- Vigilante: What's so funny?
- Mr. Terrific: Think I just found a new use for my t-spheres.
- Vigilante: What?
- [the t-sphere blasts Vigilante through a wall]
- Mr. Terrific: Hey, Vigilante, I've got two of these.
- [he throws the second t-sphere which misses Vigilante]
- Vigilante: Nice aim.
- Mr. Terrific: That's the thing. They aim themselves.
- [the t-sphere come back around and explodes in Vigilante's face]
- [Oliver groans as he turns off the TV reporting on his impeachment hearing]
- Dr. Schwartz: Well, sounds like you need a note from your doctor, Mr. Mayor.
- Oliver Queen: This is ridiculous--I know what real injury feels like.
- Dr. Schwartz: I can only imagine, given your other job. And you're right--your CAT scan is clear.
- Oliver Queen: Good.
- Dr. Schwartz: [Oliver goes to get up and leave] Ah-ah-ah, not so fast. Look, I can't discharge you without a few more hours of observation.
- Oliver Queen: Doctor Schwartz...
- Dr. Schwartz: People can withstand only so much strain, and being both Mayor and *him*, it's unsustainable.
- Oliver Queen: I assure you, my body can handle it.
- Dr. Schwartz: I'm not talking about your body, Mr. Queen... I'm talking about this:
- [gesturing to her head]
- Dr. Schwartz: The mind needs rest, or at least someone to take your thoughts off all the evil you face each day.
- Oliver Queen: Dr. Schwartz, are you prescribing me a girlfriend?
- Dr. Schwartz: Or just a friend.
- Felicity Smoak: This is so completely unfair.
- John Diggle: Yeah, seems to be a lot of that going around lately. So, you got Oliver's girlfriend fired?
- Felicity Smoak: He told you? Of course he told you. Well, did he also tell you it was a mistake? I mean, on my part at least.
- John Diggle: Felicity...
- Felicity Smoak: I'm putting the toothpaste back in the tube, okay?
- John Diggle: And how is that going?
- Felicity Smoak: Well...
- John Diggle: Felicity, what's going on with you?
- Felicity Smoak: What do you mean?
- John Diggle: This week it was Oliver's girlfriend. Last month, he tells me you're getting involved in some stuff you shouldn't be involved in?
- Felicity Smoak: Well, that is a matter of perspective considering that that "stuff" helped get *you* out of prison, and General Walker's gunsights.
- John Diggle: What're you talking about?
- John Diggle: [Felicity opens up Pandora files] Pandora?
- Felicity Smoak: It's a data cache compiled by a group of hacktivists called Helix. They collect electronic dirt on literally billions of people, including General Walker, so when I asked for it to get you off, they... That's a bad choice of words... They gave me the whole package.
- John Diggle: And you're still in bed with these people?
- Felicity Smoak: What? You make it sound like it's a bad thing. Pandora's just a tool.
- John Diggle: [Scoffing] Sounds to me like this could be a weapon.
- Felicity Smoak: Okay, and is there a problem if it is?
- John Diggle: It depends, Felicity.
- Felicity Smoak: On what?
- John Diggle: On how you use it.
- Reporter: [On TV] News of the cover-up sent shockwaves through City Hall, forcing Council members into enacting a rarely-used impeachment clause. Mayor Oliver Queen's administration might be over.
- Felicity Smoak: [Felicity mutes the TV] That woman never reports the news.
- Oliver Queen: [Oliver walks in] It'll work out. I'm just waiting for my opening
- Felicity Smoak: There's that optimism again.
- Oliver Queen: Chase is re presenting me, so I'm gonna beat this.
- [Deep breath]
- Oliver Queen: How are we doing with the data pull from Prometheus' mother's house?
- Felicity Smoak: The sniffer pulled about a petabyte worth of data. It's like looking for a needle in a haystack, but I am working on it.
- Oliver Queen: Good. There's something else that I could use your help with.
