Smallville (TV Series)

Charade (2010)

Blu Mankuma: Franklin W. Stern

Quotes 

• Clark Kent : Uh, Miss Lane is an acquired taste. I-It's just that ever since Tess went away, we've gone through a lot of editors.

  Franklin W. Stern : Well, not for long. The board just launched a global search for the next editor-in-chief. And I intend to make their decision very easy.

  Lois Lane : And you decided to start your campaign by downsizing the desk inventory?

• Franklin W. Stern : I told you to find the story, not be the story. One of you wanna tell me what happened?

  [both are reluctant to speak up] 

  Franklin W. Stern : Let me guess. You two have a lovers' spat?

  Lois Lane : Clark and I don't spat. There was no spatting.

  Clark Kent : What Lois is saying is that we try not to let our personal lives get in the way of our jobs.

  Franklin W. Stern : Well, you don't have to try anymore. Because you're both fired.

• Franklin W. Stern : I've been, uh... reading through the personnel files, to identify any red flags. And I understand you two are entangled in an inter-office relationship?

  Lois Lane : [simultaneously]  Heh. No.

  Clark Kent : No, sir.

  Franklin W. Stern : [skeptical]  Yeah. Right. Well, for whatever reason, it seems you're both spending so much time out of the office trying to reel in the big fish, you're not delivering the daily catch.

  Clark Kent : To be fair, sir, we've both turned in some pretty big stories.

  Franklin W. Stern : Here's a bigger one. Our fair city's disgraced D.A., Ray Sacks, just had his life sentence reversed. He gets out of prison today.

  [holding their desk nameplates] 

  Franklin W. Stern : Only one of these stays on the desk at the end of the day. May the best reporter win.

• Lois Lane : [after an intense make-out session in the elevator]  Sometimes I swear you have more than two hands.

  [seeing the hustle and bustle around them] 

  Lois Lane : Either that kiss altered my sense of time and space, or this place is busier than usual. It's a big news day.

  Clark Kent : I think it has something to do with our new editor.

  Lois Lane : Another editor? They should just install a rotating door up there. Obviously our illustrious owner has just spun some big wheel of fortune in the sky to see who'd be steering the ship this week.

  Franklin W. Stern : Well... I guess I pulled the lucky number this week. Franklin Stern. And this live wire must be the lovely and charming Ms. Lane, I presume.