- Clark Kent: I let myself in.
- Oliver Queen: Terrific. You, uh, hop up to the helipad or just superspeed past security, Clark?
- Clark Kent: I used the elevator.
- Oliver Queen: How human of you.
- Zod: Why don't you join me against our common enemy?
- Green Arrow: Well, I'm flattered, but if I let you go after Checkmate, you'll start World War III.
- [aims his bowcast at Zod]
- Green Arrow: It's not an option.
- Zod: Your conviction is admirable. But you can't possibly think you're faster than me.
- Green Arrow: I've always been taught to favor accuracy over speed.
- Chloe Sullivan: [to Tess] I knew you were the Kandorians' lapdog, but I didn't realize you were Zod's little bitch, too.
- Chloe Sullivan: We got three minutes of air left. You think Checkmate will find us before then?
- Tess Mercer: Asphyxiation or firing squad.
- Chloe Sullivan: Damned if we do, damned if we don't.
- Tess Mercer: Just damned. I just wanted to save the world.
- Chloe Sullivan: That's funny. Last time I checked, you were just trying to get rid of everyone in it.
- Zod: I've trusted you for so very long. Depended on you across time and space. But in your eyes, I just see contempt. I see betrayal. Now, why would you turn your back on me? I shared my bed with you.
- Faora: I didn't turn my back on *you*. You turned your back on us when our only crime was trying to forge a life for ourselves on this planet.
- Zod: If I ever learned that insurrection had spread across my ranks, if I ever discovered that my men had aligned themselves against me, I would raze this planet. I would burn it to the ground till the last ember went cold beneath my boot! Now only I *will* lead us to the next age. All will follow Zod.
- Faora: You already sacrificed one world for your ego.
- Zod: You know nothing of sacrifice.
- Faora: I know more than you ever will.
- Zod: Kneel.
- Faora: Never.
- Coffee Vendor: You know, I've been meaning to ask. What kind of job has a pretty young lady working all night, every night?
- Chloe Sullivan: Actually, I work for a non-profit organization. We help people in need.
- Coffee Vendor: Trying to save the world, huh?
- Chloe Sullivan: All night, every night.
- Clark Kent: Vala, if there's anyone who really knows what you sister wanted, it's you. It was peace, Vala. She wanted peace.
- Vala: No. Zod's right. The humans will never allow Kandor peace.
- Basqat: They will hunt us to the last man. But they will fail, for we shall *never* be defeated. We will follow General Zod to the ends of this Earth.
- Zod: Krypton *will* rise again. And all humankind will kneel before Zod.
- Clark Kent: I'll never let that happen!
- Zod: You won't be able to stop us.
- Zod: Why don't you just murder me now? Isn't that what your race does?
- Oliver Queen: Sometimes. And I would love to, believe me, but although inconvenient and a lot less fun, now. I made a commitment to Clark to help save the world peacefully. Now, that said, you bulldoze me again, I might have a change of heart.
- Chloe Sullivan: In the event that I die of starvation or, oh, say a ricocheting bullet, do you mind telling me how you got in here?
- Tess Mercer: You're sloppy, Chloe. I've got thousands of samples of your DNA from all the times you've spied on me. It's called a DNA cloak.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, aren't you fancy.
- Chloe Sullivan: [Going through Tess's purse] Okay, if I was hiding a transmitting tracking device, I would want to make it as unassuming as possible. Which means I can probably count this out. "Fever"-colored lipstick? Really?
- Tess Mercer: Well, I was gonna go with Plain Jane, but you seem to have that market cornered.
- Zod: What was to be the first son of Kandor is no more. Now we, the last sons and daughters of Krypton, have no choice but to preserve our birthright. The humans killed the mother of my unborn child. The mother of your future.
- Clark Kent: [entering] That's a lie. The last time that I saw Faora, she was alive. And she was alone... with Zod.
- Zod: Why should they believe you? This traitor saved the life of the woman who held you hostage. The woman who wanted to dissect you. Who wanted to torture you. Murder you.
- Chloe Sullivan: Please tell me you found that Z-branding bastard so we can slap him back across the universe.
