Smallville (TV Series)

Lazarus (2010)

Tom Welling: Clark Kent

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• Clark Kent : Sometimes I think it would be easier if you were here.

  Jonathan Kent : Not a day goes by, Clark, when I don't regret not being able to be right here for you. I would do anything, I would give anything to able to get a second chance to get it right. You got that second chance, son. You could be the greatest hero the world has ever known.

  Clark Kent : Not according to Jor-El.

  Jonathan Kent : Well, then, do what you do best. Prove him wrong. Jor-El was right about one thing. Something dark *is* coming. You're gonna be tested. It's not gonna be easy, son. But I have faith in you.

  Clark Kent : What's coming, Dad?

• Clark Kent : I defeated Lex. I refused to let him win! And I pushed myself harder than before! For a second... I thought I was flying. But I saved everyone. I don't know how, I saved them all. I've finally become the hero you sent me to be.

  Jor-El : [voice]  Pride, vanity. You almost took a man's life, and you dare tell "me" you're following the path "I" set out for "you"?

  Clark Kent : You told me I had unfinished business here, an evil here I had to face! And Lex...

  Jor-El : The evil is "you", Kal-El. The greatest threat Earth will face is coming. It prays on wavering souls like yours. Once this darkness consumes you, you will be Earth's greatest enemy.

  Clark Kent : That's not my fate.

  Jor-El : You cannot be a beacon of hope when you have darkness in your heart.

  Clark Kent : Then why did you send me back? Why did you give me a second chance?

  Jor-El : "I" didn't. I was not "my" decision to give you back your life.

  Clark Kent : You may not see me as a hero, but the rest of the world does! And I decide my fate!

  Jor-El : I regret as a father, my faith in you blinded me to the truth. You will "never" be Earth's savior.

• Lex Luthor Clone : I am dying, Clark. But don't flatter yourself, you didn't do it. I'm just sorry that this mutated body won't last long enough to see the world turn on you.

  Clark Kent : What did you do?

  Lex Luthor Clone : There's an explosion rocking the roof of the The Daily Planet. You can stop the beacon from plummeting into the rush hour traffic, or you can save the woman you love.

  Clark Kent : Lois. Where is she?

  Lex Luthor Clone : Even you aren't fast enough to save both. Today, the world will finally lose faith in its heretic hero! And it will destroy you.

  Clark Kent : Where is she?

  Lex Luthor Clone : Where I first saved you.

• Clark Kent : I died to save the world.

  Jor-El : [voice]  Evil never ends. By sacrificing yourself, you've left the humans vulnerable to future threats.

  Clark Kent : I left a team of heroes behind to protect them.

  Jor-El : You were meant to be Earth's greatest protector. Now they're about to face the greatest evil without you.

  Clark Kent : Then send me back. I know my fate! To step into the light. To be a symbol of hope for them.

  Jor-El : I told you to rule with strength, but you chose the martyr's path. What makes you think you "deserve" a second chance?

  Clark Kent : I can do it. I can be their hero!

• Clark Kent : Where's the *real* Lex?

  Lex Luthor Clone : The creator died two years ago. Nasty truck explosion.

  Clark Kent : If he's not alive, then why...

  Lex Luthor Clone : Why am I? He created us to heal himself. He just didn't live long enough to reap the benefits. You remember this place, don't you? Not far where we first met.

  Clark Kent : The bridge. Yeah, Lex would have died if I hadn't pulled him out of that car.

  Lex Luthor Clone : And you never let me forget it. The truth is, by the time you dragged me to shore, something new had crept into your heart - pride. The most damning of the seven deadly sins. Now you wear that pride on your chest. Right here in that self-righteous symbol. But just beneath it lies the darkness in your heart. Just like me, you are your own worst enemy.

  Clark Kent : I'm nothing like you.

  Lex Luthor Clone : We're more like brothers than you think. That's why you could never stop me. Because deep down inside, you know you brought death and destruction! The only reason anyone ever calls you a hero is because you clean up the disasters you unleash.

• Clark Kent : Dad?

  Jonathan Kent : Chores, Clark. Work keeps a man honest. You got to protect the things you worked hard to build.

• Clark Kent : I've missed you.

  Jonathan Kent : I never stopped watching out for you, Clark.

  Clark Kent : Then you must be disappointed. I... I haven't grown into the man you raised me to be.

  Jonathan Kent : No, you haven't. You are so much more than that. And I'm so proud of you, Clark.

  Clark Kent : That's one dad.

  Jonathan Kent : Since when did you start listening to Jor-El, hmm?

• Clark Kent : I took my anger out on people. I destroyed an entire building. I know now that I have it within me to kill. I failed.

  Jonathan Kent : We're all confronted with trials, son. But the true measure of a man is how he chooses to react in the face of those trials.

  Clark Kent : You never had that problem.

  Jonathan Kent : Come on, son. I'm so far away from perfect. I could never keep my own anger in check. I let it all build up inside me 'til it made my own heart give out. It was my fury, Clark, that drove me to want to kill another man. But instead, it killed me.

  Clark Kent : Lionel. Dad, you were just trying to protect me.

  Jonathan Kent : We can't make excuses for the dark stains on our hearts, son.

