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Titre en VO : Honeymoon in Metropolis
Diffusion US : 12/12/93
Diffusion FR : 24/05/94
Lois surprend une transaction entre le sénateur Harrington et des bandits dans un hôtel. Elle prend des photos et tient à y retourner aux dates convenues entre les bandits et le sénateur.
Perry accepte, mais à condition que ce soit avec Clark pour assurer une surveillance permanente. On peut comprendre que la relation se développe entre les deux partenaires pendant ces trois jours en tête à tête, où ils doivent simuler être un couple de jeunes mariés.
Ils finissent par découvrir que les crapules feront échouer un essai de la Marine appelé « Onde de choc » (une entreprise de Lex) pour imposer leur technologie.
Lois et le sénateur se retrouvent attachés ensemble à la venue d’un raz-de-marée. Superman viendra les sauvés.
Moments forts :
Quand Loïs et Clark improvisent en tant que jeune couple marié
Quand Clark embrasse Loïs
Note de l'épisode : 10/10
Popularité
Titre VO
Honeymoon in Metropolis
Titre VF
Lune de miel à Métropolis
Première diffusion
12.12.1993
Première diffusion en France
24.05.1994
LOIS & CLARK
The New Adventures of Superman
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS
Written by DAN LEVINE
Directed by: JAMES CONTNER
_CAST_
CLARK KENT/SUPERMAN
LOIS LANE
PERRY WHITE
JIMMY OLSEN
CAT GRANT
LEX LUTHOR
MARTHA KENT
JONATHAN KENT
CONGRESSMAN IAN HARRINGTON
PETER ROARKE
SORE THROAT
PHIL THE BELLBOY
INGEBORG THE MAID
_LOCATIONS_
_INTERIORS_: _EXTERIORS_:
Daily Planet Lexor Hotel
The Pit
Conference Room Office Building
Lexor Honeymoon Suite Metropolis Harbor
Living Room Pier 31
Bedroom Out to Sea
Bathroom
Corridor
Apocalypse Offices
Luthor's Limo
Underground Parking Lot
Warehouse
Clark's Apartment
Kent's Living Room
TEASER
FADE IN:
1 INT. DAILY PLANET PIT (DAY #1) 1
CLARK, JIMMY and PERRY are clustered at Clark's desk.
LOIS is at her own desk shutting off her computer,
cleaning her desk, donning her coat, grabbing her
briefcase, getting up to leave. From under her desk she
pulls a suitcase. CAT pauses in passing.
CLARK
(surprised)
Lois, are you going somewhere?
LOIS
Yes, I am.
CLARK
Where?
LOIS
Clark, I don't want to seem rude
but... it's none of your business.
CLARK
You've got a scoop.
JIMMY
It's the revolution in South
America, isn't it?
CAT
Nuh-uh. The riots in Miami.
JIMMY
Five bucks?
CAT
You're on.
PERRY
Hold on now, Lois. I'll have to
get this cleared with the budget
office.
LOIS
(exasperated)
I am _not_ going on a story. I
_do_ have a personal life.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 2.
1 CONTINUED: 1
Everyone stares at her, not buying it.
LOIS
(a sigh)
Okay, if you must know, I am on my
way to check into the Lexor Hotel
for a weekend of pure relaxation...
period. No pressure, no deadlines,
no riots.
PERRY
(after a beat)
Is it the prison break upstate?
LOIS
You want to see my reservations?
She offers a slip of paper.
CLARK
(reading)
'Honeymoon Suite.'
Lois grabs the paper back.
LOIS
It was the only thing available.
CAT
Lois Lane in the Honeymoon Suite?
JIMMY
Stranger things have happened.
CAT
Name one.
LOIS
Thank you all very much. I'm
leaving now.
PERRY
Lois, you have to admit: the idea
of you spending an entire weekend
_relaxing_ is a little, well,
far-fetched.
The others are nodding in agreement.
LOIS
Oh ye of little faith.
Lois turns on her heel and starts to exit as we...
CUT TO:
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 3.
2 EXT. LEXOR HOTEL - TOP FLOOR - (NIGHT #1) - ESTABLISHING 2
A smoked-glass facade: you can't see in.
3 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE - BEDROOM - NIGHT 3
A panoramic view of the city, an enormous, quilted and
canopied heart-shaped bed with a teddy bear on the pillow,
matching chaise lounge, a large, bubbling spa, steam
rising off the water in the darkened room.
Lois, wearing a terry cloth robe, wanders around the room
a bit aimlessly. She flops on the bed: way too big. She
turns on the TV with the remote: "An Affair to Remember"
comes on. She turns it off. Finally, she slips off the
robe, lets it drop to the floor. We are on her legs as
she climbs in the spa, closes her eyes. The cordless
phone RINGS. She answers.
LOIS
Yes?
4 INT. DAILY PLANET PIT - NIGHT 4
Clark at his desk.
CLARK
Working hard?
5 INTERCUT 5
LOIS
No, Clark, I'm relaxing.
CLARK
Yeah, right. How's the view?
Lois glances out the window.
LOIS
Wonderful. It's...
6 LOIS' POV 6
The lights in the top floor offices in the building
directly across the way come on. Three men enter the
reception area, move through to the inner office. One
(CONGRESSMAN IAN HARRINGTON) is tall and slim, wears a
business suit. Another (PETER ROARKE) is short and
stocky, wears black slacks and a black turtleneck. The
third (BART) is huge, wears muscle pants, a t-shirt, a
stiletto in a shoulder holster.
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 4.
7 LOIS 7
leans over to the floor where her briefcase lies. She
snaps it open, gropes for a small pair of binoculars.
LOIS
... wonderful.
8 LOIS' POV (THROUGH BINOCULARS) 8
Congressman Harrington opens his briefcase and hands
Roarke a sealed envelope. In turn, Roarke hands
Harrington a smaller, thicker envelope. Both briefly
examine contents.
9 DAILY PLANET/LOIS 9
CLARK
Lois? You okay?
LOIS
Fine.
She puts down the binoculars, gropes in her briefcase for
something else. The binoculars drop into the foaming
water. Lois makes a stab for them, misses with a SPLASH.
She finds what she's looking for in the briefcase: her
pocket camera.
CLARK
How's the bed?
Lois struggles to hold the now-slippery phone and aim the
camera at the same time.
LOIS
Bed? Uh, the bed's great. Clark,
hold on a sec, I'm in the jacuzzi
and...
Lois puts down the phone, gets on her knees, back to
camera, to snap off a series of shots. Clark reacts to
the NOISE. We can hear him on the phone.
CLARK
Lois, is the TV on?
Lois fires off another series of shots, then sits, picks
up the phone.
LOIS
Huh? Oh, no. I mean... _yes_, the
TV. It's on. Old movie. Great
old movie. War movie. John Wayne.
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 5.
10 ACROSS THE WAY 10
Roarke points to a date on a wall calendar. Harrington
appears to protest. Roarke gets in Harrington's face,
taps the date again. Harrington appears to acquiesce.
11 DAILY PLANET/LOIS 11
Clark is a bit perplexed, but decides to give Lois the
benefit of the doubt.
CLARK
You get a good night's sleep.
Lois sets the camera down, begins to fish for the
binoculars.
LOIS
I will.
Before she can hang up...
CLARK
Lois, I didn't think you had it in
you.
LOIS
I didn't? What?
