- Felicity Smoak: [to Oliver] You look like something the cat dragged in. Not that there are cats in this building. Well, once a cat did get in, but a guard tazed it. It smelled like fur and static in here for a week.
- Oliver Queen: My buddy Kevin is starting an energy drink company. He says it's fantastic for curing hangovers, but I am very particular about what it is I put in my body.
- Felicity Smoak: I've noticed.
- [realizing what she said]
- Felicity Smoak: I said "not noticed", right?
- Oliver Queen: [handing over a syringe of Vertigo] I'm trying to find a secret recipe. Could you please do a spectro-analysis of the sample and find out exactly where in the city it's made?
- Felicity Smoak: If it's an energy drink, why is it in a syringe?
- Oliver Queen: I ran out of sports bottles.
- Felicity Smoak: [mouthing to herself] Okay.
- John Diggle: [as Felicity leaves, he and Oliver get onto the elevator] Your BS stories are getting worse.
- Oliver Queen: Well aware.
- John Diggle: [Oliver awakens thug by touching his neck] Whoa! That's a neat trick. You going to teach me that one day?
- Oliver Queen: [knocks thug back out] No.
- John Diggle: What are you doing?
- Oliver Queen: You need to arrange a new identity for this guy. Get him out of the city.
- John Diggle: Right, so your Ruskie pal draws out The Count, vigilante takes him down.
- Oliver Queen: No, Diggle. Because the Bratva would know that I used them, and that relationship is too valuable. I do the meet with The Count as myself, let him leave, then we follow him to his hideout.
- John Diggle: Just that easy, huh?
- Oliver Queen: Well, I will still need my trusty bodyguard.
- John Diggle: Fantastic. Looking forward to my new exciting career as a drug dealer.
- John Diggle: Find what you're looking for?
- Oliver Queen: Took down three Vertigo pushers tonight, Diggle. Last one finally knew a name. The Count.
- John Diggle: The Count? That's worse than The Hood.
- Laurel Lance: Dad, I know how you feel about Oliver.
- Quentin Lance: Then why would you even ask me to do this?
- Laurel Lance: Because Thea, she's only eighteen years old.
- Quentin Lance: Which makes her an adult. She can take her medicine. It's about time somebody in the Queen family did.
- Laurel Lance: What about the Lance family? A young girl acting out, engaging in reckless behavior. Does that sound familiar?
- Quentin Lance: Laurel, don't go there.
- Laurel Lance: Thea, she's just like I remember Sara.
- Quentin Lance: That is not how I remember your sister.
- Laurel Lance: That's because you remember her the way you wish she had been, not the way that she actually was. She's not the saint that you make her out to be. I know she was arrested for shoplifting and I know you made it go away.
- Quentin Lance: Well, maybe if I'd let her go to jail, Queen wouldn't have had her on that damn boat.
- Laurel Lance: Dad, you make it sound like he kidnapped her. For so long, you and I have blamed Oliver for Sara's death. But Sara's to blame, too. When I look at Thea, I see Sara's potential in her. And her flaws, too. Yes, Thea made a mistake, but she's been through a lot. She lost a father and a brother. She doesn't need prison. She needs help. So, please...
- Quentin Lance: [after a pause] I'll make some calls.
- John Diggle: You're not going back out there?
- Oliver Queen: I'm not done for the night. Whoever this Count is, he has a lot of blood on his hands, and it is long past time he started paying.
- John Diggle: All right, slow down. I think you're missing the point here.
- Oliver Queen: What?
- [Diggle gives him a look and realization dawns on him]
- Oliver Queen: Thea.
- John Diggle: Her hearing's in a few hours. You think she cares more about some drug lord getting his just desserts or you being by her side when she needs you the most?
- Oliver Queen: Hey. We should get going. Judges don't appreciate the value of being fashionably late.
- Thea Queen: [sardonic laugh] Got any other tips?
- Oliver Queen: Uh... let the lawyer do all the talking. They give you a pad and paper, but do not play tic-tac-toe. Judges don't appreciate that, either.
- Tommy Merlyn: I'm learning you're not much of morning snuggler.
- Laurel Lance: And I'm learning you don't like to wake up at any hour that ends in "A.M."
- Tommy Merlyn: That's true. Yeah. So if you're busy being a lawyer all day and I'm managing a nightclub all night, when exactly do we get to see each other?
- John Diggle: [about a man Oliver has only knocked out] I can't believe you just killed that guy.
- Oliver Queen: [scoffs] You really have a low opinion of me.
- Thea Queen: Juvenile delinquent, reporting for duty.
- Oliver Queen: Since you lost your driver's license, I'll pick you up at five.
- Laurel Lance: Six. We have a lot of work for her to do.
- Oliver Queen: Well, then let's say seven just to be safe.
- Thea Queen: Is it too late to choose jail?
- Oliver Queen, Laurel Lance: Yes.
- Thea Queen: I... I know I messed up. I really appreciate this, Laurel.
- Laurel Lance: We are gonna make an upstanding citizen out of you yet, Speedy.
- Oliver Queen: Thank you for what you did for Thea.
- Quentin Lance: My daughter asked me for a favor and I did it. And that's the end of it.