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Metropolis skyline. Lair of Papa Luthor. Lex is there waiting for him. Lex asks if it isn't presumptuous for him to have set up his office before the Board of Directors has even met on the takeover. Papa says that he values efficiency. He chides Lex about all the calls he must have made to pull strings that were attached to nothing. "Especially when your father's the one holding the scissors," Lex counters. Papa accuses Lex of leaving the company vulnerable. He swipes a key card and enters the office. Lex supposes he should thank Papa Luthor; if he hadn't initiated the takeover, someone else would have. "Exactly!" says Papa Luthor, adding that families look out for each other. Booming combat music plays. Lex says that if family doesn't work out, there's always those scary Luthor closets to rummage through. Papa tells Lex to cut the bullshit. He asks what ancient skeleton Lex thinks he's uncovered. Lex says it's more like a freshly laid corpse. Papa chuckles. He's curious. Lex asks how MamaKent would feel if she knew Papa had a secret meeting with Bo Duke just before he died. Lex says that would test the virtues of even the most forgiving woman. Papa looks a bit scared. "What do you want, Lex?" he asks. Lex takes the key card from Papa's hand. "I hope you enjoyed your stay," he says simply. "Sorry it was so short." I guess Papa won't be doing that hostile takeover after all.
Mean streets of Metropolis. Oh no! It's Ono. He's looking for Snake at his humble, dank abode. He finds Snake's body. And Clark moaning on the floor nearby. "You're...a dead...man!" Ono manages. It's not so much a line reading as a line strangling. Ono makes the classic mistake of pulling Clark up, and off of the Kryptonite. Its glow dies down, and Clark is ready to open up a can of Campbell's Cream of Ass Whooping. Clark lightly pushes Ono toward the fence, and Ono crumples in a heap. He can't even fall right. Pussy! Clark superzips out.
Papa Luthor thinks about his options in the LuthorCorp office. There's a very noticeable green-screen effect as BatChica crashes in through a window behind him. He turns, but no one is there. Then BatChica does appear, on his other side. She grabs him and goes right into hero speech mode. "You kicked people out of their homes!" she says, "so you could develop Suicide Slums for profit!" She accuses Papa Luthor of killing her mother when she got in Papa Luthor's way: "No one escapes justice, Luthor, not even you!" Weird shot of a LuthorCorp box nearby. Papa tries to empathize; he says he grew up on the same mean streets she did. As she pushes Papa Luthor toward the window, he tells BatChica that he also lost his parents to a senseless crime. "It wasn't senseless. It was calculated!" she yells. She holds him by one hand out the window.
“ Clark tells BatChica to let the police do their job: 'If he's guilty, he'll pay!' He has a very shaky understanding of the U.S. legal system, I see. ”
Clark appears, and tells BatChica to let the police do their job: "If he's guilty, he'll pay!" He has a very shaky understanding of the U.S. legal system, I see. Shiny lipstick. BatChica asks Clark if his father were murdered, and he were face-to-face with the killer, what he'd do. Clark, keeping his distance, asks what happens if BatChica's wrong. Papa tries to get her to listen to Clark. Clark says he knows what's in BatChica's heart: anger. He says that he feels it too, but that taking Papa Luthor's life won't change anything. "Yes it will!" BatChica screams. It really will. He won't get to kill other people. Clark asks her to think about her mother and whether she'd want BatChica to do this. BatChica hesitates. "Let him go," Clark tells her. BatChica says that she killed a man. And she knows Clark. (When did they get this sudden deep understanding of each other?) She says that Clark would never let her just walk out of there after what she's done. She tells Clark to be the real hero. She drops Papa Luthor. Clark superspeeds toward the window. He grabs Papa Luthor and pulls him back in. BatChica leaps out herself. Clark and Papa Luthor stand at the broken window. Papa rubs his neck. "Exceptional woman," he says. "Grossly misguided." "She's been through a lot," Clark says stiffly. Papa thinks Clark saved him for her sake, not his. "Whatever the reason...thank you, son," Papa says, placing an evil hand on Clark's shoulder. The camera pulls back from that as they both stand in the high-altitude night breeze.
