DiggleOkay. Do you know what your superpower is?
Diggle
Empathy. Big, reflexive, pure empathy.
Well, maybe I'm fresh out.
Diggle
Because of Billy.
It's a dark world. And for the past four years. I have watched you and Oliver, and Laurel and Thea and Roy, I've watched all of you use a little darkness to fight it.
Diggle
That's true. Sometimes we do fight fire with fire. But every time we do, Felicity, every single time,... we risk being burned.
Really? Oliver can't go after Chase himself, so he finds guys who can.
He let them steal from a company that was barely hanging on. Oliver put hundreds of jobs on the line, and I know he knows that 'cause I was in the same briefing.
Speaking of which, why haven't you gone back into City Hall?
Diggle
Because Lance banned him 'til Chase is taken off the board. Something to do with Rene threatening to pop a cap in his ass.
Chase is being transferred into Federal protection. Which means that the Bratva can't get to him.
Diggle
You're welcome.
[Oliver punches Diggle in the jaw, so hard that Diggle almost goes down.]
Diggle
Feel better?
Diggle
We're not done, Oliver. You and me, we're never gonna be done. You understand that? Listen, man, you can tell me that you're a serial killer. That you're crazy. Or you're whatever Chase has shoved into your head. But I'm not believing any of that, even if you do. And that's because I know the kind of man you are, Oliver. The good, the bad and the ugly, I know! And you don't need to punish yourself or isolate yourself. But what you need to do is stop pushing me away! Because I'm not going anywhere, Oliver! Do you get that?!
What do you want me to do, John? I've told you what I am. Who I am. And even if you don't believe it, I do. [softly] I do. So I don't know where that leaves us.
Diggle
It leaves us right back at Langham, Oliver. You remember that? I killed my brother, Oliver. And I was gonna let myself rot in prison for what I did. But you told me to atone for what I did as Spartan. And if that's true for me, then it's one hundred times truer for the Green Arrow. You don't just get to walk away from this, man. The Hood is who you are. You don't think you deserve it? Fine. Work to become the man who does.
Diggle
You just ask for help. You don't have to do this alone, Oliver.
Gotta say, this team is never boring. I didn't think I'd be doing this when I woke up this morning.
Oliver and Felicity might suffocate! How can you be so glib?
You've met me, right? And how come your toy balls can't float down here and do this for us?
For the 1000th time Rene, they're called T-Spheres! But if you want, call them by their proper name.
Kodo and Podo. You know, Dar's thieving little ferrets on The Beastmaster. Let's just say, a young Marc Singer was quite helpful in me discovering my homosexuality.
And my heterosexuality. On an open channel by the way.
Diggle
Open line!
Look, I can't get my T-Spheres because they are in the bunker, and therefore fried. So, whatever.
I swear those two are going to make the cutest couple one day.
[Lyla gives Diggle a file]
Diggle
What is this?
It's an audit of every black-op I've signed off on as director of ARGUS.
Diggle
Why are you giving me this?
I don't want there to be any more secrets between us John. But there is one thing I need to know from you.
Diggle
Name it.
No matter what Oliver Queen does, no matter how morally compromising, you stand behind him.
Diggle
Lyla.
No matter what. Why can't you do that for me?
Diggle
Lyla, I guess I've never really thought of it like that.
Well maybe you should start. Because I'm not Oliver, Johnny, I'm your wife. And even though I disagree with many of your choices, I trusted those choices. I trusted you. I think I deserve the same consideration.
[At Oliver's surprise birthday party]
I love the cake. Where did you get it?
Diggle
How 'bout the number "six"? Is that for the number of members of the team?
Actually, I ordered the cake for a six-year-old, because I wasn't sure that I could order a Green Arrow cake for a grown man.
Well, hey, Oliver's a child at heart, right? [off Oliver's look] That is the concussion talking, yep. For sure.
I'm really sorry about that, Curtis.
Well, it's okay. But you should know, that if I had my T-spheres, I would have....
[chagrined] ... Would have still been on the floor.
Diggle
Look, every time I've had to give orders in the army, on this team, there was always someone there backing my plays. I'm not used to making the hard calls alone. No one is more disappointed in me than me.
Well, next time, get it right. Our lives depend on it.
