7.13 Exit by MR and AoT (Part IX)

As retold by Bill C

MR: After possibly the most well-timed commercial break in weeks we jump-cut to a reverse shot of Zod still floating in mid-air with Hasaad, Lois, Bittleman, and various goons in the background. The sounds of the battle outside are still filtering in, along with occasional flashes of light through various windows. And Hasaad still looks kind of shocked. "General Zod...you..."
JG [skims script]: Oh, I've got this. And now, mocking Zod. "Still playing the seductress even now, Hasaad? Does your master still appreciate your talents after all these years, or has he sent you to this backwater world because he no longer can stand to be on the same planet as you?"
MR: Obligatory retort as Hasaad gets his ego on. "My talents have always been cherished and rewarded, General. Yours simply resulted in your rejection by your beloved own when you became inconvenient."
ED: Is it just me or is that entire exchange really creepy?
KK: Brokeback Krypton. Coming next month to The CW.
TW: Hell, I'm just glad this has absolutely nothing to do with Clark.
AoT: That's just because he's been Zod's bitch for half of the episode.
JG: You're killing the bitchy buzz, people. Stop it.
KK: Okay, fine. Please continue with the ambiguously gay subtext.
JG: Thank you.
MR: Hasaad twists the knife. "Because you were cast aside, of course, you weren't there at the end...you never did get to see the end of your pitiful Crusade, did you? It was a sight to behold, I assure you--"
JG: Zod stares daggers at Hasaad, then starts talking in a low voice. "I know. I know what you did, Hasaad. What you and your people...you and your savages...did to Krypton. To me. To my family."
AoT: Quick cut to Lois and Bittleman as Zod says that. Mainly Lois, of course, who does that look-down-think-look-up thing.
KK: Light switch!
ED: What? Didn't Lois already flip one of those?
AoT: It's called positive reinforcement.
MR: Hasaad nods. "Yes, this world. This world that was supposed to be the secret weapon of the Kryptonian Crusade. It's so lovely how it turned out for you, General."
JG: Zod is silent for a moment. Then he goes on, getting angrier as he goes. The camera slowly pans around him from one side until it's pointing straight at him from the front. "And the rage I felt and still feel when I think about your crimes in the name of your master--it has driven me for over twenty years. From my exile to the Phantom Zone to this pathetic backwater world...twice to this world. But finally, at long last--it has brought me to you!" On the last word, Zod suddenly rockets straight towards camera POV, snarling and doing a pissed-off version of Superman's fist thing.
MR: Cut to slo-mo, as Hasaad actually stands there with a smug look on his face as Zod zooms towards him. Then a reverse shot from just behind Zod as he flies, when suddenly a bolt of green energy hits him from off-camera. Zod abruptly sort of barrel-rolls to one side and we slam back into realtime, as he basically sideswipes Lois and Bittleman and all three of them go flying out of the shot.
ED: Let me guess...unconscious Lois again?
AoT: Yes..well, not yet. Bittleman's out like a light, though.
ED: I'm getting tired of that.
AoT: Tough. Anyway, we pan over from where Zod and Lois and Bittleman just were, past Hasaad, to another one of Hasaad's goons who is lowering an alien rifle-like weapon.
MR: Hasaad smiles triumphantly, then turns to look at Zod--who is picking himself out of the wall, with Lois and Bittleman on the floor fairly close by. "It's a pity that you never learned from your original mistake, General--or, rather, that your entire race never learned from it. And now, at the end, you still don't--
JG: Zod suddenly rockets towards Hasaad and punches him in the face, literally catapulting him into the patch of alien sky in the middle of the portal generator. Hasaad disappears in a blue flash...and Zod shouts, "You should have killed me when you had the chance!"
MR: The goon who shot Zod looks at him, then at his weapon, then at Zod again. Zod sneers at him, and as he lifts the weapon to fire again he obliterates him with a sustained blast of heat vision.
KK: Kick ass. Don't fuck with Zod.
AoT: Lois is a little groggy, but she sees this. She also sees Zod basically zoom around the warehouse and either incapacitate or kill everybody inside it over the course of about a minute, then come back to a spot close to her.
ED: And Lois finally gets some dialogue. "...Zod?"
JG: Zod picks up a castoff weapon, sits down on a crate, pulls one of his makeshift Radio Shack specials--
[KK starts laughing]
JG: Dammit, Kreuk... [sighs] Zod pulls one of those jury-rigged weapons out of his backpack and begins tinkering with both of them as Lois walks up to him, staring at the portal generator. "Stay out of my way, ape."
ED: "Hey, I wasn't planning to bother you. I just need to find a way to shut down this gateway thing--"
JG: Zod doesn't even look up. "No."
ED: "Wait, what? Are you crazy? I don't want him or that creature he summoned coming back through there to wreck things over here!"
JG: "I need the portal."
ED: "Yeah, well, I don't know what you guys did on...Krypton, right? But here on Earth, we usually don't leave doors open so that people can break into your home and kill you."
JG: "The portal will remain open until I need to go through it."
ED: "Okay, fine. Go."
JG: "Not until I'm ready, ape. Be quiet!"
ED: "The military is on its way. They'll destroy that thing while you're busy playing with your toys."
JG: Zod finally looks up at Lois after that remark. "I doubt they could destroy it, human. But they won't get in my way."
AoT: And on that note, we go back to the outside of the warehouse. The battle is still going on when we see the first of General Lane's convoy vehicles roll up to the police perimeter and stop. Other vehicles roar by as an officer gets out and talks to Megaphone Cop from earlier, explaining how they came to investigate something and would be taking over in the area.
MR: Once they see the Army show up and begin to deploy, most of the remaining goons surrender. One or two keep fighting, though, and get blown away or blown up for their trouble. Meanwhile, inside the warehouse, as the sounds of battle trail off Zod finishes working on his new toy--the original rifle weapon now appears to have one of the jury-rigged devices he made attached to one side--and starts working on another one.
ED: Lois tries to appeal to Zod again.
KK: She's not his type. She's an ape.

ED: "Zod, do you hear that? The battle's over."
JG: "No, human. It hasn't even begun yet."
ED: "It doesn't even have to begin at all. Just tell me how to shut this thing down!"
JG: "You can't."
ED: "Then we're just going to have to destroy it."
JG: "I told you--stay out of my way. You beasts should know to stay out of the way of the hunter who is trying to spare your pitiful lives from other hunters."
MR: And Zod levels the first modified weapon off-camera and fires it. A ball of energy zips across the warehouse and blows a fairly good-sized hole in the wall. Quick cut to outside, as various soldiers notice the explosion and halt their advances on the building, then back to Zod with an anxious-terrified-whatever Lois staring at him. "Let Hasaad come. Let your misguided ape soldiers come. For my revenge is at hand--and I will not be denied."
AoT: And we go to another well-timed commercial break.

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