Arrow (TV Series)

Present Tense (2019)

Rick Gonzalez: Rene Ramirez, Wild Dog

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• John Diggle : Wait. So an hour ago, I was just with Ben Turner's 6-year-old child, and now he's an adult now, and now I'm his father?

  Rene Ramirez : At least you didn't throw up like you usually do. Just saying.

• Dinah Drake : Hey. If you want me to stop training Zoe, I will.

  Rene Ramirez : Nah. I can't keep her in a bubble, just like you can't stop being a cop and I can't stop running for office.

  Laurel Lance : So don't. Not all of the future was bad, right? Just do the good stuff.

  Dinah Drake : Come on. I mean, the Canary Network's not a bad idea. Could be useful.

  Rene Ramirez : Then why wait for a future we can start making right now?

• Oliver Queen : We set up one team to go after Grant, one team to detroy the relay device. But we also need to keep the public calm this time.

  Dinah Drake : Well, last I checked, the police are still good, and I'm still captain, future be damned

  Rene Ramirez : I'll join you. I gotta do something for the Glades from there.

  William Clayton : What about the three of us?

  Oliver Queen : William, I think it would be best if you stayed and helped Curtis. Mia and Connor, I'd like for the two of you to come with us. Like Rene said, we have to do things differently this time. Agreed?

  [as he glances at them both, they nod in agreement] 

  Oliver Queen : All right.

  Curtis Holt : This is my favorite part.

  Oliver Queen : Suit up.

• Rene Ramirez : I've been a part of the Glades my whole life. Born and raised. And if you're from here, you know we've been counted out, a lot. We've been told we're low-income, we're uneducated, we're a lost cause. And if you hear that enough times, all you can do is hope that things will get better later. Now, I don't know about you guys, but... I'm tired of waiting.

  [applause and murmurs of agreement] 

  Rene Ramirez : I'm tired of waiting for the day when people stop being afraid of the Glades and start coming here to raise their families, to find opportunities for growth and change, to uplift our brothers and sisters to be better than we ever were before. If we keep waiting, we might run out of time. That's why from here on out, we don't wait for our future in the Glades. We make our future now.

• Rene Ramirez : [after learning JJ killed Zoe in the future]  How am I supposed to wake up every morning knowing how many days we have left together?

  Dinah Drake : By trying to change what happens. Trying every single day.

• Rene Ramirez : You really think we changed things tonight in the future?

  Laurel Lance : You mean in like a baby Hitler kind of way? Butterfly effect?

  [seeing their looks] 

  Laurel Lance : Come on.

• Curtis Holt : So, Grant is trying to one-up his father. Siege version 2.0 is tonight, and this time, Mirakuru's out and coordinated bomb attacks are in.

  Oliver Queen : How many?

  Laurel Lance : Lots. And Grant has them all connected to a remote detonator. Probably a phone.

  Curtis Holt : The good news is, and I use that term very loosely, uh, is that he set up a relay device underneath downtown.

  Dinah Drake : So we disable the relay device, we turn off the bomb.

  Mia Smoak : Okay, what about Grant?

  Connor Hawke : He's holed up underground, but the lines converge at Water Street.

  Oliver Queen : History repeats itself.

  John Diggle : Well, maybe we can stop the attack by running the same play we ran last time.

  Rene Ramirez : [entering]  No. Someone told me the only way to change the future is to start doing things differently now.

  John Diggle : Rene, look...

  Rene Ramirez : John, we're good. You, too, Connor. I can't be mad at either of you for something I will never let happen.

• Rene Ramirez : Are you crazy? How can you not like mint chip?

  Young Zoe : It tastes like toothpaste.