- Chloe Sullivan: There are still a few blind spots, though. Like, how did we get beamed from the Kawatche cave to the North Pole? And, uh, what was really going on in that 40-story igloo?
- Clark Kent: Well, Chloe, there's a lot of things about me that even I don't understand. The meteor rocks... They didn't make me who I am.
- Chloe Sullivan: So you're saying you were born this way?
- Clark Kent: I wasn't born anywhere near Smallville. In fact, I wasn't born anywhere near this galaxy.
- Chloe Sullivan: Okay. Okay, so that would then make you, like, an...
- Clark Kent: Yeah.
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh, but you... You look so...
- Clark Kent: Human? I'm still the same person.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, I... I... I think you're so amazing. You save people's lives and take zero credit for it. To me, you're more than just a hero. You're a superhero.
- Clark Kent: Chloe.
- Chloe Sullivan: I'm serious, Clark. If more humans were like you, the world would be a better place.
- Chloe Sullivan: Hey. I think it's time you switch into Super Clark mode now.
- Clark Kent: Super Clark?
- Chloe Sullivan: I know you run faster than a speeding bullet, Clark. Take me along for the ride.
- Chloe Sullivan: I wonder who's more freaked out right now. Me, knowing I'm in a hospital where they get their medicine via dogsled... Or you, finally finding out I know your secret.
- Clark Kent: How long have you known?
- Chloe Sullivan: I guess I've always had my suspicions. The quick exits, the miraculous recoveries, the lame excuses. But I think when I saw you catch a car like it was a beach ball, that kind of confirmed everything.
- Clark Kent: Why didn't you say anything?
- Chloe Sullivan: I figured if you wanted to tell me you were part of the superpowered persuasion, you would when you were ready. On your teams, not mine.
- Clark Kent: You're a good friend, Chloe.
- Chloe Sullivan: *Obviously*, not good enough.
- Chloe Sullivan: [to Clark] I want you to know, I'll never be the iceberg to your Titanic, and your secret will never ever leave my lips. No matter what.
- Clark Kent: How'd you get that frog in your throat?
- Lois Lane: That's what happens when you get a neck massage form Barbie the Barbarian. Doctor says I shouldn't talk too much.
- Clark Kent: Oh, gee. That's too bad.
- Lois Lane: Don't get your hopes up, Smallville. It's not permanent.
- Lana Lang: Clark, I wanna ask you something. Do you believe in life on other planets?
- Clark Kent: Actually, I do.
- Martha Kent: [Looking at the Kent farmhouse with a gaping hole in it from where the meteor struck the house] Our home...
- Jonathan Kent: It's just wood and plaster, Martha. A house can always be rebuilt.
- Martha Kent: I guess you're right.
- Jonathan Kent: [Clark walks toward his mom and dad] But it does help to have a one-man construction team as a son.
- Martha Kent: Hi.
- Clark Kent: Hi.
- Jonathan Kent: [after observing a short pause, glad to be together again] Don't worry, Clark, things will be back to normal soon enough.
- Clark Kent: Actually, things will be a lot more normal around here than you think.
- [pauses to prepare himself]
- Clark Kent: My abilities are gone.
- Martha Kent: [In shock] How?
- Clark Kent: Jor-El took them. But, I'm not sure it's such a bad thing. All I've ever wanted is to be normal, and now, finally, I am.
- Martha Kent: It is different. You can get hurt now, you're vulnerable.
- Clark Kent: Isn't that what it means to be human?
- Jonathan Kent: No, I can't believe Jor-El would have given up on you that easily.
- Clark Kent: I took care of the danger he warned me about, and if losing my abilities is the consequence then I think he's done with me.
- [Walks to Jonathan and Martha and stands beside them]
- Clark Kent: Look, none of that matters now. I'm ready to take a step to the future. We'll start by rebuilding this house, one board at a time.
- Clark Kent: [inside the Fortress of Solitude] I thought Krypton was destroyed.
- Jor-El: It was, but here in your Fortress of Solitude, the geography of our planet has been replicated for your training.
- Clark Kent: I know there's a lot I can learn from you, but I have to get home. That's where I'm needed.
