1 00:00:02,160 --> 00:00:03,230 Previously on Smallville: 2 00:00:03,452 --> 00:00:04,852 A darkness has come to Earth. 3 00:00:05,118 --> 00:00:06,791 This isn't your fight. 4 00:00:07,077 --> 00:00:08,909 I'm not gonna stand here and do nothing. 5 00:00:09,244 --> 00:00:12,123 You've been on Earth all this time and you can't even fly. 6 00:00:13,327 --> 00:00:18,038 The woman that I, uh... That I love, she sacrificed everything to protect me. 7 00:00:18,412 --> 00:00:22,088 First I'll eat, and then I'll molt and then I'll mate. 8 00:00:23,620 --> 00:00:27,899 I am the Brain interactive Construct. Do not underestimate me. 9 00:00:32,329 --> 00:00:35,128 It is safer if you stay in the shadows. It's safer for all heroes. 10 00:00:35,413 --> 00:00:38,531 Maybe people deserve to know the truth. I am Green Arrow. 11 00:00:40,372 --> 00:00:43,490 There is darkness in you and great power. 12 00:00:43,831 --> 00:00:46,585 You're afraid you'll never be the hero you wanna be. 13 00:00:46,872 --> 00:00:49,990 You will never be Earth's savoir. 14 00:01:01,915 --> 00:01:03,747 Good question. 15 00:01:14,791 --> 00:01:16,987 Maybe you were right, Jor-El. 16 00:01:19,375 --> 00:01:21,446 Maybe I'm not the one. 17 00:01:22,333 --> 00:01:23,369 Maybe none of us are. 18 00:01:31,751 --> 00:01:35,631 Lois. Hey, I'm sorry, I've kind of been out of it lately. 19 00:01:35,960 --> 00:01:37,235 I left you a message. 20 00:01:37,460 --> 00:01:39,656 Yeah, three days ago. You feeling better? 21 00:01:42,002 --> 00:01:43,436 Well, no worries. 22 00:01:43,669 --> 00:01:45,661 You didn't miss anything in the news department. 23 00:01:45,919 --> 00:01:46,989 Okay. 24 00:01:47,252 --> 00:01:49,721 Seems the Blur took a little vacation this week too. 25 00:01:51,461 --> 00:01:53,737 - There must be something going around. - Hmm. 26 00:01:58,629 --> 00:02:00,666 Hero haters. 27 00:02:00,920 --> 00:02:04,038 Just when you think the world couldn't get more upside-down, right? 28 00:02:06,254 --> 00:02:09,531 People don't wanna put their hope in someone who's gonna let them down. 29 00:02:16,421 --> 00:02:19,573 He never would let us down. 30 00:02:19,881 --> 00:02:22,077 The Blur, I mean. 31 00:02:23,047 --> 00:02:25,207 And this person, for one, is gonna stand by her hero... 32 00:02:25,339 --> 00:02:28,935 no matter how much mud they sling. - Why? 33 00:02:30,548 --> 00:02:33,746 Because that's what you do when you believe in someone. 34 00:02:38,506 --> 00:02:41,499 You know what you need? A pick-me-up. 35 00:02:45,674 --> 00:02:49,190 Thanks, Lois, but I don't think playing quarterback is gonna make my day. 36 00:02:49,508 --> 00:02:50,862 Depends on the cheerleader. 37 00:02:53,050 --> 00:02:56,043 Come on, did you forget? Tomorrow's our Smallville High reunion. 38 00:02:58,258 --> 00:03:00,136 - Did you say our reunion? - Yes. 39 00:03:00,383 --> 00:03:03,342 - You were enrolled there for, like... - Twenty-three days. 40 00:03:04,384 --> 00:03:07,218 - You showed up for five. - That's a record in my book. 41 00:03:07,510 --> 00:03:10,030 Smallville's the closest thing to a past this military brat has. 42 00:03:10,260 --> 00:03:12,650 And I am not gonna miss it. 43 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,639 We don't have to be dating to show up at a reunion together. 44 00:03:18,760 --> 00:03:21,150 There's a lot of memories there for me, I... 45 00:03:21,427 --> 00:03:23,419 Come on, Clark, it would mean a lot to me. 46 00:03:24,052 --> 00:03:29,525 Seeing all those familiar faces. It's like I had a place, like I fit in. 47 00:03:30,386 --> 00:03:31,536 And you... 48 00:03:31,762 --> 00:03:36,154 I mean, you put the "Smallville" in Smallville, Smallville. 49 00:03:36,804 --> 00:03:39,080 Besides, what's the worst thing that could happen? 50 00:03:49,346 --> 00:03:54,137 I've wasted a decade picking up the pieces from meteor-mutant students. 51 00:03:55,971 --> 00:03:59,647 "How do I get into college with a criminal record?" 52 00:04:00,431 --> 00:04:02,866 You can't, freak. 53 00:04:03,848 --> 00:04:08,923 You see, I have spent years hearing their stories. 54 00:04:09,306 --> 00:04:10,306 And... And no... 55 00:04:10,515 --> 00:04:15,749 No matter how crazy they are, they always mention one person. 56 00:04:17,307 --> 00:04:18,307 You. 57 00:04:22,683 --> 00:04:25,243 Clark Kent. 58 00:04:25,516 --> 00:04:29,795 So nice of you to come back to the reunion, save me a trip. 59 00:04:30,141 --> 00:04:35,819 Looks like your bill is up and it is time for you to pay. 60 00:04:47,893 --> 00:04:50,852 It's time to move on from the past. 61 00:04:51,393 --> 00:04:53,225 Leave Clark Kent to me. 62 00:05:57,940 --> 00:06:00,614 Guess I just haven't been back in a while. 