Later that night, Clark, away from the military, burrows through the ice with his heat vision. They reveal that imaging has turned up a massive object that's nearly 20,000 years old. Hamilton is not pleased to see Lois there and tries to get her away, but her clearance allows her to stay. The operation is led by US Air Force Colonel Nathan Hardy, who is working with Dr.
Clark comes to her defense, and later, destroys the truck belonging to the man responsible before skipping town in the direction of the alien ship.ĭaily Planet reporter Lois Lane arrives via chopper to report on the object under the ice and has her bags carried by Clark, who is posing as a worker there. Meanwhile, a patron starts sexually harassing a waitress. He gave Clark the Command Key and encouraged him to find out his true origins and why he was sent to Earth while reassuring him he's still his son.Ĭlark is now working in a highway bar where he overhears some men talking about the military looking for a strange object under the ice near the Arctic. When Clark pressed him for answers, Jonathan revealed the Kryptonian space pod Clark arrived to them on, which he kept hidden under a barn. Later, Jonathan stressed to Clark the importance of keeping his powers secret for fear of Clark's safety, telling him that people are afraid of what they don't understand. Pete's mother later told the Kents about Clark's astonishing feat, but the elder Kents denied that there was anything special about their son. Clark, using his super strength, pushed the bus out of the river and stopped it from sinking, revealing his powers to Lana Lang and Pete Ross in the process. Returning ashore, Clark steals some clothes and skips town, seeing a school bus on the way, reminding him of a day from when he was 13 and the school bus he was on blew out a tire and ran off over a bridge and into the river. Overwhelmed by the experience, he ran away and hid himself in the janitor's closet, refusing to come out until Martha helped him control his powers with breathing and meditation exercises. His super hearing and x-ray vision first started manifesting while he was in class one day. While drifting unconscious, Clark remembers an incident from when he was 9 years old. When a piece of rigging threatens to fall on them, Clark holds it up with his superhuman strength long enough for them to get clear before an explosion sends Clark flying into the water. Jumping overboard and swimming over, he begins to help people get to safety as the Coast Guard arrive to evacuate the employees. Thirty-three years later, Kal-El, now known as Clark Kent, is working on a crab boat when they receive a distress signal that an oil rig in the distance is on fire. Kal-El's rocket lands in the field of farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent in Smallville, Kansas. Lara later returns home, and as Krypton explodes, she prays for Kal to make a better world. Zod and his followers are then put into stasis and brought aboard the Black Zero, a gigantic Kryptonian ship that is then placed into the Phantom Zone. As he's being taken away, Zod rants out the Council and vows to Lara, who is in attendance, that he will find Kal and take back the Codex.
Zod and his followers are put on trial for murder and treason and are sentenced to the Phantom Zone. The ship safely escapes Krypton's atmosphere while the Sapphire Guards intercept the coup's forces and arrest Zod. A fight ensues, with Zod stabbing and killing Jor, while Lara launches Kal-El's ship to Earth. Zod discovers their plan and attacks Jor. After saying their final goodbyes, Jor and Lara put Kal and the key into a rocketship that will take him to Earth, a far-off planet inhabited by a species that physically resemble Kryptonians and orbits a yellow sun, which Jor states will give Kal exceptional abilities. After returning home, Jor graphs the atomized particles of the Codex onto Kal-El's red blood cells and then creates a Command Key. Concerned, Jor breaches the Genesis Chamber and steals the Growth Codex, the repository from which all Kryptonians are artificially conceived and genetically engineered for predetermined roles in society Kal-El is is the first naturally conceived and born Kryptonian in centuries. They dismiss his claims but before Jor-El can do anything else, General Zod overthrows the council in a violent coup, instigating a civil war. Later, Jor travels to Kandor on his pet H'Raka where he stands in front of the Kryptonian Law Council, warning them the planet is about to collapse because of the council's decision to harvest the planet's core to serve their civilization's depleted energy reserves. On the planet Krypton, Lara Lor-Van gives birth to a son named Kal-El with the help of her husband Jor-El. Cooper Timberline as 9 year old Clark Kent.Dylan Sprayberry as 13 year old Clark Kent.