Superman & Lois (TV Series)

O Mother, Where Art Thou? (2021)

Adam Rayner: Morgan Edge, Tal-Rho

Quotes 

• Superman : Brother?

  Tal-Rho : I know how unlikely it may seem, but the two of us, we share the same Kryptonian blood.

  Superman : You are not my brother.

  Tal-Rho : I am, Kal-El.

  [in Kryptonian] 

  Tal-Rho : Whether you want to believe it or not.

  [switching back to English] 

  Tal-Rho : My real name is Tal-Rho. I'm the son of Zeta-Rho and Lara Lor-Van.

  Superman : That's not possible. My mother...

  Tal-Rho : Married Jor-El, your father. Yes, I know. Years after she'd been matched to my father, years after I was born. It was when she first warned that Krypton was dying. The very reason my father sent me here. I was the first son of Krypton to leave... and I came here with one purpose: to further our Kryptonian heritage.

  Superman : My mother would never destroy innocent lives.

  Tal-Rho : [laughing in amusement]  Humans are far from innocent. This world you protect deserved better than those who inhabit it.

  Superman : That's not your decision to make.

  Tal-Rho : It's already been made. Don't you see, Kal? This is our chance to be with our own, to have a family again.

  Superman : A family?

  Tal-Rho : The mines, the X-Kryptonite, the people in this town, they gave me the means. Krypton will finally be resurrected. The Defense Council will reign... and we'll have our mother with us once again. I know you long to see her, just as I do. Help me do that, brother.

  Superman : Not like this.

• Tal-Rho : The time has almost come, Kal-El. Our people will awaken soon. And when that happens, I need you by my side, or you will be eradicated, too.

• Tal-Rho : Leave and prepare for our arrival.

  Leslie Larr : Now?

  Tal-Rho : Kal-El made his decision. He chose humanity over us. There's no saving my brother now.

• Tal-Rho : Why do you love them? There must be a reason. Did they take you in when you first arrived? Did they treat you like you were one of them? Because they did no such thing for me. I landed in the British countryside, where I was not greeted. I was hunted. Trapped. Caught. And kept hidden from the world for years. A piece of alien meat, an experiment for them to learn why I had abilities.

  Superman : Brother, I am sorry that happened to you, but not everyone here is like that.

  Tal-Rho : Only when they're afraid. And believe me, I made them afraid. And I'm going to again without you, brother.

• Leslie Larr : Just us?

  Tal-Rho : For now. But all is not lost.

• Superman : Yes, humans are flawed, and yes, some more than others, but they don't deserve what you're trying to do.

  Tal-Rho : You will defend them over your own kind?

  Superman : They don't deserve to lose their lives.

  Tal-Rho : They are inferior to us, Kal.

  Superman : No, they're not. They're just different.

  Tal-Rho : I was sent here with a mission to resurrect my people.

  Superman : No.

  Tal-Rho : To save Krypton.

  Superman : Stop.

  Tal-Rho : And I will not fail.

  Superman : Yes, you will.

  Tal-Rho : The thing is, Kal, this is the only planet you've ever known, so you don't know the pain of losing one. But I do, and I am not going to let that happen again. And neither are they.

  [flying towards them in the distance, Superman sees the Kryptonians Edge has resurrected] 

  Tal-Rho : That's your family coming, Kal. Your real people, your real heritage. Make a choice. Us or them?

  Superman : There is no us or them.