- Lois Lane: You ARE Superman, aren't you?
- Clark Kent: Lois, now we've been through these haullcinations of yours before. Can't you see what you almost did? Throwing yourself off a building 30 stories high? Can't you see what a tragic mistake you almost made?
- Lois Lane: I made a mistake. I made a mistake because
- [Lois pulls out a gun]
- Lois Lane: I risked my life instead of yours.
- Clark Kent: Lois... don't be insane!
- Lois Lane: And don't fall down 'cause you're just going to have to get up again!
- Clark Kent: Lois, don't be crazy now... LOIS!
- [Lois fires at Clark, who just stands there with a stern look on his face]
- Lois Lane: [Lois looks at amazement] It IS you...
- [Clark takes off his glasses to reveal that he is indeed Superman]
- Lois Lane: I guess I've known this for the longest time.
- Clark Kent: You realize, of course, if you had been wrong, Clark Kent would've been killed.
- Lois Lane: [Lois holds up the gun] With a blank?
- [Clark closes his eyes in embarassment]
- Lois Lane: Gotcha!
- Clark Kent: [Clark sits down ready to talk]
- General Zod: What more do you want? I can see the greed written on your face.
- Lex Luthor: A small incentive, O' Fullest One. A mere bauble to jog the memory.
- General Zod: What more?
- Lex Luthor: Cuba.
- Jor-El: [Kal-El is asking for counsel again from his father regarding his feelings for Lois] The people of your planet are well pleased with you Kal-El... you have served them faithfully... and they are grateful for it. And yet you have returned to reason with me once again. My son I have tried to anticipate your every question, this is one... I had hoped you would not ask...
- Kal-El/Superman: My attachment... umm... the feelings which I have developed for a certain human being have deeply affected me father...
- Jor-El: You cannot serve humanity by investing your time and emotion in one human being at the expense of the rest... the concepts are mutually exclusive.
- Kal-El/Superman: [takes a deep breath] And... if I no longer want to serve humanity...
- Jor-El: Is this how you repay their gratitude... by abandoning the weak... the defenseless... the needful... for the sake of your selfish pursuits...
- Kal-El/Superman: [angry] Selfish? After all I've done for them? Will there ever come a time when I've served enough? At least they get a chance for happiness... I only ask as much... no more...
- Jor-El: Yours is a higher happiness... the fullfillment of your mission... the inspiration... you must have... you must have felt that happiness within you... my son... surely you cannot deny that feeling...
- Kal-El/Superman: No... I cannot... anymore than I deny the other which is stronger in me father... so much stronger...
- Kal-El/Superman: Is there no way then father? Must I be denied the one thing in life that I truly desire?
- Jor-El: If you will not be Kal-El... if you will live as one of them... love their kind as one of them... then it follows... that you must become one of them...
- Jor-El: [Jor-El disappears and a crystal chamber emerges, he reappears closer to Kal-El] This crystal chamber has in it the harnessed rays of the red sun of Krypton... once exposed to them all your great powers on Earth will disappear... forever... once this is done there is no going back... you will feel like an ordinary man... and you can be harmed like an ordinary man...
- Jor-El: [Kal-El steps towards the chamber] Think Kal-El... I beg you...
- Kal-El/Superman: [points as if to warn] Father... I love her...
- Jor-El: [last words] Think Kal-El...
- [Kal-El ignores his father's last plea and enters the chamber, the fortress glows red inside as Jor-El gives a condemning stare at Lois who is watching overhead]
- Kal-El/Superman: [Kal-El has returned to the Fortress of Solitude after giving up his powers and learning General Zod has escaped the Phantom Zone, desperate and broken] Father... if you can hear me... I failed... I've failed you, I've failed myself... and all humanity. I've traded my birthright... for a life of submission in a world ruled by your enemies... there's nobody left to help them now... the people of the world... since I... FATHER!
- Jor-El: [as Kal-El starts to walk away from the crystal console, the remaining crystal starts to glow, he puts it into the crystal console, Jor-El appears] Listen carefully my son... for we shall never speak again... if you hear me now... then you have used the only means left to you... the crystal source in which our communications begun... the circle is now complete... you have made a dreadful mistake Kal-El... you did this of your own free will... in spite of all I could say to dissuade you...
