Smallville (TV Series)

Charade (2010)

Erica Durance: Lois Lane

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• 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?

• The Blur : [voice]  I'm sorry. This is our last conversation.

  Lois Lane : [into a phone]  Last conversation today or for a while? If you have go back on another hiatus, I understand. I'll be there.

  The Blur : [voice]  As in, our last talk... forever.

  Lois Lane : No.

  The Blur : [voice]  Our relationship put you at risk. I know that we would do anything to protect each other. What if, one day, I'm too late?

  Lois Lane : But you don't understand. I don't care about the risk. When I'm working with you, I'm doing something good, something right.

  The Blur : [voice]  You don't need me for that.

  Lois Lane : But I do need you, and maybe I didn't realize until it was too late, but this is the more important part of my life.

  The Blur : [voice]  Well, there must be some other part that means more to you.

  Lois Lane : When I'm with you, it's about more than what I want, who I want. It is something that is bigger than me.

  The Blur : [voice]  I wish things could be different, Lois. This is the only way I can protect you. I won't call again. If anyone calls claiming to... to be me, don't believe them. No matter what they say or what happens, you can't trust them.

  Lois Lane : No, please.

  The Blur : [voice]  I will be watching over you. I promise. Goodbye, Lois.

• 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.

• Clark Kent : I'm glad you still came up after what we talked about on the street.

  Lois Lane : It's beautiful, Clark. Thank you.

  Clark Kent : [seeing her face]  What is it, Lois? You know you can tell me anything.

  Lois Lane : Can I? Then why did I lie to you?

  Clark Kent : We both agreed we would keep some things to ourselves.

  Lois Lane : I've been talking to the Blur, Clark. Doing things for him, sharing things with him that I couldn't share with you.

  Clark Kent : It was probably just the reporter blood in you, right?

  Lois Lane : It was more than that. But we... I talked to him and it's over. He doesn't want me in his life anymore.

  Clark Kent : Well, there's someone standing right here who still does.

• Clark Kent : He meant a lot to you, didn't he?

  Lois Lane : It's not like this, with you. I wish you could understand what it felt like to have this... a calling. A duty to people i-in the world. It made my feelings for you and everything else seem...

  Clark Kent : Selfish. Like there's a whole world out there that needs you, but if you take anything from it for yourself, it's at someone else's expense. Lois, I do understand.

  Lois Lane : How?

  Clark Kent : I guess, with him gone, the question is... am I enough?

• Clark Kent : [calling as the Blur]  Thank you for coming.

  Lois Lane : Well, when the Blur leaves a handwritten message, you better believe I'm there. Chalk it up to the curiosity of a recently unemployed reporter, but since we've been doing this cell-to-cell, why are back to doing this old-school?

  Clark Kent : I wanted to have this conversation in a place that meant something to both of us.

  Lois Lane : Wow, sounds awfully official. But, hey, you're the boss.

• Lois Lane : [seeing a reflection of the Blur behind her]  You're here.

  [resisting the urge to turn around] 

  Lois Lane : I... I can't know who you are. I'd give anything to see your face. To know your name. But you can't protect us if we know who you are. I understand that now.

  [Clark puts a comforting hand on her shoulder] 

  Lois Lane : Go.

• Lois Lane : Three years of selfless service to this paper, and the new editor on the block just up and fires me.

  Clark Kent : Well, not just you, Lois.

  Lois Lane : Well, at least one of us would have kept their job if you hadn't been so obsessed with unmasking the Blur. I don't know how you found out about that photo, but crashing Sacks' party? Just how many hurdles are you willing to jump to expose the person that I'm trying to protect?

  Clark Kent : Well, you jumped out of a cake, Lois, and you slugged me.

  Lois Lane : It was just a distraction. I had to do something extreme to destroy that extremely dangerous picture, no thanks to you.

  Clark Kent : Lois...

  Lois Lane : No, save it. I don't know why you suddenly have it in for the Blur, but whatever you're gonna tell me right now isn't gonna make a difference. I'm seeing a whole other side of you, Clark, and for the first time... I'm not a fan of the view.

• Lois Lane : [getting an idea of how to sneak into Sacks' party]  Piece of cake.

• Clark Kent : I need to find whoever's lying to Lois using my identity. She said she had something to tell him.

  Chloe Sullivan : And you want Watchtower to trace the call. Got it.

  Lois Lane : I would have called you on my cell, but I can't find it. Listen, someone photographed you on their phone and they're about to sell it to Ray Sacks. I don't know when you'll get this, so I'll blitz his bash at Maxwell's and try to run interference. But you need to get there as soon as you can.

• Clark Kent : Lois, stop. Who are you calling?

  Lois Lane : It's not important, Clark.

  Clark Kent : No, that's the Blur, isn't it?

  Lois Lane : Why would you think that? And what are you even doing here?

  Clark Kent : Lois, you told me that you stopped talking to the Blur. All those secrets that you've been keeping from me. It's him, isn't it?

  Lois Lane : Okay, this is between the Blur and me. That's all I can tell you.

  Clark Kent : Lois, do you even know who you're really talking to?

  Lois Lane : Okay, what's going on here? Clark, you don't need to be jealous.

