Smallville 6x4

1. Hello.

2. Here you are, my lady.

3. Thank you.

4. It's beautiful,

5. but I feel self-conscious even borrowing it.

6. It shouldn't stay hidden in the Luthorcorp safe.

7. It needs to be worn for the very first time

8. on the neck of a beautiful woman.

9. It's perfect, Martha.

10. But now it's time to meet the moneybags of Metropolis.

11. You'll need them

12. to fund your bid for the United States senate.

13. Okay, now, remember, this a party.

14. I know. I know.

15. Stay away from religion, politics, and bad dye jobs.

16. Ollie!

17. We haven't seen you in such a long time.

18. Hello.

19. Hi, Oliver.

20. Uh, Mr. westcott and his wife, Candice.

21. I'd like to introduce you to Lois Lane.

22. Hey.

23. Simon westcott.

24. It's my pleasure.

25. Likewise.

26. So, I wanted to tell you

27. that I thought you were so eloquent

28. at the congressional indictment hearings.

29. Sorry about your oil tanker.

30. I'd hate to be a pelican in that harbor, huh?

31. Well, we're gonna go.

32. That's our cue, so...

33. I guess I forgot to add public humiliation

34. to the list of cocktail-party don'ts.

35. I'm gonna go get us a drink, okay?

36. You just wait here,

37. and don't talk to anybody, okay?

38. I'd like to thank you all for coming tonight.

39. I hope you're having a splendid time

40. and that you've had a chance to reconnect

41. with some old friends.

42. Right now, though, I'd like to introduce you to someone

43. who I hope will be a new friend,

44. a valuable new friend,

45. someone I'm sure you'll be glad to have on your side.

46. Ladies and gentlemen,

47. may I introduce to you our Kansas state senator

48. and future U.S. senator Martha Kent?

49. Whoo-hoo!

50. Thank you very much.

51. Aah!

52. Aah!

53. Hey!

54. Hey!

55. Give me the necklace.

56. You forgot to say "please."

57. I couldn't I.D. The guy,

58. but he didn't exactly stick around to chat.

59. You told Mr. Luthor that you almost caught the guy.

60. Yet you expect me to believe you didn't see anything?

61. Look, Lionel Luthor pays safetex, what,

62. a gazillion dollars for personal security?

63. So don't blame me

64. if you let a boy scout with an archery badge crash his party.

65. Okay.

66. I think miss Lane's made her point.

67. Wouldn't you say?

68. She'll call you if she remembers anything.

69. Evening.

70. So what aren't you telling him?

71. I just nabbed the story of my life.

72. William tell's not the only one

73. who walked away with a serious party favor.

74. Mr. queen.

75. My mom told me you were here.

76. Smallville, it's almost midnight.

77. Smallville?

78. You're Clark Kent?

79. You must be Oliver queen.

80. Yeah.

81. This is funny.

82. You know, the way Lois talked about you,

83. I thought you were gonna be a little bit more of a —

84. I could use some water.

85. Little more what?

86. Well...

87. Of a geek?

88. Well, you're not exactly

89. jumping the velvet ropes at nightclubs, so...

90. It's really nice to see that Lois has found someone

91. who can overlook her personality.

92. Oh, don't worry about it, Clark.

93. If I lived under the same roof with such a beautiful woman,

94. I probably would amass my feelings in sarcasm, too.

95. Feelings?

96. Feelings?

97. A little advice, Freud Jr., there —

98. stick with your day job.

99. The only reason I'm here is to get that necklace back.

100. Last thing I want is for my mom to be indebted to Lionel Luthor.

101. Yeah, well, I mean, she should have thought of that

102. before she accept his help with her fundraising.

103. Oh, and if you're really championing the cause

104. of pickpocketed billionaires,

105. you might want to add a few more to the list.

106. Lionel Luthor's not the only victim?

107. Over a dozen of Metropolis' who's whos

108. have been hit recently.

109. Good. Then there's some leads.

110. Not if all the victims were as uncooperative as Lionel Luthor.

111. You find it interesting that he never called the police?

112. Okay, if you boys are done marking your territory,

113. which, for clarification, is not me,

114. I have a front-page article

115. that's missing a few key details.

