Smallville (TV Series)

Upgrade (2010)

Callum Blue: Zod

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• Zod : [with his soldiers in the Fortress]  I'm afraid we've been betrayed. But we will prevail.

  [cutting his hand with a kryptonite knife and squeezing the blood into a bowl] 

  Zod : The time has come to share in your birthright.

• Tess Mercer : [in his lair, Zod finds a photo of him and Clark at the Space Needle]  You're not that naive, are you?

  Zod : If Kal-El and I can work together, why wouldn't I try?

  Tess Mercer : Because he doesn't have your best interests at heart. But you and I... we have a commitment to each other. You're not backing out on me, are you?

  Zod : Well, I'm not the one that sent a modern-day metal Nero to attack you.

  Tess Mercer : No. Not today. You can't bet everything we've worked for, including the safety of your people, on someone who's so quick to switch allegiances.

  Zod : I don't think you have any idea of the power that lies within Kal-El.

  Tess Mercer : Well, I hope you're right. 'Cause you're losing control of the Kandorians. I discovered a secret rebellion.

  [showing him a surveillance photo of Clark with Faora and Alia] 

  Tess Mercer : A group of your people have turned against you, and are looking to a new leader. Clark.

• Zod : [to Clark, after encasing Corben in a block of ice with their freeze breath]  And I thought I got a chilly welcome.

• Clark Kent : [trying to connect to Jor-El in the Fortress]  Well, he isn't exactly rolling out the welcome mat, is he? Nothing's working. Which figures. As soon as I embrace my heritage, you vanish.

  Zod : Given what you've told me about my role in the last days of Krypton, I'm not surprised.

  Clark Kent : Well, he can't blame you for something you haven't done yet.

  Zod : It took you almost a year to warm up to me. I wouldn't expect my discerning old friend to... give me any more latitude.

  Clark Kent : It's all right. I've learned everything I need from this thing anyway.

• Zod : Don't be too quick to dismiss what Jor-El has to offer you, Kal-El.

  Clark Kent : Trust me, I can live without constant lectures and mind games.

  Zod : How about the answers to everything in the universe?

  Clark Kent : Give me a break.

  Zod : I was a skeptic, too. On Krypton, our children are raised to revere the red sun god Rao. Unlike your civilizations, superstition has no place in our beliefs. Religion is science. Not some... mystical questioning of it. Your father left our bible, the Book of Rao, on this Earth. You know what, with all of this, and the knowledge in that book, Kal-El, there is no limits to what we can achieve.

• Zod : [on top of the Space Needle]  It's quite a view.

  Clark Kent : Everything seems so clear from up here. I'm asking myself why it took me so long to see it.

  Zod : Sometimes it just take somebody to share your perspective. If only your father could see us.

  Clark Kent : He can. How would you like to say hello to your old friend Jor-El?

  [a raindrop hits his hand] 

  Clark Kent : But first... let's give the people of Seattle a little surprise.

• Zod : For someone so reticent about joining forces, you certainly wasted no time in destroying Chloe's kryptonite stock hold.

  Clark Kent : I'm sure there's some quote about betrayal stinging you the most when it's from someone you trust.

  Zod : Your father could have rattled it off. You remind me of him.

  Clark Kent : Yeah, I'd rather not hear it. I didn't get the chance to know him like you did.

  Zod : Don't get me wrong, we used to fight... until all hours of the night.

  Clark Kent : What, he was stubborn? Like me?

  Zod : Yeah. But that never meant I didn't respect him. Y-you must have had a friend that you had a connection with, like you were opposite sides of the same soul.

  Clark Kent : Yeah, once. A long time ago.

  Zod : You no longer have to be worried about people envying you, or fearing you, because you have a family now, a family who understands.

  Clark Kent : Good. Maybe it's time to live a little.

• Zod : "Irony. The cleaning baptism that redeems the soul." Kierkegaard. You have to enjoy the paradox. The only thing on their planet that can harm us is a piece of our own.

• Clark Kent : You lied about having powers. How'd you get them?

  Zod : From you. From your blood. When you saved me. It's contradictory, isn't it? But then again, you are the greatest contradiction of all. Dedicating your life to the greater good and at the same time deceiving those you love the most.

  Clark Kent : I'm the one who's been deceived.

  Zod : Oh, come, come, Kal-El. You have become far too calculating to play the naive farm boy anymore. Your closest friends fear you, because they will never understand you, and how could they? You need me. Who else in your world has ever truly been your equal?

  Clark Kent : I have no equal.

  Zod : You really can't see it, can you? A modern-day messiah whose symbol is worshipped by the mere mortals at his feet. A god who rips decisions out of the hands of fate. Now... there is a real threat out there to both of us. And with your map of the kryptonite arsenals, we can take out any defense they have against us. Nothing can stop us. Now the question is... who will you join? Your friends? Your friends who have stockpiled weapons around the world to kill you? Or the one man who weighs the same decisions, struggles with the same dilemmas, and who just saved your life?

• Lois Lane : Really, really bad timing, but I won't hold it against you.

  Zod : [calling as the Blur]  Have you found the information on Mercer I requested?

  Lois Lane : Yeah, she's running a secret underground facility at 4th and Lincoln, where she's testing some red form of meteor rocks. But score one for the obvious column, I think that you already knew that since you saved me from an early obituary, right?

  Zod : [unsure what she means, but covering]  Yeah. What is she experimenting on?

  Lois Lane : You know what, listen, if-if this isn't a matter of life and death, I really... I have to go.