Episode Quotes
Clark: It's my mess, Mom, I need to clean it up.
Martha: You're not responsible for what happened. Zod is.
Clark: Zod would not have been released if for once in my life I had listened to Jor-El... and done what he asked me to do.
Lois: Hey, you guys are not gonna believe what just happened to me. I'm out there jogging along, minding my own business, when out of nowhere a barn door comes falling from the clear, blue sky and almost crushes me. How does that happen?
Clark: Maybe it fell from an airplane...
Lois: Good guess but the only thing out there was a severely traumatised sparrow.
Lois: Uh oh, does Clarkie have the sniffles?
Lois: Where did your barn door go?! It was here late last night when I came to drop off the documents and now it's gone.
Clark: Look at that, it is gone!
Lois: And it's been ripped right off its hinges. Oh my God, that barn door, I knew it looked familiar! Now, how in the world does that happen?
Chloe: What happened? Is everything all right?
Clark: I sneezed.
Chloe: And?
Clark: And? Chloe that's not normal.
Chloe: Well, Clark, nothing with you is exactly normal but I wouldn't call sneezing today's headline.
Clark: I tried to warn you, I've come down with some sort of cold.
Chloe: And become a walking air cannon!
Clark: It almost hit Lois!
Chloe: Lois as in Lane?
Clark: Now she's on a one-woman crusade to find an explanation. You know her, she won't stop digging until she hits China!
Lex: Well, I forgot what a concerned parent you are. That's why you're having me followed, isn't it? To make sure I don't destroy the rest of the world?
Lionel: If I were having you followed, son... you would never know it, I can guarantee you that.
Lionel: (to Clark) He might remember it all. Whoever his captors are, if they put enough pressure on him, he could tell the truth... about you.
Lex: Powers? I don't know what you're talking about.
Orlando Block: Oh, come on, Lex! We both know you were the one at the Pentagon, swatting away those bullets like they were mosquitoes! And not even a scratch.
Lois: It was sunny and seventy five, there was nothing extreme about the weather.
Chloe: Well, you might not have felt it, I mean, it was probably in the upper atmosphere but there must have been some sort of change in the barometric pressures.
Lois: Okay, either you've been watching a little too much Weather Channel or your year at the Daily Planet has turned you into a hardened skeptic.
Chloe: It's called being realistic, Lois, you might wanna try it once in a while.
Lois: You're the one who always told me that science can explain only a fraction of what happens in this crazy town.
Chloe: And this happens to fall into that fraction.
Chloe: Lois, what are you doing here?
Lois: I wanted to personally hand deliver this article to your editor.
Chloe: An article? You're a journalist now?
Lois: That barn door could've chopped me in half, read it.
Chloe: Funny, I don't remember there being an 'E' in 'tornado'.
Lois: Just a little typo.
Chloe: Mmhmm, and the extra 'H' in 'weather'?
Lois: You know what I think? I think that you're just a little bit jealous that you're not the only one in the family with a natural way with words!
Orlando Block: Now, you obviously did something to yourself... what was it?
Lex: Do you really wanna know? A being from another dimension... actually, another planet, inhabited my body and gave me powers. It sounds ridiculous but it's true.
Oliver Queen: Lionel, I'm involved in a lot of business ventures as you know but I can assure you... kidnapping is not one of them.
Lionel: I know, I know, Oliver, you've suffered through a lot in your young life but if you have so much as laid a hand on Lex, the word 'suffer' will take on a whole new meaning to you.
Oliver Queen: Sounds like a threat.
Lionel: Have a pleasant stay in Metropolis, Oliver. However brief it is.
Chloe: When you escaped from the Kryptonian Land of the Lost, I bet you didn't think that you'd be rewarded by having to save Lex Luthor while battling a raging head cold, huh?
Clark: Not exactly the goodbye gift I was expecting, no.
Chloe: I guess heroes don't get sick days.
Chloe: Clark, if your sneeze can blow a barn door seven miles across Smallville, I bet you anything you can take that one out no problem.
Clark: Chloe, I just can't force it.
Chloe: Why not? You can do anything.
Clark: Except sneeze on command! It's a reflex, not a circus trick.
Chloe: Then blow.
Clark: That's not funny.
Chloe: I'm not kidding. Clark, with a sneeze like yours, that says a lot about your lung capacity. Now, just take a really deep breath and blow it out as hard as you can.
Clark: That's a steel door, it's not a birthday cake.
Chloe: (after Clark blows the door down) Good thing you didn't have garlic today.
Orlando Block: (to Lana) Now, in case this stuff really does turn you into some kinda super chick, just remember, there's a gun pointed at your boyfriend's head the whole time.
Lois: Look, I swear, you guys, when I was writing that article, I dunno, I-I don't think I've ever been happier in my life. The thrill of discovery, the clacking of keys, the scent of fresh ink... yeah, I think I've finally found my calling.
Lex: Lana, those are just security cameras to ensure the safety of everyone in this property.
Lana: I see. Was I breaching security when I was alone in my bedroom?
Lana: Lex, the cameras go or I do.
Cultural References
Chloe: (after Clark sneezes) Gesundheit!
Gesundheit is generally said after a person sneezes to wish them good health.
Lex: (to Lionel) I hate to disappoint you but whatever powers I had are long gone. So, if you're looking for an encore performance, you're outta luck! Elvis has left the building.
"Elvis has left the building," was a phrase typically used after an Elvis Presley concert to disperse any lingering fans hoping for an encore performance.
Lionel: I suggest you concentrate on remembering every little, minute detail of that horrific day!
Lex: Well, I guess I should've kept a blog... because I suffered a total memory loss!
A blog (short for weblog) typically takes the form of an online diary but it can also apply to websites in general with dated entries.
Clark: She made a phone call to someone named Robert Pontius.
Chloe: The highest paid Sam Spade in Metropolis?
Sam Spade was a private detective in the novel and 1931 movie, The Maltese Falcon.
Chloe: When you escaped from the Kryptonian Land of the Lost, I bet you didn't think that you'd be rewarded by having to save Lex Luthor while battling a raging head cold, huh?
Land of the Lost was a TV series about a family of three trapped in an alien world that was broadcast from 1974 to 1976.
Chloe: Huff, puff and blow this door down!
This is a reference to the Three Little Pigs fairytale where the Big Bad Wolf would utter the phrase: "Then I'll huff and I'll puff and I'll blow your house down."