Smallville · Season 1
[after confessing his secret] Do I look different to you now?
Clark, you look like the same handsome guy I've always known.
Handsome as in "I wanna spend the rest of my life with you" or handsome as in "I'm gonna let you down easy?"
As in "Yes, Clark, I'll marry you".
What would you do if you thought you knew someone really well, and it turns out that there's this... whole other side to them?
Well, that depends. Are we in arms-dealer territory, or are we talking The Crying Game?
Nothing like that.
Then I guess the question is, does it change the way you feel about him?
Maybe.
Look, I don't know what's going on, but I would be lucky to end up with someone as honorable as Clark some day.
Human life is fragile, my son. You knew her life would be exchanged for yours.
Don't make her pay for my mistake! If I hadn't told her the truth about me, she'd still be alive! You have to let me fix it.
Your powers on Earth may seem extraordinary, Kal-El, but we are not gods.
There has to be a way to fix this. Please.
There's one trial you have yet to experience, but you must heed my warning. The tide of fate is impossible to stop. Even if you are able to alter one course of events, the universe will find others. There is only one crystal. Once you make this choice, there is no second chance. Decide carefully.
I have to save her.
Clark... a heart beats only so many times in a life. Your father used his more than anyone I know.
I just don't know how I'm supposed to be the man he wanted me to be without him here.
You're his son. You know what's right and wrong. And whether your father is here with us or not, you're a man he's proud of... a man he could look up to. And something tells me he won't be the only one.
It must be humbling to pull all those strings and find out they're attached to nothing.
Especially when your father's the one holding the scissors.
What good is having a family if they don't watch out for each other?
On the off chance that unshakable family loyalty fails, there's always those Luthor closets to rummage through.
All right, let's skip the prologue, Lex. What ancient skeleton do you think you've dug up this time?
Well, it's not quite a skeleton yet. More like a freshly laid corpse... I wonder how Martha Kent would feel if she knew you had a secret meeting with her husband right before he died. Now, a transgression like that would test the virtues of even the most forgiving woman.
I should have listened to you, Chloe. You tried to warn me. I had my hands around that guy's throat, and I thought that if I just kept squeezing the life out of him, then it would make everything right again.
God, Clark. But you didn't?
No.
What made you stop?
My dad's voice. This is going to sound weird, but I could hear him. He was the one that always kept me from going over the edge when I was too close.
Do you think you could ever do what she did? Play the mild-mannered reporter by day and a crime-fighter by night?
Honestly, I'm kind of hoping I can find a way to not have to hide who I really am.
Why haven't you gone to see her?
Well because, because I'm afraid. I mean what if I look in her eyes and I see myself?
What if you wait too long and you never get the chance to look into her eyes again? She's your mother, she always will be. It's not going to change no matter what.
Lois, you don't know what goes on there. Do you really want Lex and these doctors getting inside Chloe's head?
If it makes her feel better, I don't care if Daffy Duck whacks her with a mallet!
Guys, I'm drugged, not deaf.
Clark, I'm a writer. If I was going to kill myself, I would've written one hell of a suicide note.
[Clark confronts Lana's mysterious car-crash "victim" outside the hospital.]
She said she hit you full on and you're not even hurt. How'd you manage that?
Milk. Does a body good.
[Clark bursts in on Lex.]
We need to talk!
And you should work on your entrance, Clark. Bit abrupt, don't you think?
What do you know about Syntechnics?
See, now that's exactly what I mean. No small talk, no pleasantries — just straight to the accusations.
I haven't accused you of anything.
You don't have to. Your, uh, righteous tone says it all. So what am I have supposed to have done this time?
I'd say thank you, but... the words just seem too small.
And completely unnecessary.
Your mom raised you modest, didn't she?
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