First aired October 13, 2005

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Proofread by Deanna

Doctor: Transferring the other patients out of this wing, per your request, a reorganization of this size, the Board of Directors will ask questions, Mr. Luthor..

Lex: For what I'm paying you, Doctor,  I'm sure you can buy some answers. Keep him isolated. 24-hour surveillance. Notify me immediately if there's any change in his condition. Hey!

Orderly: Sorry about that, Mr. Luthor.

Lee: Yeah, my bad.

Orderly: Oh, you're really good at making friends, aren't you, Lee?

Lee: I guess I'm just a people person. Ha ha! Can I light up a room or what? Time to do you thing, boys. Go!

Guard:  What's going on?

Lee: Let's blow this joint.

[ Cheering ]

Man: Pull  Steady!

Jonathan: Ready? Pull! It's good?

Clark: It's great.  It's a lot heavier than I remember it.

Jonathan: You're gonna have to learn to pace yourself. You're only human now, remember? Martha?

Martha: Yeah?

Jonathan: Can I have some lemonade, please?

Chloe: Ah, the joys of manual labor.

Clark: It's not so bad. I kind of like being sore. Makes me feel like I accomplished something. No pain, no gain, right? Aah!

[ Chuckling ]

Chloe: Yeah, well, being a mere mortal does have its draw backs.

Clark: Ow!

Chloe: Are you sure this is what you really want?

Clark: It's what I've always wanted.

Chloe: I was talking about you, Clark, not your feelings for Lana. I mean, one day I find out my best friend's an alien, and then the next day presto chango, he's just your average Kansas farm boy. Excuse me if I'm finding this a little hard to accept.

Clark: Well, you're gonna have to just get used to it. This is who I am now.

Chloe: Clark, with all that you are able to do, I just can't help but thinking your destiny is more than just milking cows and raising barns.

Clark: Destiny is another word for not having a choice.

Chloe: Okay, what about alien Ken and Barbie? They tore apart Smallville looking for you.

Clark: They were looking for Kal-El. They're gone, and so is he. Just let it go, Chloe. Thank you. I've never been so thirsty.

Lana: It's incredible how the entire town gets together to help rebuild Smallville?

Clark: Thanks to lex. If he hadn't pulled those strings at FEMA, we'd still be waiting for the relief money. 

[ Flatly ]

Lana: Yeah, a real hero.

Martha: Hey, Clark, we're getting low on ten penny nails. Can you run to the farm and grab some?

Clark: Yeah.

Lana: I'll come with you.

Lex: The happy couple. Sneaking off while there's work to be done?

Lana: Supply run. Um, I'll wait for you.

Lex: I get the feeling I'm another favorite person.

Clark: She doesn't trust you. I'm sure you're used to that kind of reaction from people by now.

Lex: Look, Clark, we've all made mistakes.  That's in the past. For whatever reason, we've been given a second chance. I hope we can rebuild more than just the town.

Clark: So do I.

[ Chuckling ]

Lana: No crystals or spaceships or meteor showers.

Clark: Sounds good to me. This will only take a second.

Lana: No hurry. I think I need a break anyway.

Clark: Found them.

[ Chuckling ]

Lana: You know, sometimes taking your time isn't a bad idea.

Clark: Sorry.

Lana: It's okay. We should probably be heading back anyway.

Clark: You're right.  We should probably be heading back.  Everyone's waiting for us at the barn raising.

Lana: Which means we're all alone.

[ Laughing ]

Clark: We should, ah, we should take this slow.

Lana: Clark, we've been taking it slow for four years now.

Clark: I know.  I want our first time to be as special as you are. It's, um, it's my first time.

Lana: It's mine, too.

Clark: You and Jason never --

Lana: No, no. You and Alicia?

Clark: No. You're the only one I've ever really loved. It's only been you, Lana.

[ Barn door opens]

Clark: Oh, it's my parents.  Hey, Mom, Dad! We were just, um... we were just...

Lana: Clark!

Lee: Pretty girl! I approve.

[ Straining ]

Clark: What do you want?

[ Electricity crackling ]

[ Flashlight thuds ]

Lex: Happiness is such an illusive creature, isn't it? We all wish for it, but very few ever really find it.

Chloe: Doesn't make the search any less important.

Lex: Or the destination. Remember the last time we stood here together? I ended up unconscious the ground and you somehow landed in the arctic.

Chloe: I told you, I don't remember what happened.

Lex: Then why have you been avoiding me? It's been weeks since I brought you back from the yukon.

Chloe: I've been busy, Lex.

Lex: Right. I heard being a third wheel is very time-consuming.

Chloe: Clark and Lana are finally together. They're happy. That's all that should matter to a real friend.

Lex: I think you know more than you're telling me. About what happened to you in this cave, about Clark's involvement. You're playing a very dangerous game.

Chloe: Like covering up the spaceship lana said crashed during the meteor shower?

Lex: Lana was hysterical. She didn't see what she thought she did.

Chloe: Maybe you didn't, either, Lex.  Stop asking me questions, or I will start asking my own.

