Smallville (TV Series)

Power (2009)

Bill Mondy: Dr. Edward Groll

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• Tess Mercer : Prometheus must be destroyed.

  Dr. Edward Groll : It's too late. You can't destroy the suit without murdering her.

  Tess Mercer : Lana Lang was born to be a martyr.

• Lana Lang : I promise, Doctor, I don't intend on destroying your technology. I want to put it to good use.

  Dr. Edward Groll : I'm an academic. I hold a chair in biophysics at Metropolis University.

  Lana Lang : Where you designed and built a metadermal skin graft that will not only sustain Lex's health, but will give him superhuman abilities.

  Dr. Edward Groll : Superhuman abilities? Have you taken up reading comic books?

  Lana Lang : For someone intelligent enough to harness alien DNA into the ultimate power suit, you are dangerously naïve. What good will your technology do in the hands of a madman? You and I both know that Lex is too dangerous to wear it. But I can.

  Dr. Edward Groll : I'm sorry, Ms. Lang, I don't have time to discuss ficti...

  Lana Lang : If Lex ever puts on that suit, he will corrupt its power. He will become a god among men, and the world will never recover. Do you want your legacy to be allowing Lex Luthor to become the ultimate weapon? Or do you want to be remembered for saving people's lives? For improving the human condition all over the world. I have a space in east Metropolis, in a warehouse on 95th and Bristol. You can set up your lab.

  Dr. Edward Groll : It's not just me. I work with a lab full of researchers. They'd never allow it.

  Lana Lang : Tell them it was on Lex's orders. That he wanted me to be the guinea pig. It's not so far-fetched, is it?