Dinah Drake quotes from Arrow

Dinah

I know I'm the last person who should be giving you relationship advice.

Curtis

Yet, you're about to give me some.

Dinah

It's more of a life philosophy. Just live in the moment. Because you can only see the stuff that's ahead of you, you don't know what's at the end of the road.

Oliver

I know that you have put your vendetta aside for the sake of the mission.

Dinah

And you want to make sure I keep it that way.

Oliver

I want to say "Thank you". It takes a very big person to not seek vengeance for someone they love. If I haven't always been sensitive to that,... I'm truly sorry.

Dinah

I'm sorry I was so hard on you. You know, the truth is... I respect you more that you could ever know. You put together a team of heroes. It's no small thing. [shakes hands with Oliver]

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.

Black Siren

Isn't baby-sitting a little below your pay grade?

Dinah

Way below, but the SCPD is going to keep you safe, whether you want us to or not.

Black Siren

OK, fine, whatever. Suit yourself. You might as well make yourself useful while you're here and go get me a coffee. Two sugars, no cream.

Dinah

That's never happening.

Black Siren

I know that Quentin wasn't my father. Not... not the father that raised me, anyway. And... I guess I had just forgotten what it felt like to have someone who cared about me. And losing him, it was the worst pain that I've felt in a very long time. And I can only imagine how you must have felt after Vinny's death.

Dinah

Please don't.

Black Siren

Listen, I don't expect you to forgive me. But I have to tell you that I am truly sorry about killing Vinny. And I hope one day, you'll see that I am not that person. Not anymore.

Hi, Roy. William.

William

Wh... what are you doing here?

I'm with the vigilante resistance. One of the few left fighting to save Star City.

Roy

Is your dad here, too?

My dad wouldn't be caught dead in Star City.

Dinah

This map shows secret routes in and out of the Glades. Where did you get this?

William

Felicity. She's the one who sent us to Star City.

Dinah

No, that's impossible. William, I'm so sorry to be the one to tell you this, but... Felicity Smoak is dead.

Dinah

Since when are you two friends?

Felicity

Well, we decided to start a support group for women who've been attacked by Diaz.

Black Siren

Or his assassins. Do you care to join?

Dinah

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.

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.

Dinah

It seems like you were about to open your mouth and do something you're going to regret, counselor.

Black Siren

I'm not an attorney, as you've reminded me many times.

Dinah

You sure looked like one in that courtroom today.

Black Siren

Yeah, well, it doesn't matter, does it? Oliver's not getting out of prison. Now if you don't mind, I have some unfinished business with that judge.

Dinah

Did you even bother to listen yourself in court? You spoke from your heart. Yeah, big surprise, by the way, you do have one. You said the hardest thing to do was to be a hero when no one expects you to be; the easier path is to be a criminal.

Black Siren

What do you care, anyway? If anybody knows the true me, the real me, it's you.

Dinah

You know, you've been telling people for six months now you've changed. It wasn't until I saw you in that courtroom that I actually believed it. Do not throw that away just because it's getting hard now.

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?

William

You know, Roy told me this would only bring me pain, and he was right. I'm going home.

Dinah

Just like that, huh, without any answers?

William

Felicity is dead. And before that, she had a plan to blow up an entire city. So I'm not sire exactly why I'm supposed to care about what happened to her. I'm just sorry I dragged you all into this.

Dinah

You need to see something. [unrolls her jacket sleeve showing a tattoo] It's called the mark of four. Your dad came up with it.

William

I don't remember that.

Dinah

You were already gone. It was right before everything. It symbolizes the 4 pillars of heroism - courage, compassion, selflessness, and loyalty. We all got them as a reminder that no matter what happened, if one of us was in trouble, the other ones would be there. That's why Roy came with you back to Star City. He saw the symbol written on the inside of your father's bow.

William

So that's why you're helping us?

Dinah

I didn't know what to make of you at first. Trust doesn't come so easy.

William

Yeah? So what changed?

Dinah

I started seeing the best part of your dad in you - the strength that made him a hero.

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?

Oliver

So, not everyone is excited about our new partnership, I see.

Dinah

It's gonna take some time for them to get used to the Green Arrow wearing a badge. But, hey, this is the best lead we've had on finding out who's under that hood.

Oliver

It shouldn't take too long to analyze the blood.

Dinah

By "not long," you mean at least a week. My crime lab is buried under mountains of evidence.

Oliver

There's another option. [seeing her expression] Dinah, why is the SCPD working with the Green Arrow if you are not going to use my resources?

Oliver

I wore that mask for a reason. Now that I've taken it off, maybe the consequences are finally catching up with me.

Dinah

Well, you can't take responsibility for every choice some lunatic makes, you know?

Oliver

No. I have to take responsibility for this. Me being on the force puts your reputation at risk, and it's putting lives in danger.

Dinah

Cops face risks every day. That is the job. And you are not putting anyone's life in danger, not unless you stop fighting for them. You think you're gonna do one interview, and all of a sudden your problems go away overnight?

Oliver

I think I have been so obsessed with proving to people I'm not my father that I didn't stop and at look at all the ways that I am exactly like him. I should have come clean with Sam years ago.

Dinah

But you didn't, and you can't stop the past from haunting you. The only thing you have control over is what you do going forward.