- Anatoly Knyazev: I just dislocated thumbs. Useful if getting tired to chair to become habit. This is going to hurt a little.
- [relocates Oliver's thumbs]
- Oliver Queen: Son of a bitch!
- Anatoly Knyazev: With a bit of practice, you can do yourself anytime.
- Oliver Queen: Anatoly, can't you bring a knife next time?
- Anatoly Knyazev: What is fun of that?
- Quentin Lance: Lonely at the top, Mr. Mayor?
- Oliver Queen: Actually being the mayor isn't the job that's lonely.
- Quentin Lance: Thea?
- Oliver Queen: Thea's not coming back. Neither is John. There's a Russian proverb I've been thinking about a lot recently. Akula kotorya ne plavayet, tonet. "The shark that does not swim, drowns."
- Quentin Lance: You don't move forward, you die. Listen, you will die if you try taking on this Tobias Church by yourself.
- Oliver Queen: There's no more team, Quentin, and I can't trust anyone on the department.
- Quentin Lance: Then don't. Just trust these guys. Lieutenant Conahan. I trained him back in the day. The guy's so clean, he doesn't even double park, and he's vouched for each of his officers.
- Oliver Queen: To do what?
- Quentin Lance: To help you whatever way we can?
- Oliver Queen: "We"?
- Quentin Lance: Look, I don't know any Russian proverbs, all right, but both of us have to move on.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah.
- Quentin Lance: I thought that was going to be a bigger fight.
- Oliver Queen: That's what Laurel would have wanted.
- Oliver Queen: Must be nice to know someone down here who speaks Felicity.
- Curtis Holt: Well, I'm strictly repair and maintenance. You guys are the vigilantes.
- Laurel Lance: After tonight, I realized that anything can happen, which is why I need you to make me a promise.
- Oliver Queen: [Oliver sits on her hospital bed] Anything.
- Laurel Lance: Please... Please don't let me be the last canary... That way, a part of me will always be out there with you.
- Oliver Queen: I promise.
- Felicity Smoak: What are you still doing here? I thought you'd be out celebrating after your big win.
- Oliver Queen: Wasn't exactly a big win.
- Felicity Smoak: You were from being the Do-Nothing Mayor to the Rockstar Mayor in under 24 hours... I would say that that qualifies.
- Oliver Queen: Church is still out there.
- Felicity Smoak: I'm not worried about that. What, with your new unit of super-cops and the new team of vigilantes you're gonna be recruiting, Church is gonna see the inside of a cell in no time.
- Oliver Queen: I see what you did there.
- Felicity Smoak: What did I do?
- Felicity Smoak: You talked about the new team like it's a done deal.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh, that, well... I just thought since you decided to "keep swimming" as mayor, you might do the same as Green Arrow.
- Oliver Queen: You might be right.
- Felicity Smoak: Lance told me about the Russian proverb, by the way. Very poetic. Wait... Did you just say I might be right? Are you okay?
- Oliver Queen: [Oliver clicks on the monitors] Been looking into your guy.
- Felicity Smoak: Wild Dog.
- Oliver Queen: Says here his name is Rene Ramirez.
- Felicity Smoak: Yeah, but "Wild Dog" is much scarier. So by looking into, does that mean...
- Oliver Queen: I'm thinking of recruiting him.
- Felicity Smoak: Good.
- Curtis Holt: You better, because if you don't, I have no idea what I went through this for.
- Felicity Smoak: Oh my God, what happened?
- Curtis Holt: I was looking for Mr. Dog, and then I was jumped by two insanely aggressive guys with knives.
- Oliver Queen: Do you remember what they looked like?
- Curtis Holt: Yes, and I will tell you everything on one condition: you recruit me too.
- Oliver Queen: I'm sorry that you had to hear that.
- Felicity Smoak: Hazards of the job. You okay?
- Oliver Queen: Seeing Thea in the suit... It made me feel like everything was gonna get back to normal.
- Felicity Smoak: Well, I'm running out of different ways to tell you it's not.
- Oliver Queen: Hey, look--being a vigilante is not just putting on a mask and thinking up a code name... These people are amateurs, Felicity. You really think that they're going to replace Dig or Thea or Laurel? They couldn't do that if I wanted them to, and I don't want them to.
- Felicity Smoak: They're already out there, Oliver... Because of you, inspired by you.
- Oliver Queen: After what happened with Laurel, how can you ask me to put more people in the crosshairs?
- Felicity Smoak: I am not the one who is asking, or do you not remember the promise you made to Laurel before she died? Laurel was thinking about the future--*you* need to think about yours!
- Oliver Queen: Right now, I need to think of ways to stop Tobias Church.
- Felicity Smoak: Oliver...
- Oliver Queen: ...Now you let me know when you find a way around the kill cordon.