Man of Steel Page #4

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And there you go.

What if I need to tinkle?

There's a bucket in the corner.

Where the hell are you going?

Hello'?

It's all right, it's all right,

it's all right. It's all right.

You're hemorrhaging internally...

...and if I don't cauterize this bleed...

How can-l?

I can do things that other people can't.

Now hold my hand.

This is gonna hurt.

What Colonel Hardy

and his team surmised...

...was a Soviet-era submarine...

...was actually something

much more exotic.

An isotope analysis of the surrounding

ice bores suggests that an object...

...had been trapped in the glacier

for over 18, 000 years.

As for my rescuer?

He disappeared during

the object's departure.

A background check revealed

that his work history...

...and identity had been falsified.

The questions raised by my rescuer's...

"existence are frightening to contemplate...

...but I also know what I saw.

"And I have arrived

at the inescapable conclusion...

...that the object and its occupant...

...did not originate on Earth."

I can't print this, Lois.

You might have hallucinated half of it.

What about the contractors

who corroborated...

...my story?

-The Pentagon is denying that there was a ship.

Of course they are. They're supposed to.

It's the Pentagon.

Perry, it's me we're talking about.

- I'm a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter.

-Then act like it.

- Print it or I walk.

-You can't.

You're under contract.

I'm not running a story

about aliens walking among us.

Never gonna happen.

That's a Scotch, straight-up, for the lady.

I'm sending you the article.

My editor won't print it,

but if it leaked online...

Got it.

But didn't you once describe my site...

...as a creeping cancer of falsehoods?

I stand by my words, Woodburn,

but I want this story...

...out there.

-Why?

Because I want my mystery man

to know I know the truth.

Recursive diagnostics complete.

Guiding presence authenticated.

All systems operational.

To see you standing there

having grown into an adult...

If only Lara could have witnessed this.

Who are you?

I am your father, Kal.

Or at least a shadow of him.

His consciousness.

My name was Jor-El.

And Kal?

That's my name.

It is.

I have so many questions.

Where do I come from?

Why did you send me here?

You came from Krypton.

A world with a much harsher environment

than Earths.

Long ago...

...in an era of expansion...

...our race spread out through the stars...

...seeking new worlds to settle upon.

This scout ship was

one of thousands launched into the void.

We built outposts on other planets...

musing great machines to reshape

environments to our needs.

For 100,000 years,

our civilization ourished...

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