Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (TV Series)

Sex, Lies and Videotape (1997)

K Callan: Martha Kent

Quotes 

• Clark Kent : I've decided that the only way to clear all this up is to tell the whole world the truth.

  Lois Lane : The truth about what?

  Clark Kent : That Superman can not be having an affair with Clark Kent's wife because Clark Kent is Superman.

  Lois Lane : Clark you can't do this.

  Lois Lane : Lois the only way to regain the world's trust is to tell them that I am Superman. I don't have a choice.

  Jonathan Kent : Do you realize what this will do to you son? To everybody?

  Clark Kent : I know it'll be hard Dad.

  Martha Kent : I don't think you realize how hard it will be. Never mind about your father and me it's not going to affect us much but it's going to affect you plenty. Clark Kent won't even exist anymore, you won't have any kind of private life.

  Jonathan Kent : And neither will Lois. She won't be able to go anywhere as herself let alone continue as a reporter. She'll just become Superman's wife.

  Clark Kent : I know, I know. Don't you think I thought about all this? This isn't just some knee jerk reaction that I'm having. I'm trying to stop a war. I'm trying to protect what Superman is, what he stands for.

  Lois Lane : If that's the case then you are making a mistake. What makes you think that the world is gonna start trusting Superman again when they find out that he's been lying to them all along about who he really is? Clark there's a greater truth to protect here and that's the idea of who Superman is. If you tell them that you're married, that you have feelings and desires like everybody else then that image of a hero is shattered, it's gone. People need to believe in that mythic truth, that is what Superman is all about and that is what you should protect above all else.

  Clark Kent : And I will protect it Lois. Because even in this cynical world somebody has to stand for integrity. And if that's what I say I stand for then I have to mean it.