- Jor-El: The meteor shower is only the precursor. A dark force from Krypton has been awakened, Kal-El, and its sights have been set on Earth.
- Clark Kent: What do you want me to do?
- [a massive column of energy surrounds Clark with images of Krypton's history]
- Jor-El: You must do as I tell you. Study with diligence, for that is the only way to save this planet.
- Clark Kent: [seeing the destruction at the farm on a news report about the meteor shower] They didn't get out. My parents, they didn't get out.
- Chloe Sullivan: Smallville needs you more than I do, Clark. Go.
- Jonathan Kent: [Martha wakes up in the hospital] Well, Martha Kent, if you were trying to scare me, you did one heck of a job. For a minute there, I thought I lost you.
- Martha Kent: Hmm. I guess I found my way back.
- Lois Lane: Mrs. Kent. I have to you say look a whole lot better without a china cabinet on your back.
- Clark Kent: [Super-speeds into Lex's study and Nam-Ek and Aethyr turn to face him] I heard you were looking for me. I'm Kal-El.
- Nam-Ek: At last.
- Clark Kent: Who are you?
- Aethyr: The last survivors of Krypton.
- Clark Kent: What do you want?
- Nam-Ek: We want you to join with us, Kal-El, and help us make this savage land our utopia.
- Clark Kent: I saw what you did at the hospital. It's not utopia. It's MURDER.
- Nam-Ek: The few must be sacrificed for the sake of the many.
- Clark Kent: Then sacrifice me, because I'm not going to let you kill anyone else.
- Aethyr: If that is your decision. So be it, Kal-El.
- [Aethyr releases the key to the Phantom Zone on Clark]
- Jor-El: Kal-El, you have traveled far. One journey has ended. A new journey is about to begin. Welcome, my son.
- Lana Lang: [approaching Lionel carving a Kryptonian symbol into the hardwood floor with a corkscrew] Mr. Luthor?
- [nearing closer]
- Lana Lang: Are you okay?
- Lionel Luthor: [grabs Lana by the arm and she screams] The disciples of Zod...
- [looks up to Lana revealing the cataracts in his blank eyes]
- Lionel Luthor: ...they must be stopped!
- Lana Lang: You're talking about the people from the ship.
- Lionel Luthor: Their home...
- [he gets up and walks to Lex's safe full of Kryptonite laced artifacts]
- Lionel Luthor: ...is their only poison. Their home... is their only poison.
- Clark Kent: [running around the ruins of the farmhouse] MOM! DAD!
- Lex Luthor: [enters] Clark. Thank God you're okay.
- Clark Kent: Where's my mom and dad?
- Lex Luthor: At the hospital. Your mom has a concussion and a broken leg but she's gonna be fine.
- Clark Kent: What about Lana?
- Lex Luthor: Lana's safe. It's Chloe I'm worried about. She was with me in the cave when the meteors hit and I was knocked unconscious and when I came to she was gone.
- Clark Kent: She must have escaped while you were unconscious.
- Lex Luthor: Or someone helped her out.
- Clark Kent: Lex, how could I've...
- Lex Luthor: When I was down in the cave there was a light brighter than anything I've ever seen... and I could've sworn I saw you standing right in its epicenter.
- Clark Kent: I was nowhere near those caves.
- Lex Luthor: If you weren't down in the caves, where have you been?
- Clark Kent: My parents insisted I get a head start. I got a ride on one of the military vans.
- Lex Luthor: Why do I get this nagging feeling your being less than honest with me?
- Clark Kent: I have no idea.
- Lex Luthor: Well, I get the feeling that lying has become an unshakable habit of yours, Clark.
- Clark Kent: I don't have to listen to this.
- [Turns his back on Lex]
- Lex Luthor: If you're my friend...
- [grabs Clark's arms]
- Lex Luthor: ...just tell me the truth. Were you in the cave when the meteors hit?
- Clark Kent: [coldly] No.
- Clark Kent: How did you get that frog in your throat?
- Lois Lane: That's what happens when you get a neck message from Barbie the Barbarian.