Smallville (TV Series)

Shield (2010)

Erica Durance: Lois Lane

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• Lois Lane : I have to admit, this assignment... a little out of my strike zone. I mean, I was raised by a very grounded 4-star general who believed in what you can see, touch, blow up...

  Carter Hall : Things that can be explained.

  Lois Lane : It's just... you can live your whole live without any prove of something, like a god or whatever, and then one day you look up and realize the guy sitting across from you is... Ra.

  Carter Hall : You think the guy sitting across from you is an ancient sun god?

  Lois Lane : No, of course not. But what if he were? One minute you know you know what you know, and the next you realize you don't really know anything but you want to know everything. What is the world like for him? Does he feel pain? How does he heal? When does he sleep? *Does* he even sleep.

  Carter Hall : This is going to require something stronger than tea.

  Lois Lane : How can he stand driving in a car when they move so much slower than he does? That would drive me crazy.

  Carter Hall : Maybe you should just ask Clark. Now, why don't you sit down before you drive *me* crazy.

• Carter Hall : You know, the philosopher Nietzsche believed we shouldn't live for the future, but for the present. He thought that people who chased after some far-off future dream were really running away from their true destiny.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, well, Nietzsche can call me a chicken if he wants, but he has never dated someone like Clark Kent.

  Carter Hall : It wouldn't have mattered. To him, the true hero was the person who embraced the life that he or she was given and made it better. He called that person "Übermensch."

  Lois Lane : A superman.

  Carter Hall : Nietzsche believed we could all be one. In our own way.

• Carter Hall : I'd like you to have something. It was given to me by my wife. It's a story, about two star-crossed lovers. Prince Khufu and Shayera were murdered by an evil man, but their love was so strong they were bonded for all eternity. Lifetime after lifetime they were reborn, to find their one true love. Only to lose each other in death again.

  Lois Lane : That's a terrible story.

  Carter Hall : I like it.

  Lois Lane : If you're into the whole Egyptian "Groundhog Day" thing.

  Carter Hall : After many years, Khufu grew tired of always waiting to find his beloved. So he traveled the world, seeking other women, trying to forget Shayera. Unable to rid her from his heart, he returned home, resigned to his fate. No sooner did he arrive at the palace than he saw her. She was there all along but he didn't recognize her because the time wasn't right. He needed to wait, because it made their love stronger. And their kiss that much sweeter.

• Lois Lane : [slapping Carter after he kisses her]  Try that again, and the next thing kissing your lips will be my fist.

• Carter Hall : About last night, I'm sorry. I guess I got a little too caught up in my story.

  Lois Lane : You forgot to mention the most important part. It was an autobiography.

  [handing him a piece of paper] 

  Lois Lane : I found this in the book.

  Carter Hall : [unfolding it, he sees it's a note from Shayera in 1824]  Lois, surely you don't think that...

  Lois Lane : Let's just say I wasn't born yesterday. You're not the only one of Clark's friends with a... mysterious past.

  Carter Hall : Clark did say you were wise beyond your years.

• Carter Hall : I hope last night will remain between us. I'm not sure Clark would forgive me if he knew.

  Lois Lane : Some leads are better left buried. So, if you're just here to babysit me as a favor to Clark, what was with the heart-to-heart? Something tells me that story time wasn't exactly part of the agreement.

  Carter Hall : It's... my wife. I've been hearing her in my thoughts, and last night, I had a vision of her. When that happens, I know I'll be joining her soon in a new life. But to do that, I must first leave this one.

  Lois Lane : Leave? Like... die?

  Carter Hall : It's time I meet my destiny, Lois. But before I go, I wanted you to meet yours. He can't do it without you. You're his Shayera.

• Lois Lane : It feels like somehow I was destined to be with Clark, but his destiny is so much bigger, and the last thing that I would ever want is to be the one thing that holds him back or stands in the way.

  Carter Hall : And what if you're exactly the thing that might help him be the person you know he can be? What if you're the one who makes his burden easier to bear?

  Lois Lane : Do you think that's why he sent you? To make sure I was safe?

  Carter Hall : He worries about you. He still thinks you don't know about his powers.

  Lois Lane : See, that's another reason for me to be here. When it comes to big secrets, I'm not exactly Mata Hari. I could blow it all for him.

  Carter Hall : With every great relationship, Lois, comes a great burden and the strength to carry it.

• Lois Lane : [picking up a jeweled necklace]  And I thought those "Sex and the City" girls had gaudy taste.

  Carter Hall : You might tell that to its owner, the goddess Queen Isis. She spent eternity searching for the cut-up pieces of her dead husband.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, I can relate to that. My relationship just broke up into a zillion tiny pieces, and I don't know how to put it all back together again.

• Lois Lane : So, you're a bona fide Indiana Jones? They fly you in to make sure that these aren't lifted from some souvenir shop in Cairo?

  Carter Hall : And that they're intact and well-preserved. In other words, hands off.

  Lois Lane : I know the Egyptians were big on the afterlife, but burying your pet bird? Someone needs therapy.

  Carter Hall : That is the Sun God, Ra, bringer of light and life. He was revered.

  Lois Lane : He has the head of a parakeet.

  Carter Hall : It's a falcon.

  Lois Lane : Potato, po-tah-to.

• Lois Lane : So, why was this hawk guy so important?

  Carter Hall : It's said that each day, he traveled across the sky and through the underworld, to be born again at sunrise.

  Lois Lane : A god reborn with the sun.

• Lois Lane : Perry, it's Lane. I really hope this story is worth it, because so far, my dream assignment is turning into 1,001 Arabian Nightmares. And you know what? I really hope per diem covers the eleven-hour camel ride. And as for this newly unearthed tomb of Isis, all I see are some rocks and a couple of tents. Call me.