Arrow (TV Series)

Present Tense (2019)

Juliana Harkavy: Dinah Drake, Black Canary

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• Dinah Drake : Hey. If you want me to stop training Zoe, I will.

  Rene Ramirez : Nah. I can't keep her in a bubble, just like you can't stop being a cop and I can't stop running for office.

  Laurel Lance : So don't. Not all of the future was bad, right? Just do the good stuff.

  Dinah Drake : Come on. I mean, the Canary Network's not a bad idea. Could be useful.

  Rene Ramirez : Then why wait for a future we can start making right now?

• Oliver Queen : We set up one team to go after Grant, one team to detroy the relay device. But we also need to keep the public calm this time.

  Dinah Drake : Well, last I checked, the police are still good, and I'm still captain, future be damned

  Rene Ramirez : I'll join you. I gotta do something for the Glades from there.

  William Clayton : What about the three of us?

  Oliver Queen : William, I think it would be best if you stayed and helped Curtis. Mia and Connor, I'd like for the two of you to come with us. Like Rene said, we have to do things differently this time. Agreed?

  [as he glances at them both, they nod in agreement] 

  Oliver Queen : All right.

  Curtis Holt : This is my favorite part.

  Oliver Queen : Suit up.

• John Diggle : I've never dealt with anything like this before. My head is still spinning. Look, I wanna... I wanna blame someone, I just don't know who.

  Dinah Drake : John, we all failed to save this city.

  John Diggle : Yeah, Dinah, but I'm his father. So it's on me.

  Dinah Drake : So you did pick who to blame.

  John Diggle : All this talk about JJ got me thinking about Andy, how I failed him. So, yeah, the blame is definitely on me.

  Dinah Drake : I'm gonna tell you the same thing I told Rene, because it's the same thing I've been telling myself: knowing what's happened can either destroy us or save us. We've seen our worst. Now let's be our best.

• Rene Ramirez : [after learning JJ killed Zoe in the future]  How am I supposed to wake up every morning knowing how many days we have left together?

  Dinah Drake : By trying to change what happens. Trying every single day.

• Curtis Holt : So, Grant is trying to one-up his father. Siege version 2.0 is tonight, and this time, Mirakuru's out and coordinated bomb attacks are in.

  Oliver Queen : How many?

  Laurel Lance : Lots. And Grant has them all connected to a remote detonator. Probably a phone.

  Curtis Holt : The good news is, and I use that term very loosely, uh, is that he set up a relay device underneath downtown.

  Dinah Drake : So we disable the relay device, we turn off the bomb.

  Mia Smoak : Okay, what about Grant?

  Connor Hawke : He's holed up underground, but the lines converge at Water Street.

  Oliver Queen : History repeats itself.

  John Diggle : Well, maybe we can stop the attack by running the same play we ran last time.

  Rene Ramirez : [entering]  No. Someone told me the only way to change the future is to start doing things differently now.

  John Diggle : Rene, look...

  Rene Ramirez : John, we're good. You, too, Connor. I can't be mad at either of you for something I will never let happen.

• William Clayton : Zoe was fighting to fix exactly what her dad helped cause. That's why she was a Canary like both of you. You guys had a whole network of them in the city.

  Dinah Drake : And that's what Connor was talking about earlier.

  Laurel Lance : And yet we still couldn't save the city.

  William Clayton : After Rene walled off the Glades, the scope was just too big, and ever since the wall came down, we've been fighting the Deathstrokes, trying to make things better, but...

  Dinah Drake : I just still don't understand. I mean, JJ adores Zoe. How could he do something like this?

  Mia Smoak : Seemed pretty easy for him, so how about we stop mourning poor, innocent JJ and accept who he actually is?

• Mia Smoak : All that matters right now is stopping Grant Wilson before he screws up everyone's future.

  Oliver Queen : What else can you tell me about him?

  William Clayton : Well, just the broad strokes. Grant made a name for himself doing pretty much exactly what he's doing now, targeting the rich, uh, appealing to the disenfranchised. They became cult heroes, which is how he seduced JJ.

  Oliver Queen : Any more specifics?

  William Clayton : Grant's home base just got blown up. That... that never happened before. We're in new territory now.

  Oliver Queen : How long to access the drive?

  William Clayton : Uh, more than a few, less than a year.

  Dinah Drake : I'm gonna go check on Rene.

  Mia Smoak : We should be out there doing something.

  Oliver Queen : We will be, once we know Grant Wilson's plan.

• William Clayton : I managed to extract the data from the drive, but, surprise, surprise, it's encrypted. And since I'm not an expert in early 21st-century decryption algorithms, I've called in someone who is. Curtis.

  Dinah Drake : Great. Now, what about Mia and Laurel?

  Oliver Queen : We need to focus on tracking down Grant. Felicity's search algorithm should still be on the computer.

  William Clayton : Way ahead of you. Wow, mom really liked playing fast and loose with the Fourth Amendment, huh?

• Dinah Drake : Why would Grant give us advanced warning? It seems too easy.

  Connor Hawke : That's because it is. Look, Grant may be planning an attack, but it won't be on the rich. The video's a mislead. This kind of deception is a Deathstroke specialty.

  Oliver Queen : How do you know that?

  Connor Hawke : I was undercover with them for a while. A last-ditch attempt to get through to JJ.

  Oliver Queen : Okay, so if this is a bait and switch, what's the switch? What do you think Grant's planning?

  Connor Hawke : Something a whole lot bigger. I just don't know what exactly. Everything happening with the Deathstrokes is... different now.