Smallville TV Show - Isis - Smallville Recaps, Smallville Reviews, Smallville Episodes | TWoP

Recapped by Tippi Blevins · Aired 2010-10-22

Previously on Smallville: Newbie reporter Cat Grant didn't like Lois writing so adoringly of the vigilantes; Lois went to Carter Hall's archaeological dig in Egypt and thought Isis had gaudy taste in necklaces; Carter told us that Isis "spent eternity" searching for all the pieces of her husband Osiris's hacked-up body; Lois apparently accidentally slid the Isis necklace into her purse; Lois went back to Metropolis to resume her partnership with Clark at the Planet; Oliver told the world that he's Green Arrow; Oliver found Tess untrustworthy; Tess rescued an adorable little Lex clone named Alexander.

Now we're in Metropolis as Oliver walks through a future exhibit of Egyptian artifacts. Right now it just looks like a big warehouse with a few columns, a sandstone background and rack upon rack of artifacts yet to be arranged. He's joined by a dark-haired young woman played by the actress who plays Jo on Eureka. She seems to be acting in some sort of managerial capacity. Oliver sounds hesitant about whatever it is she's been proposing. "Yeah, uh, so I'm not really sure about the spotlight," he says. "You know, to me it sounds a little--" She finishes for him: "Necessary!" She wants everyone to be able to see Oliver's big entrance from the skylight. Oliver realizes she wants him to zip-line into the big gala they have planned. Jo says they'll furnish him with wires and harness. She strokes his ego a bit: "Imagine their faces when you come flying in! Daring! Invincible! Fans will love you!" This gets a chuckle out of him, but he says he can use his own grappling gun. Jo says that the insurance doesn't cover that. Does he have a helmet, at least? Oliver goes "uh" for a while until Jo moves onto the topic, which is this: Oliver is to land on a raised platform near a sarcophagus and then he'll be joined by "the Green Arrow girls," who sound hilariously awful. They probably employ skimpy green leather bikinis and suggestive dancing with big rubber arrows. Sadly, we do not get to witness this affront to subtlety in this episode. This seems to be the first Oliver has heard of these gals. Tess strolls into the scene. "Billionaire by day and hero by night," she says. "Oliver, you're better than Christmas." She says the last so dryly that you could mummify bodies with it.

Jo leaves to deal with some museum business so that Tess can continue to snark at Oliver in private. "'Isis: a Tale of Eternal Love,'" she says. "It's quite a title you chose." Oliver mentions funding the project and believing in the story. Tess thinks Oliver is sending a message to a certain "feisty little blond," wherever she may be. Speaking of Chloe, is there any reason (other than Allison Mack's contract) why she hasn't come back from the dead yet? There's nothing preventing the Suicide Squad from kidnapping Oliver again. What does her being gone accomplish now? Anyway, Tess's last dig proves a little too much for Oliver, who clenches his jaw and starts walking away. She's not through with him: "If only you were still the same guy Chloe fell for, and not a caricature of him." He stops in his tracks and argues that he's just trying to give something back to the city. She dings him for substituting groupie love for real love. He dings back: "Do you even know what real love looks like anymore?" They stand there for a moment, mutually wounded, before Jo comes running back up to Oliver to announce they have a problem. The Amulet of Isis is missing, and possibly cursed. "Whatever soul dares possess it will be condemned to spend all of eternity in hell!" she says. Oliver looks worried. As he walks off to do whatever museum benefactor thing needs doing, the camera focuses on a stone tablet showing a man holding Isis's necklace while another man lies bleeding under his feet.

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Talon. Lois, in her apartment, says, "Clark, you don't have to hide the truth any longer." She knows his secret. "The fact is, knowing you're the Blur just makes me love you even more!" She's speaking very earnestly... to her mirror. Also, she's wearing some weird white minidress and gold armband. She chides herself for sounding like a bad soap opera. Well, that's Smallville for ya. She keeps practicing what she wants to say to Clark. "Hey, Clark, you were blur-riffic!" She winces at her own pun and bends down to adjust her knee-high gold sandals. Were we already due for another costumed Lois episode? Her timer buzzes and she rushes to stuff the last of her accoutrements into her gigantic purse. As she does so, she continues practicing, even role-playing Clark's part of their future conversation. The Clark of her imagination sounds a lot smoother than the Clark we see on a weekly basis. That's love for ya, I guess. She giggles girlishly at her own improv. "When I realized the man I loved and the hero I admired were the same person, it was like everything just fit into place," she says. She sighs and decides to start with coffee and donuts. She puts on a trench and turns to the mirror again. "Carpe diem, Lois, you can do this," she self-affirms. "And by tomorrow, you'll be living in a brand new world." Her confident smile gives way to a little look of worry. Meanwhile, the Isis Amulet is glowing in her purse. Somebody save us from lax customs procedures that let people carry ancient evil artifacts into the country!

