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Stiletto

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Stiletto
Series 8x19
Episode 171
Writer Caroline Dries
Director Kevin Fair
Broadcast Date April 23, 2009
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[edit] Summary

Lois believes that she needs a big story to secure her reputation as a star reporter but the red/blue blur continues to elude her. However, after Chloe is mugged, Lois steps in to fend off one of the attackers and uses the opportunity to pretend a new superhero, Stiletto, has come to town and is giving exclusives to Lois. Clark is concerned Lois will hurt herself pretending to be a superhero but after he is captured by thugs with kryptonite, Lois steps in to save the day.

[edit] Recap

Lois trying to enter the presentation
Lois is arguing with an attendant who refuses to let her in the Edward R. Murrow Press Society Presentation for Journalistic Achievements because she claims to have never heard of Lois Lane. Although Lois tells her she works at the Daily Planet, the attendant still won't let her in. Chloe arrives and tells Lois that she will give her a lift, and as the two walk to her car, Lois complains that she hasn't had a big story in awhile and that the Red-Blue Blur hasn't answered her public calling for an interview.
Chloe is knocked unconscious
Chloe goes on ahead to get her car as Lois stays behind to rest her feet from her stiletto shoes. As she takes them off, she hears Chloe scream and witnesses her being mugged by AJ and Bruno Manheim.
Lois saves Chloe
Lois whacks Bruno with her stiletto heels before kicking AJ down; however, Bruno escapes with Chloe's bag and car, which contains her laptop. A beaten AJ sarcastically asks Lois if she's some sort of superhero, to which Lois replies, "Call me Stiletto." At Metropolis General Hospital, Chloe is on the phone with Davis, saying that she will get home soon and to stay in the basement, when a nurse advises her to stay and get checked. Chloe politely refuses when Clark arrives to see if she is ok and wonders where she has been. Chloe tells him she is fine but that she has been doing work for the Justice League and that she needs him to get her laptop back as it contains files on the Justice League that are encrypted. She then explains to Clark that she and Lois were saved by the mysterious "Stiletto".
Jimmy as the new bartender of the Ace Of Clubs

At the Daily Planet, Lois is talking to Randall Brady, asking him to print her story about Stiletto but he refuses, saying that he won't publish anything without photographic proof and tells her to get some. Clark arrives and asks her about Stiletto as he picks up her story and notices a lot of quotes from Stiletto herself. He is surprised when Lois says she has her phone number as well. Clark asks to be put into contact with Stiletto but Lois says she can't but to talk to the thug they captured.

At the Ace of Clubs, Bruno walks in and asks the new bartender Jimmy Olsen for a drink when Jimmy asks him to ask the boss for an advance on his wages as he needs it for something and Bruno says he will see what he can do. Ricky then approaches and tells Bruno the boss wants to see him. They go to a back room where counterfeit money is being made along with kryptonite and the boss Ron Milano asks Bruno what happened. He says that they no longer need to mug people and that the business is going legit but Bruno says that they need to run the streets and that the heroes need to be shown who is in charge. With that, he shoots Ron dead, taking over the business.

Stiletto and Jimmy
Lois is in her apartment making a costume out of leather before she meets with Jimmy, who she has asked to take photographs of her as Stiletto and agrees to pay him. Jimmy, at first, laughs but agrees and takes the photos of her and asks why Lois is making up a hero story. She replies that the Red-Blue Blur will want to meet Stiletto and when he does, Lois will get his story and interview. Clark arrives at the Isis Foundation and tells Chloe the mugger has already made bail when Chloe tells Clark the Red-Blue Blur has a fan site in which his fans think that he and Stiletto should get together; however, Clark says he doesn't need a sidekick.
Clark and Chloe at the Isis Foundation

Clark and Lois are both at their desks, listening in to police scanners and waiting for trouble, when Lois asks Clark why he is working late. Both look at their hero costumes in their bags when Lois admits that Clark is doing better than expected at the Daily Planet. Just then, a robbery is reported happening, and both make excuses to leave.

At the Ace of Clubs, Jimmy arrives late for work when Bruno and AJ notice him and take his camera away from him, admiring it before recognizing Chloe and Stiletto in his pictures. AJ then shoves Jimmy onto the balcony where Bruno beats him, demanding to know where Stiletto is, before hitting him with his camera and dropping it off of the balcony. Bruno then tells AJ to find out who Chloe is and tells Ricky to decrypt the laptop.

