Previously on Smallville...
Kara: A darkness has come to earth.
This isn't your fight.
I'm not gonna stand here and do nothing.
Kara: You've been on earth all this time,
and you can't even fly?
Oliver: The woman that I, uh -- that I love...
She sacrificed everything to protect me.
Greg: First I'll eat...
Then I'll molt...
Then I'll mate.
I am the Brain Interactive Construct.
Do not underestimate me.
Aaaah!
Lois: It is safer for you if you're in the shadows.
It's safer for all the heroes.
Maybe people deserve to know the truth.
I am Green Arrow.
Godfrey: There is darkness in you and great power.
You're afraid you'll never be the hero you want to be.
Jor-El: You will never be earth's savior.
Good question.
Maybe you're right, Jor-El.
Maybe I'm not the one.
Maybe none of us are.
[ Footsteps approach ]
Clark: Lois...
Um, sorry I've been kind of out of it lately.
I left you a message.
Yeah, three days ago. You feeling better?
Well, no worries.
You didn't miss anything in the news department.
Okay.
Seems The Blur took a little vacation this week, too.
There must be something going around.
Hero haters.
Just when you think the world can't get
more upside down, right?
People probably don't want to put hope their in someone
who's gonna let them down.
He never would... Let us down.
The Blur, I mean.
And this person, for one, is gonna stand by her hero
no matter how much mud they sling.
Why?
Because that's what you do when you believe in someone.
You know what you need?
A pick-me-up.
Thanks, Lois, but I don't think playing quarterback
is gonna make my day.
Depends on the cheerleader.
Come on. Did you forget?
Tomorrow's our Smallville High Reunion.
Did you say our reunion?
Yes.
You were enrolled there for like --
23 days.
You showed up for five.
That's a record in my book.
Smallville is the closest thing to a past
that this military brat has, and I am not gonna miss it.
We don't have to be dating to show up at a reunion together.
There's a lot of memories there for me.
Come on, Clark.
It would mean a lot to me,
seeing all those familiar faces.
It was like I had a place, like I fit in.
And you...
I mean, you put the Smallville in Smallville, Smallville.
Besides, what's the worst thing that could happen?
[ Indistinct conversations ]
[ Papers rustling ]
I've wasted a decade picking up the pieces
from meteor mutant students.
"How do I get into college with a criminal record?"
[ Scoffs ] You can't, freak.
You see, I have spent years hearing their stories.
And -- and no -- no matter how crazy they are,
they always mention one person...
You.
Clark Kent.
So nice of you to come back to the reunion, save me a trip.
Looks like your bill is up,
and it is time for you to pay.
It's time to move on from the past.
Leave Clark Kent to me.
♪ Smallville 10x04 ♪ Homecoming Original Air Date on October 15, 2010
♪ Somebody save me ♪
♪ "Save Me" ♪ performed by Remy Zero
♪ let your warm hands break right through ♪
♪ somebody save me ♪
♪ I don't care how you do it ♪
♪ just stay ♪
♪ stay ♪
♪ come on ♪
♪ I've been waiting for you ♪
♪ just stay with me ♪
♪ I've made this whole world shine for you ♪
♪ just stay ♪
♪ stay ♪
♪ come on ♪
Guess I just haven't been back in a while.
[ Sighs ]
Ooh!
There's Eddie from chem class.
Hey.
Oh, and Jake and the cupcake girl are together now.
Hi.
Sally "pep rally" Dickinson has put on a few.
Lois, I don't really have a good feeling about all this.
Oh!
Lana: Nietzsche?
I didn't realize you had a dark side, Clark.
Doesn't everybody?
Yeah, I guess so.
So, what are you, man or superman?
[ Clears throat ]
Well, look who it is.
Clark Kent.
Have I got something for you.
A hug! [ chuckles ]
Um, thanks.
Oh, now, don't leave early.
We've got a special treat for you.
A couple more hugs,
and maybe you'll have the bah-humbugs squeezed out of you.
[ Car door opens ]
Welcome back, everyone. Isn't this great?
I have the whole day mapped out for you.
Adelia! Laney!
Lois Lane. Chess Club?
I sat through an entire game once.
Oh. Mark!
Hey, Mark. Smokin' times, huh?
Should I know you?
Like you don't remember all of us behind the gym
on a smoke break.
I mean, I was chewing gum at the time, but --
really? Nothing?
Hey, Lois, let's, um, go inside.
Clark!
I can't believe you're here!
