1 00:00:18,778 --> 00:00:20,905 I need 11 copies of each by tomorrow morning... 2 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:23,173 and before my macchiato goes arctic. 3 00:00:23,349 --> 00:00:25,943 Assistants just don't have the stamina they used to have. 4 00:00:26,118 --> 00:00:29,713 Excuse me, Miss Lake. With all due respect, I'm not an assistant. 5 00:00:29,889 --> 00:00:31,720 I'm a reporter. 6 00:00:32,425 --> 00:00:33,619 Of course you are. 7 00:00:35,728 --> 00:00:38,322 Unfortunately... 8 00:00:41,567 --> 00:00:42,567 Sullivan... 9 00:00:42,735 --> 00:00:46,000 what matters is that I can see Gotham from my new office... 10 00:00:46,172 --> 00:00:50,768 and you... oh, well, you, hon, you work below sea level. 11 00:00:52,345 --> 00:00:57,180 At the risk of heresy, I would rather be snorkeling for the rest of my life... 12 00:00:57,350 --> 00:00:59,477 than destroy a man's career based on rumor. 13 00:01:02,355 --> 00:01:04,755 I only print the truth. And if you haven't noticed... 14 00:01:04,924 --> 00:01:08,758 I print it on page one, section B, every week. 15 00:01:15,968 --> 00:01:20,905 Ron, I know for a fact that this guy's on steroids. He's a juicer. 16 00:01:21,073 --> 00:01:24,600 I can smell the slow-roasting ink of tomorrow's headline. 17 00:01:24,777 --> 00:01:28,144 Well, you said you wanted someone with their finger on the pulse... 18 00:01:28,314 --> 00:01:31,306 of the city. Well, I just hit an artery. 19 00:01:34,654 --> 00:01:36,986 Well, if it isn't the steroid stallion. 20 00:01:39,659 --> 00:01:43,026 What? Don't you have some muscle-cocktail mixing to do? 21 00:01:43,195 --> 00:01:45,163 You ruined my life. 22 00:01:46,465 --> 00:01:48,433 And you don't even care, do you? 23 00:01:48,601 --> 00:01:52,731 Oh, please, if you didn't wanna get Red Rovered by the Meteors... 24 00:01:52,905 --> 00:01:56,204 maybe you should've reconsidered jamming that needle into your tush. 25 00:01:56,375 --> 00:01:58,309 You're pretty quick to get high and mighty. 26 00:01:58,477 --> 00:02:00,843 I think those aminos are going to your head. 27 00:02:01,013 --> 00:02:03,208 And I think you've destroyed enough lives. 28 00:02:04,250 --> 00:02:06,445 I'm not gonna let you destroy any more. 29 00:03:40,571 --> 00:03:43,075 "Hydro." 30 00:04:33,699 --> 00:04:36,998 So I'm guessing you didn't ditch prime time on your social calendar... 31 00:04:37,169 --> 00:04:40,229 to come and help me research the dwindling pigeon population. 32 00:04:40,406 --> 00:04:42,738 Chloe, Lex proposed. 33 00:04:44,210 --> 00:04:45,210 And? 34 00:04:47,179 --> 00:04:50,046 And I haven't given him an answer yet. 35 00:04:52,685 --> 00:04:54,312 I'm sure that's going over well. 36 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:59,454 Yeah, Lex and I are in a really great place right now... 37 00:05:00,826 --> 00:05:02,817 but when I actually heard those words... 38 00:05:02,995 --> 00:05:06,123 there was something that wouldn't let me say yes. 39 00:05:08,734 --> 00:05:11,328 Something like Clark? 40 00:05:14,473 --> 00:05:16,771 When I was with Clark... 41 00:05:16,942 --> 00:05:19,934 I would've said yes without hesitating. 42 00:05:23,482 --> 00:05:26,508 I thought that chapter of my life was over. 43 00:05:27,853 --> 00:05:29,252 Lana... 44 00:05:30,689 --> 00:05:34,090 I think that you need to stop reading between the lines... 45 00:05:34,260 --> 00:05:35,921 and actually talk to Clark. 46 00:05:36,095 --> 00:05:39,496 Before you're gonna be able to close this book on him forever. 47 00:05:46,939 --> 00:05:48,372 Let's go. 48 00:06:14,233 --> 00:06:17,760 - Scoopgirl? - Hotshot485? 49 00:06:19,705 --> 00:06:21,366 You've gotta be kidding me. 50 00:06:21,540 --> 00:06:24,998 I'm not the one up all night tooling the Internet for Green Arrow pics. 51 00:06:25,177 --> 00:06:26,974 Don't you have a boyfriend? 52 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:29,742 Do you have the photos? 53 00:06:30,616 --> 00:06:31,776 You got the cash? 54 00:06:34,987 --> 00:06:37,581 I don't get it. Of all the photographers in Metropolis... 55 00:06:37,756 --> 00:06:40,816 how is that you end up with the first shots of our merry archer? 56 00:06:40,993 --> 00:06:42,790 I have my connections. 57 00:06:43,829 --> 00:06:45,057 No, really. 