- Lois Lane: But I do remember seeing a whole new side of Clark Kent.
- Clark Kent: Which side was that?
- Lois Lane: I'll give you a hint. It starts with "H" and ends with "ero."
- Clark Kent: I wasn't even wearing red and blue.
- Lois Lane: Well, you've got a long ways before you can do that.
- Police Woman: [notices on Oliver's belt] Is this a camera?
- Oliver Queen: A what? It's some kind of spyware. Well, it's not mine. I've never seen this.
- Police Woman: Right. And it just accidentally got caught on your belt buckle? So you could, what? Plaster my butt all over YouTube like Pamela Anderson?
- Oliver Queen: Okay, first of all, no one's on YouTube looking at Pamela Anderson's butt.
- Clark Kent: Oliver. Is this your idea of fun now that you've hung up your bow?
- Oliver Queen: Should have known it was you. Clark Kent, the king of buzzkill. You and your pet rock put on a hell of a barbecue. But I had my money on Doomsday, so...
- Clark Kent: You can try and play it off as a joke, but I *know* that the loss of Jimmy affected us both.
- Oliver Queen: Well, I guess God's got a sick sense of humor. Oh, I'm sorry. I shouldn't be taking your name in vain.
- Clark Kent: What, you need to hear me say it? I should have listened to you. I should have gotten rid of Davis instead of believing in him.
- Oliver Queen: It's a little late.
- Clark Kent: I'm trying to make up for what happened, not add myself to the casualty list.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, well, I can't get my thrills leaping tall buildings or outrunning speeding bullets. We mere mortals - we have to rely on a tweaked-out Ducati and the opened road.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Even if something goes wrong, I want you to know your contributions have been appreciated.
- Chloe Sullivan: Nothing's going wrong.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Now I know why Oliver had such faith in you. He finally met someone who was a match for his confidence. Probably no surprise that were you the one to betray him.
- Chloe Sullivan: Are you going to explain the not-so-subtle barb?
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Well, you've been tracking Oliver and the rest of his league, haven't you?
- Chloe Sullivan: Apparently you've made yourself more at home at Watchtower than I thought.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: May ask I why you are spying him?
- Chloe Sullivan: The longer they stay seperated, the more vulnerable they are?
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: So you're protecting him?
- Chloe Sullivan: Yes. Someone has to. I'm not sure if you noticed, but the people who are the worst of taking care of themselves are the ones the world actually needs the most.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: I assume that no one else knows about this.
- Chloe Sullivan: No, it's my secret. Now the real question is - will you keep it?
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Well, I guess you'll just have to trust me.
- Lois Lane: The fire just got put out - by The Blur. He is so amazing. Here you and I are just having a coffee while he's out squelching five-alarm fires in three seconds flat.
- Clark Kent: Two seconds. Not that anyone's counting.
- Clark Kent: You know that you're meant for more than this. This isn't you.
- Oliver Queen: Who are you, huh?
- [looks at the "S" on Clark's costume]
- Oliver Queen: W-what's all this? What's the "S" stand for? What is that, "superstar?
- Clark Kent: It gives people hope.
- Oliver Queen: I'll tell you what, Clark, why don't you, uh... go ahead and plaster your symbol of superiority all over the city so that people can worship you like some kind of modern Jesus. That's what you want, right? That's why you're here. Here to save us.
- Clark Kent: You need help.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, well maybe. But I hate to break it to you Clark, not everyone believes in the second coming.
- Clark Kent: Do you get motion sickness?
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Mm, not really. Why do you ask?
- [Clark superspeeds off with Emil]
- Chloe Sullivan: Really?
- Lois Lane: Oliver? What are you doing here?
- Oliver Queen: I was looking for Tess when the whole building went "Resident Evil."
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: I found the antidote, but we're running out of time. Where's this mystery, extraterrestrial specimen with Davis Bloome's blood type?
- Clark Kent: [Whooshes in] You're looking at him.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Well, that explains a lot.
- Clark Kent: You only had to do one thing, Oliver - keep her awake. But Lois almost died! You're spiraled so far you couldn't even protect her. Is there any part of the person I used to know still there?
- Oliver Queen: Maybe not.
