- Lionel Luthor: I've been expecting you, Kal-El.
- Clark Kent: How long have you known?
- Lionel Luthor: From the moment I held in my hand the crystal that helped to form your Fortress of Solitude.
- Clark Kent: The one that put you in a coma.
- Lionel Luthor: Coma. I'd like to think of it as a... a state of... contemplative repose.
- Clark Kent: You've known my secret for almost a year.
- Lionel Luthor: Yes.
- Clark Kent: Why haven't you done anything?
- Lionel Luthor: What? Expose you to the world? Some strange visitor from another planet? I've tried to tell you, I am not your enemy. To reveal your secret would... change your destiny. And it would harm someone I care about very deeply.
- Clark Kent: You had a choice. To kill my mother or to kill yourself.
- Lionel Luthor: I could never harm your mother. There was no choice.
- Clark Kent: Yeah? Unless you knew the gun wasn't loaded.
- Lionel Luthor: You have no reason to believe anything I say, I realize that. But I hope eventually you will come to trust me. I only want what's best for you and your mother, son.
- Clark Kent: You don't call me that. Jonathan Kent was my father.
- Lionel Luthor: No, I'm not trying to take his place.
- Clark Kent: You couldn't. My mother seems to think there may be some good in you, but I'm not so sure.
- Lionel Luthor: It takes time, Clark. Maybe you will be.
- Clark Kent: Or maybe you'll just show your true colors. Secret or no secret, you stay away from my mother, or you'll wish I never saved your life.
- Chloe Sullivan: Why don't you let me use that as an in, you know, to find out what he's really up to?
- Clark Kent: What if he finds out what you're up to? It's too risky.
- Chloe Sullivan: Oh, and waiting for Darth Luthor to hatch his evil plan isn't?
- Lana Lang: We've spent the last week avoiding what happened.
- Lex Luthor: I was kind of waiting for you to bring that up.
- Lana Lang: You kissed me.
- Lex Luthor: And then you kissed me back.
- Lana Lang: God, after all that talk about friendship and not wanting to ruin what we have, we really don't listen very well, do we?
- Lex Luthor: Are you asking me to forget what happened? Because short of a serious blow to the head, I think it's a memory that's gonna linger for quite a while.
- Lex Luthor: Someone tried to kill you?
- Lionel Luthor: Oh, is this the part where you feign innocence?
- Lex Luthor: I brought you in to help run LuthorCorp again. Profits have never been higher. Why would I want you dead?
- Lionel Luthor: Not so long ago, I tried to take LuthorCorp away from you.
- Lex Luthor: The Apex takeover.
- Lionel Luthor: Right.
- Lex Luthor: Please. Seeing you fail miserably was retribution enough.
- Lex Luthor: I may not like you very much, dad, but you're a valuable asset to LuthorCorp. Killing you would hurt the bottom line.
- Lionel Luthor: [sarcastic] Your concern is truly touching.
- Lionel Luthor: It was you, Lex. I know it.
- Lex Luthor: What?
- Lionel Luthor: Disabling my limo in the path of an oncoming train. You know that kind of melodrama went out of style with silent movies.