- 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.
- Martha Kent: [learning of Jonathan's promise to Jor-El] What have you invited into our lives?
- Jonathan Kent: Martha, I... I honestly don't believe I had another choice.
- Martha Kent: How could you have made a decision like that about our son without talking to me?
- Jonathan Kent: It was the only way that I could get him back!
- Martha Kent: Why would you keep it a secret?
- Jonathan Kent: Because I didn't want you to have to wait for the rest of your life worrying about something that might not ever come to pass.
- Martha Kent: Do you really think Jor-El will ever give up on Clark?
- Jonathan Kent: I can't just sit idly by while he tries to take away our son.
- Martha Kent: Well, we might not have a choice. That girl is more powerful than Clark!
- [Kara and Clark are flying/drifting in the sky]
- Clark Kent: How are you doing this?
- Kara: You're doing it, too.
- Clark Kent: I can't fly...
- Kara: Not yet. This is just the beginning, Kal-El. You have no idea how powerful you'll become.
- 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.
- Jor-El: Go with Kara, Kal-El.
- Clark Kent: I'm not going anywhere! I'll never be who you want me to be!
- [Kara disappears in a flash of light]
- Jonathan Kent: What did you do to her?
- Jor-El: She served her purpose as has Jonathan Kent.
- [a beam of light shoots from the cave wall and grips Jonathan around the neck]
- Clark Kent: Dad! Leave my father alone!
- Jor-El: Come forward, or he will die. Come to me, Kal-El.
- Jonathan Kent: Clark, I've lived a full life, son. Jor-El can do whatever he wants to do me, as long you're free.
- Clark Kent: I'll never be free.
- Jonathan Kent: Clark! No!
- [Clark is whisked away into the cave's wall; Jonathan falls the ground unconscious]
- 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.