Smallville (TV Series)

Injustice (2009)

Cassidy Freeman: Tess Mercer

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• Clark Kent : This isn't your battle.

  Tess Mercer : So that you admit it's yours. Clark, don't you see I'm doing this all for you?

  Clark Kent : For me?

  Tess Mercer : Yes.

  Clark Kent : You're so delusional, you put together a small army to make some fictional prophecy come true.

  Tess Mercer : Clark, the mark of a true hero is somebody who's willing to sacrifice his own personal morality to help keep the world safe.

  Clark Kent : No one has the right to choose who lives and dies. I was beginning to think that you were different from Lex. I was wrong.

  Tess Mercer : The difference is that he turned his back on you. But I still believe. I understand that if everyone was more like you, the world would be a better place. But the truth is that it's out of your hands now. You can't avoid your fate.

  Clark Kent : Lex did teach me one thing. The word "fate" is used by people who's lost sight of who they are. Why are you so determined to see Davis Bloome die?

  Tess Mercer : That's simple, Clark. An entire civilization's survival depends on it.

• Oliver Queen : [referring to a bottle of wine]  It's a '64 Soleil. It's from my private collection. I was just thinking we could just take the afternoon off, and, uh, pop the cork.

  Tess Mercer : Keep your cork... in your pants.

• Voice of Orb : Is Kal-El ready to fulfill the prophecy?

  Tess Mercer : I did as you asked. The crystal has been destroyed.

  Voice of Orb : Then you shall be the savior of Kandor.

• Tess Mercer : Clark, if you don't want to admit your true identity, that's fine. But we both know that Davis Bloome... isn't a man. He's a beast.

  Clark Kent : If he is this beast, then encouraging the police to go after him is dangerous. People *will* die.

  Tess Mercer : And when that happens, you'll know where to find him... so that you can finally slay the proverbial dragon.

• Tess Mercer : Just tell me what you want.

  Bette Sans Souci : First, you're gonna give us access to the inmate files from Black Creek. Then we're gonna reach out to everyone that suffered your injustice and form our own league.

  Rudy Jones : You may have recruited us, but we're free agents now. And with all that power, no one will ever mess with us ever again.

  Bette Sans Souci : Cough up the password to those files.

  Tess Mercer : I'm not about to let the world get taken over by a bunch of freaks.

  Bette Sans Souci : [points sword at Tess]  Well, this freak's about to make you talk.

• Tess Mercer : Well you seem to taking my open door policy a little liberally these days, don't you?

  Clark Kent : I guess I assumed after you ambushed me in my barn and accused me of being an alien Jesus that we had dropped any formalities.

  Tess Mercer : You know, I can't say that the sarcasm adds to your coy charm, but please, come in.

• Bette Sans Souci : I can't believe we lost track of that thing.

  Rudy Jones : If I had their powers, I would have gotten the job done. They're the ones that screwed up, not us.

  Tess Mercer : [entering]  So quick to assign blame. I taught you to take care of one another. You were trained as a team. If one of you fails, then all of you fail.

• Tess Mercer : What the hell is going on here?

  Bette Sans Souci : Livewire and Neutron found the monster. By the time Parasite and I showed up, things had gotten messy. She said Neutron zapped him with some sort of radioactive blast.

  Tess Mercer : Your mission was to find him and then wait until I sent the Traveler.

  Leslie Willis : Is that all you can think about? Neutron's dead!

  Rudy Jones : Hey! Back off.

  Bette Sans Souci : Tess was trying to keep us safe. It was you and Neutron who didn't wait for backup.

  Leslie Willis : That thing caught us tailing him, and he attacked. We didn't have a chance. I am not gonna be the opening act to this Traveler when you won't even clue us in to who it is. I want out.

• Tess Mercer : We all suffered a loss here. But we should learn a lesson from this. We're only strong when we're together. If we find that beast, you will save so many lives. You can't walk away from that.

  Leslie Willis : Watch me. Go find another sucker to be your hero.

• Oliver Queen : [bringing Tess a bottle of wine]  Your secretary said you were out. If your assignment was to insult your new business partner, you get an A+.

  Tess Mercer : And you flunked getting the hint.

• Oliver Queen : [in Tess' bed]  No, please, don't stop getting undressed on my account.

  Tess Mercer : You really don't know the meaning of boundaries, do you?

• Tess Mercer : You looking for the crystal?

  Clark Kent : Let me guess, Eva told you all about it.

  Tess Mercer : You know, I thought I'd finally figured out the whole Kal-El puzzle with the Veritas journal, but... sending her in undercover did seem to reveal a few missing Kryptonian pieces.

  Clark Kent : So what'd you do? Have one of your Black Creek inmates steal the crystal before you had them murdered?

  Tess Mercer : I had nothing to do with their deaths, Clark. Black Creek was Lex Luthor's project. The chips were implanted there. The technology was untested. If it malfunctioned, you can't blame me.

  Clark Kent : I'm sure there's no way to tie it back to you. You've already had your people cover your tracks. Where is the crystal?

  Tess Mercer : I had it destroyed. So that you'd have no choice but to kill the beast. Sending him to some otherworldly prison, that's not enough. How many people like Plastique have you sent to jail only to have them slip through the system? What if that happened again? You can't tell me that no one's ever escaped from this Phantom Zone.

• Tess Mercer : I don't have time for a wine tasting, Oliver.

  Oliver Queen : Corporate titans need to learn how to multitask, Tess. It's all business.

  Tess Mercer : That's not a quarterly earnings report.

  Oliver Queen : You're always very perceptive. You know, I like that in a woman. It's a turn-on.

  Tess Mercer : If I remember correctly, when it comes to the opposite sex, there's little that doesn't turn you on.

  Oliver Queen : Actually, there's only been one woman that ever had that effect.

  Tess Mercer : Nice try. I'm still busy.

  Oliver Queen : Well, it's to celebrate the reopening of the geothermal power station. I don't think you're understanding the signficance.

  Tess Mercer : No, I get the PR benefits.

  Oliver Queen : But the eco-friendly little girl, the one who wanted to grow up and be a marine biologist, surely she's excited that we're reducing our carbon footprint, right?

  Tess Mercer : Well, thanks to all the men in my life, that little girl grew up. Now she only has time to worry about things like investor satisfaction and balance sheets.

  Oliver Queen : Well, I remember when the only sheets that separated us were made of silk. All you cared about was saving the planet.

  Tess Mercer : Oh, I still wanna save the planet. It's just some of the people that I could do without.

• Clark Kent : Do you really think that spreading panic is responsible journalism? Making Davis Bloome front page news every day is reckless.

  Tess Mercer : Reckless? I-I think reckless is not doing everything in your power to stop him.

  Clark Kent : Starting a massive manhunt isn't helping anyone.

• Clark Kent : This is not some fairy tale. Obviously there's some dark part of you that needs to be saved, but I am not your white knight. You're risking innocent lives, including Chloe's.

  Tess Mercer : Oh, right. The accomplice of the serial killer.

  Clark Kent : She's his hostage. And she's in the most danger.

  Tess Mercer : If you're so worried about her getting hurt, why are you fighting my help, hmm? Maybe it's because you're actually afraid to find Davis. Because the pure and virtuous Clark Kent can't face what he'll have to do, what you're destined to do, when that moment comes. Clark, I'm just making sure you embrace the inevitable.