58 00:06:45,998 --> 00:06:48,762 Oh, well, the guy doesn't get out of the Suicide Slums much. 59 00:06:48,934 --> 00:06:51,061 So I just hung out there for a few weeks. 60 00:06:51,337 --> 00:06:54,101 In my car, with my pepper spray, and the doors locked... 61 00:06:54,273 --> 00:06:56,901 This is it? A bunch of arms and legs? 62 00:06:57,710 --> 00:06:59,177 Nice work, hotshot. 63 00:06:59,345 --> 00:07:03,805 I mean, you didn't even manage to catch one shot of his face. 64 00:07:03,983 --> 00:07:07,612 All these tell me about Green Arrow is that he needs a Band-Aid. 65 00:07:12,391 --> 00:07:14,655 Well, at least you got a good look at that. 66 00:07:17,830 --> 00:07:19,320 Thanks. 67 00:07:25,671 --> 00:07:26,968 Hey, Chloe. 68 00:07:29,508 --> 00:07:31,499 Have you seen the Daily Planet this morning? 69 00:07:31,677 --> 00:07:32,837 No. 70 00:07:33,812 --> 00:07:35,109 Okay. 71 00:07:36,048 --> 00:07:38,209 God, I can't let you read this in the paper. 72 00:07:41,420 --> 00:07:42,887 Lex proposed to Lana. 73 00:07:49,695 --> 00:07:50,719 What'd she say? 74 00:07:51,864 --> 00:07:53,798 She hasn't given him an answer. 75 00:08:01,507 --> 00:08:03,737 It says here it's because of me. 76 00:08:05,844 --> 00:08:07,505 This is true? 77 00:08:08,313 --> 00:08:09,313 Chloe? 78 00:08:13,452 --> 00:08:15,477 I know better... 79 00:08:17,923 --> 00:08:19,686 Look, I know better. 80 00:08:23,829 --> 00:08:27,390 You know, I tried so hard to let Lana go that... 81 00:08:34,106 --> 00:08:37,633 If she marries Lex, there's no going back. 82 00:08:40,045 --> 00:08:41,342 Is it true? 83 00:08:43,015 --> 00:08:47,452 I would double down on the fact that Lana's still in love with you. 84 00:08:49,788 --> 00:08:52,848 - I can't let her do this. - Clark, wait a minute. 85 00:08:53,025 --> 00:08:55,220 It's a lot more complicated now. 86 00:08:55,394 --> 00:08:58,727 What could be more complicated than living your life with regrets? 87 00:09:21,520 --> 00:09:24,080 You didn't have to do that. 88 00:09:29,528 --> 00:09:32,429 I was feeling alone waiting for your answer. 89 00:09:32,598 --> 00:09:35,089 I didn't realize I had so much company. 90 00:09:37,536 --> 00:09:38,764 I don't know what to say. 91 00:09:40,639 --> 00:09:42,402 Then let me. 92 00:09:46,011 --> 00:09:48,479 "When I was with Clark... 93 00:09:48,947 --> 00:09:51,643 I would have said yes without hesitating." 94 00:09:58,557 --> 00:10:00,991 You know, the worst part of waiting... 95 00:10:01,760 --> 00:10:05,628 was dwelling on all the reasons why you might be stalling. 96 00:10:07,299 --> 00:10:09,290 At least now I know. 97 00:10:10,903 --> 00:10:13,167 Lex, I'm sorry. 98 00:10:20,145 --> 00:10:22,272 Mr. Luthor, you have a guest. 99 00:10:49,374 --> 00:10:52,002 - They said Lana was here. - She was. 100 00:10:52,177 --> 00:10:54,077 But I'm afraid you just missed her. 101 00:10:55,247 --> 00:10:56,441 I'll come back later. 102 00:10:56,615 --> 00:10:59,140 So you really think you can convince her? 103 00:10:59,318 --> 00:11:01,548 You think you can talk her out of making... 104 00:11:01,720 --> 00:11:04,188 the biggest mistake of her life by marrying me? 105 00:11:04,356 --> 00:11:08,053 - We both know that you swept in after... - After you crushed her? 106 00:11:09,761 --> 00:11:11,058 You knew she was vulnerable. 107 00:11:11,230 --> 00:11:14,063 And you played her until she thought she was in love with you. 108 00:11:14,233 --> 00:11:16,030 If you really see Lana as that naive... 109 00:11:16,201 --> 00:11:18,601 you obviously don't think as much of her as I do. 110 00:11:19,271 --> 00:11:22,399 It must be eating at you that she's hesitating... 111 00:11:22,574 --> 00:11:25,873 wondering why she hasn't given you an answer. 112 00:11:34,386 --> 00:11:36,320 I guess it would. 113 00:11:36,922 --> 00:11:39,823 If I didn't know what the answer was gonna be. 114 00:11:42,661 --> 00:11:45,095 You see, I highly doubt she'll say no, Clark. 115 00:11:47,733 --> 00:11:50,497 Now that she's carrying my child. 116 00:12:03,282 --> 00:12:04,544 So you're telling me... 117 00:12:04,716 --> 00:12:07,913 you think that Metropolis' most worshipped meathead was murdered? 118 00:12:08,487 --> 00:12:11,320 Hey, now, that's my childhood hero you're talking smack about. 119 00:12:11,490 --> 00:12:14,015 And the one baseball card I still can't manage to snag. 120 00:12:14,192 --> 00:12:15,682 Still? 121 00:12:15,861 --> 00:12:17,192 Yeah, it's an investment. 