L&C Concordance

I have to edit this page to add more information. Thank thee thrice, Donna

I want to introduce this... well, re-introduce this project. Years ago... many years ago while the show was still in production, some of us who had been fans of the original Star Trek wanted to take a cue from that show's fandom who had created a "Concordance." Going to the dictionary, a concordance is:

an alphabetical index of the principal words of a book, as of the Bible, with a reference to the passage in which each occurs.

That is basically what the project is all about, i.e., cataloging items from each episode of Lois & Clark. They, in turn, get put into a L&C lexicon of information. In fact I still have the "in progress" lexicon that had been compiled at the time by Jud Mair.

Here's a few of the entries:



As you can see it's very thorough

Here is the form Donna Burton saved. Her episode, obviously, was the pilot.



The first segment is "Location Location Location" and that is where you will list any locations mentioned in your episode(s). Yes, you, as fans, pick episodes you'd like to cover for the L&C Concordance and fill in the information requested in the original form. There is also "Powers used as Superman" and "Powers used as Clark" "Hint Hint Hint" any clue that Clark is Superman or vice versa that occurs in the episode.



Page 2 covers some self-explanatory, like Clark's lame excuses



Page 3 continues information discovered about the characters in the episode.



Page 4 also continues the information. Most episodes won't have that much information on the characters, but this is the pilot Also, notice at the bottom, "Name That Tune"? This space was provided for listing the L&C opening theme music when it would occasionally pop up in episodes, like when it played in Lois's earpiece in Wall of Sound. But I think we should list all music from an episode in that space. Anyone agree?



And lastly, on page 5 is "Miscelaneous" for stuff that doesn't exactly fit anywhere else in the Concordance form.

So, why are we doing this now? Because next year is the 20th anniversary of Lois & Clark's premiere (September 12, 1993). Now do you feel old?

If anyone is interested in doing an episode, or more than one, step up and volunteer. Name the episode(s) you want and get started. Believe me, having the series on DVDs makes it a lot easier than it was back in the 90s

Special thanks, again, to Donna for providing the old form.

Zoom

Wow, great work! Looks like some of the FOLCs around here missed their calling. Maybe we have some investigative reporters of our own.

20 years huh?! That just seems crazy doesn't it?

Jackie

I love this idea. I thought of the Star Trek Concordance immeditately when I saw the title of this thread.

I would be up for doing an episode or more. Though I am not sure if I would be good on getting all the details. Might be wrapped up in the show.

Something I have always wanted to see is a detailed chronology, timeline for the whole series. Maybe that could be complied from the various time references made in each episode for this.

Hey Tom

Don't worry. Doing the episodes is really easy, and even fun, at least for a geek like me Just jot down the name of a street, or warehouse, or whatever in the "Location" section. If Clark mentions a place he has visited, list it under the section on "Been There" (Clark's travels). Plus, if you think of anything later, it can be added belatedly. Like I said, easy

As for chronology of the show, about all I have so far is a chronology of Lois and Clark's relationship: http://www.redboots.net/tnaos/lc_relationship.htm

Which, even being over 60 pages in length, is still a work in progress. Take a look at it so far and let me know what type of chronology you had in mind.

Seriously, Tom, take on a couple of episodes. We need the help!

Zoom

I will do it! Are we going to work are way through the episodes by air date. Which ones have not been claimed yet?

I have read your relationship chronology in the past. Its great.
What I was thinking of was more historical. For example Clark's arrival on Earth, Lois's birth, all the various backstory events of the characters, etc. The various time travel periods. Placing the actual episodes in proper time of the year.

Using Star Trek as an example, some of it would be based on references to "20 years ago" or specific dates, but some would be conjecture based on what evidence there is.

Hey Tom,

Thanks for volunteering to do an episode or two! At the moment, sadly because the original Concordance episode contributions were lost, every episode at this point is open. Pick which you'd like to do and you'll be marked down with dibs on those episodes. The only deadline is to make sure they're done before September 2013

I like the chronology idea. For example we know Clark landed May 17, 1966 (Strange Visitor and Tempus Fugitive) and started getting really strong when he was about 13 and around the same time Clark decided not to tell anyone his secret and not to get really close to anyone (We Have a Lot to Talk About). Despite that, he kept in touch with old classmates (Operation Blackout). He dated Lana Lang during high school, but said "she's not worth it" (Tempus Anyone?), but was no longer dating her by his senior year because he took Rachel Harris to the prom (Green Green Glow of Home). He's been flying since high school (Just Say Noah), specifically when he was 18 years old (All Shook Up).

Clark attended college at Midwest University, where he played football and was awarded the game ball as the most valuable player in their game against State University (All Shook Up) and then, presumably after graduation, he began to travel the world. He mentioned having raisin scones and tea at the London Savoy (I'm Looking Through You). He told Lois he learned ballroom dancing from a Nigerian princess and mentioned to Perry that the Yolngu tribe in New Guinea used paava leaves to relieve stress. Though it's not clear whether that was just some of Clark's obscure knowledge, or whether he'd actually been there. He worked as a stringer (freelance journalist) during his travels, and showed Perry an article he wrote for the Borneo Gazette on the mating habits of knob-tailed geckos (the pilot).

Okay, that stuff is off the top of my head, so some of it could be wrong and I didn't even mention all the foreign languages Clark could speak but the Concordance would really help build this type of chronology because all the facts about the characters are there. It can't be done by going through the scripts because almost no script made it through to filming unscathed by changes. Besides, it's a lot more fun to watch the episodes

Thanks for volunteering, Tom. It's very much appreciated.

Zoom

I'm trying to put one together for GGGoH as we speak, since I've seen in twice in the span of about a week and a half.

Okay here's what I was able to come up with. Feel free to add to it if you think there is something important that I missed.

Green, Green Glow Of Home

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION (A FoLC guide to Smallville)
1. The Irig Farm - located up the road from the Kent Farm (as mentioned by Jonathan)
2. Kent Farm - home of Jonathan and Martha, has a work shed where Jonathan stores his tools, old bikes, and the case with the Kryptonite
3. Smallville Town Square - site of the Smallville CornFest
4. Coffee Shop - unnamed
5. Railroad crossing - not mentioned where in Smallville this is
6. Salt Lake City - where Wayne Irig claims to be when Trask is holding him hostage
7. Small pond - located on the Kent property, next to the work shed
8. Wichita - where Wayne Irig sent a piece of the Kryptonite to a lab for study
9. Lowell County - apparently where Smallville is located - Jonathan mentions that all the hotels book up there months in advance of the CornFest.

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN
1. Flight - patrolling the skies of Metropolis
2. Hearing - hears the call for help as a woman is carjacked
3. Strength - lifts the front bumper of the car
4. Speed - cuts off carjacker's escape as the man tries to flee
5. Invulnerability - catches the bullets as the carjacker tries to shoot him

POWERS USED AS CLARK
1. Hearing - Jimmy's hypersonic watch blasts in Clark's ears
2. Strength - Clark is able to snap the chains Trask puts him in
3. Breath - Clark sucks in the trail of fire heading for his parents and Wayne, then blows it out as smoke/steam

NOT-SO-SUPERMAN
1. Clark's powers vanish in the presence of green Kryptonite.
2. This is Clark's first encounter with green Kryptonite.
3. Jonathan is the one to accidently expose Clark to it.
4. Clark's powers to not automatically bounce back when he is away from the Kryptonite, as they do later on.
5. Clark is powerless for at least a day.
6. Clark's strength is the first power to come back to him, as evidenced by his ability to eventually win the test of strength carnival game. This MAY be a throwback to the fact that his strength was one of the first powers to manifest.
7. The super hearing comes back next, along with the rest of Clark's abilities.
8. Clark is forced to fight Trask without his powers and in a weakened state from his second exposure to Kryptonite, immediately preceding the fight.
9. Touching even the piece of dirt that the Kryptonite was embedded in burned Clark's hands.
10. It is not shown how long it takes him to regain his powers after the second exposure.

HINT, HINT! (For the galactically stupid)
1. Clark holding his ears when Jimmy's watch goes off. That was not a normal "I have a headache" or "I just thought of something important" gesture. He also makes a beeline for Jimmy.
2. Clark's excuse of having allergies. He looked like death warmed over, not a hay fever victim.
3. Clark's reaction to getting a paper cut. His reaction did nothing to hide his shock over seeing his own blood for the first time. He even admits that he can't remember ever getting a cut before and Lois has to tell him to "suck on it."
4. Was Wayne Irig out of it during the fight/rescue when they were tried up in the shed? Clark (rather loudly) proclaims "Superman's back." Trask also calls him "Superman" out loud - loud enough for Wayne to hear him if he is indeed conscious.
5. "I AM normal." - Clark emphasizes that a little too strongly after he is rendered powerless.
6. Clark admits to feeling "super" when he is back at the Daily Planet and Jimmy asks how he feels.

CLARK'S LAME EXCUSES
1. He claims to have allergies when Lois notices that he doesn't look well after his exposure to Kryptonite for the first time.
2. Clark's insistence to Perry that there is no story and that Lois just expects everything to be a big story.

ABOUT/THINGS TO DO/ THINGS TO EAT DURING THE SMALLVILLE CORNFEST
1. Carnival games, including tests of strength
2. Corn Pageant - which crowns a queen
3. Husk-Off
4. Corn-O-Rama
5. Line dancing
6. Barbeques
7. Popcorn
8. Creamed Corn
9. Corn on the cob
10. Book in advance, as hotel rooms in Lowell County book up months in advance. This is mentioned in the script, and is briefly mentioned by Lois to Carol Sherman.
11. Quite possibly falls near Halloween, as evidenced by the orange and black balloons in the town square. (original air date of Nov. 14, 1993)

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS
LOIS LANE
1. Has tried line dancing lessons. A girlfriend convinced her it would be a great way to meet guys. It didn't work as Lois says "define guys."
2. Loves caramel apples.
3. Wanted to call Kryptonite "Kryptonium."
4. Bought a country dress because she knew it would amuse Clark.
5. Begins to see Clark as a friend, not just as a co-worker.
6. Chose and black and white bear over a Superman doll when Clark won the test of strength game.

CLARK KENT
1. Can line dance.
2. Has fond memories of before Wayne Irig's (unnamed) wife died. They gave out caramel apples on Halloween.
3. Took Rachel Harris to his high school prom (presumably, Rachael is a bit younger).
4. Apparently tells his parents everything, including about Lois' romance novel.
5. Gave Kryptonite it's name.
6. Is able to effectively fight Trask, even without his super-powers.
7. Allows Lois to have all the credit on the story.

MARTHA KENT
1. Paints. She has a modern art style painting of a bowl of fruit.
2. Owns a fax machine.

JONATHAN KENT
1. Can cook. He mans one of the barbeque pits at the Smallville CornFest.

JIMMY OLSEN
1. Is sent to Smallville on his first assignment as a photographer.
2. Is into technology, as evidenced by the prototype watch that he has from S.T.A.R. Labs.
3. Is able to get the photography assignment from Perry because 1) all the other photographers are busy and 2) he says to Perry that someone had to have taken a chance on him once.

PERRY WHITE
1. Listens to sounds of the rainforest in an attempt to lower his blood pressure.
2. Does the above while shoeless and sitting on the floor, Indian-style.
3. Discourages his reporters from getting too close to the story, but is glad Clark won the fight against Trask.
4. Knows how to push Lois' buttons. All he has to do is mention "Pulitzer Prize" and Lois is putty in his hands.
5. Has been in the newspaper business 35 years.

CAT GRANT
1. Says she prefers leather - NOT in reference to Jimmy's new watch.
2. Makes a face like she tasted something horrible when she mouths to Perry that Lois is on line 2.

OH, THE PEOPLE YOU'LL MEET

RACHEL HARRIS
1. Went to Clark's senior prom with him.
2. Can "two-step" and "tush-push."
3. Is the Smallville Sheriff.
4. Has a crush on Clark.
5. Is upset to see him with Lois.
6. Asks Jimmy if Clark has ever mentioned her.
7. Shoots and kills Jason Trask.
8. According to the script, she won the Sheriff election against "Fordman" by "promising to buy a couple of computers." This exchange is listed in the script, but does not appear on television runnings or on the DVDs.

WAYNE IRIG
1. Was married - wife is deceased.
2. Long time friend of Jonathan Kent.
3. Lives up the road from the Kents.
4. Has a sister living in another state.
5. Refused to give up the location of the Kryptonite, despite broken fingers and a dose of sodium pentothal.

CAROL SHERMAN
1. Poses as an EPA operative.
2. Was hired by Trask.
3. Has a daughter to raise.
4. Helps Lois to escape after Lois mentions that if Trask kills the Kents, she'll be an accessory to murder.
5. Was momentarily impressed/stunned that the Daily Planet sent two reporters to Smallville for the "pesticides" removal.
6. Did not know the true reasons for Trask's operation until she pressed the issue.
7. Was uncomfortable with the idea of trying to kill Superman.
8. Did not know that Wayne Irig was being held until she stumbled into one of Trask's interrogations.

MAISIE
1. Waitress at the coffee shop in Smallville.
2. Knows/asks about Lois' book.
3. Admits to liking a good romance novel.

DEVICES:
1. Hypersonic watch - prototype from S.T.A.R. Labs. Initially developed to help find lost pilots for the Air Force.
2. Fax machine - Jonathan and Martha own one. Lois claims that she does not.

BITS AND PIECES
1. No one alive has ever quit Bureau Thirty-Nine.
2. Trask brought Superman's spaceship with him to Smallville.
3. Is the first person outside of the Kent family to learn that CK=S.
4. Clark's spaceship was found in 1966. Kryptonite was not discovered until a storm blew over Wayne Irig's oak tree in 1993.

WAIT...WHAT?
1. Clark is able to destroy the Kryptonite simply by throwing it into a rock. Shouldn't pieces of the radioactive rock have gotten into the water, causing him problems when he and Trask fall into the pond? What if Clark had swallowed the water?
2. Kryptonite was not discovered until Wayne's tree fell over. But later, in Tempus: Fugitive, we see pieces of it all over the ground surrounding Clark's spaceship.

Excellent job, Deadly Chakram! And thank you so much I'm going to start putting these up on the website with compiler credit, which would be you in the case of GGGoH. I'll have a home "Concordance" page with an alphabetized, as well as a chronological link to the episodes. And I'm going to put in a lot of pictures, of course Any other suggestions from FoLC are always welcome.

I will also alphabetize the lexicon and upload that. With each new Concordance contribution, I'll update the lexicon. We can also add a chronology of Clark and Lois, their lives and backgrounds, as Tom suggested.

Keep up the great work everyone. This is a long overdue tribute to Lois & Clark.

Zoom

Thanks, zoom. I may do others in the future. This one took me the better part of the afternoon. The bonus is, I'm watching the reruns on the Hub right now, AND I'm doing a marathon screening with my husband.

I have the rest of the summer free. Would anyone object if I started with season 2, episode 1 and do one after the other from there?

HI Bevk,


I wouldn´t object.
So please go ahead. I´m looking forward to this.
Thanks for doing it.


Stephanie

I am moving soon. There is a week between the last day of my current job, July 13th, and the actual move. So that would be a good time for me to do some episodes.

I was thinking of doing the Tempus episodes, all of them from the various seasons. I am a time travel junkie. Plus it would be fun do themed episodes at once.

Anyone have those been claimed?

Hi Bev,

Yes, You can start with any season and any episode(s). Thanks for pitching in

Yes, Tom. You can do all the Tempus episodes. Sounds like a lot of work, but his episodes are always worth re-watching

Thanks to all you volunteers. I'll try and get a list of episodes up soon.

Zoom

So Zoom are you going to be our editor? No, I am not looking for an excuse to be sloppy....

There is the alternate Lois and Clark, so I will make sure their details are seperate.

I still plan on doing this. But this week "off' was not as much as I thought. I am moving to Las Vegas from Wisconsin. I would still like to contribute to this.

I'm a newbie, but could I give it a shot with Neverending Battle?

Fine with me. Welcome aboard. It's a fun and informative way to rewatch the episodes.

Bev

Thanks i'll do my best.. i'm glad there's a blueprint on how .

MADAME EX

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)
1- Lex Tower- home to Dr. Heller’s office at Lex Labs, Dr. Gretchen Kelly’s laboratory, Lex Tower Penthouse
2- Construction Site- where Superman saves a falling man and is met by cheering from some and angry accusations by others who witness the feat. This is the first such confrontation he experiences.
3- Daily Planet- newsroom, break area, elevators, lobby, Dr. Carlin’s office
4- Suicide Slum side street with alley and dumpster
5- City Hall- anti-Superman demonstration outside where City Council is honoring Superman
6- Sheldon Bender’s Office- where reading of Lex’s will takes place
7- Cab of Truck and Street Outside- Arianna and double hijack it, fight over a gun and cause driver to lose control, sending the truck careening along the street
8- Gun shop- where, as Lois Lane, the double buys the gun to be used to kill Superman
9-Grounds of the Queensland Retirement Home- where the ship’s captain, who married Luthor and Carlin, is now living
10- Police station- where Perry and Clark pay Lois’ bail after her arrest
11- The block where MPD building is located has a Billiard/Pool establishment next door, then an art gallery, and a florist shop.
12- The Bureau of Vital Statistics- mentioned by Lois, where she found no marriage certificate for Luthor, despite hours of searching.

ADDITIONAL LOCATIONS
1- The Kent farm- where Clark discusses events with his parents

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN
1- Flight- rescues falling construction worker, goes to Kansas and along the way buzzes a farmer in a tractor
2- Strength- breaks and fixes a radio transmitter tower while flying and reading a book, stops out of control truck though weakened by kryptonite exposure
3- Breath- neutralizes tear gas by freeze drying it so it can be swept away
4- Heat vision- bores a hole in a fish tank so water will spurt onto unconscious Lois and rouse her

POWERS USED AS CLARK
1- Strength- throws a tire like a lasso to capture a running man
2- Breath- stops a taxi by inhaling and pulling it backwards
3- Hovering- helps Jonathan paint the barn

HINT, HINT! (for the galactically stupid)
1-points into the air, then pauses, as he tells a puzzled Perry why he is late for work, in full view of Jimmy and Lois, too.
2-somehow knows Lois keeps candy bars in her desk drawers but she only thinks he’s been going through her drawers and demands to know why

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES - CLARK’S PRETTY GOOD EXCUSES
1- Tells Perry he’s late for work because “I had a problem dropped on me.” (Falling man)
2- Tells Lois he caught the running homeless man because “he got... tired.”
3- “He must have super hearing”- to explain why a taxi has suddenly returned after passing them by

LOIS’ LAME EXCUSES/ LOIS’ PRETTY GOOD EXCUSES
1- She wasn’t at anti-Superman rally because she was at home eating chocolate...cottage cheese...chocolate flavored cottage cheese...a new fla-...she was doing her laundry!
2- Tells Clark she keeps a box of candy bars in her desk in case of emergency- i.e. if her blood sugar drops drastically low
3- Declares half the media shrinks aren’t real doctors, then when assured by Dr. Carlin that she is a real doctor, Lois says she was talking about the other half

DEVICES
1- New Computer System at Daily Planet- fax modems, new email provider, sound
2- Kryptonite shaped into a bullet

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s Languages)

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS
Arianna Carlin
1- syndicated self-help columnist, “Healing the Inner Self on the Couch”
2- author of best selling book “Subliminal Persuasion”
3- funded creation of Lois II, a double to compromise Lois Lane’s sanity and ruin her
4- used her column to promote anti-Superman sentiment
5- was once married to Lex Luthor, now refuses to be called Mrs. Luthor because she hasn’t been Mrs Luthor for ten years
6- murders Dr. Heller in cold blood with the Lois double as a witness
7- She lies to Perry White and Clark Kent about Lois Lane’s state of mind.
8- She shoots Superman with a kryptonite bullet retrieved from the Luthor penthouse
9- calls Lex the love of her life and believes Lois and Superman betrayed him and are responsible for his death, even though she knows he isn’t exactly dead anymore
10- assures Lois she is a real doctor
11- tells Gretchen that Lex said she was the best physician he ever had
12- tells Lex’s body she has the kryptonite- no reaction in his vital signs
13- suggests Lois might be suffering from post traumatic stress because of her (apparent) erratic behavior and memory loss
14- admits Luthor divorced her though she doesn’t use his name


Lois II/Double
1- is naturally left handed and a blonde
2- thinks Lois is “plain” and a prissy, glorified typist
3- tossed tear gas into the newsroom and told Perry to consider it her/Lois’s two weeks notice
4- identifies herself merely as “an accident victim in the right place at the right time”

Dr. Gretchen Kelly
1- stole Luthor’s body and is bringing him back to life
2- tells Arianna Lex is very special to her
3- tells Arianna she will begin stimulation to start regeneration of Lex’s body “tomorrow”
4- tells Lex’s body that Arianna failed and looks for reaction in vital signs- there is none.

Sheldon Bender
1- Luthor attorney, reads Lex’s will then refuses to talk to the press later

Captain Keene
1- retired ship’s captain who tells Lois the woman Lex married was much prettier than she is and “really built”
2- jokingly tells L&C that Lex’s bride was named “Mrs. Luthor”- then shows them a picture of Lex and Arianna Carlin after he married them aboard his ship and tells them her real name
3- he reveals the date to have been October 8th, 1984

Clark Kent
1- is surprised by anger from some people after he rescues falling construction worker
2- reveals to his parents he is worried about Lois because she won’t admit how much the events of her wedding day are affecting her
3- knows what an acrostic is and explains them to Lois and, later, to Perry
4- agrees with Perry that Lois should talk to Dr. Carlin
5- thinks people tearing pages out of phone books to be inconsiderate
6- tells Perry Dr. Carlin was once Mrs. Luthor, she killed Dr. Heller and created the double in order to destroy Lois
7- he carries a beeper and uses it
8- he thinks Lois is brilliant but can’t resist teasing her that there is a fine line between brilliance and lunacy

Lois Lane
1- checks coin returns and picks up dropped coins - until Clark points out the habit
2- tears pages out of phone books
3- admits to Dr. Carlin Lex’s proposal confused her, it was the last thing she was expecting
4- admits she had trouble sleeping after the bombing of the DP
5- was further confused by Clark’s declaration of love and then his recanting of it
6- admits she was attracted to Lex because of what she thought was his humanitarianism and to his power
7- declares she never loved Lex- only Superman- but leaves her feelings for Clark unknown to us but with the implied impression she only loves Superman, as Clark is merely her best friend.
8- was stunned to learn Lex was married before - he’d told her she was his first true love
9- sees her double leaving the DP and follows her. In an alley they exchange insults until Arianna arrives and takes Lois captive at gunpoint.
10- Admits to Clark she does feel better after talking to Dr. Carlin and getting a few things off her chest.
11- used a letter opener to remove kryptonite bullet from Superman’s shoulder
12- once again surprise Perry and Clark by agreeing to take some time off.

Perry White
1- announces the hiring of a new staff psychologist and admits he has never read her column
2- orders Lois to see Dr. Carlin professionally twice
3- he and Clark find subliminal anti-Superman rhetoric in Dr. Carlin’s recent columns
4- says he and Lois have been working together “about five years”
5- questions Jimmy’s choice of birthday presents for his mother but claims he doesn’t meddle in the lives of his employees (reporters)
6- ultimately decides Carlin is one brick shy of a full load

Jimmy Olsen
1- discovers Luthor was married aboard a ship in the Caribbean.
2- follows Superman news in all publications, including rival paper, the Star
3- expresses anger at Lois after seeing the double at the anti- Superman rally on TV- tells her it took a lot guts to do what she did
4- claims his mother is overweight and has allergies as an excuse to give her an autographed book by Dr. Carlin instead of candy and flowers for her birthday. Later returns the book.

Jonathan Kent
1- Tells Clark to give him more warning when coming up behind him
2- wonders why Clark decided to lie to Lois about his real feelings- crossed fingers or not

Martha Kent
1- Tells Clark to continue being patient and understanding with Lois
2- States that Lois seeing Dr. Carlin is the right step

Superman
1- Tells Perry Lois is right, there is a double posing as her
2- Finds Lois’ purse on sidewalk outside the DP Bldg.
3- Convinces Lois she must remove the kryptonite bullet after he is shot
4- Suggests the middle of the Bermuda Triangle might be a good spot away from him to put the kryptonite bullet
5- Can be snarky - tells Arianna Carlin the truck driver who disarms her obviously doesn’t read her column

PERIPHERAL CHARACTERS
1- Dr. Heller- a noted plastic surgeon working for Lex Labs, he is murdered by Arianna Carlin
2- Joe- careless construction worker who knocks co-worker off top of building with a beam
3- Grateful construction worker who fell from building
4- Homeless Man in alley- who identifies Dr. Heller’s killers as “two chicks” though one is named “Harry” and identifies Lois as one of them.
5- Detective Ryder- he arrests Lois for aggravated assault, B&E, and grand theft after the double attacks a guard at Lex Tower and steals the half million dollar engagement ring Lex gave Lois
6- Female NEWS reporter who interviews anti-Superman protestors
7- Male and female anti-Superman demonstrators
8- DP Newsstand operator- who is anti-Superman and DP Security guard- he is pro-Superman
9- Temp Secretary- she’s packing up at the late Dr. Heller’s office
10- various newsroom employees: a man and a woman disagreeing over Lex Luthor’s reputation and death and whether Superman should have saved him; The two later stop at Lois’s desk and tell her about the new computer system; many who are angry at her after the double’s TV appearance at anti-Superman rally
11- Radio DJ and Harold, a caller on DJ’s radio show who is anti-Superman. The DJ seems tired of hearing the Luthor angle of the controversy.
12- Truck driver- whose rig is hijacked by Carlin and double; he disarms them and gives gun to Superman

NAME THAT TUNE (theme song)
1- Series theme is the only recognizable tune used- during Superman’s battle to stop the run away truck while he is in a weakened state

MISCELLANEOUS
-The art gallery a few doors down from the MPD either displays some of it’s paintings outside in good weather, or it was having an art fair during this episode as L&C walk by many easels holding paintings.
-Metropolis has very narrow sidewalks in some places.
- Interesting how Lois will not listen to Perry’s suggestions until after Clark says it’s okay or a good idea.
- Interesting how the Kents question Clark’s decision to ultimately lie to Lois about his feelings- as if they hadn’t pushed him into admitting them and getting shot down before.
-After Lois barges past the temp secretary at the Heller office and locks her in a room with an outside lock, Lois and Clark get the information they need from Dr. Heller’s files. They leave - with the temp still locked up in the other room.
-After berating the double for using her left hand too much, Arianna shoots Superman and proceeds to put the gun into the unconscious real Lois’ LEFT hand. Granted, her right arm is beneath her, but still...
-Some of Lex’s will 'bequeathments': $50,000 to Metropolis Arts Council, $25,000 to Metropolis Children’s Summer Camp (to be used as director sees fit,) an unclear amount to the Metropolis Summer Music Fair, the ACL Corporation will manage an annuity to his ex-wife, a scholarship is to be established in his name for students who represent his high ideals; his artwork and jewelry will be auctioned off and the proceeds go to ACL Corporation; has also set aside funds for the creation of a state of the art theater where a three hour film documenting his extraordinary life and rise to the top will be shown (daily or continually) at no cost to the public.
-Luthor and Carlin were married on October 8, 1984, and the wedding announcement was run in the DP ten years ago according to Jimmy (in 1994,) and Arianna says she hasn’t been Mrs. Luthor for ten years- the marriage lasted a very short time. They were already divorced or in the process less than two months after the ceremony.
-Was forming the ACL Corporation the reason for the brief marriage? It could have been set up in her name while he maintained control over it.
Note: ACL might have been Luthor’s only corporation that was completely clean of his criminal activities as his will names it to carry out his wishes. Arianna presumably would keep his other secrets after inheriting the bulk of his empire.
-According to Dr. Heller, skin will burn when bandages are removed after cosmetic surgery and that is perfectly normal.
-According to Heller’s files the “full facial” reconstructive surgery on the double was done only a week before his death- suggesting the swelling and bruising cleared up in a week. He was a very brilliant surgeon!
-Subliminal acrostics in Dr. Carlin’s columns included: Superman Is Evil, Man of Steel Wicked, Superman Must Die and, created but not published, Lane Murder of Superman Good.
-After the bullet is removed from his shoulder, Superman’s wound heals immediately and though weakened, he is able to fly and discern that Carlin and the double are escaping in a truck.
-Lane and Kent are writing a series of articles called “The Breakup of LexCorp.”
-When Clark teases Lois that a young rookie cop wanted her phone number, she assures him she is interested in “only one man in blue.”
-Lois apparently spends her week off from work on a cruise to get rid of the kryptonite bullet as Superman suggested.
-20% of people polled in Metropolis are against Superman’s presence in Metropolis- but can’t explain why
-Considering the trash blowing in the street of some areas of the city, it’s no wonder the city is spraying for fruit flies again. Apparently, it was so well written that the DP Powers That Be decide to rerun Lois’ original article on the subject- either that or the newsstand sells back issues of popular editions
-When Lois goes to sign for her purse at the MPD, it is lying on a desk instead of locked away securely in the property room.

LIFE GOES ON (Other News Headlines)
- $3 Million In Aid Pledged For S.A. Earthquake Victims
- A Titanic -size nightmare: 45 Soviet ships trapped
- Traffic Safety Plan outlined by City Roads Authority
- Hospital Building Fund Nears Goal With State Support
- Fruit Fly Spraying

I used the spelling of names from the online scripts. The closed captioning on the DVD often had different spelling.
I may have included too much detail but a lot of interesting stuff goes by in the background!
Add or subtract, edit as necessary. This was more fun than I ever would have thought.
('Wall of Sound' next coming from Bev.)

P.S.: I will do Strange Visitor next if there are no objections,

i'm about half way through Neverending Battle, it's kinda cool to watch and see little things that i missed before.

In Madame Ex it is important to keep in mind that the phone book that Clark has an issue with people taking pages fron from and that Lois does take pages from is a public phone book connected with a phone in a public phone booth. Clark may rip pages out of his own phone book all the time, but that is a different issue.

Doubtful. If he considers it inconsiderate he would hardly do it himself.

i could've sworn he ripped a page out of the phone book on his desk at work in "And The Answer Is" hmm.

Well, I will write in my own books but not in library books, so different books get different results. On the other hand, as we saw most clearly in "Smart Kids" Lois is rubbing off on Clark, so maybe he has adopted her habit of ripping up phone books.

On the other hand, he can memorize lots of things, so does it even make sense for him to rip out pages of the phone book?

On re-watching the scene Clark himself modifies the phone book complaint specifically with "public". So he himself limits the complaint to misusing public phone books.

Actually in "And the answer is ..." it is Lois who rips the page out of Clark's office phone book. How she knows which jewelry store Clark is headed to from that is hard to say.

Las Vegas? Just so long as the Concordance pages you write in Vegas don't stay in Vegas, Tom Remember, you have until September 2013 to get them done, so don't worry.



Yes, Ginny, feel free to do Neverending Battle. Thanks for volunteering!

Kate, great job with Madame Ex I look forward to your work on Strange Visitor. And thanks, Bev for doing Wall of Sound!

I'll start working on the Madame Ex page for upload ASAP. I have uploaded Vicki's Green Green Glow of Home contribution. I added a picture and at the bottom of the page I added some behind the scenes trivia about the episode: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/concordance_gggoh.htm

As for the spelling of character names, sometimes looking up the actor's page at IMDB.com will give the spelling as it appeared in the official credits. I know that doesn't help for characters who are just mentioned, but in those cases just choose closed caption or a script spelling.

Sorry I'm so far behind, but I hope to have Madame Ex up this weekend.

Thanks again everyone!

Zoom

Oh yay, trivia!

Looks great, Zoom! Thanks for doing that for me.

I have been wondering, Are people able to do this with one viewing or multiple ones?

I did mine after two screens within a couple of days of each other (I happen to be watching the series with my husband and on the Hub).

It took multiple viewings for me and careful listening to get the dialogue of Sheldon Bender as close as possible. Twice to take notes and as many times after that to watch the backgrounds. But that was just me. I wanted to get as much information as possible since this will one day be a reference for writers.

Kate

You're welcome, Vicki. Thank you for your hard work.



It seems to depend on each person's approach, Tom. If you pause at each part that requires a notation, I don't see why you shouldn't be able to do it in one viewing.

Kate, I have uploaded Madame Ex here: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/concordance_me.htm

At Georgia's suggestion, I have added the category of "What's in a Name?" and that is where you would explain the significance of the episode title, i.e., Green Green Glow of Home being based on the country song title Green, Green Grass of Home.

Lastly, I'm trying to write down all the titles that fans have chosen to do and hope I get them all straight Thanks again, everyone!

Zoom

I've got Wall of Sound, The Source and The Prankster ready to post in the next day or two. I went back over them and added a few more details to the list.(School starts next week and I'm getting my room ready but the lists will be posted as soon as possible.)

I'm looking forward to them, Bev I also fixed the font problem with the Madame Ex page and I'm finishing the list of episodes and which ones have been chosen and the ones that have been completed. I should have that up later today. And I've added entry information into the Concordance Lexicon as a cross-reference.

This is a lot of work, but I think it's a lot of fun

Keep up the great work, everyone!

Zoom

WALL OF SOUND

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)
1. City street in front of the police department which Lois and Clark pass on their way to work
2. Metropolis Formal Wear, where Clark rents a tux
3. Metropolis Mercantile Bank: where a robbery takes place with Lois inside
4. Daily Planet: news room, exterior street
5. City street 2: where there is a jewel robbery at J. Carr’s Jewelers, and Superman is assaulted by a sound created to destroy him
6. City street 3: where Jimmy takes pictures at “Antique Clocks” of police officers removing a sound device and spots the biker jacket he likes- on one of the people who robbed the bank
7. The Stoke Club: main room, back room, music room, basement, front door
8 .Alley: where Jimmy is caught taking pictures of the bank robbers
9. Lois' Apartment: where she admires her well hidden Kerth Awards, and where Superman visits her for a short time
10. Lois' Car- in which she and Clark drive to Echo Canyon and then return ro stake out the club and argue whether they have enough evidence on Stoke to call in the police
11. Abandoned Building: where Jimmy is bound and gagged and is saved by Superman just before it explodes
12. Outdoor Café, Daily Java: where Clark speaks with Derek Camden’s doctor
13. Press Awards Building- on the red carpet leaving after the festivities
14. Spies’R’Us, a retail shop mentioned by Jimmy

LOCATIONS OUTSIDE METROPOLIS
1. Echo Canyon/Ranger Station: where L&C find Derek Camden, famous for it’s remarkable acoustics; it’s a “state park, no houses, no camping”
2. Above the city/ in the clouds: where Superman patrols and breaks the sound barrier
2a. Superman’s flyover reveals Metropolis is a large city; it has a high clock tower that can be seen from most of the city, except where what is presumably Lex Tower and a few other skyscrapers block the view, giving the impression it is a landmark which can be seen by half the city; there seem to be small parks around the city nestled between the tall buildings, and roof top athletic areas for employees or tenants to use, there is one river shown in the distance

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN
1. Flight- patrols the city, breaks the sound barrier to negate the effects of Stoke’s weapon
2. Strength- breaks down a door, throws a car steering wheel so accurately it ricochets from one sound device to another, destroying three at once
3. Body density- demolishes the roof of a car when he drops from a one story height
4. Heat or laser vision- destroys sound devices placed on buildings

POWERS USED AS CLARK
1. Strength and speed: takes out Stoke’s men and rips out wiring, before changing into the suit
2. Sight: watches Stokes’ men tapping underground city power lines, sees under ink used to black out earlier writing
3. Super hearing: affected by loud noises or voices after the first sound attack at the jewel robbery

HINT, HINT! (for the galactically stupid)
After winning the award, Clark tells Lois the award itself is smaller than he thought it would be, later, as Superman, he looks at her awards and says the lighting makes them look (pause) bigger.

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES
1. hears the start of the Soundman’s next caper and rushes off, telling Lois the smart thing to do is to split up and investigate the story. He’ll look for Camden, while she investigates Stoke.
2. later apologizes saying he left for a personal thing

PERRY-ISMS
1. I’ve seen her like this before. The door is locked, the alarm is on, and you ain’t getting in- Perry White to Clark Kent, referring to Lois
2. Now I know exactly how the Colonel felt when Elvis brought home his first gold record- Perry White to Clark Kent after the Kerth ceremony

DEVICES
1. bugging device shaped like a pen with ear plug receiver and a range of 500 feet, can also be used to listen to AM/FM radio
2. a sound gun with settings for varying effects: putting people to sleep, blowing things up, destroying objects and hurting Superman through his superhearing
3. small devices capable of broadcasting sounds ranging from voice transmissions to destructive sound waves

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s Languages) (Lois’s Languages)
Spanish- Clark talks to a friend of Camden’s who doesn’t speak much English- Noemi Valdez, a friend from the mental hospital tells Clark that Camden liked to go to a place called Canyon del Sonido, Echo Canyon.
Lois immediately translates Canyon del Sonido to Echo Canyon, giving the distinct impression she also speaks Spanish.


HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT
1. is sure Lois will be nominated for another Kerth Award
2. thinks she’ll win it for the Bolivian drug cartel series
3. agrees to be Lois’ date to the Kerth Awards
4. stops to rent a tux on way to work while Lois goes to the bank
5. discovers Lois and other bank patrons on the floor, revives Lois, notices robbery
6. gets a copy of the bank robbery on tape and hopes to discover why the police have a tight lid on the case
7. he is shocked to be the Kerth nominee for the Daily Planet
8. tries to let Lois know he is as surprised as she is about his Kerth nomination
9. asks Lois to be his date to the Kerths and is a little surprised to be met with sarcasm
10. he lets a woman bouncer at the Stoke Club manhandle him when he’s caught snooping in a back room looking “for a bathroom”
11. goes to the Stoke Club jacketless but with a tie, his idea of undercover, and nearly doesn’t recognize Lois in her much better disguise
12. tells Lois she is the same reporter she has always been when she asks him if she has lost her edge: hard working, dedicated, (a little over the top sometimes, she could use a few more vacations and some semblance of a life,) but she is the best reporter in the city, always has been, always will be
13. jokingly rates Lois an A+ as a date after the Kerth ceremony

LOIS LANE
1. tries to be modest about her likelihood to be a Kerth Award nominee
2. admits she’s only been nominated every year since she has been eligible
3. the dinner is fun and she bought a new black dress that needs breaking in
4. remembers feeling very tired before passing out in bank
5. accuses police of being rude by having leads on the case they are unwilling to share with the press
6. she is “stunned, shocked and in need of oxygen” that Clark is nominated for a Kerth instead of her- for a retirement home scandal!
7. insists on getting right to work on the robbery story by doing “a who and a what. Who would have the ability to make the sounds and what would make them.”
8. She is of the opinion the Kerth committee either lost her story or their brains were taken over by aliens.
9. takes on three of Stoke Club’s female bouncers and wins- with words and martial arts ability
10. insists she never babbles when Clark points out that she is, and is puzzled to learn he thinks she babbles like “a brook.”
11. Apologizes to Clark twice for her behavior over his Kerth nomination- first, after going off about the Kerth Committee not nominating her; second, after he tells her she has not lost her edge as a reporter.
12. takes Clark back as a partner as quickly as she dismisses him
13, tells Clark “So?” when he teases her about memorizing maps
14. wonders if she should be using smaller words when she can’t get a reaction from the woman bouncers at the front door of the Stoke Club (says “Lenny told me he likes his women smaller than the average milk cow”)
15. surprises Perry with her genuine happiness for Clark winning the Kerth Award; later is able to joke with Clark about her rating as a date
16. at one point she sends Jimmy hurrying away from working at her desk, and answers a question he asks, without saying a word
17. Gives Superman a white rose and a kiss on the cheek after he admires her awards

PERRY WHITE
1. announces one of the Kerth Investigative Journalism Prize nominees is one of their own- Clark Kent
2. thinks he has a real good chance of winning and prompts Lois to congratulate him
tells Lois she has won three Kerths, she shouldn’t be petty because the Planet is a team and one person’s success is everybody’s
3. he’s a bit amused by the professional discord between Lois and Clark when they reach their “fork in the road” over the Soundman story, knowing they are both working hard to prove something to one another
4.dryly compliments Lois on her fake tattoo
5. At this point in time he and Alice have a happy marriage.

JIMMY OLSEN
1. plants a bug hidden in an unusable pen on Lois’ desk and mentions Spies’R’Us as the place he bought it
2. likes a biker jacket seen on the bank tape of the robbery
3. gets drowsy along with Lois while watching the robbery tape
4. hopes his pictures for Clark’s Kerth nominated story might have been... recognized...too...?
5. doesn’t know who Secretariat was
6. tries his hand at writing about his experience after being caught by the bank robbers and nearly killed- unfortunately he chose to try to write it at Lois’ desk

LENNY STOKE/SOUNDMAN
1. after bank robbery warns people of Metropolis not to get too attached to material things, because they won’t have them for long, though they will catch up on their rest
2. announces a ‘sound tax’ consisting of 50% of the money in all Metropolis’ banks being bagged and left outside the buildings by 9 am the following day- the mayor refuses to give in
3. as a performer he put out two albums to good reviews but poor sales, sonic R&D,
4. experienced financial bad luck, patents stolen, accountants ripped him off
5. likes “trashy brunettes,” according to Lois Lane and she thinks he is the most likely person to have developed the sound technology used in the bank robbery
6. gives Lois/Linda his guitar pick after his performance at the Stoke Club
7. guesses there is something between Superman and Lois after Superman cannot get through the barrier Stoke calls the Wall of Sound and he and she exchange looks
8. claims he has a problem, a “Rain Man thing,” about flying, just before he is whisked away in custody by Superman.
9. tells uncooperative Mayor Sharp his call to her is untraceable and repeats his demand for money, when she refuses, he puts into motion his plan to destroy city hall
10. tells Lois she has a happy, little greeting card voice, and she should keep it to herself

DEREK CAMDEN
1. one of four people capable of developing the sound technology used to rob the bank
2. cracked up testing a thought altering sound on himself
3. released six weeks ago from state mental ward
4.Clark Kent feels he is the most likely candidate to have developed the sound devises used in the bank robbery
5. current whereabouts unknown but he and Stoke once worked together. wants to know if L&C are his “appointment in Samarra” or death come to visit him, when they find him at the ranger station
7. talks disjointedly of the sounds Lenny is using as coming from his, Camden’s, heart and soul, and that Stoke stole his dreams and now wants to “end my body and keep my dreams.” As for the sound that hurts Superman, it needs a lot of power to be generated, and Lenny has found it, thus making him the power to be reckoned with- divulged in an abstract way
8. Calls Stoke a thief, killer and destroyer

DR. GREEN, unnamed on screen
1. Though hospital files are normally confidential, under the circumstances, he reveals that Derek Camden was released into the care of a friend, Lenny Stoke. The doctor spoke to Camden not long after and discovered he and Stoke had a new business venture in the works.
2. Camden’s last address known to the doctor was the Stoke Club.


NAME THAT TUNE (theme song)
Lenny Stoke and band sing “Wall of Sound” at the Stoke Club. It is his first appearance in over two years.


LIFE GOES ON (Other News Headlines)

NOT SO SUPERMAN

MISCELLANEOUS
1. according to Lois and Clark, the Kerth award dinner is just for nominees and their dates/companions, and also their chief editors because Perry and wife attend.
2. the florist shop Clark passes on the way to the bank is obviously a chain with many locations around the city as its logo “Florist, sometimes words are not enough” appears all over town in many episodes
3. Jimmy mentions the first sound to put people to sleep was used at the robbery, but Lois comments she thinks Yanni did it first
4. Lois had been nominated every year for a Kerth since she’s been eligible. Clark gets nominated his first year at the Planet. Was Lois not always an investigative reporter? If not an investigative piece, what kind of story did Claude steal from her?
5. Lois’s password for the “Daily Planet Computer Database' is Lane0779
6. A day passes between the bank robbery and the time Clark scores a copy of the bank robbery tape.
7. When Clark asks her to the Kerth Awards as his date, Lois reacts as if it so far beneath her she’s insulted, even though he agreed to be her date originally.
8. By the way, Lois did not buy that black dress for the Kerth Awards ceremony. It was a coincidence she bought it around the time of the awards. She doesn’t even like the stupid thing and is going to take it back.
9. After Perry’s Kerth announcement, most of the staffers go back to work, but several stick around and witness his rebuke to Lois and her subsequent inability to congratulate Clark.
10. The Stoke Club bartender tells Clark Camden has been living in the back room for a while
11. Lois infiltrates the Stoke Club crowd as Linda, a trashy brunette airhead, and literally bulldozes her way into position to get Lenny’s attention, plants the pen bug on him but gets no further. Dispirited, she returns to the newsroom.
12. Amusing bit where two winos sit in a wooded area and one explains to the other how breaking the sound barrier causes sonic booms - we discover he once worked for NASA, which would indicate NASA and EPRAD exist together in this Superman universe
13. Lois’s three Kerth Awards were: 1991- Gulf War on the Front Lines, 1992- Inside Bush Campaign Headquarters, 1993- Sexual Harassment in the Military
14. some of the books used to hide her awards are Millennium, Woman of Tomorrow, Elizabeth the Great and Plant Propagation
15. The sound that hurts Superman is an ultra high frequency of 500 million megaherts capable of melting his “metallically dense nervous system.”
16. The Daily Java, a gourmet cafeteria, is a business on the ground floor of the Daily Planet Building. Farther along the street is Oak Leaf Realty, a shoeshine stand, a bakery and Sports Exchange, possibly a sports memorabilia shop at the end of the block. Across the street is a bank, a florist and a movie theater showing “A Star is Born”- which version unknown.

OBSERVATIONS in Real Life
Nice “in” joke when Jimmy announces he’s going for a new look with biker jackets- as if his appearance hasn’t been completely changed by the real life casting department
One of the police officers blown through the air at the jewel robbery looked a lot like Jake Weber, in a teeny, tiny role, later a star of “Medium”

I added Perry-isms as a category here because I think the writers of the series gave him some memorable ways of getting his points across to his staff.

OBSERVATIONS in Real Life
Nice “in” joke when Jimmy announces he’s going for a new look with biker jackets- as if his appearance hasn’t been completely changed by the real life casting department
One of the police officers blown through the air at the jewel robbery looked a lot like Jake Weber, in a teeny, tiny role, later a star of “Medium”


I was going to put this under Misc. but thought it was too real life.
Anyway, edit where needed.

Oh, I love it, Bev! Yes, feel free to add anything you like to the Concordance pages. That's what this is all about, fans doing the project for the show they love. I'll get to work uploading it to the Concordance website.

Thanks so much

Zoom

Hey, zoom,

Where are you putting the link to the concordance pages, and when do you plan to have it up? I see a few links to the individual pages in this thread, but what I hope you're putting up is a page where all the existing concordances have their individual links.

THE SOURCE

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1. Amusement park on the beach: where Clark, Martha, and Jonathan, with Lois along, are attending a 2.Daily Planet sponsored outing, where a Ferris wheel ride goes out of control
3. Daily Planet: newsroom, lobby, Perry's office
4. Clark’s Apartment: where his visiting parents are staying, and where Stuart Hofferman briefly stays over Clark’s objections after the Kents agree to help him hide
5. Street outside Clark’s apartment building where there is a corner newsstand- indicating that side of Clinton Street is zoned for business on the ground floors
6. Lois’ Apartment: where she is visited by Superman after a day of wallowing
7. Viologic Electronics: Stuart's office, Thorp's office, conference room, lobby, corridor, staircase landing
8. Oliver’s Apartment: where Lois and Clark find Hofferman after he fakes his own death
9. Taxi- where Lois, Clark and Hofferman talk as they head for the main subway station
10. Metropolis Subway: Subway Car, Platform, where the Kents and the governor are on the subway, where Lois stops Thorpe from escaping, and where Jimmy takes a front page picture of Thorpe being subdued by Lane and Hofferman
11. Logar Electronics- mentioned by Eric Thorpe, the company he planned to accuse of sabotaging Viologic’s work
12. the distribution department of Viologic, mentioned by Hofferman, which will have the shipping manifests - the central office is upstairs from his office.