116. Good night, boys.

117. What was with that sprint up the last hill?

118. I always suspected you couldn't handle me.

119. Dr. groll.

120. Did we have a meeting?

121. No, I just need a few words with you...

122. In private.

123. You can say anything in front of miss lang.

124. It's about the device.

125. Please.

126. Where'd you get that?

127. I found it.

128. And I asked Dr. groll to figure out what it was.

129. Some kind of power source

130. beyond anything developed on earth.

131. If we could understand the technology,

132. it could potentially solve the planet's energy crisis.

133. For someone on the verge of saving the world,

134. your enthusiasm seems tempered.

135. There is one risk.

136. If it fell into the wrong hands...

137. It could be used as a weapon.

138. So, if it's so dangerous,

139. shouldn't you hand it in to the government?

140. Then he'd lose any chance at a nobel prize.

141. Isn't that right, Dr. groll?

142. What do you want me to do?

143. Every breakthrough has its challenges.

144. Keep working.

145. Very well.

146. Hey.

147. Let me guess.

148. You need help researching your next article.

149. Yeah, the inquisitor's search engine

150. consists of a highlighter and the yellow pages.

151. Does Mrs. Kent know

152. that you're still moonlighting on her?

153. Are you kidding me?

154. I've got this double-identity thing down.

155. And besides, I told her all about it this morning.

156. All right.

157. So what's the story worth bringing out the alter Lois?

158. Actually, you know, now that we're both in the same biz,

159. I probably shouldn't be leaking my story.

160. I can't believe you don't trust me.

161. It's not all of you I don't trust.

162. It's just one little side of you.

163. Lois, I'm not gonna scoop your story.

164. But watching you bumble through our database

165. is like watching Clark try and dance.

166. Come on. Lois, tell me what you got.

167. Okay.

168. I scooped this off the scumbag before he ran away.

169. There's some writing on the inside,

170. but it's too faded to make out.

171. Yeah, this could take a little while.

172. Well, I haven't seen you

173. since the world was falling down around us.

174. And I hear you have got yourself

175. a new landlord.

176. I assume that Lex told you we were together.

177. Mmm.

178. Mr. Luthor, if you called me here

179. to discuss my relationship with Lex —

180. oh, that would be wildly inappropriate, wouldn't it?

181. Unless, of course,

182. you consider that the last time you and I spoke,

183. we were discussing which one of us was going to kill Lex.

184. He wasn't himself.

185. But you were — completely yourself.

186. And unless I'm mistaken,

187. the discussion was due to the fact that Lex —

188. please, sit down —

189. was obsessed with a piece of alien technology

190. infinitely too dangerous for any of us to comprehend.

191. Does this sound familiar to you at all?

192. Mr. Luthor, this is all behind us now.

193. Ah, well, it's obvious that any trust you have for me

194. only works in times of crisis.

195. But we both know, miss lang,

196. that the crisis is far from over.

197. Lex salvaged that piece of technology.

198. Why do you think I moved into the mansion?

199. Please tell me.

200. Mr. Luthor, I care about Lex.

201. But part of being with him is protecting Lex from himself.

202. I'm not naive.

203. I know that comes with the territory.

204. Well, apparently Lex has finally found his equal.

205. But watching over him? That is not enough.

206. Miss lang...

207. Lex is using every resource available to him

208. to unlock the mystery of that pandora's box

209. that he somehow managed to get ahold of.

210. Once he opens it

211. and unleashes whatever is in it to the world...

212. well, we may not be lucky enough to close it this time.

213. What do you think we should do?

214. Destroy it.

215. "The green arrow bandit."

216. It doesn't really roll off the tongue.

217. This guys steals your boss's necklace,

218. gases you and your cousin, all in 24 hours?

219. I think he has a thing for you.

220. Well, when you're my editor,

221. I'll remember to care what you think.

222. You know that whole sugar-and-spice thing?

223. It never really took with you, did it?

224. Look.

225. Green arrow, green eggs and ham —

226. it doesn't really matter what I call this guy.

227. I'm gonna have his face

228. plastered all over the front page soon enough.

229. Well, unless I'm missing something,

230. without that ring, you're not nearly as close

231. to I.D.Ing this guy as you claim to be.

