Oliver Queen quotes from Arrow

Oliver

Kidnapping a four-star general is a risky move for the Ninth Circle, especially if the Pentagon's on to them. So, why? Why do it?

Felicity

I don't know. We need to find out more about who he is, what makes him so important.

Oliver

I'd imagine his files are really, really classified.

Felicity

"Really, really classified" sounds really, really fun. I'm on it.

Felicity

Oh, thank god. Please tell me the news that you are bringing is about Emiko and her Ninth Circle buddies because I have had no luck with my "typity-type finding anything" thing.

Dinah

Oh, well, you're in luck now. Dante, not so much. A couple SCPD beat cops found his body this morning.

Rene

Let me guess, not from natural causes.

Dinah

Not unless you call three arrows and a knife to the chest natural.

Diggle

This was after you told Emiko that Dante killed her mother. Can't be a coincidence.

Oliver

No. She went ahead and killed the only father figure she had left.

Felicity

Right. So that's a "no" on the evil sister redeeming herself, then.

Dinah

Two innocent people are dead, and we're covering it up.

Oliver

Dinah, if someone on this team goes down, this entire team goes down.

Diggle

He's absolutely right. And if Pollard knew the truth, we would be sitting in lockup while the city rehashes whether vigilantes are a threat or not.

Felicity

Which would free Emiko up for evil plan B.

Rene

But Roy is not a part of this team. He's been gone for months doing who knows what.

Oliver

With due respect, you don't know what he's been through. Roy is and always will be as much a part of this team as the rest of us.

Oliver

What do you want?

Emiko

For you to suffer the way I suffered. You and your team are gonna die in there. And I will be out there destroying your legacy. You'll die a villain just like our father did, and I will be the cause of both of your deaths. And justice will finally be served.

Oliver

What did you say?

Emiko

I had the chance to warn our father about the Gambit. It was rigged to explode, and I knew about it. I let our father die because he didn't deserve to live. And neither do you. [holding up a detonator] Bye, brother.

Tommy

Again, I would like to point out how structurally unsound this building appears to be, so maybe upping the payload is no the best option.

Oliver

It's a risk I have to take. This is it. After this, I'm out of options.

Tommy

Are you, or is this just typical Oliver? Now come on, man. Don't you ever wonder why you keep finding yourself in positions like this where things just keep getting worse?

Oliver

I'm here for one reason and one reason only - Emiko.

Tommy

Right. Emiko, your half sister.

Oliver

Her being my half sister doesn't matter. What matters is finding her and stopping her before she hurts anyone else. It's a strategy you should appreciate.

Tommy

Why? Because of what my father did to the Glades?

Oliver

No, Tommy, because of what he did to you! Any idea what it's like to - to - to run a scenario through your head a million times, just wondering if you could've just listen to me a little bit sooner, because you didn't because you were blinded by the face that he was your father. Maybe you'd still be alive today.

Tommy

But I didn't listen, and I didn't make the right choice, at least not until it was too late, because I was stuck, Oliver, in my own cycle, my father's cycle, just like you are and just like you will continue to be if you don't break free.

Oliver

No. No. You're wrong. This isn't about me. This is not about my father. This is about Emiko, and the choices that she made, they are on her.

Felicity

Well, since we're on the subject of good-byes, we have an announcement, too. Hmm?

Oliver

We're stepping back. We're leaving Star City. Not forever, but, uh, for now.

Rene

You just saved the city. You don't want to take a victory lap?

Oliver

I didn't do anything. Our team did.

Felicity

The fact that the city if safe is the reason we can leave.

Oliver

I've spent a long time thinking about my legacy as the Green Arrow. I always hoped it would be saving the city. But now I know that my greatest legacy is this team. I started this mission alone. I was certain that I would end it alone, but the truth of the matter is that every bit of success that I've had along the way is because of all of you. The city if safe because of your courage, your compassion, your selflessness, and your loyalty.

Diggle

Courage, compassion, selflessness, loyalty. Oliver, that sounds like the 4 pillars of heroism to me.

Dinah

We should find a way to remember them to symbolize we will al be there for each other always no matter what.

Felicity

Ooh, like a signal, you know. One of us is in trouble, we'll all come running, including you, Roy.

Oliver

We should just call it the Mark of Four, right?

Felicity

That's brilliant.

Oliver

Man, I really hope this isn't the last time we're all in this bunker together.

Diggle

Hear! Hear! But does feel like the end of an era.

Felicity

OK, well, let's just try to think of it as the beginning of a new one.

Oliver

Now? [The Monitor nods] I thought I had more time.

Monitor

The universe is a complex piece of machinery, and balance must be maintained. One change requires another. How do you propose I keep the balance?

Oliver

Will you help me save Barry and Kara or not?

Monitor

No. But I will give you the means to save them.

Oliver

Tell me what you need in exchange.

Monitor

Whatever the multiverse requires to survive the crisis that is looming. When it is time.

Oliver

It's OK. So what bargain have I made? What does the Multiverse require?

Monitor

You assist me as we seek to prevent the inevitable.

Oliver

But that sounds impossible.

