Smallville

In the season premiere, guest star JOHN SCHNEIDER reprises his role as Jonathan Kent. Picking up where the finale left off, Lois (series star ERICA DURANCE) finds Clark's lifeless body and removes the blue kryptonite -- enabling him to heal himself. However, Lois sneaks away before Clark fully awakens in order to protect his secret. Meanwhile, Chloe (series star ALLISON MACK) is desperate to find Oliver (series star JUSTIN HARTLEY), so she turns to an unlikely source for answers. Jonathan returns to the Kent Farm with a message for Clark, and Tess (series star CASSIDY FREEMAN) awakens in a LuthorCorp lab.

After Lois departs for Egypt, the Daily Planet hires a new reporter by the name of Kat Grant (guest star KERI LYNN PRATT) to take her place. An assassin named Deadshot (guest star BRADLEY STRYKER) takes aim at Kat -- but Clark learns the man has a dangerous hidden agenda that involves The Blur. Meanwhile, Carter Hall (guest star MICHAEL SHANKS) turns up in Egypt to keep an eye on Lois and he tells Lois about his wife Shayera (guest star SAHAR BINIAZ).

Clark is stunned when Kara (guest star LAURA VANDERVOORT) returns to Earth and tells him Jor El sent her to stop the dark force that is coming because he doesn't believe Clark can handle it. Meanwhile, Lois confronts Gordon Godfrey (guest star MICHAEL DAINGERFIELD), a shock jock radio DJ who has been crusading against heroes, after he threatens the Green Arrow. However, after Godfrey is possessed by the dark force, he takes Lois hostage and Clark and Kara have to come to her rescue.

In a record-breaking event, the series' 200th episode brings back some familiar faces like JAMES MARSTERS as Brainiac. In an attempt to cheer up Clark, Lois convinces him to attend their five-year high school reunion in Smallville. A visit back to the home of the Crows has Clark remembering old times with Lana (past series star KRISTIN KREUK) and Chloe, while Lois is furious that no one remembers her five days as a student. Brainiac 5.0 (Marsters) uses his Legion ring to visit from the future and takes Clark through his past, present and future. He shows Clark what really happened the night Jonathan died, Oliver's current pain and Clark's future at the Daily Planet with Lois and his role as Earth's favorite red and blue superhero.

Lois decides to tell Clark she knows he's The Blur, but she accidentally activates an ancient artifact that transforms her into the Goddess Isis, complete with superpowers of her own. Oliver and Clark reluctantly decide to ask Tess for help with Lois. Meanwhile, after Cat Grant (guest star Keri Lynn Pratt) witnesses Lois as Isis using her superpowers, she decides Lois is the Blur and sets out to prove it.

Concerned about Lois's safety, Clark diverts her away from covering the Vigilante Registrations Act by suggesting she cover another story. After he comes clean with her, an angry Lois tells him that she can take care of herself -- but when a flat tire strands their car in the middle of nowhere, their plans take a turn for the worse and Lois ends up in serious danger. Meanwhile, Tess searches for a cure for Alexander (guest star CONNOR STANHOPE), who is rapidly aging.

The General (guest star MICHAEL IRONSIDE) and Lucy Lane (guest star PEYTON LIST) decide to drop in on Lois and Clark for a surprise Thanksgiving dinner. Clark and the General get off to a rocky start after Lois's father bashes the superheroes and tells Clark he is trying to pass a vigilante registration law. Meanwhile, in an effort to stop the vigilante registration act from being passed, Rick Flagg (guest star TED WHITTALL) lies to Lucy in order to lure Clark away from the farm long enough for him to assassinate the General. Lois is torn between making her father proud and her love for Clark.

Lois finds a video made for her by her mother, Ella Lane (guest star TERI HATCHER), before she died. After watching the tape, Lois makes a drastic decision about her relationship with Clark that takes her to the Fortress, where she comes face to face with Jor-El and Lara. Meanwhile, Tess has a nightmare involving herself as a child and a music box. Upon awakening, she finds the music box in Luthor mansion and sets out to find out who planted it there. Clark accompanies her to an orphanage run by Granny Goodness (guest star CHRISTINE WILLES) who may not have the young girls' best intentions in mind. One of the young women living there, Harriet (guest star LINDSAY HARTLEY), finds Clark snooping around and decides to take matters into her own very sharp hands.

Patrick Jane accepts the help of a local astrologer, Ellis Mars (JOHN BILLINGSLEY), to solve the puzzling case of a triple homicide In an effort to protect the rest of the team, Oliver decides to register for the Vigilante Registration Act to see what the government plans to do with the new law. As he suspected, it was a trap to lure superheroes to an undisclosed location where he is confined to a jail and subjected to a battery of brutal tests under the supervision of Col. Slade (guest star MICHAEL HOGAN -- Battlestar Galactica). Aquaman (guest star ALAN RITCHSON) and his new wife Mera (guest star ELENA SATINE) team up with Clark to free Oliver. Lois is frustrated when Clark continues to push aside her offers to help the team and sets out to prove she can play with the big boys. Series star Tom Welling directs.that involves two policemen.

