RRuvé
You do realize that you're planning to destroy the last safe place left on the entire planet, right?
MMachin
I'm sorry. Did I leave you with the impression that I was a rational guy?
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
[Team Arrow is surveying the enormous crater left after the destruction of H.I.V.E.'s Genesis Ark.]
Well, looks like the real estate value of the Glades just went up. [off Oliver's look] It's called gallows humor.
Go to hell.
Why bother? I'm going to bring it to us.
Hey. Come on, we can't just lose all hope here.
You have. I can see it in your eyes.
I just can't believe that I thought that I'd be the one to unite this city while Damien Darhk was trying to kill it. That was arrogant. The same arrogance that made me feel that I could be the Green Arrow without descending into darkness. Bottom line: it was foolish.
You don't believe that.
I didn't believe that. Not until Laurel died.
I thought you weren't blaming yourself for her death anymore.
We made a decision to come back here. I tried to do things differently. And for a time, I did. And now I am left here to wonder... if I hadn't, would Laurel still be alive?
Look, living in Star City requires a special kind of tenacity. A sane person wouldn't live here. It's a fact Paul likes to remind me of weekly. We were this close to leaving Star City last October. After three terrorist attacks, we were... done. But then, the night before we were gonna start packing, the Green Arrow popped up on our TV. He reminded me that this city is worth saving. That my home... that my home was worth fighting for. That guy gave me inspiration. Gave me hope. And if he could give me hope then, why can't he give it to others now?
Stop! Stop! Please! I know what you're feeling right now. I'm feeling it, too: a sense of helplessness, of hopelessness. I don't know how we even begin to process what might happen to us right now. But there are a few things that I do know. I know that this city has been through tough times before, and we have pulled through. We survived the Undertaking. We survived the Siege. We survived the Outbreak. And somehow, some way, we will survive this. A friend of mine told me that living in Star City takes a special kind of tenacity. But we do live here. Because this is our home. This. Is. Our. Home. It is our friend, our family, our lives. And we will not, we will not throw those precious gifts away by descending into chaos. We will look to each other for hope. We will cling to each other for strength. And if we do that, no matter what happens, we can all stand here united.
What are you gonna do now, Oliver? Stop posturing. We both know you can't do it. You spared the life of the man that killed your own mother.
You killed a friend of mine. You killed tens of thousands of innocent people. With Slade Wilson, I had a choice. This time, I don't.
[Oliver stabs Darhk in the chest with an arrow, and Darhk falls down dead.]
It's Thea and John.
Them leaving has to be a blow.
And they're leaving because of their own personal darkness. I just can't help but think that they were infected by mine.
Maybe. Like you said, maybe you can't become a hero without succumbing to the darkness even a little bit, but you were able to defeat Darhk by giving the city its hope back.
You're saying it's not black and white?
I'm saying that there is a man who killed Darhk in cold blood, and that same man stood on top of a car and gave the city its hope back. What you're feeling isn't darkness. It's a schism. You're at war with two sides of yourself.
[Green Arrow pins Lonnie Machin's hand to a post with an arrow.]
MMachin
Does this mean you're not gonna kill me? What's a guy gotta do to get a little love? Only tried blowing up the city. I mean, half of it. [Green Arrow knocks him out.]
You realize you just accused the police department of being corrupt, at the police department gala?
I answered a question.
And you also just put blame on the police department instead of taking responsibility for the city's crimes.
You know I'm taking responsibility.
Yes – the other guy. But as the mayor, it looks like you're sleepwalking. Okay? Showing up late again is not helping that perception.
TCTobias Church
Cities are like genpop. First day in, you find the biggest guy in the yard, put him down, hard. Sends a message: screw not with me. So here we all are. Now, who's the biggest guy in the yard? [shows a picture of the Green Arrow] It's highly unlikely that he'll just come out to play, but it's like my younger brother always said: Don't fish without bait.
So he's trying to call the Green Arrow out.
Yeah, except he doesn't know he already has him.
Alright, well, you need to go do something.
Well, that was gonna be my line to you.
For the first time in a long time, I'm really starting to feel like myself again. I'm not a killer, I'm not a vigilante, I am a normal version of me. And I just think after everything that happened with Laurel, I really needed to know that life like this was even possible. And now that I do, I don't want to give it up.
Yeah, yeah, I get where you're coming from. I do. I lost my job, I lost my daughter, I lost my girl, and you know, I just wanted to hit pause on the world, you know?
Yeah.
But then I listened to Oliver's speech, and that's when I realized I can't do that. I can't hit pause. I need to get on with my life, even if that life isn't what I want it to be.
I see what you did there.
What did I do?
You talked about the new team like it's a done deal.
Oh, that. Well, I just thought since you decided to "keep swimming" as mayor, you might do the same as Green Arrow?
You might be right.
Lance told me about the Russian proverb by the way. Very poetic... Wait! Did you just say I might be right? Are you okay?
Curtis, if you think this is hard, wait until I actually start training you.
What happens then?
The last guy got an arrow in the leg before it even started.
That was Roy, right?
Also Roy, but I'm talking about Wild Dog.
And you did put two arrows in Barry Allen's back.
I'm starting to sense a pattern.
Fear is part of war, the part that keeps us alive. See these stripes? They give me strength, clarity. Right or wrong, up and down, they tell me what to do, which means that fear can kiss my six.
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