"[music continues]" "[music continues] [thud]" "[clicking]" "Come on." "My God, Lex, make it stop!" "You can't go through with this." "(Lex) 'Oh, yes, I can.'" "Just think, my darling.." "...we'll have what we always dreamed of together." "What he would never let us have." "A little peace." "A little happiness." "What're you doing?" "Are you out of your mind?" "She is just a dummy!" "You are the dummy, you arrogant twit." "She's more alive than you've ever been." "[choking]" "You don't love me." "Uh...you never did." "How perceptive." "[gasps]" "Warning, 30 seconds to complete psycho-meld." "29, 28.." "'...27, 26..' '...25, 24..' [laughing]" "Better say your prayers, folks 'cause it's all over now." "I flip this little switch..." "and in three minutes.." "...I'm in line for a whole lot of insurance money." "[panting] [eerie music]" "You can't do this." "It goes against everything you are." " You don't know what I am." " I know your heart." "I don't care what these people did to you." "But you can't kill them like he did." " You're not Lex." " Yes, I am!" "No, you're not." "[slow-paced music]" "This isn't real." "None of this is real." "You're real." "[instrumental music] [laughing maniacally]" "[beeping]" "(man in hologram) 'Memory loop broken." "Memory loop broken." "Psycho-meld averted." "No-o-o!" "[thud] [crackling]" "Lana, it's really you." "[panting]" "The life he had all they put him through, no wonder he turned out that way." "You lived it too and you didn't become a killer." "It's not the same." "Before I ever went in there I had a good life." "And even when I was in there I had you." "Who did he have?" "Lena." "We've gotta find her." "She's the only person in the world Luthor ever loved." "You think she's in there?" "Well, he's hooked up to every information system in the world." "Must have kept track of her." "There's gotta be something." "Bingo." "Oh, no." "[slow-paced music]" "(Lex) 'You see, my darling, that you had died in that horrible crash my world ended." "So now, I'm taking out the rest of the world with me." "And then...the two of you.." "...can have it all to yourselves." "Forever and ever." "(Darla) 'Stop it, Lex.' [dramatic music] [chuckling]" "Oh, come on, please, Darla, you're not gonna shoot me." "'You worship me, remember?" "'" "Come on, nitwit, give me the gun." "Stop the countdown, Lex, or I'll shoot." "I'm shakin' in my boots." "I gave you everything I've got, Lex." "[intense music]" "I've done things for you that I never thought I could do." "But I'm not gonna stand by and let you wipe everything out." "You mean, uh.." "...somewhere in that dim consciousness there lurks a noble soul?" "You're like a dog, Darla." "A street mongrel." "'You just take it and take it and take it.'" "I loved you." "[gunshot] [dramatic music] [beeping]" "Fascinating." "I didn't think you had it in you." "Obviously, you.." "Stop the countdown, Lex." "No, can't do." "Once it's started, no way to stop it." "Might as well finish me off right now, Darla." "We're all gonna be nuclear dust...soon enough." "(automated message) 'Detonation in 55 minutes.' [intense music]" "[chuckling]" "Oh, ooh.." "Something's not right." "What do you mean?" "Lena's car went off the bridge, but they never found the body." "So, the body was washed away." "Maybe." "Why would she fake her own death?" "Think about it." "If you were Lex's sister, wouldn't you wanna put as many miles between the two of you as possible?" "Hold it." "Look at this." "She had all of her utilities turned off the day before she died." "Coincidence?" "Probably is." "Or maybe this was left on the computer to trick us." "It's just another one of Luthor's traps." "It's hopeless." "Lana...you can never give up hope." "[instrumental music]" "[music continues]" "[beeping]" "[clicks]" " Ah!" "Ah.." " Superboy." "[buzzing] [panting]" "Keep looking for Lena." "I've gotta go." "What is it?" "What's wrong?" "[theme music]" "[buzzing]" "[buzzing stops]" "Alright, Luthor, you've got my attention." "What do you want?" "[footsteps] [intense music]" "Darla, what's this?" "Another trick to get me out of the way?" "No." "I got out of there so I could signal you without him knowing." "You gotta stop him." "Tell Luthor it's not gonna work." "Wait, no, don't go, please." "He doesn't know that I'm here, I swear." "You gotta stop him, please." "Where can I find him?" "I'll take you to him." "I'm Bob Sokoler, here is what's happening." "Less than an hour left until Luthor's deadline runs out and there's been no word yet from Superboy." "The evacuation of Capitol City is continuing or should I say, attempted evacuation." "Many people have refused to leave." "And rioting and looting is widespread." "[knocking on door]" "That's the latest we have at this hour.." "[knocking continues] [clicks]" "My name is Lana Lang." "I'm with the Bureau for Extranormal Matters." "(female #1) 'Yes?" "'" "I need your help.." "...that is, if you are who I think you are." "[thud] [pounding on door]" "(Lana) 'We really don't" "'The whole world is depending on you, Lena.' [instrumental music]" "[knocking on door]" "Hark, visitors at this hour?" "Entrer, my homicidal