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Oliver Queen : I have a question for you.
Quentin Lance : Sure.
Oliver Queen : Back when I was running around as the Hood, you were trying to arrest me. You remember that?
Quentin Lance : [laughing] Oh, yeah. The good old days. How could I ever forget?
Oliver Queen : The question is... what made you decide that I wasn't your enemy anymore? What changed your mind?
Quentin Lance : Heh. Oh, you know, my daughters, for one. Because I didn't raise dummies, and, uh, you know, if they were okay with you, then I figured I should be, too. Yeah.
Oliver Queen : They trusted me, and you trusted them.
Quentin Lance : Yeah. They got me to listen to what I always knew in my gut, that we were on the same side, and fighting for the same goal, and it just took me a while to get there. Sorry.
Oliver Queen : It's okay.
Quentin Lance : Oliver, is there any particular reason for this trip down memory lane?
Oliver Queen : Yeah. God, I've been hanging on to something. Someone told me just recently that... it's about time I made peace with it.
Quentin Lance : Okay. Sounds like a smart someone.
Oliver Queen : Yeah. Oh, I shouldn't have to say goodbye to you again.
Quentin Lance : Goodbye? Evening's just getting started.
Oliver Queen : Yeah. Thank you, Quentin, for everything.
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Oliver Queen : We've had this exact conversation already.
Quentin Lance : What are you talking about?
Oliver Queen : Fully aware how this is going to sound. Quinton, I'm trapped in some sort of... time loop, where the same events keep repeating themselves.
Quentin Lance : Like "Groundhog Day."
Oliver Queen : Sure. Except this one ends with a lot of people dead, including the two of us.
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Quentin Lance : What's the situation, Captain?
Dinah Drake : Armed mercs stormed my precinct, took a dozen of my guys hostage.
Green Arrow : How did they get by your men?
Dinah Drake : It's a long story that I don't have time to tell. The only demand was to speak to the mayor.
Quentin Lance : All right. Well, I'll go talk to them.
Dinah Drake : I appreciate that, but there is no way I'm sending you in there.
Quentin Lance : Listen, I wore the blues a long time before I wore this monkey suit, okay? I can hold my own.
Dinah Drake : I know, sir. It's just... it's not the point.
Green Arrow : She's right. It's too risky.
Quentin Lance : Says the man who risks his life every day for this city? Give me a vest. I'll go in there, I'll distract the son of a bitch, and in the meantime, you sneak around the back and do your thing, okay? The longer this drags on, the worse it gets. Let me do this.
Green Arrow : I'll have his back.
Dinah Drake : I want you on comms the whole time.
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Quentin Lance : What's the matter, Oliver? You look like you've seen a ghost.
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Quentin Lance : Laurel, sweetheart, I always know when you're hiding something from me. Please tell me. What is it?
Laurel Lance : It... it's a year and a half ago when Diaz, when he shot you in... in the real reality or whatever, you... you didn't exactly, um...
Quentin Lance : I didn't recover.
Laurel Lance : No. No, you died to save me.
Quentin Lance : Best way I could have gone.
Laurel Lance : What? I'm sorry. I basically just told you you're a ghost, and you're completely okay with that? It doesn't-it doesn't faze you? You're completely calm?
Quentin Lance : I always felt like I cheated death with that one. Guess that's 'cause I didn't. Fate's just tricky like that.
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Quentin Lance : Oliver, I've seen one daughter die and come back to life twice. I've seen another come from some other Earth. I've seen a guy in red run so fast he can reverse time. This is not exactly outside the norm, is it? Also, I'm done learning my lesson about doubting you because that always bites me in the ass.
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Quentin Lance : [after getting shot] Oh, I'm sorry, baby girl. Looks like we lost this round.
Laurel Lance : No. No! I am not letting you die again.
Quentin Lance : It's too late.
Laurel Lance : No.
Quentin Lance : It-it's-it's time to say goodbye.
Laurel Lance : I'm not giving up on you, Quentin. Quentin, I am not giving up on you. You never gave up on me. You believed in me when nobody else did.
Quentin Lance : Well, that's what dads do. They believe.
Laurel Lance : I want you to know that you are the reason that I'm trying to be a hero. It's because of you.
Quentin Lance : Sweetheart... you are a hero. You are.
Laurel Lance : [crying] Thank you. Thank you. I never had the chance to tell you how much you mean to me.
Quentin Lance : Well...
Laurel Lance : Thank you.
Quentin Lance : I think you just did. I love you.
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Quentin Lance : So you're telling me we're-we're in some kind of a alternate reality based on the plot of a Bill Murray movie?
