Rene Ramirez quotes from Arrow

Hey, dad, my bag's leaking.

Rene

Uh, nothing a little duct tape can't fix.

Are we ever gonna get new stuff? This bag's kinda gross.

Rene

Still waiting to hit that lottery, Zoe. Besides, gross builds character.

Dinah

What'd you find?

Curtis

How Stent's been making his money. And it's not from defrauding pensions. He's been peddling black-market arms.

Rene

What kind of dumbass leaves his entire criminal enterprise online?

Curtis

He was actually pretty smart about it. Kept himself clean, off the radar, activities washed through a series of shell corporations. I just happen to be smarter. Boo-yah.

Dinah

I should be arresting you for the crap you pulled the other night. Do you have any idea the position you're putting me in, Rene?

Rene

Hey, look, I'm sorry, D, all right? But I couldn't let you lock him up. He's not a criminal, and you know it.

Dinah

No, I don't. And it's not a leap of faith I'm willing to take. You know, I am working so hard to restore the city's faith in the men and women who serve it. Rene, if you go out there as Wild Dog again, I will not hesitate to lock you up just like that vigilante.

Rene

Are you serious, D?

Dinah

I just want you to think long and hard about what that means, okay? For these kids and for Zoe, and for our city, man. 'Cause I'm not gonna give you a second warning.

Rene

Back in town a week and you're already sneaking out of A.R.G.U.S. behind Papa Dig's back? I'm so proud.

Felicity

[fist bumping] Thanks, man.

Curtis

Don't encourage her.

Rene

Any luck?

Felicity

No. Actually think she might be enjoying herself. We're gonna need to turn up the heat.

Rene

Any hotter, she'll turn into soup.

Felicity

No, I meant turn up the stakes, do whatever it takes to make her give us the information.

Rene

You don't mean torture?

Felicity

I don't not mean it.

Rene

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.

Black Siren

We planted a tracker on the Silencer's belt. Obviously, Diaz must have found it and is using it as bait against us.

Dinah

How did you manage that? You were nowhere near the Silencer at the CDC.

Curtis

That thing at the CDC was you guys?

Rene

Uh, Felicity wasn't near her. I was. We snuck her out together.

Dinah

So you two captured the Silencer?

Rene

But Felicity and Laurel were the ones that tortured her.

Black Siren

Actually, I convinced her not to. You're welcome.

Diggle

[to Felicity] So now you're working with Laurel?

Black Siren

I'm standing right here.

Dinah

To be fair, she did help shut down that illegal psychiatric program at Slabside.

Rene

Wait. Hold on a sec. You're gonna give me crap about working with the new Green Arrow, and meanwhile, you're siding with the Black frickin' Siren?

Black Siren

Again, still here.

Rene

This event is messed up. Rich folk and politicians fronting like they don't care about prison reform. If everybody in here gave a crap, they'd use that money to help people in hard-up neighborhoods and who end up in the system because they don't have anything else. What?

Dinah

You ever think about running for office?

Oliver

It says here the S.C.P.D. nearly arrested him last month. But he had an accomplice?

Rene

Uh, yeah, that - that was me. I, um, I didn't want Diana to lock him up.

Oliver

Oh, I bet she really appreciated that.

Rene

She threw my ass in jail.

Oliver

I'm really sorry I missed that.

Green Arrow

I said, come alone.

Rene

These are my friends. You already met Captain Drake. You can trust them.

Dinah

We only want to talk.

Green Arrow

I'll pass.

Oliver

A piece of advice from one Green Arrow to another: cooperate. Because of right now, must of the people of Star City think you're a killer. Are you?

They're planning to set off multiple bombs, and we need to find out where. I want you to give the SCPD access to the Archer program.

Rene

You want me to use our security system, the very thing that keeps us safe, to help Star City? You're out of your mind.

You're the mayor. You have a responsibility...

Rene

Don't you dare talk to me about my responsibility! When the Glades needed help, no one came to our rescue.

Dad, if this bomb goes off, thousands of people could die. How could you turn your back on that?

Rene

The Archer program wiped out crime in the Glades and helped it thrive. You do remember what happened when it fell in the wrong hands once. And we barely recovered.

Oh, so I'm "the wrong hands"?

Rene

You know that's not what I meant.

You know what I know is? Is that you used to stand up for anyone in need. It didn't matter which part of town they were from; you were a hero. What happened to you?

Rene

This is turning out to be one hell of a first day on the job.

Curtis

Yeah. Look at us, working together again, being targeted by a homicidal maniac. Feels like a Monday.

Thanks for teaching me, Aunt Dinah. It's so cool learning how to kick ass from the Black Canary.

Rene

Keep kicking the crap out of that shield, and Captain Drake's gonna have to deputize you, too.

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.

Wearing the uniform of an SCPD officer is an honor. It isn't just a uniform. It's a symbol of the law, of justice, of transparency.

Dinah

Thank you, Sergeant Bingsley. Any questions? Rene.

Rene

He does know we have our own uniforms, right?

Dinah

How's my favorite new team of recruits doing?

Rene

Missing the good old days when catching a bad guy didn't involve homework.