Doomsday (episode)
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- This article is about the Season 8 episode. For the character Doomsday, please see Davis Bloome.
| Doomsday | |
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| Series | 8x22 |
| Episode | 174 |
| Writer | Kelly Souders & Brian Peterson |
| Director | James Marshall |
| Broadcast Date | May 14, 2009 |
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[edit] Summary
Oliver tells Clark he must kill Davis, as Doomsday is a serious threat and must be stopped at all costs. However, Clark struggles with taking a human life, so the Green Arrow and his team decide to take matters into their own hands. Lois takes on Tess, but the fight takes a shocking turn. Meanwhile, Chloe gets caught in the middle of Oliver and Clark's battle over killing Davis.
[edit] Recap
Rokk Krinn returns to the present day and flies to the Daily Planet rooftop where Clark is waiting for him. Rokk tells him that the future he once knew has changed and that Clark is no longer alive. He also tells Clark that when they saved Chloe from Brainiac, they saved her connection to Doomsday, which has made him unstoppable since she was the one that tried to kill him with kryptonite and then stopped Clark from sending him to the Phantom Zone. As a result, Doomsday will now kill Clark, and Rokk tells Clark that tomorrow is the day he will die. He suggests a plan to send Doomsday to the future via a Legion ring so the Legion can fight him. Clark insists that he will deal with it and decides to embrace his destiny even if it means he will die.
Chloe and Davis are in hiding in Edge City. They discuss the myth of Persephone and how she chose to live underground with Hades, the dark prince, which clearly mirrors what Chloe has done with Davis. Unbeknownst to Davis, Chloe is only there to save Clark, but he believes that they might actually make a quiet life together.
Tess' team tracks Chloe and Davis down, and informs Tess. However, at the same time, the Orb has gone missing. The vault containing the Orb has been blown open from the inside, and Tess' men have no idea where the Orb has gone. Tess is visibly worried as she says that the Orb is important and is a threat to thousands of lives.
At the Daily Planet, Clark is at his desk mulling over the Legion ring. He hides it and finishes up typing a letter to the citizen of Metropolis explaining himself and saying goodbye as the Red-Blue Blur. Lois comes in, angry that Clark isn't bothering to look for Chloe. She notices he's busy typing and tries to look, but Clark quickly clears the screen. When Lois goes to get a cup of coffee, Clark slips out. A short while later, Lois' phone rings; she answers. The Red-Blue Blur is on the other end, and asks her to publish the letter he wrote. Lois wonders why, and he metaphorically tells her that he is going to die. She says she thought he was invincible and asks to meet him; he says it isn't a good idea, but Lois insists that he can trust her and she will be at a phone booth to meet.
Clark is at the barn when Dinah Lance enters, followed by a super-speeding Bart Allen, who has schematics of the Geothermal LuthorCorp facility. Clark explains that they have a tunnel that is a mile deep under the earth, and he plans to bury Doomsday there before the tunnel is destroyed. He then gives Bart the black kryptonite he got from Oliver and explains that it will separate Davis from Doomsday when Oliver enters and asks what happens when Doomsday is released and has no conscience and that they should kill Davis now. Clark tells Bart and Dinah that Oliver killed Lex Luthor and he is no longer a hero.
At the Daily Planet, Jimmy sneaks into Tess' office and is about to decrypt her files, but kicks Lois who is hiding under the desk. He asks her what she is doing and she asks the same. Jimmy explains that he is decrypting Tess' files. He searches through them and finds the tracker on Chloe and Davis, then leaves while communicating with Oliver. Lois then looks over another file, which is a video of Tess interrogating Regan Matthews who is warning her about the powers of the Orb and that it could be the end of the world.
Clark is at his desk when Black Canary tells him via audio message that they have located Chloe and Davis, and he uses his super-hearing to find them. He super-speeds off and finds their car and Black Canary and Impulse waiting for him. They tell him that they're doing it for him when Green Arrow shoots him with a kryptonite dart. Clark collapses and tells them they're making a mistake.
