- Slade Wilson: So instead of marrying the blonde, you marry Ra's al Ghul's daughter?
- Oliver Queen: Uh... Nyssa talks too much.
- Slade Wilson: She hasn't explained your beef with Chase.
- Oliver Queen: My past is coming back to haunt me.
- Slade Wilson: Seems to be a recurring theme with you, kid.
- Oliver Queen: I don't know why.
- Slade Wilson: It's not really complicated. You suffer from survivor's guilt. You can't get over the death of your father.
- Oliver Queen: Adrian Chase has nothing to do with my father.
- Slade Wilson: Kid, when it comes to you, everything has to do with your father. You and I are not dissimilar. We are both wanted by our pasts, and the only way to bury that ghost is by forgiving yourself.
- Oliver Queen: Forgiving myself for what?
- Slade Wilson: You blame yourself for your father's suicide and everything else that has gone wrong since. You need to forgive yourself for your sins.
- Oliver Queen: You say that like it's easy.
- Slade Wilson: It is the hardest thing in this world.
- Digger Harkness: I assumed you'd want to be on the winning side.
- Slade Wilson: Assumption is the mother of all failures!
- [first lines]
- Oliver Queen: The name of the island they found me on is Lian Yu. It's Mandarin for purgatory.
- Digger Harkness: Well, you don't seem too bright. Just standing in the open like this. What kind of ass-backward strategy is that?
- Malcolm Merlyn: Let me show you.
- [Malcolm steps off from the landmine]
- Oliver Queen: Curtis worked this up for Dinah. It's gonna control your Canary Cry, but it's also gonna bypass the sonic dampener.
- Dinah Drake: Oh, I love that Curtis. This may hurt a bit.
- Rene Ramirez: Just sing, canary.
- Quentin Lance: Actually... it's Black Canary.
- Oliver Queen: I have no interest in this being a fair fight.
- Nyssa al Ghul: Is that why you released the animals from their cages?
- Digger Harkness: Oh, come on, love. That is no way to start a new friendship.
- Nyssa al Ghul: Look at me again like that, and I'll feed you your eyes.
- Malcolm Merlyn: You're not her type, anyway.
- [last lines]
- Adrian Chase: You won. Your son has his father back, and he learned exactly who his father was. Just like you learned who your father was, right? Here, on these very same waters.
- Oliver Queen: What?
- Adrian Chase: William's younger than you were, so he's gonna be fine. And you have each other.
- Oliver Queen: What are you saying?
- Adrian Chase: Which is good, Oliver. That's good. Because it's gonna be lonely without mom and Felicity.
- [he pulls a revolver from his jacket pocket and puts it to his temple]
- Oliver Queen: No, wait, Adrian!
- [gunshot; after a moment, the bombs Chase planted on the island begin to detonate]
- Digger Harkness: Why does he get a weapon and I don't?
- Oliver Queen: I trust him more than you.
- Digger Harkness: Didn't he kill your mother?
- Oliver Queen: You listen to me very carefully. You help me take down Chase, you walk. You screw with me even a little bit, and I will put you right back into that hole.
- Oliver Queen: [handing Felicity a tablet] That's detailed satellite imagery of the island. Again, just in case.
- [she kisses him]
- Oliver Queen: What was that for?
- Felicity Smoak: Just in case.
- Oliver Queen: We're gonna make it through this.
- Felicity Smoak: You can't know that for sure. I didn't want to regret not kissing you. When it comes to the two of us, I regret enough as it is.
- Oliver Queen: Let's talk more about this when we're off the island.
- Slade Wilson: Would you like to explain what's going on?
- Oliver Queen: I'd like to talk to you for a minute. You seem...
- Slade Wilson: What, in possession of all my marbles? The Mirakuru wore off a long time ago, kid. I mean, I remember everything that happened. I'm not trying to escape that. I'm not trying to escape that, but it feels like some bad dream. Now, regardless of my sanity, why do you want to help me after everything I've done?
- Oliver Queen: There is man here on the island named Adrian Chase. He's holding my friends and my family hostage, including Thea... and my son.
- Slade Wilson: Since when do you have a son?
- Nyssa al Ghul: You know, if we're going to fight side-by-side, you're gonna have to speak with me.
- Malcolm Merlyn: I know. It's awful.
- Nyssa al Ghul: Pity. By now I thought you'd realize that by disbanding the League of Assassins, I freed us both.
- Malcolm Merlyn: Are you looking for applause? Clapping is a little more difficult for me these days.
- Malcolm Merlyn: From the moment you were born, all I ever wanted was to protect you.
- Thea Queen: You don't have to. I didn't ask for you to.
- Malcolm Merlyn: A child doesn't have to ask.
- Thea Queen: Don't do this, okay?
