David Ramsey: John Diggle

Elseworlds, Part 2

John Diggle

John Diggle: Son of a bitch!
Supergirl: Is that any way to greet your friends?
John Diggle: All I know is that whenever the three of you show up, it usually means we have one huge problem

John Diggle: So... you're you.
Curtis Holt: And you're you.
John Diggle: An immortal Egyptian, aliens, parallel earth Nazis... I have no idea why I'm even surprised at this point.
Curtis Holt: I'm still trying to figure out if this is more like "Freaky Friday" or "Quantum Leap."
Barry Allen: No. If this were like "Quantum Leap," I'd only look like myself in the mirror.
Curtis Holt: Yep. You're definitely not Oliver Queen.

Caitlin Snow: Those lightning strikes, they were a Flash from another dimension trying to breach to us.
Cisco Ramon: We think it was Jay Garrick. Or... a Jay Garrick. He said to fix the situation, we have to "get the book."
Kara Danvers: John Deegan was reading a book in the drawing Oliver drew.
Oliver Queen: Okay. So we find the book in there, or we find Deegan and we make him tell us where it is.
Barry Allen: Wait, wait, wait. Hold on. A-Another Flash from a parallel universe just lightnings in, tells us to jump, and we ask "How high"?
John Diggle: If we wanna sort this thing out, then yes.
Oliver Queen: I have no idea how we're gonna break into a mental asylum.
Kara Danvers: I have some ideas.

John Diggle: Kane Wolfman, you're under arrest for 19 violations of international law!
Kane Wolfman: Really? Does that include the murder of...
[counts the agents]
Kane Wolfman: ... four A.R.G.U.S. field agents?

Curtis Holt: I know this sounds nuts and completely unscientific, but I think that freaking lightning is following us.
John Diggle: Focus, Curtis.
Curtis Holt: This is me focusing. These atmospheric anomalies are playing all kinds of hell on my equipment. Plus, you don't want that lightning to hit when you're engaging Deathstroke's son.
[the agents are knocked back by a lightning strike; as the smoke settles, Kane Wolfman stands before them]
Curtis Holt: I just had to say it.

Supergirl: We think that the red skies and these lightning strikes have to be related to whatever happened to Barry and Oliver somehow.
Oliver Queen: We need you to solve the "somehow" while we're in Gotham.
Curtis Holt: No problem. I mean, A.R.G.U.S. has all the best analytic toys, but what we really need is a pattern recognition algorithm, and unfortunately, Felicity isn't...
Oliver Queen: I called Felicity.
John Diggle: Wait, wait. You called Felicity?
Oliver Queen: Yeah.
John Diggle: Okay. Right. Well, I guess that makes sense because technically, you are her husband. I'm confused.

John Diggle: So, why didn't you tell Felicity?
Barry Allen: Well, because we tried to tell everybody at S.T.A.R. Labs, and it didn't really go over so well.
Oliver Queen: Felicity and I have enough problems as it is without introducing body swapping.

Cisco Ramon: We've been getting the same red skies and freaky lightning in Central City, and I'll tell you this much:
[laughing]
Cisco Ramon: It wasn't Speed Force.
Felicity Smoak: Wait, wait, hold up. "We've been"? "Wasn't"? As in past tense?
Caitlin Snow: Interestingly, the atmospheric phenomenon ceased the moment Barry and Oliver left Central City.
Cisco Ramon: It's like it packed up its bags and followed them here. That's why we came.
Caitlin Snow: The phenomenon has to be related to Barry and Oliver's...
John Diggle: [shushing her] Caitlin. Caitlin, just...
Caitlin Snow: ...body swap?
Curtis Holt: [under his breath] Don't... don't say it.
Felicity Smoak: I'm sorry, body... body what?
Cisco Ramon: [to Dig] You, uh... you didn't tell her?
Felicity Smoak: Again, tell me what?

Oliver Queen: John Deegan.
Dr. John Deegan: Oliver Queen! Ha ha!
[pantomiming shooting an arrow]
Dr. John Deegan: Whew. It's a genuine pleasure to meet you, sir.
John Diggle: He knows who you really are.
Dr. John Deegan: Gentlemen, I was thinking, "Why did I not become the Flash?". And it seems changing reality itself, it's got a bit of a learning curve. So, yeah. This actually explains a lot.
Oliver Queen: You did this to us? You can undo it.
Dr. John Deegan: That is true, but I think the question is, um... why would I want to?
[he presses a button on his desk, and an alarm blares; he escapes while Oliver and Dig are distracted]
John Diggle: What the hell did he just do?
Oliver Queen: He bought himself some time.

John Diggle: Hey, what the hell is this?
Felicity Smoak: Yeah, no offense, but you need, like, five PhDs for the dumbed-down version.
John Diggle: How about the very dumbed-down version?
Felicity Smoak: The quantum flux anchor, that utilizes wave theory to fire nanoparticulates across an Einstein-Rosen Bridge to create a secure claxon field.
John Diggle: How about the very, very dumbed-down version?
Caitlin Snow: Felicity made a magnet that will draw whoever's trying to breach through to us.
John Diggle: You could have just said that.

Caitlin Snow: What's happening?
Kara Danvers: [getting into superhero mode] Trouble.
John Diggle: [leaving Deegan's office] The crazy bastard let all the other crazy bastards out of their cages.

Caitlin Snow: So, how does a book make people change bodies?
Elseworlds Flash: Deegan said he was using the book to change reality.
Cisco Ramon: Same question. How does a book change reality?
Elseworlds Green Arrow: We'll figure that out when we get back to Star City.
John Diggle: Yeah, 'cause we're gonna need some help with this lock.
Batwoman: Good. Then you'll be leaving Gotham. You guys have caused enough problems for one night.
Elseworlds Green Arrow: Hey, would hitching a ride in the Batmobile be out of the question?
Batwoman: Get. Out.

Barry Allen: Jay?
The Flash: No.
Barry Allen: Oh, my God. Dad?
The Flash: My name is Barry Allen. Hello, John.
John Diggle: Do... do I know you?
The Flash: You're not wearing your ring. Things must be different here.
Oliver Queen: Barry, where's there?
The Flash: My Earth, Earth-90. I have traveled from there to warn you.
Barry Allen: Warn us about what?
The Flash: His name is Mar Novu, but he calls himself the Monitor now. He's been unleashing the Book of Destiny across the multiverse to test different Earths.
Barry Allen: Test them for what?
The Flash: A crisis that he believes is coming. Novu thinks the Elseworlds created by the Book of Destiny approximates the collision of realities that we're facing.

John Diggle: You know, Felicity, there's something very strange going on here, so I wouldn't take this as a commentary on you and Oliver's marriage.
Felicity Smoak: Oh, my marriage with Oliver is strained by the fact that we've become different people. Quite literally, in Oliver's case.

Caitlin Snow: You didn't tell her?
Curtis Holt: Oliver, the actual Oliver, thought he had enough problems with Felicity already.
Cisco Ramon: Oh, and you didn't think to loop us in on the fact that you were keeping the "Freaky Friday" situation on the hush?
Curtis Holt: I was thinking it was more like "Quantum Leap".
Cisco Ramon: Well, if this were like "Quantum Leap", they'd only look like themselves when they see themselves in the mirror, so...
Curtis Holt: [talking over each other] Well, it depends on what type of "Quantum Leap" you're talking about. There's a sequel.
John Diggle: [breaking the argument up] Shouldn't we concentrate on where this lightning came from?