Smallville

I wish we had more time.

Ohh.

Earth to lois.

It's like you've been on another planet for the last 15 minutes.

Easy, armstrong.

This space case is buried in research.

I've got like two weeks' worth of work to catch up on.

It was a sort of last-minute vacation, wasn't it?

Yeah, well, I've got a pretty tightly wound bolt reflex.

Is this about what happened?

Are you turning red?

Believe it or not, my ejector-seat malfunction...

Wasn't totally about you.

We should talk about it.

When I want to talk about it, I'll send up a smoke signal.

Excuse me? Can you help me?

I need a signature.

I got a delivery out back, and nobody's in yet.

Ho-ho-ho, merry christmas to me.

Clark: Want me to help you with this? No.

Did I ever tell you that before christmas,

I used to unwrap all my presents

And then re-wrap them while my parents were still sleeping?

You know, lois, that doesn't surprise me at all.

Just what I've always wanted.

Is that...

I don't think it's powdered sugar, smallville.

Lois lane, daily planet.

Care to comment on what illegal activities you've been up to

That got you trussed up like a turkey?

I'm a cop!

We're all undercover cops!

Our sting went south.

Someone must have thought you were the real dealers.

Who could be responsible for such a superscrew-up?

Woman: There's something on the building.

Now, that's what I call a scoop.

¶ somebody save me ¶

¶ let your warm hands break right through ¶

¶ somebody save me ¶

¶ I don't care how you do it ¶

¶ just stay ¶

¶ stay ¶

¶ come on ¶

¶ I've been waiting for you ¶

¶ just stay with me ¶

¶ I've made this whole world shine for you ¶

¶ just stay ¶

¶ stay ¶

¶ come on ¶

Lois: First, the blur doesn't call for weeks,

And now he's overnighting our boys in blue?

Of course, he's probably tailspinning into the stratosphere

Because he doesn't have his go-to girl to keep him grounded.

There's no way the botched save is the work of the blur.

It's not his m.O.

I'll admit sugar-coating isn't exactly his style,

But the 20-story calling card was unmistakable.

I never thought I'd say this,

But I'm beginning to lose faith in our resident hero.

You're breaking my heart, lane.

I need a feature on the blur's questionable tactics

By the end of the day.

You don't really think this is big news, do you?

Turns out adrian pope, the organized crime boss,

Is still on the street because of the blur's blunder.

The d.A.'s out for blood.

When is the d.A. Not out for blood?

He's just trying to cover up his dirty connections.

Listen, I am not your blur girl on this one.

Just run with it.

Listen, just see this as an opportunity

To investigate both sides of the story.

Well, that would require a certain supersomeone

To actually find five minutes to give me a call.

What's with the disguise?

All my flannel's at the dry cleaner's.

Go figure.

Lois -- ah.

Leave it alone, inspector gadget.

I have a top-secret interview I'm doing

For an exposé on the hush-hush.

So don't follow me.

Could you lose the notebook?

I'd prefer that all our meetings

Remain off-the-record.

Whatever makes you feel more comfortable, lois.

Why don't you start

By describing these dreams you've been having?

Okay, well, they're as real as you and me right now.

More real, actually.

And despite some flashes of some serious nc-17 violence,

Really, the situation involves clothes...

Coming off -- you know, naked.

Skin, skin on skin, just --

Lots of skin.

So, it's a sex dream?

With the co-worker you mentioned before?

Clark kent?

What is this, "nightline"?

All right, yes, I'm doing the virtual "kama sutra"

With clark kent.

My desk is soft-core central.

Therapist: Listen, lois.

You came to me to explore the deeper meaning

Within these vivid dreams that you've been having.

And all of this doesn't have to be taken literally.

A lack of clothing in a dream

Can signify the desire to uncover what's actually hidden.

You know, sometimes I do feel that clark is hiding something.

It sounds crazy,

But the closer I get to him, the more...

I feel like he's going to disappear.

Could this have something to do

With your three weeks of blocked memory?

Maybe you're trying to protect yourself, lois.

Didn't you say that the last time you opened up to someone --

Your mysterious caller --

He vanished?

¶ I need a hero ¶

¶ I'm holding out for a hero till the end of the night ¶

Speak of the devil.

The halley's comet of phone dating himself.

Sayonara, superstud.

You still have strong feelings for this mystery man.

Please.

Remember 8-tracks and rotary phones?

That's him -- ancient history.

And the fact that you haven't gotten that news flash

Means I'm probably wasting my time

With all this head-shrink mumbo-jumbo stuff.

Lois, you have projected so much onto this mystery caller.

Maybe you should focus

On the man that's right in front of you.

I can't believe she's not picking up.

You freeze the girl out,

She's gonna give you a cold shoulder, hero or not.

After what happened with corben,

I stopped calling her as the blur for her own protection.

Sorry. This is a really bad time for your p.R. Queen to go m.I.A.

She's the only one who can tell the world the truth.

Lois has to know the blur is not responsible

For the failed drug bust or the crime boss getting away.

You know, clark, you need to get to work

On some serious spin-doctor magic,

Because whoever's posing as the blur

Is a genius at marketing and self-promotion.

He's co-opted your brand.

I'm not a brand.

The blur has a blog.

And apparently, you twitter and you're on facebook,

Where you have 10,000 friends, by the way.

You've come quite a long way

Since being scarecrowed in high school.

Why would somebody go through so much trouble to discredit me?

Now, here's the hitch.

I think he's actually trying to help you.

I discovered five messy, but successful, saves

Obviously not done by you.

Whether this person means well or not,

They need to be stopped...

Before someone gets hurt.

Pull over by the power station.

Nice and easy.

These ladies and I have a date with destiny.

Gun it!

Go!

We did it.

Did you see that guy's face?

Pretty slick, z.

Way to go aggro, j.

Once the police see this,

They'll be off our backs for your genius cops-in-a-box idea.

Hey, they were undercover.

Think we should tie him up?

He's out cold.

Let's just get some shots to upload.

Okay.

What are you doing? You're in the shot.

This is our evidence.

Got to give props to the man.

Come on, zan. Let's fly.

Whoa! Whoa!

Two hours to get here with the monorail down.

Chalk another one up to the blundering blur.

He may have stopped a diamond heist,

But his blackout belly flop has crippled metropolis.

And the scavengers have already started circling.

District attorney ray sacks, my pet research project.

Since when is a veteran d.A. Newsworthy?

Since his christmas-card roster

Reads like a soprano's hit list.

I call him "sacks-ophone"