Superman & Lois (TV Series)

Pilot (2021)

Alex Garfin: Jordan Kent

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• Jonathan Kent : [about Jordan's powers]  It's probably like learning to drive a car, you know? If cars were indestructible and had giant death lasers as headlights.

  Jordan Kent : [leaving]  Yeah. Thanks.

  Lois Lane : Apologize to your brother.

  Jonathan Kent : I know. Too soon. I know.

• Sarah Cushing : I didn't think you guys would've remembered me from that summer.

  Jordan Kent : Of course we would. I mean, y... but you changed your everything.

  Jonathan Kent : What my brother's trying to say is that whatever you're doing is... it's totally working for you.

  Sarah Cushing : Well, we still get puberty in Smallville. Although cell service sucks, so.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, no, I've been trying to get on all morning. I think there's something wrong with the router.

  Jonathan Kent : Just probably needs to be reset.

  Jordan Kent : Jon, it's in the barn.

  Sarah Cushing : Ooh, mysterious. What's in the barn?

  Jordan Kent : Our dad doesn't like us in there. He says it's full of stuff that can kill us.

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah, when we were, like, eight.

  Sarah Cushing : Well, as a member of the FFA, I think I can keep you guys safe.

  Jonathan Kent : What's the FFA?

  Jordan Kent : I don't know.

• Clark Kent : [watching Jordan play "Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe"]  Wow, you, uh, you make a pretty good Superman.

  Jordan Kent : Superman's boring. I'm Raiden.

• Clark Kent : What would you guys think about staying here a little longer than any of us planned?

  Jordan Kent : Like a couple days or something?

  Lois Lane : More like permanently.

  Jonathan Kent : Uh, I mean, I... I have school. Practice, the... the team.

  Clark Kent : We know, we know. It's a big conversation.

  Lois Lane : Yeah, we'll have it tonight at family dinner. We just wanted to give you both some time to process what this would really be like before we do.

  Jonathan Kent : Okay.

  Clark Kent : Well, until then, you two, follow me out to the barn. I want to show you a few things.

  Jordan Kent : Like, Superman things?

  Clark Kent : Like how to attach a plow to a tractor.

  Jordan Kent : What?

  Jonathan Kent : Seriously?

  Lois Lane : Those fields aren't gonna plow themselves.

  Jonathan Kent : Okay, but, dad, we have questions. We just found out our dad's Superman.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, like, thousands and thousands of questions.

• Jordan Kent : Um, Jon, about the powers, uh...

  Jonathan Kent : It's all good.

  Jordan Kent : Huh?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah. Powers are overrated, anyways. Plus, this just, uh, confirms what I've known to be true all along.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah. My skills on the field are legit.

• Lois Lane : So you saved your brother.

  Jordan Kent : I wasn't sure what happened. That's why I didn't say anything. All I knew is, when I fell, I felt something come over me. It was a strength I've never had before. I felt... control. I... I don't know. It's hard to explain.

  Jonathan Kent : What's gonna happen to him?

  Clark Kent : I'm not sure yet. Jordan's powers are manifesting very differently than mine did.

  Lois Lane : But we're gonna help you get through this, okay?

• Jonathan Kent : Is that how you're going dressed today? Somebody got the "punch me in the face" memo.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, I should dress like you? Like some sort of human participation trophy?

  Jonathan Kent : No, but you could watch a, like, "HowToBasic" video on style.

• Jonathan Kent : Remember that girl from that summer we stayed here?

  Jordan Kent : Sarah Cushing?

  Jonathan Kent : Yeah. She's here.

  Jordan Kent : Really? Where?

  Jonathan Kent : 50 yards and approaching. If you hurry, you'll have time to go inside and change into... a completely different person.

• Lois Lane : You remember our boys, Jonathan and Jordan.

  Lana Lang Cushing : Hi.

  Jordan Kent : Hey.

  Kyle Cushing : These are our girls. The littlest one here is Sophie. And, uh, well, the one with the perma-scowl over there, that's Sarah.

  Sarah Cushing : Hi. I'm really sorry about your grandma. She was really special. Even my dad liked her, and he hates everybody, so.

  Kyle Cushing : House full of girls. Someone's always pissed at you.

• Jordan Kent : [Jonathan brings him a slice of pie]  What's that?

  Jonathan Kent : It's 1:00. Don't you need to take your pill with something?

  Jordan Kent : Who are you, mom?

  Jonathan Kent : Someone's gotta watch out for you.

• Jordan Kent : So that's why? Why you never wanted us in the barn? 'Cause you keep a freaking alien ship in there?

