Smallville (TV Series)

Vessel (2006)

Tom Welling: Clark Kent

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• Lex Luthor : Ever since that day on the bridge, you've always seen yourself as my savior. The one thing that would pull me off the dark path I'd started. See, that's why you cling to the idea that there's still some good in me. You don't want to face the fact that you might have failed.

  Clark Kent : Or maybe I just can't believe that someone would have so little willpower.

  Lex Luthor : It's a little hard to compete with the iron willpower it takes to kill one of your best friends. How did you know I was gonna come back like this?

  Clark Kent : You don't realize how much danger you're in.

• Lex Luthor : I used to think you had this... strong inner core. You were so virtuous. And yet you lie all the time. To me, to Lana, to all the people who cared about you. What kind of sick person would do that?

  Clark Kent : If you thought this friendship was so doomed from the beginning, then why did you fight so hard to keep it?

  Lex Luthor : Because I wanted everything you had. The family, the inconspicuous life, the loyal girlfriend. Well, at least I walked away with the part you loved the most.

  Clark Kent : You're not yourself.

  Lex Luthor : Or maybe I finally am.

• Clark Kent : I won't let you destroy this planet like you did Krypton.

  Zod : You don't have a choice. Unless you join me.

  Clark Kent : I'll *never* join you.

  Zod : Well, I hope that's a decision you'll be able to live with... forever.

  [Zod banishes Clark to the Phantom Zone] 

• Jor-El : I know you are still angered by the loss of Jonathan Kent.

  Clark Kent : He *was* my father.

  Jor-El : *I* am your father. Pain is a part of life, Kal-El, but you cannot let it blind you.

• Lionel Luthor : Clark... the real test of a hero is knowing when the greater good will be served by an evil act. To save the Earth, the cost of one life is the price that must be paid.

  Clark Kent : Even if that life is your son? Lex is the vessel of Zod.

• Clark Kent : Fine did something to one of Lex's computers. Thought if anyone could figure out what it was, it'd be you.

  Chloe Sullivan : It's some sort of an electronic virus, and it's spreading faster than I can track it. After it scaled every firewall and knocked down all the communication, it's infecting most of the city's infrastructure.

  Clark Kent : All because of me. I refused to release Zod. Now Fine's trying to force my hand.

  Chloe Sullivan : Well, he's definitely playing hardball. I mean, elevators, gas mains, subways, the entire city is shutting down. I mean, it's like Y2K on acid.

  [From Radio: "The complete and sudden of the city's infrastructure has caused havoc and panic throughout Metropolis. Reports of scattered looting and violence are beginning to surface..."] 

  Chloe Sullivan : Clark, if this continues, every major city in the world is gonna be infiltrated.

• Zod : You have your father's eyes. Hello, Kal-El.

  Clark Kent : Where's Lex?

  Zod : Lex is dead.

  Clark Kent : Why are you here?

  Zod : For the same reason for anyone who'd been imprisoned like a beast. Revenge.

• Jor-El : Zod was imprisoned in the Phantom Zone for crimes that lead to the destruction of our planet.

  Clark Kent : Zod killed you.

  Jor-El : And your mother and our entire race, just as he will do on Earth.

  Clark Kent : I won't let that happen.

• Chloe Sullivan : Why doesn't this Zod guy come fully composed?

  Clark Kent : All Jor-El told me was that Zod's spirit would possess a human.

  Chloe Sullivan : And this is the same Zod whose hobbies include mass destruction and world domination?

• Professor Milton Fine : [about Lana]  And to think, her loyalty could have been yours if you'd been honest with her. I'm sure Zod will cherish her allegiance.

  Clark Kent : Leave Lana out of this.

  [Clark punches Fine which sends him crashing into the wall] 

  Professor Milton Fine : It's your own fault, Kal-El. You were supposed to be the vessel, but your father's spirit was too strong in you. If you'd release Zod the first time, they would have been spared. I'm giving you one more chance.

  Clark Kent : Nothing could make me release a monster like Zod.

  Professor Milton Fine : Except maybe your one weakness: humans. They're so fragile. They'll never survive without their technology. No matter how crude. Take that away and they'll devolve back to the animals they really are. And you can't save all of them.

  Clark Kent : I'll never do what you want.

  Professor Milton Fine : Then it begins.

  [sends virus through Lex's laptop] 

  Professor Milton Fine : Enjoy the show.