Episode Report Card Omar G: C+ | 2 USERS: C YOU GRADE IT Meta-stasized
By Omar G | Season 7 | Episode 5 | Aired on 10.24.2007
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Daily Planet. Boy Editor is looking at a printed-out draft of a Lois Lane story: "Missing CEO Found Alive: Billionaire Lionel Luthor Discovered." "This is crap," he tells Lois. She wonders if he's on crack, and says she knows somehow that Papa Luthor was found on LuthorCorp soil. Lois asks whether Lex might have used her tip to find Papa Luthor, or if he'd been hiding him there this whole time. Boy Editor -- who should put this on A1 right now -- says that Lois went behind his back, and that he told her the Luthors were off-limits. Lois sighs that it sounds like he might be worried about her. "More like annoyed," says Boy Editor. He completely changes the subject, saying that the paper is being honored for something Friday night, and he wants Lois to go with him. Lois scoffs. She thinks it's just an excuse to take a pretty girl while Boy Editor schmoozes. He says it's more like a chance for Lois to hobnob with movers and shakers from Metropolis. He wants her to rescue him from some long-winded speeches. Lois asks if he's asking her on a date. "God no -- I'm your boss," he tells her. It doesn't sound very convincing. He tells Lois that she's fired from being his plus-one. Lois says she never accepted. She hands him the story and says he doesn't want to be scooped by The Ledger again. On the way out of the room, she tells him that if she had been Boy Editor's plus-one, he'd have been her arm candy. Huh? Lois would be a lot more devastating if anything she said made an ounce of sense. I'm just glad to get out of this scene.
Kent Farm. Lana is hanging out in the loft, looking out of the huge window. She's still wearing virginal white. Papa Luthor has shown up, and he doesn't seem thrilled about having to go up all these stairs. He says that Lex told him Lana is living there now. Walking with a limp, he notes that it hasn't taken Lana long to go back to her roots. Lana says she heard what happened, and asks whether Papa Luthor is all right. Papa says that it's not reassuring to read your own obituary, and that Lana should know what that feels like. Lana says she heard Papa was being held captive by a crazy woman. Papa chuckles heartily and says, "Indeed I was. You." Hee hee. Nice one. Lana, smiling, walks forward and says, "I would never be involved in something like that." "Oh please," says Papa, "that line stopped working for you the minute you faked your own death." Beat down! Tell her! Testify! Papa says that Lex filled him in on the details. He asks how much Clark knows. Lana -- still with the goofy/sneaky smile -- says that she's sure Clark is happy that Papa's alive and well. Papa says that he's sure Lana believes she did everything for Clark. Lana says that finding Papa Luthor's body, and that paying a woman to keep him captive seems pretty complicated from a hotel in Shanghai. He says that she may have lost the Luthor name, but that it's the Luthor instincts that keep her claws sharp. He walks out. But before he goes, he tells Lana that she's at the edge of a very dangerous precipice: "You could easily tumble into someplace very dark. And very hard to escape." Lana says she hopes Papa doesn't plan on spreading these lies to Clark. Papa says he doesn't believe in Lana's good intentions, or in her intent to protect Clark. He thinks that this is about retribution, and asks Lana to let it go before it's too late. Lana just stares. Papa leaves. Lana continues to stare, expressionless. If only we could see what she's thinking. Or that she could act, so we'd have a clue.
A secured cell in Belle Reve. Lex walks in, holding a little case. PA Guy, minus all his pens and headset, recognizes him, and asks what Lex is doing there. Lex hands over the case he's holding and says he thought PA might enjoy it. PA opens it and gasps. He spreads a bunch of comic books on his bunk, and says that they're the rarest Warrior Angel comic books ever: they're worth a fortune. He asks why Lex is giving him these. Lex says that he's been known to believe in something even when the whole world tells him he's wrong. He once gave a man a million dollars for what was supposed to be Bigfoot's scrotum. That one didn't work out so well. PA recognizes the line as something Devilicus said to the president in a comic. "175," Lex says, pointing out the issue number. Lex wants to know about the man PA saw swipe a bullet from thin air, and that he's here to listen. PA thinks about it, and finally answers, "There's nothing to say. It was all in my head." He walks across the room and sits on the floor. Lex is stymied.