The rest of the date was excellent. Love that every plan of Lois's is two-fold: watching a movie to slowly introduce Clark to some of the changes in the world over the past 7 years
and to snuggle up and rest on his shoulder.
As always I like your version of things better than my speculations. It completely makes sense that Lois would not kiss Clark however much she wants to. In my "Clark is finally clean-shaven" haze, I may have lost sight of the fact that they are still in a prison cell.

And as Lois has been the one to progress each aspect of their physical relationship thus far, Clark wouldn't even consider initiating a goodnight-kiss.
But once they were free ...
Hee all bets are off. Something to look forward to!
And they admit they like each other - Awh
She was so sure about Clark. He was what had been missing from her life. He was someone who gave her the freedom to be exactly the person she had always wanted to be.
Herself.
Love this about their relationship. What a gift for her.
I'll say it but only once... I do feel sorry for Menzies' loss. There it's done.
And to do that, he had to ensure that the alien operation was terminated and removed from every record.
And now back to hating him. V. interesting that he immediately knew what Moyne had done to those agents. Obviously Menzies is going to be a problem, but at least Moyne's new assignment has him going far, far away. Too much to hope that he's already shipped out?
Glad to see Clark's thoughts. V. cute obsessing about the hug. Yay for tingling, newly exposed neck skin.
He had curled his arms around her, loosely enough that she could avoid their bodies making contact if that was what she wanted. But she had leant into his chest.
Oh, she most definitely wanted contact!
Clark was smiling at her. "You have to wake up," he said. "Shadbolt will be here soon."
Does this means that she slept in the cell with him?!?! Once again my mind is running rampant with preview speculations.

I can't help myself.
I too was pleasantly surprised to wake up to an update this morning. Thanks so much for that.
ETA Just read Laura's speculations about Menzies. Of course I never considered that he could actually work
with Lois and release Clark in exchange for her silence about Moyne. That would be a most exciting turn of events and make me reconsider my dislike once again.
ETA2 Good point Vicki.