63 00:06:05,650 --> 00:06:10,088 Oh. There's Eddie from chem class. Hey. 64 00:06:10,442 --> 00:06:13,355 Oh, and Jake and the cupcake girl are together now. 65 00:06:14,984 --> 00:06:18,102 Hi. Sally "Pep Rally" Dickinson has put on a few. 66 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:21,234 Lois, I don't really have a good feeling about all this. 67 00:06:27,402 --> 00:06:30,713 Nietzsche? I didn't realize you had a dark side, Clark. 68 00:06:33,152 --> 00:06:36,224 - Well, doesn't everybody? - Yeah, I guess so. 69 00:06:39,777 --> 00:06:43,168 So, what are you, man or superman? 70 00:06:54,779 --> 00:06:57,169 Well, look who it is. Clark Kent. 71 00:06:58,238 --> 00:07:00,673 Have I got something for you. 72 00:07:01,404 --> 00:07:03,316 A hug. 73 00:07:04,738 --> 00:07:06,138 Um, thanks. 74 00:07:06,363 --> 00:07:09,595 Oh, now, don't leave early. We've got a special treat for you. 75 00:07:13,781 --> 00:07:14,781 A couple more hugs... 76 00:07:14,989 --> 00:07:18,187 and maybe you'll have the bah-humbugs squeezed out of you. 77 00:07:37,699 --> 00:07:39,258 Welcome back. Isn't this great? 78 00:07:39,491 --> 00:07:41,847 I have the whole day mapped out for you. 79 00:07:42,617 --> 00:07:44,495 Adelia. Laney. 80 00:07:44,742 --> 00:07:47,052 - Lois Lane. Chess Club? - Uh... 81 00:07:47,325 --> 00:07:49,362 I sat through an entire game once? 82 00:07:49,617 --> 00:07:51,927 - Whatever. - Come on, let's go. 83 00:07:52,617 --> 00:07:54,131 Mark. 84 00:07:54,659 --> 00:07:56,696 Hey, Mark. Smoking times, huh? 85 00:07:58,742 --> 00:07:59,742 Should I know you? 86 00:07:59,992 --> 00:08:02,192 Like you don't remember behind the gym on a smoke break? 87 00:08:02,452 --> 00:08:04,967 I mean, I was chewing gum at the time, but... 88 00:08:05,244 --> 00:08:07,315 Really? Nothing. 89 00:08:07,577 --> 00:08:09,967 Hey, Lois. Let's, um, go inside. 90 00:08:12,744 --> 00:08:14,098 Clark. 91 00:08:14,702 --> 00:08:16,694 Ha, ha. I can't believe you're here. 92 00:08:16,952 --> 00:08:18,989 What happened to the bumbling nerd? 93 00:08:24,244 --> 00:08:25,314 Susan Capra. 94 00:08:26,203 --> 00:08:30,880 Suzanne, actually. You always mixed us up. 95 00:08:31,246 --> 00:08:33,124 Well, you haven't changed a bit. 96 00:08:34,413 --> 00:08:35,449 Bak, bak, Crow. 97 00:08:36,496 --> 00:08:37,532 Oh. 98 00:08:38,746 --> 00:08:41,386 - Oh. Here you go. - Thank you. 99 00:08:43,455 --> 00:08:44,809 Are you his plus one? 100 00:08:50,580 --> 00:08:52,139 I went to school here, people. 101 00:08:57,956 --> 00:09:01,154 Lane. Lane, Lane, Lane. 102 00:09:06,623 --> 00:09:08,057 Lang. 103 00:09:10,665 --> 00:09:13,544 Wow, old flames. 104 00:09:16,500 --> 00:09:20,096 I should've known this would happen. I haven't seen her since... 105 00:09:20,417 --> 00:09:23,330 your barn when we were about to... 106 00:09:25,375 --> 00:09:27,287 She's not coming. 107 00:09:29,625 --> 00:09:32,345 I forgot how many memories you have here. 108 00:09:49,794 --> 00:09:52,832 It started out as a scrapbook and just kind of mutated. 109 00:09:53,127 --> 00:09:54,447 What is it? 110 00:09:54,669 --> 00:09:57,582 I call it the Wall of Weird. 111 00:10:00,544 --> 00:10:01,544 So, what do you think? 112 00:10:02,711 --> 00:10:04,111 Clark. 113 00:10:07,462 --> 00:10:08,462 I'm sorry. 114 00:10:11,338 --> 00:10:13,694 Maybe I shouldn't have brought you back here. 115 00:10:15,171 --> 00:10:17,766 Oh, my God. 116 00:10:18,088 --> 00:10:21,559 - You were friends with Chloe Sullivan. - Yeah, what happened to her? 117 00:10:21,921 --> 00:10:25,073 She was the rising star of the Daily Planet like she always dreamed. 118 00:10:25,422 --> 00:10:27,334 - And now... - It's like she just vanished. 119 00:10:27,588 --> 00:10:30,023 Like someone found out that she knew too much. 120 00:10:31,173 --> 00:10:34,564 Looks like somebody took a bite out of Chloe's conspiracy cookie. 121 00:10:34,881 --> 00:10:37,840 I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Chloe couldn't make it. 122 00:10:39,882 --> 00:10:43,000 Wait a minute, I know you. You're Lois Lane. 123 00:10:43,340 --> 00:10:45,172 Yes, thank you. 124 00:10:45,465 --> 00:10:47,536 You dated the Green Arrow, a.k.a. Oliver... 125 00:10:48,090 --> 00:10:49,649 - Oliver Queen. - Oliver Queen. 126 00:10:51,799 --> 00:10:54,109 What's it like to date a real superhero? 127 00:10:54,674 --> 00:10:57,667 It... It was really quick, just a flash. 128 00:10:57,967 --> 00:11:01,483 But I would date one again in a heartbeat. 129 00:11:02,550 --> 00:11:05,987 - So this is all that's left of the Torch? - Are you kidding? 130 00:11:06,634 --> 00:11:08,705 We carry the Torch with us every day. 131 00:11:08,967 --> 00:11:11,607 Everything you need to know about the mysterious and unexplained. 132 00:11:11,926 --> 00:11:13,997 The Wall of Weird has gone viral. 133 00:11:18,426 --> 00:11:21,100 - The Blur. - What? 134 00:11:22,386 --> 00:11:24,662 Okay, promise not to tell anyone. 