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
Stately Luthor Manor, nighttime. Lex's lady assistant is giving him a rundown of Kara's fake bio. According to Chloe's fiction, she was an only child, had two dogs, was home-schooled, and grew up in Minnesota. Lex tells his assistant to keep searching. He looks at some photos of Kara. Clark is there, so Lex deftly keeps those away and instead picks up a newspaper and congratulates Clark on his recent heroics. Clark says that's why he's here. He wants Lex to help him with a reference. Like a letter of recommendation? You kind of shit the bed on that one, Clark. Clark says that Lex is the biggest Warrior Angel fan he knows. Lex says that he was a fan, but that he hasn't picked up a comic since he and Clark were friends. He says that, back then, he saw the world as black and white. Now that good and evil are gray, Lex says, the comics lost interest for him. Lex says, clunkily, that Clark's nose is the last one he'd expect to find in a comic. Clark tells Lex about the attack on Christina, and shows him a printout from a message board with the "Her blood will unleash the truth" line. Hey, that color scheme looks a bit like Kryptonsite. Lex catches the reference instantly: "Issue number five." He goes to his expensive set of display cases and pulls out a bottom drawer with comic books neatly hanging within. A temperature controller hisses as Lex slides it out. Nerd alert, nerd alert! Call security! Lex busts out #5: "One of my favorites." Lex tells Clark that it was the first time the arch-rival Devilicus got the upper hand. Well then, the first four issues must have been boring as hell. Lex says that Warrior Angel's girlfriend tries to expose the villain's evil and gets in over her head. We see the cover of the comic. A sad Warrior Angel is looking down. "Hero in Solitude," the cover reads. Clark opens the comic and sees Warrior Angel holding a woman in his arms. Lex says that Devilicus does something no reader sees coming: he shoots the girlfriend. Lex says that Warrior Angel can't get there in time, and the girlfriend dies. Clark tells Lex about the film version. "Sounds like Hollywood went for the happy ending," says Lex, adding that, in the comic-book world, when you're destined to save the world, you're destined to do it alone. The camera pushes in for emphasis. Clark is a little stunned. Close-up on an image from the comic: a gnarly-looking pistol.
We cut to a real-life version of that pistol. PA Guy is replacing the blanks in the prop gun with real bullets. Eeeevil! He grimaces and hands the gun to another guy. Don't they do, like, a million checks on these now on movie sets after the whole Brandon Lee incident? This seems a little implausible. Wait, I'm sorry, I forgot what show I was recapping. Please. Carry on. Clark is on the set, guarding. They're shooting on some dark gas station set. PA Guy hides behind some planks of wood and watches the shooting of the next scene. A scene is rolling. Devilicus -- who looks like a giant lame striped bat -- points the gun at Christina and tells her she'll never live to expose him. Clark does his x-ray vision and sees a real bullet flying out of the chamber in slow motion. He does his magic and takes the bullet. On the film shoot, Warrior Angel clumsily mimes taking the bullet from the air after Clark has disappeared. PA Guy wonders what happened as the director yells, "Cut!" Clark holds out his hand with the smoking bullet right in front of the hiding PA. It's not Clark's best moment. The PA is like, "Fuck yes!" "Nice catch," he whispers, "superhero."