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Previously on "smallville"
- How many times do i have to apologize?
- I don't want an apology!
What the hell were you
so afraid of?
You.
It'll be okay, tommy.
I promise.
How could you
do this to me?!
Just stay away.
I want to introduce you
to some people,
a sort of team.
We'll make a hero
out of you yet.
Lex deserved to die,
chloe.
This is ***.
You know
what i did was right.
You can't tell clark.
I would do anything
for you.
Let's leave smallville.
Where are you?
I said "no.
"
We can't risk the casualties,
okay?
You wait for the team
to move in.
Well, you seem to be taking
my open-door policy
a little liberally these days,
don't you?
I guess i assumed after
you ambushed me in my barn
and accused me of being
an alien jesus
that we had dropped
any formalities.
You know,
i can't say that the sarcasm
adds to your coy charm,
but, please, come in.
Greasy kung pow for one?
I don't have much
of an appetite.
Okay, then.
Tell me,
what's on your mind, clark?
Do you really think
that spreading panic
is responsible journalism?
Making davis bloome
front-page news every day
is reckless.
Reckless?
I think reckless is not doing
everything in your power
to stop him.
Starting a massive manhunt
isn't helping anyone.
Clark, if you don't want to
admit your true identity,
that's fine.
But we both know
that davis bloome
isn't a man.
He's a beast.
If he is this beast,
then encouraging the police
to go after him is dangerous.
People will die.
And when that happens,
you'll know
where to find him
so that you can finally slay
the proverbial dragon.
This is not
some fairy tale.
Obviously,
there's some dark part of you
that needs to be saved,
but i am not
your white knight.
You're risking innocent lives,
including chloe's.
Oh, right,
the accomplice
of the serial killer.
She's his hostage,
and she's in the most danger.
If you're so worried about her
getting hurt,
why are you fighting
my help?
Maybe it's because you're
actually afraid to find davis
because the pure and virtuous
clark kent
can't face
what he'll have to do
what you are destined
to do
when that moment comes.
Clark
i'm just making sure
you embrace the inevitable.
No!
Chloe, it's me --
clark.
It's me.
It's me.
It's clark.
It's okay.
It's okay.
He's found her.
Now it's time
we make our move.
Smallville 821
Injustice
We really should get you
to the hospital, chloe.
I understand if you don't
want to talk about it.
He never
left me alone.
There was this
motel
just outside metropolis
that we found, and
he wouldn't
let me leave.
He
i was so scared.
We just hid during the day
until dark, and then
one day, he decided
that it was time
to leave.
And so we stopped
at this gas station.
And i just ran.
You're safe now.
No, clark.
No.
He's still out there.
Anything that was good in him
is now gone.
No one's safe
not till you destroy
that beast.
I can't believe
we lost track of that thing.
If i had their powers, i would
have gotten the job done.
They're the ones
that screwed up, not us.
So quick
to assign blame.
I taught you
to take care of one another.
You were trained as a team.
If one of you fails,
then all of you fail.
What the hell
is going on here?
Livewire and neutron
found the monster.
By the time parasite and i
showed up,
things had gotten messy.
She said neutron zapped him with
some sort of radioactive blast.
Your mission
was to find him
and then wait
until i sent the traveler.
Is that all you can
think about?!
Neutron's dead!
Hey!
Back off.
Tess was trying to
keep us save.
It was you and neutron
who didn't wait for backup.
That thing
caught us tailing him,
and he attacked.
We didn't have a chance.
I am not gonna be
the opening act to this traveler
when you won't even clue us in
to who it is.
I want out.
What -- so you can go back
to stealing cars
and running
from the cops?
Tess
turned your life around,
gave us a place
where we belonged,
a chance to do something good
for the world.
We all
suffered a loss here,
but we should learn a lesson
from this.
We're only strong
when we're together.
If we find that beast,
you will save so many lives.
You can't walk away
from that.
Watch me.
Go find another sucker
to be your hero.
Thanks for the power-up.
It's up to you two now
to find him.
Don't worry.
We won't let you down.
So, what are you gonna do
with me now --
put me back in jail?
Cyborg, impulse, and canary
have a wide net out
for davis so far.
But they haven't
caught anything.
