Smallville (TV Series)

Shield (2010)

Keri Lynn Pratt: Cat Grant

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Quotes 

• Cat Grant : Why are you doing this to me? I didn't do anything.

  Deadshot : Funny thing about fate. You can't outrun it. Either it's your day or it's not, sweet pea.

  Cat Grant : Please, no. My son... he's just two years old. I'm all he's got.

  Deadshot : Trust me. He'll get over you. Three or four years, he won't even remember your face. People about to die always think that that special loved one won't be able to go on without ' em. But the truth is, that person just finds someone else to love. Everyone is replaceable.

  Cat Grant : I used to think everyone could be saved. Even those superhero freaks. But now I realize... some people are just born dead.

• Clark Kent : [saving Cat from Deadshot]  Are you okay?

  Cat Grant : I'm fine. Thanks to my bulletproof vest. Don't leave home without it, Clark Kent. You can never be too safe.

  Clark Kent : Well, I'll be sure to pick one up.

  Cat Grant : See? I don't need a masked hero to rescue me. I've got a real flesh-and-blood one right here. People need to see someone's heart to believe in them. We need to be inspired by people who stand out in the light. Not people who shrink into the shadows. We need a good all-American hero in red, white, and blue. Or at least red and blue.

• Cat Grant : You know, you should really get yourself a bulletproof vest like me. We all think we're made of steel, but... really we're just made of marshmallows.

  Clark Kent : Cat, are you all right?

  Cat Grant : Well, I was just attacked by Green Arrow. I mean, this is all part of that vigilante agenda.

  Clark Kent : And why would he want to hurt you?

  Cat Grant : The last thing they want is an honest-Abe reporter like me working at the Planet and exposing the truth about them.

  Clark Kent : If you're really about the truth, then why'd you lie to me? You seem to be hiding a few secrets of your own.

  Cat Grant : No idea what you're talking about.

  Clark Kent : Why'd you change your name?

• Cat Grant : That's Adam. My son. He's with his grandparents until this all blows over. His dad and I went out for almost two years. I thought I'd found my Prince Charming, but little did I know they don't exist.

  Clark Kent : You just have to be patient. You know, I thought I had found somebody who could make me happy.

  Cat Grant : Really? Think you'll get back together?

  Clark Kent : I used to. But now I'm not sure. It's funny. When doing what you think is right for someone, it can feel so... wrong. How about you and this guy?

  Cat Grant : Well, Clark, not every guy's as nice as you. I had to get Adam away from him.

  Clark Kent : I'm sorry. Does he know where you are?

  Cat Grant : I changed my name so he couldn't find us. You know, I had so much I was fighting for. Trying to change the world. And now I have to hide behind the power of the pen and a new name, making sure nobody knows who's behind the words I'm printing.

  Clark Kent : Kind of like the vigilantes. Must have been scary escaping from him.

  Cat Grant : All I know is I protected my son. You know, the world may never see me as some big hero. But maybe someday my son will.

• Green Arrow : Don't move.

  Cat Grant : My self-defense teacher said never stop moving unless you're dead.

  [taking out a can of pepper spray, then turning around] 

  Cat Grant : Oh, my gosh. It's you.

• Cat Grant : Oh, just get it over with! I should have known you masked creeps were following me after your little car bomb backfired this morning! You call yourself a hero, but really you're just an arrow for hire!

  Green Arrow : Trust me, I'm not doing this for the money.

  Cat Grant : Face it, Robin Hood. You and your boys do this for no one but yourselves.

  Green Arrow : I'm not a criminal, lady.

  Cat Grant : Oh, yeah. That's what they all say. But I've got eyewitness testimony. And photos to back it up that a group of you heroes have been torturing innocent people by the old brewery at the docks!

  Green Arrow : [grabbing her phone]  Give me that.

  [while he's occupied, she runs to the door; hearing a window creak, she turns around and sees he's gone] 

  Cat Grant : See? That's exactly what I'm talking about.

• Clark Kent : You want to tell me what you got caught up in? I mean, someone did just try to kill you.

  Cat Grant : I was valedictorian. I mean, trust me, nobody wants to kill a valedictorian.

  Clark Kent : Maybe they got you mixed up with someone else.

  Cat Grant : Would you listen to yourself? You sound an awful lot like Lois Lane. Conspiracy around every corner. Always railing against the establishment against the normal people.

  Clark Kent : Normal?

  Cat Grant : Like you and me. God, it must have been hard listening to Lois' justifications for all these alternative values and lifestyles.

  Clark Kent : Lifestyles.

  Cat Grant : Oh. Don't act like some good, corn-fed boy next door like you is going to try to tell me that these vigilantes are part of the natural plan. I mean, it would be one thing if they actually had remorse. Or wanted to change, but, you know, they have no moral center.

  Clark Kent : Well, that's easy to say when they can't come out and defend themselves.

  Cat Grant : Sure they can. They could come out of the shadowy gutters into the light so we could see them any day. They just choose not to. You know, Godfrey says that they...

  Clark Kent : Look, stop. I found something. The police found a bullet in the engine block.

  Cat Grant : Oh, my god. Why would anyone want to kill me?

  Clark Kent : Look, we should get you some place safe. My friends won't mind if you stay at their apartment. No one will be looking for you in Smallville.

• Clark Kent : [seeing a purse on Lois' desk]  Lois.

  Cat Grant : [setting a box of belongings down]  No. It's Catherine. But my friends call me Cat. Cat Grant. With a "C".

  [offering a cookie tin] 

  Cat Grant : Want a cookie? I just baked them this morning. Really gooey, so be careful. I use twice the sugar.

  Clark Kent : Um...

  Cat Grant : No relation to that woman on TV. I get that a lot.

• Cat Grant : Can I tell you how excited I am to be working at the Planet? After all those weeks at the small-town paper, my words are finally going to have a real impact.

  Clark Kent : I'm sorry, you said "weeks"?

  Cat Grant : Classic overachiever. Got that from my granddaddy. Back home, I basically owned the front page of the paper.

• Clark Kent : Let's find you a permanent desk. This one belongs to someone on temporary leave.

  Cat Grant : Lois Lane?

  [scoffing] 

  Cat Grant : She's the one who got this whole thing started. Calling those costumed vigilantes heroes? Please. Like it's not totally obvious she's in love with the Blur.

  [she throws Lois' name plate into the trash; behind her back, he takes it back and throws her cookie away] 

  Clark Kent : Lois Lane is the best crime reporter this paper ever had. Now, there is a desk available over here by the copy machine.

  Cat Grant : Whoa, whoa, whoa. Wait a minute, Mr. Busy Boots. I don't think you get it. I'm your new partner.