Clark Kent comes to Metropolis looking for a job at the Daily Planet. Perry White dismisses him as he has no experience. Clark then gets a story about a theater being torn down which convinces White to hire him because he has initiative. At the Daily Planet, Lois Lane works to uncover a possible conspiracy behind the launch of Messenger, which will carry the final components of the first space colony into orbit. White teams Lois up with the rookie Clark against her wishes. Meanwhile, Clark is frustrated that he cannot use his powers to help others without exposing himself and jeopardizing his chance at leading a normal life. He consults his mother, Martha Kent, and the two comes up with the Superman costume.
Despite proof of sabotage and Lex Luthor's generous offer to underwrite a private space station, the Congress of Nations chooses to go ahead with the next launch, cautioning the world that further problems are likely to scuttle the project. In his private office Lex seems... less than pleased, destroying the model of his own space station. Lois stows away among the colonists to evade a ban on reporters - and discovers that someone has planted a bomb. To alert mission control, she tears out circuits until they notice, but she cannot defuse the bomb and only seconds remain...
Government men raid The Daily Planet. They have warrant, and they want to ask Lois and Clark questions about Superman. Reluctantly, the reporters agree to a polygraph test, and then leave as quickly as they arrived. It turns out that these men are not who they say they are! Their search warrant is bogus! Lois follows a shadowy government man to a warehouse, while Clark discovers the name "Jason Trask" and the man he once worked under, General Newcomb - a man with little use for the rogue Trask. With the general's covert help, they gain access to the warehouse - but is Clark prepared for what he'll find there?
Everyone is after Superman. Lex Luthor wants to know how strong and fast he is. He designs various tests for Superman, including having people jump off buildings. Lois is infatuated with the man in tights and is determine to find out as much as she can about him. After having had a story stolen from him, Clark decides to get even with her by sending Lois out on a wild goose chase for Superman's spaceship.
An invisible Robin Hood steals from the rich and gives to the poor. The authorities and the Daily Planet reporters have no leads, until Helen contacts them with a strange story: when she noticed her husband hadn’t eaten his dinner, she descended to his basement laboratory to find it empty – except that the door opened, and his voice said goodbye, and the door closed – and there was no one there! When Lois dismisses her she goes on television to plead for help, but instead, some else sees the message and realizes just how much real crime he could commit with an invisible suit... Meanwhile, Superman experiences growing fame – toys, dolls, balloons, and other merchandise, and has to decide how he’ll handle it.
Perry pairs Lois and Clark together for a story about the “Ultimate Street Fight.” Lois isn’t interested, and even suspects she caught the assignment because of her “connections” in the fight game. But she and Clark take the story to Menken’s gym and there meet a very old friend of Lois’ named Allie Dinello. Dinello later calls Lois, but before they can talk, a truck runs the man over and kills him, leaving Lois and Clark to wonder what he knew, and why Max Menken ordered a press blackout. Complicating the matter is the apparent connection between Max Menken and Dr. Sam Lane, an eminent orthopedic surgeon whose skills have saved many athletic careers – and who happens to be Lois’ father.
Suspicious fires ravage the West River district. It could be the work of arsonists, or it could be competition for the Metro Gang that currently controls the area. It seems a new gang, the Toasters, wants to move in, and they have a lot of high-tech, high-temperature fire power to back their play. As Lois digs deeper, she discovers a rotten nest of connections, part of a power play within the Metro gang, or maybe something more – something related to Lex Luthor’s ambitious plans to redevelop West River. For his part, Superman has his hands full saving the lives of people threatened by the blazes.
Four gifted children break out of The Beckworth School, a boarding school for troubled kids. Once out, the self-dubbed "Smart Kids" manage to disrupt Metropolis, replacing water with detergent and periodically broadcasting themselves on every TV channel. Meanwhile, the school doctor, noted researcher Dr. Carlton, frantically searches for them. When one of the children is temporarily under Lois' supervision, she learns that there is something sinister going on at the school.
