Smallville (TV Series)

Arrival (2005)

Tom Welling: Clark Kent

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• Chloe Sullivan : There are still a few blind spots, though. Like, how did we get beamed from the Kawatche cave to the North Pole? And, uh, what was really going on in that 40-story igloo?

  Clark Kent : Well, Chloe, there's a lot of things about me that even I don't understand. The meteor rocks... They didn't make me who I am.

  Chloe Sullivan : So you're saying you were born this way?

  Clark Kent : I wasn't born anywhere near Smallville. In fact, I wasn't born anywhere near this galaxy.

  Chloe Sullivan : Okay. Okay, so that would then make you, like, an...

  Clark Kent : Yeah.

  Chloe Sullivan : Uh, but you... You look so...

  Clark Kent : Human? I'm still the same person.

  Chloe Sullivan : Clark, I... I... I think you're so amazing. You save people's lives and take zero credit for it. To me, you're more than just a hero. You're a superhero.

  Clark Kent : Chloe.

  Chloe Sullivan : I'm serious, Clark. If more humans were like you, the world would be a better place.

• Chloe Sullivan : Hey. I think it's time you switch into Super Clark mode now.

  Clark Kent : Super Clark?

  Chloe Sullivan : I know you run faster than a speeding bullet, Clark. Take me along for the ride.

• Chloe Sullivan : I wonder who's more freaked out right now. Me, knowing I'm in a hospital where they get their medicine via dogsled... Or you, finally finding out I know your secret.

  Clark Kent : How long have you known?

  Chloe Sullivan : I guess I've always had my suspicions. The quick exits, the miraculous recoveries, the lame excuses. But I think when I saw you catch a car like it was a beach ball, that kind of confirmed everything.

  Clark Kent : Why didn't you say anything?

  Chloe Sullivan : I figured if you wanted to tell me you were part of the superpowered persuasion, you would when you were ready. On your teams, not mine.

  Clark Kent : You're a good friend, Chloe.

  Chloe Sullivan : *Obviously*, not good enough.

• Clark Kent : How'd you get that frog in your throat?

  Lois Lane : That's what happens when you get a neck massage form Barbie the Barbarian. Doctor says I shouldn't talk too much.

  Clark Kent : Oh, gee. That's too bad.

  Lois Lane : Don't get your hopes up, Smallville. It's not permanent.

• Lana Lang : Clark, I wanna ask you something. Do you believe in life on other planets?

  Clark Kent : Actually, I do.

• Martha Kent : [Looking at the Kent farmhouse with a gaping hole in it from where the meteor struck the house]  Our home...

  Jonathan Kent : It's just wood and plaster, Martha. A house can always be rebuilt.

  Martha Kent : I guess you're right.

  Jonathan Kent : [Clark walks toward his mom and dad]  But it does help to have a one-man construction team as a son.

  Martha Kent : Hi.

  Clark Kent : Hi.

  Jonathan Kent : [after observing a short pause, glad to be together again]  Don't worry, Clark, things will be back to normal soon enough.

  Clark Kent : Actually, things will be a lot more normal around here than you think.

  [pauses to prepare himself] 

  Clark Kent : My abilities are gone.

  Martha Kent : [In shock]  How?

  Clark Kent : Jor-El took them. But, I'm not sure it's such a bad thing. All I've ever wanted is to be normal, and now, finally, I am.

  Martha Kent : It is different. You can get hurt now, you're vulnerable.

  Clark Kent : Isn't that what it means to be human?

  Jonathan Kent : No, I can't believe Jor-El would have given up on you that easily.

  Clark Kent : I took care of the danger he warned me about, and if losing my abilities is the consequence then I think he's done with me.

  [Walks to Jonathan and Martha and stands beside them] 

  Clark Kent : Look, none of that matters now. I'm ready to take a step to the future. We'll start by rebuilding this house, one board at a time.

• Clark Kent : [inside the Fortress of Solitude]  I thought Krypton was destroyed.

  Jor-El : It was, but here in your Fortress of Solitude, the geography of our planet has been replicated for your training.

  Clark Kent : I know there's a lot I can learn from you, but I have to get home. That's where I'm needed.

  Jor-El : The meteor shower is only the precursor. A dark force from Krypton has been awakened, Kal-El, and its sights have been set on Earth.

  Clark Kent : What do you want me to do?

  [a massive column of energy surrounds Clark with images of Krypton's history] 

  Jor-El : You must do as I tell you. Study with diligence, for that is the only way to save this planet.

• Clark Kent : [seeing the destruction at the farm on a news report about the meteor shower]  They didn't get out. My parents, they didn't get out.

  Chloe Sullivan : Smallville needs you more than I do, Clark. Go.

• Clark Kent : [Super-speeds into Lex's study and Nam-Ek and Aethyr turn to face him]  I heard you were looking for me. I'm Kal-El.

  Nam-Ek : At last.

  Clark Kent : Who are you?

  Aethyr : The last survivors of Krypton.

  Clark Kent : What do you want?

  Nam-Ek : We want you to join with us, Kal-El, and help us make this savage land our utopia.

  Clark Kent : I saw what you did at the hospital. It's not utopia. It's MURDER.

  Nam-Ek : The few must be sacrificed for the sake of the many.

  Clark Kent : Then sacrifice me, because I'm not going to let you kill anyone else.

  Aethyr : If that is your decision. So be it, Kal-El.

  [Aethyr releases the key to the Phantom Zone on Clark] 

• Clark Kent : [running around the ruins of the farmhouse]  MOM! DAD!

  Lex Luthor : [enters]  Clark. Thank God you're okay.

  Clark Kent : Where's my mom and dad?

  Lex Luthor : At the hospital. Your mom has a concussion and a broken leg but she's gonna be fine.

  Clark Kent : What about Lana?

  Lex Luthor : Lana's safe. It's Chloe I'm worried about. She was with me in the cave when the meteors hit and I was knocked unconscious and when I came to she was gone.

  Clark Kent : She must have escaped while you were unconscious.

  Lex Luthor : Or someone helped her out.

  Clark Kent : Lex, how could I've...

  Lex Luthor : When I was down in the cave there was a light brighter than anything I've ever seen... and I could've sworn I saw you standing right in its epicenter.

  Clark Kent : I was nowhere near those caves.

  Lex Luthor : If you weren't down in the caves, where have you been?

  Clark Kent : My parents insisted I get a head start. I got a ride on one of the military vans.

  Lex Luthor : Why do I get this nagging feeling your being less than honest with me?

  Clark Kent : I have no idea.

  Lex Luthor : Well, I get the feeling that lying has become an unshakable habit of yours, Clark.

  Clark Kent : I don't have to listen to this.

  [Turns his back on Lex] 

  Lex Luthor : If you're my friend...

  [grabs Clark's arms] 

  Lex Luthor : ...just tell me the truth. Were you in the cave when the meteors hit?

  Clark Kent : [coldly]  No.

• Clark Kent : How did you get that frog in your throat?

  Lois Lane : That's what happens when you get a neck message from Barbie the Barbarian.