What happened to the bumbling nerd?
Susan Capra.
Suzanne, actually.
You always mixed us up.
Well, you haven't changed a bit.
Bak-bak, crow.
Oh. Here you go.
Thank you.
Are you his plus-one?
I went to school here, people.
Lane, Lane, Lane, Lane.
Lang.
Wow.
Old flames.
I should have known this would happen.
I haven't seen her since...
Your barn, when we were about to --
She's not coming.
I forgot how many memories you have here.
Chloe: It started out as a scrapbook
and just kind of mutated.
Clark: What is it?
I call it the Wall of Weird.
So, what do you think?
Lois: Clark.
I'm sorry.
Maybe I shouldn't have brought you back here.
Zoe: Oh...My...God.
You were friends with Chloe Sullivan.
Yeah. What happened to her?
I mean, she was the rising star at The Daily Planet,
like she always dreamed, and now --
it's like she just vanished,
like someone found out that she knew too much.
Looks like somebody took a bite
out of Chloe's conspiracy cookie.
I'm sorry to disappoint you, but Chloe couldn't make it.
Yeah.
Wait a minute. I know you.
You're Lois Lane.
Yes. Thank you.
You dated the Green Arrow, aka Oliver --
Oliver Queen. Oliver Queen.
Oh, what's it like to date a real superhero?
It -- it was really quick, just -- just a flash.
But I-I would date one again in a heartbeat.
So, this is all that's left of the Torch?
Are you kidding?
We carry the Torch with us every day --
everything you need to know
about the mysterious and the unexplained.
The Wall of Weird has gone viral.
The Blur.
What?
Okay, promise not to tell anyone?
Look, we have a theory that The Blur was born --
and raised in Smallville! ...In Smallville.
Okay, I think your virtual weird wall
has left you a pushpin short.
You're the one who writes about him.
You seriously never considered
that all of these miraculous saves
that Chloe wrote about in the Torch
started right before The Blur showed up in Metropolis?
I wouldn't waste any more time on The Blur.
Seems like he's gone away,
and I'm not so sure he'll be back.
I think what Clark is trying to say
is that it's great that The Blur has been there
to be a role model for kids like you to look up to.
I mean, how many people in the world has he inspired?
Clayton: Exactly.
Maybe it's a good thing he didn't show up for the reunion.
I mean, he would have stolen your thunder, Clark.
What thunder?
Susan: Okay, crows, give it up
for your alumni Homecoming King -- Clark Kent!
Now, this is the homecoming I'm talking about.
Thank God you squeaked out that state championship
in your senior year.
[ Rumbling ]
My sincere apologies
for interrupting this festive trip down memory lane.
Brainiac. I thought we destroyed you.
Whatever you want with me, leave these people out of it.
Oh, don't worry. I'm only here for you.
I wanted to slow things down,
make sure you can soak in this special moment.
And what's so special about this moment?
This is the moment that your life changes forever.
[ Cheers and applause ]
I don't know if you're a ghost from my past
or the darkness that Jor-El warned me about,
but this will come to end, just like it did the last time.
I hope so, for your sake.
My sake?
You sent the person that I love away.
You tried to destroy Chloe. You tried to destroy the World.
And you saved me from all of that, Kal-El.
I've came back to do the same for you.
The Legion.
You're from the future.
- What'd you do to them? - I joined them.
In the 31st century, I'm known as Brainiac 5.
The ring, time travel -- all my creations.
I brought The Legion into a new realm of heroism.
They helped me destroy you.
No. They helped you cure me.
The problem is, Kal-El, you and I aren't very different.
We were both created in one way or another by Jor-El,
both intended to save civilizations,
to bring peace to a brutal world.
But neither of us was immune to corruption...
To darkness.
What does that mean?
All of a sudden everyone's telling me
that I have a darkness within me,
but I don't understand what it is
or how I'm supposed to change it.
You destroyed cities.
I may not make the right decisions,
but at least I'm trying to save people.
Then let me show you, Kal-El.
We can't always see it in ourselves.
My corruption started with a nanobyte --
smaller than the eye can see.
But that's all it took.
[ Bell tolling ]
My father's funeral.
If you're trying to save me somehow,
why show me this?
Because this was a defining moment for you --
perhaps the defining moment --
the day you started to blame yourself.
Why wouldn't I?
I chose to change fate. It was my fault that he died.
Was it?
[ Man grunts ]
Dad?
Jonathan: I won't let you destroy my family.
