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Bloodline
Series 8x08
Episode 160
Writer Caroline Dries
Director Michael Rohl
Broadcast Date November 6, 2008
Production Code 3T7459
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[edit] Summary

Clark and Lois are transported to the Phantom Zone by the Crystal of Knowledge. They are then attacked by a Zoner, who turns out to be Kara. Kara opens a portal for Lois to return home but Faora, the wife of General Zod, escapes with her and Lois is then possessed by her. Faora goes on a rampage throughout Metropolis.

[edit] Recap

Clark is surprised to find Lois Lane knocking at his door holding a box of things.
Clark and Lois touch the crystal.
She announces that she is taking him up on his offer and moving in. Clark wonders if it will be too much working and living together, but Lois says the Talon apartment is too crowded with Chloe and Jimmy.
Clark and Lois in Phantom Zone
She tells him that she found a package on his doorstep and when Clark opens it, it is the Crystal of Knowledge. It glows when he picks it up. Lois thinks it's a paperweight. The house starts
Tess asks Chloe where the crystal is
to shake and Lois grabs Clark's arm telling him to drop it. Before he can, they are trapped, on the way to the Phantom Zone.

Chloe arrives at the farmhouse also carrying some of Lois' things. She notices a broken window with the crystal on the floor. She puts it in her bag just as Tess Mercer appears. Tess wonders about the broken window and says a report of an energy surge was just picked up. Chloe realizes she is still looking for the missing crystal. Chloe feigns ignorance and says she doesn't think Clark Kent would own or want a supercomputer, but Tess already knows that Chloe is covering Clark's tracks.

Davis asks for Chloe's help.
Chloe goes to the Isis Foundation to try to contact Oliver Queen when Davis Bloome enters. He tells her he remembers that she is keeping her distance but his blackouts are getting worse. He says he is trying to find his birth parents in hopes of answers but cannot find anything about the first three years of his life. He asks Chloe to use her reporter skills to help him and gives her a file of his information. Clark and Lois wake up in the Phantom Zone and Lois thinks they have been abducted by aliens. Clark thinks they should stay moving and stick together. They walk for hours and Lois is getting tired and upset. She stumbles onto a dead body and starts to panic. Clark tries to calm her down just as a
Clark and Lois in the Phantom Zone.
cloaked figure knocks her out. The figure advances on Clark but Clark grabs its wrist, shocked to recognize the silver cuff bracelet. It is Kara Kent. He calls her name and she recognizes him.

Kara explains that she attacked because she thought Clark and Lois were phantoms. She is standoffish and wary, finally admitting that she is aware of an escape portal but is sure other phantoms will escape if she goes through. Clark is in awe that Kara has willingly chosen to stay trapped in order to protect Earth. Kara is unwilling to open the portal but Clark thinks Lois needs to be sent back.

Kara fights Faora.

Chloe finds Oliver in his jet and tells him that Lois and Clark disappeared. She shows him the crystal but Ollie is reluctant to get involved. Chloe tells him she needs him to steal the crystal's generator to hack into it and see if it reveals Clark and Lois' whereabouts. Oliver thinks Chloe is getting in over her head but Chloe insists she can handle it. She tells him that the generator is in the hands of Tess Mercer, and Oliver is suddenly eager to help her out.

Clark, Lois and Kara make it to the portal and Clark volunteers to stand guard while Kara and Lois go through. Kara activates the altar, but Lois wants to wait for Clark. She can hear him being attacked outside. Kara pushes her through just as a phantom flies in. Kara tries to fight it off but it escapes through the portal with Lois. Lois awakens on Earth and the phantom inhabits her body shortly afterward.
Tess runs into Faora looking for her son.

"Lois" goes to the Daily Planet and is scanning news archives. Tess approaches her and Lois says she is looking for her son, who was attached to a Kryptonian spaceship. Tess gets interested and tells her she can help her, saying she's looking for a Kryptonian artifact. Lois thinks she is lying and superspeeds away.

Clark is injured but makes his way into the altar. He realizes Kara is trapped under a boulder and tries to free her, but she urges him to make his escape. Clark refuses to leave her.
Green Arrow breaks into the Luthor mansion.

