Smallville (TV Series)
Finale (2011)
Michael Rosenbaum: Lex Luthor
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Quotes
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Clark Kent : Where's Tess? What have you done with her?
Lex Luthor : She's fine. I wouldn't worry so much about my dear little sister. You know, I used to think it was our families who made us who we are. Then I hoped it was our friends. But if you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies.
Clark Kent : You have a second chance. You can change all that.
Lex Luthor : But that's the thing about memories - you can't forget them. Like how you're always one step ahead of me, Clark. No matter how meticulously I prepared, no matter how strategic I was, if only I'd known I stood a chance.
Clark Kent : It wasn't a competition.
Lex Luthor : Of course it wasn't. You were born to be the chosen one. You're simply better than us.
Clark Kent : And that always killed you.
Lex Luthor : No. No, what killed me is that you didn't even want it. You fought it - you hid from it! I would have taken it and relished it, embraced it.
Clark Kent : My destiny wasn't yours to take!
Lex Luthor : I get that now. Which is why I finally embraced my own. You and I... we will both be great men. Because of each other, we have a destiny together, Clark... only on different sides.
Clark Kent : I'll always be there to stop you. Always.
Lex Luthor : Oh, I'm counting on it.
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Lex Luthor : [stabs Tess in her gut] You know I'm actually saving you.
Tess Mercer : From what?
Lex Luthor : From turning into me.
Tess Mercer : It's too late. Clark already did that.
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Lex Luthor : Hello, Clark. Can't say I love what you done with the place.
Clark Kent : Lex.
Lex Luthor : You still say it the same way - astonishment mixed with a hint of dread, yet... with a hopeful finish.
Clark Kent : You're alive.
Lex Luthor : Seems my father had a... a change of heart. And I got a second chance of life.
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Lex Luthor : Our story hasn't been written yet, Kal-El. And every villain is only as great as his hero. But, you see, that all relies on you saving us from the coming Apocalypse.
Clark Kent : You know about Darkseid?
Lex Luthor : You really thought I just read the cliff notes of the Veritas journals? They foretold of a chosen savior - the light that will inspire this world out of darkness. You are the light, Clark. Only you have the power within.
Clark Kent : I'm not so sure that Clark Kent can save the entire world on his own.
Lex Luthor : He can't. But we both know who can.
Clark Kent : I'm sorry I couldn't save you, Lex.
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Tess Mercer : Something told me that I'd find you here. I combed the lab, and I saw what happened.
Lex Luthor : Long time, sis.
Tess Mercer : Did you *always* know?
Lex Luthor : Why do you think I recruited you and treated you as my own flesh and blood?
Tess Mercer : You *used* me.
Lex Luthor : Semantics. I'd say dear old Dad did most of the abusing. Wouldn't you? I guess the bullet in his chest answered that question, huh?
Tess Mercer : He wanted nothing more to have you back again.
Lex Luthor : And what did you want, Tess?
Tess Mercer : Something I'll never have.
Lex Luthor : Clark?
Tess Mercer : Redemption.
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Lex Luthor : [poisoned by Tess' glove with neurotoxin] What will I remember?
Tess Mercer : Nothing. The world before this moment won't exist to you.
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Lex Luthor : I'm really saving you.
Tess Mercer : From what?
Lex Luthor : Turning into me.
Tess Mercer : It's too late. Clark already did that.