- Curtis Holt: There you are! Why haven't you been answering my texts?
- Felicity Smoak: Your texts were "911", "OMG", "ASAP" "!" I do not have time to respond to something that doesn't contain at least one actual word!
- Curtis Holt: I need your help with Mr. Palmer's crash log.
- Felicity Smoak: I thought I told you to let that go.
- Curtis Holt: Look, I've tried brute forcing the password, but nothing works, *but* there is a sub-kernel that contains a programmer note.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh my God, this must be what talking to me is like.
- Curtis Holt: And that programming note suggests that you know the password. I mean, which makes sense right? You and Mr. Palmer were friends.
- Felicity Smoak: [Felicity pauses. Speaking quietly] Yeah, I know the password.
- Curtis Holt: You do? So tell it to me so we can just...
- Felicity Smoak: No, I... I do not want to listen to a recording of my ex-boyfriend's final moment before he died.
- Curtis Holt: You and Mr. Palmer were together?
- Felicity Smoak: Now do you understand why I don't want to hear his voice?
- Curtis Holt: No. My brother died six years ago. Pancreatic cancer. To be able to hear something from him I'd never heard before? God, I'd give anything.
- Oliver Queen: You know a funny thing. You're a main reason behind me running for Mayor. A part of me has always wanted you to see what kind of man I really am! I didn't expect to wind up finding out what kind of man you really are.
- Quentin Lance: You have got to be kidding me.
- Felicity Smoak: [to Oliver] Oh, no, um, not to complain, but you do know you just brought a police captain into our secret lair?
- Quentin Lance: Don't worry, I've got enough to put you away for 25 years. Kidding.
- Damien Darhk: I can give advice, father to father. If she were my daughter, I'd put her down.
- Quentin Lance: She's my baby girl.
- Damien Darhk: No, she isn't. She may look like your daughter, but she doesn't possess her soul. The most loving act you can commit is to return Sara to her final rest. I'm sorry.
- Oliver Queen: Three years you've looked at me with contempt and utter disdain, so I'm wondering, do I have that look on my face now?
- Quentin Lance: What the hell you talking about?
- Oliver Queen: I'm talking about you... and Damien Darhk.
- Quentin Lance: We're all desperate. We've been made to do desperate things. Terrible things. But I've gotta believe that we are not beyond redemption. I've gotta believe that this city can still be saved cause once we stop believing that's when this city really dies and us right along with it. Maybe, just maybe we start saving our home by saving ourselves first. And that means facing up to our mistakes, that means facing justice. You put on that uniform 'cause you believe in justice. Ask yourself, Warner, is that still the case?
- [Warner lets the Green Arrow go]
- Quentin Lance: What is it, you wanna tell me you're running for president now?
- Oliver Queen: Your detectives aren't dead because of gang violence. They were killed by cops.
- Quentin Lance: What are you talking about?
- Oliver Queen: The SIM card that you gave us, it led to the killer's armory and all the equipment, the weapons, it was all SCPD issue.
- Quentin Lance: Who is it?
- Oliver Queen: It could be anyone in the department. These guys have been taking down drug busts, so I had Thea procure a couple kilos of cocaine...
- Quentin Lance: Your mayoral campaign is off to a fantastic start then.
- Thea Queen: I know this is a trap and all, but something about the drugs, the club, makes me feel like I'm in high school again.
- Felicity Smoak: [Felicity walks in on Oliver doing the salmon ladder shirtless] Oh, I am *so* glad we came back.
- Quentin Lance: [Quentin enters his apartment and startles when he sees Oliver sitting on the couch. He gasps and chuckles nervously] You know I've got a heart condition, right?
- Oliver Queen: For years, you've looked at me with such contempt... Utter disdain. So I'm wondering... Do I have that same look on my face now?
- Quentin Lance: What the hell are you talking about?
- Oliver Queen: I'm talking about you... and Damien Darhk.
- Quentin Lance: [Quentin sighs and sits in the chair opposite Oliver] Okay, it's... It's...
- Oliver Queen: I didn't know if you knew who he was, or what he's been doing to this city, but now I see this look on your face... You know.
- Quentin Lance: It's complicated.
- Oliver Queen: No, it's not. Do you have any idea how many people he's killed?
- Quentin Lance: Yeah, I've got more of an idea than you. And listen, you of all people, you don't get to come into *my* house and pass judgment on me, alright?
- Oliver Queen: You always held yourself out as better than me! More righteous... and you were until tonight.
- Quentin Lance: Actually, it's been a little more than two months now, me working with Darhk. It started out benign--he said he had resources, he had people, money. He held himself out as just another guy that wanted to help this city, and we needed the help. You weren't here. By the time I figured out who he was, what he was... That's when he threatened Laurel.
- Oliver Queen: Laurel can take care of herself. You see what she does out there.
- Quentin Lance: That's what I thought about Sara, too...
- Oliver Queen: [Oliver stands, pointing in Quentin's face] Stop it! Stop it! Stop hiding behind your daughters! They would be ashamed of what you're doing right now.
- Quentin Lance: You don't know what I'm going through, man...
- Oliver Queen: And you know the funny thing? You were the main reason behind me running for mayor. A part of me has always wanted you to see what kind of man I really am. I didn't expect to wind up finding out what kind of man you really are.
- Quentin Lance: What are you going to do?
- Oliver Queen: I don't know.
- [Oliver leaves]
- Quentin Lance: You got your own key or somethin'?
- Oliver Queen: What you said to Warner saved my life. I didn't know you had such a way with words.
- Quentin Lance: Well I don't do encores.
- Oliver Queen: You believe what you said?
- Quentin Lance: Yeah. Every word. Especially the part about facing justice. When One Police Plaza opens this morning, I will be there, turning myself in.
- Oliver Queen: Can't have you do that. We haven't been able to get close to Darhk. You have. I'd like you to stick around... Stay on the inside.
- Oliver Queen: Well, that's only a smart plan if you can trust me.
- Oliver Queen: I trust the man who said we can't stop believing we can save this city.
- [Oliver and Quentin shake hands]
- Oliver Queen: [Oliver's Mayoral Speech] United--that's what this city used to be. It's what it can be, it's what it must be, again. Now I know that I'm not the obvious choice for mayor, I'm not a politician. I signed away my family's company. I didn't even graduate from college, although in my defense, I did go to four of them. I certainly don't have a traditional background for leadership, but I can tell you this: After five years in hell, I returned home with only one goal--I wanted to save my city, and with your help, I can. With your help, we will restore our home to the shining beacon we know it can be. Now how we're gonna get there isn't a mystery. We will overcome our challenges with help from our friends, our family, our loved ones... Those we trust, and those we will need to trust again in order to prevail, because the only way that we are gonna return our home to greatness is to do so together... United.
- [Clapping and cheers]