"[theme music]" "(male narrator) Rocketed from a distant planet to a bold new destiny on Earth." "Found by a Kansas family and raised as Clark Kent." "He learned, he possessed the strength of steel the speed of light and the desire to help all mankind." "He is Superboy." "[theme music]" "[intense music]" "[snapping]" "(female #1) Lex." "Lex." "Oh, Lexy poo." "Close your eyes." "Are they closed?" "Ta-da!" "How do I look?" "Answer me." "You look marvelous, darling." "Oh, Lex, you're just saying that." "Classiest star in the whole face of the Earth." "Oh, Lexy, poo." "You, bug eyed creep, it's my birthday!" "You forgot, didn't you?" "After everything I've done." "One lousy day of the year isn't asking too much." "I've done your socks, wash your underwear cut off the letters for your ransom notes." "Feed your fat face day in and day out." "Hiding in this dump like a cockroach." "How I might as well be dead." "Now this is it, skin head." "If you don't take me out right now, tonight it's over." "Lex, look at me." "You look at me!" "If you don't put that down right now.." "...and look at me.." "...I'll kill myself." "Lex." "Three and a half months.." "...I've been working on this a.." "...a formula that could increase my mental powers exponentially." "Three and a half months." " And you just destroyed it." " Good." "I suppose mega-mental power doesn't mean much to a flee brain twit like you because you've got the mind of an amoeba." "But it means a lot to me." "So, go on, kill yourself." "You'll be doing us, both a favor!" "[intense music] [glass shattering] [coughing] [screaming]" "No!" "Darla?" "Darla?" "Are-are you okay?" "That's wrong." "What?" "You killing a peptide bonds." "Huh?" "You structurals are okay but you're never gonna generate any deoxide ribules if you keep breaking down your pyrimidines, dehydration synthesis doesn't work like that." "Dumbo." "Oh my God, it worked." "What's the square root of eight seven million nine hundred and forty six thousand eight hundred and eight four?" "9378." "This is getting tedious." "Now, you're just jealous." "Dummy." "Well, if you're so smart why don't you put it to use?" "Why don't you plan something?" " Like what?" " Oh, I don't know." "A bank job." "Another bank job?" "I'd say, Lex, you have the imagination of a trout." "I'm the most brilliant criminal genius in human history." "I need to make a debut." "Global debut." " What do you have in mind?" " Something." "Spectacular." "[phone dial tone]" "(man on radio) This is a WCXP news flash." "The financial record of the entire international' banking system have been scrambled by a mysterious computer virus." "The unknown hacker sent a ransom note demanding 100 million dollars to restore the system" "It's signed the bird of paradise." " Wonder what that.." " This is WXCP news flash." "Clark?" "This is nuts." "How we gonna escape?" "We'll worry about that later." " Don't you have a plan?" " Trust me." "You maybe a genius but this's really pushing the" "Shut up and do what you're told, dumbo." " We have an appointment." " Wait a minute." "The Bird of paradise, I presume." "Bingo." "An apt description." "Oh." "You like what you see." "Perhaps, had we met under a happier circumstances." "It's all here." "This should solve your little problem." "Much thanks." "Oh, before you rush off" "I'd like to introduce you to a friend of mine." "Right on schedule." " You expected this?" " Button it." "Hey there, big fella." " Long time no mumbo jumbo." " Oh, God." "Tell me, Luthor." "Did you really think that you can get away with this?" "I'm taking you in." "Oh, wouldn't you rather take me out?" "I never let a guy touch me in the first date." " What's going on?" " It's simple." "Whatever I think, umm, happens." "Psychokinesis, that's impossible." " The formula was" " All this and brains too." "What you gawking at, handsome?" "Darla, what are you after?" "Fly me to the moon." "You are kidding." "Well, I am woman, you are man." "You are pathetic." "You may be dangerous, you may be powerful." "But you're still a bad joke." "How dare you." "I have the mental power of a whole computer bank." "I can move things with my mind." "My I.Q. is off the scale." "And not only that.." "I'm pretty." "Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder." "[intense music]" "Darla, you should learn to control your emotions." "You want control?" "What this." "No, wait." "Wait-wait a minute." "What-what?" "No, no." "What are you doing?" "Get me down." "Pull me back, get me out." "What is she doing?" "Wo, no." "No, oh, no." "Yeah, that's it." "That's better." " Ah." " Better, easy." "Easy now, easy now." "That's it?" " Great." " Thanks." "Right." "[instrumental music]" "Darla, this is insane." "If I take his girl friend out, Superboy will wise up." "What the devil you want with Superboy?" "Oh, great, she's got Kent with her." "Let's forget it." "Oh, what's the matter?" "You're scared of him?" "Oh, please." " Your coming with us." " Not this again." "Do you realize that kidnapping is a violation of" "Don't make me mad." "I'm giving Superboy 24 hours to meet me on my turf and on my terms." "Or you both history." " We're taking both of them?" " The more the merrier." "Lick this." "You better pray that he shows." "Now get moving." "[humming]" "[humming continues]" "[instrumental