Superman & Lois (TV Series)

The Ties That Bind (2022)

Alex Garfin: Jordan Kent

Quotes 

• Tal-Rho : Impressive, isn't it? All that remains of our Kryptonian heritage.

  Jordan Kent : I like Dad's Fortress better.

  Tal-Rho : Well, taste is subjective, I suppose.

• Clark Kent : Good morning. How'd everybody sleep?

  Natalie Irons : Well, it's, uh, nice to have a real bed, at least.

  Clark Kent : You'll get used to the roosters.

  Jordan Kent , Jonathan Kent : No, you won't.

• Clark Kent : Hey, is your mom still out?

  Jordan Kent : Guess so.

  Clark Kent : Okay, when she gets back, just tell her I went to the Fortress.

  Jordan Kent : I thought it didn't work anymore.

  Clark Kent : Not mine, my, uh... my brother's.

  Jordan Kent : Is this about this morning?

  Clark Kent : I think Tal might be able to help me.

  Jordan Kent : You're gonna break him out of prison?

  Clark Kent : Your grandfather pulled some strings.

  Jordan Kent : Y-You can't go there with him by yourself.

  Clark Kent : He doesn't have any powers anymore.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, but it's still his Fortress. What if there's, like, booby traps or something?

  Clark Kent : Jordan.

  Jordan Kent : Let me go with you. Just to watch your back. After this morning... I know what it's like to have those kind of attacks. I can help you. A-And besides, things with Sarah right now are not going so great anyway. I'd love to just kind of feel useful. Please, Dad. Let me be there for you.

• Natalie Irons : Hey, do either of you guys know where the east wing basement is?

  Sarah Cushing : You mean shop class?

  Natalie Irons : Yeah, it's my fifth period.

  Sarah Cushing : Oh, the new girl takes shop class. Hey, you won't have any problem fitting in here.

  Natalie Irons : Not so sure about that.

  Jordan Kent : This town is full of motorheads. In fact, Sarah's dad just got her an old muscle car so they can fix it up, right?

  Natalie Irons : Really? What kind?

  Sarah Cushing : '78 Firebird, I think. I mean, it's a total junker. He can't even get the engine to start.

  Natalie Irons : No, it's easy.

  Sarah Cushing : Tell that to my dad. He's tried changing the ignition switch, the starter, and the battery.

  Natalie Irons : Well, it's probably a clogged fuel filter, then.

  [drawing on the back of a piece of paper] 

  Natalie Irons : Just have him try something like this. Okay, so here's the pump.

• Clark Kent : [seeing Lois making breakfast]  Wow. How long have you been up?

  Lois Lane : A bit.

  Jonathan Kent : You made all this?

  Lois Lane : Yeah.

  Jordan Kent : Are those eggs over-medium or scrambled?

  Lois Lane : A little bit of both.

• Superman : Mother.

  Lara Lor-Van : Look at you. This grown man towering before me.

  Jordan Kent : Dad?

  Superman : Jordan, this is your grandmother Lara.

  Jordan Kent : Hi, Grandma.

  Lara Lor-Van : And you are?

  Tal-Rho : Of course you don't recognize your forgotten son.

• Jordan Kent : You still have powers?

  Tal-Rho : You got me. I lied.

  Superman : Tal, whatever you're planning...

  Tal-Rho : You won't be able to stop.

  [he blasts Clark backward with his heat vision] 

  Jordan Kent : Stay back!

  Tal-Rho : I think we've done this dance before, nephew.

  Jordan Kent : [firing his own heat vision]  I said stay back.

• Superman : [recovering from a vision attack]  Jordan.

  [whooshing over and breaking him free of Tal's grip] 

  Superman : Don't you ever touch him!

  Lara Lor-Van : [he throws punches at Tal]  Stop! Enough!

  Superman : [letting Tal go]  Jordan?

  Jordan Kent : I'm fine. I'm fine.

  Superman : This was a mistake. I never should have trusted you!

  Lara Lor-Van : No, Kal. He was right to bring you here. I know what's wrong with you.

• Jordan Kent : [seeing Clark having another vision attack]  Are you okay?