sweetheart." "[thud] [dramatic music]" "Darla, you are full of surprises today." "'And who says they can't teach an old dog new tricks?" "' [laughing]" "Okay, Luthor, party's over." "Disarm the warhead!" "And you, you actually escaped from the memory loop." "That's very impressive." "You know, you're the only opponent I've ever faced who's near worthy of me." "You're not, not quite, but close." "So I think it's only appropriate that we be together when the world goes, poof!" "[intense music] [groans]" "Disarm the warhead." "The countdown can't be stopped even if I want it to." "Which I don't." "Luthor.." "[intense music] [laughing]" "[eerie music]" " Luthor?" " Just call me Lex." "Turning off the utilities a day before you died is one thing." "But leaving your return address on the work order.." "My God, if I could find you that easily don't you think Lex could?" "It would never occur to him, not even for a second that I would do something like that." "So he'd never bother to look for clues." "Why would his adoring little sister stage her own death?" "[instrumental music]" "Do you know what it's like to be haunted by a ghost that follows you everywhere?" "Last name's Luthor?" "Any relation to that maniac?" "They always find out." "And then it's time to move again." "Find new friends, make a new life." "But it never works." "[music continues]" "People look at me like I'm a freak." "The police are always watching in case he shows his face." "And he keeps writing to me." "Letters full of fantasy." "About how the day will come when we can be together again." "Happy and free." "[music continues]" "That's why I thought if I could just kill Lena once and for all" "But when you killed Lena, you killed Lex too." "That's what's driven him to this." "Pushed him over the edge." "Oh, I pushed him over the edge?" "No." "No one is going to blame me for this." "He killed our parents, he.." "[breathes heavily]" "Oh, what's the point?" "Pretty soon it will all be over with." "And the Luthor legacy goes on to the end of the world." "But it doesn't have to be that way." "If we could find out where Lex is, I could bring you to him" "No!" "No, I won't go." "He's worse than my father was." "He's a monster." "Well, that monster did everything in his power to protect you." "He did protect you!" "And he paid the price." "[instrumental music] [shattering] [thwacking]" "You think this will change anything?" "It won't make the memories go away." "It won't end your pain." "I was in the machine, I lived it too." "[instrumental music]" "Don't listen to that pseudo-psycho garbage." "Kill him." "What's the point?" "He'll be dead soon enough." "Excuse me, now just who invented whom here?" "(automated message) 'Three minutes to detonation.'" "Uh-uh-uh, smash that and the bomb will go off now." "Don't just stand there doing nothing, stop him!" "There's nothing he can do except try to find that bomb." "Try to beat the clock." "[imitates clock ticking]" "Oh, it's hopeless." "(Lana) Don't ever give up hope." "[laughing]" "We'll bust out the party hats." "So glad you could make it, darling." "We're planning to have a real blast." "How the hell did you find me?" " It was in your letters." " Letters?" "What letters?" "(Lena) The ones you wrote me." "The place you begged me to come to." "Your haven." "Your bunker." "Lead-shielded underground where not even Superboy could find you." "(both) Lena." "No-no, no, no, I'm Lex." "He's just a machine." "But how can it be?" "What is that?" "Oh, that's...you." "(automated message) 'One minute to detonation.'" "But...how?" "Stop the countdown." "But you're alive." "Stop the countdown, Lex." "Lena...tell me what happened." "Who did this?" "Who wanted me to believe that you were dead?" "I did." "I hate you, Lex." " What?" " Don't you understand?" "I hate you." "You're a disease." "You're a cancer." "You're like a cancer in my life." "Everything you touch, you kill." " No." " Everything you love.." "The only thing you love is yourself and death." " I hate you, I hate you.." " Y-you made her say this!" "Make her stop!" " 'I hate you!" "'" " Make her stop." "(automated message) 'Thirty seconds to detonation.'" "No, nobody controls me." "Not father, not you, no one." "'I wanted my own life free all of you.'" "No one talks to Lex Luthor like that." "No one." "You're not Lex." "You're as much a machine as that thing is." "(automated message) '13, 12, 11, 10..'" "Well, then you can just die, along with everyone else." "No." "Code genesis LX666 abort." "(automated message) 'Countdown aborted." "Lena." "Please, don't leave me." "I love you, I would never hurt you." "I can be good." "I promise." "Please, we'll be happy." "Code LX0 terminate!" "We.." "You said you couldn't stop the countdown." "I lied." "Leave." "[chuckles]" "The party is over, folks, could you just get out!" "You were always such a brainless little twit just like all the rest." "I never loved you." "[instrumental music]" "I never loved you." "[music continues]" " Let's get that arm looked at." " I never loved her." "[music continues]" "Sure, Lex, whatever you say." "[music continues]" "[theme music]" "[music continues]"