135 00:11:24,927 --> 00:11:27,487 Okay, we have a theory that the Blur was born... 136 00:11:27,761 --> 00:11:30,481 - And raised in Smallville. - In Smallville. 137 00:11:30,761 --> 00:11:35,199 Okay, I think your virtual weird wall has left you a pushpin short. 138 00:11:35,594 --> 00:11:37,267 You're the one who writes about him. 139 00:11:37,511 --> 00:11:40,191 You seriously never considered that all of these miraculous saves... 140 00:11:40,386 --> 00:11:42,026 that Chloe wrote about in the Torch... 141 00:11:42,220 --> 00:11:44,815 started right before the Blur showed up in Metropolis? 142 00:11:45,096 --> 00:11:47,531 I wouldn't waste any more time on the Blur. 143 00:11:48,138 --> 00:11:51,609 Seems like he's gone away and I'm not so sure he'll be back. 144 00:11:52,388 --> 00:11:56,905 I think what Clark is trying to say, is that it's great that the Blur... 145 00:11:57,305 --> 00:12:00,662 has been there to be a role model for kids like you to look up to. 146 00:12:01,013 --> 00:12:03,209 I mean, how many people in the world has he inspired? 147 00:12:03,513 --> 00:12:07,063 Exactly. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't show up for the reunion. 148 00:12:07,389 --> 00:12:11,269 - He would've stolen your thunder, Clark. - What thunder? 149 00:12:13,932 --> 00:12:18,165 Okay, Crows, give it up for your alumni homecoming king, Clark Kent. 150 00:12:19,890 --> 00:12:22,280 Now, this is the homecoming I'm talking about. 151 00:12:22,557 --> 00:12:26,437 Thank God you squeaked out that state championship in your senior year. 152 00:12:45,309 --> 00:12:47,983 One! Two! Three! 153 00:12:48,267 --> 00:12:50,020 Come on, Crows! 154 00:13:17,228 --> 00:13:22,826 My sincere apologies for interrupting this festive trip down memory lane. 155 00:13:23,521 --> 00:13:27,037 - Brainiac. I thought we destroyed you. - Hmm. 156 00:13:27,355 --> 00:13:29,312 Whatever you want, leave these people out of it. 157 00:13:29,605 --> 00:13:32,484 Oh, don't worry, I'm only here for you. 158 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:37,415 I wanted to slow things down. 159 00:13:37,688 --> 00:13:40,248 Make sure you can soak in this special moment. 160 00:13:42,439 --> 00:13:45,113 And what's so special about this moment? 161 00:13:45,439 --> 00:13:48,637 This is the moment that your life changes forever. 162 00:14:09,191 --> 00:14:12,031 I don't know if you're a ghost or the darkness Jor-El warned me about... 163 00:14:12,275 --> 00:14:14,835 but this will come to an end just like it did the last time. 164 00:14:15,109 --> 00:14:18,022 - I hope so, for your sake. - For my sake? 165 00:14:18,317 --> 00:14:20,309 You sent the person that I love away. 166 00:14:20,567 --> 00:14:23,446 You tried to destroy Chloe, you tried to destroy the world. 167 00:14:23,776 --> 00:14:28,328 And you saved me from all that, Kal-El. I've come back to do the same for you. 168 00:14:29,443 --> 00:14:32,641 The Legion? You're from the future. 169 00:14:36,361 --> 00:14:38,273 - What did you do to them? - I joined them. 170 00:14:38,986 --> 00:14:41,421 In the 31st century, I'm known as Brainiac 5. 171 00:14:41,694 --> 00:14:43,572 The ring, time travel, all my creations. 172 00:14:43,819 --> 00:14:46,778 I brought the Legion into a new realm of heroism. 173 00:14:47,069 --> 00:14:51,780 - They helped me destroy you. - No, they helped you cure me. 174 00:14:53,528 --> 00:14:56,805 The problem is, Kal-El, you and I aren't very different. 175 00:14:57,112 --> 00:14:59,627 We were both created in one way or another by Jor-El. 176 00:14:59,903 --> 00:15:05,103 Both intended to save civilizations, to bring peace to a brutal world. 177 00:15:05,488 --> 00:15:10,040 But neither of us was immune to corruption, to darkness. 178 00:15:10,405 --> 00:15:12,283 And what does that mean? 179 00:15:12,738 --> 00:15:14,934 Everyone's telling me I've a darkness within me. 180 00:15:15,197 --> 00:15:18,508 But I don't understand what it is or how I'm supposed to change it. 181 00:15:20,405 --> 00:15:22,636 You destroyed cities. 182 00:15:23,739 --> 00:15:27,210 I may not make the right decisions, but at least I'm trying to save people. 183 00:15:27,532 --> 00:15:31,845 Then let me show you, Kal-El. We can't always see it in ourselves. 184 00:15:33,490 --> 00:15:35,561 My corruption started with a nanobyte. 185 00:15:37,365 --> 00:15:41,120 Smaller than the eye can see. But that's all it took. 186 00:15:46,783 --> 00:15:48,934 My father's funeral. 187 00:16:01,034 --> 00:16:04,505 If you're trying to save me somehow, why show me this? 188 00:16:05,368 --> 00:16:07,405 Because this was a defining moment for you. 189 00:16:07,659 --> 00:16:09,218 Perhaps the defining moment. 190 00:16:09,785 --> 00:16:12,425 The day that you started to blame yourself. 