7.12 Return by TW and JG (Part VI)

JG: Cut to inside the warehouse.
TW: An agitated Hasaad gets a report from a lackey. The portal is almost finished.
JG: Hasaad asks about their power needs.
KK: You mean their aching need.
MR: Does he hold up a dildo shaped crystal?
TW: No, he doesn't not hold up a crystal.
JG: Excellent idea. The lackey holds up a crystal.
ED: Hasaad, "Give it to me."
TW: No!
JG: Yes! [Writing it the script] Excellent, Erica.
TW: No, [TW grabs JG's pencil] He explains they hooked several access points into the national power grid.
JG: You know what? You're no fun, Tom.

JG: Cut to the hospital.
TW: Lex drops in on Lionel.
MR: Lex is going to kill him, right?
JG: No. "What have you done, son?"
MR: He wheels Lionel out to torture him again, right?
TW: No, Lex starts rationalizing the abduction and torture.
MR: Super.
JG: Lionel makes it clear that's not the problem.
TW: Lex wonders what he's screwed up this time.
MR: Hey!
TW: He's being sarcastic.
MR: Oh. OK.
JG: But ironically Lex has screwed up big.
MR: Dammit!
TW: A colossal screw up.
JG: A screw up the size usually reserved for Clark.
TW: Hey!
JG: "You've given possibly our greatest enemy free passage to Earth." Sound familiar Tom?
TW: Shut up! "What are you talking about?"
JG: "The portal, son. The fate of us all may lay in your hands, Lex. It's up to you to shut it down before it's too late."
TW: "The portal...?" Lex pulls out his phone. He calls Hope. Cut to Hope struggling to free herself from when Otis tied her up.
MR: What? No one has found her yet?
JG: No.
MR: It's the next freaking day!
KK: It's Luthor security.
JG: And Otis is really good with knots.
MR: Dammit!

JG: The Fortress.
TW: Clark hides behind one of the ice crystal columns.
JG: J'onn sees him and nods as he removes a blind fold from Zack.
TW: Zack believes this is J'onn's fortress and J'onn is the last son of Kryptonian.
MR: Tricky.
JG: J'onn places the crystal containing Zod inside a lighted circle and backs away. Zod takes on a holographic form and demands to be let out.
TW: J'onn makes allusions to this great enemy, piquing Zod's attention. Zod tries to use his knowledge as leverage to gain his freedom. "If what you say is true, you need me, more than you could possibly know. Set me free and I will help you!"
JG: After some back and forth it becomes clear Zod won't co-operate willingly. J'onn explains they will extract the information telepathically.
TW: "Without my freedom you will never get the information you seek."
JG: J'onn motions to Zack.
TW: Zack reaches into the light to place his hands on the crystal.
JG: Zod resists.
TW: Zack concentrates, "Almost. There."
JG: Zack begins to scream. Show a flash back of Zack being taken from his bed and then of Zack bursting from a cocoon and screaming and return to real time all the while with Zack's scream continuous. He is thrown across the room and Zod's hologram goes out.
TW: Clark moves towards Zack but J'onn motions him away.
JG: J'onn kneels to help, "Mr. O'Donnell, did you get what we needed?"
TW: Zack seems confused for a second. As he stands with J'onn's help he smiles, "Yes, yes I did."

JG: Bittleman and Lois sneak into the warehouse in time to see Hasaad start the power up sequence.

TW: The hospital. Lex is still on the phone trying to get to hope. The hospital lights dim and then go out. Lex closes his phone.
JG: Lionel, "Lex, tell me you can shut down the portal."
TW: Lex gulps.


JG: The warehouse.
TW: The portal hums and emits a brilliant light.
JG: Lois, "Whoa! I'd hate to see their electricity bill!"
TW: We hear a sonic boom and the light disappears revealing a blanket of nighttime sky through the portal.
JG: Bittleman, "Oh, my God."
TW: The humming fades. The night sky disappears. Hasaad is pissed. "We need more power! Re-connect us to the LuthorCorp main grid."

TW: Fortress. Zack, "I got exactly what I needed." He smiles smiles and grabs J'onn around the neck.
ED: Wait. Zack O'Donnell.
JG: With Clark's crystal in his other hand, "Good bye, filthy Martian."
ED: Z. O'Donnell...
TW: The Crystal sucks Jonn's essence out of his body and into the crystal.
ED: Z. O'D...
JG: Zack laughs and looks at his hand, "As much as I'd prefer a true Kryptonian vessel a prepared version will have to do."
ED: Oh my God! Zack O'Donnell is Zod!
KK: Just catching on to that one, Erica?
ED: That is soooo cool!
TW: Pretty clever, huh?
ED: I didn't know Zod was Irish!
KK: [rolls eyes]
TW: Clark emerges from behind the column, "Zod!"
JG: "Indeed. I have returned to finish what I started."
TW: "Let J'onn go."
JG: "I don't take orders from a whelp." Zod crushes the crystal in his hand and smiles.
TW: Clark goes Clark smash! and rushes Zod.

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