CLARK
The ability to take an entire
weekend off. Congratulations.
Lois finds the binoculars as the men exit the inner office
and the lights go out.
LOIS
I'm hanging up now, Clark. I'm
going back to relaxing.
Lois puts the phone down on the edge of the spa. She
leans forward, training the binoculars on the darkened
room. She slips. The phone is knocked into the water.
12 INT. DAILY PLANET - NIGHT 12
Clark hears Lois' YELL, then, as the phone sinks, STATIC.
on his expression we...
FADE OUT.
_END OF TEASER_
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 6.
_ACT ONE_
FADE IN:
13 INT. DAILY PLANET PIT - (DAY #2) 13
Jimmy is hanging blow-ups of Lois' snaps on a line for
Lois, Clark, Perry, and Cat to observe.
14 CLOSE ON ONE PHOTO 14
The envelope handed by Harrington to Roarke has a red "Top
Secret" prominent on the cover. The envelope handed by
Roarke to Harrington bulges with cash.
15 BACK TO SCENE 15
Cat, surprised, points to Harrington.
CAT
Isn't that...?
LOIS
Congressman Ian Harrington.
CLARK
Chairman of the House Defense
Committee.
CAT
_And_ the most notoriously sexy man
in Washington.
LOIS
Unsubstantiated rumors.
CAT
The best kind.
PERRY
(pointing to Roarke and
Bart)
What about these jokers?
JIMMY
We don't know. I'm running our
Identafile program looking for a
match.
LOIS
We _do_ know those offices are
leased to a company called
'Apocalypse Consulting.'
(beat)
Chief, I was just thinking...
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 7.
15 CONTINUED: 15
PERRY
Let me take a wild guess: you want
the Daily Planet to put you up in
the Honeymoon Suite until we figure
out exactly what's going on in
Apocalypse Consulting.
LOIS
Thanks, Chief.
PERRY
Now, hold on a minute. We're
talking a major surveillance
operation here.
LOIS
Perry, this _is_ major. A
Washington VIP selling highly
classified information.
PERRY
(thinking seriously)
Maybe I should contact my source,
_the_ source, just to see if
there's anything to this, before we
get in too deep.
JIMMY
(awed)
You don't mean...?
Perry cuts him off with a finger to his lips.
PERRY
Don't even say that name out loud.
CLARK
Who...?
PERRY
Ssssh...
(beat)
Okay, you guys have got three
nights.
LOIS
Guys?
PERRY
You and Clark.
LOIS
Did you say 'Clark?'
CLARK
_I_ heard him say 'Clark.'
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 8.
15 CONTINUED: 2 15
JIMMY
He definitely said 'Clark.'
CAT
Definitely.
LOIS
Chief, I am not sharing that Suite
with Clark. How would it look?
PERRY
The Honeymoon Suite? Natural.
LOIS
But...
PERRY
Lois, think it through. No hotel's
going to sit still for us using it
as a base for spy operations. You
need a cover. What better cover
than honeymooners in the Honeymoon
Suite? It's called: keeping a low
profile.
LOIS
But...
PERRY
Besides, how are you going to
manage 'round the clock
surveillance all by yourself?
Lois doesn't have an answer for this.
CLARK
It would be business, Lois.
Strictly business.
PERRY
That's the deal. Take it or leave
it..
Lois shoulders sag. She has no choice.
CLARK
(smiling to Lois)
Just don't try anything funny.
On her expression we...
CUT TO:
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 9.
16 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE - LIVING ROOM - DAY 16
We HEAR the key turn in the lock, and the door opens to
admit the bellboy, PHIL -- 25, slight of build, a
perpetual leer stamped on his thin-mustached lips --
pushing a luggage cart. He leaves the cart in the center,
of the room, quickly grabs a video camera off the cart,
turns toward the door.
PHIL
Action!
Clark enters carrying a furiously-blushing Lois. Phil
rolls the tape. Clark, pretending to struggle under his
bride's weight, balances Lois on his knee and boosts her
up again.
PHIL (Cont'd)
That's it. Hoist 'er up, big
fella. Smile. Great. Hold on.
She can't be _that_ heavy.
Lois struggles free, advances on Phil, who shuts off the
camera.
LOIS
Listen here, you...
Clark catches up to her, puts a restraining arm around her
waist.
CLARK
She's a little shy.
PHIL
(knowingly, man to man)
She'll get over it.
Phil winks at Clark, rolls the cart into the bedroom.
Lois pulls Clark's arm away.
LOIS
That man gets no tip.
There's a KNOCK on the open door and Jimmy enters carrying
a large canvas tote bag. He looks around at the suite's
pastel-tinted opulence and WHISTLES before turning back to
Lois and Clark.
JIMMY
Can I kiss the bride? No tongue.
Scout's honor.
Lois nails him with a well-thrown sofa pillow.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 10.
16 CONTINUED: 16
LOIS
The next person who cracks a
newlywed joke gets fitted for a
body cast.
CAT (O.S.)
Oooh, count me in.
Cat enters through the still open door, shuts it behind
her.
LOIS
What _are_ you doing here? We're
_supposed_ to be undercover.
CAT
I was at a reception downstairs.
Thought I'd pop up and say hello.
LOIS
(to Jimmy)
What about you?
Jimmy points to his tote bag.
JIMMY
Surveillance equipment.
Cat, meanwhile, has moved to a panel of wall switches.
Without looking she presses one and a hidden wet bar
rotates into view. HUMMING absently to herself, she
extracts a bottle of sparkling water from the fridge and
adds ice by rubbing a Cupid statue's belly (ice cascades
from his mouth.) She plops in a chair, presses a hidden
toggle, and the chair begins to vibrate. She then CLAPS
her hands twice: MUSIC fills the room. The others stare
in amazement.
LOIS
Why do I get the feeling you've
been here before.
CAT
This old place?
Cat raises the cloth cover off the wooden end table by her
chair.
17 CLOSE ON TABLE TOP 17
Etched in the wood is "Cat."
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 11.
18 BACK TO SCENE 18
Cat replaces the cover.
CAT
It's kind of a home away from home.
Phil re-enters from the bedroom.
PHIL
Hanging garments in the closet.
Toiletries in the bathroom.
(to Lois)
You're in the drawers on the left.
LOIS
(horrified)
You unpacked my stuff?!
PHIL
(insulted)
This _is_ a full service hotel.
Phil moves toward the door, pauses by Lois, waiting for
the obvious. Lois looks at Clark. He urges her on.
Annoyed, she reaches in her purse and hands Phil a bill.
He doesn't budge. Another bill: still no progress. A
third bill: Phil smirks and heads for the door. As he
opens it, a maid, INGEBORG, sticks her head in, looks
disapprovingly at the unexpected crowd.
INGEBORG
(thick Swedish accent)
Extra towels, yah?
CUT TO:
19 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE - (NIGHT #2) 19
A video camera with a large telephoto lens and a
directional microphone hooked to a tape recorder are
trained on the lighted but empty offices of Apocalypse
Consulting across the way. A computer/printer set-up is
positioned nearby. Lois and Clark sit on the sofa. Lois
wears baggy shorts and a tee, Clark sweat pants. Nearby,
the remains of a room service dinner. Bored, Lois fiddles
with the directional controls of the mic, tuning in bytes
of NOISE and conversation from unseen sources.
CLARK
What if no one shows?
LOIS
Then the honeymoon's over.
