7.20 Harbinger Part I by TW & MR

Jor-El warns Clark that his greatest test is nearly upon him.

TW: Previously on Smallville...
MR: You blew up the whole damn town!
TW: But before that...
MR: Lex tells Lionel he knows Clark is a mutant.
TW: Chloe tells Clark she killed Lana.
MR: That didn't go so well.

TW: Then pan across the rubble which was once Smallville. Clark looks around in shock, barely believing his eyes.
MR: He falls to his knees and weeps. Overlay Clark's anguish with the end of the announcement we started from Darkseid's lackey in our last episode. "People of Earth... may I have your attention please. Greetings from Apokolips. As force commander of the Apokolips Empire I, General Steppenwolf, speak to you now as the voice of Lord Darseid."
ED: Who's going to be this Steppenwolf guy?
TW: I wanted to get Clive Owen...
ED: Really!?!?!
TW: But unfortunately someone busted our budget on male strippers.
ED: Guh?!?
TW: Sorry. I think we're stuck with Ashmore and a fake goatee.
ED: Dammit!!!!!! [Bangs head on table]


TW: Shots of the "man on the street" watching the destruction and warning on TV.
MR: "Lord Darkseid hereby finds the populous of earth guilty of harboring the dangerous and vile intergalactic criminal terrorist known as Kal-El of Krypton. Though he lives among you here, on his adopted home-world, he is not one of you. The unspeakable atrocities Kal-El has committed against the normally peaceful people of Apokolips belie his true nature -- as the sole survivor of the savage and brutal Kryptonian race."

TW: Then to the DP news room with people gathered around a TV as well. Bittleman, under his breath to Lois, "Intergalactic terrorist? Boy did you have his number wrong."

MR: In the remains of the Luthor mansion a close up of a hand sifts through some debris. The crystal from Escape is uncovered.
TW: Offscreen, "Mr. Luthor! Mr. Luthor!"
MR: Continued voice over, "Lord Darkseid is not a cruel God. But he is a fair and just God. Apokolips has suffered much over the years at the hands of Kal-El and his brethren. His heinous actions cannot go unpunished. Justice must be served."
TW: The POV twists to focus on security entering the ruins of the study. Pull back as they enter and search for Lex amid the rubble.
MR: The crystal is gone.

TW: At LuthorCorp Lionel takes in the news with concern.
MR: "Let me be clear. Kal-El is a criminal of the lowest regard; deliver him to us, and the noble Darkseid will absolve your world of any complicity in Kal-El's crimes against Darkseid's beloved people. Deliver him unto us, and your world shall be left in peace. Hide Kal-El...shelter him...protect him...deny the Empire the justice we seek, and his punishment shall be yours. Your world will share his fate."
TW: Lionel picks up his office phone and dials.

MR: Back to the DP, "The destruction of the community known as Smallville Kansas is your first and only warning. Do not test our resolve. You have seven earth days to produce Kal-El. Choose wisely."
TW: Lois is crying. She fumbles with her phone to dial Chloe.
KK: Lots of crying going on.
AM: Yeah. What's the deal, Michael? Didn't you use to say us women screwed up the show up with too much crying?
MR: Women, Tom. Same difference.
TW: Clark's hometown is in ashes.
AoT: Thanks to you.
TW: I think he's entitled.
MR: Whatever. Clark's a crybaby.
KK: And Lois?
MR: Crybaby too.

TW: In Washington an aid interrupts a committee meeting to hand Martha a slip of paper. Her face goes white and she excuses herself.
MR: As Martha exists the other senators look sternly at the aide.
TW: One senator asks, "What is the meaning of this, young man?"
MR: "The country is under attack. The capital must be evacuated."

TW: Back to Clark wandering amid the wreckage as seen through binoculars.
MR: Cut to the person watching Clark. She lowers the binoculars revealing it's Chloe.
AM: What?
TW: She smiles.
AM: What?
MR: A military helicopter passes overhead. Over a bull horn, "All survivors please remain calm."
TW: Still smiling Chloe fades into invisibility. Cue the credits.
AM: Chloe is happy Smallville was nuked?
KK: The girl is seriously disturbed.
ED: Maybe she's happy Clark is still alive?
JG: Like Kristin said, she's seriously disturbed.
TW & AM: Hey!

MR: Open act one with men digging Lex out from under what's left of his mansion.
KK: The one room?
MR: There's a hallway too.
TW: When they finally dig him out Lex is pissed.
KK: His CoCK was destroyed in the blast?
JG: Ouch.
ED: If his cock was destroyed wouldn't he, I don't know, be in too much pain to be pissed?
AoT: I think Kristin was referring to Lex's Chamber of Clark Kent.
ED: What?
AoT: Before your time, Erica.
ED: Lex has a... CoCK?
KK: You seem surprised.
MR: You should see it. It's huge!
ED: No thanks.
AM: I thought he got rid of it?
MR: Well, yeah.
KK: When Clark saw it...
TW: He was disgusted.
JG: Scared.
TW: Huh?
JG: That Lex had a CoCK...
MR: A huge CoCK!
JG: Just for Clark.
ED: Clark just didn't know "how to handle it", if you know what I mean. [cracks herself up and snort laughs]
[Cast stare at ED]
ED: Sorry. Why is he pissed?
MR: Because the crystal is gone.

TW: Back at the planet Lois' call hits voice mail. She leaves a desperate message and looks for Bittleman, "Chloe was in our apartment." Picking up her purse, "I've got to go find her."
MR: Bittleman blocks the way.
TW: We have a moment of Lois in stereotypical irrational denial.
KK: That Chloe is dead?
ED: She did cheat death twice before.
TW: Never the less, Bittleman tries to talk some sense into her.
JG: Lois? Sense? Good luck.
MR: Eventually the morbid truth sinks in and Lois does that thing where people irrationally lash out at the bearer of bad news.
TW: Bitteman hugs Lois.
JG: Bittleman wouldn't do that!
KK: True. Bittleman would tell her to suck it up.
TW: Sorry. He hugs her.
JG: You've ruined the man! Does he check his balls in at her desk every morning now?
MR: Apparently yes. Finally she hugs back, "She has to be alive. She has to."
TW: The streets of Metropolis.
MR: Focus on sexy black leather boots worn by someone making her way down a sidewalk.
ED: Sweet! Where's Lois going?
MR: Pull back to show those sexy, sexy boots are worn by none other than Chloe Sullivan.
ED: What?!
MR: Oh, and she's wearing a rather revealing black leather outfit.
AM & ED: What!?!?
KK: How revealing, exactly?
MR: Think Pussycat Dolls but sluttier.

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