Smallville (TV Series)

Hostage (2010)

Erica Durance: Lois Lane

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• Takeout Guy : Taco Dan's. What can I get you?

  Lois Lane : I know this phone is a direct line to Checkmate, so here's my order. Red queen. Nothing on the side, just her.

  Takeout Guy : Ma'am, this is a Mexican restaurant.

  Lois Lane : Oh, right. Taco Dan's? That the best you can come up with? I thought all you spy guys went to Yale.

  Takeout Guy : Lady, you have the wrong number.

  Lois Lane : Oh, no, Austin Powers. I have your number. I know that you work for a covert organization dedicated to defending the planet from an alien invasion, that your boss was Amanda Waller, and that that little chateau of yours in the Rocky Mountains was blown to bits, probably by aliens after the Book of Rao, which is why you better stop with this guac-and-chips act and get us some face time with the Red Queen right now.

  Perry White : Or else we'll yank Her Majesty off the chessboard and put her on the front page of the Daily Planet!

  Lois Lane : [Guy hangs up]  Maybe that really was a Mexican restaurant

  Perry White : Between this and the dinner disaster, looks like we're both 0 for 2 tonight.

• Lois Lane : Oh, my god. Perry... you've raised the dead. You have single-handedly brought my flat-lined career back to life.

  Perry White : No big deal. I just put in a good word with your boss, Stern.

  Lois Lane : Well, I will never forget this. And neither will Clark.

• Perry White : I got line on the Red Queen. Nairobi. I'm flying out tomorrow.

  Lois Lane : Tomorrow? What about you and Mrs. K?

  Perry White : Oh, I'm not giving up on her yet. Martha's one story I'm not sharing with anyone. So what do you say, kid? Africa?

  Lois Lane : Normally, I would jump at the chance at running away from my problems. But after one day in the trenches with Perry White, I realized I don't have to go anywhere to find my higher calling. I just... I needed to find the hero inside myself.

  Perry White : Goodbye, Lane. You're the real deal.

  Lois Lane : See you, chief.

  Perry White : Oh, and, uh, tell Clark we're even. I owed him one from a long time ago.

• Lois Lane : [waiting for a meet with the Red Queen]  So, is this what it was like when you busted the Star City Strangler?

  Perry White : Did I do that?

  Lois Lane : Yeah.

  Perry White : In the '90s. Ah, those were my fuzzy-navel years. I blacked out most of that decade.

  [a figure in a red coat appears on a nearby rooftop] 

  Perry White : Bogey, 12:00 high.

  Lois Lane : Looks like we've got an audience with the Queen.

• Perry White : Tell us what it's like working together and dating.

  Clark Kent : It's never been better.

  Lois Lane : Hmm. It's kinda like being on a chain gang with your ball and chain.

  Clark Kent : And, you know, sometimes our job gets in the way, but we always work it out.

  Lois Lane : Except when we don't.

  Perry White : Didn't I read an engagement announcement in the Daily Planet?

  Martha Kent : [Lois chokes on her food]  Uh, I thought we weren't gonna bring that up, dear.

  Clark Kent : Lois and I got our signals crossed.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, I don't know how that "I do" slipped out.

• Lois Lane : Mrs. K, I can't keep lying to you. Clark and I aren't working together at the Daily Planet. We were fired. And we aren't taking it slow. We're actually taking a break. The truth is, Clark, I need to find a way to make a difference with my life. And I realize now that I can't look to you or... or even the Blur to make that happen for me. I need to do it on my own. So maybe what we need right now isn't a break. It's a breakup.

• Clark Kent : [after she breaks up]  Lois. Don't do this.

  Lois Lane : If you care about me... then let me go.

• Lois Lane : I gotta hand it to you, Mrs. K. Running Senate subcommittees by day, cooking rocking meals by night. You put the "M" in "modern woman". Me? I put the "T" in "takeout".

  Lois Lane : So, tell me all the news. How are you and Clark?

  Lois Lane : Uh... oh, you know, everything's... peachy. You know us. Chocolate and peanut butter, yin and yang, Tarzan and Jane. Okay, maybe not the pulling hair, jungle love of it all.

  Martha Kent : Perry mentioned you aren't writing together. Is everything okay?

  Lois Lane : Yeah. Have you ever wanted to do something really important with your life?

  [Martha smirks] 

  Lois Lane : Right. The Senator thing kind of says it all.

• Martha Kent : It wasn't easy for me to leave Clark and go to Washington. But a part of me really needed to take that next step.

  Lois Lane : That is exactly how I felt when I was talking to... this friend. We used to work together. And when I helped him, it was like I had a higher purpose. Like I was... saving the world.

  Martha Kent : You know, after the glow of my wedding wore off, I wondered if I'd made a huge mistake following Jonathan to a small town where I didn't fit in. I went from a city socialite headed for law school to being a farmer's wife, marooned on an island of corn.

  Lois Lane : [snickering]  Sounds like "Survivor: Smallville".

