Justin Hartley credited as playing...
Oliver Queen • Green Arrow
- Zatanna Zatara: Bravo. You found my book *and* pull it off in style.
- Green Arrow: I wish I could say I've had the pleasure.
- Zatanna Zatara: Oh, please, Oliver. Ask a billionaire for help, and then a vigilante steals *exactly* what I ask for? You need to work on your sleight of hand.
- Oliver Queen: [Takes his mask off] Yeah...
- Chloe Sullivan: Ollie, when did this happen? One day I'm on the fast track for my dream career as the intrepid reporter, and then I blink and all of a sudden, I'm this underqualified shrink for meteor-infected kids who will probably wake up to be psycho killers, while Lois and Clark are walking the beach with matching press passes together. Oh, and did I mention that I was actually able to hold on to "happily ever after" for about 2.3 seconds before my marriage imploded?
- Oliver Queen: Is this the part where you belt out the soprano's aria and drive a dagger into your corset?
- Chloe Sullivan: Right. Sorry for the operetta. It's just, I would love to know how she does it.
- Oliver Queen: You know, Chloe, if I didn't know you any better, I'd say there was a hint of jealousy in there.
- Chloe Sullivan: No. It's just... with all these Debbie ups and downers lately, it... I guess it would be really nice to leave it all behind and be back in the bullpen.
- Green Arrow: [after knocking out two guards at Luthercorp] Sorry, guys. I'll make sure you get a nice Christmas bonus.
- Oliver Queen: Now, why do I get the feeling you're not my 10:00 from the steel union?
- Zatanna Zatara: [offering a handshake] Zatanna. We weren't properly introduced.
- Oliver Queen: Zatanna. You lose a bet with that name?
- Oliver Queen: Ready?
- Chloe Sullivan: Ready as you are.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah. Chloe. This will mean leaving your old life as a reporter behind. You sure you wanna say goodbye to that forever?
- Chloe Sullivan: You know, yesterday, I wouldn't have been able to answer that question. But after spending the day at the Daily Planet, I realized... that's someone else's life.
- Oliver Queen: You know, it's interesting, everyone seems to have so much clarity after a dose of the Zatanna dust. Almost makes me wish I had my turn at the magic lamp, too.
- Chloe Sullivan: I'll save you the heel blisters. You already know what you really want. We all do. We just don't listen.
- Oliver Queen: [taking a Bluetooth earpiece] And you're sure this is it?
- Chloe Sullivan: This is where I belong.
- Oliver Queen: What is this? You drop by to kick my ass again? So much fun for me the first time.
- Zatanna Zatara: I came to apologize. I just...
- Oliver Queen: Bound by steel. Right? That's what you said to be backwards. Bound by steel? I had plenty of time to mull that over when you, uh, you left me there strung up to either die or have my identity revealed.
- Zatanna Zatara: I can't ever totally make it up to you or your friends, but I would like to try to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again.
- Oliver Queen: Here's a thought. Don't do it again.
- Oliver Queen: I know how difficult the sacrifices you made must have been. Especially considering how hell-bent you were on getting what you wanted. Well, anyway, in the end you made the tough choice, and, um... I can respect that.
- Zatanna Zatara: Just know that there are far more dangerous people out there in the world than me. People with much greater control of the genuinely nasty magics than I do. So...
- [giving him what looks like a tarot card]
- Zatanna Zatara: ...if you ever run into my kind of mischief again... call me. And wherever I am, this time, I'm on your side.
- Oliver Queen: So I guess this means you're taking your show on the road.
- Zatanna Zatara: Thinking about taking a little bit of time off to... do some light reading. If I'm ever gonna do my father proud, I've got a lot of catching up to do.
- Oliver Queen: Uh, so... what, what is this, exactly? Some kind of magic spell to summon you? I just hold it up, say your name a couple times and, uh, poof, you appear?
- Zatanna Zatara: It's my phone number.
- Oliver Queen: You know, this isn't just a how-to guide on upping your stage presence. There's some really dark stuff in here, Zatanna.
- Zatanna Zatara: You don't get it. The sick irony of my ability is that I can grant so many wishes. Everyone's but mine.
- [he moves to throw it into the fire]
- Zatanna Zatara: No! Please... don't. It's the only way I can bring my father back.
- Oliver Queen: I'm sorry.
- [he tosses it in, but she summons it before it reaches the flames]
- Oliver Queen: Not good.
- Oliver Queen: You mind telling me what drives a lovely young woman such as yourself to track down an unsuspecting CEO at a nightclub and then again at his office?
- Zatanna Zatara: I need your help.
- Oliver Queen: You don't scream "charity case".
- Zatanna Zatara: My father left me an estate in Shadowcrest, so money isn't an object.
- Oliver Queen: Shadowcrest.
- [realizing]
- Oliver Queen: John Zatara? The maestro of magic? He was your father?
- [she nods]
- Oliver Queen: Well, I'm sorry. I know what it's like to lose family.
- Zatanna Zatara: Yeah. I lost more than my father. I lost his entire legacy recorded in a book that's been passed down through generations. There's a Bible's worth of my heritage in those pages. When my father died, Mr. Luthor acquired that book at auction.
- Oliver Queen: Well, no offense, Zatanna, but, uh, you're the daughter of the world's greatest magician. Can't you just, I don't know, wiggle your nose and pull it out of a hat or something?
- Oliver Queen: You okay?
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah. Birthdays just make me a little reflective.
- Oliver Queen: What do you say we get you out of your head and into the party, huh? Come on.
- Chloe Sullivan: [entering the party and seeing Lois having a good time] See? Case in point. That was supposed to be my life.