Smallville 92

Aqua
Season 5 Episode 4

People are gathered at Crater Lake enjoying the summer. Lana tells Clark he missed a spot rubbing sunscreen on her and when he asks where she points to her lips and they kiss. Lois makes a joke about them kissing that interrupts them. Lois explains that she ran into Mrs. Kent in town and she invited Lois to stay with them again. Lois satisfied that she totally ruined the mood goes for a swim. She swims out to the diving platform and hits her hit diving in the water. Chloe sends Clark into the water to get Lois, when someone swimming faster that Clark grabs Lois and brings her to shore. The stranger does CPR and Lois is enamored with the stranger the moment she opens her eyes. He gives her his name Author Curry. Lana takes Lois home. Clark tells Chloe that AC can swim faster that he can.

At Central Kansas A&M, Clark tries to sneak in to a lecture already started. Professor Milton Fines (James Marster) explain that his class is about history and history is revisionist. It is not about fact but about His-story or Her-story. He explains that you must be warily of white knights like Lex Luthor who has taken his father’s billion-dollar agriculture business and turned it into one of the leading defense contractors. They do not slay dragon, they raise them for their nefarious deeds. Clark defends Lex to Professors Fine, and he tells Clark he respects someone that speaks his or her mind. At the Talon, Lois and AC check each other out as Lois serves up orders. She tells him that the orange and green make him look like flip throw up on him. He tells her to dress him any way she likes if he can teach her how to swim. She tells him that she swims like a fish and he tells her to prove it. Leaving Professor Fine’s class, Clark apologizes to him and he tells Clark never apologize for your conviction. Clark asks him how he knows his name. Professor fine explains that he learn the names and face of his students each semester, it helps with the learning process. Professor Fines offers Clark a job as a research assistant for a book he is writing on Luthorcorp. He tells Clark that what is worst than looking for the truth is uncovering the truth and then he leaves. Back at Crater Lake Lois and AC are swimming, Lois wants to race. When Lois has a comfortable lead, AC super swims past her and is waiting for her on the docks. Sitting on the dock Lois tells AC that she was taught by NAVY Seals; AC tells her that he loves to swim with the seals. She asks him if he is a navy brat too and he tells her no. A sound hurts AC’s ears he falls into the water to investigate the noise that Lois does not hear. He gets near it and swims back to shore where Lois attends to him as he has bleeding coming from his ears. Then dead fish start to float to the surface.

A Luthorcorp employee explains to Lex that Leviathan test was successful and it exceeds all projections. Lex claims that if successful that the Pentagon will want to place one on every sub. The employee asks about it killing the seas life around it and Lex tells it does not matter if a few sea life die in defense of this country. Ac and Lois are back the Kent’s when see brings him glass water and asks him if he is all right. He tells her he is just fine and the start to make out when Clark comes in. In the barn Chloe and Clark investigate Author Curry. He is a sophomore at Miami, studying marine biology on a swimming scholarship; he is likely to make the Olympic team, and has a record for release some dolphins back into the wild. Clark tells Chloe about Bart Allen, a kid who ran too fast for his own good. At the Talon, Clark interrogates AC, when Lois pulls him aside and tells him to stop acting like an overprotective brother. Clark asks him why he is in Kansas; explains that he is here to investigate the sea life dying out in Crater Lake. He left to take care of some business and Clark follows him. AC ends up at a Luthorcorp lab with a water entrance to Crater Lake. Ac plants C4 to blow up Leviathan and Clark stops the explosion. Clark and AC meet in the water and fight. AC creates an underwater bubble that throw Clark out of the water.

At the barn on the farm, Clark tells Lois about AC criminal activity and she leaves think Clark is jealous. Ac comes out from the shadows and is amazed at Clark’s abilities. Clark convinces AC to talk to Lex first about Leviathan. They come in accusing Lex of developing a weapon. Lex tells him that the days of Clark bursting with is righteous indignation are over. Lex tells them it is not a weapon in development but high-protein kelp. AC calls him a tool and leaves. Lex tries to explain to Clark and he tells Lex his days of believing his lies are over. At Crater Lake AC is knocked unconscious but a dart.

AC is being held at the lab, where he looks sickly, blood is being drawn but a technician. Lex wants to know whom he works for and how he got his abilities. Lex leaves to demonstrate Leviathan, Clark comes to the lab and re-hydrates AC, and together they dismantle Leviathan. The pentagon representative leave think Leviathan self destructed during the test.

Lex’s is on the phone apologizing for wasting their time when Clark comes in and asks about the high protein kelp. Clark tells him he is interested in writing a paper on it. Lex tells him the project was de-railed by vandalizes and he ask has he seen Author Curry. Clark asks Lex does he ever stop to see where his life is heading. Lex tells him life is far more complicated to be seen in black and white. Clark tells him about what Professor Fine said about him. Lex replies did you tell him about my pitchfork; Clark replies no I defended up, I guess I was naïve. In the barn AC and Clark say their goodbye. AC tells Clark they show form a Junior Lifeguard Association. Clark warns him about Lex’s obsessive-ness. AC tells Clark that if he sticks to land then they will not have any more problems. Clarks goes to see Professor Fine for the research position. At Crater Lake Lois and AC, say the goodbyes and one final kiss. At the barn, Clark is doing research on Luthorcorp when Lois apologizes to Clark being thorny with him; she realized that he was only looking out for her. Clark apologizes for being overprotective. Tells Clark that she really liked AC, he was the first guy she met that wanted to better the world instead of own it. He promises her that she will find someone even more special that AC.