- Tommy Merlyn: Again, I would like to point out how structurally unsound this building appears to be, so maybe upping the payload is no the best option.
- Oliver Queen: It's a risk I have to take. This is it. After this, I'm out of options.
- Tommy Merlyn: Are you, or is this just typical Oliver? Now come on, man. Don't you ever wonder why you keep finding yourself in positions like this where things just keep getting worse?
- Oliver Queen: I'm here for one reason and one reason only - Emiko.
- Tommy Merlyn: Right. Emiko, your half sister.
- Oliver Queen: Her being my half sister doesn't matter. What matters is finding her and stopping her before she hurts anyone else. It's a strategy you should appreciate.
- Tommy Merlyn: Why? Because of what my father did to the Glades?
- Oliver Queen: No, Tommy, because of what he did to you! Any idea what it's like to - to - to run a scenario through your head a million times, just wondering if you could've just listen to me a little bit sooner, because you didn't because you were blinded by the face that he was your father. Maybe you'd still be alive today.
- Tommy Merlyn: But I didn't listen, and I didn't make the right choice, at least not until it was too late, because I was stuck, Oliver, in my own cycle, my father's cycle, just like you are and just like you will continue to be if you don't break free.
- Oliver Queen: No. No. You're wrong. This isn't about me. This is not about my father. This is about Emiko, and the choices that she made, they are on her.
- Dinah Drake: You must be a pretty big idiot, risking your life like that.
- Roy Harper: Well, we're alive, aren't we?
- Dinah Drake: You're lucky to be.
- Roy Harper: I'm surprised you even care if I made it out alive or not.
- Dinah Drake: Of course I care. You're our teammate.
- Roy Harper: Maybe I shouldn't be. You lost everything to protect me, and you don't even know me. Those guard that I killed, they're innocent. They had families.
- Dinah Drake: What you did back there, it was awful, but we all know it was the bloodlust, Roy. That wasn't you.
- Roy Harper: No. That doesn't change the face that I put everyone else around me at risk. You should have just let me to go to prison.
- Dinah Drake: I was wrong. We all make mistakes. I was just pissed because we had just lost everything. That doesn't mean I want you dead.
- Roy Harper: Maybe it's best if I'm 6 feet under.
- Dinah Drake: Dying is the coward's way out. Every day that you stay alive, you try redeem yourself for that messed-up thing you did because this world is a better place with a hero like you.
- Felicity Smoak: Hey. Quick, urgent. I need our uplink gain augmenter.
- Alena: Uh, more urgent, I have something to tell you bef...
- Felicity Smoak: Okay, your thing is definitely not more important than mine.
- [entering the Smoak Tech office, she sees SCPD collecting evidence]
- Alena: Welcome to my thing.
- Felicity Smoak: What are they doing? Don't they remember we're on the same side, deputized vigilantes and everything?
- Alena: Well, apparently they have a warrant.
- Felicity Smoak: They what?
- Tommy Merlyn: You know, it is insane that we both had secret half sisters.
- Oliver Queen: Well, yours didn't try to kill you, did she?
- Tommy Merlyn: Well, you should give Thea some credit. I died before she had the chance to try.
- Oliver Queen: Emiko, stop! Don't make me do this.
- Emiko Queen: You are supposed to be dead, but this will be even better. You can watch me burn your city to the ground.
- Oliver Queen: Haven't you seen enough death? Your mother, our father. I want you to be better than him. I want you to help me - help me end our family's cycle of violence.
- Emiko Queen: We are not family. Do it. Kill me.
- Oliver Queen: No.
- Oliver Queen: To stop Emiko, if I need to be as ruthless to her as she was to my father, so be it.
- Tommy Merlyn: Good luck finding your team, Oliver. You're gonna need 'em.
- Oliver Queen: Goodbye, Tommy.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh, thank god you're alive.
- Oliver Queen: Hey. Are you and the... are you okay?
- Felicity Smoak: Yeah. Yeah, we're fine. Emiko did pay us a visit, though.
- Dinah Drake: Emiko was here?
- Rene Ramirez: Guess she left without killing you. You got off easy.
- John Diggle: Yeah. Too easy. She must have been after something else.
- Tommy Merlyn: A couple specialty arrows left, two explosive. Seems kind of risky considering the instability of this place. Especially without a bow.
- Oliver Queen: There are solutions for that.
- Tommy Merlyn: Speaking of, uh, what about Emiko? What kind of "solution" are you planning for her?
- Oliver Queen: The one she deserves. She let our father die.
- Tommy Merlyn: He abandoned her, Oliver.
- Oliver Queen: She's been manipulating me, she's been manipulating the team, for months, posing as some sort of hero. The woman's a murderer.
- Tommy Merlyn: So now you're gonna be one, too? And here I thought that we were done with all of that.
- Oliver Queen: I don't see another choice here, Tommy.
- Tommy Merlyn: It is exactly that kind of attitude that's gonna keep you stuck down here.