Chloe is waiting for Oliver to bring her the generator when "Lois" appears. Chloe hugs her but realizes she is not herself. She tells Chloe that Clark will die in the prison his father created, and that she needed Lois' body as a vessel. She tells Chloe that she is Faora, wife of Zod. She has tracked Chloe down to ask her what she knows about the ship that landed in Smallville. Chloe tries to run but Faora chokes her. Chloe is holding the file Davis gave her and drops it. Faora sees a photograph of Davis and releases Chloe as she leaves to locate him.

Oliver is in his Green Arrow gear ready to steal the generator, but Tess catches him. She holds a gun on him and asks him what he
A mother and son reunite.
knows about the crystal. Green Arrow hits her with a temporary paralysis dart and leaves calmly.

Faora finds Davis at Metropolis General Hospital but is surprised to see that he is a health care worker, caring for humans instead of killing them. Davis doesn't understand why "Lois" is acting strange. She tells him she is his mother and Davis looks confused.

Oliver takes the generator to Chloe but he is skeptical as to how it will work. Chloe connects the crystal which begins to spin and glow. Her eyes glaze over with cataracts and her nose starts to bleed. Oliver
Chloe creates a portal to rescue Kara and Clark.
is alarmed and tries to stop her, but she pushes him with one hand across the room as the energy continues to build.

Clark is still trying to free Kara when the portal activates. As he is being sucked through, he convinces Kara to grab his hand and the cousins are pulled through. They transport into the Isis Foundation, now unharmed. Clark goes to check on Chloe but she doesn't explain what she did. Clark asks if Lois is okay and Chloe tells them about Faora. Kara knows who she is. Clark instructs Kara to go contact John Jones and obtain his crystal and goes to find Lois.

Davis thinks
Davis is stabbed by Faora and dies.
Lois has taken something and gives her a cup of coffee to sober her up. Faora continues to explain that she and Zod created Davis, and that his body is still evolving. Davis is surprised that she knows about his blackouts. She tells him that he will evolve into Earth's ultimate destroyer. Davis is reluctant and Faora decides that he is too weak to take over the planet. She pulls a metal bar off of a gurney and impales Davis with it. She leaves him bleeding, telling him that which kills him makes him stronger. Clark finds Faora in the hospital and tries to get through to Lois. He apologizes to her and Faora sees his worry. She taunts him and throws him through a wall. Clark lands on an ambulance, crushing it, and Faora and Clark fight until Clark lifts her up so that she's hit by rays generated from the Martian Crystal. Faora's spirit is separated from Lois' body and re-imprisoned in the Phantom Zone. Lois is left unconscious.
Kara uses John Jones' crystal to remove Faora from Lois.

The next day at work, Lois reports that Tess gave her a raise. Clark wonders if Tess encountered Faora and is suspicious. Lois just says she can't remember anything after arriving at Clark's house. Clark says he is glad he can keep an eye on her but Lois announces that she has changed her mind and will get her own place since she can now afford one with the raise. They are interrupted because Tess has summoned to meet with Clark.

Tess tells Clark that Lois mentioned a "Kryptonian spaceship". She shows him the photograph of the footprint her team collected in the Arctic and tells him it matches his own. She guesses that Clark was the last person to see Lex Luthor alive. Clark tries to deny it but Tess knows that Clark is hiding something.

Clark arrives home that evening and Oliver
Kara tells Clark she is going to find Kandor.
is waiting for him. Clark thanks him for helping Chloe get them home and Oliver brings up Chloe's behavior with the crystal. He tells Clark that Chloe pushed him across the room. Clark admits that Chloe has been infected by Brainiac and Oliver asks what he is doing to correct the situation. He says that Chloe is getting in too deep with situations that humans can't understand. He is concerned that she will get hurt and Clark looks worried. Clark is in his barn contemplating the crystal when Kara arrives. He tells her that he doesn't trust the crystal to rebuild the fortress. Kara asks if he told Lois his secret, but Clark thinks it would put
Davis tries to stab himself but shatters the scalpel
her in danger. Kara thinks Lois can handle it. She then tells him that she is leaving Smallville because she heard rumors that Kandor might have survived. Clark wants to go with her, but she tells him that his destiny is to stay on Earth. They hug goodbye and Kara flies to her destiny.

Davis has fully recovered from his wound. He tries to stab himself in the chest with a knife, but it shatters against his skin.

