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Don't feel bad, Mr. Luthor. It almost worked. I mean California almost threw up right in the ocean. Millions of people almost killed. If it hadn't been for that guy Superman that overgrown boyscout...
I want my Liberace record back tonight.
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I mean they can't even trace that guy on that radar they got, every time they try he just flies off.
Where?
North.
Why?
To ski?
OTIS, your brain defies any known scientific laws in its infinite capacity to deteriorate. Every man has a vulnerable point. Some like you Otis, have more that one. I didn't see Superman's in time. But now through patience, invention and skill, my black box is just about ready.
Oh! That black box in our cell?
Shhhhhhh!
That little black box, Mr. Luthor, I mean what's it for?
That little black box goes beyond any known conventional radar, it tracks Alpha Waves.
Ahhhhhh Alpha Waves.
LEX +++$+++
as the keeper of the archives of Krypton, it falls to me to tell you of the darkest episode in our planets history.
Now This I want to hear.
For many eons the peoples of our world have lived together in harmony. Then there appeared among us three antisocial elements what on Earth are classified as "criminals."
My kind of people.
The three proved after exhaustive efforts incapable of rehabilitation. Now as you know, we had no death penalty
Sensible enough.
And so our scientists constructed, from an irreversible mathematical equation, the Phantom Zone. In it we imprisoned these three archvillains for all eternity.
No possibility for parole?
The Elders have, of course, thought long and hard about that question.
I asked the right question.
The one danger we have considered is that the Phantom Zone might we cannot predict just might be cracked by a nuclear explosion in space. I cannot say I am glad you asked me that
I didn't ask her anything . . .
You no longer can serve humanity if you invest your time and emotion in one of them at the expense of the rest. Surely this is not how you repay their gratitude, KalEl. Could you really abandon the weak and the needy merely to fulfill some selfish dream.
Selfish! But they get a chance at happiness. Can't I have that chance?
You have been given a higher form of happiness. The happiness you feel by serving others, by inspiring them to
Yes, but it's not all I feel.
Patience, KalEl. You begin to sound like an Earthling. SUPERMAN Mother, you speak only of honor, of sacrifice, of responsibility
Because that is your heritage. Those are the values we lived by on Krypton.
But you had more than that, and I know it. You and my father you had each other. Can I never have what you had?
And she the one you have chosen she feels as much for you?
Yes.
Mr. White, the pressroom wants to know how much longer to hold the front page.
Give it another ten minutes. If we don't Hell, I'll tell him. Pete? If we haven't got anything new in the next ten minutes just go with the wire service copy under the 40 pt. banner and run the picture for three columns. Kent, I need a background story for the page 3 sidebar. Give me every thing you know about this terrorist group.
A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower in Paris
He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olsen. You do, don't you, Kent?
I can't understand it! Where is he? I mean, he shows up every time a cat gets stuck in a tree, and now he decides to pull a disappearing act?
Maybe we just don' t know his game plan.
Game plan! It's fourth down and long yardage, the twominute warning sounded and the ball's deep in our territory! How brilliant do you have to be?!
Superman's got something up his sleeve, that's for sure. We just haven't figured it out. Isn't that right, Miss Lane?
Artemis? Do you read me?
What'd he say before? He saw a girl?
I think he said a "curl."
What's a curl?
Isn't that what the old Canaveral guys used to call a comet on an EastWest trajectory?
How the hell would I know? I was in high school back in those days.
Well done, Miss Teschmacher.
Why am I doing this? Why am I here?
Is this a philosophy seminar? No. This is getaway.
This way Lex.
It' s fantastic! This place is genius.
Genius! Lex.
I'll be alright.
No, me, me, me. Thank you.
It's beautiful.
It's beautiful.
It has everything.
Wrong.
Why didn't you go before we left?
That was two days ago. Frankly, I think this place is a bit boring. It's all white. Why doesn't the guy put up some posters? Maybe some bullfight things . . .
It's beautiful.
Lex...Lex, how could you do that to Otis?
What else is ballast for?
How would you like to take a little vacation? I mean you've earned it, you know? You deserve it.
There is some good in you, Lex, after all.
You'll have to pack quickly.
A bikini! I'll need to buy a new bikini, Lex. C'mon. After being cooped up in that prison, haven't you thought about me in a bikini . . ...once maybe ?
A parka.
You thought about me in a parka. That's sick, Lex. Really.
North!
Mush! Mush!
Look at this! Snow. Ice. Your idea of a good time.
A good time! Is that all you care about?!
I wouldn't know. I've never had one.
I like trees.
So does your average cocker spaniel. Give me another one. Under . . . the big one there.
You'll miss the battle of the century!
Good. My heart can't take it.
Your heart, Miss Teschmacher? I never knew you had one.
Get your head out of the clouds, Kent. Where you been the last twelve hours?
Uh...home...
Don't you watch television? Don't you listen to the radio?
Actually I was trying to catch up on my reading. There's a lot of Dickens I never got around to
Dickens! The whole world's about to blow up and you're reading Dickens?!
But . . ..that's terrible!
That's why they call 'em terrorists. Go down to the morgue and dig up anything you can find on past incidents of
Does Lois know about this yet?
Does she know about it? She's in it!
What??
The minute the story broke I bundled her on the first Concord out of here. If Paris goes kablooey I want the best reporter I've got right there in the middle of it.
Gee. But
No offense, Kent. You're good, but Lois is the best we've got.
No, I meant, it's awfully dangerous.
Lois, I usually do.
Then maybe you should get your glasses checked.