1 00:00:24,203 --> 00:00:26,112 Anyway, what was I saying? 2 00:00:27,287 --> 00:00:29,529 So you did bring me in here to work? 3 00:00:30,211 --> 00:00:31,522 Right - work. 4 00:00:31,641 --> 00:00:35,661 You need to stop blabbering to the world that I am writing the Lex Luthor exposé. 5 00:00:35,918 --> 00:00:37,919 It's the biggest story of the year. 6 00:00:38,302 --> 00:00:42,133 I- I just thought we agreed that our dating life would be off-the-record. 7 00:00:43,056 --> 00:00:45,027 We're hiding in a storage closet. 8 00:00:45,176 --> 00:00:47,039 What more do you want from me? 9 00:00:47,899 --> 00:00:51,845 It didn't cross your mind that inquiring minds might wonder why a... 10 00:00:52,538 --> 00:00:55,530 rooky basement dweller is writing this story? 11 00:00:56,647 --> 00:00:58,852 It has nothing to do with us. 12 00:01:01,237 --> 00:01:04,504 Well, if I'm gonna keep our - this a secret, 13 00:01:04,628 --> 00:01:07,697 I need to make sure that the only part of my body earning me stories... 14 00:01:07,732 --> 00:01:09,559 is my reporter's nose. 15 00:01:10,469 --> 00:01:12,102 I didn't give you the story. 16 00:01:12,420 --> 00:01:14,295 Lex requested you. 17 00:01:15,407 --> 00:01:16,758 What? 18 00:01:17,377 --> 00:01:20,418 Clark? Hi. It's your daily freak-out call. 19 00:01:20,434 --> 00:01:23,245 Seriously two weeks with no callback. What's going on? 20 00:01:23,476 --> 00:01:26,201 Lana said you guys smooth everything out before you went to the fortress, 21 00:01:26,236 --> 00:01:28,868 I'm getting tired of lying about you being in Minnesota. 22 00:01:29,119 --> 00:01:31,729 I can get really angry or really scared. 23 00:01:33,125 --> 00:01:34,455 Hey, was that Clark? 24 00:01:34,557 --> 00:01:37,093 He said he would fix our satellite dish two weeks ago. 25 00:01:37,128 --> 00:01:39,629 It still looks like Jack Frost puked all over the TV. 26 00:01:39,823 --> 00:01:42,015 He's still in Minnesota, spending the holidays with Kara. 27 00:01:42,741 --> 00:01:45,419 Well, when he returns from those 10,000 frozen lakes, 28 00:01:45,644 --> 00:01:47,831 I would rely like my "daily show" back. 29 00:01:49,196 --> 00:01:52,275 In the meantime, happy holidays. 30 00:01:52,664 --> 00:01:55,324 I had the printshop compile all my research on LuthorCorp, 31 00:01:55,348 --> 00:01:59,024 so there you go - 101 ways to make Lex Luthor squirm. 32 00:01:59,469 --> 00:02:02,434 Thanks, cuz. You're actually my first legitimate source. 33 00:02:03,656 --> 00:02:06,768 Thank me for convincing you to break it off with Grant. 34 00:02:06,920 --> 00:02:10,311 Now no one can say you didn't land this one fair and square. 35 00:02:25,430 --> 00:02:27,132 Did anyone lose their phone? 36 00:02:31,105 --> 00:02:32,175 Hello? 37 00:02:32,231 --> 00:02:34,215 You've been ignoring me. 38 00:02:34,441 --> 00:02:36,994 Uh, you got the wrong person here. It's not my phone. 39 00:02:37,375 --> 00:02:40,260 I know. But it's not easy getting your attention, Lane. 40 00:02:40,295 --> 00:02:42,531 You erased my e-mails. You tossed my letters. 41 00:02:43,799 --> 00:02:46,249 I'm trying to help you bring down Lex Luthor. 44 00:02:53,150 --> 00:02:55,379 See if this gets me to the top of the pile, Lane - 45 00:02:55,667 --> 00:02:57,569 There's a bomb on your cousin. 46 00:03:01,992 --> 00:03:03,580 If you try to get help, 47 00:03:03,658 --> 00:03:07,406 if you so much as whisper a single word to anyone, 48 00:03:07,755 --> 00:03:09,231 Chloe dies. 49 00:03:10,992 --> 00:03:13,162 Do I have your attention now? 50 00:04:29,996 --> 00:04:33,593 When I suggested a dinner meeting, I was hoping to consume calories, not burn them. 51 00:04:34,120 --> 00:04:37,805 Well, technically, I should be stringing popcorn at a suicide slum's nursing home, 52 00:04:37,870 --> 00:04:41,207 but then I wouldn't have the pleasure of beating you two bouts to one. 53 00:04:41,515 --> 00:04:44,995 In that case, I'm afraid you've traded one business event for another. 54 00:04:46,355 --> 00:04:48,970 I want you to ask someone else to write your exposé. 55 00:04:49,461 --> 00:04:54,278 Lois has a mysterious way of diving for a penny and coming up with the Holy Grail. 56 00:04:54,427 --> 00:04:57,927 Well, I appreciate your brotherly concern, but I don't have anything to hide. 57 00:04:57,962 --> 00:05:01,681 Well, that's certainly a cavalier approach to a murder accusation... 58 00:05:01,716 --> 00:05:03,145 and a public divorce. 59 00:05:04,885 --> 00:05:08,295 Lois knows what she wants, Lex. She'll get to you. 60 00:05:08,540 --> 00:05:10,669 Or, more importantly, get to you. 61 00:05:11,292 --> 00:05:13,656 You know, for someone who claims to have broken it off with her, 62 00:05:13,781 --> 00:05:16,550 you certainly sound concerned by what she uncovers. 