Smallville, Season 10

Lex Luthor:
Hello, Clark. Can't say I love what you've done with the place.

Clark Kent:
Lex.

Lex Luthor:
You still say it the same way -- astonishment mixed with a hint of dread, yet... with a hopeful finish.

Clark Kent:
You're alive.

Lex Luthor:
Seems my father had a... a change of heart. And I got a second chance of life.

Clark Kent:
Where's Tess? What have you done with her?!

Lex Luthor:
She's fine. I wouldn't worry so much about my dear little sister. You know, I used to think it was our families who made us who we are. Then I hoped it was our friends. But if you look at history, the great men and women of the world have always been defined by their enemies.

Clark Kent:
You have a second chance. You can change all that.

Lex Luthor:
But that's the thing about memories -- you can't forget them. Like how you're always one step ahead of me, Clark. No matter how meticulously I prepared, no matter how strategic I was, if only I'd known I never stood a chance.

Clark Kent:
It wasn't a competition.

Lex Luthor:
Of course it wasn't. You were born to be the chosen one. You're simply better than us.

Clark Kent:
And that always killed you.

Lex Luthor:
No. No, what killed me is that you didn't even want it. You fought it -- you hid from it! I would have taken it and relished it, embraced it.

Clark Kent:
My destiny wasn't yours to take!

Lex Luthor:
I get that now. Which is why I finally embraced my own. You and I... we will both be great men. Because of each other, we have a destiny together, Clark... only on different sides.

Clark Kent:
I'll always be there to stop you. Always.

Lex Luthor:
Oh, I'm counting on it.