Arrow (TV Series)

Crossing Lines (2018)

David Ramsey: John Diggle

Quotes 

• John Diggle : I just wish we would've caught Diaz before heading abroad.

  Lyla Michaels : We will.

  John Diggle : Yeah.

  Lyla Michaels : And Felicity will be fine, I promise. I think you could use a change of scenery. It'll be like a second honeymoon.

  John Diggle : [deadpan]  Yay, with Curtis.

  Lyla Michaels : [they share a laugh]  Well, Deadshot and Cupid came with us on our first.

  John Diggle : No, that is not our first honeymoon. Our first honeymoon was in Hawaii, remember? The hammocks by the beach.

  Lyla Michaels : Mm, Hawaii was nice.

  John Diggle : Hawaii was really nice.

• John Diggle : Stall all you want. Eventually you're gonna break. And when you do, I'll be right here. Last chance before I bring her in.

  [it's revealed he's talking to JJ] 

  John Diggle : Did you or did you not eat this entire box of cookies?

  Lyla Michaels : [entering]  It's okay, honey. You just got a little hungry, didn't you? Now you have a tummyache. Well, now we know what happens when we eat too much sugar, right?

  [JJ nods] 

  Lyla Michaels : Come on, let's go say hi to Ella. She has lots of fun stuff planned while dad and I are out of town.

  John Diggle : I was working on him for twenty minutes, and you get him to confess in fifteen seconds?

  Lyla Michaels : I'm his mother, and your boss. We leave in five.

• Lyla Michaels : You followed me?

  John Diggle : Well, I wouldn't have had to if you had told me the real reason why we're in Zurich, Lyla.

  Lyla Michaels : It's not what it looks like.

  John Diggle : Really? That's good. That's good, because it looks like you just handed over sensitive A.R.G.U.S. intel to a criminal.

  Lyla Michaels : I thought you'd have a little more faith in me than that.

  John Diggle : I did until this very moment. Lyla, just... tell me what's going on. The truth.

  Lyla Michaels : I caught wind of something. Money changing hands that's... bigger than anything we've been up against. I ran it up the chain, but kept getting stymied by the brass. Not enough evidence.

  John Diggle : What, so you're going behind A.R.G.U.S.'s back?

  Lyla Michaels : Didn't expect judgment from someone who's spent so much time delivering justice in the shadows.

  John Diggle : Lyla, that's not what I'm saying. Listen to me. I just... I just can't believe you would hide this from me. After everything we've been through, I thought the one thing we agreed on is that there will be no more secrets between us.

  Lyla Michaels : I was trying to protect you. I wasn't keeping secrets. You didn't want to take up Oliver's mantle, and I respect that. But being the Director of A.R.G.U.S. has shown me that there is far more evil in the world than people willing to fight it, and... I can't stand around anymore and just watch, Johnny. Sometimes you have to cross the line for the greater good. I would expect you to understand that.

• John Diggle : You ready?

  Lyla Michaels : To get home to JJ and out of this hotel room? Yes.

  John Diggle : Can we talk first?

  Lyla Michaels : Talk or lecture?

  John Diggle : Lyla, I'm sorry. I was wrong. I should have given you the chance to explain yourself before accusing you of being something that you are not.

  Lyla Michaels : I know things have been hard for you, with Oliver gone. But you have to trust me.

  John Diggle : I do trust you. But Lyla, all of this, it's so dangerous. I think of JJ.

  Lyla Michaels : So do I. Which is why I can't turn my back on this.

  John Diggle : You were right. Sometimes, you do have to cross a line. But just promise me, next time something like this happens, let me in.

• John Diggle : That's a lot of firepower for a bank.

  Lyla Michaels : They need it. Half of Europe's criminal underworld funnels their money through here.

  Curtis Holt : I'm guessing it's a "shoot first, ask questions never" kind of bank?

  Lyla Michaels : Which is why they can't find out that we're with A.R.G.U.S.