- Sara Lance: I am not just walking out on the team, Ray.
- Ray Palmer: She says as she's literally walking away.
- Amaya Jiwe: Sara, we appreciate that you may need a break after what happened with the Death totem. But this is the absolute worst time for you to leave.
- Nate Heywood: At least let us lock you up in the brig. We need you here now more than ever.
- Ray Palmer: Yeah, we've almost won the totem race.
- Sara Lance: Which is exactly why I need to go.
- Sara Lance: Look, we are so close to gaining control over the six and getting the upper hand on Mallus. I just... I need a day to clear my head.
- Ray Palmer: Yeah, but who's gonna stop Mick from burning down the ship with the Fire totem?
- Sara Lance: Someone's gonna have to fill in the role of captain while I'm gone.
- Ray Palmer: Oh, well uh, I hadn't exactly thought I'd... I'd pick up the mantle this soon, but...
- Sara Lance: I'm putting Amaya in charge.
- Zari Tomaz: [Mick uses his totem powers to cook food] Hey, hi, um, do you think that maybe you could do that somewhere else? We do have a galley.
- Mick Rory: You want a dog?
- Zari Tomaz: It's pork.
- Mick Rory: So what?
- Zari Tomaz: No, thank you.
- [he uses his powers to pop a bowl of popcorn]
- Zari Tomaz: Wow, I'm sure that's what those ancient folks had in mind when they created the Fire totem.
- Mick Rory: Every man's gotta eat.
- Gideon: Sorry to interrupt, Ms. Jiwe, but Dr. Heywood requests your presence in the library.
- Amaya Jiwe: Captain's duties are never over. But seeing as you're not busy...
- Zari Tomaz: [to herself] No, no, no, please don't... please don't ask me.
- Amaya Jiwe: I can't think of anyone better to learn to train a new totem bearer.
- Amaya Jiwe: So, what's going on?
- Wally West: It's your granddaughter, Mari. She's been hurt. A minor wrinkle in the 2018 timeline.
- Amaya Jiwe: How badly?
- Nate Heywood: The article says she was burned trying to save people from a warehoue fire in Detroit.
- Wally West: Doesn't she have superpowers, though?
- Amaya Jiwe: This is all my fault. Ever since I lost my totem, the timeline must be starting to solidify. Which means, in this new reality, the totem was never passed down to her.
- Nate Heywood: So Mari is a vigilante without her totem.
- Ray Palmer: Look, Sara, for what it's worth, I know it wasn't the real you who tried to kill us.
- Sara Lance: That's just it, Ray. That was the real me. Which is why I need to...
- [a portal opens and Gary enters, covering his eyes]
- Gary Green: [bumping into a bulkhead] Ms. Lance? It's Gary. Sorry to drop in on you like this.
- Sara Lance: What are you doing? Open your eyes, Gary.
- Gary Green: [uncovering his eyes] Oh, hi. Sorry. I didn't wanna accidentally portal into your quarters and catch you and Director Sharpe, you know... together.
- Sara Lance: Well, you don't have to worry about that anymore, because we broke up.
- Ray Palmer: Wait, what? Why didn't you tell us?
- Gary Green: No, no, you guys can't break up. I was shipping you so hard.
- Ray Palmer: [realizing] That's why you're leaving.
- Nate Heywood: Your, um, daughter, she looks... she looks... different. No offense.
- Damien Darhk: None taken.
- [picking up a cattle prod]
- Damien Darhk: Her face...
- Nate Heywood: How long has that been a situation?
- Damien Darhk: You know what? Since you're gonna die, I might as well tell you. The-the closer that Mallus gets to escaping his prison, the worse the situation gets. It... don't... stop looking... don't look at me. I'm just gonna... I'm just gonna... I'm sorry. It-it's not you. It... it's me. Torture just doesn't bring me the same joy anymore.
- Nate Heywood: It's okay, you're distracted. I get it. You made a deal with the devil, now he's come back to claim your little girl. Am I right?