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LuthorCorp. Oliver's on the phone with someone, all riled up and telling them in Arabic to find the amulet. Multilingual guys are so hot. Clark walks into his office just as Oliver's finishing up his call. Oliver sizes up Clark: "Concerned look, stoic silence? What are you wearing, anyway?" It's a dress shirt and slacks. Why the sartorial confusion? Clark announces he's going to tell Lois his secret. Oliver makes a surprised face. "Okay, that's officially the biggest news I've heard all day." You need to get out more. Clark says he saw the future. Now Oliver thinks that's the biggest news of the day. Also: "You know you sound crazy when you talk that way, right?" Heh. Clark explains that in the future, Lois already knew the secret, but Clark didn't see how or when he told her. Clark babbles a bit until Oliver cuts him off. "And you came here hoping I'd talk you out of telling her?" Oliver guesses. "No!" Clark quickly replies. Then: "...Maybe." Oliver gives him the go-ahead. "Coming out was the best thing I ever did," he says. "I can finally be myself around here, and it turns out people actually like the real me!" It's sort of interesting how hard they're pushing the closet metaphor this season, complete with conservative and liberal politics picking sides. Oliver is showing Clark his gift basket (that's not a metaphor) and other goodies he's received from his adoring public. There's also a box of "Fortifix" cereal bearing his image. Wheat sheaves stick up behind him like arrows in a quiver. Clark is confused. "If I recall correctly, you coming out to Lois did not have a happy ending," he says. "You told Lois the truth, and she dumped you." Oliver makes a little sound of protest and insists their mutual break was totally mutual, or words to that effect. He says he and Lois weren't meant to be together. Oliver tells Clark that Lois loves him. Then he gets sad about living without love. Clark makes a sensitive face, which is not unlike the face of an empathetic beagle. "The question you have to ask yourself," Oliver says, "is what are you willing to risk for love?"

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Planet basement. Lois is waiting for Clark, rearranging their nameplates so that they're closer together. She takes care in positioning her offering of donuts and coffee, as well. Clark walks up behind her, making all manner of nervous schoolboy faces before greeting her. She thrusts the donuts at him, but they prove not to be the conversation starter that she'd hoped. They awkwardly circle around to their own desks and then start talking over each other. Before they can sort out what each meant to say to the other, Cat Grant interlopes into the scene with her own particular brand of annoying cheer. She remarks on Lois's snazzy sandals. "You should see what's underneath the jacket," Lois says. Cat, clearly interpreting this as an admission of nudity, makes an icky face. Clark makes a hopeful face. Lois sets them both straight: "Oliver asked me to cover the gala at the museum; it's themed." Lois teases Cat about not being invited. Cat responds by plopping her perky little behind on Clark's desk and cooing about working together again. "Our names looked terrific side by side on that byline," she says. "It's like we were meant to be partners, Clark!" She goes on: "You're the Popeye to my Olive, the Mickey to my Minnie!" "The sick to my stomach," Lois offers. What's the female equivalent of getting into a penis-measuring contest? Is it breasts? Because Lois has Cat beat. Cat goes on to mention the missing Isis amulet and invites Clark to check out LuthorCorp's loading dock with her. "That's where the amulet was supposed to arrive," she explains. Lois has a look at Cat's folder and recognizes the amulet as the one she saw in Egypt. Clark begs off, saying he has a "personal interview." He gestures to Lois to meet him on the roof in five minutes.