(beat)
Don't worry, they will. They made
it real clear on the calendar.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 12.
19 CONTINUED: 19
Clark riffles a deck of cards.
CLARK
Old maid?
LOIS
We're here to work, not play games.
Lois pauses as she tunes in...
MAN #1 (V.O.)
... so I told her to stop calling
me. I mean, when a things' over
it's over. Right?
MAN #2 (V.O.)
Exactly right. Next time, don't
even pick up the phone. Remember
when I dumped Tawny? Women hang on
like there's no tomorrow.
LOIS
Men are pigs.
Clark reaches over and shuts off the mic.
CLARK
People are entitled to private
lives and thoughts, Lois. Who are
we to judge?
LOIS
Are you sure you're in the right
business, Clark? Our _job_ is to
rip away the veil of secrecy and
expose the naked truth.
CLARK
(archly)
Well, when you put it like that...
LOIS
O... kay. I'm going to bed.
You've got first shift. Wake me
when our friends across the way
show up.
CLARK
Wait a minute. Aren't you
forgetting something?
LOIS
What?
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 13.
19 CONTINUED: 2 19
CLARK
This _is_ our first night alone
together.
LOIS
(warily)
So?
Clark pulls out a coin.
CLARK
So, we flip for the bed.
LOIS
How about: I get the bed, I lend
you a pillow.
CLARK
How about we alternate nights?
LOIS
How about we don't?
CLARK
It's a really _big_ bed. We could
share.
LOIS
How about we alternate nights?
CLARK
Deal.
20 INT. SUITE - LIVING ROOM - LATER 20
The lights are off. Clark shifts uncomfortably on the too
small couch, tries to get the pillow right, falls, rolls
off the couch and hits the floor with a THUD. Chagrined,
he floats up and back onto the sofa.
21 INT. SUITE - BEDROOM - SAME TIME 21
Lois sits at the dressing table brushing her hair. She
turns at the THUD, gets up, moves to the door, listens,
shrugs, moves toward the bed.
22 INT. SUITE - LIVING ROOM 22
Clark stands by the bedroom door, listening. From beneath
the door, a bar of light. We HEAR what he hears with
_SUPER HEARING_: the whisper of silken sheets being pulled
back. Then... something else.
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 14.
23 BEDROOM - CLOSE ON LOIS' THROWN SHORTS 23
As they settle, in SLOW MOTION, to the carpet at the foot
of the bed.
24 LIVING ROOM 24
Clark is even closer to the door. What was that sound?
He lowers his glasses, starts to peek with _X-RAY VISION_,
then restrains himself. He moves back to the couch,
settles down. From the bedroom he _HEARS_ a contented
SIGH.
CLARK
(calling out)
Good night, Lois.
25 BEDROOM 25
Lois lies in bed, wide awake.
CLARK (V.O.)
Lois? Good night.
Lois is determined not to answer. She sits up in bed.
CLARK (V.O.)
(continuing)
Good niiight, Lois.
LOIS
(snapping)
Oh, good night, Clark.
She reaches to shut off the light.
26 LIVING ROOM 26
Clark, from the couch, sees the light wink out. Again he
tries to get comfortable. He pounds his pillow... too
hard. Feathers explode from the pillow to drift on the
air currents.
27 BEDROOM - LATER 27
Lois is sleeping soundly, curled in one corner of the
oversize bed. Clark leans over her, shakes her awake with
a start.
CLARK.
They're back.
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 15.
28 LIVING ROOM - LATER 28
The video camera and mic are recording and Lois has her
binoculars trained on the suite across the way. She
lowers them, offers them to Clark, but he declines with a
shake of his head. He doesn't need them.
LOIS
(pointing to the audio
dial)
Turn that up.
Clark complies. Immediately the voices of Roarke and
Harrington fill the room.
29 INT. APOCALYPSE OFFICES - NIGHT 29
Bart stands silently by as Harrington again hands Roarke
an envelope.
HARRINGTON
That's the last of the system
specs. I'll have the information
on the testing for you tomorrow.
Dates, procedures, the whole thing.
ROARKE
Good. What about a new vote?
HARRINGTON
(exasperated)
I can't initiate a re-vote until
after the test results are analyzed
and the plan rejected.
Hopefully...
ROARKE
'Hopefully' isn't good enough.
That's why I bought insurance:
_you_.
HARRINGTON
(flaring)
You don't own me, Roarke.
Roarke gets in Harrington's face, pushes him hard against
the wall, grabs him by the collar.
ROARKE
(deadly)
I own you lock, stock, and
re-election fund, Mr. Chairman.
Never forget that.
Impassively, Bart drags Roarke back. Harrington
straightens up, draws himself together.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 16.
29 CONTINUED: 29
HARRINGTON
(shakily)
I only meant... are you sure you
can pull this off?
ROARKE
I guarantee it.
HARRINGTON
(nervously)
Because if you don't, what...
happens to me?
ROARKE
Pray you never find out.
Harrington hurriedly leaves. When he's gone, Roarke and
Bart burst into LAUGHTER.
30 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE - NIGHT 30
Lois and Clark continue to spy, fascinated but mystified.
LOIS
Clark, what would you say if I said
that I don't have a clue what
they're talking about, but that,
whatever it is, it's even bigger
than I originally thought.
CLARK
I'd say... you're absolutely right.
FADE OUT.
_END OF ACT ONE_
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 17.
_ACT TWO_
FADE IN:
31 INT. SUITE - LIVING ROOM - (DAY #3) 31
Clark stretches, then drops to his hands and feet and does
_PUSH-UPS AT SUPER SPEED_. At the CLICK of the bedroom
door opening, Clark continues at normal speed. Lois
yawns, stares at him a moment, then shuffles to the table.
Clark stares at her.
LOIS
What?
CLARK
Nothing.
LOIS
What?
CLARK
_Nothing_. It's just that, well,
you look pretty... decent, for
first thing in the morning.
LOIS
Oh. You look decent, too.
An awkward moment as they lock eyes. Then, just as
quickly, they look away.
CLARK
I ordered coffee.
LOIS
Great.
A KNOCK, Clark answers the door. It's Phil, wheeling a
cart.
PHIL
(suggestively)
'Early to bed, early to rise.'
Phil notices the bedding strewn around the couch _and_ the
remnants of the exploded pillow. He doesn't know exactly
what it all means, but he's impressed.
PHIL (Cont'd)
Whoa! Tough night?
Clark hurriedly hands Phil a bill, ushers him to the door,
and out. Lois looks at the pillow, then at Clark.
CLARK
I'm... a heavy sleeper.
CUT TO:
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 18.
32 INT. LEX LUTHOR'S LIMO 32
LUTHOR is on the phone. The panel between himself and the
driver is closed, assuring complete privacy.
LUTHOR
Yes, Admiral, my staff at Luthor
Technologies will be available to
you both during and after the test.
Um hmm. As agreed, we'll delay our
combined statement to the media
concerning Shock Wave until _after_
the results are in. Naturally I
expect nothing less than total
success.
(beat)
I look forward to that, Admiral.
Lex hangs up, pours himself a glass of mineral water,
stares at the glass before drinking.
CUT TO:
33 INT. DAILY PLANET CONFERENCE ROOM - DAY 33
Lois, Clark, Jimmy and Cat.
LOIS
(ticking off on her
fingers)
Who's Roarke? What 'system' are
they talking about? And what
'test?'
