Oliver: 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.
The woman that I, uh... that I love, she sacrificed everything to protect me.
First I'll eat, and then I'll molt and then I'll mate.
I am the brain interactive construct. Do not underestimate me.
It is safer if you stay in the shadows. It's safer for all 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 wanna be.
Jor-El: You will never be earth's savoir.
Good question.
Maybe you were right, jor-ei.
Maybe I'm not the one.
Maybe none of us are.
Lois. Hey, I'm sorry, I've kind of been 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.
Clark: Okay.
Seems the blur took a little vacation this week too.
- There must be something going around. - Hmm.
Hero haters.
Just when you think the world couldn't get more upside-down, right?
People probably don't wanna put their hope 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... - Twenty-three days.
- You showed up for five. - That's a record in my book.
Smallville's the closest thing to a past 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, I...
Come on, Clark, it would mean a lot to me.
Seeing all those familiar faces. It's 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?
I've wasted a decade picking up the pieces from meteor-mutant students.
"How do I get into college with a criminal record?"
You can't, freak.
You see, I have spent years hearing their stories.
No matter how crazy they are, they always mention one person.
Clark Kent.
80 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.
Guess I just haven't been back in a while.
Oh. 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.
Nietzsche? I didn't realize you had a dark side, Clark.
- Well, doesn't everybody? - Yeah, I guess so.
So, what are you, man or Superman?
Well, look who it is. Clark Kent.
Have I got something for you.
A hug.
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.
Welcome back. Isn't this great?
I have the whole day mapped out for you.
Adelia. Laney.
- Lois Lane. Chess club? - Adelia: Uh...
I sat through an entire game once?
Adelia: Whatever. Girl: Come on, let's go.
Hey, Mark. Smoking times, huh?
Should I know you?
Like you don't remember 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.
Suzanne: Clark.
Ha, ha. 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've 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?
She was the rising star of 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.
Wait a minute, I know you. You're Lois Lane.
Yes, thank you.
You dated the green arrow, a.K.A. Oliver...
- Oliver queen. - Oliver queen.
What's it like to date a real superhero?
It... it was really quick, just a flash.
But 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 unexplained.
The wall of weird has gone viral.
- The blur. - What?
Okay, promise not to tell anyone.
Okay, 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?
Exactly. Maybe it's a good thing he didn't show up for the reunion.
- He would've 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.
Cheerleaders: One! Two! Three!
Come on, crows!
My sincere apologies for interrupting this festive trip down memory Lane.
- Brainiac. I thought we destroyed you. - Hmm.
Whatever you want, 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.
I don't know if you're a ghost or the darkness jor-ei warned me about...
But this will come to an end just like it did the last time.
- I hope so, for your sake. - For 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 that, kal-ei. I've come back to do the same for you.
The legion? You're from the future.
- What did you do to them? - I joined them.
In the 31st centuwy, 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-ei, you and I aren't very different.
We were both created in one way or another by jor-ei.
Both intended to save civilizations, to bring peace to a brutal world.
But neither of us was immune to corruption, to darkness.
And what does that mean?
Everyone's telling me I've 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-ei. 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.
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 that you started to blame yourself.
Why wouldn't I?
I chose to change fate. It was my fault that he died.
Was it?
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. - He was just protecting me.
And that was his choice.
Whether it happens this day or any other...
Jonathan set his own destiny into the 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.
Brainiac: 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.
Newswoman: Fans and protestors 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 wanna be vigilantes like him?
Woman: It's great he's helping people, but we...
- This isn't a memory. - No, it isn't, it's the present.
Man: He lied to us all along.
We can't trust him.
If you're trying to make me feel guilty...
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.
If you really are the hero you say you are...
Don't you think it's time to face the public?
We 're waiting for some answers.
- Any calls? - Secretary: Where do you wanna start?
CNN, BBC, Dr. Phil?
No, I mean, any calls?
Secretary: Oh, um, I'm sorry, sir. Mr. Kent hasn't left a word.
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.
And you hold on to it and 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 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.
Find me here
and speak to me
which one of these has the punch in it, if you know what I mean?