122 00:12:17,362 --> 00:12:20,763 So why the homicide hunch on this guy? 123 00:12:20,933 --> 00:12:23,527 The obit writer left me Dawson's file to scan his photo. 124 00:12:23,702 --> 00:12:27,103 Preliminary investigation's calling it suicide but... 125 00:12:27,272 --> 00:12:30,298 how's a guy who's larger than life drown in two feet of water? 126 00:12:30,475 --> 00:12:32,534 Well, his career was over... 127 00:12:32,711 --> 00:12:35,145 and Lake was right, the coroner's report says... 128 00:12:35,314 --> 00:12:37,248 Dawson was juiced up on muscle mixers. 129 00:12:37,416 --> 00:12:40,385 Chloe, come on. You're gonna tell me that someone on roid rage... 130 00:12:40,552 --> 00:12:43,077 is gonna lie down in a koi pond and call it a day? 131 00:12:51,303 --> 00:12:53,066 You said you'd have it ready by today. 132 00:12:53,238 --> 00:12:55,900 Well, that was before you added the Zen waterfall. 133 00:12:56,075 --> 00:12:57,633 I have to get approval. 134 00:12:57,810 --> 00:13:01,678 Approval? Oh, please. This pulp rag lives or dies by my column. 135 00:13:01,847 --> 00:13:03,474 Now, you get it done by today... 136 00:13:03,649 --> 00:13:06,584 or you're gonna be decorating bathrooms in strip malls. 137 00:13:07,653 --> 00:13:08,677 Get out! 138 00:13:19,565 --> 00:13:21,032 Mr. Luthor... 139 00:13:21,200 --> 00:13:24,169 now, there's only one reason a celebrity pays me a house call. 140 00:13:25,637 --> 00:13:26,899 Right to the point. 141 00:13:27,539 --> 00:13:29,439 Since you have a unique way of exhuming... 142 00:13:29,608 --> 00:13:31,599 even the most carefully buried secrets... 143 00:13:31,777 --> 00:13:33,972 I have a little freelance assignment for you. 144 00:13:34,146 --> 00:13:36,808 I quit doing freelance when I quit fetching lattes... 145 00:13:36,982 --> 00:13:39,746 for pudgy-fingered newsroom vultures. 146 00:13:39,918 --> 00:13:43,149 Well, I'll let you decide what it's worth to you. 147 00:13:43,756 --> 00:13:45,621 Fill in whatever number you want. 148 00:13:45,791 --> 00:13:49,727 Just get me anything you can on Clark Kent and Lana Lang. 149 00:13:59,605 --> 00:14:01,596 Okay, how long do I have to do this for? 150 00:14:01,774 --> 00:14:03,742 What was it you said? 151 00:14:03,909 --> 00:14:06,309 "Yoga's glorified stretching with chants." 152 00:14:06,478 --> 00:14:08,241 A different perspective from down here. 153 00:14:08,414 --> 00:14:11,815 Yeah, well, this is a good way to strengthen your core, trust me. 154 00:14:16,588 --> 00:14:19,216 I didn't realize that my core was in question. 155 00:14:20,192 --> 00:14:21,887 You really wanna keep talking? 156 00:14:23,228 --> 00:14:24,661 No. 157 00:14:41,513 --> 00:14:43,981 Oh, it's a scratch. Don't worry about it. 158 00:14:44,249 --> 00:14:46,080 A scratch? 159 00:14:46,385 --> 00:14:47,579 How did that happen? 160 00:14:49,888 --> 00:14:53,119 - It was a fencing accident. - With a real blade? 161 00:14:54,760 --> 00:14:57,388 You know, the tip snapped off and caught me. 162 00:14:57,563 --> 00:15:00,498 Trust me, it looks worse than it feels, okay? 163 00:15:00,666 --> 00:15:02,531 I promise. 164 00:15:03,569 --> 00:15:08,370 Thank you for all of the chakra reorganizing, but I have to go. 165 00:15:08,540 --> 00:15:10,064 Well... 166 00:15:11,610 --> 00:15:13,077 Goodbye. 167 00:15:48,265 --> 00:15:50,597 Smallville. Sorry about the article. 168 00:15:50,768 --> 00:15:52,702 It's bad enough to have a broken heart... 169 00:15:52,870 --> 00:15:55,202 but to have it splashed all over the newspapers. 170 00:15:55,372 --> 00:15:57,397 I guess that's what reporters do, don't they? 171 00:15:57,575 --> 00:16:02,137 Okay, I think that little zinger just ricocheted off Linda Lake and hit me. 172 00:16:03,447 --> 00:16:05,438 Look, I'm sorry. 173 00:16:06,083 --> 00:16:08,051 It's just people keep secrets for a reason. 174 00:16:08,219 --> 00:16:09,516 I don't know. 175 00:16:09,687 --> 00:16:13,020 If you ask me, I think a secret is just a big loophole... 176 00:16:13,190 --> 00:16:15,420 in the whole "Thou shall not lie" clause. 177 00:16:16,327 --> 00:16:18,352 There's just no gray area with you, is there? 178 00:16:18,529 --> 00:16:21,054 Not when someone I thought I knew better than anyone... 179 00:16:21,232 --> 00:16:23,757 has been keeping the biggest secret of all. 180 00:16:24,168 --> 00:16:25,430 What are you talking about? 