Superman: The Animated Series (TV Series)

The Late Mr. Kent (1997)

Eddie Barth: Detective Kurt Bowman

Quotes 

• [Bowman is sitting in the gas chamber, awaiting execution] 

  Detective Kurt Bowman : How did he survive that car bomb. How?

  [realization sets in] 

  Detective Kurt Bowman : He's Superman!

  [executioner releases the gas] 

• Lois Lane : Who else but the real killer would have done this? He was probably afraid Kent was getting too close!

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Kent was a reporter. Who knows how many enemies he had! This might come as a kick in the pants, Lane, but nobody likes you guys!

• Detective Kurt Bowman : Here you go, Kent. The file on the Walker case and the trial transcript.

  Clark Kent : Thanks.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Kent, a word of advice: Walker's got a rap sheet longer than my tie. I know. I was on the case. Don't lose too much sleep.

• Lois Lane : Detective Bowman? I need to talk to you a minute.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : What do you want, Lane? I'm busy.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, you're just about the busiest cop on the force, aren't you? You were the lead detective on the Walker case and the one who caught him fencing the stolen necklace.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Good police work, that's all.

  Lois Lane : Good? It gets downright unbelievable. Like how you were the first cop on the scene at Clark's wreck, and then tonight, you just happened to be near his apartment when the bomb went off.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Coincidence.

  Lois Lane : The bug in his phone wasn't a coincidence. It's the same model you cops use for wiretaps.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : I don't know anything about it.

  Lois Lane : Come on, Detective. Just between you, me, and the wall...

  [Superman eavesdrops from outside] 

  Lois Lane : You framed Walker 'cause you killed that woman, and you made him a scapegoat, and when Clark started looking into it, you put a bomb in his car, and tonight you burned his place just in case he'd hidden evidence there.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Keep talking, lady. I smell a big libel suit.

  Lois Lane : [showing him the bug]  Not when we see whose fingerprints are on this.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : [grabbing for it]  Gimme that!

  Lois Lane : [trying to fight him off]  Hey! Let go!

  [she screams as he pushes her down a stairwell; Superman crashes through the wall and swoops down to save her] 

  Lois Lane : What took you?

  Superman : You were going to get Bowman to incriminate himself, remember?

  Lois Lane : I think this qualifies.

• Lois Lane : What if he made it to shore?

  Detective Kurt Bowman : From that?

  Lois Lane : He could have gotten blown out.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Then where is he?

  Lois Lane : Maybe he's lying low. I mean, someone did try to kill him.

  Detective Kurt Bowman : Lane, listen. See that guy? He was out there fishing at the time. He saw the whole thing. When Kent's car went down, nothing came up, except the bubbles.

  Lois Lane : Mind if I ask him a few questions?

  Detective Kurt Bowman : If it gets you off my back.