Smallville (TV Series)

Covenant (2004)

Michael Rosenbaum: Lex Luthor

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• Clark Kent : You told me you stopped investigating me.

  Lex Luthor : I did.

  Clark Kent : You did? Then what is this?

  Lex Luthor : I understand how you could think this is all about you... but, in fact, it's about me.

  Clark Kent : More lies.

  Lex Luthor : So much of my own life I can't explain. I survived countless brushes with death, and it all started with this car crash. If I'm guilty of anything, it's that I've inherited my father's eccentric curiosity for the unexplained.

  Clark Kent : You've inherited his dishonesty.

  Lex Luthor : Clark, look me in the eye and tell me you don't have any hidden places of your own, where you keep your deep, dark secrets.

  Clark Kent : Ever since I've met you, I've been defending you, making excuses for you to people like Pete, like my parents, telling them "You can trust Lex Luthor. He's a good guy. He's nothing like his father." I was wrong.

• Lex Luthor : Clark, thanks for showing up. It means a lot to me.

  Clark Kent : I didn't come here for you, Lex. I came here because it's the right thing to do. This friendship is over.

• Lana Lang : Lex.

  Lex Luthor : I just wanted to say bon voyage.

  Lana Lang : Shouldn't you be at the courthouse?

  Lex Luthor : My father can wait. Lana, I couldn't let the last person you saw from Smallville to be the shuttle driver looking for his tip.

  Lana Lang : Lex, um... I can't thank you enough for everything that you've done for me.

  Lex Luthor : Yeah, it's pretty clear your destiny lies far beyond the Smallville city limits. I'm just trying to help you get there.

  Lana Lang : I don't know what I did to deserve such a great friend. But I'm glad that you came into my life.

• Lex Luthor : Johns Hopkins, the Mayo Clinic. My father's knocked on the door of every major medical institution in the Western world and was sent home each time without a cure.

  Chloe Sullivan : I'm sensing you're having second thoughts. Lex, I understand if you want to back out. I mean, he needs to be punished for what he did, but he's still your father, and he's dying.

  Lex Luthor : Yeah. And he's gonna draw his last breath in prison, not the VIP suite at Metropolis General. But only you're still willing to go through with this.

  Chloe Sullivan : I don't think I like the sound of this.

  Lex Luthor : Chloe, a dying man has little to lose. My father used a bizarre blood platelet cocktail to raise the dead, then pinned the murders of the research team on his son. Who knows what tactics he'll use to avoid going to prison?

  Chloe Sullivan : Yeah, but the FBI guaranteed our safety. I mean, they're putting me and my father in protective custody until after the trial.

  Lex Luthor : Then what?

  Chloe Sullivan : Lex, are you trying to scare me?

  Lex Luthor : I'm worried about you, Chloe. I want you to have all the facts before you walk into that courtroom.

  Chloe Sullivan : Your father's intimidated me long enough. I'm not backing down.