Smallville (TV Series)

Icarus (2010)

Tom Welling: Clark Kent

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• Clark Kent : You don't make it easy to ask a simple question. But that's what makes you you. The woman I want to spend my life with. The woman that I love. Lois Lane, will you marry me?

  Lois Lane : Yes.

• Oliver Queen : Clark, come on. Now the whole world thinks I'm a terrorist. I mean, that's not exactly something you want on your fortune 500 bio or at your wedding, so...

  Clark Kent : Well, that's too bad, 'cause I was just about to invite you to be my best man. You're the guy who stands next to me on the worst days of my life. And I want you there for the best one, too.

  Oliver Queen : Hey, I - you kidding? Absolutely. Thank you.

  Carter Hall : All I can say is when it comes to planning the wedding, just nod. A *lot*.

  Oliver Queen : Well, you would know, right? I mean, you married Shayera, what, a hundred times now?

  Dr. Emil Hamilton : Well, I've heard of relationships that withstand the test of time, but that's remarkable. Oh, or not, I suppose. For you.

• Lois Lane : I'll get you help. Okay?

  Carter Hall : No. It's too late. Hey. I'm a pro at dying, remember?

  Clark Kent : I should have been there, Carter. I'm sorry.

  Carter Hall : Can't always be you, Clark. This is all our fight. Listen. Listen! This is what we do. And my passing means I'll be with Shayera again.

  Clark Kent : I owe you so much, I don't even know how to begin to thank you.

  Carter Hall : You just did. You hold on to her. Because there has to be a balance, Clark. We can't do what we have to do if there's an emptiness in our hearts. Remember that.

  Clark Kent : I will. I promise.

  Carter Hall : Oh, I am sorry I won't be able to help you fight the darkness. But you have all the help that you need.

• Slade Wilson : I was wondering how long you'd hide and let your friends take the fall.

  Clark Kent : I heard the explosion. You were in it. How did you...

  Slade Wilson : Survive? Let's just say the Reaper can swing his sickle at me, but I'm beyond death's stroke now.

• Lois Lane : Sorry! I'm sorry. I was hung up on a phone call with the mayor, then Tess pushed my deadline, but I know we said 8:00, so I'm...

  Clark Kent : Right on time. For you.

  Lois Lane : Well, I bet even you couldn't run faster in these heels.

  Clark Kent : I wouldn't look nearly as good. What do you say we take your shoes and my sport coat and go get a nice dinner?

  Lois Lane : Smallville, you're not wearing a sport coat.

  [he whooshes away and returns with a sport coat on] 

  Lois Lane : Showoff.

• Carter Hall : So much for going off the grid.

  Clark Kent : Carter. What are you doing here?

  Carter Hall : Probably the same thing as you... looking for answers. Besides, I've adopted a rule over the centuries... don't go underground until you're dead.

• Clark Kent : I promised Lois she and I would be together. But what if we can't? I mean, literally. If her only relationship was with The Blur and not Clark Kent, I'm not sure what kind of marriage that'll be.

  Oliver Queen : Wait a second. Don't tell me you're thinking about canceling the wedding, because, I got to tell you, I just started working on the speech, and It's looking good.

  Carter Hall : You're not supposed to be here.

  Oliver Queen : Well, you're not supposed to be here, either. All right? So I guess that makes three of us. What are we doing? We're supposed to be heroes. We're supposed to be setting an example for the kids. We can't even follow orders. Even if we gave them.

• Clark Kent : Where's Lois?

  Slade Wilson : Your problem is you think other people define your life, but the truth is they just get in the way.

  Clark Kent : You don't believe that. I know you had a family before.

  Slade Wilson : A soldier can fight for others, but he cannot afford to love them. You and I don't need to fight, Clark. Let them go. Come and join me. We can put all this to an end.

  Clark Kent : Never.

• Slade Wilson : You know, when I named this operation Icarus, it was because I believed that your fall would ultimately come from your faith in your own invincibility. But then to actually see a man with burning wings plummet from the sky. God, I do enjoy the irony.

  Clark Kent : What did you do?

  [whooshing around Slade as he walks away] 

  Clark Kent : Where are they?

  Slade Wilson : Dead.

  Clark Kent : You're lying.

  Slade Wilson : You know I'm not, because a true soldier does whatever it takes to finish the mission.

  Clark Kent : Then consider this finished.

• Oliver Queen : I was thinking about Slade and that mega mark darkness thing.

  Carter Hall : Omega.

  Oliver Queen : Well, whatever. Anyway, the darkness has to be driving everything somehow. Right? Because I've seen hatred before. And I've never seen anything like this.

  Carter Hall : Well, live long enough and you will. I've seen this level of hatred before. Humanity's darkest hours. The Spanish Inquisition. The Third Reich.

  Clark Kent : You're saying the darkness has been here before.

  Carter Hall : Several times. But every time it looked like the world would be consumed by hatred and darkness, another force arose, a much brighter one, to send the darkness back.