- Damien Darhk: Yes! I mean, I-I-I... I wanted to burn the world down and re-build it in my image, not lose the person I was doing it for.
- Nate Heywood: Damien, this is deep stuff, man. Let's just keep digging. Let's keep digging. Just do me one favor.
- Damien Darhk: Yes, what?
- Nate Heywood: Can you lose the cattle prod? I mean, I'm gonna die anyway. Let's just make this a safe space.
- Amaya Jiwe: I have to go and talk to her.
- Nate Heywood: What? No, you cannot talk to your own granddaughter. That will cause...
- Amaya Jiwe: Unforseen consequences, I know, but how much worse can things truly get?
- Sara Lance: If you're looking for Ava, I suggest you check her office.
- Gary Green: Uh, well, that's the thing. She hasn't been to work in a few days, which is very unlike her. I've already been covering for her, I forged her signature twice. What am I supposed to do next? Put on a wig and pantsuit and pretend I'm her?
- Sara Lance: [slightly grossed out] No, don't do that.
- Gary Green: What if she's in trouble? I mean, we already lost Director Bennett. What if Grodd got to her, too? Oh, my god, oh, my god...
- Ray Palmer: Gary, Gary, deep breaths. Deep breaths.
- Sara Lance: Don't worry, Gary. Because we're gonna find her.
- Ray Palmer: "We" will find her?
- Gary Green: If Ava comes back and finds us snooping through her office...
- Sara Lance: We're only snooping to find out where she went.
- Nora Darhk: [torturing Nate] Such a waste of a good head of hair. Hmm.
- Kid Flash: [speeding in with Amaya] Hey, get your hands off that hard body. I'm sorry, that sounded way better in my head.
- Ava Sharpe: You were right, Sara. I'm never gonna be a mindless clone.
- [leaving her clones behind]
- Ava Sharpe: I'm keeping the suit.
- Nate Heywood: Amaya, you have to believe you're in charge of your own destiny.
- Amaya Jiwe: You know, there are times that I wish I'd never set foot on this ship. If I'd never left 1942, I would've returned to Zambesi like I was supposed to, with no idea of the tragedy that awaited me. I would've died an old woman.
- Nate Heywood: Murdered by warlords. And you and I never would've met. And...
- [realization dawns on him]
- Nate Heywood: Is that what you want, Amaya?
- Amaya Jiwe: I don't know, Nathaniel.
- Amaya Jiwe: There you are, Mick. You ready?
- Mick Rory: For what?
- Amaya Jiwe: Training. Do you remember? We spoke about learning to harness the powers of the totem.
- Mick Rory: Hmm. I got a new trick. Pull my finger.
- Amaya Jiwe: What?
- Mick Rory: Pull my finger.
- Zari Tomaz: Do not pull his finger. Let's just say hot dogs aren't the only thing he's learned how to light on fire.
- Amaya Jiwe: Sara put me in charge while she steps away.
- Nate Heywood: All the more reason why you should stay on the ship. Okay? I'll go to Detroit, and I'll talk to her.
- Wally West: And I'll, uh... I'll help him.
- Nate Heywood: Yeah. There's nothing this dynamic duo cannot do.
- Amaya Jiwe: Okay, fine. Just be careful.
- Gary Green: What are you doing?
- Ray Palmer: I am hacking into the Bureau's network to access Ava's personnel file.
- [finding something]
- Ray Palmer: Huh.
- Sara Lance: What is it?
- Gary Green: Director Sharpe's personnel file has been erased.
- Ray Palmer: Someone deleted it remotely from the Waverider.
- Sara Lance: Wow. She must have really wanted to go off the radar.
- Gary Green: Wait, you think Director Sharpe erased her own file? That's crazy.
- Sara Lance: Yeah, so is putting on a wig and impersonating your boss, Gary.
- Gary Green: I didn't actually do it.
- Wally West: You're sure you saw Kuasa?
