Smallville (TV Series)

Dominion (2011)

Tom Welling: Clark Kent

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• Oliver Queen : If I'd known about the long drop in, I would have brought some rappelling equipment.

  Clark Kent : If I'd have known you'd ignore my warning to come here, I would have told you to bring it! I know what I'm doing! You should have trusted me.

  Oliver Queen : You should have more faith in your friends, Clark. I came here to help you. Wherever the hell this is.

• Clark Kent : What ever happened to take the time to merge our lives together? Finding the right place for everything?

  Lois Lane : Oh, well, you know me. Waiting isn't exactly my strong suit. So I guess nervous energy equals power unpacking.

  Clark Kent : What'd you do? Enlist John Jones and Bart?

• Oliver Queen : Listen, about this zone, Clark - you know, when you said Jor-El built a prison, I kind of pictured something more confined than a national park.

  Clark Kent : He built this place so Krypton's worst criminals could have some kind of life.

  Oliver Queen : Sounds like a real sweetheart.

• Zod : I know, it's a terrible feeling. So powerless when you know you've got such strength inside of you, with no way of unleashing it.

  Clark Kent : Even without the yellow sun, I will find a way to defeat you.

  Zod : You'll have to work twice as hard. Because when I arrived here, I met a very special acquaintance, someone you know, and someone that I'm very, very... fond of.

  Clark Kent : Who?

  Zod : Me.

  Clark Kent : The original Zod's phantom.

  Zod : Finally... back in the body that you stripped me of. Now I have the full knowledge of two lives, and you... you are my enemy in both.

  Clark Kent : I defeated you in both.

  Zod : Which is why it will give double the satisfaction to see you kneel... and serve... until you die.

• Clark Kent : You have the console crystal. How?

  Zod : We're blood brothers, Kal-El. Have you forgotten how you healed me with your blood on Earth?

  Clark Kent : We're not brothers. I saved you because it was the right thing to do. We have nothing in common.

  Zod : We're from the same world. Do you really think that having powers is the only thing that makes you Kryptonian? It's not. We share the same instincts. We're decisive... single-minded, headstrong. We were meant to be leaders.

  Clark Kent : Leaders? You're a tyrant who believes only in himself.

  Zod : Who else should I put my faith in? We both know that trusting others is a calculated risk, one a Kryptonian is not willing to take. Oh, we can easily fool those closest to us, can't we? But we can lean on no one. Do you remember that most famous story about two brothers from your adopted planet? You've got Cain and Abel. Which brother are you, Kal-El?

  Clark Kent : Well, I'd never murder you. I saved you.

  Zod : You exiled me. I'm in charge here. And you're about to find out what that means... brother.

• Clark Kent : Hey, Lois, where can I put this box?

  Lois Lane : Well, I don't think that requires any super-sleuthing. It does say "living room".

  Clark Kent : No, I can decipher your scrawl. I'm just thinking it was mislabeled.

  Lois Lane : If you're talking about my Whitesnake throw pillow, loving everything about me includes the sentimental. I made this from my eighth-grade concert t-shirt. And I talked to Oliver, and he told me how smoothly he and Chloe fused their hero green and geek chic.

  Clark Kent : Don't worry, my "for better or worse" will include your love of hair metal. But seriously, let me move us in a lot faster. I can unpack this in, like, two seconds.

  Lois Lane : No! No. Hold the horsepower. Part of us merging our lives together is taking the time to find the right spot for everything.

  Clark Kent : All I know is my perfect spot is here with you. We'll take as much time as you need.

• Lois Lane : Clark. I knew you'd make it.

  Clark Kent : I told you I would.

• Clark Kent : How long we were gone?

  Lois Lane : Three weeks.

  Clark Kent : We were only in there a few hours.

  [realizing] 

  Clark Kent : The crystal. Crushing it must have altered time. So a few hours for me was almost a month for you. You waited all that time.

  Lois Lane : Well, the League decided that it wasn't safe to send any more people in after you, so Tess and I took turns camping out at Watchtower, trying to re-establish contact with you and Oliver. I, uh... brought the pillow with me for downtime. Because... well, it reminds me of you now. Silly, huh?

• Clark Kent : After three hours, Tess was supposed to...

  Lois Lane : Blow up the gate. Yeah. Tess and I had a little unexpected heart to heart about your secret plan. I brought her around to seeing things my way. I just... I wish you could have had a little faith in me, too.

  Clark Kent : Lois, I didn't want you to have to make that kind of choice. I was trying to...

  Lois Lane : Protect me? I know. But you're part of me now, Clark. A half of a whole. So, in the future, if there's even a chance that the mission might claim my better half, sign me up, because I'd rather be in some sand-blown purgatory with you than in the hell of not knowing if I'll ever see you again.

• Clark Kent : Lois, I am so sorry. I try to make choices using my human side, but sometimes my Kryptonian side takes over. I try to control the situation. Instead of hiding that side, I should try to help you understand it.

  Lois Lane : Promise to put that in your wedding vows.

