The Adventures of Superboy (1988) s04e07 Episode Script

(male narrator)
Rocketed from a distant planet
to a bold new destiny on Earth.
Found by a Kansas family
and raised as Clark Kent.
He learnt he possessed
the strength of steel
The speed of light
and the desire
to help all mankind.
He is Superboy.
[theme music]
[music continues]
(man on radio) Good morning, Capital
City Lex Luthor comin' at you
with a big surprise.
Oh, swell.
Cancel the life insurance
folks cause in six hours
you're all gonna be dead.
That's right six.
Count 'em six hours.
You see your Uncle Lex
just put the finishing touches
on a nationwide network
of nuclear devices
as they say in the bomb biz.
So big, so powerful
makes the pentagon warhead
look like a cherry bomb.
And guess what folks.
I'm gonna set the first one off
right here in Capital City!
Bing, bang, boom
in the blink of an eye, you're
all going to be nuclear waste.
[whistle blowing]
But not just you,
friends and neighbors.
No, no, no. This is what
you call you're dirty bomb.
That means
the radioactive fallout
from this rock 'n' roll
party is gonna create
a gigantic cloud of death
that will drift round the globe.
And exterminate
all life on planet earth.
Get the picture?
Enjoy your final hours.
I know I will.
[honking]
(female #1)
Lex.
You forgot to tell
them what you want.
What?
- Your demands.
- Demands?
You know, what they have to do
so you won't set off the bombs.
Don't have any demands.
Just gonna do it.
Wake up and smell
the coffee, babe.
This is the last day
of the rest of your life.
[laughing]
[intense music]
[rumbling]
[rumbling]
[music intensifies]
So are you gonna
help me down or what?
Thanks.
Any sign of Luthor?
Looks like Luthor hasn't
been here for months.
You shouldn't
have followed me here.
Look, if the world's
gonna end in a few hours
I wanna be with you when we go.
The world isn't going to end.
It's like doomsday
out there already.
Street's are clogged with cars
people are crawling all over
each other just to get out
before the bomb hits.
- If Luthor does as he says..
- Look, I know Luthor is sick.
But I don't think he is capable
of doing something like this.
Can we have really know what
another person is capable of?
Look.
The life and times
of Lex Luthor.
It's a computer disc.
Well, let's see.
"21-J-L-L."
Got it.
Project Genesis progress
report. Phase one complete.
All of Luthor's memories
have been transferred
to psycho disc. Phase two
after numerous attempts
remains a failure.
The project however will
continue until--
This disc contains
Luthor's memories.
And that must be
the playback device.
What are you doing?
Remember what you said?
That none of us can never know
exactly what another person
is truly capable off.
This could tell us.
It could be a trap.
Knowing Luthor,
probably it is a trap.
It'll be alright.
Worked like a charm.
He followed the radio waves
I deflected right
to my other lab.
Precious time lost, Superboy.
You're never gonna find me now.
- Lex, you're not really gonna--
- Bingo.
He's activated the psycho disc.
What's a psycho disc?
Why are you forever
asking questions
you could not possibly
understand the answers to?
[beeping]
[laughing]
Lex. Lex. Come on, Lex.
Dinner's on the table.
You know how mad dad
get's when you're late.
Lex?
But I'm not..
The machine.
I must be living
Luthor's memories.
Come on!
[intense music]
You're late genius.
What's the matter?
They're keeping you after school
so they can give you more tests?
Tests?
They're not giving
him any more tests.
Isn't that right?
They say you're
just a normal kid.
Like everyone else.
Still in grammar school
and already you think
you're better than everybody.
Well, you're not.
- You're just a dummy.
- Don't say that.
Lex'll go to college.
He'll make a--
Shut up!
You think some magic pills
will make everything better?
- Huh?
- No.
You think he's your
ticket outta here?
Just 'cause those big shots
say you're so smart
don't make you better than
your ol' man. Hear me?
Lex never said he was better--
- I'm not talking to you, Lena.
- Leave her alone!
You want her beating? Fine.
[music intensifies]
[laughing]
[beeping]
Just three and a half
hours to bing, bang, boom
boys and babes. So you
better say your prayers
cause time's are wastin'.
Come on, Lex. Level with me.
When are you gonna
ask 'em for the money?
Money? Is that all you can think
about when, what is money?
Some kinda of magic pill
that cures everything?
Well, then what is it? Superboy?
You want 'em
to give you Superboy.
I've already got Superboy.
If something goes wrong,
is there a way to get him back?
Access denied.
We'll just see about that.
Let them think I'm stupid.
That's just the way I want it.
Remember that time I figured
out pie to the last digit?
No one else in the world
could do it, but I did it.
Then I erased it before those
big shot experts could see it.
I don't have to prove
anything to them.
But one day..
One day, you'll invent all
kinds of wonderful things.
