Cassidy Freeman credited as playing...
Tess Mercer
- Clark Kent: There must be something you can do. Lex never abandons a project.
- Tess Mercer: He doesn't, does he? I'm still catching up from the ones he's named after constellations.
- Lois Lane: Latest dish with a side order of spell check. "Grisly murders down on Hampton."
- Tess Mercer: Lois Lane. I haven't fired you yet?
- Lois Lane: Guess you're too busy printing my stories.
- Lois Lane: What's with the Oliver Queen collage?
- Tess Mercer: I figured the news had trickled down to the basement by now. You know, for a renowned party boy, Queen doesn't know how to hold his liquor.
- Lois Lane: Unbelievable. Metropolis may have its very own Jack the Ripper and you're preoccupied with smearing a humanitarian. Do you even know Oliver Queen?
- Tess Mercer: Not like you do. Come on, you can't tell me you don't get a twinge of pleasure seeing your ex take a public nosedive.
- Lois Lane: Look, he's a good person, who stands up against corruption and social injustice.
- Tess Mercer: Wow. I was gonna offer you the story, but after that bleeding-heart testimonial, you're obviously not objective enough to uncover the rest of it.
- Lois Lane: Well, it's not exactly a news flash. You drink, you get drunk.
- Tess Mercer: When someone leaves a club fall-down drunk, the story only gets better. I need someone to get to the bottom of this without suffering from an emotional meltdown.
- Lois Lane: Please. You know, you need to read your gossip column. Oliver and I were through a long time ago. I'll take the story.
- Marcos: Take me to the airport.
- Cab Driver: Right.
- [he climbs into the back seat, and is about to close the door when someone scratches his hand]
- Marcos: What the hell?
- [seeing Tess]
- Marcos: You.
- Tess Mercer: [he starts to feel the poison's effects] Who do you think paid your bail? Jail's too good for you.
- [he passes out]
- Tess Mercer: I think he's having a heart attack. You might wanna take him to the hospital.
- Cab Driver: What am I, an ambulance?
- Tess Mercer: They'll know what do with him.