Tom Welling credited as playing...
Clark Kent
- [Clark has forgotten he's Kryptonian. He and Chloe/Lois see a woman on the street being mugged]
- Chloe Sullivan: [as Lois] Aren't you going to do anything?
- Clark Kent: [nods] You're absolutely right, Lois.
- [Clark, bravely, pulls out his phone]
- Clark Kent: Hello, 911?
- Chloe Sullivan: [as Lois] Open the door, Clark.
- Clark Kent: Lois, it's locked! We need a key!
- Chloe Sullivan: Open the damn door, Clark.
- Clark Kent: Lois, if you don't...
- [Clark pulls at the door handle and it breaks off]
- Chloe Sullivan: *Now* do you believe me?
- Clark Kent: [looking at broken handle] What I believe is that this door needs better maintenance. Look at the rust in here. No wonder it just pulled off like that.
- Chloe Sullivan: Okay.
- Clark Kent: Now, we're going to be stuck up here...
- Chloe Sullivan: How about this? Listen. Really listen. What do you hear?
- Clark Kent: That's amazing. The acoustics up here are incredible. It's like there's some perfect echo point right *here*.
- [Chloe/Lois grabs a pipe and swings it at Clark and misses, hits the roof edge]
- Clark Kent: Lois! Have you completely lost your mind? That could have really hurt!
- Chloe Sullivan: No, it... No, it wouldn't, Clark. You've got superspeed and super strength and super-hearing and x-ray vision!
- Clark Kent: And I have a deadline, Lois. Now, please, if you would excuse me, I need to find a way to get off this roof. Unless my superpowers include an ability... to fly.
- Clark Kent: Why'd you wait so long to tell me what was going on?
- Chloe Sullivan: Well, let's face it, Clark. My life has been a little less than desirable lately. I mean, with Jimmy and everything.
- Clark Kent: Chloe...
- Chloe Sullivan: And I can't deny there's an appeal to the dynamic duo's weekly adventures.
- Clark Kent: Well, you haven't missed much. Things haven't exactly been smooth between us lately.
- Chloe Sullivan: Look, I know you don't wanna open a can of Kryptonian worms by telling her your secret. But whether you like it or not, Lois Lane is a part of your life now. And considering the nonstop puppy dog eyes you give her, I'm guessing you don't mind much at all.
- [seeing his look]
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, just because you were burned once doesn't mean that you can't give it a second chance.
- Clark Kent: Are we still talking about me? Or are we talking about you and Jimmy?
- Chloe Sullivan: Touché. Okay. I'm talking about neither of us living in the past. You can never be who you wanna be if you're always looking over your shoulder at what could have been.
- Zatanna Zatara: It's what he did for me. He wasn't meant to die. I owe him this. I know the rules. A life for a life. I have to make it right. I'm not afraid.
- Clark Kent: Do you really think your father would want you to give up the life he gave you to bring him back?
- Zatanna Zatara: What would you know about losing the one man that made you who you are?
- Clark Kent: The day I lost my father, I thought my world would never be the same. It felt like something had been ripped away from me forever. But I had to let him go.
- Clark Kent: You haven't insulted me once yet today. And you actually crossed at the crosswalk. Did Jeff not bring you your coffee today?
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh, let's just say I rolled out of bed on the right side. It's amazing how much more you can see with fresh eyes. So, anything else you wanna tell me...
- [she trips, and she catches him]
- Clark Kent: What's the look for?
- Chloe Sullivan: Uh... you just never looked at me that way before.
- Lois Lane: Little blonde sources tell me that you don't mind my assertive flair. Let me see it.
- Clark Kent: Lois, I don't know what you're talking about.
- Lois Lane: You have a terrible poker face, Smallville.
- [getting up from her desk and sitting on the corner of his]
- Lois Lane: Gimme, gimme.
- [he reluctantly hands over the list of her rules that he framed]
- Lois Lane: Wow. Who would have know you were this sentimental? I think we should hang it up so that everyone can see it.
- Clark Kent: [taking it back] This is a memento from my first day on the job. And a constant reminder there's only one Lois Lane.
- Lois Lane: You better believe it.
- Clark Kent: [the spell that turned Chloe into Lois wears off] Chloe? Wait, but that's...
- Chloe Sullivan: Impossible? Only in your mind. Sometimes you just need a little leap of faith.
- Clark Kent: How gullible do you think i am, Lois?
- Chloe Sullivan: I'm Chloe.
- Clark Kent: Right. At first i had trouble telling you two apart, as well. But Lois is the tall one.
- Chloe Sullivan: You just acknowledged I was Chloe before our run-in with Zatanna. She bippity-boppity-booed you, too!
- Lois Lane: So, how long did it take for you to realize that I wasn't my usual charming self?
- Clark Kent: Well, I have to admit, I should have picked upon it sooner. You weren't as bossy as usual. And Chloe let me drive.
- Clark Kent: Lois?
- Chloe Sullivan: Thank god. Clark.
- Clark Kent: You couldn't have been deported that quickly. Why aren't you in Mexico?
- Chloe Sullivan: Here's the thing. I never made it to Mexico.
- Clark Kent: Right. Can this wait until after your post-lunch, pre-dinner, after-coffee snack break?
- Clark Kent: Lois, are you all right?
- Chloe Sullivan: No, I am definitely not all right.
- Clark Kent: [his computer beeps] Well, this should help. Police standoff. Main and 5th. Grab your jacket.