191 00:16:13,076 --> 00:16:15,147 Why wouldn't I? 192 00:16:15,702 --> 00:16:19,059 I chose to change fate. It was my fault that he died. 193 00:16:19,369 --> 00:16:20,849 Was it? 194 00:16:29,953 --> 00:16:30,953 Dad. 195 00:16:31,162 --> 00:16:33,996 I won't let you destroy my family. 196 00:16:38,537 --> 00:16:40,972 We can withstand anything you bring down on us. 197 00:16:41,830 --> 00:16:43,105 Because we have each other. 198 00:16:43,788 --> 00:16:47,225 That's what will always separate the Kents from the Luthors. 199 00:16:48,872 --> 00:16:50,750 Now, why don't you get...? 200 00:16:51,747 --> 00:16:54,262 - You can't change his fate. - He was just protecting me. 201 00:16:54,539 --> 00:16:57,134 And that was his choice. 202 00:16:57,539 --> 00:16:59,219 Whether it happens this day or any other... 203 00:16:59,372 --> 00:17:01,252 Jonathan set his own destiny into the motion. 204 00:17:01,414 --> 00:17:02,814 You know that. 205 00:17:03,247 --> 00:17:05,557 You just won't let yourself believe it. 206 00:17:12,707 --> 00:17:16,621 - Why won't you forgive yourself? - He didn't have a choice. 207 00:17:17,041 --> 00:17:19,561 He's my father, of course he'd sacrifice anything to protect me. 208 00:17:19,832 --> 00:17:22,392 We always have a choice, Kal-El. 209 00:17:23,166 --> 00:17:26,398 Your father didn't have to care for you the way he did. 210 00:17:26,708 --> 00:17:29,621 Yet still he made that choice every day he was with you. 211 00:17:29,917 --> 00:17:32,273 He chose to be your protector. 212 00:17:33,542 --> 00:17:36,341 Just as you've chosen to be the Earth's protector. 213 00:17:37,293 --> 00:17:39,888 Nobody forced that on you, yet you embraced it. 214 00:17:40,168 --> 00:17:42,160 Nobody made that choice for you. 215 00:17:42,709 --> 00:17:46,225 We all choose our own fate. 216 00:17:48,876 --> 00:17:51,266 Fans and protestors alike are in an outcry... 217 00:17:51,543 --> 00:17:54,138 for the playboy-turned-Green Arrow Oliver Queen... 218 00:17:54,419 --> 00:17:56,376 who dropped his shocking announcement... 219 00:17:56,628 --> 00:17:58,426 and has since vanished from society. 220 00:17:58,669 --> 00:18:02,219 I got kids. What happens when they grow up and wanna be vigilantes like him? 221 00:18:03,086 --> 00:18:04,884 It's great he's helping people, but we... 222 00:18:05,170 --> 00:18:08,208 - This isn't a memory. - No, it isn't, it's the present. 223 00:18:08,503 --> 00:18:10,859 He lied to us all along. 224 00:18:11,128 --> 00:18:12,323 We can't trust him. 225 00:18:12,587 --> 00:18:14,499 If you're trying to make me feel guilty... 226 00:18:14,754 --> 00:18:17,588 you just said that we control our own fate. 227 00:18:17,879 --> 00:18:20,678 Oliver made his own decision to come out to the public. 228 00:18:20,963 --> 00:18:23,283 He didn't think about what it would mean to the rest of us. 229 00:18:23,505 --> 00:18:25,815 If you really are the hero you say you are... 230 00:18:26,088 --> 00:18:28,284 don't you think it's time to face the public? 231 00:18:28,547 --> 00:18:30,982 We're waiting for some answers. 232 00:18:35,964 --> 00:18:38,524 - Any calls? - Where do you wanna start? 233 00:18:38,797 --> 00:18:41,153 CNN, BBC, Dr. Phil? 234 00:18:41,422 --> 00:18:43,539 No, I mean, any calls? 235 00:18:43,799 --> 00:18:48,828 - Oh, um, I'm sorry, sir. - Mr. Kent hasn't left a word. 236 00:19:01,008 --> 00:19:03,921 He's always so Oliver. I didn't know that he needed me. 237 00:19:04,216 --> 00:19:05,935 But he does. 238 00:19:09,426 --> 00:19:14,057 I don't know how not returning his calls amounts to some darkness within me. 239 00:19:14,801 --> 00:19:16,554 You don't see it? 240 00:19:17,343 --> 00:19:19,539 The darkness is the past. 241 00:19:19,801 --> 00:19:21,599 And you hold on to it and you dwell. 242 00:19:22,218 --> 00:19:25,768 You punish yourself and everyone around you for past mistakes. 243 00:19:26,343 --> 00:19:29,097 We don't have the privilege of mistakes. 244 00:19:29,385 --> 00:19:32,457 Even if we don't expect perfection from ourselves, the world does. 245 00:19:32,761 --> 00:19:36,880 - You heard what they said. - Then help Oliver be who he can be. 246 00:19:37,220 --> 00:19:40,657 Today, tomorrow. Be there for him now. 247 00:19:41,011 --> 00:19:45,085 And stop punishing him for his past with your silence and your distance. 248 00:19:46,137 --> 00:19:47,856 Let it go. 249 00:20:05,722 --> 00:20:08,237 Find me here. 250 00:20:10,597 --> 00:20:13,157 And speak to me. 251 00:20:13,806 --> 00:20:16,765 Which one of these has the punch in it, if you know what I mean? 252 00:20:17,056 --> 00:20:20,936 - Sorry? - We have lemonade and strawberryade. 253 00:20:21,307 --> 00:20:22,582 Yeah, but... 254 00:20:23,599 --> 00:20:24,599 Strawberryade. 255 00:20:26,057 --> 00:20:27,935 Lois, huh? 256 00:20:28,182 --> 00:20:31,334 - So who you here with? - I'm an alum. 257 00:20:31,641 --> 00:20:35,356 That's leading me Lois Lane. 258 00:20:36,766 --> 00:20:39,520 To the place 259 00:20:39,849 --> 00:20:43,525 - I'm with Clark Kent. - Really? 