Smallville (TV Series)

Toxic (2008)

Cassidy Freeman: Tess Mercer

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• Clark Kent : There must be something you can do. Lex never abandons a project.

  Tess Mercer : He doesn't, does he? I'm still catching up from the ones he's named after constellations.

• Lois Lane : Latest dish with a side order of spell check. "Grisly murders down on Hampton."

  Tess Mercer : Lois Lane. I haven't fired you yet?

  Lois Lane : Guess you're too busy printing my stories.

• Lois Lane : What's with the Oliver Queen collage?

  Tess Mercer : I figured the news had trickled down to the basement by now. You know, for a renowned party boy, Queen doesn't know how to hold his liquor.

  Lois Lane : Unbelievable. Metropolis may have its very own Jack the Ripper and you're preoccupied with smearing a humanitarian. Do you even know Oliver Queen?

  Tess Mercer : Not like you do. Come on, you can't tell me you don't get a twinge of pleasure seeing your ex take a public nosedive.

  Lois Lane : Look, he's a good person, who stands up against corruption and social injustice.

  Tess Mercer : Wow. I was gonna offer you the story, but after that bleeding-heart testimonial, you're obviously not objective enough to uncover the rest of it.

  Lois Lane : Well, it's not exactly a news flash. You drink, you get drunk.

  Tess Mercer : When someone leaves a club fall-down drunk, the story only gets better. I need someone to get to the bottom of this without suffering from an emotional meltdown.

  Lois Lane : Please. You know, you need to read your gossip column. Oliver and I were through a long time ago. I'll take the story.

• Marcos : Take me to the airport.

  Cab Driver : Right.

  [he climbs into the back seat, and is about to close the door when someone scratches his hand] 

  Marcos : What the hell?

  [seeing Tess] 

  Marcos : You.

  Tess Mercer : [he starts to feel the poison's effects]  Who do you think paid your bail? Jail's too good for you.

  [he passes out] 

  Tess Mercer : I think he's having a heart attack. You might wanna take him to the hospital.

  Cab Driver : What am I, an ambulance?

  Tess Mercer : They'll know what do with him.