Krypton (TV Series)

Light-Years from Home (2019)

Ian McElhinney: Val-El

Quotes 

• Adam Strange : So, besides being the one who got away, why does Zod have such a chub for this moon?

  Val-El : Wegthor's a mining colony, home to a compound known as Stellarium. Zod is processing it into a warp field to fuel the interstellar fleet he has under construction.

  Adam Strange : No, he-he can... he can't be building his fleet yet. While I was gone, I saw other planets Zod had conquered. He's not ruling over their people, he's eradicating them. He's turning every planet he conquers into Krypton, terraforming to make them compatible with the physiology of Kryptonians. If Zod has his fleet, it may already be too late.

• Adam Strange : What's going on?

  Val-El : Well, if Brainiac escaped...

  Nyssa-Vex : Then maybe Seg did, too.

  Adam Strange : Hold on a second. Are you saying that... Seg is alive?

• Adam Strange : I can feel like you, like... I can really feel you. It feels just like real old man skin.

  Val-El : Because I am real, not the hologram you knew from the Fortress. I'm back from the Phantom Zone.

  Adam Strange : Oh. That explains the really leathery skin and the old man smell.

  Val-El : Where have you been the last six months?

  Adam Strange : I went back... to the future. Only the world I went back to wasn't the world I left. On account of the same jackass running your planet, conquered mine. Oh, it gets better. Sometime after that, Brainiac decided to bottle my hometown.

  Val-El : Brainiac?

  Adam Strange : Yeah, him.

• Adam Strange : So you're telling me that there is an elevator that goes all the way from Krypton to Wegthor?

  Val-El : A Hypersonic Orbital Tether, yes. We've used it before to get our people up there, quite successful. Well, you will be joining us, won't you? After what you saw in the future, you should understand better than anyone. We have to stop Zod on Wegthor before it's too late. Well, you must understand...

  Adam Strange : God damn it, Val, of course I understand. I just happen to think that Seg is our best chance of defeating Zod.

  Val-El : I miss my grandson more than you will ever know, but there is simply no way of reaching him without my Phantom Projector.

  Adam Strange : What if I told you that I didn't need your Phantom Projector to find Seg?

  Val-El : I would ask you to explain yourself.

  Adam Strange : My Zeta-Beam Device.

  Val-El : You do understand the Phantom Zone is outside space and time as we know it.

  Adam Strange : Exactly. Wait, you're saying that's bad?

  Val-El : I'm saying if you try and teleport into the Phantom Zone, your body would probably deconstructed at a molecular level and your atoms scattered throughout the galaxy. I'm sorry. It just won't work.

  Adam Strange : Well, not with an attitude like that, it won't. The meaning of this symbol that you wear change while I was away. You can't just give up on them.

  Val-El : I'm an El. We never give up.

  Adam Strange : And I'm a Strange, and we don't give up either. Not anymore, and you know why? Because of your grandson. Seg showed how powerful hope can be. Besides, you don't even know if he's still in the Phantom Zone, do you?

  Val-El : No. No, I don't. But the risk is...

  Adam Strange : Mine to worry about.

• Adam Strange : I don't understand. You built the projector thingy for the Phantom Zone, but you can't get Seg out?

  Val-El : Zod destroyed my Projector. I tried to rebuild it, but then Zod seized the Fortress.

  Adam Strange : Wow, things really went sideways while I was gone, huh? That's all right. I'm back now. And I have a plan.

  [seeing their looks] 

  Adam Strange : All right, I don't have a plan, but I could totally come up with one.

  Nyssa-Vex : That won't be necessary. We already have a plan. Wegthor.

  Adam Strange : [sotto to Jax-Ur]  Is that the safe word?

  Jax-Ur : It's a moon. One of three orbiting Krypton, but the only one with a completely self-sufficient, fully sustainable colony; Krypton's only city-state not under Zod's rule, and the home of our resistance.

  Adam Strange : Surprised you guys have been able to pull a resistance together. From what I've seen, everybody seems to be digging the new Kandor.

  Nyssa-Vex : Because Zod freed the Rankless to distract the people from what was really going on.

• Val-El : After Brainiac was defeated, Zod quickly took control of Kandor's Sagitari and began annexing the other city-states. He conscripted anyone fit to serve and disappeared anyone who defied.

  Jax-Ur : But he's made enemies along the way, enemies we've been busy recruiting. But now that his forces are gaining ground every day, time's come for us to rejoin our allies on Wegthor.