- Clark Kent: Oliver, with all that poison in your system, are you sure adding more is the best idea right now?
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, Clark, why don't you stick to your milkshakes, huh? I'll know when I've had enough.
- [pauses, hands over flight records to Clark]
- Oliver Queen: Lionel Luthor killed my parents.
- Clark Kent: You figured that out from flight records? I mean, it was a plane crash.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, it was a plane crash, and according to that, there were LuthorCorp employees on the maintenance lot.
- Clark Kent: And you think Lionel paid them to sabotage the plane?
- Oliver Queen: Did you know about this? You were the son Lionel never had. The guy knew everything about you, right? So don't stand there and tell me that you didn't know a couple of his dirty little secrets.
- Clark Kent: Look, Oliver, I was afraid that you'd do something you'd regret.
- Oliver Queen: "Something I regret." Like what, Clark? You thought I was gonna kill him? Is that it? I wouldn't have killed him! I survived for two years on an island by myself, Clark! When it wasn't pouring rain, it was blistering sun! There were mosquitoes that ate me alive! It's okay, because you know what? It made me strong. You may be invincible, but you are not fearless, are you? You're afraid to trust your friends, and you're afraid to face who you were really meant to be. You're afraid of everything. Maybe you haven't been put to the test yet. Maybe your island's still out there, Clark.
- Chloe Sullivan: As much as I love the one-on-one time, I got to say I'm actually surprised Lois unattached you from her hip.
- Clark Kent: What do you mean? Lois and I aren't always together.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, you see her more than I see Jimmy, and we're engaged.
- Lois Lane: [talking to Oliver, who has been poisoned and is unconscious] ... Look at us, the noble couple. I let you go and in turn you were supposed to save the world. This Ollie, this isn't saving the world. Is it? This is you backing out on your end of the deal. You know maybe... maybe we had it wrong... Maybe our... story ends and neither of us our heroes... because you're not the only one who couldn't hold up his end of the deal. The truth is...
- [starts to cry]
- Lois Lane: sometimes I wonder if I should have ever let you go...
- Clark Kent: There must be something you can do. Lex never abandons a project.
- Tess Mercer: He doesn't, does he? I'm still catching up from the ones he's named after constellations.
- Davis Bloome: You must be Lois.
- Lois Lane: You must be the one who's actually qualified to do this.
- Davis Bloome: He's dying. I'm sorry.
- Lois Lane: Here is what's gonna happen, Dimples. You are going to reach into that handy little tackle box of yours and pull us out a miracle. Oliver Queen does not die today.
- Davis Bloome: The best I can do is keep him alive a few minutes longer.
- Lois Lane: Then do it.
- Davis Bloome: You know, there's nothing wrong with being smart.
- Chloe Sullivan: When the seating chart at your wedding looks more like a Euclidean algorithm than a dining hall, you know you've got something seriously wrong.
- Lois Lane: Hey, have you seen Ollie? Apparently he's boozed his way into a - -
- [Sees him unconscious]
- Lois Lane: Whoa, who's he been partying with, Motley Crüe?
- Chloe Sullivan: Lois, it's not what you think.
- Lois Lane: Find me a 24-hour market. I need a sports drink, as much vitamin B as you can get your hands on, and one dill pickle. Let's go! Tick tock!
- Clark Kent: Chloe, as much as I appreciate whatever it is you just did here, this is all because of Brainiac, isn't it?
- Chloe Sullivan: All right, I admit it. After he attacked me, my hacking skills went from analog to digital. And whether I like it or not, I can read and process data at lightning-fast speed. Now, I know that right now you are making a list in your head of all the possible ways this could be your fault, but please don't.
- Chloe Sullivan: So, it turns out global warming's just another excuse to take your clothes off.
- Clark Kent: I know what it looks like, but Oliver claims they raise a ton of money at this thing.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, at 500 bucks a plate, I'll bet.
- Chloe Sullivan: I guess I just always thought that I would be the one circling your typos.
- Clark Kent: Lois doesn't circle typos. She underlines them two or three times.
- Chloe Sullivan: Looks like Ollie's party started in the limo.
- Clark Kent: [knowing something's wrong] No, he'd never show up drunk.