We can withstand anything you bring down on us
because we have each other.
That's what will always separate the Kents from the Luthors.
Now, why don't you get --
you can't change his fate, Kal-El.
He was just protecting me.
And that was his choice.
Whether it happens this day or any other day,
Jonathan set his own destiny into motion.
You know that.
You just won't let yourself believe it.
Why won't you forgive yourself?
He didn't have a choice.
He's my father.
Of course he'd sacrifice anything to protect me.
We always have a choice, Kal-El.
Your father didn't have to care for you the way he did.
Yet still he made that choice every day he was with you.
He chose to be your protector.
Just as you've chosen to be the Earth's protector.
Nobody forced that on you, yet you embraced it.
Nobody made that choice for you.
We all choose our own fate.
Reporter: Fans and protesters alike are in an outcry
for the playboy turned Green Arrow, Oliver Queen,
who dropped his shocking announcement
and has since vanished from society.
Man: I got kids.
What happens when they grow up
and they want to be vigilantes like him?
Woman: It's great he's helping people. We can't all rise up --
this isn't a memory.
No, it isn't. It's the present.
He's been lying to us all along!
We can't trust him.
If you're trying to make me feel guilty about something,
you just said that we control our own fate.
Oliver made his own decision to come out to the public.
He didn't think about what it would mean to the rest of us.
Reporter: Oliver Queen, if you really are
the hero that you say you are,
don't you think it's time to face the public?
We're waiting for some answers.
[ Beep ]
Any calls?
Woman: Where do you want to start?
CNN, BBC, Dr. Phil?
No, I mean any calls.
Oh, um...
I'm sorry, sir. Mr. Kent hasn't left word.
[ Sighs ]
He's always so Oliver.
I didn't know that he needed me.
But he does.
I don't know how not returning his calls
amounts to some darkness within me.
You don't see it?
The darkness is the past.
You hold on to it. You dwell.
You punish yourself and everyone around you for past mistakes.
We don't have the privilege of mistakes.
Even if we don't expect perfection from ourselves,
the rest of the world does.
You heard what they said.
Then help Oliver be who he can be.
Today, tomorrow.
Be there for him now
and stop punishing him for his past
with your silence and your distance.
Let it go.
♪ "Everything" ♪ performed by Lighthouse
♪ Find Me Here
♪ Speak To Me
Which one of these has the punch in it,
if you know what I mean?
I'm sorry?
We have lemonade and strawberry-ade.
Yeah, but...
Strawberry-ade.
Lois, huh?
So, who you here with?
I'm an alum.
Lois Lane.
♪ To the place
I'm with Clark Kent.
♪ where I find peace, again. Really?
Oh, I just always thought Clark was so dreamy, you know?
That farm boy next door turned local football hero --
doesn't get any bigger than that.
Funny --
I always thought he and Chloe were meant for each other.
They had that whole "best friend with hope of more" thing.
Chloe's my cousin.
Yeah.
But then there was Lana.
I mean, how gorgeous can you get, right?
And hardworking.
I mean, how many cheerleaders
run a coffee shop in high school?
Lana and Clark were perfect.
You know, that first love -- you never get over it.
I think I hear the veggie platter calling.
Wait! So, you're not hitched to Clark?
Not exactly.
- Are you engaged? - Nope.
Oh.
How long have you been seeing each other?
Well, we're not, really...
Right now.
So...
You're the moth, not the flame.
Are you sure he likes you?
♪ Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
Correct me if I'm mistaken,
but you care about Lois, don't you?
All I've ever done was protect her
after what happened with Lana.
Interesting outcome.
Lois doesn't seem especially protected.
You spend so much time dwelling on the darkness
of what happened in the past, you're missing the present
that's right in front of your eyes.
It's one of the people I put away in high school.
You don't know what he's capable of.
I need to get back. To do what?
Weren't you about to hang up your shield?
I have a message for Clark Kent.
- Give me the ring. - Wait for the moment.
No, Kal-El! You haven't learned the full lesson yet.
Whoa, buddy.
Hey! Watch it!
Lois.
How --
not again. Come on.
Wha-- [ Sighs ]
Wait -- seriously?
I know we agreed
that we would keep our professional lives to ourselves,
but what kind of secret story got you to dress-up day?
Here. Hold this.
Honey, I know that you don't like them,
but you were the one that decided you wanted to wear them,
and lucky for you, I have a spare.
No. Hey!
