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You will travel far, my little Kal-El.
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But we will never leave you...
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...even in the face of our deaths.
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You will make my strength your own.
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You will see my life through your eyes...
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...as your life will be seen through mine.
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The son becomes the father,
and the father the son.
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In spite of your past...
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...I know you're a good man.
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And all good men...
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...deserve a second chance.
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From the moment
I received your first letter...
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...I knew you were not like the rest.
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You came from nothing...
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...and you worked so hard
to get where you are.
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You might have made a few mistakes.
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- Gertrude, for God's sake!
- Damn it, Gertrude, let us in now!
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You said that if I helped you
get out of prison...
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...you'd take care of me.
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And you have.
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You've shown me pleasures
that I've never known.
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That's why you deserve...
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...everything.
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I love you...
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...Lex Luthor.
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Gertrude, let us in. He's a crook1.
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He doesn't love you, Gertrude!
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He's a monster! Gertrude!
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- You can keep that.
- Oh, God.
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The rest is mine.
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We're done.
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Bye, Martha.
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Oh, Clark.
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Oh, my boy.
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Will you get that thing out of my face!
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Lex, your friends give me the creeps.
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Prison is a creepy place, Kitty.
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One needs to make creepy friends
in order to survive.
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Even a man with my vast talents
is worth less inside...
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...than a carton of cigarettes and
a sharp piece of metal in your pocket.
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Do you know the story of Prometheus?
No, of course you don't.
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Prometheus was a god who stole
the power of fire from the other gods...
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...and gave control of it to mortals.
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In essence, he gave us technology.
He gave us power.
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So we're stealing fire? In the Arctic.
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Actually, sort of. You see, whoever
controls technology controls the world.
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The Roman Empire ruled the world
because they built roads.
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The British Empire ruled the world
because they built ships.
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America, the atom bomb,
and so on and so forth2.
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I just want what Prometheus wanted.
