Quentin Lance

"Your luck never seems to run out, does it?"

- Detective Lance to Oliver Queen

Detective Quentin Lance (born 1962) is an arrogant and determined police detective, formerly a sergeant (having been demoted in "Year's End"), and is partners with Detective Lucas Hilton. He is the father of Laurel and the late Sara Lance. He has sworn to take down "The Hood" at any means necessary. He even once uses his daughter as bait.

Personality
Quentin is described as a "gruff, determined city detective" who believes true justice can only come from law and order, he is arrogant to the point, where he thinks he can just go, in a person's house, without a search warrant, or a arrest warrant, when he said, (I have a badge, and a gun, that says differently), when he believed at the time, that oliver queen was arrow, and he hates arrow, because he makes himself, and the police department, look bad, and sworn to take down arrow at any means necessary, He even once coldly uses his own daughter laurel as bait, when his daughter laurel was kidnapped, he ask arrow for help, witch makes him a hypocrite to some degree. Also it is assumed that he didn't want to lose one of his daughters again through being killed.

Dinah Lance
Dinah Lance is Quentin Lance's ex-wife. At some point they were married, and had two daughters, but after the death, of their younger daughter Sara. He threw himself in his work, and became an alcoholic, which resulted in Dinah leaving him. They have not seen each other for six years, when Laurel calls him to meet, her at a café, when Quentin sees Dinah and is shocked to see her. Dinah tells him that she believes their daughter Sara is still alive. He is not willing, to listen to her and is hostile towards her. Showing he is still angry, at her for leaving him, and Laurel right after Sara died. Never calling them, and never sending them emails, but after he calms down, is now willing to listen to her. After Laurel proves that Sara did died. She doesn't want to believe it and Quentin tells her" you got to let it go". Dinah doesn't want to and can't after revealing that she knew Sara was going with Oliver on the Queen's Gambit, because she came home early. She then breakdown while he comforts her no longer angry at her.

Sara Lance
Sara Lance was Quentin Lance's youngest daughter. They were not very close, but still cared about each other. Sara was once arrested for shoplifting and her father made it go away. According to Laurel he blames himself for Sara's death, more than he blames Oliver Queen. He believes if they were closer and if she had told him about going on the Queen's Gambit with Oliver. He would had try to convince her not to go and believes if he hadn't protected her from her charges it wouldn't happened.

Oliver Queen
Quentin has hated Oliver Queen, since the day his daughter Sara die, he is always hostile towards him. Quentin almost found out that, Oliver and arrow are the same person, unknown to quentin Oliver intention was to get caught to prove he is not arrow. He succeed in doing it and Quentin got a tracking device on him while under house arrest. John Diggle dressed up as Arrow attacking a street gang and multiple witnesses placed him their. Unknown to Quentin after Oliver's mother is shot and tells him she wasn't the target. Later Quentin goes sees Oliver at his house, and gives him friendly advice that Helena Bonelli, and her family are bad news, tells oliver that a few weeks ago, he made mistake, believing he was arrow, and almost got him killed, but as far as he is concerned, this clears the books.

Quentin hates arrow, because he makes himself and the police department look bad, and believes he is a criminal, a murderer, and a psychopath. However Quentin did not (correctly) believe, that Arrow killed James Holder, because he never uses guns as he only uses arrows. Even though it was proof that he was there and it did not prove that he killed James Holder. Forensic confirmed that the gunshots killed James Holder, were fired from 100 yards, increasing his belief that arrow did not killed him.

Arrow later informs him that the guy he's looking for is Deadshot. Later when Adam Hunt is killed by the Dark Acher and Quentin realizes because he already took Adam Hunt's money and it doesn't match his motive to kill who he already visited. He realize that they are dealing with a copycat by the different colours of the arrows that are used. He even disobeyed orders from his commanding officer, Commissioner Brian Nudocerdo, who told him to blame the death of Adam Hunt and Nelson Ralph on Arrow.

Quentin disobeyed that order, resulting in him getting demoted to detective. He once tried to captured Arrow by using his own daughter laurel as bait, but he underestimate Arrow. It failed and when Laurel got kidnapped because of him he hypocritically ask Arrow for help.

Appearances
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Comics
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 * Arrow #14
 * Arrow #18
 * Arrow #27

Trivia

 * Quentin discovered Oliver's identity as Arrow after viewing CCTV footage in "An Innocent Man". However, this discovery was later disproven when John Diggle dressed up as Arrow, unbeknownst to the detective, absolving Oliver.
 * In "Damaged", it is revealed that Quentin threw himself into his work and became an alcoholic after Sara died, which, along with the death, resulted in his wife leaving him.
 * Quentin became an alcoholic after Sara's death. Somewhere between 2007 and 2012 he apparently sobered up.

Behind the scenes
In the comic books, Laurel's father's name is Lawrence "Larry" Lance, rather than Quentin.

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Quentin Lance