- General Sam Lane: You still looking for the simple life? 'Cause those days are gone, Clark, long gone.
- Jonathan Kent: How comes he gets to go flying with Dad, and I have to go to school?
- Lois Lane: At least we have the radio.
- Chrissy Beppo: [about Lois] Oh, my God. It's just like what they say about you. You don't go to the news. The news goes to you.
- Captain Luthor: You have to stop protecting him.
- General Sam Lane: Superman?
- Captain Luthor: Stop calling him that! He's not one of us, Sam. Where I come from, you're like me, and you don't trust him either, because you know what he is capable of. You have to help me save your planet, Sam, before Kal-El...
- [Superman tackles him]
- Captain Luthor: You tracked my ship.
- Superman: What do you want?
- Captain Luthor: You... gone.
- Superman: Why? What did I do to you?
- Captain Luthor: It wasn't just me. You destroyed my whole planet!
- [after a brief fight]
- Captain Luthor: I know you can hear the bomb in my ship.
- [his ship takes off]
- Captain Luthor: People are gonna get hurt. Me or them. Make a choice, Kal-El.
- Jor-El: And you're certain he's displayed abilities?
- Clark Kent: Absolutely, sir. Why?
- Jor-El: The photo-nucleic effect appears to be insignificant.
- Clark Kent: Insignificant? How can that be?
- Jor-El: His cells can only store minimum amounts of energy from the Sun.
- Clark Kent: But he's released an ocular blast.
- Jor-El: Only once, and he since then has been unable to repeat it.
- Clark Kent: He has elevated strength.
- Jor-El: For his size, perhaps, but nothing extraordinary. He doesn't even have 1/100th your strength.
- Clark Kent: Test him again.
- Jor-El: There is no reason to do so. These have been random occurrences. He'll never have enough power to produce these abilities on command. His human DNA is just too limiting. I know you wished for this, but he will never be like you, Kal-El.
- Clark Kent: Look, the fact that I'm Superman means that I've been gone a lot in your lives. Now, I always told myself that you'd both be fine and that it wouldn't affect you, but I was wrong. I know it has. Now, I can't just abandon the world, but I can't abandon you two, either. It's gonna take me some time to figure out how to be better at both, but I will, okay?
- Jonathan Kent: Okay.
- Jordan Kent: [Clark slides an ELT like Lois' to him] I thought you said this wouldn't fix my problem.
- Clark Kent: It won't, but keeping you home won't, either.
- Jordan Kent: So I can go to school?
- Clark Kent: We have to keep an eye on your powers, Jordan, but... yes, you can go. All right, let's get dressed. We gotta go.
- Jonathan Kent: Wait, where's mom?
- Clark Kent: Oh, she, uh... she had a thing.
- Jordan Kent: So, how was today without me?
- Jonathan Kent: Uh, you know, it was... it was a lot better, actually. I think we should have done this a long time ago.
- Jordan Kent: Shut up.
- Clark Kent: I told Jordan that I would be there for him, but I don't even know what he needs right now.
- Lois Lane: He just needs his dad.
- Jordan Kent: You were right before. We moved here for me, and I never even thanked you.
- Jonathan Kent: You don't have to thank me.
- Jordan Kent: Yes, I do. Our whole lives, you've been there for me, and the least I could do is be there for you.
- Jonathan Kent: Did you ever find out if you're half-Kryptonian or what?
- Jordan Kent: Not according to Hologramps. He said I'll never be like dad.
- Jonathan Kent: Jordan, look, I know what happened in the barn. Some poles fell on us, and you saved our lives. So honestly, I-I really... I don't care what some stupid hologram said. You're my twin brother. I know you better than anyone. You're different now, okay? Something happened to you, definitely something special, and if no one else is gonna help you figure out what that is... I will.
- Jordan Kent: I only got two of the AP classes I wanted, and they put me in Spanish instead of French.
- Jonathan Kent: I haven't even looked at my schedule yet.
- Jordan Kent: Yeah, I'm sure it's just as crappy as mine.
- Lois Lane: We actually wanted to talk to you about school, anyway.
- Clark Kent: We have some concerns with you going right now.
- Jordan Kent: Isn't that why we moved here?
- Lois Lane: No, we came here so that your father and I would be around more and we'd have more time to spend together as a family.
- Clark Kent: And to live in a safer place for me to teach you about your powers and the reason you have them.
- Jordan Kent: Well, what do I need to learn? I'm a little stronger. So what?
- Clark Kent: You're a lot stronger, and you've had an ocular release of energy.