- Tommy Merlyn: You've always been good at this kind of thing. Remember when we were kids and you learned how to hotwire my dad's car?
- Oliver Queen: Well, I got grounded for an entire summer.
- Tommy Merlyn: Yeah, because you did it 3 more times.
- Oliver Queen: What was that?
- Tommy Merlyn: How would I know? I'm just a figment of your imagination... But if I had to guess, I'd say it's a reminder of what it feel like.
- Oliver Queen: Seeing my loved ones die? Seeing my family threatened? What about that don't I already know? God.
- Tommy Merlyn: Well, then you know exactly what it feel like to be your father. The fear, how that leads to vengeance, how that leads to cruelty. It's why he abandoned Emiko. It is why she is trying to kill you now. Look, Oliver. I know that you think that you have broken your father's cycle, but as long as you giving in to your worst impulses, you are never going to be free.
- Oliver Queen: What am I supposed to do? Just tell me what I'm supposed to do.
- Tommy Merlyn: Lean in to your best parts of yourself - your loyalty, your selflessness, your courage, your compassion, and show that side to Emiko. You are living proof that people can change, and you have got to find a way to see that in her, too.
- Oliver Queen: I don't know if I can.
- Tommy Merlyn: That's OK. That's the risk you got to take.
- Roy Harper: What the hell just happened?
- Dinah Drake: Emiko just dropped a building on us. That's what happened.
- Alena: What the hell was that?
- Felicity Smoak: Ohh... it's part of my new security system; a remote-detonated nanoelectric pulse that I built into the ceiling.
- Alena: Oh. Remind me never to get on your bad side. Is Oliver okay?
- Felicity Smoak: I don't know. I tried; all I got was static. But if I can boost the signal, I might be able to contact him.
- Alena: You mean if we can. I'm not letting you do this alone.
- Felicity Smoak: Okay. Well, then let's get out of here. We do not want to be here when these guys wake up.
- Maya: First, Galaxy One puts a bounty on your heads. Now they're sending a damn army of super robots after you?
- Felicity Smoak: We are just Kevin Dale's scapegoats for his larger agenda.
- Roy Harper: Which is what?
- Dinah Drake: Turn Star City into a police state, go under Galaxy One's control.
- Adult William Clayton: We can't let that happen.
- Maya: Oh, yeah? And how exactly are we supposed to stop them?
- Felicity Smoak: By destroying Archer.
- Dinah Drake: We tried that once, remember? It didn't work then, and Archer was nowhere near as advanced as it is now.
- Felicity Smoak: That's why we have to find the mad scientist who upgraded my creation into Frankenstein's monster.
- Roy Harper: You sure that's a good idea?
- Felicity Smoak: No. But if Galaxy One has an army of Archer-powered assassins, we don't stand a chance. Star City loses.
- Dinah Drake: Well, I'll put the word out to what's left of the Canary network, see what intel they can find.
- Rene Ramirez: Oh, sure, now the lights come on.
- Felicity Smoak: Uh, guys, if the lights just came on, that means the emergency generator just came on.
- Rene Ramirez: That's a good thing, right?
- Felicity Smoak: Normally, yeah, but the building you're in used to manufacture some very flammable chemicals, and flammable chemicals plus sparks equals really big boom.
- John Diggle: Felicity, we're in the boiler room.
- Rene Ramirez: Okay, please tell me that's not the generator.
- Felicity Smoak: Well, if it sounds like a sick dinosaur, it probably is. Good news is we still have about eight minutes before it incinerates the whole building.
- John Diggle: And where is it, exactly?
- Felicity Smoak: Lower level, to your left.
- Dinah Drake: What do we think that is?
- Roy Harper: C6H6.
- Alena: Benzene.
- Felicity Smoak: Guys, that is really bad stuff.
- Dinah Drake: How bad?
- Felicity Smoak: Try irreperable nerve damage with severe convulsions and a painful death.
- Alena: But the good news is it's heavier than air, so you are safe on the mezzanine.
- Roy Harper: And the bad news is that generator is not on the mezzanine.
- John Diggle: Neither is Oliver.
- Tommy Merlyn: I think the concrete gives up.
- Oliver Queen: I need to get out of here.
- Tommy Merlyn: You will. Trust me. What you really need to worry about is what happens when you do.
- Oliver Queen: Why?
- Tommy Merlyn: Everything you've done this year - working with the cops, fighting for the city without a mask - you've got a shot at something we never had.
- Oliver Queen: What's that?
- Tommy Merlyn: A clean slate. You can't shed your past, but you can keep it from hurting your kids. That's something our parents could never give us, but it is never, ever, going to happen, Oliver, if you keep seeing red with Emiko.
- Oliver Queen: As long as she is still breathing, my family will never be safe. You know this, Tommy.
- Tommy Merlyn: Then you haven't moved past your family's mistakes, Oliver. You haven't broken the cycle of lies and hate. You're trapped. You're trapped just like you are in this room.
- Oliver Queen: But you're not here. You are a... you are a figment of my imagination that has been sent here to test my resolve. It won't work.
