Smallville (TV Series)

X-Ray (2001)

John Schneider: Jonathan Kent

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• Jonathan Kent : I've seen some strange things in my life, but this definitely takes the cake.

  [Looks at Clark] 

  Jonathan Kent : Well, almost.

• [exercising Clark's new x-ray vision] 

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah, you could start with something small.

  [reaches into pocket] 

  Jonathan Kent : Try to tell me what I have in my hand right now.

  Clark Kent : Your pocket knife.

  Jonathan Kent : You could see through my hand...

  Clark Kent : No, you always carry your knife in that pocket.

• Jonathan Kent : Well, there's-there's no sign of Tina or Lana or...

  Martha Kent : Are you positive you saw her turn back into Tina?

  Clark Kent : I think the meteor shower did something to her bones.

  Jonathan Kent : So she can change appearance at will?

  Clark Kent : Yeah, and it gives her strength. That's how she threw me out of the loft.

  Martha Kent : [more to Jonathan]  What should we tell the police?

  Clark Kent : Nothing. Tina can turn into whoever she wants, and I'm the only one who can tell the difference.

• Martha Kent : So when you have these flashes, you can see through anything? People, objects?

  Clark Kent : Sometimes I see through things. Other times, it's like an x-ray.

  Jonathan Kent : And there's no warning? It just happens?

  Clark Kent : Well, I get a headache, and then it hits me. I mean, the first time, I thought I was hallucinating, and then it happened again.

  Martha Kent : Clark, I-I'm sure there's some way to control this.

  Clark Kent : You guys, I can see through things. How do you control that?

  Martha Kent : You gotta practice, Clark. Your eyes have muscles, just like your legs.

  Jonathan Kent : Your mom is right, son. Look, all you have to do is you have to figure out a way to, uh, condition them so that you don't get these random flashes.

  Clark Kent : Well, that sounds great. How am I gonna do that?

• Martha Kent : [reading about "Lex's" bank robbery in the paper]  He got away with $100,000.

  Clark Kent : I know Lex. It wasn't him.

  Jonathan Kent : Clark, I know that he's a friend of yours, but come on, you saw him with your own eyes.

  Clark Kent : I don't know what I saw.

  Martha Kent : There must be some kind of reasonable explanation for this, I hope.

  Lex Luthor : [outside on the patio]  Me, too. I hate to think I have an evil twin.

  Martha Kent : Lex, we didn't hear you pull up.

  Lex Luthor : May I come in? I promise I'm not packing heat.

  Clark Kent : Lex, how come you're not in jail?

  Lex Luthor : Because I was hosting a reception for 200 fertilizer distributors in Metropolis at the time of the robbery.

• Martha Kent : Clark, what are you doing home so early?

  Jonathan Kent : Having more vision problems?

  Clark Kent : I controlled it. Once. Sort of. I concentrated, and it worked.

  Martha Kent : That's great!

  Jonathan Kent : What'd you concentrate on?

  Clark Kent : Tina Greer's locker.

  Martha Kent : What'd you see?

  Clark Kent : The money from the bank robbery.

• Jonathan Kent : Do the police have any leads?

  Lex Luthor : None. That's why I wanted to talk to you, Clark. Your name was on the witness list. Did you actually see this person?

  Clark Kent : Yeah. He looked just like you.

  Lex Luthor : [laughing scoff]  Except his fingerprints and signature didn't match mine. You sure your eyes weren't playing tricks on you?

  Clark Kent : What's gonna happen now?

  Lex Luthor : Well, hopefully, the money will turn up. In the meantime, the Metropolis tabloids will have a field day, and I'm sure certain people's opinions of me will be cemented in stone.

  Jonathan Kent : [ignoring the jab]  I gotta get to work.

• Jonathan Kent : Police found the truck. Abandoned out by the Stewart farm.

  Clark Kent : Anybody else see the driver?

  Jonathan Kent : No.

  Martha Kent : I could have sworn it was you, Clark.

  Clark Kent : I guess I'm not the only one with a vision problem.

  Jonathan Kent : Look, I don't understand. Whoever it was, how did they get your keys?

  Martha Kent : I have no idea. I only went into the antique...

  Clark Kent : [she realizes something]  What is it, mom?

  Martha Kent : Nothing. It's just that Rose Greer was acting very strange. I found $5,000 in cash under a dresser. It had a Smallville Savings and Loan band on it. She said a customer paid her, but...

  Clark Kent : You think it's from the bank robbery?

  Martha Kent : It crossed my mind.

• Jonathan Kent : So, wait. Rose took your keys, turned into Clark, and then tried to run you down?

  Martha Kent : You're right, it... it's crazy.

  Clark Kent : I don't think so.

  Jonathan Kent : What?

  Clark Kent : I saw a flash of Tina Greer's skeleton. It was weird and green. It didn't look human. You know, like the ones you see in anatomy books?

  Martha Kent : That's probably because Tina was born with a soft bone disease. They had that poor girl on all these experimental drugs. Doctors didn't believe she'd live to see first grade.

  Jonathan Kent : She did get better, right around her third birthday.

  Clark Kent : It was right after the meteor shower, wasn't it?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah.

  Martha Kent : Clark, what do you think Tina's doing?

  Clark Kent : I don't know. I saw the same weird skeleton flash just after the robbery... I think.