However, when Clark leaves her alone to take his parents to a hotel, the professor uses a hallucination device to make it look like Lois is walking down a crowded street waving a gun at a potential witness. Even Superman thinks it's her, until the figure walks right through him. The grand jury then indicts Lois on charges of first degree murder and harassment with deadly intent.  Professor Cole convinces the D.A. to lose the bullet casing that Clark found at the scene so that the firing pin can't be compared to the casing. Nonetheless, the trial begins, and the prosecution calls Superman to testify.

The prosecutor  accuses Superman of being in love with Lois and, therefore, he would do anything to save her life. Superman testifies that Clark Kent loves Lois Lane and that he respects that love, just as he respects the truth, and it is the truth he would do anything to protect. When Superman is called away on an emergency engineered by the professor, an hallucination of Perry testifies that Lois swore she would get Sikes for burning her on a story. Lois is then convicted.

2. D.A. Clemmons: I suggest you keep your emotions in check, Mr. Kent.
You obviously have no idea who you are dealing with here.
Clark: Yeah, neither do you.

3. Lois: If you or the indifferent system you serve think I'm gonna crack, think again. I'm an investigative reporter. I'm used to tough jams. I thrive on society's tawdry underbelly. Do you think I could get a hypoallergenic pillow?
Matron: No.
Lois: Well, the human spirit is stronger than . . .
Matron: (Grabbing Lois) Than what?
Lois: Than you'd expect. I just thought that'd be something you'd wanna know about the human spirit.
Matron: I'm a social worker. I don't care about the human spirit.

4. (Superman flies in)
Woman in jail: The caped crusader!
Superman: That's Batman.

5. Superman: Lois, honey, are you afraid?
Lois: No.
Superman: Not even a little bit?
Lois: Could you be more specific?
Superman: I can't help but feel like we're being swallowed up by . . .
Lois: A heartless, hungry animal? A huge hurricane that's mowing down
our lives and leaving nothing but rubble in its wake? Is that how you're feeling?

6. Lois: Oh, Clark, not only do you give me hope, you give the world
hope, and you do that by obeying the rules. You lend your strength to help everybody get a fair deal. But, if you help me by breaking the rules, you're going to damage something you are. A symbol . . . of decency, of fairness.
Superman: I'm gonna get you outta here.
Lois: I know you will. The right way -- through the door, not the window.

7. D.A. Clemmons: The prosecution calls Superman to the stand. (Silence)
Judge Samuelson: Maybe somebody ought to yell 'help.'

8. D.A. Clemmons: Do you love Lois Lane, Superman?
Superman: I can say beyond a shadow of a doubt . . . that Clark Kent loves Lois Lane, and I respect that love just like I respect the truth. My job is to
uphold the truth, and that is what I would do anything for.

Lois and Clark, on the run from the police, attempt to figure out what persons she put in jail had the technical knowledge to pull off the murder and the fake testimony of Perry. The police close in, but Clark and a restaurant owner lie to shield Lois.  Soon after, Cole kills Danko, who videotaped a confession and her own murder. Clark watches the videotape and sees, with his super vision, that it is Cole. Lois learns that the D.A. probably took the bullet casing, and Clark steals it from the D.A.'s pocket. Cole then sends an hallucination of Superman to get the hybrid kryptonite from Dr. Klein and has his assistant grab Lois while Clark is on his way to S.T.A.R. Labs. 

Whenthe real Superman shows up at S.T.A.R. Labs, Klein tells him that he has given away the hybrid kryptonite. When Cole disperses the hybrid kryptonite in rain, making it seem like it was due to Superman and Dr. Klein, Superman creates a whirlwind, which gathers it up. He then saves Lois, and the two reporters go home to begin their life as "an old married couple."

2. Lois: But you could fly fast enough to be almost invisible.
Clark: Yeah, but you'd be vaporized.
Lois: Vaporized. That would be bad. Vaporized. That would be bad.

3. Police Officer: Was that a creak?
Clark: Was what a creak?
Police Officer: I though I heard a creak.
Clark: I didn't hear a creak.
Police Officer: Could swear I heard a creak.
Clark: It wasn't a creak.
Police Officer: No creak.
Clark: No creak at all.

4. Lois: That lunatic? A guy can never be too careful?
Clark: Honey, what'd you want me to say? No, lighten up, officer, I'm
married to that lunatic?
Lois: Well, even if I am a lunatic, I'm still your lunatic.
Clark: You know that's what I think, honey.
Lois: Thank you.

