Dinah Drake quotes from Arrow

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.

Dinah

You know what else we did tonight? We forced Pollard's hand. I leveraged her relationship with Midas to convince her to sign off on creating a special vigilante task force. We're still sanctioned by the SCPD, but we're operating as our own unit out of the Bunker in our suits.

Oliver

And the anti-vigilante law?

Dinah

It's on her desk for repeal. She's gonna sign it.

Rene

So we're like the black ops for the SCPD now? That's cool.

Diggle

I'm just glad we're all back. It feels right.

Oliver

I'll second that. It's nice to be part of a team again.

Dinah

Believe me, there is nothing I would love more than to see those sons of bitches pay for what they did to my girls.

Mia

So why don't you?

Dinah

Because I know I can't do it alone, and neither can you.

Mia

Then come with me. Instead of hiding in the shadows, let's take this fight to Galaxy One, make them pay for blood with blood.

Dinah

Sometimes, I don't know who you sound more like - your mother or your father. Do you know why I started the Canaries, what is represents? This is more than just some rebellion group. It's a support system. This is a way for women to know we have each other's backs no matter what happens, whenever we need it most, something I failed to do for a friend once, but ever since that happened with her, I made a promise to myself that I would never make that mistake again. That's why we wear these. To honor that promise and the bravery and the sacrifice shared with these amazing women, who somehow - no matter how many times they get knocked down - they always find the strength to get back and fight again and that is exactly what the surviving Canaries are going to do together but when the time is right.

Mia

It's too bad I'm not a canary.

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.

Felicity

Let's get real. Emiko and the Ninth Circle know our faces. Roy was our ace in the hole.

Dinah

So you risked your new relationship with the SCPD by teaming up with a criminal.

Felicity

Former criminal. Roy left the city four years ago, and he's been on the straight and narrow ever since.

Dinah

Are you sure about that?

Felicity

Yes, I'm sure about that.

Dinah

Because we traced Harper's whereabouts after he faked his death in prison to get Oliver Queen off the hook, and his trail went cold in March of last year.

Felicity

Oh. You mean when Ricardo Diaz kidnapped Roy to turn him against Oliver? You might have forgotten about that since you weren't exactly on speaking terms with Oliver and I at the time.

Dinah

It still doesn't explain where he went after getting freed from Diaz.

Felicity

I'm sure the kidnapping was extremely traumatic. He probably just went to go get some R and R; some Roy relaxation. [seeing Dinah's stony face] Not funny. I see that now.

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.

Dinah

You must be a pretty big idiot, risking your life like that.

Roy

Well, we're alive, aren't we?

Dinah

You're lucky to be.

Roy

I'm surprised you even care if I made it out alive or not.

Dinah

Of course I care. You're our teammate.

Roy

Maybe I shouldn't be. You lost everything to protect me, and you don't even know me. Those guard that I killed, they're innocent. They had families.

Dinah

What you did back there, it was awful, but we all know it was the bloodlust, Roy. That wasn't you.

Roy

No. That doesn't change the face that I put everyone else around me at risk. You should have just let me to go to prison.

Dinah

I was wrong. We all make mistakes. I was just pissed because we had just lost everything. That doesn't mean I want you dead.

Roy

Maybe it's best if I'm 6 feet under.

Dinah

Dying is the coward's way out. Every day that you stay alive, you try redeem yourself for that messed-up thing you did because this world is a better place with a hero like you.

Felicity

What do you think is worse, Emiko being in possession of a bioweapon or the team being Star City's most wanted?

Rene

Can I choose both?

Dinah

I'm going to go with the warrants out for our arrests. The real us, not the vigilante us, which means our lives in this city are over.

Roy

Been there before.

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.

Dinah

Hey. If you want me to stop training Zoe, I will.

Rene

Nah. I can't keep her in a bubble, just like you can't stop being a cop and I can't stop running for office.

Black Siren

So don't. Not all of the future was bad, right? Just do the good stuff.

Dinah

Come on. I mean, the Canary Network's not a bad idea. Could be useful.

Rene

Then why wait for a future we can start making right now?

Rene

Guess I shouldn't be surprised the Black Canary knows how to fly.

Dinah

Flying's easy. Landing's the hard part. [Rene and Roy look at her in alarmed concern] Kidding.

Laurel

I'm not going to lie. Your zen is kind of creeping me out.

Dinah

Thank you.

Laurel

Oh, to be in my 20s again.

Dinah

Ick. Hard pass. I was married at 21.

Laurel

Seriously? Who are you?

Laurel

You know, I could get used to all this free alcohol.

Dinah

So that means you will not be paying your tab downstairs?

Laurel

I thought it was a friends drink for free kind of place.