- Clark Kent: This is the only peaceful way to eliminate the threat. Without a war, a war that no one will win... once the Kandorians are gone, there will be other threats to mankind. The world will need you. You'll have to work together to become the team that you were meant to be. I once believed that my destiny was here on Earth, but now you need to accept that destiny for me.
- Dinah Lance: Clark's right.
- Victor Stone: We'll protect the world... as one.
- Clark Kent: It's been my honor to serve alongside each and everyone of you.
- Carter Hall: The honor was ours, Kal-El.
- Oliver Queen: You know, you got to admit, I know how to treat a girl on date night.
- Chloe Sullivan: Sure, next week, you think maybe we can just grab some Thai food and catch a movie?
- Oliver Queen: That sounds like a good plan, but tonight, you're gonna have to settle for stream satellite video.
- Chloe Sullivan: You know, even though Watchtower's back in the game, I'm still coming up empty-handed on the Kandorian front. It's like they vanished into thin air.
- Oliver Queen: You know, that might have something to do with the fact that they can fly.
- Chloe Sullivan: Sarcasm noted.
- Chloe Sullivan: Do me a favor, okay? Just keep a low profile.
- Oliver Queen: [kisses Chloe] I'm wearing green leather, so I'll do my best.
- Carter Hall: All I found in Giza are mummies. We need to flush these aliens out. Now I've been around long enough to know to win a war is to strike first.
- Oliver Queen: No, that's the best way to win a bowling tournament, Tweety. We're dealing with superpowered soldiers here.
- Carter Hall: Just as expected, Mr. Green Jeans has gone yellow.
- Chloe Sullivan: Wait a minute. We have our own satellite?
- Oliver Queen: Yeah.
- Chloe Sullivan: Why didn't you tell me this before?
- Oliver Queen: Well, it was sort of a gift.
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh... well, I guess giving you a sweater for your birthday is sort of out of the question now.
- Clark Kent: You knew the blue kryptonite would prevent you from ascending like the others!
- Zod: Better to rule in hell than to serve in heaven. Seeing as you love the humans so much, let's see if you fight like one!
- Zod: Unlike you, I will lead from a throne, not from the shadows. Every human, including the woman you love, will kneel before Zod!
- Clark Kent: You already destroyed my first home. I won't let you take this one.
- Lois Lane: How can you be The Blur? That alien snatcher Chisolm shot you. I saw the wound.
- Zod: My powers cured me.
- Lois Lane: Clark Kent's mild-mannered FBI friend is the guy who's always saving my butt?
- Zod: You were willing to risk your life to save me, Lois. You are *my* hero.
- Lois Lane: My hero told me not to trust anyone that said he was The Blur.
- Chloe Sullivan: I still don't understand how the Red Queen *knew* about the Book of Rao.
- Clark Kent: My mom inherited the Kryptonian library when Lionel died. It's no surprise that Zod would lie. The book is a bible. It was created by Jor-El to send the Kandorians to another world - A world they could call their own.
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, let's fire up this intergalactic subway token and send our visitors on a fast train to nirvana.
- Clark Kent: I can't. Once it's activated, it sends *all* Kryptonians to the new world.
- Chloe Sullivan: Including you.
- Clark Kent: I know my destiny, and it's here. I've seen it. Dr. Fate has seen it, too. And Jor-El has sent me on trials to prove it. I finally know who I am and what I'm meant to do here on Earth. I'm not leaving.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, no one wants to see you reach your true potential no more than I do. I mean, I've been with you through every bump along this insane ride. But what if every trail has just been a preparation for you to make the ultimate sacrifice?
- Clark Kent: Then why would my father have gone silent in the fortress? Chloe, if this was a trial, my father would never skip on any chance to give me a lecture.
- Chloe Sullivan: Because this *isn't* a trial, Clark. And maybe your father disappeared on you because he knew you needed to make this last mile on your own.
- Clark Kent: Then it's up to me. And I think there's another way to save Zod.
- Chloe Sullivan: Jor-El did not tell you to stay here and be our guardian.
- Clark Kent: Are you saying it's selfish for me to try to save people?
- Chloe Sullivan: You think I *want* you to go? I can't imagine being in this world without you. Look, you've inspired an entire team of heroes who will be here to protect us. And maybe your true purpose is to lead your own people.
- Zod: How did you get here?
- Tess Mercer: I flew.
- Zod: Icarus flew to where he didn't belong. And he fell to his death from the heavens.
- Tess Mercer: Icarus was on an ego trip. But I have a higher calling. I was made to see the error of my ways. I'm here to redeem myself.
- Zod: It's too late. My people discovered you had the Book of Rao and hid it from me. I won't forgive that deception.
- Tess Mercer: It's not your forgiveness that I'm looking for.
- Zod: You're not welcome here.
- Tess Mercer: I've been playing hide and seek with this ice castle for over two years. So the least you can do is just give me a minute to take it all in.