  Tal-Rho : I would say most definitely not.

  [he break free of his restraints] 

• Lara Lor-Van : You used the Eradicator on the people of Earth? I never should have designed that machine.

  Tal-Rho : We were so close, Mother.

  Lara Lor-Van : My life's greatest regret left in the hands of a monster.

  Tal-Rho : You left *me* in the hands of a monster!

  Superman : Easy, Tal.

  Tal-Rho : Do you know what it was like living under that man's thumb, the pain he inflicted?

  Lara Lor-Van : That was not my decision. I had no knowledge of your existence until it was too late.

  Jordan Kent : You're his mother.

  Lara Lor-Van : Genetically, yes. But I did not give birth to him. On Krypton, all children were engineered.

  Tal-Rho : [glancing at Clark]  Except for one.

  Lara Lor-Van : Tal, you must believe me. I tried reaching you, but the barriers they'd erected were insurmountable.

  Tal-Rho : Oh, you stand here, pleading walls were too thick, gates were too high, when we both know the true obstacle was your own heart and love's absence within it.

  Lara Lor-Van : That is not true. My love for you has always been real. And now fate has given us another opportunity.

  Tal-Rho : Fate intervened long ago. You have but one son to care for now, and he's in need of his mother's help.

• Lara Lor-Van : Tal-Rho? You were able to escape Krypton. Oh, thank the gods. Both my sons, alive and together.

  Superman : No, we're... we're not.

  Lara Lor-Van : What is the meaning of this?

  Jordan Kent : I'm guessing this is not the same grandma that helped you before.

  Tal-Rho : This consciousness was uploaded before the destruction of Krypton and therefore remains untainted by your father.

  Superman : Your actions tainted her perspective, not me.

  Lara Lor-Van : My sons! I require an explanation.

  Tal-Rho : I tried to resurrect the planet we lost. Unfortunately, humans proved to be ungrateful hosts.

• Jordan Kent : Yo, you will not believe the day I just had.

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah? Worse than finding out that your main competition's a roid head?

  Jordan Kent : What?

  Jonathan Kent : I think Timmy Ryan's on something. Think about it, right? Laziest slacker on the team. Right?

  Jordan Kent : Yeah.

  Jonathan Kent : All of a sudden, I come in, he's benching three hundy.

  Jordan Kent : Timmy?

  Jonathan Kent : Right? No way.

  Jordan Kent : No way.

  Jonathan Kent , Jordan Kent : No way.

• Jonathan Kent : What happened to your shirt?

  Jordan Kent : Oh, it, uh, may have gotten ripped when I went head-to-head with Uncle Jerk Face.

  Jonathan Kent : What?

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, I know. But the crazy thing is I actually think I could have beat him up.

  Jonathan Kent : No way.

  Jordan Kent : I-I-I landed a couple blows.

• Lara Lor-Van : Your son... he reminds me of your father.

  Superman : Father was so proud of him. Of both the boys.

  Lara Lor-Van : You have no idea how happy that makes me.

  Tal-Rho : [watching nearby with Jordan]  See how she favors him? Your father?

  Jordan Kent : Well, yeah, he's not a genocidal sociopath who tried to destroy civilization.

  Tal-Rho : And your mother... does she favor the weakling?

  Jordan Kent : From what I hear, Jon's probably stronger than you now.

• Sarah Cushing : There's something I have to tell you.

  Jordan Kent : Look, a-are you mad at me? D-Did I do something wrong? Because I've been thinking about it all day, and honestly, I don't know what I did.

  Sarah Cushing : No, no, you didn't do anything. I did. I kissed someone... at camp. Her name's Aubrey, and she and I... I-I thought we were just friends at first, and then it just sort of happened.

  Jordan Kent : [a little crushed emotionally]  So, um... do you want to date her now?

  Sarah Cushing : No. No, it... it was just, like, a camp thing. It doesn't really matter.

  Jordan Kent : Then why'd you do it?

  Sarah Cushing : That's what I'm trying to tell you. It just happened. It doesn't mean anything.

  Jordan Kent : Thanks for telling me.

  Sarah Cushing : Jordan...

  Jordan Kent : I'll see you at school.