181 00:16:25,603 --> 00:16:29,664 What would you do if one day you realized someone close to you... 182 00:16:29,840 --> 00:16:32,900 had a serious hero complex? 183 00:16:34,612 --> 00:16:35,612 Hero complex? 184 00:16:35,780 --> 00:16:40,479 Hiding his true identity from everyone he supposedly cares about. 185 00:16:40,684 --> 00:16:43,812 You can't tell me you wouldn't find something wrong with that. 186 00:16:45,890 --> 00:16:47,790 Who exactly are we talking about? 187 00:16:47,958 --> 00:16:51,257 Green Arrow, a.k.a. Oliver Queen. 188 00:16:52,963 --> 00:16:54,055 Oliver. 189 00:16:54,231 --> 00:16:57,223 Jimmy snapped photos of Green Arrow... 190 00:16:57,401 --> 00:17:01,337 getting slashed in the arm exactly where ollie's arm is cut. 191 00:17:01,505 --> 00:17:03,632 Plus, the time printed on the photos... 192 00:17:03,808 --> 00:17:08,802 is exactly the same time ollie disappeared on me that same night. 193 00:17:11,148 --> 00:17:14,845 When are you planning to unload this theory on oliver? 194 00:17:16,487 --> 00:17:19,786 I need proof first. Definitive proof. 195 00:17:20,324 --> 00:17:22,952 That's where I thought you might come in handy. 196 00:17:39,310 --> 00:17:42,143 I swear I'm losing my scare reflex because of you. 197 00:17:42,313 --> 00:17:44,440 - Lois asked me... - oh, please, Clark. 198 00:17:44,615 --> 00:17:47,846 Are you gonna tell me why you're digging in Lois' purse, Snoop Dogg? 199 00:17:48,485 --> 00:17:53,184 Wait, let me guess. You're covering for the new pledge of your hero fraternity. 200 00:17:53,357 --> 00:17:56,520 Last time Lois said she had a lead on Green Arrow, she was bluffing. 201 00:17:56,694 --> 00:17:58,719 She says Jimmy has shots that'd help ID him. 202 00:17:58,896 --> 00:18:02,059 Jimmy? He's moonlighting for Lois? 203 00:18:02,233 --> 00:18:04,326 I guess we all have secrets to keep. 204 00:18:06,770 --> 00:18:09,398 You should know that better than anyone right now. 205 00:18:14,745 --> 00:18:16,838 You knew that Lana was pregnant, didn't you? 206 00:18:17,014 --> 00:18:18,538 Clark. 207 00:18:18,716 --> 00:18:20,581 Before you unload your anger on me... 208 00:18:20,751 --> 00:18:23,379 can I just say that I think it is incredibly unfair... 209 00:18:23,554 --> 00:18:25,920 that everyone trusts me to keep their secrets... 210 00:18:26,090 --> 00:18:28,558 then they turn around and they throw me attitude... 211 00:18:28,726 --> 00:18:30,455 for keeping someone else's secret. 212 00:18:30,628 --> 00:18:33,893 Look, I'm sorry that I had to take a two-second breather... 213 00:18:34,064 --> 00:18:37,124 from hiding the fact that you're an alien from another planet... 214 00:18:37,301 --> 00:18:39,098 to protect someone else for a change. 215 00:18:40,304 --> 00:18:42,101 God. 216 00:19:05,129 --> 00:19:07,597 You had that coming, you know. 217 00:19:12,169 --> 00:19:13,898 For the record... 218 00:19:14,905 --> 00:19:18,898 I prefer "intergalactic traveler" over "alien from another planet." 219 00:19:47,470 --> 00:19:48,960 Hey. 220 00:19:49,306 --> 00:19:50,830 Hey. 221 00:19:51,007 --> 00:19:54,101 Thanks for finally returning one of my phone calls. 222 00:19:55,712 --> 00:19:58,237 How much does Lana Lang's personal life... 223 00:19:58,415 --> 00:20:00,645 boost newspaper sales these days? 224 00:20:01,985 --> 00:20:04,317 Okay. I was expecting that. 225 00:20:05,055 --> 00:20:08,786 But to be honest, I was kind of hoping you'd give me the benefit of the doubt. 226 00:20:09,025 --> 00:20:11,289 I guess there's a shortage of those today. 227 00:20:11,461 --> 00:20:14,897 That article recites our conversation verbatim. 228 00:20:15,065 --> 00:20:17,363 Do you honestly think I'd betray you like that? 229 00:20:17,534 --> 00:20:19,468 What other explanation is there? 230 00:20:19,636 --> 00:20:21,501 I'm not sure, but the Lana Lang I know... 231 00:20:21,671 --> 00:20:24,697 would at least give me a chance to find one. 232 00:20:28,545 --> 00:20:30,513 After Clark, I guess I'm so jaded... 233 00:20:30,680 --> 00:20:33,547 I don't even know what to expect from my friends anymore. 234 00:20:36,052 --> 00:20:38,213 So I take it the conversation didn't go so well. 235 00:20:38,388 --> 00:20:40,049 Conversation? 