260 00:20:43,891 --> 00:20:48,522 Oh, I just always thought Clark was so dreamy, you know. 261 00:20:48,934 --> 00:20:52,086 That farm boy next door turned local football hero. 262 00:20:52,393 --> 00:20:53,952 Doesn't get any bigger than that. 263 00:20:54,393 --> 00:20:57,750 Ha, ha. Funny, I always thought he and Chloe were meant for each other. 264 00:20:58,060 --> 00:21:01,337 They had that whole "best friend with hope of more" thing. 265 00:21:01,643 --> 00:21:06,274 - Chloe's my cousin. - Yeah, but then there was Lana. 266 00:21:06,643 --> 00:21:11,160 I mean, how gorgeous can you get, right? And hardworking. 267 00:21:11,520 --> 00:21:15,116 I mean, how many cheerleaders run a coffee shop in high school? 268 00:21:15,436 --> 00:21:17,155 Lana and Clark were perfect. 269 00:21:17,395 --> 00:21:20,593 You know that first love, you never get over it. 270 00:21:20,895 --> 00:21:23,404 I think I hear the veggie platter calling. 271 00:21:23,416 --> 00:21:25,651 Wait, so you're not hitched to Clark? 272 00:21:28,479 --> 00:21:29,549 Not exactly. 273 00:21:29,812 --> 00:21:32,281 - Are you engaged? - Nope. 274 00:21:32,771 --> 00:21:35,730 Oh. How long have you been seeing each other? 275 00:21:37,147 --> 00:21:41,221 Well, we're not, really. Right now. 276 00:21:42,522 --> 00:21:46,118 So you're the moth, not the flame. 277 00:21:46,439 --> 00:21:49,034 And not be moved by you? 278 00:21:49,314 --> 00:21:51,192 Are you sure he likes you? 279 00:21:51,439 --> 00:21:55,911 Would you tell me, how could it be. 280 00:21:56,273 --> 00:21:59,744 Any better than this? 281 00:22:00,065 --> 00:22:04,298 Correct me if I'm mistaken, but you care about Lois, don't you? 282 00:22:04,691 --> 00:22:07,251 All I've ever done was protect her after what happened with Lana. 283 00:22:07,524 --> 00:22:08,878 Interesting outcome. 284 00:22:09,899 --> 00:22:13,859 Lois doesn't seem especially protected. 285 00:22:15,066 --> 00:22:18,298 You spend so much time dwelling on the darkness of the past... 286 00:22:18,608 --> 00:22:21,760 you're missing the present that's right in front of your eyes. 287 00:22:29,443 --> 00:22:31,674 It's one of the people I put away in high school. 288 00:22:31,985 --> 00:22:34,659 You don't know what he's capable of. I need to get back. 289 00:22:34,943 --> 00:22:37,299 To do what? Weren't you about to hang up your shield? 290 00:22:37,568 --> 00:22:39,082 I have a message for Clark Kent. 291 00:22:39,360 --> 00:22:41,158 - Give me the ring. - Wait for the moment. 292 00:22:41,402 --> 00:22:44,042 No, Kal-El, you haven't learned the full lesson! 293 00:22:51,570 --> 00:22:53,163 Whoa, buddy. 294 00:23:14,322 --> 00:23:16,154 - Hey, watch it. - Lois. 295 00:23:16,405 --> 00:23:17,964 - How...? - Not again. 296 00:23:18,197 --> 00:23:19,790 Come on. 297 00:23:23,197 --> 00:23:24,517 - Wait, did...? - Seriously... 298 00:23:24,781 --> 00:23:27,853 I know we agreed we would keep our professional lives to ourselves... 299 00:23:28,156 --> 00:23:31,832 but what kind of secret story got you to dress-up day? 300 00:23:32,156 --> 00:23:33,306 Here, hold this. 301 00:23:33,531 --> 00:23:37,411 And I know that you don't like them, but you decided you wanted to wear them. 302 00:23:37,781 --> 00:23:40,376 - And lucky for you, I have a spare. There. - What...? 303 00:23:40,657 --> 00:23:43,456 Hey, I know they are not fashion-forward. 304 00:23:43,782 --> 00:23:45,739 But if it ain't broke, honey, don't fix it. 305 00:23:49,199 --> 00:23:54,149 Seriously, Clark, I thought we agreed on a Daily Planet dress code. 306 00:23:55,825 --> 00:23:58,056 Lois, wait. How did you get here? 307 00:23:58,366 --> 00:24:02,679 - I need to know about the reunion. - We need to table this all until later. 308 00:24:03,493 --> 00:24:05,212 We cannot have people thinking things. 309 00:24:06,826 --> 00:24:10,217 Perry, how many times have I told you that Troop can find his own sources? 310 00:24:10,535 --> 00:24:14,131 I told you it's not him. It's just the guy from the eighth floor. 311 00:24:28,536 --> 00:24:31,051 Kent, what are you doing? 312 00:24:32,995 --> 00:24:34,349 This is my desk. 313 00:24:34,662 --> 00:24:38,736 Not for years, unless somebody's been seriously demoted. 314 00:24:39,079 --> 00:24:40,115 Years? 315 00:24:48,829 --> 00:24:51,060 Clark? What are you doing? 316 00:24:51,329 --> 00:24:52,649 Lois, we need to talk. 317 00:24:57,622 --> 00:24:59,420 Ugh. Gloat all you want. 318 00:24:59,664 --> 00:25:03,499 But those names are getting flipped the second the boys from ops do a fly-by. 319 00:25:07,331 --> 00:25:08,845 Clark. 320 00:25:09,539 --> 00:25:12,737 Clark, what is going on with you today? 