- Jordan Kent: A what?
- Jonathan Kent: Is that seriously what it's called?
- Lois Lane: It doesn't matter what it's called. He almost hurt a bunch of kids.
- Jordan Kent: It was an accident. I don't even know how it happened.
- Lois Lane: That's exactly our point.
- Jordan Kent: So I'm just not gonna go to school?
- Clark Kent: Until we know how to keep it from happening again, yes.
- Jordan Kent: Why can't I just have one of those beeper things mom has in case something goes wrong?
- Clark Kent: An ELT is not the solution, Jordan.
- Jordan Kent: [getting up and leaving] You know what? I thought coming here would be a chance to start over, but I guess I'm just gonna be a freak like always.
- Jonathan Kent: [sarcastic] It feels like home already.
- A.I. Device: I take it you were unable to secure the necessary kryptonite, Captain Luthor.
- Captain Luthor: We need to keep looking.
- A.I. Device: I understand, Captain, but your suit's running low on power.
- Captain Luthor: Then we'll take the ship.
- A.I. Device: It's barely operable.
- Captain Luthor: I don't care. We need to stop Kal-El before he does to this world what he did to mine.
- Clark Kent: [bringing Jordan to the Fortress of Solitude] After my father died, I felt pretty lost. I had a lot of questions about who I was, why I could do the things I could do. So I came here, found my answers. Maybe this place can help you the same way it helped me.
- Jordan Kent: That's the thing from the ship.
- Clark Kent: It's a sunstone crystal. Think of it as a computer drive that contains the entire history of Krypton.
- Jordan Kent: So you brought me to an igloo in the North Pole to read about Krypton?
- Clark Kent: Not "read," exactly. It's more like... "experience."
- Superman: What is this?
- General Sam Lane: No clue. He acted like we were chums, though.
- Superman: So that's why he was here? For you?
- General Sam Lane: He was here for the same reason he was in Moldova and Mongolia: kryptonite.
- Superman: You have a supply?
- General Sam Lane: I do.
- Superman: And you never told me?
- General Sam Lane: I don't tell you lots of things.
- Superman: How much do you have, Sam?
- General Sam Lane: Let's just say it's the reason the world's in short supply.
- Superman: Why?
- General Sam Lane: So no one gets their hands on it and uses it against you. When are you gonna realize everything I've done since the day you married my daughter has all been for all of your protection?
- Superman: Then find this guy so I can finish this.
- Lois Lane: So? Did you get the stranger?
- Clark Kent: Getting closer. How was the rest of the barbecue?
- Lois Lane: We didn't stay very long. The ribs were really good, though.
- Lana Lang Cushing: Oh, you have the same look on your face as you did in high school, like you got the weight of the world on your shoulders.
- Clark Kent: I'm, uh, just wondering if we're gonna fit in here.
- Lana Lang Cushing: Well, don't even think about leaving, 'cause I just got you back. You know what? Listen, it's gonna take everybody a little while to get used to this new normal. You grew up here. They didn't, so it's kinda up to you to make them feel at home, yeah?
- Lois Lane: Can I help you with something? I saw you at the diner.
- Chrissy Beppo: Wow, you're Lois Lane.
- Lois Lane: And you're...
- Chrissy Beppo: Oh, Chrissy Beppo. I've been wanting to introduce myself the last few days, but I totally chickened out.
- Lois Lane: A fellow journalist?
- Chrissy Beppo: Smallville Gazette. I came to cover this, not that there's much news to ever cover at these things.
- Clark Kent: You know how many times, as a kid, I'd sit out here, and my mom and dad would come out, and I'd ask them a thousand questions about how to solve this problem or that problem?
- Lois Lane: Do you think we made a mistake by moving here?
- Clark Kent: Actually, I don't. We just have a lot of questions to answer. Like what are you gonna do about the Planet?
- Lois Lane: I don't know. I've never be rewritten before.
- Clark Kent: Well, here's what I know. The fire I saw in you with that story, I haven't seen that look in your eye in a long time... and I know this family is closer this week than we were last week, so it's okay if we've got a lot of questions. We're gonna find the answers together.
- Lois Lane: [kissing] Up, up, and away.
- General Sam Lane: Why'd you move the family here? You took Lois away from where she needs to be, hurt Jonathan's football chances. Jordan's got no chance of fitting in with kids here. Must have had a hell of a reason.
- [realizing]
- General Sam Lane: You told the boys you're Superman.
- Clark Kent: Couldn't lie to 'em anymore.
