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

Through a Glass, Darkly (1996)

Teri Hatcher: Lois Lane

Photos 

Quotes 

• Lois Lane : Of course. Where else would it be? Every villain in the universe seems to operate out of Metropolis! For once, I just wish we could have a villain in Maui. Or Aspen. Or Monte Carlo.

• Clark Kent : So barring any further bouts of amnesia...

  Lois Lane : ...or shrinking...

  Clark Kent : ...or cloning or Kryptonite or time travel or voodoo, I say we get married sooner rather than later.

  Lois Lane : Me too, I just have to wait long enough for my mother to recover from our last wedding.

  Clark Kent : Oh Lois, I'd like to get married *this* century, okay?

  [they laugh] 

• Lois Lane : [Referring to Sarah]  I think somebody has a crush on somebody.

  Clark Kent : But I'm an engaged man.

  Lois Lane : All the more tempting.

  Clark Kent : Somebody else isn't jealous are they?

  Lois Lane : Not in the least!

  Clark Kent : [Sarcastically]  What a pity you lack self confidence. You know we're definitely going to have to work on that.

  Lois Lane : Well maybe I need some private instruction.

  Clark Kent : Ooh, well you know it could be rigorous and intensive.

  Lois Lane : No pain, no gain. What do you say we start now?

  [They kiss as the elevator doors close] 

• Lois Lane : I had the weirdest dream. I dreamed I was in this house in the backyard and I had this chefs hat on. I was bar-b-queuing burgers and my legs were turning into roots and growing into the ground and I was screaming 'I am not an oak, I am free.'

  Clark Kent : Lois Honey maybe you should lie back down.

  Lois Lane : [a few minutes later]  Obviously I have ambivalent feelings about owning a house. All that that means.

  Clark Kent : Obviously...

  Lois Lane : I mean I move from place to place. I take assignments all over the world. It's like I deliberately run from putting down roots. Like that's a bad thing.

  Clark Kent : [Distracted]  There that piece fits.

  Lois Lane : Clark, I'm talking about something important here.

  Clark Kent : Oh I'm sorry Honey, I'm just...

  Lois Lane : When I saw that house today it suddenly became really clear to me what you want. And I just don't know if I can give you that.

  Clark Kent : Lois you've already given me everything that I want. You. I don't care if we live in a house or a boxcar or a yurt. Just as long as we're together.

  Lois Lane : What's a yurt?

  Clark Kent : It's a circular, portable...

  Lois Lane : [Interrupts]  Clark, I know a house is important to you.

  Clark Kent : When I was growing up my home meant permanence. A place to be safe. My life is so chaotic now going from disaster to disaster. I just always dreamed of having my own real home.

  Lois Lane : When I was a kid, home was where mom was in the lounge chair getting drunk and daddy was in the backyard burning the steaks trying to explain what he was doing kissing Mrs. Belcanto in the church parking lot. Permanence wasn't so permanent at my house.

  Clark Kent : Lois. You and I are going to be as permanent as permanent can be.

  Lois Lane : So I guess I should stop running?

  Clark Kent : I won't burn the steaks, I promise.

  Lois Lane : Forget the steaks. Just don't be kissing Mrs. Belcanto.

  [They kiss] 

• Lois Lane : Are you feeling any better?

  Clark Kent : Yeah, thank you. I will tell you that kryptonite, it's a humbling experience.

• Lois Lane : You know, for our next wedding maybe we should do something different. I was thinking we could just elope.

  Clark Kent : Elope?

  Lois Lane : Yeah, it'd be fun. Intimate, less complicated, sort of a spur of the moment thing. Romantic, just you and me and a few friends, our parents, amiable passer by, mariachi band.

  [Sees Clark staring at her] 

  Lois Lane : What? What are you looking at?

  Clark Kent : You. Just sitting here wondering what my life would have been like if I'd never met you.

  Lois Lane : Yeah. If you never left Smallville.

  Clark Kent : Smallville, what if I never left Krypton?

  Lois Lane : Probably have parents there that had their hearts set on a daughter-in-law from Jupiter.

  Clark Kent : How'd you know about her?

  [laughs] 

  Clark Kent : I bet they really would have liked you. Jor-El and Lara.

  Lois Lane : Do you think about them much?

  Clark Kent : Sometimes. But that is in my past. What's in my future is us.

• Clark Kent : Speaking of money, I was thinking that maybe we should put an offer on this house.

  Lois Lane : Haha, very funny.

  Clark Kent : I'm serious.

  Lois Lane : What?

  Clark Kent : That's your happy look right? Surprised but happy, right?

  Lois Lane : Clark are you out of your mind?

  Clark Kent : Well you're the one always telling me to take a chance, be spontaneous. Carpe diem, seize the day.

  Lois Lane : Well I'm talking about little things like wearing brown shoes with a grey suit, putting the coleslaw actually on the pastrami sandwich, not this, this is huge, this is colossal. I mean this is a life altering decision that could have repercussions for decades.

  Clark Kent : Whoa whoa whoa, okay we haven't done anything yet.

  Lois Lane : How do you know I even want a house?

  Clark Kent : Well this morning you said you really liked the place.

  Lois Lane : I really like the Grand Canyon but I don't want to buy it. Clark, this is just a really big step.

  Clark Kent : I just thought that, you know, after we got married, we'd want to get a place, you know, put down some roots.

  [Lois looks uncomfortable] 

  Clark Kent : Lois?

  Lois Lane : Well I just don't know if I'm going to be any good at that.