Bride - Recap

A videotape plays

Clark and Lois record their best wishes for Jimmy and Chloe on their wedding date.

At the Kent barn, Lois is with Jimmy at the altar when Clark gives away Chloe.

The happy couple say their "I dos" and are married.

Chloe and Jimmy cut their wedding cake but are interrupted when the barn shakes and something smashes its way into the bar. Everyone runs.

Jimmy is lying on the ground, badly injured. Chloe is kneeling over him, begging him not to leave her. The intruder towers over her, picks her up, and carries her away.

Eight hours earlier

Lois is in charge of organizing the wedding and treating it like a military engagement. She wonders why Jimmy is so calm and he says that he's with the perfect wife and has nothing to be worried about. Seeing she's alone, he suggests that Clark accompany her to the wedding. Lois notes that Clark drives her crazy and isn't interested in her that way, but Jimmy says he is.

Jimmy goes to the Talon to find his bow tie and finds that Chloe is still there. He thinks it's bad luck to see the bride but she assures him they've had more than enough problems and can survive his seeing her on the wedding day. As he goes to get his tie, Chloe gets a voice mail: it's from Davis, saying he needs her to call him. She deletes the message before Jimmy can see it.

Oliver visits Clark at the farm and tells him that he's figure out that Lex is alive and sending e-mails to Tess Mercer. Oliver needs Clark's help to steal the router they're using to trace Lex's location. Clark refuses since it's Chloe's wedding, noting that Lex isn't up to something at the moment and he can wait. Oliver doesn't believe it, and says that Chloe would understand. Clark explains to him that he had Jor-El take her memories of Clark having superpowers, but Oliver warns that Lex still knows Clark's secret and is a deadly danger to him.

Oliver returns to his plane and Clark shows up with the router. Clark wonders if Oliver is out for revenge for his parents and insists that Lex isn't responsible for Lionel's murder of the Queens. Oliver insists he's going after Lex to help Clark but Clark refuses to give him the router, insisting Oliver can wait until after the wedding and they'll do it together. However, after Clark leaves with the router, Oliver's computer tech reveals that he used wifi to download the router information and they have Lex's location.

Chloe is preparing for the wedding and looking for something borrowed when Lois arrives. Chloe thanks her for her work as a wedding organizer and gets another call from Davis. She ignores it but Lois asks what's going on and Chloe explains that Davis warned her Jimmy's not the man for her. Chloe insists that Jimmy is the right man and tells Lois that she'll know when the right man shows up for her. Going through Clark's desk, Chloe finds his hidden piece of kryptonite and takes it to of the lead box. Clark comes up the stairs and starts to weaken. He hastily asks her to put it back and after she does so, he opens his yearbook to provide her with the corsage from their freshman homecoming dress. Chloe thanks him and even Lois is impressed.

Green Arrow arrives at a factory in Alquizar, Cuba, and sees a bald man at the window. He shoots the man in the head with arrow, but upon approaching discovers it's a mannequin. Attached to it is a note saying "Sorry I missed you." Another figure attacks him from the shadows and Green Arrow counters. The attacker moves into the light to reveal... Lana Lang. she's also on Lex's trail and was following the same e-mail trail. Oliver wonders if the note was left for him or her, but Lana wonders if someone else isn't impersonating Lex and he's truly dead. Once it's clear that they both know Clark's secret, Lana notices the "dead" mannequin and says that Green Arrow is above murder. Oliver notes he has to protect Clark's secret but Lana suggests that they could all benefit from acting like Clark. He suggests she come to Chloe's wedding and she refuses, until he points out that she should also try to do what Clark would do.

At the Kent house, Clark has changed into his tux and Lois is again impressed. She helps him with his cuff links and they get uncomfortably close. He then starts talking about eternal love and finding the perfect woman. Happy, she turns back but realizes he's reading Jimmy's wedding vows. The photographer from the Daily Planet arrives to get their wishes for the happy couple on video.

Davis is in Metropolis trying to call Chloe from his ambulance. He's covered in blood and saying he's done something horrible. He hauls several garbage bags to a dumpster and a security guard notices him. The guard notices the blood and looks in the dumpster, then recoils in horror. Davis rambles about backing out and then looks at his hand: bone spurs grow from the knuckles. He collapses, his eyes glowing red, and tells the security guard to run. The man draws his gun and fires several shots, and then... something grabs him and rips him apart.

After the exchange of vows, Chloe and Clark dance and Chloe admits she's recently felt like a great weight has been lifted off of her. Jimmy cuts in and Clark offers to dance with Lois, standing by herself. They draw closer but then hesitate, but then move in. They start to kiss... and Lana comes in. Clark hastily draws back and Lois walks away. Taking a bottle of champagne, she goes to the farmhouse porch and starts to drink. Oliver finds her there and she admits she's confused. He instantly figures it's about a guy and offers her a sympathetic ear, despite the fact he's her ex. She wonders if the guy she's interested in needs her without saying his name, but Oliver assures her that Clark does needs her.

Lana receives a text message asking "Did the archer believe you?" Before she can respond, Clark comes over and admits he would have liked some warning she was coming. She says that she was reluctant to return but read about Clark's "Good Samaritan" exploits and is glad he's finally accepted his destiny... without her in the way. She's glad that she left so he could accomplish what he has and what he will in the future. They talk about how she used to imagine having a wedding in the barn, and Clark tells her about how he had Chloe's memories wiped. He wonders what would have happened if Lana never knew about his superpowers, and she says she would have hated him for taking away her memories. She's happy with the knowledge and how it's led her to where she is now, even if they're never intended to be together.

Jimmy and Chloe cut their wedding cake, and a huge grey-skinned figure covered in bone spurs smashes into the barn. Lana is it by debris, injuring her leg. Clark swings at the intruder but it catches his fist and then throws him into the loft. As he lands, he knocks over the box with the piece of kryptonite. The intruder goes after Chloe and Jimmy tries to stop him, but the figure smashes him aside, ripping open his chest with his bone spurs. Chloe begs for Jimmy to hold on, and the intruder bends over her. She looks up at it and it says her name.

Lana limps upstairs and puts the kryptonite back in the box. As Clark recovers, Oliver arrives to tell them that the intruder has escaped with Chloe. The injured are taken to Smallville Hospital and Clark goes to see Lana. He tells her that Oliver is trying to get a satellite fix on the attacker. As he talks to her on the bed, Lois comes to the door and thinks they're back together. She quietly retreats before they can notice her. Lana tells Clark to go find Chloe. He goes outside and sees Lois, who tells him that Jimmy is in critical condition. Oliver is having him flown to Star City for an operation by a top surgeon. Lois says she's going with Jimmy and wonders why they're all plagued by tragedy. Clark assures her that they'll get Chloe back, but Lois wonders what happens if they can't.

The creature arrives at the Fortress, now corrupted by Brainiac's black essence, and sets Chloe down on a bed of crystals. As images of her wedding flash before her eyes, she looks up and smiles.

A man in a darkened chamber watches the video with the images of the attacker. He's hooked up to numerous wires and tubes, and is bald...


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