There's no need to explain. I just wanted to make sure you're okay.
Felicity
I'm not. I understand why you did what you did. The world is a safer place because Diaz doesn't have that weapon. I was wrong before. You may now be working here at A.R.G.U.S., but you're still honoring Oliver's mission.
But I still can't rest until that I know that my family is safe. Which means I need to work with someone whose focus is bringing down Diaz. And that someone is not you.
My agreement with your husband, it gives you immunity. It doesn't make us allies.
Felicity
Diaz attacked me while I was in protective custody. My husband is in prison. I had to send my son away. Your deal with Oliver ruined my life and the city's. All I'm asking of you is to hold up your side of the bargain.
I'm sorry you were attacked, but it's not my fault your husband's in prison. It was his choice to put on that hood, and it was his choice to turn himself in. Go home. Enjoy your freedom. Leave the crime fighting to me.
Felicity
My husband spent the last six years fighting for the people of this city, risking everything, and now he sits in prison, his life on the line, while this monster gets to walk free. That isn't justice.
Felicity, you don't know what you're saying. Torturing someone is a line you do not want to cross. When the Navy discharged me for what I did to a prisoner, I learned the lesson about the cost to my humanity because I still have nightmares of what I did, even though I saved lives. So when Tobias Church tortured me for over twenty hours, it was the universe paying me back. That's evil for evil.
Felicity
I'm sorry about that. I am. Church broke you. You gave up Oliver's identity, Rene. It worked. She tried to kill Dinah and Laurel and us. Diaz hired her. He's not gonna stop coming after us until we are all dead.
You know I went to MIT, right? It's, like, Harvard for computer geeks, with an acceptance rate of 6.7%, so if I can get in there, I can get in... pretty much anywhere. Except for here, which is why I had to resort to saying that we were sorority sisters.
On my Earth, I loved my father, and my Ollie, but they were taken away from me because they were murdered. It's when you lose the people who matter most, once you get through the grief, you get angry. You want revenge, and I took it. But the darkness... it swallows you the more you feed it, and digging yourself back out to the light, it's... it's really hard. In fact, I wish someone would have warned me before I got blood all over my hands the first time. Then maybe that way, I would have been more like your Laurel.
Uh, thanks, I'll pass, but, hey, maybe you should get back to witness protection and you should on back to Earth Two before you both remember you hate each other.
[on the phone] That doesn't make any sense. Mr. Queen has two hours of visitation left this month, so I suggest you get it straighted out, or I will have the U.S. Attorney so far up your ass that you'll have to turn to the left and cough.
Felicity
Whew! I mean, no offense to Black Siren, but I actually think you're scarier as an attorney.
Yeah. Of course I'm angry. You threaten my life, but I don't like apologies. You cannot take away mistake by wishing it so. In my line of work, you make choice, you do not look back.
Felicity
Ah. So you don't regret working against us with Diaz last year?
Well, then you embrace demons. No more half measures. When I work with Oliver in Russia, he was not villain, but he did what needed to be done. You remind of him then.
Felicity
What would that Oliver have done in this situation?
Hey, this isn't you. You don't obsess over security. You certainly don't carry a gun.
Felicity
This is me, Oliver, not because I was influenced by Laurel or Anatoly. This is me because of you. You were the one that decided all on your own that you were going to sacrifice yourself, leaving your son and your wife alone at home as sitting ducks for Diaz. And the best part of the whole thing is that you didn't even ask how you felt about it.
I've already apologized for this. I don't know how many times you need me to apologize.
Felicity
What am I supposed to do with an apology, Oliver? I'm just supposed to move on? While you were gone, I had to figure out how to survive. And I am glad that I did because the old me, she was weak.
You know, even after everything that I've learned about my father, I... just never expected anything like this. He ruined Emiko's life. Just... abandonded her.
Felicity
Well, you don't have to. You said you didn't want to barge into her life without knowing more about her, and now you do, so what's holding you back?
Oliver, you became the Green Arrow to right your father's wrongs. What your parents did to Emiko and her mother is beyond wrong. You are a better man than your father ever was. Don't make the mistakes that he did. So reach out to your sister. Make things right.
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