Arrow (TV Series)

Code of Silence (2016)

Paul Blackthorne: Quentin Lance

Quotes 

• Quentin Lance : How you kept this up for four years, huh... this double life, these secrets, lying? I mean, I...

  Oliver Queen : I'm trying not to live that way anymore. Trying.

  Quentin Lance : You know, in AA we say you're only as sick as the secrets you keep. You're looking pretty healthy these days. Let's just hope I can get back to that place with Donna.

  Oliver Queen : For what it's worth, you're in a tough spot, and you're trying to keep her safe. You know, sometimes a lie isn't wrong if it's for the good of someone that you love.

• Donna Smoak : [to protect her from Darhk, Quentin wants to put their relationship on hold]  My ex-husband was a lying son of a bitch. Only two good things came out of that marriage: my daughter and my B.S. detector, which is flawless, and right now, yeah, it's... it's red-lining.

  Quentin Lance : Donna, please don't be...

  Donna Smoak : Don't Donna... oh, my god. Don't "Donna" me. You know what? This is actually very simple. You either respect me enough to tell me the truth or you don't.

  [Quentin doesn't know what to say] 

  Donna Smoak : Clearly you don't.

• Quentin Lance : Donna called it quits.

  Oliver Queen : Oh. I'm sorry to hear that.

  Quentin Lance : Yeah, yeah, me, too. You're lucky you're with someone you don't need to keep secrets from.

• Laurel Lance : A 602's breaking and entering. Why would they need backup in the form of a police captain?

  Quentin Lance : I told you. We're shorthanded. Don't worry. It's not a job for Black Canary.