They make their way to the Daily Planet and find a massive Kryptonite bomb on the roof. Lex uses his Phantom of the Opera intercom system to tell them that Lana’s super suit has the ability to absorb all the Kryptonite’s energy and diffuse the bomb, but it will leave her lethal to the touch for Clark. After sharing one final kiss, she goes for it and does some weird flying, glowing thing that looks surprisingly good by Smallville’s crappy visual effects standards.

Clark flees to go after Lex, but Lana stands in his way because she doesn’t want Clark to kill Lex because that’s wrong. I really hate noble super heroes. If given the chance, any reasonable human being would kill Hitler, and Lex is just about on par with that kind of pure evil.

Lucky for Clark, he doesn’t have to make a choice because Lex’s hideout truck explodes. Later Chloe does research and learns that the dead body in the truck was identified as Lex’s. The cops think the Toyman did it after turning on his boss, but Chloe knows the that Oliver was really responsible, and he has no remorse about what he did.

Then we get an absurdly long montage of characters looking sad that’s boring and an obvious indication that this episode’s final version was about one minute too short, so they had to pad it. Lana visits Clark one last time in the barn to say the Kryptonite absorption is irreversible so she has to leave, but Clark still struggles to reach her for one final makeout session, even though it saps him of all his energy and nearly kills him. No chick is worth that. She says she loves him one last time, then leaves his life forever. Now can Lois and Clark hook up?

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