Smallville Season 1 quotes

Clark

People keep secrets for a reason.

Lois

I don't know. If you ask me, I think a secret is just a big loophole in the whole "thou shall not lie" clause.

Clark

There's just no gray area with you, is there?

Lois

Not when someone I thought I knew better than anyone has been keeping the biggest secret of all.

Clark

What are you talking about?

Lois

What would you do if one day you realized someone close to you had a serious hero complex?

Clark

Hero complex?

Lois

Hiding his true identity from everyone he supposedly cares about? You can't tell me you wouldn't find something wrong with that.

Clark

Who exactly are we talking about?

Chloe

Clark, before you unload your anger on me, can I just say that I think it is incredibly unfair that everyone trusts me to keep their secrets, and then they turn around and they throw me attitude for keeping someone else's secret! Look, I'm sorry that I had to take a two-second breather from hiding the fact that you are an alien from another planet to protect someone else for a change! God! [Clark hugs her] You had that coming, you know?

Clark

For the record... I prefer "intergalactic traveler" over "alien from another planet".

Chloe

The craziest part is he chucked a guy across an alley, right? [Lois: Oh yeah] And then supersped away. I mean, WHO does that?

Clark

Hmm. [pause] It's a good thing when Oliver showed up when he did. Then you know for sure.

Chloe

Oh, she knew before he showed up.

Clark

You did?

Chloe

Ask her how.

Clark

How?

Lois

I kissed him.

Chloe

Isn't that romantic? [Clark sighs and nods] Oh, I'm sorry Lois. Finish the story. [Clark tries to interrupt] This is the best part.

Lois

Hmmm. Well, he was holding me in his arms, and - Ollie's a good kisser, don't get me wrong - but that Green Arrow? He could teach Ollie a thing or two.

Oliver

Rain check?

Lois

Sure. I'll just put it next to the rest of the umbrellas you keep handing me. I mean, is it just me or is this relationship all interruptus and no coitus?

Bart

I want a lawyer.

Lex

And I want a ponytail! Disappointment abounds.

Victor

Ollie found me. I was living on the streets. He gave me a warm meal, roof over my head.... and a reason to go on living.

Oliver

Did he just say something nice about me?

Maybe he's starting to rust.

Clark

A.C., how'd you fall into all this?

I got into a little trouble sinking a whaler off the coast of Japan.

Victor

A little trouble? That's what you're gonna go with? Ollie had to save your scaly butt from getting filleted.

I would have gotten out of it.

Oliver

Before or after they packed you into a thousand little tin cans?

Victor

Well, at least he would have been dolphin-safe.

Fish jokes. That's all I ever get are fish jokes.

Oliver

Green Arrow to Watchtower, Boy Scout's out of the woods.

Clark

"Boy Scout"?

Oliver

Maybe if you hadn't run off all half-cocked, you could have picked your own code name.

Lex

You.

You remember. I'm touched.

Lex

Well, it's a little hard to forget. Last time we met, you put an arrow in my chest.

You put a bullet in mine. Bygones?

Lex

Go to hell.

You first.

Victor

Cyborg to Aquaman. Where the hell are you fish-stick?

What took you so long?

Victor

Nice! But please, put a shirt on.

I swim faster when I am naked.

Victor

I bet you do.

(Smiles to Cyborg) You're lucky I still have my pants on.

Oliver

Ever since my parents died, I've jumped around from city to city, from continent to continent and in all those years, not once have I regretted leaving anyone. But then I met you.

Lois

Then stay.

Oliver

I can't. Because there are more important things in this world than what I want.... and what I love. Someday I can explain why.

Lois

Don't expect me to be waiting around for that when you get back.

Oliver

I'm not coming back, Lois. At least not any time soon. I'm sorry. I never wanted to hurt you.

Lois

Well, you finally got around to it anyway, didn't you?

Oliver

This is it, the moment, right? The moment that I'm gonna regret for the rest of my life, isn't it?

Lois

Yes.

Clark

Impulse, Cyborg, Aquaman, Green Arrow. What do you guys call your team?

Bart

I don't know. I've been thinking, you know, that we need something cool. We need something like.... like-

Oliver

I was thinking about something with the word "justice" in it. After all, that's what Lex is gonna get a big dose of.

You suffer from paranoid schizophrenia. You have for a number of years... after the death of your birth parents in the Smallville meteor shower.

Clark

See, it's not true. My birth parents were out of town for the meteor shower.

You were placed in the wonderful adoptive home of the Kents. But like many children, you invented a make-believe world to help you deal with the trauma you endured. You convinced yourself that you came from another planet, that you possessed special powers and you used them to save humanity.

John

You're not crazy, Kal-El. We don't have much time, so listen to me closely. I believe you're from another planet.

Clark

What makes you say that?

John

Because like you, I'm not from here. I come from Mars. You can't trust anyone.

Clark

I know who I am!

I'm not sure you do. Your name is Clark Kent, not Kal-El. And Jor-El isn't your father.

[over an intercom] Dr. Fine, Dr. Milton Fine, please report to level three, stat.

When the human mind has faced tremendous emotional pain, it has no choice but to protect itself. You've taken bits and pieces of your surroundings and created an alternate universe where you feel safe and secure. Clark... in a world where you truly have no power, you chose to give yourself superpowers.

Lana

Okay. Let's say that I am a hallucination... and that your world really does exist. I'm about to marry your greatest enemy. You're an alien from another planet who's responsible for so much tragedy. Do you really want to live in that reality?

Clark

I don't know what to believe anymore.

Lana

Don't you just want to take this treatment and be with me?

Clark

Of course I want to be with you... more than you could ever imagine.

Lana

Then stop fighting, please. You've lived like this for so long, carried this burden of being a hero. It's time to just let go and live a normal life.

Clark

I've never been normal.

Lana

Your destiny isn't to save the world, Clark. It's to be with me for the rest of our lives.