Ambush
Our "Eyes on the Ground" report target is in Smallville, sir.
Right on schedule.
[ Glasses clink ]
[ Sighs ]
[ Chuckles ]
So, what are you in the mood for?
Oh, I'm in the mood.
Just not for breakfast.
[ Chuckles ]
Lois...
The bedroom's upstairs.
Mm-hmm.
But the porch swing -- it's out there.
[ Air whooshes ]
Target is on the move.
He's heading for the Kent Farm.
Target closing in on farmhouse.
Daddy. General Lane.
[ Clears throat ]
And Lucy.
Happy Turkey Day, sis.
The whole Lane family's together for the holidays.
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You don't have to be nervous, Lois.
Your dad just wants to spend time with you.
Oh, I think he's more interested in doing recon
on the man dating his daughter.
So, hopefully someone's monogrammed jacket has vanished in a blur.
I took care of it. Look, your dad's met me before.
Before we were a couple, Clark.
None of my other boyfriends
have ever survived The General's assault.
I'll be fine.
"Fine"?
Fine won't pass inspection.
You have to be perfect.
It is important to me that my dad likes you.
And it's important to me that you are happy.
There's nothing to worry about.
Except maybe if he finds out that you're a superhero.
My dad hates superheroes.
Hey.
Ah, that's a good cup of coffee.
Make yourself at home, daddy.
Your sister's still upstairs unpacking.
She could be all day.
It's good to see you, sir.
Mm.
[ Clears throat ]
So...
[ Sighs ]
...Nothing much has changed around here.
Your mother still own the place?
It is in her name, but I --
I see.
You live in your mother's house.
And you work in a basement. Is that correct?
Well, it is the bullpen at The Daily Planet.
I work side-by-side with Lois.
Ah.
She seems to write more articles than you.
What exactly do you do with your time, Clark?
Oh, hey.
Daddy, uh, Clark and I work together a lot.
He just gives me the byline sometimes.
That's just how sweet he is.
Oh.
We look after each other. Good.
Because if Lois is gonna be spending any time around here,
I've had a look around, and there's a few things
that are gonna have to be brought up to code.
[ Chuckles ]
Like scrubbing the bathroom tile with a toothbrush?
That's number 17 on the list.
You're not kidding.
No, I never do...
Though I feel a little uncomfortable
inspecting the enemy camp.
Your mother is my major opposition in the Senate.
Oh. Does this mean you're finally running for office, daddy?
Uh, no, sweetheart.
I'm the Senior Military Adviser on a new bill --
the Vigilante Registration Act.
And by "vigilante," you mean...
Vigilantes -- weekend warriors in masks
who run around inciting Anarchy.
Well, I don't think they incite Anarchy.
They stop crime, protect people.
And they commit acts of terrorism.
Like the R.A.O. Tower in Metropolis,
blown to kingdom come.
No evidence of explosives. You want to know why?
Because one of them superfreaks did it.
Hmm. You know what?
Since we are pretending this is a holiday,
what say we make it official and take a furlough from work?
Clark, do you know who the real heroes of the world are?
The men and women of our Armed Forces.
They have to enlist,
go through background checks, training,
through our rules,
be held accountable for their actions.
People start believing in these so-called superheroes,
pretty soon the superheroes form cells,
start taking the law into their own hands.
No, I will not let them compromise our national security.
Mnh-mnh.
Lois, what do you think?
I think we need some veggies with our starches.
Baked or mashed?
Whatever The General would like, of course.
You know, when you need first aid,
you expect it to be in the first place you look.
It's over here.
Look at this --
new chairs, you got a whole new set-up going on.
You know, when I said you could move in,
I didn't think you'd actually move in.
Take off your shirt.
Like I haven't seen it all before.
[ Sighs ]
Looks like you had a rough night.
Yeah.
Somewhere between chasing the bad guy
and dodging the press,
I ran into someone who literally had an ax to grind.
That sounds like some serious overtime.
But if I remember correctly,
your cure-all was two raw eggs in a Belgian beer, hmm?
Yeah, let me tell you something, Tess.
I can do this whole 9:00-to-5:00 thing with you, all right?
