Arrow quotes

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?

Felicity

Aren't you a working man now? Shouldn't you be at the SCPD?

Oliver

Uh, they need a little help from Team Arrow.

Felicity

Ah.

Oliver

Specifically, you.

Felicity

Cool.

Oliver

You need to analyze this DNA. It belongs to the new Green Arrow.

Felicity

Some husbands bring their wives home flowers, and mine brings me blood from a crime scene. They say romance is dead.

They're planning to set off multiple bombs, and we need to find out where. I want you to give the SCPD access to the Archer program.

Rene

You want me to use our security system, the very thing that keeps us safe, to help Star City? You're out of your mind.

You're the mayor. You have a responsibility...

Rene

Don't you dare talk to me about my responsibility! When the Glades needed help, no one came to our rescue.

Dad, if this bomb goes off, thousands of people could die. How could you turn your back on that?

Rene

The Archer program wiped out crime in the Glades and helped it thrive. You do remember what happened when it fell in the wrong hands once. And we barely recovered.

Oh, so I'm "the wrong hands"?

Rene

You know that's not what I meant.

You know what I know is? Is that you used to stand up for anyone in need. It didn't matter which part of town they were from; you were a hero. What happened to you?

Oliver

You know, even after everything that I've learned about my father, I... just never expected anything like this. He ruined Emiko's life. Just... abandonded her.

Felicity

Well, you don't have to. You said you didn't want to barge into her life without knowing more about her, and now you do, so what's holding you back?

Oliver

I just think that I'll make things worse.

Felicity

Oliver, you became the Green Arrow to right your father's wrongs. What your parents did to Emiko and her mother is beyond wrong. You are a better man than your father ever was. Don't make the mistakes that he did. So reach out to your sister. Make things right.

Oliver

I can prove to you that I'm nothing like him.

Emiko

You're a Queen. All you know is how to leverage your own privilege to help yourself.

Oliver

What happened to you was wrong. You should have been a part of our lives. You should be a part of my life now.

Emiko

Why do you think I want anything to do with the Queens? 'Cause your family destroys anything it touches.

Oliver

I just want a chance. Just give me a chance. Emiko... you're my sister.

Emiko

I have no family.

Felicity

I hope you like Malbec.

Black Siren

If it's alcohol, I love it.

Felicity

Good. Well, actually, I don't know your Earth-2 situation. Maybe you shouldn't be drinking?

Black Siren

Oh, please. I don't have a problem with alcohol, maybe the first thing I've managed to one-up your Laurel on.

Curtis

Look, I know these are bad people, but what we're doing is inhumane.

Diggle

Curtis, restoring the program is the only way we can get Dante without A.R.G.U.S. oversight.

Curtis

And that makes it right? How can you be okay with that?

Diggle

I'm not. I'm not. We are fighting evil that most people don't even know exists. And sometimes that means making very difficult decisions, Curtis. The bombs are just a failsafe. That's all.

Curtis

There has to be a better way.

Diggle

I wish there were.

Diaz

This is the Dragon. A.R.G.U.S. is coming for you.

Curtis

And we'll be sure to send him your regards when we do. [Diaz stops his van] What's the matter? You look like you've heard a ghost.

Diaz

What the hell just happened?

Curtis

Well, first, I overrode the explosive program A.R.G.U.S. put inside your head with a virtual reality simulation that started running about twenty minutes before you remembered getting your sedative. Then I owned your ass.

Diaz

You're dead.

Curtis

No. See, that all happened in your head, too. By the way, harsh.

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.

Quentin Lance

[speaking in 2014] Well, I'm, I'm conflicted about this, I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm a police officer, duly sworn. I don't condone vigilantes or vigilantism. [gets emotional] Once people start taking the law into their own hands, you're on the road to anarchy.... But there's worse things out there than anarchy, and sometimes, as much as I hate to admit it... [choking up] the police aren't enough to deal with it all.

Curtis

You rang, boss?

Diggle

I did. Oliver needs access to the Black Watch satellites.

Curtis

Is he supposed to know about those? [to Oliver] You know about those?

Oliver

You've met my wife, right, Curtis?

Curtis

Great point.

Barry

[chipper] Oliver is an interesting guy. Um... unbelievably damaged. [suddenly contrite and serious] I hope he won't mind me saying that. [stammering] I don't mean, well, all I meant by that was that he's... he's lived through a lot of darkness. And all he really cares about is trying to make sure that nobody else has to go through what he's gone through. [jump cut] [nervous stammer] No. No no no no no, I didn't know that, that he was the Green Arrow until he turned himself in. I mean... you know... whoa. Obviously, big surprise. Think you know a guy.

His name's Kevin Meltzer. Recently released from Roth Psychiatric Hospital.

Black Siren

Imagine that.

Apparently, the Hood saved his life seven years ago, and he's been obsessed with vigilantes ever since.

Oliver

So he just attacks them.

Says he just wanted the masks. Fans have a strange way of showing their affection.

Connor Hawke

Whoa. Okay, this is actually pretty amazing. I mean, it feels haunted.

Mia Smoak

Probably is. Vigilantes were the death of Star City. They got exactly what they deserved.

Curtis

What's that, some A.R.G.U.S. fan mail?

Diggle

No, not exactly.

Curtis

Oh, this is some "I Know What You Did Last Summer" creepiness