You have no idea how long...
...we've been searching for you.
I take it you're Zod?
General Zod.
-Our commander. -It's all right, Faora.
We can forgive Kal any lapses in decorum.
He's a stranger to our ways.
This should be cause...
...for celebration, not conflict.
Not conflict.
I...
...feel strange.
Weak.
What's happening to him?
He's rejecting our ship's atmospherics.
Clark.
You've spent a lifetime adapting to Earth's ecology...
...but never adapted to ours.
Help him.
I can't. Whatever's happening...
-...has to run its course. -Clark.
Help him.
Hello, Kal.
Or do you prefer Clark?
That's the name they gave you.
Isn't it?
I was Krypton's military leader...
...your father our foremost scientist.
The only thing we agreed on...
...was that Krypton was dying. In return for my efforts...
...to protect our civilization...
...and save our planet...
...I and my fellow officers were sentenced to the Phantom Zone.
And then the destruction of our world...
...freed us.
We were adrift, destined to float...
...amongst the ruins of our planet...
...until we starved.
How did you find your way to Earth?
We managed to retrofit the phantom projector into a hyperdrive.
Your father made a similar modification to the craft that brought you here.
And so the instrument of our damnation...
...became our salvation.
We sought out the old colonial outposts...
...looking for signs of life.
But all we found was death.
Cut off from Krypton, these outposts...
...withered and died long ago.
We salvaged what we could...
...armor, weapons...
...even a world engine.
For 33 years we prepared...
...until finally we detected a distress beacon...
...which you triggered...
...when you accessed the ancient scout ship.
You led us here, Kal.
Now it's within your power...
...to save what remains of your race.
On Krypton...
...the genetic template for every being yet to be born...
...is encoded in the registry of citizens.
Your father stole the registry's Codex...
...and stored it in the capsule that brought you here.
For what purpose?
So that Krypton can live again...
...on Earth.
Where is the Codex, Kal?
If Krypton lives again...
...what happens to Earth?
The foundation has to be built on something.
Even your father recognized that.
No, Zod.
I can't be a part of this.
Then what can you be a part of?
No!
Zod!
No!
Your father acquitted...
...himself with honor, Kal.
You killed him?
I did.
And not a day goes by where it doesn't haunt me.
But if I had to do it again, I would.
I have a duty to my people...
...and I will not allow anyone to prevent me from carrying it out.