Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

His name's Kevin Meltzer. Recently released from Roth Psychiatric Hospital.

Black Siren

Imagine that.

Apparently, the Hood saved his life seven years ago, and he's been obsessed with vigilantes ever since.

Oliver

So he just attacks them.

Says he just wanted the masks. Fans have a strange way of showing their affection.

Felicity

You ever get in trouble with your parents?

Oliver

Uh, yeah. All the time. Why?

Felicity

Because William doesn't need pancakes. William needs to tell us why he got expelled and why he's been lying to us.

Oliver

After pancakes or...

Felicity

No.

Rene

I think the problem is you thinking you can make her do anything.

Oliver

Yeah, but I've been doing this a long time. She's new, she's unsanctioned, and I'm trying to help her.

Rene

But she didn't ask for your help. Imagine how you would feel if, when you first started your quest, someone had basically ripped your father's list out of your hand and taken over your mission.

Oliver

I see your point.

Rene

Emiko doesn't need anybody telling her what to do or how to do it, and she definitely doesn't need anyone's protection. You see that move she did with the bow and switched hands?

Oliver

Yeah. It's impressive.

Rene

Ridiculous. Just be her brother if you want her to be in your life and to trust you. Just... just be her brother.

Felicity

So Diaz is just walking around free right now in exchange for intel?

Diggle

He's not free, Felicity. He has a bomb in his head. If he makes one misstep... we are taking every precaution.

Felicity

Well, I understand why Curtis left.

Oliver

Hey.

Felicity

You can't really be okay with this.

Oliver

No. But I-I trust John, and I believe that he would only take a step like this if he had no other choice.

Diggle

There was no other choice. And I hate that it came to this, but Lyla and I believe that using the Ghost Initiative is the best way to take down this threat.

Felicity

You realize that this is the second time you have prioritized your job over keeping your friends safe?

Diggle

Working with A.R.G.U.S. does keep you safe, because it makes the world safe.

Felicity

You can keep telling yourself that.

Diggle

Well, Diaz will be taken back to Slabside for reneging on his side of the deal. This time, he'll stay there.

Oliver

Still need to think about Dante. He's not gonna forget what happened tonight.

Felicity

I won't, either. You could've gone after Dante, but you chose Diaz.

Diggle

Last year, I had the opportunity to catch Diaz, and I let it slip through my fingers. I wasn't gonna make the same mistake twice.

Felicity

Well, what about Dante being the greater threat?

Diggle

When I knew there was a choice between catching Diaz or Dante, all I could think about was what letting Diaz go meant to you last time, Felicity, so in that moment, I decided that sometimes the best choice is to just protect your family, and that's exactly what you two are.

Felicity

You want to know why I didn't kill Diaz. I wanted to. I was ready to. But then I realized killing Diaz wasn't going to prove anything. The whole reason I wanted Diaz dead was to protect our family, and... what our family needs is a fresh start, one in the light just like you're doing. I want our children to know that they are the most important thing to us and that we would do anything... anything for them.

Oliver

You said "children".

Felicity

I'm pregnant.

Oliver

We all know that we operate better on our own. Now, I would for you to be onboard with this, but if you're not, I would just - I would ask you to stay out of our way.

Diggle

Oliver, I will always have your back. But you've giving up on this partnership before you're really giving it a chance, as if you're up against a clock I don't know about. So what don't I know about?

Felicity

We're having a baby.

Diggle

Really?

Yeah.

Felicity

It's a little early. We're not telling anybody yet.

Diggle

That's amazing! This is wonderful! It would also explain a hell of a lot.

Oliver

We don't want a child born into a city like this. Our mission is not complete.

Felicity

So we're going to go about this the only way that we know how, without politicians and without a precinct. We're going to do this the Team Arrow way.

Diggle

OK, and that would work for a while. And the, uh, then I have to say, we will be right back to where we started, Oliver. Without a team, you in prison, us on the run, and a city no closer to being saved than where we started.

Oliver

Our partnership with the force is not working.

Diggle

Then we have to find a way to make it work. Compromise, do whatever you have to do because if you want a new future for this baby of yours, it won't be come by doing the same thing we used to do. We have to - We have to be something else... Something better.

Felicity

So, in between updating the SCPD's tech and taking down evil CEOs, I was brainstorming baby names today.

Oliver

Really?

Felicity

Yeah.

Oliver

Any frontrunners?

Felicity

For a boy, I've always liked Lucas.

