Justin Hartley credited as playing...
Oliver Queen • Green Arrow
- Amanda Waller: Green Arrow, welcome to Checkmate.
- Green Arrow: You got the wrong Green Arrow. I don't remember signing up for any chess club.
- Amanda Waller: You're a guest of the U.S. government. And the time has come for you to do your patriotic duty.
- Green Arrow: Yeah, well, I didn't know Uncle Sam was into drugs and bondage. Kind of gives a whole new meaning to the "I Want You" posters, doesn't it?
- Amanda Waller: Well, I'm sorry you think these tactics are crude. But I fear for our country's security. That's why I'm recruiting capable people like you.
- Green Arrow: Recruitment? Well, I gotta tell you, it feels more like kidnapping than a booth at a job fair.
- Amanda Waller: Well, call it what you will. But it's time you elevated your service to your country. You have a long plane ride coming to think it over.
- Tess Mercer: So it's you... parading around in tacky green leather.
- Oliver Queen: It was me.
- Tess Mercer: I can't believe you wear tights.
- Oliver Queen: They're *not* tights.
- Tess Mercer: They look like tights.
- Green Arrow: You could use some conflict resolution. Rule number one, you don't shoot your date. Rule number two, think about your wardrobe choices.
- Edward Lott: You're one to talk.
- Green Arrow: Oh, no. Don't get me wrong. I love black on black. It's just really hard to pull off.
- Tess Mercer: You buried an arrow into my chest, Oliver.
- Oliver Queen: Actually it was a Taser.
- Tess Mercer: Well, it bruised.
- Oliver Queen: Well, better bruised than dead.
- Tess Mercer: I didn't think you were gonna show.
- Oliver Queen: Well, you know, I figure it's a public place. There's only so many weapons you can throw at me.
- Tess Mercer: I'm sorry. For everything I've done that's destroyed your trust.
- Oliver Queen: I don't think there's enough stationery for that, Tess.
- Tess Mercer: I told you how to shut down The Castle's power grid. That's worth something, isn't it?
- Oliver Queen: What am I supposed to do here? You want me to do, uh, handstands because you helped solve a problem that you created?
- Tess Mercer: I never would have gone after you if I had known that you were the Green Arrow.
- Oliver Queen: So it's back on me?
- Tess Mercer: This might be the last time that I ever see you. When I joined Checkmate, I took an oath. An oath I wanna break. But there's only one way to leave Checkmate.
- Oliver Queen: [sighs] What are you gonna do?
- Tess Mercer: [Clears throat] I'm gonna go AWOL. I'm gonna go underground.
- Oliver Queen: That's good. You know, I got to ask you a question, though. Did it hurt to do something moral for once, Tess? Did it hurt you?
- Tess Mercer: Oliver, I'm taking a chance just being out here with you in the open.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, okay, I understand that. Okay, we've gotten that far. W-what is it that you want? You're asking me for something. What is it you want? What do you want?
- Tess Mercer: Forgive me, Oliver. Oliver, I need your help. Please.
- Oliver Queen: There are times when I wish I could go back, those Santorini sunsets, your freckles and your big dreams of changing the world. Back when I could trust you. Then you betrayed me, Tess. You, of all people. And if you ever come near me or my friends ever again, I will expose you to the world. Do you understand?
- Tess Mercer: [Breathes shakily, starts crying]
- Clark Kent: Why would the government take Green Arrow?
- Oliver Queen: Considering what I pay out every year, it better not be for tax evasion.
- Clark Kent: You want to fill us in on what happened?
- Chloe Sullivan: Definitely.
- Oliver Queen: Absolutely. Uh, so let's see. One minute, I am saving someone's bacon. Uh, next thing I know, I'm the only pig on a Pork Chop Express. Some harpy gets on a monitor. She starts telling me this is the welcome wagon and she's recruiting heroes for the U.S. of A.
- [to Clark]
- Oliver Queen: I'm guessing you didn't get the Evite.
- Chloe Sullivan: Thanks for keeping my seat warm at Watchtower.
- Oliver Queen: Well, you're welcome. Don't get used to it.
- Chloe Sullivan: Oh, but your timing is so good. I mean, if you hadn't flipped back Castle's electric switch when you did, I would have been...
- Oliver Queen: Chloe...
- Chloe Sullivan: But, uh, you know, I kind of liked being out in the field, knowing I had a warm bed to come home to.
- Oliver Queen: That's very, very funny. It scared the life out of me.
- Chloe Sullivan: You better be careful, Ollie. I'm gonna start to think you're falling for me.