- Tommy Merlyn: [rubble falls, clearing a pathway to escape] Looks like you found your way out.
- Adult William Clayton: Thought you were supposed to go with Felicity in case her friend needed convincing.
- Maya: She took Roy instead. Guess she's trying to protect me, too.
- Adult William Clayton: You know, if you're trying to make me feel better about being abandoned by our parents, just don't.
- Maya: Fine. Have your little pity party because mom benched you.
- Adult William Clayton: You know that's not what this is about.
- Maya: When we rescued her from Galaxy One, mom apologized. You guys seemed cool.
- Adult William Clayton: Yeah. I thought we were, too, but she's still pushing me away just like she always has.
- Maya: Okay. Fine. So maybe she wasn't there for you in the traditional sense, but mom made sure that your company was a success. She was trying.
- Adult William Clayton: I didn't need her money, Mia. I needed a mother. To this day, Felicity still hasn't told me why she kept me out of her life for so long or... why she wanted no part of mine.
- Maya: Look. When I first found out mom was keeping secrets, that she was still being a vigilante, I didn't wallow and feel sorry for myself. I confonted her, demanded answers. Maybe it's time you do the same.
- Oliver Queen: We're lucky this is still standing. Which way?
- Dinah Drake: East. Felicity said it was the best way out.
- Emiko Queen: Oh, it definitely is. Hi, brother.
- Oliver Queen: Emiko, you have one last chance to stand down!
- Emiko Queen: Funny, I was gonna say the same to you.
- Felicity Smoak: You guys should know, I don't know what Emiko is planning, but she gave the SCPD the footage of Roy in the subway tunnels. And they think that we are behind whatever the Ninth Circle is plotting.
- Dinah Drake: So lying to the SCPD to cover for Roy was for nothing.
- Sergeant Bingsley: An anonymous source sent us surveillance footage of last night's incident in the subway tunnels.
- Felicity Smoak: Where you see Team Arrow valiantly foil a terrorist attack, just like we told you?
- Sergeant Bingsley: Emiko Adachi didn't kill those guards. Your friend Roy Harper did. Then your whole team lied to cover it up.
- Felicity Smoak: [scoffing laugh] That's insane.
- Sergeant Bingsley: Digital forensics also investigated that bomb, which you said was the work of the Ninth Circle.
- Felicity Smoak: Uh-huh.
- Sergeant Bingsley: But that file was activated from a program called Archer; a program which Smoak Tech owns the patent for.
- Felicity Smoak: Well, technically, yes, but it was stolen.
- Felicity Smoak: I know this sounds shady, but trust me, we are the good guys, and we are after the bad guys; well, bad girl, who currently has your captain and my husband trapped under a building.
- Sergeant Bingsley: We haven't received any word about no buildings going down.
- Felicity Smoak: That's because it was a small detonation in a chemical plant outside of town. Listen! You can talk to the team all about it, but to get ahold of them, I have to get ahold of a really tiny, delicate piece of tech that is in that box that Lieutenant Butterfingers is rummaging through.
- Sergeant Bingsley: I'm sorry, Ms. Smoak. You're under arrest.
- Felicity Smoak: What?
- Alena: You can't do that.
- Sergeant Bingsley: Yes, I can. Turn around.
- Tommy Merlyn: You look shocked. Um, is it the beard?
- Oliver Queen: Uh-uh. You look good.
- Tommy Merlyn: Yeah, I know.
- Oliver Queen: Ohh. I must have a really bad concussion.
- Tommy Merlyn: Yeah, man. A building just collapsed on you. It could be a little PTSD, too. That position that you're in with the rebar, it is remarkably similar to how you found me all those years ago.
- Oliver Queen: The night you died.
- Tommy Merlyn: Yeah. And I got to tell you, man, it looks like the same thing is gonna happen to you if you don't get out of here, right now.
- Adult William Clayton: You know, you're still treating me like I'm thirteen.
- Felicity Smoak: What do you mean?
- Adult William Clayton: Uh... I mean that you're doing the exact same thing to me now that you and dad did all those years ago, leaving me out of things and then getting rid of me.
- Felicity Smoak: Your father and I, we never wanted to let you go.
- Adult William Clayton: But you did, and then even after everything that happened, you still stayed away like... like I wasn't even part of this family.
- Maya: Ooh, and I thought we had problems. Heh. I'm just gonna go... do anything else.
- Alena: [to Felicity] Hey, uhm, random question. Did you add another hero to your justice league?
- Emiko Queen: [walks in and points arrow at Felicity] You I expected. Too bad for your friend.
- Felicity Smoak: Please don't.
- Emiko Queen: I thought you'd be eager to join your husband.
- [shoots arrow next to Felicity]
- Felicity Smoak: [shouts] Please don't kill me I'm pregnant! This baby is innocent, just like you were when Robert left your family. Please don't kill an innocent child.
- Emiko Queen: Good to know.
- [shoots arrow into electrics and disappears]