CLARK
Don't forget the 'vote.' We should
get our hands on every available
record of every vote taken by
Harrington's committee for the
past...
JIMMY
Six months?
(smiling)
Already on it.
CAT
Gotta be something big.
Congressmen don't sell out for less
than 'big.'
JIMMY
I ran Roarke, name _and_ picture
through every program the Daily
Planet has access to... the man's a
ghost.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 19.
33 CONTINUED: 33
CLARK
And 'Apocalypse Consulting?'
JIMMY
No bank accounts or transactions
that I can trace.
(beat)
Apocalyse moved in a couple months
ago. Paid off a five year lease on
the offices _in advance_.
CAT
Business must be good.
LOIS
_What_ business?
Perry enters, very pleased with himself, removes a photo
of Roarke in a dinner jacket from a file folder and drops
it on the table.
PERRY
Thaddeus Roarke. International
arms dealer, electronic weapons
system analyst, entrepreneur, and
general bad boy. Last known base
of operations: Beirut.
LOIS JIMMY
How'd you... Where'd you...
PERRY
(mysteriously)
Sources, boys and girls, sources.
The life blood of journalism.
Cat turns the photo over.
CAT
(reading)
'People Magazine.'
Perry grabs the photo away.
CLARK
(grimly)
Arms dealer, House Defense
Committee. Makes sense.
PERRY
Now team, we should talk about
this. A scoop's a scoop, but if
we're into something that impacts
on national security, we have to
bring in the Federales.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 20.
33 CONTINUED: 2 33
LOIS
(dismayed)
Now?
PERRY
No. When the time's right. So far
we have more questions than
answers.
(beat)
Let's hear some theories.
JIMMY
Okay. The Defense Department is
about to test some new weapons
system and Roarke wants to know
about it.
CLARK
So he bribes Harrington to slip him
the info.
LOIS
But, Harrington is also afraid of
Roarke.
CLARK
Or _maybe_ afraid of what Roarke
will do once he has the
information.
All pause: it's a short list, but the theories end there.
PERRY
Seems to me we should be doing some
legwork to back up our
surveillance. Cat, do you think
you can find Congressman Harrington
and stick with him?
CAT
(offended)
Please.
PERRY
Jimmy, next time Roarke shows...
JIMMY
Got him.
PERRY
(to Lois and Clark)
You two need any help?
LOIS
I'm coping.
(CONTINUED)
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33 CONTINUED: 3 33
CLARK
_We're_ coping.
LOIS
Whatever.
PERRY
Fine, you've got two more days.
Make the most of them.
CUT TO:
34 INT. SUITE BEDROOM - DAY 34
Lois and Clark sit in the hot tub, in their bathing suits,
playing cards.
LOIS
Gin!
CLARK
No way.
LOIS
Read 'em and weep.
Lois shows Clark her hand. He shakes his head. She
laughs.
DISSOLVE TO:
35 INT. SUITE - ONE HOUR LATER 35
Lois and Clark sit on the floor, a board game, Metropoly,
spread out in front of them. Lois takes a bite of an
apple, rolls the dice, moves her little "shoe" and lands
on Main Ave.
LOIS
Yes!
CLARK
Unbelievable.
LOIS
Okay, I'll take the merchandise
mart.
Lois hands Clark a hundred thousand dollars in play money,
puts the "mart" on her spot. Clark looks disgusted. He
picks up the dice, rolls, lands on Main Ave., counts his
meager bankroll.
(CONTINUED)
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35 CONTINUED: 35
CLARK
I can't make the rent.
LOIS
Give me whatever you have. Then...
go directly to the poor house.
DISSOLVE TO:
36 INT. SUITE - ONE HOUR LATER 36
Lois and Clark are on the sofa, the remants of their room
service lunch on a tray beside them. Lois SLURPS the last
of her milkshake. They are now playing the Metropolis
version of Scrabble -- "Scramble." Lois puts her letter
tiles on the board.
CLARK
What is that?
LOIS
It's my word.
Clark stands, walks over to the window, glances out.
Still nothing.
CLARK
There is no such word as 'chumpy.'
LOIS
Of course there is. Somebody's a
chump. Therefore, he's chumpy.
CLARK
Try again.
LOIS
Are you challenging me?
CLARK
You bet your sweet chumpy I am.
Clark leans over, grabs a dictionary, looks up the word,
turns back to Lois, smiling.
CLARK
Told ya.
Lois grabs the dictionary from him.
LOIS
You call this a dictionary?
(CONTINUED)
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36 CONTINUED: 36
CLARK
Lois, you are the most competitive
person I've ever met. What is it
about you that makes you need to
win all the time?
LOIS
I don't need to win all the time.
DISSOLVE TO:
37 INT. SUITE - LATER 37
Clark still sits on the sofa, while Lois paces in front of
it, eating a bag of chips. Clark holds a Metropolis
version of a Trivial Pursuit card in his hand.
CLARK
Time's up.
LOIS
No it's not. I know the answer to
this question. Give it to me
again.
CLARK
'What was the name of Jerry Lewis'
suave alter ego in the Nutty
Professor?'
Lois can't think of it. Clark's voice drips with
satisfaction.
CLARK
Buddy Love.
LOIS
I _knew_ that.
CLARK
You're right, Lois. You don't need
to win all the time.
Lois gives him a sneer as we...
DISSOLVE TO:
38 INT. SUITE - BEDROOM - (NIGHT #3) 38
Lois and Clark are setting up a spotting scope on a
tripod. Suddenly, Clark _HEARS_ the CLICK of the door
opening in the living room, _X-RAYS_ through to see...
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39 LIVING ROOM 39
Ingeborg has entered bringing fresh towels. She's headed
for the bedroom.
40 BEDROOM 40
Clark quickly grabs the scope and tripod, throws it on the
bed, throws a blanket over it and...
LOIS
Are you insane?
The door begins to open. The tripod and scope are still
visible. Clark grabs Lois, flings _her_ on the bed.
LOIS (Cont'd)
Clark, this is not funny!
Clark leans over her, gently pins her arms, kisses her as
Ingeborg pokes her head in.
INGEBORG
Towels? Yah? Oops. Sor... ry.
She ducks out. Clark ends the kiss. They hear the front
door OPEN and CLOSE. Clark stands. Lois is still
breathless with surprise and flushed with... something
else?
LOIS
(protesting to cover)
Doesn't anybody knock around here?!
CUT TO:
41 LIVING ROOM - LATER 41
Bart is filing papers in a cabinet across the way. Roarke
and Harrington are nowhere in evidence. Lois wanders
around the room, finally settles next to Clark on the
couch.
LOIS
Have you ever lived with anyone? I
mean, full time. A relationship.
With a member of the opposite sex.
CLARK
No. Not full time.
LOIS
Me neither. Full time.
(beat)
What do you think it's like?
(CONTINUED)
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41 CONTINUED: 41
CLARK
I guess, scary at first.
LOIS
Compromises.
CLARK
Forced intimacy.
LOIS
Sharing responsibilities.
CLARK
Never alone.
LOIS
Never alone.
Suddenly there's an inexplicable tension in the room.
CLARK
Nothing like what we're doing now.
LOIS
Of course not. This is artificial.
CLARK
And temporary.
LOIS
A charade.
CLARK
An act.
LOIS
Pure make-believe.
