- Lois Lane: [to Clark] You do *not* get to whoosh your way out of this one. And I'll just save you the trouble, and superspeed off all on my own, okay? Whoosh!
- Lois Lane: That's only a fraction of a centimeter. How would you be able to see that?
- Clark Kent: Micro vision.
- Lois Lane: "Micro" vision?
- Clark Kent: Well, it's my power. I can call it whatever I want.
- Lois Lane: My Turkish is a little rusty, but it seems someone managed to pull off a supersave there, and now Ankara's also wondering who America's Blur hero is. Meanwhile, in Buenos Aires, they are offering a national commendation to "El Salvador de Rojo y Azul" if he'd stand still long enough to receive it. And I won't even bother with the Chinese because I would just sound racist.
- Lois Lane: Please tell me you didn't hop across the pond just for a gallon of milk.
- Clark Kent: What makes you think I'd be in England?
- Lois Lane: Oh, you know, 'cause I'm kind of staring at your face online.
- Clark Kent: You're upset and in no condition to go up against the darkness.
- Oliver Queen: And you're in a *better* condition?
- Clark Kent: Right now, I don't have a choice. Now, stay put.
- [waits until Clark is gone]
- Oliver Queen: Like hell.
- Desaad: I was wondering when we would meet again.
- Clark Kent: What exactly are you, Desaad?
- Desaad: A prophet. A servant, loyal to a far greater power.
- Clark Kent: The darkness.
- Desaad: To Darkseid. When he last laid his eyes upon you, you wore your sin openly. You're much more self-assured now. More love in your heart than when you faced Godfrey. Stronger than when you faced Granny, as well. Sadly incorruptible. They, much like I, have been preparing for something... amazing.
- Clark Kent: And that's why the three of you have been burning Omega symbols in innocent people.
- Desaad: You act as though the marks weren't there to begin with... but I wouldn't want to ruin the surprise.
- Clark Kent: And I should be wearing a mask. Unfortunately, I've lived my entire life up until this point without needing one. That's why I've been so reluctant. I mean, this is the face that my parents raised. It's the face of the man that you love. And I don't want to deny who I am when I'm out there doing what I was born to do.
- Lois Lane: Then why bother with the jacket, Clark, the symbols?
- Clark Kent: When I'm out there in the red and blue, and I'm saving people, that's who I really am. And I know this is gonna sound weird, but it's not what I'm called that should define who I am. It's who I am that should define what I'm called. Clark Kent - it's... it's just a name. It's just a word. I am The Blur, and I've always has been.
- Lois Lane: Clark, you can't just whip out a new costume at work.
- Clark Kent: The Blur is not the disguise, Lois. Clark Kent will be the mask.
- Lois Lane: Okay. Okay, but the only way the glasses are ever going to work...
- Clark Kent: If I adjust my behavior when I use them. I know. The world needs to believe that Clark Kent is way too normal to be...
- Lois Lane: Super.
- Clark Kent: And even though we silenced Godfrey, we shutdown Granny's orphanage, and buried Desaad underneath Belle Reve, it's not the last time we've seen Darkseid. But I'll be ready...
- [puts on glasses]
- Clark Kent: ...hiding in plain sight.
- Lois Lane: So you're willing to dial back the hometown hero and crank up the Average Joe?
- Clark Kent: If that what it takes to be the hero the people need, yes, Miss Lane, I am.
- Lois Lane: [Smiles] Did you know that average fiancés let their ladies take them to cake tastings? You just have to act like you're miserable, though.
- Clark Kent: That shouldn't be a problem.
- Oliver Queen: [Locked in a car truck] You know, when I said I wanted to spoon earlier, this isn't really what I had in mind.
- Chloe Sullivan: We're lying alone together in the dark, okay? I think that counts for something.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, you're probably right. This is definitely the most romantic of my recent kidnappings.
- Clark Kent: Looks like a serial killer.
- Bert Camp: [Mimics his voice] "Looks like a serial killer." That is so you!
- Clark Kent: Is it?
- Bert Camp: You talk like a cop, you walk like a fireman. Heck, you beat us to most of our own crime scenes. You might as well put an "S" on your chest.
- Lois Lane: Look, Clark, I want to plan this wedding as much as I want to jump off of a building.
- Clark Kent: You know I'd catch you.
- Lois Lane: You're sweet. Now stop trying to dodge this bullet, speedy-pants. We've got a serious problem here. Tiny Lois has 37 possible guests on her side. Do you know how many tiny Clark has on his?
- Clark Kent: Just tiny Martha?
- Lois Lane: Tiny Martha is a sign of a much larger problem. Sandwiching your Superfriends into the same place as my dad's battalion is a recipe for disaster. All it takes is one wrong person recognizing the right face, and bam!
