Smallville (TV Series)

Finale (2011)

Michael Rosenbaum: Lex Luthor

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• Clark Kent : Where's Tess? What have you done with her?

  Lex Luthor : She's fine. I wouldn't worry so much about my dear little sister. You know, I used to think it was our families who made us who we are. Then I hoped it was our friends. But if you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies.

  Clark Kent : You have a second chance. You can change all that.

  Lex Luthor : But that's the thing about memories - you can't forget them. Like how you're always one step ahead of me, Clark. No matter how meticulously I prepared, no matter how strategic I was, if only I'd known I stood a chance.

  Clark Kent : It wasn't a competition.

  Lex Luthor : Of course it wasn't. You were born to be the chosen one. You're simply better than us.

  Clark Kent : And that always killed you.

  Lex Luthor : No. No, what killed me is that you didn't even want it. You fought it - you hid from it! I would have taken it and relished it, embraced it.

  Clark Kent : My destiny wasn't yours to take!

  Lex Luthor : I get that now. Which is why I finally embraced my own. You and I... we will both be great men. Because of each other, we have a destiny together, Clark... only on different sides.

  Clark Kent : I'll always be there to stop you. Always.

  Lex Luthor : Oh, I'm counting on it.

• Lex Luthor : [stabs Tess in her gut]  You know I'm actually saving you.

  Tess Mercer : From what?

  Lex Luthor : From turning into me.

  Tess Mercer : It's too late. Clark already did that.

• Lex Luthor : Hello, Clark. Can't say I love what you done with the place.

  Clark Kent : Lex.

  Lex Luthor : You still say it the same way - astonishment mixed with a hint of dread, yet... with a hopeful finish.

  Clark Kent : You're alive.

  Lex Luthor : Seems my father had a... a change of heart. And I got a second chance of life.

• Lex Luthor : Our story hasn't been written yet, Kal-El. And every villain is only as great as his hero. But, you see, that all relies on you saving us from the coming Apocalypse.

  Clark Kent : You know about Darkseid?

  Lex Luthor : You really thought I just read the cliff notes of the Veritas journals? They foretold of a chosen savior - the light that will inspire this world out of darkness. You are the light, Clark. Only you have the power within.

  Clark Kent : I'm not so sure that Clark Kent can save the entire world on his own.

  Lex Luthor : He can't. But we both know who can.

  Clark Kent : I'm sorry I couldn't save you, Lex.

• Tess Mercer : Something told me that I'd find you here. I combed the lab, and I saw what happened.

  Lex Luthor : Long time, sis.

  Tess Mercer : Did you *always* know?

  Lex Luthor : Why do you think I recruited you and treated you as my own flesh and blood?

  Tess Mercer : You *used* me.

  Lex Luthor : Semantics. I'd say dear old Dad did most of the abusing. Wouldn't you? I guess the bullet in his chest answered that question, huh?

  Tess Mercer : He wanted nothing more to have you back again.

  Lex Luthor : And what did you want, Tess?

  Tess Mercer : Something I'll never have.

  Lex Luthor : Clark?

  Tess Mercer : Redemption.

• Lex Luthor : [poisoned by Tess' glove with neurotoxin]  What will I remember?

  Tess Mercer : Nothing. The world before this moment won't exist to you.

• Lex Luthor : I'm really saving you.

  Tess Mercer : From what?

  Lex Luthor : Turning into me.

  Tess Mercer : It's too late. Clark already did that.