Superman & Lois (TV Series)

Holding the Wrench (2021)

Dylan Walsh: General Sam Lane

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• General Sam Lane : Sounds like you're on the mend.

  Superman : Yeah. Breathing is better. That was some nasty stuff.

  General Sam Lane : The gas was an experimental, synthetic kryptonite designed to invade your respiratory system, weaken you from the inside, leave you vulnerable to more traditional tactics. You should know it was my sincere intention none of this would ever be deployed.

  Superman : Sam, I want to save you the trouble of lying to my face.

  General Sam Lane : I hope for the best, but it's my job to prepare for the worst, even when it comes to you. I am sorry you had to find out like this.

  Superman : Trust goes both ways.

  General Sam Lane : I know. And I know I have some work to do to regain yours.

• General Sam Lane : Think you can sit here and waste my time like this is some joke?

  John Henry Irons : I didn't say anything funny.

  General Sam Lane : On the other side of that mirror, there's a guy ready to come in here with sodium pentothal, benzilate, a few other drugs I can't pronounce, some experimental. But they'll get you to tell me what I want to know.

  John Henry Irons : Well, that is funny. You see, where I'm from, you talk tough, but you would never drug or torture prisoners.

  General Sam Lane : You've been sitting here telling me about myself because I was your father-in-law in some other world. If I meant something to you, tell me something I want to know.

  John Henry Irons : You want to know how you died? Like a hero trying to save the world... until *he* murdered you. You can't trust him, Sam.

  General Sam Lane : You're wrong.

  John Henry Irons : What if there were more Kryptonians, a dozen or so, and he decided he was loyal to them?

  General Sam Lane : He won't turn.

  John Henry Irons : They are his people. He would choose his own kind over mankind. And then what chance would you have?

  General Sam Lane : [leaving and joining Superman, Rosetti, and Trask]  Let him stew, then stick him back in his cell.

  [to Clark] 

  General Sam Lane : You and I should talk.

• Military Person : Sir, alarms in Sector Five.

  Superman : Where's Irons?

  Military Person : Unknown. Cams are down and unconfirmed reports put a body in prisoner holding.

  [touching the earpiece of her headset] 

  Military Person : Sir, it's Trask. He's dead, sir.

  General Sam Lane : Get me eyes on Rosetti.

  Superman : I'll find him.

  General Sam Lane : Wait. It's Sector Five. You can't go.

  Superman : [understanding]  That's where you're keeping your stockpile of kryptonite.

  General Sam Lane : It's a research and development lab, about a dozen prototypes for kryptonite-based weapons; fragment grenades, bladed weapons, aerosol sprays, biochemical gas. Bottom line, you go down there, there's a chance you don't come back alive.

  Superman : [whooshing away, anyway]  Talk to me, General. I'm blind down here.

  General Sam Lane : The feed is still out, but you can't miss it. It's number 7734.

• Superman : About Rosetti...

  General Sam Lane : Mm. He was third-generation military. Loved his job, his country, never showed a hint of superhuman ability.

  Superman : And what if it wasn't him? When Derek Powell killed himself, he implied that he was someone else, said that I wasn't alone anymore.

  General Sam Lane : Meaning what, exactly?

  Superman : I don't know. Lois has a theory. She thinks that Morgan Edge has found a way to transfer alien sentience into human hosts.

  General Sam Lane : Kryptonians? Are you telling me John Irons might be right?

  Superman : It's very possible that Morgan Edge is building an army.

• General Sam Lane : Anyone not in a red cape, consider them armed and extremely dangerous.

  Lois Lane : [being led in]  Dad, what's going on?

• General Sam Lane : It's time to change tactics. Trask can get us what we need.

  Superman : No. No, not like this. We don't torture people.

  General Sam Lane : What we do and don't do is not your call, so Lieutenant Trask will tap in if I can't get him to talk first.

  Superman : You're going in?

  General Sam Lane : Where he's from, we're allies. I could use that.

  Lt. Jason Trask : Not that I don't have faith in you, General, but I'm gonna get my things.

• Superman : Are you still considering Trask?

  General Sam Lane : Actually, I think we need Lois.

  Superman : Oh, come on, Sam.

  General Sam Lane : She can handle herself.

  Superman : I know she can, and normally I would agree, but this guy was married to another world's version of her. They had a family, a child, a daughter named Natalie.

  General Sam Lane : After my mother? Same name as the baby you lost. Yeah. It's weird, but there's no time for weird. I'm trying to save the world, and the best chance we have to figure out his agenda is to let my daughter do what she does best.