Just then Clark reacts as, with _SUPER HEARING_, he picks
up the elevator's DING across the way.
LOIS (Cont'd)
What is it?
CLARK
I heard something.
Lois looks...
42 ACROSS THE WAY 42
Bart also reacts, closes the file drawer he's in, locks
it, puts the key in the pocket of his jacket hanging on a
coat tree. Roarke and Harrington enter, move through the
offices to join Bart.
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43 LOIS AND CLARK 43
Lois grabs the binoculars, turns up the sound.
44 INT. APOCALYPSE OFFICES - NIGHT 44
ROARKE
... no possible way the test will
be postponed?
HARRINGTON
(shaking his head)
Weather's clear. Naval monitoring
ships are en route. Dawn, day
after tomorrow. It's set.
ROARKE
Good. And after the test fails,
we'll get _my_ system approved and
installed. How soon before you can
vote again?
HARRINGTON
There'll be delays, of course.
Analysis of test results,
modification proposals...
ROARKE
(flatly)
No.
HARRINGTON
(trying to placate)
We have to go through the process,
Thaddeus.
ROARKE
After what happens at that test, no
one will be interested in
'modification proposals.'
HARRINGTON
(apprehensive)
What exactly _will_ happen?
ROARKE
Why don't I show you? We had a
video made from our computer model.
Bart, get the lights and the
shutters.
Bart shuts off the lights, then moves to close the heavy
shutters.
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45 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE 45
As their view is blocked out...
LOIS
Rats!
Clark lowers his glasses, tries to X-RAY through, fails,
mistakenly says aloud...
CLARK
Lead lined.
Lois thinks it's the mic talking.
LOIS
What did they say? 'Lead-lined?'
What does that mean?
CLARK
(struggling to cover)
Beats me.
STATIC from the mic speaker.
CUT TO:
46 SUITE - LATER 46
Lois and Clark stare glumly at the shuttered office window
across the way. The STATIC has been turned down, but is
still present.
LOIS
This is torture.
Then, the STATIC ends.
47 ACROSS THE WAY 47
Bart is opening the shutters. Roarke and Harrington are
gone. Bart leaves. His jacket still hangs on the coat
tree.
48 LOIS AND CLARK 48
With _SUPER HEARING_ Clark hears the elevator arrive
across the way-and the sound of HYDRAULICS as it descends.
The PRINTER comes on. Clark moves to look at the cover
sheet.
CLARK
From Jimmy. Voting records of the
House Defense Committee.
(CONTINUED)
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48 CONTINUED: 48
Lois is staring across the way. She looks at Clark, comes
to a decision.
LOIS (Cont'd)
(innocently)
Clark, I'm going down to the lobby
for a few minutes. I... need
something from the drug store.
CLARK
Okay.
Lois surreptitiously removes a credit card and a pocket
copier from her briefcase, heads for the door.
LOIS
Back in a few.
Clark waves without looking up. Lois exits.
49 SUITE - LATER 49
Clark is still studying the print-outs when the PHONE
RINGS.
CLARK
Hello?
50 INT. KENT BEDROOM - SAME TIME 50
Jonathan and Martha sit in bed, pillows propped behind
them. Naturally, they speak into separate phones.
MARTHA
Clark Kent, what are you doing in
the honeymoon suite of the Lexor
Hotel?
51 INTERCUT 51
CLARK
I'm undercover with Lois, Mom.
How'd you find us?
JONATHAN
Perry White gave us the number.
MARTHA
(tentatively)
Lois and you? Is that... does
everyone know?
(CONTINUED)
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51 CONTINUED: 51
CLARK
Oh sure, Mom. No problem.. We're
registered as husband and wife.
JONATHAN
(stunned)
Clark, is there anything... you'd
like to tell us?
CLARK
Not really. Things are going
pretty smoothly, assuming Lois
keeps her end of the bargain and
lets me have my turn in the bedroom
tonight.
Jonathan and Martha nearly drop their phones.
JONATHAN
I... that would be... I'm sure she
will, Clark.
MARTHA
Honey?
Just then Clark _HEARS_ something across the way. He
looks over to see...
52 INT. APOCALYPSE OFFICES 52
Lois enters the outer office, having breached the lock
with her credit card.
53 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE 53
CLARK
Mom, Lois is in trouble. Call you
tomorrow.
He hangs up.
54 INT. KENT BEDROOM 54
JONATHAN
(stunned)
Why didn't they invite us to the
ceremony?
55 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE 55
Clark rushes to the window and looks across.
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56 INT. APOCALYPSE OFFICES 56
Lois moves carefully into the inner office and turns on a
desk lamp. She shuffles through papers on the desk, opens
and closes several drawers, looks unsuccessfully for the
videotape, finally retrieves the key from Bart's jacket
and unlocks the cabinet. She pulls out a handful of file
folders, carries them to the desk, and begins to scan them
with her pocket copier. Just then she hears something,
snaps the desk light off.
57 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE 57
Clark _HEARS_ the same something: the elevator.
CLARK
Lois...
58 INT. APOCALYPSE OFFICES - FROM ACROSS THE WAY 58
Roarke and Bart enter the outer office, switch on the
light.
59 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE 59
The door slams behind Clark/Superman on his way out.
60 INT. APOCALYPSE OFFICES - FROM ACROSS THE WAY 60
Lois is stuffing the files back in the cabinet. She moves
to the door and locks it, then locks the cabinet and puts
the key back. Meanwhile, Roarke tries the door, finds
it's locked. He glances at Bart, who shrugs, then pulls
out a large keychain and begins to hunt for the right key.
Lois tries hiding under the desk, no good. She opens a
small closet and wedges herself in. Roarke has found the
key, is about to fit it in the lock when we see Superman
open and close the outer door and switch the lights off.
Bart gropes back toward the switch. Then, Superman looks
up at the ceiling and with _HEAT VISION_ sets off the
alarm and sprinkler system. Water rains into the offices.
Roarke and Bart run for the exit. After they've SLAMMED
the door behind them, Lois emerges from the closet, runs,
hands over her head, through the inner and then outer
doors. Lastly, Superman exits. From the street below,
the sound of SIRENS.
61 INT. SUITE - LATER 61
Lois enters, drenched, to find Clark still studying his
print-outs.
(CONTINUED)
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61 CONTINUED: 61
CLARK
Lois! What happened?
LOIS
(excited)
I don't know! Did you see it?
CLARK
See what?
LOIS
You are so oblivious. Never mind,
we can catch it on replay.
Lois moves to the video camera, opens the cartridge
compartment... empty.
LOIS (Cont'd)
You didn't re-load the camera!
CLARK
(innocently)
I didn't?
Clark drops something in the waste basket.
62 INSIDE WASTE BASKET 62
A crushed and fused videotape cassette.
63 LOIS AND CLARK 63
LOIS
Aaahhh!
CLARK
Sorry.
Across the way, firemen are entering the Apocalypse
offices.
LOIS
(defeated)
I'm taking a hot shower, and I'm
going to bed.
She heads for the bedroom door.
CLARK
Good night, Lois.
LOIS
_Good_ _night_!
(CONTINUED)
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63 CONTINUED: 63
The door SLAMS after her. The lock CLICKS shut.
FADE OUT.
