Unbelievable.
Immaculate.
The gears...
The complications. I...
I have never seen anything quite like it.
What does it do?
Well, I am sorry to say, I don't know.
I didn't come to the most renowned expert
in antiquities in North America for more ambiguity.
Well, I just need more time. I...
I need to take it to my workshop and take it apart.
No. The cryptograph isn't leaving this room.
It holds great sentimental value for me.
It's priceless.
Well...
If there is no way to decipher the meaning...
It seems your priceless heirloom has no value at all.
I want a security detail on him 24/7.
[Door closes]
[Clicks]
[Door opens]
[Ominous music plays]
[Grunts]
[Sword clatters]
[Groans]
[Dramatic music plays]
[Blade slicing]
[Groaning]
[Door opens in distance]
[Door opens]
[Regan] Oh, my god. Mr. Luthor.
Security breach!
Call an ambulance!
[Opening theme song playing]
Somebody save me
let your warm hands break right through
somebody save me
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
[Soft instrumental music plays]
[Moans]
[Coughs]
Sir. Don't try to get up.
I got everything taken care of.
Clearly, that wasn't the case earlier this evening, was it?
Police. What do they know?
Nothing.
I knew you wouldn't want us to cooperate.
I have a private team tracking your assailant.
But... [inhales] We don't have many leads.
It was the manager...
From the bank in Zurich.
He must have been stationed at the bank...
Waiting for someone to open the safe-deposit box.
Apparently, I'm not the only one interested in its contents.
[Groans]
Sir.
He was trying to kill me.
He was trying to do more than that.
The symbols.
He knows.
He's after the cryptograph.
[Lock clicks]
[Suspenseful music plays]
[Chloe] I won't ask you where you've been or why you stood me up.
As long as you picked up cheesecake to say you're sorry.
Oh, yeah.
Well, the hospital cafeteria isn't known for its dessert list.
Hospital?
Are you all right?
Yeah, I'm great. I'm making page two.
Lex is the one who's not doing so hot.
Was there an accident?
Well, not unless tripping can cause multiple stab wounds.
Look, I know it sounds sleazy
but it turns out that ambulance-chasing pays off.
I got a candid shot of Lex being admitted to the hospital.
[Clicks tongue] I think I'll pass on the gnarly peep show.
- But, you know, Jimmy... - [Device clicking]
There are ways other than cheesecake that you can make up for being late.
As far as I can tell,
Lex's security is not exactly cooperating with the police...
In the let's-find-out-what-happened department.
Don't you find this a little suspicious?
Well, given the large number of dead bodies rolling around lately
I thought that Lex had eliminated all of his enemies.
Why would someone attack him?
Well, the "why"...
Isn't as interesting as the "how."
Along with the stab wounds,
the attacker chiseled a calling card into Lex's chest.
You mean like a name?
No, it's like some... freaky symbols.
[Camera keypad clicking]
[Uneasy music plays]
Hey. Sorry I couldn't get here faster but, you know, I have to drive.
You dragged me out of bed because someone hurt Lex?
They did more than just hurt, Clark.
Jimmy snapped a photo.
That was carved onto Lex's chest.
What does it say?
They're symbols.
One for traveler, and the other for savior.
There's only one group that appointed themselves the savior of the traveler.
Veritas.
But queen, teague, Swann, Lionel...
All the members of veritas are dead.
So who else could know about the traveler?
Or more importantly, how to control him.
I mean, Lionel said whoever had the two keys
would find a device to control you.
Now, what if Lex was attacked because he has both keys and he used them.
While you were away, I tracked Lex and the keys
to a safety-deposit box in Zurich.
Then we're too late?
Well, as far as I can tell, you're still steering your own ship.
Which means that whatever was in that box hasn't taken the wheel.
Yet.
Well, that's comforting.
Well, maybe it's because Lex doesn't know who you are.
There's only one way to find out.
You're not serious.
Looks like your q&a will have to wait.
[Thunder crashing]
[Cell keypad dialing]
I found it.
[Man] Good. Retrieve the cryptograph.
[Milash] It can't be.
I should have seen it that before.
It's magnificent.
Do you want to take a look?
I think I'll pass.
Do you want a look?
Oh. Mm-mm.
You're missing a treat. A real treat.
[Crashing]
- [Gunshots] - [Grunts]
[Gunshots]
[Grunts]
No. No. Please. Here. Take it. Take it, please.
[Gunshofl
[exhales]
[Dramatic music plays]
[Keyboard clacking]
Savior.
Traveler.
I guess skywriting is passe.
[Sighs]
Chloe, the person who did this may have kidnapped Lex.
