My first, flippant post was a sarcastic and perhaps appropriate response to Clark's willingness to risk Lois's life in the TV show.
And yet what happened in the vignette is pretty much exactly what happened in the show itself. You can SEE and FEEL the emotions coming off of the two of them in the show.
Great vignette, Sue! It's awesome how you can get into their heads like that--that's something I have a lot of trouble with myself.