- Jonathan Kent: [to Lex, slamming his coffee cup down] Look, I don't know how things work in your house, but around here, we think it's important to respect other people's privacy.
- Clark Kent: Dad...
- Lex Luthor: It's all right, Clark.
- [to Jonathan]
- Lex Luthor: Mr. Kent, since the day I moved to Smallville I've done nothing but try to be a friend to you. And in return, you do nothing but lecture me with sanctimonious platitudes. I'm done listening to them.
- Clark Kent: I think I figured out a way into the building. No one is watching the Daily Planet.
- Jonathan Kent: Clark, that has to be at least three-hundred feet. You'll never make it.
- Clark Kent: I can make it.
- Jonathan Kent: Were you just talking to those men up there?
- Lex Luthor: Mr. Kent, whatever I'm doing is in the best interest of your wife and my father, believe me.
- Jonathan Kent: I find out that you had anything to do with what's going on out here, you will pray to god you never set foot in Smallville. You believe me.
- Jonathan Kent: What's that?
- Martha Kent: That's my resignation. There's no way I can keep working for Lionel. He had refined meteor rocks in his vault, a file on Clark. I can't believe I trusted him.
- Clark Kent: And without that file, at least the police can't find out anything about me.
- Martha Kent: To think I made this job such a big priority, and Lionel may have only hired me to learn more about Clark.
- Clark Kent: I'm sorry, mom. I know how important your work has been to you.
- Martha Kent: It's not more important than you.