Man of Steel


 * [first lines; on the planet Krypton, Jor-El helps his wife Lara as she gives birth to their son, later Jor-El meets with the Kryptonian Council]
 * Jor-El: Do you not understand? Krypton’s core is collapsing, we may only have a matter of weeks. I warned you, harvesting the core was suicide. It has accelerated the process of implosion.
 * Lor-Em: Our energy reserves were exhausted. What would you have us do, El?
 * Jor-El: Look to the stars, like our ancestors did! There are inhabitable worlds within reach. We can begin by using the old outposts.
 * Ro-Zar: Are you seriously suggesting that we evacuate the entire planet?
 * Jor-El: No, everybody here is already dead. Give me control of the codex, I will ensure the survival of our race. There’s still hope. I have held that hope in my hands.
 * [he’s interrupted by noises from outside the chamber, Jor-El looks behind him and sees General Zod and his forces breaking into the council]
 * General Zod: This Council has been disbanded.
 * Ro-Zar: On whose authority?
 * General Zod: Mine.
 * [Zod points his weapon at Ro-Zar, shoots and kills her]
 * General Zod: The rest of you will be tried and punished accordingly.
 * [Jor-El walks toward Zod]
 * Jor-El: What are you doing, Zod? This is madness!
 * General Zod: What I should have done years ago. These lawmakers, with their endless debates, have led Krypton to ruin!
 * Jor-El: And if your forces prevail, you’ll be the leader of nothing!
 * General Zod: Then join me, help me save our ways. We’ll start anew, we’ll sever the degenerative bloodlines that led us to this state.
 * Jor-El: And who will decide which bloodline survives, Zod? You?
 * General Zod: Don’t do this, El. The last thing I want is for us to be enemies.
 * Jor-El: You have abandoned the principles that bound us together. You’ve taken up the sword against your own people. I’ll honor the man you once were, Zod. Not this monster you’ve become.
 * [Jor-El steps back, Zod turns to his army]
 * General Zod: Take him away.
 * [as Jor-El is being marched away by Zod’s men, Kelex, the service levitating robot, appears]
 * Kelex: Sir, is everything alright?
 * Tor-An: Out of the way!
 * [Jor-El nods his head slightly]
 * Tor-An: I said…
 * [Kelor uses a burst of light to give Jor-El his chance to strike at the two men holding him and manages to take them down and take their weapon; to Kelex]
 * Jor-El: Get me Lara.
 * [a metallic robotic version of Lara’s face appears on Kelex]
 * Lara Lor-Van: Jor, behind you!
 * [Jor-El turns and quickly shoots two of Zod’s men appearing behind him]
 * Jor-El: Lara, you have to ready the launch. I’ll be with you as soon as I can.
 * [outside, Jor-El sees chaos ensuing around the planet, he calls to winged creature, H’Raka, that lands before him, he hops on its back and it flies off, Kelex appears beside Jor-El]
 * Jor-El: Can you see the codex?
 * Kelex: It’s just beneath the central hub, sir. But I’m compelled to warn you, breaching the Genesis Chamber is a Class-B crime.
 * Jor-El: Nobody cares anymore, Kelex. The world is about to come to an end.
 * [Jor-El leaps down and swims to the central hub, where all Kryptonian babies are kept, and retrieves the codex, as he gets out of the water he’s confronted by Zod’s ships]
 * Voice from Ship: Jor-El, by the authority of General Zod, surrender the codex.
 * [the ship shoots at Jor-El, who misses it by jumping down and as he falls down H’Raka suddenly flies in and carries him off]
 * Jor-El: Easy, H’Raka.
 * [they finally reach the citadel where Lara is with the baby, Jor-El places the codex on the ship]