- Martha Kent: That was Lana. Third time tonight, Clark. Won't you talk to her?
- Teenage Clark Kent: Oh, what can I say, Ma? I don't even know how it happened. Suddenly, I was running faster than I've ever run in my life. I ripped the camper apart like it was cardboard. And the fire never touched me. I've always felt I was different, even before you and Pa told me I was adopted, but how is it possible to do these things?
- Jonathan Kent: I think it's time, Martha.
- [cut to them leading Clark into the barn]
- Jonathan Kent: [opening a crate] We never showed you this, son. I guess we didn't know how to explain it. Still don't.
- [Clark sees his Kryptonian ship]
- Jonathan Kent: You know how some babies are found in baskets? Well, this is how we found you.
- Teenage Clark Kent: You're kidding, right?
- [seeing their looks]
- Teenage Clark Kent: You're not. So... where did I come from?
- Martha Kent: We don't know. There wasn't much inside. Just some blankets and... this.
- Jonathan Kent: [showing him a metal box] Never could get the darn thing open. Maybe you've got the magic touch.
- Lois Lane: [Barging into Perry White's office] Chief! I spent a week on the docks with rats and frizzed hair exposing the biggest gun-smuggling ring to hit this town in ten years and what makes the front page? Some sprouty, new age, granola-crunching fluff piece on angels! What's next? Interviews with Bigfoot?
- Perry White: Good timing, Lois. I wanted you to be the first to know, I'm hiring a new guy on the city desk.
- Lois Lane: Is he cute?
- Perry White: Uh... you tell me.
- [Lois spins around and sees Clark standing there]
- Lois Lane: Oh... hi.
- [Lois finds Clark ahead of her at the Lexcorp press conference]
- Lois Lane: How'd you get here before me?
- Clark Kent: Well, I just flew.
- Lois Lane: What'd you get?
- Clark Kent: [puts away his notebook] A shared byline, if you use it.
- Lois Lane: I take it back. You're not the rube hayseed I took you for.
- Clark Kent: Thanks... I think.
- Jonathan Kent: Put that thing back. We don't know where it came from.
- Martha Kent: He's not a thing, Jonathan, he's a baby! A little baby. Who'd put a baby in a spaceship?
- Jonathan Kent: That's just my point. It could be Russian, a Sputnik baby.
- Martha Kent: Oh, really!
- Jonathan Kent: Maybe he's one of ours. You think NASA is missing a kid?
- Martha Kent: I don't care where he came from. All I know is he needs us, Jonathan.
- [a family's RV has crashed into a gas station. Young Clark Kent races to the scene, only to be blown back by an explosion. Clark gets up, shrugs off his backpack and runs over to the RV. He rips the door off its hinges and extends his hand to the couple inside. They grab hold of him and he lifts them out of the RV and safely onto the ground]
- Annie: Mommy!
- Annie's Mother: Annie!
- [Clark looks over to see the little girl still trapped inside the RV]
- Annie: Mommy! Mommy, Daddy!
- [Clark runs back over to the RV. He rips the windshield off, then bends down to pick up the girl. Suddenly, there's another explosion which the girl and Clark are caught in. The couple looks on in horror]
- Lana Lang: [runs over] Oh, my god! Clark! Clark!
- [Clark then emerges from the flames, clutching the little girl tightly, completely unharmed]
- Annie: [runs over to her mother] Mommy!
- [her parents bend down and hug her warmly]
- Annie's Mother: Annie.
- Lana Lang: [runs over to Clark] You're not even burned. How?
- Teenage Clark Kent: I don't know.
- Lois Lane: [after her previous skepticism of him, Superman saves her from a falling iron beam] No way.
- Teenage Clark Kent: [bending a metal bar] Getting stronger every day, Pa. And that's not the half of it. Look.
- [focusing on it, he melts a section with his heat vision]
- Jonathan Kent: It's getting hot. All you did was look at it.
- Teenage Clark Kent: I know.
- Perry White: This is the guy, Lois. Clark Kent from Smallville.
- Lois Lane: Smallville? Never heard of it.
- Clark Kent: Have you ever been to Kansas?
- Lois Lane: God, no!
- Perry White: I've been reading his stuff. It's good. I thought maybe he could tag along with you for a few days to get the lay of the land.
- Lois Lane: I'd love to play den mother, chief, but I got that LexCorp story in half an hour.
- Perry White: Oh, yeah. The great and benevolent Mr. Luthor is demonstrating a new weapons system today. Usually, Lex is Lois's beat, but I'm sure she won't mind having another set of eyes with her. Right, Lois?
- Lois Lane: [cut them leaving] Look, Smallville, nothing against you, but even as a kid, I never liked babysitting. You wanna keep up with me, you gotta be quick. I'm no tour guide, and I don't hold hands.
- Clark Kent: You won't have to worry about that.
- Jor-El: By the time you see this, our world will have been gone for many years.
- Lara: You are the sole survivor of Krypton, a planet similar to Earth in many ways. This was our home.
- Teenage Clark Kent: No. No, it can't be true.
- Martha Kent: It's hurting him.
- Jonathan Kent: Let him be, Martha.
- Jor-El: You may have already discovered that you are much stronger and faster than a normal human being.
- Teenage Clark Kent: I *am* a normal human being.
- Lara: Your Kryptonian body draws its strength from Earth's yellow sun.
- Jor-El: It will give you abilities that no other human has.
- Teenage Clark Kent: I don't believe any of this.
- Lara: Some people will fear you, perhaps even try to destroy you. Despite this, you must never use your powers in anger.