Wayne Irig, a Smallville farmer and a friend of the Kents, discovers a glowing green meteorite on his farm. When he disappears and a government agency takes over his farm, Lois and Clark visit Smallville to learn the truth. But the truth involves an old enemy of Superman, who thinks he has the upper hand, and is determined to find and destroy the Man of Steel once and for all.
Superman is accused of being the cause of a major heat wave. An injunction is passed prohibiting him from using his powers. Clark feeling bad about not being able to help people decides to leave Metropolis, much to the dismay of Lois.
Perfumer and chemist Miranda has worked to create a very special fragrance for nearly two years. The problem is, she told Lex she could do it in six months, and now that she’s eighteen months off the pace, Lex has cut off the money. Worse for her, Lex has ended their romantic relationship, calling her “an itch” and telling her “she has been scratched.” But Miranda has succeeded in creating her scent, and she plans to prove it – first by spritzing everyone at the Daily Planet, and then by replacing insecticide meant to control fruit flies with a fully concentrated version of her pheromone based concoction! If she succeeds, everyone in Metropolis who catches a whiff of the chemical will lose all of their sexual inhibitions – forever!
Lois rents the honeymoon suite at the posh Hotel Lexor – alone – for some rest and relaxation. Once there she spots men meeting in an office across the street. They are weapons designer Thaddeus Roarke and Congressman Ian Harrington. Returning to the Daily Planet, she tells Perry White about the meeting and he assigns more reporters. They learn little beyond Roarke’s certainty that something called Project Shockwave will fail, opening the door for his competing system. Roarke presents a computer model to Harrington behind closed blinds; the reporters cannot see it. Afterwards, Harrington is shocked and comments about “millions of people.” When the government stonewalls the reporters, they turn to the only man who can help – the architect of Project Shockwave, Lex Luthor!
Lois and Clark cover a meeting at EPRAD. Following the meeting, Professor Daitch asks Clark to contact Superman; when Superman visits EPRAD to meet the professor, he also meets General Zeitlin and Secretary Cosgrove. They tell him the news: an asteroid code named “Nightfall” nineteen miles across is hurtling towards Earth and only Superman can stop it. Unsure whether this will push his powers past their limit, Superman flies up to smash the asteroid. And he does – but when he crashes back to Earth, his memory is gone. And a large piece of Nightfall remains intact and on a collision course with Earth...
Vincent Winninger, a world renowned scientist and infamous ladies’ man, summons Lois to interview him. In the interview he expresses concern about the upcoming appointment of Barbara Trevino to lead the Rainforest Consortium. When Lois presses him, he offers a cryptic comment about “increased male potency,” and a journal as explanation. Then he accidentally spills tea all over her, and she goes to the bathroom to clean up. While she’s there, a man enters the house and kills Dr. Winninger! Lois sees the man, and in fact barely escapes his notice. Later, she sees the same man among those present at the crime scene – but he has an airtight alibi! Lois, with a little help from Superman, must discover who killed Winninger and why before the killer zeroes in on her.
Young Nicky Collins steps into a magical box – and disappears! He’s the latest in a series of kidnappings. All of the victims were children of rich and famous people. After each family paid a substantial ransom, the kidnapper returned their child, but the child remembered little about the experience. Nicky is different – his mother is not rich, but works for the Moskals, who are very rich indeed. The kidnapper took the wrong child! With nowhere to turn, she comes to see Clark Kent to ask for help. Lois and Clark start with a charity magic show, and begin to probe the world of magic for their answers. And like all magic, there just may be some misdirection here...
Jonathan Kent visits Clark in Metropolis. When he found a nude portrait of Martha in the barn, it convinced him that Martha is having an affair with the artist! Meanwhile, Lois inveigles her way into a ten minute interview with convicted murderer Eugene Laderman. When the officer opens the door, Eugene has vanished! But Lois finds him again quickly when he kidnaps her at gunpoint! Lois believes Eugene innocent, and gives him sanctuary at her apartment. Even Lena, Eugene’s good friend and Harrison’s widow, believed Laderman guilty. So why does Lois believe him innocent, and how will she prove it with Detective Reed watching her? And how does it all relate to Harrison’s software project “The Ides of Metropolis?”