321 00:25:13,040 --> 00:25:16,556 - It's like you've never been here before. - I haven't, Lois. 322 00:25:20,041 --> 00:25:21,236 I'm from another time. 323 00:25:23,333 --> 00:25:28,124 No kidding? Clark, you're from a different planet. That's not exactly a news flash. 324 00:25:30,583 --> 00:25:33,382 - What did you say? - I didn't mean to come off so Lois. 325 00:25:33,666 --> 00:25:35,737 It's just that sometimes when you get pensive... 326 00:25:36,000 --> 00:25:39,516 I know that you have the whole "last son of Krypton" thing on your shoulders. 327 00:25:39,833 --> 00:25:41,426 But that's why you've got me, okay... 328 00:25:41,668 --> 00:25:45,025 to remind you that if you were going to land your spaceship anywhere... 329 00:25:45,335 --> 00:25:48,533 you couldn't have chosen better people to find you than the Kents. 330 00:25:48,835 --> 00:25:50,952 So you need to snap out of it. 331 00:25:56,502 --> 00:26:00,894 Wait, I know what this is about. I forgot again, didn't I? 332 00:26:02,335 --> 00:26:03,451 Our anniversary. 333 00:26:06,170 --> 00:26:08,082 Our anniversary? 334 00:26:08,587 --> 00:26:10,897 Oh, don't play dumb, you always hold it over me. 335 00:26:11,212 --> 00:26:15,172 The day you told me. The day you finally trusted me, it was... 336 00:26:15,504 --> 00:26:19,180 It was romantic, and it was the perfect day and... 337 00:26:19,504 --> 00:26:21,894 Okay, I always forget about it until the last minute. 338 00:26:22,171 --> 00:26:23,924 But I swear it is not until... 339 00:26:25,171 --> 00:26:27,891 See? I told you. 340 00:26:28,171 --> 00:26:29,969 So, what is it? 341 00:26:32,214 --> 00:26:33,807 Wait a minute. 342 00:26:34,089 --> 00:26:37,161 Oh, no. Kryptonite again. 343 00:26:37,506 --> 00:26:40,606 Look, I... Blue? Red? 344 00:26:40,839 --> 00:26:42,114 Not green. 345 00:26:43,048 --> 00:26:45,119 Please tell me it's not black, that was a disaster. 346 00:26:45,381 --> 00:26:46,974 Look, I just... 347 00:26:48,923 --> 00:26:50,437 I need the Legion ring. 348 00:26:50,673 --> 00:26:54,747 - Lois, do you know where it is? - Is that a joke, Clark? 349 00:26:55,091 --> 00:26:57,925 Touch it once, shame on you. Touch it twice, shame on me. 350 00:26:58,799 --> 00:27:01,598 And actually, I could really use it right now... 351 00:27:01,883 --> 00:27:05,081 because we have to be on opposite sides of town in 10 minutes. 352 00:27:05,383 --> 00:27:07,454 And unlike you, I have to drive. 353 00:27:07,716 --> 00:27:09,833 I can't keep the mayor waiting. 354 00:27:13,175 --> 00:27:16,452 - Lois, I'm not supposed to be here. - I know, we're late. 355 00:27:16,842 --> 00:27:19,232 Late? Lois, I need to get back. 356 00:27:19,509 --> 00:27:21,421 Look, the Legion ring is the only way to do it. 357 00:27:23,093 --> 00:27:24,812 Back? 358 00:27:25,093 --> 00:27:27,573 Okay, why don't you check your trunk of tchotchkes at the farm? 359 00:27:27,802 --> 00:27:31,398 Isn't that where you keep your phantom catchers and fortress disks and stuff? 360 00:27:31,718 --> 00:27:33,630 And if you need me, I'm there. 361 00:27:33,885 --> 00:27:36,002 No deadline is more important than you, okay? 362 00:27:43,011 --> 00:27:44,730 Going up, you're going down. 363 00:27:48,220 --> 00:27:50,212 She's a handful, isn't she? 364 00:28:11,014 --> 00:28:12,448 You're right on time. 365 00:28:12,681 --> 00:28:16,675 - You knew I'd be here? - Time travel, think it through. 366 00:28:17,056 --> 00:28:19,296 Because you were me when you went through this and I'm... 367 00:28:19,639 --> 00:28:21,312 Well done, my man. 368 00:28:21,639 --> 00:28:24,711 How did I become so uptight and nerdy? 369 00:28:25,015 --> 00:28:28,372 No time to chat about how, where, why. We've been through weirder things. 370 00:28:28,681 --> 00:28:31,241 - I need you on the roof. - When did I start taking orders? 371 00:28:31,557 --> 00:28:34,391 There's a nuclear reactor about to blow outside of town. 372 00:28:34,683 --> 00:28:38,040 - I can't be in two places at once. - If you knew, why didn't you stop it? 373 00:28:38,349 --> 00:28:41,706 You never would've experienced all this, and you never would have become me. 374 00:28:42,683 --> 00:28:44,800 Well, that's too bad. 375 00:28:46,350 --> 00:28:48,581 Roof, now. 376 00:28:51,392 --> 00:28:53,031 That's what I become. 377 00:29:09,685 --> 00:29:13,520 Mayday, mayday, we've lost control. We're going down. 378 00:29:14,352 --> 00:29:16,469 Mayday, mayday. 379 00:29:18,644 --> 00:29:22,035 Tower, this is November, zero, one, niner, niner, whiskey. 380 00:29:22,352 --> 00:29:23,991 We've lost hydraulics. 381 00:30:05,231 --> 00:30:06,984 What are you doing? 382 00:30:14,566 --> 00:30:16,006 I don't know what's gotten into you. 383 00:30:16,191 --> 00:30:18,501 There is a pilot with a migraine when he wakes up... 384 00:30:18,775 --> 00:30:21,574 who wishes you could have at least thrown on the cape. 385 00:30:23,025 --> 00:30:26,302 Lois, you protected my secret. 