- [first lines]
- Lois Lane: [to Perry White] If you remember, I'm the one who said 2012 would just be another Y2K scare, and I was right. Not to fear, White... If there's a scandal in the Pentagon, yours truly *will* be the one to find it.
- Basqat: General. Have you retrieved the Book of Rao? Sir, if Kal-El still holds it, you said he'd use it to kill us all.
- Zod: Do not question my resolve. I will not fail. I will destroy the Book of Rao. Do you not have a mission to complete?
- Basqat: Kal-El's comrades have been lured to your crests, just as your ordered.
- Zod: So they have to have been dispersed around the world and Kal-El is alone in Metropolis.
- Basqat: Our soldiers have cut off their communications. All their satellites have been destroyed.
- Zod: Then by dawn, we'll have the Book of Rao. And this planet will be ours.
- Oliver Queen: How do we know these people aren't half a galaxy away already?
- Chloe Sullivan: Zod doesn't want to play Thunderdome on a planet that is desolate. He needs people to rule over. I have a feeling the war of the worlds is coming soon to a planet near us.
- Chloe Sullivan: We lost all satellite communication. I can't reach anybody. It's like everyone I sent out there is a sitting duck and Zod's about to call a start to hunting season.
- Oliver Queen: Take a breath, Chloe. You've stared down the barrel of a gun before.
- Chloe Sullivan: We're dealing with like 100 Clarks here. I don't know if I can dodge this speeding bullet.
- Clark Kent: You can't stop me, Zod. We're leaving this planet.
- Zod: I'm not going anywhere. And neither are they.
- [Zod's soldiers appear]
- Clark Kent: Having others finish a fight that you started only proves what a coward you are.
- Zod: My soldiers know I have never wavered in the face of death. All you've ever done is hide in the shadows.
- Clark Kent: You've hidden, too. The truth from them. The Book of Rao will not destroy us! It will lead us to a better place. Another planet where we can live in peace. Where we can build a new home. Krypton will live again.
- Zod: This is just another one of his deceits. We all know where his allegiance lies.
- Clark Kent: What about your deceptions? If they knew the truth, they'd never follow you.
- Zod: My men willingly follow me.
- Clark Kent: And what about Faora? All she wanted was to leave you.
- Zod: That is a lie!
- Clark Kent: And she paid for it with her life.
- Zod: Faora never should've trusted you.
- Clark Kent: But she wasn't the only one who paid the price, was she?
- Zod: [pushing him against the wall in superspeed] Faora was a traitor. Do you think I wanted to kill my own child?
- Chloe Sullivan: Hey, the link is up! Why don't you make your way home? I'm gonna see if I can access the building schematics and find you a less cramped return trip. Ah, the station's motion sensors have picked you up.
- [seeing he's surrounded by bogeys]
- Chloe Sullivan: Oh, no. Ollie, you've got visitors. There's a whole swarm of them, they're closing in on you fast. Ollie, you need to get out of there now.
- Oliver Queen: [working his way through the duct] Chloe, if they find the signal, they'll trace me back to you! I gotta go!
- Chloe Sullivan: No, Ollie, no!
- Oliver Queen: Chloe!
- Chloe Sullivan: Ollie!
- Oliver Queen: I love you!
- Chloe Sullivan: I love you.
- Oliver Queen: Chloe, they're not Kandorian!
- Oliver Queen: Houston, we got a problem.
- Chloe Sullivan: Are you at the satellite station yet?
- Oliver Queen: Yeah, I'm way ahead of you, but I'm a little lost. I need you to be my own personal MapQuest, if you don't mind.
- Clark Kent: I have something I need to tell you, and if I don't tell you now... I never will. I-I know that things have been rocky between us, but...
- Lois Lane: I'm listening.
- Clark Kent: Look, my whole life has been full of relationships that have ended too soon. And then when I went away last fall, I... Lois, I felt so lost. But when I came back to the bullpen... you were there waiting for me. You jumped out of your seat... you threw your arms around me, and the way that your eyes sparkled when you smiled, I just... I knew. I just knew that you were the one that I've always needed. And I needed you to know that.
- [seeing her look]
- Clark Kent: What is it?
- Lois Lane: Perry White. He's offered me a job at the foreign desk in Kenya.
- Clark Kent: [covering his true feelings] That's great. Congratulations.
- Lois Lane: Well, I'm... I'm not sure I'm going.
- Clark Kent: Well, Lois, your... your career is so important to you, w-what would make you stay?
- Lois Lane: For you. I... I would stay for you. Clark, as important as my career is to me, you are more important. I-I-I would give up Africa... to be with you. But only if we stop keeping secrets from each other.
- Clark Kent: Lois, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Lois Lane: Yeah, you do, Clark. Come on. I need you to be honest with me.
- Clark Kent: Lois, there's nothing to tell you.
- Chloe Sullivan: [learning Clark intends to use the Book of Rao to send the Kandorians away] I'm proud of you.