63 00:05:16,701 --> 00:05:19,353 I'm not the one Lois has a vendetta against. 64 00:05:20,771 --> 00:05:22,889 I thought you would have learned by now. 65 00:05:24,823 --> 00:05:27,248 I always find a way to win in the end. 66 00:05:33,966 --> 00:05:35,613 Slow down, Adrian. 67 00:05:35,712 --> 00:05:37,872 I'm not exactly Mozart on the keyboard. 68 00:05:37,964 --> 00:05:42,184 I got everything up to you being an escaped clone from LuthorCorp. 69 00:05:42,240 --> 00:05:44,320 With a body aging on overdrive. 70 00:05:44,380 --> 00:05:46,180 I'll be dead any day now. 71 00:05:47,723 --> 00:05:50,618 Well, you'd think Lex Luthor would have kinks like that work out. 72 00:05:50,774 --> 00:05:53,391 I know. It sounds crazy, but you need to believe me. 73 00:05:54,383 --> 00:05:57,430 It doesn't matter what I believe. I am printing this to protect my cousin, 74 00:05:57,522 --> 00:05:59,405 and take it from a fellow Lex-hater... 75 00:05:59,497 --> 00:06:01,671 The Planet won't print anything without proof. 76 00:06:02,120 --> 00:06:03,742 Just write the story. 77 00:06:03,777 --> 00:06:07,103 In a couple of hours, every newspaper in the country will be begging for it. 78 00:06:12,317 --> 00:06:13,541 Come on. 79 00:06:14,616 --> 00:06:16,391 DELIVERY FAILED! 80 00:06:16,426 --> 00:06:17,711 What? 81 00:06:28,472 --> 00:06:31,819 You don't think I covered bases? Don't try anything cute. 82 00:07:09,868 --> 00:07:11,778 Are you nuts?! What are you doing?! 83 00:07:12,010 --> 00:07:13,784 I saw you staring at me. 84 00:07:13,810 --> 00:07:15,452 Yeah, so? You're a babe. 85 00:07:15,476 --> 00:07:17,726 Great. You're a terrorist and a pervert. 86 00:07:17,960 --> 00:07:19,649 Deactivate the bomb! 87 00:07:19,905 --> 00:07:21,955 Bomb? W-what bomb? 88 00:07:22,271 --> 00:07:24,163 Very funny. 89 00:07:28,948 --> 00:07:31,569 "Office America. How may I help you?" 90 00:07:32,913 --> 00:07:34,597 Oh, crap. 91 00:07:35,011 --> 00:07:36,755 What the hell's going on? 92 00:07:38,289 --> 00:07:40,846 I am so sorry. I thought you were someone else. 93 00:07:42,004 --> 00:07:43,976 You need some serious help, lady. 94 00:07:44,058 --> 00:07:45,717 I'm getting security. 95 00:07:47,238 --> 00:07:48,510 Great. 96 00:07:49,513 --> 00:07:51,586 Pull yourself together, Lois. 97 00:07:52,977 --> 00:07:55,213 Hey, man. I told you I was sorry. 98 00:08:14,928 --> 00:08:16,898 I told you to shut your mouth. 99 00:08:17,525 --> 00:08:20,811 Now, you're gonna walk out of there and finish this story like nothing happened. 100 00:08:20,866 --> 00:08:22,734 I'll clean up your mess. 101 00:08:23,179 --> 00:08:24,775 You killed him. 102 00:08:25,278 --> 00:08:27,259 And next time, it'll be Chloe. 103 00:08:41,072 --> 00:08:42,335 Lana. 104 00:08:45,017 --> 00:08:46,365 Clark. 105 00:08:47,119 --> 00:08:50,998 Oh, my god. You've had me so worried. 106 00:08:52,522 --> 00:08:54,986 Were you in your fortress this entire time? 107 00:08:55,021 --> 00:08:58,253 Time is so different there, I didn't realize how long I was gone for. 108 00:08:58,510 --> 00:09:00,007 Did you find Kara? 109 00:09:01,264 --> 00:09:03,065 There was nothing I could do. 110 00:09:04,064 --> 00:09:07,166 I think it's time I accept the fact that she's gone and move on. 111 00:09:09,228 --> 00:09:11,621 Kind of a tall order these days. 112 00:09:12,826 --> 00:09:16,521 Well, I'm back, and you're here. That's what matters now. 113 00:09:17,832 --> 00:09:19,538 Clark... 114 00:09:19,573 --> 00:09:21,424 as much as I have missed you, 115 00:09:22,424 --> 00:09:25,785 I think maybe being apart was good for us. 116 00:09:27,195 --> 00:09:31,187 I had some time to think, to evaluate my priorities. 117 00:09:34,191 --> 00:09:37,915 I'm dropping my fixation on Lex and all of his projects. 118 00:09:39,637 --> 00:09:42,118 I had some time to do some thinking myself. 119 00:09:43,549 --> 00:09:46,296 I may know a way for us to get back on the same page. 120 00:09:49,189 --> 00:09:51,738 I need you to show me everything you have on Lex. 121 00:09:52,586 --> 00:09:54,288 We'll get him together. 122 00:09:58,676 --> 00:10:01,552 This isn't exactly hot chocolate on the boardwalk. 123 00:10:01,610 --> 00:10:03,199 What are we doing here? 124 00:10:04,159 --> 00:10:06,167 Look what I drove you to do. 125 00:10:07,384 --> 00:10:09,644 If this is some attempt at a guilt trip, 126 00:10:10,372 --> 00:10:12,439 I haven't been watching Lex for weeks. 