But I draw the line at Happy Hour.
[ Groans ]
How did you say you hurt yourself again?
It's just your typical ax-wielding maniac.
Scratched the surface.
Something's happening beneath the surface.
Your skin is reacting to the iodine.
That's a subdermal tattoo.
Oliver, I've seen this before.
This is the signal for the Suicide Squad.
The Suicide Squad, huh?
That's a hell of a name.
They're a hell of a team.
When I was working for Amanda Waller at Checkmate,
there were certain dirty jobs that a government Agent
just couldn't do -- not even us.
And Waller would send in the squad.
They were led by Rick Flag.
But they all died when Checkmate was attacked.
Wait a second. Wait a second.
I know this guy.
This guy tied me to a chair, he beat me to a pulp,
and then he wanted to kiss and make up.
I knew he got under my skin, but come on.
Wait. Flag survived?
He's recruiting a whole new squad.
I politely declined.
If he tagged you, he's tracking you.
Something tells me I'm not the only one.
[ Cheers and applause ]
[ Static ]
Reporter: We interrupt this scheduled program for breaking news.
A fire has broken out at a refinery in Smallville,
and Firefighters are rapidly losing ground against the blaze.
Clark should see this.
Remind him what a real hero is.
Hey. Hey.
They were out of cranberries.
The store must've had a fire sale, huh, Clark?
[ Air whooshes ]
Where's Clark?
He...Went upstairs.
Leave you holding the bags?
[ Grunts ]
What happened to being a gentleman, hmm?
Update on the refinery blaze.
The fire is out, thanks to The Blur.
Hmm.
Leave it to The Blur to turn a fire into a photo op.
[ Door slams ]
Found the cranberries. They were in the...Truck.
Where were they, honey, under the hood?
Hmm.
I thought you said that Clark...
Went upstairs.
Yeah. He was upstairs... Outside.
Checking the chimney.
Thanks.
[ Cellphone ringing ]
Excuse me.
[ Ringing continues ]
It's not a good time.
You're where?
I'll be right there.
Lois, I need to go chop some wood!
[ Door closes ]
Get me a work-up on Clark Kent --
Kilo Echo November Tango.
He's hiding something.
[ Beeping ]
That's exactly what I was afraid of.
Flag's tracking me, too?
Which is a bit surprising,
considering your impermeable skin.
He must've used Blue Kryptonite.
Oliver, we have to figure out why he's tracking us.
Yeah, Tess is working on that back at Watchtower, which...
I appreciate the help,
but she's running around there like she owns the building.
If it wasn't for her,
we wouldn't know about these tattoos.
We wouldn't even be on Flag's trail.
[ Footsteps ]
You got to go.
What, the window? What are we, 16?
Now.
Lucy.
Did I hear you talking to someone up here, Clark?
No.
It's just me.
Good, 'cause I only brought one lemonade.
I thought you could use the refreshment.
Thanks.
The General give you a list?
Yeah, I'm afraid so.
He likes to test Lois' boyfriends.
He's convinced they all have something to hide.
So far, no one's passed.
I'll be the first.
Well, if anyone can do it, I'm sure you can.
You've grown into quite a man in the past six years, Clark.
I'm sure Lois could use your help.
I think I've earned a 10-minute break.
Lucy...
[ Sighs ]
Well, at least show me around the barn.
There's really not much to see.
Lois: [ Clears throat ]
Really?
Lois, your sister just...
Ambushed you.
Well, this has Lucy written all over it...
...In backstabbing bitch-berry lip gloss.
You -- come with me.
Ow, Lois. Not so tight.
So -- so, what?
You thought I would catch you two tongue-wrestling
and then, what, have a big fight with Clark?
- Lois, I -- - Just save it.
Now, the only reason that I am keeping you around
is for dad.
So, go make yourself useful and get us some ice.
There's ice in the freezer.
Dad likes crushed.
[ Sighs ]
[ Air whooshes, clattering ]
[ Sighs ]
[ Grunts ]
[ Clattering ]
Chop and stack one cord of wood.
Sir, yes, sir.
