- Chloe Sullivan: If you raced here to see me, it must mean the "I Love Lois" show was preempted this week.
- Clark Kent: Come on, you know I always speed over when you call. Although, I may be responsible for your cousin vanishing from prime time.
- Chloe Sullivan: I was wondering why she skipped town without saying goodbye. What's up?
- Clark Kent: I, uh... I kissed her.
- Chloe Sullivan: Oh, yeah, that would definitely send her packing. I mean, no offense to you, Clark. It's just Lois' typical response to intimacy is usually to blow out of town.
- Clark Kent: I just don't know what happened, I went over to talk to her and the next thing I know, I couldn't stop myself.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, I'm not surprised, Clark. You've had feelings for Lois since, like, the 1930s.
- Oliver Queen: You know, Clark, if you wanted to bury me in the desert for going on that date with Lois, you could've at least taken me to Nevada.
- Clark Kent: Oliver, let's not...
- Oliver Queen: I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm still gonna put up a fight, but maybe we could've hit the Strip before the main event, you know what I mean? Maybe a little Blue Man Group. Maybe a little Carrot Top. You know, what I'm getting you next year for Christmas is a sense of humor.
- Clark Kent: When my dad died, I remembered thinking at least I'd have the memories of being with him here on the farm. With Jor-El being gone, all I have left with is...
- Oliver Queen: Empty feeling inside.
- Clark Kent: See, I had so many questions I wanted to ask him. Figure out who he really was.
- Oliver Queen: It seems like to me you're a chip off the old block. After seeing how he saved our spunky sidekick, I'd say you're both heroes.
- Clark Kent: I'll never be able to live up to everything he accomplished.
- Oliver Queen: I don't know. I don't think anyone wears that super shield quite like you.
- Clark Kent: I can't believe my father's been on Earth all this whole time and Jor-El didn't tell me.
- Oliver Queen: So... So when you say "Jor-El," are we talking about the guy in your ice-crystal-palace thing?
- Clark Kent: He must've known what it would mean to me to meet my own father... to speak to an actual person and not just some voice in the Arctic. But again, Jor-El kept me in the dark.
- Oliver Queen: Well, I'm sure there's a reason he didn't tell you the truth.
- Clark Kent: He's probably afraid that in person, he's worse than I thought he was.
- Oliver Queen: You really mean that, or is that the anger talking?
- Clark Kent: There's... There's a part of me that I don't want to meet him at all.
- Oliver Queen: Look, man, I... I can't imagine what its like to live your life. But there is one thing I can relate to, and that's growing up without parents. Clark, we don't get a second chance to be with them. And I tell you what, I'd go to hell and back just to wrap my arms around my old man one more time.
- Clark Kent: Where is he? I've already checked every LuthorCorp facility, the Daily Planet, and this house. I found no one. Where are you hiding him?
- Tess Mercer: I'm gonna need a little bit more of information, like a name.
- Clark Kent: You know who I'm talking about. His name's Jor-El!
- Tess Mercer: I'm sorry. I can see how upset you are, but I don't who you are talking about.
- Clark Kent: You're lying. You have operatives around the world tracking aliens. You know everything.
- Tess Mercer: The only alien I know is standing right in front of me.
- Clark Kent: [lifts Tess by her throat] Where's my father? I want to see him now!
- Tess Mercer: Clark... I have waited so long for you to admit your true Kryptonian heritage. I always hoped you'd tell me because you trusted me. But I'll take what I can get.
- Clark Kent: When you told me you could help me find my father, I didn't know it was because you wired my house.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, before you burst a blood vessel, let me explain. I set up those cameras when you left after your last dance with Doomsday. I wanted to keep an eye on your place until you came home.
- Clark Kent: I've been home for weeks. You didn't tell me anything about them.
- Oliver Queen: [getting a stare] Don't look at me, man.
- Tess Mercer: [In the Luther wine cellar] Sorry about the accommodations. Not exactly a 5-star, Is it?
- Jor-El: Who are you?
- Tess Mercer: A friend.
- Jor-El: We both know that's not true.
