Smallville (TV Series)

Pilot (2001)

Sam Jones III: Pete Ross

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Quotes 

• Pete Ross : It's a Homecoming tradition. Every year before the big game the football players select a freshman, take him out to Riley field, strip him down to his boxers, and then paint an S on his chest.

  Clark Kent : And then string him up like a scarecrow.

  Chloe Sullivan : Jeez, it sounds like years of therapy waiting to happen.

• Pete Ross : So, anyone ask you to the dance?

  Chloe Sullivan : Not yet.

  Pete Ross : Well, if nothing pans out with you-know-who, maybe you and...

  Chloe Sullivan : Pete, do you want to take a commercial break from the soap opera in your head? I've told you a hundred times - I'm not interested in Clark.

  Pete Ross : Your vehement denial has been duly noted!

• Pete Ross : [geared up for football tryouts]  Clark. How do I look?

  Clark Kent : Like a tackle dummy.

• Pete Ross : [offering Chloe $5 after Clark spots Lana]  Give him ten seconds.

  Chloe Sullivan : Five.

  Pete Ross : One, two, three, four, five.

  [Clark stumbles and falls flat on his face] 

• Chloe Sullivan : [seeing Clark has missed the school bus and giving Pete a $5 bill]  I can't believe you bet against your best friend.

  Pete Ross : Statistical fact. If Clark moved any slower, he'd be extinct.

• Pete Ross : We'd love to join you and Scooby in the Mystery Machine for another zany adventure, but we have to turn in our permission slips before homeroom

• Pete Ross : [whispering]  We're trying to avoid becoming this year's scarecrow.

  Chloe Sullivan : What are you talking about

  [loudly] 

  Chloe Sullivan : and why are we whispering?

• Pete Ross : Clark, you'll have to excuse our intrepid reporter. Seems as though her weirdar is on DEFCON 5.

  Chloe Sullivan : Just because everyone else chooses to ignore the strange things that happen in this leafy little hamlet doesn't mean that they don't happen.

• Chloe Sullivan : His name is Jeremy Creek. This is a picture of him twelve years ago. This is one I took four hours ago.

  Clark Kent : That's impossible. He'd be, like, 26 today. Must be a kid who looks like him.

  Pete Ross : My money was on the evil-twin theory, until we checked this missing persons.

  Chloe Sullivan : Jeremy disappeared from the state infirmary a few days ago where he'd been in a coma for twelve years. They say he suffered from massive electrolyte imbalance.

  Pete Ross : That's why he hasn't aged a day.

  Clark Kent : So you're telling me he just woke up.

  Chloe Sullivan : Well, no, there was a huge electrical storm and the hospital's generator went down, and when it came back on, Jeremy was gone.

  Pete Ross : The electricity must have charged him up like a Duracell.

  Clark Kent : And now he's back in Smallville putting former jocks into comas. Why?

  Pete Ross : Because twelve years ago today, they chose Jeremy Creek as the scarecrow.

  Clark Kent : [reading a newspaper clipping]  "Comatose boy found in field 20 yards from meteor strike."

  Chloe Sullivan : The exposure to the blast must have done something to his body.

  Clark Kent : No, this can't be right.

  Pete Ross : I think you ought to show him.

  Clark Kent : Show me what?