Sam is thrown across the room. Clark, arriving as Superman, enters the containment zone. For a moment, Bizarro looks at him not with rage but with desperate recognition. He whispers one clear word:
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Meanwhile, Jonathan tries out for quarterback. He’s good—really good—but Coach Gaines notices he’s playing with reckless abandon, almost like he’s trying to hurt himself. After practice, Jonathan ices his shoulder in the locker room alone. The camera lingers on his face: he’s angry, not just at Clark but at himself for not having powers. Lois visits the Shuster Mines with Chrissy Beppo. They find an abandoned research station with melted equipment and strange, glowing green crystals embedded in the walls. Not Kryptonite—something else. Lois records everything on her phone. Sam is thrown across the room
Clark is shaken. “He looks like me,” he whispers. Sam orders a DOD black site transport. Lois argues against it, fearing the military will only escalate things, but Sam insists: “We don’t know what he wants. But he came through a portal and almost killed your husband.” He whispers one clear word: Here’s a detailed
At breakfast, tensions rise. Jonathan reveals he tried out for the football team without telling Clark or Lois. Clark, distracted, mutters, “We’ll talk about it later.” Jonathan snaps, “You always say that.” Lois mediates, but it’s clear Clark is emotionally absent. Bizarro is chained in a red-sunlight room, weak but conscious. He mutters incoherent phrases in reverse: “...home... find... El...” Sam Lane orders a psychic probe using a device created by Dr. Faulkner (introduced last episode). The probe triggers a violent psychic backlash—Bizarro screams, and the entire facility shakes. Steel reinforcements bend like taffy.
He flies upward, tearing through six floors of concrete. Superman intercepts him above the desert. They clash—Bizarro is stronger but erratic. Their fight is brutal: Bizarro freezes Superman’s arm, Superman heat-visions the ice off. Bizarro lands a punch that sends Superman through a rock formation.
The Ties That Bind Air Date: January 18, 2022 Runtime: ~42 minutes Cold Open: The Bizarro Aftermath The episode opens in the shadow of the previous episode’s cliffhanger. At the debris-filled site of the mine explosion in Smallville, Lois and Clark stand with General Sam Lane. They’ve recovered an unconscious, burn-scarred figure wearing a tattered, inverted Superman suit (black with a white and red symbol). This is Bizarro , though no one calls him that yet.