127 00:10:14,001 --> 00:10:16,166 Lana, it's time I face what I did to you. 128 00:10:16,920 --> 00:10:18,447 What you did? 129 00:10:19,022 --> 00:10:20,713 What I didn't do. 130 00:10:21,503 --> 00:10:23,753 Let you open up about how much Lex hurt you. 131 00:10:25,607 --> 00:10:28,966 I wanted to just move on, forget it ever happened, but you couldn't. 132 00:10:31,214 --> 00:10:33,669 You hid your feelings, and you hid your research. 133 00:10:33,984 --> 00:10:35,918 You must have known I felt responsible for everything... 134 00:10:35,953 --> 00:10:37,905 Lex did to you while you were with him. 135 00:10:38,220 --> 00:10:41,061 Everything he did to you while you were protecting me. 136 00:10:41,529 --> 00:10:43,819 Lex is the villain here, not you. 137 00:10:44,332 --> 00:10:46,313 I know. That's what I'm saying. 138 00:10:48,338 --> 00:10:51,156 Lex needs to be put behind bars, Lana. You were right. 139 00:10:53,795 --> 00:10:55,501 I think you hold the key. 140 00:11:07,973 --> 00:11:09,698 Scion? 141 00:11:11,283 --> 00:11:13,092 Or what's left of it. 142 00:11:22,027 --> 00:11:25,911 That vial, I must have destroyed it when I wrecked Lex's lab. 143 00:11:26,292 --> 00:11:30,500 Before you showed up, he was talking about some alien invasion. 144 00:11:31,892 --> 00:11:34,275 Do you think that this has something to do with it? 145 00:11:34,930 --> 00:11:37,965 Lana, if this is alien technology, you didn't destroy it. 146 00:11:43,309 --> 00:11:44,425 Lana, what is it? 147 00:11:44,507 --> 00:11:47,482 If you really want to partner with me on this, 148 00:11:47,852 --> 00:11:52,108 then I think it's time you see everything that I found on project scion. 149 00:12:12,769 --> 00:12:14,377 Any outgoing? 150 00:12:15,127 --> 00:12:16,967 Yeah. Right here. 151 00:12:38,276 --> 00:12:39,915 Come on, lady. 152 00:12:44,212 --> 00:12:45,877 Oh. Thanks. 153 00:12:50,950 --> 00:12:54,362 Hey! So, good news. Clark is back from the twin city, 154 00:12:54,497 --> 00:12:57,873 so I'm just gonna drop off my rewrite then head over and, uh, say hello. 155 00:13:04,664 --> 00:13:05,884 Great. Cool. 156 00:13:08,395 --> 00:13:09,665 So, I'll, uh... 157 00:13:10,257 --> 00:13:12,130 send him your warmest? 158 00:13:13,833 --> 00:13:16,033 I'm sorry. I'm just busy prepping the interview. 159 00:13:17,355 --> 00:13:18,755 You sure everything's all right? 160 00:13:18,944 --> 00:13:21,191 Yeah. Just peachy. See you later. 161 00:13:31,019 --> 00:13:34,083 If we're taking Lex head-on, there's no point in sugarcoating it... 162 00:13:34,209 --> 00:13:36,456 I think scion might be more live than we thought. 163 00:13:36,544 --> 00:13:38,145 I take it Lex doesn't know you found it. 164 00:13:38,236 --> 00:13:40,543 Not so much an "it" as a "her. " 165 00:13:43,682 --> 00:13:45,046 While you were gone, 166 00:13:45,081 --> 00:13:48,992 Casey Brock, a LuthorCorp lab tech working on scion, was found... 167 00:13:48,999 --> 00:13:51,073 half-conscious in an alley. 168 00:13:51,193 --> 00:13:55,440 She was exhibiting random, incoherent speech patterns and was suffering from... 169 00:13:55,638 --> 00:13:57,905 toxic levels of metal poisoning. 170 00:13:57,940 --> 00:13:59,418 So you had her quarantined. 171 00:13:59,517 --> 00:14:00,954 What other choice did I have? 172 00:14:00,989 --> 00:14:02,878 When I heard about Casey's strange symptoms, 173 00:14:02,954 --> 00:14:07,223 I had my contacts at the Isis foundation have her transferred down here. 174 00:14:07,277 --> 00:14:08,574 So, this... 175 00:14:08,728 --> 00:14:10,363 this isn't exactly official. 176 00:14:10,398 --> 00:14:13,907 It is extreme, but if she had something to do with scion, 177 00:14:13,914 --> 00:14:17,809 then I couldn't have the other patients exposed to whatever was in her bloodstream. 178 00:14:18,002 --> 00:14:19,505 What do you mean "was"? 179 00:14:20,744 --> 00:14:24,852 Overnight, the metal content in her body dropped dramatically. 180 00:14:25,345 --> 00:14:29,717 My team could find hardly any trace of zinc, magnesium, or iron. 181 00:14:30,853 --> 00:14:34,134 So whatever it was siphoned her body's natural minerals and moved on. 182 00:14:40,515 --> 00:14:42,574 She's been doing that since she was admitted. 183 00:14:43,617 --> 00:14:45,586 No one understands what she's saying. 184 00:14:51,545 --> 00:14:53,035 I'm not surprised. 185 00:14:55,631 --> 00:14:57,579 She's speaking Kryptonian. 186 00:15:13,270 --> 00:15:14,490 Jimmy. 187 00:15:15,954 --> 00:15:18,293 You know, I'll just, uh, grab the next one. 188 00:15:18,580 --> 00:15:20,832 Don't be ridiculous. There's plenty of room. 189 00:15:21,873 --> 00:15:25,731 Yeah, uh... you know, the thing is is that I'm - I'm going the other way. 190 00:15:26,296 --> 00:15:29,761 We're in the basement. Travel options are kind of limited. 