Clark awakens to a strange glow, coming from a box – the box in which he stashed the mysterious globe that made the long trip to Earth with him. It projects a life-sized hologram of Jor El, who identifies himself and tells Clark his true name is Kal-El. The projection explains that it is time Kal-El learned about his heritage, and says that it will appear a number of times to provide this instruction. Then a thief breaks into Clark’s apartment and steals the globe. When he inadvertently triggers part of the playback, he realizes he has something of great value and sells it – to Lex Luthor!
There’s trouble for The Daily Planet, when publisher Preston Carpenter purchases and reinvigorates a competing newspaper, The Metropolis Star. And it gets worse for Lois – the Star has employed an old rival, Linda King! The Star has improved circulation and threatens the Planet. Perry must cut expense accounts, and perhaps trim staff! Somehow the Star manages to scoop the Planet on every story of any significance. It looks like the end for the Planet until Clark discovers a piece of elevator cable with a smooth end. Someone cut it, but there is no clear motive for creating a tragedy until Clark digs further and discover a deeply sinister plan...
A plane nears tragedy in Paris. Without landing gear, the chances of a successful landing are not high. Fortunately, Superman intervenes to save the plane and its passengers. But how can that happen while Clark Kent watches from the Daily Planet newsroom? Clark doesn’t know, but he will find out. Eventually he discovers a man who appears to be an exact replica of himself – a man who believes himself Superman’s enemy and successor! Meanwhile, Perry takes up dangerous hobbies and makes other changes in his life, forcing Jimmy Olsen to wonder if The Chief’s time on Earth is drawing to an end...
Lois, Clark, Lex, Perry, and Jimmy find themselves prisoners of criminals who have invaded the Daily Planet building late on a Saturday. It seems these criminals are working for someone who has sent them to locate the secret vault of a Dragonetti, a rum runner and racketeer from departed days. To keep Superman at bay, Fuentes (their leader) threatens to explode a dirty nuclear bomb. Clark has to figure out how to defeat these people without endangering the citizens of Metropolis, and he has to do it before the hostages outlive their usefulness to their captors.
Men burst into a warehouse and rifle the boxes there until they discover what they seek: a fist sized chunk of green kryptonite. En route to Lex’s favorite Italian restaurant, Lex proposes marriage to Lois. The Daily Planet falls on hard times when subscribers drop, advertisers flee and credit dries up – and Lex buys the paper to save it, but then begins making changes. Jack and Jimmy are reassigned to the print room, and then an explosion nearly destroys the Planet, and evidence suggests Jack planted the bomb! But the truth is that a ruthless enemy of the Planet has seized an opportunity to destroy it, and all so that he can get what he most wants in the world: Lois Lane!
Lex has destroyed the planet and scattered the employees to the far winds, a scene he recreates in virtual reality, casting himself in the role of Superman. But when Clark and Perry realize Jimmy has vanished, they reunite to find him. That task isn’t particularly difficult: Jimmy and Jack both appear at Clark’s door, Jack on the lam from the juvenile authorities. Just like old days, Perry assigns each of them a specific task and they uncover a good deal of information about what really happened to the planet. All they need is the final pieces to be supplied by Clark. But Lex has lured Superman to a remote location and trapped him in a cage that emits green kryptonite radiation! Unless Superman can escape, Lex may win even as his victims zero in on the truth!
Lex Luthor's ex-wife uses cosmetic surgery to create a clone Lois that tries to take down Superman and frame Lois Lane for crimes that she hasn't committed.
Lenny Stokes, a career criminal, uses his mastery of sound waves to bring Metropolis, and hopefully Superman, to his knees. Meanwhile, Lois seemingly becomes jealous of Clark's success when he is nominated for a Kerth award, and she is not.
