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Legion
Series 8x11
Episode 163
Writer Geoff Johns
Director Glen Winter
Broadcast Date January 15, 2009
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The aftermath of Doomsday's attack on Chloe and Jimmy's wedding leaves Clark in shock, but before he can search for the kidnapped Chloe, the Persuader appears and attacks him. Rokk, Imra and Garth, also known as the Legion, step in from the future to help vanquish the Persuader, and the group realizes Brainiac has taken over Chloe once again. Meanwhile, up at the Fortress, Chloe, as Brainiac, informs Davis he is Doomsday and was created to kill "the other Kryptonian" and destroy the world.

[edit] Recap

The Persuader attacks Clark.

Lana Lang arrives at the wrecked barn, crying, when Clark arrives. He reports that he was unable to locate Chloe or the thing that took her. He tells Lana that Jor-El warned him about an "Ultimate Destroyer." Lana decides to go to the Isis Foundation to help look for Chloe. When she is gone, a bright light shines and suddenly a man with a big metallic, glowing axe appears in the loft. Clark confronts him and asks who he is and the man attacks a surprised Clark, wounding him in the side with the axe.

"The Legion."

They continue to battle just as three more people suddenly appear. One man uses his power to disarm the attacker, a blonde woman in red clothes practices some sort of telepathy, and another man strikes the attacker unconscious with a bolt of energy from his hands. The first hero takes a ring off of the fallen attacker's hand and he disappears. Clark is stunned and finally asks who his three saviors are. They call Clark "Kal-El" and explain they are the Legion, from the 31st Century.

The three heroes introduce themselves properly. The woman is Imra. The younger man is Garth, who is very excited to meet Clark. He tells Clark that they know his future as a great superhero. The leader is Rokk, who cuts Garth off from revealing too much information about the future. He states they came to save him from the man who attacked him. He was the Persuader, who stole one of their rings to travel back in time and kill Clark. Rokk is ready to take his team back to the future. Clark doesn't care about their team or the future, angrily saying that his best friend is missing. Imra reads Clark's mind and learns that he is thinking about a woman named Chloe Sullivan. Garth knows that they are in the day in history when Brainiac was defeated, but Rokk realizes that the Martian crystal needed to trap him is broken. He realizes that they cannot leave because they have to help Clark defeat Brainiac's human host.

Davis wakes up in the Fortress.

Davis Bloome, half-naked, wakes up in the Fortress of Solitude. He sees Chloe and is relieved to find her there. However, Chloe approaches him, acting strangely. She examines Davis and says that he appears undamaged. Davis asks what happened to her, and she says that she is not Chloe, but the Brain InterActive Construct. Brainiac explains that Davis is merely the human guise for the ultimate destroyer and must be locked into a chrysalis to fully and permanently transform him.

The Legion follows Clark.

Clark is super-speeding to the Fortress to ask Jor-El to help him find Chloe. The Legion catches up with him through flight. They tell him that since they never heard of Chloe Sullivan, she must die in the process of defeating Brainiac. Clark angrily declares that Chloe won't die and speeds away.

Imra goes to Isis Foundation and meets Lana. Lana thinks she is a meteor freak seeking assistance, but Imra starts to inform her of Brainiac taking over Chloe and asks if she can convince Clark to kill Chloe. Lana insists she would never ask Clark to kill somebody. Imra tells Lana that from what she knows of history, she thought Lana would help.

Imra meets with the boys where they go through Chloe's work at the Isis Foundation. They note that she has gathered years worth of information on people with abilities. They cannot figure out the reason why if Chloe Sullivan is so important to Kal-El, why they have never heard of her in any of their known history. The Legionnaires conclude that they must stop Brainiac themselves.

Clark confronts Brainiac.
Davis is frozen in the Fortress.

Clark goes to the Fortress to speak to Jor-El, but finds it corrupted. He finds Brainiac in Chloe's body absorbing information from the crystals. Brainiac reveals his plan to take all of Earth's information and knowledge, then have Doomsday destroy it. Clark grabs Brainiac and leans him against sharp crystals, but cannot destroy him in Chloe's body, despite Brainiac's taunting. Brainiac says he chose Chloe's body because he knew Clark wouldn't harm her. He then picks Clark up, tosses him across the Fortress, and speeds away. Davis is then shown locked in an ice chrysalis but Clark doesn't see him.

Clark explains to Lana how Brainiac is back and that some people are convinced the only way to stop him is for him to kill Chloe. Lana tells him that a woman came in before saying the same thing. Clark wonders if killing Chloe might really be the only way. Lana is shocked by this and points out that the Clark she knows would insist that there would be a way to save both Chloe and the world. Just then, the computer indicates a power surge. Lana pinpoints the surge to the Daily Planet. Just then, Brainiac's symbol appears on Lana's computer screen, hypnotizing her. Clark calls her name, but she does not respond so he rushes off to the Daily Planet to stop it.

Brainiac hacks the Daily Planet files.
Garth and Rokk knock out Brainiac.

Brainiac goes to the Daily Planet to absorb information since most data is stored there. He hacks the wiring and slowly steals everybody's knowledge by hypnotizing them with his symbol on every computer screen. Imra distracts him, and as he is about to attack, Rokk and Garth shoot him with an electromagnetic blast, temporarily disabling Brainiac. Garth reveals a knife and is ready to stab her, saying he took an oath to protect anyone and is ready to do that, but he cannot bring himself to follow through. Rokk takes the knife, but is stopped by Clark. Clark tells them that Chloe is still inside, and that he believes he can defeat Brainiac without killing anyone. He asks Imra if she can connect with Chloe. Imra attempts it and can hear Chloe asking for Clark's help.