386 00:30:37,068 --> 00:30:38,787 What else was I gonna do? 387 00:30:39,027 --> 00:30:42,703 I would do anything for you. Hardly a news flash. 388 00:30:46,152 --> 00:30:47,825 Thank you. 389 00:30:52,361 --> 00:30:54,956 Oh, you drive me crazy. 390 00:30:57,027 --> 00:30:58,780 I guess I should get going. 391 00:30:59,028 --> 00:31:02,624 Oh. Right, obviously. 392 00:31:02,945 --> 00:31:05,460 Busy day for a superhero. 393 00:31:07,446 --> 00:31:10,564 Don't be late, dinner reservation's at 7. 394 00:31:17,363 --> 00:31:20,401 Not every man is destined to find a woman like Lois. 395 00:31:20,696 --> 00:31:22,972 She's definitely one of a kind. 396 00:31:23,863 --> 00:31:26,901 - I know why you sent me here now. - I intended to be here with you. 397 00:31:27,197 --> 00:31:29,348 But you interfered with the ring. 398 00:31:29,948 --> 00:31:33,862 You wanted me to see how things would be with Lois and flying. 399 00:31:34,198 --> 00:31:37,714 I wanted you to see that your darkness lies not only in dwelling upon the past... 400 00:31:38,031 --> 00:31:40,102 but in fearing the future. 401 00:31:41,031 --> 00:31:43,421 I've always hoped my life would be like this. 402 00:31:43,698 --> 00:31:47,374 With Lois. Well, with all of it. 403 00:31:48,865 --> 00:31:51,265 Lately, I've stopped believing that it could actually happen. 404 00:31:51,575 --> 00:31:53,373 Well, that's up to you, isn't it? 405 00:31:53,908 --> 00:31:55,828 You don't need to worry about the future, Kal-El. 406 00:31:56,033 --> 00:32:00,266 You can see that it's just fine as long as you shed the weight of the past. 407 00:32:01,867 --> 00:32:05,577 It's just, the next time you decide to defy me... 408 00:32:05,909 --> 00:32:08,822 don't strand me back in the dark ages. 409 00:32:18,035 --> 00:32:19,788 I have a message for Clark Kent. 410 00:32:20,035 --> 00:32:23,312 Yeah? How about, "Don't leave your date with Punch Bowl Maddie"? 411 00:32:24,785 --> 00:32:26,777 Something tells me it's for a good reason. 412 00:32:28,036 --> 00:32:30,392 You know, Clark is the reason a lot of us are still here. 413 00:32:30,661 --> 00:32:31,661 Oh? 414 00:32:31,869 --> 00:32:36,341 I kind of got caught up in my web of obsession, and he set me straight. 415 00:32:36,953 --> 00:32:40,230 It's not every place that has a hometown hero like Clark Kent. 416 00:32:43,371 --> 00:32:45,442 That's the kind of guy he is. 417 00:32:45,704 --> 00:32:49,698 Just tell him. Tell him thank you. 418 00:32:54,371 --> 00:32:55,805 I guess you're right. 419 00:32:56,788 --> 00:32:59,906 I've been so buried by the mistakes of my past... 420 00:33:00,205 --> 00:33:02,800 and so worried about the responsibilities of the future... 421 00:33:03,080 --> 00:33:04,799 I lost sight of the present. 422 00:33:05,289 --> 00:33:07,929 A hero is made in the moment. 423 00:33:08,206 --> 00:33:12,120 Not from questioning the past or fearing what's to come. 424 00:33:12,790 --> 00:33:15,100 Just remember that, Kal-El. 425 00:33:19,915 --> 00:33:24,671 And how can I stand here with you. 426 00:33:25,040 --> 00:33:29,671 And not be moved by you? 427 00:33:30,750 --> 00:33:35,188 Would you tell me how could it be. 428 00:33:35,542 --> 00:33:38,614 Any better than this? 429 00:33:38,917 --> 00:33:44,549 How could it be any better than this? 430 00:33:45,459 --> 00:33:46,688 Thank you all for coming. 431 00:33:46,917 --> 00:33:49,989 We'll see you all back here in another five years. Bak, bak, Crows. 432 00:33:50,292 --> 00:33:51,885 I'm sorry. 433 00:33:52,167 --> 00:33:55,239 That's okay. Who wants a dance anyway, right? 434 00:33:55,544 --> 00:33:57,775 You saved me the blisters, Smallville. 435 00:33:58,085 --> 00:34:00,042 Besides, I have an early deadline tomorrow. 436 00:34:00,294 --> 00:34:02,490 Why put off till tomorrow what you can do today? 437 00:34:02,752 --> 00:34:06,587 - You're quite a handful, Lois Lane. - Look who's talking. 438 00:34:16,253 --> 00:34:18,051 You were right, Dad. 439 00:34:18,296 --> 00:34:21,687 I never stopped blaming myself for what happened to you. 440 00:34:26,379 --> 00:34:28,974 It was a way to not have to let go. 441 00:34:32,255 --> 00:34:35,089 That's exactly what I have to do to move on. 442 00:34:37,421 --> 00:34:41,461 To get rid of the darkness of my past I've been carrying around. 443 00:34:43,131 --> 00:34:45,885 To be there for the people who need me now. 444 00:34:52,340 --> 00:34:54,536 You said to hold on to Smallville. 445 00:34:57,048 --> 00:34:59,438 I will, I won't ever forget. 446 00:35:02,715 --> 00:35:05,389 Because you'll be with me no matter where I go. 447 00:35:08,592 --> 00:35:11,426 But I have to say the one thing I never could. 