#RIP to whoever got captured (don't worry they live)

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Got another

WARNING AS I FORGOT THIS HAS ENDGAME SPOILERS

Edit: MY BAD FOLKS THIS HAS ENDGAME SPOILERS MY FAULT!!

Writing notes for my fic "Sometimes, a Leader must be a Warden" (think I might change that name if I get any ideas), and I wrote this little indent on one of my notes

Might see if I can share more of these without spoiling anything 😂

[dukereviewstv]

Duke Reviews Tv: Smallville 1x14 Zero

Hi Everyone, I'm Andrew Leduc And Welcome To Duke Reviews TV, Where We Continue Our Look At Smallville By Talking About Episode 14 Of Season 1, Zero...

This Episode Sees Lex's Past Coming Back To Haunt Him, When Jude Royce, A Man Presumed Dead, Resurfaces After 3 Years To Ruin Everything Lex Has Worked For As Of Late Before Capturing Lex, So He Can Get The Truth About What Really Happened At Club Zero. Will Clark Save Lex Before Royce Kills Him?

Let's Find Out As We Watch Zero...

The Episode Starts With Lex Inside Of The Upside Down...

Oh, I'm Sorry I Read My Script Wrong, I Meant Lex Is Inside Of A Building Where He's Hanging Upside Down In A Straitjacket, My Mistake...

Kidnapped By Some Guy, To Which Lex To Ask...

Only For The Guy To Tell Lex That He Wants The Truth Which Leads Us To Flashback To 3 Years Ago In Metropolis...

(Start At 0:37, End At 3:26)

Calling Lex A Liar, The Man Knows That Despite What The Papers Said That That's Not Really Happened And He Knows That Lex Covered It Up And He's Going To Going To Make Him Pay As It's Revealed That The Man Is Jude Royce, The Man That Kasich Apparently Shot...

Rewinding To One Week Earlier, We Cut To Smallville High As Clark, Chloe And Pete Have An English Assignment To Write A Six Page Biography On One Of The Students Of The Class, With Pete Being Assigned To Stan Gibson, The Manager Of The Student Store, Clark Being Assigned To Lana And Chloe Being Assigned To Clark...

Yeah, Settling In, Folks We're In For One Of Those Chloe Being Too Nosy For Her Own Damn Good Episodes...

On His Way To Meet Lana At The Talon, Chloe Asks Clark When They Can Sit Down And Talk Which Leads Clark To Tell Her That They Will, Eventually...

And By Eventually, Clark Means When Pigs Fly, Yeah, Sorry There Chloe But, You're Going To Fail The Assignment...

Meanwhile At The Talon, Lana Gets Into An Argument With The Contractor At The Talon Over Plumbing When...Oh, Hey Jude...

Oh, Come On, I Had To Make A Hey Jude Reference, It Was Just Too Easy...

Anyway, Jude Drops By The Talon, To Get An Application For The Assistant Manager Position Where He Warns Lana To Stay Away From Lex Because Everything Lex Touches Always Ends Badly...

Arriving At The Talon, Lex Is Met By Kasich, Who Lex Is Not Happy To See As After That Night At Club Zero They Decided To Never Talk With Each Other Again, So, Instead Of Wasting Time Kasich Gets Down To The Point By Telling Lex That He Saw Jude...

Knowing That To Be Impossible, Kasich Tells Lex That That He's Not Crazy And Whoever This Person He's Been Following Him Everywhere. Asking What This Man Wanted Kasich Tells That This Man Is Seeking The Truth...

With Clark Walking Towards Them, Lex Gives Kasich The Key To A Secure Apartment In Metropolis And Tells Kasich To Stay There Until He Can Call Him, Nodding His Head, Kasich Leaves As Lex Enters The Talon With Clark...

(Start At 2:36, End At 3:23)

Following Lex Outside, Clark Asks Lex Who Jude Royce Is? But Lex Doesn't Seem Worried Saying Whomever Lana Met It Wasn't Jude Royce But Turning On His Car Loud Music, With The Words Murderer Being Heard Over And Over Again Play In Lex's Car...

Clark Is Like...

Using His X-Ray Vision, Clark That Lex's Radio Has Been Hotwired To Play A CD On A CD Player That's Underneath The Dashboard...

Ripping The CD Player Out, Clark Questions Lex Again Only For Him To Tell Clark That It's None Of His Business...

Returning Home After What Just Happened, Clark Finds Chloe Interviewing His Parents Who Find Chloe's Questions To Be (Sounding Like Arte Johnson) Very Interesting But Stupid...

Running Out Of Tape, Chloe Leaves So Jonathan And Martha Can Talk To Clark About The Assignment, Saying That They Don't Mind Answering Questions About Clark But Questions About Clark's Adoption Are Going To Be A Little Difficult To Answer...

With Chloe Returning, She Has Enough Tape To Question Clark Too But He's On Way To Work On His Paper With Lana Which Gives Chloe The Idea That Clark Is Avoiding Her But Telling Her That Tomorrow They Will Work On It Together, Chloe Drops The Subject...

Going To The Talon To Work On Their Paper, Clark And Lana See Lex Pull Up In His Car, Saying That The Contractor Called Him And Said That He Wanted To Meet Him At The Talon To Give Him An Estimate...

But When The Three Of Them Go Inside, They Find The Contractor On The Ground As He Tells Them That Some Guy Jumped Him When He Entered The Back Door And Forced Him To Let Him In

(Start At 1:03, End At 1:56)

Looking At The Hand, Lex Knows That Kasich Is Dead..