- Clark Kent: Look, I understand that it's hard trying to figure out how to come back from what happened. Maybe you need help.
- Oliver Queen: Actually, I thought about what you said, and, uh... I took a look in the mirror, and you were right. I've been running away from myself for a long time now. But now I know who I really am.
- Clark Kent: All right, then you know what you have to do.
- Oliver Queen: Yeah. Thank you, Clark.
- Lois Lane: Well, looks like another thrilling Friday night. Just you and me flying the red eye on this paper airplane. Almost like you never left the cockpit.
- Clark Kent: Well, it's nice to have my co-pilot here.
- Clark Kent: What's with the bag?
- Lois Lane: All-nighter survival kit.
- [unpacking each item in turn]
- Lois Lane: Comfort food. Comfort footwear. And comfort music. Chicken soup for my soul.
- Lois Lane: Okay, get your engines going. Looks like there's a major fire on East Brunswick.
- Clark Kent: You know, if we're gonna be here all night, I'll get some coffee.
- Lois Lane: That's what I love about you, Smallville. I say fire, you say food. I'll take mine black.
- [behind her back, he speeds away; as she turns around, she sees him offering a take-out coffee cup]
- Lois Lane: That was quick. Do you smell smoke?
- Clark Kent: [surreptitiously wiping soot off his hand] No.
- Clark Kent: There's a high-speed motorcycle chase out near by the bypass.
- Lois Lane: At least somebody's getting a little action tonight.
- [when she's not looking, he uses his freeze breath on her coffee]
- Lois Lane: [taking a sip] Clark, this is ice-cold. Never mind. I'll get it myself.
- Tess Mercer: Have you found them? They should have reported in by now.
- Security Guard George: They may have run into trouble.
- Tess Mercer: They didn't send out an SOS. And I should like to think that twelve ex-Navy SEALs could hold their own. The longer it takes for us to locate these Kryptonians, the more they'll blend in and disappear.
- Clark Kent: This doesn't make any sense. Tess is not the nervous breakdown type.
- Lois Lane: But she is the lying, cheating, scheming type. You keep enough secrets, they start to back up on your brain, Clark. Seriously, alien orb? Now she's rambling about zombies? It all adds up to "C" for crazy.
- Clark Kent: Just trust me, there's got to be more to the story than that.
- Lois Lane: Look, I respect how quickly you managed to get the low-down on Little Ms. Lithium's mental break, but sometimes you can be a little gullible.
- Clark Kent: Really? Why don't you call your new best friend and get him to weigh in on it?
- Lois Lane: I-I'm not gonna cry wolf just to get a pity call from Studly Do-Right.
- Clark Kent: Something tells me he'd side with me on this one, anyway.
- Lois Lane: Why, because you have so much in common?
- Lois Lane: Tess.
- Clark Kent: Come on, Lois. At least wait until she's awake to get your comment.
- Lois Lane: Don't you want to find out what made Cruella snap?
- Clark Kent: [after zombie-Tess attacks them] Lois, are you okay?
- Lois Lane: I've thrown down with Tess before, but not quite like that.
- Clark Kent: Looks like there may be some truth in her story after all.
- Lois Lane: Which is why I'm heading back to the office right now to write it.
- Chloe Sullivan: Hey. Care for a little lo mein?
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: I just came from that Korean macrobiotic place. They do an exquisite Cobb salad.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Chloe, I couldn't help noticing that you practically jumped out of your chair when I came in here. I'd prefer if there were no secrets between us.
- Chloe Sullivan: Then you're in the wrong business.
- Clark Kent: Can you run a blood test on this? It belongs to Tess Mercer. She's infected with something. Lois and I went to see her at Met Gen. She attacked us both.
- Chloe Sullivan: That's different than the way she is on every other day how?
- Clark Kent: [after she nearly clocks him with a fire extinguisher, thinking he's a zombie] Lois, I'm gonna get you out of here.
- Lois Lane: You have no idea what you're up against. I'll get us through this.
- Police Woman: [returning Oliver's wallet] I know I was supposed to give this back to you after I checked your license, but I couldn't help myself. A lot of platinum cards in here.
