Clark's mother: Pretend it's an island
Out in the ocean.
Can you see it?
Clark: I see it.
-Then swim towards it, honey.
-What's wrong with me, mom?
-People hate what they don't understand
If they see what you do, and you know who you are
You're not a killer, a threat.
I never wanted this world to have you.
Be their hero, Clark.
Be their monument, be their angel.
Be anything they need you to be.
Or be none of it.
You don't owe this world a thing.
You never did.
Father: When the world--
When the world finds out what you can do it's gonna change everything, our--
Our beliefs, our notions of--
Of what it means to be human, everything.
You saw how Pete's mom reacted, alright?
She was scared of Clark.
-Why?
-People are afraid of what they don't understand.
You just have to decide what kind of man you wanna grow up to be, Clark
Because,
Whoever that man is, good character or bad, he's,
He's going to change the world
We're talking about a being whose very existence
challenges our own sense of priority in the universe
You go back to Copernicus, where he restored the sun in the center of the known universe,
displacing Earth. And you get to Darwinian evolution
and you find out we're not special on this earth, we're just one among other life-forms.
And now we learn that we're not even special in the entire universe because there is
Superman
There he is.
An alien among us!
We're not alone.
-Are you, as the United States Senator, perfectly comfortable
saying to a grieving parent:
"Superman could have saved your child."
-You will give the people of the earth, an ideal to strive towards.
They will race behind you.
They will stumble
They will fall
But in time,
They will join you in the sun Kal.
In time, you will help them
accomplish wonders.
Clark: I don't wanna be.
Father: And I don't blame you, son.
It'd be a huge burden for anyone to bear,
But you're not just anyone, Clark,
and I have to believe that you are--
That you were sent here for a reason.
All these changes that you're going through, one day,
One day you're gonna think of them as a blessing,
and when that day comes,
You're gonna have to make a choice
A choice of whether to stand proud in front of the human race,
or not.
-We wanted you to learn what it meant to be human first.
So that one day, when the time was right,
You could be the bridge between two peoples.
Look.
-Lois
-You can save her, Kal.
You can save all of them.
(music quietens)
(background) ...she suffered a headache.
...Call 911
(police sirens)
Clark: All this time
I've been living my life the way my father saw
Righting wrongs for a ghost.
Thinking I'm better doing good.
Superman was never real.
Just the dream of a farmer from Kansas.
Ended on my world.
My world doesn't exist anymore.
Father: When I met your mother
She gave me faith that there's good in this world.
She was my world.
Clark: I love you
Lois: No
No Clark, you can't--
-This is my world.
-No Clark, don't--
-You, are my world.
-No
No.
Kal-El's Mother: He'll be an outcast.
A freak.
(baby crying)
They'll kill him.
Father: No.
He'll be a god to them.
-We knew that one day,
the whole world would see that.
I'm just, I'm worried they'll take you away from me.
(Clark laughs)
-I'm not going anywhere, mom.
(quiet music)
Clark: Can I just, keep pretending I'm your son?
-You are my son.
(quiet music)
I miss you, son.
-I miss you too, dad.
(quiet music)
(quiet music continues)
(loud theme music)