Arrow · Season 1
These are two inventions of mine: two autonomous mini-drones. One with offensive and the other with defensive capabilities.
So, what, you can't handle yourself on the field, you gotta give yourself a pair of balls? [considers] That was... that was too harsh, wasn't it?
You thi.. yeah, it was, um, but you know what, you recognized it.
Yeah, 'cause I... I'm tryin'... tryin' to work on it.
Okay. Do you know what your superpower is?
Computers?
Empathy. Big, reflexive, pure empathy.
Well, maybe I'm fresh out.
Because of Billy.
It's a dark world. And for the past four years. I have watched you and Oliver, and Laurel and Thea and Roy, I've watched all of you use a little darkness to fight it.
That's true. Sometimes we do fight fire with fire. But every time we do, Felicity, every single time,... we risk being burned.
Please tell me you didn't send it. This thing with Collins' wife, he doesn't deserve that.
Felicity told you, didn't she?
Yeah.
I haven't sent the e-mail, okay? Ollie, don't look at me like that. It's politics. There's about to be a vote, so it's time to play hardball.
This isn't hardball. This is cruel.
What would be cruel is the people of this city not having you as the Mayor. The Anti-Crime Unit. Low-income housing. Common-sense gun legislation. Ollie, in the short amount of time you've been doing this, you've done a remarkable job. Please just let me do what I have to do to help you keep doing that.
Felicity told me about this Collins thing because of something that John said to her. Thea, when you fight fire with fire, you are probably gonna get burned.
I won't. It'll be fine.
Like it was with Susan? You destroyed her career, now you've graduated to blackmail. Where's it stop?
[addressing a press conference] Hey, everyone. I'd like to thank the City Council for conducting these hearings with honesty and integrity. I simply wish that I could have done the same with regard to the Green Arrow's murder of Detective William Malone. When I took the oath of office, I promised to be honest and forthright. I never wanted to be a politician who relied on dirty politics or underhanded tactics. And in the spirit of that transparency, I think I owe everyone an explanation as to why I covered up what the Green Arrow did. I did it in a misguided attempt to protect everyone from the tragic news that the Green Arrow had become a cop-killer. That a man we had put our faith in had failed this city. I didn't think we could afford to lose another hero. But the truth is more important, and the truth is that the Green Arrow has gone rogue. We must disavow him and hunt him and punish him for what he has done. Green Arrow is not a hero. He is what's keeping Star City from being the best that it can be. Thank you very much.
Our business together concluded five years ago.
No. One of your former students is trying to kill me.
He doesn't want to kill you, Oliver. He needs to destroy you utterly.
You knew. If you knew, then why would you train him? Why wouldn't you warn me?!
Two years ago, he sought me out. He'd already learned much about you. Isn't that a remarkable capacity?
Talia, enough!! If you knew what he wanted, then why would you train him?
Because you killed his father. And I helped him in his pursuit of vengeance because by then, you'd killed mine. I never told you my full name, did I?
No, you didn't.
It's Talia al Ghul.
Ra's al Ghul was your father.
Yes. My father and I came to be at odds, so I forged my own path. But he was still my father when you put a sword through his chest.
So that's why you're not gonna help me. That's why you won't tell me who this... Prometheus is.
Of course I will, Oliver. Because I want you to suffer. He calls himself... Adrian Chase.
[Oliver walks in on a meeting between Adrian and city council members.]
Mr. Mayor. I didn't think you'd be joining us this morning. I guess you know what I've been up to, huh?
Yeah.
I've been working on addressing our sentencing policy for drug offences. Care to join?
I'd like to see you in my office, please.
Actually, can it wait? The councilmen and I are on the clock. Besides, you're looking a little ragged. You tired? Or is it that you've actually been asleep this whole time?
[Oliver halts Adrian in a parking garage by putting an arrow through his car window.]
Gonna try it this way now. [turns to face Oliver] I gotta tell ya, I don't know how that mask is gonna play here. Especially since the city's not too fond of your alter ego these days.
I'll give them the Throwing Star Killer. See how they feel.
Wait, that's your big plan? Arresting me? Oh, man, that's a bit of a letdown, I have to say.
Well, I'm not gonna kill you. [puts his arrow away] If only because that's what you want me to do.
Oh, you've done everything I've wanted so far. Did you really think I'd let all this end in a parking garage?
What did you do?
I gave your girlfriend an exclusive. Wait. Are you still dating Susan Williams? I gotta tell you, buddy, it's been a little hard to keep track.
What did you do to her?!?
[very calm] She's fine. Don't worry. As long as I'm around to make sure she gets some food and water. Starvation and dehydration. Terrible way to go. Bottom line: I die... she dies. I don't make it back to her in time, she dies. Now, you could try torturing me for her location. We both know what you're capable of in that department. But, I think that we both know what I'm capable of. So, Ollie... who do you think can last longer? Susan or me? [smiles] Oooh... I'm ten steps ahead of you and you haven't even figured out what game we're playing yet.