- Tess Mercer: Look, I don't expect you to believe me. But I had to take drastic measures to protect you and Kal-El.
- Jor-El: How can you protect anyone when your only concern is yourself?
- Tess Mercer: Well, your Kryptonian instincts must be on the fritz because I am not the enemy here. Major Zod has been turning this planet upside down looking for a man who we call The Blur. Now, I let him believe that you have all the powers. Zod doesn't even know that Kal-El exists. So your son is safe... for now.
- Jor-El: Why are you involved in our affairs?
- Tess Mercer: Because I see... I see what mankind is doing to this planet. The Earth is doomed. And your race is the only answer to saving it. That's why I released you all from that Orb.
- Jor-El: You shouldn't have done that. We are abominations that should never have been created. If the Kandorians get their powers then what you've done will not save this planet. It may, in fact, destroy it.
- Tess Mercer: Not if they turn out like your son.
- Jor-El: You are mistaken to think that we are so different from humans. Our sacred book of Rao teaches that where there is light... there is darkness.
- Tess Mercer: Which is why I want you to help me protect Kal-El. If not, Zod will find out about him.
- Jor-El: And he may very well kill my son. Well, Zod is a foe not to be taken lightly... with or without his powers.
- Tess Mercer: If you want to save your son... you have to make a sacrifice. You must convince the Kandorians that you... are The Blur.
- Zod: [punches Jor-El] Defend yourself!
- Jor-El: I have no powers. I used the blue Kryptonite to take them away, the same way I corrupted the Orb so none of you could rule this planet as gods.
- Zod: But you did have it. You came with us in the orb, yet you harnessed the powers of the yellow sun for yourself. How?
- Jor-El: I shall never tell you.
- 1st Elder: Jor-El, you stand before the ruling council charged with treason.
- Jor-El: The technology I created was intended to heal those afflicted by wars and disease, not to resurrect the dead through cloning.
- 2nd Elder: The orb will ensure that Krypton's strongest will endure if our planet is ever destroyed.
- Jor-El: But if we send the orb to Earth and it is opened, the clone's inside will develop extraordinary abilities under their yellow sun. The humans will be powerless against them. We cannot doom another planet's future to preserve our past.
- 2nd Elder: Perhaps you should've had more faith in your own race. You leave us no choice. The punishment for treason is death.
- Zod: Council.
- 1st Elder: Major Zod. Your presence is an honor, but this is a closed trial.
- Zod: Well, I demand to be heard. I may have driven Black Zero back into the ice, decimating his ranks, but my accomplishments pale in comparison to this man's. Jor-El... he's the truest hero I have ever known. He has dedicated his life's work not to death... or war... but to creation. When Kandor fell, many of our brightest and most promising citizens perished in an instant. Krypton lost mothers... fathers... daughters... sons. What good will come if you extinguish another life unnecessary? I implore you... let Jor-El live.
- 2nd Elder: Your passion is noted major.
- 1st Elder: It is agreed. Jor-El, the council will spare your life. But you are ordered to complete the orb. You must include Major Zod's DNA and your own. If that fateful day of judgment ever comes to Krypton, our survivors on Earth will be lead by two of our planet's greatest heroes.
- Jor-El: I, Zod, am in your debt.
- Zod: Never forget that, my friend.
- Zod: Jor-El. I'm guessing you're not here to cheer on the troops.
- Jor-El: Call it a mission of redemption. I'll need all those blood samples. I can't let this project go on.
- Medic: My orders come the ruling council itself. You have no authority here.
- Zod: Medic, when the most renowned scientist in Krypton tells you to stop, then you stop.
- Jor-El: Thank you.
- Zod: If the ruling council wants my blood, let them find it on the battlefield! Let Black Zero feel the bite of your weapons and the bravery of your hearts! SOLDIERS, MOVE OUT!
- Tess Mercer: Well, hello.
- Zod: I received your message. Unlike my superpowered Kryptonian comrade, you have a flair for the dramatic.
- Tess Mercer: I think your deep-cover agent might have a different opinion. But I'm glad to see that his untimely death got your attention. I won't be toyed with.