191 00:15:31,993 --> 00:15:33,201 Right. 192 00:15:53,975 --> 00:15:56,176 - You going to the Christmas party later? - Nah. 193 00:15:56,471 --> 00:15:59,381 I think I'm gonna pull my Scrooge card on this one and stay home. 194 00:15:59,699 --> 00:16:03,059 I heard Susan from H. R. is bringing mistletoe tonight. 195 00:16:03,856 --> 00:16:05,875 I know. I'm all about the amusement factor. 196 00:16:07,635 --> 00:16:11,873 If I remember correctly, there was mistletoe last year. It... didn't seem to stop you. 197 00:16:13,314 --> 00:16:16,728 Yeah, well, that was different. I mean, I already had my sights set on... 198 00:16:19,334 --> 00:16:20,740 ...you. 199 00:16:28,549 --> 00:16:30,182 Oh, my god. 200 00:16:46,142 --> 00:16:47,679 We're stuck. 201 00:16:49,998 --> 00:16:51,554 With a bomb. 202 00:17:17,884 --> 00:17:20,126 I got to say - much cuter in person. 203 00:17:21,361 --> 00:17:22,845 Adrian. 204 00:17:23,415 --> 00:17:25,365 Draw attention to yourself, 205 00:17:25,391 --> 00:17:27,725 and I'll decorate that elevator with your cousin. 206 00:17:30,771 --> 00:17:32,187 Where's my story? 207 00:17:40,383 --> 00:17:42,225 Now, I haven't exactly read "C-4 for dummies,"... 208 00:17:42,234 --> 00:17:45,847 but I'm guessing that if we' babysitting a bomb, it'd be somewhere in this pile. 209 00:17:49,416 --> 00:17:52,319 - This is, uh... - Not supposed to be in there. 210 00:18:00,922 --> 00:18:03,909 Jimmy, I seriously doubt my secret Santa planted a b... 211 00:18:08,638 --> 00:18:09,981 Oh, wow. 212 00:18:10,351 --> 00:18:12,408 I have the worst secret Santa ever. 213 00:18:19,529 --> 00:18:21,086 It's all in there. 214 00:18:22,082 --> 00:18:24,529 "LuthorCorp's first functioning clone." 215 00:18:27,233 --> 00:18:30,074 Something tells me you wouldn't go this far if it weren't the truth. 216 00:18:36,973 --> 00:18:39,309 My body won't hold out much longer. 217 00:18:40,136 --> 00:18:41,950 I'll be dead by Christmas. 218 00:18:45,541 --> 00:18:47,482 Celebrate Christmas, Lane? 219 00:18:48,327 --> 00:18:49,447 Yeah. 220 00:18:51,384 --> 00:18:54,221 We used to send out the Christmas portrait every year. 221 00:18:56,159 --> 00:18:57,899 Me in an ugly sweater, 222 00:18:57,934 --> 00:19:01,781 mom with her fake smile, and dad... 223 00:19:02,946 --> 00:19:04,851 missing his football game. 224 00:19:07,178 --> 00:19:10,667 Then you must know how it feels when one of them is in danger. 225 00:19:18,123 --> 00:19:19,422 You'd think. 226 00:19:23,822 --> 00:19:26,258 After I escaped from LuthorCorp, I went looking for them - 227 00:19:26,288 --> 00:19:28,868 My parents, my Christmas memories... 228 00:19:30,448 --> 00:19:33,896 it's all a fiction some scientist downloaded into my brain. 229 00:19:35,644 --> 00:19:37,715 Yet, I remember them like they're real. 230 00:19:40,842 --> 00:19:43,414 And come tomorrow morning's early edition, 231 00:19:43,823 --> 00:19:45,402 the world will now what Lex did to you. 232 00:19:45,464 --> 00:19:47,238 Now, please, let my cousin go. 233 00:19:48,347 --> 00:19:50,894 The deal was - I write the story, you give me Chloe. 234 00:19:51,193 --> 00:19:52,636 Not quite. 235 00:19:53,437 --> 00:19:55,853 You need to force Lex to confess what he's done. 236 00:19:58,729 --> 00:20:01,508 Don't make me remind you what's at stake. 237 00:20:13,287 --> 00:20:18,185 If you can hear me, we're in the center elevator at the Daily Planet with a bomb. 238 00:20:18,536 --> 00:20:20,562 Hurry, please, Clark. 239 00:20:20,886 --> 00:20:22,413 Clark! 240 00:20:23,413 --> 00:20:25,113 I'm sorry. I'm sorry. 241 00:20:25,201 --> 00:20:27,225 You waste your one phone call on Clark? 242 00:20:27,442 --> 00:20:29,455 I didn't realize we had so few flares. 243 00:20:29,574 --> 00:20:31,734 Regardless, you called Clark before you dialed 911. 244 00:20:31,879 --> 00:20:34,746 I mean, what's he gonna do, dismantle the bomb with his great hair? 245 00:20:35,851 --> 00:20:37,570 Lois snuck me a note, 246 00:20:37,695 --> 00:20:40,513 which mean at she's under surveillance by whoever's orchestrating this. 247 00:20:40,548 --> 00:20:44,325 Now, how would it look if a swat parade trampled through the bull pen? 248 00:20:53,207 --> 00:20:54,843 Smile at the nice people. 249 00:20:58,839 --> 00:21:01,045 See? No one suspects a thing. 250 00:21:03,802 --> 00:21:05,273 You have your bag? 251 00:21:08,237 --> 00:21:10,185 My finger is on the detonator. 