- Chloe Sullivan: Lois stopped by and found Shelby here alone with a dishful of food. Now, don't worry, I covered for you. But you should know that you are *now* on her radar.
- Clark Kent: Thanks. I'll be more careful next time.
- Chloe Sullivan: Dressed like that? Clark, what if I was Lois? She would take one look at you and realize Clark Kent *is* the Blur.
- Clark Kent: I told you, there *is* no Clark Kent.
- Chloe Sullivan: No disrespect to your Kryptonian calling, but coming back to feed the dog is about as human as it gets.
- Clark Kent: I took the easy way out, Chloe. I should have been there when you needed me. I'm sorry.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, there's nothing easy about burying everyone you love in your past.
- Clark Kent: I'm afraid I haven't even done a very good job of that. I'm trying to fill the void by hanging out on rooftops, eavesdropping on people - people who are connecting and living. Thinking, what's the point of protecting life if you've lost your sense on how to live it? Maybe I can't do this, Chloe. Maybe I can't completely stay away.
- Chloe Sullivan: Stay away from *her*, you mean. Lois means something to you - something more. So, does this mean that Clark Kent is coming back for an encore?
- Clark Kent: I don't know. But I can't let that life interfere with my training again.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, lurking around building edges at midnight, pining after the life you gave up isn't exactly amping your hero performance, either. You know... maybe I was naive to think that you could just turn the corner and never look back. But either way, Kal-El needs his human disguise more than ever.
- Lois Lane: Clark Kent. You're back. I was beginning to think your family lived on some distant planet.
- Clark Kent: Must have really missed me.
- Lois Lane: Uh... only because the guy who sat in your desk was a certifiable psychopath. Otherwise, I've been so busy, I didn't even notice you were gone.
- Clark Kent: Missed you too, Lois. Anything exciting happen while I was gone?
- Lois Lane: Well, you'll never believe it, but I helped The Blur stop a homicidal maniac.
- Clark Kent: Really? You know, I would *love* to hear about it.
- Lois Lane: Okay. Well, it all started when this guy showed up with this *major* grudge against The Blur. He also happens to have these bionic arms and a big, glowing rock for a heart. But that's *way* later in the story.
- Chloe Sullivan: Are you still reaching out to Lois as The Blur?
- Clark Kent: She told you?
- Chloe Sullivan: You're supposed to be training with Jor-El. Does he know you're still talking to her?
- Clark Kent: Jor-El doesn't need to know.
- Chloe Sullivan: So you're lying to *him*. You said you're turning your back on all your human attachments, Clark, but apparently, only when it *suits* you.
- Clark Kent: You're taking this all too personally, Chloe. And I understand that you're still angry about Jimmy.
- Chloe Sullivan: We both sacrificed a lot so that you can become the hero that you're meant to be. Now quit backpedaling, Clark. Commit to what you started before more people get hurt.
- 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: You know, when I asked you if we could table our talk about you-know-who, I meant until I got home.
- Chloe Sullivan: Actually, the only table I'm here about is the kind they serve lunch on. I was thinking we could celebrate you getting your job back.
- Lois Lane: I would love to. But I'm kind of already on the job. I'm working for you-know-who.
- Chloe Sullivan: The Blur?
- Lois Lane: Mm-hmm.
- Chloe Sullivan: Doing what, exactly?
- Lois Lane: Hunting down a real life terminator.
- Chloe Sullivan: Lois, that sounds dangerous. Why is he not doing that himself?
- Lois Lane: Oh... Sometimes, heroes can't do it all their own, Chloe. That's why they need sidekicks. Rain check on lunch.
- John Corben: What's the matter, Blur? A little meteor rock got you down? Who knew the mighty Goliath could be taken down with a simple stone?
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh, Lois... why is Clark's dog welcoming me home?
- Lois Lane: Oh, I dropped by the farm yesterday and I found Shelby all alone with her Wheaties. I thought Clark secretly came back and didn't tell us.
- Chloe Sullivan: So you decided to call him out by dognapping his furry friend?
- Clark Kent: I don't want to hurt you, John.
- John Corben: You already have. My sister's dead because of you. A prison bus crashed. All the men inside would have died, but you saved them all. And in the confusion, a cold-blooded killer escaped.
- Clark Kent: And murdered your sister?
- John Corben: What gives you the right to interfere with our lives and to change our fates?
- Clark Kent: I'm sorry about your loss, John. What happened to your sister was tragic. You need to control yourself. The meteor rock is causing an adrenaline rush. You're not thinking straight.
- John Corben: Control *myself*? That's easy for *you* to say. It doesn't take much to stay in control when you watch from the shadows. You stand apart from the world while the rest of us live in it. Even when it breaks your heart.
- Lois Lane: Is that a foot?
- Daily Planet Employee #2: For luck.