Diggle
I don't know how you did it. You never hesitate to make the call. You were always sure. I'm not.
I was never sure. Not one time. I'm very flattered that it looked that way on the outside, but on the inside, it was... it was instinct. It was instinct and it was fear.
Diggle
Yeah, but you worked past it.
Well, you'll work past it, too. Now I'm not gonna sit here and say that you won't... make mistakes. That you won't... lose people along the way. You know, most... most will be strangers, but some... well, some won't be. Because, John, you're one of the main reasons that the Green Arrow even exists.
Diggle
What're you talking about?
Diggle
The bank robbers.
The bank robbers, yeah. You were the first person to convince me to look past just the names on my father's list. You helped me discover that the Hood, that persona, he wasn't a hero. You helped me find what all of this, the Green Arrow, the idea of it, it exists because you had faith in me. Now you gotta have the same kind of faith in yourself. Because if you do, you can be a better leader. You can be a better hero than I ever was.
Diggle
[to the team] Let's move out. [leaves to get ready]
Did he forget to say "Suit up"? Or was "Let's move", like, his version of "Suit up"? Because personally, I like "Let's suit up", 'cause then it just lets you know that you--
RDRene and Dinah
[together] Go suit up, Curtis!
Yeah, go suit up. [Leaves to go suit up.]
You know, I might not be able to figure out where she's (Black Siren) headed, but I might be able to figure out where she was. Now sonic cries leave ripples in the air. I might be able to back trace where Laurel's been and maybe even find out a pattern. Maybe even determine where she's operating out of.
Diggle
I heard two "mights" and two "maybes", but I'll take it.
You're telling me you became the Green Arrow after you knew about the tremor?
Diggle
I was gonna tell Oliver, but then he asked me to take over for him. I couldn't let him down, couldn't let the team down.
But you were physically compromised!
Diggle
I came up with a temporary solution, an experimental steroid. Lyla, I wanted to tell you so bad. I know it was the wrong call, I'm sorry.
I'm just glad you finally told me.
Diggle
And now that I have, I need your help. Is there anything... anything that A.R.G.U.S. is working on that can help my condition?
I thought it was just some kind of steroid.
Diggle
Well, we found out that the manufacturer was involved in, um... criminal activity. He and his crew have killed at least two people, I dunno, maybe more.
Right, so your experimental steroid is actually an illegal drug. Look, if this is what it's taken for you to come clean and get this guy off of the street, then I guess I should be grateful. [seeing Diggle's look] What? [Diggle looks away] You're still using the drug. I guess that means that the drug dealer is out there, too.
Diggle
To be Green Arrow means I have to be physically capable protecting this city, no matter what. Lyla, you make the same choices at A.R.G.U.S. all the time.
Choices you've condemned me for making!
Diggle
I know I'm wrong, but I couldn't let Oliver down.
So you let yourself down instead. Johnny, you are the most moral man I know. I can't even begin to fathom how you could do this.
Diggle
As soon as A.R.G.U.S. has a solution, I will get my guy off the street.
And till then, how many more people is this guy going to kill?
Diggle
It's not that simple. It's not that simple!
You're the one who taught me that it is.
We have a problem. We have a massively huge problem. And considering it's in the same week Oliver's been arrested--
Diggle
What is it?
The nanothermite when combined with the explosive creates a thermobaric weapon.
Diggle
What's a thermobaric weapon?
It... disperses what is essentially a cloud of fire, and then pressure cooks everything within two hundred yards.
I'm guessing we've given up hope that Cayden James has to cook a lot of turkeys for Thanksgiving.
I'm running a surveillance on Curtis, Dinah and Rene, and I have worms crawling through their texts and emails.
Diggle
You're spying on them?
I'm not spying on them! Like... keeping tabs.
Diggle
Oliver, why not just confront whoever this is and give them the chance to come clean?
What makes you think they're gonna be forthcoming? How do we know that this isn't just the surface of this betrayal? I mean... look, John, I don't want to spy on them, but if you have a better idea... I'm all for it.
Someone goes somewhere suspicious, we'll know.
Diggle
Felicity, we were all just at the wedding. The most suspicious place they can go is out for late-night pizza.
John, either Curtis, Dinah or Rene gave me up. We need to know why, we need to know who. Otherwise, when you put the hood back on, you could be next.
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