252 00:21:11,063 --> 00:21:14,420 No confession, your cousin dies. Try to warn them, your cousin dies. 253 00:21:16,575 --> 00:21:18,293 Let's go see the boss. 254 00:21:20,451 --> 00:21:23,355 Everything Casey's been rambling turns out to be hex code. 255 00:21:23,390 --> 00:21:25,600 Like a pattern of Kryptonian zeroes and ones. 256 00:21:25,724 --> 00:21:26,606 Right. 257 00:21:26,688 --> 00:21:28,713 Chloe once used a computer program to find a pattern... 258 00:21:28,814 --> 00:21:30,939 in Kryptonian symbols that Lionel was scribbling. 259 00:21:31,058 --> 00:21:32,962 Maybe she can translate this one. 260 00:21:34,055 --> 00:21:35,857 Not if she's not here. 261 00:21:43,562 --> 00:21:46,332 Here she is, right on time. 262 00:21:48,597 --> 00:21:50,614 Mr. Luthor, you know Lois Lane. 263 00:21:51,572 --> 00:21:53,788 Well, it certainly has been a while, hasn't it? 264 00:21:54,241 --> 00:21:57,357 I haven't seen Ms. Lane since I caught her breaking into my office. 265 00:22:00,319 --> 00:22:01,769 Yeah, a long time. 266 00:22:02,436 --> 00:22:03,628 Shall we? 267 00:22:03,812 --> 00:22:05,081 Please. 268 00:22:06,015 --> 00:22:08,436 Uh, big story. Exciting 269 00:22:08,649 --> 00:22:11,115 Uh, Lois, maybe you should just ask your questions. 270 00:22:11,764 --> 00:22:13,353 Right - questions. 271 00:22:13,529 --> 00:22:15,542 Ask him about project Gemini. 272 00:22:17,004 --> 00:22:18,273 Mr. Luthor... 273 00:22:18,439 --> 00:22:21,393 perhaps we could start by discussing project Gemini. 274 00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:24,721 Excuse me? 275 00:22:24,861 --> 00:22:27,302 My sources tell me you run some kind of an ant farm, 276 00:22:27,394 --> 00:22:31,286 except instead of ants, it's humans and instead of a farm, it's a lab. 277 00:22:31,409 --> 00:22:33,439 - Lois! - Not that you're renowned for your... 278 00:22:33,559 --> 00:22:38,351 eloquence, Lois, but... I have no idea of what you're talking about. 279 00:22:39,078 --> 00:22:40,438 Human cloning - 280 00:22:40,453 --> 00:22:42,774 The replication of a DNA sequence... 281 00:22:43,079 --> 00:22:45,703 produced from a single identical ancestor. 282 00:22:47,515 --> 00:22:48,747 My mistake. 283 00:22:48,947 --> 00:22:51,511 I didn't realize you'd be pitching me a Hollywood movie. 284 00:22:52,028 --> 00:22:54,441 Is this how you run your paper, Mr. Gabriel? 285 00:22:55,704 --> 00:22:57,620 Tell him who's talking to. 286 00:22:58,128 --> 00:23:00,005 Adrian sends his best. 287 00:23:03,518 --> 00:23:05,404 Should that name mean something? 288 00:23:05,687 --> 00:23:07,746 Now reach in your briefcase. 289 00:23:11,885 --> 00:23:13,414 Oh, my god! 290 00:23:18,452 --> 00:23:21,162 Aim it at Grant and get the truth. 291 00:23:21,272 --> 00:23:23,188 It's time for the truth, Lex. 292 00:23:26,927 --> 00:23:28,355 Lie again... 293 00:23:31,946 --> 00:23:33,815 Grant Gabriel dies. 294 00:23:33,967 --> 00:23:35,579 Lois, put down the gun. 295 00:23:35,898 --> 00:23:37,170 Just answer the question. 296 00:23:37,332 --> 00:23:39,256 Lane, what the hell are you doing?! 297 00:23:39,291 --> 00:23:40,178 Getting the truth. 298 00:23:40,455 --> 00:23:41,894 Lex, there's no time. 299 00:23:41,929 --> 00:23:45,425 Why does Adrian have a memory for a life that doesn't exist? 300 00:23:45,835 --> 00:23:47,617 I don't know who Adrian is. 301 00:23:47,773 --> 00:23:49,261 Well, I wrote his story. 302 00:23:49,476 --> 00:23:51,124 He grew up outside Philly, 303 00:23:51,185 --> 00:23:53,256 played point guard for Homestead High, 304 00:23:53,388 --> 00:23:56,290 got his first job on the obituary beat at the Liberty times. 305 00:23:56,346 --> 00:23:58,711 That is where he first got noticed as the editor in Alaska... 306 00:23:59,439 --> 00:24:00,786 first in sports, then in... 307 00:24:04,405 --> 00:24:06,030 What are you doing?! 308 00:24:06,962 --> 00:24:09,135 Someone was pulling her strings. 309 00:24:10,859 --> 00:24:12,361 I took her out the equation. 310 00:24:12,430 --> 00:24:14,226 So she wouldn't hear the truth? 311 00:24:14,321 --> 00:24:16,075 Those were my memories, Lex. 312 00:24:16,412 --> 00:24:18,296 You're the editor of a major newspaper. 313 00:24:18,416 --> 00:24:20,116 That information is everywhere. 314 00:24:20,435 --> 00:24:24,195 What about the time my mom got me a red and green dirt bike for my seventh birthday? 315 00:24:25,487 --> 00:24:27,345 I rode that thing everywhere. 316 00:24:28,231 --> 00:24:30,743 - I thought I could pedal until... - Until the chain wore out. 317 00:24:32,086 --> 00:24:33,649 That's the one. 318 00:24:35,900 --> 00:24:39,357 I saw your picture in the newspaper one morning and realized we had a lot in common. 