  Clark Kent : And you had something to do with that? Well, this time it's us. And we need to start by stopping Slade.

  Carter Hall : Well, that's easier said than done. Justice isn't only blind right now, it's broken. There's no way the authorities will keep that... dog in a cage.

  Clark Kent : Maybe they won't, but I might have a place to put him until we can make things right. A place where he can't hurt anybody.

• Courtney Whitmore : It's not just the government against us, now the people have turned on us, too.

  Black Canary : With Slade alive, we can't exist. He knows too much about us.

  Carter Hall : So until Slade's been dealt with, it's got to be radio silence between us.

  Clark Kent : We have to go underground. Our lives as we knew them are over. Courtney Whitmore, studying abroad. Carter Hall, on sabbatical.

  Carter Hall : And Clark Kent?

  Clark Kent : Gone.

  Oliver Queen : So now we're all card-carrying members of the fugitive club.

  Clark Kent : We have to protect the secrets we still have. So until it's safe... I'm shutting down Watchtower.

• Clark Kent : You gonna stitch that up yourself or call Emil?

  Oliver Queen : You should see the other guys.

  Clark Kent : I did. On television. Why didn't you call me?

  Oliver Queen : It's... it's my fault. I-I figured you could use some time alone with Lois.

  Carter Hall : I told the human speed bag you'd want to know he got his bell rung.

• Courtney Whitmore : I thought you said that Slade died in the explosion.

  Slade Wilson : [on TV]  Like so many of you, I am a victim of a vigilante attack. And while I was lucky enough to survive the explosion caused by Oliver Queen...

  [indicating his eye patch] 

  Slade Wilson : ...it came at a cost. Too many civilians have been left feeling unsafe in their own homes. Too many people have suffered while too many vigilantes have been brought to justice. It's time these terrorists paid for their crimes.

  Clark Kent : It's time he pay for his.

• Lois Lane : Watching the sun rise from the Daily Planet globe, talk about making a girl feel on top of the world.

  Clark Kent : Just because our party was over didn't mean our night had to be.

  Lois Lane : Hey, did you realize that was the first party where we didn't have to hide anything from anyone?

  Clark Kent : I wish that us being married meant we could always be that open.

  Lois Lane : Part of a superhero marriage is having two lives. I signed up for that when I said yes. Which is why I'm fine if sometimes our relationship has to take a back seat to your responsibilities.

  Clark Kent : Lois, those responsibilities have controlled my life way too long. And I... we... can handle both as long as we stay together. And I promise we will.

  Lois Lane : [kissing]  Well, then nothing can stop Mr. and Mrs. Kent. Lane. Kent-Lane. I don't know. We'll figure it out.

• Oliver Queen : So, I think anyone who commits themselves to a lifetime of Lois deserves all the moral support they can get. Seriously, there is nothing more that I would like, uh, than to be courtside at the event of the decade. But now that the government's confirmed that I blew up their facilities a couple weeks ago...

  Clark Kent : Well, not everyone believes their propaganda.

  Oliver Queen : Clark, come on, now the whole world thinks I'm a terrorist. All right, that's not exactly something you want on your Fortune 500 bio. Or at your wedding, so...

  Clark Kent : Well, that's too bad, 'cause I was just about to invite you to be my best man. You're the guy who stands next to me on the worst days of my life. And I want you to be there for the best one, too.

• Clark Kent : Listen, why don't we get something to eat at the new place?

  Lois Lane : You mean the place that requires reservations six months in advance? That's a nice thought, Romeo, but we will never get a table.

  Clark Kent : [she sees a table reserved for Kent]  We'll never know unless we ask, and I hope the answer is yes.

  Lois Lane : [seeing a street sign regarding a mandatory curfew]  You know what? Even if we're lucky enough to snag a cancellation, with the VRA's latest no-fun policy, we'll have to leave before dessert.

• Clark Kent : We can't let a citywide curfew prevent us from from having fun with the time we do have. I promise even if I have to run to Madrid, I'll get you churros and hot chocolate for dessert.

  Lois Lane : Why don't we just go home, skip right to the delicious donuts, and we can pretend for one night that the world hasn't gone totally crazy?

  Clark Kent : The government has taken a tougher stance ever since they upgraded our status from "vigilante" to "terrorist".

• Lois Lane : The VRA's not just raining on the heroes' parade anymore. We are gonna need an ark to survive this hate-filled flood. But unlike the rest of Metropolis, I haven't forgotten who the real heroes are, and there is one in particular that I would love to snuggle up with away from the searchlights.

  Clark Kent : Yeah, we should, probably, uh, just go home.

  Lois Lane : Yeah.

  Clark Kent : But wait a second. I think I hear a situation that needs... saving. I'll be right back.

  Lois Lane : [he whooshes away; a second later, the phone at "their" phonebooth rings]  Did you save the day?

  Clark Kent : I don't know yet. Look up.

  [stepping out, she laughs to herself as rose petals rain down from the sky]