- Jor-El: Be brave, my son. Remember who you are and the legacy you carry inside you.
- Lara: We love you, Kal-El, always.
- Teenage Clark Kent: [as he reaches out to touch her hand, the message ends] It's not true. I'm not a freak. I'm not! I'm not!
- Martha Kent: [he punches a wooden beam in anger] Clark!
- Jonathan Kent: [he runs away] Clark, come back!
- Lois Lane: Angela, don't tell me you're actually covering a real news event. What happened? Run out of alien abductees?
- Angela Chen: Hey, Lois, at least my network doesn't have to send two reporters to cover the same story.
- [Lois is surprised to see Clark]
- Angela Chen: You'll have to introduce us sometime.
- Jonathan Kent: [finding the baby Kal-El] Cute little fella. Got a good grip, too. Ow.
- [Kal squeezes a little too hard]
- Jonathan Kent: Ow!
- Martha Kent: What do you think of the name Christopher?
- Jonathan Kent: Now, Martha, let's discuss this.
- Martha Kent: Or Kevin?
- Jonathan Kent: Martha!
- Martha Kent: Or Kirk. I know we can use my maiden name. What do you think of...
- Ms. Stevenson: [cut to Clark daydreaming in class] Clark! Clark Kent!
- Teenage Clark Kent: Y-Yes, Ms. Stevenson?
- Ms. Stevenson: Looks like you've daydreamed your way to another perfect score.
- Lana Lang: Once again, the boy genius performs to his usual standards.
- Ms. Stevenson: And so did you, Ms. Lang.
- Lana Lang: [seeing she got a D-] Ooh.
- Lana Lang: For a guy who just aced his midterms, you don't look too happy. What's wrong, Clark?
- Teenage Clark Kent: Oh, I don't know. Lately, I'm feeling kind of weird.
- Lana Lang: You've always been weird, if you ask me.
- [seeing he's not amused]
- Lana Lang: Hey, it's Lana. You know, the girl who's had a crush on you since we were 3? You can tell me.
- Teenage Clark Kent: It's just... in the last few months, I've been hearing things, you know? Things I couldn't before, like... like over there, Jenny's telling Pete Ross her folks are going out tonight.
- Lana Lang: That little tart! You heard that?
- Teenage Clark Kent: And I can see things, too, like in the gym.
- [using his x-ray vision]
- Teenage Clark Kent: Ms. Stevenson's inside, putting up decorations for the dance. Somebody should really be holding that ladder.
- Lana Lang: You're saying you can see through walls? So, how many times have you peeked into the girls' locker room, huh?
- Teenage Clark Kent: Lana!
- Lana Lang: I'm just kidding. Jeez!
- Teenage Clark Kent: It's not a joke, Lana. I'm going through a bad time. I thought if anybody'd understand me... listen!
- Lana Lang: What is it?
- Teenage Clark Kent: [hearing a car's tire blow out] Call an ambulance! There's gonna be an accident.
- Lana Lang: [he speeds away] What? How do you know? Clark!
- Jor-El: Kal-El.
- Teenage Clark Kent: Who?
- Jor-El: Hello, son. You've activated the message we placed in your escape rocket. I am Jor-El.
- Lara: And I am Lara. We are your parents.
- Lois Lane: Jimmy Olsen, say hello to Clark Kent.
- Jimmy Olsen: The new guy?
- Clark Kent: Yeah.
- Jimmy Olsen: Hi. Nice to meet you. I'm Jimmy. I work as a copy boy, but I'm really a photographer.
- Clark Kent: Good for you.
- Jimmy Olsen: If you've got a minute, I'd like to show you my pictures.
- Clark Kent: Well, not right...
- Jimmy Olsen: They're hot, Mr. Kent, really. I-I'm, like, fearless. You can ask Ms. Lane. She uses me all the time.
- Lois Lane: [getting on the elevator] Bye.
- Clark Kent: So I see.
- Angela Chen: Metropolis can boast of many amazing sights; the country's biggest bridge, the world's tallest building, but now it may have its most astonishing sight yet: a guardian angel. Just ask little Danitra Evans. She saw him.
- Danitra Evans: I was fooling around the window when I lost my balance and fell. Suddenly, this big blue angel with red wings came down and caught me. He put me on the ground and flew away. You should've heard my mommy scream.
- Angela Chen: This is where they found Danitra, and that's where she fell from.
- [her camera pans up a skyscraper]
- Angela Chen: 30 floors up. If it wasn't an angel that saved her, what was it?
- Lois Lane: Friendly pigeons.
- Ron Troupe: What's the matter, Lois? Don't you believe in angels?
- Lois Lane: It's TV, boys. Just a trumped-up story to boost ratings.
- LexCorp Presenter: Ladies and gentlemen of the press, at this time, we invite everyone into the main hall for our special presentation: the long-awaited debut of the next word in military defense: the Lexo-Skell 5000. Constructed from a patented alloy, the Lexo-Suit is virtually indestructible. As seen in this test footage against these automated tanks, the Lexo-Suit stands up to heavy punishment, and returns it in kind. Guiding this suit is a single soldier, made more powerful than an entire battalion. And now, here's to the future and the man who's created it, Lex Luthor.
- Lois Lane: [watching with Clark] Betcha this beats the dog-and-pony shows back home.
- [hearing something, he uses his x-ray vision and sees a group of unknown aircraft approaching]
- John Corben: Time to crash the party, gentlemen.
- Clark Kent: Excuse me.
- Lex Luthor: I'd like to say that I view the Lexo-Suit not as an instrument of war, but as an instrument to end war.