Smallville · Season 1
I'm sorry that Lucas didn't turn out to be the brother you wanted.
Considering his father, I'm surprised he's still alive at all.
Where is Lucas now?
Safe. But I'm going to have some work to do to regain his trust.
You will. You're not your father.
Sometimes, Clark, we're all held hostage by the will of our fathers. The only difference is, your dad is a good man. All my father does is push people away.
As long as I live, I don't think I'm ever going to understand your family.
Neither will I. Just remember, my father may try and rule the world, but yours will inherit the earth.
Well, this is gonna make quite a story. "Clark Kent ends record-breaking perfect attendance streak". Sorry. I'm doing it again. I just... I've never seen you sick before, and it just got me thinking, you know? What if something did happen to you? And I never got to... [pause] So in yet another classic maneuver to avoid emotional intimacy, I wrote my feelings down so that I could read them to you, thereby eliminating embarrassing eye contact. [reading] "I want to let you in on a secret. I'm not who you think I am. In fact, my disguise is so thin, I'm surprised you haven't seen right through me. I'm the girl of your dreams masquerading as your best friend. Sometimes I want to rip off this façade like I did at the Spring Formal, but I can't because you'll get scared and you'll run away again. So I decided that it's better to live with a lie than expose my true feelings". [stops] This is so much easier when you're unconscious... [continues reading] "My dad told me there are two types of girls. The ones you grow out of and the ones you grow into. I really hope I'm the latter. I may not be the one you love today, but I'll let you go for now, hoping one day you'll fly back to me because I think you're worth the wait".
I offered Dad a bit of spot welding, but he said it'd only slow him down.
Son, as hard as it is for you to believe, even your abilities are no substitute for a three-quarter inch copper washer.
Pete, are you sure the ship will be safe in your shed?
Yeah, we'll put it between the old Betamax and my dad's Pong game. Indiana Jones couldn't find it down there.
Look, I need you to promise me that you won't tell anybody about this, and I mean anybody.
Mr. Kent, I take my doctor/patient confidentiality very seriously. But Clark needs proper care.
Doctor, Clark isn't exactly what you'd call a normal boy.
I need to get a blood sample.
Listen, Dr. Bryce, you can't do that.
Is this some sort of religious thing?
No, I mean literally, you can't do that.
Is Chloe okay?
What happened to you really affected her. Me too. It was really hard seeing you sick. Guess I somehow always thought of you as invincible.
Now you think I'm just human.
I guess that's my way of saying that you mean a lot to me, Clark. And I know it's not very eloquent... but I guess some people are just better with words than others.
What is it?
It's a message from the stars, Clark. All my life, I've been staring out into space wondering. Wondering is anybody else out there? And then 13 years ago, I got an answer.
The day of the meteor shower.
One of my receiving stations picked up a faint signal. It took me years to decrypt it. And finally, I discovered a mathematical key that was built into the transmission.
Can you read it?
Yes. It says "This is Kal-El of Krypton. Our infant son, our last hope. Please protect him and deliver him from evil".
I've always wondered what happened to that child, if he survived the journey, if he lived among us. And then three days ago, I saw the symbol for Hope burned onto the side of a barn in Smallville, and I found that the farmer and his wife had an adopted son.
So you think I'm Kal-El? I'm just Clark Kent.
No, no, I'm not trying to expose you, Clark. I'm just... I'm just seeking the truth.
I'm sorry, Doctor. The truth is, I'm not who you think I am.
If you can live with that decision, so can I. But if you walk out that door, it'll never be open to you again.
That's where Krypton was. I followed the signal's path billions of miles out into space. I was hoping to discover its origin but instead, I found nothing.
Planets just don't disappear. What do you think happened to it?
Oh, it could be any one of a million different scenarios. War, famine, disease. I mean, look at the world around us. Is it really that hard to believe?
Why me? There must be a reason why I was sent to this planet.
You won't find the answers by looking at the stars. It's a journey you'll have to take by looking inside yourself. You must write your own destiny...Kal-El.
It's a message from my biological father. I'm sure I'm reading it wrong.
Why? What does it say?
[reading] "On this third planet from this star Sol, you will be a god among men. They are a flawed race. Rule them with strength, my son. That is where your greatness lies". I think I was sent here to conquer. What kind of planet am I from?
Clark Kent, you're here to be a force for good, not a force of evil.
How can you be so sure?
Because I am your father. I raised you, and I know you better than anyone.
What are you doing to those poor citrus?
Well, apparently there's enough acid in them to act as a battery.
How very "Survivor" of you. What are you going to call it? A Clockwork Orange?
Don't you wish you were the first one to say that?
It's like Cyrus is in his own world. He takes teenage alienation to a whole new level.
Well, we all have our ways of escaping from our lives. I ride, Chloe writes, and you... you do incredibly strenuous farm chores by yourself.
Well, I guess you know my deepest and darkest secret now.
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