Lois refuses to reveal her source of a story accusing the company Viologic of knowingly selling faulty equipment, and as a result, she is suspended from the Daily Planet. Now, Lois and Clark must work together to unravel the mystery, find the criminal, and restore her good reputation as the Daily Planet's star reporter.
Five years ago, Lois sent Kyle Griffith to prison. Now, he has escaped and has become the Prankster. As the Prankster, Kyle designs some of the most diabolical "pranks" imaginable, with his ultimate goal being the destruction of Lois Lane. Can Clark (as Superman) save Lois from the Prankster's clutches before the final "punch line" is delivered?
A new criminal organization known only as "Intergang" has shown up in Metropolis, and when Superman tries to stop them, threats are made against the people closest to Clark/Superman. How will Clark stop them when he is seemingly powerless to do so? Meanwhile, jealousy rears its ugly head again When Lois observes Mason Drake, the new investigator into Intergang's operations, showing interest in Clark.
When Lois and Clark discovers a terrorist plan to infiltrate Fort Truman, a military installation, the race is on to stop the terrorists from hijacking a missile. Along the way, Lois discovers an unsettling secret about one of her best school friends. It is a secret that could change everything, and possibly stop Lois and Clark dead in their tracks.
When legendary criminals John Dillinger, Al Capone, and Bonnie & Clyde seemingly return from the dead and pull off a series of heists, it draws Lois and Clark into a world of danger and intrigue. When Clark intervenes to save Lois from the gangsters clutches, he makes a life-altering decision; a decision he is unsure he can undo, and one that could cost him everything he holds dear in life.
Superman tries to stop some doctors who developed a special memory device.
Clark is ready to tell Lois that he's Superman when he is interrupted by Jason Masick who has obtained a diary written by Tempus which reveals, among other things, that Clark is Superman. Jase kidnaps the Kents who are in Metropolis to celebrate their anniversary, and blackmails Clark into stealing $20 million in diamonds from Jase's brother's jewelry store. Jase is also working with Lex Luthor's former accomplice, Nigel St. John, who has the Kryptonite that he took from Lex, so that he can kill Superman. Clark robs the diamonds but Lois, who had followed him, confronts him. Clark tells Lois that his parents were kidnapped. They find out that Jase paid for Nigel's plane ticket. Together they go to see Jase. Their conversation is overheard by Nigal who tells Jase that he wants Lois dead. Jase then tells Clark that he wants him to deliver Lois' body to him or he'll kill the Kents. Lois tells Clark not to worry and to have Superman meet her at her apartment. Lois asks Superman to freeze her so that she would appear dead. After Superman grudgingly agrees she tells him to tell Clark that she loves him. Superman tells her that Clark knows but he would tell him. Before freezing her he caresses her face exactly as Clark had done so earlier. Lois gasps. Superman freezes her and takes her body to Jase. Nigel opens a box containing Kryptonite and they lock a disabled Superman into the same lead-lined room that the Kents were in along with the Kryptonite. Jase offers Nigel a drink from a flask. Then Nigel pulls a gun on Jase and demands the diary. Jase laughs and asks if Nigel knows how Jase's father died. He tells Nigel that he (Jase) poisoned him. Nigel clutches his chest and dies. Martha asks if Superman has enough strength to freeze the grate. He does. Then she tells Jonathan to throw the Kryptonite at the grate which shatters and tosses it out of the room. Superman breaks down the door and goes to thaw Lois. Jonathan gives Martha a book and a trip to Italy for their anniversary. Superman then goes to see Jase and burns the diary. Clark and Lois take a walk in Centennial Park. It starts to rain but Clark tells Lois he wouldn't leave until he finishes what he has to say. He then asks Lois to marry him. Lois looks at the ring and says "Clark..." This was the season 2 cliffhanger.
