Smallville (TV Series)

Prey (2008)

Tom Welling: Clark Kent

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Quotes 

• Chloe Sullivan : Hey, you missed soda and cookies, but maybe next week you can lead the session with a rousing Kent tale.

  Clark Kent : Thanks, Chloe. But sitting around with a bunch of strangers singing "Kumbaya" isn't my idea of self-help.

• John Jones : Where'd you get this list?

  Clark Kent : I memorized it off Chloe's desk.

  John Jones : I didn't realize that photographic memory was among of your abilities.

  Clark Kent : It's more like speed-reading, but let's not split hairs.

  John Jones : She couldn't just *give* you a copy?

  Clark Kent : Chloe and I don't always see eye to eye on this one.

  John Jones : [refers to Lois]  Well, what about your mouthy cohort? She hasn't poked her nose into this one, either.

  Clark Kent : She's on assignment, which is code for "Monster Truck Rally in Lubbock."

  John Jones : And I assume your emerald ally and his super friends are still on hiatus, which leaves you.

  Clark Kent : Solo. I get it.

• John Jones : You can't save everyone, Clark.

  Clark Kent : The moment I believe that is when I stop trying.

• Chloe Sullivan : Sharpening your pitchfork? If you're going to lead a marauding posse, you better come prepared. Clark, you gave the police the names of my ISIS group? How could you use your powers to betray me like that?

  Clark Kent : I didn't mean to go around you, Chloe, but you were so defensive...

  Chloe Sullivan : Like I've been defensive of *you*? Clark, you don't get how much of my life I spend protecting your secret. And if you ever had enough courage to actually step forward, like the rest of these kids did, you would be the first one on that pyre. How could you, of all people, be the ringleader of this witch hunt?

  Clark Kent : Chloe, you're taking the side of people that you hardly know. I would think, after eight years of friendship, that you might give me the benefit of the doubt.

  Chloe Sullivan : That works both ways. And your bonus features don't give you the right to trump anyone else's judgment.

• Clark Kent : Collecting pictures of all the murder victims is a pretty strange habit. isnt it?

  Davis Bloome : Do you know how many murders in this city go unsolved every year? I show up, I take away the bodies, case closed. Maybe I want to do more than just clean up the mess after it's too late.

  Clark Kent : Now the whole city refers to you as a hero, huh? Maybe I'd have an easier time believing all this if there was proof that that's actually what happened.

  Davis Bloome : Okay, you know what... I understand if you don't want to join the knee-jerk ticker-tape parade, but let me ask you a question. Are you really up in my face because you're trying to catch a killer, or is it because you're trying to hide something yourself?

  Clark Kent : Don't try to turn this around on me.

  Davis Bloome : Then why don't you take a second look at those photos? I'm not the only one that's hanging out at these crime scenes. There's another figure in the background. You seem to be the city's own peeping Tom.

  Clark Kent : I'm a reporter. It's my job!

  Davis Bloome : These photos were taken before any press could have made it to the scene. So, uh, next time you feel anxious to shine a light on things that don't make sense... you might want to stay closer to home.

• Chloe Sullivan : You know, when I suggested we have dinner and a movie night, I didn't exactly think a $3.99 special number 2 combo with cheese and a droning police blotter was what I would have in mind.

  [distracted, Clark doesn't respond] 

  Chloe Sullivan : Not to mention the communication skills of a paperweight.

  Clark Kent : [turning his attention to her]  I'm sorry?

  Chloe Sullivan : Whoa! Look who decided to join the conversation.

• Clark Kent : How'd you make detective so quickly?

  John Jones : We all have our sources. Mine happen to be far-reaching. And now that you're working in Metropolis and using your contacts at the Daily Planet to help more people, I wanted to be close by. In case you needed me.

  Clark Kent : What I needed was to get here sooner. I should have been able to save all these people.

  John Jones : According to the mysterious calls we got at the station tonight, I'm guessing you saved your share.

• Clark Kent : You know, Davis, it took a lot to go into that room full of screaming people. Who knows what you could have been running into?

  Davis Bloome : Yeah, well, I suppose it should be somewhat comforting to know that good gossip spreads just as fast as bad.

  Clark Kent : So you didn't save those people?

  Davis Bloome : Haven't we been over this? I'm not some larger-than-life hero. The truth is, I don't know what happened.

  Clark Kent : But you know more than what you've told me, don't you?

  Davis Bloome : I don't fish much, Clark, so why don't you just tell me what the hell you're after?

• Clark Kent : His ambulance number is 17.

  Chloe Sullivan : I'm surprised you haven't enrolled the services of our friendly Martian on the force.

  Clark Kent : Jones can't help us unless we have some hard proof. We need more than a few pieces of evidence to arrest someone.

  Chloe Sullivan : Yeah, and the evidence you have isn't exactly conclusive. I mean, the victim could have easily just reached up and grabbed Davis when he was trying to help them. But... I have to admit, Davis would have the perfect setup. I mean, he attacks the people and then pretends to arrive at the scene to save them? It's...

  Clark Kent : I know it isn't easy.

  Chloe Sullivan : What, my perpetual knack for getting into lose-lose situations?

• Clark Kent : I lost perspective.

  Chloe Sullivan : I can be a little stubborn.

  Clark Kent : And I hate to admit it... but there was a part of me that was really frustrated that you trusted someone else instead of me.

  Chloe Sullivan : It's funny how that happens when you go behind someone's back.

  Clark Kent : My obsession, it... pushed me past the line with you, Chloe. I'm really sorry. But you were protecting a killer.

  Chloe Sullivan : Yeah, well, then there's that.

  Clark Kent : Guess I just didn't understand how you could hand over your trust so easily to people you didn't know.

• Chloe Sullivan : 327. That's how many meteor-infected I've profiled since ninth grade. And you know how many I've actually saved? None.

  Clark Kent : Wow. I guess I've been so busy rescuing people from them, I never looked at it from that angle.

  Chloe Sullivan : It's not just the damsels in distress that need saving, Clark. And you know, when I first thought you were one of the meteor-infected, I would have done anything to protect you.

  Clark Kent : But I guess that's what scares me. I'm afraid that someday, you're gonna put your trust in the wrong person.

• John Jones : You're so fixated on being a hero, you're not paying attention to who might be watching.

  Clark Kent : Is this your idea of a pep talk?

  John Jones : It's not *my* identity that's at risk. Every day, I have to run faster and faster interference on these mysterious Good Samaritan reports.

  Clark Kent : Well, that means I'm doing my job. Just have to make sure no one sees my face.

  John Jones : Well, you can't be sure of that. Unless you plan to put on a mask.

  Clark Kent : You're joking, right?

  John Jones : You are not in Smallville any more, Clark. Metropolis has millions of people walking the streets, every one of them watching for a miracle to change their lives, to give them hope. You *are* that miracle. And it's just a matter of time before someone discovers that.