- [heading out]
- Clark Kent: Isn't this the part where you tell me to saddle up?
- Chloe Sullivan: Start your engines... Smallville.
- Clark Kent: You just woke up like this? How did I not pick up on it sooner?
- Chloe Sullivan: Forget about it. This is my Shakespearean nightmare. Not yours.
- [trying to open a locked door]
- Chloe Sullivan: Although it has been oddly illuminating.
- Clark Kent: Peace offering for missing your party.
- Chloe Sullivan: Casualties of being a hero. Not everyone could have punched through Zatanna's whammy and saved the day.
- Clark Kent: I couldn't have done it without you. Thank you for reminding me who I really am.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, I guess rebooting your superhero OS rekindled the Chloe fire. Looks like, uh, hero support isn't just a day job anymore. And for that...
- [taking the bag of food]
- Chloe Sullivan: ...we eat bagels.
- Chloe Sullivan: Do you remember everything?
- Clark Kent: If you're referring to the "just the facts, ma'am" routine...
- [nodding]
- Clark Kent: It did feel as though a weight had been lifted.
- Chloe Sullivan: Hmm. It must have been hard to harness up again.
- Clark Kent: To be honest, a life without responsibility kind of felt empty. I mean, this is who I am, Chloe. Every morning, I wake up with a purpose.
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, you're not the only one who saw the world through irony-colored glasses.
- Chloe Sullivan: Clark, you're the only person who can get up there and put an end to this right now.
- Clark Kent: Look, I know what you're gonna say, but...
- Chloe Sullivan: No, Clark. There are no "buts" with you. No exception to the rule. Now, super-leap up there and stop her.
- Clark Kent: Look, I don't know. It...
- Chloe Sullivan: Yeah, okay. Okay, Clark, you don't have to know. If you won't believe in yourself, then let me believe in you. Okay? I know that deep inside, you don't wanna just be a normal guy sitting behind a desk reporting on disasters while you could be out there stopping them. Now, use the power you feel. The world needs *you*.
- Yuri: You mind telling me who you are?
- Chloe Sullivan: Lois Lane, Daily Planet. I'm sorry, we thought you were under some kind of... spell?
- Clark Kent: Well, she did.
- Yuri: You know.
- Chloe Sullivan: We know Zatanna gave you a wish in exchange for some information on a book.
- Yuri: I never should have told her how to find that book. I'm afraid she's too blinded by her grief to see the danger that she's in.
- Clark Kent: Say this woman does know magic. What sort of danger are you talking about?
- Yuri: She must be stopped from using that book to resurrect her father. She isn't prepared to make the sacrifice.
- Clark Kent: What kind of sacrifice?
- Yuri: From what I could decipher, the incantation to bring a life back required the taking of a life in return.
- Clark Kent: So in order to bring her father back, someone else must die.
- Yuri: A life for a life. A soul for a soul.
- Chloe Sullivan: Right before we walked in there, you were just complaining about how easy it would be if you could just forget the whole hero-alien-everything weird side and were just a regular, mundane reporter living a normal life.
- Clark Kent: If something seems to weird to be true, it usually is.
- [seeing she's confused]
- Clark Kent: It's rule number four.
- Chloe Sullivan: [still confused] What?
- Clark Kent: [taking a picture frame out of his desk drawer] "Lois Lane's Rules of Reporting." Come on. Like you'd never let me forget.
- Chloe Sullivan: And you framed this?
- [trying to get back on topic]
- Chloe Sullivan: Look, you said you wanted only one of your double lives. And whether you meant it or not, the spell thought you did.
- Clark Kent: Exactly what other life is it I'm supposed to have, Lois?
- Zatanna Zatara: It won't be much longer, father.
- Clark Kent: Much longer for what?
- Zatanna Zatara: I'm sorry. Have we met?
- Chloe Sullivan: Does an enchanted cupcake ring any bells?
- Zatanna Zatara: You were the birthday girl.
- Clark Kent: You need to reverse the curse that you put on Chloe.
- Zatanna Zatara: Curse? Is that what you think happened? You kind of got things backwards. I granted you a wish.
- Chloe Sullivan: And why on earth would I wish myself into this?
- Zatanna Zatara: Beats me. I don't write the magics, honey. I just use them. Now, I'm not saying this is your heart's deepest desire. But in that moment, this is what you wanted.
- Chloe Sullivan: Okay, just for a second. Maybe I was little jealous of Lois living my dream life with Clark at the Planet, but I didn't literally want her life. Not like this.
- Zatanna Zatara: Well, don't worry. It will wear off as soon as you don't want it anymore.
- Chloe Sullivan: Fine. I don't want it.
- Zatanna Zatara: You keep telling yourself that.
- Clark Kent: Listen, what I said about Jimmy...
- Chloe Sullivan: You're an equal opportunity good guy. I get it. I guess I'm just not used to seeing you from this perspective. By the way, "Tales of the Weird and Unexplained"? Nice callback.
- Clark Kent: I thought it might bring you back to a time when, you know, things were...
- Chloe Sullivan: Weird and unexplained? You sound like you miss it.
- Clark Kent: I don't know. It's just that there's a whole half of my life where this happens, every day. Weird has become so normal, it's not even weird anymore. Honestly, I like what I'm doing at the Planet now. But I would be lying if I said that there weren't days when I wish I could forget about saving the world and just be a normal reporter.
- Chloe Sullivan: [he easily opens the door] Well, for now, how about you not stick to your day job?