Lois and her gigantic purse walk out onto the roof. Dried leaves blow around her feet. Where did leaves come from that high up? Mutant flying trees? Lois takes some time to prep herself before Clark arrives, digging in her gigantic purse for a tube of lipstick, but coming up with the Isis amulet instead. As she holds it up, the sun shines through the stone disk of the amulet. Light whooshes around Lois with such vigor that it peels her trench coat right off her, baring the sexy and coincidentally Egyptian outfit underneath. Lois dons the necklace and walks up to the roof ledge. Clark opens the door behind her and remarks on her beauty. Lois turns to look at him. Clark asks if she got the necklace for the gala. "It's so... Egyptian." Never at a loss for adjectives, is he? "I must locate the treasures of Isis," Lois says with a slightly deepened voice. "You mean the article that Cat's working on?" Clark asks. Lois narrows her eyes at him. "Where is this 'Cat' now?" It would be funny if she were picturing a literal feline at this point. Clark tells her, but asks her to stay put so that he can tell her something important. Lois cocks her head at him as he blabbers about the time he told her this important thing and "things got out of control" and so on. He takes a deep breath. "I'm the Blur," he says. "That is of no importance to me," Lois says. Clark's eyebrows fly up toward his hairline. "'No importance' as in it doesn't change the way you feel about me, or 'no importance' as in you--" He doesn't get to finish his question because she's turning away from him and stepping up onto the edge of the roof. "Lois!" he calls after her. She looks over her shoulder at him. "This vessel might have once been called 'Lois,' but now it serves Isis." With that, she launches herself off the roof and into the sky, flames trailing after her. Clark looks mildly confused. He's going to take the commercial break to think about things.

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In an effort to remedy his confusion, Clark has gone to Watchtower to contact Carter Hall, a.k.a. Hawkman. He's not having much luck, though, because Carter is offline and hasn't set up his voicemail yet or whatever crazy reason the show needs to delay solving the problem. Oliver, heavy books in hand, joins Clark and snarks about "Professor Hawk-head" being out of reach. Also, the two sides of Oliver's shirt are totally uneven most of this episode and it kind of drives me nuts. Maybe he finds shirts confusing, and that's why he goes without them so often. Anyway, Clark thinks they should call Tess for help. "Did you hit your head?" Oliver asks comically. He doesn't trust Tess and he doesn't want her taking Chloe's place. Plus, he brought books! What more do they need? He canceled the gala, so now they can read, read, read! Clark regards his old hardbound enemies warily. "Please tell me these books are going to explain what happened to Lois," he says. Oliver backs the train up a bit: "Whoa, the Isis myth isn't just about some goddess! It's about what people are willing to risk for love!" That... doesn't answer Clark's question. Like, at all. Clark says basically the same thing, but Oliver goes on about how Isis's husband Osiris was killed by his brother Set. He tries to make a joke about being an only child, but it kind of fizzles and he knows it. "Anyway, Egyptians believed that a person's soul remained in their heart." Set dismembered Osiris and Isis gathered all the pieces but couldn't find the jar containing his heart. (Again this show gives me an opening to mention that in the actual myths, it was Osiris's penis she couldn't find, because a fish ate it. That was probably trickier to work into the story, not to mention less family-friendly.)

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Set also trapped Isis's spirit in the amulet to make sure she couldn't resurrect Osiris. He should have tried harder; all Lois had to do was hold up the danged thing in sunlight. Clark figures if they can find the jar, then Isis will find them. Yeah, she spent thousands of years trying, but you'll surely succeed in minutes! As Clark turns to go, Oliver calls out "Oh, Clark!" like he's going to remind him to take a jacket with him. Instead, he lays this out: "Because of his lost soul, Osiris was doomed to rule the underworld for all eternity. If Isis succeeds in resurrecting him, his kingdom will also rise." Clark thinks hard for a while. Oliver tires of waiting for Clark to get it, so he draws the conclusion for him: "She will literally unleash hell on Earth." The music tries to underscore the seriousness of the situation, but Clark's face isn't quite rising to the occasion.

