I really liked this episode. Really some good acting in it.
I’m telling you, Sophie will end up getting recruited by Lex Luthor to become the ultimate Big Bad of the series.
I was just happy to see that they briefly remembered that she exists.
I’m gonna call it: As a season (or mid-season) ending cliffhanger, Jonathan is going to go into a burning building to save someone, and get badly injuring in the process. This may happen (possibly) because he called for super backup and didn’t get it.
Aha! They explicitly mentioned that Lex Luthor exists and Sophie made an appearance. It can’t be long now before Lex makes an appearance to enlist her to his cause.
In all seriousness, this was a wonderfully understated episode. No giant super-fights, but the character development was top-notch.
Was anyone surprised when Matteo was revealed to be Bruno’s son? Casting may have done too good a job of making the son look like the father.
I felt foolish for not seeing it until it was too late (possibly because I had no inkling that Bruno and his wife had children at all.
P.S. Peia had powers well before the cancer? Not how I thought things were working regarding the relationship between treatment and powers
PS. And Sophie gets left out of the fireworks party.
::raises hand::
Yeah. Didn’t see the marriage, didn’t see the son.
I thought they were going to wait a few episodes before the inevitable confrontation between Natalie’s and Matteo’s parents but, nope, they jumped right in with a full-on Steel+Superman vs Mannheim+Onomatopoeia confrontation. Wow.
So Lana can’t get Sarah to go to the Cure concert with her. Doesn’t she have another daughter? Hmmm… 
Nice, nice episode. Tied up some plotlines very well. LOTS of pathos.
And like stated above, I thought Johnathan was going to find out he was fireproof this episode :).
LOVED the Lois guilt about maaaaayyyybeeee falsely imprisoning Lex Luthor. That’s just a frickin’ awesome storyline point.
The really funny thing is that Sam Lang is the right age to be a Cure fan, while Lana is a bit young: Sam’s about 60 - prime age to be a fan of a group that was big in the 1980s. Lana is probably about 40 or so, so the Cure was big when she was younger than 10.
Fire chief is going to think that Jonathan has powers, right?
I think you’re right, and that may be why Jonathan (as I suggested earlier) winds up going into a fire to save someone–maybe Kyle, because Kyle thinks Jonathan has his back. Or possibly Sophie?
This is all part of Sophie’s insidious plan, isn’t it? To integrate everyone into the Lang household. First Sam, then Lois (assuming she survives), the boys, the rest of Smallville, Metropolis, and all of Kansas. Clark will be the last to fall.
D’oh.
I agree that the assimilation plot has been a Lang time coming…
Has John Henry fallen off the deep end? He killed a guy right in the middle of Main Street. Granted, a guy that was already supposed to be dead. But keeping him alive could have answered some questions, like who sent him and how TF a dead guy could have come back to life in the first place.
Clark was never more Clark than when he referred to “the chicken wing place”
Someone with X-ray vision is probably indifferent to near nudity.
Another emergency, another mysterious rescue. Kyle Cushing is on the case! He’s gotten really close. Will he ever figure out that Sophie is behind everything?
Hey, she had more than one line I think.
The governor is pretty sharp, btw.
But the big news is what I discovered in IMDB - am I the last to realize that Bruno Mannheim is played by the same fellow who played Klyden on the Orville?
TIL, so not the last
I recognized him as Tobias Church, the crime lord who tried to kill the Green Arrow. But Bruno Mannheim is far, far more menacing.