232. Yeah, that.

233. Well, I might have stretched the truth just a little.

234. Okay, well, it's a good thing

235. that the inquisitor doesn't pride itself on integrity.

236. Listen, I don't like the idea of you

237. dangling yourself out as bait

238. in front of this guy, you know?

239. Anyone after the green arrow's gonna come after you.

240. Anyone after the green arrow is a friend of mine,

241. and I will be sitting front and center with them

242. when they lock this guy up.

243. Wouldn't want you on my jury.

244. Meaning...

245. Well, you know, I thought we did away

246. with the "shoot first, ask questions later" mentality

247. with covered wagons.

248. Oh, come on.

249. Don't tell me you're some kind of bleeding-heart pacifist.

250. And that's worse than a knee-jerk fascist?

251. All right.

252. Forget about this guy for the weekend.

253. I can have you in Cancun in time for the sunset tonight,

254. sipping margaritas.

255. What do you say?

256. Mmm.

257. Well, as much as I would love to be your beach bimbo,

258. the only person I'm gonna be spending the weekend with

259. is into leather and has a perverted fetish for archery.

260. Why is that?

261. Oh, I understand. Thank you.

262. Clark. What a good surprise.

263. What brings you up here?

264. My mom was pretty shaken up after the party.

265. Oh, yeah, I know.

266. But in spite of the impromptu entertainment,

267. your mother made a terrific impression

268. on some very influential people.

269. She wasn't the only one.

270. Walk me to my car, will you?

271. Don't worry, Clark.

272. My security team is making a very thorough investigation.

273. Unlike the police.

274. Why wouldn't you report something that valuable

275. if it was stolen?

276. Well, I'd rather not let the entire city know

277. that I'm a sitting duck for some acrobatic archer.

278. It's not wise to advertise our vulnerabilities,

279. is it, Clark?

280. You're talking about some very expensive vulnerabilities.

281. Ooh, fabergé egg.

282. Bishop's miter, 14th century. This is big stuff.

283. Not the kind of stuff you find in your local pawn-shop window.

284. Here's something that might interest you,

285. unless you've noticed this already.

286. There's only one name on the safetex client list

287. that hasn't been hit already.

288. I don't want to be late. You find it, huh?

289. Who are you?

290. Haven't you read?

291. I'm the green arrow.

292. Well...

293. I hope you enjoyed your cult status while it lasted.

294. I think you're taking

295. the whole neighborhood-watch thing a bit too seriously.

296. That's fun.

297. Looks like I'm not the only one with a secret.

298. I hate to break it to you, tough guy,

299. but you're on the wrong side.

300. I'm not sure the police would agree.

301. Look around you, beav.

302. The days of the good guy running the show are over.

303. Ugh!

304. Evening.

305. Miss lang, what are you doing?

306. Lionel Luthor knows about the black box,

307. and he is willing to do anything

308. to get his hands on it.

309. And you think I'm working with him?

310. Not yet.

311. But trust me.

312. When he approaches you, and he will,

313. Lionel is going to make you an offer

314. that is hard to resist.

315. No matter what the bribe, you will come to us

316. before you breathe a word to Lionel Luthor.

317. With all due respect,

318. I work for Lex and not his girlfriend.

319. I'm not interested in your respect, Dr. groll.

320. I'm much more interested

321. in your 14 years of employment here,

322. your two girls that are now in prestigious prep schools,

323. that new home that you just built on sparling Lane.

324. You have a pretty wonderful life.

325. Are you threatening me?

326. Well, it just came to my attention

327. that if the government

328. or your colleagues were to find out

329. that you were secretly testing alien weapons,

330. this life that you have worked so hard for

331. may take an unfortunate turn.

332. So, how'd you let this guy slip through your fingers?

333. This green arrow bandit's got a lot of gadgets.

334. Gadgets? Against the man of steel?

335. He's good, all right?

336. Fine — backing off.

337. The green arrow bandit?

338. Is that really the name Lois came up with?

339. If you ask me, I'd lose the "bandit,"

340. but not my story.

341. You know, with your competitive streak,

342. I'm surprised you forfeited this one to Lois.

343. Ha! Competition? Lois?

344. I'm chalking this one up to pro Bono.

345. Yeah, right.

346. Okay, so idle hands aren't really my thing.

347. I got the safetex report on the arrows.

348. They're made from an advanced titanium alloy

349. that is untraceable.