448 00:35:27,509 --> 00:35:29,501 Goodbye, Dad. 449 00:35:43,886 --> 00:35:46,606 I promise to be the man you knew I could be. 450 00:36:02,429 --> 00:36:04,022 You're all set. 451 00:36:04,263 --> 00:36:07,142 - All right, settle down, people. - We're close. 452 00:36:07,680 --> 00:36:13,392 - Okay, get ready, we're going. - And three, two, action. 453 00:36:13,805 --> 00:36:15,364 Good morning, Metropolis. 454 00:36:15,597 --> 00:36:17,873 We have a very special show for you this morning. 455 00:36:18,138 --> 00:36:19,697 We have an exclusive interview... 456 00:36:19,930 --> 00:36:22,604 with a very special guest who needs no introduction. 457 00:36:22,931 --> 00:36:24,650 Metropolis' infamous bad boy... 458 00:36:24,890 --> 00:36:28,122 and self-admitted practicing vigilante, Oliver Queen. 459 00:36:28,473 --> 00:36:30,385 Or should I say the Green Arrow? 460 00:36:30,640 --> 00:36:34,156 - What's on your answering machine? - Yeah, that's... 461 00:36:34,473 --> 00:36:37,386 It's not every day a billionaire admits to parading around in leather... 462 00:36:37,682 --> 00:36:39,992 playing cops and robbers. Why do it? 463 00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:43,564 Were you just getting bored sitting around, counting your money... 464 00:36:43,849 --> 00:36:45,966 decided to play dress up and it just stuck? 465 00:36:46,225 --> 00:36:47,739 How does that work, exactly? 466 00:36:50,100 --> 00:36:51,500 Huh. 467 00:36:52,475 --> 00:36:54,751 I think our audience would like some answers. 468 00:37:04,934 --> 00:37:06,766 I lost someone. 469 00:37:08,934 --> 00:37:10,288 She meant everything to me. 470 00:37:13,602 --> 00:37:15,275 So for that you want, what... 471 00:37:15,519 --> 00:37:18,273 a merit badge and special rights? - No. 472 00:37:18,561 --> 00:37:20,200 No, you're right, I'm not special. 473 00:37:20,436 --> 00:37:22,792 This isn't about who I am, it's about what I do. 474 00:37:23,061 --> 00:37:26,054 And I don't think I'm the first rich boy who felt that way. 475 00:37:26,353 --> 00:37:27,753 John F. Kennedy once said: 476 00:37:27,978 --> 00:37:30,129 "Ask not what your country can do for you... 477 00:37:30,395 --> 00:37:32,432 but what you can do for your country." 478 00:37:35,061 --> 00:37:38,975 So now you're... You're comparing yourself to a fallen hero of this country? 479 00:37:39,313 --> 00:37:42,351 Why not? He saw the hero in all of us. 480 00:37:43,396 --> 00:37:45,786 I'm not dwelling on revenge for past atrocities... 481 00:37:46,063 --> 00:37:49,500 or looking ahead to what I can personally gain from a few tax breaks. 482 00:37:49,813 --> 00:37:53,204 Drilling oil wells in the ocean, putting up razor fences to keep out immigrants... 483 00:37:53,563 --> 00:37:55,953 who only want what our grandparents wanted. 484 00:37:56,230 --> 00:37:58,028 In this world of armchair bloggers... 485 00:37:58,272 --> 00:38:00,632 who created a generation of critics instead of leaders... 486 00:38:00,898 --> 00:38:02,651 I'm actually doing something. 487 00:38:02,898 --> 00:38:08,098 Right here, right now, for the city and for my country. 488 00:38:14,274 --> 00:38:16,311 And I'm not doing it alone. 489 00:38:18,524 --> 00:38:20,243 You're damn right I'm a hero. 490 00:38:48,610 --> 00:38:50,124 Clark? 491 00:39:05,903 --> 00:39:07,781 Not that I'm an interior designer... 492 00:39:08,028 --> 00:39:11,305 but one of these things doesn't exactly go with the other. 493 00:39:15,654 --> 00:39:17,885 I'm sorry we missed our dance. 494 00:39:19,988 --> 00:39:22,708 You don't need to worry about me, Clark. 495 00:39:23,363 --> 00:39:27,960 If anybody understands deadlines and urgent things, it's me. 496 00:39:29,447 --> 00:39:31,439 I'm not worried about you. 497 00:39:33,239 --> 00:39:34,878 I missed you. 498 00:39:35,697 --> 00:39:37,097 Oh. 499 00:39:38,364 --> 00:39:43,439 Well, I don't know, neither of us are primed for Dancing with the Stars. 500 00:39:43,823 --> 00:39:47,499 And, speaking strictly as friends, I don't know if this is such a good idea. 501 00:39:47,824 --> 00:39:50,737 Lois, get over here. 502 00:39:53,032 --> 00:39:55,501 I'm not sure how we're gonna make this work... 503 00:39:55,782 --> 00:39:59,014 without the jukebox nostalgia and the balloons and... 504 00:39:59,366 --> 00:40:01,642 - Lois. - Shut up? 505 00:40:04,492 --> 00:40:06,245 Right, shut up. Ha. 506 00:40:09,159 --> 00:40:10,434 Ow! 507 00:40:11,409 --> 00:40:13,162 - Ah. - Sorry. 508 00:40:13,409 --> 00:40:16,959 - I'm the one who put my feet under yours. - Um, but I... 509 00:40:17,659 --> 00:40:20,493 - It's fine. - Let's just try this. 510 00:40:39,620 --> 00:40:41,418 I love you. 511 00:40:43,661 --> 00:40:45,414 I love you too. 512 00:40:55,871 --> 00:40:57,711 Clark, there's something we need to talk about. 513 00:40:57,913 --> 00:41:04,149 Just for now, can we leave tomorrow till tomorrow and just have this? 514 00:41:04,580 --> 00:41:06,219 Mm-hm.