  Clark Kent : No, I'm not. I just... Lois... I need to know who that is.

  Lois Lane : [scoffing]  You did not just ask me that. Is this about the story? You want me to give up the Blur just to save our job?

  Clark Kent : Lois, I'm trying to save you. Don't... don't you think that sometimes you might have a little too much blind faith?

  Lois Lane : Why? Because if he trusted me, he'd show himself? Is that it?

  Clark Kent : Lois... okay, I need you to listen to me.

  Lois Lane : No, Clark. I am sure he is dying to tell me. But how could anyone who cares about me put me in that kind of position? I-I-If I knew his true identity, then every lowlife with high hopes of hurting him would come after me. And he would never put me in that kind of danger just to get his secret off his back. That's why I trust him.

• Lois Lane : [to the Blur]  Thank you for saving my bacon. I'd be two strips of pain on the pavement if you hadn't gotten my call.

  Clark Kent : What call?

  Lois Lane : You have no idea what it means that you trusted me enough to let me help you these past weeks. I have never felt such a sense of purpose in my entire life. Whatever you need, you can count on me.

• Lois Lane : I don't know what's worse, Clark. That they freed the D.A. that threw me off the roof or that our editor threw us in the ring to wrestle for the same desk.

  Clark Kent : Don't worry, if we land a big enough story, we can save both our jobs. Now, in order for him to reverse his sentence, Sacks must still have powerful friends down at City Hall. And according to the underground blogs, he's having a welcome home party at Maxwell's.

  Lois Lane : Crime kingpins like to keep out the outsiders. It'd be easier to crash the White House than it would be to sneak into that party.

• Lois Lane : [leaving a message for the Blur]  Hey, it's me, Lois. Guess you're out. It's strange to think that I can leave a message for the Blur; I mean, well, not strange weird. It's just, you know what I mean, it's hard to picture the Blur screening his calls. Not that you'd be screening my calls or anything, but I just...

  [beep] 

  Lois Lane : Me again. Got cut off. You know, that's not a lot of time for someone to leave a message. That beep comes at you pretty fast. Then again, you are the Blur, of course. I'm sure you'd like it fast, but I just...

  [beep] 

  Lois Lane : Here's the deal. I'm on a story about our deadly ex-D.A. Now, normally, I'd be working with my partner and reporting, but I wanna keep him safe, secure, and as far away from Sacks and his murderous mob as I can. Clark's not bulletproof, but you are. Be my wingman?

• Lois Lane : Mr. Sacks. Lois Lane from the Daily Planet. You may remember me from the roof of the Daily Planet.

  Ray Sacks : Oh, yes. Yes, I remember you. You have a nasty habit of always landing on your feet, don't you, Lane?

  Lois Lane : And now I need to land a story. So who let you out of your cage? Since I'm the one that you sent skydiving without a parachute, I figure I'm at least owed a quote.

  Ray Sacks : You have too much faith in the Blur, Lane. To think you can meet with me like this alone.

  Lois Lane : [he snaps his fingers, and a brutish thug appears]  My editor knows where I am. Hurt me, and you'll be back behind bars before this pizza cools off.

  Ray Sacks : Oh, I won't hurt you, no. He will. And this time, they won't find me guilty because they'll never find your body.

• 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.

• Clark Kent : [awkwardly making conversation]  Did you already get my message?

  Lois Lane : Yep.

  Clark Kent : So we're still on for tonight?

  Lois Lane : Definitely.

  Clark Kent : What's in the box?

  Lois Lane : A surprise.

  Clark Kent : It's gonna be a long day.

  Lois Lane : Yep.

  Clark Kent : How about a sneak preview?

• 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.

• Lois Lane : Can you believe it? I'm early.

  Chloe Sullivan : Uh, no. Lois, early is when you arrive at your destination by a set time. Not when you can see it from seven blocks away.

  Lois Lane : Uh-uh. Nobody's raining on this girl's parade today. Clark's taking me up to the roof tonight to do a little stargazing.

  Chloe Sullivan : Okay. That explains the 911 to the Craigslist queen.

  Lois Lane : [taking a wooden box]  Long live the queen. I can't believe you got one so fast.

  [opening it to reveal an extending telescope] 

  Lois Lane : I kinda noticed that Clark has this thing for telescopes. Do you think he'll like it?

  Chloe Sullivan : I think he'll love it.

• Chloe Sullivan : What is it exactly about a telescope that merits 76 trombones and a big parade?

  Lois Lane : Well... tonight's the night. In the words of the general... it's time to drop the L bomb.

  Chloe Sullivan : What? You mean to tell me that you guys haven't volleyed *the* word yet?

  Lois Lane : Among other significant relationship milestones. I don't know. Things used to be easier with Clark. Back in the days when you'd wake up and the first thing you'd do is check for a text or an e-mail and it'd be there waiting for you. Anyway, things have been different ever since we decided we could keep secrets from each other. But that's all changing tonight.

  Chloe Sullivan : Wait a minute. Secrets? Uh, changing? How?

  Lois Lane : No more secrets. It's time to take our baggage out of the closet. I mean, if we L each other, then... nothing should come between us, right?