Krypton (TV Series)

Civil Wars (2018)

Colin Salmon: General Zod

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• Adam Strange : Seg, I know how this sounds, but please. This is a key moment in history. Things need to unfold the way that they originally did. Okay, any changes could set off history in some new and crazy way, and something huge, like stopping Brainiac, that could ruin everything.

  Seg-El : By everything, you mean my grandson. Your obsession. Tell me, how is it that my world goes extinct, but he ends up on yours?

  Adam Strange : He was sent off just before this planet explodes. That's why he's called the Last Son of Krypton. I don't have all the answers here. I admit it. I guess if... if Brainiac doesn't take Kandor, if Krypton doesn't explode, then anything can happen. And maybe Kal-El will exist. Maybe he won't. But what I do know is that is a risk we cannot afford to take.

  General Zod : One might argue that millions of lives on Krypton are more important than one immature survivor on Earth.

  Adam Strange : And one might argue how many times Superman saves the universe, if you want to count numbers.

  Seg-El : Forget the numbers! I care about my world. My friends. What's the point of any of it? Or making the world a better place? Of having children? Of protecting our loved ones? If it all just ends in fire and death? Everything that we are. Everything we've built. You're asking me to sacrifice all of it. For an idea. An abstraction. A future if.

• General Zod : [to Lyta]  You made me work for this when I just a boy. Then you put it on me, and you said, we kneel for no one.

• General Zod : It's amazing to see you like this.

  Lyta-Zod : Happy?

  General Zod : Happy, open. Smiling. What I remember most about you was how heavy the loss of Kandor weighed on your heart. You didn't like to talk about it, but I learned that you were in one of the military vessels attacking Brainiac's ship when he ripped the city from the ground. You never forget your failure to defend the city. It made you bitter.

  Lyta-Zod : I guess you're saying I'm not a perfect mother.

  General Zod : Maybe, but you taught me to put the defense of this world above all else. You fashioned me into a weapon. I take pride in that.

• General Zod : According to the archive, we find that symbol, we find the weapon.

  Lyta-Zod : It looks like a house sigil.

  General Zod : It doesn't match any house currently on Krypton.

  [Seg takes it back] 

  General Zod : You recognize it. All you have to do is take me there.

  Adam Strange : Seg, you can't...

  Seg-El : Shut up. You'll have your turn. The people who live down here, the Cythonnites. This weapon is what they're sworn to protect, isn't it?

  General Zod : Yes, and they will guard it with their lives. Because that is how powerful it is. Which is why we need it.

• Adam Strange : This sorry bastard has traveled back through time to get here. I don't know how, but it's not hard to see why. He's obviously working with Braniac to destroy Krypton.

  General Zod : Why would I destroy our world? I'm here to save Krypton.

  Adam Strange : Oh, so it's just a coincidence you're here the same time as Brainiac?

  General Zod : Of course not. History tells us this when that creature ripped Kandor City away from the planet and made it part of his collection. I'm here to prevent that tragedy.

  Seg-El : I'm confused, you're saying that Brainiac isn't from the future?

  General Zod : That's exactly what I'm saying. Brainiac didn't travel through time to launch his attack. This is what he's always done.

  Adam Strange : No, that... That can't be right.

  General Zod : It's elementary Kryptonian history. The beginning of the end for our civilization. Brainiac takes Kandor City, which destabilizes Krypton's core. Causing the planet to explode in 200 years.

  Seg-El : The planet explodes in 200 years? That, that, that's insane.

• Adam Strange : He's here to destroy Krypton, and make sure Superman is never born.

  General Zod : No Zod would ever destroy Krypton. It's our duty to defend our city, and our world.

  Lyta-Zod : Our duty, and...

  General Zod : Our proud privilege.

  Adam Strange : Oh, this is some grade-A, premium bullshit.

• General Zod : Come now, you're obviously not built for this. You're only resting that weapon on my chest to stop your hands from shaking.

  Adam Strange : Go on, say one more word. And you'll see exactly what I'm built for.

• Seg-El : You said you're here to stop Brainac, that you've studied him. Let's hear the plan.

  General Zod : Firstly, you have to understand that Brainiac is virtually immortal. Existing for thousands of years. He possesses the intellectual plunder of countless advanced civilizations. He's far beyond us. And as history has proven, Krypton's current weapons are useless against him.

  Lyta-Zod : Yet here you are. And we still haven't heard a plan yet, General.

  Adam Strange : That's because he doesn't have one. On account of he's full of shit.

• General Zod : When Brainiac took Kandor, both our families made it out. They made their way to Kryptonopolis. In that city's ancient archives, I learned of the location of a hidden weapon. A pre-cataclysm instrument of violence so powerful, it would give even Brainiac pause.

  Seg-El : That's why your base is down here?

  General Zod : I've been searching these catacombs for months. With only one clue.

  [indicating his coat] 

  General Zod : Inside pocket.

  Adam Strange : Don't come crying to me if he's hiding some kind of freaky-ass space spider in there that bites your hand off. Just saying.

• Lyta-Zod : Where did you get those? They're military-grade explosives.

  General Zod : Perks of using Black Zero.

• General Zod : There has to be a way in. I know if we work together, we can find it.

  Seg-El : [noticing something]  I think you might be more right than you realize. I can't believe I didn't see it before. Doesn't that symbol look familiar to you? It's the El and Zod sigils superimposed on each other. I think our famiies put this vault here. Raika... Raika said that because I'm an El, I have the power to destroy everything.

  General Zod : And the power to open the vault.