- Nate Heywood: Yeah. Just be on the lookout for a badass in a leather outfit. Or a suspicious puddle of water.
- Wally West: [spotting Kuasa] Hey, there she is.
- [he speeds forward and grabs hold of her]
- Wally West: I got her.
- [she turns into water and disappears into a vent]
- Nate Heywood: Dude, don't just stand there.
- Nate Heywood: As soon as I catch my breath, we're gonna stop you from hurting your sister.
- Kuasa: Hurt Mari? I'm here to protect her. You idiots.
- Sara Lance: Well, this isn't exactly how I imagined meeting Ava's parents. Not that I imagined meeting Ava's parents.
- Sara Lance: Who the hell are you guys?
- Gary Green: Oh, god, I hate the sight of blood.
- Ray Palmer: Sara...
- Randy Sharpe: Okay, fine! We'll tell you everything. Just don't kill us.
- Sara Lance: Why the hell shouldn't I?
- Pam Sharpe: Because we're just actors.
- Ray Palmer: What?
- Randy Sharpe: Four years ago, we responded to this online ad for a gig. They gave us backstories for our characters. They told us if Ava ever comes to visit, we just act like her parents.
- Sara Lance: And who hired you?
- Pam Sharpe: No idea. The money is automatically deposited.
- Randy Sharpe: Look, it... it's not such a bad gig, considering Ava rarely ever comes home to visit.
- Ray Palmer: Why in the world would you agree to be a part of such a charade?
- Pam Sharpe: Do you know how hard it is to get an acting job in Fresno?
- Sara Lance: Right, well, I apologize about the knife thing. It is a gut reaction. Nothing personal.
- Ray Palmer: Sorry to bother you. We'll be on our way now.
- Gary Green: You have a lovely home, Mr. and Mrs... whatever your real names are.
- Zari Tomaz: Okay, you said to wait until after your second lunch. This is your fourth. Amaya wants me to teach you how to use your totem, so let's get cracking.
- Mick Rory: If I wanted to learn, I would've gone to school.
- Zari Tomaz: [irritated at Rory] Sorry, blood sugar thing. Fasting.
- Mick Rory: Fasting.
- Zari Tomaz: Yeah, I'm not eating.
- Mick Rory: Trying to lose some fat, huh?
- Zari Tomaz: No, I love my body. I'm trying to observe Ramadan.
- Mick Rory: [offering a tray of sandwiches] So observe it on a full stomach.
- Zari Tomaz: Is this bacon?
- Mick Rory: You Jewish?
- Zari Tomaz: [giving up] I don't even know what... I can't.
- Ray Palmer: What kind of person invents a fake family and backstory?
- Gary Green: Well, when I was a kid, I told my friends my dad was an orthodontist. It sounded much cooler than "dentist".
- Sara Lance: If she was lying about where she's from, there's no telling what else she...
- Ava Sharpe: [they see Ava] Sara. What are you doing here?
- Sara Lance: Uh... Gary was worried that you were missing, so naturally, we were concerned and thought we'd investigate it further.
- Ava Sharpe: Well, clearly, I'm no longer missing, so...
- Sara Lance: Are you sure you're okay?
- Ava Sharpe: I'm fine. Don't I look fine?
- Gary Green: Where have you been?
- Ava Sharpe: If you must know, I... Gary, straighten your tie. I was visiting my parents in Fresno. Home-cooked meals and all.
- Sara Lance: [knowing she's lying] Hmm. Fresno.
- Ava Sharpe: Mm-hmm.
- Sara Lance: Hmm.
- Ray Palmer: Nothing like a tray of snickerdoodles... well, I mean, any other kind of cookie to, um, mend a broken heart.
- Ava Sharpe: You know what? I have a lot of work to do. I'm sure you two can see yourselves out.
- Ray Palmer: You okay? No one likes running into their ex.
- Sara Lance: I'm fine. And like I said...
- [holding out Ava's time courier]
- Sara Lance: Let's find out what else she's been hiding from us.