I know they are not fashion-forward,
but if it ain't broke, honey, don't fix it.
Seriously?
Clark, I-I-I thought we agreed
on a Daily Planet dress code.
[ Sighs ]
Lois, wait. How did you get here?
I need to know about the reunion.
We need to table this all until later.
We cannot have people thinking things.
[ Cellphone rings ]
Perry? What the hell?
How many times have I told you that I --
I told you it's not him.
It's just the guy from the 8th floor.
Kent, what are you doing?
This is my desk.
Not for years, unless somebody's been seriously demoted.
Years?
Lois: Clark?
- What are you doing? - Lois, we need to talk.
[ Sighs ] Gloat all you want,
but those names are getting flipped
the second the boys from ops do a fly-by.
[ Sighs ]
Clark.
Clark!
What is going on with you today?
It's like you've never been here before.
I haven't, Lois.
I'm from another time.
[ Sighs ] No kidding.
Clark, you're from a different planet.
That's not exactly a news flash.
What did you say?
I didn't mean to come off so Lois.
It's just that sometimes when you get pensive,
I know that it's because you have
the whole "last son of Krypton" thing
weighing on your shoulders.
Okay, but that's why you've got me, okay?
To remind you that if you were going to
crash-land your spaceship anywhere,
you couldn't have chosen better people to find you
than the Kents.
So you need to snap out of it.
Wait. I know what this is about.
I forgot again, didn't I?
Our anniversary?
Oh, don't play dumb. You always hold it over me.
The day you told me. The day you finally trusted me.
It was -- it was romantic.
And it was the perfect day.
And...Okay, I-I always forget about it until the last minute,
but I swear it is not until --
see? I told you.
So what is it?
Wait a minute.
Oh, no.
Kryptonite again?
Look, I --
Blue? Red?
Not green?
Please tell me it's not the black.
- Because that was a disaster. - Look, I just --
I need The Legion ring.
Lois, do you know where it is?
Is that a joke, Clark?
Touch it once, shame on you. Touch it twice, shame on me.
And actually...
...I could really use it right now,
because we have to be on opposites sides of town
in 10 minutes.
And unlike you, I have to drive.
I can't keep the Mayor waiting.
Lois, I'm not supposed to be here.
I know. We're late.
Late? Lois, I need to get back.
Look, The Legion ring is the only way to do it.
Back?
Okay, listen, why don't you check
your trunk of tchotchkes at the farm?
Isn't that where you keep all your go-to phantom catchers
and fortress disks and stuff?
And if you need me, I am there.
No deadline is more important than you, okay?
Going up. You're going down.
Clark: She's a handful, isn't she?
[ door closes ]
You're right on time.
You knew I'd be here?
Time travel -- think it through.
'Cause you were me when you went through this, and I'm --
well done, my man.
How did I become so uptight... And nerdy?
There's no time to chat about how, where, and why.
We've been through weirder things.
I need you on the roof.
When did I start taking orders?
There's a nuclear reactor about to blow
at an abandoned plant on the outside of town.
Now, I can't be two places at once.
If you knew it was gonna happen, they why didn't you stop it?
You never would have experienced all this,
and you never would have become me.
That's too bad.
[ Bell dings ]
Roof. Now.
[ Air whooshes ]
That's what I become?
[ Crash ]
[ People screaming ]
[ Air whooshes ]
Lois: Mayday! Mayday!
We've lost control. We're going down.
Mayday! Mayday!
[ Crash ]
What are you doing?
I don't know what's gotten into you,
but there is a pilot with a raging migraine when he wakes up
who wishes you could have at least thrown on the cape.
Lois...
You protected my secret.
What else was I gonna do?
I would do anything for you.
Hardly news flash.
Thank you.
[ Sighs ] You drive me crazy.
I guess I should get going.
Oh.
Right. Obviously.
Busy day for a superhero.
Don't be late. Dinner reservations at 7:00.
Not every man is destined to find a woman like Lois.
She's definitely one of a kind.
I know why you sent me here now.
I had intended to be here with you,
but you interfered with the ring.
You wanted me to see how things would be with Lois
and the...Flying.
I wanted you to see that your darkness
lies not only in dwelling upon the past,
but in fearing the future.
I've always hoped my life would be like this.
With Lois and with all of it.
I guess lately I've stopped believing
that it could actually happen.
Well, that's up to you, isn't it?
You don't need to worry about the future, Kal-El.
You can see that it's just fine...
As long as you shed the weight of the past.