- Kal-El/Superman: I... uh...
- Jor-El: Now you return to me for one last chance to redeem yourself... this too I have finally anticipated my son... look at me Kal-El... once before when you were small I died while giving you a chance for life and even now though it will exhust the final energy left within me
- Kal-El/Superman: [broken on the verge of tears, turns his head] Father... no...
- Jor-El: Look at me Kal-El... the Kryptonian prophecy will at last be fulfilled... the son becomes the father... the father becomes the son... farewell forever... Kal-El... remember me my son...
- Jor-El: [Jor-El disappears and reappears next to Kal-El in full form, he places his hand on his shoulder] My son...
- [Kal-Els powers start to regenerate from his fathers touch]
- Lois Lane: I mean, it wouldn't take long. We could just fly up there and zoom back down again. You know... Superman?
- Perry White: Yeah. If he'd give you two a ride, maybe we could save a couple bucks.
- Lex Luthor: This place has *everything*!
- Eve Teschmacher: Wrong.
- [pause]
- Lex Luthor: Why didn't you go before we left?
- Eve Teschmacher: [gritting teeth] That was two days ago!
- [first lines]
- Jor-El: I ask you now to pronounce judgment on those accused. On this... this mindless aberration, whose only means of expression are wanton violence and destruction; on the woman Ursa, whose perversions and unreasoning hatred of all mankind have threatened even the children of the planet Krypton; finally, General Zod. Chief architect of this intended revolution and author of this insidious plot to establish a new order amongst us... with himself as absolute ruler. You have heard the evidence. The decision of the council will now be heard.
- General Zod: Son of Jor-El. We were beginning to think you were a coward.
- Clark Kent: I'm not a coward, Zod.
- General Zod: It is extremely likely you are merely a fool. Like father, like son.
- Lois Lane: Must be tough being Clark Kent, isn't it?
- Superman: No. No, I really - I really like it sometimes. Even though I do make a fool of myself. But, you know, if it weren't for him, I never would have met you.
- Lois Lane: But he is you. It's kind of confusing.
- Superman: Not to me, it isn't. For the first time in my life, everything's clear.
- Lex Luthor: Oh, Magnificent One, what I am bargaining with is what you do not have. The son of Jor-El.
- General Zod: The Son of Jor-El?
- Lex Luthor: [whispering to Ursa] I said that didn't I?
- General Zod: Jor-El, our jailer?
- Lex Luthor: No, Jor-El the baseball player. Yes, your jailer.
- Lex Luthor: What am I gonna do with you people, huh? I mean, I held up my end, I delivered the blue boy. What do I get from my triple threat? "Bow! Yield! Kneel!" That kind of stuff closes out a town.
- General Zod: Why do you say this to me when you know I will kill you for it?
- Lex Luthor: Kill me? Lex Luthor? Extinguish the greatest criminal flame of our age? Eradicate the only man on Earth with...
- Ursa: Let me kill him.
- Lex Luthor: ...Superman's address?
- General Zod: What more do you want? I can see the greed written on your face.
- Lex Luthor: A small incentive, oh fullest one. A mere bauble to jog the memory.
- General Zod: What more?
- Lex Luthor: Cuba.
- [Non growls]
- [during the Metropolis fight between the Kryptonians and Superman, Jimmy is taking a cup of coffee to Perry White, when Lex Luthor intercepts and takes it]
- Jimmy Olsen: Hey, that's for the Chief!
- Lex Luthor: Chief's got it.
- [Luthor is now persona non grata to the Kryptonians, so he goes to Superman to bargain]
- Lex Luthor: [quietly] You think you know people, right? Promises are made, gifts exchanged. I've got to hand it to you. You always told the truth. A guy always knew where he stood with you.
- [Superman indicates for Luthor to face away from the Kryptonians as he leans in to Luthor]
- Superman: Try to get them all into that molecule chamber. It takes away their powers, see, reduces them to human beings. Now if you could...
- [shushes Luthor quickly as the Kryptonians advance]
- Lex Luthor: [quickly] Don't go in there, General! It's a trap!
