SUPERMAN & LOIS 1.9

 

RECAP - SUPERMAN & LOIS  1.9:  "Loyal Subjekts"

It looks like Morgan Edge is looking to finally execute his master plan---especially with Lois Lane getting much closer to exposing him, and Superman always at the ready to take him down.  So, this week, he decided to start playing his trump card...and it was QUITE a revelation to the Man of Steel.  Also, this week, we see just Lois and Jonathan in danger, and Jordan has a new issue to deal with in regards to his continuing emerging powers.  Lana gets dangerously close, and Sarah finally has her debut.

We got ominous from the start, as Leslie Larr had entered Edge's office, but we're seeing everything from a mystery person's point of view.  This tends to be a mystery until later on in the show.  But when the reveal happens, you kind of expected it...and it will be VERY interesting to see what the consequences are from it.  So, while Edge is talking to this mysterious person, we got Lois, Clark, and Chrissy back at the Smallville Gazette, going over the evidence they have collected so far on Edge and his plans for Smallville.  They discuss the X-Kryptonite, all the times he bailed the other towns, and left them hopeless.  They're still trying to connect the dots, but they're getting closer.  After Edge is done with our mysterious person, he bumps into Emily, who is all excited for this new opportunity.  He asks her if she wants to improve her life...and she's all for it. So, Edge puts her through the process of gaining Kryptonian powers.  

Lois feels Clark is the only one who can reach the townsfolk, because he's from here.  Jordan walks in, and he says he's going to be there for Sarah at the talent contest, and they tease him about it. Superman gets called away to Mexico, where there's a bank heist in progress.  For the most part, he's downed a few of the robbers, but one gets a few shots in on him...and he actually falls!  Superman feels off, and he's taking shots to the body with bullets like crazy.  However, he manages to recover and finally end the threat.  One of the bank employees asks if he's okay, he replies he is, and flies off.  At this time, Lana, Lois, and Chrissy continue to work out Edge's game, and Lana talks about Emily being recruited for this "team building exercises".  Lois goes to confront Edge, and she is going to expose him, but he calls her out for lack of proof...and he begins to threaten her, but she says she'll call Superman.  Edge certainly hopes so.  When she gets back home, she notices tons of bruises on Clark, and she knows he doesn't bruise.  It appears that the Kryptonite gas he inhaled last week hasn't fully worked out of his system yet.  

Jordan and Sarah are talking about the talent contest at school when Jordan sneezes, and it's ice that forms in his hands.  It's like he's got a cold, and has to bail on Sarah, saying that he's not feeling well.  When he gets home, he shows what happened to his parents, and they immediately quarantine him to his room.  Meanwhile, Sarah runs into Jonathan at school, and inquires about Jordan, saying he left in a rush.  She's worried about him, and Jon says he'll check it out.  He gets home to find out what happened, and says that Sarah is worried about him.  He's supposed to watch her sing that night, but Lois and Clark forbid it.  

Lana bumps into Emily, and tries to get answers about the "team building" that she's doing with Edge and his new "employees", and she says she can't discuss it, but she's felt better than she ever has.  Edge calls Lana into his office, and says he's caught her snooping around, and giving Lois information about what he's up to.  She denies it, and says that she hired him, so she felt she should know what's happening in order to help him.  Edge then offers her the same choice he offered Emily---and he says that whatever decision she makes will GREATLY affect her family. 

Back at the Kent Farm, General Lane arrives, and says that he's got the DoD working on an antidote to the K-Gas, because whatever affected Clark has affected Jordan.  Things get worse for Jordan, as the oxygen in his lungs start freezing up, and Clark can't wait on the DoD to save him, so he flies him off to the Fortress to be able to help him with Kryptonian technology.  At this time, Lois decides to have a chat with her father, and rips him a new one about how he always put duty first before her, and now that his devotion to that duty has put the lives of not only her husband in danger, but her boys.  She's through with him.  So, after this is over, she doesn't want him around anymore.  Clark has Jordan at the Fortress, and Jor-El says that Jordan is going through what Clark did at his age...and that the only way to help him, is to let the process work through...but Clark is panicking, and decides to use the lasers in the Fortress to essentially "melt" the oxygen in Jordan's lungs, thus alleviating the situation.