- Malcolm Merlyn: You may not think of me as your father, Thea, but you'll always be my daughter.
- Samantha Clayton: When we get to the airplane, I'm not gonna get on it.
- Felicity Smoak: What?
- Samantha Clayton: I'm not leaving William behind.
- Felicity Smoak: No. Oliver will bring him back.
- Samantha Clayton: I know, but I can't abandon my son.
- Felicity Smoak: You know, for what it's worth, I wasn't in favor of sending William away; not that I was consulted.
- Samantha Clayton: Is that why you two broke up? I'm sorry. I just... I saw you're not wearing your engagement ring.
- Felicity Smoak: No. I know. It's just... it was complicated, you know?
- Samantha Clayton: I saw that kiss you gave him. Doesn't seem that complicated to me.
- Malcolm Merlyn: On the count of three, take your foot off the mine.
- Felicity Smoak: No. That will blow us all up.
- Malcolm Merlyn: I'm gonna take her place.
- Samantha Clayton: That's crazy.
- Felicity Smoak: Yeah. You're not the first one to call him that.
- Felicity Smoak: I'd ask if you were okay, but I don't see how you possibly could be.
- Thea Queen: Honestly, I... I don't even know how I feel right now. Twenty-four hours ago, I... I couldn't even think of Malcolm without wanting to scream, and now... now I miss him. Is... is that insane? I...
- Felicity Smoak: It's not insane. He's your father.
- Thea Queen: He manipulated me, he lied to me, he... he got me to kill my friend's sister. I... how can you miss somebody that you have hated so much?
- Felicity Smoak: Yeah. I mean, I have some experience with evil dads, too. My father abandoned me, lied to me, and then took a bullet for me, saving my life. Malcolm was not a good person, and he was an even worse father, but... in his own way, he loved you. Today, he proved that.
- Oliver Queen: Slade, are you gonna help me or not?
- Slade Wilson: I think I'm stating the obvious when I say I killed your mother, and for that alone you should have killed me.
- Oliver Queen: Maybe what's happening now is the reason I didn't.
- Oliver Queen: The RPG that took out the plane came from over there, and the call from my son originated just west of here.
- Digger Harkness: Hostages could be in either place.
- Slade Wilson: Or neither. This is a large island.
- Malcolm Merlyn: I'll check the RPG site.
- Nyssa al Ghul: I'll accompany you.
- Malcolm Merlyn: Oh, it's almost like you don't trust me, Nyssa.
- Nyssa al Ghul: No. It's exactly like I don't trust you.
- Adrian Chase: It's all over. But only if you do it. Do it, Oliver, and show everyone - show yourself - who you really are.
- Oliver Queen: NO!
- [letting him go, he takes Chase's gun and empties the bullet from the chamber, then throws the gun away]
- Oliver Queen: That's who I was. That's who I was before! It's not who I am now. You can blame me for your father's death for the rest of your life. I am done blaming myself for mine.
- Oliver Queen: Right now, we need to focus on finding the others. Where are they?
- Evelyn Sharp: I wish I knew so I could tell you to go screw yourselves.
- Malcolm Merlyn: Why did Chase split up all the hostages?
- Evelyn Sharp: Why does Chase do anything?
- [to Oliver]
- Evelyn Sharp: So far, he hasn't laid out a single hoop you could keep yourself from jumping through. Maybe leaving me here was part of the plan.
- Talia al Ghul: I heard you gave up the ring of the Demon's Head. What a foolish woman you've grown into.
- Nyssa al Ghul: It was your selfishness that forced me to grow up alone.
- Talia al Ghul: Our father never would have passed his mantle on to a woman. I had to forge my own path.
- Nyssa al Ghul: And you left me, knowing I would suffer at father's hand.
- Talia al Ghul: And do you wish to settle the score now?
- Nyssa al Ghul: I stand with my friends.
- Talia al Ghul: You ally yourself with our father's murderer? He'd be ashamed of you.
- Nyssa al Ghul: Father was always ashamed of me.
- Oliver Queen: Where's my son?
- Adrian Chase: I love this. Even now at the end, you're still ten steps behind.
- Oliver Queen: Where is my son?
- Adrian Chase: William? Good name. Sort of a sweet kid, actually. You sure he's yours?
- Oliver Queen: ADRIAN, WHERE IS MY SON?
- Adrian Chase: If you want to get your son back, you know what you have to do.
- Oliver Queen: I know what you want me to do, and I won't do it. I'm not gonna kill you. No matter what you do, that is never going to happen.
- Adrian Chase: Never say never.
- Black Siren: [fighting Dinah] You thought you could replace me?
- [she lets out an amused laugh]
- Black Siren: That's cute.
- [before she can let out another Canary Cry, she is knocked out by Quentin]
- Dinah Drake: You didn't have to do that.
