Recap
Lois is unpacking her and Clark's belongings in their new apartment, and placing her mother's blue bird on the windowsill, when Clark arrives and asks where to put her Whitesnake throw pillow. She points out that the pillow comes with her, and Clark suggests he unpack at superspeed. Lois says she wants to take the time to find the perfect spot for everything. Tess calls to tell them that Slade Wilson has turned up on a street corner, unconscious. Since there's only one way out of the Phantom Zone, where Slade was exiled, Clark realizes that someone from the House of El must have released him...
Read the full recap
Episode Quotes
Clark: Hey, Lois. Where can I put this box?
Lois: Well, I don't think that requires any super-sleuthing. It does say "living room."
Clark: No, I can decipher your scrawl. I'm just thinking it was mislabeled.
Lois: If you're talking about my Whitesnake throw pillow, loving everything about me includes the sentimental. I made this for my 8th grade concert t-shirt. And I talked to Oliver, and he told me how smoothly he and Chloe fused their hero green and geek chic.
Clark: Don't worry. My "for better or worse" will include your love of hair metal.
Lois: Part of us merging our lives together is taking the time to find the right spot for everything.
Clark: All I know is my perfect spot is here with you.
Clark: We have nothing in common.
Zod: We're from the same world. Do you really think that having powers is the only thing that makes you Kryptonian? it's not. We share the same instincts. We're decisive, single-minded, headstrong. No, we were meant to be leaders.
Clark: Leaders? You're a tyrant who only believes in himself.
Zod: Who else should I put my faith in?
Tess: Lois, I don't want to give up on Clark either. I don't, but we have a responsibility. To not put the world at risk for selfish reasons, which is what you're doing by wanting to see him again.
Lois: I will not let you sacrifice him.
Tess: Being with a hero means accepting that hero's sacrifices.
Lois: That's where you're wrong. Being a hero's wife means never accepting defeat.
Oliver: I know exactly what you're doing.
Zod: Yeah. But you know it's true, don't you? And it goes way back. After your parents were murdered, that anger, that desire for revenge, ah, you can feel it now, can't you? That darkness bubbling under the surface. Terrifies you.
Lois: I wish you could've had a little faith in me, too.
Clark: Lois, I didn't want you to have to make that kind of choice. I was trying to...
Lois: Protect me? I know. But you're part of me now, Clark. Half of a whole. So in the future, if there's even a chance that the mission might claim my better half, sign me up. Because I'd rather be in some sand-blown purgatory then in the hell of not knowing I'll ever see you again.
Cultural References
Oliver: We had a better chance of surviving your dad's desert than Zod's Thunderdome.
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome is a 1985 post-apocalyptic movie where gladiators fight in the Thunderdome, a giant cage where the warriors are suspended by bungee cords.
Oliver: If you release your pet monkey here, I'd be more than willing to give the Wicked Witch a personal demonstration.
The Wicked Witch of the West is the primary antagonist in Frank Baum's 1900 novel
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, and played by
Margaret Hamilton in the 1939 movie adaptation. The flying monkey are her servants an dwarriors.