Tess acquires a Kryptonian box that once belonged to Lionel Luthor (former series star JOHN GLOVER). When Clark accidentally activates the box, he's transported to a parallel universe where Lionel found Clark in the cornfields instead of the Kents. In this universe, Clark Luthor is a murderer and Lois is engaged to Oliver -- and both of them hate Clark. Clark must be careful not to tip off Lionel that he's not his son while trying to figure out how to get back to Earth where the monster Clark Luthor was transported in his place. Executive producer Kelly Souders makes her directorial debut.

The VRA is in full effect and things take an unfortunate turn of events after the Green Arrow tries to stop a mugging but is attacked by citizens for being a super hero. Clark discovers that the civilians who attacked Oliver were all marked with a darkness tattoo. Carter Hall and Star Girl (guest star BRITT IRVIN) return to help Clark deal with Slade's (guest star MICHAEL HOGAN) re-emergence after he kidnaps Lois.

Chloe Sullivan returns. Clark, Oliver, Lois and Dinah are released by the VRA after being captured at Hawkman's funeral but each of them has flashbacks of Chloe holding them against their will. When Chloe returns, Dinah warns the others that Chloe may now be a traitor. Oliver dismisses her concerns, but Clark is unsure if he can trust Chloe after she disappeared without an explanation.

Clark is surprised to see Martha (former series star ANNETTE O'TOOLE) on the news speaking at a pro-vigilante rally. Meanwhile, Lionel reveals his existence to the world and reclaims LuthorCorp from Tess and Oliver. As Clark deals with a shocking event, Lois and Chloe decide to cheer him up by showing him videos from thousands of vigilante supporters professing their support for The Blur. (Videos were created and submitted by actual "Smallville" fans.)

Chloe and Oliver are mistaken for FBI agents investigating Desaad's recent string of murders and the pair are kidnapped by Desaad's minions. Desaad (guest star STEVE BYERS) tries to infect Chloe with the darkness. Meanwhile, Lois tells Clark he needs to be more careful with his identity and suggests a disguise.

After Zatanna sends a magically spiked bottle of champagne to Clark and Lois for their bachelor/bachlorette parties, the gang blacks out after the toast, only to wake up the next morning and realize they can't remember anything about the night before. While trying to retrace their steps, Lois realizes she lost her engagement ring and drags Oliver back to the Fortune Casino where she thinks she lost it. The two run into Fortune (guest star JAMES KIDNIE), the eccentric casino owner, who accuses them of stealing money from him. Meanwhile, Clark tells Chloe he has a memory of stealing an armored truck the night before.

Lionel and Tess go head-to-head in a battle for the Luthor name. Clark and Lois are stunned by Tess's latest present to them.

Clark is shocked to find a mirror box in the barn. Clark Luthor surprises him and sends Clark Kent back to the alternate reality where Clark runs into a very angry Jonathan Kent. Meanwhile, back in our reality, Clark Luthor visits Tess and tells if she doesn't side with him he'll kill her. Lois asks Emil to help her bring Clark back.

After everything that happened with the VRA, Lois tells Clark it's best to make "Clark Kent" forgettable and awkward so people don't suspect he's The Blur. However, the two are stunned when a fame-hungry superhero from the future, Booster Gold (guest star ERIC MARTSOLF -- Days of Our Lives), sweeps into town and begins making saves and posing for press ops, completely winning over the city of Metropolis. Booster begins his campaign to take The Blur's place as the "World's Greatest Superhero" and tries to charm Lois into writing a story about him, but she's not having his antics and begins her own campaign for The Blur. During one of Booster's saves, an alien weapon in the form of a scarab falls from a truck and fuses itself to a boy named Jaime Reyes (guest star JADEN BRANDT BARTLETT), turning him into the Blue Beetle. Unfortunately, Jaime is unable to control the suit and Blue Beetle starts attacking Metropolis. Tom Welling directed the episode written by Geoff Johns.

The Return of Zod! Tess learns that General Slade was found unconscious on a street corner, proof that someone has gained access to the Phantom Zone's escape portal and sent him back. Clark decides to return to the exiled land to make sure other phantoms are not fleeing and is furious when Oliver tricks Clark into taking him along. With Clark's powers gone, the two are immediately captured by the Zoners who take them to their new leader, Zod (guest star CALLUM BLUE), who is thirsting for revenge on Clark for banishing him to this Kryptonian jail. Meanwhile, Lois learns Clark trusted Tess with a secret, but didn't tell Lois. Series star Justin Hartley makes his directorial debut.

Jor-El gives Lois super powers! Kara returns! Clark takes Lois to the Fortress to get Jor-El's (voiced by TERENCE STAMP) blessing for their marriage. Jor-El bestows a unique wedding gift on the couple -- he gives Lois Clark's super powers so she can see what it's like to be him for a day. Unfortunately, the Toyman (guest star CHRIS GAUTHIER) has returned to Metropolis, so Lois must go up against the notorious villain instead of Clark. Meanwhile, Oliver searches for the Bow of Orion, which he believes will remove the Omega symbol from his skull, and runs into Kara (guest star LAURA VANDERVOORT), who is also on a mission to stop Darkseid.

The story of Clark Kent culminates in this epic two-hour series finale as Clark takes the last step to becoming the Man of Steel. With surprise guest appearances, nods to the first few seasons of the series, and former series regular MICHAEL ROSENBAUM's return as Lex Luthor, this final episode wraps up a decade-long story following one's man's journey to becoming the world's greatest superhero.