[edit] Recurring Role

[edit] Episode Title

  • The title refers to the bloodline of a family, referencing Kara Kent's return and her blood relation to Clark.
  • The title also refers to the bloodline of their race (Kryptonians), as Kara says she is going to search for Kandor to possibly save their bloodline.
  • The title also refers to Zod's "bloodline" as Faora calls Davis Bloome their son.

[edit] Notes

  • Faora says to her son Davis Bloome after she impales him "That which kills you makes you stronger." This is a corruption of the quote by the 19th century German Philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche "That which does not kill us makes us stronger".
  • Kara leaves Smallville because of rumors that the Kryptonian city of Kandor still exists. In the comics, Kandor was shrunk and kept in a bottle by Brainiac.
  • Jimmy Olsen does not appear in this episode.
  • In Vessel, Lex required Brainiac's genetic enhancing for him to be given Kryptonian abilities, originally making it appear that the phantom Kryptonians do not give their alien abilities to their hosts. However, when Faora possesses Lois, her body gains Kryptonian abilities, apparently imparted by the phantom. The differences between these situations may be due to the differences in the way that they are possessed. Lois was possessed by an already escaped phantom, whereas Zod only escaped because somehow Milton Fine transformed Lex into Zod's vessel.
  • When Chloe finds Tess Mercer on the Kent Farm, Tess mentions that she came there looking for the crystal that was stolen from her in Instinct. Chloe denies knowing where her "NASA caliber rock" is, therefore, implying that she indeed knows what the crystal is, as Tess never told her that the supercomputer came in the form of an alien crystal. Neither Tess nor Chloe seem to notice what she has accidentally implied.
  • Lois references the Delorean car from Back to the Future.
  • Lois dismisses her experience in the Phantom Zone as "some kind of Arabian Nights acid trip." This is the second time Lois has had a lucid experience with aliens and come away thinking it was a dream or hallucination. In Zod, her plane crashed near the Arctic Circle; she later told Clark that she thought the Fortress of Solitude must have been "heaven".

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[edit] Quotes

Faora: Trust me, my son. That which kills you makes you stronger.
Kara: Take my blood
Clark: No!
Kara: It'll open the portal, take you home ok.
Clark: You, are my home! You hear me, you're my family. You make me feel like I actually belong.
Faora: (to Clark): You have feelings for this creature I inhabit.
Davis: Is this a bad time?
Chloe: It's just one of those days when I feel like my friends have left the planet.
Tess: Clark, I don't want to fire you. I want to trust you, and I want to know why Lex didn't. In time, I'm sure the truth will reveal itself.
Faora:You don't recognize me... but you are the spitting image of your father.
Davis:Okay. Lois, you gotta reason with me. What kind of drugs did you take--pills, powder, paste? Don't tell me you injected anything.
Kara: (to Clark) Your path is on Earth, living amongst the humans and inspiring mankind.
Faora-as-Lois: I need to find my son.
Tess: Your son? I have to admit, it's difficult to imagine a mini Lois running around.
Clark: You didn't like it here, remember? The rooster woke you up every morning.
Lois: Yeah, but at least the rooster only crows once. You try sharing walls with pre-wedding Chloe and Jimmy.
Clark: I didn't need to know that.
Lois: I don't want to die here, Clark!
Clark: All we have to do is keep an eye out for each other, okay. We'll be fine.
Lois: We're not fine. We're standing on our graves. We're going to die, us together. No more farmhouse, no more Daily Planet!
Clark: Listen to me! Listen to me. No one's gonna mess with Lois and Clark, all right?
Tess: Who do you work for?
Green Arrow: I'm self-employed. It's sort of an occupational safety hazard.
Tess: Oh. Well, then you know that getting blood out of leather can be a total bitch.
Tess: (points gun at the Green Arrow) What do you know about the crystal?
Oliver: That depends; how good is your shot?
Oliver: Phantom Zone, huh? Seriously, who names these things?
Chloe: Picture an alien Alcatraz, and if I don't bail Clark out soon, who knows that kind of havoc Lo-Bot will leave in her wake.
Oliver: That still doesn't explain how you're hacking into that crystal, Chloe. It's not hooked up to anything, there's no computer here.
Chloe: Do I tell you how to shoot your arrows? I don't think so. Stay back.
Faora: The duty of a child is to continue the legacy his parents began. Our family is meant to take this planet as our own. And after seeing you with these humans, I realize that you're still too weak to fulfill your destiny.

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