236 00:20:40,690 --> 00:20:43,853 - Clark left the Talon to go talk to you. - About what? 237 00:20:44,361 --> 00:20:45,919 Well... 238 00:20:46,830 --> 00:20:48,058 I don't... 239 00:20:49,532 --> 00:20:51,727 I should just put a bag over my head that says: 240 00:20:51,901 --> 00:20:54,233 "If you wanna keep a secret, don't tell me." 241 00:20:56,005 --> 00:20:57,905 What did he wanna say? 242 00:20:58,074 --> 00:21:00,440 You two need to O.K. Corral it on your own. 243 00:21:00,610 --> 00:21:04,102 I've been blamed for putting words in people's mouths enough for one day. 244 00:21:06,149 --> 00:21:08,617 I'm sorry I didn't trust you. 245 00:21:10,320 --> 00:21:13,016 I don't understand how every intimate detail of my life... 246 00:21:13,189 --> 00:21:15,714 is being leaked into Linda Lake's column. 247 00:21:16,760 --> 00:21:19,285 From what I found out, her reconnaissance techniques... 248 00:21:19,462 --> 00:21:21,862 aren't exactly from the Journalist Code of Ethics. 249 00:21:23,666 --> 00:21:26,897 I think it's time we turn the tables on our little resident voyeur. 250 00:21:32,876 --> 00:21:35,344 Hey, I got your call. What's the 911? 251 00:21:35,512 --> 00:21:36,706 I've been thinking. 252 00:21:36,880 --> 00:21:39,041 Maybe your oliver theory isn't so far out there. 253 00:21:39,215 --> 00:21:41,809 If he is the Green Arrow, you deserve to know the truth. 254 00:21:41,985 --> 00:21:46,354 Really? Because I've been doing some thinking of my own... 255 00:21:46,523 --> 00:21:48,252 and maybe I don't wanna know. 256 00:21:48,425 --> 00:21:50,825 I went through the articles on Green Arrow's crimes. 257 00:21:50,994 --> 00:21:52,894 What if we just got off on the wrong foot? 258 00:21:53,062 --> 00:21:55,394 The rob-from-the-rich- to-give-to-the-poor thing... 259 00:21:55,565 --> 00:21:58,090 that wins him some points. - Are you feeling okay? 260 00:21:58,268 --> 00:22:01,931 No, I'm not all right, Clark. I think I'm in love with oliver. 261 00:22:02,505 --> 00:22:05,736 I don't know how you ever let Lana go if you felt this way... 262 00:22:05,909 --> 00:22:09,367 because I swear the guy could tell me he was from Mars right now... 263 00:22:09,546 --> 00:22:12,947 and I would find a way to dismiss it as an endearing quirk. 264 00:22:14,451 --> 00:22:16,442 Lois, you're like a pit bull on a pant leg. 265 00:22:16,619 --> 00:22:19,645 You're never gonna let this go until you know for sure. 266 00:22:20,790 --> 00:22:23,020 I hate that you know me like that. 267 00:22:24,194 --> 00:22:28,961 But I can't just pull a Lois and ambush him. What if I'm wrong? 268 00:22:30,600 --> 00:22:32,761 What if you never need to confront him? 269 00:22:42,479 --> 00:22:45,277 Isn't this exciting? Our first group movie night? 270 00:22:45,448 --> 00:22:48,246 I mean, don't you just love spontaneity? 271 00:22:49,452 --> 00:22:54,412 Let me get it. Clark. Come on in. 272 00:22:54,724 --> 00:22:56,783 Let me get your jacket. 273 00:22:58,094 --> 00:22:59,891 Thanks for having me over. 274 00:23:01,531 --> 00:23:03,499 Lois, looks like you went all out. 275 00:23:03,666 --> 00:23:05,793 Well, it's not a party until... 276 00:23:06,269 --> 00:23:08,669 oh, no. I can't believe I did that. 277 00:23:09,205 --> 00:23:11,298 You can't have cocktails without ice. 278 00:23:12,175 --> 00:23:13,938 Don't worry, yours will be virgin. 279 00:23:14,110 --> 00:23:16,203 You know what, I'll run to the corner, I can... 280 00:23:16,379 --> 00:23:19,712 No. No, I got it. My party, my bad. 281 00:23:24,354 --> 00:23:26,379 You think she suspects anything? 282 00:23:27,590 --> 00:23:30,991 - She's a little preoccupied. - Then it's showtime. 283 00:23:42,972 --> 00:23:46,208 Oliver... they're chasing me. 284 00:23:46,376 --> 00:23:48,901 I don't know how many there are, 10 maybe. 285 00:23:49,078 --> 00:23:51,410 I shouldn't have cut down the alley. 286 00:23:52,782 --> 00:23:56,411 Oh, my God, oliver. Help me. 287 00:23:59,289 --> 00:24:01,120 Good one, Lois. 288 00:24:04,294 --> 00:24:06,524 Need some help? 289 00:24:16,205 --> 00:24:18,605 You didn't tell me there was gonna be real thugs. 290 00:24:18,775 --> 00:24:20,766 They kind of made an impromptu appearance. 291 00:24:28,418 --> 00:24:29,715 Let her go. 292 00:24:46,936 --> 00:24:48,836 Let's go! Come on, come on! 293 00:24:58,081 --> 00:25:00,777 Your secret's safe with me, oliver. 294 00:25:11,327 --> 00:25:13,818 - You're... - A hell of a thank you. 295 00:25:27,510 --> 00:25:29,842 Did you just call him oliver? 