- Clark Kent: The Kryptonian symbols that we saw at Watchtower, they're like high-temperature brands left when a Kandorian first arrives on Earth. Out here, the temperature would melt the sand into glass.
- [he uses his super-breath to blow sand away, revealing the House of El sigil]
- Oliver Queen: Who put your shield out in the middle of nowhere?
- Clark Kent: [finding a Kryptonian dog tag] "Jor-El"? My father. He's here on Earth.
- Oliver Queen: I know you and I haven't always seen eye to eye lately, but, uh... I got your back. Always.
- Clark Kent: Good. Because I'm gonna need your help to figure out who killed my father, and bring him to justice.
- Clark Kent: [at Jor-El's grave] I'm sorry. I can't give you what you wanted. I can't save Zod. You might remember him as a friend... but I know what we becomes.
- Chloe Sullivan: [seeing security footage of Jor-El hiding something in the Kent farmhouse] Jor-El, you lied to me. Looks like you had another reason for coming to Smallville.
- Jor-El: Krypton is gone because you destroyed it.
- Zod: That's impossible. You're lying.
- Jor-El: Here on this planet, when we emerged from the orb, we were shadows of our former selves. But those we were created from stayed behind on Krypton and had full lives; spouses, children. Many years later, you decided to lead a military coup to take over Krypton. But on the eve of your defeat, instead of surrendering... you chose to raze our planet.
- Zod: How would you know that?
- Jor-El: Because it is the truth. But we've been given a second chance, to have lives here on Earth, to live among the humans. To be different. To be better than we were before.
- Zod: This is the same selfish morality that kept me from ever seeing my son again.
- Jor-El: Perhaps, you are right. Perhaps, if I'd given you what you wanted, you never would have betrayed Krypton.
- Zod: Like you betrayed me.
- Jor-El: I feel your pain now more than ever.
- Zod: How could you? How could you fathom my pain if you've never had a child?
- [realizing]
- Zod: You do understand. That look in your eye... I've seen that before, in the mirror, when I prayed that you would bring my son back to me. You said... you said after we were put in the orb, our lives went on. We had families, spouses... children. You're hiding something with selfless conviction. The shields... you didn't put them in Metropolis, did you? You're protecting someone. Somebody that did not come with us. The same person that told you of Krypton's destruction. Someone from the House of El.
- Jor-El: No.
- Zod: Someone you'd give your life for.
- Chloe Sullivan: Jor-El didn't give me the Kryptonian sleeper hold to get away from me.
- Oliver Queen: He sensed danger. He was trying to save you.
- Clark Kent: [watching as Jor-El is subdued] There's only one person who would send operatives to kidnap him, and it's not Zod.
- Oliver Queen: Clark, I know how you feel, okay? But going off to confront Tess all eyes ablazing is not a good idea. You're gonna do something you'll regret, you understand? Why don't you just let me talk to her?
- Chloe Sullivan: Oliver's right, Clark. You're not in any place where...
- [Clark whooshes away]
- Clark Kent: Chloe, are you all right?
- Chloe Sullivan: I'm fine. I'm fine.
- Clark Kent: What happened? Tell me who did this to you. Chloe?
- Chloe Sullivan: Jor-El.
- Clark Kent: M-my father's here? Chloe, he-he came all the way to the farm, but he didn't stay to see me?
- Chloe Sullivan: Before he knocked me out, it seemed as though he had some unfinished business with someone else.
- Clark Kent: I don't understand. Who else does he know in Smallville?
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark... Jor-El isn't the only one who came in for the Kryptonian reunion. So did Zod.
- Zod: I just came to get a progress report on our search for Jor-El.
- Tess Mercer: Let's just say that the, um... the noose is getting tighter.
- [she shows him the surveillance picture of the House of El sigil with an unconscious figure lying in the middle of it]
- Zod: This calls for a celebration.
- Tess Mercer: [he pours a glass of wine] Looks like you've already been celebrating.
- Zod: Heh. I knew you wouldn't disappoint me. This is my favorite discovery on your little planet. "The wine cup is the little silver well where truth, if truth there be, doth dwell."