_END OF ACT TWO_
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_ACT THREE_
FADE IN:
64 INT. HONEYMOON BEDROOM - (DAY #4) 64
Clark stands in front of the closed bathroom door, hears
the WATER from the shower shut off. He waits a beat, then
KNOCKS. A moment later the door opens, and Lois stands
there wrapped in a towel, her hair dripping wet. Both
Lois and Clark are momentarily embarrassed. Clark looks
at the floor.
CLARK
Uh... I needed to...
LOIS
No problem. I'll just be a sec.
Lois closes the door and Clark leans against the wall.
A "sec" later the door opens and Lois, still towel-clad,
exits. Clark enters, closing the door behind him.
65 INT. BATHROOM 65
Clark is in the shower; the room is completely steamed up.
Clark hears a knock, calls out...
CLARK
What?
Lois opens the door and walks inside.
LOIS
I have my eyes closed, Clark. I
forgot my talcum powder.
Lois feels along the counter, grabs her powder and exits.
Clark opens the shower door, puts a towel around his waist
and steps out. Lois enters again.
LOIS (Cont'd)
Sorry, I need my toothbrush.
Lois squeezes behind Clark to grab her toothbrush.
CLARK
That's okay. I'm done.
Clark walks out of the bathroom, closes the door behind
him. Lois starts to brush her teeth. A KNOCK at the
door, and Clark enters.
CLARK (Cont'd)
Sorry, forgot _my_ toothbrush.
(CONTINUED)
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65 CONTINUED: 65
Clark squeezes behind Lois to grab his toothbrush. It's
an awkward moment, with the two of them, clad in towels,
each holding up their respective brushes.
CLARK (Cont'd)
Got it.
(beat)
Tough, isn't it?
LOIS
What?
CLARK
Sharing?
LOIS
Yeah. How do people do it?
CLARK
I don't know.
Clark smiles at Lois, and she smiles back at him. On
Clark's exit, we...
CUT TO:
66 INT. DAILY PLANET CONFERENCE ROOM - LATER 66
Lois, Clark, Perry, Jimmy, and Cat have enlargements of
Lois' copies pasted together and spread all over the
table. Cat picks up a copy of a file cover, reads the
label.
CAT
'Tsunami.'
(looking up)
Is that the one with avocado and
crab?
LOIS
(exaggerated patience)
Yes, Cat, that's the one.
(beat)
I was about to copy that file when
I heard something in the outer
office.
(pointedly to Clark)
What, we'll never know.
CAT
Why would they keep a file on
Japanese seafood?
(CONTINUED)
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66 CONTINUED: 66
CLARK
Cat, 'tsunami' isn't... what you
think it is.
JIMMY
It's a giant wave. Like a tidal
wave.
Cat looks at everyone: are they pulling her leg?
PERRY
Wave? I've got a wave here, too.
Perry holds up a sheaf of copies.
67 CLOSE ON FILE COVER 67
It reads: Shock Wave / Preliminary Analysis.
68 BACK TO SCENE 68
JIMMY
Wait a minute, 'Shock Wave' ...
He jumps up and grabs the stack of print-outs off the
desk.
JIMMY (Cont'd)
Harrington's committee voted on
something called Project Shock Wave
not too long... here it is!
(reading)
'Appropriation approval for system
test installation.'
The others are now up and leaning over Jimmy's shoulder.
LOIS
This vote was taken five weeks ago.
CLARK
Passed eight to zero, with one
abstention.
(beat)
Congressman Ian Harrington.
LOIS
But nothing about what it is.
(beat, realizing)
This is what they were talking
about. Roarke wanted Harrington to
have the vote reversed.
(CONTINUED)
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68 CONTINUED: 68
PERRY
And his own system approved
instead. Whatever that means.
LOIS
If we only knew what 'Shock Wave'
_was_.
CLARK
(to Cat)
How'd it go with Harrington
yesterday?
Cat flips open her notebook.
CAT
One-thirty: lunch with a
semi-attractive blonde. Three
o'clock: haircut and manicure.
Four-thirty: drinks with a-so-so
redhead. Seven p.m.: dinner with a
mousey brunette.
PERRY
Nice to know our tax dollars are
being spread around.
CAT
(continuing)
Ten o'clock: drinks with an
auburn-haired beauty.
JIMMY
Finally, a little class. Who was
she?
CAT
Me.
(off their reaction)
Told you I'd stick with him.
(beat)
Then he came back here to meet
Roarke.
She closes her notebook. Clark looks at Jimmy.
JIMMY
After last night's fire drill,
Roarke and Bart drove to Pier 31
and went into a warehouse. They
were still there this morning when
I left to come back here.
Warehouse leased to... Apocalypse
Consulting.
Jimmy hands Lois his notes.
(CONTINUED)
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68 CONTINUED: 2 68
CLARK
Did you look inside?
JIMMY
No windows.
LOIS
(frustrated)
We're spinning our wheels. Some
test, monitored by Naval units, is
taking place tomorrow at dawn, and
Roarke is planning on sabotaging
it.
PERRY
I think it's time. Time to go to
the top. To the man who always
knows what's going on. The man
who's never let me down.
JIMMY
(awed again)
You don't mean...?
PERRY
(nodding)
I do mean.
(beat)
Sore Throat.
CUT TO:
69 INT. UNDERGROUND PARKING GARAGE - LATER 69
Lois, Clark and Perry wait in the shadows. Lois keeps
moving to keep warm.
LOIS
Why here? It's freezing.
PERRY
(shrugging)
Sore Throat's choice.
CLARK
Take my jacket.
Lois takes the proferred jacket, starts to wriggle into
it. As if appearing out of thin air, someone helps her
into it from behind. She jumps back. Sore Throat is
male, portly, 50ish, wears a long overcoat and sunglasses,
remains in the shadows.
(CONTINUED)
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69 CONTINUED: 69
SORE THROAT
(raspy)
You should dress more warmly, Miss
Lane. This _is_ the cold and flu
season.
Sore Throat COUGHS, SNIFFLES, pulls out tissue.
SORE THROAT (Cont'd)
Allergies. They're killing me.
He puts the tissue away.
PERRY
What can you tell us about Project
Shock Wave?
Silence for a moment, portentous silence.
SORE THROAT
Where did you hear that name?
CLARK
We have reason to believe Thaddius
Roarke is working with Congressman
Ian Harrington to sabotage Project
Shock Wave.
(beat)
It's due to be tested...
SORE THROAT
At dawn-tomorrow. I know all about
it.
(clears his throat)
Project Shock Wave: experimental
coastal defense network. A couple
of years ago, the Navy began
lobbying for their own version of a
Star Wars system. Several
proposals were made, the Navy
picked Shock Wave. Roarke's system
was runner-up.
PERRY
Who's behind Shock Wave?
SORE THROAT
Luthor Technologies.
All exchange a glance.
LOIS
Why was Shock Wave picked?
(CONTINUED)
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69 CONTINUED: 2 69
SORE THROAT
More sophisticated. It's designed
to automatically analyze any
foreign object within sensor range
and calibrate an appropriate
response.
CLARK
What kind of response?
SORE THROAT
Think of it as a sonic 'curtain.'
Sonic vibrations providing an
impenetrable barrier that would
disable whatever tried to pass.
(beat)
Roarke had millions tied up in his
own system. I'm not surprised he's
taking steps.
Another COUGH, then Sore Throat blows his nose.
SORE THROAT (Cont'd)
Tissue?
Lois hands one over.
LOIS
Mr... Throat, what would you
suggest we do?