Lois exits the elevator back into the basement, where Tess is waiting for her. Tess tells Lois that she knows she watched the video of Regan and asks her where she put the Orb. Lois sarcastically says she knows what she is talking about, saying that if Tess wishes to fire her then to go ahead, but she will do anything to find Chloe and goes to leave when Tess attacks her. The two struggle around the basement, knocking over Clark's desk. Lois picks up the box with the Legion ring and knocks Tess out with the ring falling out. Lois picks the Legion ring up, and it transports her away.
Chloe awakens at the geothermal facility to find Green Arrow, Impulse and Black Canary standing over an unconscious Davis. Bart tells her that he knocked them both out at super-speed, and they brought them here. She realizes they want to kill Davis and notices the black kryptonite in Bart's bag. Chloe tells them that Davis won't change while she is there, but he awakes and admits he can't control Doomsday anymore. He then begins to change with Impulse and Black Canary attempting to hold him, but he flings them away. Chloe grabs the black kryptonite and uses it on Davis, separating him from Doomsday, who looks at Davis before fleeing.
Jimmy arrives in Edge City looking for Chloe, and finds Clark with the dart in his back. Clark tells him to remove the dart, and Jimmy notices that the kryptonite glows the closer it is to Clark, who warns him away when he puts it close. The cut on Clark's face then heals and Jimmy notices it, realizing Clark is superhuman. Clark admits to being the Red-Blue Blur and compliments Jimmy on putting it all together as well as being right about Davis. Clark tells him that he needs his help and to get Chloe and Davis to his wedding present before super-speeding away, leaving Jimmy in awe.
Clark arrives at the geothermal facility and finds everyone unconscious. He goes over to Chloe, who tells him that she used the black kryptonite on Davis and that Doomsday is now loose. The others awake, and Clark asks if he can count on them to blow the tunnel and says he will get Doomsday back here and uses his super-hearing to find Doomsday before super-speeding off.
Jimmy takes the unconscious Davis and Chloe to his "wedding present" - a loft apartment overlooking Metropolis called "the Watchtower." He'd hoped it'd be a place where they could start their lives together and where Chloe admits he's always there doing the right thing. Jimmy tells Chloe that he knows about who Clark really is and about him being the Red-Blue Blur. Chloe tells Jimmy that she went only with Davis to save Clark, and he says that he understands, embraces Chloe and kisses her. Chloe tells Jimmy that's she's sorry she left but also tells Jimmy that she never left him. Jimmy smiles and Chloe kisses him passionately. However, Jimmy is stabbed in the chest from behind by Davis, who now realizes Chloe wasn't really going to start a life with him and that all her actions were to protect Clark. Angered, Davis tries to stab Chloe as well, but Jimmy, using his remaining strength, tackles Davis onto a spike, killing him before falling into Chloe's arms. Jimmy uses his remaining breath to tell Chloe that he loves her before he dies.
Chloe, Oliver, Bart, Dinah and Jimmy's family and friends attend Jimmy's funeral. Chloe leaves photo negatives on his coffin, and Jimmy's name is revealed to actually be "Henry James Olsen." Henry's father and brother start to walk away along with his mother, but his brother turns back to the coffin and breaks down in tears. Chloe sees him and gives him Jimmy's camera, wondering if he will follow in his older brother's footsteps. Oliver is left standing alone before shedding a tear, knowing he caused Jimmy's death before walking away. Clark is then seen standing in the distance watching.
Clark goes to the Watchtower and looks at the spot where Jimmy died. Chloe comes in, happy to see him alive, and hugs him. When Chloe asks him how he escaped the explosion at the geothermal facility, Clark can not explain and is unsure how he managed. When Chloe wonders why Clark wasn't there for her at the funeral, Clark explains he placed too much faith in humanity and it was the human side of Davis that killed Jimmy. He suggests that Chloe should leave the apartment and walk away, but she insists Jimmy is still there and is watching over her. Chloe plans to use the place as a new Watchtower to bring the other heroes together, but Clark says that heroes don't have homes. He tells her that his humanity is his weakness and that it gets in the way, making emotional decisions and getting too attached, and from now on Clark Kent is dead and says goodbye to Chloe. He then leaves Chloe alone in the Watchtower and fades away.
