Malcolm Merlyn quotes from Arrow

Malcolm

[amused] Don't be embarrassed. Performance issues are common for men of your age.

Malcolm Merlyn

What are your thoughts, Oliver?

Oliver

I think the vigilante needs a better code name then "The Hood" or "The Hood Guy."

I agree. How about Green Arrow?

Oliver

Lame.

Malcolm

I'm being honored by the Starling City Municipal Group. They're honoring me with their annual humanitarian award.

Tommy

What, they ran out of actual humans to give it to?

Oliver

Malcolm Merlyn... You have failed this city.

Malcolm

And how have I done that?

Oliver

The Undertaking. It ends now.

Diggle

[on earpiece] Oliver, the device... It's gone.

Oliver

Where's the device?

Malcolm

Safe. I don't know how you got that trojan onto my system, but it prompted me to take precautions. There is nothing you can do to stop what is about to happen. And you shouldn't. This city needs what is about to happen in order to survive. The people who are destroying it from the inside need to be erased from the map.

Oliver

Fine. Let's start with you. [fires an arrow, which Malcolm catches]

Malcolm

Ironic, isn't it? Last Christmas, I almost killed you. A few months ago, you saved my life. And now you're here to trying to kill me. You should make up your mind.

Oliver

Done.

Malcolm

She bled out into the pavement while people passed and did nothing. Your mother build her clinic in the Glades because she wanted to save this city. It can't be saved, because the people there don't want to be saved.

Tommy

So you kill them all?

Malcolm

[furious] YES! They deserve to die. All of them! The way she died!

Malcolm

Welcome, gentlemen. I've been waiting for you. I wanted to see you watch your city die.

Oliver

Where's the transmitter?

Malcolm

Somewhere I can easily get to it.

Diggle

I doubt it. You'd be too dead.

Malcolm

Don't struggle. It's over. There was never any doubt in the outcome. Don't worry. Your mother and sister will be joining you in death.

Oliver

[stabs Malcolm with arrow] Thank you for teaching me what I'm fighting for. But my father taught me how.

Malcolm

[whistles twice, then says "woof"] I know. The predictability was a terrible flaw in the design.

Thea

Predictability is your flaw, too. Every time my life starts to suck, you show up.