- [showing him a picture of Lois]
- Police Woman: But I bet this is the most valuable one of all. Who's she?
- Oliver Queen: It's, um... she's just someone I used to know.
- Oliver Queen: Got any idea what triggered this sudden appetite for human carpaccio?
- Lois Lane: All I know is one minute my copy editor's dozing, the next, he's trying to bite my face off.
- Clark Kent: Same thing happened with Tess. She was asleep. When she woke up, she became one of them.
- Oliver Queen: You think this thing incubates when people are sleeping.
- Lois Lane: Let's hope not. We only have a few hours 'til four million people get up to go to work.
- Oliver Queen: That's one hell of a rush hour.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: [injecting Clark with kryptonite] You were right. The allergic reaction's quite intense.
- Zod: Three things cannot be long hidden. The sun, the moon... and the truth. That's from a sacred human text from a prophet they call Buddha.
- Dr. Coats: Major Zod...
- Zod: No.
- [taking Coats' Kryptonian dog tag]
- Zod: And the truth is... you've become reckless, haven't you? Unleashing a hostile virus to humanity.
- [pulling the tag off Coats' neck]
- Zod: Have you lost your foresight?
- Dr. Coats: I did it all for our survival.
- Zod: Our cloak of anonymity is the only thing keeping our presence from this world. They will hunt us when they discover the virus' true origin.
- Dr. Coats: I found the secret to our abilities that were promised us. While you were rounding up our people, I discovered one of us right here in Metropolis under our noses.
- Zod: [Coats gives him a drawing of the House of El sigil] Jor-El. He survived.
- Dr. Coats: Major... he didn't just survive. According to the news reports of miraculous saves around the city, he has the power from the yellow sun.
- Zod: And yet we have none? He has chosen to harness the powers for himself and left us defenseless.
- Dr. Coats: Jor-El betrayed us. Releasing the virus was the most effective way to uncover him.
- Zod: Were you successful?
- Dr. Coats: His blood was used to create the antidote to the virus. Track it. He's ours. I trust you see the risk was worth it.
- Zod: It take a certain kind of man to step outside the boundaries of his station. Kneel.
- Police Woman: [after discovering spyware in Oliver's belt buckle] Don't call or e-mail.
- Oliver Queen: Don't worry, I never do.
- [she slaps him]
- Lois Lane: I just came by to say thanks. And to apologize if I tried to rip your head off or anything.
- Clark Kent: You know, you have a pretty mean left hook.
- Lois Lane: I don't remember any of that.
- Lois Lane: Clark, do you have any deep, dark secrets?
- Clark Kent: Do you?
- Lois Lane: Last year, when I was talking with the Red-Blue Blur... for the first time in my life, I was doing something that mattered. And I wanted to work with him because we did such good things together. But then I started to realize that... I wasn't just doing it to save people. I was doing it for me. I just wanted to be with him.
- Clark Kent: We all get crushes, Lois. It doesn't make you a bad person.
- Lois Lane: You don't understand. I had never had this connection with someone before. Now that I have this connection, I don't want to go back to the way things were. This is embarrassing to admit, but... I don't want to be alone anymore.
- Chloe Sullivan: I've isolated a suspect enzyme from Tess' blood, but I still haven't been able to find a match. Anything new from the DCA?
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: No. Just they think the virus is airborne and might have been deliberately released by someone. As you can see, I created a model of the virus path. Dr. Coats said the virus induces sleep so that it can germinate.
- Chloe Sullivan: If we could just mimic the enzyme...
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: We can create an antidote. We just need to find the right blood match.
- [seeing something interesting]
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Huh. I've only ever see an enzyme like that once before. In Davis Bloome.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: Any idea how the virus metastasized so quickly throughout her body?
- Dr. Coats: Oh, generally something spreading this fast is airborne. We're about to quarantine the hospital, and they've sent a team over to Ms. Mercer's office.
- Dr. Emil Hamilton: The Daily Planet? I thought Ms. Mercer called an ambulance from the Luthor mansion.
- Dr. Coats: No, she arrived at work experiencing some type of a mental trauma. Paramedics picked her up at the Daily Planet.
- Clark Kent: [eavesdropping with his superhearing] Lois.