[ Grunts ]
[ Clattering ]
Careful dad doesn't see you
making with the Kung Fu there, Paul Bunyan.
I'm sorry... About what happened with Lucy.
It wasn't your fault.
Still...
You can put out a burning building,
but you can't contain her hot lips?
She surprised me.
[ Sighs ]
But you know what's a bigger surprise
is that you couldn't stand up to your dad.
Unless you actually agree
with this Vigilante Registration thing?
Clark...
I am just trying to get through this holiday
without a fight.
Lois, you either agree with him or you don't.
I don't.
But this means something to The General,
so please do not make me choose sides.
I thought you were somebody
who stood up for what she believed in.
And then when it comes to your father,
you do the same thing that he does --
you make your choices based on fear.
Hey, just because you don't have a --
a what, Lois?
Were you gonna say a father?
Okay.
What I am trying to say
is that you haven't had to deal with a family
for a really long time.
All you have to answer to is yourself.
Clark, if you want to be with me,
you're gonna have to deal with my family, too.
I hope you can respect that.
Flag: I'm surprised a General's daughter
would leave herself open to attack.
Always watch your six, Ms. Lane.
Who are you?
I'm sorry. I'm, uh...
Colonel Richard Stafford.
I'm sorry if I startled you.
I'm posted nearby at Fort Ryan.
I'm here because we think you can help us.
Thanks to his influence with a number of Senators,
your father is crucial
to congress passing Anti-Vigilante Legislation.
But right now, he's in serious danger.
We need to get him off of that farm
and away from Clark Kent.
Clark?
Kent is a vigilante sympathizer.
Whether he knows it or not, he's helping agitators
who would like nothing more
than to see your father fail at his current mission.
That's a very serious accusation.
Do you have proof?
Give this to your father.
Why not just deliver it to him yourself?
We don't want to arouse Kent's suspicions.
And for your father's protection,
it's best if he not know that you got this from me.
Just tell him you found it on the farm.
He'll know what to do.
Could you also plant this on him?
It's a homing device.
It'll help us track and protect him.
The U.S. Army is depending on you, Lucy.
So is your father.
You can count on me.
Go make your father proud.
[ beeping ]
Tess: I intercepted a Suicide Squad transmission.
Flag's planning on killing someone,
but we need to decode this before he does.
[ Keys clacking ]
Come on.
Chloe would have had this finished, like, yesterday.
Oliver, I'm trying to help you,
and you keep acting like I'm the enemy.
Well, you know what?
I'm just trying to get used to all the changes around here, okay?
Look, I come here, and I think of Chloe, all right?
I think of all the time that I spent here with her,
and I just --
[ sighs ]
It's hard for me being here with someone else, okay?
I know.
And I'm not trying to take her place, Oliver.
But at some point,
you need to start treating me like I am on your side.
General?
List completed and accounted for, sir.
Clark.
Mm.
Have a seat, son.
Let's get down to brass tacks.
Lois likes to date men of action --
men who make the news.
Now, you, Clark, you just report the news.
Why could she be possibly interested in you?
Why don't you ask her, sir?
I asked somebody at the Pentagon instead.
Guess what he came up with.
Nothing.
Nobody's record's that clean.
Unless they had somebody higher up wipe it out.
Somebody, let's say, like a...
U.S. Senator, hmm?
Excuse me, sir,
but what gives you the right to spy on us?
Well, I'm a Four-Star General, Clark, and a war hero.
I know a smokescreen when I see one.
Now, nobody could've done this list by themselves.
You're searching for enemies where they don't exist.
Just like your vigilante witch hunt.
I was talking about you, Clark.
Why would you bring up vigilantes?
Lucy found this in your loft.
[ Chuckles ]
You're in league with them, aren't you?
I'm not on trial, Sam.
You want to protect the United States,
but as soon as you're threatened,
everyone else's rights go out the window?
It's no wonder Lois is too afraid to be herself around you.
Are you questioning my relationship with my daughter?
You have been questioning me all day.
It's my right to protect my family!
It may be your right!
But you're wrong to think that we don't belong together.
I love your daughter,
and I don't want a day to go by where I'm not with her.