- General Sam Lane: You sure as hell could.
- Clark Kent: Sam...
- General Sam Lane: You have any idea what you just did? You ruined their childhood, Clark. I've seen the toll this life's taken on Lois over the years. She never says anything to you, but I know. Now you're gonna put the boys through that same hell?
- Clark Kent: This is gonna keep my family together.
- General Sam Lane: No, Clark, it's gonna tear it apart.
- Clark Kent: What's that?
- Lois Lane: It is an article I am working on about Morgan Edge.
- Clark Kent: Edge?
- Lois Lane: He was at the Smallville city council meeting last night.
- Clark Kent: I thought you weren't getting involved.
- Lois Lane: Well, yes, but then he started spouting this BS about helping the town. Morgan Edge is not here to save Smallville, Kansas. He's here for cheap labor because people are desperate, just like he did with New Carthage and Hazel Green and Granville. He is eating these small towns from the inside out.
- Clark Kent: [moving to see her work, she yields her chair] Thank you. "Morgan Edge is a corporate vampire." You remember that Edge owns the Planet?
- Lois Lane: So?
- Clark Kent: So, he's not gonna let you publish this.
- Lois Lane: You know what, babe? You do your Superman stuff, and I will do my Lois Lane stuff. I'm serious, Clark. I'm getting this gut feeling that this is one of the reasons I was supposed to come to Smallville. I am not going to let Morgan Edge destroy this town like he did the others.
- Sarah Cushing: Heard you had another tough one today.
- Jonathan Kent: Wow, you hear about everything, huh?
- Sarah Cushing: Sean was over earlier, and he told me.
- Jonathan Kent: If you don't mind me asking, what... what is it exactly that you see in that guy?
- Sarah Cushing: He can really sweet.
- Jonathan Kent: [sardonically] Yeah, real sweet guy, especially on the football field.
- Lois Lane: He changed it. He changed my story. It's, like, a pro-Edge fluff piece.
- Clark Kent: Foswell did this?
- Lois Lane: No, Edge. I can't let him do this.
- Lt Rosetti: [with Sam at the Department of Defense] General, you need to see this. He's here.
- Lois Lane: [seeing Clark react to Sam's activated ELT] Now? You gotta be kidding me.
- Clark Kent: It's your dad. He's at the DOD.
- Lois Lane: [glancing at Jonathan and Jordan] I'll explain why. Go.
- Clark Kent: He knew my history, my weakness. He had kryptonite.
- Lois Lane: He's from another planet?
- Clark Kent: That's what he said. He blames me somehow for it being destroyed.
- Lois Lane: Well, you'll figure it out, Clark. You've taken on guys like this before.
- Clark Kent: This is the worst time for someone like this to be showing up.
- Lois Lane: Right when you moved your family to Smallville and you promised the boys you'd be dad of the year?
- Clark Kent: Did you know your dad was stockpiling kryptonite?
- Lois Lane: [pouring a glass of wine] This bottle doesn't stand a chance, does it?
- Kyle Cushing: You writing something about Morgan Edge?
- Lois Lane: He's not as great as you think he is, Kyle.
- Kyle Cushing: Well, he's bringing jobs to Smallville, so that's good enough for me.
- Clark Kent: [showing Jordan the history of Krypton] It's a lot to absorb, I know.
- Jordan Kent: How'd you know to do this when you came here?
- Clark Kent: My father showed me. Well, the AI of my Kryptonian father. Jordan, this is your grandfather, the man you're named after, Jor-El.
- Jor-El: You brought your son to me. Why?
- Clark Kent: Because unlike we thought, Father, he's manifesting abilities.
- Jor-El: Well, then... it is possible for us to further our Kryptonian heritage after all. And you, Jordan, you will be the one to do it.
- Jordan Kent: Why do we need these big winter jackets? Are... are we flying somewhere?
- Clark Kent: Kind of have to. Hold on, okay?
- Clark Kent: You going somewhere?
- Lois Lane: Going to a city council meeting about the Edge proposal.
- Clark Kent: Lois, Lois, Lois, we're just settling in here.
- Lois Lane: Only for a few minutes. Just to listen.
- [with his superhuman hearing, Clark hears a truck approaching]
- Lois Lane: Yeah, he texted while you were gone. Said he was stopping by.
- Clark Kent: [seeing it's Sam] Well, he has his work face on.
- Lois Lane: I'm gonna take the boys with me. I don't want them hearing about some crazy person stalking their dad.
- Lois Lane: The playbook never arrived?