And you'll make
a million dollars.
Isn't that what
you always told me?
That we'll have lots of money,
and then it'll be alright.
And then we'll be happy.
And then we'll be together.
Just the two of us. Nobody else.
And we'll be happy.
[dramatic music]
Did he hit you again?
- It's okay.
- No, it's not!
One day, I'll
be big enough and--
(male #1)
Hey, shut up in there!
[music intensifies]
- You guys talkin' about me?
- No.
Always talkin' about me,
aren't ya? Huh?
(male #1) Told you once,
I've told you a thousand times
don't talk about me, boy!
You hear me?
[beeping]
Superboy?
Oh, my God.
[buzzing]
Lena. Lena.
Your injuries are minor.
The electronic field
is for protection not harm.
How do I turn off that machine?
Access denied.
Why the hell did Luthor
create this thing anyway?
The psycho disk
was created to transfer
Luthor's consciousness
to an android host.
So, that's phase two?
But he's not an android.
Then, there will be no
transfer of consciousness.
However if disconnect
is not achieved in ten minutes
the subject will have absorbed
all the information on the disk.
Which means?
He will be trapped, forever.
In a loop of Luthor's memories.
How do I turn it off?
Come on! How do
I break the link?
Access denied.
Warning, you are at risk.
There is no guarantee
that you will re-emerge
from Luthor's memories.
Shut up.
[laughing]
You're not gonna do this.
Say you're not gonna do this.
Okay. You're not gonna do this.
What's the matter with you?
I've never seen
you like this before.
Oh, Darla, Darla, Darla.
You've never seen me, period.
You don't know me.
- You never have.
- What're you talking about?
Of course, I know you.
I'm your girl.
You're a joke.
You're just a reminder
of all the walking mannequins
I've had to put up
with my entire life.
Don't say that.
I know that you love me.
I know that you're
just making all this up.
There's only one person
on the face of the planet
I've ever loved.
She died last week.
[dramatic music]
Lena.
Why didn't you do something?
Why don't you do something?
You stupid cow!
I've had enough of this.
I've had enough!
Superboy.
Lex?
Are you okay?
[laughing]
Working on another one
of your experiments?
It's nothing important.
Do me a favor.
Don't stay home tonight.
- What?
- Stay at Susan's, go anywhere.
But promise me,
you won't stay home tonight.
- But daddy won't let me.
- Don't worry about daddy.
- But--
- Don't worry about daddy.
Okay.
Still stuck in there as planned.
You pathetic moron.
You know,
the real beauty of this is
even Superboy ain't gonna
survive my little holocaust.
It's poetic.
When he dies, his final thoughts
will quite literally be of me.
Oh, my, my, my.
Look at the time.
Better arm the warhead.
Lex, you're really
gonna do this?
Haven't you been
paying attention?
- Yeah, but all those people.
- Are morons, idiots, creeps.
They deserve to die.
Um, after the bomb, you and me
we'll be the only ones left?
My darling, this is ground zero.
We'll be the first to go.
Incinerated in a wink of an eye.
Fini, kaput, bye bye, all gone.
Well, you'll be gone.
Iwill live on.
After a fashion.
My exact duplicate.
My crowning achievement.
He can do what even
Superboy can't. Survive.
All my memories, all my thoughts
all my feelings, all that I am
will live on in him.
(Darla)
Can you do that for me?
I could, but I won't.
My partnership in eternity
is reserved for..
my little Lena.
She's not exactly your type.
She's my sister, you cow!
She's programmed with
everything I remember of Lena.
Everything we shared.
She's soangelic.
We'll live happily ever after.
Together, just the two of us.
For all of eternity.
You better let us go or I'm
gonna, I'll kick your butt, boy.
- Oh, no. You won't.
- Yes, I will.
Not ever again.
We'll see about that.
Lena is the only
decent thing I've got.
And it's about time
I gave her a good life.
Free from you two.
See, once I flip
this little switch
it engages the timer.
And three minutes later,
bing, bang, boom.
The whole house goes out.
I really should
thank you for the money.
What money?
From the life insurance
policy I took out on you two.
It's really gonna
be terrific for the two us.
I mean, it should get
us out of this rat hole
of a neighborhood.
And set me safely
on the road to power.
How could you do this?
After everything
I've done for you.
Everything I've given you.
C'est la vie.
That's French.
In case you didn't know.
- Son.
- I'm no son of yours.
Superboy, don't do it.
You're not a killer.
You're not Lex.
(Holographic Lex) Warning, one
minute to complete psycho meld.
Memory loop closing rapidly.
Warning, memory loop closing.
Lex, honey.
You can't do this to me.
After all that
I've done for you.
All that I've given you.
(Computer) Detonation in
one hour, twenty minutes.
C'est la vie.
That's French.
In case you didn't know.
[theme music]
[music continues]
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