Superman & Lois (TV Series)

Pilot (2021)

Jordan Elsass: Jonathan Kent

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• Jonathan Kent : [about Jordan's powers]  It's probably like learning to drive a car, you know? If cars were indestructible and had giant death lasers as headlights.

  Jordan Kent : [leaving]  Yeah. Thanks.

  Lois Lane : Apologize to your brother.

  Jonathan Kent : I know. Too soon. I know.

• Sarah Cushing : I didn't think you guys would've remembered me from that summer.

  Jordan Kent : Of course we would. I mean, y... but you changed your everything.

  Jonathan Kent : What my brother's trying to say is that whatever you're doing is... it's totally working for you.

  Sarah Cushing : Well, we still get puberty in Smallville. Although cell service sucks, so.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, no, I've been trying to get on all morning. I think there's something wrong with the router.

  Jonathan Kent : Just probably needs to be reset.

  Jordan Kent : Jon, it's in the barn.

  Sarah Cushing : Ooh, mysterious. What's in the barn?

  Jordan Kent : Our dad doesn't like us in there. He says it's full of stuff that can kill us.

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah, when we were, like, eight.

  Sarah Cushing : Well, as a member of the FFA, I think I can keep you guys safe.

  Jonathan Kent : What's the FFA?

  Jordan Kent : I don't know.

• Clark Kent : What would you guys think about staying here a little longer than any of us planned?

  Jordan Kent : Like a couple days or something?

  Lois Lane : More like permanently.

  Jonathan Kent : Uh, I mean, I... I have school. Practice, the... the team.

  Clark Kent : We know, we know. It's a big conversation.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, we'll have it tonight at family dinner. We just wanted to give you both some time to process what this would really be like before we do.

  Jonathan Kent : Okay.

  Clark Kent : Well, until then, you two, follow me out to the barn. I want to show you a few things.

  Jordan Kent : Like, Superman things?

  Clark Kent : Like how to attach a plow to a tractor.

  Jordan Kent : What?

  Jonathan Kent : Seriously?

  Lois Lane : Those fields aren't gonna plow themselves.

  Jonathan Kent : Okay, but, dad, we have questions. We just found out our dad's Superman.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, like, thousands and thousands of questions.

• Jordan Kent : Um, Jon, about the powers, uh...

  Jonathan Kent : It's all good.

  Jordan Kent : Huh?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah. Powers are overrated, anyways. Plus, this just, uh, confirms what I've known to be true all along.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah. My skills on the field are legit.

• Lois Lane : So you saved your brother.

  Jordan Kent : I wasn't sure what happened. That's why I didn't say anything. All I knew is, when I fell, I felt something come over me. It was a strength I've never had before. I felt... control. I... I don't know. It's hard to explain.

  Jonathan Kent : What's gonna happen to him?

  Clark Kent : I'm not sure yet. Jordan's powers are manifesting very differently than mine did.

  Lois Lane : But we're gonna help you get through this, okay?

• Jonathan Kent : Is that how you're going dressed today? Somebody got the "punch me in the face" memo.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, I should dress like you? Like some sort of human participation trophy?

  Jonathan Kent : No, but you could watch a, like, "HowToBasic" video on style.

• Jonathan Kent : Remember that girl from that summer we stayed here?

  Jordan Kent : Sarah Cushing?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah. She's here.

  Jordan Kent : Really? Where?

  Jonathan Kent : 50 yards and approaching. If you hurry, you'll have time to go inside and change into... a completely different person.

• Jordan Kent : [Jonathan brings him a slice of pie]  What's that?

  Jonathan Kent : It's 1:00. Don't you need to take your pill with something?

  Jordan Kent : Who are you, mom?

  Jonathan Kent : Someone's gotta watch out for you.

• Clark Kent : What's up? Mom said you had news.

  Jonathan Kent : [Zooming with his girlfriend]  Uh, Eliza, one second. Yeah, um, yeah. I'm... I'm actually starting QB.