Clark: Level three?

Lee: So, you've heard of it.

Clark: Yeah. It's supposed to be a top-secret research facility at LuthorCorp. Everybody thinks it's just a myth.

Lee: Spending a couple weeks in there can make it pretty real.

Clark: You've been in level three?

Lee: Oh, yeah, I had a real nice stay. Gourmet food, satellite tv, and a nifty green cocktail shot in my neck three times a day.

Clark: They were experimenting on you?

Lee: Just trying to amp up what me and the wonder twins could already do. It worked. Then one morning, I woke up in Belle Reve. No more...satellite TV, no more green cocktails.

Clark: They got you hooked and then cut you off.

Lee: We all got our cross to bear, kid, and this is yours. You're gonna break in, get me that serum. Otherwise, you're gonna be playing patty-cake all by your lonesome.

Clark: What do you need me for? I've seen what you can do. Why not just go in there and get it yourself?

Lee: They got all kinds of defense systems to keep people like me out. But if the stories I hear about you in Belle Reve are true, you shouldn't have any problem.

[ Vehicle approas ]

Lee: Looks like we got ourselves some company.

[ Truck doors open and close ]

Martha: Clark better have a good excuse for not bringing those nails back.

Jonathan: I'm sure he does. Clark? Clark, I sent you after those nails hours ago.

Clark: I got side tracked.

Martha: Where's Lana?

Clark: She's not feeling well. She's lying down.

Martha: Why is your shirt on inside out?

Jonathan: I think I'll go check on Lana myself.

Clark: No, wait! You guys never believe me! Why can't you just back off for five minutes?

Martha: Clark Kent! What's gotten into you? We're not leaving until we get some answers.

Lee: Yeah, boy! That ain't no way to talk to your mama.

Jonathan: What's going on here, Clark?

Lee: Pipe down, old man.

Jonathan: Listen, fella, I don't know who the hell you think you're talking to --

Clark: Dad, no.

Martha: Jonathan! Jonathan!

Clark: Stop! Just stop. I'll do whatever you want. Just don't hurt anyone else.

Lee: That's a smart move, farm boy. You've got two hours to get back here with the serum or I'm gonna fire me up a family barbecue.

Clark: All I know is the serum is in a vault somewhere in there on Level Three.

Chloe: What about Lex? I mean, if we just told him what was going on --

Clark: no, I called his office.  He was en route to Washington. It's up to us, Chloe.

Chloe: We'll, I'm always up for a little "Mission: Impossible." So, this is where your nut job said he was experimented at?

Clark: Yeah

Chloe: Well, according to public records, this section of LuthorCorp was closed a year ago.  Turned into storage.

Clark: That's a great cover.

Chloe: That's exactly what I thought.  Now, I couldn't pull up anything called "top-secret evil lab" on the schematics, but I did find this or, more accurately, didn't.

Clark: Level three.

Chloe: I guess someone forgot to pencil that in.

[ Car door closes ]

Clark: Whoa!

Chloe: What? I like to come prepared.

Clark: Where'd you get all this stuff?

Chloe: Ebay.

Clark: Hey, is that a flash grenade?

Chloe: Oh, careful! It was a graduation present from Lois. I'm saving it for a special occasion.

Clark: Why didn't you tell me about all this stuff?

Chloe: We all have our secrets, Clark. Relax, we've still gota couple of minutes before the guards swing back around.

Clark: You sure this is gonna work?

Chloe: You got a better plan?

Clark: Well, I mean, normally, I'd just rip open the door and super-speed past the surveillance cameras and somehow open the vault with my heat vision.

Chloe: So what you're saying is now that you're human, you have absolutely no useful skills.

Clark: Not so much.

Chloe: Great. I finally land my own super hero, and this is what I get.

Clark: We don't need superpowers for this.  You'll get the door open and access the surveillance cameras and then loop the same empty hallway over and over.

Chloe: Clark? That kind of hocus -pocus is gonna take hours to rig up. Sometimes it's easier if you just turn off the power.

[ Air hissing ]

[ Knock on door ]

Jonathan: Just a second. Sheriff.

Sheriff: I'm sorry to trouble you folks, but three real mean cusses busted out of Belle Reve last night. Put a half-dozen guards in the hospital, and we found the car they stole about a mile up the road.

Jonathan: We'll keep our eyes open.

Sheriff: Yeah, you be sure and do that. Where's the Misses?

Jonathan: She's still at the barn raising.

Sheriff: Oh, I was just there. I didn't see her. Make sure she knows what's going on when she turns up.

Clark: We're running out of time. There's gotta be another way to do this.

Chloe: No, Clark, there isn't. The only direct access to level three is through a magnetically sealed door with redundancy power backup. You have to get in through the air vents and unlock the maglocks for me from the inside.

Clark: How much further?

Chloe: According to the diagram, you should be getting close to an exhaust port right above no man's land. Take your next left. Come on, Clark, left.

Clark: I'm going in circles.

Chloe: It feels that way because you're in a confined space with no visual markers.

