Perry White
Kent, I need a story to run with the page three sidebar. Get me everything you can on this terrorist group.
Clark Kent
Right! [stops] Uh, sorry. T... terrorists?
Perry White
Get your head out of the closet, Kent! Where've you been for the past twelve hours?
Clark Kent
Home.
Perry White
Well, don't you watch television?
Clark Kent
Well actually I don't enjoy television, Mister White, there's too much violence. I was just reading Dickens.
Jimmy Olsen
(races in)
Mr. Kent! A gang of terrorists seized the Eiffel Tower! In Paris!
Perry White
He knows where the Eiffel Tower is, Olsen! You do, don't you Kent?
Clark Kent
Yes, sir. Has anybody been hurt?
Jimmy Olsen
Well, so far the hostages are unharmed.
Clark Kent
The hostages?
Jimmy Olsen
Yeah! Tourists! About twenty of them!
Perry White
Yeah, but that's just petty-ante stuff. These guys claim that if the French government doesn't meet their demands, they've got a hydrogen bomb ready to level Paris.
Clark Kent
(genuinely surprised)
Well, geez Mr. White. That's t... terrible!
Perry White
That's why they call them "terrorists", Kent.
Lex Luthor
[Lex, walking through the Daily Planet, observes the destruction wrought by Non] [muttering]
Even with all this accumulated knowledge, when will these dummies learn to use a doorknob?
Lex Luthor
[He enters Perry White's office]
Hi! You should see the White House. They'll be cleaning it for months.
Lois Lane
Lex Luthor.
Jimmy Olsen
Wouldn't you know it!
General Zod
[holds Jimmy up by the scruff of his neck]
This is the son of Jor-El?
Jimmy Olsen
No, but I'll bet you're the son of a...
Lois Lane
[cuts him off]
JIMMY!
General Zod
You promised me the son of Jor-El.
Lex Luthor
Oh yes, Your Grace. But what I've given you is the next best thing. You just hold onto that little lady and he'll be along. You see, that have this relationship. She does all his public relations and he gives her every exclusive.
Lex Luthor
[Luthor snickers]
They're the best of friends. [snickers again] You know what I mean?
Ursa
What an undemanding male this Superman must be.
Lois Lane
Yeah, and you could use a tuck here and there yourself, sister.
. . .
General Zod
She lives for now. Kill the rest. [nods to Lex] Starting with him.
Lex Luthor
W— w— wait! W-wait! Wait! Don't you remember the White House? The- the Oval Room? We had a few laughs, right? Oh, it's Australia, Australia! It's too much, right, okay forget it. I can turn over a new leaf...a tree, a whole forest.
S Superman
[Superman arrives, floating just outside Perry White's office window.]
General? Would you care to step outside?
Lois Lane
Superman!
Lex Luthor
Superman! Thank God. [Zod looks sharply at Lex] I mean, get him!
General Zod
Come to me, son of Jor-El! Kneel before Zod!
Jimmy Olsen
Wouldn't you know it?
General Zod
[thinks Jimmy is Superman]
This is the son of Jor-El?
Jimmy Olsen
No, but I bet you're a son of a-
Lois Lane
Jimmy!
General Zod
[to Lex Luthor]
You promised me the son of Jor-El.