296 00:25:30,813 --> 00:25:34,374 It was just a hunch. 297 00:25:49,071 --> 00:25:51,369 All right, Lana, you ready for your close-up? 298 00:25:51,540 --> 00:25:53,633 I can't believe this is so easy. 299 00:25:53,809 --> 00:25:56,744 Okay. How are my pearly megapixels looking? 300 00:25:57,512 --> 00:25:59,844 Crystal clear. Since we're eavesdropping... 301 00:26:00,015 --> 00:26:02,643 can you find out what else she has on Lex and me? 302 00:26:02,818 --> 00:26:06,447 Yeah, sure. Do a little recon while we're at it. 303 00:26:10,425 --> 00:26:11,585 Chloe, what is it? 304 00:26:12,327 --> 00:26:13,624 Clark... 305 00:26:15,297 --> 00:26:17,458 Like tomorrow's headline? 306 00:26:18,033 --> 00:26:21,127 And here I thought your hatred was just professional jealousy. 307 00:26:21,303 --> 00:26:25,137 Who knew you were covering such a scandalous secret? 308 00:26:25,307 --> 00:26:27,969 You're actually gonna stake your reputation... 309 00:26:28,143 --> 00:26:31,442 on this tabloid garbage that's not even fit for the Inquisitor? 310 00:26:31,613 --> 00:26:33,274 Nobody's gonna believe you. 311 00:26:33,448 --> 00:26:37,612 Oh, of course they will. I have a very trustworthy source. 312 00:26:37,786 --> 00:26:38,786 You. 313 00:26:40,055 --> 00:26:42,785 And, no doubt, if anyone goes looking for proof... 314 00:26:42,958 --> 00:26:44,983 well, I think they're gonna find it. 315 00:26:46,294 --> 00:26:50,856 But I must say, I am impressed. Here you were, sitting on a story... 316 00:26:51,032 --> 00:26:53,364 that could have earned you a major headline. 317 00:26:53,902 --> 00:26:55,802 You chose to protect your friend instead. 318 00:26:55,971 --> 00:26:59,099 Not a hard decision to make when you actually care about someone. 319 00:26:59,274 --> 00:27:02,175 It's values like that that keep your career in the basement. 320 00:27:05,013 --> 00:27:07,481 Don't you just love the Internet? 321 00:27:09,050 --> 00:27:13,987 Did you know, with just one touch of a button... 322 00:27:14,723 --> 00:27:17,715 I can be on every major talk show? 323 00:27:17,893 --> 00:27:20,987 And everyone at You Tube will know that your farm-boy friend... 324 00:27:21,163 --> 00:27:23,495 is really an... 325 00:27:28,537 --> 00:27:29,663 - alien. 326 00:27:29,838 --> 00:27:31,703 Your credibility might be at stake... 327 00:27:31,873 --> 00:27:34,000 when you're locked up for Dawson's murder. 328 00:27:34,176 --> 00:27:36,076 Mike Dawson drowned. Do your homework. 329 00:27:36,244 --> 00:27:37,836 It's in every police report. 330 00:27:38,013 --> 00:27:41,642 Most police aren't from Smallville. You remember Smallville, don't you? 331 00:27:41,816 --> 00:27:44,307 You were a rookie reporter for KSCW... 332 00:27:44,486 --> 00:27:46,647 who went for the second meteor shower. 333 00:27:46,821 --> 00:27:48,413 Moth got too close to the flame... 334 00:27:48,590 --> 00:27:51,081 and your news van took a nosedive into Crater Lake. 335 00:27:51,259 --> 00:27:54,695 My guess is you walked out with some sort of special ability. 336 00:27:54,863 --> 00:27:58,492 From what I found out, Mike Dawson wasn't your first victim, was he? 337 00:27:58,667 --> 00:28:01,227 Nobody likes an overachiever. 338 00:28:10,712 --> 00:28:12,111 Hey, Sullivan. 339 00:29:08,136 --> 00:29:11,401 You wanna rise above sea level, you better sharpen those teeth. 340 00:29:20,882 --> 00:29:26,878 - Oh, my God, she came out of nowhere. - It's okay. She's gone now. 341 00:29:50,478 --> 00:29:51,877 Yes. 342 00:29:54,716 --> 00:29:58,345 Hey, how are the secret adventures of Lois and Jimmy? 343 00:29:58,520 --> 00:30:00,317 Busted. 344 00:30:00,789 --> 00:30:03,553 Oh, my God, what happened to your face? 345 00:30:03,725 --> 00:30:06,193 You should see the other guy. 346 00:30:09,297 --> 00:30:10,628 Who did that to you? 347 00:30:10,799 --> 00:30:14,064 You can put your dueling pistol away. It was just a workplace scuffle. 348 00:30:14,235 --> 00:30:16,032 You were right about Lake. 349 00:30:17,005 --> 00:30:18,973 Looks like we're two-for-two tonight. 350 00:30:22,143 --> 00:30:25,112 I wanted you to be the first one to take a look at this. 351 00:30:25,280 --> 00:30:26,747 Check it out. 352 00:30:26,915 --> 00:30:29,713 Green Arrow. I got real pictures of him. 353 00:30:29,884 --> 00:30:32,648 Face and all. 354 00:30:33,555 --> 00:30:35,182 And this one's not yet rated. 