- Jonathan Kent: It should have been here when we moved in. I don't know how I'm supposed to know the plays.
- Clark Kent: Your dad knows that we told the boys. He figured it out the other night.
- Lois Lane: What'd he say?
- Clark Kent: Oh, you know, just that we're making the biggest mistake of our lives.
- Lois Lane: See, now I know we're on the right track.
- Jordan Kent: Dad's taking me to the Fortress today, gonna run some tests, see what powers I have or will have or whatever. Can you imagine if I can fly?
- Jonathan Kent: No, not really.
- Jordan Kent: What Sarah said about the playbook, what happened?
- Jonathan Kent: I mean, I didn't get it, and now I have it, so it's cool.
- Jordan Kent: All right.
- Clark Kent: Ready?
- Jordan Kent: Yeah.
- Clark Kent: See you guys later.
- Jonathan Kent: Have fun being Superman and Superboy or whatever.
- Kyle Cushing: You come to the wrong place if you're looking for a tofu burger.
- Lois Lane: I was waiting for a full rack, actually.
- Kyle Cushing: You know, I looked into what happened in New Carthage. It wasn't a good deal. You know, those people wanted to unionize right off the bat.
- Lois Lane: Yeah, to protect themselves.
- Kyle Cushing: Well, yeah, but that would have meant that Edge couldn't turn a profit. He'd have lost a third of his workforce if those salaries went up.
- Lois Lane: I'm sorry, are you trying to argue that people shouldn't make a living wage?
- Kyle Cushing: No, okay, what I'm saying is that in situations like this, some money in your pocket is better than none. A lot of nothing is still nothing, Ms. Lane. Short-term sacrifices for long-term gains. This is something to get the ball rolling. It's what Smallville needs right now.
- [putting food on her plate]
- Kyle Cushing: Enjoy your ribs.
- Lois Lane: You're really swimming around in that head of yours lately, huh? That stranger in the war suit really got to you, didn't he?
- Clark Kent: He seemed to know a lot about Superman. What if he knows about us, the boys, where we live?
- Lois Lane: My dad's working on it. He'll find him. And in the meantime, let's just focus on what we came here for: family.
- Kyle Cushing: How many jobs you looking to provide? Just so they know.
- Morgan Edge: From entry-level to tradesman, we're estimating around 600.
- Kyle Cushing: And that's not including peripheral jobs, folks.
- Mayor George Dean: So, if there are no more questions...
- Lois Lane: I have a question. That jobs number you say is an estimate?
- Morgan Edge: That's right, Ms. Lane. It's difficult to guarantee an exact figure.
- Lois Lane: So is there a number that's more feasible? Because I would hate for what happened in New Carthage to happen here.
- Morgan Edge: Such as?
- Lois Lane: Missing job-creation targets by nearly 50%, paying well below living wage, that kind of thing.
- Morgan Edge: Here's what I love about Lois Lane: when she smells a story, she goes after it with everything she has, even if it concerns her own boss. I thought those mines would be fruitful. I was wrong. But what I promised those people was that I'd take a risk on them when no one else would, and that's exactly what I've come here to offer everyone: a chance to save this town and improve its residents' lives. But perhaps you're right, Ms. Lane. Perhaps Smallville isn't the place to take a risk right now. I certainly wouldn't want to cause any harm to this great community. Maybe that's something you all need to discuss further.
- Lois Lane: What's wrong?
- Jonathan Kent: Nothing, mom. I just need to... I just need to learn this playbook.
- Lois Lane: Jonathan... you're a really great brother, you know that? I know how much you gave up by saying yes to coming here. Your whole life's in Metropolis. Your girlfriend's there. Your entire identity is there, but you said yes to coming here anyway 'cause you wanted to help your brother.
- Jonathan Kent: You and I both had lives we left behind.
- Sean Smith: Heard you Kent boys were moving here.
- Sarah Cushing: [trying to stop a fight before it starts] Come on, this is not...
- Sean Smith: You're supposed to be, what? Some kind of star quarterback?
- Jonathan Kent: I'm all right.
- Tag Harris: Too bad. We already got a QB.
- Sarah Cushing: How mature.
- Timmy Ryan: And we'll see how you do with our offense. Some people think it's tough to learn, especially if you somehow never got the playbook.
- Sean Smith: [pushing past] Tell your brother I said hi.
- General Sam Lane: Sources tell us our armored friend hit a black-market weapons site last night in Moldova.
- Clark Kent: What'd he take?
