Episode Report Card Omar G: B | 3 USERS: A YOU GRADE IT Shake It Up
By Omar G | Season 1 | Episode 8 | Aired on 12.10.2001
Outside, Papa Luthor is told the gas pressure dropped. No one knows why. Except Bo and MamaKent.
At the Level 3 elevator. The wall has been punched through, revealing the elevator behind it. "Son of a bitch!" Jitterman roars at Lex. "How do you explain that?" Lex says, wearily, that he can't. They enter the elevator with its friendly "ding!" Jitterman pushes a button that doesn't even seem to appear on the panel. Why even put it there if you're trying to hide it? Couldn't someone press it accidentally? Man, those Luthors sure don't know shit about keeping secrets.
Ding! Lights come on and we see a huge empty warehouse. Lex looks around, amazed, as they walk across a catwalk way, high up. "Where is it? Where is everything?" Jitterman asks. The place has been cleared out. "There was a field of corn! With sprayers all over it! And every night they'd spray this green mist on it!" Jitterman yells. "What have you done with it?" Lex tells him that he was lied to, also. Clark shows up and gets in the middle of the tiff. Lex says he didn't know about the place, and asks Clark to believe him. Jitterman of course thinks Lex is just like his father. He starts to shake the catwalk and move around, scaring poor Lex. Then he gets the jitters and all hell breaks loose. The catwalk breaks. Lex and Jitterman fall, hanging by pipes. "Claaaark!" Lex roars, and for once, it's not a come-on. Lex falls again and ends up catching Jitterman's feet. They're both hanging at a great height as Clark looks on. "No! Oh, God!" Lex yells. Dramatic music plays. Clark inches over. He takes Jitterman by the hand and tries to help him up. The veins in his hand turn green and mottled. Even weak, Clark manages to pull Jitterman up. With Jitterman safe, Clark tells him to get to the elevator. Clark helps Lex up to safety and then totally leaves him there. Wouldn't Lex's arms be too weak from hanging to do any climbing on his own? No matter. They're all safe. But, wait! Jitterman starts to shake again, right on the edge of the catwalk and gripping the rail. Lex and Clark bum rush him, falling all over each other in a pile of manliness. The catwalk falls, crushing a bunch of canisters below and releasing a green powder. "Clark," Lex asks, "how did you pull us up?" "I don't know. Adrenaline, I guess," Clark answers. It's better than Wheaties.
Outside. Jitterman is taken on a stretcher to an ambulance. Clark gets mad hugs from his folks, who are thrilled to see him. They hug and chat and it's all very Cliff Huxtable. Lex goes to his dad and says, immediately, "You lied to me." Papa Luthor denies it. "I said Level 3 wasn't on any plans. It wasn't." Lex asks what they were doing down there. Papa Luthor says it doesn't matter; it was a failure. "You almost got me killed," Lex says, showing some real hurt here. "You almost got yourself killed. It was your call, remember?" Papa Luthor reminds him. The media swarms in. Papa Luthor says he'll handle it. Papa Luthor says that Level 3 is a redundant storage area, and that Jitterman is a very sick man who needs medical attention. Lex jumps in and adds that the company is going to find Jitterman the best medical attention. "Here at Luthorcorp, we always put family first," Lex says, trying to rub it in. Papa gets asked if the government is trying to shut down his company. "Please, please," Papa says, "my son has been through quite an ordeal." He uses the photo op to hug his son lamely. As the hug happens, Lex sullenly looks over toward the Kent family, who are all hugs and smiles. Bo Duke even gives Clark a little mock punch on the nipple. It's sweet. Lex looks like the saddest boy in the world. Sad music plays. Close-up on Lex and his hurt. Blackout.