How's chloe?
Something happened.
I can't believe i put
her through something
like this again.
First brainiac
and now davis.
It's not even over yet.
He's still out there.
Yeah, well,
something tells me
without his beauty
to soothe the beast,
we don't have much time.
Davis may not be
as invincible as we thought.
There is something
that might work
but i can't do it alone.
Yeah, if it means getting rid
of this guy once and for all,
just say the word.
I'm in.
Good.
Because we're gonna need
the help of lex luthor.
You know, clark,
last time i heard,
lex luthor was in no condition
to lend a hand.
When lex was murdered, he left
all his kryptonian research
to tess mercer.
Meteor rocks, crystals,
and artifacts --
she keeps them all
in a safe.
I think she has something
that might work on davis.
It's black kryptonite.
I need you to steal it.
Because if there's meteor rock
in there, it could kill you.
I get it.
Well, it's been awhile,
but i can probably find my way
into the ice queen's vault.
Thank you.
I knew i could count on you.
That's never gonna change.
Believe me,
i know how difficult this is.
We're supposed to be
the good guys.
But sometimes, we have to
get our hands dirty
when it's necessary.
It's the only option.
We need to kill
davis bloome.
What are you doing about the crystal?
Don't worry about it, okay?
I don't want you involved.
You've been through enough
already.
Clark, i just survived
a gothic romance
with dr.
Jekyll
and mr.
Hyde.
I think i can handle
anything you throw at me.
I'm gonna save davis.
What?
When did you plan
on telling me this?
I wasn't gonna tell you
till after i took care of it.
Clark, you told me that you
sent oliver on a mission
to find your own brand
of kryptonian hemlock.
I lied.
I don't know, chloe.
It seems like in order to do
the right thing lately,
there has to be all these lies
and secrets attached.
I didn't even know
if oliver would help me
if i told him the truth.
Which is?
My parents once used
black kryptonite
to split off
my kryptonian side.
I'm gonna separate davis
from the beast
and use this crystal to send
doomsday to the phantom zone.
Spare me
the kryptonian mumbo jumbo.
You have to bend the rules
on this one.
When i took davis
to the fortress,
you stopped me
from sending him away.
You knew
he was worth saving.
I was wrong.
No, you weren't wrong,
chloe.
Look, i know
what you've been through,
but there's still
a side of davis that's human.
So, then what if
the plan fails?
It won't.
Sometimes, justice
it's not about making
the easy decision.
Sometimes, it's about finding
that last bit of good in someone
and saving them
from themselves.
You taught me that.
What is it?
It's from dr.
Emil.
Doomsday struck again.
John jones
gave me the heads-up
when granville police
got the call.
He's stalling local authorities,
but we have to move fast.
Bone spur embedded six inches
into concrete?
You're right.
Doomsday did make
an appearance.
Yeah, and unfortunately,
he had an audience --
a man and a woman,
both dead.
Clark,
we have to stop him
before he kills
more innocent people.
Well, maybe they weren't
so innocent.
They were both
meteor-infected.
And from the evidence
we've gathered,
it looks like
they were hunting him.
Great.
Now that tess made davis
public enemy number one,
we have supercharged
bounty hunters on the case.
Who died doing
what they believed was right.
Maybe.
But i think something else
is going on here.
Two victims died
from very different causes.
She's been marked.
You sure
the beast killed her?
There's not a mark
on her body.
It's because
he didn't kill her.
This did.
It's a temporal-lobe
implant --
gps device that's also
a small explosive.
I don't know
what triggered it,
but when it went off,
it killed her.
It was blown into her ear canal
where i found it.
So someone other than doomsday
wanted her dead,
someone
who was controlling her.
And monitoring her.
Chloe, are you okay?
Yeah,
i think all the mayhem
is just a little more
than i can handle.
I'm gonna go outside
for some fresh air.
Look, i don't like you
going outside alone,
not when doomsday
could be so nearby.
Clark,
it's just outside.
Trust me, if he comes back,
i'll holler.
I know all that she's
been through
must be taking its toll,
but i think something else
is going on with her.
Why would you say that?
Her feelings
for davis bloome
may be stronger
than she's telling you.
Last week,
she came to me,
desperate to cure him.
