Summary
Clark and Lois go to check out the ruined dam where Lex
was running his experiments. Clark tells Lois that after
Lana's funeral, he's leaving Smallville to head "up north."
On the way to the dam, they stumble upon what appears to
be a Kryptonian spaceship.
Kryptonite
near
the site keep Clark from getting close, but Lois approaches
the ship and takes a picture of its markings with her cell
phone. Clark is in the process of trying to convince Lois
it's just an experimental airplane when something zooms
past Lois, knocking her off her unconscious. The woman
that saved Lex in "Bizarro" is the blur in question. She
crushes the cell phone in front of Clark and warns that
this is what happens when people mess with her stuff.
Clark makes a run at the woman. They collide at super
speed and Clark is sent hurtling through the forest. The
woman catches up to him and tells him to go get his girlfriend
and not come back. She flies off out of Earth's atmosphere,
where she stops and holds a crystal similar to the one
Clark used to fight the phantoms. In the crystal we see
an image of a baby.
Chloe sits in her apartment over the Talon and looks,
sadly, over the profiles of several patients from Belle
Reve Sanitarium
who have been transferred to Luthorcorp to further testing.
Lois and Clark show up, and Lois starts going on about
finding a spaceship. Chloe hides the profiles. Clark tries
to convince Lois she's imagining things and slipped and
hit her head on a rock. Lois thinks she was knocked out
by a forcefield and goes to change clothes before heading
to the Inquisitor to work on her story.
While Lois is changing, Clark fills Chloe in on the new
Kryptonian "super girl" (as Chloe calls her). Clark notes
that they haven't run into too many Kryptonians that ended
up being super people, just super powered. He wants to
get back to the dam to give things another look. Chloe
helps
distract
Lois
by insisting that she get her head checked out at the hospital
in case she has a concussion.
Lex paces in his cell in the Kansas State Penitentiary.
Lex's lawyer shows up with the news that Lana's killer
has confessed. All charges against Lex have been dropped.
The confessed killer is a disgruntled employee. Lex insists
on setting up a meeting with the employee. He doesn't believe
the man killed Lana. In fact, he's not even certain that
Lana is dead.
Clark returns to where he and Lois found the spaceship.
He finds several men dead, and the
police investigating. Lois' crushed cell phone is part
of the cordoned off area. The spaceship is nowhere to be
found.
Lex catches up to Chloe at the Daily Planet. He's learned
that Lionel paid the confessed killer a large sum of money
before Lionel disappeared. Chloe tells Lex that no matter
how he escaped the charges, it isn't going to bring Lana
back. Lex suggests that Lana isn't dead. He mentions how
Lana stole several classified documents before her "death."
Despite DNA evidence at the scene of the explosion, Lex
thinks Lana staged it, and if she'd tell anyone about her
plans, it'd be Chloe. Chloe insists that the only thing
she knows is that Lex needs psychiatric help.
Later, Clark visits Chloe at the Planet. She doesn't mention
her run-in with Lex, but she does tell Clark that Krypto-girl
has been turning up at day-care facilities and scaring
the children.
Speaking of day-care centers, that's where Clark finds
the woman. He rushes her off before the teachers see her.
They have a brief tussle before Clark sees the S-shield
on her bracelet. He asks her what she's doing on Earth.
She's looking for a little boy. His name is "Kal-El."
The new editor of the Daily Planet, Grant Gabriel, overhears
Chloe and Lois arguing over whether Lois' spaceship story
is
good
for her career. Gabriel surprises truth-in-journalism-Chloe
by offering Lois a job at the Planet if she can deliver
her spaceship story and sell papers.
Kara, as she's apparently named, and Clark go to the Kent
farm. Kara used to baby sit Clark when he was a baby. Her
father, Zor-El sent her to Earth shortly after Clark. While
Clark crashed on land and was found by the Kents, Kara
crashed in the water and remained in suspended animation
for eighteen years before the dam broke and her spaceship
surfaced.
Kara and Clark play family catch-up. Zor-El and Jor-El
were brothers, but weren't exactly on speaking terms. Zor-El
told her about the powers she'd get from Earth's yellow
sun, but he didn't know about Kryptonite. When she left,
Krypton was in the midst of a civil war led by General
Zod. She was sent by Zor-El to find Kal-El because he thought
Kal-El was Krypton's last hope. Clark breaks the news to
her that Krypton exploded, and Kryptonite rocks are pieces
of their homeworld that traveled to Earth after that explosion.
Clark and Kara are the only survivors.
