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Oliver Queen : What was on the drive?
General Stewart : A list of assets we have in the field; special operatives with high-level security clearance.
Felicity Smoak : That's why Emiko took Archer, so that she could hunt them down and then gain access to what they know, which she could pretty much do with anybody now that she has their DNA.
Dinah Drake : It's only a matter of time before they find everyone on that list.
Oliver Queen : We need to make sure those assets are secure.
General Stewart : We have protocols in place. I'll call my assets to a safe house.
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Oliver Queen : How did your men end up at Smoak Tech, General?
General Stewart : Several months ago, the DIA got wind of a Ninth Circle mole inside A.R.G.U.S. Since then, we've made it a point of tracking their activity, including the theft of that drive, which led us to your friend Virgil.
John Diggle : Wait, wait, wait. I thought you said you didn't know anything.
General Stewart : I said I couldn't tell you anything.
John Diggle : A lie of omission is still a lie, General.
General Stewart : I'm sorry, John, but it was classified.
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John Diggle : Oliver, when I first met the General, he was a lieutenant, my father's CO on a covert military op to quell an insurgency in Vlatava. The op went bad. The unit was pinned down with heavy gunfire from insurgents. My dad stayed behind to hold them off. Saved the whole unit. Stewart made it out. My father didn't.
Oliver Queen : So do you blame him for your father's death?
John Diggle : It was his op. He should have stayed behind. Six months later, he's coming by the house for dinner. Six months, Oliver.
Oliver Queen : I didn't know.
John Diggle : It was bad enough that, uh, he just appeared in our lives, but... once he and my mom got married, he had me and Andy running spartan survival drills he learned as a recon Marine. I mean, how long could we be out in the cold trying to find our way out of the woods without a compass. He called it tough love. Said he didn't care how we felt about him as long as it made us strong. I don't know. If he was so strong, how could he just abandon the first rule of the Corps and leave my father behind?
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Dinah Drake : And you said you didn't need any backup.
John Diggle : Yeah, well, we lost Virgil, but we got what he was after.
Oliver Queen : This drive feels like our best lead at finding Emiko, at least until Archer's back up.
Felicity Smoak : Alena is pulling all-nighters to get Archer back up and running, and once it does, we will be able to find Emiko.
Oliver Queen : And finally tell her that Dante killed her mother.
Rene Ramirez : And, hopefully, she'll come to her senses about the Ninth Circle.
Felicity Smoak : Well, that would be enough for me to turn myself against the evil organization that raised me as a child.
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Oliver Queen : Where's Emiko?
Virgil : Well, if I told you that, Mr. Queen, she'd have my head.
[amused laugh]
Virgil : And frankly, that's a part of me I'd like to keep.
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Oliver Queen : What's... what's going on? You're acting like we're being sent to the principal's office.
John Diggle : This guy can be a real hard-ass. Just let me do the talking.
Oliver Queen : Okay. How do you know him?
General Stewart : [entering] Ah. I must say, I was surprised to hear from you, John.
John Diggle : Well, sir, I wouldn't have made the call unless it was very, very important.
General Stewart : No, I imagine you wouldn't have.
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Felicity Smoak : Then this crazy Irish guy came busting through, and Alena and I tried to fight them off, but then the DIA came crashing through the ceiling and took them all out.
Dinah Drake : What about Archer?
Felicity Smoak : Virgil made away with it.
Oliver Queen : Look, w-we'll get it back. I'm-I'm glad you're okay.
Rene Ramirez : How'd they find out about Archer?
Dinah Drake : I'll give you one guess. Emiko.
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John Diggle : Sir, we made the call because we were hoping you could tell us what was on this.
General Stewart : [taking the drive] Ah. Where'd you get it?
Oliver Queen : We intercepted a handoff between an A.R.G.U.S. agent and a man that works for a group called the Ninth Circle.
General Stewart : The terrorist financiers. I heard they were just a rumor.
John Diggle : No, sir, they are very real. And we have reason to suspect they are planning something. We were hoping you had intel that you could give us and the SCPD.
General Stewart : I'm afraid I can't. But even if I did, John, you know I can't just hand over classified intel, not without proper clearance, which you no longer have since you left A.R.G.U.S.
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John Diggle : I didn't leave A.R.G.U.S. for my career. I left to protect my family. And that's not something you would understand, is it, sir?
Oliver Queen : John, we should probably go. Again, thank you for your time, General.
General Stewart : I always have time for my family.
Oliver Queen : Excuse me?
General Stewart : Oh, John didn't tell you. I'm his stepfather.
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Spartan : That Virgil is damn slippery.
Oliver Queen : [picking up what Virgil dropped] At least now we know what he's trying to acquire.