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

1. Strength, invulnerability: stops a Ferris wheel ride that is out of control, stops a runaway subway train, is not harmed by friction in either situation, lifts two large steel drums containing Lois and Hofferman and water from the ocean
2. Speed: cleans Lois’s apartment with super speed
3. Hearing: rescues Lois and Hofferman after they were put inside steel drums and thrown into the ocean and Lois screams for help
4. Breath: holds his breath with ease as he pulls the drums out of the water


POWERS USED AS CLARK

1. Breath: gives Lois a “push” on a carnival ride slide so she can beat an obnoxious little girl to the bottom
2. X ray Vision: looks through a wall to observe Thorpe and Wick as they talk, sees a broken wire inside a copier
3. Heat vision: welds the broken wire back together
4. Hearing: listens in on a conversation in another room, hears Martha call to him and Lois from the top of the large slide but Lois doesn’t
5. Speed: eats a sandwich at super speed to please his mother (who isn’t pleased at all)
6. Distance vision: from a window in his loft apartment he reads the Daily Planet front page on the corner of a sidewalk across the street

HINT, HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

Jonathan, feeling sad and missing a recently deceased friend, comes close to calling Superman “Clark” on the subway with a crowd of people around but no one notices:
Superman: Do you need help?
Jonathan: He’s going to be okay, Clar- Superman.

CLARK’S (and MARTHA’S) LAME/NOT SO LAME EXCUSES

1. At the amusement park Lois asks where Clark has gone after Superman shows up and Martha uncomfortably says she thinks he went to phone in the Ferris wheel story.
2. In Hofferman’s office, Lois interrupts Clark’s use of powers to eavesdrop and he tells her he was ‘lost in thought" after she finds him staring intently at a blank wall.
3. When Clark tells Lois and Stuart what he knows about Thorpe and Hansen, which he learned while eavesdropping with super powers, Lois asks how he knows all this, he says, "You’re not the only one with sources."

LOIS’ S LAME/NOT SO LAME EXCUSES

1. When Clark confronts her about the Viologic story she’s written without him, she won’t give him a straight answer why: she didn’t want to bother him while his parents were visiting; she promised to protect her source’s anonymity…
2. Her apartment is a mess after a day of feeling sorry for herself as her sources refuse to talk to her, and she passes it off to Superman as spring cleaning.

PERRY-ISMS

What’s everyone standing around for? Huh? Nothing you can sell here for a quarter. Let’s get back to work. - Perry White to newsroom personnel after welcoming Lois back to the staff

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

When Lois tells Superman after his pep talk that Clark had earlier told her the same things, he says he isn’t surprised. “Clark is a pretty smart guy.”

DEVICES

1. Defective switches for computer controlled machinery
2. Broken copier at Viologic repaired with a kick - and a little use of superpowers
3. Thermo Master Connector- a device Lois makes up as the reason the copier at Viologic doesn’t work- (it’s the connector that connects… the thermo to… the master.) She has to send for one and return the next day to complete the repair.
4. Eye/Iris scanning locks on Viologic’s doors

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s Languages)

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN
1. Ferris wheel ride goes out of control just as Clark reaches the bottom of the slide.
2. he and his parents exchange a look and he ducks away to return as Superman
3. as Superman, he stops the ride to an outburst of cheers and applause from the onlookers
admits to Lois he is running out of ideas how to distract his father after she notices he isn’t himself.
4. While looking for mustard with Martha, he notices activity at the newsstand on the corner across from his apartment
5. returns to the newsroom after seeing a special edition of the DP has an exclusive by Lois Lane
6. doesn’t know who Eric Thorpe is
7. returns to the newsroom after the press conference and later, looking for Lois, he asks Perry if he’s seen her.
8. convinces Lois to help him look for the phony deliveryman involved in the Hofferman death.
9. escorts Lois out of the DP building, trying to encourage her and keep her spirits up.
10. as Superman goes to her apartment and gives Lois a pep talk- telling her much the same things he did as Clark. (He still believes in her and she should too. Lois thanks him and says that Clark told her much the same things.)
11. tells Oliver Lois is not a morning person.
12. rushes out of the cab and tells the Lois and Stuart to get to the subway station- he will call the main dispatch and tell them about the switches in case they can be shorted circuited. He runs into an alley, jumping over a police barrier and…
13. … Superman flies after the train in the tunnels and stops it just in time. He asks Jonathan if the man who collapsed is alright, and Jonathan almost calls him Clark when he answers. The man has just fainted.
14. He still calls Martha "Mama" on occasion

LOIS LANE
1. is goaded into a bet by a young girl and accepts
2. her favorite flavor of cotton candy is pink.
3. describes State Senator Hanson as someone who knows a lot about manure
4. suggests Clark give his parents tickets to the inaugural ride of the city’s new subway system and offers to get them tickets to the inaugural run of the new subway system later in the week.
5 .thinking Clark reported the Ferris wheel story behind her back, she decides not to share the Viologic story with him
6. agrees with Perry when he offers Clark the rest of the day off to spend with his parents, telling him it’s a slow news day.
7. assures Perry her source is rock solid and would stake her reputation on it
8 sneaks into Viologic as Miss Jefferson, a repair tech
9. slips away from the press conference without telling Clark, after getting a note from Hofferman
10 calls for Superman after being thrown into the ocean in a 55 gallon drum
11. tells Superman she will take care of Hofferman without the police and takes him to Clark’s apartment
12. tells Perry the Planet is her life before she leaves his office
13. gets an ovation from the staff as Perry welcomes her back and emotionally returns her press ID. They hug briefly before he orders everyone back to work.

PERRY WHITE
1. invites the Kents to see his office, saying he wasn’t always a desk jockey.
2. tells them his “infamous’ Cuban snake story, but, presumable Clark stops him before he can tell them where it bit him
3. explains to Clark who Thorpe is - the multimillionaire who recently acquired Viologic, was a millionaire by the time he was Jimmy’s age.
4. When Viologic calls a press conference he sends Lane and Kent to cover it.
5. is stumped by a crossword clue: ‘looks like a pomegranate’ (Note: grenade?)
6. warns Lois she‘ll have to bring in her source as the shield law is not a good defense, might not stand up in court. She refuses.
7. calls Lois to his office and reluctantly tells her the Planet is forcing him to suspend her from her job. Being linked to the murder is too much for the legal department- Viologic can outlast them in court with their money. The paper needs to distance itself from her.
8. promises to get her reinstated as soon as possible, and whispers to himself that ‘sometimes I hate this job.’

JIMMY OLSEN
1. stops a stranger in the newsroom who is looking for Lois and tells him to wait at her desk
2. admits he is jealous of Eric Thorpe, boy genius
3. says he had mumps in the sixth grade (it slowed him down, prevented him from being a boy genius, too)
4. he goes to the Viologic press conference with Lois and Clark
5. announces forensics report from the police confirms the blood stains on the sheets in Clark’s bed match Hofferman’s and there was also residue from a small caliber weapon found.
6. hopes evidence of wrongdoing leads straight to Thorpe

MARTHA KENT
1. buys popcorn in an effort to cheer up Jonathan
2. Is nonplussed to have to lie to Lois when Clark disappears to become Superman
3. has no problem telling State Senator Hanson he should start his quality education with geography because Smallville is in another state, but he has moved on and doesn’t hear.
4. she tells Jonathan she just hates it when Clark inhales his food.
5. is a great multi-tasker, repairing Clark’s faucet as she makes sandwiches, too
6. tells Clark they now have another reason to visit Metropolis thanks to Jonathan’s new friend, Al

JONATHAN KENT:
1. his best friend, Henry, died unexpectedly the week before coming to Metropolis and he has been upset since.
2. plays a distracted game of checkers with Clark
3. reveals he and his late friend were supposed to have gone fishing this week, but here he is getting beaten at Checkers by Clark instead
4. is feeling better by the time the Kents’ visit is over. The man who fainted on the subway is a Kansas native and he and Jonathan hit it off and became friends.
5. hugs Clark before leaving for home and tells him to ‘drop by soon’ and they both laugh at their private joke

ERIC THORPE
1. is one of two men in business suits who watch the Ferris wheel near-accident from a darkened limousine
2. declares Superman won’t be a problem at the next accident "because he won’t be able to hear the screams."
3. recently acquired and took over running Viologic Electronics
4. plays guitar and knows that over 50 songs can be played knowing just three chords- G, C, D
5. knows Hofferman has leaked the story to the DP and he threatens him violently, frightening him into agreeing with anything Thorpe tells him is true.
6. sends Wick to kill Stuart after it is apparent he is still alive and not drowned
7. decides to sue Lois, and the Daily Planet, instead of trying to kill her again
8. kills Wick to make a point with Hansen and keep him in line

STUART HOFFERMAN
1. goes to Daily Planet, unaware he is being followed
2. tells Lois about the defective switches made and sold by the company he works for, Viologic Electronics
3. He asks for protection as a source and Lois assures him the DP always protects their sources.
4. as head of research at Viologic, he knew before they were shipped that the switches were defective.
5. reported it to the CEO, Mr. Thorpe, but his report was ignored.
6. the defective switches were what caused the Ferris wheel ‘accident’
7. supports ‘Save the Earth” efforts as demonstrated by his use of a single tissue until it falls apart
8. returns to work and is met in his office by the two men who were in the limo at the Ferris wheel accident, Eric Thorpe and his muscle man, Wick
9. is forced to deny Lois’s story but drops Lois a message on a tissue he uses to clean his glasses: “Meet at the pier 1 hour.”
10. after rescue from water by Superman, he refuses to go when Superman suggests Lois take Stuart to the police and let them put him in protective custody
11. asks for a cheese omelet, Gouda, if Martha has it, thus suggesting he will be a problem guest
12. uses a safety razor with floating heads and a toothbrush with a pick on the end.
13. Fakes his own death with the help of Oliver Bartlett
14. agrees to help Lane and Kent after Clark tells him if he and Lois could find him, others (Thorpe) can too.

OLIVER
1. Hofferman’s best friend and co-worker catches Lane and Kent in Hofferman’s office and orders them to leave
2. Lane and Kent make a newspaper with a fake headline "Oliver Bartlett Jailed for Harboring Fugitive" and drop it outside his apartment door.
3. literally gets his ear twisted until he confesses that Stuart is in his apartment and he lets Lane and Kent inside.

WICK
1. carries soccer ball stress relievers
2. follows Hofferman to the Daily Planet
3. witnessed the Ferris wheel near accident
4. admits he withheld Hofferman’s report from Thorpe because he thought it wasn’t important, a big mistake on his part
5. sees Lois Lane leaving Viologic the day after she was supposed to have been killed by two of Thorpe’s thugs

DANIEL HANSEN
1. State Senator running for governor
2. visits the Daily Planet to try to get an endorsement
3. promises the Kents that Smallville, “a nice town,” will get good jobs and quality education- unaware it is in Kansas
4. doubts his chances of ever being governor and discovers his benefactor, Thorpe, is a killer

SHELDON BENDER
1. counsel for Viologic, Clark calls him the "champion of the corrupt."
2. serves Lois the papers from Viologic’s lawsuit against her and the Daily Planet

OTHER CHARACTERS

Governor Winston
1. tries to keep people calm aboard the runaway subway train, as his aide notices the train isn’t stopping anywhere and is picking up speed.

Older Man on subway
1. ignores the governor and panics, he becomes short of breath and collapses
2. turns out to be from Kansas and becomes friends with Jonathan and Martha and we discover his name is Al

Young Girl (identified as Vanessa in an online script)
1. is the daughter of DP employee in payroll department (“My mother signs your checks”)
2. rudely cuts in line on slide and challenges Lois to a race to the bottom- the loser to buy the winner cotton candy
3. takes Lois’s burlap bag for the slide

Roy
1. agricultural reporter at the DP, mentioned to his parents by Clark
2. Lois reveals he is in Idaho covering a spud festival

Woman Reporter
1. Perry sends her to catch Clark so they can get over to city hall to cover the mayor’s press conference

Esther and Owen
1. apparently another reporting team at the Daily Planet
2. Perry orders them to do a background piece on Eric Thorpe.

Police Officer Sullivan
1. stops the taxi in which Clark, Lois and Stuart are in and tells them no one can get near the subway terminal because the train is out of control and is expected to crash at Centennial Park Station

2 Men (Thorpe’s Thugs)
1. follow Hofferman to the pier when he goes to meet Lois
2. at gunpoint, put Lois and Hofferman into metal drums and toss them into the ocean

Secretary at Viologic
1. who called copier repair just minutes before “Miss Jefferson” and her assistant appear, and who insists Miss Jefferson explain to her boss the ‘thermo master connector’ and how it works

Security Guard (at Viologic)
1. knows nothing about a repair tech being needed when ‘Miss Jefferson’ shows up; lets her through when Clark, as a trainee bringing her briefcase of tools and equipment, joins her

Guard (at Daily Planet)
1. confiscates Lois’ press pass

Joey
1. mentioned by Lois as the last source she has left to call, will no longer talk to her and hangs up.

NAME THAT TUNE (theme song)

LIFE GOES ON (Other News Headlines)
“Traffic Safety Plan Outlined By City Roads Authority”
“Community Services- Telephone Company to Lecture on Safety”
“Property Owners Fight High Rise Building Zone”

NOT SO SUPERMAN

MISCELLANEOUS
1."Welcome Daily Planet and their families" reads the sign at the amusement park, seemingly missing the word ‘employees’
2. There is a busy newsstand on the corner across the street from Clark’s apartment building. This might mean that one side of Clinton Street is zoned for business and the other side residential.
3. After getting into Viologic with Stuart, L&C gain access to a room where there is a second alarm system which will alert security to their presence if they don’t enter a code within 90 seconds. Stuart doesn’t know the code, but they are still able to search the files and find evidence and discuss it before the 90 seconds is up.
4. At the pier Stuart accuses Lois of leaking his identity, she denies it and as they argue, two men with guns interrupt and take them captive, putting them into large 55 gallon barrels and tossing them into the ocean.
5. At Viologic, while posing as a copier repair team, Clark uses his vision to find a broken wire which he fuses together with his heat vision and tells Lois he thinks all the machine needs is a good kick.
6. Lois can’t believe he could suggest such a thing and tells the incredulous secretary he’s joking. Clark insists she kick it, so she taps it with one foot, nothing happens and she wonders if she isn’t kicking the wrong thing. He turns it on and it works!
7. Clark’s super hearing picks up Lois’ name and he listens and looks through the wall into Thorpe’s office. He sees Thorpe and Senator Hanson talking about their future plans. Thorpe will see to it Hanson is elected governor- and four years later, president. The objective is lucrative defense contracts awarded to Viologic. Gives Hanson $100,000 for TV ads, refuses Hanson’s wish for $200,000
8. Bender goes to the DP and tells Perry and Lois that Viologic has just filed a 20 million dollar lawsuit against the Planet for libel and serves Lois with the papers on the spot. She mentions the First Amendment, Bender says she is lucky they aren’t suing for trespass too. She threatens them with a large bill for fixing their copier, then tells Perry they should countersue for harassment.
9. Lois and Clark go to his apartment and find the Kents unconscious, as well as evidence that Stuart has been killed. The next day the Metropolis Star runs a banner headline "Planet Informer Murdered, Reporter Linked"
10. Clark tries to tell Lois he has discovered the guy who was delivering the deli food to his apartment was stopped downstairs and someone else drugged the food and delivered it to his apartment, but she is in tears. “Because of my compulsive obsession to always outdo everybody, Stuart Hofferman is dead!" she declares.
11. Clark escorts Lois out of the DP building, trying to encourage her and keep her spirits up. On the sidewalk a woman reporter calls to Clark, telling him Perry wants them at City Hall immediately to cover the mayor’s press conference to name a new police chief.
Clark has to run but tells Lois he will call her later.
Alone, she says she’ll miss him…partner.
12. At 5 am Lois shows up at Clark’s apartment- she has thought it over and deduced that Stuart is not dead. The only source she has who is willing to talk to her has revealed that the tests done on Stuart’s blood indicate there are no drugs in the sample. She finds no toothbrush in Clark’s bathroom and even Clark and his parents realize that she’s right. Hofferman is still alive. Lois has a fax of Oliver’s current driver’s license and Jonathan recognizes him as the fake delivery man who brought their food to the door.
13. Stuart takes Lane and Kent to sneak into Viologic. His key card and ID number work and his retinal scan still works, too. Inside the distribution department they discover there is an independent alarm system which will alert security in 90 seconds if the proper code isn’t applied to stop it. Here follows an ‘Oh-Oh’ moment, and they somehow manage to find what they are looking for before the time is up and they discover some of the defective switches have been sold to two buyers- the amusement park and the transit authority for the new automated subway.
14. In a limo with Thorpe and Wick, Hanson has doubts he will ever be governor and Thorpe tells him he never backs losers and after today he will be the only candidate in the race. He then shows Hanson that he has killed Wick for his mistakes.
15. Thorpe, inside the terminal, angrily rushes away after Superman prevents the train from crashing, but Lois sees him and she stops him with a few tae kwon do moves and she and Stuart stand over him as Jimmy takes pictures. "Financier Tied to Attempt on Governor’s Life" is the headline the next day in the Daily Planet.
16. Lois and Clark joke about a Pulitzer in their future and whose name will be first – hers, of course. Then, she can’t resist teasing him when a call from her exterminator comes – ‘The trap is set? Hundreds will die? Poison gas? Does anyone else know about this?’
Clark, sternly, ‘Lois?”
Lois: Clark, relax. It’s just my exterminator.’

OBSERVATIONS (in real life)

In this episode, as in ‘Wall of Sound,’ it is fun to see how quickly Lois will dismiss Clark as a partner and, just as quickly, take him back.
For his part, Clark will not back down from her anger or attitude unless advised to do so by a third party.

Hopefully I'll get "The Prankster" ready in the next day or two.
I added another category, Shameless Self Promotion, because I seem to remember on more than one occasion Superman praises Clark, and vice versa, to Lois, and to others, I think.

Hmm, interesting trivia. Esther and Owen are Teri's parents' names.

And BJ Jefferson played the secretary at the copier, so it's funny that they named Lois "Miss Jefferson" in that scene. Apparently they didn't have to think too hard to come up with character names for this ep

No wonder Dean Cain has so much fun saying Miss Jefferson with a slight pause each time he addresses the character.

THE PRANKSTER

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1. Metropolis Museum of Art; where Lois, Clark, Perry and Jimmy are attending a 20th Century Art Retrospective; where Lois receives the first in a series of gifts from a secret admirer; and where a valuable diamond is stolen
2. Daily Planet, newsroom
3. Loomis mansion, front entry
4. Jewelry and Gems, a jewelry store, where Lane and Kent take a diamond ring for appraisal
5. Prankster’s hideout, where a powerful weapon is assembled and tested, and where Lois is taken after being kidnapped
6. Downtown Street, where the Prankster stages a multi car accident
7. Lois’s Jeep, in which she and Clark encounter the accident scene
8. the Riverfront Industrial Area, where the Prankster stages a bomb scare as a diversion, and makes a robbery, and where several high tech businesses are located, including:
9. ChemTrex, the business where the bomb is planted, and…
10. … Whitmore Laboratories, where the Prankster make calls to the TV stations about the bomb, and where he steals 4 lbs. of titanium alloy and cesium
11. Rundown hotel room, where a source meets Lane and Kent with information on who the Secret Admirer is
12. Lois’ apartment, where a phone call from the Prankster further ruffles her already frayed nerves
13. Clark’s apartment, where Lois goes after the phone call and where she spends the night after Clark insists
14. Toy store, which belongs to the Prankster’s (Kyle Griffin’s) father
15. The Lunar Industrial Park, a place mentioned by Griffin, Sr. where red clay can be found
16. Toxic Depository, a place mentioned by Clark where plutonium is found
17. Heavy Metals Processing Plant out on Highway 9, mentioned by Griffin, Sr.
18. Stanton Electronics- a business in Metropolis

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN
1. Strength- stops an out of control SUV from hitting Lois
2. Vision- dries a liquid substance on a street
3. Invulnerability- stops the ‘gas plasma beam’ from decimating the Daily Planet building

POWERS USED AS CLARK
1. Strength- stops Lois’ out of control Jeep, breaks a ring to remove it from Lois’ finger
2. Vision- uses heat vision to stop music box noise, spots a speck of red clay on a floor from several feet away, scans a ring box quickly, later sees that Lois’ ring is covered with a chemical causing an itch
3. Invulnerability- doesn’t get hurt stopping the Jeep by dragging his foot
4. Breath- keeps a basketball airborne while playing with it

HINT, HINT! (for the galactically stupid)
Lois’ jeep goes into a skid and as her attention is focused on steering to avoid crashing, Clark opens the passenger side door and drags his foot to slow the jeep and bring it safely to a stop. Lois doesn’t see this, only sees his closing of the door after she stops the jeep. She accuses him of watching the Flintstones too much if he thought he could use his foot to stop the car.

CLARK’S LAME/NOT SO LAME EXCUSES
1. Lois can’t get a ring off her finger, so Clark reaches for it and breaks it to remove it. He guesses it must be a cheap setting.
2. At the processing plant Clark and Jimmy find the employees beginning to overcome the laughing gas and can now tell them what happened. Plutonium is missing. As Jimmy takes pictures, Clark finds a clue using his vision. It is a speck of red clay. Jimmy is impressed. Clark tells him his glasses are a strong prescription.

PERRY-ISMS
Hey, wait a minute. You know, if you tilt your head to the right and squint your eyes a little bit, you can just about make out Elvis' profile…Between these two hubcaps here and that upside down speedometer. – Perry White to Lois, Clark and Jimmy in front of a display of modern art called “Mother, Daughter”

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

DEVICES
1. a music box out of which pops the likeness of a famous opera tenor. The head begins to sing but soon starts to emit a high pitched sound that shatters glass and causes everyone to cover their ears- except for a waiter serving drinks and the delivery man.
2. a bomb has been placed at one of the city’s scientific laboratories in the riverfront industrial area.
3. unknown device: an informant gets a phone call and is electrocuted. As he’s talking a static noise bursts over the phone and he falls down dead.
4. a gas plasma beam weapon that will vaporize whatever it hits
5. various odd toys at Mr. Griffin Sr.’s toy store

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s Languages)

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN
1. uses his heat vision to discreetly cause the singing of Lois’ music box to stop.
2. begins teasing Lois about being a senior journalist after visiting the Loomis mansion
3. gives his card to the jeweler before he and Lois leave the shop
4. offers to accompany Lois home after discovering the secret admirer’s identity, she refuses
5. asks Jimmy to call Griffin’s parole officer to learn his address, before he leaves for home
6. watches a basketball game on TV while playing with a basketball
7. answers a knock at his door and finds it is Lois with an armload of pizzas and all three (at the time) "Lethal Weapon" movies, which are favorites of theirs
8. The following morning, he calls Jimmy and learns Griffin’s parole officer tells the DP the only known address for Kyle Griffin is his father’s toy store.
9. grabs a cold pizza slice from Lois’ hand and offers to buy her something more appropriate for breakfast
10. teases Lois by agreeing to stop by her apartment so she can change clothes by saying he understands “you senior journalists have an image to uphold”
11. deciding to split up, he goes to the depository while Lois goes to the processing plant
12. says he will go for help after stopping Lois’ Jeep, and Lois angrily gets out to follow him, but she slips in the liquid on the street and falls flat on her back- just as an out of control SUV skids right toward her…
13. …Superman drops from the sky and stops the SUV. He checks on the driver and then helps Lois to her feet amid applause and cheering from bystanders.
14. Superman then dries the slippery chemical with his heat vision.
15. Superman, later, spots the gas plasma beam easily and shields the DP building with his body, stopping the beam and diffusing it harmlessly away.
16. teases Lois about enjoying having her name in lights when he catches her reading the news room crawl with the headline of her capture of Griffin.
17. watches helplessly as Lois throws away the flowers he has sent her before he can say they are from him

LOIS LANE
1. receives a gift of a music box while at the museum art show
2. nearly admits she can’t think of anyone who likes her enough to send her a present!
3. finds another note from the secret admirer and a small box on her desk
4. leery of it, she doesn’t know what to do until Clark offers to open it for her, then opens it herself to find a ring with a large diamond setting
5. with Clark, takes the ring for an appraisal at a nearby jeweler’s store
6. Is reminded of a college classmate, Randall Loomis- a nerd who followed her around for a year and who gave her a hideous piece of jewelry he signed "from your secret admirer."
7. thinking the ring and the music box might be from him, she and Clark check him out, but he is not the current secret admirer
8. the following day she arrives at work to chants of her name from the staffers.
9. learns a message for her appeared on the big screen at the baseball game the previous day and stopped game play for half an hour before it could be removed from the computer.
10. discovers the secret admirer is Kyle Griffin, after meeting with an informant who dies
11. her first big sting was an expose on an illegal arms business and the FBI arrested 12 people, and one of the 12, Kyle Griffin, was released recently
12. goes home and enters her apartment expecting something to happen at every turn.
13. Perry calls to check up on her and invite her again to stay with him and Alice but the call is cut off, and when it rings again, it is Griffin calling to tell her he is going to ruin her reputation and make her life miserable for sending him to prison.
14. she goes to Clark’s apartment and spends the night on his sofa
15. immediately falls victim to the laughing gas incapacitating everyone at the processing plant where she is following a lead and is helpless to defend herself when kidnapped by the Prankster
16. isn’t entirely receptive to Victor’s admiration of her legs, but she does get an idea
17. defends herself admirably, later, by taking out both Griffin, when he tries to smother her, and Victor, using her martial arts prowess to kick them into submission
18. tells a subdued Victor he was right, she does have great legs
19. when caught admiring the news crawl of her single handed capture of the Prankster, she denies it and says she was thinking about her next story
20. receives a bouquet of flowers from a ‘special friend’ and immediately tosses them in the trash and drowns them in coffee

PERRY WHITE
1. accused of thinking dogs playing poker is art, he agrees and says he loves that kind of painting- especially the one of the two dogs at the bar throwing darts.
2. tells Lane and Kent he’s learned the police can tell nothing from the box or the music box gift itself.
3. tells Lois the secret admirer doesn’t work for the newspaper because he knows the salaries of everyone and no one can afford a ring with a stone that big.
4. asks Lois if she wants to stay with him and Alice in their spare bedroom after they learn Kyle Griffin is the secret admirer

JIMMY OLSEN
1. wonders why he can’t think analytically like Lois (because if it was easy everyone would do it, says Perry)
2. has a worthwhile realization concerning the case - puzzled about something, he has been thinking and thinks he knows how the Prankster knew Lois was going to be at the processing plant. Only Griffin’s father knew where she was going and Jimmy thinks the older man must have called Griffin and told him. Lane, Kent and White all agree he‘s probably right and Perry leads him away, telling him he will let him call the police and tell them himself.

KYLE GRIFFIN, THE PRANKSTER
1. freely admits he is not a nice person
2. frequently threatens Victor, his henchman, but stops short of actual violence
3. poses as a waiter at the museum
4. has just gotten out of jail after waiting five years to get even with Lois
5. is planning a series of robberies to get the items he needs to build and then to sell a super weapon to terrorists
6. tells Lois he is going to use it to decimate the Daily Planet as a demonstration for the terrorists interested in buying his weapon
7. brings traffic to a standstill by dumping a slippery substance from a street sweeper onto a downtown street
8. steals computer chips from one of the vehicles brought to a halt
9. steals cesium and 4 pounds of titanium alloy from Whitmore Laboratories
10. calls a bomb threat into the local media to create a diversion for the Whitmore theft
11. kidnaps Lois from the processing plant on Highway 9
12. he tests the weapon by firing it at the street sweeper and disintegrating it
13. is distracted enough by Superman stopping his demonstration of the weapon to get too close to Lois, allowing her to take him down with a well placed kick

VICTOR, Griffin’s henchman
1. has a master’s degree in engineering- a genius in some ways but not in others
2. poses as a deliveryman at the museum, giving the music box gift to Lois
3. admires Lois’ legs and compares them "two perfectly formed carrots
4. openly flirts with a bound Lois, telling her that intelligent men are leg men, and that only boobs like…
5. is annoyed when Griffin tells him he’s wasting his time trying to impress her because she is going to die

PETE
1. an older sports writer who is annoyed with Lois for being the reason a ball game was interrupted for over half an hour, but reveals the press is calling her secret admirer "The Prankster."
2. gets a message that a source knows who the secret admirer is and passes it on to Lane and Kent.

RANDALL LOOMIS
1. former college classmate of Lois’ who once gave her a “hideous piece of jewelry” and igned it from a secret admirer
2. has done well from himself since being a college nerd and now lives in a gated mansion
3. at first, he barely remembers Lois.
4. he tells Lane and Kent he is retiring after selling his company and he and his wife will be traveling around the world.
5. obviously, he is not the secret admirer they are looking for
6. tells Clark he remembers Lois being always on the prowl in college- never quite hooking up with the right guy.

MRS. LOOMIS
1. a tall, beautiful blond who answers the door at the Loomis mansion and calls for Randall
2. according to Lois, her nails are “obviously press on” (stated with heavy sarcasm)

MICK BARROWS
1. a recent parolee staying in room 210 of a seedy hotel
2. asks for money for the information he claims to have about the secret admirer - $10,000.
3. receives a phone call and steps away, and as he’s talking a noise bursts over the phone and he falls down dead
4. is discovered to have served his time in prison with one Kyle Griffin
5. got out of prison one month previously, 5/20/94, after serving 18 years at San Quentin for armed robbery (according to the M.I.D. Database- Copyright APD-Incorporated 1992.)

EDWIN GRIFFIN
1. a retired nuclear physicist, he is now in the toy business
2. tells Lois and Clark, when they visit him that red clay can be obtained at the nearby Lunar Industrial Park
3. after hearing a list of the items that have been stolen so far, he suggests they might be used to construct a weapon of some kind, but plutonium would be needed too
4. when Clark says the only source of plutonium is the toxic depository, he says no, they also have some at the heavy metals processing plant out on Highway 9
5. after they leave, he calls Kyle Griffin and tells him Lois will be at the processing plant in fifteen minutes

JEWELER (STORE OWNER)
1. owner of "Jewelry and Gems," where Lane and Kent take the broken ring to be evaluated.
2. takes one look and declares it didn’t come from his store
3. takes it to the back to look at it more closely.
4. asks to keep the ring for a closer examination and accepts Clark business card to get in touch later

DIANE, FEMALE REPORTER
1. brings Lois a bouquet of yellow roses in the newsroom
2. doesn’t know what the color means when asked
3. sighs that men don’t give her anything but directions to where they live

NAME THAT TUNE (theme song)

LIFE GOES ON (Other News Headlines)

THE PRANKSTER’S NOTES TO LOIS
1. "Dear Lois, Please forgive me but my feelings for you run deep and I’m too shy to tell you in person, but I want the world to know that whenever I think of you my heart sings. Your Secret Admirer"
2. "Dear Lois, Please accept the gift on your desk as an apology for last night. I’m itching to be yours. Your Secret Admirer."
3. "Lois Lane let me be your designated hitter. Your Secret Admirer"

NOT SO SUPERMAN
Superman arrives at the Prankster’s hideout mere seconds too late- Lois has already incapacitated both bad guys using her martial arts skills.
Superman: Well, I guess you don’t need me.
Lois: Not this time…but don’t leave town.


MISCELLANEOUS
1. As they wait at the jewelry store, Lois is reminded of a college classmate, Randall Loomis- a nerd who followed her around for a year and who gave her a hideous piece of jewelry he signed "from your secret admirer." She thinks the ring and the music box might be from him.
2. A Stanton Electronics truck is one of the vehicles that nearly crashes during the Prankster’s staged scene. While everyone is distracted by the accidents, Griffin and Victor break into the back of the security truck and steal computer chips for "Fort Truman" and "Stadium," and others. Each chip is worth over $100,000.
3. Other chips in the truck: naval base, fire dept, stealth, NATO, (an unnamed) college, ChemTrex
4. Police say two chips were taken from the truck at the accident- which was a diversion – just as the music box incident was a diversion at the museum. The museum is now reporting the 50 carat Regent Diamond is missing, and the jeweler who examined Lois’ ring says the stone was cut from the stolen diamond. Lois has already guessed the latter.
5. While Clark is at home watching a basketball game on TV, he idly plays with a basketball, spinning it on his fingertip, and then using his breath to keep it airborne as he spins it around. There is a knock at the door and he playfully sends the ball ricocheting off wall, furniture and banisters to land perfectly in a trash can across the room. "Nothing but net!" he mutters to himself as he gets up and goes to answer the door. It is Lois with an armload of pizzas and all three (at the time) "Lethal Weapon" movies, which are favorites of theirs. They sit down to watch the first one and Lois is very nervous and fidgety. After a few minutes, she finally admits to Clark that Griffin called her and threatened her. Clark insists that she stay the night with him and she is relieved. Sitting next to him, she leans against him and immediately falls asleep.
6. A blonde staffer named Diane brings Lois a bouquet of flowers that have just come for Lois. They are yellow roses and neither woman knows what they mean. Clark tells her they mean friendship. The card with them says they are from "a special friend." Lois immediately throws them into her trash can and dumps a cup of coffee on them…They were from Clark.

I'll do Church of Metropolis and the Return of the Prankster next.

Wow Bev. You really do a very thorough job. As a fan, I thank you for your hard work.

Great job,Bev. I've been working on pages, honest

Here is the title list page for first season: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/season1.html

Here is second season's list: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/season2.html

Third: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/season3.html

Fourth: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/season4.html

Right now I'm working on the volunteer page. There's a lot of episodes that still need to get claimed.

All the red links on these pages lead to your work and I've added trivia to each of them. Thank you for being so amazingly industrious!

And please, anyone who spots any errors, or typos, or anything that malfunctions on the pages, let me know and I'll try to fix the problems as soon as possible.

Thanks again, everyone.

Zoom ("stunned, shocked, in need of oxygen")

Let me add to the above post that currently just the episode list link pages and the links to individual episode pages work. I still have to make the home, volunteer and lexicon pages, but I'm working on them

Zoom

I have two additions to make to The Prankster, mistakes of my doing. My mom pointed out there were headlines in the story and my brother pointed out I missed one of the messages from Griffin to Lois! It was verbal and sailed right past me while I was looking the other way, I guess. . . . though I don't know how I missed those pesky fruit flies this time around.

LIFE GOES ON (Other News Headlines)
"Scoreboard Hijinks Disrupt Game"
"Fruit Fly Spraying"

and the verbal message for the Pranksters notes to Lois:

"If you're wondering how come I'm pulling this loony prank all I can say is I'm an incurable romantic, and I just want to show the world the explosive nature of my love for Lois Lane." -explaining the bomb threat

Okay, Bev, I updated the page and even included a picture of Lois with the oft repeated fruit fly article (http://zoomway.net/concordance/prankster.html). I went back to the Madame Ex Concordance page (http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/concordance_me.html), too, and added a picture of the article in that episode. Return of the Prankster also has the article, and the funniest version of it in my opinion

I also added in the "name that tune" section that a song is playing while Victor is working under the truck and of course the Pavarotti jack-in-the-box is singing an aria. Sadly I don't know which one. Maybe an opera buff can let us know Thanks so much and thank your mom and brother!

Zoom

Hi BevK,



I just wanted to thank you for all this great work. You´ve probably
watched the episodes a hundred times.
There are some minor things I never noticed before.
Though I watch all episodes in English.
But now, thanks to you, I know them.
So thank you very much again.

And also thank you Zoom for putting everything together and making available in one place.
It´s really great!

Can´t wait to see more.

Stephanie

Thank you, Stephanie and ChrisP. I had three good examples to follow.
With all the backing up and inching forward I've done, I guess I might have seen each episode I did about ten times. I especially liked doing Wall of Sound for all of the outdoor shooting that was done. Amazing what a little set decoration can do to make the same buildings look different from shot to shot.

You're raising the bar, Bev. There was a Perry-ism in Madame Ex but I never saw it as one at the time. It's where Perry declares Arianna is one brick shy of a full load.
Strange Visitor is ready and I'll be posting it soon. After that I'll be willing to do Requiem for a Superhero and Pheromone, My Lovely if they have not been claimed already.

Kate

STRANGE VISITOR (From Another Planet)

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1- Daily Planet – newsroom, offices, rooftop, front entry on street, conference room, outside conference room, Lois's desk, library/morgue
2- Hotel office- where Lane and Kent meet with George Thompson and learn he is there to interview them
3- Metropolis Private Home, Den- where Lane and Kent meet with retired General Newcomb
4- Furniture Warehouse, back room, storage room, floor where Trask and Bureau 39 have their Metropolis headquarters
5- Military Cargo Plane- from which Lois is thrown and Clark jumps
6- Sky above Metropolis- where Superman rescues Lois and intercepts a missile meant to destroy him
7- Lois’ Apartment- where she amuses Lucy with her plans to go into hiding, and where Jimmy Olsen asks Lucy for a date
8- Cat’s Apartment, living room, closet- where Clark goes for dinner because he can’t go home

LOCATIONS Outside Metropolis

1- Kent Home, dining room- where Clark hears a detailed story of how he was found
2- Kansas Crash Site- where Jonathan buried the tiny ship in which infant Clark was found (we later discover this is a place called Shuster’s Field)
3- Simpson’s Quarry- a place near Smallville and west of the Elbow River
4- The Elbow River- runs close to Smallville
5- Voronezh, USSR- site of UFO activity in 1989 which interests Bureau 39
6- Gulf Breeze, Florida- another site of past UFO activity of interest to Bureau 39

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

1- Flight- flies home to Kansas, rescues Lois (and supposedly Clark) after she is thrown out of Trask’s plane
2- Hovering- when he arrives at the Daily Planet for a brief interview with Lois
3- Hearing- leaves the interview with Lois after hearing a call for help
4- Invulnerability- isn’t hurt by an exploding missile

POWERS USED AS CLARK

1- Vision- reads papers hidden inside briefcases and file drawers
2- Speed- eats his food so fast his mother thinks he inhaled it; spins to make a hole in the ground where Jonathan buried a spacecraft
3- Hovering- rises out of the hole he made in the ground
4- Breath- keeps a paper ball hovering above a wastebasket
5- Invulnerability- a bullet fired from a few feet away hits him and falls to the floor
6- Hearing- uses it to listen to tumblers in a lock and tells Lois he used the date 8-2-47 to open it

HINT, HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

1- When Clark answers “Yes” to the question “Are you Superman?” the polygraph indicates he is telling the truth but Trask and his men think the machine is broken and dismiss the answer.
2- “Aren’t you the one who said ‘if it looks like a duck and walks like a duck-‘”
Lois tells him to stop quoting herself to her, then pauses and asks him how he knows she said that since she was being questioned by Trask at the time, but Clark distracts her and doesn‘t have to explain.
3- Aboard the plane, Lois is roughly grabbed and subdued. Clark lunges toward Trask but one of his men shoots him. The bullet glances off Clark and he barely notices it in his anger. The shooter tells Trask and the others that Clark is injured. Another man finds the bullet on the floor. Trask looks it over and sees no blood on it. He tells the shooter he missed, but the man protests, as he fired at almost point blank range. Trask dismisses it.
The entire episode is a case of can’t see the forest for the trees, as Trask‘s fears blind him to the obvious.

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

As they leave Thompson’s hotel, Clark makes an excuse of not feeling good and wanting to go home so he can duck out to become Superman, and Lois graciously encourages him to put himself before the story.


DEVICES

1- Missile- fired at Superman by Trask
2- Magnetic Key Card- needed to enter the furniture warehouse which is Bureau 39’s HQ
3- Combination Lock- the device has a left/right wheel programmed into its operation
4- Globe – a small device of unknown construction which lights at Clark’s touch and communicates with him soundlessly and wordlessly
5- Spacecraft- the small ship which brought Clark to Earth
6- unknown “diaper thing” Martha mentions, making it sound like more than just a simple cloth diaper
7- ICBM (intercontinental ballistic missile)- mentioned by Martha Kent as she and Jonathan tell Clark how they found him


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)


SAY WHAT? (Clark’s Languages)


HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

Clark Kent/Superman

1- was working on a story about adopted children searching for their birth parents
2- calls Lois a quick study when she reels off some of the high points in his story, but she tells him she already did the story three years ago
3- both agree there are no old stories, just new angles
4- he and Lois struggle against the manhandling of the intruding agents, causing one to draw a gun
5- demands to know what the agents want after the leaders announcement
6- agrees with Perry and Lois they will not take lie detector tests- until Lois backtracks
7- uses both his chair and his breath to influence the polygraph machine when being questioned
8- is very nervous during questioning
9- during a visit to the newspaper morgue he discovers the leader of the raid was once a member of Project Blue Book and tries to keep it a secret but Lois sees the picture over his shoulder and recognizes Trask, too
10- accompanies Lois to interview two sources, George Thompson and Burton Newcomb, a man Lois has identified from the old Project Blue Book photo
11- at the furniture warehouse, he remembers the number clue Newcomb gave them and opens a second lock on the entry door
12- inside a cabinet he finds files labeled Smallville, Ks. 1966 and Gulf Breeze, Florida
13- starts looking under the tarps covering nearly everything in the room
14- finds a tiny ship under one and is stunned to see the Superman “S” symbol on it
15- finds a globe of the Earth inside a drawstring bag. As he looks at it, the globe suddenly lights from within and the topography changes from the Earth to an unknown planet but he whispers, “Krypton.”
16- interrupted by Trask and his men, Clark slips the globe into his pocket
17- assures Lois her fate will not match that of the heroine of her novel
18- can’t get a word of denial in edgewise when Lois demands to know what really happened between him and Cat Grant
19- jumps from Trask’s aircraft after Lois has been thrown out
20- angles his fall into a cloud bank so he can change into Superman
21- as Superman he saves Lois and immediately flies off to stop a missile, and a few minutes later, returns to the Daily Planet newsroom as Clark
22- has an “I might have known” moment when Lois’ joy at seeing him alive is really joy that Superman survived the missile explosion
23- return later for a brief interview with Lois after hours
24- learns the full story of how he came to be found by the Kents and taken in by them and wonders if they think he is some kind of “Russian experiment”
25- was disappointed the ship he arrived in has disappeared

Lois Lane

1- dismisses Clark’s adoption article with “you to stick to the touchy/feely stuff and I’ll take Superman.”
2- still resists having a partner and reminds Clark he is the rookie, straight out and through insinuation
3- is writing a novel, later revealed to be a romance novel about a woman who dies without ever finding her true love
4- is questioned for the polygraph first with no incidents occurring until the last question when she denies a romantic attachment to Superman and the machine begins to beep loudly and persistently
5- stops the Thompson interview abruptly when she realizes he will tell them nothing
6- is surprised but delighted when Clark claims to be sick after leaving Thompson’s hotel’
7- stops to look when people on the street excitedly spot Superman overhead and tells him to “be careful up there”
8- sees Thompson leaving the hotel and follows him to a furniture warehouse, but loses him there
9- objects to having “her” story given to Valdez, another reporter, after she and Clark become the story
10- rushes home and begins preparing to go into hiding, but receives Perry White’s call to return to the newsroom
11- is stunned to learn Clark was staying out of sight at Cat’s apartment and coolly greets him when he returns to the newsroom
12- learns from the police that Thompson is dead, his body found in the river
13- finds Clark in the newspaper morgue and identifies a picture of Jason Trask as the leader of the raid, though Clark tries to hide the picture
14- after interviewing Newcomb, she grabs and pockets the card key he puts on his desk for just that purpose
15- tells Clark he’s a strange , but it works for him
16- inside the furniture warehouse she is skeptical the collection of objects are unidentified
17- she wonders how Clark knows what she said to Trask during her polygraph questioning but his arrival interrupts and she forgets about it as she and Clark are taken captive
18- expecting to die after being taken aboard an aircraft, she tells Clark about her romance novel and expects him to tell her what happened between him and Cat Grant
19- not that she cares, of course, it’s just probably his biggest secret and if they survive he has GOT to raise his standards
20- asks Trask for a last request- to kiss Clark good-bye- which is granted, and after a long, last kiss, she voices a plan to try to get away, but the escape attempt is unsuccessful and she is hurled out of the airplane
21- she falls away from the plane, trying desperately to contact Superman by telepathy, shouting, screaming and any other way she can think of, and is surprised and relieved when he catches her; and she wonders if he really does read minds but he assures her he just has very good hearing
22- before arriving safely on the roof of the Daily Planet building, she tells Superman that Clark is still aboard the plane, then is horrified and speechless to see a missile coming straight for their location and points it out to Superman
23- dazed, disheveled and confused, she enters the newsroom and after Perry asks if she and Clark are alright, answers “Before or after we were thrown out of an airplane?”
24- asks about Superman but is told no one knows what happened to him, but is overjoyed to see Clark step off the elevator because it means Superman is alive
25- after finding the warehouse abandoned and empty, she still wants to write the story of what was there but relents when Perry explains it would mean the end of her career as a serious journalist
26- briefly interviews Superman and suggest his motto could be to “fight for truth and justice,” and he agrees

Perry White

1- stops the leader of the intruders, Trask, and tells him he can’t just come into his newsroom and order people around’
2- takes the warrant given to him and reads it as he is told to take it up with Washington
3- reads aloud, “Order to produce evidence, compel testimony…Lois Lane and Clark Kent!”
4- enters the office where Lois and Clark are being held and tells them the man wants the two of them to take a polygraph test, but he told them, No! Not his reporters! Take their computers and notes and just get on with it, and get the hell out of his office so he can start suing their butts off into the next century!
5- is not surprised that Lois relents and agree to be questioned, but is puzzled that Clark doesn’t agree immediately too
6- tells Lane and Kent to give their notes to Valdez so she can write the story of the raid
7- when both object, he tells them they ARE the story and they have to leave in case the goons come back with subpoenas, but go anywhere but home. “Don’t go where they can serve you! Wear your beepers, we’ll be in touch.”
8- calls back Lane and Kent and tells Lois the warrant is phony and no one knows who the men were. (“No one in Washington wants to claim them.”) It’s up to Lois and Clark to find out and identify them.
9- tells Lois all that is known for certain is that they think it is their job to hunt down Superman, and she tells Clark.
10- yells instructions to a reporter named Biederman to get legal on the case
11- when an obviously shaken Lois returns to the newsroom, he rushes to her to make sure she and Kent are alright
12- rejects a story about the warehouse being Bureau 39’s storehouse because of no corroborating evidence- Trask has vanished and Burton Newcomb claims he’s never heard of Lane and Kent


Jimmy Olsen

1- compliments Lois on her outfit, with an ulterior motive
2- admits he would like to ask Lois’ sister, Lucy, for a date
3- believes Lois that he’ll need to provide health and financial records in order to do so
4- believes the rumors of Clark and Cat that soon start going around the newsroom
5- asks “CK” for advice on women and admits he never would have done so before the rumors
6- demands “specificity” on the details of Clark’s evening with Cat
7- goes to Lois’ apartment pretending to be looking for her and works his way around to asking Lucy for a date
8- is a witness to Superman’s encounter with Trask’s missile
9- along to take pictures at the empty Bessolo Blvd. warehouse, he tells Lane and Kent he believes their story


Cat Grant

1- uses an agent’s badge or other small, shiny object to fix her make-up, which he snatches back before leaving
2- complains about being searched twice by an agent
3- immediately invites Clark to have dinner at her place, and he agrees though we don’t hear it on screen
4- at her place, changes into sweats in order to help him relax, though she does entertain herself with wildly inappropriate outfits that she could wear… if she wanted to
5- assures him that she does read when he tells her the apartment was not what he was expecting
6- is pleased to hear he thinks she is full of surprises
7- tells him she considers all news to be part of the gossip business when asked why she chose to write her column
8- tells him he would be surprised at the secrets people keep- does he have any?
9- is well aware that he is still nervous and tries to distract him and amuses herself by feeding him grapes and touching him until his beeper goes off
10- seems to know it will be Perry White summoning him and is disappointed her evening has come to an end as she points him toward her telephone
11- uses a remote control to start music playing
12- gets up and takes the phone from Clark and tells Lois, at the other end of the line, that he needs to freshen up before he leaves
13- teases both Clark and Lois the next morning, knowing how each will react and enjoying it


Lucy Lane

1- is feeding the fish when Lois blows into the apartment like a whirlwind and tells her, she- Lois- is not here, she isn’t staying, if anyone calls tell them she was never there
2- takes all of this in with silent amusement, sitting on the counter top to enjoy the show, but asks, “It’s a man thing, right?”
3- when the phone rings, she assures Lois she won’t give away her presence, “You were never here, I don’t know you, you don’t exist, we‘ve never met.”
4- refers to Perry White as “ a southern guy with a real attitude. Says turn on your beeper or you’re fired.” This indicates she has never met him before and doesn’t know his voice or accent.
5- exercises strenuously with music tuned up very loudly because she feels the music should be heard “on a cellular level”
6- answers the door to find a young man looking for Lois, explaining she isn’t answering her pager
7- admits Lois HAD been going on about making herself scarce the day before
8- tells him no, Lois has never mentioned him to her as she would remember hearing of a man called “Jimmy”
9- after he drums up the nerve to ask her for a date, she amuses herself by demanding if he was just using Lois as an excuse to come over and ask her out
10- says okay after he admits it


Martha Kent

1- thinks Clark doesn’t like vegetarian food when he picks at it during a visit home
2-clearing his plate at super speed she is shocked and exclaims that he simply inhaled it
3- worries that they should not have told him he was adopted
4- is surprised that Jonathan never destroyed the evidence of Clark’s arrival in their lives
5- tells him how cute he was in “the little diaper thing they had you in” and is surprised when Jonathan hushes her- giving him a look that says “What? That’s part of the story!”


