Lois (Erica Durance) is running around doing a million things before the big day, working on a story and wedding planning and she believes there's a conspiracy behind her new story. "Go jump in the river" she tells Clark (Tom Welling.) Well it's her story and he's standing on the river she's got mapped out on the floor of her office. Their catering company has gone under and has been bought out like other businesses in the area, by Marionette Ventures, really the name in itself provides a big clue as to who is behind this! All the owners have left town.
Clark says he told her father about the wedding but he hasn't told his and they head for the Fortress. The Head of the House of El approves all unions and he stresses his "desire to start a lifebond with this woman." Jor-El (Terence Stamp) talks about their lives being joined, so they have to understand, ice falls onto top of Lois. Lois gets Clark's powers and he loses his. She relishes this, it's right up her street. Or should I say lane! Lois: "I'm super."
Oliver (Justin Hartley) finds Kara (Laura Vandervoort) trapped in caves. Fancy that, no one missed her, so much for keeping tabs on each other and the League. The symbols on the walls aren't Celtic. Kara refers to them as Apokolyptian. Oliver notices the Bow symbol and they both have their reasons for being in search of the Bow. Kara needs it to protect Clark and she asks him who he's here to save. That'll be himself. She reads the prophecy written by Orion depicting the end of the world and the "balance must exist between light and darkness." Oliver thinks they need to add to the scales on one side in order to release her from her trap.
Lois finds it so easy to get a million things done now and thinks Jor-El might have good intentions for giving her powers, maybe she needs to feel what it's like to be Clark. Anyway his powers will return to him at sunset which Clark says is 6.48pm. Lois discovers what the businesses have in common, water rights come with the building rights. There's one business left to buy out. Lois and Clark stake this out and she returns from a few rescue missions she couldn't help getting involved in, with a burn on her collar. The business left is Theron Layne. Clark needs her to focus her hearing and that he must ignore certain problems and pleas for help as the Blur. Clark doesn't call it ignoring, but prioritizing. Lois realizes he has to do this all the time. Lois hones her hearing skills, which took Clarkie ages to perfect. She hears the owner being attacked inside the store. Throwing off her attacker, she discovers it's Courtney, aka Stargirl (Britt Irvin). There's red flashing from her ear.
Oliver thinks the Bow is his for the taking and "medium is the message." He must wield the Bow as he's trying to change his fate. Orion turned away from the darkness and is revealed as Darkseid's son. They get to the Bow but need to use two shots of Oliver's bow in balancing light and darkness. Lucky he brought two then. Oliver says Clark trusts Kara so that's enough for him. They shoot the arrows simultaneously and the door is opened. Kara is called away by Jor-El, conveniently leaving Oliver on his own. She's trusting him to take the Bow to Clark.
At the Fortress, Jor-El tells her that Kal-El's destiny is the Bow and the battle with Darkseid is his alone to fight. She has the choice of two paths, either leave Earth now and let him embrace his destiny or stay here and destroy Earth. Her destiny is in another place and time. That was kind of cruel, dragging her away from the only family she has. Kal-El was too weak back then and was almost destroyed by the darkness. He must fight now. "This is his time...the greatest sacrifice is to give up something they hold dear."
Tess (Cassidy Freeman) believes the diode made Courtney open to suggestions. Courtney explains she and John Jones looked into the company's shareholders - which Lois didn't think to do and these include, Roulette, Dark Archer, Mettallo, Manta. Scan of the diode reveals the initials WS, i.e Winslow Schott, the Toyman (Chris Gauthier). Lois is off in a flash to see him in prison, where he's allowed privileges, in a max security prison! He's got his phone and calls her a "mild mannered reporter." Lois tells him about the diode on one of their own and he notices her engagement ring. She says her lovelife has nothing to do with the Blur, a bit defensive.
Toyman proceeds to enlighten her about Lana Lang, Clark's first love, who sacrificed everything for him. That's the line Jor-El said earlier. Clarkie really hasn't said much about Lana to Lois. She tries to deny Clark is connected to the Blur. To protect this secret he orders her to wear a diode too. He calls his group "minions" just like Darkseid's minions. He wants her to kill the Blur. One moot point really, was there no way for her to overcome the effects of the diode with her powers. She succumbed a bit easily.
Oliver is about to grab the Bow after reading the inscription on it, "The only true power comes from within." But he's foiled by Granny Goodness (Christine Willes) who turns up in the nick to grab the Bow and destroy it. It was selfish of Oliver to want the Bow to remove the stain from his soul. Claiming the Bow was "one power Darkseid could not defeat." Oliver's been serving him from the moment he gave in to his darkside and he's got potential. He won't recall their conversation. Suppose it will end with a showdown between Clark being light and Oliver being the dark, mentioned with Kara at the beginning.
Toyman on conference with his minions gives them info on their targets, i.e. Justice League members. He underestimated Clark. Lois turns up and fights Clark. Tess tells him to hold on until sunset and he has to ask how long it is when he already knows. He tells her to fight it and "I love you" doesn't seen to work on her, for long that is. Looked like this made her even stronger for a second. Anyway, cue sunset, his powers return and Lois in another fainting pose just like when she was defeated as Isis. hey why didn't Tess use Kryptonite on her, or would this not have worked with the diode, but she did still have her powers, even under its influence.
This time it's Clark's turn to visit Toyman who thinks Lois has done the deed and returned. Clark is flattered at being called his "pretty little play thing." He threatens to expose his identity as the Blur and Clark says if he wanted to do that, he'd have done it by now, but then he wouldn't be able to play. Clark will always be there to stop him. Clark then returns to the Fortress realizing Jor-El's removing his power wasn't a gift but a trial, all about control. His "trials are stepping stones on a long path," replies Jor-El and Clark understands it's up to him to take control of his destiny. When he's no longer a son of Jor-El or Jonathan Kent, that's when he can help the world. The time is now. Which is what Jor-El told Kara. He can no longer guide him and Clark pulls the plug on Jor-El and we see that 'suit' in the ice, just beckoning!
Oliver digs for the gold Kryptonite that will rid Clark of his powers and finds it. Leaving Clark with another dilemma from Lois and no finale would be complete without the wedding being called off. She tells him what he does is never over for him. It's up to him to tip the scale of good and evil and she knew he had a big heart but she didn't realize how "strong it was." Kara floats outside Watchtower and uses the League ring to disappear to the future. Look she'll even miss his wedding too. Kara chooses her destiny, just as Clark did. Lois was weak and she let Toyman control her, hey I said that. Lois: "you are my greatest weakness." Clark begs to differ calling her his strength. Jor-El is his past and his destiny is with Lois. He could be out saving people every moment she has him to herself. She can't marry him. No but she can hug him instead!
Cue all the showdown for the series finale, which we will get in two parts and not one, darn! Toyman's minions are known as the Legion of Doom and not all of them were named. Solomon Grundy and Captain Cold were left out. The diode is star shaped as it's akin to a miniature starfish utilized by Starro in the comics.
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