350. What about the ring?

351. None of the shots I scanned on my computer came out

352. to have a clean image.

353. However, I may have forgotten to mention to Lois

354. that my computer is compiling them

355. to render a new one.

356. Look, you can tell the mail room

357. to stop forwarding these bogus claims.

358. Well, I highly doubt the green arrow

359. is going to out himself on a hello kitty notepad.

360. Yeah, thanks.

361. Ugh!

362. Lois, hey.

363. Aah! Chloe!

364. Aah!

365. Chloe, help!

366. Clark, she's in trouble.

367. Lois?

368. Looks like someone took her.

369. What are you talking about? Who would do that?

370. Isn't it obvious? The green arrow.

371. What makes you think

372. he'd have anything to do with this?

373. He's wanted all over town for armed robbery.

374. Lois is the one

375. who publicly threatened to unmask the guy.

376. I guess he doesn't live by a code of honor.

377. Because it's not the same as yours?

378. Maybe if you were as interested

379. in finding out about this guy as you were in catching him,

380. you wouldn't have realized that everything he's stolen so far

381. has been bought off the black market.

382. You're saying Lionel's necklace is —

383. yeah. That's exactly what I'm saying.

384. You've been on this hunt to return it to its original thief.

385. You think Lionel took her?

386. I think there are a lot of people out there

387. that would go to any length to catch the green arrow.

388. I got to go.

389. Chloe, it's too late. There's no sign of her.

390. Well, I might have something that will help —

391. the image from the ring finally rendered,

392. and I'm sending it to you right now.

393. It's a family crest.

394. The only problem is ye old crest-makers

395. weren't very creative.

396. There's thousands, and they're all practically identical.

397. It's gonna take me a little while to track this one down.

398. Chloe, I know what it is.

399. Clark?

400. Hello?

401. Hello?

402. Shut up!

403. You'll get your chance to talk soon enough.

404. How much do you know about the green arrow?

405. I should have known

406. he wouldn't have the stones to face me in person.

407. No!

408. Aah!

409. You know who he is!

410. Give me a name.

411. What did you see?

412. Who's the green arrow?

413. Bandit — green arrow bandit.

414. And like you don't know.

415. That errol Flynn wannabe put you guys up to this.

416. That's enough.

417. This bandit...

418. Has made a joke of the firm I've worked my life to build.

419. He's walked off with more than $30 million from my clients.

420. Then why am I the one with bruises on my knees right now?

421. Because you splashed my humiliation

422. across the front page of the paper,

423. and now you're going to help me rectify that.

424. I don't know who he is.

425. She doesn't know anything.

426. Kill her.

427. Ugh!

428. Aah!

429. I didn't know blackmail was one of your talents.

430. Lex, um, I know I went behind your back,

431. but I wanted to do this my way.

432. And if you're mad —

433. actually, I'm impressed.

434. I never had anyone try to protect me like that.

435. Lex, we have a serious problem —

436. your father.

437. He isn't gonna stop

438. until he gets that black box away from you.

439. Because he's afraid of what I'll do.

440. What about you?

441. Is there a part of you that wonders the same thing?

442. No.

443. I believe in you.

444. But, Lex, there is something

445. that I haven't been completely honest with you about.

446. I knew the box was a weapon.

447. If the box is that dangerous,

448. you want me to shut the project down, don't you?

449. No.

450. Lex, it might be the only thing

451. that will save us from them next time.

452. Are you okay?

453. No thanks to you.

454. I saved you.

455. Yeah — from goons who were trying to find you.

456. They're not the only one

457. with a "v" for vendetta on your little leather ass.

458. Little?

459. I've been really working the glutes lately, too.

460. Did the humor come with the costume?

461. Did the "tomb raider" routine

462. come from wanting daddy's attention?

463. Oops. Guess my aim's a little rusty.

464. Now...

465. let's take off those glasses

466. and unveil our prince of thieves, shall we?

467. Oliver queen, you owe me one.

468. That was you on the roof?

469. Why'd you let me get away?

470. I'm not sure Lois would understand

471. why her new boyfriend leads a double life.