  Clark Kent : The wedding.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, T-minus two days, Smallville.

  Clark Kent : You didn't postpone it.

  Lois Lane : No. I couldn't. Believing that you would come back to me was the only thing that kept me going. But if you want to postpone, that's fine.

  Clark Kent : Lois.

  Lois Lane : Hmm?

  Clark Kent : There's nothing in this world that could prevent me from walking down that aisle.

• Oliver Queen : What if one of us were to get infected with the darkness? What do we do then?

  Clark Kent : We'd have to lock them up. Darkness is a powerful thing. It almost got me once. And once it gets in... I don't think there's a way out.

  Oliver Queen : Yeah, hey, I mean, at least we took care of Zod, right? Can't say I'll be missing that guy. Some of the things he said...

  Clark Kent : Half the things that come out of his mouth are a lie. He knows how to take the greatest fear you have about yourself and use it against you.

  Oliver Queen : Right. Well, I'll tell you what, I know someone's darkest fear will be never seeing her fiancé again. Clark, Lois has got to be worried sick. You should go see her. This... this is nothing. I'll be fine. Go. Get out of here.

• Oliver Queen : In terms of crippling wounds, I've had worse.

  Tess Mercer : From friendly fire?

  Clark Kent : Wasn't really part of the plan.

  Oliver Queen : Well, come on, now. You were the man with the plan. Get Zod to pit us against each other knowing that he'd want to finish you off himself. That's very smart.

  Clark Kent : Gave us a chance to grab the crystal. But the plan isn't why we're here. We're here because we trusted each other. I knew that whatever Zod said to Oliver, he'd still follow through.

• Oliver Queen : We have a better chance of surviving your dad's desert than Zod's Thunderdome.

  Clark Kent : Heading out into the wasteland's not gonna help us.

  Oliver Queen : Rather take my chances playing paddy-cakes with the phantoms.

  Clark Kent : Zod has what we need to get home. We're running out of time. Before you invited yourself, Tess and I put a plan in motion to protect Earth if any phantoms escaped.

  Oliver Queen : What'd she do, set it to self-destruct?

  [seeing his look] 

  Oliver Queen : She set it to self-destruct.

  Clark Kent : [nodding]  It's the only option.

  Oliver Queen : How's Lois feel about that?

  Clark Kent : Lois doesn't know. But I hope to get us out of here before we have to worry about that.

  Oliver Queen : Yeah, how you gonna do that? You can't bend metal in here. You can't superspeed us back in time, Clark.

  Clark Kent : I know everything that Jor-El wrote about the Phantom Zone. And I know how Zod thinks.

  Oliver Queen : Well, I hope all your studying paid off, 'cause it's test time.

• Zod : In the arena, we answer failure with the only thing suitable: death.

  Clark Kent : Never!

  [stepping down, Zod draws his sword and stabs Clark's opponent] 

  Clark Kent : You killed him for no reason!

  Zod : In any arena, one fighter walks away. Oh, when are you going to learn it's kill or be killed? It always was.

  Clark Kent : Maybe in your world. But not in mine!

  Zod : This is my world. Oh, and consider this your one free pass. If you fail to finish the job again, it'll be you dragged along by your heels.

• Zod : You sent me to my death sentence. You left me at the mercy of those Kandorians. This was my punishment.

  Clark Kent : [noticing the console crystal around his neck]  Jor-El built this place for your kind.

  Zod : [punching him]  My kind. Is that why you sent Slade here? What would Jor-El think about you using his prison for your purposes? There's no trial, no jury, just the rule of Kal-El. But I suppose in the end, it became your undoing, didn't it?

  Clark Kent : [realizing]  It was all a trap. And you knew once that I saw Slade had been sent back, I'd come here looking for answers.

  Zod : And you came.

• Tess Mercer : Sorry for the digital disruption, but it's important.

  Lois Lane : What is it, Tess?

  Tess Mercer : I just heard from one of my military contacts. Slade Wilson's back. He was found unconscious on a street corner. He's in a coma and completely unresponsive.

  Clark Kent : There's only one way out of the Phantom Zone. It has to be activated by a member of my family. The House of El.

  Lois Lane : Well, I'd say Slade is living proof that someone stole your family key to never-never escape land.

• Tess Mercer : Clark, there's gotta be a better way to solve this than sending yourself into interdimensional exile.

  Clark Kent : Someone's releasing people from the Phantom Zone. I need to figure out who and why before they release anyone else.

  Oliver Queen : You mean "we", right? I'm going with him.

  Clark Kent : You told Oliver I was going in?

  Oliver Queen : Hey, I come back here willing to risk life and limb with you in the Phantom Zone, I get not so much as a "welcome back"?

  Tess Mercer : Clark, you'll be powerless there. Oliver has more experience with that.

  Oliver Queen : Thanks. You could use me in there.

  Clark Kent : Absolutely not. I appreciate the offer, but the Phantom Zone is not a place for humans. I need to do this alone.