LuthorCorp loading docks. Cat pops up behind some boxes in a warehouse. She crawls around for a bit and then hears a fiery whooshing noise and ducks behind a crate. As she watches, the metal door crumples like aluminum foil and Isis walks in. A guard comes running up to her and gets smashed into some boxes for his troubles. [Worst. Security guard. Ever. - Zach] Isis hears some faint whispering and follows it to a wooden crate. She runs her hand lovingly over the top and then hurls it over her shoulder. She digs through a bit of straw and comes up with a big, gold canopic jar. She gives it the googly eyes. "I have missed you for so long." You probably could have picked one up at Pier 1 or something. Her tender reunion with Jar O' Hubby is interrupted when Cat emerges from her hiding place, camera in hand. "What is this?" Isis asks. "Two stories for the price of one," Cat says. "I won't let you get away with another crime, Lois Lane!" Isis regards her like a pesky insect. Cat raises her camera just as Isis starts to shoot a ball of fire out of her hand. Clark whooshes in and the thing Cat knows, she's sitting at a cafe, snapping a picture of a cup of coffee. That was nice of Clark to fix her up with some java instead of just zipping her out into the street. Cat is confused as hell.

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Clark zips back to the loading docks, but Isis and Jar O' Hubby are gone. He straightens out the crumpled door and leaves the scene. Isis watches him from some distance away, her eyes yellow and slitted like a cat's. She finds this hunky example of modern man quite intriguing.

Tess's office. She gazes out the window at the permanently full moon while a smartly-dressed man talks to her about his therapy sessions with Alexander. "He's an unusual boy," he says. "His intelligence is off the charts for someone his age." She turns to the doctor. "Genius has a way of driving people insane," she says. "Is he stable?" Her mouth quirks in a hopeful little smile that momentarily betrays her otherwise emotionless expression. The doctor suggests moving Alexander to a facility where he can be monitored. Tess agrees. Only after the doctor leaves does Tess let her steely facade down. She looks at a picture of little Alexander. He's already wearing purple. Cat interrupts at the door. Tess tries to hide the picture, but Cat sees. She calls him "the one person you'd risk anything for," shocking Tess beyond words. "You need Peter Pan and chicken noodle soup," Cat says. Tess is confused, so Cat explains: "That's what my little boy wants when he's not feeling well." She thinks Tess is the worried mother to this redheaded little boy, but Tess disabuses her of that notion. Cat gets to the point of her visit: "I know the identity of the Blur," she says. "And that so-called hero is right in your bullpen!" They argue back and forth a bit about whether it's a good idea for someone with a secret to work for a newspaper. Cat speaks spitefully of the Blur's lying, thieving ways. Tess clearly thinks Cat is about to out Clark and does her best to steer Cat away from him. Then Cat goes "Lois Lane is the Blur!" and Tess busts out with big, genuine peals of laughter. Thusly mocked, Cat flounces off in a huff, more determined than ever to take down the Blur.

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Sometime after Tess has finished enjoying her belly laugh, she's on the phone with Oliver. "You're telling me Lois Lane has turned into Isis," she says, more than a hint of disdain in her voice. "How the hell does that even happen?" We can forgive her for being surprised, as she's never seen this show and its many, many contrived ways for getting Lois into sexy costumes. He explains about the amulet and hangs up just as Tess walks through his office doors. Tess highlights how silly this all sounds: "Lois finds a necklace, gets possessed by an Egyptian goddess, and now is flying around like Amelia Earhart minus the plane." Oliver calls it "just another Friday night in Metropolis" and starts showing her to the door through which she just entered moments earlier. He says he and Clark will take care of things. "You don't have to throw me out, Oliver, I'm just trying to protect Clark." Clark whooshes in just in time to hear the last. They catch him up on the Cat thing. Tess tells them she erased the security footage from the loading docks so that Cat can't prove her story. Clark thanks her. He tells them about their new problem: "Lois found Osiris's heart and now I can't find her." Ever notice how much of this show is characters filling each other in on stuff we just saw? It's because of all those two-person scenes! Anyone not in the scene then has to be caught up on the situation.

Oliver: "Well, she does still have one more layover before our nonstop to hell; she has to reunite the heart--" "--with the body to make Osiris whole," Tess finishes for him. Oliver sighs and rolls his eyes. He'll settle for telling Clark about a sarcophagus at the exhibit that might hold Osiris's remains, except Tess beats him to the punch again. "You stole my thunder there, Tess," he says. They exposit that Isis will figure out where to go from the name stamped on all the crates at the loading docks. Couldn't we have just assumed she'd use magic? Oliver reminds them they have no way of getting Isis back into her amulet. Tess thinks she might know and helps herself to Oliver's laptop. He ixnays that idea, because he thinks Tess is just trying to horn in on their team. He lectures her about keeping secrets. Instead of telling him to go stuff himself, she calmly explains that Lex had records of all his archaeological digs. Even though they were deleted, she can try to get the files back. Clark asks her to hurry, then heads for the door. "Where are you going?" Oliver asks. "To try and prevent the end of the world," Clark answers. Duh.