SORE THROAT
You could take whatever evidence
you have to the Navy, but they'd
probably charge _you_ with
espionage. This test is top
secret.
(beat)
You could publish your theories,
force the Navy to cancel the test,
and face government censure and a
slew of lawsuits.
(beat)
Or, you could do what I intend to
do.
CLARK
What's that?
SORE THROAT
Get out of town.
(another throat
clearing)
I need a drier climate.
(CONTINUED)
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69 CONTINUED: 3 69
LOIS
(incensed)
That's _it_? _That's_ your advice?
The great Sore Throat has spoken?
SORE THROAT
What'd you expect to hear? 'Follow
the money?'
(beat)
I never understood that.
Sore Throat starts to leave, pauses.
SORE THROAT (Cont'd)
Did I mention that Roarke was
completely insane, with maniacal
delusions of grandeur?
CLARK
No?
SORE THROAT
Well, he is.
CUT TO:
70 INT. CORRIDOR OUTSIDE HONEYMOON SUITE - LATER 70
Lois and Clark approach the door.
LOIS
I say we publish. We gather up
everything we've got, video, audio,
research, and put it in the
afternoon edition.
CLARK
Assuming Perry goes for it... I
agree.
LOIS
Roarke scares me. If half of what
we've heard is true... he's got to
be stopped.
Clark opens the door. Both recoil in shock, then slowly
enter.
71 INT. SUITE LIVING ROOM - CONTINUOUS 71
It's been ransacked. The audio/video equipment is smashed
to pieces, tapes destroyed, furniture overturned, sofa
cushions torn, wallpaper peeled off the walls. Lois
pushes the door shut.
(CONTINUED)
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71 CONTINUED: 71
Pinned by Bart's knife to the back of the door is Lois'
credit card.
LOIS
(subdued)
I was wondering where that was.
Lois heads for the bedroom. From inside, we hear
EXPRESSIONS of anger and dismay. Clark begins to examine
the room carefully with his _TELESCOPIC_ _VISION_.
Nothing there, nothing there, then...
72 CLOSE ON - SOFA CUSHION 72
Clark _X-RAYS_ through to reveal a TICKING bomb: one
second left on the timer.
73 CLARK 73
_SUPERSPEEDS_ to the couch and sits on his hands on the
bomb. We hear, barely, a muffled EXPLOSION. Lois sticks
her head in.
LOIS
Did you hear something?
CLARK
Nope.
LOIS
(disapprovingly)
Don't just sit there.
Lois ducks back out. Hurriedly Clark jumps up and bats at
the smoldering seat of his trousers. A smoking hole now
exists where the cushion once was. Clark covers it with
the other cushion as Lois re-enters holding something at
her side.
LOIS
Roarke knows we're on to him.
CLARK
Worse than that, he's destroyed all
our evidence.
Clark looks across the way, lowers his glasses.
74 CLARK'S TELESCOPIC POV 74
The offices have been cleared out, file drawers hanging
empty.
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75 LOIS AND CLARK 75
CLARK
I'll bet he's cleared out across
the way, too.
LOIS
We have to find him.
(beat)
That man is capable of anything.
She holds up the teddy bear, stomach slashed wide open.
FADE OUT.
_END OF ACT THREE_
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 43.
_ACT FOUR_
FADE IN:
76 INT. DAILY PLANET PIT - (NIGHT #4) 76
Jimmy enters and joins Clark and Cat.
CLARK
Where _is_ she?
JIMMY
I checked her apartment, the gym,
_and_ the Chocolate Parlor. All
the usual places. Nothing.
CLARK
I'm starting to get worried.
JIMMY
Lois _was_ pretty upset.
CAT
I'm starved.
JIMMY
Chief!
Perry enters.
PERRY
I called everyone I know in
Washington. No one's interested.
And, as far as the Navy's
concerned, there _is_ no test.
(beat)
Lois turn up?
Clark shakes his head, picks up the phone, dials.
JIMMY
Who you calling?
Clark holds up his hand to Jimmy to wait.
CLARK
(into phone)
Hello. This is Clark Kent of the
Daily Planet. I'd like to speak to
Lex Luthor.
(beat)
Yes, it is important.
CUT TO:
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 44.
77 EXT. METROPOLIS HARBOR - NIGHT (ESTABLISHING) 77
78 EXT. PIER 31 78
Lois squeezes through a chained gate and approaches a
boathouse on the docks. The small sign on the door reads:
Apocalypse Consulting. She removes lock picks from her
purse, fiddles with the lock, it opens. she moves inside.
79 INT. WAREHOUSE 79
Dark. The sound of WATER slapping against pilings. Lois
moves toward a light ahead, slows, looks.
80 LOIS' POV 80
Tied up and gagged is Congressman Ian Harrington. Behind
him, Roarke loads electronic equipment onto a motor
launch.
81 LOIS 81
... reaches inside her purse for her camera. Suddenly
Bart appears beside her and holds a knife to her throat.
CUT TO:
82 INT. DAILY PLANET PIT - NIGHT 82
Clark, Perry, Jimmy, Cat. Clark paces.
CLARK
Lois hasn't dropped this. I know
it. What would I do if I were her?
PERRY
Something impetuous.
JIMMY
And headstrong.
CLARK
And dangerous.
CAT
Is anyone else hungry?
LUTHOR (O.S.)
No, thank you.
He enters, to everyone's surprise.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 45.
82 CONTINUED: 82
PERRY
Lex. What are you doing here?
LUTHOR
Perry, Mr. Kent, Cat...
(he pauses at Jimmy)
... and... whoever, Luthor
Technologies has approximately half
a billion dollars in research and
development tied up in a project
code-named Shock Wave. Shock Wave,
even the name, is top secret. Yet,
Mr. Kent, you call to tell me you
not only know of the project, but
suspect that Thaddeus Roarke, a man
with whom I've had previous
unsatisfactory dealings, is intent
on sabotaging the impending test.
(beat)
Under the circumstances I might
have elected to stay home and watch
reruns of Flipper on the all night
cable chanel. Instead, I decided
to come here.
(beat)
What is going on?
Clark looks at Perry. Perry nods.
CLARK
We've had Roarke and Congressman
Ian Harrington under surveillance.
Roarke is positive your system will
fail its test, leaving the door
open for _his_ system to be adopted
instead.
LUTHOR
Roarke and Harrington. I should
have known.
(beat)
You say Roarke is positive?
Clark nods.
LUTHOR (Cont'd)
That would imply sabotage. No one
ever described Thaddeus Roarke as
an incurable optimist.
PERRY
How could your system be sabotaged?
LUTHOR
So far as I know, it can't.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 46.
82 CONTINUED: 2 82
CLARK
But Roarke _is_ a weapons system
expert.
LUTHOR
He is.
JIMMY
What about a power failure?
LUTHOR
(shaking his head)
Too many back-ups.
CLARK
Besides, Roarke hinted at more than
a simple breakdown. Something...
bigger.
All are temporarily stymied. Cat returns to a subject of
greater interest to her.
CAT
How about take out? I could go for
Japanese.
(kidding)
Even some of that 'tsunami.'
The word registers on Clark first, then Perry, then Jimmy.
LUTHOR
(puzzled)
Tsunami.
CLARK
Tsunami. A giant wave caused by an
undersea tremor.
JIMMY
Shock wave.
CLARK
And Apocalypse Consulting has a
warehouse on Pier 31.