With Lana Having Second Thoughts About Being Involved With Lex, Clark Asks Lex About Max Kasich, To Which Lex Tells Clark The Truth That He Was Someone He Knew Years Ago In Metropolis And He Has No Clue How This Happened. Bringing Up Jude Royce Again, Lex Tells Clark That It's Impossible As Jude Royce Died 3 Years Ago...

The Next Day At School At The Torch While Clark Is Trying To Get Information About The Death Of Jude Royce, Chloe Tells Clark That While He Was Ducking Her, She Discovered That Clark's Adoption Was Handled Through Metropolis United Charities, And That Clark's Adoption Was The Only One They Handled Since They Were Only In Buisiness For Six Months...

Furious That Chloe Is Prying Into His Private Life, Clark Exits..

Talking With The Head Of Security At The Mansion, Mr. Raines At The Mansion Gym, He Tells Lex That Kasich Never Made It To The Apartment In Metropolis And That He Has Not Yet Tracked Down Amanda Rothman...

This Leads To A Flashback To What Happened After Jude Was Killed As We See Someone Who We Never That We Would See Again, Sam Phelan (The Dirty Metropolis Detective That Discovered Clark's Secret And Decided To Blackmail Him With It So He Could Get Phelan Some Papers From Internal Affairs)...

(Start At 1:08, End At 2:23)

Returning To The Present, Lex Gets A Gun In His Head Which Forces Him To Turn Around To See Jude Who Tells Lex That He Wants To Know What Happened That Night At Club Zero And Not Just The Cock And Bull Cover Story...

But As Jude Talks With Lex, Clark Arrives And Hears Jude Talking With Lex Which Forces Clark To Bust In Which Scares Jude Off...

Telling Lex About What He Discovered About Max Kasich, Lex Tells Clark For The Good Of Their Friendship To Not Look Into This Any Further. Returning To The Kent Farm To Do His Chores, Clark Talks With Jonathan About Lana Still Opening The Talon Despite The Body Part Incident, Lex, And Metropolis United Charities...

(Start At 1:01, End At 2:00)

Discovering That Their Livestock Were Poisoned By Luthorcorp Barrels That Somehow Got There, Lex Apologizes For What Happened And Offers To Pay For The Livestock But Jonathan Is Not In A Good Mood And Refuses Lex's Offer...

Telling Clark He Has No Idea How This Happened He Asks Lex If This Has To Do With Club Zero? And With Lex Believing That It Might, Clark Tells Lex To Come Forward And Tell Everything That Happened Before It's Too Late...

With The CEP Rep, Wanting To Talk To Lex He Goes Over To Talk With Him Only To Discover That It's Jude Who Tazers Lex Into A Car And Drives Off With Him...

Calling Everywhere, Clark Cannot Find Lex Anywhere, Which Leads Clark To Tell Martha What He Discovered, With Clark Defending His Friend, Martha Defends Lex Too But With Shady Things In Lex's Past Popping Up, Martha Thinks That Clark Should Take A Break From Lex As She Doesn't Clark To End Up In Trouble Like Him...

Going In The Barn, Chloe Apologizes For Diving Into The Adoption Agency Thing And Has Drop The Whole Thing In The Name Of Their Friendship, Handing Clark Pictures She Took For Insurance Purposes Chloe Leaves But Before She Does Clark Notices A Picture Of The CEP Guy Who Looks Like Jude Royce...

(Start At 0:51, End At 0:53)

Back Where We Started With Lex Hanging Upside Down In A Straitjacket, He Attempts To Get Out Of It While Calling For Help...

Hacking Into The DMV, Chloe Gets The Address Of Our CEP Guy Named John Smith...

What? Is His Middle Name Hannibal?

Clark Tells Her To Call The Police And Have Them Go To That Address...

Arriving There, Clark Discovers That Metropolis PD Is Already On The Scene As They Discovered Max Kasich's Body, Asking A Policeman Where Club Zero Is Despite Being Six Years Too Late, The Policeman Tells Clark That It's A Wherehouse On 78th And Main...

Now REALLY Back Where We Started With Jude About To Shoot Lex, We Hear A Gunshot Only To Discover That Someone Has Killed Jude For The Second Time And It Turns Out That It Was The Contractor Of The Talon Who Is Actually The Real Mastermind Behind Everything...

Shooting Lex Down, The Contractor Tells Lex Who He Really Is...

(Start At 0:18, End At 3:35)

With The Talon Opening On Schedule, It Seems To Be A Hit As Lana Goes Over To Talk With Clark Who Has A Present For Her, A Picture Of The Talon That His Grandfather Took Years Ago...

Talking With Lex, He Has A Feeling That Clark Is Avoiding Him, Denying This, He Just Tells Lex That There's Just A lot that He Doesn't Know About Him Which Leads Lex To Tell Clark Why He Did What He Did At Club Zero...

(Start At 1:34, End At 1:54)

Meanwhile At The Torch, Chloe Is About To Delete The Information She Discovered About Clark Only To Change Her Mind At The Last Second, Ending Our Episode...

And That's Zero And It's Okay....

While Not One Of My Favorite Episodes, It Did Give Us Insight On What "The Greatest Criminal Mind The World Has Ever Known" Did To Land Himself In Smallville And It Was A Good Episode While The Story Was Okay The Characters Were Well Written So, For This One I See It...

Till Next Time, This Is Duke, Signing Off...