More Things in Heaven And Earth is the first episode in Season 2 of My Adventures with Superman, and the eleventh episode overall. It was released on May 26, 2024.
Synopsis[]
Clark agonizes over what to do for his and Lois' first Valentine's Day…until visions of his father lead him, Jimmy, and Lois to the remains of his Spaceship and the new villains of Task Force X!
Plot[]
Clark has a dream in which he sees himself as a child running across the Kents' fields. Suddenly, he is confronted by images of his parents, Lois and Jimmy and asks himself whether he is human. Lois suddenly says that no, he is not and will never be human. Suddenly, he finds himself in a snow-covered wasteland when suddenly a picture of his biological father tells him there is another Kryptonian but they are running out of time, but Clark awakens from his dream before he can figure out what it really means.
The next day, Lois has fallen asleep at her office in the Daily Planet until she awakens when she touches a cup of coffee left by Clark. She has tried to call her father but she hasn't gotten any answers and has to go to a morning meeting. Jimmy arrives at the bullpen and gifts his co-workers, including Clark, with expensive cards that he paid with his salary as Flamebird. Clark is planning a romantic getaway with Lois for Valentine's Day, which involves staring at the sunset while eating ramen together, but his co-workers, including Jimmy, admit that it's too simple and humble and that Lois deserves better. Unfortunately, Perry cancels Valentine's Day because he needs a story to compete with Vicki Vale from the Gotham Gazette.
Luckily for Perry, Lois has a story: her old college classmate, Hank Henshaw from S.T.A.R. Labs, has told her that he and his crew have been tracking a meteoroid in outer space and if that meteoroid's orbit decays, it will crash into the Earth. Perry assigns Clark and Lois to the story and Jimmy invites himself, even though Perry reminds him that he still needs to turn in a new Flamebird story. Perry suggests Jimmy get a team to help him with his Flamebird work, but Jimmy insists he can do it alone.
As the team reaches S.T.A.R. Labs, Clark admits to Jimmy that his plan to impress Lois for Valentine's Day isn't good enough, just like Alex, Anthony Ivo's former assistant, demands to be employed at S.T.A.R. Labs but the scientists refuse to give work to someone who indirectly helped Ivo destroy Metropolis. Feeling sorry, Jimmy strikes up a conversation with him and tells him that sometimes, he can't depend on other people to help him and that he needs to carve his own path and be his own man. Alex wants to thank him, but Jimmy has to go with his friends, who have been invited into the lab by Henshaw.
Henshaw takes the Daily Planet team into his lab and tells them that the object they've been tracking has been disappearing and reappearing from their sensors and was last detected on Antarctica. Clark recognizes the object as a remnant from the ship that took him to Earth and has to excuse himself from the lab. He admits to his friends that the object on Antarctica is his ship and needs to investigate. His friends want to come with him, for they believe Kryptonite might be present in the area, and Jimmy rents a plane.
As soon as they reach Antarctica, Clark gets another vision from his biological father and follows him until he finds himself inside the damaged ship. There, the man in white shows up again and explains that, in life, he was Jor-El, his father and a scion from the Kryptonian Empire. Having learned Earth's languages through a translation program, Jor-El explains that long ago, the Kryptonian Empire was ruthlessly conquering the galaxy until it encountered an enemy it couldn't defeat and Krypton itself was threatened with destruction. The ship that brought Clark to Earth was just an unmanned ghost ship operating on auto-pilot.
When Clark asks what happened to the rest of their people, Jor-El explains that their people are dead. Clark and his cousin are the only survivors. Clark didn't know he had a cousin and Jor-El explains that he and his brother, Zor-El, made plans to save their respective children were sent into outer space to save them from Krypton's destruction. Suddenly, Jor-El detects that the ship's artificial intelligence is reacting to intruders and attempting to isolate the Kryptonite. Clark believes Jor-El is talking about Lois and Jimmy but Jor-El reveals that others have broken into the ship.
Meanwhile, Lois and Jimmy have reached the ship and begin exploring it. Jimmy tells Lois that Clark has been feelings stressed out over his plans for Valentine's Day and Lois admits she forgot today was Valentine's Day. Suddenly, a squad of robots show up and starts chasing Lois and Jimmy, who run to the ship's bridge to hide. Suddenly, the robots are destroyed by Amanda Waller and Task Force X, the other intruders Jor-El was talking about. They have broken into the ship to find any resources they could harness against the Kryptonians. In a conversation with Slade, Waller reveals that Sam is under custody, worrying Lois.
Suddenly, another of Waller's agents, Damage, discovers Lois and Jimmy, but Superman arrives just in time to save his friends. Damage, revealing himself to be cybernetically enhanced to gain super-strength, picks up a fight with Superman, until the Kryptonite starts affecting both of them. Waller and Slade realize the Kryptonite is affecting Superman and they could use it, but Superman and his friends prevent Task Force X from obtaining the last shard. Jimmy places the Kryptonite inside a lead container and gives Superman enough time to recover, while Jor-El deactivates Damage's enhancements and teleports the ship to a completely different location, saving Superman and his friends while leaving TFX stranded.
The ship's remnants are rearranged into a crystalline palace, but the effort has irrevocably damaged Jor-El's hologram. Superman is sad upon losing his father just when he got him back. In his last moments, Jor-El says that to find Kara, Superman must find a special beacon that got lost when the ship landed on Earth. Jor-El disappears, but not before he expresses pride on the man his son has become. Moments later, Superman and Lois share a private moment, in which Lois asks him to save her father. Superman wants to tell Lois about his cousin but chooses to tell her after helping her.
Meanwhile, Slade has kept shards of Kryptonite that had become embedded into his blades, while the mysterious Kryptonian warrior has destroyed another planet.
Cast[]
- Jack Quaid as Clark Kent/Superman
- Alice Lee as Lois Lane
- Ishmel Sahid as Jimmy Olsen
- Darrell Brown as Perry White
- Melanie Minichino as Cat Grant, Female Scientist
- Max Mittelman as Alex "Lex" Luthor, Hank Henshaw
- Jason Marnocha as Jor-El, Ethan Avery/Damage
- Debra Wilson as Amanda Waller
- Chris Parnell as Slade Wilson/Deathstroke
Appearances[]
Trivia[]
- Clark's Valentine poem starts with "Can you read my mind?" before Cat interrupts him. This is a reference to a scene in Superman: The Movie where Lois recites a poem while romantically flying with Superman. It is also a song on the film soundtrack which was created by Maureen McGovern and composed by John Williams.
- The episode title comes from a quote from William Shakespeare's Hamlet: "There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy".
- In the episode, Lex Luthor is seen wearing a green and purple letterman jacket, a reference to the colors of his signature power suit he wears in the comics.
- End Credits Image: Clark, Lois and Jimmy enjoy ramen on the roof of the Daily Planet.
- Mr. Olsen’s Bank Account: Jimmy starts at roughly $5.4 million but buys Valentines Day cards that shoot confetti for all his co-workers which cost $163,378. He then rented a private jet to take him and Lois to Antarctica which cost over $1 million. Roughly $4.5 million remains.
Events[]
- Battle at the Ruins of the Kryptonian WarShip
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Gallery[]
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