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Museum. Isis has found the sarcophagus. It's a little dark, so she raises her arms and magically sets four braziers ablaze. "At last, my love, we shall be together." She moves in a way that I reckon is supposed to be stately and graceful but looks sort of like very slow interpretive dance. She waves her hand over the sarcophagus and the lid flies off. She drops to her knees when she sees it's full of mulch or stuffing or whatever it is. It's apparently not just the disintegrated remains of Osiris, as I thought on the first viewing. She sobs. Clark zips into the scene behind her. "You can't bring him back," he says. "It's over." Her chin trembles. "It cannot be over," she says. "It is... eternal!" So Osiris isn't in there, but couldn't she just go find him again? She must realize there are only 17 minutes left in the episode. Clark tells her, gently, that she can't risk Hell on Earth for love. She thinks he must not know love. He says he loves the woman she took over. Isis scoffs. "You would not risk the world for her?" He thinks it would be selfish. Isis drones on for a while about her millennia-old love for Osiris. How can Clark understand? "What you know of these things is but the wisdom of a child!" she says. Man, and Lois thought she sounded like a bad soap opera before. More droning. Lots of suffering. Pain. Cutting up bodies and so forth. She'll do anything to be with Osiris again. "Your memory will have to be enough," Clark says. A sneaky look comes over her face as Isis gets an idea. She knows Clark has been holding back from Lois. "If you will not risk your heart completely, then I will," she says, placing her hand on Clark's chest. She hurls him backward. Glowing ropes rise from the sarcophagus and tie Clark down. Clark struggles to no avail. He tries to make her understand she can't sacrifice two lives. Dude, she was ready to unleash Hell on the whole Earth. What does she care about your two piddling lives? She snakes another magic rope around his neck to shut him up.

Meanwhile, Cat is skulking around the museum, narrating her experience into a voice recorder. Her hair is so cute! Too bad she's so damned annoying. She spies Isis in the beginning stages of her ritual. Conveniently, some statues partially block her view so she doesn't see Clark. "As once you lived, Osiris, so shall you live again," Isis intones. "Through the Ritual of Life, I shall restore your heart and claim your body for your soul." What awkward phrasing. Cat raises her camera to take a few pictures, whispering, "I will never understand liberals." Isis recites some more recitations then digs into the canopic jar and pulls out a heart that has been wizened to beef jerky. "Pulse with blood that once was spilt," she says, holding it over Clark's chest. "Beat again with love and life!" The jerky turns fleshy pink and starts beating again. Terrible dialog really turns Osiris on. Isis reaches for a dagger (it's labeled as being the property of Teth-Adam of Kahndaq, in case you were wondering) and gets ready to carve Clark up like a Halloween pumpkin. She raises the dagger. Cat stumbles back in shock, knocking over a statue. With Isis distracted, the heart returns to its beef jerky state.

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Cat runs through the museum and right into Oliver, who's done up in his Green Arrow duds. "Oh, help!" Cat mewls to him. "There's a crazy woman in tacky gladiator boots after me!" Oliver picks her up by the arms and deposits her into a nearby sarcophagus. "This isn't what I had in mind!" she cries. Oliver darts off to join the Ritual of Life already in progress. "There's gotta be an easier way for a girl to get a date in this town," he says. Dude, some guys like older women, but there's a limit. Isis psychoanalyzes Oliver: "Your heart is brave, but I can see it belongs to a lonely soul." Meanwhile, Clark is twitching on the table, ready to break out into the opening bars of the show's theme song. She goes on to say that Oliver tries to fill his heart, but it's still empty, or whatever. "Yeah, well, I may be lonely, but I'm still gonna kick your Egyptian ass!" is his retort. Lordy, this is bad. Isis doesn't think he'll hurt the body she's in, so when he hesitates she flings a fireball at him. He ducks and rolls to escape. He shouts out to Clark that the answer was in Lex's files: "Sunlight through the amulet." Isis throws another fireball at him. He raises his bow at her. Isis isn't worried, since it's nighttime. There's probably enough reflected sunlight coming off the permanently full moon to do the trick! Clark, for some reason, is suddenly able to break free of the magic ropes.

