3 weeks ago. Gordon Godfrey (Michael Daingerfield) engages in yet more hero/vigilante bashing and this time turns his attention to illegal aliens. He's taken over by a gust of wind and crows, representing the new Darkforce in town.
Today. He's written a book about the vigilante menace and at it's book launch, Lois (Erica Durance) returns, much to Clark's (Tom Welling) joy. She thinks Godfrey is just after attention. She apologizes for leaving him a letter and he thought her leaving was something she had to do. Godfrey: "real heroes are not faceless mutants." Well he's right about that. Lois knows that the Blur is aware he's taking potshots. Clark is confident that Godfrey isn't even on the Blur's radar. Lois is riled when Godfrey mentions the Blur and is about to give him what for, when the sign comes away from the crane. Kara (Laura Vandervoort) arrives to save the day, dressed as Supergirl. Hey she's stepping onto Clark's territory and she's got her outfit in his customary colours before him.
Clark comments she flew off somewhere and he can't believe he said that out loud. Lois wonders why she's 'flaunting' her powers. Clark tells her she was affected by meteor rock last time she was here. He thinks the Blur should show his face and then people would trust him. Lois thinks that's a bad idea and 'Ubergirl' is putting the Clark/Blur in danger too. Now Lois has to watch what she says around him and Kara, so that he doesn't find out she knows his secret. She suggests Kara needs glasses and should disguise herself before Godfrey hones in on her too. The disguise being a hint for Clark no doubt, for the future.
Too late, Kara is at a photoshoot. Kara can't steal Clark's thunder. Jor-El (Terence Stamp) talked about Clark's pride in the season opener, what about Kara's pride, how's this different when she says she's doing all this for him, he's not completely helpless. No wonder Clark is angry when he says "what she's doing flies in the face of how I've chosen to live on this planet." Jor-El gave her this mission and he no longer considers him his son. Godfrey admits to Lois that he knows Green Arrow's real identity and will be revealing it tomorrow on-line in the final chapter of his book. Referring to him as a "depraved playboy." There's the pot calling the kettle..but Godfrey's no playboy! Lois decides to check out Godfrey's private life.
Oliver (Justin Hartley) has a flashback to teaching Chloe (Allison Mack) how to use a bow and arrow. Lois tells him destiny brought her back to Metropolis (and a pep talk from Carter (Michael Shanks) last episode. She thought she'd get in Clark's way if she stayed here. He thinks she should leave Godfrey be. "People deserve to know the truth." Clearly they're all on conflicting sides this season. Lois wants them to hide and not reveal their identities, Kara is blatantly flaunting hers and Clark is caught in the middle, what with his darkness and his secret; thinking perhaps it would be better if people saw the Blur for who he really is. Oliver believes it's too costly to keep his secret.
Lois decides to do something about it, going undercover at the strip club Desaad to unmask Godfrey's secret fetish and getting photos to use on Godfrey. Thereby destroying his 'wholesome' reputation. Kara's taken Clark's key to the fortress and thinks she knows what's best for him. She's attempting to draw the Darkness towards her and Clark believes she should have come to him. He knows his own destiny. Kara only seeks to put him down again, he can't even fly yet. She teaches him to fly but he doesn't succeed saying he's not ready. The Darkness came through the rip three weeks ago and Clark recalls he opened the portal using the Book of Rho. The Darkness can see thoughts and emotions and could possess Clark since he's not "pure of spirit" and doesn't have clarity of purpose. She's wrong he does have that. He knows what his destiny is but he's unsure how to go about achieving it, when he's got so many other factors and people to consider.
Oliver goes to church to remember his parents and how he's let them down and couldn't protect the people he loved. He "can't have people risking their lives for me." If only he told Lois that. Possessed Godfrey takes Lois hostage in order to lure Clark here. Clark takes Kara to Watchtower to find where Lois's phone signal came from when she posted the story about Godfrey. They notice Lois as the chauffeur in the photo and Clark can hear Godfrey's voice change, the Darkness is inside of him. Not much of a superhero is Kara when she couldn't hear what's happening, where's her heightened sense of hearing. Not as sharp as is. Clark may not be able to fly yet, but his other super-senses aren't blinkered.
Lois's blind faith got her into trouble. The Darkness notices Clark's doubts and the fear he won't be the hero he wants to be. "There is darkness in you and great power." Something Jor-el warned him about. Kara intervenes to save Clark repelling the Darkness with her bracelet. Lois thinks she was rescued by Kara, whilst this time it's Clark's turn to hide in the shadows and watch. Kara: "there's two sides to everyone." Lois asks her what it's like being a hero. Kara is free and nothing holds her back. It's easier when no one is there to hold them back. Kara: "Even heroes need someone to come home to."
Clark berates Lois for going too far this time. She admits she was afraid and her greatest fear is "to be alone in the world without heroes." She can't find a suitable handle for Kara calling her 'Power-girl. Mega-girl'. Clark thinks if you "put them on too high a pedestal, they might let you down." But Lois doesn't think like that. "The Blur is my hero" and she believes he'll always be there for her.
Clark bumps into Kara in her disguise of glasses and brown wig. (Taking a leaf out of Lois's disguise book.) She's not leaving until she knows everyone is safe. Her bracelet didn't work on the Darkness when he was possessing a host. Clark says it didn't want her since she's "pure of spirit" and she risked her soul to save Clark. She thinks if the Darkness gets Clark's powers it will spell doom for all. Also adding "how you overcome failure defines you." He should let her fight the Darkness since it's not his fight. Clark, when he sees a cross sprawled through the 'S' logo on the wall, thinks, "Maybe the Blur isn't the hero he thinks." Yet more self-doubt from him. He can't do that to himself what about what Jonathan (John Schneider) told him, he can't let other people tell him what to do and he needs to prove this to himself. As well as to Jor-El.
Clark has so many self-doubts boiling gover to the surface which he never had in such a deep way before. Oliver tells Lois Chloe left and she's not coming back, when the "person you love knows your secret" it affects them too and that's why she left. As Lois did too, but she came back. So will Chloe. Oliver gives a press conference, wanting to "set the record straight. I am Green Arrow." Lois went through all that hell and high water to prevent Oliver's identity being revealed and he decides to come clean in the end. Well that was uneventful. Clearly he's wrong to reveal his secret, as Clark will show. Oliver wasn't even aware Lois risked all for him and others like him.
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