Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: B- | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Abandonment Issues
By Tippi Blevins | Season 10 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.12.2010
Kent Farm. A crescent moon hangs in the sky. Lois places the blue glass bird in the kitchen window. "Yes and no," Clark says behind her. She turns to give him a quizzical look. He explains: "Yes, I think your mother is still watching over you, and no, I don't think you're crazy." Can you read my mind? No? Then quit putting words in my mouth! Lois tearfully says her mother was afraid to look weak in front of her, that she felt she'd failed. "Clark, she's the bravest person I know," Lois says, hugging him. They talk about their all-too-human (or Kryptonian) parents not wanting to burden their children with their mistakes. Maybe they were the ones who couldn't handle saying goodbye. He realizes now that Jor-El blamed himself for losing their home. "All the weight I thought I had on my shoulders... he was carrying something so much heavier." "And he didn't want you to carry it with him," Lois says. Uh.. what? I think there's some kind of pronoun oopsie there. Clark looks sad for a while, but he's glad that Lois got to see Jor-El. He thanks her for that. Lois gives her mom the credit. Also thanks to her mom, she's moving in with Clark. She shows him her toothbrush as proof. Clark offers to take her out for a night of karaoke... which is kind of random. When he leaves the room to get their coats, Lois puts away the last of her mother's keepsakes, pausing when she sees a note that reads "For your wedding day." She hides it from Clark when he returns. Lois, eager to get her Whitesnake groove on, heads out the door. Clark lags behind a moment. He pulls a diamond engagement ring from his coat pocket and gives it an admiring ogle. "Hurry up, Clark," Lois calls from outside. "It's gonna start soon!" "Sooner than you think, Lois," he says. This probably means we're going to have to deal with bridezilla Lois at some point in the season, right?
Luthor Mansion. The moon is suddenly full. Has a lot of time passed, or did someone fall asleep in the editing room? Tess sits in her library office. Once again, a storm rages outside. The thunder and lightning always like to show up for a dramatic moment. Tess has a folder from the orphanage. In it is her birth certificate. As she reads it, she flashes back to the (stormy) night she was left on the steps of St. Louise's. A man leads little Tess from a limo to Granny Goodness's waiting hands. He caresses the top of little Tess's head before returning to his car. Although we don't see his face, we get a glimpse of his leonine mane. Little Tess calls after her father, but he drives away. The last thing she sees is the license plate that reads... "LUTHOR." In the present day, Tess learns from her birth certificate that Lionel was her father and Pamela Jenkins was her mother. She also learns that her birth parents were especially cruel, as they thought "Lutessa" was a perfectly sane name to give her. Tess, overwhelmed, runs to the window. "Happy birthday," she says to herself, adding her insane real name with a note of bitterness.