Clark (Tom Welling) and Lois (Erica Durance) cavort around the farm and just as Lois manages to rip Clark's shirt off him, the General (Michael Ironside) arrives for Thanksgiving, accompanied by Lucy (Peyton List.) What was Clark doing with his hands, attempting to cover his manhood! Cue opening song, 'Somebody save me...' in the nick - that's what must have been running through Clark's mind. The General hands Clark a list of jobs to do around the place, as Lois is accustomed to a certain standard. Yeah it didn't hurt she was staying here all this time without anything being done for her. Whilst putting Clark down in the process, questioning what he does around the farm. Lois doesn't really stand up to him. No, she gets all domesticated and begins cooking for Thanksgiving.
She provides Clark with a list of groceries so he can put out the oil refinery fire as the Blur. His 'S' appears on the news and the General thinks the Blur loves to advertize his good deeds. Well there wouldn't be so much publicity if Clarkie didn't feel the need to advertize himself, so why do it. The General's in favour of the Anti-Vigilante Registration Act running through Congress, so they'll have to reveal themselves and be subjected to all sorts of bureaucracy. The General suspects Clark of being a vigilante supporter. Clark works at the paper and he lets Lois have the by-lines, cos he's so sweet, as Lois puts it.
Oliver (Justin Hartley) arrives at Watchtower wounded and Tess (Cassidy Freeman) hardly bats an eyelid, like she hasn't noticed - now Chloe (Allison Mack) wouldn't have done that; not until he asks for the first aid kit. Tending to his wounds Tess notices his wound reacting like acid, she's seen Oliver sans clothes before and discovers a tattoo. (The ones they were tagged with in 10.2 Shield.) So is it just the three the Suicide Squad managed to tag. She recognizes the symbol from working at Checkmate and that Flagg (Tim Whittall) used to work for them, but he's deceased. Oliver recalls Flagg is the one who held him hostage and tried to recruit him.
Oliver warns Clark and finds he too has been tagged. Clark wonders how many others have also been tagged. He makes Oliver jump through the window so no one sees him when he hears Lucy, who gets a little too close to his Kryptonite diary. Which he's left lying around carelessly, wait that was Lois' responsibility now. She makes a play for Clark which was seen coming a mile off and yet he's taken by surprise when she plants a kiss on him. Lois catches them and believes that was meant for her to go off at Clark. Lois tells him he could put out a fire, but he couldn't stop Lucy from kissing him. Liked Lois' line she said to Lucy about the "back-stabbing bitchberry lip gloss" when she kissed Clark.
Lois sends Lucy for crushed ice, why wasn't that on the list she gave Clark if that's what the General likes. At the store she's intercepted by Flagg who in military uniform says he needs to protect the General and hands her a homing device for him and an envelope. Of course she'd come on board when she hears him mention Clark.
Tess intercepts a transmission that Flagg intends on killing someone and Oliver comments Chloe would've found out ages ago. Tess isn't their enemy and she's trying to help him. He's still pining for Chloe and says, "it's hard me being here with someone else, okay." Tess isn't trying to replace her, but "at some point you need to start treating me like I'm on your side." But she's still got her secrets and one big one, viz Alexander.
The General wants to interrogate Clark as he's all prepared with chair and spotlight, when Clark hands him the completed list. The General wonders what Lois sees in him as she likes to date 'men of action.' Clark thinks he should ask Lois that. He asked someone at the Pentagon to run a check on Clark and he came back clean. The only way someone can be that clean is if they've gotten someone higher up, like a Senator (referring to Martha) to clean his record. Clark gets angry and a little defensive: "What gives you the right to spy on us?" He says 'us', when he should have said them, cos he's kind of given the game away, he either implies he's a vigilante too (hence explaining and answering Lois' man of action' penchant) or that he's a vigilante sympathizer. Clark tells him he's looking for enemies where none exist just like the General's vigilante witchhunt. See that's why the General asks why he's bringing up the vigilantes when he's talking about Clark. Oh Clarkie you need to be more careful what you say, lest you get caught out.
