He grabs it, and after examining the icy dais, affixes the Sunstone to it, bringing Jor-El to “life.” He explains to the teen that he is Jor-El, and he is the boy’s biological father.
WE see him replacing the sunstone, and looking around the Kent household, telling her that before he can leave town he needs to see Lana.
Heading into town, he sees her at a movie theater, but before he can approach her, he sees her embrace Kyle, then zooms his telescopic vision in on her finger, where there’s an engagement ring.
In Metropolis, Clark is apartment hunting when he hears a car out of control, and changes into his costume for the first time.
Inside the Planet, Perry White blows off Clark’s resume, but hires him when he agrees to work cheap and do whatever he’s asked.
Late at night, as they work together on the story, Clark compliments Lois’s reporting skills, then starts to excuse himself but instead ends up in a conversation where he is cornered into almost admitting feelings for Lois.
He takes her outside and flies for her, then cut to the pair of them in the newsroom, kissing, and again to him proposing outside the Fortress door, and to their wedding.
Later, he tells Jor-El about the marriage, and Jor-El screams at Clark to get out.
Outside, he sees his half-brother, who has infiltrated Clark’s flashbacks to learn that Superman has a family and exploit it to try and force him to surrender.
Tal Rho tells Superman that he will tell the world his secret and put his kids in danger if Superman won’t surrender.
Back in Smallville, Lois is talking to Lana and Kyle.
Before Lois and the boys leave Lana and Kyle’s house, Kyle stops her to apologize about the way he’s treated her since she got to town, telling her that she’s good people, and he’s glad she’s part of Smallville.
As he charges up heat vision, though, Superman drops out of the sky, and tells Rho that he will do whatever he wants to save his family.
Clark tells Lois “he was right” before being flown off with Morgan to the Evil Fortress in the desert, where we get a flashback to teenage Morgan Edge creating his own fortress in the desert by planting his sunstone and calling on his father, who berates him becuase by 1987, he didn’t yet have the Eradicator.