- Clark Kent: Zod's on the move, and there's no sign of Faora or the Kandorians. Maybe if I can reach the others, I can talk some sense into them.
- Chloe Sullivan: [glancing at a news report of a burning building] We may be too late for that. That's the Castle. God. Zod's attacked Checkmate.
- Clark Kent: Oliver was personal. With this, Zod just declared war.
- Chloe Sullivan: [her phone beeps] You're not gonna like where he's gathering his troops. My eye in the sky above the Fortress is picking up movement.
- Zod: Seems like a lifetime ago when I pulled you out of that rubble, doesn't it?
- Faora: The siege of Argo. There were many losses that day.
- Zod: Not for me. Because I found a young and... beautiful cadet who would become my trusted right hand. Oh, you were so brave in the face of death. I knew then that you would be a true partner.
- Amanda Waller: Our field offices were just leveled by the one you call Zod.
- Faora: We knew nothing about this. Zod is acting alone. We stand apart. We only want peace.
- Amanda Waller: Dozens of my agents are dead. We are way past peace.
- Faora: Then we will help you stop him.
- Amanda Waller: Defecting means betraying your own kind.
- Faora: I'm only betraying one.
- Tess Mercer: I really didn't think you'd do it. Bring me back.
- Chloe Sullivan: Neither did I.
- [Tess unsteadily gets to her feet and moves to the door]
- Chloe Sullivan: [shutting it] Just for the record, I just saved your ass. You say anything about me or mine to anyone... next time, you won't wake up. You understand?
- Tess Mercer: I guess you'll have to trust me.
- Tess Mercer: Atropine? What the hell are you gonna do with that?
- Chloe Sullivan: There's no time. Look. If you're right, and that transmitter is powered by your biorhythms, then the only way that I can turn it off is to stop your heart. I have to kill you, Tess. And this is the only way I'm gonna bring you back.
- Tess Mercer: [Chloe turns on a defibrillator] You're asking for a pretty big leap of faith here.
- Chloe Sullivan: You're gonna have to trust me.
- Vala: Please. Our people have done nothing. Where are you taking us?
- [a hood is put over her head; sounds of commotion follow, and the hood is removed, revealing Clark]
- Clark Kent: [helping her to her feet] Vala, where's your sister?
- Vala: They took her.
- Tess Mercer: I don't get it. You're in the clear. We escaped before Checkmate got a hit on Watchtower's address.
- Chloe Sullivan: That doesn't make you any less of a liability, Tess. You still know the secret identities of all my valuable players.
- Tess Mercer: There's no sense in both of us getting captured.
- Chloe Sullivan: I'm not letting you out of my sight until we get rid of your little friend.
- Faora: I know how much I am asking of you in standing against Zod. I will not let my child be raised under a tyrant's rule. We cannot let our future be guided by a tyrant's hand. Our past ended in war. Let our future begin with peace.
- Amanda Waller: Change of plans, Agent Campbell.
- Stuart Campbell: Change of plans? We just made contact with Mercer's tracker.
- Amanda Waller: I don't care about Mercer or Watchtower. We decrypted the data. We found the aliens. Checkmate is going to stop this war before it gets started. Waller out.
- Stuart Campbell: [she ends the transmission] We've got her 20. Now lock her down. I'm not losing her.
- Paul Brenner: Sir, you heard Waller. We have our orders.
- Stuart Campbell: I just spent the last five months in recovery from what Mercer did to me. Now, this op... is over when I say it's over, understood?
- Faora: Zod's been looking for something ever since we arrived. The Book of Rao.
- Clark Kent: Zod said the Book of Rao was some sort of Kryptonian bible.
- Faora: It's so much more than that. It wields great power. And if Zod were to get his hands on it... then who knows what he would do?
- Faora: [Clark shows her Jor-El's journal] Zod. He destroyed Krypton.
- Clark Kent: My father sent those messages here to Earth to help me stop history from repeating itself. I trusted Zod, too. That's why I didn't tell you any of this sooner. Look, the circumstances may be different, but Zod cannot be trusted. On Krypton, he destroyed that planet to prove a point. We can't let him do the same thing here.
