- Lex Luthor: [using a sonic weapon on Superboy] Kinda feels like an icepick in the eardrums, doesn't it? But then I guess you wouldn't know what an icepick in the eardrums feels like, now, do you? Well, it kinda feels like this!
- [laughs maniacally]
- Lex Luthor: You know, I asked myself, "How the devil does he turn off his super-hearing?" Then I thought, "Hey! Maybe he can't!" So, I whipped up this ultra-high frequency tone generator, and the beauty of it is us mere mortals can't even hear it. Just you and the dogs.
- [maniacal laughter]
- Lex Luthor: I bet the balance center in your inner ear is going south right about now.
- Superboy: Odessa!
- Dr. Odessa Vexman: Superboy, my old friend!
- Superboy: You and I were never friends.
- Dr. Odessa Vexman: Except when you needed something from me.
- Superboy: You helped me because it was the right thing to do.
- Dr. Odessa Vexman: I helped you because...
- Superboy: Because you wanted something from me.
- Dr. Odessa Vexman: Maybe, but now there's only one thing I want.
- Metallo: Hiya, pal! You and me got some history, too!
- [opens his Kryptonite heart chamber and laughs while Superboy is affected by the radiation]
- Matt Ritter: Odessa Vexman.
- Clark Kent: The police think she may have been involved with getting Luthor and Metallo out of prison.
- Matt Ritter: I know. I heard it on the news. Hell hath no fury... .
- Clark Kent: What does that mean?
- Matt Ritter: Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned? Oh, it means...
- Clark Kent: I know what the quote means. I was wondering, what does it have to do with this?
- Matt Ritter: You remember how Odessa was working for the guy who was gonna let that virus loose in the city a few years back?
- Clark Kent: Yeah, Superboy stopped him.
- Matt Ritter: But he wouldn't have been able to if Odessa hadn't switched sides to help him.
- Clark Kent: I know. She was acquitted of all charges. I always wondered why she did that.
- Matt Ritter: [chuckles] Clark, you are truly unbelievable!
- Clark Kent: Matt! You don't think that--?
- [Matt nods]
- Clark Kent: Superboy didn't lead her on. He didn't want her to think that...
- Matt Ritter: That doesn't matter. It's how she felt about him that's the problem.
- Clark Kent: But how could that be his fault? That doesn't make any sense.
- Matt Ritter: That sort of thing seldom does.
- Metallo: [Odessa Vexman has just formed an alliance with Lex Luthor and Metallo] Kinda like the Magnificent Seven, huh?
- Lex Luthor: More like Abbot and Costello Meet Frankenstein.