Oliver

Yeah. Lucas. That's good. I may have thought of a name for a girl.

Felicity

Yeah?

Oliver

Mia.

Felicity

Short for Moira. Sweet and fiery. I love it.

Oliver

And regardless whether we have a boy or a girl, I just want to make sure that... she or he end up growing up in a better and safer Star City than I did.

Felicity

Yeah.

Oliver

I want that for both of our children. They'll always have each other to lean on.

Felicity

And we'll always have us.

Dinah

You know what else we did tonight? We forced Pollard's hand. I leveraged her relationship with Midas to convince her to sign off on creating a special vigilante task force. We're still sanctioned by the SCPD, but we're operating as our own unit out of the Bunker in our suits.

Oliver

And the anti-vigilante law?

Dinah

It's on her desk for repeal. She's gonna sign it.

Rene

So we're like the black ops for the SCPD now? That's cool.

Diggle

I'm just glad we're all back. It feels right.

Oliver

I'll second that. It's nice to be part of a team again.

Diggle

You want to talk? Not even to the guy who found out his long-lost sibling was secretly an evil double agent?

Oliver

Being reminded that this has happened before is not... really making things better.

Diggle

I get that. But I also know that despite what Emiko's done, you're not quite ready to give up on her.

Oliver

That obvious?

Diggle

Only to someone who knows you, and who's been there. All I wanted was to bring Andy back over to the light. I don't have to remind you what having that blind spot cost us.

Oliver

No, you don't. But please, John, trust me when I tell you that I am seeing Emiko more clearly than I ever have.

Diggle

Oliver, you're still trying to save her.

Oliver

John, my family is to blame for her current situation. My-my father a-abandoned her and her mother. She was eleven! She was eleven years old. And no one's gonna convince me that... that her life wouldn't be different now if that had never happened.

Diggle

Andy tried to convince me that I was the reason for his bad choices, too. He made me feel so guilty that I was willing to trust him again even after knowing he worked for Damien Darhk. I held out hope, Oliver, so much hope that I put you, my family, my team at risk.

Oliver

John, if I abandon her now, I'm no better than my father. If I can help redeem her, selfishly, I feel like I-I help redeem my family. Just a little.

Oliver

You've been lying this entire time, everything about our father, your debt to Dante?

Emiko

It was all true, but I never needed you to put me back together. I just knew you'd try. Can't resist playing the hero, can you?

Oliver

You went looking for a family, and you chose The Ninth Circle?

Emiko

Better than living as a Queen.

Felicity

Emiko's bullet led me to Andrew Thornton's rifle, which led me to twelve different shell companies, which led me to the buyer.

Oliver

And it's not weird that she hasn't found the buyer herself with the resources of the Ninth Circle at her disposal?

Felicity

Okay, well, not to toot my own horn, but Emiko is more of The Karate Kid, Hilary Swank version, and I am more of the Mr. Robot version, but prettier.

Diggle

Felicity tell you how she tracked the rifle to this apartment?

Oliver

Just call her a genius and leave it at that.

Diggle

I wasn't even sure you were keeping tabs on me. Sir, I had my reasons for leaving A.R.G.U.S.

You left to protect your wife. I know you better than you think. And I'm sorry to say you lost your way.

Diggle

I didn't leave A.R.G.U.S. for my career. I left to protect my family. And that's not something you would understand, is it, sir?

Oliver

John, we should probably go. Again, thank you for your time, General.

I always have time for my family.

Oliver

Excuse me?

Oh, John didn't tell you. I'm his stepfather.

Diggle

Oliver, when I first met the General, he was a lieutenant, my father's CO on a covert military op to quell an insurgency in Vlatava. The op went bad. The unit was pinned down with heavy gunfire from insurgents. My dad stayed behind to hold them off. Saved the whole unit. Stewart made it out. My father didn't.

Oliver

So do you blame him for your father's death?

Diggle

It was his op. He should have stayed behind. Six months later, he's coming by the house for dinner. Six months, Oliver.

Oliver

I didn't know.

Diggle

It was bad enough that, uh, he just appeared in our lives, but... once he and my mom got married, he had me and Andy running Spartan survival drills he learned as a recon Marine. I mean, how long could we be out in the cold trying to find our way out of the woods without a compass. He called it tough love. Said he didn't care how we felt about him as long as it made us strong. I don't know. If he was so strong, how could he just abandon the first rule of the Corps and leave my father behind?