- Oliver Queen: I know how hard you worked to disappear, but I'm gonna be in the spotlight for the rest of my life. I was kidding myself with this whole "trying to be normal" thing. I thought I was, um... giving up my identity by coming out, but, uh... all I did was change it. 'Cause I am who I am. It's time I stopped hiding from that. I made this bed. Now I have to sleep in it.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, you don't have to do it alone.
- Oliver Queen: Really? So, I got a question for you. When people see this adorable blonde, and you are, on this adorable blond's arm, what'll they call you?
- Chloe Sullivan: Let's start with girlfriend, and go from there?
- Oliver Queen: Okay. "Girlfriend" sounds kind of high school.
- Chloe Sullivan: [laughing] Shut up. I'm serious.
- Chloe Sullivan: Do you know, I'm supposed to be meeting someone here. Oliver Queen, of all people. Even with the Registration Act behind him, the world still knows him as the Green Arrow.
- Oliver Queen: [wearing a disguise to look inconspicuous] Well, he probably can't even leave the house without wearing some kind of ridiculous disguise. Makes it, uh, pretty hard to live a normal life, I'm guessing. You know, I heard he lost his company to, uh... Lionel Luthor.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, you wouldn't want to have dinner with me in his place, would you?
- Oliver Queen: Me? No. What would your boyfriend say about that? I mean, I heard he's a pretty tough guy.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, I can't exactly call him my boyfriend.
- Oliver Queen: I think Oliver Queen would be an absolute fool to let someone like you get away.
- Chloe Sullivan: You're damn right.
- Lois Lane: [Clark returns to the Planet from London] That better be some pretty damn good milk, Smallville.
- Clark Kent: Smallville. I must be in trouble. How bad is it?
- Lois Lane: [showing him a video that's gone viral] I didn't realize you were ready for your close-up. And that is just the beginning.
- Chloe Sullivan: [Oliver and Chloe have stolen another couple's reservations and had dinner] That was delicious.
- Oliver Queen: [grunts in agreement]
- Hostess: But, oh my God right?
- [referring to the shared joke over the stolen reservations]
- Oliver Queen: [Oliver sees the Hostess approaching and fears being "caught"] Oh.
- Hostess: Phone call from your wife, Mr. Jones.
- [hands Oliver a cordless telephone receiver and turns to Chloe]
- Hostess: You want my advice? You catch a cab, and you let him take that limo back home. Alone.
- Oliver Queen: [both Chloe and Oliver are enjoying the irony of the moment immensely] I don't know.
- [speaks into the receiver]
- Oliver Queen: Hello, dear.
- [Chloe puts her head on the table so she doesn't burst out laughing]
- Chloe Sullivan: Get out of my head!
- Desaad: It's the heart, actually... the window to the soul. Both mankind's greatest asset and his weakness.
- Chloe Sullivan: So what? You're just gonna put me through the seven deadly sins house of horror, try and convert me into one of your dark denizens? A little on the nose, don't you think?
- Oliver Queen: You all right?
- Chloe Sullivan: I escaped the villain of the piece with nary a mark on my bones.
- Oliver Queen: I would expect nothing less. You know, the whole "woman who doesn't exist" thing gets a little less mysterious when yearbooks come into play, right?
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, they're kind of a breadcrumb.
- Oliver Queen: Meaning what? You, uh... feeling lost, Chloe?
- Chloe Sullivan: I have been so many things over the years. Doe-eyed sleuth, intrepid reporter, Watchtower.
- Oliver Queen: Business-suited cyber-savior?
- Chloe Sullivan: It worked, right?
- Oliver Queen: Yeah.
- Chloe Sullivan: I've always wound up defining myself by some group or cause or other person. Um... I haven't felt like Chloe si... well, Chloe 1.0, anyway, since...
- [indicating her yearbook picture]
- Chloe Sullivan: ...well, her. And then I erased it all. I gave it all away. I think that's why I've been struggling to define myself against you. I'm... I'm afraid I'm gonna lose the last little bit of me that I have left.
- Oliver Queen: No matter what happens, I know who you are.
- Chloe Sullivan: I know. And that's why I have never questioned the love I feel for you.
- Jeff Hage: [bumping into Clark] You really need to watch where you're going, buddy.
- Lois Lane: Jeff.
- Jeff Hage: [realizing who it is] I am so sorry, Mr. Kent.
- Clark Kent: You know, Jeff, um, it's my fault. I'll try to be more careful next time.
- Jeff Hage: You, uh... you probably should.
- Lois Lane: [kissing Clark on the cheek] Good job, Mr. Kent.
- Chloe Sullivan: You aren't real, either.
- Lois Lane: Real enough for you to wonder if you will ever feel the happiness that Clark and I do. You envy what we have.
- Chloe Sullivan: No. I have only ever been happy for Lois and Clark. Wait. Envy. Leaving with Ollie would be sloth. And Clark's kiss... is lust. You're trying to tempt me.