Clark and the Legion defeat Brainiac
The disabled Brainiac.

Clark and the Legion take Chloe, still unconscious, to the barn, nowhere near computers. Clark encourages them to work together to take Brainiac out of Chloe; Garth will create an electric burst to keep Brainiac at bay, while Rokk will use his powers to take the metallic nano-bytes out of Chloe's body while Clark and Imra hold Brainiac down and connect with Chloe. When Brainiac re-activates, Garth blasts him down while Rokk pulls him out, in the form of a metallic sphere, from Chloe's mouth. Chloe regains consciousness and says that she is fine, but can tell Brainiac is gone. Back at the Fortress, Davis awakens.

The next day, Clark is visiting Chloe at her apartment, to find her memory completely restored. She remembers his abilities and his alien origins. Chloe tells him that the next time something like this happens, she wants Clark to do the what is best for the world and not for her because if it were the right thing, she'd understand. Clark tells her that won't happen as long as he's around, and Chloe looks at him worriedly. She packs her things because she is going to visit Jimmy and Lois in Star City.

Clark and Lana discuss their encounter with the Legion.

Lana and Imra meet again at the Kent house, and Imra neglects to tell Lana about her future, but says she has a special destiny. As Clark, Garth, and Rokk fix the barn, Imra comes in with Brainiac in her hands. Rokk says that they will try to reprogram Brainiac into something useful, and Imra hopes that "Brainiac 5" will be a little more friendly. Clark gives Garth his first baseball and signs his initials on it with his heat vision. Clark receives a Legion ring only good for time travel, and the Legion takes Brainiac back to the 31st Century with them. Clark and Lana start to discuss their future and how life might turn out with them together or not. But back at the Fortress, Davis has morphed into Doomsday.

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[edit] Notes

  • Lois Lane, Jimmy Olsen, Tess Mercer, and Oliver Queen do not appear in this episode. This is the first time only 3 main characters have appeared in an episode.
  • This is the third time that time travel has been featured on Smallville. The other two times were Reckoning and Apocalypse.
  • The Legion are from the year 3009.
  • Brainiac's new objective of infinite knowledge is similar to his main objective in Superman: The Animated Series and also the Justice League animated series and the Brainiac arc written by Geoff Johns. Additionally, there is a similar episode on Superman: The Animated Series, where three Legionnaires come from the future to help a young Clark Kent defeat Brainiac.
  • Garth says to Clark, "No glasses, no tights, no flights? He is nothing like the Man of Steel I've read about." This is a reference to the show's rule of not having Clark fly or wear his trademark blue tights and the fact that Clark has yet to wear glasses on a regular basis.
  • The Legion has heard of all Clark's friends, except for Chloe. This is possibly a tongue-in-cheek reference to the fact that Chloe is an original character created for the show, and is not seen in any other Superman media.
  • This episode contains many references to Clark's future and the comics, as well as many other characters; it is mentioned that Lana has an important destiny of her own, that Lois and Jimmy are both known in history, and that Clark will grow into a caped, flying superhero, with a name beginning with 'S', and that he will be a representative of the ideals other heroes will try to follow.
  • Rokk mentions reprogramming the destroyed Brainiac into "something useful", and Imra hopes that Brainiac 5 will be "a little more friendly." This references the character Brainiac 5, a descendant of Brainiac from the Legion of Superheroes.
  • Garth mentions a sister; in the comic books, she is a Legion member named Lightning/Light Lass.
  • The three-sphere symbol appearing on the computer monitors when Brainiac is attempting to steal Earth's combined knowledge represents Brainiac in a number of media, where he appears with the same symbol on his forehead. This is the first time such a symbol has appeared on Smallville.
  • This episode has one of the longest "Previously on Smallville" sections, at 1 minute and 23 seconds.
  • Persuader is part of a Human supremacist group, which is a reference to Superman and the Legion of Super-Heroes, Justice League of Earth in which Legion rejects led by Earth-Man helped in dishonoring Superman's name by convincing Earth that he was not an alien, but in fact a human protector from all forms of alien life.
  • Alexz Johnson, who played Saturn Girl, also stars in the show, Instant Star, playing sister to Laura Vandervoort, who played Supergirl!

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Garth Ranzz: You may be known as Clark Kent now, but one day you will be known as Sup...
Imra Ardeen: Lana, you're part of the reason Kal-El becomes the hero.
Rokk Krinn: Kal-El, your influence will reach far beyond Earth.
Brainiac/Chloe: (to Clark) Go on... kill me.
Rokk Krinn: Long live the Legion.
Clark Kent: If your code was really based on me, your number one rule should be "Don't kill."
Garth Ranzz: Hey, Kal, where's your cape?
Clark Kent: Cape?
Garth Ranzz: I thought Kal-El was known to do what ever it took to save the world. Are you sure that's the right guy?
Rokk Krinn: It's him.
Garth Ranzz: I don't know. No glasses, no tights, no flights. So far, he's nothing like the Man of Steel.
Garth Ranzz: Do you think I can keep this? As a souvenir.
Clark Kent: Sure.
Garth Ranzz:(holding a baseball) Can you sign it?
Rokk Krinn: Garth, you're acting like a Sub!
Garth Ranzz: What? It's for my sister!
Imra Ardeen: Your sadism is historic were I come from, but so is your defeat.
Brainiac: Well, history's about to get a re-write.
Clark Kent: According to the Legion, I will accomplish things so legendary, I'll be known throughout the galaxy.
Lana Lang: Our destiny is not written in some books in the future. We write it ourselves.. everyday.
Clark Kent: The question is... what we write next?

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