Your students used to ask questions first.
I have learned that hesitation often proves fatal. You should have not come to this place.
You owe me a debt. I'm here to collect.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
Johnny... What's really going on here? You've never been one to shy away from risk.
I'd never seen a world just disintegrate right in front of my face. I know what we do requires risk. I've always accepted that, but this is different, Lyla. Seeing a universe just disappear, I don't know, it's like... like looking into the eye of God. It changes you. It changed me. I can't risk losing you. I can't risk that.
No one knows the future. All we can do is enjoy the time we have with the people we love and make our choices from a place of strength, not fear, and if the world ends today, there is no one I'd rather have by my side.
You're gonna take on a god, Ollie, you're gonna need all the help you can get.
Pretty good on help actually. I have John, I have Laurel - believe it or not. Seems to me you have your hands full rebuilding the League of Assassins into a league of heroes.
Yeah.
I can't believe I'm saying good-bye to you again.
Well, you're not. Think of it as a "see you later, and please don't die."
You're leaving?
I have betrayed my honor and sacred traditions to the league. The sword was destined to be yours, daughter of Merlyn. I am sorry for the pain I've caused you both.
What about your students?
I have released them. They will follow you if that is what you wish.
It's not. You're their teacher. They need someone to follow.
If I was meant to lead them, I would wield Al-Fatih's sword, but you do, so the honor and the burden are yours.
Yeah. Hard pass.
It is your destiny.
Yeah, but, see, about that. I don't really believe in the whole fate, destiny thing. We can all make our own choices.
Meaning?
Meaning I don't think the world doesn't need another League of Assassins. It could use a league of heroes. It wouldn't be a one-woman job.
You'd extend me that honor despite my betrayals?
You made a mistake. We've all made mistakes.
Not one but two woman to wield my father's sword? He would be aghast. I accept.
Wait. So an hour ago, I was just with Ben Turner's 6-year-old child, and now he's an adult now, and now I'm his father?
At least you didn't throw up like you usually do. Just saying.
I don't know anything about changing timelines, but I am something of an expert on vengeance, and getting it... it doesn't do anything but cause you more pain.
So, what, you're an expert on talking people out of murder?
Kind of. I had to when Felicity wanted to take down Ricardo Diaz.
My mom tried to kill someone?
No. Because I talked her out of it. And, look, I get it; you and your mom, you're both women who won't allow themselves to be talked out of anything, and I appreciate that. But Felicity, she never regretted changing her approach. So maybe you should try doing things differently, too.
So this is what you wanted to show me, grandpa's grave?
Did your mother ever mention him?
Not really.
I suppose she wouldn't know what to say. I barely do.
You weren't close?
I didn't really get to know the real him until after he died, and, uh... look, I don't want that to be us.
You've, um... you've lost people, right?
Yeah. Too many.
Does the guilt ever leave?
No. You can learn to live with it. I can help you with that, Mia. If you'd like.
Hey. If you want me to stop training Zoe, I will.
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.
So don't. Not all of the future was bad, right? Just do the good stuff.
Come on. I mean, the Canary Network's not a bad idea. Could be useful.
Then why wait for a future we can start making right now?
You must be the Monitor.
How do you know?
Because no human would actually wear something so ridiculous.
You ache for the world you lost, and I possess the power to restore it.
You can bring back my Earth.
The recovery of your universe would require a single task.
What kind of task?
You must betray Oliver Queen.
Why would I want to share some of the worst mistakes of my entire life with my children?
That is the thing about teaching. It's not about what you want to say. It's about what they need to hear. Remember first thing I taught you?
Living is not for the weak.
Your children are not weak, Oliver. They're also not children. Whatever it is you have to say, they can handle it. If you do not, they will never learn to be heroes.
Thank you. I always seem to end up in your debt.
We are beyond keeping score. We have been friends, we have been enemies. From now on, let us just be brothers.
Not the Bratva kind.
No! Real family, like the one you have now. I can be the fun uncle.
[pouring Mia a shot of vodka] Congratulations. Now you my favorite American.
Hey, don't get too excited. He has a lot of favorite Americans.
So, specialty arrows. And each one has a specific purpose.
What does this one do?
Explosive arrow. Lighter payload, meant to divert and disable. Acidic arrow, meant to breach covertly or weaken structurally. Bolo Arrow, to secure and subdue. These are just tools. If you rely on them too much, they become crutches.
Then why have them?
To get out of a fight, or to end one before it begins.
Oh, Laurel, there's something I want to say.
What? One last hilarious Russian joke for the road?
Sorry to doubt you. I guess leopard really can change spots. Or in your case, bird, feather.
I thought you said you weren't sentimental.
Maybe I change, too, like you.
We've had this exact conversation already.
What are you talking about?
Fully aware how this is going to sound. Quinton, I'm trapped in some sort of... time loop, where the same events keep repeating themselves.
Like Groundhog Day.
Sure. Except this one ends with a lot of people dead, including the two of us.
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