Smallville

Previously on Smallville...

Raya: Welcome to the Phantom Zone.

Jor-El created this place to hold criminals

from the 28 known inhabited galaxies.

Clark: The Omega symbol --

it preys upon the dark side that we already have.

It feeds on our doubts and our distrust.

It just waits for everybody's weaknesses,

and then we destroy ourselves.

This is considered a symbol of hope.

It's old blue.

Mom used to keep I

in her kitchen window.

It's the deed to the farm.

I've been worried that

if we didn't have this place to come home to,

we'd lose each other. Smallville is my home.

And if you need to move to Metropolis

because that's who the world needs you to be,

it's just fine.

Hey, Lois.

Where can I put this box?

Well, I don't think that requires

any supersleuthing.

It does say "living room."

No, I can decipher your scrawl.

I'm just thinking it was mislabeled.

If you're talking about my Whitesnake throw pillow,

loving everything about me includes the sentimental.

I made this from my eighth-grade concert t-shirt.

And I talked to Oliver,

and he told me how smoothly he and Chloe

fused their hero green and geek chic.

Don't worry -- my "for better or worse"

will include your love of hair metal.

But seriously, let me move us in a lot faster.

I can unpack this in like two seconds.

No! No. Hold the horsepower.

Part of us merging our lives together is...

taking the time to find the right spot for everything.

All I know is my perfect spot is here with you.

We'll take as much time as you need.

Sorry for the digital disruption,

but it's important.

What is it, Tess?

I just heard from one of my military contacts.

Slade Wilson's back.

He was found unconscious on a street corner.

He's in a coma and completely unresponsive.

There's only way out of the Phantom Zone.

It has to be activated by a member of my family --

the House of El.

Well, I'd say Slade is living proof

that someone stole your family key

to never-never escape land.

Clark, there's got to be a better way to solve this

than sending yourself into interdimensional exile.

If someone's releasing people from the Phantom Zone,

I need to figure out who and why,

before they release anyone else.

You mean "we," right?

I'm going with him.

You told Oliver I was going in?

Hey, I come back here willing to risk life and limb with you

in the Phantom Zone, I get not so much as a "welcome back"?

Clark, you'll be powerless there.

Oliver has more experience with that.

Thanks.

You could use me in there.

Absolutely not.

I appreciate the offer,

but the Phantom Zone is not a place for humans.

I need to do this alone. Tess: Not completely alone.

Thanks to Booster's upgrade,

in the future,

Watchtower should be able to maintain two-way communication

using the frequency vibrations in the crystal.

Tracking audio transmission.

"Should" as in "might not."

It's not exactly a vacation destination,

so I haven't had the chance to test it.

Okay.

Clark.

Frequency locked.

Be careful.

== sync, corrected by elderman ==

If I'd have know about the long drop in,

I would have brought some rappelling equipment.

If I'd have known you'd ignore my warning to come here,

I would have told you to bring it!

I know what I'm doing you should have trusted me!

You should have more faith in your friends, Clark.

Came here to help you.

Wherever the hell this is.

You know, where I'm from, people just hang a wreath.

It's a warning from the Zoners.

Consider it a not-so-friendly "keep out" sign.

Guess we didn't corner the market on darkness.

Darkseid's been to more places in the galaxy than just Earth.

Guy really gets around.

You think he had anything to do

with tossing Slade back through the portal?

I don't know.

If he's strong enough to make it here,

then no place is safe.

Listen, about this zone, Clark --

you know, when you said Jor-El built a prison,

I kind of pictured something a little more confined

than a national park.

He built this place

so Krypton's worst criminals could have some kind of life.

Sounds like a real sweetheart.

Watchtower, do you read me?

Tess: We're picking you up.

We've reached the gateway.

There must be some clue to who opened the portal

Phantoms

I thought this was just a clever name for "jail."

They're the most dangerous prisoners here.

We need to hurry.

How's it look?

Someone took the crystal.

But the gate's still open, right?

You don't understand.

The crystal is the gate.

Whoever sent Slade back must have taken it with him.

It's our only ticket out of here, Clark.

Get ready.

They're coming.

Okay, here we go.

They aren't back yet?

Lois.

I-I told you that I had this under control.

My entire future just leapt head-first

into a world that makes hell

look like the Taj Majal.

I am not gonna leave here until I know he's safe.

Why did that just cut out?

I don't know.

I'm trying to reach them, and I'm getting no signal.

Maybe the problem's on our end.

No. Either the signal's been blocked,

or the communicator has been destroyed.

Okay, what do we do next?

There is no next.

What?

Clark and Oliver are on their own now.

Kneel.

Where are you taking Oliver?

You're worried for him you should be.

But there's nothing you can do.

I know.

It's terrible, feeling so...

Powerless, when you know

you've got such strength inside of you,

with no way of unleashing it

even without the yellow sun,

I will find a way to defeat you.

You'll have to work twice as hard.

Because when I arrived here,

I made a very special acquaintance,

someone you know, and someone I'm very, very...

- Fond of. - Who?

Me.

The original Zod's phantom.

Finally...back in the body that you stripped me of.

Now I have the full knowledge of two lives, and you...

you are my enemy in both.

I defeated you in both.

Which is why it will give me double the satisfaction

to see you kneel...

...and serve...

until you die.

You sent me to my death sentence.

You left me at the mercy of those Kandorians.

This was my punishment.

Jor-El built this place for your kind.

My kind.

Is that why you sent Slade here?

What would Jor-El think

about you using his prison for your purposes?

There's no trial, no jury --

just the rule of Kal-El.

But I suppose in the end,

it became your undoing, didn't it?