Superman & Lois (TV Series)

Pilot (2021)

Emmanuelle Chriqui: Lana Lang Cushing

Quotes 

• Lois Lane : Your daughters are so gorgeous.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Aw, thank you. You look exactly the same as you did in high school. He... he doesn't age.

  Clark Kent : It's, uh, good genes, I guess.

• Lois Lane : You remember our boys, Jonathan and Jordan.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Hi.

  Jordan Kent : Hey.

  Kyle Cushing : These are our girls. The littlest one here is Sophie. And, uh, well, the one with the perma-scowl over there, that's Sarah.

  Sarah Cushing : Hi. I'm really sorry about your grandma. She was really special. Even my dad liked her, and he hates everybody, so.

  Kyle Cushing : House full of girls. Someone's always pissed at you.

• Kyle Cushing : See, people like you, you look at Smallville and you think of the past, and you feel a little bad for us, right? People like Morgan Edge, though, now, see, he looks at Smallville and he sees the future.

  Lois Lane : It's not a future I would wanna live in.

  Kyle Cushing : It's a good thing we don't have to worry about that anymore, now, do we?

  Clark Kent : We haven't made any decisions about the farm yet, Kyle.

  Kyle Cushing : But your mother has.

  Lois Lane : What does that mean?

  Lana Lang Cushing : [in a "this conversation is over" tone]  Kyle, go get the girls.

  Kyle Cushing : [finishing his beer and leaving]  Sorry for your loss, Kent.

  Clark Kent : Lana? What's he talking about?

  Lana Lang Cushing : Your mother had some business with us, that's all. Come by the bank tomorrow. Martha was a great lady. The heart of Smallville, really. I'm sorry she's gone.

• Lana Lang Cushing : So, how are the boys doing?

  Lois Lane : They're fine. They're just a little shaken up.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Ah, it seems luck runs in the family. Did Clark ever tell you about our accident coming home from a Soul Asylum concert?

  Clark Kent : Oh, I try not to talk about my Soul Asylum days too much.

  Lana Lang Cushing : So, Pete was at the wheel. Fell asleep, drove off the road. We came to, the car was a pretzel. Nobody was hurt. Not a scratch. It was the strangest thing. Then again, lots of strange things happened here back then.

• Clark Kent : Mortgage papers? My mom paid hers off years ago.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Her first. About five years ago, at the peak of the farming crisis, banks here were offering reverse mortgages to seniors. Pay now for the opportunity to let the bank purchase the remainder of the farm upon their death if the landowner's heirs couldn't repay the balance of the loan.

  Clark Kent : She... she didn't need that kind of money.

  Lana Lang Cushing : No. But... the Gordons were gonna be evicted from their farm that had been in their family for generations. Margie Kelton's lung surgery made it so she could hardly put food on the table. I have dozens of stories. Everyone in town knew that if you were in trouble, Martha would be there. She was like your friend you always write about, Lois. She was like this town's Superman. Or Superwoman.

  Lois Lane : Sounds like they had a lot in common.

  Lana Lang Cushing : She still protected half the farm's value. She wanted there to be enough money to send the boys to college. So you can either repay the loan, or you can accept a healthy buyout for the remaining value of the property.

• Kyle Cushing : You know, it used to be that, uh, when folks moved away to get their degrees, well, they bring their skills back home, take care of the community's helped raised 'em, you know? That ain't happening anymore. Well, hey, we'll at least get a lifeline if this whole Edge proposal goes through, right?

  Lois Lane : What does Morgan Edge want with Smallville?

  Kyle Cushing : Oh, boy.

  Lana Lang Cushing : He's retrofitting the coal mines to produce alternative energies.

  Kyle Cushing : It's gonna put a lot of folks back to work around here.

  Lois Lane : Until it doesn't.

  Clark Kent : Lois.

  Lois Lane : Morgan Edge ruins everything he touches.

  Kyle Cushing : What's he ruined?

  Lois Lane : He is single-handedly destroying the Daily Planet.

  Kyle Cushing : People quit reading that paper 'cause, uh, you reporters can't keep your politics to yourselves.

  Lois Lane : Edge's companies prey on struggling communities. He busts up unions. He barely pays a living wage. I don't understand how he can keep fooling people.

  Kyle Cushing : Oh, you mean us dumb, backwards, small-town folk?

  Lois Lane : No. No, that is not what I meant.

  Kyle Cushing : I know what you meant.

• Lana Lang Cushing : I pulled some strings, got you $2,100 an acre, which is well above market value in Rice County.

  Clark Kent : Wow, that... that's very generous. Um... but we decided we're... we're not selling.

  Lana Lang Cushing : You're not?

  Clark Kent : We're thinking of reopening the farm. Run it the way my folks and I used to back in the day.

  Lana Lang Cushing : So you're staying.

  Lois Lane : Well, we're talking it over, but a change might be good for this family.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Okay. Then let's go over the pre-negotiated terms for taking over the loan.

  Lois Lane : Before we do, Lana, I was wondering if you knew that a couple months before those reverse mortgages were offered, a company had secretly acquired your bank.

  Lana Lang Cushing : No, I didn't know that.

  Clark Kent : Galaxy Holdings, whose majority shareholder is Morgan Edge.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Why would someone like Morgan Edge be interested in a bunch of family farms in Smallville, Kansas?

  Lois Lane : That's a very good question.

• Lana Lang Cushing : Lois, I read all your stories. I mean, it's so impressive. 'Cause of you, I tell my girls they can do anything.

  Lois Lane : Thank you. Are you still at the bank?

  Lana Lang Cushing : Yep, and Kyle's still at the firehouse, made fire chief last year, and everybody else we know moved away.

  Kyle Cushing : She means "bailed".

  Clark Kent : Lueck?

  Kyle Cushing : Twin Cities.

  Clark Kent : Sippy?

  Kyle Cushing : St. Louis.

  Lois Lane : Maybe you'll see them at the next reunion.

  Kyle Cushing : Kent didn't make it to the last one, now, did he?