If they did, they only did it to save you.
That's the last thing I need,
someone going around killing people in my name.
That's probably how god felt about the crusades.
Why carve Kryptonian symbols into Lex's chest?
Lex got himself into this.
Yeah, but I let him.
Wait, go back.
[Tense music plays]
Right there, where the symbols overlap.
Chloe, it creates a third symbol. Sanctuary.
Like this?
Yeah. There's no Kryptonian word that translates directly to "church."
Sanctuary would be the closest match.
If you look at it that way, then savior could be...
Angel or Saint.
The patron Saint of travelers is St. Christopher.
Hand me your phone.
Perfect.
Everything you need at your fingertips. That'il take you where you need to go.
Okay. There's only one St. Christopher's cathedral
on this continent and it's in Montreal.
[Thunderclap]
That man was going to kill me.
He was after the cryptograph.
Well, I guess I underestimated its value.
I am not surprised, considering what I found.
Go on.
Every artist...
Leaves his Mark.
It is an individual's signature, if you like.
This piece was designed by a renowned German watchmaker
named Dietrich brauer.
A watchmaker?
Brauer catered to European noble families
making hundreds of timepieces.
And then one day, he just went into seclusion.
Rumors swirled that an unknown patron had commissioned him to make not...
Not a watch but a magnificent clock.
Brauer's standuhr.
His masterpiece.
So, what does his masterpiece have to do with the cryptograph?
Only one sketch existed of the clock
after it disappeared during the second world war.
The gears on that sketch match this exactly.
So nobody knows where the clock is now?
It was lost for decades, but recently it resurfaced
as a donation from a wealthy philanthropist.
What was the philanthropist's name?
I believe the donor's name was Dr. Swann.
Virgil Swann.
Swann posthumously donated the standuhr to a church.
St. Christopher's cathedral, in Montreal, Quebec.
[Gentle instrumental music]
[Dramatic music plays]
"Cast your eye beneath the surface."
It appears you found what you were seeking.
I've been expecting you.
There are few...
Who can read the inscription.
And only one with the ability to follow the instructions.
Who are you?
I'm Edward teague.
The last surviving member of veritas.
Teague.
I've waited a lifetime for this moment...
To serve...
The traveler.
[Teague] I suppose you know what it feels like to be worshiped.
I didn't ask to be worshiped.
Putting me on a pedestal, that was something veritas did. Not me.
All the members of veritas are dead.
Lionel Luthor wanted you all to himself.
He killed the queens, Swann.
I went into hiding after I...
Lost my wife...
My son.
They all died because of me.
They died for you.
They didn't even know me.
It was a sacrifice they were happy to make.
That's the difference between believers and nonbelievers.
We believed you would be the next savior.
We took an oath under Swann to protect you.
And your way of protecting me was attacking Lex?
Lexis a nonbeliever.
He cannot be trusted.
And his intentions are harmful.
Once he'd reached the safety-deposit box in Zurich, I knew he was too close.
Lionel said there was something out there that could control me.
What is it that Lex was so close to finding?
Swann kept that secret to himself.
He scattered clues around the world in the hopes that whatever controls you...
Wouldn't wind up in the wrong hands.
One of those clues...
Is here...
In this church.
I don't know where...
But I was afraid Lex did.
So you tried to kill him.
But why carve my name into his chest?
Lionel kept your identity hidden, it was my only chance.
I hoped you would see it and come find me.
I had to warn you.
Please...
You must believe how evil lexis.
I know who lexis.
I know what he's done.
Then why?
Why didn't you take care of him before?
We have sacrificed everything.
Years of our lives, our families.
Foryou.
You don't want to fulfill your destiny.
You don't even want to save yourself.
[Clark grunts]
People want to see you as their savior, but you can't be so naive.
For every beacon of light in the universe,
there is a pit of darkness.
We must fight to keep that darkness from ovennhelming us all.
Lex Luthor cannot be allowed to control you.
No one can.
No matter the cost.
We land in three hours.
I hope that gives you enough time.
Those guards are dead.
I was almost killed.
And I have told you everything that I know.
And still you have practically abducted me.
What have you got me into?
It's better you don't concern yourselfwith it.
You have put my life in danger and now you refuse to let me go.
I have a right to know what is the truth.
Considering there's a decent chance that you are going to kill me
before I even get off of this plane...
So why should I help you?
If you remember right... I saved your life back there.
That was because you still needed me.
And I... and I think you are still needing me now.
Mr. Luthor, in antiquities, provenance is everything.
The history of an object, the reason why it was made, that is its true value.
There was a rumor that brauer was commissioned to make the clock...
