Quotes:
CLARK: You’re much better looking than Lisa Rockford. (After they all look at an underwear shot of Lisa Rockford)
LOIS: See how well trained I have him already?
LOIS: Is there any language you don’t know?
CLARK: Sometimes I have trouble understanding you.
Superman tells Lois not to do anything until he gets back.
Dr. Klein: It’s almost as if they were married.
Details
Episode starts with a flashback to May 7th, 1993, set during 1x03 Neverending Battle
The plot centers on a Nazi trio, preserved in suspended animation since 1943 underneath Metropolis. They are established with American famous people cover identities:
Hank West, a Country Western star
Lisa Rockford, a super model / underwear model
Steve Law, a football quarterback for the Metropolis Tigers
The program is called Operation Götterdämmerung. Why the Nazis decided on an apocalyptic name for a rebirth scenario, no one know.
The Nazi also sent 1000 20 y/o to the US in 1943 to work undercover, and establish the basis for a resurgence to power. They include Senator Truman Black and William Stockdale (age 70) who gets shot by his comrades when he decides to call it quits.
The undercover Nazis have recruited younger people to the cause, such as a police detective in his early 50s and Skip Wallace, a very junior reporter in the Daily Planet classifieds. It is unclear if Skip joins up after the reveal or was already a member before.
The Nazis want to establish what they call the New Reich by blackmailing the US government with the impending nuclear destruction of Metropolis, Washington DC and Los Angeles and require that control of major enterprises is handed over to Nazi members.
The Nazi plan to irradiate Superman, making sure he’s not interfering with their plans because he’d be a threat. Superman uses the sun to extract the radioactive particles by use of smience. It also mentions that it takes hours for Superman to get to the sun and back, but in All Shook Up, he only can hold his breath for 20 Minutes. Superman does not wear an oxygen mask. It is not detailed why, in the event of upcoming national domination and the impending doom for three major cities, Superman wouldn’t still speed-crash the party and be out of there in minutes. There’s not enough civilians around to harm him and a few dead Nazis or handing over control should be a non-issue, even to a life-respecting superhero.
Lisa Rockford tries to blow up Lois and Clark with an RPG and when she’s caught by Superman, she takes a cyanide pill.
The bomb used on Superman was hidden in a mine shaft in Westminster County, about five miles from downtown Metropolis. When it explodes, the Daily Planet still feels about a Mag 3 earthquake.
Hank West loses his faith in the plan and is shot by his fellow leader Steve Law.
Perry has known Truman Black since Perry was in his early twenties, which means he met the man when he was in his mid-thirties. Was he at the paper first?
The National Intelligence Agency is first mentioned. Lois and Clark did a recent expose on some scandal involving the NIA.
Lois is getting all tropey about the wedding. Wedding dresses. Wedding prep.
Lois likes the attention Hank West gives her when he visits the Planet.
When Lois realizes her own mortality after the RPG, she and Clark start to get hot and heavy. It might have nixed Clark’s very patient man status if not for another Jimmy Interruptus.
Perry gets the first call from Alice’s divorce lawyer. His mood is particularly bad and he lets it out on his employees.
Plot Bunny:
Bill Church is also part of the undercover Nazi and Intergang a front to establish the New Reich. When Lisa Rockford wakes up, she marries Bill Church instead of Mindy. It’s unclear if that’s because she wants to wrestle control over Intergang from a faltering Bill Church, to consolidate power against her fellow Reichführer or simply because it’s convenient / a shared appreciation of goosestepping. Lex Luthor establishes his criminal empire after he learns from disgraces British spy Nigel St. John about the Nazi threat. Both parties see Superman as a nuisance interfering with their plans for domination.
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