[sees Oliver dressed in his Hood costume] Why are you playing Robin Hood?
I met a woman. She taught me how to give my darkness an identity. So that it doesn't consume me.
And you believed her?
[Oliver nods.]
Glupie. Oliver, whatever you think is inside you, is inside you. You cannot name it like bats. Keep it apart from you.
This woman's taught me differently.
This woman does not know what she is talking about. And if you're not careful, Oliver, one day she will be the source of your greatest pain.
[regarding the wounded and comatose Captain Pike] Life's just so fragile, isn't it? Decades of hopes and dreams, and in one moment, one little mistake, and it all just goes away. [turns to face Oliver]
I'm not gonna let you hurt anyone else.
Really? Because so far, you haven't seemed able to do much to stop me. Susan's fine, by the way. Well,... alive, at any rate.
Me and my team are gonna find her. And when we do, the second that we do.... I'm gonna put an arrow right through your heart.
You do realize how impotent you sound, right?
You think that this is a game? [grabs Adrian's coat and gets in his face] I don't feel like playing anymore.
You don't have a choice, Oliver. If you kill me, you kill Susan. And she will be as dead as your mother. As Tommy. As Shado. As Laurel. As your friend Pike here, probably. All dead because of you. So go ahead. Kill me. Let's find out how much more loss you can take. Because I don't think it's much. I think you're one loss away from being destroyed.
[shaking hands with Anatoly] Malcolm Merlyn. CEO of Merlyn Global Group.
[unimpressed] Anatoly Knyazev. Gangster.
[sees the covered body of the man Oliver tortured to death] What is this monstrosity?
You should be resting.
I woke up with headache. I came to find you. I was not expecting this. This... this is not human.
Anatoly, I told you... putting on this hood, it helps me direct the darkness inside me. It worked, by the way. I know what Kovar's planning.
But at what cost? You're a fool to think a piece of cloth can separate man from monster. Dividing yourself in two will only make monster stronger. Until it is stronger than you.
You knew what I was capable of back in Lian Yu.
But this man I see now bears more resemblance to Slade Wilson or Anthony Ivo. [lifts the sheet, recoils in disgust, then replaces it] Tough man. Clearly withstood a lot before breaking.
Gave up pretty quickly. The rest was me practicing.
Practicing to become what?
Something else.
You've told yourself you kill because you have to. Confess, Oliver. You don't kill because you have to, so why? Why do you do it?
Because I wanted to.
What?
[softly] I wanted to. [screaming] I WANTED TO!! AND I LIKED IT!!
I told you, Oliver. You infect every life you touch. Now do you realize why? It's because your crusade was based on a lie. You used your father's memory to justify a killing spree. There's a price to be paid for that, Oliver. Your mother paid it. Your friend Tommy paid it. Laurel. You really want to tell me that John Diggle and Felicity Smoak's lives are better having known you?
[weakly] You... promised to let me go.
And I'm a man of my word. But first, I have a gift for you. [picks up a mini-torch and walks over to Oliver] This tattoo of yours. To be an American and named a captain in the Bratva. You've must've done something extraordinary. When you look at it, it must... it must remind you of such a victory. [lights the torch] Now when you look at it, you'll think about our time here together. And the secret that you confessed to me.
[still weak] Whatever pain I caused you... I'm sorry.
I believe you, Oliver. I just don't care. [starts to burn off Oliver's Bratva tattoo]
Remember first time we met, on Amazo?
I was performing surgery on myself. It's kinda difficult to forget.
Yeah. What was it I said to you then?
"Living is not for the weak."
I cannot believe scared boy in cell beside me would be one to kill Konstantin Kovar.
Well, that wasn't me. [indicates his hood] That was him
That is a lie you tell yourself. An excuse that allows you to kill. You kill because you like it.
That's not true, Anatoly, I hate it. And I think maybe you've had a bit too much to drink.
Well, that is entirely possible. But in this case, I am right. This "deal" you selled yourself on, that this hood was going to keep this monster of yours at bay... someday, it's going to fall apart. And when it does, you're not going to like the man you see underneath.
[Oliver and Adrian are alone in the Mayor's office.]
What are you doing here? You won. It's over.
What'd I ever say to give you that impression?
[Adrian puts a knife on the desk in front of Oliver.]
What are you doing?
Proving a point, so to speak.
You think I'm gonna stab the District Attorney in the middle of City Hall?
You're an animal who enjoys murder, there's no telling what you'll do. And it's not like your alter ego can kill me. Not since the SCPD put me in protective custody since the Green Arrow slaughtered my wife. So you kill me in broad daylight. Or you let me live, knowing that there's nothing you can do.
[Oliver simply sits still and does nothing.]
Disappointing. [turns and starts walking away] You can keep that knife.
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