In lieu of a recaplet, I was going to write a list of things that are more interesting than this episode, but then I realized everything would qualify. The history of the cotton ball, the pattern of hairs in Andy Rooney's eyebrows, a lengthy analysis of different ice cube shapes, and so on to infinity. There's just not enough space on my hard drive for such a list. So here's a quickie view of the episode instead: That slimy Ray Sacks who tried to kill Lois is sprung from a life sentence by someone with major influence. Clark and Lois are assigned to the story by their new editor, but are told that the one who gets the story is the only one who will keep his or her job. Lois calls the Blur for help, but since she's actually dialing Zod's number she gets no response. Clark finds out and realizes someone's been impersonating him for weeks now. Chloe figures out it's Zod. Of course. Clark tries to protect Lois, but she thinks he's competing for the story and out to expose the Blur. Sacks is the one who's really out to expose the Blur, though, offering a reward to anyone who can get a picture of him. Some shlub off the street gets the shot and goes off to meet Sacks at his "free from the pokey" party.
This somehow leads to Lois donning a Playboy bunny-style costume in order to infiltrate the party. Clark has also infiltrated the party, though without a bunny costume. Lois punches him to create a distraction and smashes the shlub's camera phone. Lois and Clark both end up fired over the ordeal. Lois also ends up kidnapped by the man who freed Sacks and threw him the party – one Maxwell Lord, this week's comics guest character. He talks... very... very... slowly... like... this. Or maybe my perception of time was altered by how very boring this episode was. Anyway, he sticks Lois and the shlub and several others into a ridiculous machine to read their minds. All of them have seen bits of the Blur and Lord wants to combine their knowledge into a full image of the Blur. He's also sort of working for Checkmate as the Black King, but he has his own agenda, too. Namely he wants to destroy all the meta-humans, even though he's one of them. Maybe they made fun... of how... slowly... he... talks. Clark rescues Lois, naturally, and Lord is picked up in a limo by a woman in red. We don't see much of her beyond her shapely legs, but Lord calls her the Red Queen.
The "frame" for the episode is that Lois starts off wanting to tell Clark how much she loves him for the first time and wanting to come clean about how she's been working for the Blur. Clark waffles on whether or not he should tell her his own little secret. At the end, he decides that the Blur needs to break up with a devastated Lois so that Zod can't impersonate him anymore... or something. At the end, Clark decides not to tell her he's the Blur and asks her if he, as Clark, can be enough for her. Lois doesn't have an answer. And that's how the episode ends. Go suck down some extra strong espresso and join me for the full recap, where I'll do my best not to fall into a coma.
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