- Felicity Smoak: Okay.
- Oliver Queen: Susan Williams.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh.
- Oliver Queen: She's not returning my calls.
- Felicity Smoak: Am I really the best person to come to or love-life advice?
- Oliver Queen: Well, she's not returning my calls since you and Thea got her fired.
- Felicity Smoak: Well, in my defense, I didn't know that was gonna be Thea's play.
- Oliver Queen: I know, but I still need your help because Thea is not budging.
- Felicity Smoak: Look, I know how severely problematic what I'm about to say is, but Susan is your girlfriend, so if anyone is going to fix it, I think it has to be you.
- Oliver Queen: I'm trying, but like I said, she's not returning my calls, and you may have noticed, I'm sort of facing impeachment this week.
- Felicity Smoak: Okay... Yeah, I'll do my best.
- Oliver Queen: Thank you very much.
- Felicity Smoak: [Oliver starts to walk off. Felicity gently grabs his arm and he spins back to face her] Um, for what it's worth, and everything I know about politics I got from Keepin' It 1600, but I do think you're gonna beat this thing.
- Oliver Queen: What makes you so sure?
- Felicity Smoak: To Star City, Mayor Oliver Queen is a hero.
- Oliver Queen: If the Council is not gonna let me testify at the hearing, then I need to take my case directly to the public.
- Adrian Chase: A press conference? Mind filling me in on who you're throwing under the bus?
- Oliver Queen: The Green Arrow.
- John Diggle: Hey, Oliver's out of the hospital and headed to City Hall. Any word from Dinah?
- Felicity Smoak: Um, she's at the precinct trying to recover that piece of Vigilante's visor.
- John Diggle: What about you, Felicity? And don't tell me that it's traffic cams; we both know there on autopilot.
- Felicity Smoak: I sent Thea something to sway Councilman Kullens. Apparently, he's the swing vote on Oliver's impeachment.
- John Diggle: Pandora?
- Felicity Smoak: Officially, his wife died in a car crash... Unofficially, she crashed the car on purpose.
- John Diggle: Suicide?
- Felicity Smoak: He used his clout to cover it up, so I'm guessing he's not gonna want it uncovered.
- John Diggle: And you are okay with this, right?
- Felicity Smoak: I think the city needs Oliver to keep being Mayor.
- John Diggle: Felicity, Kullens is not a criminal; he's a human being.
- Felicity Smoak: He's a politician--that's hardly the same thing.
- John Diggle: A human being that went through a very tragic accident... A very private one. Come on, this isn't you.
- Felicity Smoak: Well, it pretty much is.
- John Diggle: [sighing] Okay, do you know what your superpower is?
- Felicity Smoak: Computers?
- John Diggle: Empathy. Big reflexive, pure empathy.
- Felicity Smoak: Well, maybe I'm fresh out.
- John Diggle: Because of Billy.
- Felicity Smoak: It's a dark world... And for the past four years, I have watched you and Oliver and Laurel and Thea and Roy... I've watched all of you use a little darkness to fight it.
- John Diggle: That's true. Sometimes, we do fight fire with fire, but every time we do, Felicity... Every single time, we risk being burned.
- Thea Queen: Don't look at me like that--this isn't blackmail, it's politics.
- Oliver Queen: This isn't hardball--this is cruel.
- Thea Queen: What would be cruel is the people of this city not having you as the Mayor. The Anti-Crime Unit, low-income housing, commonsense gun legislation... Ollie, in the short amount of time you've been doing this, you've done a remarkable job. Please, just let me do what I have to do to help you keep doing that.
- Oliver Queen: Felicity told me about this Kullens thing because of something that John said to her. Thea, when you fight fire with fire, you are probably gonna get burned.
- Thea Queen: I won't... It'll be fine.
- Oliver Queen: Like it was with Susan? You destroyed her career, now you've graduated to blackmail. Where does it stop?
- Vigilante: My target's the mayor and his corruption. He surrenders, I'll let the rest of you live. Good man.