- Lois Lane: Bravo. But knowing that doesn't change how you feel. You just... have to admit it. You gave up everything that I have and do you want it back?
- Chloe Sullivan: Never.
- Desaad: The visions tend to cut to the heart of the matter. Sin is a liability I exploit. You are more vulnerable than you think. You know what I am. You know what I'm capable of.
- [putting his knife in her hands and pointing it at himself]
- Desaad: Kill me. Your friends will all die if you don't.
- Chloe Sullivan: Trying to get me on wrath now, huh? Nice try. But I'm stronger than that.
- [a vision of another Chloe appears]
- Chloe Sullivan: We are stronger than that, aren't we? We can resist any temptation, but what if we're doing it to save our own souls when we could be saving the world?
- Chloe Sullivan: I will not take a life, period.
- Chloe Sullivan: Good girl. Stay strong. Beat him at his own game. Feels good, doesn't it? To be better than all of those that fell before him.
- Chloe Sullivan: [realizing] Pride.
- Chloe Sullivan: That's our hubris, our fatal flaw. Our control issues, our grossly disproportionate sense of independence. Too proud to ask for help. That's why we vanished without a trace.
- Chloe Sullivan: Shut up.
- Chloe Sullivan: Too proud to face the fact that the world moved on without us.
- Chloe Sullivan: I said enough!
- Chloe Sullivan: All that effort you spent freeing yourself from your old identity, to suddenly give everything over for something lesser. For a relationship!
- Chloe Sullivan: [throwing the knife away] Go to hell.
- Desaad: No. It'll be here soon enough. Sadly, you've grown just as useless as that knife. Tell me, Chloe. When's the last time you had a nice, hard cry?
- Clark Kent: From the look on your face, I guess you heard what happened at the crime scene, so if there's anything that you have to say.
- Lois Lane: Not me. Nope. I am a positive, supportive, independent woman. And I just wanna know what happened at the morgue.
- Clark Kent: The coroner couldn't make a connection between the bodies. It's a dead end.
- Lois Lane: [looking at crime scene photos] Dead end? Seriously?
- Clark Kent: What else do you call it when you have zero leads?
- Lois Lane: A lie.
- Agent Vactor: Hands where I can see them!
- Chloe Sullivan: Come on. Again?
- [turning around]
- Chloe Sullivan: Mr. Jones. Or... Agent...
- Agent Vactor: Vactor. And whoever you are, you're under arrest for impeding a federal investigation.
- Chloe Sullivan: [he starts to handcuff her] Listen, you have no idea what you're dealing with here.
- Agent Vactor: No, what you don't understand...
- [he begins to hemorrhage blood from his eyes, ears, and nose, then falls over dead]
- Chloe Sullivan: Desaad.
- Desaad: He really didn't have a clue. But not you. You know all about me.
- [magically throwing her against a wall, knocking her unconscious]
- Desaad: I think it's only fair if I get to know you a little better.
- Lois Lane: What do you have for me, Jeff?
- Jeff Hage: These just came in from Bert in forensics. Uh, he says you're lucky to be engaged to such a super guy.
- Lois Lane: Does he, now?
- Jeff Hage: Mm. Is there... anything else you need?
- Lois Lane: How would you feel about negotiating a deal across town for me?
- Jeff Hage: [she gives him a piece of paper with an address] Uh... this is a-a bakery.
- Lois Lane: Yes, it is. And why don't you get me a good rate on vanilla-bean frosting? Pretty please?
- Oliver Queen: All right, all right, enough of this. What'd you guys do with Mrs. Jones, huh? Huh?
- Agent Simon: We were just about to ask you the same thing.
- Chloe Sullivan: What? Am I the only one who's confused here?
- Agent Simon: We know you aren't the Joneses. Who are you?
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, he's-he's right. We should, uh... introduce ourselves.
- [they proceed to beat up the agents in the room, then stop short as they're about to club each other]
- Oliver Queen, Chloe Sullivan: I love you.
- Oliver Queen: Mr. and Mrs. Jones weren't married at all. They, uh... they were on a stakeout. FBI.
- Chloe Sullivan: [holding up an FBI badge] I know. We just wiped the floor with their backup. They probably couldn't break their cover until they found out how we were connected to the missing agents.
- Oliver Queen: From what the late Mrs. Jones said, their cover was blown, which means Mr. Jones is probably in grave danger.
- Chloe Sullivan: [entering a room in which she noticed the door was ajar] I think that's a definite.
- Oliver Queen: What makes you say that?
- Chloe Sullivan: [showing him x-rays of skulls with the omega symbol brand] Call it a hunch.
- Oliver Queen: No one's answering up front.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, and the last thing we want is for a billionaire superhero ex-fugitive to get caught kicking in the front door of a sex club.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, not today, anyway. We sure this is the right place?