319 00:24:39,392 --> 00:24:41,076 - Who the hell are you? - Lex, let him talk. 320 00:24:43,489 --> 00:24:45,171 Ho do you have my memories? 321 00:24:45,653 --> 00:24:47,409 Because Lex made me. 322 00:24:49,568 --> 00:24:51,269 And when I didn't work... 323 00:24:52,710 --> 00:24:53,812 he'd make you. 324 00:24:55,491 --> 00:24:57,199 What he talking about, Lex? 325 00:24:57,793 --> 00:24:59,572 Congratulations, Grant. You are the perfect clone. 326 00:25:00,463 --> 00:25:02,082 He's insane. 327 00:25:05,080 --> 00:25:06,528 You're me. 328 00:25:07,748 --> 00:25:09,235 Same DNA. 329 00:25:09,604 --> 00:25:10,969 Same backstory. 330 00:25:11,045 --> 00:25:13,627 The only difference is that you worked and I didn't. 331 00:25:18,213 --> 00:25:20,153 Lionel giving me up for adoption... 332 00:25:20,980 --> 00:25:22,645 - My Harvard degree. - Harvard degree. 333 00:25:22,706 --> 00:25:24,420 - The paper. - The paper. 334 00:25:27,399 --> 00:25:29,120 It's all lies. 335 00:25:31,709 --> 00:25:33,275 Am I even your brother? 336 00:25:33,422 --> 00:25:34,501 Brother? 337 00:25:34,603 --> 00:25:36,609 Who died when Lex was 12. 338 00:25:37,618 --> 00:25:38,882 You created me in a test tube. 339 00:25:38,944 --> 00:25:41,579 You kept me like some kind of freak pet so you could have a brother? 340 00:25:41,630 --> 00:25:44,702 - Is that why you couldn't get rid of me?! - You're not my brother! 341 00:25:48,176 --> 00:25:50,057 You're a mistake! 342 00:26:04,902 --> 00:26:06,378 Oh, my god. 343 00:26:07,162 --> 00:26:08,085 Help 344 00:26:08,639 --> 00:26:09,835 Help! 345 00:26:10,886 --> 00:26:12,788 Help us! 346 00:26:19,046 --> 00:26:20,252 Help us! 347 00:26:20,314 --> 00:26:21,542 Help! 348 00:26:22,352 --> 00:26:25,332 It's no use. If someone could have heard us, they would have by now. 349 00:26:27,131 --> 00:26:29,459 Jimmy, I don't think we're gonna make it. 350 00:26:37,185 --> 00:26:39,260 You know, I'm not gonna cart my baggage through the afterlife. 351 00:26:39,353 --> 00:26:41,407 Jimmy, there's something I have to share with you. 352 00:26:41,883 --> 00:26:44,944 I always imagined this playing out to a sad Kelly Clarkson song, 353 00:26:44,979 --> 00:26:46,602 not some "jingle bells" muzak. 354 00:26:46,763 --> 00:26:49,395 - Chloe, time is sort of the essence, here. - Right. Ok. Look, 355 00:26:49,973 --> 00:26:53,092 I didn't pull away from our relationship because there was anything wrong with us. 356 00:26:53,505 --> 00:26:57,052 I mean, we were - well, at least you were perfect. 357 00:26:57,087 --> 00:26:59,958 It was just me. I'm different. 358 00:27:03,300 --> 00:27:04,988 I'm a meteor freak. 359 00:27:09,829 --> 00:27:12,317 Some feedback would be awesome right now. 360 00:27:12,934 --> 00:27:14,233 Okay. 361 00:27:15,589 --> 00:27:17,216 If we're going out with no regrets... 362 00:27:27,609 --> 00:27:29,324 Straight to her voice mail. 363 00:27:37,936 --> 00:27:39,563 "CHLOE DON'T REACT. BOMB ON YOU" Oh, my god. 364 00:27:39,698 --> 00:27:41,403 Clark, look at this. 365 00:29:10,407 --> 00:29:11,453 Move it, holy field. 366 00:29:13,705 --> 00:29:15,048 I need to find Chloe. 367 00:29:15,113 --> 00:29:17,463 Security just pulled her from the elevator. 368 00:29:17,846 --> 00:29:21,249 Unfortunately, your puppeteer, Adrian, managed to escape. 369 00:29:21,772 --> 00:29:23,297 What about Grant? 370 00:29:23,332 --> 00:29:27,386 He went to find you a medic, but I see you bounced back just fine. 371 00:29:28,812 --> 00:29:31,039 Wish I could say the se thing about your career. 372 00:29:31,958 --> 00:29:34,093 After the little ditty Adrian inspired, 373 00:29:34,245 --> 00:29:36,922 I'm exposing your morbid science fair to the world. 374 00:29:38,309 --> 00:29:39,529 Really? 375 00:29:41,181 --> 00:29:42,808 With what evidence? 376 00:29:43,390 --> 00:29:45,729 The word of some Belle Reeve runaway? 377 00:29:46,206 --> 00:29:49,902 Look not that it matters, but you're no longer writing my exposé. 378 00:29:53,239 --> 00:29:55,527 You'll have to take that up with my boss. 379 00:29:57,329 --> 00:29:59,005 I am your boss. 380 00:30:00,123 --> 00:30:02,027 Merry Christmas, Lois. 381 00:30:02,512 --> 00:30:04,864 I just bought the Daily Planet. 382 00:30:15,006 --> 00:30:18,526 If you wan to split early I think today qualifies as on-the-job stress. 383 00:30:19,521 --> 00:30:21,093 I was just finishing up. 384 00:30:21,113 --> 00:30:23,698 Um, but I'm - 'm glad you're here, actually. 385 00:30:24,722 --> 00:30:27,001 About the kiss in the elevator... 