- John Diggle: If this isn't 100% for our city, then you are not the hero that it deserves, and you never will be.
- Oliver Queen: Ricardo Diaz has God knows how much of our city in his grip, and you're picking now to lecture me or to whine about not getting a promotion?
- John Diggle: Promotion? This isn't about a promotion, man. This is about you. And Diaz? You still can't see it.
- Oliver Queen: See what?
- John Diggle: He's already won, Oliver. He has the city wired, and it happened under your watch.
- Oliver Queen: He showed up while you were the Green Arrow! You brought drugs from him, John! You funded what he is doing right now! The entire time I put you in that hood, and you hid having a drug problem!
- John Diggle: And I was putting my body through hell for the sake of our city.
- Oliver Queen: No. You put the team at risk by lying! I had to dive off a bridge to save Rene's life because you were in the field, you weren't 100%, and nobody knew it!
- John Diggle: You really want to bring up Rene right now when he is still hospitalized for the beating that you put on him?
- Oliver Queen: We were in the field against Dinah, Curtis, and Rene. He pulls a gun on me! You think he gave me a choice?
- John Diggle: I think that you leave a trail of bodies every damn place that you go! Sure you've changed, but what comforts that to William, whose mother's dead because of bad decisions that you've made?
- Oliver Queen: My trail of bodies doesn't include my own brother.
- John Diggle: I can't shake that it's true. Oliver, for 6 years, I have followed the chain of command without question, even when my heart told me there was a better way. I trusted it, I trusted you, but the inescapable truth is, is that people have lost faith in your leadership. Truth is Oliver, you have become a better man but, with your focus split, a worse leader. The Green Arrow allows you to become the best version of yourself, and I respect that. I respect you, but if I'm gonna be the best version of myself... Oliver... It can't be with you.
- Oliver Queen: I hope you find what you're looking for.
- Oliver Queen: Both of you are better than this. Talk to me.
- Captain Kimberly Hill: Less than 24 hours after you promoted me to take over Pike's command, I got an e-mail - surveillance photos of my niece, my father, and my sister.
- Oliver Queen: So he found a way to apply pressure.
- Captain Kimberly Hill: Yeah.
- Oliver Queen: Okay.
- Sam Armand: My boy has cancer, leukemia, stage IV. Even with the city's insurance, we couldn't afford the treatments. I needed Diaz's money.
- Oliver Queen: All right. We can protect your family. We can pay for your son's treatments. This city...
- Sam Armand: Is bankrupt, and the idea of you protecting anyone is a joke. The whole force is under Diaz's thumb, or were you offering your protection as the Green Arrow?
- Oliver Queen: If I was the Green Arrow... I don't think you'd want to be in this room right now. I don't think either of you would.
- Captain Kimberly Hill: Are we done here?
- Oliver Queen: You are. You're both fired effective immediately.
- Captain Kimberly Hill: You can't do that.
- Oliver Queen: If you work for him, then you don't work for me. Get out.
- Sam Armand: I know you're the Green Arrow, but this is unlikely anything you've ever gone up against. Diaz has already beat you, and you don't even know it.
- Ricardo Diaz: You didn't want to torture him a bit, you know, maybe slit his throat? What happened to all that Russian vengeance I heard so much about?
- Anatoly Knyazev: Is new suit. His dead body send good message to other police.
- Ricardo Diaz: That's right. They're all on borrowed time.
- Green Arrow: You're gonna tell us where you make your Vertigo shipment.
- Marshall Katz: And turn on the dragon? You'll have to shoot me, man.
- Green Arrow: I don't want to waste my arrows.
- Spartan: I think you should. This punk deserves it. I'm not nearly as stingy with my bullets.
- Felicity Smoak: [after Oliver and Dig get into a physical fight] Found the location of Diaz's Vertigo operation. Have you two found any shred of sanity, perhaps?
- Curtis Holt: I don't like the idea of you doing this without backup.
- Dinah Drake: That or you want to spend some quality time with your new boyfriend?
- Curtis Holt: We've only been on three dates but, yeah, he's cute, and I don't want him to get murdered. So sue me.
- Curtis Holt: I know you're not a fan of vigilantes, and so I get it if-if you want to step away from this.
- Officer Nick Anastas: Curtis, I just lost my job for being a clean cop.
- Curtis Holt: I know.
- Officer Nick Anastas: With the department compromised, maybe vigilantism is the only way to take back this city. I don't know. To be honest, I don't know how I feel about vigilantes. But I do know how I feel about you.
- Curtis Holt: I'm okay. Actually, that's a lie. I think my ribs are broken.
- Officer Nick Anastas: You were shot point-blank.
- Curtis Holt: [Nick starts to open his jacket] What... no!
- Officer Nick Anastas: [seeing his Mr. Terrific suit] You're...
- Curtis Holt: It's not what it looks like.
- [one of his T-spheres whirs in]
- Curtis Holt: Okay. It is what it looks like.