John Schneider credited as playing...
Jonathan Kent
- Clark Kent: Sometimes I think it would be easier if you were here.
- Jonathan Kent: Not a day goes by, Clark, when I don't regret not being able to be right here for you. I would do anything, I would give anything to able to get a second chance to get it right. You got that second chance, son. You could be the greatest hero the world has ever known.
- Clark Kent: Not according to Jor-El.
- Jonathan Kent: Well, then, do what you do best. Prove him wrong. Jor-El was right about one thing. Something dark *is* coming. You're gonna be tested. It's not gonna be easy, son. But I have faith in you.
- Clark Kent: What's coming, Dad?
- Clark Kent: Dad?
- Jonathan Kent: Chores, Clark. Work keeps a man honest. You got to protect the things you worked hard to build.
- Clark Kent: I've missed you.
- Jonathan Kent: I never stopped watching out for you, Clark.
- Clark Kent: Then you must be disappointed. I... I haven't grown into the man you raised me to be.
- Jonathan Kent: No, you haven't. You are so much more than that. And I'm so proud of you, Clark.
- Clark Kent: That's one dad.
- Jonathan Kent: Since when did you start listening to Jor-El, hmm?
- Clark Kent: I took my anger out on people. I destroyed an entire building. I know now that I have it within me to kill. I failed.
- Jonathan Kent: We're all confronted with trials, son. But the true measure of a man is how he chooses to react in the face of those trials.
- Clark Kent: You never had that problem.
- Jonathan Kent: Come on, son. I'm so far away from perfect. I could never keep my own anger in check. I let it all build up inside me 'til it made my own heart give out. It was my fury, Clark, that drove me to want to kill another man. But instead, it killed me.
- Clark Kent: Lionel. Dad, you were just trying to protect me.
- Jonathan Kent: We can't make excuses for the dark stains on our hearts, son.
- Clark Kent: I don't even know how I got to this place.
- Jonathan Kent: We all make sacrifices, son, and every time we do, we lose a little bit of something in the process. You've sacrificed more than anybody. It'd be too easy to let resentment build up inside, but it's got to come out somewhere.
- Clark Kent: I feel like every time I do something right, I do something wrong.