Arrow (TV Series)

Thanksgiving (2017)

David Ramsey: John Diggle, Green Arrow

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• John Diggle : What you got?

  Curtis Holt : There was a break-in last night at Sunderland Corp.

  John Diggle : Why didn't we get an alert? Felicity has us wired...

  Curtis Holt : Up the wazoo. I know. I'm trying to figure it out. I mean, we're basically the Big Brother of Star City. Not in a creepy way.

  [switching computers] 

  Curtis Holt : Oh, okay, this makes more sense now.

  John Diggle : Laurel.

  Curtis Holt : Yeah, who works with Cayden James, who can hack any security system to bypass any alerts, such as ours.

• John Diggle : What did they steal?

  Curtis Holt : Nano-thermite. It's a metastable, intermolecular composite.

  [seeing John doesn't understand] 

  Curtis Holt : A reactive particle. You know, like a mint inside of a soda. Alone, harmless, but together, kaboom, as in "kill lots of people", not "spill grape juice all over your Cub Scout"...

  John Diggle : What are they targeting, Curtis?

  Curtis Holt : I don't know. Nano-thermite needs to be combined in order to be combustible, but once it is, there are many, many, many possibilities.

  John Diggle : Can you narrow it down?

  Curtis Holt : No, but Felicity might be able to.

• Felicity Smoak : We have a problem. We have a massively huge problem. And considering it's in the same week Oliver has been arrested.

  John Diggle : What is it?

  Felicity Smoak : The nano-thermite, when combined with the explosive, creates a thermobaric weapon.

  John Diggle : What's a thermobaric weapon?

  Felicity Smoak : It disperses what is essentially a cloud of fire and then pressure-cooks everything within 200 yards.

  Curtis Holt : I'm guessing we're giving up hope that Cayden James has to cook a lot of turkeys for Thanksgiving.

• John Diggle : I told Felicity not to bother you with this.

  Oliver Queen : Which part? You being in the hospital? The experimental steroid? Or... the nerve damage that has affected you for months? Are you gonna be all right?

  John Diggle : I'll be fine. I didn't want you to worry, Oliver, which is why I didn't tell you.

  Oliver Queen : No. No, John, you didn't tell me because you knew I'd never let you go out there compromised, and that I'd certainly never let you compromise the team. I've been mad at you before, John. This... is the first time I've ever been disappointed.

  John Diggle : Oliver, you gave up the right to judge me when you gave up that hood.

  Oliver Queen : You don't get to claim the moral high ground here, my friend.

  John Diggle : Oh, I'm not, Oliver. But I apologized to people who I endangered - the team, Oliver. The team. My obligation begins and ends with them. I don't owe you a damn thing.

  Oliver Queen : For the sake of our friendship, I hope that's withdrawal talking.

• John Diggle : I put on this hood because you asked me to.

  Oliver Queen : Don't blame me for this.

  John Diggle : I'm not blaming you, Oliver. I blame myself for putting your needs, your goals, even your family, above my own. I've done that from the very beginning. That was my biggest mistake.

  Oliver Queen : That was your biggest mistake? Mine was trusting you to be the Green Arrow.

• John Diggle : You remember last year when the Dominators put us into this alternate Star City?

  Oliver Queen : Yeah. Kind of difficult to forget.

  John Diggle : We got to see what our perfect life would be. Mine was being the Green Arrow. So you asking me to take the mantle was not selfish. It was giving me the one thing in the world that I never knew I wanted.

• Oliver Queen : Felicity thinks that Cayden James is going after Starling Stadium. There's gonna be 35,000 people there tonight.

  John Diggle : You're the mayor. Shut it down.

  Oliver Queen : I tried. Getting arrested is not doing a lot for my credibility.