So many little easter eggs here, where do I begin?
Thomas instead of Wayne. At first I was thinking Wayne was dead and therefore Trask still ended up visiting them. Now I'm not so sure on that. And Martha's response is closer to what I would have expected of a mama grizzly protecting her (sadly at this moment non-existent) super son.
Martha ignored him as she stepped towards Lois again in an even more aggressive manner. “Who do you work for?”
Normally one to hold her ground, Lois couldn’t help but take another step backwards, holding up her hands. She and Martha were on the same side. She needed to make Clark’s mother to see that. “I’m just looking for answers, Martha,” she said, trying to keep her voice calm.
“Who do you work for?” Martha repeated.
“The government? Some wacky fringe group?” Martha continued to rattle off. “A tabloid?
Methinks they had a visit from Project BlueBook in the past and Martha thinks Lois is part of those Bureau 39 folks.
Lois noticed that someone had placed flowers on a small grave in the corner. Wildflowers. They were wilted from the heat of the day, but fresh enough that it couldn’t have been more than twenty-four hours, thirty-six tops, since they had been laid there.
Yup, Martha cares for the child who never was/once was as if it was a miscarried child of her own. How much do you wanna bet she had a number of miscarriages in her past to make this gravesite significant to her?
What kind of sick bastard killed a baby? Why? Why would someone go back in time and kill the sweetest man of Lois’ acquaintance? A man who everyone seemed to have liked? What could Clark have possibly done to anger someone to such an extreme?
It's too bad Martha couldn't have heard Lois' inner thoughts at this moment because she would have found out how much closer they could be over this situation.
Lois stayed by Clark’s grave for hours. She didn’t want to leave. It had taken her months since she had first been introduced to Clark in her dreams until she had gotten to this point – to finding him in her real life – and leaving felt like abandoning him.
She kissed her fingers and pressed them against the stone where Jonathan or Martha had etched Clark’s name. “This isn’t goodbye, Clark. I’m going to find you and bring you home.”
I love this little moment.
Lois had gone over and over Martha’s words in her head as she sat at Clark’s grave and wondered what had frightened his mother? Prying? Repercussions? Why had the Kents buried Clark in an almost unmarked grave in an abandoned graveyard? Had they actually been Clark’s birth parents and didn’t want Smallville to know about their private pain of losing a child? Had it been that they had never mentioned Clark’s birth and subsequent death to the authorities? If they weren’t his parents, why hadn’t they contacted the authorities when they had found the child – dead or alive? Had they been scared of being charged with Clark’s murder? Did they know who Clark’s birth parents were? Had they rescued Clark from someone who had abused him, but he had died anyway? Were they now scared that Lois would send someone to dig up Clark’s grave?
So many questions, Lois and until you unravel the mystery of Superman you will have even fewer answers.