355 00:30:39,427 --> 00:30:40,689 I feel dirty. 356 00:30:40,862 --> 00:30:42,420 Think about how oliver feels. 357 00:30:42,597 --> 00:30:44,565 Lois and Clark put this scheme together... 358 00:30:44,733 --> 00:30:46,860 because they thought oliver was Green Arrow. 359 00:30:47,035 --> 00:30:48,798 Poor sucker comes around the corner... 360 00:30:48,970 --> 00:30:51,495 catches her sucking lip with leather daddy. 361 00:30:53,341 --> 00:30:56,333 This, this is the real money shot. 362 00:30:56,511 --> 00:30:58,445 Get ready to meet the Green Arrow. 363 00:31:01,649 --> 00:31:05,244 No. No, no, this is not happening. 364 00:31:05,420 --> 00:31:08,355 I had his face in the crosshairs. How could he be there... 365 00:31:08,523 --> 00:31:10,718 and then just gone like the '90s? 366 00:31:11,926 --> 00:31:15,862 Gone as in "faster than a thousandth of a second" shutter speed? 367 00:31:17,298 --> 00:31:19,698 Yeah. Weird. 368 00:31:20,101 --> 00:31:23,559 I always thought he was super-cool. I didn't realize he was superhuman. 369 00:31:30,912 --> 00:31:33,608 - Clark. - What's going on? 370 00:31:34,182 --> 00:31:37,447 Lois was just telling me about her exciting night last night. 371 00:31:37,619 --> 00:31:40,816 Yeah, I don't know where you disappeared to last night, Smallville. 372 00:31:40,989 --> 00:31:42,650 Turns out I was wrong about oliver. 373 00:31:42,824 --> 00:31:45,224 He's not the Green Arrow, can you believe that? 374 00:31:45,393 --> 00:31:48,829 And luckily oliver showed up when our hero was still around... 375 00:31:48,997 --> 00:31:51,227 but looks like you were way off base about him. 376 00:31:51,399 --> 00:31:56,302 And the craziest part is he chucked a guy across an alley, right? 377 00:31:56,471 --> 00:31:59,599 - Oh, yeah. - And then super-sped away. 378 00:31:59,774 --> 00:32:01,969 I mean, who does that? 379 00:32:09,818 --> 00:32:12,719 It's good oliver showed up when he did, then you knew for sure. 380 00:32:12,887 --> 00:32:14,980 Oh, she knew before he showed up. 381 00:32:15,256 --> 00:32:16,256 You did? 382 00:32:17,792 --> 00:32:19,259 Ask her how. 383 00:32:19,427 --> 00:32:21,418 How? 384 00:32:21,596 --> 00:32:22,790 I kissed him. 385 00:32:24,933 --> 00:32:26,457 Isn't that romantic? 386 00:32:30,638 --> 00:32:32,629 Oh, I'm sorry, Lois. Finish the story. 387 00:32:35,810 --> 00:32:37,869 This is the best part. 388 00:32:38,780 --> 00:32:41,840 Well, he was holding me in his arms... 389 00:32:42,016 --> 00:32:46,146 and ollie's a good kisser, don't get me wrong. 390 00:32:47,455 --> 00:32:49,116 But that Green Arrow... 391 00:32:49,290 --> 00:32:51,554 he could teach ollie a thing or two. 392 00:33:11,310 --> 00:33:12,800 Hey. 393 00:33:13,145 --> 00:33:15,773 You took off early last night. You okay? 394 00:33:18,384 --> 00:33:22,115 I just keep running what happened through my head. 395 00:33:24,089 --> 00:33:27,490 Lana, you can't blame yourself. It wasn't your fault. 396 00:33:28,227 --> 00:33:30,787 That part I'm pretty clear on. 397 00:33:32,765 --> 00:33:35,131 Look, nobody wanted to see her die... 398 00:33:35,301 --> 00:33:37,565 but if you hadn't come when you did... 399 00:33:37,736 --> 00:33:41,069 it would've been my obit on the front page. 400 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:42,537 Maybe. 401 00:33:42,708 --> 00:33:44,676 Of section D. 402 00:33:47,746 --> 00:33:51,807 Anyway, thank you. Again. 403 00:33:56,088 --> 00:33:57,919 How do you do that? 404 00:33:58,424 --> 00:34:01,689 Just brush it under the rug as if nothing happened? 405 00:34:04,163 --> 00:34:08,156 Lana, Linda wasn't the first freak of nature who went psycho. 406 00:34:09,635 --> 00:34:11,000 No. 407 00:34:12,404 --> 00:34:16,170 I mean, whatever it is you're protecting about Clark. 408 00:34:18,644 --> 00:34:21,374 I don't know what you're talking about. 409 00:34:21,547 --> 00:34:23,447 Yes, you do. 410 00:34:24,650 --> 00:34:27,517 Some secret about a farm boy? 411 00:34:27,686 --> 00:34:31,747 Made you take a hammer to her computer before I could hear the rest. 412 00:34:33,926 --> 00:34:36,588 Come on, Chloe, I'm not that naive. 413 00:34:37,229 --> 00:34:39,163 Whatever it is you two have been hiding... 414 00:34:39,331 --> 00:34:42,562 do you really expect me to keep looking the other way? 415 00:34:47,339 --> 00:34:49,068 Linda was grasping at straws. 