- Oliver Queen: What the hell do you want? Round two?
- Tess Mercer: Oliver, Clark's in trouble.
- Oliver Queen: Oh. You know, Tess, if you wanted a rematch, all you had to do was ask.
- Tess Mercer: I'm serious. He made me tell him where Checkmate's headquarters are, after he found out they captured something called Watchtower.
- Oliver Queen: [blocking a knife Tess throws at him] What, are you crazy? Tess, this isn't a cartoon. You're gonna hurt somebody.
- Tess Mercer: That's the basic idea.
- Oliver Queen: All right, then.
- Tess Mercer: Don't you come near me.
- Clark Kent: [whooshing in] Stop.
- Tess Mercer: Stay out of this, Clark.
- Oliver Queen: Our little lady here is a Checkmate agent. She knows my identity.
- Clark Kent: Not just yours. Tess, I need some answers.
- Tess Mercer: I'm not telling you anything.
- Clark Kent: Maybe the view will change your mind.
- Tess Mercer: [he grabs her and whooshes away to the roof of a tall building, dangling her over the edge] Let me down from here.
- Clark Kent: [pulling her back] Tell me about Checkmate. No lies.
- Oliver Queen: [being led into Tess' bedroom] The only way you'd get me back in here is by force.
- Tess Mercer: [throwing a statue at him] Don't flatter yourself. The best thing I ever did in this bed was kick you out of it.
- Oliver Queen: Oh, look, something out of your mouth I can believe.
- Oliver Queen: You're late.
- Tess Mercer: Mm. If you know what's good for you... don't start.
- Oliver Queen: Whatever kind of day you think you've had, trust me, I've had it in spades.
- Tess Mercer: Ohh. What happened? The jet late leaving Paris? The beluga not the right temperature?
- Oliver Queen: That's very, very funny.
- Tess Mercer: Yeah.
- Oliver Queen: You might wanna save the song and dance routine for the shareholders when you try to explain to them, uh... the sketchy deal with China. It's terrible.
- Tess Mercer: So that's what got you out of bed before the dinner bell.
- Oliver Queen: I wouldn't have missed it for the world. Barely had time to change clothes, actually.
- Tess Mercer: I can tell. Black on black. That's hard to pull off.
- Oliver Queen: Well, it's easier than you think.
- Tess Mercer: [realizing] Green Arrow.
- Chloe Sullivan: Sylvester Pemberton came to warn me about Checkmate the moment that he was attacked by...
- Oliver Queen: Icicle. Huh. Well, either that's quaintly coincidental, or he's working for the same lovely lady whose gaze wilts small trees. What do you think?
- Chloe Sullivan: Last I heard, he was in the psych ward at Met Gen.
- Oliver Queen: Let's go.
- Chloe Sullivan: Now that Green Arrow is officially on Checkmate's radar, I think it might be a good idea for you to just hang your tights for one night. Go civilian.
- Oliver Queen: Well, t-they're not tights.
- [seeing her amused grin]
- Oliver Queen: They're not tights. But I see your point. Yeah. Hm. Unfortunately for me, uh, that means attending a LuthorCorp shareholder dinner, which... yeah, I'd rather be shot at.
- Clark Kent: Did this woman give you her name?
- Oliver Queen: Nope. No name. Just, uh, that her organization was called Checkmate.
- Chloe Sullivan: Wait a minute. Checkmate? When Sylvester Pemberton from the Justice Society was murdered, he warned me that they came after us and they'll come after you. His dying word was "check".
- Clark Kent: If he meant Checkmate, these are the same people who took down the JSA.
- Chloe Sullivan: I searched the archived security footage that was taken from the cameras across the city. This was taken a few hours ago.
- Clark Kent: [seeing a picture of John Jones with someone] That was right after I confronted him. Who's he talking to?
- Chloe Sullivan: We got a hit from the passport agency. Edward Lott. He's the CEO of a consumer manufacturing company. He seems pretty high-profile for a secret-agent man.
- Oliver Queen: Well, maybe they recruit people that are already established in the private sector.
- Clark Kent: Or plant them there.
- Chloe Sullivan: [her computer beeps] You're not gonna be happy here he was planted next. Within an hour after this footage was taken, he was on the list of Metropolis General morgue.
- Oliver Queen: Whoa, slow down, guys. You can't think John murdered this guy. Come on, now.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, I'll come with you. I can run some...
- [he whooshes away]
- Chloe Sullivan: ...support on-site.
- Oliver Queen: Looks like you got benched.