Jonathan Kent

1- jokes that Clark probably doesn’t know whether to eat it or plant his serving of vegetarian food
2- jokes that Clark appears to have missed his mother’s cooking after eating it at super speed
3- answers with no hesitation when Clark asks to hear how he was found
4- admits he went back to destroy the spacecraft that brought Clark to them, but he couldn’t do it, so he buried it in another location
5- assures Martha they are at the correct spot where he buried the little spaceship saying, “That’s the wagon wheel, Hasn’t moved in over twenty-five years.”
6- counts off his paces “Eight paces due south. Through the two trees. Twenty-eight paces due east.” to the area where Clark should dig


Jason Trask

1- name unknown at the time, enters the Daily Planet newsroom and announces he has a warrant from federal court and tells everyone to step away from their desks, and the team with him spreads out around the room (in an online script they are referred to as the Men In Black)
2- presents a warrant to Perry White demanding the cooperation of Lois Lane and Clark Kent
3- after Clark demands to know what they want, he answers, “I want Superman, and I’m not leaving until you tell me where I can find him.”
4- questions both separately after a long negotiation with Perry
5- is not amused by Lois’s flippant attitude or by Clark’s lack of understanding
6- pulls his men in a rapid retreat after hearing the phrase “the perimeter has been penetrated”
7- before leaving, pauses to assure Clark he knows they have been lying, explaining “It’s in the eyes.”
8- refuses to acknowledge the new orders brought to him from Washington by George Thompson, and refuses to be shut down by order of “the director himself”
9- believes his mission is to identify alien threats to the security of the nation
10- is sure Superman in the advance guard of a coming invasion
11- all records of his existence were wiped out in 1969, making him seem to vanish into thin air
12- discovers Lane and Kent in his supposedly secure warehouse and takes them prisoner aboard his military aircraft
13- interrupts their talk and asks if either is familiar with the scientific method
14- is pleased with Clark’s answer (“Advance a theory and submit it to a test.”) and tells them he is going to conduct a test.
15- reveals he will throw them out of the aircraft and see if either can contact Superman to save them before they hit the ground - he will then kill Superman
16- grants Lois’s last request and subdues their attempt to escape
17- tosses Lois from the plane and is surprised when Clark jumps from the plane voluntarily
18- when told by one of his men that Clark was shot, he dismisses the claim after the bullet is found on the floor of the plane with no trace of blood on it
19- orders a missile to be fired when Superman is identified on radar and makes his escape from Metropolis


OTHER CHARACTERS

George Thompson

1-sends word he would like to meet with Lane and Kent at his hotel
2- has an angry telephone conversation with Trask regarding the Daily Planet raid
3- tells Clark he came to town by train as he doesn’t like flying and asks Clark, “You?” (Clark shakes his head.)
4- tells them he is a kind of ombudsman for the government who goes to where there has been trouble and he investigates the incident, and he is here to look into the raid on the Daily Planet
5- begins questioning Lois and Clark, offering no information in return
6- after they leave, he goes to a warehouse location, unaware he is being followed
7- uses a key card to enter the building and does not come out
8- inside, he confronts Trask and declares he is there to shut down his operation and identifies it as “Bureau 39”
9- is struck by Trask and told he has no authority and is later found dead

Burton Newcomb

1- retired general living in Metropolis.
2- answers Lois and Clark’s questions in a roundabout way.
3- asks them if they’ve ever had to keep a secret (Clark says yes, Lois asks, what? he replies as a reporter he’s had to protect his sources.)
4- reveals that August 2, 1947 is the day he took an oath to keep a big secret
5- asked if he knows where Trask is, he replies that he thinks Trask and his way of dealing with the secret is so repugnant and so un-American-- that he is probably hiding in plain sight.
6- when Lois guesses the Bessolo Blvd. Warehouse he talks about the security system there that he designed and how they’d need an inside man to help them get in.
7- casually takes a magnetic swipe security card from a drawer of his desk and lays it on the corner and turns his back
8- while taking a gun from a cabinet he asks the reporters to leave and they do, quickly, but not before Lois grabs the card and pockets it
9- later denies he ever met or spoke to the reporters
10- used a nutcracker to destroy a mini tape cassette from Lois’s tape recorder

Biederman

1- male reporter sent by Perry to get legal to look into the raid
2- has his desk in the same area Cat Grant does which might mean he works for the same section of the paper that she does

Valdez

1- female reporter to whom Perry gives the responsibility of writing the initial story of the raid on the newsroom
2- gets the assignment because Lois and Clark have become the story and must lay low somewhere for a while
3- indicates she works for the same section of the paper as they do (the “city beat” as it has been called in other Superman incarnations?)

Individual Agents with Trask (MIBs)

1- the man running the polygraph equipment thinks Clark may be “so mild mannered he hasn’t got a pulse” when the machine seems to not be working properly
2- one of the men aboard the airplane shoots Clark but is not believed by Trask or the others


PERRY-ISMS

1- You ever hear of Anita Wood? . . . Memphis D.J., beautiful girl, won a beauty contest. Did you know that she and Elvis almost got married? . . . Oh, yeah. Right after he was drafted in 1958. He and Anita were talking marriage, but Colonel Parker knew it would hurt Elvis's career, so he put a stop to it. Now, if the Colonel hadn't gotten wind of it, Elvis might not be the King. Do you understand what I’m sayin’ here? . . . (somewhat irritated by Clark’s answer) Fools rush in, son. Fools rush in! . . . What I'm thinking, is when it comes to women, if you want to be the King, you better listen to the Colonel. – Perry to Clark, warning him away from Cat Grant (to which Clark replied, ‘Thank you. I'll remember that… Colonel.’)

2- Phony as a lock of Elvis's hair from a Memphis souvenir shop. - Perry to Lois and Clark, describing the search warrant used in the raid

NOT SO SUPERMAN

LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

“UFO Sighting Really Swamp Gas”- headline on an old newspaper

NAME THAT TUNE (theme song)

1- "Superman Flies Home" (Jay Gruska)- a few notes sound in a kind of flourish as Superman takes to the skies after Clark leaves Lois with the excuse he isn’t feeling well.
2- Exercise music with a strong beat to which Lucy does her routine
3- Rhythmic drummimg music Cat plays while Clark is on the telephone in her apartment

MISCELLANEOUS

1- Trask has a good line: Aboard his plane, Trask tells Lois and Clark he is going to conduct a test. He plans to throw them out of the airplane and see if either can contact Superman to save them before they reach the ground. Then he will kill Superman. Lois asks how and Trask replies, “Does the worm need to know if the fish is going to be pan fried or charbroiled?”

2- When Perry assigns the story of the raid to Valdez, he tells Lois and Clark to type up their notes and give them to Valdez. What notes? Trask and his men have just left and they haven’t been back to their desks yet. Did he mean write about their questioning by Trask?

3- When Lois tells Trask she and Superman didn’t talk as they flew because “we didn’t have to”, he and his men immediately conclude they used nonverbal communication and they believe Superman can communicate telepathically to the end.

4- The Kents’ story of how they found Clark:

JONATHAN: It was May 17th, 1966. We were driving past Simpson’s Quarry, just due west of the Elbow River.
MARTHA: We saw this thing in the sky. At first we thought it was one of those I.C.B.M.'s.
JONATHAN: But that ship came streaking across the sky in front of us. It was hard to ignore.
MARTHA: We found you and took you home. Your eyes were so big and so wide, and that little diaper-thing they had you in made you look so cute --!
JONATHAN: Martha! A few days later some men showed up around town asking questions.
CLARK: What kind of men?
MARTHA: They said they were from the space program, and that they thought some debris had come down from some kind of Russian satellite. Wanted to know if we’d seen anything.
CLARK: So, what'd you tell them?
JONATHAN: (firmly) Not a thing.
MARTHA: There was something about them. They were scary.
CLARK : So is that what you guys think I am? A Russian experiment?
MARTHA: Oh, honey, we don't care if you're a Russian or a Martian. You were ours, that’s all we knew, and we weren't giving you away to anybody. That's why your father went back there, where we found you.
JONATHAN: We figured we’d better destroy that spaceship so nobody would ever have any evidence of how you got here. I planned to burn it good, haul it to the dump and get rid of it.
CLARK: Dad, it's okay. Destroying it was probably the right thing to do.
JONATHAN: Yeah, probably was. But I didn't.
MARTHA: Jonathan! Why didn't you tell me?
JONATHAN: I couldn't, Martha. (to Clark) It w- It was part of you, son. I just couldn't do it.

5- Lois’ interview with Superman

SUPERMAN: I hear you've been looking for me.
LOIS (in a whisper): All my life. (Aloud) Everybody's looking for you.
SUPERMAN: I know. And I know you almost died because of that.
LOIS: Well, it did make that bungee jump I did last year seem pretty tame.
SUPERMAN: I'm going to find that man and stop him. That's a promise, Lois.
LOIS: You know my name, but I don't know yours.
SUPERMAN: Superman seems to have caught on.
LOIS: Where are you from? I mean, you're not from Kansas, that's for sure.
SUPERMAN: I'm from another planet. A place called Krypton.
LOIS: Do you mind if I wrote some of this down?
SUPERMAN: No.
LOIS: Um, uh. You seem to have all the ... the parts ... of a man.
SUPERMAN: I am a man, Lois. Just like you're a woman..
LOIS: I'm really glad you're here, but, um, why are you here?
SUPERMAN: To help.
LOIS: To help? I need a little bit more of a quote than that. Something like 'I have not yet begun to fight.' Or 'Damn the torpedoes.' Something like that. I mean, if you said I am here to fight for truth or justice.
SUPERMAN: Well, truth and justice, that sound good. You can use that.
As Lois writes, Superman cocks his head, as if he's listening. Lois doesn't hear anything.
LOIS: What is it?
SUPERMAN: Someone's in trouble.
LOIS: This is a job for Superman, right?
SUPERMAN (nods) I’ll be seeing you.
LOIS: I hope so.

I know this is super long but I kept going back over one more time, one more time, to be sure I didn't miss anything. Bev has done so good with her episodes I wanted to at least do as much.
I know there is a soundtrack available for this series and I wonder if that brief fanfare played when Superman appeared might be a theme with a name on the soundtrack?
Edit where needed.

Kate

Wow! This episode is full of action, information, character development, good acting and plain entertainment. I like how Cain, a self described novice actor at this point, holds his own with the veteran guest stars. His reaction as Clark to the unexpected, "You?" delivered so believably by Joseph Campanella is just right.
I think you caught it all nicely.

Thanks to J who emailed me off list that the music played while Superman appears is called "Superman Flies Home" by Jay Gruska.
Also she said the exercise music might be a variation of the extended version of the Main Theme because there is a section in it that sounds similar without the heavy bass sound.

Kate

Great job, Kate! Sorry I'm so slow, but I had to make a template that would work with my new web page software. I've also decided that I'm going to move the trivia about each episode to its own page instead of tacking it onto the end of each Concordance page.

Here's your Concordance page and I'm working on its trivia page.

http://zoomway.net/concordance/concordance_svfap.html

I still have to do a bit of work on it, like the notation for the asterisk, which will also be linked to its trivia page. I also took the liberty of adding the "what's in a name" category for explaining the episode title.

Thanks again, Kate. I'm really sorry it took me so darn long, but now that I've made a template, future episodes will move quickly.

Zoom

No problem there. I like the screencaps, the trivia and all the little things you're adding to the (near) finished pages.

Kate

Actually, I have to apologize I put the wrong link on your page. The "preamble" link should've linked to the Superman preamble (logical, right?). Instead, I linked it to the portion of the cape page that will be used with the Strange Visitor trivia page to explain the cape differences. However, I did add the asterisk information at the bottom of the page, but I've got some overtravel on the page. And here I thought I'd been brilliant making a template

Sorry for the screwup.

Xoom (hiding behind my Aztec name)

If anyone wants to do the all Tempus episodes I claimed, they should. I had a LOT on my mind lately. I don't think I am going to have the time. More importantly I don't think I would be good at taking those type of notes.

Do one episode. You'll be surprised. It's only as hard as you make it. I used the online scripts for the dialogue segments, just changing it where the actors did to fit their characters. Everything else is pausing the DVD and making your notes, and you don't have to do that all at once. It'll still be there later.

Kate

There is a list I use. If anything fits the heading I write it down and flesh it out later. After typing it up I cut and paste the info to the subject heading it fits. You don't have to use all the headings and if what you see doesn't fit any of them make up your own. I did with Perry-isms.
Also the online scripts give you a list of characters and locations that you can copy and paste to your document without having to do it as you take story notes. Compare it to the episode and change where necessary because the script and the episode never match exactly but it saves you a lot of work naming locations and characters.
If you need help, advice, encouragement, just ask.



LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

POWERS USED AS CLARK

HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES (or Lois's, Martha's, whoever says something that fits)

DEVICES

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

OTHER CHARACTERS

NAME THAT TUNE

PERRY-ISMS

NOT-SO SUPERMAN

SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION

LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

MISCELLANEOUS

OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

I use this template too and take notes when I have time. You don't have to do it all at once.

Kate

Hey Tom,

You're one of my fave fans

Don't stress over Tempus, he'd enjoy it too much Seriously, I edit all Concordance pages. One reason is that years ago a lot of pages were done, but sadly were lost. However, Judy Mair put together a Lexicon of all the entries that had been done at the time. That means when an episode is redone, like Strange Visitor, I have to add things that were in the old version, but not in the new version.

For example, I added these items to miscellaneous:

HUJ*395 is George Thompson's license plate.
Met Net Cheerleading Squad
Whoppers, a chocolate covered malted milk candy that Lois was tossing in the air and trying to catch in her mouth

Yes, even a license plate I also added Jonathan's directions to where he buried Clark's spaceship. And Kate's version had things that weren't part of the original transcriber's version and so it's a nice amalgam of both.

That's the point. There are no hard and fast rules to this other than the basics. If Perry shouts, "Get a photographer to the corner of Ordway and Carlin!" the transcriber writes down that intersection name in "Locations" and I'll add the trivia later about (Jerry) Ordway, who worked on the Superman comics (lots of the Byrne revamp era stuff) and (Mike) Carlin, who edited the comics back in the day.

I'm going to leave the Tempus episodes open to you for the time being, Tom, because sadly I have very few fans volunteering to do Concordance pages. However, I have made a template page to help those who have volunteered:

http://zoomway.net/concordance/template.html

You'll notice that I have put an explanation next to each category to make the process easier to understand. Just watch, pause, jot down info and continue. Kind of like wash, rinse, and repeat

This project is like a pregnancy now, there's about 9 months left to finish it and have it ready for the 20th anniversary in September. Sometimes you only need to set aside 15 minutes a day to view the episode up to a certain point and make notes and then take it up the next day where you left off for another 15 minutes.

Again, there's no need to stress over it because it's simply a fun fan project with no penalties or criticisms. I can tell there are factors going on in your life now other than worrying about the Concordance and so I wish you all the best in untangling your troubles, Tom

Zoom

Ok You guys convinced me. I glad to hear the support. I do want to do this. I would not have said I would otherwise.

I am glad you actually remember me Zoom. That means more than you can imagine.

I don't want to site track this with my personal stuff but well...

last year I was in a very serious accident. I am very lucky to be alive. I am fully physically recovered. But there is more than physical scars. I have moved to have a fresh start. Finding a good job has been hard.

More than anything I really have no friends here. Truth is... I never really had real friends... well ever. Its easy to move when you really are not leaving anyone.

Superman has meant something very personal to me my whole life. I always felt out of place. I am still looking for my Lois. Recent events have really made me re-embrace my interests.So I really want to help with this.

Of course I remember you, Tom! You've had some great posts and insight. Also, I appreciate fans who read the comics and can discuss what's going on there.

I'm sorry you had what sounds like a really terrible accident. I know what you mean about the non-physical scars being the hardest to heal. As for friends, you can count me among your friends, even though I'm of the cyber kind You should join the IRC chats. I go there on Fridays and Saturdays and have some laughs with new and old L&C fans

As for your Lois, she's out there. My spouse found me because of my baseball mitt. Yeah, I had a baseball mitt

You can do this, Tom, seriously. And smile a lot, it feels good

Zoom

I am planning to start with Tempus Fugitive soon.

I am kind of a time travel junkie, in fact its right up there with my interest in Superman.

I going to note the references to other time travel stories from memory.

The big one of course is the book "The Time Machine" by H G Wells.( as a side note for "Soul Mates", remember when Wells said something like he was Sir CLark from Kent? THe real Wells was born in Bromley, Kent!)

The look of the machine was inspired by the one in the classic 1960 film adaptation by director George Pal. That film also first introduced the idea that the Time Traveler was H. G. Wells himself. In the original book he is simply called "The Time Traveler'. In the film he is called George and there is a engraving on the machine that says "H. George Wells".

Another influence was the 1979 film "Time After Time". In which Wells has to capture a criminal, Jack the Ripper played by David Warner(Jor-El), who has stolen his time machine.

Clearly the Terminator films contributed to the idea too. Where a cyborg is sent to kill a future hero to negatively change history. Tempus robbing the Pawn/gun shop is also a reference. There is a similar scene in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's character steals his guns and takes a pair of sunglasses. Plus there is poster in the alley of a Terminator knock off, copy called "The Eliminator" or something like that... My memory is not perfect... its close though.

The visual of Clark fading away as Tempus attempts to kill baby Clark is directly from Back to the Future. Which Doc Brown called being "erased from existence."

Hey, Tom, a man after my own heart. I LOVE time travel stories. I even had a collection of sci-fi stories that were all time travel based. As for the Time Machine (George Pal version) and Time After Time, and Back to the Future, you're right on the money. Those are very clear influences in Tempus Fugitive.

At one time I had made a video (not a musical one) where I put together clips from those movies and started the whole thing with the chronometer running backward from Star Trek Alas it was done back in the old old days of digital video with a .ram format and doesn't work any longer. It's too bad because there are some great matching scenes, even the villain taking H.G. Wells' glasses off his face

I look forward to seeing this, Tom. Thanks very much!

Zoom

What a great idea! I'm glad you decided to do them. Speaking for myself, I'd have never thought of adding such interesting references.

Wow, very cool information. Thanks, Avilos!

Eureka, as H.G. Wells shouted, my old .ram file is working, but it is not the greatest quality and the picture is small because of the old VidEdit program I used back then. At any rate, if you have the latest version of Real Player, it should play this file. Even though it has problems, you can at least get an idea of what Tom (Avilos) was talking about in terms of the different movie sources that Tempus Fugitive paid homage to:

http://www.redboots.net/collide/ttravel.ram

Zoom

REQUIEM FOR A SUPERHERO

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)
1-Daily Planet
-The Pit- Lois and Clark’s desks
-Perry White's office – where he orders L&C to cover a boxing story; busts them when he suspects they are holding back on their story;
2-Metropolis Square Garden- where the fight of the century, “The Ultimate Street Fight” will be held
3-Max Menken’s Gym
-Exterior, ‘Champion Boxing School,’ a long time establishment with an impressive array of championship trophies on display
-Locker Room- where Dr. Lane attends a patient,
-Corridor- where Menken and Garrison experience the ‘earthquake’ caused by Clark
-Dr. Lane’s Office- where Lane and Kent peruse his files and find a hidden room
-Training Area- where Lois and Dr. Lane argue over his refusal to help
4-Street Corner- where Lois witnessed Allie Dinello’s death
5-Lex Luthor’s Penthouse- where Luthor reveals his plan to create an army of supermen using Dr. Lane’s prosthetic limb replacements
6-Boxing Arena- where the ‘Ultimate Street Fight’ is canceled and Garrison challenges Superman to face him
-Back Alley- outside the arena where events culminate

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN
1-Flight- patrols the city searching for kidnapped Lois
2-Strength- easily subdues three goons who attack him in a dark alley, knocks a boxer across the ring with a tap of his finger
3-Hearing- hears and answers Garrison’s challenge to fight in the arena while in the alley outside the building

POWERS USED AS CLARK
1-Speed- plays a game of baseball with himself,
2-Vision- is tempted to peek at Perry’s poker hand but resists. recognizes a familiar bookshelf style and looks behind it to see a secret work room,
3-Strength- creates a fake earthquake in conjunction with his speed, pulls the knob off a door after Lois fails to jimmy it with a credit card, pushes a man across a boxing ring in a show of anger
4-Hearing- discerns the approaching voices of Menken and Garrison while searching Dr. Lane’s office

HINT, HINT! (for the galactically stupid)
Nothing of note

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES
More hilarious than lame, when Lois is kidnapped by Max Menken in full view of Clark and Lex Luthor, both men turn to one another and say simultaneously, “I’ll go for help!” They rush away in opposite directions, Clark, of course, to become Superman.

DEVICES
-Battery powered artificial joints and limbs of various kinds developed by Dr. Lane

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)
Nothing of note

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s Languages)
Nothing of note

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN
-is happy to be invited to spend more time with Perry White, but not so happy to learn the time would be spent playing poker
- is tempted to use his vision while playing poker, but resists after Perry expresses his opinion on why Superman wouldn’t
- greets Lois with “Howdy, partner!” and can’t resist teasing her about the order in which their names should go on their byline
- is surprised to discover Lois’ father is Dr. Sam Lane, a well known physician who works with boxers
- requests to talk with the boxers at the gym but is told they are off limits
- lets Lois goad him into the ring after being challenged by Tommy Garrison, who calls his build ‘solid’
- tells Garrison he might be surprised what he, Clark, can do if feeling threatened
- loses his temper after Dinello interrupts and Garrison’s taunting gets more harsh, and shoves the boxer nearly across the ring
- as he and Lois prepare to leave the gym, he can’t resist teasingly calling her “Pumpkin” and enjoying the exasperated look she gives him
- is curious but sympathetic witnessing the estrangement between Lois and her father
- asks if it’s a ‘trick question’ when, later in the evening, she asks him if he knew anybody who was so devoted to their job they thought of nothing or no one else
- goes with Lois to break into her father’s office
- finds a hidden room behind a familiar looking bookcase
- discovers Garrison, and others, had Dr. Lane’s reconstructive surgery and began to “demolish” their opponents
- is sure the Boxing Commission will never allow the fighters into the ring knowing they are part robot
- reluctantly reminds Lois that if they write the story they know, whoever killed Allie Dinello will want her father dead, too
- tells Lois that killing the story means they are not partners anymore, a change which Lois dismisses sarcastically by saying he “doesn’t want to be partners with a hypocritical reporter who backs off a story if it hits too close to home” …”Yes, I do.”
- arrives at the arena after Lois’s kidnapping but is attacked by some of the enhanced fighters who momentarily surprise him
- arrives too late to rescue Lois and save Menken’s life because Luthor has killed Menken and freed Lois
- answers Garrison’s continuous call to join him in the arena to fight and lets the over confident boxer try to fight him before dispatching him with a tap of his finger to the forehead – knock-out
- is bothered, later, by Perry’s questioning where he, Clark, was during the kidnapping and rescue
- turns down Lois’ invitation to get a bite to eat and goes to the gym for a quiet workout alone
- feels better after running through a varied routine, telling himself, “Not bad for a mild-mannered reporter.”


LOIS LANE
- doubts Superman would gamble- is positive he wouldn’t cheat
- not thrilled to be made “occasional” writing partners with Clark, equating partnership with marriage
- objects heatedly to being assigned to cover a sports related story, specifically because it’s boxing
- reveals an encyclopedic knowledge of 70’s era boxing lore
- threatens to go into the sparring ring herself with the arrogant boxer, Garrison, if reluctant Clark won’t accept his invitation to join him
- after seeing that Garrison isn’t joking, she begs Clark to get back out of the ring
- realizes the boxer is not just joking around and demands Clark get out of the ring immediately
- off-handedly introduces Clark to her father only after he begins to introduce himself
- stumbles over the partners part
- rants to Clark late that evening about her relationship with her father, first saying he has no need to know as he partner and then telling him anyway
- does admit she might be as dedicated to her job as her father was to his, but “I don’t have kids”
- though her father may have a been a workaholic like many parents are, she insists most try to spend quality time with their families
- after a call from Allie Dinello, she explains he wants to meet with her, alone, and is surprised by Clark’s understanding
- witnesses Dinello’s death and later assures Perry it was no ordinary hit and run
- reveals to Clark and Perry that Allie was upset when he called her, said he was in trouble, and she is convinced what he wanted to tell her ultimately cost him his life
- argues with her father after telling him she is sure Dinello was murdered and he suddenly questions her back
- questions her father aggressively and accuses him of lying when he refuses to answer directly
- later she and Clark return to the gym to search her father’s office
- inside a concealed room, they find more sophisticated limbs and joints with small, battery powered motors to drive them
- is shocked to realize why Menken’s fighter are invincible and laments she might be “Dr. Frankenstein’s daughter”
- lets Clark leave her inside the room when he hears someone coming and experiences an earthquake there
- stunned by the evidence her father gives her to back up the boxing story, her attitude softens and she embraces her father and tells him to be careful
- kidnapped by Menken she is taken to the fight arena, where Luthor arrives and kills Menken to free her seconds before Superman arrives
- believing Lex has saved her life, she ignores Superman and approaches Luthor to gratefully thank him for intervening and saving her life
- invites Clark to get something to eat after returning to the Daily Planet to write about the events of the evening, but leaves him to sulk


PERRY WHITE
-disagrees that Superman would cheat at poker because it wouldn’t be fairplay and “fairplay is what Superman is all about”
- argues with Lois over why she and Kent would make good partners
- after Dinello’s death, asks Lois if her can help her and if she is going to ask him for help
- is aghast after reading the watered down version of the fight story Lane and Kent turn in
- grills them but they back up one another
- seething, begins to edit their copy, effectively dismissing them without a word
- is elated when Lane and Kent hand in their story, complete with proof, and compares them to great writing teams of the past and yells out big plans to announce their work to the city. The newsroom cheers.
-is suitably impressed with the follow-up story to the scandal
- is puzzled and asks where Clark was during all of the excitement of the kidnapping and other events at the arena

JIMMY OLSEN
- is of the opinion Superman would be a good poker player because of his X ray vision and the temptation to cheat
- overhearing CK teasing Lois, suggests Lane and Kent for their byline because “the straight man always goes first”
- assures Lois there was no earthquake in Metropolis the night before when she laments her boxing story would have been the lead if it wasn’t for the quake
- tells her if the earth moved for her last night, “it must have been something else”

LEX LUTHOR
- is throwing darts at an unknown target while having a telephone conversation with Max Menken
-is concerned to discover Lois Lane and Allie Dinello have a close relationship
- reveals he suggested the press blackout for the big fight to keep Lois away from it and the fighters.
- tells Menken to take care of Dinello as it is his problem to deal with
- declaring he has no problems of his own, he hangs up the phone and walks to the target for his darts- a life-size cardboard cut-out of Superman
- reveals his ultimate plan is to create an army of supermen completely under his control and stuns Menken
- reads the headlines of the Daily Planet and tells Menken he doesn’t want the scandal to touch him
-assures Menken he needs to do one more favor for him and then he and the fighters will be relocated and paid well
- tells Menken to kill Sam Lane, who has already disappeared, by using his daughter to get to him. Lex has a plan.
- rushes up to Lane and Kent in the lobby of the Daily Planet and tells her he thinks her father was a visionary and offers to help him redirect his energies to help the injured and the handicapped. (Lois is touched. Clark is disgusted.)
- follows Menken after he kidnaps Lois and so arrives in time to save her seconds before Superman arrives
- has a talk about the events of the night, later, while pouring champagne, smugly saying Lois Lane now feels she owes him her life, and how the look on Superman’s face when he arrived too late was a bonus event in the plan
- admires his own ability to profit from setbacks, and shares the bottle of champagne with his dog


DR. SAM LANE
- arrives at the gym by taxi as Lois and Clark are leaving Menken’s gym
- is happy to see Lois until she greets him coldly, then he draws away
- asks her if she will be available for dinner and is disappointed when she turns him down
- sits dejectedly at ringside in the subdued atmosphere of the gym after Allie Dinello dies
- laments that he never thought Allie would be lost to a hit and run accident
- demands to know why Lois was with Dinello when he was killed and whether or not she was seen by the driver, but will not answer her questions
- begs her not to investigate further but won’t tell her why
- admits he was never a perfect father but is hurt when Lois corrects him that he was ‘hardly a father at all’
- ends the conversation by loudly telling her he doesn’t know anything about Allie’s death and miserably watches her as she dismisses him and leaves
- is examining a heavily bandaged patient when she returns the next day
- is not surprised she has discovered how far his work has progressed
- is shocked to learn she has killed the story she was going to write about it out of concern for his life, the father she cares about
- tells her to write the story because it isn’t about caring
- knows she resents him, rightly so, because he let her down but wasn’t because he didn’t care- it was because of his work
- reveals his early desire to help victims of catastrophic injuries by developing artificial limbs to make them whole again – a desire worth sacrificing for because “you think you’ll make it up to (your family) but time slips away, and you never do…”
- does not answer directly when asked if Menken killed Allie, just tells Lois to do what’s right, print her story, and walks away
- appalled at Menken’s plan to turn men into machines, battering rams, he meets with Lois and Clark and gives them a tape recording of his conversation with Menken
- again he tells her to write the story and leave nothing out
- after the meeting he kisses his daughter on the forehead in good-bye and disappears


MAX MENKEN
- owner of a famed establishment that has trained championship boxers for decades
- interrupts the confrontation in the sparring ring between contender Garrison and reporter Kent
- sends Garrison to the showers and closes the entire gym to visitors
- declares Garrison is ‘one’ of the strongest men in the world and goes into a publicity spiel on the upcoming fight, revealing for the first time that the winner will fight Superman
- declares the gym off limits to the reporters
- tells Dinello he should have known better (than to allow Lane and Kent near the fighters)
- later, assures Luthor that Dinello is dead
- cheerfully shows Luthor a copy of the Daily Planet with no mention of the gym, meaning he stopped Dinello before he could talk
- declares all their dreams are coming true, their fighters will dominate the sport
- after learning Luthor’s dreams are much bigger than his, he orders Dr. Lane to make the men stronger, eventually going into mass production, like Detroit makes cars
- tells angry Dr. Lane he has a lifetime contract with Menken and his financial backer, and when asked if he killed Dinello, replies “I’d hate to have to waste you, too.”
- kidnaps Lois at gun point from the lobby of the Daily Planet, taking her to the arena where the fight was to take place
- as he plays out the scheme Luthor has arranged, he realizes Luthor intends to kill him, but too late- he is killed before he can point his gun away from Lois and at Lex

TOMMY GARRISON
- arrogant top boxing contender who shows off in the practice ring by hitting his sparring partner across the ring
- demands to know who Lane and Kent are, then demands they be thrown out of the gym because they are reporters
- throws a towel at Clark and invites him into the ring to learn about boxing first hand
- taunts and threatens Clark, who manages to avoid his more aggressive moves
- is angered when Clark fights back by pushing him away
- stops his aggressive behavior when Menken calls him off, but leaves with a final taunt and blows a kiss at Clark
- is called the strongest man in the world by Clark, and a jerk by Lois, and only one of the strongest men in the world by Menken
- he had an “okay” record as a fighter until undergoing surgery, after which he became “perfect,” according to his medical records
- over-confident because of his limb replacements, wants desperately to fight Superman but is told he isn’t ready yet
- puts his fist through the concrete wall of the arena locker room after shouting “I want Superman!”
- on hearing the fight event has been cancelled, he rushes out of the locker room, screaming threats and the other fighters accompany him
- entering the ring, he again calls for Superman
- gets one lucky punch that floors Superman and is stunned that his next hit has no affect on the Man of Steel


ALLIE DINELLO
- a trainer at the Menken Gym, and long time friend of Lois and Dr. Lane, who greets Lois warmly
- nicknamed Lois “Pumpkin” when she was a child and spent a lot of time with her when she visited the gym
- apologizes for the press blackout of the big fight and says only Max Menken will talk to them
- is nervous in the company of his boss, explaining later that everyone is nervous about the big fight
- calls Lois late in the evening, wanting to talk about fight night
- is killed by a hit and run driver as he crosses a street to meet with Lois

Other Characters

Ian
-Clark’s uncle, mentioned to Lois as they search her father’s office
-unknown which side of the family, Kent or Clark, he is from

Mr. Arthur Chow, of Hong Kong
-the richest person in the world
- mentioned by Lex Luthor

Elena Pappas, of Athens, Greece
-the second richest person in the world
- mentioned by Lex Luthor

Unnammed Copy Boy
-youth who responds to Perry's call of "Copy!"

Wingate
- another reporter at the Daily Planet
- mentioned by Perry when he shouts to him to get sales on the phone to publicize the robotics scandal story

Ringmaster
- announces the cancellation of the big fight in accordance with the commissioner’s office
- further announces all five of the challengers scheduled to appear have been indefinitely suspended pending investigation of misconduct charges

Older Woman at ringside
-worries when Superman is knocked down in the ring
-gives him advice on how to fight Garrison: “Keep your left up.”


PERRY-ISMS
-“The experience of the battle scarred veteran paired with the hunger of the fresh, exciting talent!”- analogy comparing Lois to Clark
-“Your tenacity, his tact!” – Perry’s reply to Lois’ statement that she is not that scarred and he (Kent) is not that exciting
- “Fake it.” -to Lois after she compares partnership to marriage
- Perry’s Dog House, where reporters are sent when he feels they are not doing their best and are basically just asking for it. (Some of the things found in Perry’s dog house: covering the auto show, writing up the police academy graduation. Both, great confidence builders.)
- funning or funnin’ with (you, me,etc.), a term Perry uses from time to time: “I’m just funnin’ with you, Clark.”

NAME THAT TUNE (theme song)


LIFE GOES ON (other news headlines)

Pre-scandal:
ULTIMATE STREET FIGHT TOMORROW!
BOX ‘TILL YOU DROP
JACKIE FRIEDMAN SHOOTS AN 84 TO LEAD BUT RAIN CANCELS MATCH
CHAMPIONS TO (unknown activity) IN STREET!
Post scandal:
BOXING COMMISSION MEETS ON ROBOSCANDAL
CITY FREES $250 MILLION FOR DEFICITS


MISCELLANEOUS
- 9 pm, when the weekly poker game starts at the Daily Planet
- we learn Perry White’s opinion of Clark/Superman is just as important to Clark as Lois’s opinion is. He resists looking at Perry’s cards when Perry explains about fair play (though we do see that he has at least one ace, ) and he goes to the gym to raise his own spirits when Perry questions where he was while Lex Luthor was saving Lois’s life and Superman was meeting his challenger in the boxing ring
- 10, hours per day the newsroom staff is on duty, according to Clark
- Lois, Jimmy, Perry, the pony-tailed man, and a bearded man who looks like Biederman, are some of the other players in the poker game
- Pretzels, beer, peanuts, potato chips and licorice - some of the snacks at a Daily Planet poker game
- $20, Clark’s bet on his hand of three jacks, an 8 and a 3; $50, Perry’s raise of CK’s bet, and Clark folds and Perry wins the pot
- Lois's deal, done after sipping beer and chewing red licorice, "Seven card stud. High-low. First and last cards down. One-eyed jacks and deuces wild."
- Martin and Lewis, Abbott and Costello- two comedy teams mentioned by Jimmy
- the episode ends with Clark working out in a gym, showing he was taught the fundamentals of boxing at some time in his past- possibly in high school PE or as an off season way to stay in shape while playing college football
-409, street number of the Menken Gym
- 4, number of fighters going for titles the same night
-98, a math test score Lois recalls getting as a child and showing her father, only to have him reply, “That’s good, Lois. That leaves two points for improvement.”
- $20 billion (‘in excess of’)- Lex’s personal fortune at this time
- $2 billion, Lex’s additional annual income, which he breaks down to ‘approximately’ $200 million a month, $70 million a day, $3 million an hour, $50 thousand a minute…
- TV/Radio spots, skywriting, the whole nine yards: Perry’s orders to publicize not only the teaming up of Lane and Kent, but also their first story
- The fight roster posted at Metropolis Square Garden reveals that Tommy Garrison’s nickname is “The Torturer.”
- World’s Greatest Street Boxing; The Maulings in Metropolis; A Night of Championship Boxing – some of the poster lines advertising the big fight
- A partial roster of events:
Heavyweight – Main Event – 10 rounds
Danny Brown vs. Tommy “The Torturer” Morrison
Middleweight –Main Event – 8 rounds
Pete Bowser vs. Shing “Sing Sing” Carter
Light Heavyweight – Semi-Final – 6 rounds
Tony Morris vs. Sherman “Tank” Biggs
Bantamweight – Preliminaries – 6 rounds
Manny Munoz vs. (unknown)
(Presumably Sing-Sing and Tank are two of the other robotic fighters.)
-Lex’s soliloquy to himself:
It’s always such an embarrassment having to do away with someone. It’s like announcing to the world you lack the savvy and the finesse to deal with the problem more creatively. I mean, there have been times, naturally, when I’ve had to have people eliminated, but it’s always. . .(long pause). . .saddened me. I’ve always felt like I’ve. . .let myself down somehow. As he finishes, we see he is talking to his mirror image which displays a sympathetic reaction.
- Hubcaps, rearview mirrors- some of the items taken in a rash of thefts at the auto show, according to Perry.
- In the end no criminal charges are filed against Dr. Lane and Lex Luthor offers to be a character witness in his defense in front of the Medical Ethics Board.

OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

- After the simulated earthquake, Lois is let out of the secret room in her father’s office and tells Clark it felt like at least a .5 quake. JMO, but this is something a Metropolis born East Coast native isn’t likely to know right off, but it IS something a West Coast based screenwriter would know.
-Lane and Kent must have been carrying flashlights with cameras built into them because the next day Jimmy delivers to them a stack of snapshots of everything they found while searching Dr. Lane’s office and secret room.
- The robotics enhanced fighters attack Superman in the alley behind the arena and momentarily surprise him, after which he easily subdues them. Later, Superman enters the ring and is knocked down by Tommy Garrison’s first punch. He tells a ringside fan he was unprepared, but was he? Or was he playing to the crowd, and Garrison’s ego, a little bit?
- Jimmy and several other (nosy) staff members gather outside Perry’s office to listen in as he assigns Lois the auto show story and all scatter when Jimmy signals she is coming out.
Just another of the ‘just like real life’ touches that make this series so much fun to watch.
- Fans have wondered what Lois saw in Luthor that made her decide to accept his marriage proposal later in the series. We see in this episode, how he has laid the groundwork to gain her full trust. We also see his motives began as a way to get at her father whom he wants dead because of what he knows about Menken’s involvement with an unknown backer(s) to develop stronger, more machinelike men. Later on, of course, she also becomes Lex’s weapon against Superman. His campaign to win her over started here to get to her father.

It's been a long time coming, I know, but it's ready at last.The other episode I'm doing, "Pheromone, My Lovely," is almost ready to post.

It was a hard thing to NOT include observations on Lois' selective memory, but since there was no event on screen to back them up, only contradictory evidence, I left them out.

Kate

As always, I say thank you, Kate. I now think of you as Kate the Great, and I mean it! I'll get started on your page right away. Thanks again, Supergirl Hey, you can have two nicknames, right?

Zoom

You're welcome and thank you. You made my little guy smile when he read (sounded out) Supergirl. LOL!
It's great fun doing these, especially the early episodes. They've become my favorites. I'm going to start on I'm Looking Through You and I've Got a Crush on You after I post PML.

Kate, hoping snow days will become fewer so I can get some free time back

Good job! This is one of my favorite episodes in the series and I will always lament the loss of this Sam Lane when later writers turned him from a workaholic with high ideals to a philanderer selling physical fitness in a bottle. I like the parallels between him and Lois and their lives and how like him she is but doesn't realize it.
Switching those parallels and trying to make her seem more like her mother in the later seasons just doesn't work, IMO.
R.I.P. original Sam Lane. You're lucky you'll never know who Baby Gunderson is.

CHURCH OF METROPOLIS

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1- Daily Planet, newsroom, Perry's office, conference room
2- Lois' Apartment- where she tells her uncle to call her if he has trouble and she’ll call the police
3- Clark's Apartment- where Lois witnesses a kiss between Clark and Mayson
4- Americana Café, patio café area- where Lois and Clark become involved in Mike Lane’s troubles
5- Southside Street, Alley- where we are introduced to Baby Rage
6- CostMart Store- site of a grand opening and an underground operations center for Intergang
7- Parking Lot- where Perry White introduces us to Bill Church, owner of the CostMart chain of discount stores
8- Passage Way/Elevator- the location of the entry to Church’s underground lair
9- Church's Lair- deep underground beneath the new CostMart store
10- Arboretum- a local attraction, possibly built and financed by Bill Church
11- Camouflaged Pillbox/Woods- a part of an underground complex at the Arboretum
12- Courthouse, courtroom, corridor- where Mayson Drake and Martin Snell face off in the Baby Rage hearing
13- Metropolis Street- where Lane and Kent meet with Mayson Drake
14- Police Station- where Lois, Clark and Mike go to press charges against Baby Rage
15- Charity Ball location, courtyard- where Bill Church takes care of business, eliminating loose ends

LOCATIONS (Outside of Metropolis)

Kent Farm Tool shed- where the three Kents have a talk about girls, adult education and the dreaded appearance of the third person
Metropolis Skyline- seen in Superman flyovers and while following the trajectory of the projectiles fired by the pillbox gun

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

Breath- blows out a fire in the Americana Café
Strength- breaks through the concrete walls of the pillbox to destroy the installation there
Flight- goes to Kansas, goes to various sites around the city
Speed- in conjunction with flight, is able to save Lois from being hit by a paint filled projectile
Hearing- Snell’s transmitter is set at a frequency only he can hear

POWERS USED AS CLARK

Hearing- the first message from Martin Snell is sent while he is at work as Clark


HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)


CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES
1- Tells Lois he just remembered he has an errand he needs to run and will be right back and rushes out of the newsroom to go to the Arboretum.
2- Tells Lois and Mayson he has to leave- it won’t be long- to do that thing he has to do at the place he’ll be back from in just one second, then leaves to investigate the insect that tried to bite him. (MD, watching him leave: “Does he do that a lot?” LL, also watching him hurry away, “Constantly.”)


DEVICES
1- explosive device with a digital timer used by Baby Rage
2- card swipe reader protecting entry to a locked door in a back area of a CostMart store
3- state-of-the-art telecommunications setup in Church’s underground lair with audio and video signals sent and received around the world in real time with no noticeable delay or degradation of the signals
4- small, handheld smart phone-like device used by Bill Church to communicate with Snell and to detonate bombs
5- small transmitter used by Snell to broadcast on a supersonic frequency only Superman ( and a few bats) can hear
6- small, rocketlike projectiles about 4 inches long that can carry various kinds of payload inserts
7- a high powered gun for firing the projectiles
8- small mechanical insects whose sting leaves radio isotope markers on the victims
9- The Swing King- a golf game of sorts that CostMart might carry for $49, guaranteed to improve the player’s putting- Church misses his putt and lowers the price to $39
10- a programmable holographic conference table in Church’s lair that shows a map of all the properties Intergang has bought on the Southside
11- bomb hidden in Snell’s office, remotely detonated by an audio signal
12- the super fast computer network/system at the Daily Planet where Lois is able to call up the police files on Bill Church immediately with instant search speeds making long loading of information nonexistent


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)
N/A


SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)
N/A


HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN
1- spills raspberry on his tie while eating at the Americana Cafe and goes into the men’s room to clean it
2- sees a suspicious man in the alley next to the restaurant though the men’s room window and the man sees him
3- wonders how this once vital neighborhood around the restaurant could go downhill so fast
4- as Superman, apprehends the man as soon as he runs out of the restaurant and blows out the fire, much to the man’s dismay
5- chains the man to a dumpster and flies away despite the man’s threats, and returns immediately as Clark, almost forgetting to put his glasses back on
6- assures Mike he will tell the police he saw everything the man did
7- upon discovering the man is called Baby Rage, he watches him struggle with officers and threaten them, and bemusedly wonders why he is called that?
8- promises to testify so Mayson can stop Baby Rage
9- is attracted by Mayson’s obvious interest in him as more than just a witness
10- can’t help but smile when she reminds him to call her
11- going over information from Lois’ source, is distracted by a high frequency call for Superman
12- reaches the Daily Planet newsroom just as the first projectile is about to hit Lois
13- breaks open the rocket shaped and discovers it is filled with paint
14- returns to the Arboretum where Snell is waiting
15- understands the seriousness of Snell’s warning that someone close to him will be killed if he tries to stop what is happening on the Southside, but flies away with the promise that it isn’t over yet
16- goes to talk to Mayson Drake and is mystified by her cool attitude towards him
17- leaves her, barely acknowledges Lois’ arrival and flies off muttering, “This just isn’t my day.”
18- suspects Mayson knows Intergang is controlling the Skins, which she admits is true
19- tells Lois Snell is a lawyer for Intergang, citing a source of his own for the information
20- suggests Lois take a look at Bill Church’s police files, but he is clean, or never been caught, at least, just as Lex Luthor was never caught until the end
21- admits they may be on to something but feels Snell is who they should be investigating
22- goes to Lois’ apartment as Superman to talk about Intergang’s threats and she gives him an idea how he can get around them
23- buys a police officer’s uniform and is looking it over when Mayson Drake arrives at his apartment unexpectedly
24- spends the evening with her going over the case against Baby Rage, agrees to a lunch date with her and is surprised by her impulsive kiss before leaving
25- still bemused by these events, he lets Lois in just a few moments later
26- is surprised by a photo she has of Mayson with Snell and Church: the two used to work for Church acquisitions
27- goes immediately to the Southside when Lois says her uncle is in trouble and disguised as policeman, breaks up the Skins’ attack on the man and the café
28- is careful to inform them of their Miranda rights as he takes them on one by one and leaves them dazed on the ground
29- heads off to call for backup as a bewildered Mike points out backup is almost here
30- argues with Lois the next day over the direction their investigation is going and denies Mayson is his girlfriend and he doesn’t want to believe she is dirty
31- tells Lois, “If anyone is blind around here it’s you!” and he walks away angrily
32- goes to visit his parents and talk about the argument
33- meets Mayson for lunch at Mike’s and tells her what he and Lois have discovered about Church, Snell and her
34- doesn’t try too hard to stop her from angrily walking away (“Jeez, this is just not my week!”)
35- after giving testimony in court, he apologizes to Lois for loosing his temper the day before
36- is disturbed by Lois’ suspicion that Mayson is in on the sudden twist in the Baby Rage case
37- is buzzed by the same kind of insect Lois says bit her
38- catches the insect and sees that it is mechanical and is remote controlled
39- backtracks the signal used to control it and bursts through the wall of the underground control center, which he proceeds to destroy
40- at the charity ball he dances with both Lois and Mayson and afterwards, visits Lois’ apartment as Superman to thank her for her advice
41- dances with her and distracts her from questioning him by levitating them into the air, saying:
“This isn’t dancing. This is.”