- Faora: I'd hoped what Zod had given me would reunite our people.
- Clark Kent: What he gave you? At the ceremony, your sister was protecting you.
- [he notices her subtly touch her stomach; with his super-hearing, he hearts a heartbeat]
- Clark Kent: You're pregnant. And Zod's the father?
- [she nods, crying]
- Clark Kent: This baby is proof that you can still have a life here, apart from Zod without powers. Faora... Krypton lives on through you.
- Chloe Sullivan: They broke through the final firewall. Checkmate's gonna be here any minute.
- Tess Mercer: As long as they torture us with the AC on, I'll die happy.
- Chloe Sullivan: [getting an idea as Tess puts her water bottle to her forehead] Cold.
- [running over to a cabinet]
- Chloe Sullivan: Okay, Watchtower's cooling system uses a special mix of liquid helium and nitrogen. Cold enough to shatter steel.
- Tess Mercer: [Chloe tosses her a gun clip] What are you waiting for?
- Chloe Sullivan: If I pull these tanks, then the mainframe melts. All my work. Watchtower is gone.
- Tess Mercer: If you don't, we die.
- Tess Mercer: Paint my ideals however you want. But you and yours don't trust people any more than I do. This entire building was programmed to prevent anyone from getting close to you.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, I guess I lost my faith in people a long time ago, too.
- Tess Mercer: It's why you won't let Oliver get close to you.
- Chloe Sullivan: And why I can't blame him when he eventually leaves.
- Tess Mercer: He's not gonna leave you. With you, he has a purpose. I wish I could have given him that. And it kills me. 'Cause you have everything right in front of you and you can't even see it.
- Zod: You are unmistakably the one they call Green Arrow. A rebel with many causes.
- Green Arrow: Glad to know my reputation still precedes me. You must be Zod. Soldier with no army.
- Zod: Hmm. I see my reputation precedes me, too.
- Green Arrow: Guessing by the looks of him, I'm not the only ones waiting for Tess.
- Zod: Oh, yeah, him. I find it disgusting how quickly you humans can... betray your own. Now, that one... he gave up all sorts of useful information before he died about something your government called Checkmate. And about who they're after.
- Green Arrow: Not too long ago, a gift-wrapped me was at the top of that wish list.
- Zod: And now Tess is. Checkmate is using her to get to us. Hunting us to the death.
- Clark Kent: I'm glad you've found a way to preserve our culture here on Earth.
- Faora: I wish everyone saw it that way. Zod disappeared and took the rest of our people with him.
- Clark Kent: I don't understand. I thought all of you'd found a new life here on Earth.
- Faora: We were wrong to follow you, Kal-El. When we did what you asked, and tried to assimilate with the humans, we were left behind. We're gathered here, waiting for Zod's return to ask his forgiveness.
- Clark Kent: I'm sorry, Faora. I never meant to divide our people. But you cannot realign with Zod.
- Faora: You've never trusted him, Kal-El. All Zod wanted was to give us powers so we could protect ourselves.
- Clark Kent: Zod already has powers. He's had them for weeks. Faora, there's something you need to see.
- Tess Mercer: How much could have been leaked in the blink of an eye?
- Chloe Sullivan: Watchtower downloads what amounts to the Library of Congress every three seconds. Which means in half that time, Checkmate could have attained my entire team's database.
- Tess Mercer: And all of your files on the Kandorians.
- Chloe Sullivan: Now, if it wasn't planted in your things, it must be on you.
- Tess Mercer: What?
- [Chloe runs a metal detector wand over her]
- Tess Mercer: Chloe, this is ridiculous, okay?
- Chloe Sullivan: [getting a reading on Tess' right shoulder blade] It's in your body, Tess. Just beneath your skin.
- Tess Mercer: Get it out of me. Now.
- Chloe Sullivan: [cutting her with a scalpel] Oh, my god. It moved.
- Tess Mercer: When it feels threatened, it burrows deeper into the host. We'll never get it out now.
- Chloe Sullivan: How did you know that?
- Tess Mercer: It's a Checkmate device. A mechanical parasite powered by the host's biorhythms.