music]" "And then she drank it?" "Every last drop." "So what happened next?" "She turned in to a very intelligent monster." "Sort of a cross between Raquel Welch and Godzilla." " Can you change her back?" " Sure." "All I have to do is replicate what happened in that beaker." "And then mix an antidote to the serum." "It ought to be easy with a super computer in about three years." "Uh, excuse me." "I know someone that might help to speed the process." "Yeah, sure." "He-he wears a red cape?" "You don't actually exp-- [thunder rumbling]" "I'd think about it." "When hell freezes over." "(Darla) Think about what?" "[intense music]" "Oh." "Nothing." "When the cat's away.." "What are you doing, Lex?" "Uh, well, you know." "Doodles." "Darla!" "Darla, you broke.." "Darla." "Oh, no, please." "I wasn't doing anything!" "I wasn't doing anything." "I'm what you made me, Lex." "Don't even think about undoing it." "There's no way back." "[sparking]" "But apparently Superboy likes to keep his dates waiting." "Well, if he doesn't show up soon" "I'm afraid I'll have some.." "...very unhappy guests." "The storm is the earthquake." "She's causing them, isn't she?" "That's the least of it." "She's growing more powerful by the second." "We maybe headed for a global holocaust." "Well, if you let us go." "I can reach Superboy and arrange a meeting." "There's a lab at the bureau, right?" "You tell Superboy to meet me there in an hour." " Let Lana go too." " She stays." "It's the only way." "Go!" "No, wait." "Hit me." " What?" " Gotta look like you escaped." "Now, hit me." " I don't know." " Oh, come on." "[laughing]" "You really are a wimp, aren't you?" "Can't you put a little muscle into it?" "[intense music]" "Well, if you say so." "I got the latest science readings." "Darla is over charging the Earth's magnetic field." "Looks like things are getting worse." "Icebergs in the L.A harbor." "Eskimos with heat prostration." " It's definitely getting worse." " Let me see that." "[beeping]" "Professor Peterson!" "I gotta go." "It's quite a shiner." "It's nothing." "Who did it?" "I ran into a door, okay." "The whole earth is about to go out of orbit." "So can we just focus here?" "We got to identify the exact amount of enzyme that was released into the solution when Darla grabbed my arm and knocked that dropper into the beaker." "Now, we're talking trial and error." "Unless we get lucky." "We'll have to run the experiment several thousand times." "I can do that in few minutes." " A few minutes?" " Hyper speed." "Ah." "Well, once we got the formula I can whip up the antidote." "And how you gonna test it?" "Unless you want to volunteer, I suggest we feed it to a rat." "Fine." "Can you handle the taste?" "Let's just get started." "[instrumental music]" "I don't get it." "He was down to 22 seconds and now he's just sitting there." "(Lex) He's reading." "I'll mix the anitdote." "[thundering]" "The head geophysicist is predicting that the Earth is gonna flip off its axis." "In 38 minutes." "Oh, my god." "I sure hope she's thirsty." "[intense music]" "I didn't want any of this." "I didn't plan to hurt anybody." "And I certainly wasn't trying to steal your guy." "It's just.." "Darla.." "You need help because Superboy can do something about this." "Superboy doesn't understand me anymore than Lex does." "[rumbling]" "I just wish.." "I just wish that Lex wouldn't.." "You're free to go." "Darla." "I'm not gonna leave you like this." "(Lex) Greetings." "Wo!" "It's a regular monsoon out there." " Where have you been?" " I tried to track down Clark." "You know." "A funny thing happened on the way to the library." "This guy comes up to me." "And he asked me for a light." "Ha ha, blood of the wine." "You know, it's kind of funny because I don't smoke." "I used to but I quit." "I don't even miss it." "Well, I suppose I could use one right now." "(Lex) Have you ever seen photos of smoker's lungs?" "Black and charred." "Strange.." "...passive growths." "Here, honey." "Drink up." "Your hand is shaking." "Oh, well, I-I probably caught a chill, the rain, you know." "Or is it poison?" "Or the antidote?" "Antidote for what?" "Don't insult my intelligence." "You've been working with Superboy." " Superboy?" " He's coming, isn't he?" "No, what makes you think that.." "Real clever, Lex." " Darla, you have to drink it." " Why should I?" " You have a minute left." " Before what?" "Before your psychokinetic powers destroy the whole world." "So?" "[rumbling]" "And Darla." "What do you want?" "All I ever wanted was a little affection." "Maybe a little respect." "Will destroying the world get it for you?" "Believe me." "I would drink it if I could." "Well, here." "Darla, come on, drop the shield." " I can't." " What do you mean you can't?" "I can't control it." " It's involuntary." " A defense mechanism." "[whispering]" " What?" " Try it." "Oh, God, geez Gosh, honey, I'm a really.." "I'm really sorry about all the stuff that I.." "I mean, what I'm.." "[instrumental music]" "I love you." "What did you say?" "I love you." "Really." "Here, honey." "Let me help you." "Here." "[intense music]" "What's going on?" "What's everybody looking at?" "A very brave woman." " Huh?" " A very smart lady." "Who me?" "Classiest doll in the face of the Earth." "Aww." "Lexy poo." "[theme music]"