Monitor

The multiverse is more complex than you could fathom

Oliver

What are you not telling me?

Monitor

I've seen your future, Oliver, inexorable and unavoidable. I have watched you die.

Oliver

During this crisis?

Monitor

I am truly sorry.

Felicity

No. You are not taking him.

Oliver

Felicity.

Felicity

Oliver.

Monitor

I am not here to bring harm to you or your daughter. Trust me, the world needs her.

Felicity

You think that I'm just going to let you leave here with my husband's life?

Oliver

This is bigger than us...than all of us.

Felicity

Why does it always have to be you?

Monitor

I cannot prevent his passing, but he can prevent the deaths of countless more, including you and your daughter. But he needs to come with me tonight.

Felicity

This is why we can't have a normal life. This is why our children will never have normal lives.

Oliver

I had to make the deal.

Felicity

Oh, there's always gonna be some danger or some threat; the League of Assassins or HIVE or the Ninth Circle or... the end of the friggin' universe.

Oliver

I need you to make me a promise.

Felicity

Yeah, okay.

Oliver

No matter what happens to me - no matter what - you need to do everything in your power... you... you need to keep William and Mia safe.

Felicity

I will keep them safe. But wherever you go... whatever happens to you... you'll never leave me. On our wedding day, you told me that I was the best part of you, but the truth is... we are the best parts of each other. And that is so much bigger than the friggin' universe.

Oliver

When I came back to Star City to start my mission, I didn't think that I was capable or deserving of love. But you opened up my heart in ways that I never th... thought were possible. My only regret is not telling you I loved you sooner.

Felicity

No regrets.

Oliver

Would you tell Mia that I love her every day? And I know that she will grow up to be as smart and as beautiful as her mom.

Felicity

I will find you... again. I promise.

Oliver

I love you.

Felicity

I love you so much.

Diggle

You know, Oliver, it's interesting that we're revisiting where we first met. You going at it alone is like deja vu. I thought you and I were past that.

Oliver

This is new. It's bigger. And I'm not going to ask you to take the risk it involves.

Diggle

Oliver, that's the thing about being brothers. You never, ever have to ask.

Oliver

Can you just believe me when I you tell this is different?

Diggle

Yeah. Felicity told me. Some godlike being talking about the end of the universe? What didn't she tell me, Oliver?

Oliver

A crisis is coming, John. He's seen what happens. He's watched me die.

You don't have to do this.

Oliver

I was thinking the same thing. This is not what Thea would have wanted!

Well, that's funny. You know what she used to say?

Oliver

"The dead don't want anything."

It's one of the benefits of being dead.

Oliver

The city's lucky to have a hero like you in it.

Black Siren

Wow. That might be the nicest thing you've ever said to me. Thank you.

You're from a parallel universe, aren't you? The Hood from another reality?

Diggle

How did you know that?

Bruce Wayne once told me that if you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Oliver

Well, as The Hood from a parallel universe, may I offer you some advice? Change "The Hood" to Green Arrow. Trust me.

Monitor

I warned you not to interfere.

Oliver

You didn't bring us here?

Monitor

No. And I discovered what had transpired on Earth-2. But when you intervened to save Laurel Lance, I redirected you.

Oliver

What the hell happened back there?

Monitor

A herald of what is to come. An entire world erased from existence.

Oliver

Where's my mother? Where's... where's Tommy? Where's... where's.... where's Rene? Where's Dinah?

Monitor

They are no more.

Oliver

Did you hurt John and Laurel?

Monitor

Don't worry. They're fine, they're alive and they're nearby. But now you know that if we fail to stop the coming crisis, what you witnessed on Earth-2 will occur on infinite Earths across the expanse of time.

Oliver

Question: Does that include Earth-38?

Monitor

That is for me to know and for Kara Zor-El to discover. But that's not important right now.

Oliver

How did I fail?! Your dwarf star particles are right there! [points to the bag of dwarf star particles on a rack]

Monitor

You disobeyed my instructions to avoid entanglements on a parallel Earth. You confronted Tommy Merlyn and you altered the fate of Laurel Lance.

Oliver

I watched her die once. Okay? I wasn't prepared to do it again.

Monitor

That's because you were not a man accustomed to following orders. But the survival of the Multiverse requires that you obey mine.

Oliver

Where are we now?

Monitor

Your own Earth, where you'll complete your next task. There's a man named Dr. Robert Wong. Bring him to me.

Oliver

Why?

Monitor

Now that is not your concern. [Their conversation is interrupted by a desperate knock on the door] You've already failed me once. Do not fail me again. [Vanishes in a puff of smoke along with the bag of dwarf star particles]

Oliver

Why are you in Hong Kong? I thought you were with the Crescent Order.

I was, until I gave Nyssa the lotus cure to save your sister, and they called for my head.

Diggle

So you decided to become a vigilante?

My son died in this city. No more Akios will die here as long as I'm here to protect them. That explains what I'm doing here.

Diggle

It's all you, man.

Oliver

Last year, I made a deal with a cosmic being named Mar Novu. Recently, he came to collect. He asked me to help him, but he's not very good at sharing information with the people he's working with.

Thea

Sounds like somebody else I know.