LOIS LANE
1- declares she will move into her gym for a month after eating dessert at her uncle’s restaurant
2- is startled when a fire suddenly breaks out inside the cafe
3- calls the police and is annoyed to be put on hold despite describing the crime as an attempted arson
4- goes to the police station with Clark and Mike to file reports
5- shrugs it off as if it was nothing when Clark tells Mayson Drake that the arsonist, Baby Rage, threatened Lois’ life, even though she showed concern when first hearing the threats
6- notices that Mayson is clearly attracted to Clark and he is returning her interest
7- is disdainful when Mayson gives him her business card with her office and home phone numbers on it
8- dismisses her with a roll of her eyes and a smirking mutter, “Subtle.”
9- is disbelieving when Clark says he’ll ask Superman to call Mayson later and the woman dismisses the idea
10- tells Drake most people would consider it an honor to meet Superman and is further astonished when she replies that she is not most people
11- assures her uncle she and Clark will find out why the police aren’t doing anything in response to the gang activity in his area, batting away an insect as she speaks
12- in response to Clark telling her she’s got her “I have a plan look,” she tells him she has a source in the commissioner’s office
13- looking through information from the source, she and Clark realize half the major cities of the world might have been infiltrated by the same organization behind the Southside’s decline
14- tells Clark the Australian press has nicknamed it “Intergang” and the reporter who worked on the story was killed in a car accident
15- sees Superman with Mayson Drake and calls a greeting to him just as he flies away
16- watches with Mayson and angrily begins to argue when Drake muses that he’s a lot shorter in person
17- is interrupted by Clark’s arrival
18- the three of them walk along, she tells Drake what she and Clark have discovered about Intergang, the organization they believe is trying to infiltrate Metropolis
19- suspects they have people inside the Southside Police Department but have no names to back it up
20- doesn’t trust Mayson because of her distrust of Superman
21- calls Snell a greasy creep in a silk suit
22- discovers he was once staff counsel for Bill Church, the CostMart guy, working in acquisitions, responsible for buying up overseas companies
23- on a hunch she does a computer search and discovers the spread of Intergang matches the spread of CostMart stores worldwide
24- hurrying to Clark’s apartment with the new discovery she witnesses a kiss between him and Mayson
25- after Mayson leaves, she shows him a picture of Mayson with Snell and Church and tells him what she’s discovered
26- just then her beeper sounds – it’s Uncle Mike and he’s in trouble
27- argues the next day with Clark: she is positive Mayson is as dirty as Snell but Clark demands proof
28- tells him he has no proof against Snell but is willing to go after him
29- though he says he has a source, she accuses him of using a double standard
30- denies she is jealous when challenged, just concerned his interest in Mayson is affecting their job
31- calls Mayson his girlfriend who has him finger wrapped and blindfolded; later tells Perry Clark is letting his feelings for a woman get in the way of their investigation and she doesn’t like it. . . but she doesn’t know why
32- when the charges against Baby Rage are questioned in court by Snell, she tells Clark that Mayson set it up- it’s the evidence they need to prove she is corrupt
33- calls a source in the police department for information on the sudden new evidence but the source hangs up on her
34- reluctantly agrees to help Mayson investigate the new evidence threatening to derail the Baby Rage case
35- has a plan to get information from Snell which involves Mayson pretending to make a deal with Snell and Lane and Kent taping the conversation (CK: “Your plan worked.” LL: “My plans always work. I love saying that!”)
36- tells her uncle, she and Clark are going to prove Bill Church is not a great guy
37- allows Mayson to cut in on her dance with Clark at the ball and tells Perry that she and Clark are fine, she’ll never lose him no matter what happens, and that Mayson is not so bad
38- feels Mayson is pushy, obviously desperate, but who can blame her?
39- after the ball she listens to music and dances slowly by herself until Superman arrives unexpectedly
40- she asks him to dance and comments that she knows little about him after he tells her he likes the song she has playing



PERRY WHITE
1- attends CostMart store opening to announce the Daily Planet and CostMart are co-sponsoring a charity ball for the Urban Redevelopment Fund
2- walks through the parking lot looking at the sales merchandise with Jimmy
3- decides to give Jimmy the benefit of his long experience on the treacherous (“exotic, beautiful but uncharted”) jungle river that is love (every rock, rapid and twist)
4- proceeds to give Jimmy the worst romantic advice ever
5- gives Lane and Kent tickets to the charity ball (“Make sure you invite people who know how to dress and don’t mind dancing close.”)
6- talks to Lois about her argument with Clark and gets her to admit she doesn’t like that Clark appears to be letting his feelings for Mayson get in the way of his job
7- assures her she won’t lose him as a friend and though they may experience a bump or two along the road, things will work out
8- saved by Superman from one of the deadly projectiles, he wonders if he wants to know what it was. “No.” Superman replies.
9- at the ball, tells Jimmy he wants to meet Kelly, the girl he was dating and learns his romantic advice didn’t work out
10- dances with Lois at the ball, telling her he dips suddenly and deeply, and when he does says, “I warned you!”



JIMMY OLSEN
1- takes pictures at the CostMart opening and during Perry’s speech
2- doesn’t notice a passing pretty girl, thus alerting Perry that something is wrong
3- is having problems with a girl named Kelly with whom he has been out twice with a third date coming up
4- should never have listened when Perry said, “…trust me, Jimmy. Trust me.”
5- is hit by a projectile that bursts open and spatters him with paint just seconds after Superman stops another one from hitting Lois
6- tells them it was all a joke and they won’t be bothered again
7- calls Kelly at Perry’s urging and tells her he has to work all weekend
8- feels bad about lying to her and wants to call her back
9- attends the charity ball alone, sitting at the bar and nursing a (soft) drink
10- tells Perry that following his advice resulted in Kelly finding a new boyfriend who lives in Switzerland, which is where she is now


MARTHA KENT
1- is fixing a chair in the tool shed on the farm
2- tells Clark his outburst with Lois was a “subconscious desire in search of a context” according to Freud, but Jung would dismiss it as “an anger induced synaptic anomaly”
3- asks who Mayson is and is he attracted to her?
4- is concerned, afraid this would happen, Clark is beginning to talk about himself in the third person
5- puts it down to pressure and she is glad she began her classes not a moment too soon


JONATHAN KENT
1- asks Clark what he meant by telling Lois she was the blind one in their partnership
2- dryly informs Clark Martha is taking adult education courses
3- brings in lunch from the house
4- tells Martha there is no big problem- their boy has two gorgeous women chasing after him and that is not high on the list of world problems
5- asks Clark if he will join them for a piece of pie



MIKE LANE
1- Lois’s uncle and owner of the Americana Cafe whose real specialty is baking
2- an ex-Marine, hanging tough in a neighborhood of abandoned, boarded up buildings with trash and old furniture left in the streets
3- laments the declining state of his neighborhood and its affect on his business because the lack of police interest in its problems
4- serves Lois and Clark a chocolate tort with raspberry sauce which he baked himself
5- identifies the would-be arsonist as a local guy who is a member of a gang called the Skins who have been chasing people out of the neighborhood and taking it over
6- at the police station he assures Mayson Drake he will not be scared out of his neighborhood
7- notices his niece’s reaction to Ms. Drake’s interest in Kent with no expression
8- attacked and roughed up by the Skins, he fights back and makes them angry enough to pull a knife on him
9- is stunned when a police officer suddenly appears and starts beating up the gang members while quoting them their rights
10- get a few hits in himself as the gang members are tossed around like toys, then assures the officer they seem to understand their rights as sirens begin to approach
11- later, looks for the mysterious officer with the wish to thank him for his timely help with a cake
12- on meeting Bill Church, chairman of the Urban Redevelopment Fund, thinks he’s the nicest billionaire in the world
13- attends the charity ball and provides the food which everyone raves about and asks about the restaurant
14- is happy and grateful for Lois and Clark’s article – no more gangs and no more slow cops in the Southside – Intergang doesn’t like the spotlight on the area
15- thinks Church is a great guy



BILL CHURCH
1- appears at the store opening and says CostMart is not here in Metropolis just to do business, but to be a part of the lives of the public
2- leaves the parking lot festivities and goes to the back of the CostMart store
3- an elevator hidden behind a door with the sign “Air Conditioning Equipment” takes him deep underground beneath the store, where he enters a large conference room/control center
4- the moment he takes a seat four TV monitors are turned on and a voice announces overseas operatives are online and standing by
5- pauses the video conferencing for ten minutes when he is joined by a man striding confidently out of the elevator and we discover his name is Martin Snell
6- has high blood pressure, has been advised to get it under control by reducing stress in his life and delegate responsibility to others
7- demands to know why Baby Rage was setting fires in the middle of the day with witnesses around
8- tells Snell they are at a crucial point in Metropolis and can’t be “doing business” openly until Superman is out of the way
9- listens to Snell’s entire conversation with Superman when Snell warns him to stay out of Intergang’s business
10- reveals the organization’s plan to influence the city council to approve the development of hotels, casinos and off shore gambling centers on the Southside in the very near future
11- gives the order to kill Mike Lane: “Do him,” he orders Snell. “Have the Skins do him, Don’t let it fall back on us. Big, loud, messy- a gang vendetta. Do him.”
12- visits the Americana Café with Mayson after the Skins fail to kill Mike Lane
13- manages to impress Mike, who will think he is a nice guy to the end
14- denies he has ever done business with Martin Snell and tells Mayson he understands why she had to ask him, and “Go enjoy the party.”
15- gives Lane a thumbs-up sign from the food table at the charity ball
16- leaves the ball after a time and walks across a courtyard to a quiet spot away from other guests
17- with his smart phone like device he begins to watch Snell and several men seated at a table in Snell’s office an listens to their conversation
18- as Snell seems to be about to tell the other men who the head of Intergang is, Church enters a code on the device's keyboard and a bomb explodes on the screen, killing Snell and all the men with him (presumably all the bad cops)



MAYSON DRAKE
1- deputy district attorney
2- introduces herself as she looks for Clark Kent to ask if he is willing to testify in the attempted arson
3- tells them the alleged arsonist goes by the name Baby Rage
4- tells Mike Lane she is sorry about what happened to his restaurant
5- is clearly more interested in meeting and dealing with Clark than with Superman
6- on meeting Superman, asks him several questions: Does he have a license to go after criminals? Does he read them their rights? Is he insured if he hurts someone? Where does he live? Does he work? Who is he?
7- promises Lois she will help her and her uncle and leaves, touching Clark’s arm with another promise to talk soon
8- talks about the case at Clark’s apartment and impulsively kisses him before leaving- both unaware they are being watched by Lois
9- tell Clark she knows Superman has done a lot of good things but she’d like to see him go up against the biggest criminal gang in town without his super powers, just as Clark is
10- leaves elated that Clark has agreed to have lunch with her- without talking about the case
11- at lunch, gets angry with Clark when he appears to be questioning her friendship with Bill Church after revealing he has evidence that links Church to Intergang- and her by association
12- questions Clark at the court hearing, they exchange a look as he is excused and passes her to take his seat
13- is worried when Snell presents new evidence, and tells the judge it’s all a mistake
14- goes to Lane and Kent for help- if the case is dismissed and her office in implicated in wrongdoing, she could be disbarred
15- wants to find out what’s happening, too, but doesn’t know who to trust
16- decides to trust Clark and gives him, and Lois, a file containing all the information her office has on Intergang, along with her personal files on Martin Snell
17- approaches Snell and asks to make a deal and when he tells her to try CostMart, tells him to shut up and listen for once
18- tells Snell Kent and Lane have a source in the police department, a leak in the group of officers Intergang has on its payroll and she can help him get rid of the guy
19- tells him it’s a one time deal- the name of the guy in exchange for what (amount) he pays his Southside cops ($5000 a month and more for special favors)
20- believes Church at the charity ball when he tells her he has never had any business dealings with Martin Snell
21- cuts in when Clark and Lois are dancing



MARTIN SNELL
1- arrives at Church’s lair and immediately tries to soothe his anger at the arrest of Baby Rage
2- tells Church the Skins are getting difficult to control
3- is told to “make it work or cut them loose”
4- tells Church the plan to stop Superman is ready and waiting for his okay
5- asks Superman to meet him at the Arboretum or someone is going to die
6- greets Superman cheerfully and bets he wonders how he was able to call him
7- demonstrates the transmitter
8- he’s a lawyer, he tells Superman, and that Lois Lane is going to die in 10 seconds if he can’t get there in time to save her
9- speaks into the transmitter and sets Church’s plan into motion: “Lock on the target.”
10- claims to be a big fan of Superman, likes him, in fact, but he and his partners want Superman to stay out of their business
11- says he is from Paramus, New Jersey, and drives a Ferrari but he is just a link in a chain – if Superman turns him over to the police someone will step in and take his place
12- tells Superman to keep doing his job, just don’t do it in the Southside or someone he knows will die because although he can’t be in two places at once, the little rocket projectiles can
13- shows Church the one obstruction on the Southside that prevents them from controlling the area – Mike Lane’s café
14- has no questions for Clark at the hearing
15- accepts the delivery of a file, which he seems to be expecting, during the proceedings
16- shows the contents of the file to Mayson and the judge: new evidence that the police officer who arrested Baby Rage did not read him his rights, and the warrant issued to search his house had the wrong address on it and tells Mayson “better luck next time” after the judge halts proceedings
17- watching with Church as Superman raids the hidden control room at the pillbox, Snell angrily uses a keyboard to send a code to fire the gun
18- calls Mayson Frosty the Snow Queen
19- dismisses her request for a deal and denies knowing anything about what she tells him
20- convinced she’s being honest with him, remarks that the good little girl is coming to the bad side of the street, offers her $7000 a month (“You’re a college graduate…”)
21- agrees to the deal but when presented with their conversation on tape and before the judge, he denies it was him speaking, the tape is fake, it’s an impersonator
22- barely contains his anger when Mayson bids him “Better luck next time.”
23- is killed in an explosion in his office





BABY RAGE
1- a young thug and gang member we discover has been hired to terrorize the neighborhood and force property owners to sell-out
2- spotted by Clark in the alley beside Mike Lane’s café, he runs inside and quickly sets a bomb underneath a table and runs back outside
3- after Superman prevents his escape, he threatens him
4- upon learning Lois’ name, he laughs and tells her that word on the street is that someone wants her dead
5- claims they won’t be able to prove anything because no one saw anything, until Clark says he saw it all
6- belligerently insults and fights with the police officers arresting him at the police station
7- while being transferred into the courthouse, spots Lane and Kent across the street and asks if Clark (“Hey, reporter man!”) has a match
8- has a few words with Snell before being taken inside
9- after the judge orders a 24 hour recess in the case, he looks over his shoulder at an angry Mike Lane and smiles and winks
10- grimaces painfully when the judge tells him, “Daniel Anthony Bell, you’re going to trial.”



OTHER CHARACTERS

Silhouette Source
1- meets with Lane and Kent and tells them about the Southside Police Precinct’s troubles
2- says there were budget cuts, men transferred away, equipment sabotaged, cops paid to look the other way
3- the neighborhood went bad, people moved, whole blocks went up for sale at low prices
4- gives Lois a floppy disk and tells her not to call him again
5- he wants to help but he can’t do more

Judge Lance A. Davis
1- upon reading the new evidence presented by Snell, gives Mayson twenty-four hours to investigate and refute the charges
2- if she can’t, he will have no choice but to declare the arrest invalid and set the defendant free
3- listens to the taped conversation between Drake and Snell and tells Snell it does not bode well for his future as an attorney or as a free man
4- reveals Baby Rage’s real name when he announces he is going to trial for attempted arson

Mystery Cop
1- saves Mike Lane’s life and breaks up the Skins gang when they attack him at his cafe
2- disappears as quickly as he appeared and is hard to find later

Tech 1
1- in an underground weapons center, operates a high powered gun in a concealed pillbox along with another tech operative
2- on Martin Snell’s order, fires the gun twice and sends tiny projectiles into the skies above the city
3- complains to his fellow tech that they’ve broken another needle on this guy Kent, trying to get their mechanical insects to mark him
4- nervously admits to Superman- who has just entered through the wall- that a radio isotope is used to help the projectiles track their targets

Church’s Overseas Operative
1- reports on an election where a government minister wants $500,000 for an endorsement (a speech and a handshake)
2- reveals the minister has a 12 year old daughter and is instructed to offer the minister $150,000 and a picture of the child, then offer him nothing
3- “Done.” he tells Church


NAME THAT TUNE

Unknown piano dance music at the charity ball
“Fly Me To The Moon” (Dinah Washington) plays in Lois’ apartment as she and Superman dance


PERRY-ISMS

1- Perry’s Love Analogy #1: “Love is tricky. You gotta think of it as a jungle river. Exotic, treacherous, beautiful but uncharted. Reach up and grab a mango from a tree and you’re just as likely to get your arm ripped off by a jaguar!”
2- Perry’s Love Analogy #2: “I neglected to tell you that love is most like a big casino. Flashing lights. Free drinks. Wayne Newton. Plenty to distract a player from what’s really going on. But sometimes when you throw them big dice in casino love. . .well, you crap out.”



NOT -SO SUPERMAN


Unable to fight crime on the Southside because he can’t give Intergang reason to kill someone to whom he is close, Superman takes on the disguise of a police officer and breaks up the Skins gang, and prevents the murder of Mike Lane, with the use of only boxing and fist fighting skills.


LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)



MISCELLANEOUS

1- Employment Applications Not Being Accepted, a sign in the window of the Americana, which is s bright spot in the abandoned neighborhood with crisp, white tablecloths and flower arrangements on all the tables
2- The Patio Café at the Americana serves Breakfast from 6:30 AM to 11:30 AM, and lunch from 11:30 AM to 2:00 PM
3- Intergang’s MO: They acquire companies, other criminal organizations, even governments – swallow them whole and start running them, while staying safely hidden from a distance.
4- a lot of mocking laughter happens in this episode: Martin Snell laughs after making his supersonic call to Superman; over-confident Baby Rage laughs at Clark after teasing him in front of police officers; Lois’s source laughs while leaving after their meeting where he stayed in the shadows and all Lane and Kent could see was his silhouette against background street lights. He tells Lois she hasn’t complimented him on his new mustache and laughs heartily at his own joke, yet, when he turns away, he clearly doesn’t have one.
5- the smile Bill Church gives after killing Martin Snell and all of the dirty cops is an indication that he is as insane as Lex Luthor was.
6- Like Lex, he ran his empire hands on at all times, and almost like Lex, his downfall was nearly brought about by the delegation of tasks to other people. Church saved himself by getting rid of all his loose ends. Lex didn’t, because he was distracted by his wedding.
7- Superman goes to talk to Lois, to tell her she has been targeted by Intergang. The paint bullets fired at her and Jimmy were a warning to him, Superman, that if he continues to interfere with the organization’s plans on the Southside, the next bullets will be real, and one of them will die. He has been warned that they don’t want to see him anywhere on the Southside.
She muses that he is a pretty visible sight, and it isn’t as if he can go undercover- SNAP! HISS! A light saber – that is, a light bulb clicks on over Superman’s head. His expression brightens, he thanks her and leaves.
8- Intergang’s silent partners have bought up 27 city blocks of real estate with five areas in purchase negotiations, according the Snell. One lone hold out, Mike Lane and his business establishment stands in their way.
9- Mason tells Clark she appreciates his willingness to be a witness. In her line of work, she doesn’t see very much bravery. He says he just telling the truth and there is nothing brave about that. She tells him he’s not flying around with a big re S on his chest bragging about what a big hero he is. Clark asks if she’s really heard Superman brag. Not in so many words- she knows they are friends and Superman has done a lot of good things, but Clark is ten times the man he is, because he’s an ordinary guy getting ready to stand up to a big criminal organization. She’d like to see Superman do that without his cape on. Clark tells her maybe she will.
10- the arrival of the third person: “ Mayson likes me but she hates Superman, which is confusing because Lois loves Superman but only likes Clark. Mayson likes Clark but in a different way than Lois does. And Mayson hates Superman in a different way than anybody!”
11- When Clark apologizes for losing his temper with her, Lois brushes it off. They both lost their temper. He’s entitled. She’s been known to get angry once every, what? “Three or four minutes,” he mutters.
Good moment between them. He can’t resist teasing her every chance he gets.
13- The judge has the second best line in the story. When Snell dismisses Mayson’s taped conversation between them as fake, with an impersonator doing his voice, the judge replies, “Really? I’d love to hear his Brando.”
14- The best line is Jonathan’s, after Martha’s Freud and Jung analysis: “Adult education.” (Pause) “It’s a beautiful thing.” The sarcasm is just right and a funny play on that old TV commercial. Poor guy! He’s had many discussions over dinner with her about her psych class.



OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

- There is a funny moment when the judge reveals Baby Rage’s real name and remands him over for trial, and he grimaces and looks down, and one wonders if he’s reacting to discovering he isn’t being released after all, or to the revelation of his real name.
- I know next to nothing about guns so my descriptions of the weapons used may be way off. The pill box gun, for example- a gun or a small cannon?
- Peter Boyle’s performance as Bill Church is every bit as evil as John Shea’s as Lex Luthor, but unlike Lex, Bill doesn’t try to justify his criminal actions to himself. The smile on his face after he kills Snell shows his insanity is just as much a part of his personality as Lex’s madness was.
- This Superman has a lot of skills the movie and comic incarnations don’t have. For one thing, he developed his powers gradually, not all at once, and as a result he can do things the others can’t. He can fight with the gang members without hurting them, for one thing, and appear to be nothing more than a police officer who happened on the scene of their attack on Mike Lane.
- when Clark and Lois are declining the chocolate torte in the first scene, the salt and pepper shakers keep changing place and after all these years I still haven’t figured out what animal is on Clark’s tie, or if it is a reptile or an insect.
- Totally enjoyed how Farrah Forke played the scene when Mayson goes to Clark’s apartment and he opens the door shirtless and wearing khaki shorts. The way she says her lines, as if having to pluck words out of a totally blank mind one by one and hope they relate to one another in some way, is complemented by her facial expressions and the shirt nonsense that follows. Great scene. And Clark’s fascination is well done, too. Unlike indifferent Lois and over the top Cat, Mayson is interested but unsure of herself. She was attracted on first meeting, but falling in love here. Lois falls in love gradually, over time, and we don’t see the moment, so it’s fun to see Forke’s performance as Mayson actually does. She nailed it.
- I’ve listed the original song recordings used in the episodes as they are on the DVDs. No one seems to know the name of the song that replaces “Fly Me To The Moon” in recent re-broadcasts of the show.

Finished at last. This episode had so much going on. As I started the history list it just kept getting longer and longer. There was very little time spent in the newsroom. ALL the characters were in action throughout the story.
I came away with a great respect for Mayson Drake and Farrah Forke. Mayson saw a gorgeous guy with a lot of courage and fell in love; and Forke's performance is perfect. I never noticed how good she was until watching this episode so closely. I was focused on Lois' jealousy and her denial that she had any kind of romantic feelings for Clark and never paid attention to the other performance. It was a nice surprise to see something new after all this time.
As with some of the other episodes I've transcribed. I have a lot of left over info that was featured in the series but I haven't included in the final concordance pages.
In this episode there is a list of quick key commands on Lois' computer called Daily Planet Main Menu.
In the Prankster they show a list of many of the ex-cons released from prison and who have come to Metropolis around the same time Kyle Griffin was released. The list includes names, crimes and prisons where they served their time.
Should any of that be included or is that overkill?

As ever edit where necessary.

It's just me but I'd say include it. It's part of the story. I liked the flyover description in one of the other episodes where a clock tower was mentioned. I'll bet it's a landmark for Metropolis citizens. "I'll meet you at the clock tower" kind of thing. I made it a point to watch the episode and look for it!
Things like that might come in handy to somebody.

Present them for consideration at least. I agree they might come in handy to someone. I try to include background descriptions too but so far I've chosen episodes that don't show very much beyond Clark and Lois standing in front of a featureless building here and there. Even meeting Sam outside the gym in RFAS showed almost no street detail. And Lois meeting Allie was just outside the gym at night. No detail.

Kate

OK. I guess as long as it's available somewhere someone might be able to use it. These would go under miscellaneous.
First from COM, the navigation menu on the computers at the Daily Planet:


DAILY PLANET MAIN MENU

F1- World News

F2-National News

F3-Local News

F4- Variety

F5- Entertainment

F6- Sports

F7- Business

F8- Stock Market

F9- Classified

F10- Advertising

F11- Obituaries

F12- Travel

SP1- Real Estate

SP2- Opinion

SP3- Editorial

SP4- View

SP5- Recreation

SP6- API Service

SP7- Prev. Editions

SP8- Civic

SP9- Research



From The Prankster, a list of criminals on the police department's website. There a couple of blank spots where even my mom's incredibly large, monster of an HD monitor, I think of it as Sully, couldn't show the letters clearly. And, of course, this was made up for TV and we probably weren't supposed to ever pay attention to the list so that would explain why Kyle Griffin served time for a crime committed in New Troy in a California state prison. Also the screenwriter(s) probably didn't want to do too much research. Really, who knew monster HD was just around the corner?


M.C.Collins- Attica – Murder 1

Bob Ramsey- ? - Rape, Murder

Michael Coultas- N.M State Pen.- Aggrevated Assault

Ken Fulter- Kentucky Pen.- Narcotics Dist.

Ken Beaucheme- Lompoc – Grand theft

Jim Pohl – Maryland - Burglary

Gary Sawyer –Texas Fed. - Assault

Jim Michaels –Johnston – Attempted Murder

Phil Sgriccia – Attica - Manslaughter

John McNamara – Ranway – Narcotics Dist.

Paul Jackson – San Quentin - Murder

Darryl Levine - San Quentin –Armed robbery

Loran Freeman - San Quentin – Assault, Rape

Fred Sanchez – Attica – Murder 1, Assault

Tony Esposito –Ranway – Armed Robbery

Mick Barrows – San Quentin –Armed Robbery

Kyle Griffin - San Quentin – Illegal Arms Dist.

Jay Guerra – Attica – Money Laundering

Corey Milton – Ranway –Murder 1, Robbery

Don Potts – NM State Pen – Assault, B/W

Wayne Demore - San Quentin – Armed Robbery

Paul Conti - San Quentin – Attempted Murder


I know the Concordance pages are not in their final state yet, so these lists are here if needed.

Definitely in a party mood! I finally found out what the song is that Victor is listening to as he works under the street cleaner in "The Prankster!" It's called "Stormy Monday" but I don't know who the performer is (Eric Clapton? the guitar is so prominent). It was written by T-Bone Walker, but any number of other artists (Allman Brothers, Albert King, Bobby "Blue" Bland, etc.) have recorded it.

"They call it stormy Monday but Tuesday's just as bad
They call it stormy Monday but Tuesday's just as bad
Wednesday is worse and Thursday's also sad"

Thank you, Bev! I'm sorry I'm behind on thanking you. My husband had to take a detour to the hospital a few days ago, but he is perfectly fine now. I'm having to play catch up with your and Kate's Concordance pages, but I can be quick Thank you once again. You're a dynamic duo

Zoom

LOL, I recognize a lot of the criminal names on the computer screen from the L&C credits, people who worked on the show.

Zoom, glad hubby is doing fine now

Just looking it up on YouTube brought up hits by quite a few artists who've recorded that song. How did you find it? Now that I know the lyrics I can make them out beneath Rick Overton's humming in that scene. I always thought the lyrics said something about funny money. LOL!

Take care of real life. We, this, can wait. Glad to hear he's doing well.

I have seasons one and two on my Ipod and I played that scene for anyone who would listen. LOL!
Yeah, some thought the lyrics were 'funky Monday,' 'stolen money' and 'a Georgia bank'-- among other things. We had a substitute gym teacher for three days this week and I asked him to listen to it. He recognized it right off but because of Overton's humming and dum-dum-dums, he couldn't tell who was singing but he thought B.B.King or Eric Clapton. I don't know who it is but I'm sure it isn't B.B.King. The T-Bone Walker recording has a lot of piano in it so I don't think it's him either, though it could be.

Yes, Zoom, as we told Avilos, this will always be here and you can get to it at any time.

It isn't the Allman Bros, either, Bev. I have their live albums on my iPod with that song and Duane Allman's voice is a little higher pitched. I guess it'll have to be artist unknown.

Kate

Thanks everyone for your well wishes

I have updated the Prankster page: http://zoomway.net/concordance/prankster.html

In the "Name that Tune" category I have listed the Stormy Monday song (good catch) and in the trivia section at the bottom of the page, I've listed the names from the police database who had real life jobs connected to the series.

Thanks again and I'll work on the new stuff now

Zoom

Wow!! (to quote Lois, "Good get!")

I'm amazed, as always, Zoom, that you can tie in so many names of the people that also worked on the show. I recognized McNamara (We love us our John) and a few others, but you really related the names of a lot of people on that list that just were not very well known.

/me wonders if you have a list of names that you run a program against to find out if there are any matches... <eg>

I'd also like to take this opportunity to give a big Thanks! to everyone who has helped on this project. Your dedication is very much appreciated and it adds to my enjoyment whenever I get a chance to watch an old episode.

/me is still ticked off that it got cancelled.

Zoom, take care, and give your hubby my best wishes!

That's so cool and funny.

Thanks, Deb I was looking up the names I didn't recognize on IMDB and even though I knew Corey Miller, he really moved up the success ladder. My sidekick Widget was telling me about his work on CSI: Miami and he's currently a co-executive producer on Body of Proof.

Anyway, I completed Church of Metropolis first: www.zoomway.net/concordance/church.html

Let me know if there's any goofs, and check out the trivia

Zoom

Okay, Requiem for a Super Hero is now ready: http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/requiem.html

I also fixed the font formatting on the Church of Metropolis page. Speaking of, in the Observation section, you wrote: "This Superman has a lot of skills the movie and comic incarnations don’t have. For one thing, he developed his powers gradually, not all at once..."

Actually, a guy named John Byrne revamped the Superman comics beginning with a mini-series in 1985. In that revamp Clark became the real guy and Superman the disguise, but also his powers came to him gradually. Lois & Clark is the only version of the Superman myth based on the John Byrne Revamp ... for the most part. The S shield in the revamp stood for Superman, but for some reason DJL went with the movie lore of the symbol representing the House of El, so did Smallville, which had some elements from pre and post Crisis (on Infinite Earths) versions of Superman. That Clark was the latest bloomer when it came to flying

Zoom

If you need to make changes to clarify something, go ahead and do it. Change it to he can do things most cannot or whatever if it reads better. You're the editor and as you can see I'm no great writer, so it won't bother me if you can make the 'copy' better.

The same for me. I'm having fun doing this now that I've gotten into it. I wasn't going to volunteer but I started doing Madame Ex just to see how hard it would be. When Bev said she was going to start with episode one in season two, I offered to give her my notes but she said to finish it myself and I'm glad she did.
Rewatching the episodes so closely is full of surprises. If I get carried away with something and it needs to be changed or tweaked a little go ahead and do it.

Kate

RETURN OF THE PRANKSTER


LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1- Daily Planet
…Newsroom, where Griffin and Victor freeze everyone and search Lois’ computer
2- Lois' Apartment, where she finds it has been ransacked and discovers the Prankster is back
3- Griffin's Hideout, an abandoned building
4- Metropolis Edison Energy Plant/ Department of Power and Light: where they have just installed micro step-up transformers in their master switches
5- Mike Carney's Office, where Kyle, Victor and Edwin indulge in a few, painful, slapstick antics
6- Switching Room, where Victor manipulates the power to the city
7- Generator Room, where Lois is chained to a generator about to blow
8- Lakeside Towers, where Griffin lures Lois and Superman for a final test of the freezing weapon
…Elevator, where Kyle and Victor, pretending to be room service trap Lois with the camera weapon
9- Sidewalk Café, where Lois and Clark meet Bobby Bigmouth
10- Lakeside Towers Patio, from which Superman is pushed after being frozen
11- Metropolis Streets, where the Prankster looks for just the right victim, and where the presidential motorcade is stopped
12- Hamilton Labs, where a solution for the Prankster’s weapon might be found
13- Newsstand, which is destroyed by Superman falling from the Lakeside Towers penthouse

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

1- Vision, destroys the larger light weapon
2- Flight and speed, rescues Lois from falling, blowing up, etc.
3- Invulnerability, falls from a great height, destroys a newsstand, but does not make an impression in a concrete sidewalk

HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)
N/A

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

When meeting with Bobby Bigmouth, Clark suddenly remembers a dental appointment in a few minutes. He has to go; he’ll meet Lois back at the newsroom, and hurries off to save someone from a piano about to fall.

DEVICES
1- modified Polaroid camera, has a flash attachment that can be used to freeze people
2- photoconductor cell, a component of the flash attachment
3- micro step-up transformer, needed to make the freezing light work on Superman (It will increase the weapon’s power twelve-fold, according to Victor)
4- larger version of the flash weapon, truck mounted to affect a wider area and more people
5- contact lenses, keeps the freezing light flash from affecting whoever wears them, some made by Griffin and Victor, some made by Prof. Hamilton
6- voice altering device, used by Griffin to impersonate Helen Bartlett


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)
N/A

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)
N/A

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN

1- meets Lois at the elevator to tell her Kyle Griffin has escape from prison, but she already knows and appears blasé about it, and shows him the picture
2- calls to Perry and shows him the picture of Lois and Kyle Griffin
3- as Lois mentions an intense yellow light, Clark finishes, “you don’t recall anything after that.”
4- explains it happened when Griffin and Victor broke out of prison, they left a guard frozen after using the light on him
5- tries hard not to laugh when Carrigan asks Lois if she is on medication after she starts babbling
6- asks Lois if she wants to stay at his apartment while Griffin is on the loose, but she turns him down
7- asks Jimmy if Lois can stay at his apartment until the Prankster is caught
8- leaves the newsroom for the airport after Griffin threatens to cut the power to it
9- responds to Lois’ call for help at ML&P and he responds
10- confronts Griffin and Victor and tells them they should never have come back to Metropolis
11- lets them escape in order to save Lois, whisking her away seconds before the boiler explodes
12- advises her to leave town until Griffin is caught but isn’t surprised when she refuses
13- tells her and Perry the next day that Met Ed (ML&P) was able to contain the blast and they can still meet the city’s power needs
14- as Lois worries over her 5 minute interview with the president, he suggests they spend the 24 hours between now and the interview looking for a lead
15- explains to Bobby Bigmouth about Lois’ interview with the president being cut to just 5 minutes because of Griffin
16- tells Lois if it were him, he’d ask the president about something totally unexpected to break the ice
17- leaves unexpectedly after hearing a call for help
18- returns to the newsroom and is amused to find everyone is frozen like a statue and pictures of Victor have been taped up all over the room
19- finds Lois with her dress removed and covers her with his suit jacket
20- looks appreciatively but is not embarrassed by the sight
- laughs as people start waking up and look around in confusion
21- wonders why Griffin was her in the first place and surmises he was probably looking for whatever he searched her apartment for and tells Lois to check her computer
22- wonders how Griffin and Victor were able to zap the entire newsroom at once but not be affected by it themselves (“They’re subhuman!” Lois declares.)
23- suggests they talk to Professor Hamilton
24- goes to the police department the next morning to try to get a lead from them on the Prankster’s whereabouts
25- gets a phone call from Griffin saying he has Lois, and asking him to send Superman to the Lakeside Towers penthouse
26- frozen by the light weapon as Superman, he is pushed from the balcony and hits the street, destroying a newsstand
27- awakened by the newsstand vendor who points to Lois falling toward them, springs up and catches her at the last moment
28- acting on Bobby’s tip, goes with Lois to investigate the Prankster’s hideout where they find evidence that the president’s motorcade will be Griffin’s real target
29- goes to find Superman to tell him to meet her at Prof. Hamilton’s lab as soon as possible
30- from the president’s limousine, assures Griffin the president is safe, but he and Victor are going back to jail

LOIS LANE

1- arrives home with groceries and fresh, cut flowers and finds her apartment in disarray
2- enters slowly, the light switch doesn’t work but she can see the place has been ransacked
3- a bright light is flashed in her eyes and she freezes in place
4- comes to as the effect of the flash of light wears off, puzzled, looking around, sees the picture in her hand
5- recognizing Griffin, is shocked and deflated as she realizes what happened
6- next day shows Clark the picture and says Griffin and Victor were waiting for her at home the night before
7- they had searched the apartment, looking for something, and left it in a mess
8- wonders why people like to break into her apartment and shine bright lights in her eyes
9- is the only reporter to get an interview with the president while he’s in town
10- thinks it would be an embarrassment for the White House to cancel the president’s visit just because the Prankster is loose
11- picks up her phone to call the Secret Service
12- tells Jimmy to search for the Griffins
13- in her attempt to convince the Secret Service the Prankster will not be a threat to the president, she makes Agent Carrigan suspicious of her
14- tells Clark she would feel uncomfortable staying with him since they are almost dating
15- phone rings as the lights begin to dim- it is Griffin and she signals for Clark to listen on his phone
16- stunned by Griffin’s demonstration of control over the city’s electrical power, she calls ML&P and is put on hold
17- goes to ML&P and finds the workers there frozen in place and Griffin calls to her, knowing she would show up
18- left chained to a broiler with the pressure gauge rapidly increasing, calls for Superman
19- tells him she can’t leave town because in two days she has an exclusive interview with the president
20- arrives at work the next morning, very unhappy, with three hours of sleep due to Jimmy’s TV being on all night, now understands why he lives across the street from a fire station
21- told her interview with the president was canceled, begins to rant about the Prankster, but is stopped by Perry: she has five minutes to interview the president. FIVE minutes??!! (“That’s five minutes more than any other reporter!”)
22- that’s enough for one question- just one question when she has so many areas she wants to cover
23- asks for advice on what the question should be
24- awakens after the Prankster leaves wearing her undergarments but covered by Clark’s jacket and immediately understand, “Griffin!”
25- recalls the Prankster’s eyes looked sparkly and tinted reddish when he came to the newsroom
26- her current novel is about a female reporter who meets an alien from outer space, and has a lot of good “stuff” in it, according to Victor
27- next day, arrives at work arguing with Jimmy over being kept awake until 3 in the morning
28- left the apartment for a brie time to use a phone, then shrugs when Jimmy asks her if she was the person who called the police!
29- goes to Lakeside Towers to meet with Helen Bartlett only to be ambushed and frozen by the Prankster
30- awakens in time to see a frozen Superman (“as stiff as a fishstick” says Kyle) pushed over the balcony as she watches in horror
31- is thrown, screaming, over the balcony by Griffin, too
32- is saved by Superman
33- reluctantly tells Carrigan the Prankster has found a way to stop Superman, so the president should postpone his visit
34- discovers the president is Griffin’s target and goes to see Prof. Hamilton with Superman
35- disrupts the Prankster’s plan to kidnap the president and when Griffin is frozen by his own weapon, rushes over to pants him- telling Superman the Prankster deserves it
36- tells Perry, Clark and Jimmy her first question broke the ice with the president and basks in Perry’s praise that it was first rate, she can think on her feet (It was Clark’s suggestion.)
37- thanks Jimmy for letting her stay at his place and apologizes for her behavior, but she was under a lot of pressure


PERRY WHITE

1- is puzzled but concerned when he sees the picture of Lois and Kyle Griffin
2- worries that Lois’ upcoming interview with the President of the United States might be canceled
3- thinks the White House might not want to expose the president to the Prankster
4- relieved there will not be another blackout in the city, tells Lois the White House is concerned about the Prankster
5- tells Lois her interview with the president will be rescheduled
6- “I told them they weren’t dealing with some small town rag. This is the Daily Planet!” (CK teases, “In other words you groveled.” P smiles. “But only on one knee.”)
7- tells Lane and Kent to concentrate on the Prankster- Metropolis hates him, but loves to read about him
8- takes Lois a file as she talks to Jimmy and asks if she has anything new on the Prankster, and is surprised by an unexpected answer
9- comes to after the Prankster leaves the newsroom and is puzzled to be holding a newspaper with a hole cut into in front of his face, just below a fruit fly spraying story (which, within the context of the story, is the third time the city has had to do this)
10- is unhappy that his favorite tie has been cut and wonders why it couldn’t have been the ugly fish tie Alice gave him for Christmas?
11- is seething with anger the nest day- Griffin took the time to reprogram the newspaper’s computers and typesetter, changing the masthead to “The Daily Prankster”
12- calls Lois a seasoned reporter, able to get her subject to open up and talk freely

JIMMY OLSEN

1- tells Lois that when Edwin Griffin got out of jail he sold his toy store and disappeared
2- the warehouse where she captured Griffin and Victor last time is now a Buddhist temple
3- tells her he’ll keep looking for more info and hurries away
4- is hesitant to have Lois stay with him – it’s a small place, but if she doesn’t mind roughing it
5- when she promises he won’t know she’s there, he runs off to clean up the apartment
6- needs to sleep with the TV on since he was a kid, the noise helps him sleep, that’s why he freaked out when Lois turned it off in the middle of the night
7- apologizes for freaking out and gives Lois a set of headphones so they can both get some sleep at his place
8- wakes up after the Prankster visits the newsroom and finds himself wearing Lois’ dress
9- tells Lois he didn’t know his friends were going to drop by and stay so late- they all live with their parents and have no other place to go!
10- not amused to discover she was the one who called the police on them
11- complains to Clark that Lois called the cops on him just because he had a few friends over
12- despite CK’s warnings, decides to get even with her
13- calls Lois a class act after she thanks him for giving her a place to stay and apologizes, but is too late to warn her not to open the drawer on her desk that he booby-trapped
14- runs out of the newsroom, deciding to take a vacation day when she opens it and glares at him

KYLE GRIFFIN

1- waits in Lois’ apartment, hiding behind the door after thoroughly searching the apartment
2- uses a modified Polaroid camera to cause her tp freeze like a statue
3- asks Victor to take a picture of him with her when she isn’t so – “Clothed?” smug!
4- reaches around to stretch her mouth into a wide smile
5- takes the flowers from her hand and replaces it with the picture
6- tells Victor that what they were looking for isn’t here and they can leave
7- stops to kiss frozen Lois behind Victor’s back
8- escaped from prison using the flash of light on a guard, who was frozen and left in his underwear and inside a dryer
9- reveals the big picture to Victor: kidnapping the president would make history, the government would pay “a lot” to ransom the president, more than robbing a bank
10- considers condemned buildings to be good hideouts because no one can find them there
11- puts a photoconductor cell into the camera and asks Victor if he has located a micro step-up transformer
12- pretends to see a rat to scare Victor
13- takes over the master control room at ML&P and calls Lois, directing her attention to the building across the street where the lights go out and some windows light up spelling “Hi Lois”
14- since she is his favorite reporter, he’s calling to give her a scoop: he’s going to shut down the airport
15- confronts Lois at ML&P with the weapon and tells her to call Superman but she won’t
16- chains her to a boiler and demonstrates how hot it is by pressing Victor’s hand against it and causing him to howl with pain
17- turns up the pressure on the boiler and he and Victor run away
18- when Superman arrives he uses the camera on him- but the beam doesn’t work
19- tells him in 15 seconds the boiler will blow and Lois Lane will become just a memory
20- escapes with Victor when Superman flies off to help Lois
21- reveals that they searched Lois’ apartment for information on Superman
22- drives through town looking for just the right setting to turn into a disaster and distract Superman and settles on a piano being raised to an upper floor of a building while a woman and her child are walking beneath it
23- goes to the Daily Planet, freezes everyone in the newsroom and searches Lois’ computer
24- plays a few pranks on the frozen staff before going
25- leaves Lois a message on her computer- Victor asking where she buys her lingerie
26- discovers an entire sub-directory on her drive about Superman- most of which he calls useless
27- finds the detailed information she kept about Superman’s temporary blindness and discovers Victor just has to make their light beam shorter
28- calls Lois and pretends to be Helen Bartlett from the White House and asks her to come to the Lakeside Towers to discuss protocol
29- Supey and Supester, a couple of Griffin’s nicknames for Superman
30- takes out his weapon, brags he’s made a few adjustments and fires it at him
31- tosses both Superman and Lois off the balcony
32- waits with his father for the presidential motorcade and signals Victor when to stop the limousines by blocking the street with a truck
33- approaches the president’s limousine with Victor and both are shocked to find Superman inside
34- sees Superman is wearing contact lenses like his own
35- turns to run but is stopped and knocked down and he loses his contacts and is frozen by the still flashing weapon
36- is mortified to come to and find his pants around his ankles

VICTOR

1- breaks into and searches Lois’ apartment along with Kyle Griffin
2- after switching the camera from “freeze” to “flash” takes a picture of Griffin and Lois and gives it to him
3- quickly takes another picture of Lois and himself and puts it in his own pocket
4- looking through Lois’ grocery bag, asks if he can take one of her candy bars- Griffin hits him with the flowers
5- is trying to make the camera flash work on Superman
6- is reluctant to confront Superman again and thinks they should just rob a bank but Griffin dismisses it because of the small amount of money involved
7- has a sweet, and ultimately irritating, knack for understatement, according to Griffin
8- is afraid of mice, which Griffin thinks is a hysterical fantasy from his screwed up childhood
9- drops a photo conductor cell when he sees a mouse and Griffin makes him pick it up twice to confront his fears
10- after giving the cell to Griffin for the last time, he runs to climb upon a crate and Griffin assures him he is good boy
11- wonders why they can’t stay some place nice
12- has found a micro step-up transformer at the Metropolis Department of Light and Power
13- causes the power at the Daily Planet and neighboring buildings to fluctuate
14- dreams of living on a ranch with Lois, having three kids, and roping steers, deep frying sausages…
15- gets a new transformer for the weapon that allows them to modulate the intensity and duration of the beam, allowing them to freeze victims from a few minutes up to a day- except for Superman
16- screams at seeing a mouse and is frozen by Griffin
17- when he comes to a few seconds later he suggests they search her computer at work
18- is supposed to be looking for information on Superman in Lois’ computer files, but he finds her novel and starts reading it and is terribly disappointed when Kyle deletes the file
19- later, celebrates with Griffin by taunting the Secret Service men frozen by the light before they kidnap the president
20- asks if they can take her with them after finding Lois frozen with everyone else and is elated when Kyle says he can
21- exclaims “it’s not fair!” when he sees Superman and gets punched in the face by Lois when he tries to run

EDWIN GRIFFIN

1- disguised as a worker from Acme Painting, gains entry to the MLP building and the office of Mike Carney
2- shows a work order to Carney and claims the office will get a new coat of Navajo white
3- alone in the office, calls Kyle and tells him he’s in, and soon he is joined by Kyle and Victor
4- brushes aside a compliment from Kyle, saying he hates suck-ups, revealing he is a verbal abuser
5- stays in the truck to operate the larger light weapon as Kyle and Victor go for the president
6- sees Lois Lane stop Kyle, again, and after Superman uses his laser vision to destroy the weapon, he cowers in the truck, exclaiming he should have had a daughter


CARRIGAN

1- dressed in sunglasses and a dark suit, approaches Lois’ desk, flashes a wallet and says, “Carrigan, Secret Service”
2- never uses the phone because Commies can tap phones
3- knows about the Prankster and there may be a problem because there is always a problem
4- relates the story of Carter going fishing and being attacked in his rowboat by a killer rabbit
5- should have been there, but was at the dentist for an impacted tooth (if you want to take care of the president, you have to take care of your teeth)
6- asks Lois if she’s on any kind of medication when she goes into babble mode
7- busy calibrating his communications device later on, tells Lois “all systems are go (for the president’s visit) and that his men are trained for all eventualities. Smiles and leaves.
8- converges on a vehicle unexpectedly blocking the president’s motorcade through the city
9- hears Lois call to him that it is a trap seconds before there is a flash of bright light and everyone in the street freezes
10- wakes up and tells Superman “I knew that!” when told to arrest Griffin and Victor

BOBBY BIGMOUTH

1- meets with Lane and Kent at a sidewalk café (Uncle Mike’s Patio Café?) but tells them he can’t help- Lois takes his sandwich away
2- says it might take a couple of days to find something, but Lois says that’s too late
3- takes the sandwich back and tells her to consider it a down payment for next time.
4- tells Clark she’s acting too testy
5- thinks Clark’s one question for the president is a good one, likes it
6- later tells Clark, Griffin is hiding at the abandoned apartment building he lived in as a kid

PROFESSOR HAMILTON

1- tells Lois and Clark that Griffin has found a way to divert optic nerve signals to another part of the brain
2- theorizes Griffin and Victor might have been wearing glasses that could block the effect of the light rays
3- agrees they could be wearing contact lenses and though he feels it’s a long shot, he’s willing to experiment and try to create some similar to theirs
4- comes through with some lenses for Lois and Superman, but because he didn’t know the exact wavelength of the weapon, he has reservations about them working


OTHER CHARACTERS

Mike Carney
1- Manager of Operations, Metropolis Light and Power
2- despite not knowing about his office being painted, leaves his office after seeing a fake work order


The President of the United States
1- mentioned by Perry
2- is coming to present an award to the city for having the lowest crime rate in the country
3- decides to cut his trip as tightly as possible, because of the Prankster being loose


Unnamed Pony-tailed Guy from season 1
1- now has shoulder length hair
2- still walks past briskly in the background a lot


Helen Bartlett
1- an official at the White House
2- mentioned by Perry
3- is impersonated by Kyle Griffin using a voice altering device


Vendor
1- man at the newsstand at Lakeshore Towers that Superman smashes through when he falls
2- manages to rouse him (“Hey, Supe!”) and indicates another falling person from the building


NAME THAT TUNE
N/A

NOT-SO SUPERMAN
Or, You Don’t Have To Be So Superman:

Superman (after catching falling Lois): Are you alright?
Lois: You seem ask me that a lot.
S: People seem to try to kill you a lot.
L: Yeah. I was so popular in high school!
S (chuckles): If you’ll excuse me.
L: Oh, Superman? There’s nothing you can do. If he froze you once, he’ll do it again.Look, Clark and I think we’ve found a way of neutralizing Griffin. Professor Hamilton is working on it. So… I guess this time you’ll just have to rely on us.