Spartan : A.R.G.U.S. vault drive. Triple-level encryption for eyes-only documents. If someone at the agency's leaking classified intel to the Ninth Circle...
Oliver Queen : Right. But if we have some indication as to what they're planning, finally, it might help me find Emiko.
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General Stewart : You must be Oliver Queen. The legendary Green Arrow. I'm General Stewart.
Oliver Queen : A pleasure to meet you, General Stewart. Thank you for taking the time.
General Stewart : I'm not gonna lie, son. I wasn't always a fan. But since you got out of prison, you seem like a changed man, and I respect that.
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Oliver Queen : Kidnapping a four-star general is a risky move for the Ninth Circle, especially if the Pentagon's on to them. So, why? Why do it?
Felicity Smoak : I don't know. We need to find out more about who he is, what makes him so important.
Oliver Queen : I'd imagine his files are really, really classified.
Felicity Smoak : "Really, really classified" sounds really, really fun. I'm on it.
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Wild Dog : This place is a pigsty. Either he's messy as hell...
Black Canary : Or someone made it that way.
Wild Dog : Overwatch, any sign of our guests?
Felicity Smoak : I'm getting three heat sigs further in.
Julian Sison : [hearing a scream, they burst into the next room] What the hell's going on?
Oliver Queen : Are you Julian Sison?
Julian Sison : Yeah.
Black Canary : Then why didn't you answer your transponder?
Julian Sison : [Oliver gestures for them to speak privately] 'Cause I'm in the middle of an op, and you three just blew it.
Oliver Queen : Overwatch, there is no sign of Emiko or the Ninth Circle. If this guy isn't the target, then who is?
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General Stewart : We got a problem, people.
Oliver Queen : What's going on?
General Stewart : I just got off the phone with Intelligence. All of our assets have been accounted for except one; an undercover agent by the name of Julian Sison. He should be at a safe house, but there's been no response since the call came in.
Felicity Smoak : Where is the safe house?
General Stewart : Thirty miles northeast of here.
Oliver Queen : We'll get into it.
General Stewart : I'll check with the other assets, see if there's been any...
John Diggle : I'll come with you. Somebody needs to keep an eye on you.
General Stewart : You think I'm trying to mislead you?
John Diggle : Fool me once, right?
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John Diggle : Oliver, before you get started, I'm fine, man.
Oliver Queen : The second time that you've broken the chain of command with a four-star general. That's not like you, John.
John Diggle : You expect me to say "yes, sir" to that man?
Oliver Queen : I-I... you know, I'd-I'd like to know why you won't. And... I would like to know why you never... never mentioned that you had a stepfather.
John Diggle : I didn't see much of a need to. That man has not been in my life since I left home and joined the military.
Oliver Queen : O-Okay. I just met him. All I have is my first impression, and my first impression is that he doesn't seem like that bad of a guy.
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Felicity Smoak : The drive has a security failsafe that fried all the files, probably to prevent someone like me from trying to do what I am trying to do. But these aren't A.R.G.U.S.-encrypted protocols. Someone else must've written the security program for this drive.
Oliver Queen : Wait, if it's not A.R.G.U.S., who is it?
Felicity Smoak : Well, I have hacked enough government servers in my day to know that this is the Department of Defense. Not that I do that anymore, because I work with the SCPD. But this branch is the DIA.
Dinah Drake : What would the Ninth Circle want with the Defense Intelligence Agency?
Oliver Queen : We need to find out.
Rene Ramirez : Yeah, you're married to the A.R.G.U.S. director. Maybe she can help.
John Diggle : Yeah, well, any inquiries to A.R.G.U.S. will send up red flags, paint an even bigger target on Lyla's back than there already is. I think I might have an old contact at the DIA. A General.
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Felicity Smoak : John's helmet just came back online.
Oliver Queen : Morse code. SOS. Location?
Felicity Smoak : Warehouse in the meatpacking district.
Oliver Queen : Call the team.
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Felicity Smoak : According to the Pentagon's official account, the Vlatava mission was so successful that the General was actually, for a stint of time, appointed head of DARPA.
Oliver Queen : But i-if... if the mission was a success, why would he lie to John about it?
Felicity Smoak : To protect him?
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Oliver Queen : Anything in the file that will help us find them?
Felicity Smoak : No. But, uh, plenty on why the Ninth Circle would want him.
Oliver Queen : Okay.
Felicity Smoak : Thrice-decorated commander of the 1st Recon Battalion during the Khandaq conflict, after which he was appointed commandant of the Marine Corps, then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. I mean, the guy is a real bonafide American hero.
Oliver Queen : Not to John. John blames General Stewart for his father's death during a mission. They were both on in Vlatava.
Felicity Smoak : Oh, yeah. That would be enough to alienate someone like John, and why he wouldn't have told us about him, but... it's not true.
Oliver Queen : Which part?