Stiletto arrives at the jewelry store to find the Red-Blue Blur has already been there. As she walks around the corner, hoping to find him, she instead finds the robber unconscious, tied up to a metal pipe. Stiletto then shouts out to the Red-Blue Blur when Clark arrives behind her, asking her if she is Stiletto but recognizes that it's Lois. Lois tries to impersonate with a British accent, but Clark doesn't let her leave and removes her mask. Clark realizes she made up Stiletto to get the Red-Blue Blur's attention but he says that he doubts the Red-Blue Blur wants any sidekicks and that the mugger was released on bail. Lois suggests they should work together but Clark refuses to help, telling her to drop it.
Clark discovers Lois's secret
Chloe is coming down from her apartment to give Davis a glass of water when AJ enters and attacks her. She manages to break free but AJ catches up to her, pinning her against a wall with a knife and prepares to cut her throat when Doomsday brutally kills him. Lois later arrives and tells Chloe that the Stiletto story went nowhere and that she needs to find Jimmy so he can destroy photographic evidence. When Chloe questions her, Lois admits that she is Stiletto and that she wanted to meet the Red-Blue Blur. Chloe suggests that maybe heroes don't want publicity and that Lois is in over her head.
Chloe is attacked at the Talon
Lois asks Chloe if she has ever questioned her integrity, which causes Chloe to realize that she is doing precisely that by hiding Davis. Chloe almost confesses her secret to Lois but instead tells her Jimmy took a job working at the Ace of Clubs.
The krypto-laced money weakens Clark
Clark arrives at the Ace of Clubs and uses his super-hearing to hear the flicking of the counterfeit money and Bruno talking. He super-speeds into the room but the kryptonite-laced money weakens him, allowing Bruno to see Clark, and he punches him to the floor where Clark notices Jimmy. Lois arrives in her car and sees Jimmy's smashed camera. Thinking quickly, she heads onto the roof and sees Bruno kicking Clark and tries calling 911 but her battery dies. Realizing what she has to do, she puts on her Stiletto mask and jumps through the glass, kicking Bruno, and sending him flying across the room.
Lois fights with Bruno
She notices Jimmy and goes to check on him just as Bruno comes to and draws his gun, preparing to shoot her. Clark, weakened by the kryptonite-laced money, calls to Lois to warn her, and just as she turns around, the bullet is fired. Clark scrambles to jump mid-air and sail in front of the bullet, protecting Lois and getting shot in his side in the process. Bruno prepares to shoot Lois again when Jimmy tackles him, knocking his gun away, and tussles with him until Lois smashes him over the head, knocking him out. Both of them run to Clark's side, with Jimmy dialing 911 and a crying Lois asking Clark why he saved her. Clark tells them to get him out of the room so he can get away from the kryptonite, so Lois and Jimmy support him as they drag him away.

Chloe takes two large garbage bags, full of the remains of AJ, into the dumpsters at the back of the Talon. When she notices the blood on her hands, she drops to her knees and begins to cry.

The next morning at the Daily Planet, Clark is pretending to still be recovering from his gunshot wound when Lois brings him a big breakfast, obviously feeling guilty for getting him involved. Clark is flattered and Lois admits that her enthusiastic journalism personality got the better of her but that she is no longer Stiletto. She then takes his pastry in a cheekily flirtatious way, and Clark begins to enjoy her company.
Chloe weeps at what she's done

Jimmy is seen walking towards his drug dealer to buy some morphine using the counterfeit money Mannheim was printing in the basement of the Ace of Clubs.

Jimmy spirals downward into drug addiction
Chloe is making a meal in her apartment when Clark returns her laptop. Clark asks who she's expecting and Chloe claims she's started baking as a reaction to stress and the loss of her computer. Clark doesn't believe her but Chloe insists she's fine. He assures her he's there for her if she needs him, but Chloe says that with all that's happened over the past few months, she just needs some space.

Lois receives instructions from the Red-Blue Blur for a meeting and goes to the meeting place but believes she was stood up. The pay phone rings next to her so she answers it. The caller identifies himself as the Red-Blue Blur. When Lois questions his honesty, he super speeds by, dropping off the news article of the letter Lois wrote, requesting to meet him.

Lois talk with the Red Blue Blur

Using a voice scrambler, Clark admits there's probably a better name then "Red-Blue Blur" and suggests she find him one. He tells her she's a great reporter and doesn't need a gimmick, but Lois says she doesn't want the story, she instead wants to know what he needs. She tells him that being super can't save him from loneliness, and that if he ever feels lonely, he can call her. Clark tells her that she'll be the first to know when he tells the world his secret. As they hang up, Clark watches Lois from a nearby rooftop, and smiles at this new side of her he's just discovered.