Well, I hope you enjoyed today,
because it's the last day you'll ever spend with her.
I did everything I could to make today work.
I dealt with my family,
I helped The Blur, I even found my inner Iron Chef,
and all I asked -- the only thing you had to do
was deal with my dad for one day.
Lois...
Your dad had me investigated by the Pentagon.
He has surveillance photos of me with Kara.
She's in her costume.
I think your sister planted them in the loft.
[ Footsteps ]
Lucy: I thought it would be a good idea
if we all went to your place tonight,
without Clark.
I'll meet you in the car, daddy.
Thank you, sweetheart.
Come on, let's go.
That's an order, young lady.
Can't we stay and work this out?
There's nothing to work out.
Your friend Clark is a dishonest man.
And he has dangerous friends.
And when the vigilantes
try and take over this country with Anarchy,
he's gonna go down with them.
So come on, now. Let's go.
I am sorry, Clark.
[ Beeping ]
The General is leaving the farm, sir.
Which means Clark Kent won't be able to blur to his rescue.
The Blur may be faster than a speeding bullet...
But I bet he can't outrun this.
Please, dad, go back and talk to him.
It's Clark -- you know him.
- I can't do that, Lo. - Why?
Because he's in league with masked vigilantes.
When he finally pays the price for this,
I do not want you near him.
Not all of your vigilantes are bad.
Why do you have to go to Defcon 1?
You haven't met a single one of them.
Lois, can you stop running damage control long enough
to see that we are just trying to protect you?
Back off, Lucy.
Or do you happen to have some compromising photos of me
that you'd like to share with the class?
Please.
Both of you!
Trust me, Clark is not who you think he is.
Now, a couple calls to the NSA,
and we'll find out what he's hiding.
It doesn't matter! Because I love Clark.
Everything you need to know about him
is standing right in front of you.
Talk to me.
The only thing that matters is how I feel.
Lois --
I appreciate that you like straight talk,
so I will give it to you in one razor-sharp line.
I'm staying with Clark, and if you love me...
You will respect that.
[ Clears throat ]
Daddy, let's go.
[ Door closes ]
[ Beeping ]
Flag: And the rockets' red glare,
the bombs bursting in air,
gave proof through the night
that our flag was still there.
Missile is locked on target, sir.
[ Beeping ]
I'm the target.
It doesn't make any sense.
Flag would try to recruit you
before he'd try and kill you, Clark.
How can you be sure?
Because Flag spent so much time on the front lines
with superpowered people that he identifies with them.
To him, you're all freedom fighters,
and he would attack anyone that threatens that --
Presidents, Senators, the Military, it doesn't matter.
There's about to be a new law --
The Vigilante Registration Act.
Its biggest supporter is in Smallville right now.
It's General Sam Lane.
God Bless America.
[ Missile rumbling ]
[ Air whooshes ]
Lois!
[ Air whooshes ]
[ Breathing heavily ]
Daddy.
Oh, my God. Oh!
Oh!
[ Air whooshes ]
The Blur saved your life.
We hit the building but not the target.
General Lane survived.
Damn it.
[ Metal clangs ]
It's over, Flag. We know you blew up that building.
It's a classy move, attacking your own country.
I did it for my country.
If you kill Lane, you kill a movement.
[ Groans ]
[ Sighs ]
That Registration Act is nothing but a weapon
to profile, hunt, and destroy us.
We don't need a history lesson.
Well, apparently you do, shamrock.
You've become the politicians' poster boy
for full disclosure.
They're gonna be on your doorstep soon,
holding you up as a volunteer.
Get all the other heroes to stand up to be counted...
And be killed.
We're not gonna let that happen.
If the bill passes, it already has!
Don't you see?
[ Groans ]
America's turning against us.
[ Explosion ]
We have got to fight back, show strength,
make them choose us as their leaders.
You'll only be stirring up anti-hero hysteria.
Violence isn't the answer.
Violence is the only answer.
And more and more superheroes are coming over to my side.
Lo, can we talk?
Well, that depends.
Can you form a sentence without lying to my face?
I can't believe that I almost got you killed.