- General Sam Lane: Not sure yet. Blew out the whole operation before leaving, though. What'd he say to you, exactly?
- Clark Kent: Just what he knew about Superman, and that we'd see each other again.
- General Sam Lane: Well, we know how to make that happen. This time, he came in a ship.
- Clark Kent: So he brought more than just a war suit with him.
- General Sam Lane: He sure did. My guys were able to assign this thing a residence identifier. Goes airborne again, we got him.
- Chrissy Beppo: [chatting with Lois] Hey, I know you're at the Daily Planet and everything, but if you ever want to write an article for the Gazette now that you live here, my editor doesn't shut up about you. You're, like, her idol.
- Jonathan Kent: [seeing Clark and Jordan return home] Where were you guys all day?
- Clark Kent: Go tell him.
- Lois Lane: [narrating] What can you say about leaving a place you loved? All the memories. All the experiences. It can be heartbreaking... until the excitement takes over... because you soon realize you get to make new memories... have new experiences... and best of all... fall in love all over again.
- Chrissy Beppo: Lois, hi. Can I help you?
- Lois Lane: I'm guessing you read my article that was in the Daily Planet?
- Chrissy Beppo: Yeah, I did. Didn't really read like you.
- Lois Lane: Because it wasn't. This is what I really wrote. Morgan Edge changed the whole piece. You said that your editor would be interested in publishing anything I wrote.
- Chrissy Beppo: You're really good. You got me. Um, I'm the editor, reporter, printer, janitor, sometimes plumber. Yeah, I don't know why I said that. I guess I...
- Lois Lane: So, are you interested?
- Chrissy Beppo: Okay, if I publish this, you'll probably get fired, and I can't be responsible...
- Lois Lane: Oh, no, I already quit.
- Chrissy Beppo: When can you start?
- A.I. Device: It seems, sir, that you're going to have to proceed without the kryptonite or your ship.
- Captain Luthor: Then I need a new suit.
- A.I. Device: It will take some time to locate the proper materials to build one.
- Captain Luthor: Guess we'll go find what we need.
- A.I. Device: We have some time. It seems this planet's Kal-El is not entirely like the one you've encountered, Captain Luthor.
- Captain Luthor: No, he isn't like my Kal-El... not yet.
- Lois Lane: You re-wrote my story.
- Morgan Edge: I merely corrected what was wrong.
- Lois Lane: So just to confirm, we can't do any actual reporting here anymore, correct?
- Morgan Edge: Ms. Lane, I won't have my paper printing this kind of nonsense.
- Lois Lane: That's what I thought.
- Morgan Edge: [she tosses an envelope onto the table] What's this?
- Lois Lane: That is the best writing I have done since you took over.
- Leslie: He's going to crush you.
- Lois Lane: Let him try.
- [narrating as she leaves]
- Lois Lane: What can you say about leaving a place you loved? You hope it made you who you are... challenged your beliefs... pushed you out of your comfort zone...
- [as Edge opens the envelope, the piece of paper inside simply reads "I quit"]
- Lois Lane: ...and gave you the strength to demand better... so you're prepared for what's to come.
- Lois Lane: What happened at the Fortress?
- Jordan Kent: I guess we found out what I always knew. I'm not special.
- Clark Kent: Jordan, it is a process. We will go back, we will test you again, and we'll see how you progress over time.
- Jordan Kent: Yeah.
- Clark Kent: Maybe he should just stay home.
- Jonathan Kent: What? Why? Baby have another bad day?
- Jordan Kent: Screw you.
- Jonathan Kent: No!
- Clark Kent: Boys...
- Jonathan Kent: No, I am sick of your crap, okay, Jordan? This is not just about you! I got the shaft.
- Clark Kent: Whoa, whoa, whoa. What does that mean?
- Jonathan Kent: It means that Don Draper over here kissed Sarah at the bonfire party, so now her dick boyfriend and the entire team are out to get me!
- Jordan Kent: That's why you didn't get the playbook?
- Jonathan Kent: Yeah, genius. I guess super-perception isn't one of your powers.
- Clark Kent: Okay, okay, you know what, Jonathan? You and I, we can go out front. We can run plays.
- Lois Lane: No, babe, not right now. Listen, sweetie, I am sorry about the playbook. That really sucks. And I'm sorry going to the Fortress didn't meet your expectations. You're probably so disappointed, but now's not the time to wallow in everything that's gone wrong since we came here. We moved here to be closer as a family, and we got invited to this dinner as a family, and we are going as a family, so get dressed.
- Clark Kent: You heard your mother.