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[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Featured Music

  • "My Brother-In-Law Dresses In Drag" - Asteroid

[edit] Episode Title

  • Refers to the name of the made up super-heroine that Lois creates after she took down a mugger with the heel of her stilettos.

[edit] Notes

  • Lois says to Jimmy that she was considering stitching an S on the chest of her costume, a reference to Superman's future costume.
  • Juan Riedinger previously played Lowell Wilson in the Season 6 episode Progeny and plays AJ in this episode.
  • Lois's superhero costume looks like a mixture of Catwoman & The Huntress.
  • Oliver Queen, Tess Mercer and Davis Bloome do not appear in this episode, although Doomsday does feature.
  • Lois wonders if the Red-Blue Blur can read her mind; that's an allusion to a scene in the Superman movie in which she wonders if Superman can read her mind while flying. Both scenes are a reference to the song "Can You Read My Mind", which is the love theme in that movie.
  • Bruno Mannheim is the eleventh DC Comics character introduced in Season 8. The others are Doomsday, Legion of Super-Heroes, Persuader, Dan Turpin, Emil Hamilton, Bette Sans Souci, Faora, Maxima, Winslow Schott and Zatanna.
  • Lois as Stiletto tells Clark "I gotta get back to my cave," a possible nod to Batman's secret Bat Cave hideout.
  • Chloe makes a reference to Batman's Bat-Signal, "I seriously doubt we're going to be able to call her out by putting a spiked heel over a kleig light."
  • Clark as the Red-Blue Blur suggests for Lois to give him a new name. This is a reference to Superman: The Movie, where after Lois's first meeting with Superman, Lois called him Superman.
  • When Bruno and Ricky are looking at the files of the Justice League members, Bart Allen is referred to as Flash instead of Impulse.
  • Dominic Zamprogna (Bruno Mannheim) played opposite Kristin Kreuk (Lana Lang) in the Canadian television show Edgemont, where his character, Mark Deosdade, played love interest to her character, Laurel Yeung.
  • Lois is denied entry to a press society named after Edward R. Murrow. Mr. Murrow was an American broadcast journalist that came into prominence in the 1940s and is considered a significant figure in setting standards for excellence in integrity and ethics in journalism.[1]
  • The CW affiliate serving Western Pennsylvania experienced technical difficulties during the presentation of this episode. For the entire showing there was no audio except for local news promos.
  • The bags containing Doomsday's victim's remains, that Chloe throws out, are red and blue.
  • This is the first episode that features Doomsday without featuring his human counterpart; Davis Bloome. However, Doomsday is not actually seen.
  • The portmanteau "Blur-etto" - used in the episode by members on the superhero appreciation website discussing the pairing of the Red-Blue Blur and Stiletto - is a joking reference to combined character names by fans as shorthand for specific relationships. This is a practice commonly associated with "shippers", fans whose primary focus is on the romantic and emotional connections of characters in works of fiction.

[edit] Continuity

  • Lois asks Clark if there is any woman in his life that he hasn't stood up, referring to the meeting that he didn't show up to at the end of Infamous. It's also referencing the times Clark has stood up Lana and Chloe. She mentions Shelby, Clark's dog, in this context, but she has forgotten Shelby is a male dog.
  • Bart Allen, Dinah Lance, Arthur Curry and Victor Stone are all featured again on a computer. They were last seen like this in Hex.
  • Chloe mentions Lana leaving in Requiem
  • Jimmy is now working at the Ace of Clubs after he quit his job at the Daily Planet in Turbulence.
  • Lois has been trying to find out more about the Red-Blue Blur since Identity.
  • Chloe has been harboring Davis in the Talon basement since Eternal.

[edit] Quotes

Lois: Think about it; he [the Red Blue Blur] saves people, he's mysterious, completely unavailable. What part of that doesn't scream Lois Lane?
Chloe: But there was another witness. When I came to in the ambulance Lois was raving about some mysterious heroine who swept in and saved the day. Stiletto?
Clark: Must be some kind of knife expert.
Lois: Call me, Stiletto.
Clark: Lois?
Lois: (with a British accent) Lois? Who's Lois? I'm Stiletto. I should get back to my cave.
Clark: Lois, you could have a bag over your head and I'd still know it's you.
Lois: Go figure, I want the Red-Blue-Blur I get the exact opposite.
Clark: What do you think you're doing?
Lois: What are you doing? You supposed to be feeding Shelby. Seriously, is there any woman in your life you haven't stood up?
Bruno: Maybe it's time for Bruno Manheim to climb the corporate ladder.
Lois: Meet Stiletto. I was going to sew an "S" into the chest. Is that tacky?

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