Clark asks Lois to marry him. Lois asks "Who's asking Clark or (taking his glasses off) Superman. The secret is out. Lois tells Clark that she figured out his dual identity when he caressed her face the night before. How mad was she? Lois tells Clark she wasn't mad, she was hurt. But then, the more she thinks about it the more she realizes she was mad. Clark tries to explain his reasons for keeping his secret and Lois says she understands but then tells him that he made her think he was two people by lying to her. They hear someone calling for help and Lois tells Clark to go. Clark spins into his alter ego for the first time in front of Lois who is more than a little impressed. They find out that Bill Church has organized a group called The Church Group who are there to make Metropolis the safest city. Superman says he wants to check the city but not if Lois is mad. She tells him that it was easier talking to Clark and he tells her that she still is. Lois isn't sure. He again shows her the ring and Lois tells him that she can't...yet. She needs time. Superman is hurt and they argue. Superman takes off. Meanwhile, Bill Church, Sr. introduces his new wife Mindy to his son and tells Bill, Jr about his plans to dismantle Intergang. He wants to spend most of his fortune on The Church Group. He also wants to buy up fine art to give his CostMart shoppers culture along with their shopping experience. Mindy and Bill, Jr have other ideas. The following morning Lois tries to kiss Clark but he pulls back and acts very cool towards her. They meet at CostMart to interview Bill Sr., they argue again and spend the entire interview wallowing. Mindy asks if they're a thing...not a happy thing. Lois asks Clark when he was going to tell her about his alter ego. Clark tells her he needed to know if she would marry just Clark. They'll never know now. Clark's parents notice how upset he is and make an emergency trip to Metropolis. Jonathan tells Clark that Martha turned him down twice because she wasn't sure. Martha goes to see Lois and tells Lois that Clark has always been alone and never fit in. Lois tells Martha that she loves Clark but needs time. Martha tells Lois that it's so wonderful to be able to talk to another woman about her son. Lois and Clark meet at a party at CostMart and decide that they need to talk. Clark x-rays the area and finds the bomb that Mindy and Bill, Jr planted to set up Bill, Sr and get him out of the way but Superman can't move because his dense molecular structure set off the sensors. Lois slips under the table and with Clark's help defuses the bomb. They kiss. Mindy had double-crossed both her husband and step-son and was now the new head of Intergang. Superman takes Lois above the clouds and tells her that he'll wait as long as she needs. Lois tells him that she loves him and that he's no longer alone. They kiss and float higher in the sky.
The Daily Planet receives an invitation to visit an island resort for a review. Perry White decides to send Lois and Clark there. The two lovebirds make a bet to behave like normal people for the weekend. Clark will not use his super powers and Lois will stop working. Things work out fine and the two begin to have real fun until the true intentions of the owner of the resort are unveiled.
On her way home, Lois Lane is abducted and injected with a chip that can order her to do anything. Someone has decided to use her to distract Superman while he steals scientific gadgets. Clark Kent makes the hardest decision of his life. He confronts Lois and says that they must break-up because being with him makes her a target of Superman's enemies.
An old Irish friend of Lois shows up in Metropolis and it is clear that he is head-over-heel in love with her. At the same time, antiques are being stolen from museums and safety deposit box. Clark thinks that Lois's friend is up to no good while she thinks he's just jealous.
On the anniversary or Martha and Jonathon, they are kidnapped by someone who wants to control Superman. With the help of Lois Lane, Clark goes out in search of his parents, and to take down this villain.
A couple who lives next door to Lois Lane disappears. After a bit of investigation, Lois and Clark find that more couples who have been to Larry Smiley's couple camp have also disappeared recently. Perry White decides to send the two reporters to the camp. The situation gets more intense when Perry and Alice also disappear. They have also been to see Larry.
Lois and Clark agree to stop thinking of marriage for the time being as it seems that the idea is causing the two to have nightmarish fantasies about it. Meanwhile, Bad Brain Johnson has escaped jail and is targeting Lois. In reality, someone else is using him and his inventions to capture Superman. Lois is just a bait.