Laurel Lance : Well, I was gonna go with a Tom Cruise flick, but basically. Also just really glad that you believe me.
Quentin Lance : Well, it's not the craziest thing you ever told me.
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Quentin Lance : Hey, baby girl. I didn't think you were gonna make it.
Laurel Lance : Me, either.
Quentin Lance : You okay, honey?
Laurel Lance : [hugging him] I'm just really happy to see you.
Quentin Lance : Oh. I'm happy to see you, too. Though I got to say I'm glad you left the black lipstick at home tonight.
Laurel Lance : You know I'm Earth-2 Laurel.
Quentin Lance : Who else would you be?
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Quentin Lance : You know, getting hunted like this in a space like this is kind of like what I was doing to you all those years ago. Remember? Sort of makes sense I'd go out like this now, don't you think?
Green Arrow : Would you please just save your strength?
Quentin Lance : For what? Oliver, you take care of these guys, there'll be more behind them, there will be more behind them. There is no saving me from this! Okay? You ever think that's the point? Maybe you're not supposed to.
Green Arrow : I'm not giving up. And you're not giving up, either.
Quentin Lance : Oh, no, no, no. I'm not giving up. Maybe I'm giving in. You see, I've been outrunning death for a while now. The siege, the island, but when Diaz shot me, that felt different, like I was finally at the end, and I made my peace with that. And maybe it's time you did, too.
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Oliver Queen : Quentin, right before I turned myself in, Diaz shot you, right?
Quentin Lance : Oh. Yeah. That son of a bitch almost killed me. I almost died in the O.R. You don't remember?
Oliver Queen : I remember it differently.
Quentin Lance : Well, the doctors called it a miracle. I was without oxygen for long, I should have been six feet under. Felt like I escaped my fate or something.
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Quentin Lance : You asked for me. Here I am. What do you want to talk about with me?
Vincent : You're the mayor. You're a guy who can make things happen.
Quentin Lance : Why don't you let a few of these guys go while we talk?
Vincent : So I can get stormed by the cops? No, thanks. I'm not stupid.
Quentin Lance : But it would show that you don't want anybody to get hurt, because if anybody gets hurt, you're in real trouble. Actually, I think you're already in trouble.
Vincent : I'm the one holding the gun.
Green Arrow : [behind him, a drawn arrow at the ready] Not for long. Put it down.
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Quentin Lance : I was thinking about adding a line about, you know, me telling you it was a bad idea to unmask, but, you know, maybe a joke about how you'd rather take it to supermax than take my advice. Heh. You know? What do you think?
Oliver Queen : You know that I went to Slabside?
Quentin Lance : Uh... yeah. What's that, your way of saying I should have come visit more often?
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Oliver Queen : It's been a while since I've seen you.
Quentin Lance : A couple of days, maybe. You're looking at me like it's been years.
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Quentin Lance : What's the situation, Captain?
Dinah Drake : Armed mercs stormed the precinct, took a dozen of my guys hostage.
Green Arrow : They have a bomb.
Dinah Drake : We already did a sweep of the entire building.
Green Arrow : It's not in the building. It's underneath it.
Dinah Drake : How could you possibly know that?
Quentin Lance : I trust him. Instinct thing.
Dinah Drake : So what do you wanna do?
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Rene Ramirez : There's a hostage situation at the SCPD. The leader is demanding to meet with the mayor.
Oliver Queen : No. You can't go down there.
Rene Ramirez : We'll call in a special ops team.
Quentin Lance : I'm the mayor. Nobody does my dirty work for me. Give my apologies to the guests.
Oliver Queen : I'm... I'm gonna come with you.
Quentin Lance : Okay, but you might want to bring a change of clothes, because something tells me we're gonna need the green guy.
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Quentin Lance : Oh, boy. Aren't we the couple?
Green Arrow : We are gonna find a way out of this. There has to be a way to fix it, and we are gonna find it, Quentin. It doesn't matter how many times. We're gonna find it!
Quentin Lance : Heh heh. Yeah? Sure. What's it gonna be, 60 times, 100 times?
Green Arrow : It's gonna be however many times it takes!
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Quentin Lance : So if me dying is the problem, maybe bringing me into the lion's den isn't so smart.
Green Arrow : Couldn't think of a better way to keep you safe.
Quentin Lance : [sarcastic] Yeah, that makes sense.
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Quentin Lance : So you're telling me we've been here once and still came back for more?
Black Canary : At least now we know what not to do.
Green Arrow : Okay.
[finding the bomb and sticking an arrow into it]
Green Arrow : All right. That should disable to bomb.
Black Canary : Well, I certainly hope so, because I am getting sick and tired of getting blown up.
