Smallville (TV Series)

Hex (2009)

Serinda Swan: Zatanna Zatara

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• Zatanna Zatara : Bravo. You found my book *and* pull it off in style.

  Green Arrow : I wish I could say I've had the pleasure.

  Zatanna Zatara : Oh, please, Oliver. Ask a billionaire for help, and then a vigilante steals *exactly* what I ask for? You need to work on your sleight of hand.

  Oliver Queen : [Takes his mask off]  Yeah...

• Zatanna Zatara : It's what he did for me. He wasn't meant to die. I owe him this. I know the rules. A life for a life. I have to make it right. I'm not afraid.

  Clark Kent : Do you really think your father would want you to give up the life he gave you to bring him back?

  Zatanna Zatara : What would you know about losing the one man that made you who you are?

  Clark Kent : The day I lost my father, I thought my world would never be the same. It felt like something had been ripped away from me forever. But I had to let him go.

• Zatanna Zatara : Rough birthday, huh?

  Chloe Sullivan : You ever seen the napalm scene in Apocalypse Now? More fire, less cake.

• Oliver Queen : Now, why do I get the feeling you're not my 10:00 from the steel union?

  Zatanna Zatara : [offering a handshake]  Zatanna. We weren't properly introduced.

  Oliver Queen : Zatanna. You lose a bet with that name?

• Oliver Queen : What is this? You drop by to kick my ass again? So much fun for me the first time.

  Zatanna Zatara : I came to apologize. I just...

  Oliver Queen : Bound by steel. Right? That's what you said to be backwards. Bound by steel? I had plenty of time to mull that over when you, uh, you left me there strung up to either die or have my identity revealed.

  Zatanna Zatara : I can't ever totally make it up to you or your friends, but I would like to try to make sure that something like this doesn't happen again.

  Oliver Queen : Here's a thought. Don't do it again.

• Oliver Queen : I know how difficult the sacrifices you made must have been. Especially considering how hell-bent you were on getting what you wanted. Well, anyway, in the end you made the tough choice, and, um... I can respect that.

  Zatanna Zatara : Just know that there are far more dangerous people out there in the world than me. People with much greater control of the genuinely nasty magics than I do. So...

  [giving him what looks like a tarot card] 

  Zatanna Zatara : ...if you ever run into my kind of mischief again... call me. And wherever I am, this time, I'm on your side.

  Oliver Queen : So I guess this means you're taking your show on the road.

  Zatanna Zatara : Thinking about taking a little bit of time off to... do some light reading. If I'm ever gonna do my father proud, I've got a lot of catching up to do.

  Oliver Queen : Uh, so... what, what is this, exactly? Some kind of magic spell to summon you? I just hold it up, say your name a couple times and, uh, poof, you appear?

  Zatanna Zatara : It's my phone number.

• Oliver Queen : You know, this isn't just a how-to guide on upping your stage presence. There's some really dark stuff in here, Zatanna.

  Zatanna Zatara : You don't get it. The sick irony of my ability is that I can grant so many wishes. Everyone's but mine.

  [he moves to throw it into the fire] 

  Zatanna Zatara : No! Please... don't. It's the only way I can bring my father back.

  Oliver Queen : I'm sorry.

  [he tosses it in, but she summons it before it reaches the flames] 

  Oliver Queen : Not good.

• Zatanna Zatara : It won't be much longer, father.

  Clark Kent : Much longer for what?

  Zatanna Zatara : I'm sorry. Have we met?

  Chloe Sullivan : Does an enchanted cupcake ring any bells?

  Zatanna Zatara : You were the birthday girl.

  Clark Kent : You need to reverse the curse that you put on Chloe.

  Zatanna Zatara : Curse? Is that what you think happened? You kind of got things backwards. I granted you a wish.

  Chloe Sullivan : And why on earth would I wish myself into this?

  Zatanna Zatara : Beats me. I don't write the magics, honey. I just use them. Now, I'm not saying this is your heart's deepest desire. But in that moment, this is what you wanted.

  Chloe Sullivan : Okay, just for a second. Maybe I was little jealous of Lois living my dream life with Clark at the Planet, but I didn't literally want her life. Not like this.

  Zatanna Zatara : Well, don't worry. It will wear off as soon as you don't want it anymore.

  Chloe Sullivan : Fine. I don't want it.

  Zatanna Zatara : You keep telling yourself that.

• Oliver Queen : You mind telling me what drives a lovely young woman such as yourself to track down an unsuspecting CEO at a nightclub and then again at his office?

  Zatanna Zatara : I need your help.

  Oliver Queen : You don't scream "charity case".

  Zatanna Zatara : My father left me an estate in Shadowcrest, so money isn't an object.

  Oliver Queen : Shadowcrest.

  [realizing] 

  Oliver Queen : John Zatara? The maestro of magic? He was your father?

  [she nods] 

  Oliver Queen : Well, I'm sorry. I know what it's like to lose family.

  Zatanna Zatara : Yeah. I lost more than my father. I lost his entire legacy recorded in a book that's been passed down through generations. There's a Bible's worth of my heritage in those pages. When my father died, Mr. Luthor acquired that book at auction.

  Oliver Queen : Well, no offense, Zatanna, but, uh, you're the daughter of the world's greatest magician. Can't you just, I don't know, wiggle your nose and pull it out of a hat or something?