- Lois Lane: Superstitious - and disgusting.
- John Corben: Where are the records?
- Lois Lane: Little less snap and a little more patter, please. Okay. It's a new system. They haven't transferred it all over yet. There's a hard copy of everything in the archive room. What are you looking for?
- John Corben: The Blur. He didn't come out of nowhere, Lois. There must be some kind of origin story.
- John Corben: Since you didn't wanna grab dinner tonight, I spent the time searching out news. And you'll never guess what I found.
- Lois Lane: If I do, would you take me off your speed dial?
- John Corben: Your favorite freak's been at it again, and this time, the story's mine.
- Lois Lane: Take it, sticky fingers. There are plenty of headlines to go around.
- Lois Lane: You know, the Blur catches more bad guys before breakfast than most cops do in a day.
- John Corben: Hell, that's not the problem. He's not a cop. He's a vigilante, with superpowers and a thing for the letter "S".
- Lois Lane: Well, then he's done a super job cleaning up Metropolis. Thanks to him, the city can sleep at night.
- Lois Lane: [seeing the Blur in the shadows] It's you. You saved me. After all our phone calls... I finally have you standing right in front of me, and I don't know what to say to you. Please let me see your face.
- [Clark takes a couple steps forward, but keeps his face hidden; after a moment, he speeds away]
- Chloe Sullivan: Lois, I'm sorry. I'm the one that was on pooch patrol. Clark still isn't back yet.
- Lois Lane: I know. I called Mrs. K, and she said he's visiting cousins in Poughkeepsie. I mean, how long can you stay in Poughkeepsie?
- Chloe Sullivan: Sounds like someone misses him.
- Lois Lane: Please, I don't miss Clark. I just can't stand the new guy that's at his desk. He is a textbook hero-hater. Oh, come on. Who hates the Blur? Anyone who reads can see how great he is.
- 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.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: [taken aback by Clark super-speeding into the room] I understand it took Chloe years to get used to your entrances.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: I fear the longer that rock powers his body, the more it'll poison his mind. We have to do something to help him soon or he could turn homicidal. He already put one of my orderlies in a coma.
- Clark Kent: I need to find him before he hurts anyone else.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: He didn't give me his name, but he did leave this behind.
- [holding out a Daily Planet keychain]
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: They must have dropped out of his pocket.
- Clark Kent: These are given to every new employee at the Daily Planet. He must work at the paper.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Well, then he won't be hard to find. The green glow's hard to miss.
- Randall Brady: I don't know how you did it, Lane, but HR just made it official. Welcome back. Where's Corben? I got an assignment for him.
- Lois Lane: You mean God's gift to journalism? Five bucks says he's out stalking the Blur.
- Randall Brady: Keep it for cab fare. I need you to head down to the hospital. Cover his story. Patient went on a rampage, destroyed the ER.
- Lois Lane: You're giving me Corben's leftovers?
- Randall Brady: Make a meal of it, Lane.
- Lois Lane: [seeing Corben at his desk] Well, it looks like the night shift finally clocked in. What happened, tried to shave in your sleep?
- John Corben: Why do the electronic records in this place only go back a year?
- Lois Lane: Hello. Lois. Banter, banter, banter. What happened? Did your snappy patter set with the sun?
- Clark Kent: Chloe, Lois has been kidnapped. I need your help.
- Chloe Sullivan: Tell me this isn't because you let her chase down that sinister cyborg all by herself.
- Clark Kent: I told her not to get involved.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, what did you think she was gonna do? This is Lois.
- Lois Lane: [after Corben abducts her] Look, I know you're new at the Planet, John, but I'm pretty sure HR frowns on this kind of thing.
- John Corben: Lois, I heard you talking to him. So just tell me who the Blur is... and I'll let you go. I promise I'll let you go.
- Lois Lane: I already told you, I don't know.
- [seeing the glow of his kryptonite heart]
- Lois Lane: Since when did you become a living Lite-Brite? What happened to you, John? Huh?
- John Corben: I'll show you.
- Lois Lane: [he takes his shirt off, revealing his biomechanics] Okay, take it easy there, Chippendale. I... I think I want the shirt back on.
- 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]
- Chloe Sullivan: I went to the Daily Planet to look at Lois' computer, and found that Tess had loaded it up with serious spyware.
- Clark Kent: You mean she didn't re-hire Lois out of the goodness of her heart?
- Chloe Sullivan: She wanted to find out where Lois has been the last three weeks. Now, if she figures out...
- Clark Kent: She was in the future, and brought back a Kryptonian who says I'll end the world.
- Chloe Sullivan: Tess already knows way too much about you. We can't let her get to Lois' memories before you do.
- Clark Kent: This view really puts things in perspective. Jimmy knew exactly what he was doing when he bought this place.
- Chloe Sullivan: I really miss him.