Two sisters try to make Superman apathetic with red kryptonite by shooting its red beam at him so that they could steal $20 million. Because he is hugging Lois, trying to protect her from the beam, his powers are transferred to her. The Kents help create a secret identity to the powerful Lois so she could help people without exposing her real self. This experience opens Lois' eyes to the struggles Clark has been going through all his life trying to save as many people he could and dealing with the ones he wasn't fast enough or strong enough to save.
Just as Lois and Clark are getting romantically closer together, a woman claims on national TV that she is the mother Superman's son, Jesse. The two reporters, against Clark's wish, pursue the story and finds out that Jesse has super powers just like Superman's. Meanwhile, a criminal known as Anonymous is rumored to be in Metropolis.
Two years ago, three Nazi officers woke up from a long sleep to find that they had lost the war to the US. Now, they are trying to set up a new Nazi country in the US as the first step to begin world domination.
Lois and Clark are invited by a computer geek billionaire to experience his new virtual reality program. He manages to trap the two inside the program in order to extract information from Lois about Lex Luthor.
It's almost Christmas and Lois decides not to visit her mother, telling her that she has to cover for Clark who's going to spend Christmas with his parents. It turns out that the Kents are coming to visit their son in Metropolis. Things get very complicated and chaotic when Dr. Sam Lane and Mrs. Ellen Lane pop up at Lois's door. Meanwhile, Mindy Church, the new head of Intergang, is set on killing Superman with a deadly flu from Krypton. Clark becomes really sick from the virus and there are no cure from it on earth. Lois asks her father to help her beloved. The treatment is very risky and could result in death.
Clark has nightmares about being enclosed in a tight space. At the same time, two other people who once worked with him on a story die with no apparent injuries as they are killed by their own fears. At the same time, a magician called Baron Sunday appears in Metropolis.
Collins from the NIA hands Lois a burned notebook computer just before he dies from a car accident. Right after that, a woman named Sweet Tart shows up and demands to know what Collins has told Lois. Jimmy is asked to retrieve information from the fried hard drive. At the same time, Jack Olsen, Jimmy's dad, shows up in town after having been gone for over 4 years.
Lois Lane, who has no memory of her previous encounter with Tempus, is kidnapped by him to a parallel universe. There, she meets an older H.G. Wells who helps her remember their last encounter. Metropolis in this universe is a very different place filled with guns and violence. To her dismay, Lois discovers that there is no Superman. She decides to teach the Clark Kent of this universe how to become the hero he's meant to be while also trying to return to her Clark Kent.
After all the obstacles, it finally seems like Lois and Clark can finally tie the knot. However, Lois, being the neurotic Lois Clark dearly loves, can't stand around doing nothing while waiting for her big day. She asks Perry for a simple assignment to take her mind off of the wedding. Together with Clark, the dynamic duo investigate the stealing of a type of exotic frogs from a pet store. These frogs have been known to be used for cloning. At the same time, the president is in town so all the hotels in Metropolis are fully booked. Lois's parents have to stay at her place.
Clark waits for Lois in bed on their wedding night. Instead of finally making love, Lois tells him that she's tired and goes straight to sleep. The disappointed groom can do nothing but also go to sleep. It turns out that the Lois Clark married is a clone while the real Lois is with Lex Luthor, recently granted a pardon with parole from the cloned president from the previous episode. When Lois finally manages to escape Lex, she hits her head and loses her memory.
Lois's clone falls in love with Clark and decides that she has to kill Lois so that she could be with her beloved forever. Meanwhile, Lois, who thinks that she's Wanda Detroit, a fictional character she created in her novel, thinks she's in love with Lex, who she believes to be Kent, the love of Detroit in the story. However, Lois has dreams about her real identity which greatly troubles Lex, who's afraid that she'll soon fully recover her memory.
Clark Kent puts Lois Lane in a clinic for people with memory loss. She now knows that she's Lois but remembers nothing of her work or her relationship with Clark. Her doctor, Dr. Maxwell Deter, forbids Clark from revealing to her that they were in love and engaged to be married, saying that this will shock her. However, he has a hidden motive, as he is beginning to fall in love with Lois himself.
