Jimmy, working a second job as a
deliveryman, delivers a "Desk Friend" to Raul
Borges. Unfortunately for Borges, it kills him. Lucky
Leon, the retailer of Desk Friend, is behind it, but
Jimmy is arrested for the murder, and Perry puts up bail
for him.
Meanwhile, Lois and Clark try to find a date for their
date, but they're both pretty busy, yet, when Mayson asks
Clark out, Lois says that they have plans. Clark suggests
postponing the date until after Jimmy is arrested, but
Jimmy talks them out of it. While it is obvious that
someone is trying to kill Jimmy, Lois gets an E-mail
message (which Leon sent) regarding Lucky Leon, Borges'
murder and a secret shipment, so they go to see him. Leon
says that he will check on Borges' order for them. While
he is out of the room, Lois finds a note about the
shipment (which Leon planted for her to find). Leon then
gets a message from the head of Intergang, and Leon
reveals that he's going to get Lois to trick Superman
into stealing the shipment for them. Lois and Clark learn
nothing after a stakeout on the route listed on the note.
Lois and Clark finally have their first date and talk for
four hours. They tell each other that they had a really
good time, but then Lois tells Clark she can't see him
anymore and shuts the door in his face.
The next day, Leon sends them both a gift, with cameras
in them, and, as Lois is about to explain to Clark her
fears, Mayson comes in and tells them Borges was
poisoned. She also asks Clark to lunch. Lois encourages
him to go, and, as they are leaving, Mayson's office
calls, and Lois pretends to be her. The person on the
phone says that a shipment is coming in today for Lucky
Leon. Lois learns that Borges, a former drug smuggler,
either had to work for the CIA or go to jail and that
Leon once worked for the KGB. With this information, Lois
and Jimmy go to the route where the shipment is to take
place. Someone flags them down in the road, apparently
from the army, and tells them that terrorists hijacked
nuclear warheads from the Soviet Union. They also say that the terrorists look like U.S.
soldiers. As Clark is about to explain his feelings to
Mayson, he gets a call from Lois, and Superman gives the
warheads to the first bunch, who, of course, work for
Leon. Jimmy figures out that Leon may be at his old
factory, which they break into and watch the missiles
being unloaded. Clark inadvertently sets off the timer on
one of the missiles, but he breaks them free. As Clark
runs back in, Lois goes in after him. He then kicks the
missile off the Earth and catches the bad guys.
On the way to give a statement to Mayson, Lois and Clark
share their first kiss, and, as they are kissing,
Mayson's car blows up. Clark is too late, however -- she
dies in his arm as she sees his Superman shirt and says
the word "resurrection."
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1. Clark: Why wouldn't the Chief want
us to tell Jimmy that he said that?
Lois: It's one of those father/son things.
Clark: Oh, really?
Lois: Sure, it's classic. Men are uncomfortable
expressing their emotions directly. It's just like the
father/daughter thing, only, when you finally do talk,
you use more sports metaphors.
Clark: Ha, that's ridiculous.
(Perry sticks his head out of his office).
Perry: Clark, if Jimmy calls, tell him I know it feels
like the bottom of the ninth with two outs and two
strikes against him but that the Planet is gonna mount a
full-court press, and
we won't stop until it's game, set, match, Olsen.
2. Lois: You can read lips from here? I thought I was
good. What else can you do that I don't know about?
3. Lois: Hah! There's another landmine.
Clark: People shouldn't have to live up to other people's
expectations.
Lois: Oh, come on, we do it all the time.
Clark: For example?
Lois: For example, you're not going to wear that to
dinner that tonight, are you? You're gonna go home and
change because we both have expectations about how each
other's going to look. You'll be wearing something
elegant, not too dark, charcoal suit. And I will be
dressed in deep violet.
Clark: Burgundy.
Lois: Burgundy?
Clark: Or violet.
Lois: That's what you've always dreamed of seeing me in,
burgundy? I don't have much in burgundy. Um, maybe if I
hurry, I can make it to Neiman's before they close.
Clark: Lois, you don't have to do that.
Lois: No, no, wait, what time are you picking me up? 8?
Uh, make it 8:15. Oh, no, forget it, that's a bad way to
start a date, being late. 7:45. No, 8, I don't want you
to think I'm flaky changing my mind all the time.
4. Lois: I know you said burgundy, but I thought, uh, why
be a slave to expectations. That's a charcoal suit, isn't
it? Uh, you know, I could change. Um, I got a lot of
really cute things in burgundy.
5. Lois: Clark Kent, the rebel without a flaw.
6. Clark: You know, when you think about it, the only
time people ever really seem to express themselves is
when they're passionate and that polite veneer of society
drops off, you know, like when they're fighting.
Lois: Or make love.
7. Lois: It just seemed to work. It was really nice.
That's why I can never see you again. (She shuts the door
in his face)
Clark: Lois?
8. Lois: I need a new partner.
Perry: I knew it. One bad date, there goes my whole news
room. Why don't you just shoot me now, send me up to
Elvis?
Lois: Perry. . . .
Perry: No, no, no, Lois, don't say it. You know, I have
stood on the sidelines, hoping against hope that Mother
Nature would smile on you two, that the bluebird of
happiness would come down light on your shoulder, that
four-leaf clovers would sprout up wherever you walked,
and all the time my gut is singing a different aria.
Lois: Perry. . . .
Perry: Lois, anybody with half a hemisphere can see that
you two are gasoline and fire,
TNT and matches, two trains headed toward . . .
Lois: Perry! Thank you. The problem is we didn't have a
bad date. It was a really great date, and now I'm
completely panicked, and I have no idea what to do next.
Perry: Oh, oh, darlin'. Come here, honey.
9. Clark: Lois, about last night.
Lois: These things are kind of attractive, in a hideous
sort of way.
Clark: I'm a bit confused.
Lois: Oh, look, yours has a stapler and a radio, pencil
sharpener, that's pretty convenient.
Clark: Did I do something to offend you? Because if I
did, I apologize.
Lois: Oh, my goodness, imitation wood paneling. Huh, must
be the deluxe model.
Clark: Lois, no one's asking you for a lifetime
commitment or
anything like that, so there's no pressure here at all.
Lois: Oh, look, batteries are included.
Clark: Here, you wanna trade.
Lois: No. No, no, no. No, no, I love mine. I love mine.
Clark: Please, believe me, I've been looking for
something like this for a long time.
Lois: Clark, I don't. . . . Oh, Clark, about last night.
Clark: Yeah?
Lois: Well, I just wanna say that. . . .
Mayson: Stop the presses! I've always wanted to say that
in a newsroom.
Lois: Nobody ever says that, you know. It's just on
television.
Mayson: Well, sure, but it still felt good.
10. Lois: I mean, it's the biggest story of the year, and
some by-the-book colonel wants me to sit on it because of
some stupid little detail like national security.
11. Lois: You know, now I know what you boys were doing
in sixth grade when the girls had to go to the auditorium
for the hygiene lecture. You were learning sports
metaphors.
12. Clark: Lois, I don't really know exactly how to say
this, but why did you come back to me tonight to the
factory? I mean, you were running back into an
atomic explosion.
Lois: I know, it doesn't make too much sense, does it? I
guess I just couldn't leave you there.
Clark: You slammed the door in my face last night.
Lois: That was a mistake.
Clark: Don't let it happen again.
Lois: I guess we'll, um, just have to see how things go,
won't we?
Clark: Fortunately, there's no doors here tonight.
Lois: Fortunately.
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