[comes home to find Oliver sitting there] You know I got a heart condition, right?
For years you've looked at me with contempt and utter disdain, so I'm wondering, do I have that look on my face now?
What the hell you talking about?
I'm talking about you... and Damien Darhk.
I didn't know if you knew who he was, or what he's been doing to this city. And now I see this look on your face. You know.
No, it's not. Do you have any idea how many people he's killed?
Yeah, I got more of an idea than you. And listen, you, you of all people, you don't get to come in to my house and pass judgement on me, all right?!
You always held yourself out as better than me. More righteous. And you were. Until tonight.
Actually, it's been a little more than 2 months now, me working with Darhk. It started out benign. He said he had resources, he had people, money. He held himself out as just another guy who wanted to help this city. And we needed the help. You weren't here. By the time I figured out who he was... what he was, that's when he threatened Laurel.
Laurel can take care of herself. You see what she does out there.
That's what I thought about Sara, too–
Stop, stop it! Stop hiding behind your daughters!
You don't know what I'm going through.
You know a funny thing? You were the main reason behind me running for Mayor! A part of me has always wanted you to see what kind of man I really am! I didn't expect to wind up finding out what kind of man you really are.
Why didn't you come to me with this?
Come to you for what? Your expertise with magical resurrection? Or that judgmental look on your face?
For help finding your sister, Laurel, before she gets hurt, or she hurts anyone else. And If I have a judgmental look on my face right now, it's because you played with forces that you do not understand, and now people are dying because of it.
No. Not only is Thea hospitalized, but she has Merlyn influencing her to kill people.
What are you talking about?
Oh, just another thing that happened on your secret trip to Nanda Parbat.
Hey! I didn't tell you that I took my sister to Nanda Parbat because I knew that you wouldn't approve. Why didn't you tell me that you took Thea?
What does that have to do with anything?!
It's the hypocrisy that I can't stand. What? It's okay for you to do whatever you have to for your sister, but it's not okay for me to do the same to mine?
Sara was dead. Thea wasn't.
Then why didn't you tell me about Thea seven months ago? Because you don't see me as an equal.
What? Oh, come on, Laurel, of course I see you as an equal.
No, you don't! You never have. You never told me that you were the Arrow–
You never supported me becoming the Black Canary, and you never would have told me that there's a way to save my sister. My sister, she's out of her mind right now because of something that I did, a decision that I made. Did you ever just stop and think for one second about what I might be going through? I'm sorry about what happened to Thea. I really am. I love your family, I always have. I just wish that sometimes you would give a damn about mine.
JCJohn Constantine
You know, the hair on the back of my neck has been standing up since the moment I got into town.
That is probably our current problem - Damien Dhark. Ohh, you've heard of him.
CConstantine
You watch yourself on that one, mate. He'll make what you saw in the other realm look like a bloody gnat.
CConstantine
Yeah. Leave town. While you still can.
Okay. Inviting your mother for a surprise visit wasn't the best idea.
I totally accept that. What I'm accepting, or understanding, is just you shutting me out.
I am not shutting you out. I'm trying to focus on finding Ray, but I can't do that with all of these distractions.
Distractions? What is going on with you? You're acting like it's my fault that Ray–
It's my fault! What's happening with Ray, to Ray, is my fault.
Felicity, it really isn't.
Ray was sending me distress calls for weeks after the accident. I wasn't here to receive them because I was too busy traveling the world with you. I took the police's word for it that no body could be recovered because I was so swept up in being with you. I'm sorry. It was my choice to uproot my entire life, leave my home and my job, which turns out I am very good at it. I lost myself in you. But I was never that girl, that girl who just loses herself in a guy. That is not who I am.
This isn't about Ray. It's about us.
No.... Yes.... I don't know.
Okay. I'm gonna give you some space until you figure it out. [walks out]
He's wonderful... in a million different ways. But that's the problem, it's too easy to lose myself in him.
Baby, that's how it's supposed to feel. when you love someone. Believe it or not, he's lost himself in you. And you'll find yourself in each other. Just don't get in your own way. Don't ruin something that most people never get. Cause trust me, you'll never find a guy that hot who cooks.
I think we should... clear the air. Um... I wanted to thank you for helping me save Ray and for being so understanding in the midst of my mini– Gargantuan freak-out.
Well, I'm sorry that I'm not the best listener. But all of this, is just... it's kind of new to me.
And to me. I didn't exactly grow up with the best example of a normal, healthy relationship.
Line forms behind me. it's kind of amazing that we've made it this far.
Because we found ourselves in each other.
Oliver, let this go man, I have. You almost got yourself killed.
I've been a lot closer to almost killed.
You don't know that. John, you saw what was going on tonight. Those men, they were under the influence of something. Whatever pill is scrambling in their DNA is also making them susceptible to Darhk's suggestion.
All right, just because you have a blind spot for family, don't expect me as well.
That– that's not what this is about.
The hell it's not. Family is exactly what this is about. Criminal or not. Under the influence or not. Andy let his son and his wife believe he was dead for 8 years, Oliver. 8 years! And there is no excuse for that. None.
John, I'm just– you don't know.
Oliver, you don't know. You have this inexplicable way of excusing everything just because it's family.
it's not inexplicable! I'm asking you– I'm asking you hold out for Andy, because I need that hope. I need to believe that no matter what happens in our lives, no matter how much darkness infects us, I need to believe we can come back from that!
It was exactly that thinking that led you to the League last year. It doesn't seem like you learned much from that.
Getting in bed with Darhk, Oliver? I don't see how you can even consider it.
We are going to take this guy down, and no idea is off the table.
Look, you're doing things differently, Oliver. Fighting Darhk from the inside is just fighting Darhk in the shadows. You want to do things differently? You want ideas? Fine. Let's take this son of a bitch down in the light of day!
Leaving to fight Ra's on a mountaintop, going undercover with the league of assassins, dating the huntress...
Oh... I am just listing all of the terrible ideas you've had over the past 3 years, of which throwing in with Damien Darhk has got to be the worst.
I am not throwing in with Damien Darhk. I am using him to get at H.I.V.E.
Isn't Lance already our man on the inside?
Lance has lost Darhk's trust, making this the only way.
To get yourself killed. You remember the last time you tried to take down an evil organization from the inside?
Why? Because you'd be doing it as Oliver Queen?
What about your mayoral campaign? You cannot be an effective candidate for Mayor and Darhk's undercover stooge.
Taking down Darhk is more important, especially now that we know he has Andy under his thumb.
First, there is a whole long list of things that we don't know about Andy. Second, you didn't decide to run for Mayor to take down Darhk. You did it to give the city something the Green Arrow can't give them– hope. Inspiration. Don't lose sight of that, not even for John.
