Superman II

Alert, alert, alert!

You three criminals have been caught

in a further act of seditious treason.

General Zod, your only feeling

was contempt for our society.

Your only desire was to command.

Ursa, the only feeling you showed

was for your vicious general.

Your only wish, to rule at his side.

Non, you are as without thought

as you are without voice.

This council has no hesitation

in proclaiming you...

... all guilty!

Guilty!

You will lie down before me, Jor-El.

Both you and them one day, Jor-El.

Jor-El!

- Here, I'll just get the door for you.

- Yeah, thanks...

Sorry, after you.

- 'Morning, Phil.

- Excuse me, Kent.

Hi, Alice. That's a very pretty blouse

you're wearing today...

Catch you later, Clark.

Hello. I don't know. Okay...

- 'Morning, Louise.

- I'll check it.

Mr. White, how long should

the pressroom hold the front page?

Give it another 10 minutes. I'll tell him.

Thank you.

If we don't get anything new

in the next 10 minutes...

...go with the wire service copy under

the 40 point banner. Picture in 3 columns.

Kent, do a background story for the page

three sidebar on this terrorist group.

Right!

Sorry. Terrorists?

Get your heads out of the clouds.

Where have you been?

I was at home.

Don't you watch TV?

I don't enjoy TV, there's too much violence.

I was just reading Dickens.

Mr. Kent, a gang of terrorists

seized the Eiffel Tower in Paris.

He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olsen.

You do, don't you, Kent?

- Yes. Has anyone been hurt?

- So far the hostages are unharmed.

Hostages?

- Tourists, about 20 of them.

- That's just penny ante stuff.

If the French government

doesn't meet their demands...

...they've got a Hydrogen bomb

to level Paris.

Mr. White, that's terrible!

That's why they call them terrorists, Kent.

Get to the morgue. I want to know

everything there is on terrorism...

Does Lois know about this yet?

- Does she know about it? She's in it!

- She's what?

When the story broke,

I bundled her on the first Concorde.

If Paris might go kablooey,

I want my best reporter there.

But gee...

No offense. You're good,

but Lois Lane is better.

No, I meant,

isn't that a little bit dangerous, sir?

That goes with the territory, Kent.

Don't worry, if I know Lois Lane,

she'll not only come back...

...with a Pulitzer Prize story,

but a one-on-one interview...

...with the hydrogen bomb titled:

"What Makes Me Tick."

Now don't stand around, Kent...

Merci, Merci.

How did they get up there?

They were disguised as workers

to do repairs.

Can you say why they released

the first hostages?

We insist they do this to show good faith.

If not, we refuse to negotiate.

Will they release the other hostages?

In return for a guarantee

that we will not launch an attack on them.

There will no be attack?

No attempt to overpower the terrorists?

- We've made this guarantee.

- You'll honor it?

We have not the choice to refuse.

If we believe it's a real

hydrogen bomb they have.

Where is the bomb?

It's in a big oil can.

A hydrogen bomb? Are you sure?

How can we be sure? Today it's possible

to make a bomb if you have the equipment.

- This could blow up all of Paris.

- Oui.

The position of your government?

Will they meet the demands?

I am not authorized

to say what they will do.

At this moment there is an emergency

meeting in the Elyse Palace.

Non, ce n'est pas possible.

Excusez-moi? No. No comprende.

Moi, journaliste Americaine.

Non, non, c'est interdit!

Compltement interdit.

Attends. Wait.

- Voil. Qu'est-ce que c'est le mot pour...

- Qu'est-ce que vous voulez?

- Stairs. Stairs?

- Stairs...

S-T... S-T-A...

Mademoiselle!

We'll bring them down now.

Get in.

- Come on. Watch out for any tricks.

- Do we look like the sort...

I don't know what you look like.

You're being released, so shut up.

- Come on then, everybody out.

- Okay, we're ready.

This way.

Come on. Quick.

Look, you're being released. Get moving.

I'll take a last look around.

Okay, send them down.

Up we go.

Pulitzer Prize.

Capital P...

Should we have let the hostages go?

They'll give in to us

as soon as we plant the bomb.

It doesn't matter one way or the other.

Nobel Prize. Capital N...

...little o, little b...

...little e, little I.

Nobel. Nobel. Nobel, Nobel...

Prize!

Be careful.

It's me that controls the bomb,

not the bomb that controls me.

I hope you have

not many sins left to be forgiven.

Because if you let go of that,

you'll have only 60 seconds to list them.

You are right. Do you hear something?

It sounded like

someone moving underneath.

It's your nerves.

Where are they now?

They are near to the lift.

One is still inside with the bomb.

Ils sont prs de l'ascenseur. Y en a un

dedans avec la bombe. Il y en a un qui sort.

The third one has come out of the lift now.

The third one is out now.

The bomb is still in there?

Yes, we think so.

This is the boring bit.

Tell them to get ready.

Standby. Attention! Prparez-vous.

Get ready.

Come on.

We'll cut the lead cable

when we get the word.

Haven't they had time to find the bomb?

Of course not. They haven't.

We've been watching them all the time.

Vas-y! Go. Now!

- It started!

- Oh, my God.

I believe this is your floor.

Thank God.

How did I get myself into this?

- Are you all right?

- Yes.

- A bomb! There's a bomb up there!

- I know.

Fresh melons here! Nice fresh melons...

Hi, Lois.

Hi, Clark.

Clark!

- Have you ever heard of crosswalks?

- Yeah, but you know, I mean...

Do you have any idea how stupid that was?

Freak!

Clark, you were lucky that time.

You must more careful. To cross

the street you've got to look both ways.

Lois, usually I do.

Maybe you ought to

get your glasses checked.

Not everybody can have

"x-ray vision," you know.

Do I detect a note of jealousy in that voice?

Jealousy? No, not me.

Golly Lois, what are you doing?

When was the last time

you heard me sneeze?

You are never going to

hear me sneeze again!

I read this book,

and it says if you get 1,000 milligrams...

...of vitamin C every day,

you stay in perfect health.

Golly, 1,000?

That's certainly a lot of oranges, isn't it?

- There are pills, you know. I've seen them.

- Pills. That's the modern way to do things.

This is natural.

Besides, I get my exercise that way.

And Clark, you don't have to be jealous.

I don't?

No, you've got so much going for you.

I do?

Do you mind if I give you

a little constructive criticism?

- Actually, yes.

- Be more aggressive! You have to...

...go from the instinct. You see something,

you want it, you go for it!

That's what I do.

Yes, I've noticed.

- Perhaps I could help you there.

- Thanks, that would be great.

Let's see.

You put the orange in there.

That's very clever.

Clark...

...you know that I wouldn't say

all those things if I didn't really care.

You do?

What else are friends for?

"Friends"?

Here.

Here's to friendship.

This is how it ends for

the greatest criminal mind of our time.

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