Kitty Kowalski Lex, your friends give me the creeps.
Prison is a creepy place, Kitty. One needs to make creepy friends in order to survive. Even a man with my vast talents is worth less inside than a carton of cigarettes and a sharp piece of metal in your pocket. [walks over to his bookshelves] Do you know the story of Prometheus? No, of course, you don't. Prometheus was the god who stole the power of fire from the other gods and gave control of it to mortals, in essence, he gave us technology, he gave us power.
Kitty Kowalski So, we're stealing fire? In the Arctic?
Actually, sort of. You see whoever controls technology controls the world. The Roman empire ruled the world because they built roads. The British Empire ruled the world because they built ships. America; the atom bomb. And so on and so forth. I just want what Prometheus wanted.
Kitty Kowalski Sounds great, Lex. But you're not a god.
Gods are selfish beings who fly around in little red capes and don't share their powers with mankind. No, I don't want to be a god, I just want to bring fire to the people. And I want my cut.
My son. You do not remember me. I am Jor-El. I am your father. By now I will have been dead for many thousands of your years.
Embedded in the crystals before you is the total accumulation of all literature and scientific fact of dozens of other worlds spanning the twenty-eight known galaxies.
Kitty Kowalski Can he see us?
There are many questions to be asked. Here, in this Fortress of Solitude, we will try to find the answers together. So, my son...Kal-El...speak.
Tell me everything. Starting with crystals.
What do you know about crystals?
They make great chandeliers.
This crystal may seem unremarkable, but so is the seed of a redwood tree. It's how our mutual friend in tights made his arctic getaway spot. Cute, but a little small for my tastes.
You're building an island?
You're not seeing the big picture here, Miss Lane. Let me enlarge it for you. [brings down another map] Not just an island. An entirely new continent. An extinct world, reborn, on our own.
[confused]
Land, Miss Lane. I mean- Kitty, what did my father used to say to me?
Kitty Kowalski You're losing your hair?
Kitty Kowalski Get out?
He said, "You can print money, manufacture diamonds and people are a dime a dozen, but people will always need land." It's the one thing we aren't making anymore.
[brings down another map]
Will be underwater. It's simple physics, Miss Lane. Two objects cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
And the rest of the world will just let you keep it? They'll...
They'll... what? I'll have advanced alien technology. Thousands of years beyond what anyone can throw at me. Bring it on!
But millions of people will die.
Billions! Once again the press underestimates me. Come on, let me hear you say it, just once, come on.
No! [laughing] Not that, no, the other thing. I know it's just dangling off the tip of your tongue, let me hear it just once, please?
[Lex shows Lois a piece of Kryptonite]
What is that?
I think you know exactly what this is. Mind over muscle, Miss Lane. Mind over... [noticing Jason's looking at the Kryptonite] Who is that boy's father?
T Thug
[Luthor is about to speak when his henchman calls through the radio]
Mr. Luthor, we're reaching the coordinates.
[looking at Lois]
Are you sure?
T Thug
[through the radio]
Yes, sir.
Kitty Kowalski [Lex Luthor and Kitty are stranded on an island in the middle of the ocean. Lex angrily throws a coconut into the ocean.]
Lex, we only had six of those!
Six? I would trade three hundred THOUSAND coconuts and every ounce of your blood, FOR A QUART OF GASOLINE! [points at their useless helicopter]
Kitty Kowalski But what would we have to eat?
[Lex looks hungrily at Kitty's dog]
