My name was Oliver Queen I worked three years to save my city. But to save my sister, I had to become someone else. I had to become something else
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Oliver Queen: My father made mistakes. He hurt people. When people are hurt, people are in trouble, they tend to make the wrong choices. Right, Derek? But those choices don't have to define you. They don't have to define who your family will be. Because there's always one moment when you can turn it all around. If my father had another chance, I think he'd do things differently, but time ran out for him.Derek Reston: How poetic. That doesn't help me get my house back, now does it?Oliver Queen: No, it doesn't. No, all I can offer you is an apology and a job. Queen Consolidated has subsidiaries all over the country. I make one phone call, you start next week. So what do you say?Derek Reston: How about "I still have some pride left"? Now, I don't need charity from the son of the man who screwed me over.Oliver Queen: Okay.Oliver Queen: You change your mind?Oliver Queen: You and I have one thing in common. We're both dealing with the consequences of my father's actions. What he did then, that's on him. What we do now, that's on us.
Oliver Queen: You're not gonna see him?Slade Wilson: I need you to promise me that you won't tell him I helped.Oliver Queen: No. I'm not gonna lie to your son.Slade Wilson: It's better this way.Oliver Queen: For him or for you? Wait. Are you - are you afraid that he's gonna see you as Deathstroke, not the man you were? The - the man I think you are now?Slade Wilson: I gave up my right to be his father when I stepped out of the light into the shadows and became this monster.Oliver Queen: Your son will forgive you the way that my son forgave me.Slade Wilson: Joe knew that I was coming for him, so he contacted his mother, and she sent me a message to stay away. You got your second chance, kid, and I'm happy for you. Some fathers aren't that lucky.
Oliver Queen: Laurel, if you wanna have a dinner, or coffee, I don't know... Call me.Laurel Lance: Why?Oliver Queen: I don't wanna be on an island anymore.