PERRY-ISMS
N/A (!)

LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

Daily Prankster:
PROPERTY OWNERS FIGHT HIGH RISE BUILDING ZONE
JOB SURVEY IS NEARING COMPLETION
COMPROMISE HOUSING BILL SENT TO PRESIDENT FOR OK
NEW PROGRAM STARTED BY HEALTH BOARD

Daily Planet:
STATE UPENDS TRANSIT BILL VETO
FRUIT FLY SPRAYING

Old Headlines:

PRESIDENT PREPARES FOR HIS RE-ELECTION
PRESIDENT WINS CLOSE ELECTION

Metropolis Star:
PRESIDENT WINS CLOSE ELECTION

MISCELLANEOUS

1- The Five Questions: when Lois is trying to think of one question to ask the president, she gets five suggestions.
…a- Clark’s question: If he could be a major league baseball player, what position would he play and why?
…b- Perry’s question: Why did he veto the bill that would have made Graceland a national monument? (Lois: “I’m serious.” Perry: “So am I. Serious as a heart attack!”)
…c- Jimmy’s question: “I’d ask him for a job. It would be cool working at the White House!”
…d- Professor Hamilton: “I’d demand to know why the government is covering up hard data on the obvious existence of UFOs!”
…e- Superman: “I guess I would ask him why he wouldn’t give a great reporter like
Lois Lane more than a five minute interview.”
…None of the questions are what Lois had in mind, though she tells the professor: “Good one.”
2- Fun moment between Clark and Lois when he finds the newsroom frozen in place, and he wonders why Griffin was there. Lois: “My continuing degradation comes to mind.” Clark: “No, I think that was a bonus. My guess is he was looking for whatever he couldn’t find in your apartment. Check your computer, Lois.”
He takes every opportunity to tease her, no matter what! He also takes the edge off the situation.
3- two months have passed between the events of TEHI and this episode
4- Victor’s ode to Lois’ teeth: They’re so perfect and shiny, I love you so much, I wish you were miney…he is cut off before he can continue (thankfully)
5- Lakeside Towers is a tall, modern building dwarfed by much taller, bigger skyscrapers, much like the clock tower seen in another episode
6- Unit 15 reports sector 7 is secure
7- Silly String or something like it that Jimmy rigged Lois’ desk drawer with
8- 976 Infomercial, what was being broadcast when Lois turned off the TV at Jimmy’s apartment
9- Metropolis Formalwear, makes another appearance as the location where the Prankster freezes a man raising a piano to an upper floor while a woman and a baby pass by beneath it
10- “Inflicted with occipital opacity”- a description of Superman’s temporary blindness that Lois wrote while probably still under the influence of the Faraday light weapon
11- 1 or T (symbol) 7953, the license plate number on the vehicle Victor uses to stop the motorcade
12- Acme Pest Control, the signs on the truck the Griffins are driving
13- “Prankster Back In Jail”- the scrolling headline at the Daily Planet reads


OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

- Too bad they didn’t bring the Prankster back in later seasons. Speaking for myself I enjoyed Bronson Pinchot and Rick Overton as the luckless bad guys. The slapstick humor just appeals to me, I guess, the good with the bad. They, along with Harold Gould, seemed to have fun and I had fun watching them.
- How did Lois free one hand from the metal manacles holding her to the boiler without bleeding from scratches and cuts or scrapes or without suffering a broken bone or two?

This was another episode where there was a lot of action and the villains got a lot of screen time. I liked the use of Acme as the name of Griffin's phony businesses, especially when they had the piano fall, too! Acme and falling objects just go together.

I'll do Operation Blackout and The Eyes Have It next. The first one has a scene that always makes me laugh when I see it and the second one has a personal meaning- during the original airing my dad watched an episode all the way through with us for the first time and became a fan, too, even though he dismissed the entire premise!

Wow, Bev, just wow I'll get on the Concordance page for Return of the Prankster right away!

Thanks, as always and happy St. Patrick's Day

Zoom

LOL! I always liked Victor's attraction to Lois. Overton plays him as so sweet to her and she keeps beating up on him. And like it or not slapstick humor is funny, even if it just makes you groan.

Kate, off to our city's little parade

I assume that's Kelly Christian, Dean's stand-in, and Roger Cain's former band mate in Catch 22. His only line in the show was in WIEAK, bidding on Lois, but he was seen in the background in a lot of eps.

CK and KC, huh? LOL! He'll be known as KC to me from now on, instead of Pony-Tailed Guy.

So I had to look for him with his shorter hair. LOL! He gets frozen in front of the railing by the elevators so when CK comes back and walks down to the pit, he's there holding up some papers.

Kate

PHEROMONE, MY LOVELY


LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1- Daily Planet
the Pit, where the “Exclusive” fragrance photo shoot takes place
Perry's Office, where he begins to show signs of the pheromone affecting him
Conference Room, where the staff meetings are held
Duplicating Room, where Cat Grant spends two days
Luncheonette Area, where Lois admits she MIGHT have feelings for Clark, maybe
Near Elevator, where Clark and both Miranda and Lex observe the love fest taking place among the newsroom staff
2- Luthor's Penthouse, where he conducts his business with Miranda and entertains Lois at dinner
3- Miranda's Perfume Store, where Clark confiscates one of her bottles of Revenge for proof
4- Night Club, member's only admission, where Jimmy follows April Stephens and nearly dies
5- Clark's Apartment, where a sleepless night ends with no further humiliation to Lois
Alley behind Clark's apartment, where Superman makes sure the recycling is done properly
6- Rehalia’s Apartment Hallway- where Perry performs “Burning Love”
7- Airport Hangar, where Miranda lures Lois and tries to kill her
8- Small Airplane, which Miranda takes over in order to carry out her plan for Revenge
9- Metropolis Skies, where Superman stops her just in time


POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

1- Strength- disables the spraying equipment on an airplane
2- Flight- reaches the airport in time to save Lois’s life and go after Miranda’s stolen aircraft
3- Breath- inhales the small amount of Revenge that she manages to release


POWERS USED AS CLARK

1-Strength- smashes his alarm clock flat, for one thing
2-Vision- cooks breakfast, melts through a chain link, both with heat vision
3-Speed- at super speed, he pockets a familiar atomizer at Miranda’s shop


HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

Nothing of Note


CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

Nothing of Note Pertaining to Superman

Lame Excuse of A Second Kind:

Lois- She’s lying.
Clark- I know. Her pulse rate was over one fifty.
L- How do you know that?
C- It’s… just an expression- like she was going a mile a minute. Her pulse rate was over one fifty.
L- Must be a Kansas expression.


DEVICES

1- Atomizers, filled with Revenge perfume, an animal pheromone compound
2- Small airplane, equipped for aerial spraying
3- Small lab set-up in Miranda’s shop
4- Portable crane, from which Lois is tied and suspended above a vat of boiling liquid


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

Nothing of Note


SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)

Nothing of note for Clark, but Perry White speaks Spanish


HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN

- can drink a gallon of milk for breakfast
- recycles (of course)
- watches with interest as the newsroom is invaded by beautiful people for a photo shoot
- seems to flirt back with passing model, Elle Taylor according to Cat, who looks him in the eye, watching her walk away for quite a while
- is surprised that Lois has never played hooky from work or school and takes the opportunity to kid her about it
- wisely turns away and looks at his watch when she becomes angry at being thought not a fun person
- working on a story about a dock strike where the sides are not that far apart, doesn’t see the changes in behavior happening around the newsroom
- is suddenly aware of Lois sitting on the edge of his desk and asking what he is doing
- notices her suggestive pose and looks at her suspiciously
- get really suspicious when she compliments his looks and asks her what it is she wants- research? VCR fixed? A ride to the airport? Blind date?
- none of these, she says just him- now he knows something is definitely wrong
- astonished by Perry’s uncharacteristic behavior in addition to Lois’s, he asks Lois to give him a minute and wanders a few steps away to try to clear his head and get a handle on the strange events happening around him
- stopping near the copier room (duplicating ?) he hears quite a bit of noise inside and lowers his glasses to look through the door and, though surprised, takes a good look at what Cat and companion are up to
- turns away and almost stumbles back as Lois slams into him to announce his minute is up and “Come to mama!”
- gets out of the elevator the next morning and sees that nothing as changed, whatever was wrong is still wrong
- looking all around he spots Lois sitting alone at her desk, dressed in a flowery, white dress
- tries to explain to Lois that something is wrong, she is not in control- she knows! For the first time in her life! And it’s all for the better!
- tells her to snap out of it, he needs her help, concentrate
- remembers the changes began the previous afternoon and affected almost everyone in the newsroom, perhaps something they ate or drank
-tells Lois he needs to go downstairs to the newsstand for a while and promises to be right back
- doesn’t notice when he walks past Lex Luthor
- spends the evening at his apartment looking through piles of fashion magazines and their perfume ads
- just as he finds an ad for Miranda’s perfumes there is a knock at the door and he puts it aside to answer
- is dismayed to see it is Lois, still under the influence
- begs her to go home but she barges in and announces this is her home because he is there
- though he admits he’s thought of her admitting her feelings for him before, spends a long night keeping Lois from “further humiliating’ herself
- next morning after the pheromone wears off, he finally gets his partner back (“I’m going home to get dressed. I’ll be back in an hour, Don’t even think of keeping me waiting.”)
- at Miranda’s shop he talks to Miranda while Lois looks around, then lets her take over questioning while he takes a look.
- sees a hidden room, what is in it, and quickly takes an atomizer from a nearby display
- after taking the perfume to a laboratory for analysis, explains how it works to Lois
- manages to teases her about not being attracted to her when she wonders why he wasn’t all over her while under the influence of Revenge
- discovers, thanks to Jimmy, that Miranda’s research was funded by Luthor Industries, but this is no surprise to Lois who says Lex funds half the scientists in the city and probably doesn’t even know her
- escorts Lois to a Daily Planet car but doesn’t get in with her
- after the staff meeting at the Daily Planet the next day, is at his desk working when Lex Luthor arrives looking for Lois, tells him she is out running errands
- learns Lex was affected by the pheromone during his date with Lois but says finding Superman is more important because Miranda made a threat to spray the entire city with her Revenge scent
- says it will only last 48 hours and is appalled to learn she is going to us a full strength solution that will affect the population permanently
- knows this will be catastrophic and says he will fax the police with Miranda’s description, then try to find Superman
- following Lois’s screams for help to the airport, Superman saves her and goes after Miranda, catching the airplane just as she releases the perfume into the atmosphere
- inhales the released Revenge, disables the spraying apparatus, and blows some of the compound into Miranda’s face and leads her back to the airport
- when Lois wants to know if the perfume had any affect on him, he pretends it does and tells her he loves her while Lex groans in disgust in the background
- at the Daily Planet later, he listens without teasing as she admits, with many conditions, that she might be attracted to him, and why she thought he looked like Superman- after she walks away, he laughs


LOIS LANE

- complains they’ll never get any work done with the photo activity going on
- sarcastically calls the crowd doing the photo shoot “the beautiful people” as she passes Clark and Jimmy who are admiring the models
- thinks it’s a sad comment on society that people who look, act, dress or smell a certain way are loved by the world
- reiterates that they won’t get any work done today
- tells Clark she has never played hooky and doesn’t know what’s so great about it
- says she had fun in school – the chess club, the math club… (“Wow.”)
- is he saying she’s not a fun person? That she doesn’t know how to have fun?! Glares at Jimmy, who hasn’t said a word about it.
- reacts with distaste when a woman walks by and sprays them with a scent from a distinctive atomizer
- predicts it will sell for $300 an ounce, or “highway robbery”
- seated at her desk, she begins looking in Clark’s direction, smoothing back her hair and unbuttoning her blouse, touching up her lipstick before getting up to sashay across the floor to his desk
- sits on the desk and swings a leg up beside her and leans across the desk top after getting his attention
- asked if she is okay, tells him never better, just noticing how handsome he looks today
- calms his suspicions by silencing him with a finger on his lips- she doesn’t want anything but him
- grabs Clark and slams him against a wall, when told to get a grip says she’d love to, and throws her arms around him and tries to kiss him
- tells him she wants to get out of there, to play hooky- desperately! – forget about time, work, the rest of the world
- grabs his face again and tries to kiss him but is interrupted briefly by Perry and Rehalia but her interest in them is short and she turns back to concentrating on Clark
- waits patiently for Clark to arrive at work and when he does she runs to him, tossing flower petals into the air and jumping into his arms
- when he tells her they have to talk, she agrees, she has a lot to say
- remembers when it all started, and tells Clark what they had for lunch the day before, Chinese chicken salad and a steak sandwich with fries
- climbs into his lap and tries to distract him from talking about what was happening
- Jimmy drops by with a handful of pictures and she gives up trying to distract Clark, helps him find a shot of Miranda and remembers her
- reluctantly lets him leave for a few minutes and is surprised to see Lex has come up to her
- assures him they are still on for dinner the following night, but he has to understand one thing: the only man in the world for her is Clark Kent
- goes to Clark’s apartment later, telling him “I love you. I want to spend the rest of my life with you”
- is dressed in a skimpy outfit for the dance of the seven veils and as she is about to begin the dance she is awestruck to notice Clark looks “a lot like Superman!”
- next morning awakens to Clark telling her he can’t take it anymore and if she really wants him, he’s all hers
- rudely shoves him away but then notices what she is wearing and is mortified to discover she did the dance of the seven veils in its entirety
- calms down after drinking a cup of unknown hot beverage
- though Clark explains what happened was not her fault, still feels humiliated, but agrees to help him find Miranda
- is certain Miranda is lying after questioning her at her shop, says they need proof and is delighted when Clark takes a bottle of the perfume from his pocket
- is bothered by Clark not having been attracted to her and looks forward to her date with Lex, a man she knows is attracted her
- is charmed, questioning, flattered, restless and uncomfortable when Lex begins complimenting her effusively during dinner though she does think it’s unusual and asks if he’s been drinking
- tells Clark, the next day, that Lex was behaving strangely during dinner, but says no more when he remarks that must have been a welcome change
- receives a note at the morning meeting but doesn’t tell Clark it is from Miranda
- after the meeting she tells Clark she’s leaving to run some errands, but goes to the airport where Miranda, according to her note, wants to speak to her “woman to woman”
- enters a small airport hangar and calls to Miranda, who approaches her and sprays her with a chemical that makes her cough and collapse
- regains consciousness tied by her wrists to a chain and suspended over a large vat of boiling liquid and screams for Miranda to stop as the chain begins to lower her toward the boiling liquid
- luckily Superman hears and frees her from the situation just seconds later and she tells him Miranda has just left in an airplane and is going to spray the city
- as the plane lands behind Superman, she runs to him and wonders if the perfume has an affect on him and is overjoyed when he indicates it has and throws herself on him for a passionate kiss
- reluctantly lets him go after being interrupted by Lex and falls against Lex as her knees suddenly give out while she watches Superman fly away
- later denies to Clark she’s unable to admit her true feelings - it’s ridiculous! – but finally admits that maybe, somewhere very incredibly deep inside her, is some eensy weensy, microcosmic, although highly unlikely, possibility that she feels some sort of unmotivated, completely unrealistic attraction to him
- reveals she’s also figured out why she thought he looked like Superman – every woman in love thinks her man looks like Superman


PERRY WHITE

- at morning staff meeting, tells Lois to rewrite her fruit fly article- and put more zing into it
- suggests making the counter-revolution in Russia the lead story
- questions who can keep track after Clark points out it’s a counter-counter-revolution
- sees a noisy crowd of people getting out of the elevators and wonders what’s going on
- aware of the beautiful women coming into the newsroom but mindful of his wife, Alice’s, reaction should she find out he was looking
- tells Clark she has spies everywhere
- calls Miranda’s perfume Eau de Sweatsocks
- leaning back in his chair, listening to an Elvis tune, the effects of the perfume have hit him
- his eyes light up when Rehalia comes into the office to gather trash
- surprises Clark and Lois when he runs out of the office chasing a screaming Rehalia
- tells them she’s the woman of his dreams, he wants to shower her with gifts, put her on a golden pedestal
- as for Alice- there’s enough love to go around and hurries after Rehalia, “Espera mi amor!”
- when Clark tries to tell him Elvis never cheated on Priscilla, answers, “He never met Rehalia!”
- tells Rehalia to go ahead and file charges against him, if that’s what she wants, nothing will stop him from loving her
- tells her he’s composed a poem for her called “Rehalia:” I plucked a rose, I smelled its dew, that fragrant scent embodies you
- she tells him dew doesn’t have a smell and, as she stalks out of the office, he stares bewildered at the poem, then grabs a pen and crosses out the offending lines
- leaves the newsroom and meets Lex Luther as he arrives, telling him, “Gotta run, Lex. Love waits for no man.”
- dressed in black leather, goes to Rehalia’s apartment and stands outside her apartment doorway singing “Burning Love”
- just as he is finishing the song, the door opens and Rehalia’s furious husband steps forward and hits Perry in the face
- is nursing a headache in his office when Clark and Lois come in and stare at him in shock
- tells Lois his bandaged nose only hurts when he laughs and that won’t be happening soon because Rehalia has filed a sexual harassment suit against him, and his wife Alice has kicked him out
- listens as they explain he has a defense and what has happened, but the pheromone will only take care of the lawsuit- what about Alice?
- told to fight for her, shower her with gifts, write her poems, put her on a golden pedestal, he considers it and decides, “Nah! She’d never buy it.”
- staff meeting next day, exchanges a look with Rehalia as she comes in for the trash
- tells Clark she has dropped the lawsuit and Alice has let him back home on a trial basis
- thanks Lois for rewriting the fruit fly piece


JIMMY OLSEN

- questions the safety of Malathion, the spray scheduled to be used to treat the fruit fly infestation, if residents of the city have to keep their pets indoors during and after spraying
- is star struck by the models in the photo shoot
- wonders if a woman like April Stephens would notice a guy like him, when no one answers, says, “I guess not”
- sits with Clark and enjoys the activity in the room, including the beautiful women who walk past giving Clark interested looks
- approaches April Stephens, after being affected by the perfume, wearing a hunting vest and carrying a camera
- introduces himself as James, James Olsen, well known photojournalist whose covered many wars
- asks if she’d like to have cocktails tomorrow night at her place?
- suggests his place then, when she get up and leaves abruptly
- arrives at an unidentified nightclub, members only, and tries to bribe his way inside but is unsuccessful
- talks briefly to April Stephens but she isn’t impressed and sics the bouncer on him
- dejectedly turns to leave and walks into the street into the path of an oncoming vehicle
- saved by Superman but wonders what happened and Superman takes him home
- comes to the staff meeting with a note for Lois and tells her he’s back to normal, plain old Jimmy
- sees April Stephens get off the elevator and says he has to talk to her, walking away before a concerned Perry can stop him
- apologizes for his behavior, saying simply he wasn’t himself
- is not expecting her to grab his shirt and give him a kiss that leaves him stunned. The staff applauds.
- walks past Lex Luthor who is standing by Lois’s desk and tells him to hurry and get his pets inside because the fruit fly spraying will start in a few minutes


CAT GRANT

- reminds everyone this is the day of the photo shoot using the Daily Planet newsroom as a back drop for the introduction of a new fragrance
- assures him marketing set it up months ago
- watches the people entering and identifies the models, and gets Perry’s permission to leave the meeting and try to get an interview with April Stephens
- conducts the interview on the move and gives her a tiresome look when she won’t answer the questions
- angry at losing her original document in the copier, is relieved to see a tech has arrived to have a look at it
- watches the repair tech start to work, then reaches up and takes an earring off and steps closer to him, a smile crossing her face
- disheveled after two days in the copier room, she isn’t ready to admit the copier is fixed and deliberately pulls a part from it
- goes to the staff meeting the next day and is puzzled when asked how much of the pheromone spray she inhaled- asks what spray? She didn’t get sprayed.


LEX LUTHOR

- is fencing with an opponent in an office, breaking and cutting through things until the opponent is disarmed
- stabs the opponent in the chest, leaving him stunned that Lex has drawn blood
- says nothing as the man walks past him and out of the room, merely wipes the blood from his blade tip
- tells Miranda when she come to complain about her research being stopped, “I don’t fund losers.”
- and their romance? “You were an itch, you have been scratched.”
- dismisses her to take a call from Lois Lane
- tell Lois he is looking forward to their dinner date and will send a car for her
- working at his desk, is surprised to be interrupted by someone in a fencing uniform
- thinking it’s Emile, he asks for a moment and is surprised to be stabbed in the chest by the tip of a sword
- looking up in shock and anger, sees it is Miranda holding the epee on him
- asks what he can do for her and is told return her phone calls
- is surprised by the newspaper she gives him with it’s emphasis on hearts and love
- is speechless by what he sees at the Daily Planet’s newsroom
- finds Lois, who tells him she hadn’t noticed things were different in the newsroom
- confirms their date is still on and observes her behavior closely, assessing the effects of the perfume on her and obviously reaching a conclusion
- is cooling a bottle of champagne when Miranda arrives and they haggle over percentages of the profits from sales of Revenge
- as he turns away to pour the champagne, he is sprayed, generously, with Revenge but it has no affect on him, he doesn’t mix business with other people’s pleasure, dismisses her to prepare for his dinner date with Lois
- during dinner he begins acting strangely and is aware of it but is unable to stop himself, saying he never drinks alone, is always in… control
- before dinner is over he falls asleep in his chair and wakens there the next morning and is tols by Nigel that Miss Lane left early and he drove her home
- is shaken by his behavior, his loss of control and begins to remember bits and pieces of what happened the previous day
- recalling Miranda’s parting words, he’s appalled and tells Nigel he must get to the Daily Planet as soon as possible and find Superman!
- at the Daily Planet he stops at Lois’s desk and prepares to leave a note, and discovering she is out running errands, tells Clark he is there to apologize for his behavior the night before
- knowing full well Clark is aware of what he means, because of the events of the previous day, he tells him Miranda sprayed him with Revenge yesterday to make him fall in love with her, but it backfired when Lois arrived just then
- is very aware of the way this news has affected Clark, and he goes on to say it isn’t important exactly what happened, because he needs to find Superman
- admits Miranda worked for him and relates her threat to make all of Metropolis suffer love spurned and only Superman can find her and stop her
- lingers by Lois’s desk after Clark hurries off to find Superman and is puzzled by Jimmy’s comments as he passes, then suddenly realizes Miranda must be planning to use the airplane for fruit fly spraying to expose the city to Revenge
- arrives at the airport just as the plane lands and the police arrive, and rushes up to Lois who is waiting for Superman
- watches in dismay as Lois throws herself into Superman’s arms and they share a long, passionate kiss (“I may throw up!”)
- marches over to break up the kiss, “Excuse me! Hello! I was just wondering. Will Miranda be permanently…” Superman replies, “No. I diluted it. She’ll be okay soon.”
- stands by a roaring fire and aimlessly tosses bills from a bundle of money into it to burn
- something terrible has happened, he tells Nigel, something catastrophic, something worse than the collapse of the world financial market- in his own “strange, perverted way” he has succumbed… he has fallen in love, hopelessly, eternally, in love with Lois Lane. “I’m really in love with her. I’m doomed.”


MIRANDA

- angrily confronts Lex for cutting off her funding and stopping her research, calls him a “rotten little son of a-“
- two years earlier brought Luthor the offer of a working, practical solution to her theory in six months, claiming adding an animal pheromone to her perfume would cause the wearer to lose all inhibitions
- insists she can now do it and can prove it: the solid compound didn’t work but the liquid form does
- tells him her work was a labor of love for him but he is no longer interested in her
- leaves when Lex dismisses her to take a phone call from Lois Lane
- sees and picks up a newspaper with an article by Lois Lane on a nearby chair
- at her shop with her black cat, opens an envelope with an invitation to attend the premiere party for a new fragrance to be held at the Daily Planet
- realizes she can prove to Lex her solution does work
- at the Daily Planet, goes throughout the newsroom spraying as many people as possible with the perfume and waits near the elevators to wait for it to go to work on them
- satisfied with what she sees, she leaves and, the following morning, goes to see Lex
- demanding he tell his man to bring the car around, she tells him they are going to the Daily
Planet and gives him a copy of the morning paper
- is a trained chemist, top of her class at MIT
- compliments Clark on his remarkable olfactory sense after he correctly identifies an animal
pheromone in her Revenge perfume
- claims she has no idea what Lois is talking about when accused of using Revenge in the Daily
Planet newsroom
- talks with Lex to finalize their partnership for marketing Revenge, but when she sprays him and
it has no affect on him, get angry when he dismisses her, telling her he isn’t interested in
renewing their romance
- tells Lex soon all of Metropolis will know the feeling of spurned love and leaves
- opens a locked cabinet and begins removing bottles of perfume labeled 100% solution and
spills a spot while mixing it and her cat tastes some of it, then tears out of a locked cat carrier
a few moments later- “Love is in the air” she muses
- looks at an article written by Lois Lane and angrily sticks a knife blade through the byline
- lures Lois to the airport where she has replaced the Malathion spray in the tanks aboard a
small airplane with the 100% solution of Revenge, telling Lois she’s doing it because she is
just jealous – if she can’t have Lex, no one can
- after her plans are foiled by Superman she pleads with him to help her as she’s being led away,
“I love you!” she tells him, then sees Lex and corrects herself, “No! Lex, I love you! Will you
wait for me?” “No!” he replies petulantly.


REHALIA

- a day shift custodian at the Daily Planet, given full access to the newsroom area by Perry White
- enters his office to get the trash as he is listening to an Elvis record, unaware Perry is showing an interest in a specific area of her body
- runs out of the office a few minutes later, exclaiming in Spanish
- tells Perry her husband has advised her to file a sexual harassment suit against him
- is surprised when he tells her to go ahead, he’s content to worship her from afar
- stalks out angrily after he reads a poem he’s written for her
- files the harassment suit after he comes to her apartment and serenades her from the hallway
- later drops the charges after discovering what caused the problem


APRIL STEPHENS

- brushes off Cat’s attempts to interview her with “No comment” answers, exasperating the gossip columnist
- brushes off Jimmy’s attempt to impress her by getting up and running away
- is surprised to see Jimmy at a nightclub as she is leaving and stops to talk to him briefly
- again, he fails to impress her and she walks away after calling for the bouncer to take care of him
- goes to the Daily Planet the next day and is confronted by an apologetic Jimmy and accepts his apology in a way he, and the news room staff, won’t soon forget


NIGEL

- Luthor’s butler, announces Miranda’s arrival at the penthouse
- wakens Lex after letting him spend the night sleeping in his chair
- felt it was best not to wake him, but he did take Miss Lane home
- dismisses Lex’s declaration of love for Miss Lane as an effect of the perfume, his mind is clouded


OTHER CHARACTERS

Copier Repair Tech (Phil, according to online script)
- comes to service the copy machine
- tells Cat he’s always been good with his hands
- looks over his shoulder at her and his eyes go wide in surprise
- two days later, ready to leave, his jaw drops as she takes a tool from his kit and breaks a piece off the machine

Hans
- a bouncer/ doorman at a member’s only nightclub
- refuses entry to Jimmy who tries to bribe him with cash
- puts the money into his mouth and chews it

Elle Taylor
- a model identified by Cat Grant
- walks past Clark and Jimmy and gives CK a long eye contact look

Emile
- Lex's fencing partner/instructor
- was speechless after Lex ended a match by actually stabbing him hard enough to draw blood


NAME THAT TUNE

“Burning Love” by Elvis Presley plays in Perry’s office as the pheromone begins to take affect on him.
Perry later sings the song himself outside Rehalia’s apartment door.


LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

The Daily Planet (red hearts replacing the As)

COUPLE REUNITE! LOVE WINS OUT!

LICENSING PROCEDURE CHANGES EXAMINED BY CITY COUNCIL
Council To Vote On Park Plan

FRUIT FLY SPRAYING


SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION or SHAMELESS SELF ASSURANCE?

When Superman stops Miranda in the act of carrying out her plan, he exhales some of the Revenge into her face knowing she will fall for him and follow him back to the airport ( “Anywhere, honey!”)


WAIT...WHAT?

Blind dates? What blind dates?


MISCELLANEOUS

1- “Exclusive”- the name of the fragrance being introduced at the photo shoot
2- In this episode “Managing Editor” is printed on a sign on the wall near the door to Perry’s office and not written on the window of his door
3- A blackboard in the staff meeting area says “Daily Planet Story Outline, Who, What, When, Where, How” (a reminder to professionals?)
4- Jungle Passion, one of Miranda’s fragrances which she recommends to Clark, for a love gone sour, made from the white petals of a flower grown only in Micronesia
5- MIT, university Miranda attended
6- 150, Miranda’a pulse rate is over this number indicating to Clark she is lying to him and Lois
7- 60/40, the split in profits Lex and Miranda agree upon
8- 48 hours, the duration of the effects of Revenge which Lex is concerned about
9- 1%, the strength of the 48 hour solution of Revenge
10- 100%, effects of the full strength solution would be permanent
11- LexCorp, Tokyo, a subsidiary of Lex’s business empire
12- a no good ‘Hound Dog” – what Alice calls Perry
13- “Heartbreak Hotel” where he finds himself now that she’s kicked him out
14- A partially seen side bar to Lois’ fruit fly article states that a storm caused a back-up of some kind that relates to the fruit fly problem, as the side bar is tucked under the Lane article’s headline
15- Some of the ‘zinged’ up Lane article says, ‘While the final outcome of this situation is to be determined, it is possible that when the factions come together… conference scheduled … week…’
16- While Cat’s reaction to the questions about how much of the pheromone spray she got is funny, it’s known that her obsession with Phil the fixer lasted 48 hours, too. Totally at home with her reputation, could she have been pulling the legs of her gullible fellow staffers with her innocent act? She’s already told Clark she’ll protect that reputation no matter what even if it means never admitting nothing happened between them.
17- As for Phil, he must have gotten a good whiff too as he walked through the newsroom to the copier room, or Stamina is his middle name. He also must be a tech the company that rents the copiers out to businesses, hires on a case by case basis because no one comes looking for him during the two days he spends in the copy room.
18- Clark does have a great sense of humor. After Lex comes to the newsroom looking for Lois and spends some time letting Clark’s imagination run away with itself thinking about Lex’s insinuations that he was all over Lois the night before while under the influence of Revenge, he gets a little revenge himself. Pretending to be affected by the pheromone and kissing an elated Lois while Lex must watch and squirm with disgust in the background – payback’s a b***h, isn’t it, Lex?


OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

1- A personal favorite scene in this episode is Perry White laying back in his office chair and just feeling that Elvis song playing in the background, just his version of laid back rocking out. It’s funny but somehow sweet and cute at the same time. (Lane Smith, bless you, you were wonderful in this role.)
2- Something I never thought about before: Why did April Stephens return to the newsroom when she did? The photo shoot was long over. Cat had gotten her interview, such as it was. Miss Stephens didn’t ask for anyone, just arrived and stood looking over the activity going on. Perhaps she heard what happened at the Daily Planet the day she was there and met that cute but tall tale spinning young man who liked her but came on too strong? Perhaps she came to find a way to apologize for treating him so badly when it wasn’t his fault his behavior was so over the top, and because he was nearly killed simply because he liked her? True- she does see a concerned group of people watching her, but there is still no reason for her to be there in the first place. Who knows?
3- Where do bad guys/women/people find, and how do they transport huge vats in which to boil liquid?

Bev, I understand now what you meant by starting to make lists and having them go on and on and on.
I really enjoy watching these early episodes so closely and finding things I never noticed before despite watching them many times.
I'll do I've Got A Crush on You and The Foundling next.

Edit as needed

Kate

Yeah when there are equal amounts of action and talking it's hard to leave anything out if it gives you an insight to the character.

LOL! Especially if you don't know that's Kent over there.

I agree with Lane Smith being so good as Perry White.
I'm actually looking forward to seeing Laurence Fishburne's take on him. Jackie Cooper did the high blood pressure, give me headlines, manic kind of guy, Smith was the southern gentleman with ethics a mile high (facts! Give me facts!)and tough without being manic. On the GR TV series he seems to sit behind his desk and talk as he's giving assignments. I wonder how Fishburne sees him.

We liked him on CSI so we're looking forward on his take too. In fact, so far that all I'M looking forward to.
I also decided to borrow a category from Deadly Chakram's GGGOH concordance entry. WAIT...WHAT?
LOL! It fits in on this episode.

Kate

That's a new way to look at it for me - Clark getting even with Lex when he kisses Lois at the airport. Part of the reawon anyway.

i'm working on NEB.. have to get the characterizations of Martha & Jonathan and a few other details.

NEB is a good episode! Looking forward to it.

Hey all

Bev, I finally have Return of the Prankster done.

http://zoomway.net/concordance/concordance_rotp.html


Part of getting it finished involved getting screen caps of a particular movie for the trivia section, which I hope everyone finds interesting

And Kate, thanks for the great job on Pheromone, My Lovely. It'll probably take me a couple of weeks or so to get to it because tomorrow I have one of my crummy chemo treatments and I feel crappy for a week or so But when I put it up I'll add the trivia "what's in a name" that the title is based on the old movie "Farewell, My Lovely." There's two versions actually. One from 1944 (also known as Murder, My Sweet) and one from 1975, but neither has anything to do with love potion

Thanks again, Ladies. You're amazing.

Zoom

Cool trivia. Thanks!

Sorry to hear the chemo makes you feel crappy for a week or so. That sucks.

{{{hugs to zoom}}}

I never would have made the connection between the scenes, and I've seen "The Sting" so many times. My mom is a long time Robert Redford fan and we grew up watching his movies and PBS specials where he did narrations or introductions. Now that you mention it. . .LOL!
Take care of yourself first. We can wait.

Absolutely, take care of yourself. (When my sister-in-law went through chemo all she could eat, all that tasted good to her, was KFC's 2 piece meal. )
I've seen The Sting a few times too but never made the connection that Harold Gould was in it, let alone the connection between the painting scenes. I love the trivia bits you add.

Kate

I finally have PML ready to be viewed. Sorry it took so long, Kate. If you spot any goofs on my part, just let me know. Thanks again for your hard work

http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/concordance_pml.html

Zoom

Always love the trivia at the end. Zoom knows I've always wanted a trivia page

Zoom, next time I see you online, I have to ask you a trivia question about Whine Whine Whine.

THE EYES HAVE IT

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1- Daily Planet: newsroom:
…a- Clark’s desk, where he talks to Mayson, Perry and where the Faraday device is located
…b- Lois’s desk, where she promises to tell Jimmy the secret to success with woman, but instead spouts her first knowledge ‘leak’
2- Lois’s Apartment, where most of the episode takes place
3- Clark’s Apartment doorway, where the Kents try to break into the apartment and Jimmy helps them
4- Leit’s Laboratory, where Lois is taken after being kidnapped off the street
5- City Park meeting place, where Superman is blinded
6- Streets of Metropolis:
…a- Carter Street neighborhood, where Clark/Superman has a few misadventures
…b- shopping district, where Lois is kidnapped as Jonathan watches helplessly
7- STAR Labs exterior- where the real Dr. Bannergy is attacked, knocked unconscious and locked in the back of his own car

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

Flight- reaches Lois in time to rescue her from the informant she went to meet in the park
Strength- accidentally pushes a parked car forward to crash into another one
Invulnerability- puts out a cooking fire at Lois’ apartment
Speed- flashes through the newsroom to reach the breaker box for the floor
Hearing- hears the Kents as they approach Lois’ apartment door
Vision- uses it to destroy the Faraday device
Breath- momentarily distracts Leit and Munch by sending them reeling and blowing papers and other objects off desks as they search for the Faraday pen

POWERS USED AS CLARK

Hearing- he listens in on Lois’ phone call while Mayson is describing her cabin in the mountains

HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

In this case, Mayson Drake is the one missing all the hints: Clark is nowhere to be found while Superman has been blinded and can’t carry on as usual; his parents show up and instead of looking for their son, hang around Lois’ apartment helping Superman with his problem.
Even people who don’t like Superman but love Clark can be galactically stupid.

CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

Apparently not a single one comes to mind for why he was missing for three days during a Superman crisis.

DEVICES

1- a writing pen shaped invention capable of transferring knowledge directly to the brain through the eye by way of a beam of light
2- a flashlight-type of device which emits infrared and ultraviolet light beams mixed with visible light to allow the user to aim the beams
3- lock picks and locks

BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

N/A

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)

N/A

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS


CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN

1- arrives at Lois’ and asks if she wants the coroner to take a look at her, she does not
2- reading a scientific magazine, announces only 8 people on Earth are capable of understanding Faraday’s theories- and he is not one of them
3- calls the magazine to see if they have any information on Faraday’s whereabouts the past few years, but they can only tell him when they last published an article about him
4- in his opinion one of the big problems with this world is disposable products, relationships, lives
5- “If everything is expendable, what happens to friendships?” he asks.
6- fiddles with the pen and discovers it’s “a flashlight”
7- is pleased to see Mayson but is distracted by Lois’ getting a phone call, which he listens to using his hearing
8- responding to her suggestion, says, “That sounds great, Mayson…” but is interrupted by Perry before he can say more
9- watches helplessly as Mayson leaves with his answer unfinished and Perry launches into a story
10- knowing Lois wasn’t truthful about the phone call she received, he apparently looks for her as soon as he gets away from Perry
11- blinded by the men with Lois in the park, takes her home, breaks her window and asks if he can stay on her couch for the night
12- the following morning he tells he his blindness is newsworthy and if the criminal element knew of it they would have a field day
13- when she asks, tells Lois she can tell Clark about it “if you see him”
14- wonders if STAR Labs might have someone on staff who might help him
15- tells Lois when the bacon she is cooking for him is burning- it is on fire and he puts it out by putting his hand over it
16- finds casual clothing somewhere and leaves the apartment to find a public telephone and has a few mishaps on the street
17- calls his parents from a phone booth in front of Lois’ apartment and changes out of the clothes he’s wearing and into the Superman suit when he hears a mugging happening nearby
18- by luck and coincidence, he stops the mugging and helps the victim, a blind man, but the mugger gets away
19- is trying to make hot chocolate when there is a knock at the door and he answers it to find Dr. Bannergy and his assistant, Mr. Gomez, have arrived, unaware it is the men who blinded him
20- when Lois arrives she recognizes the men and calls a warning, and Superman grabs the man in front of him and hears a struggle between Lois and the other “Gomez”
21- calls her to see if she’s safe and when she doesn’t answer, he lets go of his prisoner and calls her again, but she doesn’t answer until both men have run out of the apartment and she has closed the door behind them
22- tries to defend Clark’s absence to an angry Lois until she reveals she thinks Clark is in the mountains with Mayson Drake and stuns him into silence
23- later he tells Lois the Kents are about to knock at her door- he hears them approaching in the hallway
24- tells Martha he and Lois are always glad to see them, then asks Lois if she has oolong tea
25- paces restlessly at Lois’ apartment while waiting for Mayson Drake to arrive
26- recognizes Mayson’s description of the Faraday device after she explains how it works and what it looks like
27- refuses to tell her where it is, and won’t let her call the police
28- knows the kidnappers will make Lois tell where it is and having the police show up will put her in more danger
29- throws himself out of Lois’s window and crashes to the ground
30- gets to his feet and whistles for a passing taxi, telling the driver to take him to the Daily Planet
31- knowing the layout of the Daily Planet building so well, he is able to make his way to the newsroom, find the junction boxes for the floor and shut off the lights
32- zips quickly by his desk and takes the penlight from the pencil holder and retreats to the elevator area
33- uses the darkness to his advantage in helping Lois escape and by throwing the Faraday device far enough away from the kidnappers to make them look for it
34- as his eyesight clears, thanks to Lois, he sees Leit and Munch exchanging possession of the penlight and zaps it with his vision, causing it to light up brightly and apparently fill both men with electric shocks before it is destroyed
35- apparently his parents never mentioned his supposed “date “ with Mayson, because he arrives at work Tuesday morning and is puzzled by the behavior of Lois, Perry, Jimmy- and Mayson


LOIS LANE

1- takes her trash out late at night when most of her neighbors are in bed
2- tells Clark she prefers doctors who have live patients
3- repeatedly asks Mayson who the dead man is and is finally told he is Dr. Neal Faraday
4- the name means nothing to her but she assures Mayson it will because she’s going to learn all there is to know about him
5- takes the Faraday penlight from her pencil holder and puts it in her briefcase
6- finds quite a bit of information on Faraday but nothing to explain his disappearance three years earlier
7- wonders why no one has ever heard of Faraday if he is famous in scientific circles
8-bewilders herself and Clark when she seemingly explains an excerpt of one of Faraday’s theories after he reads it aloud
9- tosses the Faraday pen into the trash when it doesn’t work for Jimmy, but gives it to Clark when he chastises her for throwing away a perfectly good pen that might just need a refill
10- answers her telephone while listening in on Clark and Mayson and finds it is a caller who wants to meet her in Metropolitan Park with information about Faraday
11- tells Clark the call was not important and leaves the newsroom hurriedly
12- arrives at the meeting place in the park to find she is alone and calls out
13- two men appear from behind a tree and a light is suddenly shone in her face and she identifies herself
14- a male voice asks her for the “Faraday device” but she doesn’t know what it is
15- the voice then asks where Superman is and she dismisses the question to remind the voice he promised her information about Dr. Faraday
16- becomes nervous about being there after the voice asks if it’s true Superman always comes to her rescue when he’s needed
17- tells him it’s a theory she doesn’t want to put to the test just as Superman drops to the ground between her and the other two men
18- after a gunshot she is grabbed by Superman and they fly away from the scene
19- asks Superman why he is flying so slowly, not that she is complaining, and discovers he can’t see
20- directs him to the open window of her apartment and alights safely, but has trouble giving accurate directions to him
21- once he is inside, she leads him to a chair and offers to call someone for him
22- is surprised when he asks to sleep on her couch- “You sleep?!”- but quickly assures him she didn’t think he was some kind of, “I don’t know, bat that flies around all night”
23- though he breaks a lamp with an expansive gesture, she tells him he is not imposing on her and can stay
24- fixes breakfast for Superman- orange juice and burned bacon- offers him Pop-Tarts in place of the ruined bacon
25- Matt, her contact, tells her Dr. Bannergy is the best at STAR Labs and she calls her apartment to tell Superman Bannergy is on his way there
26- tells Perry that even Clark will get all feeble-minded when a kind of attractive woman like Mayson bats their eyes at him- adding, “If a spin wheel’s geared internally with a pinion, the wheels rotate in the same direction.”
27- arriving home, and after a brief confrontation with the men who blinded Superman in the park, she tells Superman she is angry at Clark for not being here when his two best friends need him most
28- is puzzled why Clark’s parents have come to her apartment, but politely invites them in
29- angrily tells Jonathan she can’t understand why Clark would go away for a weekend with a women he hardly knows, now of all times- but admits he doesn’t know what has happened and apologizes, saying she knows Clark is a good person and a good friend
30- as she talks to Jonathan, a car screeches to halt beside her Jeep and a man jumps out and grabs her, forcing her into the back seat
31- she tells her kidnappers she would tell them where the device was if she knew because Superman is more important to her than that “stupid thingamajig”
32- realizes Dr. Faraday used his device on her and that is why she is aware of things in her brain that “I don’t know how they got there”
33- refuses to tell her kidnappers, Dr, Leit and Munch, where the device is even under threat of death
34- tells them the Faraday device is at the Daily Planet after learning all she can about Leit’s device
35- escapes from them at the newsroom and manages to grab Leit’s device away from him
36- while Leit and Munch search for the Faraday device, she uses the infrared spectrum of the bigger device to restore Superman’s sight
37- greets Clark coldly at work on Monday, thinking he’d just spent the weekend with Mayson
37- demands to know where he’s been for the last three days after discovering he WASN’T with Mayson


PERRY WHITE

1- sees Mayson Drake talking to Clark and approaches to ask her how the investigation is going
2- tells her his reporters are having trouble tracing Faraday’s whereabouts for the last few years, too
3- jokes that he sometimes thinks his name is “Perry but” due to his reporters telling him “Oh, I tried, Perry, but…” or “I’m sorry, Perry, but…” or “Oh, I wish, Perry, but…”
4- reminds him of when he first became an editor and there was a reporter who was very much like Clark and, in fact, they could have been brothers…
5- asks Lois where Clark is the next day and assumes they are fighting again when she tells him no, she isn’t his keeper
6- is worried because Clark is never late without calling in, though Jimmy suggests he might have gone on his weekend date early- if Jimmy had a babe like Mayson Drake interested in him, he would
7- dismisses Jimmy’s idea because Clark isn’t the type to chase after some babe
8- exchanges an amused look with Jimmy when Lois tells them she doesn’t think Mayson is such a babe
9- asks Jimmy to process some film for him
10- is nonplussed and disappointed with Clark for standing up Mayson Drake, declaring, “I thought Clark was a bigger man than that.”
11- tells Jimmy he probably got cold feet because when you let a woman do the chasing, you’re buying a tux and walking down the aisle before you know it
12- tells Lois and Jimmy it was for the best that the Faraday device was destroyed- technology and human nature are a volatile mix
13- teases Lois that he might not be able to get used to her information leaks- answering questions with obscure, semi-related technical jargon


JIMMY OLSEN

1- approaches Lois’ desk while repeating a phone number and takes the Faraday pen from her bag and tries to write with it but it doesn’t work
2- asks Clark what it means when a girl gives you her phone number without you asking for it
3- walks past Clark’s desk as he and Mayson are talking and stops at Lois’ desk and both of them eavesdrop on the conversation
4- is impressed by Mayson’s invitation to Clark and quietly gives him an eager ‘yes!’
5- wants to talk to Clark, who is not at his desk yet, about a guy thing, but is convinced to ask Lois instead and she offers to tell him the secret of success with women
6- knocks over Clark’s pencil holder when she is interrupted by a phone call and tells him nonsense instead, and he leaves the Faraday device on the floor (“The secret of the universe yanked out from under me like a cheap rug.”)
7- helps the Kents pick the lock on Clark’s apartment door after first asking them if they knocked
8- reveals to them that Clark is believed to be on a weekend date, and knowing this is better than not knowing, right?
9- rushes back to the Daily Planet to tell Perry that Clark was so anxious to start his weekend date with Mayson that he forgot his parents were coming to visit over the weekend!
10- is very disappointed when Clark does not report for work and so misses his “date”
11- wonders why Clark gave it up after she came on to him
12- crestfallen, he takes Perry’s film and goes to the dark room, unaware he has kicked the Faraday device into the room as he entered
13- as he leaves, he sees it and picks it up and returns it to Clark’s desk, then leaves the newsroom for home
14- shamelessly eavesdrops on Clark and Mayson’s talk and shocks Lois by telling her the couple didn’t go away for the weekend, that Clark stood her up


