Tyler Hoechlin credited as playing...
Clark Kent • Superman
- Lois Lane: You may have super strength and super hearing but I have super smell and those loans don't smell right.
- Clark Kent: I do have super smell, by the way. I just don't use it very often, you know. Not with two teenagers boys in the house. Kinda gross.
- Clark Kent: Everything I do with the boys just... seems like it blows up in my face. Is Jordan right? A-Am I a bad father?
- Lois Lane: Clark.
- Clark Kent: 'Cause right now, it... it feels like it's my fault that this is all falling apart.
- Lois Lane: Your life falling apart doesn't mean you're special. It means you're human.
- Superman: [after preventing a nuclear power plant meltdown] It's just like Oyster Creek. Same kind of crack in the cooling tower.
- General Sam Lane: How is it no one at either plant saw anything?
- Superman: I don't know yet. But you can't get equipment in here unnoticed. Both cracks were man-made.
- General Sam Lane: That's what concerns me.
- 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.
- Clark Kent: [narrating] My most vivid memories are of the days when my life changed. I remember coming to this Earth, feeling the sun on my face for the first time. Hearing the voices of my parents. My mother called me their greatest surprise. And boy, there sure were lots of them. I remember loving Smallville; the people, the community, how the small things were the big things. And I thought I'd live there forever. But my father's death set me on a different path. Eventually, I moved to Metropolis to become who I was meant to be. But my most vivid memory of all was the day I met her.
- Samuel Foswell: [leading Clark through the Daily Planet bullpen] Everyone in here, we're the most dependable friends the people of Metropolis have. You remember that.
- Clark Kent: Uh, yes, sir.
- Samuel Foswell: Stick with Lane. She'll show you the ropes.
- Clark Kent: Uh, Lane, sir?
- Lois Lane: Who told you to wear a tie? Let me guess, Lombard? Ignore him. Though he can get box seats to the Meteors. You like baseball?
- Clark Kent: Uh, uh, of course. I mean, who doesn't like America's pastime, Ms. Lane?
- Lois Lane: It's Lois. What'd you say your name was again?
- Lois Lane: You're worried about Jordan.
- Clark Kent: I tried talking to him last night, but he was pretty upset.
- Lois Lane: Well, if he knew who you really were; your parents told you about your real heritage when you were six.
- Clark Kent: That was... that was different. I lived on a farm. I had powers.
- Lois Lane: You don't think Jonathan's got something?
- Clark Kent: Test at the Fortress said it was unlikely.
- Lois Lane: He's about to be starting quarterback at one of the most competitive high schools in the nation, as a freshman.
- Clark Kent: Yeah. Doesn't mean he has powers.
- Lois Lane: Have you seen him throw a deep route?
- Clark Kent: And what about Jordan? Look, all it's gonna do is make him feel more alien than he already does.
- Clark Kent: [about hiding his real identity from the boys] It's too dangerous for them to know.
- Lois Lane: It's more dangerous if they don't.
- Clark Kent: Lois, they slip up once, say the wrong thing to one person, the whole world knows who I am.
- [seeing her look]
- Clark Kent: What? Your father agrees with me.
- Lois Lane: Oh, now we care what my dad thinks?
- General Sam Lane: You've been putting in a lot of OT lately. My daughter okay with that?
- Superman: She's not the one I have to worry about.
- General Sam Lane: Bass are gonna start biting again soon. Was thinking I'd take Jonathan fishing. Maybe even get Jordan to come this time.
- Superman: I'll talk to Lois about some dates. Night, General.
- Martha Kent: I saw you on the news. Are you just getting home now?
- Clark Kent: Yeah, a little bit ago.
- Martha Kent: Honey, I know you've got a lot on your plate, but you really do need to be around more.
- Clark Kent: Mom, I, uh, you know, I do have a responsibility to the world as you-know-who.
- Martha Kent: Well, you've got a bigger responsibility to your family as a father. The boys need to see what a strong and loving and vulnerable man looks like; what your father was to you. You only have them for a short while longer before they go off into the world. You gotta be present.
- Clark Kent: I'm trying. I really am. I don't wanna let anybody down. Was it, um... was it always this hard for you and dad?
- Martha Kent: Your lives are so much more complicated than ours ever were. Besides, life's a little different in Smallville, remember?
- Clark Kent: [watching Jordan play "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe"] Wow, you, uh, you make a pretty good Superman.
- Jordan Kent: Superman's boring. I'm Raiden.
- Superman: How do you know my name?
- The Stranger: I know everything there is to know about the Last Son of Krypton. Where I come from, let's just say the two of us have history.
- Superman: And where is that, exactly?
- The Stranger: Nowhere now. My world was destroyed. But somehow, I managed to survive. I eventually arrived here, where I learned you were here, too.
- [catching him as Superman punches his way through a wall]
- The Stranger: Not as fast as I thought.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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?
- Clark Kent: [narrating] We fell in love. I told Lois who I really was, where I came from. We married, got our first place together. The twins came. And they were as different as brothers get. Jonathan was easy. Always happy, always smiling. Things with Jordan were more... challenging. Tantrums, night terrors. A year ago, he was diagnosed with social anxiety disorder. And suddenly, here I am, living in Metropolis, raising two teenage boys, married to the most famous journalist in the world, trying to make the world safer for the people I love.
- 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: Foswell fired you?
- Clark Kent: Look, it's better me than somebody else, okay? I do have another day job.
- Lois Lane: That's not the point! Foswell's no editor; he's a patsy for Edge. All these billionaires that buy media outlets use this "moving to digital" crap as an excuse to destroy journalism, and they don't care about human interest stories or facts.
- [putting coins into a vending machine and mashing buttons]
- Lois Lane: All they care about is click-throughs. Ow.
- [Clark casually tips the machine over so her snack falls]
- Lois Lane: You're gonna need a new excuse for being gone all the time now.
- Clark Kent: Lois. We're not telling the boys.
- [his phone rings]
- Clark Kent: Hey, mom, sorry. This morning's just been...
- [a little confused]
- Clark Kent: Dr. Frye?
- [glancing at Lois, he whooshes away]
- 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.