Smallville (TV Series)

X-Ray (2001)

Kristin Kreuk: Lana Lang

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• Lana Lang : The "Torch" prints the graduation speech every year, right?

  Chloe Sullivan : Having transcribed last year's snore fest, that's an unfortunate "yes". What year?

  Lana Lang : 1977.

  Chloe Sullivan : That's P.C.

  Lana Lang : P.C.?

  Chloe Sullivan : Pre-computer, when disco ruled the earth. Anything we have before then's gonna be H.C.

  Lana Lang : Hard copy.

  Chloe Sullivan : You catch on fast. Uh, let's see... '77, here we go. "Saturday Night Fever" was their prom theme, Styx won "Group of the Century", and... wow. Someone got in the administration's collective face.

  Lana Lang : "Due to the controversial nature of this year's graduation address, the editors have elected not to run the text in this issue of the 'Torch'."

  Chloe Sullivan : Meaning, ironically, it's probably the only one worth reading.

• Nell Potter : Lana, I didn't lie to you. I told you your mother would have been proud of you, and she would have. She loved you.

  Lana Lang : You told me a fairy tale about a woman who led the perfect life, but that life was a lie. You said she loved cheerleading. She hated it, but was afraid to quit. She didn't even wanna stay in Smallville. She wanted to see the world.

  Nell Potter : What should I have told you? Your mother was unhappy?

  Lana Lang : I would have liked the truth.

  Nell Potter : I told you what I thought you could handle.

• Lana Lang : [unaware of his powers]  Clark, what are you doing?

  Clark Kent : [holding a football-shaped piggy bank]  I'm just trying to figure out how much change I have inside.

  Lana Lang : You could always take it out and count it.

  Clark Kent : Where's the fun in that?

• Tina Greer : So, you quit cheerleading and Nell banishes you to the garage.

  Lana Lang : [amused]  She's got clutter issues. I'm trying to help resolve them.

  Tina Greer : Has she forgiven you for quitting the squad?

  Lana Lang : Not yet.

  Tina Greer : Well, at least now you have some more time for your unpopular friends.

  Lana Lang : Tina, you're not unpopular. Besides, what happened to the girl who didn't care what people thought about her?

  Tina Greer : She went to high school.

• Nell Potter : Your mother was like any other teenager. She had her ups and her downs.

  Lana Lang : I feel like I spent my entire life trying to measure up to a Laura Lang who didn't exist.

  Nell Potter : You're reading the diary of a 17-year-old girl. It's a snapshot. It's one time in her life.

  Lana Lang : It's like I wrote this myself.

  Nell Potter : The truth is, your mother was the brightest, most beautiful girl in her class. Do you know she was picked to give the graduation speech?

  [Lana shakes her head] 

  Nell Potter : I guess the diary ended before that happened. You should have heard the speech she gave that day.

  Lana Lang : What did she say?

  Nell Potter : Everything that had been bubbling up inside of her for 18 years. She said she felt suffocated in Smallville.

  Lana Lang : Do you have a copy?

  Nell Potter : No. But I'll never forget the first line. "I never made a difference here, but maybe my children can."

• Lana Lang : Did you hear about Tina? They found the money from the robbery in her locker.

  Clark Kent : Really?

  Lana Lang : She actually cornered me today and asked if she could come live with me and Nell.

  Clark Kent : Just what you need, a bank-robbing roommate.

  Lana Lang : I told her it wasn't such a good idea. I've got enough problems with Nell without adding more to the mix.

  Clark Kent : I always thought you and your aunt were really close.

  Lana Lang : She wants me to be something I'm not. It's like having a dual identity. There's the person that everybody sees, and the person that you wanna be.

  Clark Kent : I know the feeling.

  Lana Lang : That's why I came here. I think you're the only person who sees me for who I truly am. I wanna thank you for that.

  Clark Kent : [taken by surprise as she kisses him]  What about Whitney?

  Lana Lang : Forget Whitney. I've had my eye on you just like you've had your eye on me.

  Tina Greer : [shifting back into herself]  I don't know how you found out about that money, but you should have stayed out of my life, Clark.

• Lana Lang : This week's editorial?

  Chloe Sullivan : My semi-annual "where are our priorities?" rant.

  Lana Lang : For what it's worth, I really like what you've done with the paper this year.

  Chloe Sullivan : Well, that puts you in the majority of one. I'm sorry about the pom-pom crack. Once I hit "take no prisoners" mode, it's kind of hard for me to shut it off.

• Lana Lang : Found my mother's diary. Discovered that a lot of the things that I've been feeling, she felt, too.

  Clark Kent : That's great. Isn't it?

  Lana Lang : It's great, and it's frustrating, and it's scary. It's like she could see right through me. Do you ever feel like that?

  Clark Kent : More than you know.

  Lana Lang : When I was reading her words, it was like she was talking to me. And then she was gone.

  Clark Kent : Well, you're lucky. You're lucky you got at least that.

  Lana Lang : Have you ever tried to find your parents? Your biological parents, I mean?

  Clark Kent : Not really. I figure they're a million years away from my life now.

  Lana Lang : If you could ask them a question, what would you ask?

  Clark Kent : What happened? Why'd they let me go? How do I make sense of all the strangeness in my life?

  Lana Lang : I guess neither of us will ever get a straight answer.

  Clark Kent : I hope you find what you're looking for.

• Lana Lang : Clark, what's wrong? Why are you looking at me like that?

  Clark Kent : Sorry, it's nothing. I wasn't sure it was you.

  Lana Lang : This is a bad time.

  Clark Kent : No.

  Lana Lang : I was out jogging, didn't wanna go home, kind of ended up here.

  Clark Kent : You and Nell are still fighting.

  Lana Lang : How'd you know?

  Clark Kent : Uh, just perceptive, I guess.