MARTHA KENT

1- frustrated at the failure of her attempts to pick the lock on Clark’s door, mutters a child of four could probably pick it, but laughs when Jonathan wishes that child was with them now
2- explains to Jonathan a shear point is when the tumblers open up at the top of the lock cylinder, but knowing that and getting them to do it are different things
3- when Jimmy Olsen asks if she wants him to try, accepts the offer with relief
4- is as surprised as her husband when she learns Clark’s absence from work is believed to be because he has gone away with a date
5- apologizes to Lois for coming to her home but when Clark wasn’t home, she and Jonathan thought Lois might know where he was
6- pretends surprise at seeing Superman there and asks how he is- his expression says it all
7- as soon as Jonathan and Lois leave for their brief shopping trip, rushes to wrap her son in a heartfelt hug, surprising him a little
8- tells him they had to be here with him because “your dad and I love you more than anything on this Earth.”
9- scrutinizes Mayson Drake closely, upon introduction, before telling her she might know her son, Clark
10- with relief, tells Mayson that Superman is OK after he jumped out of the apartment window- he IS Superman


JONATHAN KENT

1- waits patiently outside Clark’s apartment while his wife tries to pick the lock on the door
2- says he knows why they can’t go to Lois’ apartment, but why couldn’t they have left their suitcases at the airport?
3- when she asks if he wants to try, declines saying he has no idea how to do it
4- after Jimmy Olsen arrives and tells him how, admits he still has no idea how to do it
5- reminds Martha that when they get to Lois’s apartment not to treat Superman as their son
6- goes with Lois to buy oolong tea, giving Martha some time alone with Superman to talk, and giving a longing look at his son before closing the door
7- assures a worried Lois that Superman is a strong young man, inside, where it counts, and he knows they are all “here for him”
8- watches helplessly, along with several passersby, as Lois is kidnapped on the street and is gone in seconds
9- introduces himself and Martha to Mayson Drake, whom he has called about Lois’ kidnapping
10- tries to stop Superman from jumping out the wrong apartment window, then observes that he apparently misjudged the distance to the ground
11- constructs a safety barrier by tying pillows around Lois’ bookcase so a certain son of his won’t accidentally break the glass


MAYSON DRAKE

1- responds to the break-in at Lois’ apartment after hearing about it on her scanner
2- reveals the identity of the dead man in Lois’ apartment
3- comes to the newsroom the following morning to speak to Clark, making it plain to Lois that she wants to talk to him alone
4- tells Clark she really likes him and though she doesn’t want to appear forward, invites him to spend the long weekend with her at her cabin in the mountains
5- when he hesitates, tells him to hear her out before he answers and goes on in a quiet tone about her invitation
6- is interrupted by Perry White and listens politely to his joking until she gets a call on her mobile phone
7- taking the call, she signals to Clark she must leave
8- returns on Friday looking for Clark
9- is irritated to discover she has apparently been stood up by him and leaves abruptly
10- called to Lois’s apartment and told of her kidnapping, reveals all she knows about Dr. Faraday and the man financing his research, Dr. Harold P. Leit
11- agrees with Martha that the device would allow the person who has it to control the world and Dr. Leit is definitely the wrong person to have it
12- finally shows some concern for Superman after he jumps out of the apartment window
13- does not go close enough to the windows to be able to look for herself to see what has happened even though there is room to do so beside the Kents
14- tells Clark that though she felt humiliated by him standing her up for their weekend date and thinks it was a rotten thing to do
15- is willing to believe what happened was a misunderstanding because his parents are such wonderful people she is certain no son of theirs would do it deliberately
16- doesn’t ask for an explanation, promises to never be the one asking for a date again, assures him she won’t say no if he were to ask her, and gives him a kiss before she leaves


DR. HARRY LEIT

1- leads the chase, with another man, after the fleeing Dr. Faraday, turns off the power for the entire building from the fifth floor to mask the activity when Faraday is cornered in Lois’ apartment
2- reveals he is searching for the penlight device Faraday was carrying
3- calls Lois, pretending to have information on Faraday and asks her to meet him in Metropolitan Park, easy of the pond
4- as soon as Superman arrives, uses his weapon to shine a bright red light in the superhero’s eyes
5- tells Munch, his accomplice, he doesn’t know if it worked
6- later poses as Dr. Bannergy and gleefully examines Superman’s eyes, shining his harmful light into them again, at Lois’ apartment
7- tells him when ultraviolet light is shined on some transparent substances, they can turn opaque
8- says the man who came up with the method of blinding Superman was a genius
9- assures Lois his reasons for wanting the device are altruistic: to give everyone equal access to knowledge
10- reveals the transfer is a two step process: the knowledge is transferred, then it must be activated
11- finally, he reveals it looks like a silver ball point pen
12- tells Lois there is an antidote to Superman’s blindness in an effort to make her cooperate after she refuses to tell him anything
13- demonstrates his own device to her and explains how it worked- ultraviolet light to blind Superman, infrared to cure him
14- accuses Lois of lying to him when they reach the Daily Planet and the device is not in Clark’s pencil holder
15- underestimates Lois Lane- a lot- and is angered when she escapes and ruins his plans


MUNCH

1- corners Dr. Faraday in Lois’ apartment and as they struggle Faraday is killed
2- escapes via the fire escape when the police arrive
3- doesn’t want to shoot Lois in the park to attract Superman (“Come on, Doc, do I really have to shoot her?”)
4- does shoot at Superman when he arrives moments later and runs forward to grab Lois but is pushed away
5- wonders aloud if the light weapon worked after all that- and repeats the other man’s answer with dry sarcasm, ‘You don’t know’
6- quietly searches Lois’ apartment for the Faraday device while Leit examines Superman, stopping to finish making the hot chocolate on the stove and drink some of it
7- sarcastically calls into question Dr. Leit’s uncertainty about important points in their plans
8- by the end, is getting tired of being the underling in his partnership with Leit
9- has a funny moment when he and Lois have a battle of wills, so to speak, as he pushes her into a chair and she stands up, and he pushes her down and she stands up, he pushes her again and she stands up…


OTHER CHARACTERS

Dr. Neal Faraday
- a genius scientist whose theories can be understood by only a few people on Earth
- was chased through the streets of the city and took refuge in Lois’ apartment building where he knocked on doors seeking help
- forced his way into Lois’ apartment, shined the light from a penlight into her eyes and caused her to freeze for several minutes
- was caught and killed in her living room after hiding the penlight device among pens and pencils on her desk
- there is no record of his whereabouts for the last three years
- cut all ties to family and friends and disappeared

Police Officer
- arrives at Lois’ apartment to investigate after the lights go out and finds Lois frozen in place inside her apartment, and a dead man on the floor
- tells Mayson Drake he found Lois in some kind of trance
- shook her and yelled at her to no affect, but she came out of it on her own after a few minutes

Male Tenant
- during the uproar on the fifth floor, he goes to the circuit breakers and discovers the power has been shut down from there and turns it back on, shaking his head dismissively at the crowd gathered around Lois’ door

Blind Man
- is accosted by a robber in the small park across the street from Lois’ apartment bldg.
- saved by an equally blind Superman who somehow recovers his cane for him, but is unable to point him in the direction of West 57th Street

Matt
- a source Lois has at STAR Labs
- calls Dr. Bannergy the best scientist working at STAR Labs

McClain
- a staffer who works in the photography department and called in sick
- mentioned by Perry White to Jimmy Olsen

NAME THAT TUNE

N/A

PERRY-ISMS

- “Clark, I understand how you feel, son, but I want you to remember that women are people, too. They deserve fair treatment.”- to Clark, thinking he stood up Mayson Drake because of cold feet. . .too bad he never reverses the advice and tells Lois men are people, too, who deserve fair treatment

NOT-SO SUPERMAN

- much of the story concerned Superman’s inability to use his powers effectively because of his blindness, and while he has a few less than helpful accidents and causes unintentional damage, in the end he manages to stop a mugging, as well as capture Lois’ kidnappers and destroy a dangerous weapon prototype

LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

N/A

MISCELLANEOUS

1- L.B. Doherty & Co., Architects, a firm in Lois’ neighborhood which is next to an unnamed, small café with limited sidewalk seating- both businesses have entrances a few steps below street level
2- though there is a small corner market just a block or so from Lois’ apartment bldg., she drives Jonathan to a larger gourmet market to buy oolong tea, fresh scones and other items
3- there is a bus stop, a telephone booth and a newspaper vending machine on the sidewalk outside Lois’ apartment bldg. – or there used to be until Superman jumped out her window and misjudged the distance to the ground and fell on them, breaking them, before bouncing or rolling across the street
4- 555-0648, the number of a girl who voluntarily gave it to Jimmy
5- West 57th Street, a street in Lois’ neighborhood- could this mean numbered streets run east and west in Metropolis, and named streets run north and south?
6- Metropolis Souvenirs, a shop near the market which Lois frequents, with post cards and gift wrap among their items for sale
7- 8, the number of people who understand Faraday’s scientific theories on the properties of light
8- Metropolitan Park, an area of the city with a well known pond within its limits
9- I didn’t add this to the powers used by Superman because we seem to have seen a new way in which he can use his vision powers. When he destroys the Faraday device his vision causes it to glow an extremely bright white, and while the bad guys each have a hold of it they react to what is happening to it as if they are being shocked by electricity, yet their fingers don’t burn as they hold tightly to the device. They only let go as it seems to disintegrate. Whatever Superman did to it didn’t hurt Leit and Munch except to expose them to an extended electrical type of shock. And, in a case of poetic justice, the bright light leaves them blinded.
10- Lois’ “Information Leaks:”
….“Bulgaria adopted the gold standard in 1897.” to Mayson after an embarrassing moment
…“The result would be amplified waves with frequencies equal to the sum and difference of the original frequencies.” to Clark, explaining something he read from a Faraday theory
…“Alternating current is deadlier than direct current.” to Superman after he puts out the bacon fire
…“The Pacific box jellyfish is the most dangerous animal in the ocean.” to Jimmy after promising to tell him the secret of success with women
…“If a spin wheel’s geared internally with a pinion, the wheels rotate in the same direction.” to Perry and Jimmy, explaining Clark’s behavior
…“In bodies of uniform density, the position of the center of gravity depends only on the shape of the body.” to Perry and Jimmy as they discuss the end of the case
11- even though the leaks seemed random, on second thought, or repeated listening, they did relate in totally left field ways to the subject at hand
12- Metropolis is a very green city with many trees and potted plants on every block outside businesses as well as residential buildings
13- “Daily Planet Archives Online Service”- a wealth of information for the reporters working for the newspaper
14- Pop Tarts, second choice for breakfast at Lois’ after the bacon she is frying literally burns
15- Carter Street ends in a T junction at the end of the block on which Lois’ apartment is located, and there is a small park across the street.
16- Someone puts a sign on a dead plant on Lois’ desk. “Lois Please” is all that can be read as she pours water onto it.
17- the dark room Jimmy uses to develop film for Perry is just a few feet away from Lois and Clark’s desks in the newsroom

MONDAY MORNING QUARTERBACKING

When Lois and Superman arrive at her apartment, after he has been blinded, Lois climbs into her apartment through an open window, then tries to guide Superman into the room with faulty directions. Why didn’t she just reach out, grab his hand and pull him into the room?

OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

Apparently all of his senses go haywire after Superman loses his sight, or he just forgets how to use them. He doesn’t hear a man talking on a public telephone or hanging up the receiver seconds before asking the man where the nearest phone booth is.
As he is making hot chocolate he doesn’t smell the overheating burners on the stove smoking after he misses the pan and pours chocolate syrup on the stovetop.

As I was adding UBB code to the concordance post I realized most of my Observations in Real Life were actually Monday Morning Quarterbacking. I decided to have a little fun and add that as a category.
As ever, it is not a category everyone has to use, and edit as needed.

LOL! I never noticed Jonathan building the barrier before! So that's what he's doing!

LOL! I remember the park across the street because that's where the mugging takes place and the mugger runs away into the trees, but I never noticed the street ends just a block away.
Yes, you're a known nitpicker after all so MMQ is kind of a habit, right?

Kate ( ) and also thinking I'd better work on my episodes

hey everyone, I know this has been a long time in the making but it has been on my 'to do list' but uni has been hectic this year...I'm in the middle of doing AKA Superman and Lethal Weapon so I hope this is ok! It probably wont be in anywhere depth like Kate's amazing concordance but I promise I'll get the main points!!! Watch this space!!!

AKA SUPERMAN

LOCATION LOCATION LOCATION

• Daily Planet Lobby – Lois trying to lure Clark upstairs to get her file discs to actually get him to the surprise party after dinner before he remembers the ribbon cutting
• Daily Planet Newsroom – the surprise party for Clark
• Daily Planet Meeting Room – Lois telling Clark how the public appearances Superman attends are coming between them
• Penny’s desk at Didicom – where she finds out Jimmy is a 97% match for Superman
• Villain’s Office at Didicom – various scenes including when Penny and Lois are held hostage
• Garage – Where Captain McBride is killed
• Café – Where Jimmy and Penny meet for lunch
• NASA car park – Where Clark questions Mr Pallidan about Captain McBrides disappearance
• Street – car accident
• Dark alley – Where Penny calls for Superman and kisses him!
• Brownstone kitchen – Where Clark replies to his fan mail and tries to wash the lipstick stain off his suit the next day
• Chinese restaurant 18446 – Where Lois, Clark, Jimmy and Penny have dinner
• Brownstone Landing – Where Lois and Clark start to make out before they fall through the front door!
• Brownstone lounge room – Where Perry throws Lois and Clark a surprise birthday party


CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

• Ribbon cutting at a hospital in New Zealand
• Lois to Perry – ‘dry cleaners gave Clark the wrong shirts’ – to explain where Clark was because Superman was teeing off at a Golf Tournament!
• Lois to Clark – “Don’t you have to put money in the parking meter?” - to let Clark get away from dinner with Jimmy and Penny


LOIS’ LAME EXCUSE

I think I left the gas on at home – to get away from dinner with Jimmy to follow Penny to Didicom


POWERS USED AS CLARK

• Superhearing to hear Penny cry for help
• Superhearing at restaurant to hear Lois under the table


POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

• Flying of course!
• Super strength to rip off car door to save an old lady after a car accident
• Superhearing to hear jimmy call for help so he can tell him where Lois and Penny are being held hostage
• Superhearing to scan for lois
• Super strength to destroy the Inalitor


SUPERMAN DIVERTS DISASTER!

• Car accident
• Cleaned up toxic waste
• Oil fire in Detroit
• Destroys the Inalitor


LOIS LANE

• Is trying to throw a surprise party for Clark for his birthday (has already had one failed party)
• Is obsessively in love with Clark Kent
• Doesn’t think Superman can say ‘no’ and isn’t impressed with all the public appearances
• Set aside a day for both of them on the 16th
• Knew Superman got postcards and oatmeal cookies but not fan mail
• Learns something new about Clark everyday
• Thought she recharged Clark
• Understands that Superman needs to experience the ‘good’ and when he flies home to her, she wants him ‘to be ok’
• Makes up an event to invite Superman on Saturday at the regent hotel for the ladies overseas aide to get him there for his surprise party
• Has to cancel the party for Clark on Saturday at the Regent Hotel because he finds out the real event is at the Civic Centre
• Thinks penny is adorable but a little weird but cute


CLARK KENT

• It’s his Birthday (doesn’t mention his age)
• Tells Lois she wont get any work done coz u know ‘what pasta does to me…’
• Lois sustains him
• Was home late after the oil fire in Detroit
• Lois tells him she tried to pull a party off for him but says he likes just the two of them together better


LOIS AND CLARK

• Needs to get better at their scheduling
• Been a busy couple of weeks for them and have hardly seen each other
• Need to priorities because they hadn’t made love in 8 days 6 hrs 4 mins 2 secs


SUPERMAN

• Promised to be at a hospital re-opening in New Zealand
• Superman couldn’t say no to the golf tournament coz it was ‘for the kids’
• Superman has a day planner and is booked into the next millennium (although not all dates are not confirmed)
• Busy on the 16th
• Receives fan mail and takes him just a minute to reply
• Every couple of month’s he fly’s down to the post office and picks up all his mail
• Kids, sick people and lonely folks send him fan mail
• Gets knickers sent in the mail!
• Tells Lois he sees so much of the bad in people and to see the good things recharges his spirit so the public appearances serve a purpose
• Oil from the oil fire came right out of his suit but the lipstick from Penny wouldn’t come out
• While he was flying home from the oil fire, he was thinking and thinks that Lois is right about all the public appearances
• Called to confirm the Ladies Overseas lunch but was told it was at the Civic Centre


JIMMY OLSEN

• 97% match for superman – well that’s what Penny’s superman software says!
• Answers the phone as James Olsen
• Introduces himself as Jimmy to Penny – not James
• Started at the Daily Planet 4 years ago as office photo assistant
• Tells Penny he is now a Junior assistant city editor
• Admits to Penny that his social life is in the pits
• Thinks Penny is pretty


PERRY WHITE

• Is invited by Lois to Clark’s surprise party on Saturday at the Regent Hotel and has to tell the front desk he is with the Overseas Ladies Aide
• Thought the only way to surprise Clark for his birthday was to surprise both Lois and Clark with a surprise party!


PENNY BARNES (BARNABEDIAN)

• Secretary at Didicom Technologies
• Thinks Jimmy is superman because her software she created said he was a 97% match
• Lies to Jimmy about her last name and job to meet him
• Can speak French and Chinese and admits she has no social life either and has had time to brush up on her languages
• Thought jimmy would be taller
• Gets asked out all the time but is waiting for that special someone
• Calls Jimmy Junior assistant city editor crime fighter
• List Penny makes to ask Jimmy at Lunch:
Age 20-30
Journalist? Reporter?
Friends are Clark Kent and Lois Lane
Supes appeared 4 years ago
Likes sweets and junk food


VILLAIN (didn’t catch his name)

• Wants to finish the Inalitor and destroy World peace
• Bribes Captain McBride to finish the Inalitor
• Wants to test the Pulse Convertor before the shuttle mission and decides to test it on ‘Steveo’ (because he pulls out of the mission)
• Wants to vaporize West Virginia with the Inalitor
• Thinks Penny is Superman’s GF and plans to hold her hostage and bribe Superman to finish the Inalitor


MR PALLIDAN - NASA Federal officer

• Friends with victim
• Representative for NASA about McBrides disappearance


CAPTAIN STEVE (STEVO) MCBRIDE

• Astronaut
• Vanishes 36 hours before the mission
• Ashy residue found which was later confirmed to be him
• One late alimony payment and a parking ticket
• Bribed by villain to finish Inaliator
• Pulls out of deal
• Everyone liked him and had no enemies
• The space shuttle mission was ‘spose’ to be fixing a weather satellite


OTHER CHARACTERS

• Penny’s female colleague
• Villains male sidekick


DEVICES

• Inaliator: the satellite platform was put into orbit but the power source, the pulse convertor, was not finished – turns anything of any size into ashes. (Honey Braun owned the rights to the Inalitor but went out of business when the government pulled the plug so Lois and Clark find out the buyers of Honey Braun and narrow it down to, Lemco, Farber Industries, McMann Systems and Didicom Technologies.)
• Mini model of Inaliator at Didicom – Lois uses it to blow a hole through the office door
• Pulse converter – Inalitor power source
• Sound proofing on the office at Didicom


HINT HINT!

Mr Pallidan – (Talking about otter space) “With over 6 thousand manmade items floating around, it gets pretty crowded out there.”
Clark – (under his breath) “Tell me about it.”


QUOTES

Penny soundproofs the office at Didicom - Jimmy: “Are we going to be making a lot of noise?”

Clark to Lois – “Superman feels really good right now!”

Lois to Penny: “When you called superman, what number did u use?”


BEEN THERE

New Zealand – for the ribbon cutting at the hospital


PERRY-ISMS

Lane Smith only had two short scenes in this episode


NEWS HEADLINES

Oil fire on the 6 o’clock news


SHAMLESS SELF-PROMOTION

Tells Lois the public appearances is ‘what Superman does.’

Jimmy tells Lois and Clark that he hasn’t been honest with Penny and Clark responds, “that’s normal in the getting to know you phase!”


SUPERMAN’S ADVICE

Advice for Jimmy: Living someone else’s life can be fun for a while but eventually you have to live your own life so if you and this girl are meant to be together, that should be enough.


BITS AND PIECES

• White and yellow daisies in Lois and Clarks kitchen
• Lois eats a mandarin while Clark replies to his fan mail
• Pretzels in the kitchen cupboard
• Bananas, green apples and mandarins in fruit bowl in kitchen
• ‘Downtown’ sign in alley
• 1 green screen flying scene
• McBrides number plate: FHP 612
• Car that killed McBrides number plate: RAH 427 - Ford
• Mr. Paladin’s number plate: BVI 495


CLARK’S TIES

• Red and yellow diamonds
• Gold and white stripe
• Blue patterned


BLOOPERS

The tune Lois sings for penny to tell her the rhythm is different to the tune they jump to.

If Lois invited Superman to the surprise party for CLARK then how would that have worked if Superman turned up to CLARK’S surprise party?!?!?


WHAT’S IN A TITLE?

AKA Superman - Also Known As Superman (referring to Jimmy)


OBS IN REAL LIFE

I remember reading that Kristanna Loken who played Penny was Justin Whalan’s girlfriend in real life at the time.

Good job! I liked mentioning Clark's ties! LOL! I never thought of that. It's good to have more input on this.

Kate

yay im so glad u liked it! i think ur episodes are incredible so i had a good guide to go on im a weirdo, i always check out clarks ties and rate which ones i like and which ones he's worn before lol i really wanna hear some trivia for the episode from zoom not mention trivia for all the eps of LNC hehehe

Getting the main points and the gist of the story is all you have to do. I might swipe your "Quotes" category and use it myself.

Hey, thanks for doing AKA, Superman, Kryptozil I'll start on your page right away. I can't say thank you enough to you and others for all your the hard work! Speaking of hard work, Bev, I have completed the "Eyes Have It" page:

http://zoomway.net/concordance/tehi.html

I hope you like the trivia

Zoom

LOL! I love all the trivia that you add. I WAS going to say something about the elevator in Lois' building being the slowest elevator ever built. A man running up five flights of stairs - and clearly arriving tired- can still reach the fifth floor before the elevator doors closed from its arrival. If it stopped along the way, Munch would have been there waiting for Faraday!
Also, I was going to add the scene with Martha and Jonathan trying to break into Clark's apartment showed where Clark got his habit of teasing, but it seemed to speak for itself as they laugh after Jonathan teases her about her inability to pick the lock.

P.S.- the door picture on the right. Dean Cain is a handsome man. Even looking at him over his shoulder and without even seeing his face, he is gorgeous.
And she slams the door on him......

I agree. The trivia is always a bonus in more ways than one.
I think the defining moment might well be an iconic moment for a Superman that once was.

Kate, who agrees that Cain is a sublimely handsome man, front back and sideways

P.S. even when you hear the words pronounced little ones can still get them wrong. Who else thought CCR was singing "There's a bathroom on the right" instead of "There's a bad moon on the rise"????

LOL! "In the meadow we can build a snowman, we'll pretend that he is sparse and brown---" Little Bev, "What? Why do they want him sparse and brown? What does that mean anyway? There are too many dead leaves stuck to him?"
(In the meadow we can build a snowman, we'll pretend that he is Parson Brown...)

Swipe my quotes away BevK! I can't tell you how much I love your trivia Zoom, it's a big part why Im doing these episodes...can u point me in the direction of episodes u know heaps about lol

Im nearly finished Lethal Weapon but I think u shud just make a trivia page and be done with it hehehe btw does anyone have any other episode requests?!?

PS. Totally agree that Dean is gorgeous back turned or not! I think he was dressed to the tee in LNC along with Teri, I loved her skirt suit in Seasons Greedings...that gives me an idea for a thread...:)

I do not have the time to do the Tempus episodes as I said a long time ago. I just have too many other things I needed to do in the little off time I do have. So if its not happened already someone else will need to do it.

I will enjoy reading all of this when its done.

Well, that's too bad. I wish you could do at least one.
If you absolutely cannot, I'll do a couple of them. Tempus Fugitive and Tempus, Anyone.
May I add the following info as an addition to them? You'll get credit for it, and anything you can add to it will be great.


"I am kind of a time travel junkie, in fact its right up there with my interest in Superman.

I going to note the references to other time travel stories from memory.

The big one of course is the book "The Time Machine" by H G Wells.( as a side note for "Soul Mates", remember when Wells said something like he was Sir CLark from Kent? THe real Wells was born in Bromley, Kent!)

The look of the machine was inspired by the one in the classic 1960 film adaptation by director George Pal. That film also first introduced the idea that the Time Traveler was H. G. Wells himself. In the original book he is simply called "The Time Traveler'. In the film he is called George and there is a engraving on the machine that says "H. George Wells".

Another influence was the 1979 film "Time After Time". In which Wells has to capture a criminal, Jack the Ripper played by David Warner(Jor-El), who has stolen his time machine.

Clearly the Terminator films contributed to the idea too. Where a cyborg is sent to kill a future hero to negatively change history. Tempus robbing the Pawn/gun shop is also a reference. There is a similar scene in which Arnold Schwarzenegger's character steals his guns and takes a pair of sunglasses. Plus there is poster in the alley of a Terminator knock off, copy called "The Eliminator" or something like that... My memory is not perfect... its close though. wink

The visual of Clark fading away as Tempus attempts to kill baby Clark is directly from Back to the Future. Which Doc Brown called being "erased from existence."

That is too bad and you really should do at least one. Your knowledge of time travel movies is invaluable. Bev is right. If you can add commentary to the Tempus episodes that would be great.
Neither of us are writers but speaking for myself I can understand the difficulty in putting time aside to work on an episode.
("Green, Green Glow of Home" WAS done by a writer and she did it in a day!)

Kate, again urging you to try to do at least one because time has opened up for us because we're going to blow the deadline anyway!

LOL! This is so off topic but:

"Doughnuts make my brown eyes,
doughnuts make my brown eyes,
doughnuts make my brown eyes blue."

In total agreement that the trivia is simply wonderful.

Ok I will try to do at least one! I just need to set aside a time to do it and stick with it.

Ok maybe I was just looking for motivation, I just watched Tempus Fugitive and have a sheet of paper covered with notes on the front and back!

If I say I won't clean the house will you convince me too?

Obviously this has been on my mind otherwise I would not even have come here. Its late I will type up tomorrow.

Random thoughts, I have maybe seen this episode more than any in the whole series. It occurred to me now, Even though Wells says early on he can not reveal who Superman marries he drops tons of hints to Lois before Tempus did.

Great!
As Bev said before, "if you need help, advice or encouragement just ask."

Kate, very happy to see you're giving it a start

LOL! Of course. I'm a teacher. I encourage positive behavior.
Get busy!
(JK)
Remember: Zoom made a template to use as a guide here. And the online scripts are useful in that all the locations and characters are helpfully listed and save you a little time getting them together here.
If there is a shortcut, I will find it...usually.

To me one of the good things about the project is seeing the differences between the script and the finished episode. Changes are always being made. When I did RFAS I found a whole scene with Sam Lane that wasn't in the online script! Sometimes it's the other way around. A scene in the script was dropped completely from the finished episode.

Kate

Yes. It's important to note the transcriptions we are doing are from the televised episodes. The online scripts are just a tool
to use because they are NEVER the same as the final episode. Canon facts come from the filmed episodes NOT the online scripts.

For me Superman is the one superhero who can be square and believable at the same time. He has wonderful parents, well "maybe" not the father from the Man of Steel



I loved reading all the misheard lyrics I had chemo yesterday and feel like !@#$ today, so getting a big laugh is a big help. I have a couple of those song goofs from my siblings. Don't tell I ratted on them

There was a song called Midnight at the Oasis, but my sister heard it as "midnight after you're wasted." My brother had a few, but my favorite was from the Bee Gees song How Deep is Your Love. The real line is "living in a world of fools, bringing us down," but he heard "living in a world of soup, drinking us down."

Did I have any? How about "stand beside her, and guide her, through the night from a light from a bulb"?



I have a lot of that information on my redboots site on the "when movies collide" section: http://www.redboots.net/collide/lc_movies.htm

If you scroll down to "The Persistence of Time Travel" (I used Dali's painting "Persistence of Memory" then later I used that as the title of a fanfic <g> ) and you'll find some of that information about the movies that Tempus Fugitive paid tribute to, though those fit more into trivia. I made a video that strung some of the time travel stuff together. Just click the link.

Unfortunately the video was made around 1996 with ancient VidEdit and you have to download a new plugin from Real Player to get the video to work, plus it's a small sized video that RP plays in a larger screen, so it looks pixelated. Oh, well, it gives you an idea how much was inspired by Time After Time and Back to the Future.



Absolutely, Tom. If Lois didn't catch those hints, she needed serious comprehension lessons I'm glad you're giving it a try. If you, or anyone else for that matter, need any help editing, just let me know. I'd be happy to help. I've done a bit Concordance editing, including mine

Thanks everyone,

Zoom

I think we figured out the secret to getting Tom into action- threaten to take his episodes away! (The sound of evil laughter faintly in the distance)

Kate and Bev are right. Those aren't really transcripts, which would be word for word copies of a given subject. Listed on that page are screenplays and none of them are verbatim in terms of the actual episode. One in particular got fans up in arms when they got an early glimpse of it

Lastly, one minor correction about the movie poster in Tempus Fugitive:



It's The Penetrator (ewww) and some of the other trivia is on the poster itself, like James Bagdonas, who directed several L&C episodes.

I'll feel a bit better in a couple of days and work on AKA Superman.

Have fun, Folc,

Zoom

I going to type up my notes. Not completely organized but that can be done later. This way I get a start.

One of the reasons I have always liked this episode is its metafiction, long before I knew of that word. Its a commentary and tribute to the whole Superman mythology. Most of all when Wells tells L&C how people continue to love to hear their story after many years.

It's Perry White's Birthday. Which means its exactly one year after "Vatman".

Jimmy gets Lois here gift for Perry. Checked Suspenders. Which Clark reminds her that she got him those last year. She replied that he liked them.

Tempus

Is from a 22nd Century Utopia. Which has no violence, no crime, and no guns. No one works or argues. It was found by Superman and Lois' descendants and follows their principals. Lois Lane has statues, an interactive game, and a breakfast cereal ( she certainly looks tasty! you can edit out that comment. ) in tribute to her in the future.

He volunteered to travel with Wells. Which shows that he was always planning to escape the future life he despised and how to alter history. He claims to lack any technological understanding.
(But I think that was dis-proven in later episodes. Though given his personalty it would not surprising that he was misleading in details about himself and other things about his time. Clearly his claim about how Lois is seen as dumb by everyone is proof of this. That was his own view)

H G Wells - Of course there is historical details about the real person. But for know I am going to start with details given in the actual episode.

He is a member of a group inventors. His goal was two return with
Tempus to his own time. To prove that his invention is real.

From traveling to the future he knows that Clark Kent is Superman and that Lois and Clark will get married and have at least one child, which will lead to generations of descendants. Along with Tempus' knowing of all of this it shows that by the 22nd Century Superman's secret identity is public knowledge.

Tempus, Just tells Wells to go to Smallville, 1966. But Clark enters into the machine he made - May 17, 1966. Lois does not question why he picked that date.

1866

Tempus and Wells' Machine arrive within the SMALLVILLE LIVERY
There is a funny Bob Dylan joke when Tempus realizes they are in the wrong year.

The Bar they go to is called THE RED EYE. Its bartender is named Sam. Clark's Great, Great Grandmother Miss Martha also works there. Clark's Great, Great Grandfather Marshall Kent is also in Smallville at this time. Its probably a quirk of fate that both are their when Clark arrives. There separate families would likely not be related until Jonathan and Martha are married. Of course they are not Clark's biological parents. So either way they are his adoptive great great, great, grandparents. (Yeah, I have put to much thought into this!)

Jesse and Frank James were in Smallville at this time. They are Tempus inspiration but he has no knowledge of them robbing a bank there.

Clark flies Marshall Kent to see a doctor in Kansas City.

Wells' Time Machine

Its powered by 24 Karat Gold. He tells Tempus that 200-300 coins will power it. Its main mechanism is the "Time- Flux Facilitator". A clear reference to the Flux Capacitor from Back to the Future. It travels through a "Inter-dimensional Vortex" it creates.

1966

Lois checks the local paper THE SMALLVILLE PRESS to verify the date. It has a picture of Lyndon Johnston on the cover. Lois is excited by the potential having a time machine has for covering stories in history.

Clark claims there was a "early Superman sighting" in Smallville when Lois questions why Tempus would want to go there.

L&C discovered a bank robbery reenactment. The banner says " Frontier Days - Centennial Celebration - Great Smallville Gold Robbery.

I love the observations, Tom. I'm a fan of time travel stories and once upon a time I had an anthology book filled with them, but I only remember one. That story had to do with an argument and being able to undo it by turning back time. I know it doesn't sound exiting, but it was pretty good at the time

Oh, and one more misheard lyric after talking to my sister this morning. It's from Tiny Dancer "count the head lice on the highway." Something like that

Zoom

LOL, I'd heard the head lice part before, but recently heard an additional misheard lyric to that song. Can't remember where I heard it. I'm thinking on Leno, but can't imagine how it would have come up in one of the skits. Anyway, it was," Hold me close and tie me down, Sir. Count the head lice on the highway."

Weird combo of misheard lines. LOL

Usually there are two ways of telling stories of traveling to the past. One that history can be altered. Back to the Future is the perfect example. The other way is that time travel already happened. So without knowing it the time travelers actions create the history they already knew.

This episode is a mix of both. Clark never heard of Great Smallville Gold Robbery. Tempus changed the past. But Clark's parents told him they saw his spaceship arrive at night. He finds out that he himself is responsible for that.

The bigger question is the ending. Wells says he will return them before any of this happened so they won't remember. What happens to their "early selves"? Plus Lois still has her note that Clark is Superman.

Its not really a complaint. Time travel stories almost always have these type of questions.

There! A perfect example. Your input really is invaluable in what will hopefully be a resource for authors when the concordance is finished.
I read a very good book called "Replay" where the two main characters wonder about the world, too, as they repeat their own lives over and over. Do the worlds they changed still exist somewhere or not? Or do they just end when their replays start over?

Okay. So now I have Crystal Gayle, Maria Muldaur, Elton John, and CCR and those songs of theirs on my Ipad so I can listen to them when I need a laugh. Actually, I listened to other songs by the two women and I like Gayle and Muldaur. I got something out of this.
One last mangled song courtesy of my younger brother: "You make me feel like unnatural vermin...Vermin!"

Thanks for appreciating my imput. I was worried that there would not be much interest in the "time travel mechanics". One of the things I loved about this show was relationship and the character moments. but I think others might be better at writing about those things.

The idea of replacing yourself in the past had been done before this. An episode of the original Star trek. In fact it could be argued that the Christopher Reeve Superman movies did it. The logic of how "turning the earth backwards" would work has always questioned. Like it or not its it's time travel. He is flying so fast he is going back in time and seeing things happen in reverse. He returns to an earlier time but there is not explaination of why things are different.

For anyone who saw the Richard Donner Cut of Superman II it's ending is very similar to Tempus Fugitive. Given how it ends it has been suggested by some fans that the original cut could be seen as happening after this. That its a time loop. Perhaps they have a subconscious memory of what happened. Like Deja vu. In the Donner cut Lois pretty much forces Clark to reveal the secret. But in the original he accidentally reveals it to her. Which she says he may have wanted to in his heart. Maybe it repeats again and he finally realizes he does not have to follow his dead fathers wishes.

I always figured after Tempus Fugitive Lois had a subconscious memory of what happened. Even though when she really did learn Clark's secret it was written like she had never thought of it until recently. But there were moments early on were it seemed she momentarily had the thought. Was it when she was effected by the Pheromones that see said that Clark reminded her of Superman. but when it wore off she dismissed it?

Oh and thanks for mentioning Replay. I have never of it but its sounds like some I will like. I been thinking a lot lately about wishing I could redo a lot of things in my life. Maybe everyone does that. My 35th Birthday wa the 13th. That probably is part of it too.

Happy belated birthday!

Kate

WHATS IN A NAME?

Lethal weapon – referring to Superman losing control of his powers and being a ‘lethal weapon’ to everyone around him

LOCATION

Brownstone living room
Metropolis Mercantile Bank
Carter’s house
Daily Planet Newsroom
Brownstone Bedroom
Valente Jewelers
Star Labs
Brownstone Kitchen
Seedy bar where Jerry hangs out
Brownstone Living Room
The Hall of Justice

CLARKS LAME EXCUSES

Clark to Lois – “It’s the bank alarm, I better check it out besides it will give you time to hone in on that card sense of yours.”

POWERS USED AS CLARK

Heat vision to warm up the fire while playing poker with Lois
Super hearing to hear the bank alarm
X-ray vision to see Perry and Jerry at the front door for dinner
X-ray vision to peek at Lois in the elevator

POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

Flying
Super speed to chase after the jewelry robbers
X-ray vision to find the generator in the fruit cart
Super strength the tear the fruit cart apart
Heat vision to blow up the generator
Super speed to wrap Carter up in police line tape
Self healed after he was grazed with the Kryptonite bullet


NOT-SO-SUPERMAN

Burries 50 feet underground when he comes in to land at the bank
Loses control of his super speed and hits a red cross billboard and leaves fire tracks on the street when he finally stops
Looses control of his super breath and trashes Star Labs
Bruises Lois arm with super strength while he hugs her
Loses control of his heat vision while trying to heat up a cold cup of coffee at the DP.
Losses control of his heat vision trying to cook the roast for dinner
Pulls the door knob out of the door
Losses control of his super speed while typing on his laptop
His super hearing is super loud when he tunes into a police call
Hesitates to spin into his costume to go to the robbery
Ploughs through the jewelers windows and rebounds into ‘Metropolis Mattress Co.’ truck on the street
Hi-cups and trashes the Brownstone
Breaks a chair as he stands up
Sneezes and trashes Star Labs
Trashes the street as he comes in to land to save The Hall of Justice

SUPERMAN DIVERTS DISASTER!

Bank alarm
Valente Jewelers robbery
Saves the Hall of Justice from disintegration

LOIS LANE

Calls Superman’s x-ray vision buzz buzz
Plays solitaire alone while waiting for Clark to get home
Makes a joke that Superman is getting slow in his old age
Wants Clark to see Dr. Klein
Invites Jerry and Perry to dinner to celebrate Perry’s new job
Wants Clark to get a second opinion on Dr. Klein’s diagnoses
Doesn’t remember Jerry being such a charmer
Deals with anxiety in a manic state but makes Clarks worse
Forgot she invited Perry and Jerry to dinner and doesn’t even have crackers and cheese to serve and only has a couple of bottles of water a few lemons and half a tuna sandwich in the fridge
Tells Clark to heat the frozen roast at the equivalent of 4 hours at 220 degrees
Clark bruises her arm when he hugs her
Says ‘you know me always running into things’ and Clark says ‘no you’re not’
Says ‘love you’ to Clark when she goes to work and leaves him at home
Thinks Jerry is behind everything
Saw Jerry talking to a guy at the bar who Lois and Clark helped to bust last year
Doesn’t want to break Perry’s heart unless they have hard facts on Jerry
Tells Perry she also believes Jerry started to love him
Tells Clark that ‘he doesn’t stand a chance at poker’ and he says ‘you’re probably right’

CLARK KENT

Would never use buzz buzz to cheat at cards
Tells Lois he can’t go running to Dr. Klein for everything
Tells Lois that the check up with Dr. Klein was inconclusive
Drinks white wine cooking for Perry and Jerry
Just when he feels like a normal everyday guy, something like this happens (losing control of his powers)
For the first time in his life he feels like he could hurt innocent people
Feels like a loaded gun and is unsafe for Lois to be around him
Sleeps downstairs even though Lois says he doesn’t have to after he finds out he bruised her arm when he hugged her
Lois will tell Perry that he wont be in to work because he doesn’t feel 100% but the problem is he feels 700%
Hesitates to spin into superman when he hears the super loud police call
Feels that his biggest strength has become his biggest weakness
He can’t go out there like this so he asks Lois to go solo (to investigate Jerry)
Senses the effects of Red Kryptonite are completely gone and thinks that a little bit of Green Kryptonite counteracts the Red Kryptonite

LOIS AND CLARK

Lois to Clark – “It may be very manly not to show concern but I’m your wife and I share your concerns…so how concerned are you?”

SUPERMAN

Spins out of superman into Clark for poker
Passes flying, super hearing and super strength check at Star Labs
His powers have kicked into overdrive but he already knew it before Dr. Klein told him
Dr. Klein explains that he has a medical condition that may not be potentially dangerous to him but to everyone around him
Tells the mayor that he will personally take care of the damage he has caused and that it happened while testing a ‘new crime fighting procedure’
Tells the city he has ‘a small health problem’ and the doctor who is treating him expects a complete recovery
Tells the Mayor that he isn’t out of control when she refers to him as out of control!
The Mayor requests the city handles its own emergencies and that the city is off limits to him
Dr. Klein tells him to be patient and stop pacing because he’s wearing a trench in the floor when he is waiting for his results
Tells Dr. Klein he’s not used to being patient
Can’t stand the frustration of doing nothing
Won’t take extortion

JIMMY OLSEN

Never met Jerry before
Has a picture of Perry and him fishing on his desk
Thinks there’s something fishy with Jerry
Calls Jerry the boy wonder
Did some checking and found out the Amprose (who Jerry supposedly works for) went out of business two months ago
Also found out that a gold Rolex watch was stolen from the jewelry store

PERRY WHITE

Doesn’t think he should be embarrassed by Jerry because people pass bad cheques everyday
Admits Jerry and him never got along very well
When Jerry was growing up Perry spent all his waking hours at the Daily Planet ‘clawing out a living’ and wasn’t around when Jerry was young
The only time he saw Jerry was when he wanted something or when he had to bail him out of trouble
Would like to spend time with Jerry while he is in town
Perry talks about Jimmy to Perry…A-LOT
Gives a Cuban cigar to Clark and jimmy
Perry doesn’t know what to say when Jerry gives him the Rolex
Tells Jerry that the gifts are unnecessary because he has ‘already given him the greatest gift by turning his life around so completely’
Cashes out his retirement for Jerry to pay back his debts
He tells Jerry that ‘”Whatever trouble you’re in we can work it out together”
Wanted to believe that Jerry had changed
He might sound crazy but he really did start to believe the kid started to love him
Asks Lois to return the Rolex
Calls Lois honey

JERRY WHITE

The culprit for exposing Superman to red kryptonite
Passed bad cheques for a month and went to prison
Spent the last couple of years upstate at the Glenfield Springs Prison
Gives Perry a tie, Cuban cigars and a gold Rolex watch as presents
Cant remember the last time he gave his Dad a birthday or Christmas present
Thinks Lois’ hair looks great and the dress she’s wearing brings out the ‘highlights in her eyes’
Thinks Lois orders up a ‘mean pizza’
Doesn’t know how long he will be in town but has a ‘bunch of regional sales meetings and seminars’
Wants to spend time with his Father
Did time with a guy that taught him about a ‘rock’ aka red kryptonite
Sales trainee at Amprose Specialties
Under debt from passing bad cheques
Considers Clark to be the dean of American reporting
Cuts a deal with Mr Gadget
Next time he starts over he’s really starting over

MR GADGET

Starred in his own kids TV program
Living with his son (Carter)
Been to prison
Paroled on good behavior
Drives a blue van license plate RAH 427
Threatens to disintegrates every building in the city unless he gets a billion dollars
Will kill Jerry’s father if Jerry doesn’t cooperate with him

DR. KLEIN

Will do everything he can to get to the bottom of Superman’s problem
Wants superman to go home and relax and soak in a tub…and Superman replies, ‘but I’m Superman!’
Tells Superman his ‘way’ is to act and move forward but he should try turning inward and find that deep mental focus and control you powers and leads him in meditation

CARTER

Mr Gadgets son
Poses as a Police officer

OTHER CHARACTERS

Jerry’s bar friends
Mattress truck drivers
Mayor of Metropolis

DEVICES

Red Kryptonite kept in a lead lined suitcase
Green Kryptonite bullets
Amped up souped up turbo charged low frequency generator – produces high intensity low frequency waves and disintegrates its target
Remote control for the generator

HINT HINT!

Um loosing control of his head vision at the Daily Planet!!!
Blowing up the kitchen at dinner in front of Perry and Jerry dah!

QUOTES

Clark - “I will see your shirt and raise you everything else you have on”
Script version - “I will see your shirt…and raise you a vest”

Jimmy - "There's nothing in Glenfield Springs except the prison...ohhhh I'm gonna go check the paper in the fax machine"

Lois – “And this is frozen solid…guess I could beat myself to death with it”

Clark to Lois – “Well you are such a good poker player that I figured that might be as close to a win that I will get tonight”


PERRY-ISMS

“You should sow what you should reap”

Clark – “Aren’t these illegal” (talking about the Cuban cigars)
Perry – “Its’ nice to bend the rules every once and a while!”

To jerry – “I’m gonna help you out from under.”


NEWS HEADLINES

Double Murder Investigation On (Mr. Gadget reading the Daily Planet outside Valentine Jewelers inspecting what Red Kryptonite does to Superman)
Perry asks for those ‘Superman destruction photos’
Evening final edition Friday January 17 Metropolis City Edition:
“Gadget and Son: Loose Nuts No More!”
“Jerry White, Son of Planet Editor Also in Custody”
“Stolen goods recovered”

SHAMELESS SELF-PROMO

Tells Jerry that Superman will put in a good word for him for doing the right thing in the end (for the next time he starts over)

SUPERMANS ADVICE

“Rumors are far more dangerous than the truth and I never hide from the truth.” - Addressing the reporters at the Mayor’s speech

“There’s a gadget that needs fixing.” – After Jerry closes the suitcase with the Red Kryptonite and regains control of his powers to save The Hall of Justice


BITS AND PIECES

Lois and Clark drink red wine while they play poker
Perry, Jerry Lois and Clark ordered a pepperoni pizza for dinner
License plate of the getaway car is TCM 276
Perry and Jerry eat celery and drink white wine waiting for dinner
Lois and Clark take 5 pillows off the bed when they get into bed
2 green screen flying scenes
Logo on Mayor’s podium when she addresses the reporters says ‘City of Metropolis Qui Transtulit Sustinet’
Says ‘WRQE’, ‘4’, ‘LNN’, ‘6NEWS’ on microphones on the Mayor’s podium
‘Sweet and crunchy red delicious apples .99 lb’ - sign on fruit cart where the generator is stashed outside The Hall of Justice
Clock in last scene reads 10.10 in DP
American and Metropolis flags flying outside the Hall of Justice
Signs that read ‘Downtown’ on poles on sidewalk (I think the downtown sign in AKA Superman are the same ones)

CLARKS TIES

Brown metallic
Green, white and black patterned

BLOOPERS

Clark is wearing boxers for the poker game but in ‘Ultra Woman’ we find out that he wears briefs lol
The Mayor is wearing Lois’ black and white stripe checkered blazer from S1 (I believe)

LIFE GOES ON

“Kiddie show host in brazen heist! Stuns country as popular personality turns to crime” - (newspaper headline that Mr Gadget has saved)

Hey, I didn't see you had this ready! Good job. The Not So Superman list looks a mile long for this episode.

haha thanks, i chose that episode because of the not-so-superman lol!

dont know if ill have time to smash out one more before september but i will darn well try!

Yay! You got another done. The category has a lot of posts under other topics so, yeah, I didn't see your episode was finished either.
This episode had a good insight into Perry and his son and the strange lack of communication they have.

Kate

Okay, I have "AKA Superman" and the trivia up:

http://www.zoomway.net/concordance/aka_superman.html

I had to edit some items like quotes since there isn't a place to put quotes in the Lexicon, but I think it would be great if FoLC suggested their favorite 6 to 10 quotes from each episode and someone volunteered to keep a file on them.

