7.20 Harbinger Part IX by TW & MR

MR: No. It's not that stupid glow power you gave her. It's the explosive nuclear climax.
AM: Sad thing is I'm not sure which is worse.
TW: Chloe uses her cool nuclear power to blow Fake Shake to bits. Cut back to the Metropolis skyline. A bright dot ascends and explodes into a fiery ball.
AoT: So now we have naked exploding women clones?
JG: "N.E.W.C."s. Clever.
MR: Nearly naked.
ED: Seems Clark isn't the only one who needs to be worried about hurting someone mid coitus.
AM: Shut up!
KK: Still, it's makes for some pretty hot sex, though.
AM: Shut up!

MR: Cut to Clark in a field somewhere in cow country picking himself out of a crater. Far off into the distance he sees the explosion.
TW: "Chloe!" He super speeds towards it.

MR: Cut to an unconscious Chloe free-falling over the Metropolis skyline.
AM: At least Clark is going to catch her.
MR: Actually no. She lands with a huge thud buckling the street pavement.
AM: Clark couldn't catch her?
MR: Been there, done that. But we've never had Chloe buckle pavement before.
AM: [Threatening] We've never seen Lex beat up by a five year old either.
MR: True. But fortunately you're out of episodes this season.
AM: There's always next season.
JG: Unfortunately.
MR: Not for me. My contract is up.
JG: Lucky bastard.
TW: Clark speeds in and kneels. He lifts her limp body and cradles it. "Chloe. Are you OK?"
KK: She just created a huge Chloe shaped pot hole. What you do think?
MR: Don't forget the music.
TW: What? Oh, yeah.
MR: Howie Day's Collide. Annette?
ED: You can afford music but not Clive Owen!?!?
KK: Do you have any idea how much Clive Owen costs?
ED: I... uh...
AM: [Raising an eyebrow] You do?
[KK blushes]
AoT: Hush everybody, Mama Kent is singing. The dawn is breaking
TW: After no answer, "Please be OK." Another moment of no response. Clark stands with her in his arms. "I'm getting you to a hospital."
AoT: A light shining through
MR: "Don't."
AoT: You're barely waking
TW: Clark brightens up.
MR: "I'll be OK."
AoT: And I'm tangled up in you
TW: "Chloe, I thought I'd lost you. Again."
MR: Chloe asks Clark to put her down. She stands facing aways from him. "You might still."
TW: "Don't say that Chloe."
MR: "I heard you talking. Darkseid intends to destroy the planet!"
TW: "I won't let that happen. We won't let that happen."
MR: "How, Clark? She said he destroyed Krypton.
TW: "I don't know, Chloe. We'll think of something."
AoT: I'm open, you're closed
MR: This annoys Chloe to no end. "That's the best you've got? You bring armageddon to our doorstep and the best you have is we'll think of something?!!? Maybe you haven't you noticed, Clark, but there is no 'us' anymore. And my magic eight ball is all out of ideas because right now killing you is the best I've got." Chloe points the dagger towards Clark.
AM: What?
TW: Not maliciously.
AM: So she's joking?
TW: Well not really.
MR: It's malicious.
TW: It is not!
AM: Better not be.
TW: It's like she's presenting it as an idea.
AM: Killing her best friend?
MR: And in a very threatening way.
TW: No she is not.
KK: If I were Clark I'd feel threatened.
ED: Why?
KK: She already killed her best friend once.
AM: Shut up!
MR: So she ought to be pretty good at it by now.
AM: Stop it!
TW: Clark is surprised, "Killing me?"
AoT: Where I follow, you'll go
MR: "Yeah. Did you not catch the part where she said the only reason we matter is to make you suffer?"
AoT: There's a lot Clark doesn't catch.
TW: "I..." Clark realizes the truth and is no longer able to meets Chloe's gaze.
AoT: I worry I won't see your face
MR: "You were my hero, Clark, but death and destruction follow you where ever you go. Maybe you were right all along, no hero puts the world at risk on a yearly basis. I may not know the reasons why but it's because of you these monsters want to kill us. If you can't save Lana... if you can't save me... if you can't save Smallville." Chloe pauses as if her thought is too painful to repeat out load, "How can we trust you to save the world?"
AoT: Light up again
KK: Not "If you can't save the cheerleader you can't save the world."?
ED: As far as rip offs go...
KK: Tribute!
ED: ...whatever that one's not too bad.
AM: Except that Lana hasn't been a cheerleader since season one.
TW: But Clark has embraced the crazy logic too. "Maybe you're right, Chloe. Maybe the world would be better off without me."
TW: He echoes his own words to Lex, "Even the best of intentions are worthless when they end up putting innocent lives at stake. If I were gone... maybe Darkseid would leave Earth alone."
TW: He looks back up at Chloe, "If you think that's the only way..." He exposes his chest to the dagger she's still holding. "...I wouldn't blame you."
AM: Chloe would never do that.
TW: Clark would never stand by and watch a kid's parents get shot.
ED: You're not seriously thinking about having Chloe kill Clark are you?
AoT: He blew up Smallville. He's liable to do anything.
TW: True.
JG: OK with me. I know I'm up for the extra screen time.
ED: But if Clark is dead we wouldn't be left with much of a show would we?
KK: It's not like we have much of a show as it is.
JG: And we'd still have Lionel. What more do we need?
AM: If you have Chloe kill Clark I quit.
MR: You can't quit. You're still under contract!
AM: Then I'll drug you and Tom and leave the country.
ED: You'd move back to LA? Can I visit?
AM: Don't be silly. I'd have to go somewhere without extradition.
ED: San Bernardino?
AM: [Rolls eyes]
TW: No one asked for your opinions. But fortunately for Allison's lawyers Chloe throws the dagger away in a fit of rage, "No."
AoT: Even the best fall down sometimes
TW: Clark is relieved.
AM: So am I.
MR: But Chloe is pissed.
ED: Why exactly is Chloe pissed?
MR: "Damn you, Clark. How dare you!?!?"
AoT: Even the wrong words seem to rhyme
MR: "Do you have any idea what I've become because of you, Clark?"
ED: Oh! I know! A meteor freak?
MR: Yes. But not what I'm looking for.
KK: A pathetic pining loser?
AM: Hey!
MR: Right as well, but still not what I'm looking for. "The one thing I never thought I'd be... the one thing I never wanted to be... I killed for you today, Clark. Maybe those women weren't innocent and maybe they would have killed others if I hadn't stopped them but today I crossed a line I never thought I would. But to kill you? My best friend? I can't do it. Even to save the world."
AoT: Out of the doubt that fills my mind
JG: Lionel would do it to save the world.
AM: Lionel would do it just for jollies.
JG: True.
MR: "Before today I could always rationalize I couldn't help some of the things what I've done. I was out of control. But today... today I knew exactly what I was doing. I killed to clean up after your mess and I killed to protect you. But I'm through with cleaning up after your messes... if this is what it's going to take." Chloe fades into invisibility and is gone.
AoT: I somehow find
TW: Clark calls out to her but there is no answer.
AoT: You and I collide
KK: This song seems... familiar.
MR: Yeah we used it before.
AoT: Hush. I'm singing!
AM: You can't use the same song more that once!
MR: Why not? Afraid we'll lose our fans' respect?
AM: Um... Point.
TW: I don't think I care.

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