- Superman: [angry] Luthor, you poisonous snake!
- Lex Luthor: It's a molecule chamber, Your Grace! It turns people like you...
- [somewhat embarrassed]
- Lex Luthor: into people like me.
- [Luthor puts together how he was tricked after the defeat of the Kryptonians]
- Lex Luthor: He switched it. He did it to them. I means, the lights were on out here... while he was safe in there.
- [Superman coyly salutes Luthor]
- Superman: I knew you'd double-cross me, Luthor. A lying weasel like you couldn't resist the chance.
- Lex Luthor: [backpedaling] Are you kidding? I was with you all the time! That was beautiful! Did you see the way they fell into our trap?
- [laughs]
- Superman: [sternly] Too late, Luthor. Too late.
- [while doing prison laundry, Lex feels something wet on the clothes he's holding]
- Lex Luthor: Slasher Fogelstein's a bed-wetter.
- [He tosses the wet clothes to Otis. Otis then leans over to a prisoner with his back turned]
- Otis: Slasher Fogelstein's a bed-wetter! Pass it!
- [the prisoner then turns around with a very angry look on his face. Otis backs away, sheepishly]
- Otis: Hi, Mr. Fogelstein.
- [confronting Zod and the Kryptonians at the Daily Planet]
- Superman: General... haven't you ever heard of freedom of the press?
- [arriving at the disheveled cityroom of the Daily Planet after the Kryptonians' rampage]
- Lex Luthor: Hi! You should see the White House. They'll be cleaning for months.
- [the Kryptonians stand at the White House, bored. Lex Luthor manages to weasel his way in, waving a handkerchief as though it's a white flag]
- Lex Luthor: Lex Luthor.
- [beat]
- Lex Luthor: *Lex* Luthor? Maybe you've heard of me? The greatest criminal mind on Earth?
- Ursa: [to Zod] I told you this was a puny planet.
- [Ursa and Non approach Luthor with menace]
- Lex Luthor: Wait. Wait! Wait until you get to know me better. I can, uh -- I can give you -- anything you want! The unlimited freedom to maim, kill, destroy! Plus -- Lex Luthor's savvy, Lex Luthor's school of bett...
- [Luthor's hand gets crushed by Ursa]
- General Zod: We have all of this without you. You cannot bargain with what you do not have.
- Lex Luthor: With respect, Your Magnificence, what am I bargaining with is what you do not have: the son of Jor-El.
- [All three are stunned]
- General Zod: The son of Jor-El?
- Lex Luthor: [to Ursa] I did say that, didn't I?
- General Zod: Jor-El, our jailor?
- Lex Luthor: No, Jor-El, the baseball player.
- [menaced again by Ursa and Non]
- Lex Luthor: Yes! Jor-El, your jailor!
- General Zod: His son is on this planet?
- Lex Luthor: Perhaps you're more familiar with his nom de voyage or name he travels under: Superman.
- General Zod: So... this is Superman.
- [to Luthor]
- General Zod: How do you know of Jor-El?
- Lex Luthor: As I told Your Fullness earlier...
- [smiles]
- Lex Luthor: I'm about the best there is.
- General Zod: [standing up] Revenge! We will kill the son of our jailor!
- Ursa: Revenge!
- Lex Luthor: [gleeful] Revenge! Now we're cooking, huh?
- General Zod: He flies then?
- Lex Luthor: Constantly.
- General Zod: He has powers as we do?
- Lex Luthor: Sure, but he's just one. Whereas you are three...
- [Non growls]
- Lex Luthor: Or four if you count him twice!
- General Zod: We will bring him to his knees!
- [the Kryptonians exit]
- Lex Luthor: Wait! Wait! First you must find him and Lex Baby is the only one who knows where he is.
- [Hating to have to tolerate him any more, Zod stares back at Luthor]
- General Zod: What... do you want?
- [Luthor strides over to the President's desk and kicks his feet up while lighting a cigar]
- Lex Luthor: Well, General... the world is a big place. Thank goodness my needs are small. I have a certain weakness for... beachfront property.
- General Zod: What do you want?
- Lex Luthor: [does the famous Nixon victory pose] Australia!
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