- Martha Kent: [having discovered Clark harboring Javier] I want to help this boy as much as you do, but I took an oath to uphold the law.
- Clark Kent: All he's trying to do is find his mom.
- Martha Kent: I know, but we have to go through proper legal channels.
- Clark Kent: Was it legal when you forged my adoption papers? I'm an illegal immigrant, mom. You've been harboring me for over seventeen years.
- Martha Kent: Your situation was entirely different. We had to protect you.
- Clark Kent: And I need to protect Javier. If I don't defend him, who will?
- Martha Kent: Clark...
- Clark Kent: There's a mother out there who hasn't seen her son in over two years. Do you really wanna stand in the way of that? I thought you of all people would understand.
- Chloe Sullivan: You put a psycho killer away and you reunited a mother with her son. I mean, there are only so many hours in a day.
- Clark Kent: Well, see, that's the thing. No matter how many people I save, I can't solve the world's problems.
- Chloe Sullivan: I don't know anyone else who does more for this world than you.
- Jimmy Olsen: C.K., just the man I wanted to see. Look, I'm a straight shooter, so we should probably just get this out in the open. I know that you got your issues with me.
- Clark Kent: What do you mean?
- Jimmy Olsen: The whole Chloe-and-me thing. And, hey, you know what? I get it. But what I'm about is working through it. Do you play hoops?
- [Clark nods uncertainly, looks at Chloe]
- Jimmy Olsen: Great. Cool. Then we will, you know, go play a little one-on-one and we'll just leave it out on the court 'cause you know, I'm your bro, not your foe. Ring that bell, dude.
- [Clark meets Jimmy's fist-bump somewhat half-heartedly, obviously a little dumbfounded about what is going on]
- Jimmy Olsen: There it is.
- Chloe Sullivan: [to Clark] Please, don't ask any follow-up questions.
- Jimmy Olsen: Javier...you have not experienced America until you've experienced pepperoni pizza.
- Javier Ramirez: Isn't pizza from Italy?
- Jimmy Olsen: Well, that's a common misconception. Um, we came up with the cheese angle.
- Lex Luthor: Three lost Vermeer paintings were discovered last month. You should go to the opening.
- Lana Lang: At the Metropolis Museum?
- Lex Luthor: Actually, it's a bit farther. The Rijksmuseum.
- Lana Lang: In Amsterdam? Lex, that's 4,000 miles away.
- Lex Luthor: And one of the most romantic cities in the world, where you'll feel very lonely and realize how much you miss me.
- Lana Lang: Nice strategy, boss.
- Lex Luthor: Only if it works.
- Martha Kent: I'm doing everything in my power to get your family legal status.
- Clark Kent: Mom, you can do that?
- Martha Kent: I'm working on it. I've been talking to Esperanza. Javier seems like an amazing boy; a boy I'd be proud to see as a citizen someday.
- Clark Kent: What about your position on the Senate?
- Martha Kent: Sometimes when you're dealing with extraordinary people, you need to take a risk. That's a lesson I learned from my son.
- Lana Lang: LutherCorp wants to sponsor the residency of the workers on your neighbor's farm. They'll all be given jobs at the plant.
- Clark Kent: You realize the only reason Lex is doing this is to wash his hands of it.
- Lana Lang: Lex had no idea what was going on at that farm.
- Clark Kent: Lana, you don't believe that.
- Lana Lang: Unlike some people I know, Lex doesn't lie to me.
- Clark Kent: Or he just wants his name clear of murder and slavery, so he sends a messenger to do his cleanup work.
- Lana Lang: I'm not Lex's messenger, Clark. This was my idea. And I resent the fact that you think I'm some puppet he can manipulate.
- Clark Kent: No, I didn't mean it like that.
- Lana Lang: That's exactly what you meant.