By a secret society of wealthy patrons.
You wouldn't know anything about that, would you?
[Scoffs softly]
My father was one of them.
My father was...
Fixated.
Everything he did...
Every act he made, it was all aimed at one goal:
Finding the truth, no matter what the cost.
My father's obsession...
Made me an orphan long before he died.
I've always wondered why.
That cryptograph...
That cryptograph is gonna give me the answer.
[Line beeping]
Hey, Clark, it's me.
So the LuthorCorp jetjust left Smallville for Montreal.
So, whatever you can find up there, isuggest_
- [Door opens] - You find it fast.
[Sighs] You're not gonna believe what I found.
Uh, I take it you're over the whole sleep thing.
Symbols like the one hacked into Lex...
Have been appearing around Smallville for years.
On cave walls, burned in barn doors,
even drawn in the fields like crop circles.
- It's incredible. - No, Jimmy, it's a hoax.
Just like those crop circles in england.
Well, hey, the jury is still out.
Those crop circles could have been made by aliens.
People have been playing with the kiwatche cave paintings for years...
Just trying to get on the 6:00 news.
- Wow. - [Device beeping]
Get a competition in the story department
and suddenly you go all Scully on me.
It's not that.
It's just, I don't think Smallville is destined to be the next stonehenge.
Even if it turns out it's a site of ritualistic killings?
I pulled this from research on the cave.
It's an exact match to the carving on Lex's chest.
And it's above a drawing.
Yeah, I've seen this before.
It just looks like a guy in a doonnay to me.
[Jimmy] Well, sure, it looks that way.
But according to the number one website on primitive pictography...
It's actually a human sacrifice.
[Dramatic music plays]
Oh, my god.
[Grunting]
Why are you doing this?
I thought you were supposed to protect me.
Because it is my duty.
You let the secret of veritas fall into the wrong hands.
This is the only way to guarantee...
You don't come under someone else's control.
It won't happen. I can stop it.
I will now bestow upon you...
An ancient Kryptonian ritual.
Before your race were a people of science...
They were warriors.
This ceremony...
Was a sign of respect...
For the mightiest of their enemies.
You don't know anything about Krypton.
I was Swann's disciple. He taught me everything.
Then he must have taught you that I was good.
That I'm not a threat.
He wouldn't want you to kill me.
Swann was an idealist.
He said you would rule us with strength.
But for every passage Swann quoted of the traveler coming to save earth...
There was another interpretation that cast you...
As our destroyer.
[Grunts softly]
If Lex takes control of you, that's exactly what will happen.
Something your father...
[Grunts]
Couldn't have foreseen.
[Straining] What does this have to do with jor-ei?
He had high hopes for you when he sent you to this planet.
But your father understood the risk of setting a god among men.
If you were ever to turn against humanity...
We wouldn't stand a chance.
[Grunts softly]
That's why...
He sent the device.
He never would have sent something to control me.
His only other option would have been to destroy you.
But he couldn't bear the thought of his son's death.
[Dramatic music plays]
[Sighs softly]
I pray that you find peace in this act of selerssness.
[Grunts]
[Tense music plays]
[Groans] Ahhh!
[Blade slicing]
[Gasps]
[Blade slicing]
[Gasps]
[Dramatic music plays]
[Music reaches crescendo]
[Clock ticking]
[Clicks]
[Whirring]
[Gentle music playing]
[Music continues]
[Faint music continues]
[Whirring]
[Chimes]
[Suspenseful music playing]
You're too late.
So strange to see you without those warrior angel figurines
clutched in your little hands.
Mr. Teague.
[Teague] Alive and well.
No thanks to your father.
Seems we all have a score to settle with him.
I believe you already have.
I'm just sorry to see that you've inherited your father's obsession.
Obsession?
You're the one who did this.
You tried to kill me.
The prophecies state that the traveler would have a powerful adversary.
I could never have foreseen that it would be little Alexander.
You know who he is.
The traveler's identity is no longer relevant.
Maybe not to you.
But it's everything to me. You have no idea what it's like
to live every day of your life feeling like an afterthought.
I've sacrificed too much.
Your sacrifice has just begun.
The world can exist only in balance.
If there is no traveler...
There can be no destroyer.
[Grunts]
[Footsteps approaching]
[Dramatic music plays]
Clark.
Oh, my god. Clark.
[Grunts]
[Straining]
[Moans softly]
[Gasps]
Chloe, how did you...
Oliver's jet.
Fringe benefit of being a hero hag.
[Both grunting]
[Intense music plays]
[Both grunt]
How'd you do that?
I didn't.