- Wally West: So this is Mari's Vixen Cave.
- Kuasa: Ever since my grandmother lost her totem, I figured I'd better start keeping tabs on her. It's a good thing I did.
- Nate Heywood: I thought you hated Mari.
- Kuasa: She's still my sister. And even though I resented her for inheriting the Anansi totem, I'd rather see it around her neck than on Nora Darhk's.
- Nate Heywood: So let's get it back to where it belongs.
- Kuasa: You wanna help me?
- Nate Heywood: We wanna help Amaya. You wanna help your sister. Either way, we have to get that totem back.
- Kuasa: The Darhks will kill me if I turn on them.
- Wally West: Don't worry. This isn't the first totem that we've lifted from under their noses.
- Nate Heywood: Soon we'll have five totems. Do you really wanna be one against five?
- Wally West: If we work together, we can defeat the Darhks, and Mallus.
- Nate Heywood: And you get to protect your family. Isn't that what you really want?
- Kuasa: Fine. But we do this my way.
- Ray Palmer: Maybe Ava wasn't lying about where she was, but when she was.
- Sara Lance: I thought the worst thing about her is she's from Fresno.
- Gary Green: I'm not seeing anything in her time courier records that wasn't Bureau-sanctioned and by-the-book.
- Sara Lance: [spotting something] Wait. What's that?
- Ray Palmer: Uh, her first mission. Vancouver, 2213. I can't access it.
- Gary Green: The Bureau has sanctioned 2213 a no-fly zone.
- Sara Lance: Meaning?
- Gary Green: Meaning the courier you stole from Ava doesn't do you any good, and the Waverider can't fly there, either. The only person who can override the restriction...
- Ray Palmer: Is a Time Bureau Director.
- Gary Green: Why wouldn't Director Sharpe...
- Sara Lance: Want us to know who she really is? I'll give you one guess, Gary.
- Gary Green: Oh, my god. Oh, my god. Oh, my god. You think my boss is an anachronism?
- Ray Palmer: The only way to know for sure is to go to 2213.
- Sara Lance: So how do we get there?
- Gary Green: I... I guess the only way would be to hijack the mothership, but unfortunately, I failed flight training. Bad astigmatism.
- Sara Lance: Like I'd let you fly.
- Ava Sharpe: What do you mean the mothership is on the move?
- Agent: I mean someone's stealing it, ma'am.
- Ava Sharpe: Track it. I'm going after it personally.
- Gary Green: Should we really be doing this? I mean, I'm sure there's a good reason why no one is supposed to come to this time period.
- Ray Palmer: Maybe Gary's right. Maybe we should just ask Ava what her connection is to this place.
- Sara Lance: Why? She's just gonna lie to us again.
- Ray Palmer: What kind of world is this?
- Gary Green: Paradise?
- Sara Lance: I'm surrounded by my exes, Gary. This is hell.
- Ava Sharpe: Pleasant day, citizens.
- Gary Green: I had a dream like this once.
- Sara Lance: Yeah, me, too, but mine involved less clothing.
- Gary Green: Mine, too!
- Ray Palmer: Well, I guess this is why they declared 2213 a no-fly zone.
- Gary Green: Director Sharpe didn't want us to find out that she's secretly a robot.
- Sara Lance: I did not have sex with a robot.
- Ray Palmer: [spotting something] No, you didn't, Sara. You had sex with a clone.
- Ava Sharpe: Here at Advanced Variant Automation, we are working to bring a brighter future. Our cloning program has produced the AVA. AVA is the perfect woman designed to keep us safe and restore order to the chaos.
- Gary Green: Makes sense they'd clone Ava. She is the perfect woman.
- Sara Lance: Oh, calm down, Gary. She's... okay.
- Gary Green: Before I have an Ava overload, should we return to the comfort and safety of the Time Bureau?
- Sara Lance: [seeing something across a body of water] No. We're not done here yet.
- Nate Heywood: I think an ambush would work best in this situation.