- [blasts Vigilante with her Canary Cry]
- Dinah Drake: Good woman.
- Thea Queen: Okay, well I have a very political idea...
- Oliver Queen: I'm listening.
- Thea Queen: Like Adrian said, the Council needs somebody thrown to the wolves, and I think it should be Malone.
- Oliver Queen: Thea!
- Thea Queen: What? Half the SCPD is corrupt, so it's not hard to believe. And he is no longer with us, so he wouldn't really mind. That way, the cover-up is no longer about the Green Arrow--it becomes about protecting Malone's reputation for the sake of his family.
- Oliver Queen: Now you're gonna destroy his reputation? No.
- Thea Queen: But Ollie...
- Oliver Queen: Thea, it's not even a question.
- Thea Queen: Okay.
- Oliver Queen: [Turning to Quentin] How do we think the Counci's gonna vote?
- Quentin Lance: It's a pretty even split with Kullens as the swing vote.
- Felicity Smoak: Vigilante changes artillery supplier every week. Every lead goes cold. We could really use a break right about now.
- Dinah Drake: [On Comms] I think I got something.
- Felicity Smoak: Yes! I totally manifested that. What do you got?
- Dinah Drake: When my sonic cry hit Vigilante, it knocked off a small piece of his visor. It looks like it's lined with some kind of circuitry.
- Felicity Smoak: Well that means it's manufactured. I think I can link it back to where he bought it from.
- Curtis Holt: I think I can do you one better. My T-Spheres can actually track the tech to the individual user.
- Rene Ramirez: Except they won't be ready till the iPhone 16 is released...
- Curtis Holt: Ye of little faith...
- Dinah Drake: [On Comms] What's a T-Sphere?
- Rene Ramirez: Curtis' balls.
- Curtis Holt: They're something really fascinating and of my own personal invention. I realized that quantum computation could be used to...
- Dinah Drake: Alright, yeah... Forget I asked. I'll bring you guys the visor, okay?
- Felicity Smoak: Copy that, we're here. Curtis, this is on you now.
- Curtis Holt: Challenge accepted.
- Rene Ramirez: Hey, seriously man, what's up with your balls? I mean, you were literally gonna throw those things in the trash.
- Curtis Holt: Paul called... Asked me to dinner, like a date. Like... I'm gonna get my man back.
- Rene Ramirez: I told you, Hoss, some piece of tech ain't gonna...
- Curtis Holt: Look, I know Paul... He wouldn't be asking me to go out to dinner if he wasn't ready to reconcile.
- Curtis Holt: It's working... It's actually tracking the rest of the visor.
- Dinah Drake: Let's take down this SOB.
- Curtis Holt: Without Oliver?
- Felicity Smoak: If Vigilante gets to him, we'll be doing this without Oliver permanently.
- Curtis Holt: [Simultaneously] Let's suit up.
- John Diggle: [Simultaneously] Suit up.
- Curtis Holt: Oh... Sorry, I thought since Oliver's gone, I would, probably-- But it makes more sense probably for you...
- Curtis Holt: [Diggle walks off quickly] I'll make sure I work on the timing there. Promise.
- Felicity Smoak: [Grabbing Curtis' arm and spinning him] Balls.
- Curtis Holt: My T-Spheres... Don't call 'em "balls".
- Thea Queen: Hold on, I need a favor.
- Felicity Smoak: Okay, if this is about Susan Williams, I'm already on it.
- Thea Queen: No, it's about the impeachment. You said that Pandora has dirt on a lot of people, right?
- Felicity Smoak: Yeah, if by "a lot of people" you mean "everybody", then yeah.
- Thea Queen: What about Councilman Kullens?
- Felicity Smoak: Last time I checked,d he's part of "everybody", why?
- Thea Queen: You know why.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh. Oh! You wanna blackmail him?
- Thea Queen: No, it's not blackmail... It's politics.