Pete Ross quotes from Smallville

Martha Kent

Are you all right?

Pete Ross

Yeah. The doctor's say it's a hairline fracture, which is ironic because it hurts everywhere else except my hairline. Being part of this family should come with its own group health insurance.

Clark Kent

Two progeria deaths in two days. What are the odds of that?

Chloe Sullivan

I don't know. Lana wanted to cancel the Spirit Week party, but Principal Reynolds asked her not to. He said he wanted to keep things as normal as possible.

Pete Ross

He obviously hasn't had his normal-meter reset for Smallville.

Pete Ross

Man, this "Mission Impossible" stuff is great. But other than my scintillating conversational skills, I still don't understand why you brought me along.

Clark Kent

I need your spit.

Chloe Sullivan

What are you?

Clark Kent

Let's just say I'm not from around here.

Chloe Sullivan

[to Pete] You knew about this?

Pete Ross

He's my brother... from another planet.

Chloe Sullivan

Whoa! How'd you do that?

Pete Ross

Clark's Achilles' heel. He may be a boy scout, but I'm always prepared.

Pete Ross

Working at the Talon... could you be any more obvious?

Clark Kent

What happened to the Pete Ross rule of proximity? "If you wanna get in the game, you've gotta get on the court".

Pete Ross

Clark, Lana would be your boss. She's going to take out all of her pent up frustrations of all the times you've ever let her down. You're not going to be in the game. You're going to be in the locker room cleaning the toilets.

[to Clark] So, you and Lex seem close.

Pete Ross

What, are you kidding? They're like brothers.

Clark Kent

So, Lucas, where did you grow up?

All over.

Pete Ross

Must be kind of weird not knowing your mom or your dad.

No, not really. Parents always try to make you little versions of them selves. When you grow up without those constraints, you're allowed to become your own person.

Clark Kent

It's an interesting theory. I don't think I buy it, though.

All right. Let's take you and Lex, for example. If he were raised by your parents and you were raised by Lionel, you wouldn't grow up to be different people? Trust me, you'd be rich and miserable, and he'd be wearing flannel. But if you were left totally alone, abandoned by your parents, how do you think you'd turn out?

Clark Kent

Pete, are you sure the ship will be safe in your shed?

Pete Ross

Yeah, we'll put it between the old Betamax and my dad's Pong game. Indiana Jones couldn't find it down there.

Chloe Sullivan

What are you doing to those poor citrus?

Clark Kent

Well, apparently there's enough acid in them to act as a battery.

Chloe Sullivan

How very "Survivor" of you. What are you going to call it? A Clockwork Orange?

Pete Ross

Don't you wish you were the first one to say that?

Pete Ross

Clark Kent, convict.

Chloe Sullivan

Yeah, I know, when do you get fit for that orange jump suit? Or is it one size fits all?

Clark Kent

Forty hours of community service is not funny... it's an orange vest.

Chloe Sullivan

Oh, no! It's gonna clash with the plaid!

Pete Ross

Welcome to Smallville, where you stop the crime, you do the time.

Sheriff Nancy Adams

Very pithy. Maybe I should use that as my campaign slogan?

Pete Ross

Clark, couldn't the bone yard visit have waited till after the rain stopped?

Clark Kent

It's the only way to disprove the zombie theory.

Pete Ross

Yeah. Well, if this Emily girl really is a ghost I really don't think she'd appreciate you scoping out her coffin.

Clark Kent

Pete, did you see that guy?

Pete Ross

What guy?

Clark Kent

How could you miss him? He had a big red cape on!

Pete Ross

Clark, he knows your secret.

Clark Kent

I can't let him turn Lex into a vegetable just for that.

Pete Ross

You can't trust him.

Clark Kent

And you've never given him a chance.

Pete Ross

And you give him too many. You think it's easy keeping a lid on your secret? I've got to think about it every time we're around other people to make sure I don't slip. I've got to remember to say "meteor rock" instead of "kryptonite". And I always got to cover your unexplained exits.

Clark Kent

Pete, I'm sorry. You've never said anything.

Pete Ross

Clark, that's not the point. The point is that I got your back. But Lex won't.

Lana Lang

One thing I learned from my accident is that you can't go through something like this alone.

Clark Kent

Lana, just because I'm blind doesn't mean the issues between us have disappeared. This doesn't change anything.

Lana Lang

I was just offering a helping hand, Clark. But I won't make that mistake again.

Pete Ross

Whoever said absence makes the heart grow fonder obviously hasn't met the two of you.

Pete Ross

Clark. Your parents are ready to start gluing your picture to milk cartons. How'd you get out here, anyhow?

Clark Kent

I walked. Turns out I do know every inch of this farm. I really didn't mean to scare them, but I couldn't take all the noise.

Pete Ross

So your mega-hearing thing's back.

Clark Kent

Suddenly I'm the ultimate eavesdropper.