She didn't tell me that.
Well, that's not surprising,
clark.
When it comes to affairs
of the heart,
everyone uses secrets and lies
to protect the ones they love.
Bette, i think we have
a serious problem.
You guys were there.
You must have seen
what happened.
It ticked me off
that she screwed up the job.
But all i did to livewire
was hoover her powers.
Yeah, when we left,
miss scaredy-cat
had all nine lives.
I know it wasn't us.
That's the point.
There was an explosive microchip
in her brain
that landed her
in a body bag.
Look, i'm sorry
she's history.
What's it got to do
with us?
We're wasting time.
We should be hunting down
godzilla
before he tears down
metropolis.
Don't you get it?
Tess put that thing in her head.
I'm starting to wonder if we can
believe anything she's said.
Look, tess kept us out of jail
and belle reve.
She pays for our room, our ride,
and our three squares a day.
She gave me the home
i never had,
and she did a lot more
for you.
When everybody else
turned their backs on us,
she was there.
I don't want to believe it,
either.
But after all the tests
and procedures
we had at black creek,
i mean, who's to say
we're not chipped right now?
Do you know
how long it took
for tess to put this team
together?
Why would she ice one of us
in cold blood?
She's done us too many solids
to do something like that.
Somebody else pulled the plug
on livewire, not tess.
Come on,
we're finishing this job,
just like
we promised her.
Bette, i think we have
a serious problem.
Your secretary said
you were out.
If your assignment was to insult
your new business partner,
you get an "a" plus.
And you flunked
getting the hint.
I don't have time
for a wine tasting, oliver.
Corporate titans need to learn
how to multitask, tess.
It's all business.
That's not
a quarterly earnings report.
You're always
very perceptive.
You know, i like that
in a woman.
It's a turn-on.
If i remember correctly,
when it comes to
the opposite sex
there's little
that doesn't turn you on.
Actually, there's only been one
woman that ever had that effect.
Nice try.
I'm still busy.
Well, it's to celebrate
the reopening
of the geothermal
power station.
I don't think you're
understanding the significance.
No, i get
the p.
r.
Benefits.
But the eco-friendly
little girl,
the one who wanted to grow up
and be a marine biologist --
surely, she's excited
that we're reducing
our carbon footprint, right?
Well, thanks to all the men
in my life,
that little girl grew up.
Now she only has time
to worry about things
like investor satisfaction
and balance sheets.
Well, i remember when the only
sheets that separated us
were made of silk.
All you cared about
was saving the planet.
Oh, i still want to save
the planet.
It's just some of the people
that i could do without.
Look,
i have things to do, oliver,
so
yeah, no,
i'm sure you're busy.
So
boy, i got to tell you
that's a shame, you know?
It's a '64 soleil.
It's from
my private collection.
I was thinking we could just
take the afternoon off,
and, uh, pop the cork.
Keep your cork
in your pants.
Your loss.
Why did you take off
without telling me
and then not answer
your cellphone when i called?
And do you know i've been
searching everywhere for you?
Sorry, clark.
Look, i've already got reasons
not to trust oliver,
but now you?
First,
you want me to save davis.
Now you're asking me
to kill him.
So i need to know
what's going on.
I know
you're hiding something.
You're right, clark.
I've been lying to you
ever since i came back.
I know the girl
who was killed.
Her name was leslie willis,
a.
k.
a.
Livewire.
And i was using
the isis computers
to hack into tess' mainframe,
and i found all of this.
Together with the other inmates
from black creek,
leslie was part of a team
assembled by tess.
Eva greer?
Tess' assistant
is meteor-infected?
But tess betrayed her.
It was all
a deception that
what's happening?
Tell me what's happening.
Eva.
This means that chloe is still
out there with doomsday.
I can't believe i didn't
see through eva's disguise.
Well, she was
a shapeshifter, clark.
It was her job
to fool you.
She knew that by posing
as your best friend,
she'd catch you
at your most vulnerable.
They've all been tagged.
As much as i hate what eva did,
she didn't deserve this.
I know who killed her.
She told me she and the others
were all working for tess.
Well, if mercer has a team
looking for doomsday,
then chloe could get caught
in the cross fire.
I'm not gonna stand here
and wait to find out.