386 00:30:27,064 --> 00:30:30,720 I do this thing when I think the world is ending, 387 00:30:31,151 --> 00:30:33,465 and I- I grab the first guy I see and... 388 00:30:34,069 --> 00:30:36,203 sort of end up in a lip-lock. 389 00:30:38,837 --> 00:30:40,402 Yeah. Me too. 390 00:30:41,524 --> 00:30:44,572 I mean, girl - not guy, obviously. 391 00:30:46,064 --> 00:30:48,099 An obviously, there's Kara. 392 00:30:50,946 --> 00:30:52,390 Yeah. 393 00:30:53,556 --> 00:30:55,363 But this wasn't about her. 394 00:31:00,609 --> 00:31:03,288 Chloe, more than goodbye was said in that elevator. 395 00:31:05,209 --> 00:31:08,067 I just - I wish it didn't take a near-death experience... 396 00:31:08,102 --> 00:31:10,471 for you to feel comfortable telling me the truth. 397 00:31:11,255 --> 00:31:12,729 I know. 398 00:31:12,828 --> 00:31:13,906 Trust me, Jimmy, 399 00:31:13,979 --> 00:31:17,692 I've been struggling to tell you about my meteor infection for so long. 400 00:31:19,752 --> 00:31:21,936 What did I do to make you think that I wouldn't accept you? 401 00:31:22,286 --> 00:31:25,198 Nothing. I mean, I guess I always knew that you would. 402 00:31:27,347 --> 00:31:30,429 The real battle was accepting myself. 403 00:31:33,068 --> 00:31:34,985 Well, I hope this means that you have. 404 00:31:41,602 --> 00:31:42,695 So, 405 00:31:43,758 --> 00:31:46,386 can I assume that special ability has something to do with that, 406 00:31:47,308 --> 00:31:49,422 supersize brain inside your head? 407 00:31:49,607 --> 00:31:50,668 No. 408 00:31:50,745 --> 00:31:52,575 My nerd is all-natural. 409 00:31:57,210 --> 00:31:59,263 Oh, my god. 410 00:32:01,716 --> 00:32:03,482 Can you fly? 411 00:32:14,382 --> 00:32:16,025 Here, Jimmy. 412 00:32:19,394 --> 00:32:21,046 Just watch. 413 00:32:54,700 --> 00:32:56,135 I didn't... 414 00:32:56,548 --> 00:32:57,911 really think.. 415 00:33:00,829 --> 00:33:02,755 Where we you in 9th-grade rugby? 416 00:33:03,741 --> 00:33:07,278 Believe me, no golden trophy is worth these side effects. 417 00:33:07,404 --> 00:33:09,283 - Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm fine. 418 00:33:10,135 --> 00:33:11,454 Can you just, uh, 419 00:33:11,489 --> 00:33:14,869 promise me that we'll keep this between me, you, and my Neosporin? 420 00:33:18,092 --> 00:33:19,914 I promise. 421 00:33:23,137 --> 00:33:24,964 You're still the same Chloe. 422 00:33:49,368 --> 00:33:52,831 The last of the acquisition documents. Come midnight, the paper's yours. 423 00:33:53,095 --> 00:33:55,711 Give me the names and bios of everyone on staff. 424 00:33:56,016 --> 00:33:57,900 It's time get rid of our deadwood. 425 00:33:59,309 --> 00:34:01,318 Congratulations on the Daily Planet. 426 00:34:02,162 --> 00:34:03,611 Wonderful. 427 00:34:04,094 --> 00:34:07,880 One more piece of my life you can control, starting with my creation. 428 00:34:07,915 --> 00:34:11,667 I can't believe you let that lunatic sneak his ideas into your head. 429 00:34:12,583 --> 00:34:14,065 You're my brother. 430 00:34:15,337 --> 00:34:18,292 No, Lex. I'm an experiment. 431 00:34:18,948 --> 00:34:22,338 beneath all that arrogance, your cracks are starting to show. 432 00:34:23,442 --> 00:34:25,739 did you really think you could keep this a secret? 433 00:34:26,660 --> 00:34:31,648 Or you're so desperate to mean something to someone, it was worth the risk? 434 00:34:32,569 --> 00:34:34,859 You can't punish me for wanting a family. 435 00:34:35,861 --> 00:34:37,264 How am I supposed to feel, 436 00:34:37,756 --> 00:34:41,431 being the product of a man who's destroyed everything he's ever touched? 437 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:42,768 No. 438 00:34:43,691 --> 00:34:45,245 You're different Julian. 439 00:34:46,806 --> 00:34:48,743 if I didn't love you, you wouldn't be here. 440 00:34:49,189 --> 00:34:52,237 I'm living proof you've forgotten how to love. 441 00:34:53,410 --> 00:34:57,618 But if you want to play god, you might want to remember his greatest gift - 442 00:34:58,448 --> 00:35:00,244 free will. 443 00:35:01,192 --> 00:35:03,739 Let me live my life. 444 00:35:34,772 --> 00:35:36,935 Oh, great. I'm fired, aren't I? 445 00:35:38,473 --> 00:35:42,802 Well, luckily, I just finished putting the bells and whistles on my résumé. 446 00:35:42,937 --> 00:35:44,689 I would hire me in a second. 447 00:35:44,803 --> 00:35:46,450 Lois, you're not fired. 448 00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:51,403 Lex actually asked that you specifically remain on the team. 449 00:35:51,817 --> 00:35:53,199 Me? 450 00:35:53,564 --> 00:35:54,762 Great. 451 00:35:54,797 --> 00:35:57,413 Can't wait to watch him dull his shredder with my stories. 