Just the next time you decide to defy me,
don't strand me back in the Dark Ages.
♪
♪ You calm the storms,
I have a message for Clark Kent.
Yeah?
How about, "don't leave your date with punch bowl Maddie"?
Something tells me it's for a good reason.
Clark is the reason a lot of us are still here.
Oh?
I kind of got caught up in my web of obsession.
He set me straight.
It's not every place
that has a hometown hero like Clark Kent.
That's the kind of guy he is.
Just tell him.
Tell him thank you.
Clark: I guess you're right.
I've been so buried by the mistakes of my past
and so worried about the responsibilities of the future,
I lost sight of the present.
A hero is made in the moment,
not from questioning the past or fearing what's to come.
Just remember that, Kal-El.
♪ And How can I stand here with you
♪ and not be moved by you?
♪ Would you tell me how could it be any better than this?
♪ How could it be any better than this?
Susan: Thank you all for coming.
We'll see you all back here in another five years.
Bak-bak, crows!
I'm sorry.
That's okay. Who wants a dance anyway, right?
You saved me the blisters, Smallville.
Besides, you know what?
I have an early deadline tomorrow.
Why put off till tomorrow what you can do today?
You're quite a handful, Lois Lane.
Look who's talking.
You were right, dad.
I never stopped blaming myself for what happened to you.
It was a way not to have to let go.
That's exactly what I have to do to move on...
...To get rid of the darkness of my past
I've been carrying around...
To be there for the people who need me now.
You said to hold on to Smallville.
And I will. I won't ever forget.
You'll be with me no matter where I go.
But I have to say the one thing I never could.
Goodbye, dad.
I promise to be the man you knew I could be.
Good morning, Metropolis.
We have a very special show for you this morning.
We have an exclusive interview with a very special guest
who needs no introduction --
Metropolis' infamous bad boy
and self-admitted practicing vigilante, Oliver Queen.
Or should I say the Green Arrow?
What's on your answering machine?
It's...
It's not every day a billionaire admits
to parading around in leather, playing cops and robbers.
Why do it?
Seriously, was it just too boring
sitting around counting your money?
You decided to play dress-up, and it just stuck,
or how does that work, exactly?
Huh.
I think our audience would like some answers.
I lost someone.
She meant everything to me.
So, for that you want what,
a merit badge and special rights?
No. No, you're right. I'm not special.
This isn't about who I am. It's about what I do.
And I-I don't think I'm the first rich boy
who felt that way.
It was John F. Kennedy who once said,
"ask not what your country can do for you,
but what you can do for your country."
So now you're -- you're comparing yourself
to a fallen hero of this country?
Why not? He saw the hero in all of us.
I'm not dwelling on revenge for past atrocities
or looking ahead to what I can personally gain
from a few tax breaks, drilling oil wells in the ocean,
putting up razor-wire fences to keep out immigrants
who only want what our grandparents wanted.
In this world of armchair bloggers
who have created a generation of critics instead of leaders,
I'm actually doing something, right here, right now,
for the city, for my country.
And I'm not doing it alone.
You're damn right I'm a hero.
[ Beeps ]
Zoe: Oh!
[ Chuckles ]
Clark?
♪ "Baby I Need You" ♪ performed by Kim Taylor
♪
Not that I'm an interior designer,
but one of these things doesn't exactly go with the other.
♪ Maybe I need you
I'm sorry we missed our dance.
♪ Here in this hotel room
You don't need to worry about me, Clark.
If anybody understands deadlines and urgent...Things,
it's me.
I'm not worried about you.
I missed you.
Oh.
Well...I don't know.
Neither of us are primed for "Dancing With The Stars."
And speaking strictly as friends,
I don't know if this is such a good idea.
Lois, get over here.
I'm not sure how we're gonna make this work
without the jukebox, nostalgia, and the balloons and --
Lois...
Shut up?
Right. Shut up. [ chuckles ]
Ow!
Sorry.
Hey, I'm the one that put my feet under yours.
Um, but I --
it's fine.
Let's just try this.
♪ Here in this town so sweet
♪ Everything quiet
♪ Everyone gone to sleep
I love you.
I love you, too.
♪ Here in this world on fire
♪ Everything moving
Clark, there's something that we need to talk about.
Just for now, can we leave tomorrow till tomorrow
and just have this?
Mm-hmm.
♪ Everything falls away
♪ Everything changes
♪ Nothing has changed today
♪ Maybe I need you.