PERRY
Great Shades of Elvis!
CUT TO:
83 EXT. PIER 31 - PRE-DAWN 83
Lois and Harrington are securely tied to the dock railings
of the pier. Roarke and Bart are in the motor launch
about to cast off.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 47.
83 CONTINUED: 83
ROARKE
(to Lois and Harrington)
I envy you two. You'll have a much
better view from where you are.
Sayonara.
The motor launch heads out to sea.
LOIS
What'd he mean?
HARRINGTON
(shivering with fear)
We're dead.
LOIS
Congressman, we'll be fine.
Someone will find us.
HARRINGTON
No, it's too late.
(beat)
I never meant for this to happen.
LOIS
What?
Harrington continues to stare out to sea. Lois rolls her
eyes, begins to struggle against the ropes.
84 EXT. WATERS OFF METROPOLIS - DAWN 84
Blue-black and calm under a lightening sky. Nearby, at
anchor, several Naval ships ride the gentle swells. From
one of the ships a HORN sounds. Signal flares erupt. A
torpedo is fired. It streaks through the water.
The Shock Wave system engages. First, a barely heard
VIBRATION and a shimmer of golden light over the water.
But, the vibration escalates into an ear-splitting HUMM.
The ships rock in the sudden troughs. Warning ALARMS
sound.
CLOSE ON WAVES
Building in size and power.
85 EXT. PIER 31 85
Vague echoes of the ALARMS. Lois is still stuggling
when...
CLARK (O.S.)
Lois!
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 48.
85 CONTINUED: 85
LOIS
Clark! Over here.
Clark runs up, begins to work on untying the heavy ropes.
Harrington is still staring.
CLARK
Where's Roarke?
LOIS
Gone. Out to sea.
CLARK
(re: Harrington)
Is he all right?
LOIS
I think he's in shock. Oh, and he
never meant for this to happen.
CLARK
For what to happen?
LOIS
How should I...
From seaward a RUMBLE, like rolling thunder. Lois' eyes
widen. Harrington SCREAMS. Clark swivels to look.
86 OUT TO SEA 86
A towering wall of water rushing toward them.
87 CLARK 87
No time to waste, he snaps the ropes with ease. Lois and
Harrington are too transfixed to notice. He helps them to
their feet, again looks.
88 OUT TO SEA 88
The wave to end all waves, roaring toward Metropolis like
a freight train.
89 CLARK 89
pushes Lois and Harrington away from the water.
CLARK
Run!
They do. He turns back toward the wave, tears open his
shirt to reveal the "S."
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 49.
90 OUT TO SEA - LONG SHOT 90
The wave hangs between heaven and earth, dwarfing the
Metropolis skyline.
91 WAVE 91
seen STRAIGHT ON. It begins to crest. Then... Superman,
a mere dot, flies into its face. But, before impact, he
dives. A large splash marks the entry, but it's hardly
noticeable against the backdrop of the wave.
92 LOIS 92
stops running. Harrington continues. She looks back at
the wall of water about to engulf her. No chance for
escape. She, and Metropolis, face certain doom.
Then, as if magically, the wave seems to fold into itself.
93 OUT TO SEA - LONG SHOT 93
The wave melts away to nothing.
94 LOIS 94
can't believe her eyes.
95 PIER 31 95
Water laps gently against the pilings.
96 INT. DAILY PLANET PIT - (DAY #5) 96
A normal busy morning. Lois, Clark, Jimmy, Perry, and Cat
gather around the morning edition. The featured photo is
of the giant wave. The headline reads: Surf's Up.
Sub-heads are: Superman Builds Undersea Trench, Saves
Metropolis With Seconds to Spare. And: Thaddeus Roarke
Held For Questioning.
JIMMY
'Held for questioning.' They
caught the guy red-handed.
PERRY
Amazing how he manipulated the
Shock Wave sensors to make them
think something the size of the
Rocky Mountains was trying to
penetrate the system.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 50.
96 CONTINUED: 96
LOIS
The system worked fine. It just
over-reacted.
CLARK
And the resulting seismic effect
caused the tsunami.
LOIS
So, Luthor Technologies, with some
modifications, gets the contract.
End of story.
CAT
Not quite. Congressman Ian.
Harrington is claiming he set the
whole thing up as a sting operation
to trap Roarke. He says any claims
of collusion on his part are merely
unsubstantiated rumors.
CHORUS
'The best kind.'
Everyone LAUGHS.
CUT TO:
97 INT. CLARK'S BEDROOM - (NIGHT #5) 97
Clark's in bed talking on the phone.
CLARK
I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong
impression, Mom.
98 INT. KENT LIVING ROOM - SAME TIME 98
Jonathan and Martha, vastly relieved, on phones.
MARTHA
The wrong impression? Why, whatever
do you mean, Clark?
99 INTERCUT 99
CLARK
You know that Lois and I are just
friends and co-workers.
JONATHAN
If you say so, son.
(CONTINUED)
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 51.
99 CONTINUED: 99
CLARK
I mean, if anything ever happened
between us, not that it ever
would...
MARTHA
We understand.
CLARK
... it'd be because we'd gotten to
know each other really well, and
we'd talked things through. It
wouldn't be... impulsive.
JONATHAN
Very sensible, Clark.
CLARK
So...
MARTHA
So, you liked it, didn't you?
CLARK
I...
JONATHAN
(grinning and nodding at
Martha)
Goodnight, son.
100 CLARK 100
CLARK
'Night, dad. 'Night, mom.
He hangs up. Immediately the phone RINGS again. Clark
picks up.
CLARK
Hello?
101 INT. HONEYMOON SUITE - BEDROOM - SAME TIME 101
Lois is also in bed.
LOIS
You'll never guess where I am.
(beat)
Our former love nest.
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 52.
102 INTERCUT 102
CLARK
The Honeymoon Suite? How...?
LOIS
Just the management's way of
apologizing for any inconvenience
suffered during our stay.
CLARK
I was the one who never got to
have the bedroom.
LOIS
Well, this'll give you something to
look forward to.
(to correct any
misunderstanding)
When you find the right woman, of
course.
CLARK
Of course.
LOIS
It's _so_ relaxing here.
(beat)
I've got the drapes closed.
CLARK
(his chuckle ends in a
yawn)
This is all fascinating, Lois, but
I'm beat. Think I'll turn in.
LOIS
Me, too. Uh, Clark?
CLARK
What? Was there something else?
LOIS
No, nothing. Just, well,
goodnight, Clark.
Silence from the other end.
LOIS (Cont'd)
Good _night_, Clark.
CLARK
(smiling)
'Night, Lois.
103 LOIS 103
hangs up, stares into the darkness a moment, shakes her
head, rolls over to sleep.
HONEYMOON IN METROPOLIS (#11) LEVINE 10/29/93 53.
104 CLARK 104
still smiling, settles down, plumps his pillow... too
hard. Pillow stuffing explodes above the bed.
FADE OUT.
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Et oui le faux couple qui rapproche les protagonistes ça marche toujours . Et loïs semble bien plus proche de Clark que l'inverse... même si elle refuse de dormir dans le même lit...
Dans cet épisode, on voit que Loïs montre son attirance pour Clark bien + que lui ! :)
le coup classique du faux couple qui rapproche^^. En revoyant les épisodes d'avant, je trouve qu'ils l'étaient déjà pas mal^^. [Forum Saison 1]
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