You know, ever since I was a kid, I’ve loved the way everything smells during a storm. It puts a real change in the air... All this rain coming down on tonight of all nights has to be an omen, boys! (pause) It’s gotta mean that a big change is coming to Star City.

Remember what I told you back in the day, in fact, all of you listen to this... The moment you enter a room with anyone for a deal, you have the power to decide what happens next. If you let the other person walk all over you, then you give them your power...if that happens, then your fate is up to someone else. No one here wants something like that to happen, right?

Listen up, piggy, because I’m only gonna say this once... (he kneels down) It doesn’t matter how many of you come after me, I will never step foot in Iron Heights or any prison again for as long as I suck air. I am nobody’s prisoner and I will never let another man decide my fate again, you hear me?