Episode Report Card Omar G: B+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Zoneno!
By Omar G | Season 8 | Episode 8 | Aired on 11.06.2008
In the exam room where Davis was impaled, he suddenly wakes up in a pool of his own blood. He inhales sharply. He's back!
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Daily Planet, daytime. Lois, with her hair toned down and makeup back to normal (but cleavage exposed and at the ready), finds Clark at the copy machine. She whispers that she just came from Tess's office and got a raise. And with that, Lois has broken the last remaining rule of working at a newspaper: you don't discuss your salary with coworkers. She has earned the un-coveted Worst Newspaper Employee Ever award, narrowly beating out the guy who made up funny horoscopes and forgot to print a bunch of obits. Clark asks why Tess would give her a raise. "Because I'm me, hello!" she sasses. Oh, Godsticks. I now have good reason to understand that it's Lois the character, not Erica Durance the actress, who is so horrible. Because Durance did a pretty great job as Faora. Clark rolls his eyes and sighs, not sure how to respond. He says it's a bit random. Lois pats him on the shoulder condescendingly and tells him he just has to pay his dues and keep photocopying like a champ. Clark asks if she saw Tess the day before. Lois doesn't remember. She says she touched the rock, tripped out in an Arabian Nights acid trip and woke up confused. Clark says it was probably a blood-sugar thing. He says it's a good thing he can keep an eye on Lois at the farm. Lois pauses. "About that... change of plans," she says. Lois says it's nothing against Clark, but with her raise she can now afford to live somewhere without farm animals. It was that big a raise? Gah. There is no God or justice or truth in this universe. Clark asks if it had anything to do with the hallucination she had. Lois scoffs, saying it was just a dream. She asks what kind of reality has Clark as her knight in shining armor. Clark, amused, notes that he was her knight in shining armor. Lois, awkwardly, calls it crazy. One of Tess's assistants (a strong-looking male one, not her perky blonde assistant) tells Clark that Tess wants to see him. He pauses long enough to give Clark and Lois a really dirty look. Lois gives Clark a half-smile.
Tess's office. She puts down a photo she was looking at as Clark walks in. Tess says, out of nowhere, that she shouldn't have underestimated Lois. She says Lois blew her away yesterday. "You did see her yesterday," Clark says. Tess says she didn't think Lois had an interesting bone in her body. (Usually, she has to have one inserted into her by a coworker.) Tess says that Lois was telling her about Kryptonian spaceships and someone named Kal-El. Clark shits his pants a little. He smirks and says Lois was just hallucinating. Tess mentions that she stopped at the farm. She's sure Chloe must have mentioned it. She says Clark has quite the muddy driveway. She shows him a photo of a boot sole print. Tess has figured out that Clark was the last person to see Lex alive. A matching bootprint was found up in the arctic. She provides a handy overlay to prove the point. Clark says a lot of people have work boots. Clark pooh-poohs the evidence. Tess says there's a lot more to Clark than he's willing to admit. Clark says he's just a farmer-turned-journalist and not a very interesting story. Sometimes, I agree. Tess thinks Clark is hiding something about Lex. She wants Clark to know they're on the same side. And she doesn't think he should be lying to his boss. Clark says she should fire him if she wants because he has nothing else to say about the photos. Tess doesn't want to fire Clark. Raise, then? She says she wants to trust Clark. She wants to know why Lex didn't trust him. She believes the truth will reveal itself in time. Close-up on Clark. That would ruin his day.