Kara doesn't believe Krypton is gone, but she doesn't
have time to argue about it. Now that she's found Clark,
she needs to find her spaceship. If anyone other than her
manages to open the ship, it will trigger a self-destruct
mechanism. By self-destruct she means nuclear explosion.
That would be bad.
The ship has been taken to some as-yet unnamed facility.
The people working there start attempting to open the ship.
Lasers scan the ship until they land on the Kryptonian
symbols. It's reported that the surface temperature of
the ship is rising.
The
man
in charge
orders
"extraction
protocol,"
and preparations for immediate evacuation.
Lois tells Gabriel that Chloe should write the story on
the spaceship. At first, Gabriel thinks that Lois is naive
for letting her feeling for her cousin get in the way of
her career, and he tells her that Chloe has lost her mojo.
Then he thinks it isn't about Chloe at all, but that Lois's
story isn't going anywhere. Lois proves otherwise by producing
photographs of a convoy of trucks taking something from
near the dam to a grain silo in Granville. Gabriel tells
her that she's got a decision to make, ultimately leading
her to be a great reporter or to be a nobody.
Lex's lackey gives him the news that they've located Lana
by using voice recognition software on every phone call
made around the world. She's in China, near Shanghai. Lex
orders his jet readied.
Kara and Clark visit Chloe looking for leads on the spaceship.
On the way there, Kara chides Clark for not being able
to fly, suggesting that females must mature faster. Kara
doesn't have much regard or respect for humans, or for
Clark's
secret,
for
that
matter.
Chloe
mentions
that
her editor is breathing down her neck for a big story and
all she's got is the loss of AM/FM radio in Granville.
Clark and Kara figure out that the interference is probably
an alarm triggered by the opening of Kara's ship. If the
alarm has sounded, Kara is the only one that can disarm
the self-destruct. On the Daily Planet roof, Clark teaches
Kara how to use her super hearing to hear her ship's alarm.
If they can hear the alarm, they can find it.
Lois lets herself, video camera in hand, into the facility
where the ship is being held. The place is deserted and
an alarm
klaxon
is
sounding. She finds the ship and touches the Kryptonian
symbols. Big mistake. A forcefield knocks Lois away from
the ship, unconscious. The ship starts to transform as
Clark and Kara arrive. Clark tends to Lois. Kara blocks
a beam of energy coming from her ship. When the beam stops,
the ship is gone.
Lex finds Lana in her apartment in Shanghai. Lana was
waiting for him and pulls a gun. Lex tells her he isn't
there for revenge, but to beg forgiveness. We find out
that Lex had cloned Lana. That was the model 503 Lex was
asking about in "Bizarro." The clone was never alive, though,
and Lana stole it and placed it in the car before it exploded.
That's how Lana's DNA was found at the scene.
Lana tells Lex she's going to make sure that Lex never
hurts anyone else again. Lex says that after all the pain
he put Lana through, he deserves to die. He asks Lana to
pull the trigger. She can't bring herself to do it. Lex
tells her that she can safely return to Smallville. He'll
never hurt her again and she can life out her life any
way she wants it. He tells her he's sorry, then leaves.
Despite her two concussions and a fried video camera,
Lois ends up with a job at the Daily Planet. Her story
was unprintable without a picture, but Gabriel loved the
way she wrote. He sets Lois up with a desk opposite Chloe,
hoping a little family rivalry will bring good results
for the paper.
Kara and Clark discuss Krypton in the barn loft. Clark
doesn't know how Krypton exploded. Kara says she heard
whispers of a "doomsday scenario," but never imagined anyone
would use it. She wishes she'd had her powers on Krypton.
Maybe that would have allowed her to save it. Clark tries
to comfort her by reminding her that she saved a lot of
people by containing her ship's detonation. It isn't the
same. Clark asks her to tell him about Krypton and about
his family.
Kara tells Clark a little about his mother, Lara, but
doing so reminds Kara that all of her family members are
now dead. Clark reminds her that he's family, and offers
to let her stay on the farm as long as she likes. Kara
tells Clark that her father gave her a crystal with all
of her directives for helping Clark. If the crystal were
to fall into the wrong hands...
The crystal in question is in the hands of the man giving
the orders at that silo in Granville. He delivers it to
the US Department of Domestic Security in Washington D.C.
Clark visits his Fortress of Solitude. Apparently he and
Jor-El are back on speaking terms. He tells Clark that
he knows nothing about Kara being sent to Earth, and that
neither Zor-El nor Kara can be trusted. Clark's training
begins by watching Kara, whom Jor-El says poses a bigger
threat than Clark believes.
Lex completes a drawing of Kara as he saw her in the water.
He instructs his lackey to find the woman in the drawing,
using whatever resources are necessary.
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