Clark posits as soon as they're threatened then everyone's rights go out the window. Which is true. Yes Clark loves Lois and wants to be with her. The General is adamant this is the last day he'll spend with her. Prompting Clark and Lois to have their first "domestic." She gave her all to make today work and all he has to do was to get along with her family. Clark informs her of the surveillance photos of Kara in her costume. Lucy planted them. Lucy also puts the homing device in the General's pocket. Lois refuses to defend Clark and stand by him to his face, but does so later when he's not around to see. Clark can go down with his vigilante friends and she leaves for the Talon with the two.
Flagg overestimates Clark by thinking the Blur may be faster than a speeding bullet as was demonstrated in 10.2 again; but that he won't be able to outrun his missile, intended for the General. Not all vigilantes are bad.
Lucy was trying to protect Lois who asks if she has any compromising photos of her, um, yes she could have got some of the two of them together, ha. Lois is determined to stay with Clark and if he loves her then he should respect her decision. They leave and the General leaves behind the homing device at the Talon, he took it out of his pocket but he didn't notice he never had it in there to begin with. The missile explodes and Clark/the Blur arrives in the nick of time to save Lois from the impact of the explosion.
Clark tells Oliver and Tess that he was the intended target, but Tess is certain Flagg would have attempted to recruit Clark before he tried to kill him. He would attack anyone before he allowed any of the vigilantes to be attacked. Clark and Oliver attack Flagg's truck and he hides behind the "I did it for my country" excuse. The Act is a weapon and if they reveal themselves they'll be killed so they need to fight back. Clark: "violence isn't the answer." Flagg disagrees, "violence is the only answer." He's gathering more superheroes on his side. Why was Oliver talking with his distorted voice when everyone knows who he is. Flagg escapes and vanishes from the truck with his new found sidekick, Emil La Salle, aka Warp. (Elias Toufexis.)
Lois and Lucy make up and she can't believe she almost got Lois killed after she went behind their back. Lois says , "Our larger-than-life hero" needed them to protect him; referring to the General. Lucy believed if she helped then the General wouldn't see her as a troublemaker but Lois thought since Lucy was the troublemaker, she could be seen as the good one. They forgot how to be sisters.
Oliver brings beer and take out to the Watchtower, it's not happy hour but he's still working. Tess is having Emil researching how to remove the tags. Oliver thinks he can do 'friendly'. Tess was thinking she could do 'frenemy'. He doesn't know what that means and he needs to leave this island so no one can find this place. Others need the safety and secretiveness of it and they didn't reveal themselves like he chose to. Tess realizes it's hard for him to say that since this place means so much to him cos of Chloe.
The General tells Clark only his wife spoke to him like that (in preparation for next week's episode with Lois' mother, Teri Hatcher.) Lois has a new hero. The list wasn't a test for Clark, it was a test for Lois. He used it on all her boyfriends and she never complained about it until now. He's grateful to the Blur that they're still here to have a meal together and he's glad she has her own 'private guardian angel'. When he said that it almost seemed like he knew Clark was the Blur, it's just the way he said it and looked at Clark at the same time. Since Clark almost gave himself away as being a vigilante earlier. Clark adds that not all politicians have the General's sense of honour.
Clark has a question for him and we know that'll be asking for his permission to marry Lois. Flagg no longer wants to hide in the shadows and declares war blowing up an anti-Blur, anti-vigilante building. This episode went back to the main arc, or at least one of them after the break in last week's episode. With Flagg's intentions being revealed. It's a little dangerous Flagg knowing who Clark is since he's not really all together. A bit silly and confusing having the sidekick being called Emil, cos that's Dr Emil's name.
Looks like Lois heeded Clark's rant about her not standing up for herself with her father as she finally puts her foot down about her continuing to be with Clark. As did Clark throughout the episode.
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