Metropolis University is shut down for a semester, destroyed during the day now known as Dark Thursday. Lana decides to move in with Lex until she can move back into her dorm at the college. Meanwhile, Lois’ interest in the supernatural continues to stir after she witnesses the Kent’s barndoor fall from the sky - the result of Clark developing a new power in super breath. Even though Chloe tries to persuade her cousin that the incident was a “freak accident”, the skeptical Lois decides to write an article about the event for The Inquisitor, a local tabloid.
Clark secretly cleans up a lot of the mess caused by Zod during the night. Elsewhere, Lex is kidnapped by a psychotic soldier named Orlando Block. Block’s cohort, along with the cohort’s mysterious boss, witnessed Lex break into the Pentagon via the sole working satellite on Dark Thursday. Block has been hired by this mysterious man to find out if Lex still has his supernatural powers. Though told not to use violence unless necessary, Block disobeys the order and tortures Lex. Block even kidnaps Lana to use as a bargaining tool. To save his girlfriend’s life, Lex is forced to share the location of the serum that was initially used to trigger his DNA to accept the powers of Zod.
Clark is forced to rescue Lex and Lana from Block in order to protect his secret, told by Lionel Luthor that if Lex is lying about not remembering all that happened when he was possessed by Zod, he might be forced to tell Block everything he knows. Using his newest power, Clark saves his former friends from Block, but his cohort escapes. Later, Lana confronts Lex about a recent discovery - a security camera that he setup in her room. Having discovered video footage of her changing on this camera, Lana questions Lex’s motives. Lex claims he has cameras setup all over the mansion for everyone’s protection. He promises to remove the one in Lana’s room.
It turns out Block’s cohort is working for a wealthy newcomer to Metropolis named Oliver Queen, an acquaintance of Lex’s from their boarding school days. While the cohort can confirm that Lex no longer has any sort of supernatural powers, he informs Queen that there was another person with powers that saved Lex from Block.
Starring: Tom Welling (Clark Kent), Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang), Michael Rosenbaum (Lex Luthor), Erica Durance (Lois Lane), Allison Mack (Chloe Sullivan), John Glover (Lionel Luthor), Annette O'Toole (Martha Kent)
Guest Starring: Lochlyn Munro (Orlando Block), Justin Hartley (Oliver Queen), Brendan Penny (Wagner), Emy Aneke (Robert Pontius)
Written by Todd Slavkin & Darren Swimmer
Directed by Paul Shapiro