Tess mercer
needs to be stopped now.
In my experience
with rats,
you never corner one,
not when they're
this lethal.
She put kill switches
in both eva and the other girl.
If the rest of her team is wired
and you confront her,
she could hit a remote
and kill them all.
You said these implants
were also gps devices.
That means they work
on a frequency.
Do you think
you can isolate it?
I could piggyback on a signal
and locate the others.
Tess' people
are hunting doomsday.
If i can find them,
i can find chloe.
Eva
i've been searching downtown
for hours.
Look, the beast is m.
i.
a.
,
and so are you.
Look,
i'm starting to lose it.
Call me back.
Bette.
Get away from me!
It's okay.
I'm here to help.
Right.
Last time you helped,
you gave me a one-way ticket
to belle reve.
I know that tess mercer
got you out.
She promised
to turn your life around,
but she's not the friend
that you think she is, bette.
She killed eva and livewire.
She died right in my arms,
and i'm here to make sure
that doesn't happen to you.
You're lying.
How do you think
i found you?
Look, tess mercer --
she put some sort of kill switch
in your temple.
She's tracking you
with it.
No.
No, why would she do that?
She sent us out
to find chloe and davis.
She said
we were gonna be heroes.
You still can be.
But first, we need to make sure
that you're safe.
So tell me
where everyone is,
and i'll take you to a doctor
who can help.
Then we can find chloe and davis
together.
Not until
that *** is dead.
I know
how angry you are.
You don't have a clue.
But tess mercer
is gonna find out
how explosive my temper
really is.
We're gonna turn her over
to the authorities.
That's the right thing
to do.
You can afford to do
the right thing, clark.
Nobody can hurt you 'cause
you're some kind of superfreak.
Me --
i want real justice,
and i'm gonna make sure
i get it.
I won't let you do that.
You don't have the power
to stop us.
Dude
i thought you were just fast
on your feet.
You're so much more.
Don't hurt him.
There's nothing he can do.
He's not in control
this time.
East corridor secure.
Sweet dreams.
Plastique and parasite fell off
the grid 20 minutes ago.
Keep trying their cells.
And come get me
the moment
that you make contact.
No, please, don't stop getting
undressed on my account.
You really don't know the
meaning of boundaries, do you?
Well, i know
you shot me down earlier,
but i'm always eager
to try another flyby.
How did you even
get past security?
Must have been sleeping
on the job.
Oliver, i think it's time
for you to leave.
Really?
Okay.
Where the hell
are your pants?
Yeah, yeah,
i hid my pants,
like that time i hid your
clothes in fiji in the cabana.
Remember that?
That was a good time.
If i remember correctly,
we spent the rest
of the vacation au naturel.
You can streak down memory lane
all by yourself.
Those days are over
for me.
Really?
Because i'm pretty sure i felt
some of the old chemistry
earlier this afternoon.
Oh, there was tension.
Mm-hmm.
But it wasn't ***.
Well,
i beg to differ, tess,
because i've seen that look
in your eyes before.
What do you say, hmm?
I'll fly you to places
you never knew existed.
You know, you might want to
cool your jets there, ace.
Maybe we should start over.
It's too late for that now.
Thanks for the bolts
you made me take from livewire.
I deep-fried
your little chips.
We should have known
you were only pretending
to be the good mother hen.
Looks like your freaks
have come home to roost.
Were you able
to get through?
I tried calling the mansion,
but all the lines were down.
Someone's
got to warn tess.
I need
to get to smallville now.
Are you there yet?
I'm at the corner
of marshall and beaman.
I don't see anything.
All right, turn north,
and walk about 30 feet.
It's not faster
than a speeding bullet,
but it'll get you there
pretty quick.
Are you in pain?
Think of how livewire
and eva felt
when you popped
their brains.
They betrayed us all.
You're the one
who betrayed us.
Just tell me
what you want.
First,
you're gonna give us access
to the inmate files
from black creek.
Then we're gonna reach out
to everyone
that suffered
your injustice
and form our own league.
You may have recruited us,
but we're free agents now.
And with all that power,
no one will ever mess with us
ever again.
Cough up the password
to those files.
I'm not about to let the world
get taken over
by a bunch of freaks.