- Quentin Lance: Oh, I did. For so many reasons.
- Felicity Smoak: Oliver!
- Slade Wilson: Keep your voice down.
- Thea Queen: What the hell is he doing here?
- Oliver Queen: Where's William?
- Samantha Clayton: I don't know. We were separated. Oliver, what is going on?
- Slade Wilson: Why are they unguarded?
- Digger Harkness: Seems pretty obvious to me, mate.
- [Evelyn, Talia, and a pair of her soldiers drop down from the trees behind them]
- Digger Harkness: It's a trap.
- Talia al Ghul: [Oliver moves to draw an arrow from his quiver] Don't even think it, Oliver. Or your son loses his mother.
- Digger Harkness: Oh, and don't worry about that gun, mate. Mr. Chase gave me this nice new one.
- [he pulls a gun out of his waistband, cocks it, and aims it at Deathstroke]
- Digger Harkness: Along with a better offer.
- Felicity Smoak: We are not leaving you here.
- Oliver Queen: I need to focus, and that means getting you out of harm's way.
- [to Evelyn]
- Oliver Queen: And despite my better instincts, when this is all over, I will come back for you.
- Evelyn Sharp: When this is all over, you'll be dead.
- Quentin Lance: Nice place. This island got a Big Belly Burger, too?
- Black Siren: Before the Chinese turned Lian Yu into a prison, it was a holy retreat.
- John Diggle: And you're using it for payback for a guy you barely know on a guy you barely know.
- Black Siren: Chase freed me. I don't owe Oliver Queen a thing.
- Malcolm Merlyn: You know, I traveled halfway across the world to rescue you. I thought it would at least entitle me to a conversation.
- Thea Queen: Yeah? Well, it doesn't.
- Malcolm Merlyn: Did it ever occur to you that I'm here because I'm your father?
- Thea Queen: No. You're not. We are nothing to each other. Don't you ever understand that?
- [Thea freezes as she and Malcolm hear a metallic click]
- Curtis Holt: Thea? You okay?
- Malcolm Merlyn: No, she's not. She just activated a landmine.
- Samantha Clayton: Who's gonna fly the plane now?
- Felicity Smoak: Oh, don't worry. Between Curtis and I, we have over 500 points of IQ, so we'll probably be able to figure it out.
- Thea Queen: No.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh, thanks for the vote of confidence.
- Adrian Chase: For an absentee father, your devotion is impressive. You're all worried about your kid when everyone else that you care about's on an island about to get blown up sky high.
- Oliver Queen: My friends and my team can take care of themselves.
- Adrian Chase: I knew it would come to this. Your son is dead, Oliver.
- Oliver Queen: I don't believe you. Because you're a liar. You're lying to me to manipulate me into doing what you want. But Adrian, here's the thing. If you're telling the truth... if you killed my son... I am never going to be the person you want me to be. Not ever.
- Oliver Queen: John, you need to get to the plane and make sure that everybody is safe. Felicity can talk you in.
- John Diggle: Oliver, what the hell is going on?
- Oliver Queen: Chase has put explosive charges all over the island. You need to get to plane and you leave when you get there.
- Rene Ramirez: What are you gonna be doing?
- Oliver Queen: I'm going after my son.
- Quentin Lance: What if Chase is telling the truth?
- Oliver Queen: I don't believe him. I can't believe him. But either way, Adrian Chase is not getting off this island.
- Adrian Chase: Don't do that. Even if you had a shot, you've already told me that you wouldn't kill me. Or have circumstances finally changed? If I die, everyone you care about dies, except your son. But if you don't kill me, I kill him.
- Oliver Queen: [fighting back tears] You son of a bitch.
- Adrian Chase: William or everyone else. You choose, right now. Either way, it proves me right, huh? Either way, it's exactly like I told you. Everyone around you, everything you touch, dies.
- Thea Queen: What the hell are you doing?
- Oliver Queen: What do you mean?
- Thea Queen: I mean Slade Wilson and Malcolm Merlyn.
- Oliver Queen: Thea...
- Thea Queen: No. We are orphans because of those two.
- Oliver Queen: You know what I'm up against here.
- Thea Queen: Yeah, so why are you sending Curtis and me away?
- Oliver Queen: Because I neeed the two of you to keep Felicity and Samantha safe. We need to get them off of the island.
- Thea Queen: Okay, Curtis can handle it.
- Oliver Queen: I can understand if you don't want to go with Malcolm.
- Thea Queen: Damn right I don't.
- Oliver Queen: And I do not want to rely on Slade Wilson. There's nothing about the situation that's ideal, Thea. I need your help, Speedy, and this is how you help me.
- Curtis Holt: The plane, boss--the plane!
- Curtis Holt: [All look at him like he's crazy] What, reference too dated?