Arrow (TV Series)

Training Day (2019)

Juliana Harkavy: Dinah Drake, Black Canary

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• Sergeant Bingsley : Wearing the uniform of an SCPD officer is an honor. It isn't just a uniform. It's a symbol of the law, of justice, of transparency.

  Dinah Drake : Thank you, Sergeant Bingsley. Any questions? Rene.

  Rene Ramirez : He does know we have our own uniforms, right?

• Dinah Drake : How's my favorite new team of recruits doing?

  Rene Ramirez : Missing the good old days when catching a bad guy didn't involve homework.

• Dinah Drake : Last night, 4 Los Halcones gang members were found dead in a warehouse.

  Rene Ramirez : Whoa. That's some "Face/Off" level weirdness.

  Oliver Queen : Do we know what caused it?

  CSI Cassie : The bodies had bullet wounds, but there were no shells found at the scene. Autopsies revealed traces of an unidentified substance, which cause a chemical reaction with the blood that resulted in tox...

  Felicity Smoak : Their skin melting off.

  CSI Cassie : The proper term is toxic epidermal necrolysis. But, basically, yes.

• Dinah Drake : Alpha team's in position. No sign of the seller yet.

  Oliver Queen : Bravo's in position. Overwatch, do we have eyes, please?

  Felicity Smoak : Hold on. Pulling up thermal now.

  Tech Officer : From satellite? What did I tell you about off-the-book hacking?

  Felicity Smoak : You said no public resources; this is private. Loophole.

• Dinah Drake : James Midas is in SCPD lockup. We got what we need to put him away for a very long time. Thank you for doing it the legal way.

  Oliver Queen : Thank you for letting us do it our way.

  Rene Ramirez : And for joining us. We missed you, Canary.

  Dinah Drake : I missed her, too. Thank you for reminding me of that.

  Felicity Smoak : Wait. Why do I get the feeling the Canary flight was a one-night-only kind of thing?

  Dinah Drake : I'll be back in the field, just, uh... without my Cry. When my nerve was ruptured, it created lasting damage.

  Oliver Queen : I'm... I'm sorry, Dinah.

  John Diggle : Well, Dinah, Cry or no Cry, you are the Black Canary. You proved that tonight.

• Dinah Drake : You know what else we did tonight? We forced Pollard's hand. I leveraged her relationship with Midas to convince her to sign off on creating a special vigilante task force. We're still sanctioned by the SCPD, but we're operating as our own unit out of the Bunker in our suits.

  Oliver Queen : And the anti-vigilante law?

  Dinah Drake : It's on her desk for repeal. She's gonna sign it.

  Rene Ramirez : So we're like the black ops for the SCPD now? That's cool.

  John Diggle : I'm just glad we're all back. It feels right.

  Oliver Queen : I'll second that. It's nice to be part of a team again.

• Dinah Drake : In trying to find where Midas is storing his skin-melting poison, I was able to alter my security system algorithm to track DNA anywhere in Star City.

  Dinah Drake : You have Midas' DNA?

  Felicity Smoak : Well, it turns out he's not as squeaky clean as we thought. I got his DNA from the SCPD archive. He was arrested fifteen years ago. Thank goodness the police are record hoarders. And since he has a record and we work for the SCPD, voila. I interfaced with the SCPD's surveillance system and was able to legally monitor everywhere Midas has been in the last two weeks.

• Dinah Drake : At the weapons buy, I tried to use my Cry, but something went wrong. It didn't work right. It... It hurt like someone was scraping knives along the inside of my throat.

  Rene Ramirez : I'm sorry.

  Dinah Drake : Being captain is the only thing I have left. I can't be the symbol of being on both sides, both SCPD and vigilante, because I am... I'm not the Black Canary. Not anymore.

  Rene Ramirez : That's a bunch of crap, and you know it. Your Cry doesn't make you the Canary. Did you know that the pin you gave Zoe, she wears to school every day? You think she wears that pin because of your Cry? No. She looks up to you because you're the person who will go above and beyond to do what is right, no matter the personal consequences. That's who you are no matter what.

  Dinah Drake : Even if that's true, it doesn't matter anymore.

  Rene Ramirez : Of course it does. You say you can't be the symbol of being on both sides. That's exactly what you are.

• Dinah Drake : I asked you to be patient.

  Oliver Queen : It wasn't working.

  Dinah Drake : Well, it would've. I had a warrant. If you had listened to me, we could be searching Midas' house right now instead of being told to stay five miles away from him. But now we have nothing.

• Oliver Queen : So you're just cutting him loose?

  Mayor Emily Pollard : We have no grounds to hold him.

  Oliver Queen : He confessed.

  Mayor Emily Pollard : While you were dangling him over a vat of hydrofluoric acid.

  Oliver Queen : Okay, he was never in any danger.

  Mayor Emily Pollard : Yeah, well, that's not his story. You know, instead of using this case to work within the confines of the law, you all went rogue.

  [to Dinah] 

  Mayor Emily Pollard : And you, you let him. It's time for you to make a choice. Are you the captain or are you a vigilante?

  Dinah Drake : I'm the captain.

  Mayor Emily Pollard : Then start acting like it.