This is turning out to be one hell of a first day on the job.
Yeah. Look at us, working together again, being targeted by a homicidal maniac. Feels like a Monday.
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S1 E15Unfinished Business
ZZoe
Thanks for teaching me, Aunt Dinah. It's so cool learning how to kick ass from the Black Canary.
Keep kicking the crap out of that shield, and Captain Drake's gonna have to deputize you, too.
Curtis, Rene, you take upstairs. Me and Dinah will secure down here.
Split up? What? Have you guys never seen a horror movie before? Wait, Rene.
You ever get in trouble with your parents?
Uh, yeah. All the time. Why?
Because William doesn't need pancakes. William needs to tell us why he got expelled and why he's been lying to us.
After pancakes or...
No.
I think the problem is you thinking you can make her do anything.
Yeah, but I've been doing this a long time. She's new, she's unsanctioned, and I'm trying to help her.
But she didn't ask for your help. Imagine how you would feel if, when you first started your quest, someone had basically ripped your father's list out of your hand and taken over your mission.
I see your point.
Emiko doesn't need anybody telling her what to do or how to do it, and she definitely doesn't need anyone's protection. You see that move she did with the bow and switched hands?
Yeah. It's impressive.
Ridiculous. Just be her brother if you want her to be in your life and to trust you. Just... just be her brother.
So Diaz is just walking around free right now in exchange for intel?
He's not free, Felicity. He has a bomb in his head. If he makes one misstep... we are taking every precaution.
Well, I understand why Curtis left.
Hey.
You can't really be okay with this.
No. But I-I trust John, and I believe that he would only take a step like this if he had no other choice.
There was no other choice. And I hate that it came to this, but Lyla and I believe that using the Ghost Initiative is the best way to take down this threat.
You realize that this is the second time you have prioritized your job over keeping your friends safe?
Working with A.R.G.U.S. does keep you safe, because it makes the world safe.
You can keep telling yourself that.
Diaz is in A.R.G.U.S. custody. He's not running around free. Trust me. I would be thrilled to see his head explode, but is it really worth the consequences?
Yes, it is worth every consequence. I have to protect my family.
By family you mean you, Oliver, and your baby?
What, are you psychic now?
Well, there's no wine or champagne and no caffeine on this mission, and that - that is a pregnant lady amount of chocolates you just consumed.
I ate that much chocolate before I was pregnant.
Well, Diaz will be taken back to Slabside for reneging on his side of the deal. This time, he'll stay there.
Still need to think about Dante. He's not gonna forget what happened tonight.
I won't, either. You could've gone after Dante, but you chose Diaz.
Last year, I had the opportunity to catch Diaz, and I let it slip through my fingers. I wasn't gonna make the same mistake twice.
Well, what about Dante being the greater threat?
When I knew there was a choice between catching Diaz or Dante, all I could think about was what letting Diaz go meant to you last time, Felicity, so in that moment, I decided that sometimes the best choice is to just protect your family, and that's exactly what you two are.
You want to know why I didn't kill Diaz. I wanted to. I was ready to. But then I realized killing Diaz wasn't going to prove anything. The whole reason I wanted Diaz dead was to protect our family, and... what our family needs is a fresh start, one in the light just like you're doing. I want our children to know that they are the most important thing to us and that we would do anything... anything for them.
You said "children".
I'm pregnant.
SBSergeant Bingsley
Wearing the uniform of an SCPD officer is an honor. It isn't just a uniform. It's a symbol of the law, of justice, of transparency.
Thank you, Sergeant Bingsley. Any questions? Rene.
He does know we have our own uniforms, right?
How's my favorite new team of recruits doing?
Missing the good old days when catching a bad guy didn't involve homework.
We all know that we operate better on our own. Now, I would for you to be onboard with this, but if you're not, I would just - I would ask you to stay out of our way.
Oliver, I will always have your back. But you've giving up on this partnership before you're really giving it a chance, as if you're up against a clock I don't know about. So what don't I know about?
We're having a baby.
Really?
OFOliver and Felicity
Yeah.
It's a little early. We're not telling anybody yet.
That's amazing! This is wonderful! It would also explain a hell of a lot.
We don't want a child born into a city like this. Our mission is not complete.
So we're going to go about this the only way that we know how, without politicians and without a precinct. We're going to do this the Team Arrow way.
OK, and that would work for a while. And the, uh, then I have to say, we will be right back to where we started, Oliver. Without a team, you in prison, us on the run, and a city no closer to being saved than where we started.
Our partnership with the force is not working.
Then we have to find a way to make it work. Compromise, do whatever you have to do because if you want a new future for this baby of yours, it won't be come by doing the same thing we used to do. We have to - We have to be something else... Something better.
So, in between updating the SCPD's tech and taking down evil CEOs, I was brainstorming baby names today.
Really?
Yeah.
Any frontrunners?
For a boy, I've always liked Lucas.
Yeah. Lucas. That's good. I may have thought of a name for a girl.
Yeah?
Mia.
Short for Moira. Sweet and fiery. I love it.
And regardless whether we have a boy or a girl, I just want to make sure that... she or he end up growing up in a better and safer Star City than I did.
Yeah.
I want that for both of our children. They'll always have each other to lean on.
And we'll always have us.
You know what else we did tonight? We forced Pollard's hand. I leveraged her relationship with Midas to convince her to sign off on creating a special vigilante task force. We're still sanctioned by the SCPD, but we're operating as our own unit out of the Bunker in our suits.
And the anti-vigilante law?
It's on her desk for repeal. She's gonna sign it.
So we're like the black ops for the SCPD now? That's cool.
I'm just glad we're all back. It feels right.
I'll second that. It's nice to be part of a team again.
TATattoo Artist
What's the black star for?
My mom once told me that all the starlight we see has so far to travel that the stars might not even exist anymore. Eventually, they all just fade to black, erased. That's where I want to be.
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