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Felicity Smoak : I'm trying to track John's Spartan helmet, but it's offline.
Oliver Queen : Clearly, this was an elaborate play to draw General Stewart. We need to find he and John, and quickly.
Dinah Drake : I'll put a BOLO out for both of them.
Rene Ramirez : I'll put the word out around the Glades in case Emiko shows up in the old 'hood.
Oliver Queen : Or we just find Emiko and end all this.
Felicity Smoak : We will. We have found people without Archer before. We will find John and his stepdad, and then we will find your sister.
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Oliver Queen : We need to plan our next move.
John Diggle : What is our next move?
General Stewart : Start by figuring out what the Ninth Circle intends to do with Cygnus X-1. I should take this to the DIA brass. Thank you.
John Diggle : I'll walk you out.
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Oliver Queen : You need to hear this. Dante's been lying to you. He killed your mother.
Emiko Queen : Liar.
Oliver Queen : [engaging in hand-to-hand combat] Listen to me. He set all this in motion. He used the Ninth Circle's resources to cover it up. He misled you. He doesn't care about you. I do.
[he drops her knife on the ground, and en explosion knocks him backwards]
Dante : Emiko.
Emiko Queen : I told you to go.
Dante : And I told you I won't leave you.
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Oliver Queen : Overwatch, do you have a bead on Emiko?
Felicity Smoak : I'm hacked into the exterior cameras, but she must already be inside. Without Archer, it's like I'm flying in blind.
Wild Dog : Isn't that what these boosters are for?
Felicity Smoak : Yes. Once you plant the signal boosters, I will be able to take back control of Archer and find Emiko.
Black Canary : [to Oliver] Go find your sister. We'll plant the boosters.
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Felicity Smoak : Hey, guys, we found the weapon. Well, technically, the Ninth Circle did using Archer.
Alena : Felicity and I rode their coattails right into the secure facility where it's being stored.
Rene Ramirez : [seeing the map] Yup, that's definitely a secret weapons depot.
Dinah Drake : Okay, well, now that we know where we're going, we just have to figure how to get past Archer.
Felicity Smoak : The moment you set foot on-site, the Ninth Circle will know that you're there.
Oliver Queen : So we lose the element of surprise.
General Stewart : I'll call my team.
John Diggle : No. Wait. We got this.
General Stewart : Copy that.
John Diggle : Let's move.
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Oliver Queen : What'd the Ninth Circle want from you, General?
General Stewart : Access to an experimental weapon I oversaw during my tenure at DARPA; Cygnus X-1. The project was shelved because it was too dangerous and unstable. The goal was to genetically engineer bacteria to consume the by-product of nuclear fission.
Felicity Smoak : So it's a biological weapon that can literally eat through anything. That's terrifying.
Dinah Drake : A weapon like that falls into the hands of the Ninth Circle, we're...
Oliver Queen : It won't. We're gonna stop them.
General Stewart : The problem is I don't know where it is.
Oliver Queen : Archer.
Felicity Smoak : [sarcastic] Great.
Oliver Queen : They are going to use the intel they get from the assets to locate the DNA of the people involved in Cygnus X-1.
John Diggle : And that DNA can lead them to exactly where that weapon is.
Felicity Smoak : If I can piggyback off Archer's signal, I'll be able to...
Oliver Queen : Lead us right to them.
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Oliver Queen : Normally, I'm the one off by myself staring into nothing.
John Diggle : That's usually true.
Oliver Queen : Usually, I'm the one with the father/son issues.
John Diggle : Oliver, people's lives are in danger because my stepfather couldn't be honest with me.
Oliver Queen : It j... it just surprises me that you don't see his position. You know, he's at the top of the chain of command. The John Diggle that I know, he would have done the exact same thing.
John Diggle : Oliver, it sounds like you're on his side, man.
Oliver Queen : I'm on your side, but I'm looking at a guy over there who cares for you, who was trying to protect you. Frankly, he deserves a little bit more of your trust.
John Diggle : [taking a folder marked "Classified"] What is this?
Oliver Queen : Those are the unredacted files from the Vlatava mission. Your father didn't die saving his unit. According to that, he died because he was negligent. And he took two Marines with him. The only reason that anyone got out of there was General Stewart.
John Diggle : That's not possible.
Oliver Queen : It's all in there. I'm sorry to be the one to tell you this, John.
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Felicity Smoak : We're currently in a tie between good news and bad news, the good news being that I destroyed Archer, which I can't believe I'm counting as good news.
General Stewart : The bad news is the Ninth Circle got away with a very dangerous biological weapon.
Felicity Smoak : How did things go with Emiko?
Oliver Queen : I told her that Dante killed her mother, and it didn't make any difference.
Dinah Drake : I guess bad news wins this round.
