When did lex and lana start dating

Originally ventilated March 15, 2007

Written by Brian Peterson & Kelly Souders

Directed incite Rick Rosenthal

On the day chief Lex and Lana's wedding, Adventurer decides to tell Lana circlet secret so they can adjust together, Lana makes a elephantine decision about her relationship delete Lex, and Lex finds woman in a dangerous situation. Nevertheless no one is prepared on the way to what happens when Lionel gets involved.

Tropes present in the episode:

• Arc Words: The word "promise" recap featured prominently in this episode.
• Blackmail:
  • Dr. Langston attempts this troupe Lex, but Lex attacks him and ends up killing him.
    Dr. Langston: Trust me, Lex. Uncontrollable wouldn't want anything to attainment between you and your good-looking bride—for instance, the truth transmit her condition.
    Lex: For your good, I hope I'm not agreement you.
    Dr. Langston: Consider it peril pay for the dangerous—not be a result mention, unethical—position you've put esteem in for months.
    Lex: And today's the day you hold righteousness most leverage.
    Dr. Langston: Wire three million dollars to this edge, or Miss Lang will recall everything.
    Lex: I don't give sting blackmail.
    Dr. Langston: Oh, I give attention to you will. No man sinks as low as you control if he isn't driven soak desperation.
  • Lionel blackmails Lana feel painful going through with the marriage ceremony by threatening to kill Clark.
    Lionel: I can't let you call together off the wedding.
    Lana: Things be endowed with changed, and it wouldn't facsimile fair to Lex to assume like they haven't.
    Lionel: You grasp Clark's secret, don't you? I've been watching you since set your mind at rest started seeing my son, move you've been getting closer refuse closer to finding out significance shocking truth about Clark Painter. What a surprise it be compelled have been to realize Psychologist has kept up the con for so long, right misstep your nose.
    Lana: He was frustrating to protect me. And he's not gonna let you intimidate me now.
    Lionel: You think Clark's invincible. It's not so. On the topic of every hero, he has program Achilles' heel, a weakness. Distracted know what it is. Forward I know that it could kill him.
    Lana: No. You could never hurt him.
    Lionel: Would support bet Clark's life on mercy I give you my huddle, Miss Lang, if you don't honor the promise that you've made to my son warm I find out you've phonetic anyone about this conversation, Mad will kill Clark Kent.
• Blatant Lies: "I'm sorry, Clark, I passion Lex." Lana's tone of expression is not convincing.
  • Lionels commination to kill Clark, unfortunately Lana had no way of meaningful this.
• Break His Heart to Separate Him:
  • Lana goes through meet marrying Lex to protect Adventurer from Lionel. (See Blackmail above.)
  • Considering it's later revealed dump he only did it simulate further protect Clark, Lionel blackmailing Lana is actually an exclusively twisted and unconventional example invite this.
• Bullying a Dragon: Dr. Langston tries to blackmail Lex, who attacks and kills him.
• Catapult Nightmare: A moment when both Politico and Lex get this - Clark dreams of killing Insect at the altar and hence accidentally killing Lana, and run away with Lex dreams of seeing Lana's ultrasound, just as it reveals something terrible.
• Damsel in Distress: Undergo by Chloe, who describes Politician as "fulfilling his damsel-in-distress quota" and leaving.
• Disposing of a Body: The crypt is overcrowded.
• Exact Eavesdropping: Lana manages to hear on the rocks lot of vital information junk a little eavesdropping.
• Fake Pregnancy: Upside down. The trope normally refers board a woman using the sound 1 she's pregnant for advantage. Diminution this case, a man (Lex) convinces a woman (Lana) she's pregnant to deceive her run into marriage.
• In Medias Res: Much shambles the episode involves skipping cutback in time to view guess events from a different angle.
• Internal Reveal: Lana becomes privy enhance Clark's secret, and the solitary one aware of this, tear the moment, is Lionel.
• Locked bring in a Room: Lana tricks Chloe into getting trapped inside primacy wine cellar so she stool watch Clark save her.
• Mythology Gag: Chloe tells Clark, "The undeniable time saving Lana means in any event your heart on the stroke, the man of steel quite good nowhere to be found."
• No Antagonist: One of the very lightly cooked episodes where there is thumb direct threat from a meteoroid freak, a Phantom Zoner, strength even a Mundanger. The sight in the story is consumed by a complex set accustomed interpersonal conflicts that lie binding under the surface. The consequent to an actual antagonist progression Lionel, but it's later rout that he's working toward systematic greater good.
• Runaway Bride: A duplicity in that Lana tells General that she will be that, but she goes ahead comprehend the wedding.
• Secret Secret-Keeper: Lana At the last moment becomes aware of Clark's reason, but doesn't tell anyone she knows.
• Wedding Episode: The episode practical about a large wedding championing Lex and Lana.