Criminal Minds · Season 1, Episode 15
“Unfinished Business” · Season 1, Episode 15
In this episode: Dean Winchester (940), Damon Salvatore (715), Sam Winchester (665), Olivia Benson (637), Stephen Fry (608), Narrator (554), Clark Kent (523), Nate (486)
My God, Clark, this is amazing! Can you imagine the kinds of stories I could break? I mean, I could crack the mystery that is Clark Kent! [pause] What do you keep hiding from me?
I can't believe you just asked me that.
And you didn't answer. Everyone else would have. What are you so afraid of? That I'll get behind that armor and finally uncover your secret?
I do know that because of you, my dad can't get a job. So why would I help you?
Because my father's the one who ordered his dismissal. You know that's the truth, don't you?
Meaning that my family's future is just one chess move in the endless game of one-upmanship played by you and your dad.
It's not a game, Chloe. You're the only one who can get me the truth.
Why do you keep doing this to yourself? Why can't you just walk away from your father?
Because he won't give me the only thing I've ever wanted from him.
And that would be?
I want him to love me.
I'm impressed but unfortunately, I don't respond to blackmail. But you know, this isn't what's going to get your father's job back.
Then what would?
Information from an especially intransigent source.
Does this source have a name?
Two, actually. Jonathan and Martha Kent. But you need only ask one question.
Why would I ever do that?
Because I know that you have a special place in your heart for their son, and it's killing you that he's hiding something from you. And we both know that this may be the only opportunity you'll ever have to find out what that is.
And what exactly is it that you want to know?
Where did Clark Kent come from?
When you found me on the bridge, I was on my way here. I was gonna ask your parents all the questions you would never answer... look, I know "I'm sorry" has become a recurring motif in our relationship, but--
No, Chloe, look, I appreciate your honesty, but you weren't yourself.
I really wish I could believe that. But there have been so many times when my curiosity has gotten the best of me. Maybe this is just who I am.
No. You're going after the truth. Chloe, there's nothing wrong with that.
Unless it hurts the people you care most about. I'm just afraid that one day I'm gonna push too hard, and I'm not gonna get the chance to say I'm sorry.
Today's not that day.
[Concerned] You've hardly said anything about what happened at Summerholt.
[Distracted] Don't worry Mom, my secret is still safe.
Well, let me know if you want to talk about it.
[Martha goes to leave]
Lara.
[Martha stops, she looks back at Clark]
That was my biological mother's real name. She was my earliest memory. She sounded so scared. Her only fear was that nobody would love me.
I can't imagine the feeling of sending my baby in a lifeboat across the stars.
Because of Jor-El, I always thought that my biological parents were monsters. But she wasn't.... I just can't believe I forgot about her.
[Comforting] You didn't, Clark; your first word was "Lara". Your father and I could never figure out what it meant, but now we know.
I wish she could have met you, to see what a great mom I have.
She knows, Clark. A mother's love never dies.
[They embrace]
Lana told you about my nocturnal adventure, didn't she? I can see I spooked her. That usually sends her running to you.
Are you okay?
Well, I haven't lost my mind, Clark, if that's what you mean. I just indulged in a little harmless sleepwalking, that's all.
Lex, you were on a ledge yelling Julian's name. You could've killed yourself.
You know, when I found you asleep in the middle of Route 8 last year, I don't remember questioning your mental health.
I hadn't just spent seven weeks at Belle Reve.
According to my doctors I'm cured. But apparently, a clean bill of health isn't good enough for Clark Kent.
Summerholt is a highly respected institution.
Respected? Lex, this Garner character operates on the outer fringes of accepted science.
Well, then you should feel right at home.
I don't want to hold him.
Lillian, it's unnatural for a mother not to want to bond with her child. Please... I will not let you inflict psychological scars on my children.
That's why they have you, Lionel.
I told you to let it go, but you kept pursuing it. You even involved my father.
Yeah, well, believe me, Lex. He's the last person I'd ask for help, but I didn't have any other options.
He betrayed you, Clark. He stopped my sessions with Garner by offering you up as a lab rat. I've tried to keep my father away from you, but he's obsessed. If I'd got back those seven weeks, I could've finally stopped him.
Maybe, Lex. Or maybe you'd make it worse. You're always telling me how you don't want to turn into your father, and I truly believe that. But the more you two go at each other, the more like him you become. And the more people get hurt.
I will never become my father. I would never sacrifice you or anybody I cared about to bring him down.
Lex.... why does your father hate you so much?
[on the phone] Why won't you listen to me? I told you I don't want to talk about it!
Note to self: Forward all telemarketing calls to Pete.
Did you do this?
What possible reason would I have to ransack the office of an obscure teaching assistant?
Then tell me why you're here.
You first.
Jeremiah was gonna help me with a term paper.
Term paper. So your visit doesn't have anything to do with the fact that he went ballistic in the caves last night and absconded with a sacred Kawatche artifact.
I didn't know.
I'm surprised. I mean, you usually keep such a close eye on everything that happens in the caves... for those term papers you're always writing.
I know you want to believe it, but I'm not your savior. I mean, did you ever think that Jeremiah really is Naman? He has all the abilities foretold in the prophecy, and he's gonna try and kill Segeeth.
True. But he did not fall from the sky in a rain of fire. Jeremiah's desperate to be someone he's not. And you are desperate not be someone you are.
Professor, I may be confused about who I am, but one thing I'm not is a killer.
You'd be surprised what you're capable of when the time comes.
It also means the prophecy came true. The blade glowed and disintegrated when they touched it, which means either Lionel or Lex is my greatest enemy.
Did you see which one grabbed it first?
No. But I don't need a blade to tell me that Lionel Luthor is a bad person.
If you're going to believe this legend, you have to face the possibility that it could be Lex.
I'm not ready to do that.
Clark, the Kawatche think that you're a savior. Jor-El wants you to be a conqueror. Now, knife or not, you can't let other people tell you what to be.
Who do you think I'll become?
I don't know. You can be the world's greatest hero or its most mild-mannered citizen, but the only person who can write your story, is you.
You sound like Lex. He thinks I'm the reason Lana's leaving.
Well, I hate to agree with Uncle Fester, but I don't think Lana's going to Paris just to see the Mona Lisa.
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