Smallville (TV Series)

Metallo (2009)

Cassidy Freeman: Tess Mercer

Quotes 

• Tess Mercer : When I came to, you were already gone. We never did get to finish what we started, though. Little rematch?

  Lois Lane : I won't fight you, Tess. I just came to tell you I'm not leaving The Daily Planet.

  Tess Mercer : You were *never* leaving, Lois. I fired you.

  Lois Lane : Well, I'm not going to get into the whole "she said, she said" thing with you. But I do have friends at The Inquisitor, and they would love to run a story about LuthorCorp's C.E.O. and her plans to launch a hostile alien takeover of the world.

  Tess Mercer : Except no one would ever believe you.

  Lois Lane : Maybe. Maybe not. But do you really want the attention? I'll see you at the office.

• Lois Lane : Seriously, what is it with you and physical violence?

  Tess Mercer : The last time you and I saw each other, things did get a little... physical, didn't they?

  Lois Lane : And then what happened, Tess? Inquiring minds want to know.

  Tess Mercer : You don't remember?

  Lois Lane : A three-week concussion can do that to you.

• Tess Mercer : To think such a small rock could give someone so much power. Can he be revived?

  Tess' Assistant : The subject's operation has left him more machine than man. His vital signs have simply gone offline.

• Tess Mercer : Did you find the Kandorians?

  Stuart Campbell : Check it.

  [showing her his tablet] 

  Stuart Campbell : Look. These symbols appeared all over the world the same night that Zod arrived. Now, I don't have a definitive translation for them yet, but the design shares similarities to Kryptonian words for blood, nobility, and family.

  Tess Mercer : [glancing at the Luthor crest in the stained-glass window]  Like a family crest. So there are more of his people out there. How many of these did you find?

  Stuart Campbell : Hundreds, okay? And I think you might recognize this one.

  [showing her the House of El sigil] 

  Stuart Campbell : But there's more. Look.

  [he zooms in, and she sees the unconscious figure of a person in the middle of the symbol]