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Hurry!!
Do you not understand?
Krypton's core is collapsing.
We may only have a matter of weeks.
I warned you.
Harvesting the core was suicide.
It has accelerated..
The process of implosion.
Our energy reserves..
Were exhausted.
What would you have us do, El?
Look to the stars, like our ancestors did.
There are habitable worlds within reach.
We can begin by using the old outposts.
Are you seriously suggesting
that we evacuate the entire planet?
No. Everybody here is already dead.
Give me control of the Codex.
I will ensure the survival of our race.
There is still hope.
I have held that hope in my hands.
This council has been disbanded.
On whose authority?
Mine.
The rest of you will be tried
and punished accordingly.
What are you doing, Zod?
This is madness. What I should have done..
Years ago.
These lawmakers..
With their endless debates..
Have lead Krypton to ruin.
And if your forces prevail..
You'll be the leader of nothing.
Then join me.
Help me save our race. We'll start anew.
We'll sever..
The degenerative bloodlines
that led us to this state.
And who will decide
which bloodlines survive, Zod?
You?
Don't do this, El.
The last thing I want
is for us to be enemies.
You have abandoned the principles
that bound us together.
You've taken up the sword..
Against your own people.
I will honor the man you once were, Zod..
Not this monster you've become.
Take him away.
Sir? Is everything all right?
Out of the way.
I said..
Get me Lara.
Jor. Behind you.
Lara, you have to ready the launch.
I'll be with you as soon as I can.
H'Raka!!
Hyah!!
Can you see the Codex?
It's just beneath the central hub.
But I'm compelled to warn you.
Breaching the genesis chamber
is a Class B crime..
Nobody cares anymore, Kelex.
The world is about to come to an end.
JorEl, by the
authority of General Zod..
Surrender the Codex.
Unh!!
Ahhh!!
Easy, H'Raka.
Did you find a world?
We have.
Orbiting a main sequence yellow star..
..just as you said it would.
A young star.
His cells will drink its radiation.
It's a seemingly intelligent population.
He'll be an outcast.
A freak.
They'll kill him.
How?
He'll be a god to them.
What if the ship doesn't make it?
He'll die out there..
Alone.
I can't do it.
I thought I could, but..
Lara.
..now that he's here..
Krypton is doomed.
It's his only chance now.
It's our people's only hope.
What is it, Kelex?
Five attack ships
converging from the east.
Citadel's defenses
are being scanned and evaluated.
I'll upload the Codex.
No, wait.
Lara.
Just let me look at him.
We'll never get to see him walk.
Never hear him say our names.
But out there..
Amongst the stars..
He will live.
Goodbye, my son.
Our hopes and dreams travel with you.
Concentrate fire on the main doors.
Lady Lara.
The phantom drives are coming online.
Proceed to ignition.
General.
We have identified an engine ignition
within the citadel.
A launch.
Hold this platform, commander.
I know you stole the Codex, JorEl.
Surrender it..
And I'll let you live.
This is a second chance
for all of Krypton..
Not just the bloodlines
you deem worthy.
What have you done?
We've had a child, Zod.
A boy child.
Krypton's first natural
birth in centuries.
And he will be free.
Free to forge his own destiny.
Heresy.
Destroy it.
Ah!!
Lara..
Listen to me.
The Codex is Krypton's future.
Abort the launch.
No!!
Your son, Lara..
Where have you sent him?
His name..
Is Kal..
Son of El.
And he's beyond your reach.
Bring that ship down.
Target locked.
Lay down your weapons.
Your forces are surrounded.
General Zod..
For the crimes
of *** and high treason..
The Council has sentenced you
and your fellow insurgents..
To three hundred cycles
of somatic reconditioning.
Do you have any last words?
You won't kill us yourself!!
You wouldn't sully your hands!!
But you'll damn us..
To a black hole for eternity!!
JorEl was right.
You're a pack of fools,
every last one of you.
And you.
You believe your son is safe?
I will find him.
I will reclaim
what you have taken from us.
I will find him.
I will find him, Lara.
I will find him!!
Argh!!
Lady Lara, shouldn't
you find refuge?
There is no refuge, Kelor.
JorEl was right.
This is the end.
Make a better world than ours, Kal.
Watch it, dumb-***!!
Keep your eyes open
or you're gonna get squashed.
Where the hell did they find you,
greenhorn?
Let's get this trap in the air.
Gentlemen, secure the deck.
We just got a distress call
from a rig due west of us.
Secure the deck.
All civilian boats, stand clear.
The subsea valves failed
and the rig is about to explode.
Roger, Coast Guard.
What about the men left inside?
Forget them. They're dead.
Greenhorn..
Fetch me my binoculars.
Greenhorn.
This is the last of the oxygen. I don't
know how much longer we can hold out.
This is Coast Guard 6510.