Let's not forget
the Talon's "shock and awful" missile makeover.
Who would've known fire insurance
didn't cover mortar fire?
I'll replace everything you lost, Lois.
I promise.
Just like you're gonna make Clark and I trust you again?
Look, Lucy...
I'm not happy that you went behind our backs...Again.
But...
I do get trying to protect dad.
Our larger-than-life hero needing someone to protect him?
Who wouldn't want to do that?
I should have told you what was going on.
Yeah.
But I thought that if I helped dad on my own,
he'd stop seeing me as...
The troublemaker?
Okay, I know I came down on you pretty hard, Lu.
But I think that part of me sort of liked the fact
that you turned into the troublemaker,
because I was finally able to be the good one.
When you say it all out loud, it's just --
well, it sounds really exhausting.
Yeah, I --
I think we were so busy
trying to be the perfect daughter that...
We forgot how to be sisters.
No, Lois.
You're a great sister.
[ Both sniffling ]
I thought you said no happy hour.
Yeah, but I'm still on the clock, so...
[ Chuckles ]
So, I was curious. You, uh...
Hear anything about that tattoo-removal research?
I have Emil looking into it.
Good.
No need to worry, my friend.
I think it's a little early for "friend."
"Friendly" -- I can do that.
I can be friendly.
I'll take it.
[ Sighs ]
I was beginning to think the best that I could do
was "frenemy."
I don't even know what that means.
[ Laughs ]
We've, uh...
We've survived tax audits and typhoons together, Tess.
I think we're practically like family at this point.
We've come a long way.
From the middle of the ocean to the top of the city.
I can work with that.
You know, this place is sort of like an island,
isn't it?
It's just too bad I got to vote myself off.
I don't understand.
It's a funny thing
about Green Arrow showing his face to everyone.
Now everyone wants to stick theirs in my business
and... Peek in my window and...
What if someone sees me come in here?
Watchtower, I mean.
There are people who count on this place remaining secret.
They count on that for their safety.
They didn't step out into the limelight like I did.
That wouldn't really be fair to them, would it?
After everything you've told me about Chloe
and what this place means to you...
That must be a really hard decision to make.
But it's the right one.
Watchtower's in good hands, Tess.
Clark...
I owe you an apology.
I'm not so set in my ways
that I can't appreciate the way you stood up to me earlier.
And you were right.
I have not always been a perfect father.
No, sir I -- uh.
I needed to hear that.
Nobody's had the guts to talk to me like that
since my wife passed away.
[ Sighs ]
You must really miss her.
Every day.
But, thankfully, I can see my Ella in our daughters' faces.
Can I give you some advice, Clark?
Yeah.
Going to war,
having to deal with the rush of battle
and the struggle to save lives,
it made coming home
and doing the simple things difficult.
But, you know, it's funny.
It's the simple things like taking a walk
or dancing with your wife, tucking in the kids
that make us human.
Now, don't get me wrong. I've loved serving our country.
I even got to be a hero a couple times.
But if I had to do it over again...
I'd spend more time with the family.
Your girls love you, sir.
You're their hero.
But I think Lois has got herself a brand-new hero now.
[ Chuckles ]
I almost lost her tonight.
But...
By the Grace of God,
we're all gonna get to have ourselves
a home-cooked Thanksgiving meal.
And that's all thanks to The Blur, hmm?
So, Lois being saved by a vigilante --
that will change your mind on the bill?
Well...
I got to admit,
I kind of like her having her own private Guardian Angel.
But...
Not every hero has The Blur's Code of Honor.
And not all politicians have yours.
Some will use the law to destroy people.
I'm a military man, Clark.
I have to believe that when push comes to shove,
America will do the right thing.
Kind of like Lois did the right thing by you tonight.
For years, I've been giving her boyfriends
an impossible list of chores to do.
Not to test them.
To test Lois?
Uh-huh.
Those poor bastards, I put them through hell.
Lois never said a thing.
That's how I knew she didn't love them.
About Lois and I...
There's a question I was hoping to ask you.
No more hiding in the shadows.
That's a declaration of war.
Go.
[ Beeps ]
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