7.13 Exit by MR and AoT (Part III)

As retold by Bill C

MR: Now, we finally get around to seeing Hasaad's warehouse again. Some goons are checking out the portal generator, tinkering with controls, et cetera. Hasaad himself is talking to some redshirt. "Are the new power taps ready?" [falsetto voice] "Why, yes, sir, it's ready to go. Would you like some toast while we begin the restart procedures?"
AoT: Okay, minus the toast part.
MR: We cut around the warehouse, pan past some armed thugs on patrol, and finally get to Lois and Bittleman's little hiding place.
ED: Lois whispers, "Oh, great. You got any idea what that little lightshow was a while ago?"
MR: Bittleman is all "Blondie, this would probably be a great time to call in the cavalry."
AoT: Meanwhile, another redshirt comes up to Hasaad. "Excuse me, Mr. Hasaad?"
MR: "What is it?"
AoT: "Well, I was wondering...if we're going to go and hijack even more power from the city grid, won't the police notice?"
TW: Exposition, thy name is [looks at script] Thug #2.
KK: Someone has to do it.
AoT: True. But this is a little more than that.
MR: Hasaad snorts. "You're not paid to think, you know. But it won't matter."
AoT: "Yeah, but if the cops are going to swoop down on the place the minute you flip the switch--"
MR: Hasaad goes immediately into soothing mode. "It's quite all right. Really. No one will notice the power drain immediately, which will give us plenty of time to get what we need once the portal is open. Don't worry...you'll be rewarded handsomely." He raises his voice for the next line--oh, James will love that. "All of you, thank you...once we are connected to the main grid and the portal is opened, all your worries about what we have accomplished here will be put to rest once and for all."
KK, JG, and TW: Uh-oh.
KK: Usually, that kind of comment is followed by poisoned Kool-Aid and mass graves...
MR: Well...duh.
ED: Lois and Bittleman overhear that last part. "Did you hear that?"--oh, come on, guys. She actually says "Did you hear that?" That's just too obvious!
AoT: And thus very Lois.
TW: She's got you there.
[ED pouts]
MR: "Okay--definitely cavalry time, Blondie. Left my phone in the car..."
ED: Lois pulls out her phone from a pocket, okay, and then they both sneak back into a secluded corner. Sneakity-sneak-sneak.
AoT [shakes head]: Hasaad, meanwhile, forges ahead. "Restart the power-up sequence!"
MR: Redshirt One flips the proverbial switch, and the portal generator kicks on again...this time, while the humming and the emitting of light are basically the same as from the last episode, they don't stop after a few seconds. And in the center of the portal, where we last saw what appeared to be open sky, we see a small patch of reddish-tinged sky with clouds and no stars.
AoT: Hold on the patch for a couple of seconds, as it slowly begins to enlarge. The humming noise gets louder as well.
MR: And immediately after that, as we cut back to Lois flipping open her cellphone and dialing 911, we cut immediately to an exterior shot of the warehouse--as the lights in every other building in the shot go out. Then we cut to an aerial view of that entire part of Metropolis, and finally the entire city itself, as most of the city lights go out in massive blocks.
AoT: Lois finishes dialing 911, and gets...nothing. She looks at the phone.
ED: "Dammit! No signal! Wasn't there a cell tower a block or two away on the way here?"
MR: Bittleman shakes his head. "Missed it. But we definitely need to get the word out--I know we passed a phone booth on the way in here. I'm going to make a run for the phone booth, Lois...you stay here and keep an eye on Mr. Personality there."
ED: "Wait, Ted--"
MR: And Bittleman is off. Lois sits down behind a stack of crates--there's always stacks of crates--to wait for him to come back.
AoT: Cut back to Hasaad, lit by the glow of the portal, with a huge shit-eating grin on his face. "Almost time..."
KK: Yup. So not ending well.
MR: And once again we cut back to LuthorCorp. Zod is all but dragging Dr. Richards through some hallway somewhere, and they come to a fairly large fire door on one side of the hallway with a glass window and another door on the other side. Zod go--
JG: Ah-ah, that's mine. "Hasaad is in there?"
MR: Richards nods. "Yes, he has be--"
AoT: We cut to a door's-eye view of Zod shoving Richards away, in pretty much the same way he shoved Lex.
MR: Fling!
AoT: Richards goes through the window, now behind them, and Zod simply punches the camera's POV.
KK: General Zod, thrower of bitches, claims another one...
AoT: We cut to the inside of the room as the fire door collapses inward and hits the floor with a crunch. It's a dark room, lit by the light from the hallway and a couple of isolated computer monitors, with what appear to be four or five huge glass containers scattered around the room. Zod takes a couple of steps into the room and looks around.
JG: Ah, hell. Not so bastardly dialogue. "Hasaad! Come out! Your time is finally over!"
MR: We cut back to Richards staggering to his feet, a couple of cuts on his face from his trip through the window. He makes his way over to a control console in the room he ended up in and flips about a dozen switches and knobs and such, finally mashing a big red button. Back to the room Zod is in, as the glass containers all begin to open with hissing noises and lots of dry ice fog.
AoT: Zod looks around in puzzlement, and then we see five PASs climb out of the containers. They all turn and look at Zod, and the over-dramatic music cranks up again.
MR: Zod actually smiles at them. A big, evil, you-are-so-fucked grin.
JG: I love it. So Zod goes "An intelligent ape! I am surprised that you had the wherewithal to try to deceive me!"
AoT: Quick cut back to Richards from behind, as Zod briefly turns to look through the shattered window and smirk at him. Then cut back to Zod from behind the PASs, as he slowly pulls out a pair of crystals he jacked from the Fortress.
JG: And Zod shifts into an attack pose, crystals in both hands, still with the big evil grin, as the music swells. "How foolish of you...now come, trained beasts!"
KK: Oh, God!
JG: What?
KK: Say that last line again!
JG: What? "Now come, trained be--" Ohhh.
MR: Huh? What's wrong with [pauses] .......oh, shit.
KK [quietly, to ED]: New gayest scene in the episode.
AoT: Hell, was that line my idea or yours?
MR: That was all yours.
AoT: Shit. At least we go right to a commercial from that.
KK: So people can forget it.
TW: Okay. If your mind isn't in the gutter, it actually sounds...cool.
ED: Yeah...so, what, Allison ghost-wrote that?
MR [glares at ED]: ...quiet, you.

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