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He grabs the canopic jar and calls out to her. "This ends now, or I will destroy Osiris's heart." He asks her to release Lois. "I see now that I am doomed," she says. "Our undying love shall be denied for eternity." I share this dialog with you so that you can share my pain. After making sure that Clark loves Lois and vice versa, Isis raises her dagger, ready to kill her vessel. Oliver fires off an arrow that rips the amulet from Isis's neck and sends it into Clark's waiting hand. He blasts the amulet with his heat vision. Fire swirls out of the stone, envelops Lois, then shoots back into the amulet. Clark zips over to catch Lois just as she crumples to the floor. He calls her name. Her eyes flutter open and glances around. "Did we take a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum?" She smiles up at him. "I love you, Clark, but sometimes you are such a nerd." He smiles back at her. Nerdily.

Watchtower. Oliver sits by the big, stained-glass window, chin in one hand, glass of liquor in the other. Tess walks in. "You seem far away," she says. He says he sees things more clearly now. "You were right about me turning into a caricature of myself," he tells her. "I shouldn't have said that," she says, but he doesn't let himself off the hook quite as easily. The show he was putting on (he mentions those Green Arrow girls with a twinge of embarrassment) was his way of trying to fill an emptiness. "I was lying to myself," he admits, "and you're one of the only ones what would call me on it." To her credit, she listens to all this without a hint of schadenfreude, which is something considering their history. She even gives credit where credit is due: "Another one of those is Chloe." He lets out a sigh. His shoulders fall like he's letting a weight off them, or perhaps chafing under it. "God, I miss her," he says. "I miss her laugh, and her strength. The way her eyes lit up when I entered the room." He looks at Tess. "She really loved me," he says. It's hard to judge Tess's expression. She's sympathetic, not wistful but... maybe resigned? Cassidy Freeman is great at making Tess seem unreadable while assuring you that there's something there to read. It's not the simple blankness of expression that some actors on this show (and others, of course) sometimes employ, coming across more like they're just waiting for their lines. Oliver blames himself for burdening Chloe with his secret, which isn't really quite how it worked, but he's blue over his loss so it's understandable he'd turn inward. "She paid the price for keeping it," he says. "Oliver," Tess says, "when it comes to you, no price was too high for Chloe." Oliver quirks an apologetic smile at her, taking back what he said earlier about her not being able to see real love. She smiles, but thinks it's the truth. "And there hasn't been a lot of that in my life," she says. "Just like there hasn't been a lot of love."

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They look at each for a while and Tess, slightly uncomfortable, changes the subject. "Did I drive halfway across town just for an apology?" Clark, just walking through the doors, answers: "No, it's so we could both give you something." Oliver quickly mentions why Clark's heat vision worked (he's "solar-powered") and says, aside from that, they couldn't have succeeded without Tess's help. Clark compliments her for getting so much done on a mere laptop. "Let's see what you can do with something more powerful, like Watchtower," Oliver says. "Welcome to the team." He and Clark smile at her. She struggles to smile back, but it's like her face suddenly won't quite work. So she nods shakily and thanks them. She looks into their friendly, welcoming expressions and quickly exits the room. She nearly staggers down the hall, overcome. She stops, bracing herself against the wall, her breath catching roughly. Back inside, Oliver ask Clark if they can really trust her. "We'll find out," Clark says. Outside, Tess is in tears. Aw. Hold on to that happy feeling when they start taking your help for granted later!

Luthor Mansion. Tess is home, but still feeling a little shaky. She carries a small fabric-wrapped bundle as she walks toward Alexander's bedroom. That doctor from earlier intercepts her. "I came to take the boy," he says, "but security won't let me." "Under my orders," she tells him. "Alexander is staying with me." The doctor protests, but Tess says what the boy needs is love. He reminds her the boy may be dangerous. "Why would you risk your safety?" Because risking everything for love is the theme of the episode! She just gives him a piercing look without saying anything. Defeated, he sighs. "What do you see that I don't?" Tess smiles. She sees his heart. She walks past the befuddled doctor into the bedroom, where Alexander is playing with his soldier toys. Alexander beams when he sees her. He proudly tells her he's grown since last week. She looks at a wall where his growth has been marked in chalk. In just two weeks, he's sprouted up several inches. (He's still played by the same young actor at this point, though.) She shows him the contents of the bundle -- a book for them to read together. "It's the story of Peter Pan and his friend Wendy," she says. "It's about the adventures of growing up." She sits in a chair beside his bed and he immediately climbs into her lap. She looks momentarily unsure of what to do. He leans his head on her shoulder. "I love you, Tess." She's so stunned that she can't say anything, so she presses a kiss to the top of his head. She starts to read him the story: "All children, except one, grow up..."