  Clark Kent : Look, I can explain.

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, can you? Can you explain how I fell 30 feet and nothing happened?

  Jonathan Kent : Just... just give him...

  Jordan Kent : All you said is that we got lucky.

  Jonathan Kent : Just give him a chance.

  Jordan Kent : But that was a lie, wasn't it?

  Clark Kent : Yes. Yes, okay? It was a lie. Look... that ship... brought me to Earth. Landed here in Smallville, right in those cornfields over there. I was sent here when my planet, Krypton, was destroyed.

  Jonathan Kent : Krypton?

  Clark Kent : Yes. And because I wasn't from here, I had certain powers. Your grandparents, they took me in. They raised me. They taught me how to control my abilities, how to blend in until the day I was ready to leave and become who I was sent here to be.

  Jonathan Kent : You're saying you're Superman?

  Jordan Kent : No, I've seen Superman before. We've seen him.

  [removing his glasses and giving them to Lois, Clark picks up their truck and lifts it into the sky] 

  Lois Lane : When your father first told me, I didn't understand, either.

• Jonathan Kent : [finding Clark's Kryptonian spaceship]  What is that thing?

  [Jordan reaches forward to touch it] 

  Jonathan Kent : What are you doing? Do not touch that!

  [the pod thrums as he touches it] 

  Jonathan Kent : Oh, my god. Did you see that? Did you see that? What the hell was that? No. No, no, no. What was that? Jordan, what was that? Jordan, what are you...

  [as Jordan touches it again, a circular aperture opens, and a crystal shard emerges] 

  Jonathan Kent : What the hell is that thing?

  Jordan Kent : Whatever it is... it's not from Kansas.

• Jonathan Kent : Found the router.

  [seeing it up in the barn rafters] 

  Jonathan Kent : What the hell was grandma thinking, putting it up there?

  Jordan Kent : [wanting to impress Sarah]  I got it.

• Sarah Cushing : [meeting at her bonfire party]  I still don't understand how you guys didn't get hurt.

  Jordan Kent : Still figuring that one out.

  Sarah Cushing : Well, I'm just glad that you made it.

  Jordan Kent : You promised me trouble.

  Sarah Cushing : Well, I will definitely do my best. I don't really know how you guys party in Metropolis, but here in Smallville, we do it a little different.

• Jordan Kent : You lied to protect his secret. All the things I've been feeling. You made me think I was crazy. They put me on pills!

  Lois Lane : Your mental health has nothing to do with who your...

  Jordan Kent : And how do you know that? I'm half human, half whatever the hell he is!

  Clark Kent : Do not yell at your mother, okay? This is not her fault. I'm the one that didn't want you to know.

  Jonathan Kent : Why?

  Clark Kent : Because I knew what kind of burden it would be if you both had powers. Or worse, if one of you had them and the other one didn't.

  Jordan Kent : You think he's the reason we survived yesterday.

  Jonathan Kent : What are you talking about?

  Jordan Kent : Go on, dad. Go tell Superboy here why he's really so perfect.

  Lois Lane : We thought your athletic talents could be latent abilities starting to emerge, and then yesterday...

  Clark Kent : The only way that both of you survived that accident is for at least one of you to be like me.

  Jordan Kent : You wouldn't have it any other way, would you, dad?

  Clark Kent : Jordan!

  Jordan Kent : Don't try to talk to me, all right? You may have been sent here to be some hero, but you sure as hell weren't sent here to be a father.

  Jonathan Kent : [seeing Clark wants to follow Jordan]  Just leave us alone.

• Sarah Cushing : Yeah, your dad's right. Pretty much everything here can kill you.

  Jonathan Kent : What's that thing?

  Sarah Cushing : Oh, that's a hay raker. I guess you guys don't see much of this in Metropolis.

  Jordan Kent : No, but our dad told us all these stories about growing up here.

  Sarah Cushing : Tell you it sucks?

  Jordan Kent : Actually, I think he kinda loved it.

  Jonathan Kent : Can't be that bad. I mean, it's more the people that make up a place, right?

  Sarah Cushing : Wow. Metropolis boys are really starting to lose their game.

  Jonathan Kent : Relax. I'm... I'm taken. I-I didn't mean it like that. I'm just saying... well, I-I guess I'm trying to say that we're only here for a few days, and I figure that we kinda need someone to show us around.

  Sarah Cushing : Mm. Okay. Uh, phone.

  [Jonathan takes his out] 

  Sarah Cushing : Oh, no, not you.

  [to Jordan] 

  Sarah Cushing : You.

