The crystal cracks. Luthor’s face replaces Clark’s, grinning.
Skull hesitates. His skull-fires flicker. Then Luthor’s voice, through a neural implant in Skull’s jaw, screams “TERMINATE.” Skull convulses—then detonates himself to stop Luthor’s control. Lois and the boys barely escape into a storm cellar as the Gazette becomes a crater. superman & lois s04e02 dvdrip
Suddenly, the floor explodes upward. (Dr. Albert Michaels, reanimated and enraged) tears through the press, screaming for Lois. He’s unstable, leaking radiation. Jonathan fires the gauntlet—it shorts out. Jordan tries to phase through Skull’s blast but gets thrown into a support beam. Lois, unarmed, walks directly toward Skull and whispers, “Albert. Your daughter is alive. Luthor lied.” The crystal cracks
In the cellar, Lois finds an old radio. She rigs it to broadcast on Clark’s private JLA frequency. No response. Jordan breaks down, admitting he heard his father’s last thoughts during the attack: “Tell Lois… the barn.” His skull-fires flicker
Lois tracks a coded broadcast to the ruins of the Smallville Gazette’s printing press. There, she finds an old ally: Bruno Mannheim (in a shocking return), now hiding from both Luthor and the feds. Mannheim reveals Luthor has been weaponizing “Bizarro DNA” spliced with red sun radiation. The creature that attacked Superman wasn’t a monster—it was a clone. A failed clone. The real weapon is still in play.