416 00:34:49,241 --> 00:34:51,232 She's always desperate for her next story... 417 00:34:51,410 --> 00:34:53,537 you know that better than anyone. 418 00:34:57,449 --> 00:34:58,973 Lana. 419 00:35:04,757 --> 00:35:07,021 I would never do anything to hurt you. 420 00:35:11,630 --> 00:35:13,962 That's what Clark always says. 421 00:35:42,361 --> 00:35:45,194 I'm sorry that you had to find out like this. 422 00:35:53,072 --> 00:35:54,937 It's okay. 423 00:35:56,375 --> 00:35:59,435 You don't have to tell me every little detail of your life anymore. 424 00:36:04,183 --> 00:36:09,086 Clark, we both know that a proposal is more than a little... 425 00:36:09,254 --> 00:36:10,619 detail. 426 00:36:12,658 --> 00:36:15,286 And as messed up as it is... 427 00:36:16,228 --> 00:36:19,459 you were the first person that I wanted to tell. 428 00:36:23,068 --> 00:36:24,933 Is that supposed to make me feel better? 429 00:36:25,104 --> 00:36:28,164 Clark, you said that you didn't love me anymore. 430 00:36:28,941 --> 00:36:32,809 And I tried to cut everything off, but I'm not made that way. 431 00:36:35,314 --> 00:36:37,544 Even if we're not talking... 432 00:36:37,716 --> 00:36:40,514 you are still a part of my life. 433 00:36:41,854 --> 00:36:44,288 And I'm not trying to deny it anymore. 434 00:36:44,456 --> 00:36:46,981 I am trying to put it into perspective. 435 00:36:50,629 --> 00:36:53,097 I guess we both need to do that. 436 00:36:59,404 --> 00:37:03,431 Chloe said that you came by to talk to me. 437 00:37:05,677 --> 00:37:07,440 What was it about? 438 00:37:12,651 --> 00:37:17,452 Whatever secret Chloe is helping you to protect, Clark... 439 00:37:19,024 --> 00:37:20,651 please... 440 00:37:20,926 --> 00:37:22,723 just once... 441 00:37:28,967 --> 00:37:30,901 Just trust me. 442 00:37:37,643 --> 00:37:39,543 Doesn't matter now. 443 00:37:40,212 --> 00:37:42,203 Clark, don't do that. 444 00:37:50,322 --> 00:37:51,983 I know about the baby. 445 00:37:53,325 --> 00:37:55,190 Lex told me. 446 00:37:56,595 --> 00:37:58,620 Everything's changed. 447 00:38:02,167 --> 00:38:04,931 Even the fact that you told me... 448 00:38:05,103 --> 00:38:08,402 that you look back at the past and regret it every day? 449 00:38:10,142 --> 00:38:12,201 Has that changed too? 450 00:38:18,984 --> 00:38:22,476 I guess that I can't ask you to see me the same way. 451 00:38:29,061 --> 00:38:30,187 Lana. 452 00:38:36,702 --> 00:38:39,569 I hope Lex makes you very happy. 453 00:39:12,271 --> 00:39:14,171 A million dollars for your thoughts. 454 00:39:16,141 --> 00:39:17,665 Sorry. 455 00:39:17,843 --> 00:39:21,870 My comic timing is the first to go after my nerves. 456 00:39:24,349 --> 00:39:26,408 You know, in all my life... 457 00:39:27,119 --> 00:39:30,350 I've never made an offer when I was afraid of the answer... 458 00:39:33,558 --> 00:39:35,025 till now. 459 00:39:37,929 --> 00:39:40,796 You have been so patient. 460 00:39:44,002 --> 00:39:46,061 Doesn't feel like it. 461 00:39:53,211 --> 00:39:55,145 I went to see Clark. 462 00:39:58,450 --> 00:39:59,450 And? 463 00:40:02,554 --> 00:40:04,954 And I love him. 464 00:40:09,061 --> 00:40:14,226 I love both of you and maybe I always will. 465 00:40:18,370 --> 00:40:23,000 Lex, I couldn't say yes to you, knowing that I might look back with regrets. 466 00:40:27,479 --> 00:40:29,379 You deserve better than that. 467 00:40:33,585 --> 00:40:36,179 Lana, with the life I've led... 468 00:40:36,922 --> 00:40:40,688 I go to bed praying every night that I don't get what I deserve. 469 00:40:41,560 --> 00:40:43,425 You get bitter... 470 00:40:44,496 --> 00:40:46,327 and vengeful. 471 00:40:49,468 --> 00:40:51,732 And then you meet someone... 472 00:40:53,672 --> 00:40:55,503 who's so good... 473 00:40:57,876 --> 00:41:01,039 that she might be the one person who could learn to love you. 474 00:41:04,649 --> 00:41:07,049 I would wait forever for that. 475 00:41:10,889 --> 00:41:12,550 You don't have to. 476 00:41:14,192 --> 00:41:16,626 I'm done looking back. 477 00:41:18,063 --> 00:41:20,930 I have someone right in front of me... 478 00:41:21,099 --> 00:41:24,660 who I know trusts me... 479 00:41:26,772 --> 00:41:30,902 and who lets me see sides of him no one else does. 480 00:41:36,081 --> 00:41:39,073 So just for clarification... 481 00:41:42,387 --> 00:41:45,015 Yes, Lex Luthor. 482 00:41:47,959 --> 00:41:49,790 I will marry you.