We'll make one more pass then get out.
Wait, wait.
I got some guys on the helipad.
Right here!!
Come on, come on!!
Let's go!! Let's go!!
Let's go!!
Let's go!!
Get that last guy loaded.
We have got to go.
Hey, let's go. What are you doing?
Go!! Go!!
Argh!!
Argh!!
When Kansas
became a territory?
Clark.
Are you listening, Clark?
I asked if you could tell me who first..
Settled Kansas.
Are you all right, Clark?
Clark.
Clark.
Clark!!
Clark, come out of there.
Leave me alone.
Clark, I have called your mother.
Clark?
Ah!!
I'm here.
Clark, honey, it's Mom.
Will you open the door?
What's wrong with him?
He's such a freak.
Crybaby.
His parents won't even let him play
with other kids.
I know.
Sweetie.
How can I help you if you won't let me in?
The world's too big, Mom.
Then make it small.
Just, um..
Focus on my voice.
Pretend ifs an island..
Out in the ocean.
Can you see it?
I see it.
Then swim towards it, honey.
What's wrong with me, Mom?
Clark.
Clark.
Did you get everything I need?
Yep.
Hold it, hold it.
Hey, ***.
What do you think? You see the game?
Leave him alone, Pete.
What are you, his girlfriend?
I wanna hear what he has to say.
Come on..
*** splash.
My son was there.
He was in the bus.
He saw what Clark did.
I know he did.
I'm sure what he thought he saw was..
Was an act of God, Jonathan.
This was providence.
I think you're blowing
it out of proportion.
No, I'm not. Lana saw it too.
And the Fordham boy.
This isn't the first time..
Clark's done something like this.
I just wanted to help.
I know you did, but we talked about this.
Right?
Right? We talked about this. You have..
Clark, you have to keep this side
of yourself a secret.
What was I supposed to do?
Just let them die?
Maybe.
There's more at stake
here than just our
lives, Clark, or the lives
of those around us.
When the world..
When the world finds out what you can do
it's gonna change everything. Our..
Our beliefs, our notions of..
What it means to be human.
Everything.
You saw how Pete's mom reacted, right?
She was scared, Clark.
Why?
People are afraid
of what they don't understand.
Is she right?
Did God do this to me?
Tell me.
We found you in this.
We were sure the government
was gonna show up on our doorstep..
But no one ever came.
This was in that chamber with you.
I took it to a metallurgist..
At Kansas State.
He said whatever it was made from
didn't even..
Didn't even exist on the periodic table.
That's another way of saying..
That it's not from this world, Clark.
And neither are you.
You're the answer, son.
You're the answer to
"Are we alone in the universe?"
I don't wanna be.
And I don't blame you, son.
It'd be a huge burden for anyone to bear.
But you're not just anyone, Clark,
and I have to believe that you were..
That you were sent here for a reason.
All these changes that you're
going through, one day..
One day you're gonna think of them
as a blessing. When that day comes..
You have to make a choice.
A choice of whether to stand proud
in front of the human race or not.
Can't I just keep pretending I'm your son?
You are my son.
But somewhere out there you've..
You have another father too,
who gave you another name.
And he sent you here..
For a reason, Clark.
And even if it takes you the rest of
your life, you owe it to yourself..
To find out what that reason is.
Bound by wild desire
I fell into a ring of fire
Wait a second.
Aren't you here for the exercise?
No, there was a change in the plans.
Somebody found something
strange on Ellesmere.
Aircom's making runs out there all week.
That rat hole?
You gotta be kidding me.
I know. It's crazy.
The Americans are there too,
lots of them.
Anything else? They're
calling it an anomalous object.
Whatever that means.
Back off, Ludlow. I'm serious.
Oh, come on, Chrissy.
Knock it off.
Sit down.
Let me go.
Hey. Leave her alone, man.
Or what, tough guy?
Or I'm gonna have to ask you to leave.
I think I'll probably just leave
when I'm good and ready.
Ooh.
Oh, there he is.
It's not worth it, sweetie.
Hey, ***,
don't forget your tip.
Strike.
Thanks.
Hi.
Miss Lane. How you doing?
Good.
Jed Eubanks, Arctic Cargo.
How far to the station?
Camp's just over the rise.
I'll walk you over. Great.
Joe can take your bags. Joe.
Help her out.
Careful with those. They're heavy.
I gotta confess, Miss Lane..
I'm not a fan of the Daily Planet.
But those pieces you wrote when you were
embedded with the 1st Division were..
Well, they were pretty impressive.
Well, what can I say? I get writer's block
if I'm not wearing a flak jacket.
Miss Lane.
I'm Colonel Hardy, U.S. Northcom.
Dr. Emil Hamilton..
From DARPA.
You're early.
Hi.
We were expecting you tomorrow.
