Superman & Lois (TV Series)
O Mother, Where Art Thou? (2021)
Tyler Hoechlin: Clark Kent, Superman
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Quotes
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Superman : [Lana has volunteered to host his Kryptonian mother's consciousness] I don't like this.
Lois Lane : I don't like it either, but it's her choice, and we have to respect it.
Superman : I know, but it's Lana. She's one of my closest friends.
Lois Lane : Which is why you should say something. Even if it's as you, it'll mean a lot.
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Superman : You know, you don't have to do this. There's always another way.
Lana Lang Cushing : I don't think you really believe that. Also, did Superman just lie to me?
Superman : It's not lying, I'm just, uh... I'm just an optimist.
Lana Lang Cushing : I guess that's what makes you a hero.
Superman : You're the hero right now, Lana.
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Superman : Brother?
Tal-Rho : I know how unlikely it may seem, but the two of us, we share the same Kryptonian blood.
Superman : You are not my brother.
Tal-Rho : I am, Kal-El.
[in Kryptonian]
Tal-Rho : Whether you want to believe it or not.
[switching back to English]
Tal-Rho : My real name is Tal-Rho. I'm the son of Zeta-Rho and Lara Lor-Van.
Superman : That's not possible. My mother...
Tal-Rho : Married Jor-El, your father. Yes, I know. Years after she'd been matched to my father, years after I was born. It was when she first warned that Krypton was dying. The very reason my father sent me here. I was the first son of Krypton to leave... and I came here with one purpose: to further our Kryptonian heritage.
Superman : My mother would never destroy innocent lives.
Tal-Rho : [laughing in amusement] Humans are far from innocent. This world you protect deserved better than those who inhabit it.
Superman : That's not your decision to make.
Tal-Rho : It's already been made. Don't you see, Kal? This is our chance to be with our own, to have a family again.
Superman : A family?
Tal-Rho : The mines, the X-Kryptonite, the people in this town, they gave me the means. Krypton will finally be resurrected. The Defense Council will reign... and we'll have our mother with us once again. I know you long to see her, just as I do. Help me do that, brother.
Superman : Not like this.
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Lois Lane : Morgan Edge is your brother?
Jonathan Kent : There's no way, right?
Clark Kent : He knew things about Krypton no one could possibly know. He-he spoke the language. He had Kryptonian powers. I... I don't know.
Jordan Kent : What does he want?
Clark Kent : Kryptonians, here. And for me to join him.
Lois Lane : That's why he's putting Kryptonian consciousness into people.
Jordan Kent : He wants Earth to become the next Krypton.
Jonathan Kent : I don't get it, though. Why did he... why did he think that you'd join him?
Clark Kent : Because he can bring my Kryptonian mother back. Our people.
Lois Lane : Clark, before you go down the rabbit hole here, don't you think you should find out if this is even actually true?
Clark Kent : I'm not gonna leave after Edge just sent someone to kill you and Jonathan.
Lois Lane : Babe, half the DOD's on our front lawn. They are moving into town. Edge is not coming here. Go. We'll call you if we need you.
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Clark Kent : Is it possible?
Jor-El : It is possible, yes.
Clark Kent : How could you never tell me?
Jor-El : There wasn't the need.
Clark Kent : The need? For me to know I've had a brother here my entire life? One who wants to restore Krypton using some technology created by my mother? There wasn't the need?
Jor-El : I understand your frustration, but restoring Krypton was never her intent. At least not the way Zeta-Rho wished to enact it. Lara's invention was a means of preservation, to save our people by retaining and transferring their minds, just as my own mind has been retained here. It was Zeta-Rho who sought to colonize other worlds and enslave their inhabitants as hosts.
Clark Kent : I can't let this happen. I have to bring back everyone Edge has implanted with Kryptonian consciousness. Just... just tell me what to do and I'll do it.
Jor-El : The Eradicator is well beyond my understanding. It's your mother's invention. She developed this technology. I'm sorry, my son. I cannot help you.
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Lana Lang Cushing : You know, it has been so long since anything strange happened in this town. I mean, I thought we were done with this kind of stuff, and then this happens to my husband.
Clark Kent : Lana, we're gonna save him. I promise.
Lana Lang Cushing : How?
Lois Lane : [turning on an old-school movie projector] Best place to start is by finding where Edge hides his Eradicator.
Lana Lang Cushing : And that's the thing they used on Kyle?
