Smallville (TV Series)
Doomsday (2009)
Cassidy Freeman: Tess Mercer
Quotes
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Tess Mercer : Lois, where is the orb?
Lois Lane : What orb?
Tess Mercer : The alien technology from my vault.
Lois Lane : [sarcastically] Oh, that orb.
[Lois reaches for her keys on her desk, Tess kicks her in the arm]
Lois Lane : I guess asking for severance is out of the question.
Tess Mercer : I didn't want this.
Lois Lane : No... You just want to take over the world with some alien nation.
Tess Mercer : I am trying to *save* the world.
Lois Lane : What's wrong with Greenpeace?
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Tess Mercer : I kinda miss the maid costume.
Lois Lane : I've stopped cleaning up after you.
Tess Mercer : You could have fooled me. I expect from my reporters a little better reconnaissance, but then again, the bar's always been a little bit lower for you, hasn't it?
Lois Lane : Look, I know family loyalty means nothing to you, but I would do anything to find Chloe. And if that means you need to fire me, pull the trigger.
Tess Mercer : I plan to. But this actually has very little to do with Chloe. You saw it, didn't you?
Lois Lane : Seriously, you have a significant deficiency of pronoun modifiers going on.
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Tess Mercer : Tell me you have a lock on their location.
Security Guard George : We traced the radiation left on Bloome after he attacked Neutron, but we've got another problem.
Tess Mercer : What the hell?
[entering her office to see it ransacked and her safe open]
Tess Mercer : Oh, my god.
Security Guard George : We heard an explosion, then security cameras and power pulsed. We thought a transformer had blown outside.
Tess Mercer : [opening a briefcase] The orb. Someone stole the orb.
Security Guard George : No one could have broken in here without...
Tess Mercer : You just said that the system went down!
Security Guard George : Only for a few seconds. But Ms. Mercer, you should know that our security believes the door was blown off from the inside.
Tess Mercer : You have no idea how many lives are at stake. Find that orb.
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Tess Mercer : Lex knew that orb wasn't from this earth. It called to me. There's life inside that can't be released until the traveler kills the beast.
Regan Matthews : What you're unleashing... it could be the end of the world.