5. Clark: See, this isn't so bad. Five people threatened to sue you.
Lois: Well, that's not so awful.
Clark: Two hundred threatened to kill you.
Lois: Oh.

6. Clark: You follow your heart. You do the right thing.
Lois: That why you love me?
Clark: And you have a really great body.
Lois: This being a hard bitten newswoman sure is more fun than it used to be. (They crawl under the covers).

7. Clark: Maybe Superman oughtta go check out that camera.
Lois: Great idea. Go. Let's see some tights.
Clark: I'm goin'. I'm goin'. Geez.

8. Lois: Oh, Clark, there was a time when I thought I would rather die
than sit around with my husband watching t.v. and talking about the day. I gotta tell ya. It sounds wonderful.
Clark: Here's to us, sitting around just being an old married couple.
Lois: Oh, yeah, that's us alright.
Clark: So, how bout the wallpaper? Do you think we should take it down and put it back up together so that we can bond?
Lois: Nah. I decided there are more important things a newlywed couple can do together to bond. (Kiss). Race you up stairs. No cheatin'. No superpowers.
(Whoosh).
(Lois shrieks).

Meanwhile, Clark investigates the strange deaths which mirror heart attacks but leave strange marks on the victims' chests.Bob and Carol bug Lois' phone and follow her as she meets with Gendell's lawyer. Superman also interrupts the murder of an NIA agent by Deathstroke and discovers just how powerful his nemesis is. After the encounter, Dr. Klein tells Clark of a researcher in magnetics who was the victim of an accident and who worked for Gendell.

Gendell's company refused to pay any damages, and the researcher swore revenge. Clark then discovers that the researcher is Bob and the woman who designed a suit which permits him to lead a normal life is Carol. Meanwhile, Lois rushes off to her interview with Gendell with Bob and Carol trailing her. Superman intervenes and wins out when he melts a hole in Deathstroke's suit, and Gendell comes out of seclusion.

2. Carol: I just think you should feel at home when you're, well, at home. Especially when you have a husband who's always rushing off to save the world.
Lois: Yours too? I mean, Clark's not literally saving the world.
Carol: I mean, I'm a chemist, and I have a professional life too, but Bob's work is so, so . . .
Lois: Whole consuming? I know all about it.
Carol: He'll hug me and say "you're important too, but this is an emergency."
Lois: A job for. . .
Carol: . . . super doctor.

3. Jimmy: I've seen the way you and Lois do this. Let's step back, look at the pattern, alright? They're all men. They're all over 35. They all lived in
Metropolis, and . . . I really suck at this.

4. Lois: She likes the same books as me. The same foods as me. And, why
are they always so eager to see us again? Nobody is that eager to see us again.
Clark: That's why you're suspicious, honey, because someone likes us?

5. Lois: Bob.
Bob: She recognizes me
Carol: I always said the glasses weren't enough of a disguise.

6. Carol: If Bob hadn't been in an industrial accident; if his body
weren't a ball of horrific power; if we weren't scientists, turned paupers, turned international assassins; if we weren't consumed by bitterness and rage, we might have been friends.

7. Clark: You like the Bills, Mr. Gendell?
Gendell: I have to, I own em.

Season 4, Episode 9: "Ghosts"

Written by: Michael Gleason
Directed by: Robert Ginty
Original airdate: November 24, 1996
Guest stars: Drew Carey as Herbie Staxe; Kathy Kinney as Katie
Banks; Richard
Zavaglia as Mink Mahoney; Lee Benton as Lilah Monro;
Jean Speegle
Howard as Bertha Avery.

Lois walks in soon thereafter and sees various kitchen implements floating.  The ghost, Katie Banks, tells Herbie that he set her free. She had been in a state of limbo since her murder and must find her murderer so that she can gain entrance to the other side. She believes Herbie is her master and agrees to haunt the Kents. Katie then takes over Lois' body to get Clark to sign papers to sell the brownstone, but she leaves Lois' body before he signs.  Lois still feels remnants of Katie's feelings and discovers that Katie was murdered in their house. 