  Clark Kent : I don't even know how I got to this place.

  Jonathan Kent : We all make sacrifices, son, and every time we do, we lose a little bit of something in the process. You've sacrificed more than anybody. It'd be too easy to let resentment build up inside, but it's got to come out somewhere.

  Clark Kent : I feel like every time I do something right, I do something wrong.

• Clark Kent : Tess, what happened? I left you at the hospital. Your face...

  Tess Mercer : I have no idea how I got here. But when I woke up, I was completely healed.

  Clark Kent : Wait, everyone else in the building is dead. Who did this?

  Tess Mercer : It was Lex. It was one of his clones. Look, I know. I know this sounds insane. But the real Lex was incubating dozens of them. I think he planned to use parts of their body to heal his own.

  [he breaks the restraint binding her] 

  Tess Mercer : Clark, but this one, this one had to be twenty years older, and he destroyed the rest of them.

  Clark Kent : Why are you still alive?

  Tess Mercer : He told me to give you a message. He said that you can save me. And that when you did, it was finally time for the two of you to face off. He's in Lawson's Field.

• Clark Kent : Chloe, I know you can hear me. You're the strongest person that I know when you're fighting for the rest of us. Don't lose that now when you need it the most. Don't give up, Chloe.

  Chloe Sullivan : [waking up]  Fire. It's all burning. Clark... I'm so sorry.

  [gasping she she sits up] 

  Chloe Sullivan : I have to find him.

  Clark Kent : Find who?

  Chloe Sullivan : Oliver. Someone took him when you were fighting Zod. They threatened to take all of us. So I put on Fate's helmet. I couldn't lose him.

• Clark Kent : I found a research facility linked to LuthorCorp that wasn't in your files. Cadmus Labs. Can you dig up an address for me?

  Chloe Sullivan : Sorry, Clark, I would, but I'm not exactly at Watchtower right now.

  Helmet of Nabu : She's here. Foolish girl.

  Clark Kent : Who was that?

  Helmet of Nabu : Brave, but not chosen. Love is dangerous. Nabu knows.

  Clark Kent : Chloe, where are you?

  Chloe Sullivan : Sorry, Clark, but I knew you'd only try and stop me.

• Clark Kent : I thought you'd be in Africa by now.

  Lois Lane : [hugging him]  I postponed my trip. Maybe indefintely.

  Clark Kent : [seeing Daily Planets scattered on her desk]  This wouldn't have anything to do with the Blur, would it?

  Lois Lane : Well, kind of. Turns out he needs me after all.

  Clark Kent : Really? Well, what makes you say that?

  Lois Lane : Well, I'll tell you, Clark. He just wrapped me up in his muscular arms, pulled me close, and landed the most passionate kiss on my lips. I can't lie to you. It was great.

  Clark Kent : [half-smiling to himself]  Well, that was bold.

  Lois Lane : Grabbing women from the shadows, lip-smacking them, and then running off into the night? Kind of makes you wonder what other little twisted fetishes he has in his toolbox.

• Lois Lane : So, Clark, did you come here for a reason? Pressing story, maybe?

  Clark Kent : Actually, yeah, I'm on a really tight, uh, deadline.

  Lois Lane : [accidentally-on-purpose dropping her pen]  Whoops, would you look at that? I dropped my pen. I'm just gonna... look for it.

  [crawling under her desk] 

  Lois Lane : [finding it]  Normally, I wouldn't deal with all these dust bunnies, but it's... kind of my favorite pen. Not seeing it. Where are you, pen?

  [believing she's unaware, he whooshes over to a filing cabinet and back] 

  Lois Lane : [smirking to herself]  Found it.

• Chloe Sullivan : You survived. How did you...

  Clark Kent : I didn't. Zod stabbed me with blue kryptonite. It kept us from ascending. I took the knife away from him and sent him away. And I guess I kind of... kind of died. But I'm here now, and what about the others? Did they make it?

  Chloe Sullivan : They're fine. Can we go back to the part where you died?

  Clark Kent : It was more of a near-death experience. Jor-El told me that a greater evil was coming. He sent me back to fight it.

  Chloe Sullivan : Okay, I'm all for second chances, but did he happen to give this greater evil a name?

  Clark Kent : No, Chloe, before I left, I saw Lex. Dr. Fate said that he would be my ultimate opponent.

  Chloe Sullivan : Coming back to life, not exactly covered by an HMO.

• Chloe Sullivan : I kept a pretty close eye on any Luthor flare-ups. I mean, Level 3, Metro Pharmaceuticals, 33.1. Clark, all these projects are dead.

  Clark Kent : Well, maybe he revived something from years ago.

  Chloe Sullivan : Way back when there wasn't much digital record to track. You know, Clark, if they did a story on this at the Daily Planet, they would have a hard copy stored in the archives.

  Clark Kent : I didn't get rid of Zod just to let some other evil take his place.

• Clark Kent : Am I dead?

  Jor-El : You're teetering on the abyss between life and death, which is why I'm still able to reach you.

  Clark Kent : My father's grave. Why show me this?

  Jor-El : [brushing corn stalks aside, he sees it reads "Clark Kent"]  After you die, this stone will be all that is left of you in the world.