  Clark Kent : For varsity?

  Jonathan Kent : Yep. Yeah, um. Think... think I'm the first freshman to ever do it, and some of the upperclassmen are pretty ticked off.

  Clark Kent : Oh, don't worry about them.

  Jonathan Kent : Worry? Nah, it's awesome. You should've seen their faces.

• Lois Lane : Your mom called while you were in the shower about a visit.

  Jonathan Kent : Are we going to grandma's?

  Clark Kent : I think we're overdue.

  Jonathan Kent : Great. Smallville. A place where you can spend a full year in one afternoon.

  Lois Lane : It's not that bad.

• Jordan Kent : So that's why? Why you never wanted us in the barn? 'Cause you keep a freaking alien ship in there?

  Clark Kent : Look, I can explain.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, can you? Can you explain how I fell 30 feet and nothing happened?

  Jonathan Kent : Just... just give him...

  Jordan Kent : All you said is that we got lucky.

  Jonathan Kent : Just give him a chance.

  Jordan Kent : But that was a lie, wasn't it?

  Clark Kent : Yes. Yes, okay? It was a lie. Look... that ship... brought me to Earth. Landed here in Smallville, right in those cornfields over there. I was sent here when my planet, Krypton, was destroyed.

  Jonathan Kent : Krypton?

  Clark Kent : Yes. And because I wasn't from here, I had certain powers. Your grandparents, they took me in. They raised me. They taught me how to control my abilities, how to blend in until the day I was ready to leave and become who I was sent here to be.

  Jonathan Kent : You're saying you're Superman?

  Jordan Kent : No, I've seen Superman before. We've seen him.

  [removing his glasses and giving them to Lois, Clark picks up their truck and lifts it into the sky] 

  Lois Lane : When your father first told me, I didn't understand, either.

• Jonathan Kent : [finding Clark's Kryptonian spaceship]  What is that thing?

  [Jordan reaches forward to touch it] 

  Jonathan Kent : What are you doing? Do not touch that!

  [the pod thrums as he touches it] 

  Jonathan Kent : Oh, my god. Did you see that? Did you see that? What the hell was that? No. No, no, no. What was that? Jordan, what was that? Jordan, what are you...

  [as Jordan touches it again, a circular aperture opens, and a crystal shard emerges] 

  Jonathan Kent : What the hell is that thing?

  Jordan Kent : Whatever it is... it's not from Kansas.

• Jonathan Kent : Found the router.

  [seeing it up in the barn rafters] 

  Jonathan Kent : What the hell was grandma thinking, putting it up there?

  Jordan Kent : [wanting to impress Sarah]  I got it.

• Jordan Kent : You lied to protect his secret. All the things I've been feeling. You made me think I was crazy. They put me on pills!

  Lois Lane : Your mental health has nothing to do with who your...

  Jordan Kent : And how do you know that? I'm half human, half whatever the hell he is!

  Clark Kent : Do not yell at your mother, okay? This is not her fault. I'm the one that didn't want you to know.

  Jonathan Kent : Why?

  Clark Kent : Because I knew what kind of burden it would be if you both had powers. Or worse, if one of you had them and the other one didn't.

  Jordan Kent : You think he's the reason we survived yesterday.

  Jonathan Kent : What are you talking about?

  Jordan Kent : Go on, dad. Go tell Superboy here why he's really so perfect.

  Lois Lane : We thought your athletic talents could be latent abilities starting to emerge, and then yesterday...

  Clark Kent : The only way that both of you survived that accident is for at least one of you to be like me.

  Jordan Kent : You wouldn't have it any other way, would you, dad?

  Clark Kent : Jordan!

  Jordan Kent : Don't try to talk to me, all right? You may have been sent here to be some hero, but you sure as hell weren't sent here to be a father.

  Jonathan Kent : [seeing Clark wants to follow Jordan]  Just leave us alone.

• Sarah Cushing : Yeah, your dad's right. Pretty much everything here can kill you.