Lois and Clark figure out who Katie is and investigate how she was murdered. So, Lois decides to summon Katie, and it works! They have a heart-to-heart, and Katie tells Lois that she had never felt loved the way Clark loves Lois, but they are interrupted by Herbie's summons. Lois and Clark decide to try and find Herbie. Herbie lies to Katie about who murdered her, and she murders the mobster. But, when Katie finds out that the information is wrong, she vows revenge and vows to live better dead than she did when she was alive. Katie takes over Lois' body and wants to inhabit it. Meanwhile, Clark figures out that she was murdered by her husband's mistress. Katie then goes to the hereafter, and Herbie goes to prison. 

2. Lois: Clark, after everything we've been through, invading aliens,
alternate universes, machines that suck the youth out of you, you think the one thing that's gonna make me see flying pots is meat?

3. Herbie: Well, you're about the worst ghost I ever met. One simple
haunting, and they're gone, out. But, no, once again you come back empty-handed. Casper could do a better job.

4. Lois (possessed): Listen, four eyes, don't get up from that table again until you finish every last bite of your breakfast.
Clark: Honey, I think last night affected you a little bit more than you're willing to admit.
Lois (possessed): If you love me, you'll sign. If you wanna love me, ditto. Clark, don't you dare sign. Sign, dammit, or I'll never make you another meal. Don't listen to me, I'm not me. Shut up! You shut up! Do that again, and I'll scratch my eyes out. * * * Witch! Intruder! Wacko! Cow! Get out! You get out, I was me first.

5. Katie: This morning, when I was you, your husband looked at me, us,
with such love in eyes, like I've never seen in my whole life, not for one day as long as I lived.

6. Lois: She seemed more interested in talking about you and me.
Clark: Well, I hope you didn't tell her everything.
Lois: I left out the good parts.
Clark: She's probably already seen 'em anyway.

7. Lois (possessed): I like her as a home, but I can find others. There's that cute, what's-her-name who turns those cards on that game show. I could do that if I was still dead.

8. Lois: And you can just get that look off your face.
Clark: What look?
Lois: That look that says, 'Ohmigod, Lois cooked something and I have
to eat it.'

9. Lois: Who would have thought a couple of eggs would give me such a
feeling of conquest. Although, it's sort of like climbing Mount Everest -- once you do it, you think, why would I ever do that again.'
Clark: I'll eat slowly.
Lois: I would.

In addition, the pressure between the married couple starts to build as Lois exercises her editorial discretion.    Ethan obtains an improved version of Lex's molecular disbander, and the stress of Lois' new job puts strain on the marriage when she takes Clark off of the hacker story. Martha and Jonathan counsel them, but they don't have the opportunity to talk before another crisis arises. Lois, then, puts Jimmy on the hacker story that Clark was working on.

When he discovers that Eric has been downloading Dr. Klein's confidential files on Superman, Lois runs out after him.  Ethan zaps Superman, and he is greatly weakened, but he opens the silo so that sunlight breaks through and reenergizes him. Seconds later, Lois drives her truck through the silo.  After the crisis is averted, Perry approaches Lois and proposes that he and Lois run the paper together. She turns him down and tells him that she'd rather be Clark's partner. So, with everything back to normal, Lois and Clark make up. 

2. Clark: Positive, Chief. In fact, I'm kinda looking forward to sleeping with the boss.

3. Ethan Press: And, then, when Superman is dead, we won't be remembered
as some spoiled, little rich kids. Like Brutus and Booth and Oswald before
us, the names Ethan and Eric Press will live in infamy.
Eric Press: You're sick.
Ethan Press: I take after dad's side.

4. Ethan Press: You remember Sunday school? Cain and Abel? I always
liked Cain. Sit down.
Eric Press: This sucks.

5. Lois: You know, you're not the only one who fights for truth, justice and the American way. In fact, as I recall, I'm the person that coined that phrase. * * * You know what I think? I think you have a real problem with the fact that I'm the one in the family wearing the tights. Pants. I mean pants.

6. Martha: You know, I've always wanted what's right for my son. Now, I
want the best for my daughter, too.

2. Lois: Clark, things are really deteriorating around here. Your parents are actually snipping at each other. My mother's drinking again. Perry's crying because he never got to play Santa for his kids. And Jimmy's depressed because his girlfriend's a hooker.

3. Lois: You heard him, gnome. Scram!
Mxyzptlk: You're supposed to be frozen.
Lois: Yeah, well, I thawed out. And, Clark's not going anywhere, Mazel Tov.
Mxyzptlk: Mxyzptlk! Mister Mxyzptlk.