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Kent barn at night. MamaKent walks in, looking for Clark. She spots a jacket belonging to Bo and sighs heavily. You can't tell me this is the same night. Jeez! She takes the jacket and holds it to her cheek. She sits down. Someone from an '80s rock video is standing to the side, backlit. MamaKent is startled. It's Papa Luthor. He apologizes for scaring her. She says it's fine. How long did it take him to get here? He guesses that these days are difficult to get through, and says he understands. He mentions his wife Lilian's death. "I thought I'd never be whole again," he says. "It takes a long time to let yourself heal." MamaKent says curtly that she's doing the best she can. Papa says he heard she talked to the governor about taking Bo Duke's senate seat. MamaKent turns slowly. Papa doesn't bother to ask about her nasty cheek cut. She says she hasn't even told Clark about that, and asks how Papa Luthor knows. He says he makes it a point to know things. MamaKent says she's not sure she'll take the offer. She hopes Papa didn't come to try to sway her one way or the other. He flatters her, telling her she's capable of making that decision on her own. He says he's sorry it's a burden to her with everything else she has to deal with. Papa steps forward. He says he knows Bo leveraged part of the farm to pay back his debt. "That was his decision," MamaKent says. "That was his pride," Papa replies. He says he can't accept it. He and Bo let politics and money come between them. "I don't want that to happen to us, Martha," Papa says, right up in MamaKent's face. She looks wounded and grateful at the same time. Papa starts to walk away. He says that if she needs anything, he's there for her always. "As a friend," he adds. Magnificent! Bastard!
Daily Planet, daytime. Did Clark never go home? He and Chloe stand near an empty desk. Chloe says she found Office Girls's desk like this when she showed up that morning. Chloe tried to call her home and cell, but got no answer. She figures BatChica pulled an Amelia Earhart. Clark guesses they'll never find her. Chloe asks Clark what happened out there. Clark says he should have listened to Chloe. He tells Chloe he had his hand around a guy's throat and almost killed him. "But you didn't," Chloe says. She asks what stopped him. Clark says it was his dad's voice. "I could hear him," Clark says. "He was always the one who kept me from going over the edge when I was too close." Chloe says she wishes BatChica could step back in time. Metropolis could use someone like her right now. Chloe squints at Clark. She asks if Clark could ever be a mild-mannered reporter by day and a crime reporter by night. "Honestly?" Clark asks. "I'm kind of hoping to find a way to not hide who I really am."
Kent Farm. Clark clomps up the stairs to the loft and finds his dad's watch sitting on a little purple drawstring bag. He picks it up. He turns and sees Lana standing there. Lana says she searched every pawn shop in Metropolis looking for it. Ugh. How did Lana even know what it looked like? Clark can't believe she found it. Neither can I. Clark apologizes for how he's been acting. For the last 4 1/2 years? He says he should be able to move on, but...life without Bo doesn't feel real. Lana says it feels like you're frozen and the whole world is going on around you. No, that's the Fortress of Solitude. Lana says that you always go through this thing alone. Clark says that Lana never lets him take the easy way out. Douche. Lana tells him to put the watch on. He does. Angelic music plays. "It looks great," Lana says. "Your dad would be really happy."
Clark walks into the living room. He frowns heavily when he hears Bo's voice telling someone to do a figure eight. "Please be careful!" we hear MamaKent say. "Don't worry, sweetheart, it's gonna be fine!" Bo bellows. Clark steps forward slowly. He sees MamaKent watching a home video. Bo and a young Clark are riding a tractor. "This young man is a man of steel!" Bo cries. It looks fun. MamaKent smiles warmly. Bo yells about the whole farm belonging to Clark one day. Incredibly sad music plays. MamaKent turns to Clark. On TV, Bo tells Clark to wave bye-bye. Bo appears in close-up. He lifts a hand and says, "Bye-bye." Clark cries, a tear rolling down his cheek. MamaKent sees the watch on Clark's hand. She comes to him. She smiles, her heart melting. They hug. Clark starts sobbing in MamaKent's arms. He sniffles. The camera pulls back out of the living room as Bo's face is frozen on the television. We go to black as Clark continues to cry. Look. If you've been watching the show for a long time, it's impossible not to cry while watching this scene. I just did it for the second time. I bitch a lot, and there's a whole lot of us who are bitter and jaded, but this scene came out of nowhere and just beat us right in the heart. Very, very nicely done ending. Damn, that was sad and sweet.
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