I'll try to get to Lethal Weapon as soon as I can.

Zoom

Good choice of pictures for the entry. Melissa Joan Hart? I think the future terminator handled the comedic aspect of the role very well.

omg you are the bomb.com zoom! how do u know so much trivia about the show im so jealous i wish i could just pop into your head and unlock it all!!! i can't believe the melissa joan hart thing but kristanna was amazing!

ps. love love love the photos you chose! can't wait for lethal weapon now

Very nice! I love the bit about the Metropolis Mailbag. I'm not fluent as far as the comics go. I've read a lot of them and remember few but I remember the fan letters and the little items telling you in which issues of the various comic titles the story will continue.

Kate

OPERATION: BLACKOUT


LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

1- Daily Planet
…Newsroom: where the staff works on during a blackout
2- Metropolis Streets: where traffic comes to a stop and soldiers patrol
3- Greenhouse Bookstore: where Lois finds an old college friend
…Backroom Apartment: where Lane and Kent find evidence Ryan Wiley might have been hiding
4- Lois' Apartment: where she is pushed from a window
5- Fort Truman
…Obstacle Course Field: where a deadly weapon demonstration takes place
…Platform: where Major General Marshall is killed
…Grandstand: where Lane, Kent and Olsen are when the demo goes wrong
…Guard Gate: where a guard notices Lois saluting with the wrong hand and alerts Fane
…Commanding Officer’s Building: where Wiley and Fane discuss their plan
…Col. Fane's Reception Area: where Lois discovers a terrorist threat waiting to be sent
…Col. Fane's Office: where Wiley and Fane make plans
…Stockade: where Clark is held very briefly
…Command Center: where Lois and Molly are left to die by Wiley and Fane
6- Jeep-where Superman apprehends the bad guys
7- Flag Pole on Lois's Building: about four floors above the street where Superman finds Lois in total control



POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

Flight- goes into Earth orbit
Hovering- talks amiably with Lois as she hangs from a flagpole
Speed- saves Jimmy from being run over in traffic, then returns to keep the still moving cars from colliding
Strength- rips open a time locked door
Vision- spots a satellite in orbit around the Earth


POWERS USED AS CLARK

Hearing- hears a man call for help as his wife goes into labor
Super-speed Reading- reads Molly Flynn’s book in seconds


HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

Not a one.

CLARK’S LAME (AND NOT SO LAME) EXCUSES

After saving the day as Superman when the traffic lights in the city go haywaire, he arrives at the newsroom and tells Perry he’s late because he was “stuck in traffic.”
As he and Lois leave Molly’s shop the second time, he hears a call for help and tells Lois he will meet up with her at the DP because he wants to talk to the chanters in case they know something.
As she leaves, he takes off his glasses and runs for the back door.
Superman tells Lois Clark is not there because he has gone for an ambulance after the ATAS incident

DEVICES

- ATAS, All Terrain Automated Soldier, the first step in taking the U.S. military into the 21st century, a heavily armored mini tank that is remote voice activated and controlled
- hand held devices used to operate the ATAS
- fax machines both personal and commercial
- manual typewriters (gasp!)
- a short wave radio set
- linotype printing machines used to put out at least one edition of the Daily Planet
- a military Jeep which Lois ‘returns’ to the army base under the objections of soldiers and others patrolling the city (who might have been using it)
- shoulder bag (one heck of a well made trusty shoulder bag!)
- flagpole which is firmly set into the side of a Carter Street apartment building, which becomes a lifesaving device
- many computers in a control room at the army base
- timer activated door to said control room
- various motherboards used by Molly to try to stop Ryan Wiley’s altered programming
- government issue rifles and sidearms used by the personnel of Ft. Truman


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

- China, mainland, Clark begins to tell Molly he learned about certain herbs there but is cut off

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)

- Chinese, implied, as indicated in the series’ pilot episode also

HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN

1- attends a military demonstration with Lois and Jimmy, finding seats together above a pit containing a combat obstacle course for firearms training
2- pushes Lois from her seat as the shooting begins and as she crawls away, Superman appears, stopping the bullets with his body
3- checks on Lois as Superman and tells her Clark has gone for an ambulance
4- has trouble getting an official statement about the incident and when the other party hangs up, he sarcastically asks if that was a “click with one exclamation point or two?”
5- he and Jimmy are disbelieving when Lois identifies a man in one of Jimmy’s pictures as a former classmate who died a year earlier, teasing that she sees a ghost or declaring dead men don’t usually walk around
6- accompanies Lois to see Molly at her bookstore at the last forwarding address the post office had for her and guesses she and Molly are no longer close
7- admits he still stays in touch with all of his college friends
8- enjoys a brief flirtation with Molly after being introduced
9- tells her Lois said she, Molly, used to be a computer engineer
10- quickly reads her book at super speed while she and Lois disagree about technology’s role in life
11- asks her why she didn’t include more detail in her mention of her boyfriend’s death in the book
12- asks if the Army told her what happened or not
13- buys a book from Molly’s store
14- as they leave the shop, comments that Lois and Molly have an interesting friendship
15- when Lois says Ryan was the only thing they ever argued about, he guesses Molly took her advice about Ryan as meddling
16- jokingly tells Lois he can live without cableTV- then changes his mind because she specified an advancement, but she argues it provides a world of possibilities
17- including never speaking to another human being, he points out
18- teasingly reads aloud an inscription from Lois’ yearbook: “To Stretch, No one swings like you do. Love, Teddy.”
19- smiles when she tells him they used to be in gymnastics together and he was trying to be cute
20- arrives at the Daily Planet in time to save Jimmy Olsen from an accident
21- agrees to write a “piece” about the traffic problems and immediately goes to Lois and asks if she has any idea what caused it
22- also asks if she’s had any luck getting more information on Wiley’s death
23- returns to Molly’s bookstore with Lois and after finding a small apartment at the back of the store, looks in the refrigerator and finds Golden Springs beer inside
24- when Lois identifies it as Wiley’s favorite beer, one that must be specially ordered, and Molly doesn’t drink, he suggests she was hiding him here
25- wonders why Wiley was at Ft. Truman and Lois suggests going back to the newsroom and finding out who headed the investigation into his death
26- after leaving to become Superman, he delivers a baby girl in the back seat of car, then flies the family, inside the car, to the hospital
27- after hearing her call for help, finds Lois clinging to a flagpole a couple of stories above the street outside her apartment building
28- teases her saying he realizes she probably has everything under control, but since he is there…
29- lifts her upward and back into her apartment where she thanks him gratefully and tells him she was pushed by someone
30- tells her to stay there, he speeds off to look around in case the person is still around
31- returns to the newsroom later and tells Perry he was covering Superman’s activities- “He’s been out all night saving the day,” he quips.
32- when Andy Tucker brings the first copy of the paper hot off the presses, CK tells Perry he’s pulled off a miracle
33- tells Lois Superman told him what happened at her apartment and asks if she’s okay
34- is dubious of her assurance that she is fine but is distracted by Perry’s news from Washington
35- comments that if Col. Fane, who took over Ft. Truman after Marshall was killed, emptied the base for a reason it will be hard getting in
36- leaving the DP building, looks around the darkened street where soldiers mill around the intersections
37- hears and sees a jeep rapidly come around a corner and as it nears he hears Lois calling for him to get in
38- when it stops in front of him momentarily, he climbs in, saying, “You stole a jeep?!”
39- soldiers come running around a corner, shouting, and he finds clothing being put into his hands and Lois orders him to put them on
40- sentries at the base notice Clark dressed in an officer’s uniform and raise the barriers to let his jeep pass with Clark telling Lois, too late, that she saluted with the wrong hand
41- discovering the base is fifteen minutes away from being destroyed and realizing while the soldiers are gone, there are still hundreds of dependents who will never evacuate in time, he suggests they find the command center and try to jam transmissions
42- outside he and Lois split up and he is immediately stopped by Fane and some soldiers
43- taken to the stockade, he identifies himself as Clark Kent from the Daily Planet only to be told the army and the media are not friends
44- when the soldiers lock him in a cell, he opens the bars on the window and Superman flies away, scanning the area and the activity taking place
45- finds Lois and Molly locked in the Command Center and pulls open the door to free them
46- Lois fills him in on Ryan’s plan, he sees the viewing screen and speeds away
47- locating to satellite in the sky, he flies to it and pushes it off target, its laser shooting off into space
48- has some fun appearing next to the speeding jeep Wiley and Fane are in and pretends to be driving alongside them as he rattles off a list of the offenses they are going to be charged with- telling Fane, “This is not going to look good come promotion time.”


LOIS LANE

1- complains about $90 million spent on a new weapon and the guests have to sit on hard wooden bleachers
2- watches the demonstration through binoculars, then offers them to Clark but he refuses them saying they are hard to use with his glasses
3- gets nowhere calling the Pentagon for a statement about the incident at Ft. Truman
4- looks over Jimmy’s pictures and dismisses them until seeing a familiar face in one of them
5-declares the man pictured, not Marshall but the man in civilian clothes who caused the ATAS to malfunction, has been dead for a year
6- reveals Wiley dated her best friend in college and she is positive the man in the picture is Ryan Wiley
7- tells Clark Wiley died in an accident and rumors were it had to do with the Hawkeye Strategic Defense System
8- says Molly Flynn wouldn’t tell her much about the Hawkeye but she thinks it is some kind of killer defense satellite
9- wonders what she should say to Molly- your boyfriend’s back and we think he’s starting trouble?
10- says Molly was a computer engineer and wonders why she is running a new age type of shop
11- unwilling to lose an argument, she disparages Clark’s college friends, saying he went to Smallville U with a graduating class of ten farmers and a cow (!)
12- replies “Just barely” when Clark asks her if a woman dressed in veils and scarves is Molly
13- fixes Clark with a glare when he won’t tell Molly it isn’t true that Lois will never admit she doesn’t know everything
14- shows Molly the picture of Wiley taken that morning and is puzzled when he denies it is him and abruptly walks away
15- follows after her, insisting the man in the picture looks like him even though Molly dismisses it saying Wiley “had one of those faces, you know?”
16- leaving the store, she tells Clark she as right about Ryan in college and she doesn’t believe him now
17- is later astounded that Clark appears to agree with Molly’s opinions on technology and challenges him to name one technological advancement he can live without
18- says there are always operators on standby for the phone company and she knoews her cable man well enough to exchange Xmas gifts
19- tells him it can be a good thing when he points out on the way here she got money from an ATM, bought gas for her car with a credit card (paying at the pump) and used a security for underground parking- all with no contact with another human being at all
20- uses a microwave to make coffee and prepares to fax an order for pizza and asks Clark if he wants anything (“a delivery person interested in my opinion?”)
21- suddenly asks Clark to get her college yearbook from the top shelf of the closet, because Ryan Wiley signed it for her and she remembers signing in at the front gate of Fort Truman- something Ryan would have had to do, too
22- annoyed by his teasing, tells him it’s the last time he will ever use the nickname “Stretch” when referring to her
23- listens as he reads Ryan’ note aloud, “Dear Lois, Eye to eye we’ve never seen, but friends we will remain. Let’s keep in touch. Ry.”
24- tells Clark the traffic light disruption could be sabotage- THE Department of Traffic got an anonymous note saying “Cars are isolating us from each other. Walk among your fellow man.”
25- vigorously denies the possibility when Clark tells her the note is an exact quote from Molly’s book and suggests it was probably sent by a nut who read the book
26- tells him Wiley’s death is classified information, access denied, but moves to pull up information on the ATAS, but her computer crashes and the information disappears
27- finds a small apartment at the rear of the bookstore and observes Molly’s anti technology beliefs stop at the refrigerator
28- finding evidence of Wiley’s presence at the store, she exclaims she knew it was him in the picture, and assumes he and Molly are planning something together
29- grumbles to Perry it’s hard enough trying to write on “this antique” (typewriter) without him looking over her shoulder
30- hands in the story saying it’s as good as it’s going to get- she can’t believe how much she uses her computer’s spellchecker
31- goes home tired and stops for a few groceries along the way
32- entering her apartment she notices the window is open and she approaches it slowly after setting down her purse and grocery bag, leaving her shoulder bag on her shoulder
33- closer to the window she sees the city lights go and her apartment falls into darkness, too
34- as she turns away from the window a figure races toward her and grabs her, forcing her toward the window and pushes her through it to fall screaming to the street far below (also known as defenestrating her )
35- luckily the strap of her shoulder bag snags a passing flagpole during her fall and she comes to a halt
36- calling for help, she manages to grab the pole and lift herself high enough to swing her legs up and over it
37- rescued by Superman, who immediately goes to search for anyone suspicious nearby, she finds a piece of jewelry in front of her apartment window
38- recognizing it, she shows it to Superman when he returns stating she gave the charm to a friend in college, lamenting “I guess we’re not friends anymore.”
39- tells him she’s fine and he should go when he hears a call for help
40- returns to the newsroom with a bag of goodies for the staff who is still there working in the dark
41- tells Perry the city is eerie with what must be every soldier from Ft. Truman on the streets making it seem as if the city is under siege
42- tells Clark she’s fine- some old friend tried to kill her which happens all the time, but at his dubious look , she admits, Okay! It happens to me.
43- still can’t believe Molly is capable of terrorism and murder, even after Clark points out people have two sides to their personalities and “believe me, I know”
44- tells Clark to meet her outside in ten minutes after learning Col. Fane is probably working with Wiley
45- steals a jeep and some necessary clothing and heads for the army base
46- in Fane’s outer office, she discovers the fax machine is not broken and in it is a note waiting for a timer to send it at 9 am to the Joint Chiefs
47- splitting up to find the command center, she finds a building with the sign Hawkeye Command Center and goes inside and finds Molly Flynn sitting alone at a large control panel
48- despite Molly being a prisoner and Wiley sabotaging the computers, she manages to argue with Molly over the pros and cons of technology which she can hardly believe the other woman is against
49- forces Molly to admit Lois was right about Ryan but they are still going to die so what good is it to say it? Lois says SHE feels better.
50- after being freed by Superman, she and Molly apologize to one another for letting a man come between them
51- as she and Clark go to their desks to start work on their story, she tells him it will take more than terrorists to keep this paper down. And goes on to compliment Clark, too
52- points out to him that she said nothing about herself and when he acknowledges he did, points out, “But you could.”
53- Lois Lane: easy target for teasing, looks disappointed and frowns- Clark starts laughing (got her again!)


PERRY WHITE

1- when Jimmy agrees with a news report, he asks him why he is there watching the news when he could be outside taking pictures
2- spots Clark and asks where he’s been, and instructs him to piece together a story about the traffic mess for the afternoon edition
3- charges out of his office a few minutes later because his computer froze up and yells for someone to get MIS for him
4- when told all the computers are down, observes they are half an hour from deadline and asks anyone to get the systems operator on the phone
5- when no one responds, he grabs a phone to do it himself but the telephones are dead too
6- reads aloud a note Jimmy hands him: Phones in Metropolis are mute. It’s computers silenced. We have released the death grip of technology and freed the human spirit.”
7- says of the note: what kind of sophomoric claptrap is this?
8- overhears Lane and Kent talking about Molly and her beliefs and asks them if they know who wrote the note
9- when Lois hesitantly admits they do, he asks them what they’re doing still hanging around- get on it!
10- announces to the newsroom at large: “Listen up! We’ve lost the battle but not the war. We still have a newspaper to get out!”
11- when Jimmy protests they are completely computerized and there are no wire services or faxes, he replies, “You’re young so I’m going to excuse that. Believe it or not there was a daily Planet long before there were computers. We’re going to pound the pavement like the old days. First rule of journalism- you publish or you peril!”
12- orders Jimmy to stick to him like glue and find out how to be a real newspaperman
13- later, shouts to the newsroom, “Everybody type faster! I don’t have a computer to help me edit!”
14- laughs when he sees a bottle of White-Out, “brings back memories,” he says. “Mostly of mistakes.”
15- teases Lois that she has technology withdrawal
16- shortwave radio used to be a hobby of his until his wife, Alice, objected
17- assigns Jimmy to assist Andy Tucker, a retired pressman, in printing the newspaper on the old machinery still in the building
18- agrees to call an old friend, “Stormin’ Norman Haberscnatzer, in Washington to check on something for Lois, then sends her home to rest, promising to send a runner for her as soon as he hears from him
19- tells Lois he thinks Molly is responsible for the blackout because the power company got a note about electricity being the evil handmaiden of technology
20- praises Andy as “the best” when he brings him the first copy of the Daily Planet hot off the linotype presses
21- sends him back to work to “print like hell!” and tells Jimmy to go along and help again
22- off screen a man’s voice calls, “Chief, someone’s calling for you on the shortwave!” and Perry goes into his office a happy editor
23- tells Lois the cavalry came through: Stormin’ Norman called to say the name of the officer who investigated Wiley’s alleged death was Colonel Charles Fane
24- says his instincts tell him it’s more than a coincidence for a man to take over a base one day and empty it out 24 hours later, clearly implying it is all a diversion
25- when Clark and Lois tell him the colonel has been ducking their attempts to talk to him, he suggests. “It’s hard to spot a storm somewhere else when there’s trouble at home.”
26- watches Lois leave and says to Clark, “I worry when she gets that look on her face”
27- congratulates Lane and Kent on saving Ft. Truman and asks Lois how Molly is
28- when asked where Jimmy is, he points to the sofa in his office where the young man is sound asleep
29- as the power comes on a few seconds later, he announces they have time to run an extra edition- leading with the Lane and Kent story
30- as much as he hates to do it, he turns and yells for Jimmy


JIMMY OLSEN

1- sits down at the military demonstration and exclaims with pain, saying he just got a splinter in an embarrassing place from the old wooden benches
2- impressed by the introduction, calls the ATAS a killer robot and begins taking pictures
3- apologizes, later, for the poor quality of his pictures, all blurry and out of focus, saying his finger froze on the shutter as he was taking cover
4- leaves the DP building reading a magazine and waits at a crosswalk for the light to change
5- unaware that the traffic lights have changed to green in both directions, starts crossing the street and walks into moving traffic
6- is taken out of harm’s way by Superman and deposited, shaken, on the sidewalk
7- running into the newsroom from outside, gives Perry a note the security guard found taped to the lobby doors
8- later, after the blackout, brings in a old shortwave radio which Perry tells him to put in his office
9- is told to stick like glue to Andy Tucker
10- unbeknownst to him as he sleeps soundly in Perry’s office after a long night, Perry says he’s got the heart of a real newsman


MOLLY FLYNN

1- was Lois’ best friend in college
2- was a computer engineer who is now the author of a book entitled “Technology Is Killing Us,” which Lois considers to be junk
3- proprietor of the Greenhouse Book Store, where soft musical notes play, incense burns and an eclectic range of products are for sale
4- explains a mobile to an elderly couple as a “spiritual air cleaner”
5- approaches Lois and Clark, recognizes Lois and opens her arms for a hug, telling her she looks wonderful
6- shows the two of them an array of crystals and starts to explain their incredible healing powers
7- flirts a little with Clark as Lois looks at the crystals
8- feels Lois hasn’t changed much and still can’t admit she doesn’t know everything
9- reveals she gave up her career in computers after working on the Hawkeye Project, a satellite that can kill from space
10- realizes now what a horror technology has become
11- argues with Lois’ comment that without it, it would be the dark ages, saying technology is “killing us. We have to release its death grip and free the human spirit.”
12- assumes that Clark read the last pages of her book first, but nonetheless tells him Wiley died in an explosion of the trigger system he was installing on the satellite- “It was so bad, there were no remains”
13- asks Clark if he knows anything about Chinese herbs
14- tells Lois Ryan Wiley is dead, what more does she want?
15- shows Clark a tiny bottle of herbs which are supposed to slow down the aging process by calming the organs of the body and suggests Lois should try it
16- watches them leave and walk down the street- and is soon joined by Ryan Wiley
17- doesn’t drink alcohol, according to Lois
18- is surprised to see Lois come into the Hawkeye Command Center and is astounded when Lois asks if she is surprised to see her alive after trying to kill her the night before
19- tells Lois Ryan Wiley kidnapped her and she’s been locked in the command center for the last 24 hours, and she maneuvers her chair around to show her bound hands behind her
20- is disappointed that Lois thought she was working with Wylie to take over the Hawkeye weapon and sarcastically says it’s nice to know Lois thinks so much of her
21- denies she lied about Wylie’s death, saying he told her he had faked his death because he’d discovered military secrets and the army was trying to kill him
22- tells Lois Wiley was cute they had a lot in common, they fell in love- how was she to know he would turn out to be a psycho?
23- calls Lois judgmental and self-absorbed for not trying to keep their friendship alive and for disrespecting her feelings
24- getting her hands freed she tries to stop the computers from taking over and reprogramming the satellite by changing the motherboards, but it doesn’t work- Ryan has changed the settings to ‘read only’
25- she and Lois wait together as the countdown continues and when Superman frees them, they wait together, holding hands, as they each apologize for letting their friendship stagnate
26- tells Lois she has never met a man yet who was worth giving up a friendship for – but then she’s never met Superman and they both wonder what he would be like on a date


RYAN WILEY

1- in civilian clothes, takes out a small device like the one the Major General is using and begins entering information into it, causing the ATAS to shoot at the crowd and the base commander
2- leaves with the crowd but does not leave the base
3- meeting with Fane after the general is killed, tells him for a man who is about to become the base commander, he doesn’t look happy
4- a computer engineer, he was employed at Ft. Truman where he was believed to have died in an accident a year before this incident
5- disrespectfully calls Fane “Chuck” and disparages his attention to duty
6- is revealed to be hiding out in Molly Flynn’s bookstore when approaches her after Lane and Kent leave, placing his hands on her shoulders and neck and squeezes
7- tells Fane not to forget who is really in charge at the base and demands he transfer a sergeant named Cook, who watches him too closely when they are in the control room at the same time, even though Fane has already transferred anyone who can ID Wiley
8- sarcastically calls Lois Lane his biggest fan, who, unfortunately, thinks she saw him at the testing grounds
9- saying Metropolis is in for some major traffic problems, he uses his hand held device to send out instructions
10- his favorite beer is Golden Springs
11- states at 8 am the following day the Hawkeye satellite will come into range and he can override it’s programming
12- it is also the deadline for the mayor of Metropolis to ask for troops to patrol the city so there will be an empty base from which he can take over the Hawkeye without interruption
13- tells Fane he will help the situation along to make certain the mayor calls for help and uses his device to cut all power to the city
14- discovers Molly and Lois together in the Hawkeye Command Center and blatantly tells Lois, “I thought you fell out a window”
15- tells her he’d love to sit and chat but he has a satellite to hijack and goes to one of the many control panels in the room
16- tells an arguing Lois and Molly they have ten minutes to live, don’t spend it arguing
17- tells them everyone will be looking for Molly, and Lois, but both will disappear without a trace- and no one will look for him because he is already dead
18- locks Lois and Molly in the control room and he and Fane leave, having reprogrammed the Hawkeye to fire on Ft. Truman and destroy it
19- in a jeep with Fane, making their getaway, he fiddles with his control device and wonders what went wrong with the satellite


COL. CHARLES FANE

1- introduces the base commander of Ft. Truman to the assembled guests and leaves the stage area
2- is angry with Wiley, who seems to him to be as inhuman as the robotic weapon that just killed a man
3- smokes a cigarette as he watches wearily as Wiley walk away untroubled by what they’ve done
4- enters a small office block, salutes the at attention soldier on duty and asks for messages and whether or not the reporter from the Daily Planet called
5- instructs the young officer to tell her they are having technical problems and they never received the fax and she must send them a copy of the request through the mail
6- finds Wiley waiting for him in his office and demands to know how he got in, pointing out he is in charge now and deserves a little- is cut off by the other man and doesn’t get to finish
7- tells Wiley Lois is requesting copies of the sign in sheets and they can’t duck her suspicions forever, but is assured that once the chaos starts in Metropolis, she’ll be too busy to worry about the base
8- leaves Building B and Wiley runs up to ask if he has heard anything yet
9- annoyed with Wiley’s behavior, tells him to salute him as he would a superior officer because people will notice if he doesn’t
10- tell him he has made an offer to the mayor of Metropolis but has yet to hear from her, saying she will never ask for troops as long as the police have city under control
11- is bothered but silent when Wiley hints he will make sure Metropolis is in chaos and out of control
12- alerted by the sentries that a suspicious man and woman have entered the base, he finds Clark and tells him trespassing on a military base is a federal offense and orders him put in the stockade
13- pulls a gun on Lois when she argues with Wiley and tries to attack him in the control room
14- drives the getaway jeep when their plans fail


ANDY TUCKER

1- an elderly man with white hair and mustache who greets Perry happily, saying he thought he was long forgotten and is thankful for being invited to help out in the crisis
2- identifies Lois, after being introduced, as one of the “14 pointers” or a reporter, as Perry translates
3- one of the few retired pressmen who could operate a linotype machine
4- is hard of hearing due to 20 years working with the linotype machine, talks loudly but can’t read lips
5- manages to get the old equipment running with Jimmy’s help
6- saves the day for the Daily Planet by making it the only newspaper in the city with a morning edition on the streets


OTHER CHARACTERS

Major General Ralph Marshall

- commanding officer of Fort Truman, an army base close to Metropolis where a demonstration of a new mobile weapon will take place
- tells the crowd assembled that they will witness a demo of the A.T.A.S., a heavily armored mini tank or “automated soldier”
- issues a series of orders through a hand held device and the ATAS performs several maneuvers flawlessly
- is killed when the ATAS inexplicably points its weapons at him and the watching crowd and opens fire

2nd Lieutenant

- tells Col Fane Lois Lane has faxed a request for a copy of the base’s sign in sheets
- corrects Fane’s statement ‘If she calls again” to “When she calls again”
- smiles when told to stall her

Sergeant Cook

- a satellite engineer mentioned by Ryan Wiley to Col. Fane because he wants him reassigned away from the base
- Wiley claims the sergeant asks too many questions and will inhibit his ability to take over the Hawkeye when the time comes
- Fane protests that he can’t reassign a satellite engineer without arousing suspicion, but caves in and agrees to transfer Cook

Chanter

- a man at Molly’s shop dressed in a Clark Kent type of blue shirt and loud tie
- leads a group in chanting while meditating
- ignores Lois as she repeatedly asks if he or anyone has seen Molly Flynn
- finally answers after Lois turns off the music, no they haven’t seen Molly
- the group has a key to the shop and they are chanting for peace and brotherhood- “Now go away!” he orders, prompting Clark to joke, “He must be new to the group.”

Man (with pregnant wife)

- runs around in circles seeking help as his wife screams in labor in a car nearby
- tells her to “Breathe! Breathe! Breathe!”
- is surprised and relieved to look around and find Superman standing beside him
- a short time later, Superman turns from the car and hands him a tiny bundle and tells him he has a daughter
- getting into his car with the baby he is in awe that she was just delivered by Superman
- as the car rises into the air, he tells his wife, “Honey, I just had a great idea for a name!”

Soldiers

- on patrol in the darkened city of Metropolis, they chase after Lois when she steals a jeep and an officer’s uniform and other clothing items from a checkpoint post near the Daily Planet building

TV News Anchor, unnamed

- reports there were many near disasters due to the traffic lights all getting stuck on green, but thanks to Superman there were no injuries

Dale

- staffer mentioned by Perry White
- a young woman Perry sends to “round up some typewriters” for the newsroom

C.D.

- staffer mentioned by Perry White
- a young man Perry sends down to see if the old linotype machine still works

Joan

- staffer mentioned by Perry White
- a young woman he sends to tell the sports department their copy must be ready two hours early for paste-up

Ret. Admiral Norman Haberscnatzer

- an old friend in Washington D.C. mentioned by Perry White
- a retired admiral who was given the nickname “Stormin’ Norman”
- is a fan of the game Battleship according to Perry
- Perry asks him to look into Wiley’s death and find out who was the investigator on the case
- comes through with the information that it was Wiley’s friend, Col. Fane, who investigated the deadly “accident”

General Norman Schwartzkopf

- mentioned by the staff as a running joke
- a well known military leader (in many universes!) who also has the handle “Stormin’ Norman”

NAME THAT TUNE

N/A

PERRY-ISMS

-“What looks like a plow horse may just run like a thoroughbred.” (to Jimmy, dismissing his concern that the linotype edition of the paper looks too much like a sleazy tabloid)
- “Judas Priest, (insert occurrence here.)” a term Perry often uses


NOT -SO SUPERMAN

N/A


LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

HAVOC IN THE CITY- headline on the Daily Planet’s linotype edition, which Jimmy compares to a tabloid saying “I Had Elvis’s Alien Love Child”


MISCELLANEOUS

- $100,000 taxpayers worth of PR- according to Lois Lane, the answer to: What’s the difference between a killer robot and an ATAS?
- “Windy”- a song whose five verses Clark claims to have heard while being on hold on the telephone
- Lois has left over Chinese take-out, a carton of Nestlé’s Quik and a dozen eggs in her refrigerator- the take-out food evidently has been there too long but it goes back inside instead of being thrown away.
- Some the apartment buildings in Lois’ neighborhood are zoned for business on the ground floors.
- “Ft. Truman, Protecting Our Skies” – a sign at Ft. Truman’s entry area
- Metropolis Transit Authority says 10,400 traffic lights in the city are stuck on green
- there is a small newsstand outside the front window of Molly’s bookstore which can be seen reflected in the glass when Lois and Clark pause outside to look at the book display, but it is gone when they enter the store and a shot of the building across the street is clearly shown, but a different reflection is shown in the window after they leave
- the power goes out a half hour before deadline at the Daily Planet
- yogurt, tofu and Golden Springs beer- the contents of the refrigerator at Molly’s store
- Clark reveals the commercial tag line for Golden Springs beer is “It goes with sun and good times.”
- 14 pointer, slang term from the old days for a reporter, comes from the size of the type used in headlines
- an officer’s uniform and a private’s camo fatigues, both of which Lois borrows and “returns” to Ft. Truman on her own initiative, are disguises Lane and Kent use to gain entry to the base
- corn chips, chocolate chip cookies, licorice- some of the snacks Lois takes to the newsroom after being tossed out of her apartment window. (The Double Fudge Crunch bars are hers, she tells Jimmy.)
- when Andy brings out the first copy of the morning newspaper, Perry remarks that dawn is approaching soon. Lane and Kent leave for the army base a short time after Perry makes his remark and by the time they arrive it is full daylight, 8:45 a.m.
- “To the Joint Chiefs: Ft. Truman has been destroyed. The Hawkeye satellite is under our control. Like my book says, ‘Technology is killing us, literally.’” - A note waiting to be sent after Wiley gains control of the deadly satellite
- when Superman reaches the satellite out in space and turns it away from the Earth to fire it’s laser into deep space, we see that Ft. Truman wasn’t in any immediate danger because Africa and the Indian Ocean are in full daylight and there was no way for the laser to destroy the base which would be on the other side of the world.
- Superman’s list of crimes committed by Ryan Wiley and Col. Fane:
satellite hijacking
attempted murder
terrorism
speeding
- also: kidnapping, murder, impersonating an officer and falsifying a death report
- Arriving back at the Daily Planet, both tired and yawning after forty-some hours without sleep, Lois asks Clark if he thinks she is judgmental.
C- No. (He chuckles.) No, not really.
L- Am I self absorbed?
C- No. (He makes a face as she turns away.) Not often.
L- Do you think I always have to be right?
C- Well…(struggles for a second.) Not always.
L- Do you think I’m a good friend?
C- I think you’re a great friend.


OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

Sadly, Clark is getting very good at telling little white lies- almost as good as Lois…
I also enjoy the way Clark's sense of humor continues to come out while he is Superman. He makes Superman playful at times, sometimes teasing and even snarky, as has been noted before. I especially liked the scene where he rescues Lois from the flagpole. (Anyone familiar with my postings can probably guess why. )

As ever, edit where needed.
This was another very action oriented episode where Perry had a bigger than normal role. We learn more staffer first names as well as information about Metropolis. We see disappearing newsstands and tall buildings across the street from Lois's apartment building where there will be a little park in TEHI.
Unless..... Lois' apartment is on the side of the building where the ground drops away and we see it is on a hill above the city????? So the little park is at the front of the building that is on the opposite side and on the hilltop?!
Your guess is as good as mine.
P.S.- will do TOGOM and Bolt from the Blue next

LOL! Metropolis is very strange. It lives! If a building has to be taller for a villain's purpose it will elevate.
I started thinking about Pinky and the Brain as I read through the post, only both of the bad guys are Pinky.

Kate, thinking maybe the laser was supposed to go through the Earth and hit Ft. Truman from below ground (as long as we're being preposterous)

LOL! Yes, it was way too big a plan for just two people. The distractions just weren't big enough to keep Superman busy- especially after they sent all their troops in to keep the peace!

well done BevK...that concordance was epic! can't wait for the trivia now...im sorry zoom we're putting all this pressure on u!

lol about why u love the scene where superman rescues lois from the flagpole...ive always wondered wat dean would have seen in the shot bahahahaha

i think its cool how scenery changes with every episode on tv and u get to catch them out...it gives this kind of mystic mystery about what we will see next time we watch coz its never the same as we have learned! i think it keeps us believing that it is actually make believe boo!

Absolutely agree. Even in the newsroom Clark's and Lois's desks move around from week to week, sometimes Perry's door has a sign on it, sometimes the sign is on the wall next to it.

Kate

FOUNDLING

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

Daily Planet
1- The Pit- where a bet and an argument take place
2- Lunch Area- where Perry DOESN’T tell an Elvis story
Krypton (view from space)
1- Jor-El's Laboratory- where Clark’s origin was programmed into a small device designed to resemble a globe
Metropolis Skies- where Clark searches for the globe and experiences its transmissions
Clark's Apartment
1- Living Room- where the globe begins its story
Kent Farmhouse
1- Kitchen- where the Kents share the story of Krypton’s final days
2- "Fortress of Solitude" (Tree House)- where Jonathan hides the globe
Abandoned Building
1- Jack and Denny’s shelter in an old office- where Clark befriends the brothers
Back Alleys- 1-where Jack sells the globe, 2- where he meets Clark, 3-where he lives with his brother
Pool Hall- where owner Louie declares: “I know guys who know guys”
Luthor's Museum- where he hides the many treasures he has collected for his own enjoyment


POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

Telepathy- communicates with the globe over distance and through barriers
Flight- searches the city for his belongings; flies back to Kansas to share the story with his parents
Strength- easily penetrates the barriers protecting Luthor’s underground vault
Super breath- stops an explosive from detonating by freezing it and its wiring


POWERS USED AS CLARK

Telepathy- communicates with the globe over distance and through barriers
Speed- catches Jack easily by getting ahead of him when the boy runs from the pool hall


HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

Clark had the globe in his possession for months without telling anyone about it, but it never occurs to Lois that he is keeping it for any other reason than he found it in Bureau 39’s warehouse among Superman related items.


CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

N/A


DEVICES

1- the Earth/Krypton Globe- a fascinating device of advanced technology that might hold many secrets- a navigational computer it guided Kal-El’s ship through space to Earth and was designed to look like nothing more than a globe of the Earth
2- Polaroid camera- provides evidence for sale and thoughts of betrayal


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

We discover Clark made a journey through interstellar space from his home planet of Krypton to Earth, specifically: “We give you to Earth, to a realm called America, and a place called Kansas.”


SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)

Understands Kryptonian through telepathy


HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN

- awakened at night by a bright light, notes the time and gets up and goes to the source of the light
- gets a key and opens a small chest on a bookshelf and opens it to see the small globe he found in the warehouse of Bureau 39 glowing brightly
- watches as the continental configurations on it change from Earth to Krypton and both fade away
- touches it and it glows even brighter, then he backs away hurriedly as images begin to form in the air between him and the globe
- listens as a man dressed in white appears and begins to speak
- learns his name is Kal- El and the man is his father, Jor-El and that the globe is attuned to him and it has activated because he has reached maturity
- watches the images played out before him and when they stop he reverently picks up the darkened globe and stares at it while repeating the name “Kal-El”
- immediately flies home to Kansas to tell his parents what happened
- doesn’t know why the globe is suddenly communicating, but since it was attuned to him perhaps they were separated too long and it needed to “warm up”
- has always wondered why he was “left on your doorstep” and hopes the globe will answer all of his questions and he is excited as well as a little apprehensive to find out
- enters the newsroom, offers a good morning and is caught up watching the bet between Jimmy and Cat unfold
- answers the phone, as Perry and Lois talk about the latest article he and Lois are working on, and listens in stunned silence to the caller
- announces his apartment has been robbed – he has to go
- the apartment in total disarray, he picks through his belongings
- after a short visit by Inspector Henderson whose grim advice is noted, finds the chest on the littered floor and it is empty
- tells Lois personal items are missing- trophies, keepsakes, irreplaceable stuff
- doesn’t mention the globe but is shaken by its loss
- lets Lois talk him into going to see someone she thinks can help
- clearly not wanting to be at the pool hall she takes him to, he tries repeatedly to leave but…
- asks how she knows this Louie as he takes the cue ball in her hand and puts it back on the table and makes a good shot
- tells Louie the police have all his information and thinks he should just let them work his case
- reconsiders at Lois’s insistence, asking what Louie expects in return
- assists Lois on her article but he couldn’t care less as he aches from lack of sleep
- after a brief show of sympathy from Lois, he sarcastically thanks her for being so concerned, and she replies, “You’re welcome” automatically.
- after she calls his possessions junk he tells her he will take her advice and put it all behind him, so she can drop it
- appreciates her help but it is all his problem- what about Louie? she demands- “He won’t come up with anything!” But Louie comes through! Clark and Lois go back to the pool hall
- “Are you sure that’s him?” Clark asks as he looks a young boy tied to a chair by the pool tables
- can’t deny the pile of things on another pool table belong to him, though he doesn’t tell anyone the globe is missing
- as Lois questions the boy, Clark reminds her they are not the law and he’s just a kid
- doesn’t want to go to the police, just wants answers about some of the items that are missing
- chases after the boy when he runs and catches him easily and so does not know Lois finds more of Jack’s pictures of the globe among his belongings
- tells him he’ll let him go if he is straight with him
- is disappointed to learn the globe was sold and the boy doesn’t know who bought it or where it might be now
- he believes the boy and lets him go until he asks about the hologram figure of the man with Superman’s ‘S’
- surprised, he grabs Jack again, but backs off when the boy squirms in pain and looks up at him in surprise
- learns that the globe activated when the boy touched it and the hologram said “something like this is the second time I’ll appear…something like that”
- lets Jack go but asks where he’s going
- promises he won’t follow him and gives him his card, telling him to call if he wants to talk
- takes off his suit jacket and gives it to Jack- “It’s freezing. Take it.”
- watches him run away because he has no reason to detain him
- tells his parents he has never felt so exposed, and if he is then they and anyone close to him is exposed to
- feels even Lois is a problem as he is unsure what she will do if she puts him and the globe together
- is spending every free moment searching but Metropolis is a big city and the globe might not be in the city anymore
- before hanging up the phone, promises to keep his parents posted- all three are visibly worried
- later, he is suddenly aware that the globe has been activated and though he is nowhere near it, he sees its message as clearly as if he was holding it
- calls his parents as soon as the second message ends- someone is using the globe but he saw the message, too, and feels they are closing in on him
- the next day he is puzzled by an angry Lois pushing him about the robbery for no reason he can fathom and leaves her as her rant dies down
- goes looking for Jack and finds him and his brother in the pitiful nest they have made for themselves in an abandoned building
- tells him Louie told him Jack was here- “He knows guys who know guys.”
- meets Denny, who was hiding, and who is wearing the suit jacket he gave to Jack
- asks Jack about the men who bought the globe, the truth about what they looked like
- tries to help the boys, but Jack is adamant they have tried it all and they are better off together living like this
- finally admits defeat and leaves reluctantly
- he’s at his desk in the newsroom when the third message from the globe plays
- afterward he sinks into his chair, reeling from the information revealed
- when Lois comes and begins to argue with him about the globe, he becomes very defensive, believing she is defending Superman as well as herself
- though she orders him not to answer his telephone when it rings, he does anyway
- the call is from a frightened boy who identifies himself as Denny, Jack’s brother
- sends the boy to the 12th Precinct Police Station and tells him to ask for Inspector Henderson and “tell him I sent you”
- tells him not to worry about Jack and promises to find him
- asks Lois, twice, to please go the 12th Precinct and look after Denny
- though she hotly refuses, he asks her as a partner and friend to do it for him and they will talk later
- leaves promising to check in with her at the police station
- airborne at the time of the last globe transmission, he stops in midair to give his full attention to it, and this time he is able to locate the area of the transmission and homes in on it
- reaches the treasure vault seconds after Lex and Nigel leave and is distracted from following them by the failsafe device counting down
- reclaims the globe and listens to the final moments of the last story
- rescues Jack and his brother and returns them to the care of the state but this time makes certain both are well taken care of


LOIS LANE

- sits at her desk playing with a pencil as Jimmy comes and talks about an article he is reading about possible blood relations between Metropolitans and listens as he tells Cat they could be related and they make a bet on the outcome
- tilts Jimmy’s head and looks at Cat Grant, and teasingly says she sees a family resemblance
- taking charge of the bet, demands detailed family histories, including charts, and blood tests on her desk no later than the following afternoon- and she’s not kidding about the blood tests
- tells Perry her story on rising crime rates is lacking an angle
- hearing Clark’s apartment has been robbed, she at first sympathizes, then suddenly has an idea, telling him she’ll go with him and looks up into the air, mouthing, “Thank you!”
- at the ransacked apartment, tells Clark not to touch anything, he’ll taint the evidence, it’s a crime scene
- is on a roll with Clark’s misfortune: the story of violation ,of having a stranger pawing through your personal belongings, forget the monetary loss, it’s stealing parts of a person’s past, leaving a sense of invulnerability, of invasion, urban angst…..
- sees his expression and stops and apologizes, patting him on the back and assuring him if the police can’t get his stuff back, she knows someone who can
- takes him to a smoky pool hall where she loudly announces she is looking for Louie but the lone pool player ignores her
- takes the cue ball away from him and tells him to tell Louie Lois Lane is here
- loftily tells Clark it’s her business as a reporter to know who knows what’s going on in the city- and…his daughter was her tennis doubles partner in college
- when Clark is hesitant about taking help from Louie, she tells him this is great stuff, do it for her story!
- shrugs slightly and says, “Tell me about it.” when Louie calls Clark a straight arrow
- returning to the newsroom to work on her story, she at first sympathizes with a tired Clark and gives him a shoulder rub before telling him to snap out of it and put it behind him!
- asks for his inventory list for the article and asks why he is stalling when he won’t let her see it and asks why she’s so curious
- tells him she’s not- she has no interest in his bottle caps or love letters from Lula May or his Smallville soap box derby ribbon- she’s trying to help him
- the list will show how people get unreasonably, sentimentally attached to their old junk
- after Louie calls her and Clark back to his pool hall, she at first questions Jack, then notices and is appalled that he is secured to his chair
- frees the boy and looks on helplessly as he immediately runs away
- starts looking through the items on the table, including two Polaroid photo, and is stunned by what she sees
- they are of Jor-El and the globe and she mutters Clark may be holding out on her
- sharply questions him the next day, trying to get him to admit to having the globe
- when he seems puzzled by her questions, she angrily points out that if anything is still missing, they should keep looking
- frustrated by his refusal to admit the globe is missing, she rants on about any useless, valueless keepsake he might want back
- tells Perry that Clark has lied to her and so she can’t ever trust him anymore
- admits to Perry that she lies to Clark all the time but also admits she never told him she knew he had lied to her
- approaches Clark at his desk and tells him they are going to talk and she wants the truth
- asks about the globe and the images it projects and waves the pictures she found among his stolen belongings
- says he is a weird guy but she thought he was also her partner and friend and she wants an explanation of the pictures NOW!
- is shocked to learn he found the globe at the Bureau 39 warehouse- “MY Bureau 39?” she says indignantly.
- says he took and kept something belonging to Superman that she herself would kill to know about? &#61514;
- when he says they weren’t partners then, she corrects him that they might never be now and goes off on a rant about him lying to her
- when he reminds her she often lies to him, she rationalizes that she can because he is from Smallville and she is from Metropolis and they have completely different standards!
- it’s not about Superman- it’s about “us” and how can she ever trust him again?
- when his phone rings, she orders him not to answer it but of course, he does despite her telling him, “Don’t leave, I’m not finished with you yet!” and giving him the most furious if-looks-could-kill glare ever put on film!
- later, tells him she would have been happy to share the treasure vault story with him but is pleased when he dismisses that saying he owed her
- agrees, calling him partner because she decided to forgive him
- after thinking it over she realized had she been the one to find the globe- she would have done the same thing, so they aren’t that different after all, and if Jimmy’s right, they might even be related
- wistfully wishes she knew what the globe really was and is pleased to know Superman was glad to get it and he put it in a safe place


PERRY WHITE

- steps into the newsroom to make an announcement but no one hears or listens to what he has to say
- makes the announcement again saying it is about the employee salary expense review
-and THAT gets everyone’s attention
- actually, the nominees for the Meriwether Award For Journalistic Excellence has been released and Lois Lane and Clark Kent are among the nominees
- congratulates L&C on their good work, but don’t rest on their laurels – how is that piece on rising crime coming along?
- urges them to show a strong finish as the final vote on the awards is just a few days away
- joins Lois, Clark and Jimmy in the lunch area and tells Lois her article on Clark’s robbery is terrific
- silently witnesses Lois go on a rant about something to which Clark is clueless
- asks Lois if she is all right and when she says No, surprises her by not telling her an Elvis story relating to her problems with Clark
- asks her if she has ever lied to Clark about anything and is surprised by her answer
- advises her to ask him about it
- is pleased with Lois’s story but disappointed it didn’t boost her chances for the Meriweather- but there is always next year
- in the meantime, he sees follow-up stories, lots of them, about the origin of the treasures
- has his first run in with the new copy boy


JIMMY OLSEN

- approaches Cat and Lois with a copy of Metropolis Science Magazine, sits down in a chair next to Lois’s desk and makes a derisive sound
- asked what’s wrong, tells her an article says there is a statistical probability of over 90% that any two people living in Metropolis are blood related as long as their families have lived in the city for at least three generations
- makes a bet with Cat that the two of them turn out to be related by blood and suggests a night of passion involving the two of them if he is right and him repainting her condo completely if she is right
- tells Clark he “is the man!” for his nomination and lamely tells a furious Lois she is, uh, the woman (“More or less,” Cat mumbles.) and he quickly leaves the area
- looks over his family tree with Cat, pointing out people of interest (Uncle Howard and Aunt Millie)
- eventually proves he and Cat are related
- thinking Clark got his things back, the whole robbery was “no harm, no foul”
- after Perry joins the trio, he suddenly realizes Perry and Lois are giving him a look and he quickly gets up and leaves, stating “Nature’s calling.”
- later, is delighted to have been replaced on the gopher list by new employee, Jack the young petty thief
- is disappointed by Cat’s cancellation of the bet after asking her when is their ‘big night’
- though they turned out to be related, tries to tell her anything they did wouldn’t be doing anything illegal- to no affect


CAT GRANT

- sits at her desk reading a book and filing her nails
- is doubtful she and Jimmy could be related but takes his bet
- her condo is painted pink, a color that fades, and tells Jimmy he must repaint her place from top to bottom “WHEN he loses” the bet
- after listening to Jimmy explains a branch of his family tree, announces if they are related she will get her genes altered
- goes through her family tree with Jimmy, comparing the names and Jimmy proves the two of them are distantly related
- runs away from him, ready to pull her hair out
- not satisfied with wrap-up of Lois’s story saying they still have no idea where the artwork came from or who built the mysterious vault
- she, for one, would like to know
- as regrettably as she can, declares the bet null and void
- says she always thought he was cute and who knows what might have happened before
- they are related by blood and she can’t go through with it- they’re family


MARTHA KENT

- wonders why the globe is communicating now, after he has had it for months
- tells him later he must get the globe back before it gives out any more information about his past
- wants him to just concentrate on finding the globe
- after hearing the whole story of Clark’s origins, wonders why his birth parents couldn’t save themselves and Clark tells her maybe the globe will reveal that someday
- waits, holding the ladder, as Jonathan climbs down after putting the globe in a tree house on the farm called the “Fortress of Solitude”


JONATHAN KENT

- asks for more information about the globe and learns it was in the ship that brought Clark to Earth
- asks if Clark has any memories of Jor-El and Lara and is told, no
- later, hearing Jack’s story, asks, “You believed him, he didn’t have it (the globe) or know who did?”
- tells Clark they’ll worry about exposure of the secret if it happens and not before
- asks after Jack and is assured he and his brother are going to be fine
- asks if Clark knows who took Jack and globe, but is told no


LEX LUTHOR

- wearing a hat pulled low over his face, he accompanies Nigel, his butler, to meet with young Jack in an alley after dark
- after he boy is gone, he steps forward, revealing his face, and takes the globe reverently from him
- “Something to do… with Superman,” he repeats in an awed voice and he leads Nigel to vanish back into the shadows
- enters a darkened room and dim lighting begins to glow revealing he is with Nigel
- takes the globe from a wooden chest the other man is holding and places it on a pedestal
- Is impressed by the way the light affects it, and calls it a perfect jewel
- orders Nigel to have it examined atom by atom
- declares they are on the verge of an historic moment, and leads Nigel on a short tour of his treasure trove: objects unknown and unseen by the world, existing only for his own pleasure
- tells Nigel the globe will change everything – Superman is a mystery and he lacks the weapon needed to bend him to his will, but that is about to change
- touches the globe with deliberate care and it begins to glow brighter and brighter…
- tries to activate it again after the message ends but is unable to
- tells Nigel he can hardly wait for Chapter Three
- reads a written report on the globe- “impervious to harm by any force known to man”
- gives the report to Nigel as the globe begins to glow and touches it: message number three begins to play
- delighted by the unfolding story, he sees numerous ways to profit from it
- stands over an unconscious Jack, blindfolded and bound to a chair
- “Fingerprint check? Tell me about our Jack.”
- is satisfied that no one will miss Jack when he disappears after he ‘tells us where he got the globe”
- the globe begins to glow and he immediately dismisses Jack for the moment in order to hear the next chapter: “It’s show time.”
- orders Nigel to arm the vault’s defenses when it is apparent the vault is being breached
- knowing it can only be Superman, orders Nigel to leave everything, including the boy, all he wants is the globe
- tries unsuccessfully several times to get the globe which suddenly moves out of his reach
- in his frustration at losing the globe he turns back and must be pulled out of the room seconds before Superman burst into the vault from another entrance
- reads the newspaper headlines after his treasures are discovered as he and Nigel walk along a city street
- give and take, he muses, win some, lose some, one step back and two steps forward
- tells Nigel they know a great fact: the last son of Krypton arrived on Earth as an infant and raised as a common Earthling
- “He walks among us. And when I discover his identity- and I will- he and all the people who share his secret will be at my mercy.”