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, it's owned by a guy named Desaad. The feds have been keeping an eye on it for weeks. Some guy from the Bureau came in here for a little bit of relaxation, and at his checkup the next week...
- Oliver Queen: There was an Omega on his skull.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah. Turns out he wasn't the only one.
- [as she talks, he acrobatically scales the building to an open window]
- Chloe Sullivan: Every one of those x-rays belongs to someone who was a visitor at this club. You know, the Joneses may have gotten made, but they had no idea what they were getting themselves into.
- [turning and seeing him]
- Chloe Sullivan: Hey!
- Oliver Queen: Right. Which is why it's our job to get Mr. Jones out of it.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, don't leave Goldilocks out in the cold.
- Oliver Queen: If the darkness has anything to do with this, the last thing I want is for you to get caught in the crossfire.
- Clark Kent: Forensics said it was all right to come by and follow up on the mass-grave story.
- Desaad: [offering a handshake, Clark notices his bloody gloves] Sorry. I've just been so wrapped up in all of this, it was only a matter of time before I made a mistake.
- Clark Kent: Clark Kent, Daily Planet.
- Desaad: Blayne. Yeah, sorry about the mess. I've been working faster than usual. Hell to pay if the boss finds out I've been slacking off.
- Clark Kent: I'll try not to take too much of your time. Is there any word on the cause of death?
- Desaad: Yeah, she suffered a system-wide hemorrhage. Starting with the heart. You know, if they hadn't found the bodies all grouped together like that, I'd say natural causes, but...
- Clark Kent: There's nothing natural about it. Someone did this to these people. Makes you wonder what kind of a person could do such a thing.
- Desaad: My guess is... someone who's given in to his, or her, darkest urges. From the number of bodies, probably someone who really enjoys it, too.
- [Clark uses his microvision to spot three dots on the victim's hand]
- Desaad: Did I miss something?
- Clark Kent: Did the rest of the bodies have this?
- Desaad: [taking a closer look] I'll be damned. Nice eye.
- Clark Kent: If so, there might be a connection we can make between...
- Desaad: Ah. I'm the guilty one.
- [holding up his hand]
- Desaad: Had a pen pop earlier while I was taking notes. Had you going for a second, huh? Sorry.
- Bert Camp: Have you seen that viral clip of the Blur from London? Because it was fuzzy, but it looks so much like you.
- Clark Kent: You know, I don't spend much time paying attention to what happens halfway around the world.
- Lois Lane: Drink it in, handsome. You know, roll it around in your mouth for a minute, and... tell me how you feel.
- Clark Kent: [wearing a red hood and sunglasses like Oliver's] I feel like I can't believe that you did this to my jacket.
- Lois Lane: Well... keep in mind that it's a prototype, okay? And it's not any worse than machine-gun fire.
- Clark Kent: Uh, that's debatable. The hood's not gonna stay up during superspeed, and at night, I won't be able to see anything through these glasses.
- Lois Lane: Well, just use a bobby pin for the hood when you're super speeding, and... x-ray vision for the shades. Now stop giving me excuses and humor me.
- Clark Kent: I don't want to wear a mask.
- Lois Lane: You are going global now, which is... awesome, frankly. But you have spent more time in the shadows than you ever have in the spotlight. You are sticking your neck out farther than have before.
- Clark Kent: I'm not gonna stop saving people.
- Lois Lane: I can't believe you would think that I would want that. You know what, I know how important what you do is, not just to you, but to the whole world. Okay...
- [he yanks the red hood off]
- Lois Lane: Do you remember who else didn't wanna wear a mask? Oliver.
- Clark Kent: Oliver made his own choice.
- Lois Lane: And whether you like it or not, you've made one, too. What is gonna happen if people start thinking that shirt-and-tie Clark has what it takes to save the day? Sooner or later, someone is gonna put two and two together.
- Clark Kent: Yeah, I appreciate your concern...
- Lois Lane: And I don't understand why you aren't more concerned. Oliver went from having two identities to one to none. And I will stand by you no matter what, okay? But is that really the life you want for yourself?
- Clark Kent: Look, I understand I got a little enthusiastic after the VRA shut down, but... Lois. The important thing is I made the save and I didn't get caught. At least not really.
- Lois Lane: Well, we were lucky this time.
- Clark Kent: [she hands him an article proof] That was supposed to go out two days ago. Why do you still have this?
- Lois Lane: Because I realized we missed something before I sent it up there?
- Clark Kent: I spellchecked it twice.
- Lois Lane: You really don't see this? Clark.
- [circling his byline picture, which is right under the word "heroes"]
- Lois Lane: The whole world is starting to wonder to wonder who the Blur is, and you are so close to the story that you might wind up finding yourself smack-dab in the middle of it. I think it's high time that we got you a new disguise.