- Clark Kent: Chloe?
- Chloe Sullivan: You gotta let her go, Clark. She's trying to be strong, you know? When your oldest friend leaves forever, there's really no way to say goodbye. That said, I think we both know there's someone else you need to see one last time.
- Clark Kent: Considering everything Lois and I have been through, I don't think that's such a good idea.
- Oliver Queen: Clark. You owe her the truth.
- Clark Kent: I want to open up to her more than anything. But why tell Lois who I really am only to rip it away from her? Wouldn't that hurt her more? I wouldn't do that to her.
- Oliver Queen: Doesn't mean you can't at least say goodbye.
- Carter Hall: Zod's symbols say one thing. He wants a fight. I say we move now, and cause some pain.
- Clark Kent: At what cost? Your abilities to allow you to come back, Carter. After you die. But what about the others on both sides?
- Carter Hall: So you want us to place nice?
- Clark Kent: The Kandorians have been led astray by Zod. I don't want to see them die any more than I want to lose any one of you. I will use the Book of Rao to send them all away. I've made my decision. Once I lead my people to another world, I'll never be able to come back.
- Victor Stone: You need to think about this.
- Courtney Whitmore: What about your life here?
- Dinah Lance: There's got to be another way.
- Carter Hall: With us by your side, you don't have to do this alone.
- Tess Mercer: I'm s-so s-sorry, Clark. I tracked Corben to locate your Fortress. And I did it on-only to s-save you from Zod.
- Clark Kent: I have the Book of Rao, Tess. But even if I wanted to use it, I can't, because Zod destroyed the console in the Fortress.
- Tess Mercer: You don't need the Fort-tress. When the Kandorians... were building the Rao Tower... they put together these crystals as an energy source when they were trying to turn the sun red. And I think these crystals... will also power the Book of Rao.
- Clark Kent: I already destroyed the tower.
- Tess Mercer: I pulled the console from the rubble... and moved it to your crow's nest ab-above the city. Clark, this is my last chance to atone for my sins. You... are the only one that can save us. And you've run out of time. The war has already begun.
- Clark Kent: Jor-El! I know that you told me to save Zod! But I won't. Not if it means leaving everyone I promised to protect. No, my destiny is here on Earth. If everything that you've trained me for was for another purpose, then it was a waste. Because I'm staying.
- Zod: Your father can't help you anymore. I made sure of that.
- Clark Kent: Zod.
- Zod: My people are overtaking this planet. And you can't stop me.
- Clark Kent: You want war, but it doesn't have to be like this.
- Zod: Have you taken a look around you? It's always like this! Might makes right! Only the strong survive! Have you learned nothing from the natural world in which you love so much?
- Clark Kent: What I've learned is that no matter how much someone has hurt you or betrayed you, or how much it seems that someone is evil, at their core, everyone is worth saving.
- Zod: What exactly do you think you're saving me from?
- Clark Kent: From making another mistake like Faora.
- Zod: Do you really think there's redemption for what I did?
- Clark Kent: It's never too late.
- Zod: How would you know?
- Clark Kent: Because I killed my own father. My Earth father warned me not to play God. Not to reach for power that's not mine, but I tempted fate. And because of that, he died. You have to forgive yourself. My entire team is equipped with kryptonite weapons.
- Zod: Hardly a match for my battalion.
- Clark Kent: Too many people will die. You need to end this now. You can't win. I know my destiny.
- Zod: And I know mine.
- Tess Mercer: [beating on Zod with a pair of kryptonite brass knuckles] I've seen the future. And you enslave this planet, and destroy anyone that ever opposed you! Including Clark. And the Red Queen made me realize... I won't let you kill him.
- Zod: You touched the sun when you freed me from the orb.
- [wiping the blood from his face]
- Zod: You're about to learn what it feels like to get burned.
- [she screams as he fires his heat vision]
- Zod: I need your help again. Someone is coming dangerously close to discovering who I am, and if they do, they could destroy everything I've worked for. It's Clark Kent.
- Lois Lane: Smallville? I'm sorry, I think all that super-speeding has crisscrossed your wires, because Clark would never harm anyone.
- Zod: I know you don't want to see it, Lois, but it's true. It's why he told you to stay away from me. It's why he took away the charm I gave you. He knows what we mean to each other.
- Lois Lane: Look, I will admit that Clark's played the jealousy card once or twice. But you're wrong about him.
- Zod: You don't have to take my word for it. You are the best investigator I know. Now, you dig a little deeper, but I guarantee you'll find that Clark Kent is not who he says he is.
- Lois Lane: Luthor is making a play for the Oval Office and White has me playing dodgeball with armchair quarterbacks at the Pentagon? I can't believe it!
- Daily Planet Employee: News plane lost power! It's heading straight for the Daily Planet!
- Lois Lane: Olsen! Olsen! You had better be getting every pixel of this.
- Daily Planet Employee: Look! Up in the sky!