The traveler.
Oh, my goodness.
What happened here?
[Pensive music playing]
I assume milash is safely back on us soil.
[Regan] I put him on the first commercial flight to Metropolis.
I take it we won't be needing him in Scotland.
Not if you did your homework.
The library only had one book on St. kilda,
but I think you'll be pleased.
Mind if I ask what's so compelling
about a small island off the west coast of Scotland?
The clock.
It played a melody from an old Scottish folk song.
"Birks of St. kilda."
When I was learning to play the piano, my father made me play it over and over.
Birks means birches.
Well, there might be birches but that's about it.
The island's a bird sanctuary now.
According to the literature,
there was a small town built up around a castle,
until some wealthy American bought the castle...
Hauled it back to the us.
My father brought that castle to Smallville, stone by stone.
But obviously, he never found what he was looking for.
It must still be there.
Tell the pilot to change course.
We're not going to Scotland.
We're going home.
[Lock clicks]
[Keys jingling]
Wow.
And I was only gone for 24 hours.
Remind me to stay away for a week next time.
Well, I'm actually sort of celebrating myself.
I just sold my first article.
That's fantastic, Jimmy. How?
Look, I know, you said that the symbols in the kiwatche caves are old news
but I kept digging anyways.
And turns out that I'm not the only one interested.
[Cork pops]
Phew. Apparently, Lex is pretty taken with the symbols, too.
Not surprisingly, since he's wearing one on his chest.
So tell me exactly what the article is about.
Well, it's all very Joseph Campbell.
Hero's journey and all that.
- Cheers. - Cheers.
See, most of the stories on the cave walls are about good versus evil.
They tell of naman, the savior of the people...
Warring against sageeth, the bringer of darkness.
Yeah, the story sounds familiar.
I think Clark wrote a paper about it in high school.
Well, in the beginning...
Naman and sageeth each have their own distinct symbol.
Well, then why does this one look like a combination of the two?
I was wondering that myself.
So I called a professor at met u who specializes in hieroglyphics.
The symbol of good versus evil is common in primitive cultures.
It embodies the push, the pull of the two sides, the yin and Yang.
- The hero-antihero conflict. - Exactly.
But here's what got Lex all jazzed.
This particular image portrays the resolution of that conflict.
Remind me how you resolve a conflict...
That has existed since the beginning of mankind.
Well, in the kiwatche legend,
the hero's journey ends in a final battle.
So according to your professor, who is supposed to win?
[Chloe] I hate to be the bearer of bad news, Clark...
But the writing is literally on the wall.
You're buying into this whole naman-sageeth mythology?
After seeing you strapped down like the human sacrifice in the cave drawings?
In a word, yes.
It wasn't a myth that tried to kill me, Chloe. It was a man.
And thanks to you saving him, that man is still out there.
Chloe, when teague was performing that ritual...
I realized that on some twisted level...
He actually thought he was doing the right thing.
He thought he was protecting everyone.
From me.
[Exhales] Last time I checked, the world was doing just fine with you in it.
As long as there's something out there that can control me, I'm still a threat.
And teague reminded me how dangerous my abilities are.
In the wrong hands, Chloe, they could destroy everything.
Which is a really good reason why you can't let Lex just walk away.
It's not about Lex, Chloe.
Ix-rayed him, he didn't have anything on him.
He didn't find what he was looking for.
Maybe not this time, Clark, but every battle has its Victor.
I know you don't wanna take Lex out...
But Lex will not hesitate to destroy you when he gets the chance.
What do you want me to do, Chloe, kill him?
If I do that, I'd just be turning into him myself.
Whether you like being on this pedestal or not, you were put in this position.
And someday you're gonna have to play god.
[Lex] It's been almost 24 hours. Why haven't they found anything?
It takes time to cover a structure this size inch by inch, Mr. Luthor.
I got every available body working on the job.
And it's only been 20 hours.
I don't want excuses. I want results.
Yes, sir, I understand. I'll bring in more men, increase the shifts.
You do that.
[Playing keynotes]
On the shores of St. kilda
the birks sway in the wind
from the left to the right again
you said the castle was on the west coast of St. kilda.
Yes, sir.
Facing west?
No. The castle itself faced south.
So if I'm facing south...
To see the shore I turn right.
Above the heart of home shines the north star
of course.
Get out.
Everyone out, now.
Yes, sir. Clear the floor.
Everybody out, let's go.
[Pensive music plays]
[Music intensifies]
[Dramatic music]
[Gentle instrumental music]
[Clock ticking in distance]
[Dramatic music plays]
[Music intensifies]
[Closing theme music playing]