Smallville (TV Series)

Oracle (2006)

Michael Rosenbaum: Lex Luthor

Quotes 

• Professor Milton Fine : Impressive. Looks like I underestimated your willingness to tackle a nonprofit venture.

  Lex Luthor : Well, Luthercorp doesn't take the threat of an alien armageddon lightly. You were never gonna create a vaccine for humans, were you?

  Professor Milton Fine : Is that what you think?

  Lex Luthor : It was gonna be your way of of protecting your extraterrestrial guests when they arrive and unleash some horrible disease on us.

  Professor Milton Fine : So you went behind my back and mass-produced the vaccine for mankind.

  Lex Luthor : I wanted to give my people a fighting chance before you got your dirty hands on them.

  Professor Milton Fine : I applaud your noble efforts to protect your species. I never intended to mass produce the vaccine. Unfortunately, it's all based on faulty assumptions. One dose is all I ever need.

  [he grabs Lex by his arm and injects him with the vaccine] 

  Professor Milton Fine : Let the rest of the world find its own cure.

• Lex Luthor : Lana called me. I don't want to hear you were rifling through her stuff like a crazy roommate again. If you want something from me, don't go running to Lana to find it. You really crossed the line.

  Clark Kent : All those years we were friends, were you just waiting for me to step aside so you could swoop in and make your move?

  Lex Luthor : I don't know, Clark. All those years you told Lana you loved her, were you just waiting to walk away and break her heart? Look, there's a natural tendency to blame the person who's replaced you; I get that. But I didn't take Lana from you. You lost her all by yourself.

• Lana Lang : I'm sorry if things got awkward. I was really hoping that Clark wouldn't end up in all this. I just... don't want to hurt him.

  Lex Luthor : I don't, either. I care about him, too. But then I have to remind myself that Clark's specialty is barging in where he's not invited, and then somehow making you feel like you're the one who should apologize.

  Lana Lang : Okay, um... I have a great idea. How about a moratorium on the Clark topic?

  Lex Luthor : Twist my arm.

  Lana Lang : Don't tempt me.

• Lionel Luthor : You're involved with Milton Fine. I know that he's been smuggling some of the deadliest viruses in the world into this country with your help.

  Lex Luthor : Well, don't worry, Dad. I'm not gonna put them in any Halloween candy.

• Professor Milton Fine : Some say the toast came about by a man who feared that his drink had been poisoned. But he was a quick-witted man. He joyfully clanked his mug with the mugs of his mates, sloshing his lethal beverage into everyone's drink with cheer. A simple tap, then, must be a sign of trust.

  [Lex declines to drink Fine gives him] 

  Lex Luthor : I'm not really thirsty.

• Lex Luthor : I'm hoping this will help me get a few answers.

  [Lex pulls out a kryptonite rock on Fine and it has no effect on him] 

  Professor Milton Fine : Close... but I'm not one of them. I was only made by them.