Well, this freak's
gonna make you talk.
Get away from her.
Gutsy move coming in
with no firepower.
You're better than this,
bette.
I know you are.
It's "plastique" now.
And, no, i'm not.
If being better
means letting people like her
get away with ***,
we'd rather be
the bad guys.
Stop!
Let him go.
The pain iskilling me.
You can stop the pain.
Just give me
my powers back.
You'll be happy to know
that our misguided teens
are locked in a secret
rehabilitation facility
where escape's
not an option
and tess won't be able to get
her hands on them again.
So we can focus
on finding chloe and davis.
Where's
the kryptonite ring?
It's in a safe place.
You know something, clark?
You're lucky i had that thing.
It saved your life.
You know that ring
can kill me.
Why would you make something
like that?
I didn't make it.
I took the ring
after i took
lex luthor's life.
You're responsible
for the explosion.
You know, lex may have been your
friend a lifetime ago, clark,
but eventually,
he would have killed you.
That meteor-rock ring
is proof of that.
Why were you wearing it?
In case i don't agree
with the next *** you plan?
You know what?
This is great,
really, really great.
You don't have the guts to
take out that murdering ***.
I come in, i mop up your mess,
and what do you do?
You get all self-righteous
on me.
We do what we have to do,
clark!
And deep down in your
heart, you know that
that was my only choice
'cause you're gonna do
the exact same thing
when you find davis bloome.
And all i can do
is hope that the guilt
doesn't weigh you down
as much as it does me.
Thank you, oliver.
But i'll take it
from here.
All right, look, we don't see
eye to eye on everything.
That's no secret, clark.
We're still
on the same side.
No, we're not.
I see.
You're not gonna use that thing
to kill him, are you?
I'm gonna use it to split davis
from the beast
and send doomsday
to the phantom zone alone.
Well, i guess i wasn't the only
one hiding something, then.
I didn't have a choice,
oliver.
I had to tell you
what you wanted to hear
so you'd get me
the black kryptonite.
How many more lives
are you willing to sacrifice
if your plan fails
this time, clark?!
Put your ego aside.
You have a responsibility.
My responsibility
is to do what's right.
Like it or not,
we stand for something.
We set an example
for others to follow.
And if we don't,
then we're no better
than the people we fight.
I'm not your enemy, clark.
Then who are you?
You're looking
for the crystal?
Let me guess,
eva told you all about it.
You know,
i thought i finally figured out
the whole kal-el puzzle
with the veritas journal,
but sending her in undercover
did seem to reveal
a few missing
kryptonian pieces.
So, what did you do --
have one of your black creek
inmates steal the crystal
before you had them
murdered?
I had nothing to do
with their deaths, clark.
Black creek
was lex luthor's project.
The chips
were implanted there.
The technology was untested.
If it malfunctioned,
you can't blame me.
I'm sure there's no way
to tie it back to you.
You've already had your people
cover your tracks.
Where is the crystal?
I had it destroyed
so that you'd have no choice
but to kill the beast.
Sending him to some
otherworldly prison --
that's not enough.
How many people like plastique
have you sent to jail
only to have them slip
through the system?
What if that happened again?
You can't tell me
that no one's ever escaped
from this phantom zone.
This isn't your battle.
So you admit
that it's yours.
Clark, don't you see that
i'm doing this all for you?
For me?
Yes.
You're so delusional,
you put together a small army
to make some fictional prophesy
come true.
Clark, the mark of a true hero
is somebody who's willing
to sacrifice
his own personal morality
to help
keep the world safe.
No one has the right to choose
who lives and dies.
I was beginning to think that
you were different from lex.
I was wrong.
The difference
is that he turned his back
on you.
But i still believe.
I understand
that if everyone
was more like you,
the world would be
a better place.
But the truth is that
that's out of your hands now.
You can't avoid your fate.
Lex did teach me one thing.
The word "fate"
is used by people
who've lost sight
of who they are.
Why are you so determined
to see davis bloome die?
That's simple, clark.
An entire civilization's
survival depends on it.
Is kal-el ready to fulfill
the prophecy?
I did as you asked.
The crystal
has been destroyed.
Then you shall be the savior
of kandor.