JACK

- a boy about sixteen, carries a large cloth bag through a few alleys, pausing frequently to look back and make sure he isn’t being followed
-satisfied he is in the clear, opens a sliding door in a building with several abandoned vehicles rusting in the alley outside
- goes inside and makes his way to an old office where two unmade cots stand side by side
- puts the bag on the one nearest the door and goes to the other where another boy is asleep and turns back
- dumps the contents of his bag on the empty cot- small personal items, CDs, framed certificates, trophies, and a glowing globe with strange continental configurations on it
- this is the thief who ransacked Clark’s apartment
- picks up the globe and to his amazement it glows brightly and the image of a man wearing the Superman symbol on his chest appears, speaking, “This is the second of the five times I will appear.”
- drops the globe quickly when the other boy awakens and calls him and gets out of his bed
- warns the boy not to touch the globe because, “It’s our ticket out of here”
- tells him it’s worth a lot if they find the right buyer
- to do that they have to advertize- and he activates the globe and takes a few pictures of the hologram figure
- it’s nighttime and he paces restlessly in an alley, holding the globe which is wrapped in a square of cloth
- not dressed for the cold, he coughs and his breath frosts in the cold air
- two men appear out of the darkness and one asks about the globe
- asks who the second man is but gets no answer and tells the first the price is $1000
- steps closer to the money, holding up the globe, which he touches and it lights up brightly, casting the hologram image to one side
- removes his hand, the image vanishes and the globe goes dark
- tells the men he found the object, something to do with Superman, in a dumpster over on Third
- asks how to get in touch if he finds anything else and is told to leave word and they’ll find him
- understanding, he runs off into the darkness
- shortly, finds himself cuffed to a chair at a seedy pool hall, his goods poured on a table nearby
- listens as the owner talks to young man and woman who come in together, speaking only when he hands the woman his roll of cash- “That’s my money, lady!”
- tells her he found the stuff in a dumpster, and should have left it there
- when Clark asks how old he is, he replies, “I don’t know anything. Let me go.”
- as Lois removes his binding, he threatens to sue Louie for kidnapping and she pretends to be scared
- smiles in disbelief when she asks him again if he was the one who robbed Clark’s apartment
- when she holds up his money and asks where he got it, he grabs the packet and runs for the back door- “A real rabbit,” Louie says as Clark runs after him
- runs full pelt down an alley, then stops and looks back and listens. Sure he isn’t being followed, he walks slowly toward him, winded and careless
- is surprised when the man named Clark appears in front of him and grabs him
- fights back futilely and stops when assured he won’t be hurt
- admits he sold the globe, he had to, to some guys who saw the pictures he took and passed around- older guys, kind of strange
- tells Clark his name is Jack, just Jack and asks if the globe is his and who was the guy with the Superman ‘S’ on him?
- grimaces in pain as Clark grabs him roughly and just as quickly eases up
- backs away slowly rubbing his arms but holding the business card Clark gave him
- to his surprise, Clark also gives him his jacket and promises he won’t follow him
- pulls the jacket close around him and runs down the alley
- when Clark finds him later, he tells him he and his brother are better off living this way
- he has a plan and just needs to get enough money together
- tells him one of the men who bought the globe was a tall skinny English dude
- he was the only one he saw clearly
- again, turns down an offer of help from Clark
- is awake but bound and blindfolded and hears Lex order Nigel to leave him in the room, though he doesn’t know who the two men are who are speaking, he knows he is being left to die
- freed by Superman, he hears the last part of the message, including that Kansas is the final destination, and sees the destruction of Krypton
- after Superman rescues him, he apparently agrees to enter a halfway house and get a job, accepting Clark’s help finally
- Clark tells his parents Jack is a good kid who just didn’t end up on the right doorstep like he, Clark did- until now
- goes to work as the newest copy boy/gopher at the Daily Planet
- naturally he ticks off Perry the very first thing…


OTHER CHARACTERS

Nigel
- steps out of the shadows in an alley and greets the boy, Jack, who is waiting there
- holds up a Polaroid of the globe and asks if the boy has something for him
- presses for the item when the boy notices Nigel’s companion, who stays behind him in the shadows
- takes some bills from his pocket and again asks for the item, adding he understands there is some kind of display?
- shadow man says “Pay him” and Nigel and Jack exchange money and object
- the shadow man steps forward and Nigel turns toward him, giving him the globe
- while viewing the contents of the globe with Luthor, he suggests there might be a battery that needs to be recharged or rested between messages
- arranges Jack’s kidnapping, apologizes for the delay in bringing him because he put up a struggle and had to be “zapped”
- relates his findings on Jack to Luthor: abandoned by his parents, raised in a succession of foster homes and state institutions, escaped from the last with his younger brother three months ago, living on the streets, supporting himself and his brother by acts of petty crime- another young life failed by the system
- the globe stops suddenly and there is a noise in the background, he tells Luthor, “Incoming.”
- watches a display board and calls off the levels of protection for the vault as they fail
- after arming the self destruct mode, makes to save some of the treasures but is told to leave them
- pulls Luthor out of the vault when he turns back as the doors are closing
- comments later that Luthor seems untroubled by losing his priceless collection
- agrees knowing Superman has a second identity is a pleasing thought


Jor-El and Lara
- the biological parents of Kal-El, AKA Clark Kent
- both were killed by the destruction of their home planet of Krypton
- worked together to build a small spaceship capable of FTL interstellar flight in order to save the life of their infant son
- their last act was to send him safely on his way to Earth, a planet with inhabitants who will be compatible with and will physically resemble their son


Inspector (Bill) Henderson
- arrives at Clark’s apartment shortly after he does, asking, “Somebody call a cop?”
- tells overbearing Lois to butt out, she doesn’t live here, okay? Thank you.
- asks Clark if anything is missing and gives him a form to fill out and bring down to the station- it’s an inventory for stolen property (don’t forget serial numbers!)
- they’ll call if anything turns up but “don’t hold your breath” as there have been a lot of break-ins in the neighborhood lately
- stops and has a funny argument with Lois as he leaves over hypothetical old ladies and the misuse of police manpower
- leaves her speechless with anger much like Jimmy did earlier


Louie
- owner of a seedy pool hall probably in Suicide Slum
- comes out of a back room eating a sandwich and greets Lois with, “Hey, kid! Over here.”
- robbers kicked in the door? Amateurs! Tells Lois and skeptical Clark he thinks he can find them
- says the robbers gotta sell the loot, and “I know guys who know guys”
- asks for a list from Clark and also if there is anything special he should look for
- tells reluctant Clark he’ll do it as a freebie for “the kid” because “what a back hand she had!”
- tells him he can help with the insurance claim too: “I know guys who know guys”
- with Jack trussed up nearby, he shows Clark his recovered belongings and hands Lois a roll of bills, “the kid (Jack) had a large sum of money on him, too.”
- when Lois is shocked the boy is tied up, Louie tells her the boy is “a real rabbit there” but he gives her some keys anyway
- asks Lois is there is a problem when she starts going through the loot and suddenly stops, saying Clark may have been holding out on her
- offers to “toss him around a little”- he knows guys who know guys who can do it, but she shakes her head ‘no’ and just pats his shoulder in thanks


Denny
- Jack’s younger brother, about 13 or 14, who combs his hair a lot like Clark Kent does
- is awakened by Jack’s return and the sound of a man’s voice
- asks how he has done and gets up to look at the loot on the other cot
- picks up a Polaroid camera and pretends to take a picture of Jack
- sees the globe but is told not to touch it
- hides when Jack tells him to because Clark Kent has found their crib
- comes out of hiding and listens quietly as Jack tells Clark all he knows about the men who bought the globe from him
- when Jack is kidnapped sometime later, he calls Clark at the number on the business card Jack put in the pocket of the suit jacket he was given and identifies himself for the first time as ‘Denny”
- after Jack is found, he goes into the care of a foster home with Clark/Superman’s help


NAME THAT TUNE

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PERRY-ISMS

-“It’s just an announcement, not a national holiday!” To his staff who are applauding and congratulating Lane and Kent on their Meriwether nominations- they all scatter back to work
- “Sometimes it’s easier to fix something when it’s still together than it is to let it fall apart and try to fix it later. Assuming that it’s worth fixing. So…” advice to Lois that makes her wish he had told her an Elvis story instead- (he’s got a million of ‘em!)



LIFE GOES ON (other headlines)

SUPERMAN UNEARTHS TREASURE TROVE BENEATH METROPOLIS ART MUSEUM
Lost and Stolen Masterworks Donated to Metropolis Museum of Art
By Lois Lane


MISCELLANEOUS

- A list of some of the things Clark has always wanted to know:
What was Krypton like?
Who were his parents?
Did everyone there have powers like him?
Will he age normally?”
Can he die?
- Jimmy’s expectations of a “night of passion” between him and Cat: “Optimistically, ours. Realistically, mine.”
-RECYCLE: It’s Good For The Planet- a sign on a clipboard by Lois’s desk along with two pictures: one of a man with white hair and another that seems to be of a seaside boardwalk
- You must be 18 to shoot pool in Louie’s place as a sign says an ID card is required to play at $2 per person, per hour (?)
-Lois is spending time looking at online Classified ads on this slow news day.
- There is some kind of award plaque on her cubicle wall, too, with a Kerth style feather quill on it. A runner-up award maybe?
- VEHICLES FOR REPAIR ONLY- a sign on the doors of the abandoned building where Jack and his brother are living.
- CONDEMNED No Admittance By Order of Dept. of Bldg. and Safety, Code ??
- “Outstanding Service Award presented to Clark Kent in recognition of your outstanding support of our Community and its Citizens. United Charities Group 12th Annual Fund Raising Banquet”- something Jack stole from the apartmennt
- Lois reads to Clark a part of her article and asks if he thinks it’s too wordy: “…and so the cycle repeats itself. Stolen goods traveling from owner to thief, to fence, to wholesaler, to retailer, and finally, to a new and unsuspecting owner.”
- “The best man for the job is a woman”- decorative inscription on Lois’s coffee mug
- Some of Lex’s treasures:
Venus De Milo’s missing arms
Gainsborough’s “Yellow Boy” painting
Beethoven’s 10th Symphony
The “better” self portrait of Vincent Van Gogh
The full figure painting of Mona Lisa
- When the globe is in Luthor’s possession he and Nigel watch the holograms, but even though he is at a distance from it, Clark seems to get a lot more out of the experience than they do, first of all touching his head as if he is having a headache. The information given to him appears to be much more than just the visual display. Perhaps it is like the knowledge given to Lois by Dr. Faraday in TEHI, but for Clark the ‘activation,’ that she is never given, is present.
-Luthor is impressed by the marketing potential of the globe- deems it much better than cable TV, good production values, excellent sound and visual clarity…every home in America should have one.
- Another facet of Lex Luthor’s sociopathic personality is revealed by his apparent plans to make Jack tell him the truth about the globe, and then make him disappear afterward. A sixteen year old youth. I wonder what would have happened to the Smart Kids after he was finished with them?
- Though Jack and Denny do not give a last name in the episode, several fanfiction stories use the name “Miner” to identify them, and at least one online source of cast information lists Miner as Jack’s last name, too. I assume this is a fanon creation but I don’t know if it comes from an official source or not: that is, someone associated with the series who might have overheard the name sometime during production of the episodes in which Jack appeared.
- When speaking with his parents, Clark wonders if the reason it took so long for the globe to communicate with him was because they had been separated for too long. It seems to be the case because though attuned to him- as an infant- it has difficulty sensing him as an adult. It responds to touch, anyone’s touch, until the end when he is nearing it once again and it shuts off after seeming to realize Lex was not Kal-El at all, but that Kal-El is coming closer to it. It corrects its mistake by levitating out of Luthor’s reach and staying out of reach.
- Resting safely in the tree house on the Kent farm, the globe begins to glow as Jonathan and Martha carry the ladder away from the tree. We have seen that it can communicate with Clark over distances. Was it sending him a message or just getting to know its surroundings now that it has rejoined him at their destination?


Jor-El’s five visits:

1- My name is Jor-El. And you are Kal-El, my son. The object you now possess has been attuned to you. That you now hear these words is proof that you survived the journey in space and have reached your full maturity. Now it is time for you to learn your heritage. To that end, I will appear to you five times. Watch for the light, listen, and learn.
Time grows short and we continue to search. The immensity of space is both a blessing and a curse. In that near infinite variety there must be _some_ place suitable. Hope and desperation drive us in equal measure. Lara works by my side. She is tireless and endlessly patient. Considering what is soon to come, this is my greatest consolation: that we are together.

2- This is the second of the five times I will appear. You may wonder that I speak your language, and not my native Kryptonian: I don't. That is another property of the object.
Unmanned Kryptonian probes have explored every corner of the known galaxy and beyond. For thousands of centuries we have received data back from those probes. I have every confidence that, given enough time, we can achieve the conversion to a manned vessel. But, will we have the time?
There is an ancient Kryptonian saying: 'On a long road, take small steps.' Precision and care are the watchwords. Yet, we still have far to go.

3- There is no longer any doubt. The chain reaction has begun. As panic spreads, the population awakens, too late, to its fate. Our future is inevitable.
At last the computers have located a suitable destination: a planet physically and biologically compatible with Krypton whose inhabitants resemble ours, and whose society in based on ethical standards which we, too, embrace in concept, if not always in deed. The inhabitants call it, simply, Earth.

4- We have installed the hyperlight drive and tested it as best we can. So much is unknown.
Contained within the sphere is the navigational computer that will guide the ship through the maze of hyperspace, as well as this account of our final days.

5- I try to picture where you are now and you hear this last chapter. What do you look like? Are you alone? What have you become? Lara and I will never know. But that you should live to experience this... that is enough. We are content. We give you to Earth, to a realm called America, and a place called Kansas. Remember us, but do not regret our passing. All is fate.

Story Time with Lane and Henderson

Lois-
It's late at night. Some sweet, innocent little old lady, probably someone's grandmother, is getting ready for bed. Suddenly, burglars burst in, knock her down, and steal her life savings out from underneath her mattress and you wanna know why? Because some cop like you was too lazy to dust for prints and the burglars were never caught.

Bill-
That same sweet, little old, innocent grandmother is preparing for bed one night and she hears burglars breaking into her house. So she rushes to the phone and she dials 911, but, by the time help gets there, it’s too late. Wanna know why? Because all the good cops are out someplace else dusting for prints .


OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

I know the series was shot on a back lot and special effects or whatever were used to create the enormity of the urban areas, but I like the way the set decorators made Metropolis, a huge city filled with tall buildings when viewed from the air, a plant filled green city on street level. For all the skyscrapers and multi-storey buildings, the streets were made to appear full of plants of all sizes, trees, and even rooftop greenery from some aerial shots.
The scene of Lex and Nigel walking down a busy city street with trees and shady areas nearby makes Metropolis look like a city where the citizens try hard to soften the presence of concrete and paved streets.
It’s like you can find a place anywhere along a busy street to sit down in the shade and rest a few minutes.
For all the crime and strange goings on, it’s a place where people like to live.

Edit where needed, as ever. I was afraid this would be too long to fit into one post! I think competition is making Bev and I go too far in presenting the facts.

Kate

I’VE GOT A CRUSH ON YOU


LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION! (A FOLC guide to Metropolis)

Daily Planet
1- the Pit, where Lois, Clark and Jimmy argue over the arson story
Metro Club
1- Main Room, where Lola and Charlie work undercover
2- Back Room, where meetings are conducted, stressful meetings
3- Hallway, where Lola and Charlie meet
4- Supply Closet, where Lola eavesdrops on a Metro Gang meeting
5- Alley, where Lola finds out she has no control over Charlie after all
Luthor's Penthouse, where he conducts some business
Riverview Harbor- where the story opens with Superman helping the MPD fight a huge fire on the second floor of a warehouse
Lois' Apartment, where her admiration for gentleman Lex Luthor grows
Clark's Apartment
1- Balcony, where Charlie and Toni talk about her plans for the Metro organization
Burned Out Building, where the Toasters hang out and where they ruin Toni’s plans
Metropolis Street- where the over confident Toasters are stopped by Superman


POWERS USED AS SUPERMAN

-Flight: helping to fight fires
-Invulnerability: impervious to fire


POWERS USED AS CLARK

-Hearing: listens in on Metro Club conversation
-Heat Vision- sips his coffee, it’s cold, heats it up- then sets it down to argue with Lois
-Vision: checks out dumpsters for just the right contents
-Breath- freezes a tray of ice cubes, telling Toni there’s nothing wrong with the freezer (as Lou reported)


HINT! HINT! (for the galactically stupid)

- Not much of a hint but early on the coffee in the newsroom pot is cold and Clark uses his vision to heat up the coffee in his cup, which he then sets down beside Lois’s equally cold coffee. After they argue, she turns and picks up the wrong cup of coffee and takes a sip and is puzzled: her coffee had been cold. Though Clark notices what happened, neither says anything.



CLARK’S LAME EXCUSES

Nothing of Note


DEVICES

- advanced technology flame throwers which can pinpoint the fire so precisely letters can be formed to leave messages burned into walls
- Lois Lane’s voice and stage presence which can get her a chorus line job without an audition; and make the most self controlled madman on the face of the planet lose it for a few moments


BEEN THERE (Clark’s travels)

- Fiji, where he discovered a calming blend of herbal tea, which he scents with fresh mint

SAY WHAT? (Clark’s languages)

A few words of Fijian and Hindustani might be among the 300-odd languages Clark knows.


HISTORY, HOBBIES, ALL CHARACTERS

CLARK KENT\SUPERMAN

- arrives at a fire scene and saves a man trapped inside the building
- tells a reporter he’s sure the fire department is doing all they can to find the culprits
- as he speaks there is an announcement that another fire has been reported and he hurries away
- tells Lois what she is doing is dangerous but she tells him “Not for me”
- tells Lois she should have talked over her plans with him before going ahead- they’re a team
- feels she’s in over her head and she replies if he can’t take the heat stay out of the story
- goes to the Metro Club in disguise as a sailor who has just lost his job
- watches Toots, the singer, rehearse for a few moments, then goes to the bar
- sees Johnny talking with a table of men around him
- walks the room and is spotted by an angry Lois who grabs him and pulls him behind a curtain
- ignoring her insults and accusations, tells her she seems to be real close to the story
- when he teases her about the chicken costume, she replies, “who are you supposed to be? Popeye the Sailor Man?”
- though she asks him to leave, he decides to stick around and see her debut
- at the bar Clark orders a whiskey, a double, downs it in one swallow and asks for another
- asks if there is an opening for a bartender but is told no by both the bartender and by Toni Taylor who comes up to ask him to leave- for a dress code violation
- suddenly three men dressed in strange suits walk into the club and one yells, “Johnny, you’re a dead man!”; everyone scatters as the men begin to spray flames from the weapons they carry back and forth across the room while Johnny and his men fire back with guns before turning to run- Clark sees Toni trapped by the flames and runs to get her to safety, shooing everyone out the door at the same time, before blowing out the fires with his breath
- sees the words ‘the Toasters’ has been burned into one wall
- in the newsroom later, teasingly offers Lois a chicken leg and is told if he tells anyone about that she’ll- he changes the subject to what she has found out
- as she takes off her coat to get to work at her desk, he sees what she’s wearing and tells her to wait- but she brushes him off and around her a crowd gathers to tease her too
- joins her at her desk and tells her he’s been hired at the club as a bartender and Toni wants him at the club that afternoon
- waiting at the club for Toni, he listens in on her conversation with Lou and hears her give the order to find and stop the leak to the newspapers
- tells her he isn’t here for a hand-out, he wants a job
- hired as a bartender, Toni gives him money to buy new clothes
- starts calling her ‘Boss,’ a little teasingly but also respectfully
- when Toni joins him and Lois at the bar, he can’t resist slapping Lois on the behind and sending her off with, “Beat it, kid. I gotta get to work.”
- is amused by her furious look as she takes her glass of soda and leaves
- fixes a drink and sets it before Toni: ‘Long Island iced tea with a twist of lime”
- when she is surprised he knows her favorite drink, he tells her ‘I asked’
- plunks ice cubes into her drink and comments on how the Toasters have burned down a police station a couple of blocks away
- smiles as she goes off to meet Lex Luthor when he arrives and listens in to her conversation as he works
- a drum roll from the band interferes with his listening, but it succeeds in drawing everyone’s attention to the stage
- hearing “Lola” being introduced as the entertainer, stops and watches her appreciatively, impressed by her performance
- notices when she acknowledges Lex and seems torn between concern for her safety and jealousy at Luthor’s rapt attention
- when Toni finds him in Lois’s dressing room a few minutes later, he grabs Lois and reveals she is really Lois Lane, reporter from the Daily Planet and the source of the leaks
- at a signal from Toni, he hurries her out the back door, lifting her over his shoulder and carrying her into the alley
- reminding her that his name is “King,” she furiously calls him Benedict Arnold instead
- knowing Lou is looking to get rid of the leak, tells her he had no choice
- after she says they could have pretended they were together for a quick moment of passion, he promises he’ll remember that they next time they’re in a closet
- uses his vision to check the dumpster contents and tosses her into the one containing food
- at home later, he prepares to make tea, but is interrupted by an angry Lois barging into the apartment to verbally flay him alive
- their argument is interrupted by a knock at the door and using his vision to see it is Toni with a bag of groceries
- tells Lois he is expecting a late dinner date and she is surprised, telling him sarcastically he doesn’t have to draw her a diagram
- surprised in turn, he asks if she is jealous
- makes her hide in the bedroom and goes to the door after changing from his regular glasses to the ones he wore as Charles King
- inviting her inside, they go to the kitchen where he distracts her by grabbing her and lowering her into a dip while he kisses her- and motions for Lois to leave. Twice.
- on the balcony of his apartment, he compliments Toni on her cooking and begins to prompt her to talk a bit about herself
- is surprised when Lois arrives at his place early the next morning to use his phone
Is surprised when she tells him what she’s discovered about Toni and the Toasters- they are completely out of control and holding her captive
- turns on the TV and watches a moment, telling Lois to hang up because firefighters are already on the scene
- agrees to meet her at the Planet later when she decides to drive to the police station
- as soon as she’s gone, he leaves, too, and in the West River finds cars, buildings, everything is burning, and the Toasters are walking the streets setting fire to everything around them
- as Superman, he blows out their flame throwers and with his breath freezes the weapons in their hands and the protective suits they are wearing , too, so they can’t move
- flying over the city he spots a nearby thunderstorm and blows the rainclouds toward the city to begin a downpour that helps the fire department put out the fires
- finding Toni in the warehouse he frees her and tells her she has let him down
- reveals he is really Clark Kent of the Daily Planet and he takes her out of the building
- back at the Planet Lois has already finished the story, but he tells her there will be a sidebar on Toni


LOIS LANE

- goes undercover at the Metro Club and is hired on the spot with no audition, just for possessing long legs. . . (Note: sigh…)
- “Sorry girls. Better luck next time,” she tells the others who came to audition as they noisily leave.
- tells Clark and Jimmy, “The Metro gang controls West River. West River is on fire. ONLY West River. I’m going undercover to find out why.”
- tells Perry Clark would rather lose a scoop on the West River fires than have her ‘take a few little chances
- feels she is an investigative journalist and she should be able to investigate- assures Clark she is a professional and wouldn’t compromise her own safety or the integrity of her work- and is chagrined that just then Jimmy brings her outfit for the nightclub- a skimpy, yellow chicken outfit which she snatches it away from him quickly
- at the Metro Club she is taken through what is expected of her at her new job, including how to hold a tray properly because ‘eyes aren’t the only things that wander in this joint’
- she sees several men in business suits going into a back room and the woman, Toots, showing her the ropes excuses herself to serve them, but Lois offers to do it for the practice
- “They tip big,” the woman says and Lois gives her $20 to let her do it
- inside the meeting room she discovers the woman was right about wandering hands
- serves the drinks slowly and listens to every word that is said
- when Johnny Taylor brandishes a gun she is surprised and quickly ducks for cover when he starts shooting
- as Toni Taylor makes a last verbal jab at her brother and walks out, she runs out of the room behind her
- when Clark shows up at the club, tells him his presence there will ruin everything, but still tells him about the meeting she witnessed
- a voice offstage says “five minutes” and Lois becomes a bit nervous and tells Clark he has to leave- she doesn’t need back-up
- also tells him there is a power struggle between Johnny and Toni- “Now fly!”
- though she tells him he sticks out like a sore thumb, after another call to take the stage, he pinches her cheek and teases, “I think you’re on…sweet thing.”
- takes off her robe and fluffs her tail feathers
- when the trouble begins, she and the other women on stage run for cover and are led safely outside by Clark in disguise, but she runs back inside to see if he’s alright
- finding him okay she wonders who those guys were, and Clark points to the writing on the wall: “The Toasters”
- later, as a clean-up crew works on the club, she cleans a table and sees someone go into Johnny’s office, but servers are turned away
- finds a small pantry, closet next to the meeting room where three bullet holes Johnny made are in the wall, allowing her access to the conversation taking place between Johnny and Toni
- as soon as the meeting ends, she leaves and rushes back to the Daily Planet to tell Clark the news
- focused on a deadline- “If we hurry we can get it [ the story ] in the afternoon edition!” she notices the crowd gathering and realizes she is still dressed in her work uniform and she turns to glare at everyone
- the crowd breaks up and hurries away and she puts her coat back on
- back at the club, she and the other girls serve drinks and she goes to the bar and asks for a soda
- is surprised to see Clark behind the bar and asks what he’s doing there
- sputters “Charlie?!” in surprise when Toni comes over and greets Clark
- mutters “Join the club” when Toni says she barely recognized him
- gives him her most furious look when he sends her away with a pat on the bottom but it is lost on him
- debuts as the new singer a short time later
is surprised to see Lex in the audience but recovers enough to seemingly sing directly to him
- applause is loud and long at the end of her number and she seems surprised when Lex throws her a rose from his table setting, yelling, “Brava!”
- hurries off the stage and is joined in her dressing room by Clark
- brushes aside his concern, saying Lex is her friend and would not give her away
- now step aside, she has another number to do, and opens the door to find Toni Taylor standing outside
- is shocked and furious when Clark gives her away to Toni and promises him he will pay for it, calling him Kent as he carries her away
- despite more anger directed at him, finds herself being dumped into a bin of food
- accuses him of completely blowing their story even though his cover is still good, and now Toni will stop looking for the leak (and presumably call off Lou)
-goes to Clark’s apartment later to confront him over blowing her cover and is totally taken by surprise when Toni Taylor arrives
- refuses to hide when Clark asks her to and is furious when he grabs her and marches her into his bedroom, telling her he’ll distract Toni so she can sneak out
- still refuses but he pushes her out of sight again, and heads for the door
- watches the two of them with a mixture of jealousy and suspicion, but her jaw hits the floor when they kiss and it takes a while before she can move, still astonished by the kiss
- arrives home still fuming at Clark accusing her of jealousy, changes into a bathrobe and grabs a tub of ice cream out of the refrigerator- a spoon is already stuck in it- mutters “Like I really care!”
- stuffing a spoonful into her mouth, she admits. “I am jealous!” and can’t believe she said it
- answering a knock at the door, she finds it is Lex who greets her by saying “Let’s do it!”
- “I beg your pardon?” she says around the spoon hanging from her mouth
- it’s a song request, Let’s Do It, and sings, “Let’s fall in love,” but she shakes her head and tells him her singing career is over
- letting him in, she rushes for the kitchen, picking up her shoes which she throws into the refrigerator along with the ice cream
- thanks him for not blowing her cover and he tells her that’s what friends are for, and she looks as though she could use one
- asks what he was doing at the club
- telling her about meeting with Toni, he walks up close to her and she looks at him uneasily, moving past him and asking why is he here
- thanks him for his tip about Toni and says she owes him one
- tells her don’t think he won’t try to collect, then steps close to her and leans forward to kiss her cheek
- looking as if she thinks she might have to fight him off, she nevertheless smiles at him as he pulls away and the look of admiration and gratitude she gives him as he turns to say good night is not lost on him
- returns to Clark’s apartment and follows Toni when she leaves
- trails her to a meeting with a gang of men in an old building and realizes they are the Toasters and Toni was their boss
- unable to leave because she is hidden too close to where Toni is being held, she falls asleep, only to be awakened by the voice of one of the men
- sneaks out of the building and goes to Clark’s apartment- it is morning
-tries to call the police and report the Toasters’ plans she overheard but is put on hold
- decides to go to the police station herself and looks at the fires being shown on TV, muttering, “Superman, I hope you’re out there.”
- takes one last jab at Clark for blowing her cover, saying Superman would never have done it, and goes on to say it was a good thing she was able to get back into and get the scoop- not once mentioning that Luthor gave her all she needed to dot it
- he calls a truce but can’t resist teasing her about being just a little bit jealous?
- accuses him wanting it to be true but it wasn’t- “Me home alone in a shlumpy robe, crying into a tub of Rocky Road? In your dreams, Kent. In your dreams.”


PERRY WHITE

- questions Lois about the scoop she all but guarantees he will get if she goes undercover
- tells Clark it’s always been his policy to back up his reporters 100% - but it doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be careful
- as Lane and Kent talk over the turn of events at the Metro Club, he approaches and asks Lois how the undercover work is coming, looking at her uniform as she tells him ‘Fine, chief. Fine, fine.”
- gives Clark an amused look and says, “Well, I didn’t think you’d (pause) chicken out on me!” He and Clark laugh as he walks away quickly, leaving Lois to glare at Clark who continues to smile in amusement


JIMMY OLSEN

- points out the Metros aren’t just club owners, they’re gangsters: cement shoes, sleep with the fishes kind of gangsters
- tells Lois an outfit on a hanger just came for her and the dry cleaner said he had a terrible time with the feathers
- he and Clark start to laugh and both hurry away from her
- later, when she returns to the newsroom still dressed in her skimpy cocktail waitress uniform, he makes it a point to quickly walk past her desk, saying, “Professional but naughty. I like it!”


LEX LUTHOR

- stands beside a model display which a group of reporters peruse critically and take a few pictures
- describes the self contained community he proposes to build in the West River area, a giant leap forward in urban reawakening, a bright new jewel in Metropolis’s crown
- says he is not worried about making such a huge investment in the area
- asked about the fires which even Superman can’t keep up with and jokes it only proves he’s human
- says West River is a blight on the city and Lex Harbor will change all that
- when asked by Clark about rumors coercion was used to pressure the city council to approve the project prematurely, says he won’t respond to accusations, and is concerned with results
- says Lex Harbor will take the area away from the criminal element even Superman can’t control
- turns and leaves abruptly as more questions are shouted at him
- arrives at the Metro Club alone, telling the doorman “Miss Taylor is expecting me.”
- tells her he doesn’t like being surprised. Ever.
- suggests he and Toni talk business after a drink and reacts with irritation when she mentions the Toasters before the drinks arrive
- looks onstage at the singer and does a double take when he recognizes Lois Lane as “Lola” and quickly looks around to see if anyone is noticing his reaction, but no one sees or knows what he knows
- gives Toni a quizzical look as he realizes what this means
- suddenly forgets he is there for business and finds his attention riveted on the stage
- can’t take his eyes off “Lola” and is amused that she falters a bit when she sees him
- enthusiastically tosses her a rose and cheers her performance
- goes to her apartment later and tells her she was magnificent, and though pleased she tells him it was just an act
- tells her he prefers to think it was ‘the real you’- passionate, sultry, seductive- dips his finger in her ice cream and asks for a spoon
- watching with amusement, he tells her this is exactly how he imagined her apartment would look and she replies she’s thinking of remodeling
- tells her he was at the club at the request of the new leader of the Metro gang, who told him they have similar interests in the West River area
- he doesn’t believe it, he says, not for a minute, saying he thinks the whole discussion was to get him to slow down his own plans for reviving the area- to the point of Toni Taylor even proposing a partnership
- steps close to Lois as he speaks, then tells her he is there to warn her, that Toni is hiding something
- when she asks him, what? He at first says he wishes he knew, then says if he was a smart reporter looking for answers, for the source of all the problems in the West River area, he wouldn’t look any farther than Toni Taylor
-gives her a kiss on the cheek and turns to leave, saying a quiet good night
- find Toni tied to a chair in an empty warehouse and greets her: “How the mighty have fallen”
- refuses to untie her and corrects her- they never had a deal, they had a plan and it will turn out better for him than for her
- tells her she had it all in the palm of her hand but she got careless and let a reporter come between her and an empire
- when she threatens to tell everyone he is behind the Toaster, he tells her, no, she is going to take all of the blame and she is going to do her time while he keeps an eye on things in the West River, and reminds her his reach extends as far as the women’s prison
- tells her when she gets out he might let her back into the game
- he leaves her tied to the chair when he goes
- elated to have gained control of West River, he tells his people to be ready to break ground on Lex Harbor in a month
- tells them he and Toni Taylor have an arrangement; and to destroy the toaster weapons, as well as the plans- it will be easy to make more should the need arise


TONI TAYLOR

- dressed in a smart business suit, interrupts a man auditioning singers and dancers to tell him there is another fire “at Rudy’s place,” someone who pays them for protection
- we later learn the man is her brother, Johnny
- angrily stomps away from his sexist dismissals of her interest in helping him run the Metros, an organized criminal group of long standing in Metropolis
- attends Johnny’s weekly meeting and asks him how he intends to stop the fires plaguing their neighborhood, he tells her to save her comments for later
- demands to know why she can’t say what she has to say and Johnny gets angry
- after being told she’s just the bookkeeper, asks, “Stay out of business and watch it go down the drain?”
- after he accuses her of thinking they are all stupid, tells Johnny: “Not stupid. Inefficient. Misdirected. Out of date. Still doing nickel and dime gangster stuff.”
- Johnny tells her it was good enough for their father, and she points out “pop would be the first to say it’s time to move on”
- tells the gathered men the old days are over, the rackets are dead but they still have a chance with their organization and influence- they could go legitimate and make twice the money they are now
- when he aims his gun at her and fires it past her into the wall, she comments, “Just what we need: a cool head in charge” before getting up and walking out
- finds Clark at the bar talking to the bartender and comes to ask if there is a problem
- also says there is no bartending job open, and she has to ask him to leave, the club has a strict dress code
- in the meeting her brother calls to discuss the Toasters, she quickly makes her move and takes control of the Metros away from him
- tells the men, now loyal to her, “Get him out of here!” and her brother is dragged out of the room and into retirement
- offers the same deal to the other men but none of them leave, they have to make a living
- “Good,” she says, “let’s get to work.”
- slams a newspaper on Lou’s desk and demands to know since when is Metro business front page news? The information came from inside- did Johnny leak the news?
- tells the bartender to send Clark over to her as Lou gets up and leaves
- tells Clark she’s changed her mind about the dress code- it doesn’t apply to men who save her life
- asks his name and tells him, “Charlie? You look like a Charlie. You were brave last night.” Is he always cool under fire? (“Try me.”)
- tells him to keep his eyes and ears open and she’ll see about moving him up
- peels a few bills from a wad of money in her pocket and tells him to get a shave and clothes appropriate to the job- oh, and welcome to the Metro Club
- is flattered by his answers to her questions (“Quite a line you’ve got.” “I mean every word.”)
- accepts the drink he’s made for her and turns away to hide her pleased smile- and sees Lex Luthor walk into the club
- turns back to tell Charlie to stay there and look handsome, she has business to discuss
- as the stage show begins, she starts to speak to Luthor but is annoyed that he squirming in his seat and is no longer interested in talking business
- tells Charlie “Good work!” when he reveals he has identified the new singer as Lois Lane
- decides he deserves a special treat and goes to his apartment to cook him dinner
- after the meal, she reveals she attended a summer course at the Cordon Bleu, but went to business school after he died
- says she misses her father and wants to make him proud of her
- says Johnny never thought big enough and almost ruined the business
- tells ‘Charlie’ she doesn’t want to run a criminal syndicate but a conglomerate, and the Metros have the organization and the structure for a legitimate business
- if only they can get past the Toasters, and is pleased when ‘Charlie’ says she will- with his help
- tells him she has to go to a previous engagement and asks if he is disappointed
- kisses him on the cheek and they go inside and she leaves, not aware she is being followed by Lois
- at the West River Garment Company, she ducks under a line of police tape and goes inside the building until she is startled by a man appearing behind her
Several others come out of the shadows and grab her, and she asks if this is really necessary
- is angry that they tried to hit her brother where she might have been killed, too
- tells them they are lucky she is here to give them anything, and reminds them she is running the show and the fires were to stop after she took over the Metros
- she wants the toasters back but they refuse to give them up and they argue
- the leader orders the others to tie her up and watch her and he leaves with the others
- she is alone when Lex Luthor finds her and she asks him to untie her and is surprised when her refuses, saying that won’t do either of them any good
- listens as he explains she is going to take the fall for the reign of terror by the Toasters and she will say nothing about his involvement
- realizes too late what a dangerous man Lex is and regrets she didn’t realize it sooner
- he thanks her for the compliment and adds, “Welcome to big business” before he turns and leaves her as he found her
- as she tries to break free she hears footsteps approach- it is Charlie King and she is glad he came through for her
- he is disappointed in her but she tells him there was no other way, unable to explain about Lex and his involvement
- observes they were both hiding the truth when he tells her his real name and tells him she will miss Charlie


JOHNNY TAYLOR

- pays scant attention to an audition by a young woman singing on a nightclub stage
- dismisses her and the two of them, who know one another casually, argue over his change in attitude
- interrupted by a young woman we later learn is his sister, Toni, he dismisses her news saying he’ll take of Rudy
- points out HE is the leader of the Metro Organization and if she really wants to help put on some tap shoes- he needs a new chorus girl
- forgetting her interruption instantly, he calls for the next girl at the audition- the one with long legs
- she walks out of the shadows and we see it is Lois Lane and Johnny hires her on the spot
- conducts business with his people and tells them to worry about their own jobs and not the fires
- declares they are the Metros and nobody will touch them as long as he’s in charge, he’ll take care of the fires
- is angered when his sister wants to know how he plans to do that but is distracted by Lois coming into the room with a tray of drinks
- Johnny calls her over to serve the drinks and grabs her behind as she moves to the next person at the table, ignoring his sister as she rolls her eyes at him
- tells his sister she doesn’t talk in these meetings and when she says she should start
- sarcastically calling her Miss M.B.A., tells her all her diploma means is she can do the books, but stay out of the business end
- tells her their father would tell her to get a good man, start having babies and leave the real work to him and the men
- getting angry at his sister for talking back, he pulls out his gun and everyone ducks for cover except her and a surprised Lois close to the door
- agrees they have organization- and he’s still the head of it
- fires three times into the wall behind her chair but Toni doesn’t flinch
- after she leaves, he looks around and laughs, “Hey, where did everybody go?”
- after the attack at the club he is anxious to find out who the Toaster are and make them pay
- when Toni tells him no, he tells her HE is doing the talking, he’s had it with her mouth
- when she tells him she won’t let him destroy the business their father built, sneers how is she going to stop him?
- he draws his gun and points it across the table but puts it down quietly when all of his men draw their and point them at him
- at Toni’s suggestion he leaves for a vacation- then men grab his arms and drag him out of the room



OTHER CHARACTERS

Lou
- a member of Johnny’s inner circle
- reports that numbers, their take, are down this week due to less street traffic because of the fires
- suggests it’s time they talked about the fires going on all around them
- assures Toni he put Johnny on a plane out of town, with an escort, so someone else leaked the change of leadership information to the papers
- is told to find the leak fast, they can’t afford that kind of exposure
- interrupts Toni’s talk with new bartender, Charlie, to say Toots, the featured singer has quit, she’s scared the Toasters might come back
- Toni tells him if Toots has a contract sue the sequins off her and get a new singer
- “Done,” he replies and leaves.


Toots
- the headline singer at the Metro Club
- gives Lois advice when she’s hired on
- is frightened by the attack of the Toasters and abruptly quits


Metro Club Bartender
- serves Clark double whiskeys and warns him they’ll hit him like a ton of bricks
- is doubtful when told alcohol doesn’t affect him
- tells Clark there are no openings for a bartender and besides, he isn’t the type
- goes to tell Toni Taylor that the guy from the day before is here to see her


M.C.’s M.C.
- announces the Metro Club proudly presents Miss Lola Dane, the new singer

Rudy
- another business owner in the area hit by arson
- mentioned by Toni because he pays protection money to the Metros

Toaster #1
- meets Toni and asks if she has the money and is surprised when she tells him $100,000
- was expecting $200,000 and is annoyed
- refuses to give up the toaster weapons and tells his men to tie her up, the Toasters will stay in business
- tells her they aren’t afraid to take on the Metros because recruitment for the Toasters will be a snap- a lot of guys like to see things burn
- tells her they’ll figure out how to make more toasters- they aren’t as dumb as she thought
- tells her they have a little barbecue planned for the wharf the next day, burning buildings until they end up at the Metro Club
- orders two men to keep an eye on her and leaves her tied to a chair in the warehouse


Toaster #2
- a noise interrupts the meeting and everyone goes quiet as he and another man look for the source, missing Lois’s hiding place and deciding a rat probably made the noise
- later, while guarding the bound Toni, hears a noise among the crates where Lois is hiding and goes looking for the source again
- finds a large rat, fires a gun and kills it



Reporter #1
- reporting from the West River area of the city, says this is the 6th such fire in the last 24 hours and MFD officials have no leads
- a custodian is trapped o the top floor of the West River Garment Company building
- ladders cannot reach him, the stairways are in flames
- “It’s him!” he cries as Superman arrives and a few minutes later carries the man out of the building and puts him on a gurney
- rushes up to Superman and asks if he has any idea who is behind the fires, saying there are rumors that the fires are gang related


Young Woman
- auditions for Johnny but is quickly dismissed
- argues he thought she had talent last night
- continues to audition until Johnny notices Lola Dane in the shadows


Terence Baker
- unseen newscaster reporting for Lex Comm News
- describes the ‘barbecue’ the Toasters have begun in the West River

Rocco
- a member of Johnny’s inner circle
- agrees to talk to the Robertson boys about paying up or else


The Robertson boys
- mentioned by Johnny Taylor
- other business owners who owe protection money

The Fabulous Metro Dancers
- chorus girls who accompany Toots during her singing act
- in costumes as a chicken, a ewe, a rooster, a cow, and Toots as an Ellie May type of ‘farm girl’ singer

Lola Dane
- Lois’s undercover identity at the Metro Club
- takes over as the headline singer when Toots makes her hasty departure
- begins to sing in silhouette and the stage lights slowly brighten to reveal her to the customers- and to those in the know who recognize her as Lois Lane

Charles “Charlie” King
- Clark’s undercover identity at the Metro Club
- saves Miss Taylor’s life and is hired as the new bartender


NAME THAT TUNE

“Too Darn Hot”- sung by Toots; the Ella Fitzgerald version, written by Cole Porter
“I’ve Got A Crush On You”- sung by Lola Dane, also the Ella Fitzgerald version, written by George Gershwin
“How You Gonna Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm”- sung by Toots, accompanied by the fabulous Metro Dancers, written by Joe Young and Sam M. Lewis with music by Walter Donaldson


PERRY-ISMS

- “You ever try to milk a steer?” – to Clark when asked to talk some sense into Lois but declines
- “If you went up and opened that window and told me you could fly, I’d back you up. I’d miss you but I’d back you up.” – to Lane and Kent illustrating his policy to back up his reporters one thousand per cent


MISCELLANEOUS

- Popeye the Sailor Man- what Lois calls Clark when he shows up in disguise at the Metro Club
- a friend who has worked in a club similar to the Metro Club said work hours started around 1 pm for the staff especially if there was a happy hour before dinner was served, earlier if lunch was served, and the first show was usually at 7pm or 7:30 pm depending on the manager. So the “first” shift would be over at 9:30 pm for the early staff, two hours earlier if lunch is served, and a second staff taking over until closing time.
- Ashford Industries, a building torched by the Toasters, the sixth fire in 24 hours
- West River Garment Company, located in the AI building
- 151, the FD company fighting the fire
- Baby Cakes, as Johnny calls Lola Dane
- Sweet Thing, as the stage manager- and ever teasing Clark- call Lola
- Metro Mart, a place to buy groceries late in the evening
- the buildings burned are quickly condemned and large signs advertising Lex Harbor appear on them almost overnight



OBSERVATIONS IN REAL LIFE

- Clark’s disappointment in Toni is well played by Dean Cain and Toni’s reaction,unable to explain how Lex Luthor orchestrated everything, is also well played by Jessica Tuck. Their attraction to one another was genuine- after all Clark might be interested in Lois but they have no relationship as yet. And, later, how many times does he give that same hurt look to Lois after they do have a relationship?
- It all illustrates how corrupt Luthor really is and how no life matters but his own. He tells Toni how close she came to becoming an legitimate entrepreneur and lets her know in no uncertain terms, her plans conflicted with his and asking for his help was the wrong choice for her, but just what he needed to acquire West River faster than he had been.
There was great acting on this show.

It seemed to take forever to finish these, but at last! They're done.
Edit as you see fit. M.C.'s M.C. doesn't really have to be included but I liked the joke.

Kate

P.S. Will do ILTY and Smart Kids next.

Speak for yourself! Trying to one up is fun. More fun than a barrel of monkeys. (You know, I've never known exactly what that means?)
Probably dull reading for everyone else, but fun for me.

I've enjoyed discussing this episode too. And all the concordance episode we've done so far in fact.