Monitor quotes from Arrow

Monitor

Never ceases to impress – humanity's capacity for invention. Infinite numbers of worlds and not a single one where man failed to emerge from cave and hold dominion over the Earth.

Oliver

Now? [The Monitor nods] I thought I had more time.

Monitor

The universe is a complex piece of machinery, and balance must be maintained. One change requires another. How do you propose I keep the balance?

Oliver

Will you help me save Barry and Kara or not?

Monitor

No. But I will give you the means to save them.

Oliver

Tell me what you need in exchange.

Monitor

Whatever the multiverse requires to survive the crisis that is looming. When it is time.

Oliver

It's OK. So what bargain have I made? What does the Multiverse require?

Monitor

You assist me as we seek to prevent the inevitable.

Oliver

But that sounds impossible.

Monitor

The multiverse is more complex than you could fathom

Oliver

What are you not telling me?

Monitor

I've seen your future, Oliver, inexorable and unavoidable. I have watched you die.

Oliver

During this crisis?

Monitor

I am truly sorry.

Felicity

No. You are not taking him.

Oliver

Felicity.

Felicity

Oliver.

Monitor

I am not here to bring harm to you or your daughter. Trust me, the world needs her.

Felicity

You think that I'm just going to let you leave here with my husband's life?

Oliver

This is bigger than us...than all of us.

Felicity

Why does it always have to be you?

Monitor

I cannot prevent his passing, but he can prevent the deaths of countless more, including you and your daughter. But he needs to come with me tonight.

Monitor

I warned you not to interfere.

Oliver

You didn't bring us here?

Monitor

No. And I discovered what had transpired on Earth-2. But when you intervened to save Laurel Lance, I redirected you.

Oliver

What the hell happened back there?

Monitor

A herald of what is to come. An entire world erased from existence.

Oliver

Where's my mother? Where's... where's Tommy? Where's... where's.... where's Rene? Where's Dinah?

Monitor

They are no more.

Oliver

Did you hurt John and Laurel?

Monitor

Don't worry. They're fine, they're alive and they're nearby. But now you know that if we fail to stop the coming crisis, what you witnessed on Earth-2 will occur on infinite Earths across the expanse of time.

Oliver

Question: Does that include Earth-38?

Monitor

That is for me to know and for Kara Zor-El to discover. But that's not important right now.

Oliver

How did I fail?! Your dwarf star particles are right there! [points to the bag of dwarf star particles on a rack]

Monitor

You disobeyed my instructions to avoid entanglements on a parallel Earth. You confronted Tommy Merlyn and you altered the fate of Laurel Lance.

Oliver

I watched her die once. Okay? I wasn't prepared to do it again.

Monitor

That's because you were not a man accustomed to following orders. But the survival of the Multiverse requires that you obey mine.

Oliver

Where are we now?

Monitor

Your own Earth, where you'll complete your next task. There's a man named Dr. Robert Wong. Bring him to me.

Oliver

Why?

Monitor

Now that is not your concern. [Their conversation is interrupted by a desperate knock on the door] You've already failed me once. Do not fail me again. [Vanishes in a puff of smoke along with the bag of dwarf star particles]

Lyla

You should've told me what was going to happen on Earth-2. John was there. He could've been killed.

Monitor

The destruction of that Earth was a necessary sacrifice.

Lyla

And what about Laurel Lance? Her friends, her family...

Monitor

Countless more like them will perish if we do not ensure Oliver Queen is prepared for what's coming. Were you successful?

Lyla

Yes. I have Dr. Wong.

Monitor

Then let us proceed.

Black Siren

You must be the Monitor.

Monitor

How do you know?

Black Siren

Because no human would actually wear something so ridiculous.

Monitor

You ache for the world you lost, and I possess the power to restore it.

Black Siren

You can bring back my Earth.

Monitor

The recovery of your universe would require a single task.

Black Siren

What kind of task?

Monitor

You must betray Oliver Queen.