Clark Kent : Yeah, and wherever it is, it stands to reason that location has been receiving shipments of X-K from the Shuster mines.
Lana Lang Cushing : What's X-K?
Lois Lane : X-Kryptonite. It's what Edge has been mining for. It's what gives people these powers.
Clark Kent : The theory is powers only hold with Smallville natives, people who have had prolonged exposure.
Lana Lang Cushing : Like Kyle and Emily and basically everyone I recruited for the Executive Program.
Lois Lane : Dozens upon dozens of what he calls subjekts, his own private army.
Lana Lang Cushing : And these people, you know their identity?
Lois Lane : It's our murderer's row of suspects. Info I pulled from employee files, first-hand encounters, the names you offered, anyone Edge could have interacted with.
Clark Kent : It's a pretty big list that unfortunately doesn't get us closer to the big picture.
Lana Lang Cushing : I don't have the big picture, either. Oh, I except I do see one thing odd.
[recognizing a picture]
Lana Lang Cushing : Him.
[pulling a file]
Lana Lang Cushing : Dr. Dabney Donovan. Listed as Edge's personal physician. He was the one who conducted all the health exams for everyone in the Executive Program.
Lois Lane : [taking the file] This guy left a tenure-track position at MIT to work for Edge?
Clark Kent : That's a pretty big salary to walk away from.
Lois Lane : Dual PhDs in genetics and molecular neuro-chemistry.
Clark Kent : Knowledge that would come in handy if you wanted to swap one person for another.
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General Sam Lane : How does this thing work?
Lara/Lana : Same principle as a computer. In this case, instead of a computer, it's a brain, and the information being uploaded is a person's consciousness. The Eradicator holds and transfers this information, a new consciousness, into a person.
General Sam Lane : So during this transfer process, does the old consciousness exist?
Lara/Lana : It does until the transfer is complete.
Superman : And then the new consciousness fully takes over.
Lois Lane : How long does that take?
Lara/Lana : Days. Weeks. Depends on how willing the host is to accept this new life, if at all.
Lois Lane : But the Kryptonian part that's developing, that person can just emerge at any time?
Lara/Lana : If prompted, yes. The Kryptonian consciousness will remain in the Eradicator, and their powers will dissipate over time.
General Sam Lane : Then how do we stop this?
Lara/Lana : Prevent the transfer from completing, so only the old consciousness remains.
Lois Lane : Can we do that?
Lara/Lana : We can. We just need to get the people who were affected to go through the eradication process again.
General Sam Lane : Bring 'em here? All of them?
Lara/Lana : Yes.
Lois Lane : And run them through the machine?
Lara/Lana : Yes.
Lois Lane : But we don't know how many people have gone through this.
Superman : There has to be another way to do it all at once.
Lara/Lana : That would require too much energy.
Superman : How much?
Lara/Lana : We would need something that rivals this planet's sun.
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Superman : I wanted to thank you. It's very brave.
Lana Lang Cushing : I wouldn't be so sure. My heart is racing a million miles an hour.
Superman : [meaning with his super-hearing] Yeah, I, um, I know.
Lana Lang Cushing : Right. Sorry.
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Clark Kent : Lana's really beating herself up.
Lois Lane : Hard not to. Clark, why would Edge give Superman time to make a decision?
Clark Kent : Mm, what do you mean?
Lois Lane : Edge is a ruthless corporate shark. He never gives anyone anything. Why give Superman time? The only reason that makes sense is that he needs it. Maybe the Subjekts aren't finished resurrecting or transforming or whatever the process is because they're not done. And Edge knows that if he's gonna defeat Superman, he needs everyone.
Clark Kent : [hearing something] They found Donovan.
[looking at the DOD soldiers around the house]
Clark Kent : Huh. I guess I'll, uh...
Lois Lane : Go out the back?
Clark Kent : Go out the back, yeah.
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Superman : [hearing an ELT signal] It's Edge. Figure out a way to do everyone at once. I'll hold them off as long as I can.
General Sam Lane : How the hell are you gonna do that?
Lois Lane : Appeal to him the same way he did to you. As a brother.
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Superman : Is there any way to communicate with the consciousness inside the Eradicator?
Dabney Donovan : The Kryptonian minds inside aren't actually alive. Once a consciousness is chosen, they need a host in order to become activated.
Superman : So the only way this works is to place the consciousness of Lara Lor-Van into someone from Smallville.