  Jonathan Kent : What's that thing?

  Sarah Cushing : Oh, that's a hay raker. I guess you guys don't see much of this in Metropolis.

  Jordan Kent : No, but our dad told us all these stories about growing up here.

  Sarah Cushing : Tell you it sucks?

  Jordan Kent : Actually, I think he kinda loved it.

  Jonathan Kent : Can't be that bad. I mean, it's more the people that make up a place, right?

  Sarah Cushing : Wow. Metropolis boys are really starting to lose their game.

  Jonathan Kent : Relax. I'm... I'm taken. I-I didn't mean it like that. I'm just saying... well, I-I guess I'm trying to say that we're only here for a few days, and I figure that we kinda need someone to show us around.

  Sarah Cushing : Mm. Okay. Uh, phone.

  [Jonathan takes his out] 

  Sarah Cushing : Oh, no, not you.

  [to Jordan] 

  Sarah Cushing : You.

• Jonathan Kent : Great, Engstrom just said that I might not be starting anymore 'cause I missed practice all week.

  Jordan Kent : Seriously? Football's what you're worried about right now? How are we fine, Jon?

  Jonathan Kent : Jordan, look, if you wanna fixate on something weird, maybe you should start thinking about how Sarah Cushing gave you her digits and not me. You texted her already, didn't you?

  Jordan Kent : I don't know.

  [Jonathan takes his phone] 

  Jordan Kent : Wha... I just wanted her to know we were okay, all right?

  Jonathan Kent : What is this? You-you sent a waving hand emoji?

  Jordan Kent : Okay, no, that is a Vulcan salute.

  Jonathan Kent : I gotta say, that's even worse. You're kind of a freak.

  Jordan Kent : You know what? Something a lot freakier than me happened to us in that barn. Something we're not being told about. And it's up to us to find out what that is.

  Jonathan Kent : Okay. Whatever, weirdo.

• Jonathan Kent : You really think dad's hiding something from us?

  Jordan Kent : We had all those poles land on us. Besides, how did he get them up off of us so fast, anyway?

  Jonathan Kent : I don't know. Adrenaline, maybe? Like a soccer mom lifting a car kind of thing.

  Jordan Kent : Dad can't put up a Christmas tree without falling off the ladder. And what's the thing he says every single time we come here?

  Jonathan Kent : "Don't put your finger in that"? I don't know.

  Jordan Kent : "Stay out of the barn," dumbass.

  Jonathan Kent : Jordan, what are we looking for, anyways?

  Jordan Kent : Something unusual. Something out of place.

  Jordan Kent : [Jordan feels the ground depress]  What?

  Jordan Kent : You hear that?

  Jonathan Kent : The poles just probably shifted the floor.

  Jordan Kent : [clearing straw away]  I think it's a door.

• Jordan Kent : Look, I should've never kissed you last night.

  Jonathan Kent : Wow. That is awkward.

  [leaving to give them privacy] 

  Jonathan Kent : Good luck.

  Sarah Cushing : It's not your fault. You didn't know about Sean, and I'm just really sorry about how it all went down. I just wanted to hang out with you. You were so sweet that summer that we met, and then, yeah, I saw you take that pill at the funeral... I just thought that if someone like you had issues, then someone like me wasn't so messed up.

  Jordan Kent : I think maybe it means we're both just a little messed up.

  Sarah Cushing : Yeah, maybe you're right. Do you think you can keep it a secret? Uh, one person finds out, and then everybody knows, and it's just...

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your secret's safe with me.

• Jonathan Kent : [after an explosion at Shuster Mines]  Dad.

  Clark Kent : [hugging him in relief]  Jonathan!

  Kyle Cushing : The other one's pretty shook up. That's twice in two days, Kent. Luckiest family I know.

  Clark Kent : Kyle. Thank you.

• Jonathan Kent : [saving Jordan from Sarah's angry boyfriend]  What the hell are you doing? You know how many townies I had to randomly DM to find out where this party was?