- Tess Mercer: See, now I'm impressed. You've read your Shakespeare.
- Zod: He's amusing, but... I find the pleasure I get from wine much more satisfying. Every sip... reveals a new riddle. A new truth. Just like you, Tess. Every time we're together, I discover something new. And I can't wait to see what my next sip reveals.
- Tess Mercer: The bitter truth. That I'm not interested. We're keeping this partnership strictly professional.
- Zod: The lady doth protest too much.
- Tess Mercer: Whether she doth or not, I can guarantee she won't be revealing any more tonight.
- Zod: [leaving] But not to worry. Because while we were enjoying our drink, I had my people grab something much more valuable from your cellar.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark must be flying through some turbulence, because I can't get a call in to him, but I'm sure that he'll touch down soon, and then you'll finally get to meet your son.
- Jor-El: I'm saddened that he spent his entire youth away from his people, and grew up alone.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, maybe he wasn't around other Kryptonians, but he certainly wasn't alone. Trust me, the Kents are the greatest parents you could've ever hoped for. On Earth.
- Jor-El: I would've expected as much. My father sent me here when I was younger as a, a rite of passage.
- Chloe Sullivan: Like a walkabout?
- Jor-El: I met a man called Hiram Kent. I felt so much love in his house. And perhaps that why I sent Kal-El here.
- Chloe Sullivan: But if you didn't know that your son even existed, why did you come to Smallville today?
- Jor-El: I have many very fond memories here. I wanted to see the place again.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark is the most amazing person I've ever met. And your guidance helped make him into the man he is.
- Jor-El: I worry that he isn't the only one I've influenced. Perhaps I played my part in making Zod the man he became.
- Chloe Sullivan: Look, whatever you did to him, Zod is the only person responsible for choosing to become a monster.
- Jor-El: If it wasn't for Zod, I wouldn't be here, and neither would my son.
- Chloe Sullivan: I'm afraid you've only lived half the story. There's a few more chapters on Zod that you still need to hear. And I'm gonna warn you, it doesn't have a happy ending.
- Chloe Sullivan: Who are you?
- Jor-El: My name is Jor-El.
- Chloe Sullivan: Oh, my god. I-I... you made it to Smallville. Clark found your markings in the desert. You're Clark's father.
- Jor-El: You are mistaken. I have no child.
- Chloe Sullivan: [showing him a framed picture of Clark] His Kryptonian name is Kal-El.
- Jor-El: So this is my son. And what's he doing here on Earth?
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, you sent him here as a baby. It was the only way you could save him.
- Jor-El: Save him?
- Chloe Sullivan: Um... look, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but... Krypton was destroyed.
- Jor-El: My wife... Lara.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark's mother, she's... not here with you?
- Jor-El: She wasn't part of the experiment.
- Chloe Sullivan: Oh. I'm sorry. I... I didn't know. Look, we've been searching for all the others who have come here with you.
- Jor-El: They will be difficult to find. They're very well-trained. A batallion of soliders led by a great commander, and the best friend I ever had, Zod.
- Chloe Sullivan: We were right. Tess Mercer has teams around the globe trying to bring the ETs home. Her operatives have had their noses deep in the Turkish desert, sniffing around for weeks. Now, I think that you should wing out there and take a peek yourself.
- Clark Kent: Unfortunately, my wings are still clipped. I'll fly coach.
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh, no, you won't. Oliver can get you there first class.
- Clark Kent: I'll do this by myself.
- Chloe Sullivan: Why, Clark? Come on.
- Clark Kent: Chloe...
- Oliver Queen: [entering] Hear you need a lift.
- Zod: None of you recall that tragic day. Because the moment your blood was taken was the last moment you remember of Kandor. But I can assure you, I have not forgotten. Each one of you, the last sons and daughters of Krypton, are all that is left from our beloved homeland. And I will not allow for your birthright to be denied. And Jor-El... he came with us in the orb, and somehow, he stole our powers from us. And yet he flaunts them all over this city, leaving his mark for us to see. When we find this traitor, we will force him to give us what's rightfully ours. We will be gods on this planet, and Kandor will rise again!