452 00:35:58,802 --> 00:36:01,029 You want to bury the truth, buy the media. 453 00:36:03,136 --> 00:36:06,219 But the fact that you showed up on my doorstep... 454 00:36:06,299 --> 00:36:08,796 means somebody's ready to spread good news. 455 00:36:09,101 --> 00:36:12,091 Does this house call mean we're coming out? 456 00:36:16,440 --> 00:36:18,732 Actually, it means we're breaking up. 457 00:36:24,569 --> 00:36:25,885 Oh. 458 00:36:29,894 --> 00:36:34,368 Today was just an example of why it's not a good idea... 459 00:36:34,562 --> 00:36:38,152 for us to be together and work together. It's too complicated. 460 00:36:40,314 --> 00:36:43,818 And I didn't even drag you to all the places I usually ruin a relationship. 461 00:36:48,399 --> 00:36:51,831 Well, when you do decide to take that trip... 462 00:36:53,469 --> 00:36:55,291 he's a lucky guy. 463 00:36:58,988 --> 00:37:01,784 Whoever he is, we sure as hell aren't gonna work together. 464 00:37:07,842 --> 00:37:09,733 So, how are we going to liquidate. 465 00:37:09,968 --> 00:37:12,570 you'll take the elevator and I'll take the stairs? 466 00:37:15,874 --> 00:37:17,925 Don't be ridiculous, Lane. 467 00:37:18,562 --> 00:37:20,333 I'll take the stairs. 468 00:37:50,833 --> 00:37:54,281 I had to rev my geek into fifth in order to crack that hex code. 469 00:37:54,601 --> 00:37:57,062 Just think of it as a thank-you for channeling... 470 00:37:57,097 --> 00:37:58,987 your inner Bruce Willis yesterday. 471 00:37:59,369 --> 00:38:01,676 I'm sorry it took till the last second for me to get there. 472 00:38:02,374 --> 00:38:04,329 I don't know where I'd be without you. 473 00:38:05,388 --> 00:38:06,614 Thanks. 474 00:38:07,406 --> 00:38:08,998 Did I mention that I missed you? 475 00:38:11,191 --> 00:38:12,732 So, this pattern, it made sense? 476 00:38:13,146 --> 00:38:16,853 Well, to me, not so much, but to a computer, it's scripture. 477 00:38:16,978 --> 00:38:20,211 The numbers represent an error message that high-tech systems encounter... 478 00:38:20,246 --> 00:38:21,285 when they can't boot up. 479 00:38:22,833 --> 00:38:26,101 And's repeating, because the computer keeps trying to start. 480 00:38:26,136 --> 00:38:27,369 Exactly. 481 00:38:27,467 --> 00:38:29,977 I think the sequence is actually learning from its mistakes... 482 00:38:30,303 --> 00:38:33,625 and getting closer to successfully loading. 483 00:38:34,280 --> 00:38:36,155 that's not my favorite look. 484 00:38:37,522 --> 00:38:40,200 Chloe, this started as a metallic fluid inside a vial. 485 00:38:40,849 --> 00:38:44,116 It's now evolved into technology that's willing to kill. 486 00:38:47,334 --> 00:38:49,623 It's the brain-interactive construct. 487 00:38:50,496 --> 00:38:52,689 Clark, you think that this is Milton Fine? 488 00:38:54,119 --> 00:38:56,736 But you turned off general Zod's PDA... 489 00:38:56,796 --> 00:38:59,352 after he spread that computer virus across the world. 490 00:38:59,415 --> 00:39:01,309 If any part of him was left behind to regenerate, 491 00:39:01,849 --> 00:39:03,375 then Fine could be out there. 492 00:39:08,176 --> 00:39:10,004 Chloe. Hey 493 00:39:11,974 --> 00:39:14,106 - I didn't now that you were... - Just leaving. 494 00:39:15,729 --> 00:39:19,072 You want to stay? I kind of overloaded on Danishes. 495 00:39:19,317 --> 00:39:22,914 No, thanks. Lois is actually taking me out for breakfast. 496 00:39:23,108 --> 00:39:25,938 she's deemed it "national Chloe Sullivan day" or something. 497 00:39:26,162 --> 00:39:27,974 I'll... I'll call you. 498 00:39:29,172 --> 00:39:30,344 What's the occasion? 499 00:39:30,390 --> 00:39:32,360 Your safe return from the fortress. 500 00:39:32,509 --> 00:39:34,488 Christmas came early this year. 501 00:39:34,996 --> 00:39:36,684 I've missed that smile. 502 00:39:37,529 --> 00:39:39,109 Me too. 503 00:39:40,106 --> 00:39:41,485 To be honest, Clark, 504 00:39:41,899 --> 00:39:44,453 after everything I shared yesterday, I was... 505 00:39:44,488 --> 00:39:47,100 worried that I'd scare you away. 506 00:39:48,324 --> 00:39:50,651 But I've never felt closer. 507 00:39:52,892 --> 00:39:55,042 I realized something when I was gone. 508 00:39:56,090 --> 00:39:59,203 That feelings, good or bad, they don't just disappear, 509 00:39:59,982 --> 00:40:01,769 no matter who you are. 510 00:40:04,168 --> 00:40:06,589 Are we still talking about Lex? 511 00:40:08,368 --> 00:40:09,869 I'm talking about us. 512 00:40:13,831 --> 00:40:15,287 Yesterday, when I saw you in the barn, 513 00:40:15,332 --> 00:40:18,012 it was like I felt in love with you all over again.