Lois is back to work at the Daily Planet. Although she has regained much of her memories, she doesn't remember anything about her love for Clark. Worse, Dr. Maxwell Deter, now completely in love with her, has hypnotized her into believing that she is in love with him. Lois and Clark team up again to investigate a phenomenon happening in Metropolis which makes everyone easily influenced by anything, be it a written sign, a verbal command, or lyrics to a song. For Lois, this shock wave stirs up her memories of her relationship to Clark and Superman.
Lois and Clark go to Lois's high school reunion. There, she learns that her friends' spouses have disappeared. She decides to investigate this when something starts happening to Clark. He is beginning to shrink in size.
Two people appear in Lois and Clark's lives. Ching and Sarah are testing Superman's strength and morals. The results are satisfactory and they conclude that he is worthy to be 'the one.'
Ching and Zara are revealed to be Kryptonians who are here to bring Kar-El back to New Krypton. A handful of Kryptonians have managed to escape before their planet blew up and have settled on the new planet. However, the ruling families are in conflict and Lady Zara and Lord Kar-El, already married at birth, must go back to New Krypton to rule over the planet. If not, Zara will be forced to marry the evil Lord Nor. Clark and Lois must decide together whether he would go back to save his people, an action which would mean that he might not see Lois again, ever.
Lois and Clark misses each other dearly. En route to New Krypton, Clark learns that the evil Lord Nor is out to conquer earth, starting with Smallville, Kansas. The military has no way to thwart his plans. The Kryptonians head back to earth. Clark briefly meets Lois after he lands after which the two decide to go to Smallville to rescue the Kents and the rest of the world.
Lord Nor still has Smallville under his control. Worse, he has managed to take Clark prisoner for treason, as he purposefully never consummated his marriage to Zara and has no intention to ever fulfilling his duty. The council sentences him to banishment. Just as he is about to be gone for good, a loophole in the system is found which states that Clark can challenge Lord Nor to a duel. While all this is going on, the military has other plans. They are convinced that the Kryptonians plan to take over earth and they have decided to kill them all, even if Superman might also be injured or die.
An old man stumbles into the Daily Planet asking for Jimmy before dropping down dead. His ID says that he is only in his twenties, but his looks suggest that he is over 70. Jimmy decides to investigate this himself and gets into serious problems. Meanwhile, Lois is told that Clark ages much, much slower than humans. She begins to have nightmares where she is an old woman while Clark is still young.
When Lois Lane receives a phone call from Elroy Sikes, an ex-snitch, pertaining to have information about a story, she rushes off to meet him. When he starts telling her the "story" he demonstrates by telling her to point a gun at him. Suddenly the gun goes off of it's own accord, though Lois's finger was nowhere near the trigger, killing Sikes. Lois is put in jail, awaiting her trial. Meanwhile Jefferson Cole makes a holographic device, determined to ruin Lois's life.
Clark briefly contemplates breaking Lois out of jail, while Jefferson Cole steps up his campaign of terror against Lois. It takes the combined efforts of Lois, Clark and Superman to stop Jefferson Cole dead in his tracks
Lois and Clark met a couple, Carol and Bob, who have similar interests including a secret identity.
Clark suffers repeated nightmares where he is separated from Lois forever. Meanwhile, Tempus surfaces in Metropolis again, this time as an anonymous political figure named John Doe. Lois and Clark race against the clock to stop him. The results of their endeavors: Clark's nightmares become reality...
When Lois watches Clark disappear right before her eyes, all seems lost. Shortly thereafter, however, H.G. Wells appears with the alternate version of Clark (from the episode "Tempus Anyone") and together the threesome attempt to stop Tempus once and for all, and to somehow bring Lois' Clark home for good...
Lois and Clark encounters a toy maker who kidnaps children. Perry puts an personal ad in the newspaper.