• Jonathan Kent : Great, Engstrom just said that I might not be starting anymore 'cause I missed practice all week.

  Jordan Kent : Seriously? Football's what you're worried about right now? How are we fine, Jon?

  Jonathan Kent : Jordan, look, if you wanna fixate on something weird, maybe you should start thinking about how Sarah Cushing gave you her digits and not me. You texted her already, didn't you?

  Jordan Kent : I don't know.

  [Jonathan takes his phone] 

  Jordan Kent : Wha... I just wanted her to know we were okay, all right?

  Jonathan Kent : What is this? You-you sent a waving hand emoji?

  Jordan Kent : Okay, no, that is a Vulcan salute.

  Jonathan Kent : I gotta say, that's even worse. You're kind of a freak.

  Jordan Kent : You know what? Something a lot freakier than me happened to us in that barn. Something we're not being told about. And it's up to us to find out what that is.

  Jonathan Kent : Okay. Whatever, weirdo.

• Jonathan Kent : You really think dad's hiding something from us?

  Jordan Kent : We had all those poles land on us. Besides, how did he get them up off of us so fast, anyway?

  Jonathan Kent : I don't know. Adrenaline, maybe? Like a soccer mom lifting a car kind of thing.

  Jordan Kent : Dad can't put up a Christmas tree without falling off the ladder. And what's the thing he says every single time we come here?

  Jonathan Kent : "Don't put your finger in that"? I don't know.

  Jordan Kent : "Stay out of the barn," dumbass.

  Jonathan Kent : Jordan, what are we looking for, anyways?

  Jordan Kent : Something unusual. Something out of place.

  Jordan Kent : [Jordan feels the ground depress]  What?

  Jordan Kent : You hear that?

  Jonathan Kent : The poles just probably shifted the floor.

  Jordan Kent : [clearing straw away]  I think it's a door.

• Sarah Cushing : Up until I was... 11 or 12, I had a pretty awesome life. I mean, it wasn't perfect, but it was nice. Dolls and dance classes. But then something changed. People around here, they get this sadness, and they act like it's something you can catch like the flu, but... I never thought it was gonna hit my house 'til it did. Now half the nights, my dad sleeps on the couch, and my mom gets really mad at him for being checked out, but honestly, I can't blame him. He's a firefighter, and being a firefighter here, you see all the really bad stuff. I mean, stuff that no one really wants to talk about.

  Jordan Kent : Like what?

  Sarah Cushing : Like parents cooking meth and the whole house catching on fire with the kids inside. Anyways... about a year ago, I took a bunch of my mom's pills. I still don't understand why I did it. I've never done anything like that before, and my mom, she made a really big drama out of it. Lots of therapy and whatever. I know, for a... for a sad story, it's really basic.

  Jordan Kent : [putting his hand on her knee]  No. It's not.

  Sarah Cushing : [pushing him away as he kisses her]  What are you doing?

  Jordan Kent : What?

  Sean Smith : Hey!

  Sarah Cushing : [Sean kicks Jordan]  Sean!

  Sean Smith : That's my girlfriend!

  Sarah Cushing : Sean, what the hell is your problem?

  Sean Smith : What the hell are you doing with this guy?

  Sarah Cushing : [trying to calm him down]  It doesn't even matter. Relax! Relax.

  Jordan Kent : Girlfriend?

  Sarah Cushing : I would have gotten around to it, but you sorta kissed me first.

• Jordan Kent : Look, I should've never kissed you last night.

  Jonathan Kent : Wow. That is awkward.

  [leaving to give them privacy] 

  Jonathan Kent : Good luck.

  Sarah Cushing : It's not your fault. You didn't know about Sean, and I'm just really sorry about how it all went down. I just wanted to hang out with you. You were so sweet that summer that we met, and then, yeah, I saw you take that pill at the funeral... I just thought that if someone like you had issues, then someone like me wasn't so messed up.

  Jordan Kent : I think maybe it means we're both just a little messed up.

  Sarah Cushing : Yeah, maybe you're right. Do you think you can keep it a secret? Uh, one person finds out, and then everybody knows, and it's just...

  Jordan Kent : Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Your secret's safe with me.

• Sarah Cushing : [taking a cup of beer away from Jordan]  Maybe you shouldn't. Beer and benzos don't really mix well.

  Jordan Kent : How'd you know?

  Sarah Cushing : I saw you take one back at the funeral reception. But you're not the only one, you know, on something, so...

  Jordan Kent : You? For what?

  Sarah Cushing : Are we really gonna do this now? Go full "Euphoria" on each other?

  Jordan Kent : We don't have to. I... you're just kinda the only person I know around here.