- Kuasa: Sure. If you wanna die a quick death. Quite frankly, you two...
- Wally West: [playing around with something, he knocks items off a table] Whoa.
- Kuasa: ...are no match for the Darhks.
- Nate Heywood: Okay. So what's your plan?
- Kuasa: We lure them to us. With bait.
- Nate Heywood: No. No, you are not using a totem.
- Kuasa: No. We have the next best thing. A Legend.
- Wally West: Wait, that's crazy. Why don't we just go to where they're at, I'll swipe it like I did the Fire totem.
- Kuasa: You overplayed your hand. Now they know you have a... whatever you are on the team.
- Wally West: What I am is the fastest man alive, thanks.
- Nate Heywood: [under his breath] Second-fastest.
- Wally West: Shh. She didn't need to know that.
- Wally West: Shouldn't we be bringing Amaya into this?
- Nate Heywood, Kuasa: No.
- Nate Heywood: We already have one Vixen in the hospital as it is.
- Kuasa: Agreed. My grandmother will want to play the hero and get herself killed. If that happens, Mari and I will be wiped frome existence.
- Nate Heywood: Right, so we're gonna need you to keep her out of our hair.
- Wally West: But, I...
- Nate Heywood: I know, I know. I'll be fine. I just need you to keep an eye on Amaya.
- Gary Green: [in a futuristic laboratory] This place is creepy. How about I wait outside?
- Sara Lance: [grabbing him to hold him back] How about you calm down?
- Gary Green: Is it too late to mention my fear of things covered in sheets?
- Ray Palmer: Looks like they created Ava from what they believe are the best genes from around the world to make the perfect woman. Though, she's a little pale, if you ask me.
- Sara Lance: I should've known she was too good to be true.
- Ray Palmer: That doesn't mean that what you guys had wasn't real.
- Sara Lance: That is exactly what it means.
- Gary Green: [a clone wakes up] Uh... guys?
- Sara Lance: Everything that she's told me about herself has been a lie.
- Gary Green: Guys.
- Sara Lance: What, Gary?
- Ray Palmer: Oh, crumbs. I think I woke one up.
- Ava Sharpe: You are in violation of bylaw 575. You do not have clearance to be in this room.
- Sara Lance: We were just leaving.
- Ray Palmer: Just let us go and it'll be fine.
- Ava Sharpe: If I let you go, I have to let everyone go. You must be terminated.
- Gary Green: [cowering] Uh, I think she wants to kill us.
- Sara Lance: You don't say.
- Gary Green: [she and the clone start fighting] Should we help?
- Ray Palmer: Uh, not unless you want both of them to kill you.
- Kuasa: These chains won't be nearly as convincing if you can turn to steel.
- Nate Heywood: You know, I'm a good actor. I could have sold it.
- Damien Darhk: What's with these vigilantes and their dark spaces? It's like they're afraid of that healthy bronze look.
- Nora Darhk: I underestimated you, Kuasa. You've brought us a valuable bargaining chip.
- Kuasa: Uh-uh-uh. I want something in exchange. My grandmother's totem. It belongs to me.
- Damien Darhk: You didn't actually think she was gonna hand that over to you, did you?
- Nora Darhk: She's right.
- Damien Darhk: You what?
- Nora Darhk: The power of Mallus flows through me. I don't need some trinket. Besides, Kuasa has proven herself a loyal acolyte.
- Kuasa: I once thought that losing this totem was the greatest threat to me and my family. But you are in love with my Nana Baa. And should she choose to love you in return, me and my sister will never even exist.
- Nate Heywood: This is not the plan.
- Kuasa: Plans change.
- Damien Darhk: [to Nora] This is better than "The Brave and the Bold".
- Kuasa: For a PhD, you're remarkably gullible.
- Nate Heywood: Oh, Kuasa, you're better than this. Be the woman your grandmother believes you to be.
- Kuasa: I'm being the woman she knows me to be.
- [to Damien]
- Kuasa: When you kill him, do it slowly.