Superman & Lois (TV Series)

Broken Trust (2021)

Wolé Parks: Captain Luthor

Quotes 

• Captain Luthor : [at the Shuster mines]  Figured out how to get in there yet?

  Lois Lane : Doing about as well as you, Marcus.

  Captain Luthor : May the best reporter win.

• Lois Lane : You sure about this?

  Captain Luthor : No point playing it cautious now, right?

  Lois Lane : And you know what to look for?

  Captain Luthor : Yeah. Got my hands on some schematics. What we want is just up ahead.

  Lois Lane : And how, may I ask, did you manage to just take a peek at Edge EnerCorp's top-secret schematics?

  Captain Luthor : Uh, friend of mine helped out with some surgically precise hacking.

  Lois Lane : Well, points to you and your friend. And the grand prize is...

  Captain Luthor : Should be right here. Yeah.

  Lois Lane : [he takes a tool out]  You came prepared.

• Lois Lane : Are we gonna talk about what happened back there?

  Captain Luthor : What's to talk about? You saw what I saw. That's your story.

  Lois Lane : You are armed to the teeth with the kind of weapons that would put you high on the FBI's most wanted list. And this security badge, I sent a photo to a friend of mine, and she said it's one of the best forgeries she has ever seen. So why don't you tell me who you really are and why you are in Smallville? 'Cause I don't buy that you came to write a story.

  Captain Luthor : I can't tell you why I'm really here. But I can promise you, like you, I am trying to prevent something bad from happening.

  Lois Lane : [her phone rings]  Hey, babe, can I call... how bad? I'm on my way.

  Captain Luthor : Are you okay?

  Lois Lane : [leaving]  To be continued.

• Lois Lane : What are you doing here, Marcus?

  Captain Luthor : Still open to sharing a byline? Friend of mine got hands on a couple inspector badges. One's for you, if you want it.

  Lois Lane : You somehow got not one but two inspector badges and you're just gonna give me one of them to be nice?

  Captain Luthor : They're working around the clock to get those mines ready. Right now, the tunnels are packed with inspectors. Security is stretched thin. A lone black guy might look suspicious, but the two of us together, it'll seem more legit. So... are you in... or out?

  Lois Lane : [cut to them at the mines]  Are you kidding me? This is your idea of a disguise? It's kind of a clown show.

  Captain Luthor : Let me do the talking, okay? You just try to look... inspector-y.

• Lois Lane : So a high-tech gadget guy works for LuthorCorp, the top tech company in the world, only to quit and pursue a career in journalism. Did I get that right? Feels like I should be focusing my story on you.

  Captain Luthor : No, the uh... story... is on what's in these walls.

  Lois Lane : What is that?

  Captain Luthor : X-K, otherwise known as X-Kryptonite.

  Lois Lane : X-Kryptonite?

  Captain Luthor : Rarest form of kryptonite. And if my hunch is right, these mines have the largest supply of it anywhere. There's your story, Ms. Lane.

  Leslie Larr : [preparing to fire her heat vision]  Too bad no one's gonna read it.