Superman & Lois (TV Series)

A Brief Reminiscence In-Between Cataclysmic Events (2021)

Adam Rayner: Morgan Edge, Tal-Rho

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• Morgan Edge : So this is the life Kal-El chose. It's even more disappointing up close.

  Lois Lane : You're not welcome here.

  Morgan Edge : That's no way to speak to family, Lois, especially with young boys around.

  Jonathan Kent : Where's our dad?

  Morgan Edge : When I left him, he was a crumpled heap in his little ice castle. Peculiar place to build a fortress. I chose the desert; like to feel the sun on my face.

• Jonathan Kent : So, it's, like, really "official" official now or what?

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, I... I-I guess so.

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah?

  Lois Lane : Well, I'm happy for you, sweetie, but now that you have a girlfriend, your dad and I are gonna have to have a little chitchat with you about what we expect.

  Jonathan Kent : [hearing a whooshing in the sky]  I guess Dad's home.

  Morgan Edge : [landing in front of them]  Your father won't be returning any time soon, which is why Uncle Morgan decided to come pay a visit.

• Morgan Edge : Here he is, Father.

  Zeta-Ro : Son of Jor-El. The worst of Krypton.

  Superman : You don't have to do this.

  Zeta-Ro : See how he begs? His own weakness never stamped out.

  Morgan Edge : He has vowed his submission, Father.

  Zeta-Ro : And the Eradicator?

  Morgan Edge : Taken from his possession.

  Zeta-Ro : Then let us begin.

• 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.

• Superman : My sons are not bargaining chips.

  Morgan Edge : [taking off a metallic headband]  This device was created by Ter-Loc, one of Krypton's greatest scientists. It allows the user to navigate the resting mind of another.

  Superman : You knew I'd be weak from my solar flare.

  Morgan Edge : So I followed you here, where I could sift through your most precious memories.

  Superman : To extort me?

  Morgan Edge : No, Kal, to understand you. To understand what possible reason you could have to betray your heritage. And to think it was all for a human family.

  Superman : You know nothing about them.

  Morgan Edge : I know enough. A human wife and twin boys. How woefully pedestrian. And you, stumbling through your daily life like some village idiot instead of a true son of Krypton.

  Superman : I'm not the only one who kept my Kryptonian side hidden.

  Morgan Edge : I did so out of strategy, not shame. To be a man of greatness and choose to be less...

  [scoffing] 

  Morgan Edge : It speaks to the mediocrity of this world.

• Morgan Edge : In a lifetime full of memories, there is none more special than becoming a father.

  Clark Kent : What have you done?

  Morgan Edge : Easy, Kal-El. I'd hate for you to miss the big moment.

  Dr. Patel : [flash to Lois in the delivery room]  You're doing great. We're almost there.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, 27 hours later.

  Clark Kent : Edge is here somehow.

  Lois Lane : I love you, too.

  Dr. Patel : Just one more push, Lois, and baby Jonathan can meet Jordan.

  Clark Kent : He knows everything.

  Dr. Patel : [Lois screams and pushes]  You did it!

  Lois Lane : We have a family, Clark.

  Morgan Edge : Yes, you do. Jordan and Jonathan Kent, the twin sons of Lois and Superman.

  Clark Kent : No. No, please. Please. They're just babies.

  Morgan Edge : How little you know me, brother. I would never harm a newborn. Teenage boys, on the other hand...

  [Clark wakes up in the Fortress of Solitude] 

  Morgan Edge : ...that's a different matter entirely. It's good you're awake, Kal-El. Now you and I can discuss the terms of your surrender.

• Jordan Kent : Leave, now.

  Lois Lane : Jordan, stop.

  Morgan Edge : Oh, I see your son's inherited your false bravado.

  [he fires his heat vision to counter Jordan's, knocking him backward] 

  Jonathan Kent : Jordan!

  Lois Lane : Stay away from my sons!

  Morgan Edge : This is all your doing. It was your influence that made him turn his back on his own people.

  Lois Lane : Let them go. This is between you and me.

  Morgan Edge : I'm afraid we've passed that point, Ms. Lane, but I will let them live long enough to watch you die.

  [as he prepares to fire his heat vision again, Superman lands in front of Lois and the boys] 

  Morgan Edge : Impressive, Kal-El. But this changes nothing.

  Superman : [breathing heavily]  I'll do whatever you ask. Just leave my family alone.

  Morgan Edge : Pledge to me that you will submit, and I promise to let them live unharmed.

  Lois Lane : Clark, please don't do this.

  Superman : I submit.

  Morgan Edge : Take a good look at the man you knew, 'cause it will be your last.

  Superman : [to Lois]  I'm sorry. We needed more time. He was right.