  Martha Kent : You can imagine how I felt when I was offered a job interning for a federal judge. I just jumped at the chance. It was such an exciting time in my life.

  Lois Lane : But in the end, you didn't stay.

  Martha Kent : I came home on a rainy weekend and discovered the river was rising. So I pulled on work boots and went down to the river with Jonathan. And we started throwing sandbags. We worked all night holding back a wall of water. When the sun rose... I got to tell twenty families that it was safe to go home again.

  Lois Lane : The city girl saves the day.

  Martha Kent : I didn't know what my purpose really was until that rainy day. I just needed to look inside myself.

• Lois Lane : Is that your next big story?

  Perry White : Yeah. I've been tracking this one for months. Big players. This thing is my white whale, kid. Sorry, I can't share any details.

  Lois Lane : Too bad, Ahab. 'Cause I've got something pretty big on the line, too. It's gonna cause quite a splash.

  Perry White : Oh, well, if it's as huge as you say it is... good luck reeling it in all by yourself.

  Lois Lane : That's true. I don't have Clark right now to help with the heavy lifting. But this puppy sells itself. It is gonna kick your story back to Arts and Leisure.

  Perry White : [laughing she shows him a picture of a Kandorian flying through the air]  You've gotta be kidding me. This is a Goth guy on a trampoline in a jogging suit.

  Lois Lane : No, it's the real thing. I got a call from a... a guy who needed my help. And when I started investigating this shady redhead, I found the mother lode. There are aliens here on our planet. And they are looking for this.

  [showing him a hand-made drawing] 

  Lois Lane : The Book of Rao.

  Perry White : The Book of Rao. Really? I've seen this before.

  Lois Lane : [he moves to take it]  You gotta give some to get some.

• Perry White : A secret government complex in the Rocky Mountains was blown to bits. When I tried to investigate, I was blocked by an operative even the FBI doesn't know about. Code name, Red Queen. Now, I think she's shadowing a secret organization called Checkmate which is fighting some kind of terrorist invasion. And it's all somehow connected with this.

  [he shows her his own picture, which resembles her drawing of the Book of Rao] 

  Lois Lane : Maybe our two stories are really the same story.

• Martha Kent : Lois, hi. You'll stay for dinner, I hope. I've got plenty for the four of us.

  Clark Kent : The four of us?

  Perry White : [entering, dragging a suitcase]  I don't know why you need all these clothes. With my help, you won't be wearing any...

  Martha Kent : [he stops short when he sees Clark]  You remember Perry White?

  Lois Lane : *The* Perry White?

• Clark Kent : [hearing clattering in the farmhouse]  Lois?

  Lois Lane : [startled]  Clark!

  Clark Kent : I'm sorry. I thought you were a, um...

  Lois Lane : Thief? If you can't recognize my butt in a pair of jeans, then what are you thinking about?

• Lois Lane : Excuse me for getting between a man and his tractor, but our unemployment situation has just gone to DEFCON 1.

  Clark Kent : Lois, it's not a matter of life and death.

  Lois Lane : Actually, it is. My phone just got turned off because the Planet stopped paying my cell bill, and half my wardrobe is being held hostage at the dry cleaner's. To top it off, it's as if you're expecting me to single-handedly save our unemployed derrieres, which, lucky for you, I have. I have found a story that will get us corner offices at the Planet with parking on P1. We just have to start now.

  Clark Kent : No, look, I appreciate the offer, Lois, but I can't drop everything right now.

  Lois Lane : Whoa! Hey. I have been pounding back double-double espressos just trying to keep us on some kind of a masthead, and you've been doing what, exactly?

  Clark Kent : I just have some responsibilities that I can't ignore.

  Lois Lane : Well, here's something I can't ignore. I need a purpose. Some kind of bigger mission in life. You don't seem to need that.

  Clark Kent : Lois, you're under a lot of stress right now. I understand that, but maybe you're just overreacting.

  Lois Lane : To what? My life falling apart?

  Clark Kent : Lois, just give me a break.

  Lois Lane : You want a break? Maybe we should take a break. A break from this relationship.

• Lois Lane : Thanks for all your help, Perry. I really needed to get my head into a story right now.

  Perry White : [Sees her apartment is trashed]  Well, either you've been robbed, or I missed a hell of a party.

  Lois Lane : My parties are never that good.

• Perry White : Look, Lane, if for some reason I don't make it and you do...

  Lois Lane : Don't talk like that.

  Perry White : It's not pretty but it has to be said. I think I deserve first position on the byline.

• Lois Lane : [taking a selfie with Perry]  Oh, my god, you've gotta forward this to my high school journalism teacher. Check it out, Mrs. Kreitzman. Me and Perry White. Who's sorry now, biatch?

  Perry White : Sorry, kid. Last thing I need is a Mrs. Kreitzman on my ass. By the way, I've, uh, read some of your stuff. You and Clark are a regular Woodward and Bernstein.