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Daily Planet. Cat stomps into the office, glaring when she spots Lois. She grabs a pen from a nearby desk and advances on Lois, stabbing her in the hand. "Ow!" cries Lois, grabbing the pen out of her hand. "What the hell?!" She pulls back her hand to punch Cat, but Clark intercepts her fist before it can find its target. "Ladies, who wants to go first?" referees Clark. Cat and Lois simultaneously blurt out their accusations, Cat that Lois is the Blur and Lois that Cat stabbed her. Lois gawks at Cat. "That is the dumbest thing I've ever heard!" And after five seasons on this show, that really means something coming from her. Cat is undeterred and says she has photographic proof. She gestures at the camera on her desk. "I caught little Miss Liar conducting some sort of satanic S-E-X ritual last night!" Yes, she spells it out. Lois snarks on her immaturity. Cat stomps off to her desk. Clark does some super-zipping so that when Cat picks up her camera, it falls to pieces. "Those were my only copies!" she mewls pitifully. "Well, that's a rookie mistake," Lois says chipperly. "You need to always back up your evidence." Clark explains that Lois was possessed by the spirit of Isis, which Cat interprets as him mocking her. Lois starts verbally laying into her until Clark takes her by the hand and drags her off. Cat sighs in frustration. Can she just disappear now?

Clark has taken Lois to some quiet little back room to minister to her wound. [Not a hospital? Or a police station? - Z] Lois says Cat is crazy. "I mean, Lois Lane is amazing, but you and I both know that I'm not the world's greatest superhero." She looks up at him, leaving him an opening as he busily bandages her hand. He says he's sorry that this was how the truth had to come out. "The truth," she echoes. "Right. About the Blur? Who he is? The big mystery?" He keeps winding gauze around and around her hand. If someone doesn't hurry up and confess, Lois is going to be wrapped up like a mummy. "Of course, he never told me his identity, so I guess I don't even really know him," she says. She tries to meet his gaze. "But I feel like I do." He finally looks at her. She tells him about her special bond with the Blur, comparing it to what she and Clark have. Clark just looks sadder and sadder because the dolt hasn't figured out that Lois already knows. She searches his eyes, but he's not giving her the green light. She paces and gives it one last shot: "What I'm trying to say is... I know you." "But you don't know the Blur," Clark says. "He's probably keeping it a secret for a reason." Lois looks like she's going to cry. "He's never going to tell me, is he?" "Not if it means putting your life at risk," he says. How did he come to that conclusion based on the events of this episode? Who knows? Lois: "I wish he knew that I was willing to take that risk."

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She walks up to him, then past him. The moment threatens to dwindle away. When she's at the elevator, Clark says he's been afraid his whole life: "Afraid of people knowing the truth about me, afraid of them rejecting me, and even if didn't, still losing them." The elevator doors open and she takes one step inside. He says he's afraid of things he can't control, but he's more afraid of not telling her the truth. She stops and turns toward him. He wants to share a life with her, and telling her the truth is the only way. He turns and walks a few steps away. "Lois, you've had a lot of questions about the Blur," he says. "It's me." She smiles and lets the elevator leave without her. Supermanly music plays softly. He turns to look at her again. "I'm the Blur." She smiles and runs into his arms. They fall into a bag of convenient glitter that then drifts magically all around them. They kiss. "What took you so long?" she asks. He makes a confused puppy face, surprised she already knew. He starts to ask her about it, but she puts a silencing finger to his lips. He smiles even bigger. The end.

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So, there you have it. Some very cute moments and good character interaction, burdened by terrible dialog and painful contrivances. Or, as Oliver might put it: "Just another Friday night in Metropolis." Thanks to the forum posters for setting me straight about Lois's Egypt episode, which was "Shield" and not the premiere like I'd originally written.

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