7.09 Collusion by TW and ED (Part IX)

as retold by Bill C

TW: We cut to a shot of Chloe--
MR: The murderer.
TW: --rushing out the door we saw earlier, makeup ruined and so on from the crying earlier. As she runs out the door, Sex is standing just to one side of it.
MR: Nice. Predictive Sex.
TW: "Chloe, wait. You have to go back and era--"
ED: Cut to a shot of Chloe turning to face Sex--and that cold determination is back. "No. I have to fix this."
TW: "Chloe, what are you talking about?"
ED: Nice zoom on Chloe here. "I can't hurt anyone else. I won't hurt anyone else. I've got to find a way to...to fix myself."
AoT: Isn't that usually called a hysterectomy?
MR: Ew.
TW: Sex looks openly alarmed. "Fix yourself? What d--you mean cure yourself?"
ED: Chloe simply points at a small dumpster a few feet away. The dumpster shoots into the air and disappears beyond some trees. "I...I can't deal with this any more. I just can't."
TW: "But your power is--"
ED: Chloe puts her finger right in Sex's face. "Don't you dare say it's a blessing. It's a curse. And I'm going to break it."
TW: And this is where Chloe turns away from Sex, looks up into the sky, bends into a slight crouch, and then launches herself into the air. Hmm, we'll need some cheesy CG there...
AM [surprised]: Whoa. I get to fly?
TW: Yeah.
AM: And so Chloe bails, trying to find a cure for her powers...wait. Where's she going?
TW: Doesn't matter.
AM [frowns]: Huh? What, is the cure is going to kill her? Is that how you're go--
TW [snaps at AM]: Dammit, Allison, what did I tell you?
AM: Hey, I--
TW: Chloe is not being killed off in this episode! That was her out!
MR: Out?
JG: He means an escape-- [pauses] Wait. So that means--
TW [nods]: Exactly! She's gone, she's outta here! Hasta la vista, baby!
AM [after a few seconds, astonished]: You...you wrote Chloe out?
ED: That's right.
AoT [surprised]: Bryan is going to be piiiiissed...
TW: I don't care. If he insists on firing her, then this is my way of sparing Chloe the fallout. And if he decides to listen to reason and back off...bam. She's back. No problem.
MR: Hang on. What about Kahloe?
TW [thinks]: Honestly, I hadn't given it much thought.
ED: I suppose Lana's ghost can come back and kill her or something. [pouts] Hey, I helped write Chloe out, dammit!
AM: I can't believe you did that, Tom... [sniffles]
MR: I can't either, Tom. He's probably going to kick your ass for doing an end run like this.
TW: Maybe. The hell with it, though. I've got to try.
ED [punches TW in the arm]: I'm still helping!
JG [imperiously]: I admire your foolish righteousness, Welling. It's so...Clark of you.
MR: Yup. Stupid as fuck, but heroic.
JG: A word of advice: when you go talk to him...if he says he's kneeling before Zod, trust me--just kick him in the face.
ED [puzzled]: Uh...okay...thanks for the tip.
TW: A few seconds after Chloe flies off, we pan back over to see Lois running out the door. She looks around frantically for Chloe, she calls her name a couple of times...nothing.
MR: It's like she lost her best friend.
AoT: And source for information.
JG: And source of snark.
TW: Not like that, but...yeah, I guess so.
AM: The hell with Lois. I got an out.
ED: Hey!
AM: Okay, I'm sorry, Erica...wait, no, not that sorry. I got an out! [gets up and goes to give TW a big hug] Thank you!
MR and AoT: Awww.
JG: That's it? Bullshit. She should screw him.
TW [nonplussed]: Uh, right, okay...We see a security guard coming around the far corner of the building, as does Lois, so she just hauls ass out of the scene and back to the Yaris.
MR: Like the guard can see further than ten feet.
TW: And we go immediately from that to that one establishing shot of Metropolis we always use. You know the one.
AoT: You're not...
ED: Chloe flies over the city at high speed, past the camera's POV, and then vanishes. Go to black.
AM: Oh, damn, I like that.
AoT: This is going to drive Bryan insane.
AM: Can I do the Supes fist thing while flying?
MR: Better not, Allison. If Bryan sees that, he's liable to go completely batshit and kill us all.
AM: God, you're right. Never mind. Can we move that to the end of the episode, then?
TW: A bit late for that.
ED: Tom? I have a great idea.
TW [hesitantly]: Yeah?
ED: Can we play that song from Superman Returns again, under this entire scene?
AM: The one from the beginning of the episode?
ED: Yeah! It'd be cool!
AM: But Chloe's not--
MR: Actually...that could work, Tom.
AM: But it kind of verifies once and for all that Chloe's a superfreak, though, doesn't it?
JG: The kind you don't take home to Mother.
MR: Or Martha.
[AM just stares at JG and MR for a few seconds]
MR [after a long pause]: Dun dun dundun, dundun, dundun...
[AM tries to keep a straight face, but falls out of her chair laughing.]

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