Dabney Donovan : That's my understanding.
General Sam Lane : Get this machine ready.
Superman : This doesn't feel right.
Lois Lane : We don't have any other choice.
General Sam Lane : And we're running out of time. We need to find a volunteer, fast.
Lana Lang Cushing : I'll do it.
Superman : Uh, I'm sorry, but that's not possible.
Lana Lang Cushing : Why not? I'm from Smallville. Makes me the ideal candidate. You don't have to look for anyone.
General Sam Lane : She does have a point.
Lois Lane : Dad! Can everyone just please give us a moment alone?
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Superman : We need to reverse what this machine's been doing to people.
Dabney Donovan : Reverse it?
General Sam Lane : Yeah. Turn everyone back into the human they should be.
Dabney Donovan : I can't do that.
General Sam Lane : You'll do what I say.
Dabney Donovan : Look, I barely understand how this technology even works. If you wanna reverse this process, you're gonna have to find whoever it is that invented this thing.
General Sam Lane : Who the hell's that?
Superman : My mother.
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Tal-Rho : Why do you love them? There must be a reason. Did they take you in when you first arrived? Did they treat you like you were one of them? Because they did no such thing for me. I landed in the British countryside, where I was not greeted. I was hunted. Trapped. Caught. And kept hidden from the world for years. A piece of alien meat, an experiment for them to learn why I had abilities.
Superman : Brother, I am sorry that happened to you, but not everyone here is like that.
Tal-Rho : Only when they're afraid. And believe me, I made them afraid. And I'm going to again without you, brother.
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Superman : Sam, we're out of time. Is it ready?
General Sam Lane : Ready?
Lara/Lana : We are.
General Sam Lane : It is, except for that energy source part. We don't have anything strong enough here.
Superman : Yes, we do. Me.
General Sam Lane : What?
Superman : I'll release all my energy at once, create a solar flare; it'll be enough.
General Sam Lane : And you'll be out of commission for days. I can't let you do this.
Superman : We don't have a choice.
General Sam Lane : Superman.
Superman : Sam, we're out of time. Get everyone out. I'm coming in, and so are they.
General Sam Lane : Everyone out! Go, now! Go! Out! Now! Go, go, go!
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Superman : Yes, humans are flawed, and yes, some more than others, but they don't deserve what you're trying to do.
Tal-Rho : You will defend them over your own kind?
Superman : They don't deserve to lose their lives.
Tal-Rho : They are inferior to us, Kal.
Superman : No, they're not. They're just different.
Tal-Rho : I was sent here with a mission to resurrect my people.
Superman : No.
Tal-Rho : To save Krypton.
Superman : Stop.
Tal-Rho : And I will not fail.
Superman : Yes, you will.
Tal-Rho : The thing is, Kal, this is the only planet you've ever known, so you don't know the pain of losing one. But I do, and I am not going to let that happen again. And neither are they.
[flying towards them in the distance, Superman sees the Kryptonians Edge has resurrected]
Tal-Rho : That's your family coming, Kal. Your real people, your real heritage. Make a choice. Us or them?
Superman : There is no us or them.
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Superman : I know this must be a lot to process.
Lara/Lana : Resurrection was my life's work, as a way to ensure our civilization was not lost forever. It was never meant to be used as a way to supplant another race. Kryptonians are peaceful people. At least the majority of us.
Superman : I don't understand. Zeta-Rho, my brother? You had another family?
Lara/Lana : We were genetically matched. That's how unions were formed for thousands of years on Krypton. And then I met your father. We fell in love and ended my relationship with Zeta-Rho. Jor-El and I shared a vision for a better world. I gave birth to you. And then your father and I, when we decided to send you to Earth, we hoped you would live that vision.
Superman : I think I have. The sunstone crystal in my pod, why only Father's? Why not yours as well?
Lara/Lana : It was stolen by Zeta-Rho. Revenge for leaving him. My biggest fear in letting you go was that you would be without a mother.
Superman : I had a mother here. Her name was Martha. She loved me very much.
Lara/Lana : You have no idea how much that means to me, Kal-El. This world, it welcomed you.
Superman : It has.
Lara/Lana : And you found someone. I can tell by how you look at her.
Superman : [glancing at Lois] She's the love of my life.
Lara/Lana : It's all I ever wanted for you. To find a new home, someone to love, create a family of your own.
Superman : We have two sons.
Lara/Lana : Tell me all about them.
