Ray Palmer quotes from Arrow

Ray

You make it sound like using an advanced exoskeleton to fight crime and save the city is a Looney Tunes idea.

Ray

[to Felicity] See? That's why I need a technosuit.

Oliver

Two years ago, the people of Starling City thought I was dead. I came back. And so can Queen Consolidated. With Starling National Bank's new investment, we can take QC out of receivership and into the future. This company is my family, and as my mother always said: There is nothing more important to me than family. Thank you.

Ray Palmer

[to Oliver] Good speech, hard to top. [walks to the front of the table] Thank you all for coming out today. I promise to be brief, if not a little entertaining. [to a female board member] Ah, that's one of my new smartwatches. I'm very proud of those. You like it? It works for you? Yeah, good. Anyway, science, numbers. I like numbers. These numbers show QC's performance under Mr. Queen's management. I'm using that term extremely loosely B.T.W. Also, B.T.W, these numbers aren't sanitized for Wall Street, this is raw information from your company's own servers.

Oliver

[to Felicity] How did he get into our computers?

Felicity

Something tells me he deployed a remote administration tool.

Ray

But the truth is, this company's woes are a symptom of a much larger problem. And that problem is Starling City. Queen Consolidated can't hope to survive if the city it's located in is dying, and guess what? It is. Nobody wants to live here anymore. And after two terrorist attacks, who can blame them? This city still needs saving. And that is my vision for this company: To not only see it rise from the ashes, but to take this city with it to that new horizon. And that new day has a name. [points at a slide with the text "Star City"]

Ray

You know, most girls would be flattered that I spent $1.2 billion just to hire them, even if I do have a fairly genius plan for rebranding the stores.

Felicity

In case you haven't noticed, I am not most girls and I don't need this. Or you. Or any of this.

Felicity

This dress... costs more than my apartment.

Ray

Yeah. Couture, which I'm pretty sure is French for "expensive". [Felicity handles the dress, smelling it and keening] So, dinner? Purely platonic.

Felicity

There is nothing platonic about couture.

Felicity

[whispering to the dress] You and I are going to be best friends.

Felicity

And by help, you mean money and counsel, and not a suit powered by... dwarf star alloy that fires lasers at people?

Ray

Well, they aren't lasers. That would be ridiculous. They're compressed hard light beams.

Ray

I gotta be honest, I'd feel a little more confident in your aeronautic abilities if you knew, for instance, that helicopters don't actually have keys.

Felicity

They don't have keys?

Ray

No.

Felicity

Is it on the roof?

Ray

Yeah, it's on the roof.

Ray

I thought you weren't gonna help with my suicide mission.

Felicity

Well, that's the thing. With my help, you might not wind up dead.

Felicity

Did you get locked out of the Palmer Technologies server? That's a shame.

Ray

You did this?

Felicity

I just came from a friend of mine who has his head shoved so far up his colon that - and I'm pretty sure this is true - he's literally going to get himself killed. Him, I can't do anything about. You're a different story.

Ray

Great. Why don't you tell me the story while you unlock the atom subroutine directory?

Felicity

You have two options, Ray. Option one - you can find the way to break through the encryption that I used to lock up your server, which by my calculations, will take you roughly 6.25 hours. Or you can use that time to eat a proper meal, take a shower, and get no less than five hours of sleep, at the completion of which I will give you the password.

Ray

I see.

Felicity

It's your choice, but I highly recommend option two, because this whole situation has gone from endearingly eccentric to creepily not okay.

Ray

If I'd had the energy, I think I'd be getting angry right now, but instead... I'll just take option two.

Felicity

That's a wise choice. After your dinner and a shower, I am taking you straight to bed. [pauses] Putting you. Why do I do that?

Ray

This isn't the first time he's been judge, jury and executioner.

Felicity

He hasn’t killed anyone in nearly two years.

Ray

That really is not your best argument.

Ray

Arrow.

Oliver

Super Suit.

Ray

I prefer "The Atom."

Ray

Still nothing. Not a visual sighting or any other reading at all from The Atom. And when I say Atom, I mean the suit, not myself in the third person.

Oliver

[to Felicity] Is there a decent chance that you and Palmer are related?

Ray

I need shields.

Oliver

That's not the answer. You need to anticipate your opponent. You need to trust your instincts and not just your tech.

Ray

My instinct is to trust my tech.

Oliver

Ray, when I'm out in the field, my bow, my arrows, those are just tools. I'm the weapon.

Ray

That's poetic.

Oliver

My point is that if you rely on your suit more than you rely on yourself... it's going to get you killed.

I'm sorry, but the blonde can't come to the phone at the moment.

Ray

I swear to God, if you hurt her...

You'll what? Fly away again? I am talking to the man in the suit, right? The one who thinks a piece of scrap metal makes him some kind of hero? It doesn't.

Felicity

I can't believe he's gonna marry her.

You should worry more about getting out of here alive.

Ray

Is that even a remote possibility?

Laurel

Oliver would never let that happen.

Diggle

He let this happen.