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
Hospital. Faora is playing with some pretty white flowers in an exam room. Davis enters. He offers her a cup of coffee. He says it won't sober her up, but it'll help clear away the cobwebs. Faora, staring lovingly, says that Davis may not recognize her, but he's the spitting image of his father. Do Kryptonians use the phrase "Spitting image?" Do they even spit? Davis smiles. He's not buying it. He thinks she's on drugs. He starts to examine her, using his trusty "Pen-light in the eye" method. "You don't know who you are," Faora says flatly. She informs him that he's experiencing blackouts and missing pieces of his life. "Your body's still evolving," she says. Freaked out, Davis asks how she knows that. She says that before they were phantoms, she and Zod were unable to have children. She says they created him. "You created me?" he asks. She says that he arrived on Earth as genetic matter containing her planet's most powerful life forms. She says that over time, he would evolve to become Earth's ultimate destroyer. Neat! Davis goes from freaked out to confused. "I drive an ambulance," he tells her. She puts a hand on the side of his face. She says the duty of a child is to continue the legacy his parents began. She thinks their family is meant to take the planet as their own. She's disappointed how nice he's treating humans. She thinks he's still too weak to fulfill his destiny. Davis looks a bit hurt. But not as bad as he's going to be. Faora tears off a metal railing from a nearby bed. She shoves the metal right through Davis's torso. He grimaces. She pulls the metal out. He stumbles and falls, knocking over a lamp. The lamp flickers in front of him. He bleeds all over the floor. Faora, on the floor, whispers in his ear. "Trust me, my son. That which kills you makes you stronger." The strings of doom play as Davis sputters and dies. "I'll be back when you're ready," she says. She leaves the room as we end up on a close-up of his slackening face.
Faora-as-Lois in the hallway. Something whooshes in behind her. She turns. Clark is standing there. He says he's been looking for her. She tells him he's too late. She starts to walk away, but Clark grabs her by the arm. Defiantly, she says that Zod may be gone, but that their creation will destroy the world. Why destroy it if you want to rule? Clark wants to talk to Lois. Faora asks if Jor-El or Lara ever came looking for Clark. She says they didn't love Clark like she loves her son. Clark keeps trying to talk to the Lois inside. He says he's sorry. "You have feelings for this creature I inhabit!" Faora says, "like father like son." Ooh! I think Jor-El was a playa! She shoves Clark with one arm, sending him flying through a wall. He falls outside the building and lands on his back, crushing a fire truck. We hear another whoosh and Faora is straddling Clark on top of the truck. I guess Lois finally got her Whitesnake video wish. Faora chokes Clark. He asks Lois to stop. "Lois can't hear you," Faora whispers. We hear some weird space noise nearby. Suddenly, a beam of red light hits Faora right in the chest. The phantom materializes, falling out of Lois's body. The camera pulls back and we see Kara holding the crystal. It sucks in the Faora wraith. Once it's gone, Lois's slack body falls on Clark. He breathes a sigh of relief. Kara goes to help. She asks of Lois is all right. Clark's not sure. Can you give us a minute? This feels good.