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in chambers such as this.

Every child was designed to fulfill

a pare-determined role in our society...

...as a worker...

...a warrior, a leader and so on.

Your mother and I believed Krypton

lost something precious.

The element of choice, of chance.

What if a child dreamed

of becoming something...

mother than what society

had intended for him or her?

What if a child aspired

to something greater?

You were the embodiment

of that belief, Kal.

Krypton's first natural birth in centuries.

That's why we risked so much to save you.

Why didn't you come with me?

We couldn't, Kal.

No matter how much...

...we wanted to.

No matter how much we loved you.

Your mother, Lara, and I...

...were a product of the failures

of our world as much as Zod was...

...tied to its fate.

- So I'm alone.

-No.

You're as much a child of Earth now

as you are of Krypton.

You can embody the best of both worlds.

A dream your mother and I

dedicated our lives to preserve.

The people of Earth

are different from us, it's true.

But, ultimately,

I believe that's a good thing.

They won't necessarily

make the same mistakes we did.

Not if you guide them, Kal.

Not if you give them hope.

That's what this symbol means.

The symbol of the house of El

means hope.

Embodied within that hope

is the fundamental belief...

...in the potential of every person

to be a force for good.

That's what you can bring them.

Why am I so different from them?

Earth's sun is younger and brighter

than Krypton's was.

Your cells have drunken its radiation...

strengthening your muscles,

your skin, your senses.

Earth's gravity is weaker,

yet its atmosphere is more nourishing.

You've grown stronger here

than I ever could have imagined.

The only way to know how strong...

...is to keep testing your limits.

Unh!

Uh-- Oh.

Whoa!

You will give the people ofEart/v

an ideal to strive towards.

They'll race behind you.

They will stumble.

They will fall.

But in time...

...they will join you in the sun, Kal.

In time...

you will help them accomplish wonders.

How do you find someone who has

spent a lifetime covering his tracks?

You start with the urban legends...

- ...that have sprung up in his wake.

- That's Joe.

The friends of a friend...

- ...who have seen him.

- He worked here.

For some he was a guardian angel.

For others, a cipher...

...a ghost who never quite fit in.

Well, I was saying we were...

...coming towards the oil rig.

As you work your way back in time,

the stories form a pattern.

I'm looking for a Pete Ross.

Do you know him?

Yeah, he works at the IHOP.

If you go down the road...

Pete Ross?

I'd like to talk to you about an accident

when you were younger.

A school bus that went into the river.

Dusty. Shh-shh-shh.

Mrs. Kent?

I'm Lois Lane. I'm from the Daily Planet.

Quiet.

I'm from the Daily Planet

and I'd like to talk to you about your son.

I figured if I turned over enough stones

you'd eventually find me.

Where are you from?

What are you doing here?

Let me tell your story.

What if I don't want my story told?

It's going to come out eventually.

Somebody's going to get a photograph

or figure out where you live.

- Then I'll disappear again.

-The only way you could disappear...

...is to stop helping people altogether,

and I sense that's not an option for you.

My father believed that if the world

found out who I really was...

...they'd reject me...

...out of fear.

I'm tired of safe.

I just wanna do something useful

with my life.

So farming, feeding people.

That's not useful?

I didn't say that.

Our family's been farming

for five generations.

Your family, not mine.

I don't even know why I'm listening to you.

You're not my dad.

You're just some guy

who found me in a field.

Clark.

It's all right, Martha.

He's right. Clark has a point.

We're not your parents.

But we've been doing the best we can.

And we've been making this up

as we go along, so maybe...

Maybe our best

isn't good enough anymore.

Look, Dad--

Hold on.

Go for the overpass.

Go for the overpass!

Take cover! Take cover!

- Over there. Just follow them.

- Take cover.

She's stuck.

Hank's still in the car.

Hank's in the car.

- I'll get him, I'll get him.

- No, no.

Get your mom to the overpass.

Hank! Hank! Come!

Jonathan!

-Mom, ifs okay.

- Jonathan!

-Mom, stay here.

Dad!

I let my father die because I trusted him.

Because he was convinced

that I had to wait.

That the world was not ready.

What do you think?

You better watch out, Lois.

Hey, Perry's gunning for you.

He knows you're Woodburns anonymous

source and cannot wait to rip you a new one.

Oh, look at her. Ha, ha, ha.

I told you not to run with this,

and what do you do?

You let Wood burn just shotgun it

all over the Internet.

Now the publishers want me to sue you.

Well, if it makes a difference,

I'm dropping it.

Whoa, just like that?

Yep.

What happened to your leads?

They didn't pan out. The story is smoke.

Or it didn't get the traction you hoped?

Two weeks leave...

...no pay, that's your penance.

You try something like this again...

...you're done here.

-Fine.

Let's make it three weeks

since you're so willing to agree.

- Perry.

-No, no. Don't. Don't.

I believe you saw something, Lois.

But not for a moment do I believe

that your leads just went cold.

So whatever your reasons are

for dropping it...

...I think you're doing the right thing.

Why?

Can you imagine how people

on this planet would react...

...if they knew there was

someone like this out there?

Go get him.

Well, look at you.

A reporter came by here.

She's a friend. Don't worry.

Oh.

Mom.

- Heh, heh, heh.

-What'?

- I found them.

-Who?

My parents.

My People.

I know where I come from now.

Wow.

That's wonderful.

I'm so happy for you, Clark.

What?

- it's nothing.

When you were a baby I used to lay

by your crib at night...

...listening to you breathe.

It was hard for you.

You struggled.

And I worried all the time.

You worried the truth would come out.

No.

The truth about you is beautiful.

We saw that the moment

we laid eyes on you.

We knew that one day,

the whole world would see that.

I'm just...

I'm worried they'll take you away from me.

I'm not going anywhere, Mom.

I promise.

General Swanwick, sir.

What am I looking at, doc?

Comet? Asteroid?

Comets don't make

course corrections, general.

Wanted you to see this before some amateur

with a telescope creates a worldwide panic.

The ship appears to have...

...inserted itself into

a lunar synchronous orbit...

...though I have no idea why.

Have you tried...communicating with it?

Well, they haven't responded as of yet.

I'm just speculating, but I think

whoever? at the helm of that thing...

...is looking to make a dramatic entrance.

Anybody know where we keep the toner?

- What's going on?

-it's all over the news.

You gotta see this.

Clark.

Yeah?

Coming.

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