Which is why I showed up today.
Look, let's get one thing straight,
guys, okay?
The only reason I'm here
is because we're on Canadian soil..
And the appellate court overruled
your injunction to keep me away.
So if we're done measuring dicks..
Can you have your people
show me what you found?
NASA's EOS satellites..
Pinged the anomaly first.
The ice shelf plays hell
on the echo soundings.
But there's something there.
A submarine, maybe?
Soviet era?
Doubtful. That's 300 meters.
Considerably larger than anything
we know they built back then.
But herds the spooky pan.
The ice surrounding the object..
It's nearly twenty thousand years old.
Miss Lane?
Try not to wander.
Temperatures drop to minus 40
at night around here.
Wouldn't find your body till after spring.
And there you go.
What if I need to ***?
There's a bucket in the corner.
Where the hell are you going?
Hello?
It's all right, it's all right,
it's all right. It's all right.
You're hemorrhaging internally..
And if I don't cauterize this bleed..
How can..?
I can do things that other people can't.
Now hold my hand.
This is gonna hurt.
What Colonel Hardy
and his team surmised..
..was a Soviet era submarine..
..was actually something
much more exotic.
An isotope analysis of the surrounding
ice bores suggests that an object..
..had been trapped in the glacier
for over 18,000 years.
As for my rescuer?
He disappeared during
the object's departure..
A background check revealed
that his work history..
..and identity had been falsified.
The questions raised by my rescuer's..
..existence are frightening
to contemplate..
..but I also know what I saw.
"And I have arrived
at the inescapable conclusion.."
that the object and its occupant..
"..Did not originate on Earth."
I can't print this, Lois.
You might have hallucinated half of it.
What about the contractors
who corroborated..
My story? The Pentagon is
denying that there was a ship.
Of course they are. They're supposed to.
It's the Pentagon.
Perry, it's me we're talking about.
I'm a Pulitzer Prizewinning reporter.
Then act like it.
Print it or I walk.
You can't.
You're under contract.
I'm not running a story
about aliens walking among us.
Never gonna happen.
That's a Scotch, straightup, for the lady.
I'm sending you the article.
My editor won't print it,
but if it leaked online..
Got it.
But didn't you once describe my site..
As a creeping cancer of falsehoods?
I stand by my words, Woodburn,
but I want this story..
Out there.
Why?
Because I want my mystery man
to know I know the truth.
Recursive diagnostics complete..
Guiding presence authenticated.
All systems operational.
To see you standing there
having grown into an adult..
If only Lara could have witnessed this.
Who are you?
I am your father, Kal.
Or at least a shadow of him.
His consciousness.
My name was JorEl.
And Kal?
That's my name.
KalEl. It is.
I have so many questions.
Where do I come from?
Why did you send me here?
You came from Krypton.
A world with a much harsher environment
than Earth's.
Long ago..
In an era of expansion..
Our race spread out through the stars..
Seeking new worlds to settle upon.
This scout ship was
one of thousands launched into the void.
We built outposts on other planets..
Musing great machines to reshape
environments to our needs.
For 100,000 years,
our civilization flourished..
Accomplishing wonders.
What happened?
Artificial population control
was established.
The outposts on space exploration
were abandoned.
We exhausted our natural resources.
As a result,
our planet's core became unstable.
Eventually, our military leader..
General Zod, attempted a coup.
But by then it was too late.
Your mother and I foresaw
the coming calamity..
And we took certain steps
to ensure your survival.
This is a genesis chamber.
All Kryptonians were conceived
in chambers such as this.
Every child was designed to fulfill
a predetermined 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 of Earth
an ideal lo 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. Shhshhshh.
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 Woodburn's
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 Woodburn 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's 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.
This is a breaking news. An unidentified..
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
You are not alone.
It's coming in on the RSS feeds.
You are not alone.
It's on my phone too.
My name is General Zod.
I come from a world far from yours.
I have journeyed across
an ocean of stars to reach you.
For some time, your world
has sheltered one of my citizens.
I request that you return
this individual..
..to my custody.
For reasons unknown,
he has chosen to keep his existence..
..a secret from you.
He will have made efforts to blend in.
He will look like you.
But he is not one of you.
To those of you who may know..
..of his current location..
..the fate of your planet..
..rests in your hands.
To KalEl, I say this:
Surrender within 24 hours..
..or watch this world
suffer the consequences..
Ah!!
We hardly know anything
about him, isn't that right?
If he truly means us no harm..
..he'll turn himself in
and face the consequences.
And if he won't do that..
..then maybe we should.
The Daily Planet's Lois Lane knows
who this guy is. And I think she's..
..the one we should
be questioning.
Hold on. You're saying Lois Lane..
Hello?
Are you watching this crap?
Been running all morning.
For once I agree with Woodburn.
Have you seen him?