Episode Report Card Tippi Blevins: C+ | Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT Patriot Acting Up
By Tippi Blevins | Season 10 | Episode 7 | Aired on 11.05.2010
In the Suicide Squad van, Goatee is running around like the proverbial headless chicken, trying to figure out how they managed to hit the building but not the target. Well, it's Smallville and you're bad guys. Luck is almost never going to be on your side. He pulls up surveillance of the alley outside the Talon where the Lanes are still hugging it out. Flag is not pleased that the General survived. He doesn't have long to fume, though, because a pair of grappling hooks shoot through the van's back doors. The van rolls over a few times and skids to a stop. Clark rips the door open. "It's over, Flag. We know you blew up that building." Oliver joins Clark's side. "Classy move attacking your own country," he says, his voice disguised even though everyone on the planet knows who he is now. Maybe he just likes the deeper voice. Flag, pulling himself up from the wreckage, says he did it for his country. "Kill Lane, kill a movement," he says. The concept of martyrs clearly escapes this man. Flag condemns the Registration Act as a way to profile and destroy them. He predicts that Oliver will be the government's "poster boy" for heroes coming forward. Plus, he's super-photogenic. "America's turnin' against us," Flag says. He exhorts them to fight back. They should be the country's leaders. Clark thinks that will just stir up anti-hero hysteria. "Violence isn't the answer," he says. Except when you want to stop a van full of baddies. "Violence is the only answer," Flag says. "More and more superheroes are coming over to my side." Goatee wakes up at this point, grabs Flag by the shoulder, and warps them both out of the van. So Goatee is Emil LaSalle, a.k.a. "Warp," who, despite being French, has a weird Spanish/Russian thing going on with his accent. Clark and Oliver are left staring at the inside of the empty van.
Kent Farm. It's still night. Lois is still wearing the same clothes. The explosion did wonders for her hair and makeup. She looks flawless! She's back to her kitchen duties, trying to put together Thanksgiving dinner even though it must be past midnight by now. Lucy comes down the stairs, apologizing for nearly getting Lois killed. She promises to replace all of Lois's lost possessions. Lois is doubtful. She doesn't know if she and Clark can trust her again. Lucy, defeated, picks up her bag and walks toward the door. Lois softens. She understands trying to protect their father: "Our larger-than-life hero needing someone to protect him? Who wouldn't want to do that?" Lucy tearfully explains that she just wanted their dad to see her as more than a troublemaker. Well, congrats! Now he sees you as a troublemaker and an idiot! Well, I do, anyway. Lois admits she sort of liked Lucy as the troublemaker, because she was "finally able to be the good one." They hug and cry and promise to share their traveling pants or whatever the hell.