472. Or why one of her best friends does the same thing?

473. I think we're even.

474. We'll be even when you return what you stole from Lionel.

475. Chloe, what's all the buzz?

476. Seven stolen artifacts were anonymously returned

477. to the met, the Tate, and the louvre.

478. Looks like you've got some friendly competition

479. in the knight-in-shining-armor arena.

480. The guy does a couple good things,

481. and he goes from villain to hero overnight?

482. Every time he strikes some corrupt tycoon,

483. an anonymous donation to some charity

484. mysteriously appears the next day.

485. You don't care how many laws are broken to get it there.

486. That's just the price of justice.

487. I mean, if you ask me, he's a modern-day Robin hood.

488. That doesn't mean I'm not dying to find out who he is, though.

489. Oh, hey, I never heard back from you

490. after I sent you the picture of that crest.

491. I kind of ran into a dead end.

492. That's funny. So did I.

493. All my files on the ring are gone...

494. including the backup files — Clark?

495. Just don't look into them, Chloe.

496. You know who he is, don't you?

497. As a favor to me, please don't.

498. And he knows who you are.

499. Well, I guess there's some sort of secret code of honor

500. among superheroes.

501. What do we have here?

502. Yeah, not bad for a rookie, huh?

503. That's really incredible.

504. You have every newspaper in the country

505. calling this guy the green arrow.

506. He's got a real following.

507. Yeah, well, so did Charles manson.

508. I know this is a rare moment for you,

509. but maybe you're overreacting.

510. It's not like this guy's a killer.

511. Ollie, he's a threat to Metropolis,

512. and I'm not gonna stop until I find out who he is.

513. Trust me.

514. You don't know the green arrow like I do.

515. Not that I'd ever question

516. your theatrical skills...

517. but you really had Lana convinced.

518. Thank you, dad.

519. Just following the script —

520. the script that you gave me, son.

521. But, you know, if you really want to have

522. an honest relationship with Lana,

523. you should stop testing her.

524. Oh.

525. Well, I had to be sure.

526. Another important lesson you taught me —

527. the greater the trust, the greater the betrayal.

528. All right, Lex.

529. What do I have to do

530. to prove to you that I want to be a part of your life?

531. Part of my life or part of the project?

532. I would never have told you about the box

533. if you hadn't already known.

534. But that's as close as you're ever gonna get to it.

535. All right. All right.

536. So what makes you think that I won't tell Lana lang

537. about the obstacle course you set up for her

538. if I'm so untrustworthy?

539. Because you've put so much effort

540. into fooling the kents that you're a good man,

541. you're starting to believe it yourself.

542. I didn't realize I was such a fascinating subject.

543. You've been reading up on me.

544. You and Lois ought to start a fan club.

545. You gonna tell her?

546. I don't know, Clark.

547. You seem to be doing a pretty good job

548. skating by with this farm-boy charade.

549. You can't be with someone

550. unless they know who you really are.

551. Trust me. I've tried.

552. You lost her to Lex.

553. Is that why you hate me, Clark?

554. 'Cause I'm just another silver-spoon-fed rich boy —

555. is that it?

556. Or is it because

557. I'm not willing to play the martyr like you?

558. You can play this game as long as you want.

559. But sooner or later, you're gonna hurt her.

560. You know that.

561. Well, you seem to have all the answers.

562. So I guess it's a good thing

563. I've decided to put this into safer hands.

564. For the record, Lionel bought that

565. off a notorious Bosnian warlord,

566. used it to launder luthercorp money.

567. So why give it to me?

568. Well, you seem to have a crystal-clear idea

569. of what's right and what's wrong.

570. You decide who it belongs to.

571. It's not as clear as it used to be.

572. You really think it's right to steal,

573. as long as it goes to a good cause?

574. That the end justifies the means?

575. Absolutely, yes.

576. I'll never feel that way.

577. You said you didn't owe me one.

578. So why are you really here?

579. Clark, you have abilities I couldn't even dream of.

580. And I admire that you use them

581. to save the people you're close to.

582. But?

583. But there's a whole world of people out there, Clark.

584. They need us.

585. With your potential...

586. you can't wait for them to come to you.

587. When you're ready to do something about that...

588. you let me know.

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