Arrow (TV Series)

Present Tense (2019)

Katie Cassidy: Laurel Lance, Black Siren

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• 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?

• Laurel Lance : You must be the Monitor.

  Mar Novu : How do you know?

  Laurel Lance : Because no human would actually wear something so ridiculous.

  Mar Novu : You ache for the world you lost, and I possess the power to restore it.

  Laurel Lance : You can bring back my Earth.

  Mar Novu : The recovery of your universe would require a single task.

  Laurel Lance : What kind of task?

  Mar Novu : You must betray Oliver Queen.

• Laurel Lance : I don't know anything about changing timelines, but I am something of an expert on vengeance, and getting it... it doesn't do anything but cause you more pain.

  Mia Smoak : So, what, you're an expert on talking people out of murder?

  Laurel Lance : Kind of. I had to when Felicity wanted to take down Ricardo Diaz.

  Mia Smoak : My mom tried to kill someone?

  Laurel Lance : No. Because I talked her out of it. And, look, I get it; you and your mom, you're both women who won't allow themselves to be talked out of anything, and I appreciate that. But Felicity, she never regretted changing her approach. So maybe you should try doing things differently, too.

• 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.

• Laurel Lance : In the future, do they still use the phrase "wild goose chase"?

  Mia Smoak : If you're bored, you can go. I don't need a babysitter.

  Laurel Lance : No, but you might need backup when you try and kill Grant Wilson.

  Mia Smoak : How did you know?

  Laurel Lance : Oh, well, clearly no one has informed you that I used to play for Team Villain. And I can spot a murderous intent a million miles away.

  Mia Smoak : So, what, are you gonna try and talk me out of it now? Tell me to listen to my dad?

  Laurel Lance : Oh, god, no. I would never tell anyone to listen to Oliver Queen. No offense. But I'm not exactly a very big fan of your father's; he's kind of a dick. But you are a grown womoan, and if you wanna kill this guy, then have at it. But I just wanna know why.

  Mia Smoak : Because locking him up isn't gonna change anything. He escapes, every time. Why he is such a cult hero among all the worst in Star City.

  Laurel Lance : Including future JJ.

  Mia Smoak : Exactly. Look, Grant has to die so Zoe can live.

• 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.

• William Clayton : Zoe was fighting to fix exactly what her dad helped cause. That's why she was a Canary like both of you. You guys had a whole network of them in the city.

  Dinah Drake : And that's what Connor was talking about earlier.

  Laurel Lance : And yet we still couldn't save the city.

  William Clayton : After Rene walled off the Glades, the scope was just too big, and ever since the wall came down, we've been fighting the Deathstrokes, trying to make things better, but...

  Dinah Drake : I just still don't understand. I mean, JJ adores Zoe. How could he do something like this?

  Mia Smoak : Seemed pretty easy for him, so how about we stop mourning poor, innocent JJ and accept who he actually is?