How's Ray?
So much better than you right now. Please tell me you have a brilliant plan.
I don't even have a regular plan.
All S1
S1 E15Unfinished Business
The only move that Ra's has left me is telling the truth. You have no idea how powerful the truth can be.
Lian Yu.
What about it?
This, uh, Ra's character, he told me that Sara made it to the island with you. You didn't feel like sharing that with me? Huh? I mean, I'm only her father. Well, I was. When did you decide that you knew what was best for my family?
I love your family.
[slugs Oliver] You got the right to remain silent. Take it!
Just ask me what you want to know.
[scoffs] What do I want to know? Well, was it worth it? All that pain and misery you brought back from the island? Merlyn, Slade Wilson? Wouldn't it be better if you just died there?
The reason I came back was to try and save the people of the city.
I hate to break it to you, but saving people isn't your specialty. Tommy. Hilton. Your mother. My daughter. And now you're set on killing Laurel, too.
I didn't want her to be involved in this. I didn't want anyone to be involved in this.
But you involved me. You spent a year making me look like a fool. You spent a year making me your accomplice. You have any idea what you've done, huh? What you've done to all of us, to the people you claim to care so much about? You've made us criminals! You've made us liars and victims. You, Mr. Queen, are not a hero. You're a villain. But you know that, don't you?
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.
[to Felicity] Is there a decent chance that you and Palmer are related?
Oliver!
I can't believe that you and Diggle are sitting on your hands while Roy fights off all of Iron Heights.
It's not that simple.
No, Felicity, if anything is simple, it's this.
This what? You going to jail, too?
I can't just do nothing.
I think John's right. I think you're struggling with doing nothing. With Roy, with Ray. But right now, you need people to help you. You need to let them. Maybe there is something more going on with you then just what's happening with Roy and this meta-human. You have sacrificed everything to be the Arrow, even you and me. But, whether or not you break Roy out Iron Heights, there is no more Arrow. Ra's took that from you.
I was told once that a man cannot live by two names. Well, right now I can't live by either. So, I don't know who I am.
I know who you are. Whether you're in a suit or under a hood, you're the man that I-- you're the man that I believe in.
I need shields.
That's not the answer. You need to anticipate your opponent. You need to trust your instincts and not just your tech.
My instinct is to trust my tech.
Ray, when I'm out in the field, my bow, my arrows, those are just tools. I'm the weapon.
That's poetic.
My point is that if you rely on your suit more than you rely on yourself... it's going to get you killed.
So, uh, what's with the sunglasses, man? We're indoors, and it's well, night. Do you have a sensitivity to the...
JSJake Simmons
To light? No. [removes his sunglasses showing his fiery eyes] I love the light.
SSimmons
I'm sorry, but the blonde can't come to the phone at the moment.
I swear to God, if you hurt her...
SSimmons
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.
I hope you find the accommodations acceptable. Such luxuries are a small glimpse of the life that awaits Oliver.
You trying to reassure me or yourself?
I don't know what you mean.
You're Oliver's friend. Maseo, right?
I am Sarab.
Call yourself whatever you want. If you gave a damn about Oliver you wouldn't be working for the man who practically killed his sister.
Oliver will be spared grief, in a manner that was denied to me. And he'll receive an honor, greater than you can imagine.
League of Assassins. You're feared for your bravery and power, but all I see are a bunch of weak men running from their lives, trying to escape. That's not powerful, Maseo, or brave. That's cowardly.
Do not presume to know me. Until you've held your dying child in your arms. Until you've told him everything will be okay. So that the last words he ever hears are a lie. You know nothing.
I'm sorry. What was your child's name?
Akio.
Do you think Akio would be proud of his father right now?
RSRa's
You have a great fire within you. I can see now why Oliver loves you.
If you knew the first thing about love, you would not be ripping Oliver away from his family.
RSRa's
I am merely helping him fulfill his destiny.
Yeah, I know all about the "survive my sword" prophecy, and I'm here to tell you that I could really give a crap. Me and John, and God help me, Malcolm, are not going to let this happen. And we have friends, and we have resources, and we will go to war to get Oliver back.
RSRa's
You know, many lifetimes ago, I loved a woman immeasurably. And she loved me. And we had a son, and then a daughter. And for many years, I felt I was the most fortunate man in the world. My life was bliss. And one night, a man came to my door and he gave me a horrible choice: to leave without saying a word to them, or to stand and watch them tortured and then killed. And I left without a farewell. And to spare them pain, I endured an agony worse than death.
Sounds like you gave up too easily.
RSRa's
If there's one immutable truth about life, it is often more cruel than it is fair, and rarely provides an opportunity for any of us to find closure. And all your posturing and all your threats of war will merely delay the inevitable, and causing you to forfeit you the opportunity you have… that was denied me. You need to tell Oliver goodbye. Tell him how much you love him. Tell him whatever it is your heart needs to express. And do it now. Before he is lost to you forever.
I wish that I could change your mind about staying here, but I know I can't. Just like I know that leaving you here is going to destroy me. I don't regret a single moment. And you shouldn't either. You have done so much. You have saved so many people's lived and you have changed so many for the better, including mine. Knowing you has changed my life. You've opened up my heart in a way I didn't even know was possible. I love you.
Oliver. Oliver, I don't know what to say
I do. John, you’re the best man I’ve ever known. Whatever happens, you’re my brother.
[Oliver and Diggle embrace]
I'm afraid I will never forgive myself for leaving you here.
You told me once that life's precious and that you wanted more from it than I could offer you. Don't give up on that. The only way that I'm gonna survive this is if I know that you're out there living your life, happy.
We're always saying goodbye to each other. You'd think I'd be good at it by now.
Well, let's not say goodbye this time.
[Oliver and Felicity kiss]
RSRa's
Oliver Queen is dead. Eventually to be reborn as Ra's al Ghul. But for now, only the Arrow, Al Sah-Him shall remain. Al Sah-Him. Heir to the Demon.
My name was Oliver Queen. I worked three years to save my city. But to save my sister, I had to become someone else. I had to become something else.
RSRa's
You have made great progress in three weeks. Al Sah-him. You no longer flinch upon hearing your new name.
Oliver Queen is alive only in the past. He's forgotten.
RSRa's
Indeed. You are Al Sah-him. You are Wareeth al Ghul. Heir to the demon.
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