Maddie: Sorry? We have lemonade and strawberryade.
Yeah, but...
Strawberryade.
Lois, huh?
- So who you here with? - I'm an alum.
That's leading me
Lois Lane.
To the place
-I'm with Clark Kent. Maddie: 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.
Ha, ha. 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.
And not be moved by you?
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 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!
Mail clerk: Whoa, buddy.
- Hey, watch it. - Lois.
- How...? - Not again.
Come on.
- Wait, did...? - Seriously...
I know we agreed we would keep our professional lives to ourselves...
But what kind of secret story got you to dress-up day?
Here, hold this.
And I know that you don't like them, but you decided you wanted to wear them.
- And lucky for you, I have a spare. There. - What...?
Hey, I know they are not fashion-fonnard.
But if it ain't broke, honey, don't fix it.
Seriously, Clark, I thought we agreed on a daily planet dress code.
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.
Perry, how many times have I told you that troop can find his own sources?
I told you it's not him. It's just the guy from the eighth floor.
Kent, what are you doing?
This is my desk.
Not for years, unless somebody's been seriously demoted.
Years?
Clark? What are you doing?
Lois, we need to talk.
Ugh. Gloat all you want.
But those names are getting flipped the second the boys from ops do a fly-by.
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.
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 you have the whole "last son of Krypton" thing on your shoulders.
But that's why you've got me, okay...
To remind you that if you were going to 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.
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 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 black, 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 opposite 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, why don't you check your trunk of tchotchkes at the farm?
Isn't that where you keep your phantom catchers and fortress disks and stuff?
And if you need me, I'm there.
No deadline is more important than you, okay?
Going up, you're going down.
Future Clark: She's a handful, isn't she?
You're right on time.
- You knew I'd be here? - Time travel, think it through.
Because you were me when you went through this and I'm...
Well done, my man.
How did I become so uptight and nerdy?
No time to chat about how, where, 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 outside of town.
- I can't be in two places at once. - If you knew, why didn't you stop it?
You never would've experienced all this, and you never would have become me.
Well, that's too bad.
Roof, now.
That's what I become.
Lois: Mayday, mayday, we've lost control. We 're going down.
Mayday, mayday.
Pilot: Tower, this is November, zero, one, niner, niner, whiskey.
We've lost hydraulics.
What are you doing?
I don't know what's gotten into you.
There is a pilot with a 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 a news flash.
Thank you.
Oh, you drive me crazy.
I guess I should get going.
Oh. Right, obviously.
Busy day for a superhero.
Don't be late, dinner reservation's at 7.
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 intended to be here with you.
But you interfered with the ring.
You wanted me to see how things would be with Lois and 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. Well, with all of it.
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.
It's just, the next time you decide to defy me...
Don't strand me back in the dark ages.
Greg: 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.
You know, Clark is the reason a lot of us are still here.
Oh?
I kind of got caught up in my web of obsession, and 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, 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 to not 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.
I will, I won't ever forget.
Because 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.
Woman: You're all set.
Director: All right, settle down, people. We're close.
Crewman: Okay, get ready, we're going. Director: And three, two, action.
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? - Yeah, that's...
It's not every day a billionaire admits to parading around in leather...
Playing cops and robbers. Why do it?
Were you just getting bored sitting around, counting your money...
Decided to play dress up and it just stuck?
How does that work, exactly?
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 don't think I'm the first rich boy who felt that way.
John F. Kennedy 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 fences to keep out immigrants...
Who only want what our grandparents wanted.
In this world of armchair bloggers...
Who created a generation of critics instead of leaders...
I'm actually doing something.
Right here, right now, for the city and for my country.
And I'm not doing it alone.
You're damn right I'm a hero.
Lois: Clark?
Not that I'm an interior designer...
But one of these things doesn't exactly go with the other.
I'm sorry we missed our dance.
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.
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. Ha.
-Sorry.
- I'm the one who put my feet under yours. - —um, but i-...
- It's fine. - Let's just try this.
I love you.
I love you too.
Clark, there's something we need to talk about.
Just for now, can we leave tomorrow till tomorrow and just have this?