Tess is in her bedroom when a light outside flashes, and she sees the Orb floating and glowing before it burns General Zod's symbol into the ground before a naked man is transported in the middle of the symbol, whispering "Zod."
[edit] Recurring Roles
- Rokk Krinn / Cosmic Boy - Ryan Kennedy
- Doomsday - Dario Delacio
- Dinah Lance / Black Canary - Alaina Huffman
- Bart Allen / Impulse - Kyle Gallner
- Regan Matthews - Ari Cohen
- Security Guard George - Mike Dopud
[edit] Guest Stars
- Little girl - Tara Clyne
- Priest - Serge Houde
- Jimmy's brother - Ryan Harder
[edit] Episode Title
- The title refers to the adopted name given to the Kryptonian destroyer, Doomsday.
- It also refers to the death of several characters.
- It is Chloe Sullivan's personal doomsday. She has lost the four people she cares the most about: Jimmy Olsen, Davis Bloome, Lois Lane (disappeared), and spiritually, the Clark Kent she knew.
- Doomsday also means the end of the world, something that could happen if Doomsday survives.
[edit] Notes
- This episode takes place at the beginning of September around the 4th.
- This is the Season 8 finale.
- This is the first finale not to feature Lana Lang and Lex Luthor.
- For the first time this season, all of the main cast members appear.
- This is Aaron Ashmore's last appearance as Jimmy Olsen.
- This is also the last appearance of Sam Witwer as Davis Bloome. It was his first and last season.
- The factory that Clark and Doomsday crash into is also used as the Ridge facility that the Justice League blew up in Justice.
- Doomsday and Davis Bloome being separated by black kryptonite aligns with the comic book version of Doomsday in which he has no earthly camouflage and is simply a mindless monster.
- Doomsday being trapped a mile deep underground is a reference to his comic book counterpart, who escaped from a buried Calatonian vessel before he battled and killed Superman.
- In Superman: Doomsday, the character's animated counterpart was buried in his ship underground before LexCorp found it and he escaped before battling Superman.
- Clark watching the funeral from a distance is the second time he has done this without making a formal appearance, mirroring what he did in Exile.
- Regan Matthews died in Power, yet he reappears in video footage that Lois finds, pre-dating his murder.
- Chloe intervened again by using black kryptonite after Rokk Krinn's warning, which explains why the future changed again and Clark did not die. However, by the end, Clark declared "Clark Kent is dead," as he put too much faith in humanity. This metaphorical death proves that, in some way, Rokk turned out to be correct when he said Doomsday was going to kill Clark.
- The Jimmy vs. Davis fight is reminiscent of the Superman vs. Doomsday fight of the comics. Like in the comics, both combatants kill each other. Also, Jimmy and Superman both died in the arms of their lover, in Jimmy's case, Chloe.
- Jimmy is the sixth character to find out Clark's powers all on his own, from Chloe in Pariah, Lionel in Transference, Oliver in Arrow, Lana in Promise, and Lex in Arctic in the order of when they find out about Clark's powers. (Clark voluntarily tells Pete in Duplicity.) Jimmy also nearly discovered Clark's powers in Identity.
- As of this episode, all of the main characters except Lois Lane knows Clark Kent's secret.
- Serge Houde also played a priest in Season 1 episode Crush and a teacher in Season 2 episode Dichotic
[edit] Continuity
- Rokk Krinn returns after his last visit in Legion.
- Brainiac is said to still be contained after he was defeated in Legion.
- Rokk mentions Chloe killing Davis with kryptonite, which happened in Eternal, and stopping Clark from sending Davis into the Phantom Zone, which happened in Beast.
