Smallville (TV Series)

Icarus (2010)

Michael Hogan: Gen. Slade Wilson

Quotes 

• Slade Wilson : I was wondering how long you'd hide and let your friends take the fall.

  Clark Kent : I heard the explosion. You were in it. How did you...

  Slade Wilson : Survive? Let's just say the Reaper can swing his sickle at me, but I'm beyond death's stroke now.

• Clark Kent : Where's Lois?

  Slade Wilson : Your problem is you think other people define your life, but the truth is they just get in the way.

  Clark Kent : You don't believe that. I know you had a family before.

  Slade Wilson : A soldier can fight for others, but he cannot afford to love them. You and I don't need to fight, Clark. Let them go. Come and join me. We can put all this to an end.

  Clark Kent : Never.

• Slade Wilson : You know, when I named this operation Icarus, it was because I believed that your fall would ultimately come from your faith in your own invincibility. But then to actually see a man with burning wings plummet from the sky. God, I do enjoy the irony.

  Clark Kent : What did you do?

  [whooshing around Slade as he walks away] 

  Clark Kent : Where are they?

  Slade Wilson : Dead.

  Clark Kent : You're lying.

  Slade Wilson : You know I'm not, because a true soldier does whatever it takes to finish the mission.

  Clark Kent : Then consider this finished.

• Slade Wilson : Where's Clark Kent?

  Lois Lane : I don't know. Besides, you're way off target if you think he's...

  Slade Wilson : [striking her, hard]  Try again.

  Lois Lane : G.I. Joe, when are you going to accept that you can't beat the real American heroes? Last time you tried, you went down with the ship.

  Slade Wilson : [blocking her as she tries to hit him with a paperweight]  I failed to take out my target. Luckily, fate and Uncle Sam's advanced military tech gave me a second chance to do it. Family takes care of itself.

  Lois Lane : And for better or for worse, I am standing by the Blur.

  Slade Wilson : [putting his gun to her head]  But he's not here to stand between you and a bullet.

  Lois Lane : No. No, wait. You win.

  Slade Wilson : [lowering his gun]  That's my girl.

  Lois Lane : I'm not your girl. I'm his.

• Courtney Whitmore : I thought you said that Slade died in the explosion.

  Slade Wilson : [on TV]  Like so many of you, I am a victim of a vigilante attack. And while I was lucky enough to survive the explosion caused by Oliver Queen...

  [indicating his eye patch] 

  Slade Wilson : ...it came at a cost. Too many civilians have been left feeling unsafe in their own homes. Too many people have suffered while too many vigilantes have been brought to justice. It's time these terrorists paid for their crimes.

  Clark Kent : It's time he pay for his.