Superman & Lois (TV Series)

A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events (2021)

Angus Macfadyen: Jor-El

Quotes 

• Teenage Clark : What is all this?

  Jor-El : This... this is a place where you can learn, away from the prying eyes of the world, lessons about who you really are and why you were sent here.

  Teenage Clark : Sent here from where?

  Jor-El : You were born on the planet Krypton. Your true name is Kal, the last son from the House of El.

  Teenage Clark : Why am I so different?

  Jor-El : The Earth's sun. Your cells absorb its radiation in ways humans cannot, creating nearly endless energy. Your skin, bones, muscles, all capable of unimaginable power. Over time, I will teach you how to use that power, that speed, that strength. You will learn to do things you never thought possible on this Earth.

• Superman : Whatever it is you want, threatening my family is not how you'll get it.

  Morgan Edge : It's not a threat, Kal. I will destroy their lives by taking that thing you hold so dear, your secret, and shouting it for all the world to hear. "Superman has a family."

  Superman : No!

  Morgan Edge : Then tell me another way. I appealed to you as a brother, and you attacked me, a Kryptonian, and you stole from me, a friend, and you destroyed everything I had built.

  Jor-El : [his hologram activates]  He is none of those things. Do not listen to him!

  Morgan Edge : It is this man who has corrupted you, just as he corrupted our mother.

  Superman : I spoke with her. Lara. She believes there is still good in you.

  Morgan Edge : Was this as she helped you plot to destroy Kryptonian lives?

  Jor-El : The same lives that occupied innocent human beings?

  Morgan Edge : Enough! I will not debate morality with this whisper. Here I stand, brother. Flesh and bone and beating heart. Your true family. Join me of your own free will.

  Superman : I can't let you do this.

  Morgan Edge : Then I will make you suffer.

  [he takes the console crystal and crushes it] 

  Jor-El : [his hologram begins to flicker and disappears]  I love you, son.

  Morgan Edge : [fighting in midair, eventually getting the upper hand]  You are my life's greatest disappointment, Kal-El.

  [throwing punches] 

  Morgan Edge : All my life, I dreamt of having a brother, a family, only to have you reject me! It didn't have to be this way.

• Jor-El : The day has finally come. It gives me such joy to see you here.

  Teenage Clark : Who are you?

  Jor-El : I am Jor-El. And you... you are my son.

• Clark Kent : I'm ready, Father. I can feel it.

  Jor-El : In body and spirit, yes, but there is something else you need to learn, something which I cannot teach you here.

  Clark Kent : What is it?

  Jor-El : Why you wish to help them. Go. Reconnect with the world. Open your heart to them. Find out why you wish to be their champion.

• Jor-El : How was your marriage ceremony, son?

  Clark Kent : It was the perfect day. Lois looked beautiful. I wish you could have been there.

  Jor-El : [inexplicably alarmed]  I need you to get out here now, son.

  Clark Kent : Father, what's happening?

  Jor-El : Go! Get out of here now!