Sarah and her family arrive a the show, and she's still concerned about Jordan.  She doesn't feel she can perform without him.  As she goes up to sing, she can't do it...and Kyle finally steps up with is guitar to help her get through the performance.  After that, Emily daughter goes up to sing, and as she does. She mysteriously gets up, and walks out of the performance, saying she'll be right back.  Lana finds this suspicious, so Kyle decides to go talk to Emily and see what's up.  We find out that Edge has "activated" Emily to go after Lois since he found out that Superman is weak.  At the farm, Lois is so stressed out because she feels she can't protect her boys, and Jon says it's okay...he gets it.  It's the price they pay being in a family with super-powered beings.  Then, things get amped up, as Sam is out in his car, still awaiting word from the DoD about the test results to help Clark and Jordan.  But he sees dark figures entering the Kent Farm, and he goes to take a look.  Emily and another companion come in, and they're there to kill Lois and Jonathan.  The Kents make a break for it, as Sam comes in, gun aimed at the two killers to be.  He drops a K-Gas capsule on them, and yells for Lois and Jon to run.  Jon leads them to the barn, where he managed to snag a few weapons from John Henry Iron's RV.  Sam gets taken down, and Emily and her partner crash through the barn, ready to take out Lois and Jon, when Jon blasts them, knocking them out of the barn.  Kyle immediately shows up, and checks up on them....but then instantly turns on them, and is ready to use his heat vision on the two.  

While this is happening, Clark is holding onto Jordan and the Fortress, as the lasers do their work.  Once done, Jordan is better, and the situation is better.  Clark apologizes to Jordan about everything, and Jordan lets him know that everything will be okay.  However, it's just outside the Fortress when both of them hear Lois calling for Superman....they both take off, heading back home.  As Kyle is about ready to kill Lois and Jon, Superman enters the bar and takes out Kyle...and he disappears.  Superman does a quick scan with is x-ray vision, and doesn't find the super-powered trio anywhere.  Later on, Lois talks to her dad, and says she came to Smallville to get away from all the craziness for the boys.  Sam says he's gonna stick around until all this is over.  Lois informs her father about what John said about a war coming...and Morgan Edge is bringing it. 

Kyle winds up at home, and lies to Lana about not knowing where he was at before, and mysteriously waking up in a field out in the middle of nowhere.  What we DO find out, is that the mysterious figure Edge invited into his office was, in fact, Kyle.  Kyle has now been recruited by Edge to be a part of his army.  

Chrissy calls Lois, and tells her that the real reason for Edge being in Smallville ISN'T for the Kryptonite....it's the PEOPLE.  Leslie Larr and several others...who are now under fake names, were once Smallville residents who went through Edge's process, and are now recruits for his army.  Clark knows that when HE came to Earth, there were meteor showers across the world, but a good chunk of that Kryptonite fell in Smallville.  So, they know what Edge's game is finally.  Clark then hears Edge in his ear...calling to him.  He flies off and finally meets with Edge.  It's here that Edge finally reveals that he is NOT from Earth...but Kryptonian as well.  

Business picked up this episode, and now the cards are on the table.  Edge's master plan has been revealed fully.  And we also discover that HE is, in fact, a Kryptonian.  And I'm sure Morgan Edge isn't his real name.  What it is....hard to say, but I've no doubt we'll find out next week.  Admittedly, the plot WAS rather easy to figure out, but that doesn't mean we're not excited to find out what happened.  To know that several of his recruits are former members of Smallville...Leslie, Emily, Tag, and many others...as well as some from the other towns he plundered, are a part of his army.  The WORST part...is that he's now got Kyle mixed up in it.  His desire to get involved with whatever Edge had planned has now led him to take the job that Lana tried to keep him from.  And now...with Kyle in his fold...WITH super powers...Edge's warning to Lana about her choices affecting her life has come to fruition.  What happens to the Cushings as Kyle now becomes a brainwashed soldier against Superman and his family.  How will this work out for Lana and their girls?  Is this a process that can be reversed?  And will we see John Henry Irons again to help stem the tide?  It's going to be a fun ride the next few episodes, as this first season winds down.  And another thing....will Sarah and Lana eventually find out about Clark, Jordan, and what they're capable of?  Looking forward to having all these questions answered in the next 4 or so episodes.  

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