- Clark Kent: Oliver, what's happened to you?
- Oliver Queen: [breathing heavily] Poisoned. I have twelve hours to live.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, if Oliver said he wants to avoid all MDs and hospitals, I'm sure he has a really good reason.
- Clark Kent: I'm not gonna stand here and watch my friend die!
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, you think this is easy for me? I know Oliver, too. I've worked side by side with him. And when he says to do something, it's always for a reason.
- Clark Kent: But this time it's different. His life's at stake.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, if you were lying on that couch, I would do whatever you asked, down to the letter. I wouldn't hesitate. Now trust him.
- Chloe Sullivan: Thank god. Davis.
- Davis Bloome: [seeing Ollie] He's a lot worse than you said he was, Chloe.
- Chloe Sullivan: We think he may have been poisoned.
- Clark Kent: Can you help him?
- Davis Bloome: Um... his pulse is racing and he's burning up. He's stable, so I can set him up with a heart monitor. Take his blood to the lab, but if things don't look better in one hour, I gotta bring him in.
- Chloe Sullivan: I know you're risking your job to do this. But you can trust me.
- Davis Bloome: Watch him. If anything changes, call.
- Lois Lane: Latest dish with a side order of spell check. "Grisly murders down on Hampton."
- Tess Mercer: Lois Lane. I haven't fired you yet?
- Lois Lane: Guess you're too busy printing my stories.
- Lois Lane: What's with the Oliver Queen collage?
- Tess Mercer: I figured the news had trickled down to the basement by now. You know, for a renowned party boy, Queen doesn't know how to hold his liquor.
- Lois Lane: Unbelievable. Metropolis may have its very own Jack the Ripper and you're preoccupied with smearing a humanitarian. Do you even know Oliver Queen?
- Tess Mercer: Not like you do. Come on, you can't tell me you don't get a twinge of pleasure seeing your ex take a public nosedive.
- Lois Lane: Look, he's a good person, who stands up against corruption and social injustice.
- Tess Mercer: Wow. I was gonna offer you the story, but after that bleeding-heart testimonial, you're obviously not objective enough to uncover the rest of it.
- Lois Lane: Well, it's not exactly a news flash. You drink, you get drunk.
- Tess Mercer: When someone leaves a club fall-down drunk, the story only gets better. I need someone to get to the bottom of this without suffering from an emotional meltdown.
- Lois Lane: Please. You know, you need to read your gossip column. Oliver and I were through a long time ago. I'll take the story.
- Davis Bloome: I'm bringing Oliver in.
- Clark Kent: Look, we just need a little more time.
- Davis Bloome: Look, we couldn't identify what the poison was, but we think it was something that they drank in the limo on the way to the fundraiser.
- Clark Kent: Adrianna's a victim, too?
- Davis Bloome: Was a victim.
- [Clark turns and sees Adrianna resting in a hospital bed]
- Davis Bloome: She's fine now. We treated her with adrenaline, and her stats evened out.
- Clark Kent: But ten minutes ago, she was dying.
- Davis Bloome: Modern medicine, Clark. That girl's living proof that Oliver's too sick to know what he's talking about.
- [as they pass her room, Adrianna starts convulsing]
- Davis Bloome: [to the attending nurse] Code blue! Get a doctor.
- Clark Kent: I spoke to Chloe, she said you didn't come home last night.
- Lois Lane: So not what you're thinking. I may have played nurse with Oliver, but it never progressed to doctor.
- Marcos: Take me to the airport.
- Cab Driver: Right.
- [he climbs into the back seat, and is about to close the door when someone scratches his hand]
- Marcos: What the hell?
- [seeing Tess]
- Marcos: You.
- Tess Mercer: [he starts to feel the poison's effects] Who do you think paid your bail? Jail's too good for you.
- [he passes out]
- Tess Mercer: I think he's having a heart attack. You might wanna take him to the hospital.
- Cab Driver: What am I, an ambulance?
- Tess Mercer: They'll know what do with him.
- Oliver Queen: [Picks up a centipede] All right. Here's the deal. Normally, I don't eat anything with more than 99 legs on it, but I haven't eaten for days. Kind of a bummer for both of us, right?