- Chloe has been on the run with Davis since Beast.
- Dinah Lance returns to Smallville since the Justice League's mission to find Clark in Odyssey. After that, she went into hiding as her identity had been discovered, but was seen as an active member of the team in Hex, communicating with Chloe.
- Bart Allen returns to Smallville for the first time since Justice, although he has been mentioned several times since and he was seen communicating with Chloe in Hex via the Isis Foundation computers.
- General Zod's symbol was last seen in Season 5 finale Vessel, whereas Zod himself was last seen in the Season 6 premiere Zod.
- Clark criticizes Oliver's decision to kill Lex, which happened in Requiem.
- Lois gets hold of a ring from the Legion. A Legion ring was last seen in Infamous.
- Black kryptonite was introduced in Season 4 in Crusade. It was last used in Onyx, but was last seen in Injustice.
- The geothermal facility itself is mentioned in Beast when Oliver is trying to buy the station so LuthorCorp can go green. It is also mentioned in Injustice when Tess vetoes the motion.
- Chloe was unable to save Jimmy with her healing ability. This was shown in Odyssey when she failed to heal a dying Clark due to her Brainiac infection having removed her meteor ability.
- The Orb was first seen in Quest and it was revealed to be in Tess' possession in Eternal. It was last seen in Injustice where it was revealed that it could communicate with Tess.
- In this episode, Clark declares that "Clark Kent is dead." This was said by Kal-El in Crusade.
- Lois finds a tape of Tess interrogating Regan, which was obviously set between Odyssey, when they first met, and Power, when Tess murdered him.
- Tess references Lois' maid outfit from Odyssey.
- Lois speaks on the phone to the Red-Blue Blur for the second time in this episode - the first being in Stiletto.
- Jimmy mentions Clark getting shot, which happened in Stiletto.
- The end scene between Chloe and Clark is reminiscent of the Martian Manhunter comment to Clark where he says "While humanity is your greatest strength, it is also your greatest vulnerability" in Bizarro (episode). In this case, Clark was saying that it was his human emotions that got in the way of him saving Jimmy.
- This is the last time Clark has been seen wearing red and blue colors in his casual clothing.
[edit] Quotes
- Oliver: We need to take care of Davis Bloome.
- Clark: And by "take care of," do you mean murder? 'Cause that seems to be the way you like to take care of things these days!
- Davis: (to Chloe) This whole time that you were with me, it was for Clark?
- Rokk Krinn: (to Clark) Brainiac is gone. But so are you.
- Lois: Jimmy! You stepped on my hand!
- Jimmy: Next time, don't leave your hand on the floor under a desk in an office you're not supposed to be in!
- Lois: (sarcastic) I'm sorry, did I just get a lecture from Jimmy Olsen?
- Tess: I kind of miss the maid costume.
- Lois: I'm done cleaning up after you.
- Tess: Could have fooled me.
- Red-Blue Blur: Sometimes we cannot outrun our destiny.
- Lois: But I thought you were invincible.
- Red-Blue Blur: So did I.
- Clark: I appreciate your warning, but I know what I have to do now.
- Jimmy: You're some sort of Super...Guy
- Tess: Lois, where is the orb?
- Lois: What orb?
- Tess: The alien technology from my vault.
- Lois: Oh, that orb.
- Clark: I've always tried to forget I was an alien or a creature. I've always tried to pretend I was human. I was raised to believe it was my Kryptonian part that was dangerous, Chloe, but I was wrong. It's my human side. It... It's the side that gets attached, the side that makes decisions based on emotions. That's my enemy. And Davis proved that to me.
- Chloe: So, because of some psychopath, you're gonna cut the rest of us out of your life? Clark... human emotion is what made you the hero that you are today.
- Clark: They're what's stopping me from being the hero I could be. It's what the world needs now.
- Chloe: What are you saying?
- Clark: Clark Kent is dead. Goodbye, Chloe.
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