- Chloe Sullivan: You know what they say. You lie down with dogs, you end up with fleas.
- Tess Mercer: Laugh it up, Chloe, but when Checkmate finds us, we'll both be dead.
- Amanda Waller: We're trying to sort out the data we siphoned from Watchtower before they blocked us. What is your status?
- Stuart Campbell: We've narrowed the location within a 20-block radius.
- Amanda Waller: Good. We can't afford to make a mistake with the Red Queen so close. Don't make me regret putting my little white knight back in play.
- Stuart Campbell: There's no need to worry. We're gonna have Watchtower in Checkmate's hands by dawn.
- Amanda Waller: Godspeed, Agent Campbell. Waller out.
- Stuart Campbell: [the call ends] You heard the wall, gentlemen. Let's show Mercer how we feel about a little thing called treason.
- Tess Mercer: You know, getting in doesn't really seem to be our issue right now. How the hell do we get out of here?
- Chloe Sullivan: Short answer? It's impossible. When Checkmate kidnapped me, I upgraded Watchtower's security to contain intruders like you. The only problem is I was supposed to be on the outside.
- [Tess takes out her cell phone]
- Chloe Sullivan: Seriously? The lockdown prevents any signals from getting in or out.
- Chloe Sullivan: Now, Watchtower didn't react because you attacked me. We're on lockdown because some hacking transmitter was detected. 'Cause the initial signal managed to pirate some data before my firewall blocked it, and the thing is still alive. It's trying to break through another firewall, Tess. It's trying to give away our location. What did you bring in here?
- Tess Mercer: Nothing. All I wanted to do is erase any info you had on the Kandorians, not re-route it.
- Chloe Sullivan: If you're not behind this, there's only one other group I can think of that wants Watchtower this badly.
- Oliver Queen: You're obviously not on patrol tonight. What's going on?
- Clark Kent: I need to find Zod.
- Oliver Queen: You know Chloe? She's got this really big building filled with a lot of expensive stuff I paid a lot of money for. She could probably help you out with that.
- Clark Kent: The last thing we need is to have a weapon like Watchtower fall into the wrong hands. I wanna keep Chloe out of the line of fire. I figured you'd agree with that.
- Oliver Queen: Keep Chloe out of the line of fire? What the hell's going on?
- Clark Kent: Zod. He went after Lois. He pretended to be the Blur and he put her in danger.
- Oliver Queen: I think it's time to take off the gloves.
- Clark Kent: Look, I need you on this. But I can't have you starting a fight with Zod if I'm trying to keep the peace.
- Oliver Queen: Clark, I know you like to see the goodness in everyone, but you know what this guy's capable of, right?
- Clark Kent: And I know what you're capable of. I understand how you feel. Don't think I'm not angry, too. But I can't have you firing off the first shot and threatening everything I've worked for. These are my people that we're talking about. My first real chance to have a Kryptonian family here on Earth. And we need to find Zod and confront him my way.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, all right, man. I got your back.
- Clark Kent: Then suit up. Check the mansion. Before Tess went off the grid, she got close to Zod. She may have left behind some intel. I have another lead I wanna run down on my own.
- Oliver Queen: [he moves to leave] Hey, Clark. You know, those Kandorians... they're not the only family you have here.
- Chloe Sullivan: How did you find out my secret?
- Tess Mercer: Oliver's voice wavered when I told him that Watchtower had been kidnapped. And I've seen the way he looks at you. It's the little things a girl tends to notice.
- Chloe Sullivan: And yet you somehow missed an unloaded gun.
- Tess Mercer: [holding a gun on Chloe after Watchtower is locked down] It's in your best interest to get these doors open, now.
- Chloe Sullivan: [hurrying to one of her computers, but being denied access] We're not going anywhere. Watchtower's in control now.
- Chloe Sullivan: Don't tell me you forgot about your favorite customer.
- Coffee Vendor: I thought you forgot about me. You're late.
- Chloe Sullivan: I'll have the usual, please.
- Coffee Vendor: All I got left is strong and burnt.
- Chloe Sullivan: As long as it's hot.