Paul Blackthorne credited as playing...
Quentin Lance
- Jean Loring: I pored over the discovery documents produced by the District Attorney. Apparently, the FBI leveraged Rene Ramirez to testify against you based on surveillance that was leaked by a known criminal.
- Thea Queen: Cayden James.
- Jean Loring: Fruit of the poisonous tree. It's a legal metaphor positing that if the source of the evidence is tainted, the evidence itself is tainted. Mr. James' actions were not only illegal, but his death makes it impossible to corrobrate the evidence against Mr. Ramirez.
- Oliver Queen: So if there's no case against Rene, there's no case against me?
- Jean Loring: We're going before Judge McGarvey on my motion to dismiss this afternoon.
- Oliver Queen: Jean, are you sure? You... you-you can just make this go away?
- Thea Queen: Ollie, she's positive. Okay, I know you're not used to getting good news, but this is what it sounds like.
- Quentin Lance: [entering] Mr. Mayor, we got an emergency at SCPD.
- Oliver Queen: Like I said, it was accompanied by some bad news.
- Quentin Lance: Laurel just walked into police headquarters.
- Thea Queen: What, to surrender?
- Quentin Lance: Not exactly. She told them she's Laurel Lance. Our Laurel Lance.
- Oliver Queen: Cayden James was murdered right there by Ricardo Diaz. And it was covered up by the SCPD.
- Quentin Lance: I thought Cayden James was killed by another inmate on his transfer to Iron Heights.
- Oliver Queen: Felicity found out what actually happened. Never made it to Iron Heights. The cops on duty are on Diaz's payroll. They faked the transfer.
- Dinah Drake: Doing that would take...
- Oliver Queen: A systemic breach of the police department, worse than last year's corruption.
- Quentin Lance: I didn't think that was even possible.
- Oliver Queen: Dinah, I know that you don't believe in me right now, and I know the two of you don't trust each other, for good reason, but the both of you believe in the badge. I need you working together. I need to know how deep this goes. I need to know who in that room we can trust, which means you got to put your vendetta on hold.
- Dinah Drake: [semi-reluctant] Okay.