in each other.
Oliver, let this go man, I have. You almost got yourself killed.
Oliver
I've been a lot closer to almost killed.
Oliver
You don't know that. John, you saw what was going on tonight. Those men, they were under the influence of something. Whatever pill is scrambling in their DNA is also making them susceptible to Darhk's suggestion.
All right, just because you have a blind spot for family, don't expect me as well.
Oliver
That– that's not what this is about.
The hell it's not. Family is exactly what this is about. Criminal or not. Under the influence or not. Andy let his son and his wife believe he was dead for 8 years, Oliver. 8 years! And there is no excuse for that. None.
Oliver
John, I'm just– you don't know.
Oliver, you don't know. You have this inexplicable way of excusing everything just because it's family.
Oliver
it's not inexplicable! I'm asking you– I'm asking you hold out for Andy, because I need that hope. I need to believe that no matter what happens in our lives, no matter how much darkness infects us, I need to believe we can come back from that!
It was exactly that thinking that led you to the League last year. It doesn't seem like you learned much from that.
Oliver
Felicity told you.
Getting in bed with Darhk, Oliver? I don't see how you can even consider it.
Oliver
We are going to take this guy down, and no idea is off the table.
Look, you're doing things differently, Oliver. Fighting Darhk from the inside is just fighting Darhk in the shadows. You want to do things differently? You want ideas? Fine. Let's take this son of a bitch down in the light of day!
Leaving to fight Ra's on a mountaintop, going undercover with the league of assassins, dating the huntress...
Oliver
What are you doing?
Oh... I am just listing all of the terrible ideas you've had over the past 3 years, of which throwing in with Damien Darhk has got to be the worst.
Oliver
I am not throwing in with Damien Darhk. I am using him to get at H.I.V.E.
Isn't Lance already our man on the inside?
Oliver
Lance has lost Darhk's trust, making this the only way.
To get yourself killed. You remember the last time you tried to take down an evil organization from the inside?
Oliver
This is different.
Why? Because you'd be doing it as Oliver Queen?
Oliver
Yup.
What about your mayoral campaign? You cannot be an effective candidate for Mayor and Darhk's undercover stooge.
Oliver
Taking down Darhk is more important, especially now that we know he has Andy under his thumb.
First, there is a whole long list of things that we don't know about Andy. Second, you didn't decide to run for Mayor to take down Darhk. You did it to give the city something the Green Arrow can't give them– hope. Inspiration. Don't lose sight of that, not even for John.
A bunch of superheroes in a farm house? I feel like I've seen that in a movie before.
Oliver
We need a secure location.
CCaitlin
What's wrong with S.T.A.R. Labs?
Oliver
Well, absolutely nothing, if you forget about the revolving door you guys installed so the bad guys can come and go as they please.
CCaitlin
Remind me again what happened to your old lair, or the one before that...
Everyone's waiting for you.
Oliver
Sorry, just something I had to take of.
So I guess you're off the secret-keeping wagon.
Oliver
That's not it.
Oliver
I think Damien Darhk has someone operating in Central City, so I sent Barry to run down a lead.
This kind of lead? [shows him the DNA results revealing he has a son] He didn't know what he was giving me. But I've run enough tests on your blood to recognize your DNA sequence anywhere.
Oliver
You don't know–
You had him run a paternity test, didn't you?
Oliver
Look, Felicity–
Stop! I cannot hear another lie.
Oliver
It's more complicated than that.
God, Oliver, you are the only person on this planet who considers the truth "complicated." Just to be clear, I don't care that you have a child. I can't believe that you have a child that you didn't tell me about. I care that you lied to me just now.
Oliver
Do you know that my whole world just exploded? And I think that I'm entitled to a minute to process that by myself.
You somehow managed to go to CCPD to track down Barry. You didn't keep it to yourself. You kept it from me. When were you planning on telling me?
Oliver
I don't know.
If you loved me, if you trusted me, telling me this wouldn't be such a burden. It would be a relief. But you don't trust me. You never will. And how can I be with someone who doesn't trust me? [walks away]
Oliver
Felicity...
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