WARESPEDIA

EPISODE GUIDE:
In Metropolis, Clark is at a charity gala thrown by LuthorCorp. He is looking at a breastplate that belonged to Alexander the Great. Lana walks up to ask Clark to join her and Whitney. Clark is disappointed to see Whitney there and goes outside “to get some air.”

Outside, a Metropolis cop is beating up a man and tells him he has twenty-four hours to get some files from Internal Affairs, including his. Clark sees a bus that is careening out of control and stops it from hitting a homeless man and his dog on a street bench. He thinks no one saw him and leaves before others show up. Unknown to him, the cop saw everything.

Clark tells his parents about what happened the night before, assuring them that no one saw him. Meanwhile, the cop is blackmailing a security guard from the gala to get pictures of the attendees. One of the pictures is of Clark and Lex.

The principal doesn’t like Chloe’s choice in stories and releases her from her position as editor of the Torch. Lana offers to talk to Principal Kwan to see if she can do anything to help.

In the Beanery, Lex runs into the cop, Detective Phelan. Phelan had been paid by Lionel in the past to fix situations that Lex got into when he lived in Metropolis. Phelan asks Lex if he recognizes Clark from the picture and Lex claims he doesn’t.

Back on the farm, Clark walks into the barn. He sees a Metropolis PD badge on the floor and Phelan drops a generator on him, which he easily tosses aside. Phelan wants Clark to help him. Clark says he will never help him, but Phelan blackmails him by threatening to reveal his secret if he doesn’t.

Clark tells his parents what Phelan did, and Jonathan tells him he will deal with him. Lex comes by and tells Clark to stay away from Phelan, that he’s a crooked cop. Jonathan goes to the Beanery to confront Phelan. The detective now threatens Jonathan, which causes him to lose his temper. Phelan warns that his temper could get him in a lot of trouble.

Lana walks into the Torch and says the next issue can come out as planned, with the condition that Lana is the new editor. Chloe gets angry, feeling that Lana is taking over her paper.

Lex and Victoria Hardwick are eating dinner. Victoria is the daughter of one of Lionel’s competitors. Lex explains that he knows she is there to convince him to give his shares in LuthorCorp to her father so he can take over the company. Lex counters with a proposal for Victoria to take over her father’s company instead.

Phelan picks up Clark and makes him break into the apartment of an Internal Affairs official to get his files from a safe. Clark breaks in and throws the safe down on top of Phelan’s car, just as the police pull up. Clark superspeeds away, leaving Phelan with some explaining to do.

The sheriff shows up at the barn with a warrant to search the Kent farm. The police find a dead body in the barn and a gun in the truck and arrest Jonathan. Phelan has planted the body in the barn and now wants Clark to steal Alexander the Great’s breastplate in the Metropolis Museum. Clark successfully breaks in, but throws the breastplate out a window where it lands in front of Lex and the police, who are responding to a fake bomb threat that Phelan called in. Phelan shoots at Clark, who superspeeds away. The police come in and Phelan dies in the resulting shootout, taking Clark’s secret with him to the grave.

Lana puts out her first issue of the Torch with her front page story about Principal Kwan censoring Chloe. Kwan relents and lets Chloe come back as editor. Lex reviews the security tape from the break in, but can only make out a blur.