Clark: This is impossible. It's a million degrees in here.

Chloe: Gosh, Clark, I didn't realize super whining was one of your powers.

Clark: Pete was a lot better at these pep talks in these situations.

Chloe: Pete?! Aah! You told Pete your secret?

Clark: I kind of had to. He saw my ship.

Chloe: What?! Pete got to see your spaceship?!

[ Metallic thudding ]

Clark: What was that?

Chloe: Oh, no. I think you tripped some sort of lock down protocol.

Clark: What? What do I do?

Chloe: Go, Go, go, go, go. Make a left. Clark, I said left. Go, Clark, hurry.  Hurry! Whoa! Clark? Clark, are you all right? Clark? Clark, are you okay?

Clark: Yeah, super.

Sheriff: Good coffee, Mr. Kent.

Jonathan: Thank you, Sheriff. Would you mind if I finished the rest of my chores?

Sheriff: Oh, right. Yeah, I should get going myself.  Thanks for the coffee.  Wouldn't think a man with your heart condition would take to smoking, Mr. Kent.

Lana: Those are mine, Sheriff.  You know, I started after the meteor shower. Nerves.

Sheriff: Nasty habit, Miss Lang. You ought to quit before they kill you. Thanks again for the hospitality. I'll let myself out. All units, we got a 10-11out at the Kent Farm. I repeat, a 10-11 out at the Kent Farm.

Lee: Oh, Sheriff?

Lana: Mr. Kent! 

[ Sirens blareing disntense ]

Twin 1: That really....

Twin 2: ..hurt!

Lee: Get the field up!

[ Chuckling ]

Lee: Ahh! Well, ain't this a right pickle.

[ Grunting ]

Clark: I'm not real crazy about heights. Chloe, what am I looking for?

Chloe: Okay, um, just a really big door.

Clark: Big door, big door... got it.

Chloe: Okay.  Now look for the manual override switch.

[ Air hissing ]

Chloe: Good work.

Clark: I guess you didn't have any trouble with the guards.

Clark: What?

[ Electricity hums ]

Officer: What the hell is this, Sheriff?

[ Exhales deeply ]

Sheriff: Another day in Smallville.

[ Strained ]...

Twin 2: Maintain...the field.

Lee: The whole "finishing each other's sentences" is really starting to grate on me.

Twin 1: We need the serum.

Lee: You ain't the only ones, Heckle and Jerkily. You keep that field up.  We're almost home! 

Twin 2: Perhaps we should cut our losses.

Lee: No! No, we're gonna stick to the plan, wait for the Kent boy to get back, and then we're off the hook. So you guys shut up and you concentrate.

Martha: Is it just me, or are they starting to look desperate?

Lana: Don't worry, Mrs. Kent. Clark will figure a way to get us out of this. He always does.

[ Cellphone rings ]

Clark: Hello.

Lee: Time's up, bright boy. I want my stuff.

[ Beeping ]

[ Tone sounds ]

Clark: I got it. I'm on my way.

Lee: You better be.

[ Air hissing ]

Clark: Who needs super powers with you around? Aah!

Chloe: God, Clark!

Lee: He's got a couple of minutes, and then I'm gonna start killing me some people starting with you, mom.

Clark: Can you disrupt the signal? That might shut the grid down.

Chloe: Well, I could try, but that could take hours.

Clark: Chloe, I already told him I had the serum.

Chloe: Can't you see if he can give you more time?

Clark: He's not a more time kind of guy.

Chloe: You can't just walk in there without your abilities. The lasers would cut you to pieces.

Clark: There might be one other way. Can you find out where the signal's coming from?

Chloe: What are you gonna do?

Clark: Whatever it takes.

[ Horn honking ]

[ Lana screaming ]

[Aah!]

[Groaning]

[Electricity crackling]

Clark: Sometimes it helps just to turn the power off.

Lex: This isn't possible.

Clark: Disappointed?

Lex: Clark. I heard what happened.  Is everyone all right? What are you doing?

Clark: What I should have done a long time ago. Chloe traced the video feed from level three. You were watching us the whole time.

Lex: I don't know what you're talking about.

Clark: She also pulled the security records from Belle Reve. You were there the day those psychos escaped. And you helped them somehow, didn't you? What did you promise them, Lex? Enough serum to last the rest of their lives?

Lex: You're being irrational.

Clark: This whole thing was a setup a test! And to do it, you put Lana and my family in danger.

Lex: Clark

Clark: No... unh! I thought we could start over, Lex, but you're too obsessed with the past with me. But I'm different now, and I'm through playing games with you. You want to test me? Do it yourself, you coward. Satisfied?

[ Knock on door ]

Lana: Clark. What happened?

Clark: Had to say goodbye to an old friend.

Lana: You ever heard of a handshake? Come here. All right.

Clark: Ow.

Lana: Sorry. God, you're a mess.

Clark: After everything that's happened I thought I knew what my life would bewhat's gonna happen tomorrow... can you?

Lana: No. No, you can't.

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