Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
Season 1, Episode 12 (12 Dec. 1993): “Honeymoon in Metropolis”
by Daniel LeVine, James A. Contner

Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman - Season 1, Episode 12

Title: “Honeymoon in Metropolis”

Medium: television series episode

Original airdate: 12 Dec. 1993

Publisher:
Written by: Daniel LeVine
Directed by: James A. Contner

8 characters in this story:

Character (Click links for info about character and his/her religious practice, affiliation, etc.)	Religious Affiliation	Team(s) [Notes]	Pub.	# app.
Superman (Clark Kent)	Methodist / Kryptonian religion	Kryptonians; Super Friends...  The Justice League		13,409
Lois Lane	Catholic	Raleigh College [Superman's girlfriend, then wife]		3,859
Jimmy Olsen	Lutheran	The Legion of Super-Heroes [Superman's pal]		1,896
Perry White	Baptist; Elvis worship (ordained)	[Superman's (Clark Kent's) boss; Daily Planet editor]		1,574
Jonathan Kent	Methodist	[Superman's adoptive father]		816
Martha Kent	Methodist	[Superman's adoptive mother]		827
Lex Luthor	Episcopalian (lapsed); Nietzschean atheist	Injustice League; Secret Six...  Secret Society of Super Villains; The Injustice Gang; The Legion of Doom		1,508
Cat Grant	Catholic (lapsed); promiscuous hedonist	[Daily Planet gossip columnist; co-worker of Clark Kent]		140

Timecode: 1 minute, 10 seconds: Lois Lane is leaving from the office a little early. Her co-workers think she is rushing off to pursue a big suite. With great difficulty (including showing them her printed reservation), she tries to convince them that she is simply taking some personal time. She has a reservation in the nicest hotel in Metropolis, to simply spend a night of luxury by herself. She rented the honeymoon suite, but only because that was all that was available. Her co-workers are skeptical. They still think she might be pursuing a news story. She is something of a workaholic.

Perry White: Now, Lois, you've got to admit, the idea of you spending a night just relaxing is a little farfetched.

Lois Lane: Oh ye of little faith.

Note that this Biblical phrase is spelled "O ye of little faith" in the King James Version of the Bible. It occurs in a number of places. For example:

Luke 12:27: Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
Luke 12:28: If then God so clothe the grass, which is to day in the field, and to morrow is cast into the oven; how much more will he clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Matthew 8:25 And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.
Matthew 8:26 And he saith unto them, Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith? Then he arose, and rebuked the winds and the sea; and there was a great calm.

Matthew 14:30 But when he [Peter] saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid; and beginning to sink, he cried, saying, Lord, save me.
Matthew 14:31 And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

The phrase "Oh ye of little faith" is a sufficiently common phrase that it does not necessarily represent an attempt to be overtly religious, although certainly Lois is aware of the Biblical origin and overtones of the phrase.

In the next scene that Lois was telling the complete truth. She really is spending a night alone in the luxury honeymoon suite at the nicest hotel in Metropolis. We see her lounging in a bathrobe, watching television while eating snacks, and then taking a bubble bath.

While enjoying her stay in a luxury hotel suite, Lois Lane happened to look out her window and see, in the building across the street, Congressman Ian Harrington receiving money in an envelope from a man in a suite. It certainly looked like a U.S. congressman taking a bribe. Lois managed to grab her camera and take a number of photographs. Now she is in the offices o fthe Daily Planet, showing the developed photos to her co-workers. She had not planned on doing any work whatsoever during her personal vacation stay in the hotel, but she certainly wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to take photos when she saw an exclusive news story in the making.

Timecode: 5 minutes, 39 seconds: Cat Grant recognizes the congressman in his photos. Cat's one-track mind is once again in evidence here, as she thinks of the congressman in the context of sex, not politics.

Cat Grant: Isn't that--

Lois Lane: Congressman Ian Harrington.

Clark Kent: Chairman of the House Defense Committee.

Cat Grant: And the most notoriously sexy man in Washington.

Lois Lane: Unsubstantiatted rumors.

Cat Grant: Hm. The best kind.

Perry White points to a blow-up photo of the man with the Congressman.

Perry White: Jimmy, who's that joker?

Jimmy Olsen: Uh, we don't know, but, uh, I'm running the identify program looking for a match.

Lois Lane: We do know the offices are leased to a company called Apocalypse Consulting.

Seriously? A consulting company that names itself Apocalypse, after the time of war, famine, plague and pestilence prophesied in Revelation of John in the New Testament, in the Bible? Is there any doubt that this is going to turn out to be a nefarious company in this episode?

Lois Lane: Chief, I was just thinking.

Perry White: Let me just take a wild guess here. You want the Daily Planet to put you up in the honeymoon suite until we can figure out what's happening with Apocalypse Consulting.

Lois Lane: Thanks, Chief.

Perry White: Now, wait, wait, wait. Just hold on, Lois. We're talking a major surveillance operation here.

Lois Lane: This is major. A Washington VIP selling highly classified information.

Perry White: Maybe I should contact my source. The source. Find out if there's anythingn to this before we get in too deep.

Jimmy Olsen: You don't--

Perry White: Don't even think about saying that name.

Clark Kent: Who?

Perry White: Hey, hey! Okay, you guys. You've got three nights.

Lois Lane: Guys?

Perry White: You and Clark.

Lois Lane: Did you say Clark?

Clark Kent: I heard him say Clark.

Jimmy Olsen: He definitely said Clark.

Cat Grant: Definitely.

Cat Grant has a hurt, disappointed look on her face. It has long been her desire to seduce Clark Kent and/or spend the night with him. But she has never been able to. Now she hears that the Daily Planet will be putting Lois Lane up in a luxury hotel room with Clark. She is jealous and disappointed that it was not her who had this opportunity. Lois, on the other hand, is not happy about the idea.

Lois Lane: I'm not staying in the honeymoon suite with Clark. How would that look?!

Perry White: The honeymoon suite? It's a natural.

Lois Lane: But--!

Perry White: Lois, think this through. How are you gonna maintain round-the-clock surveillance all by yourself? You're gonna need help.

Lois Lane: But I--

Perry White: Besides, what hotel is gonna sit still while we're using it as a base for spy operations? You need a cover.What better cover than honeymooners in the honeymoon suite?

Clark Kent: It would be business, Lois. Strictly business.

Perry White: Now, that's the deal. Take it or leave it.

Lois Lane: I'll take it.

Lois Lane agrees to the arrangement, but she looks very displeased.

Perry White: Good.

Clark Kent: Just don't try anything funny.

Clark Kent walks away. Lois Lane is fuming.

Timecode: 7 minutes, 39 seconds: Clark Kent carries Lois Lane over the threshhold of the door to the honeymoon suite. Jimmy Olsen arrives, carrying suitcases full of camera surveillance equipment.

Jimmy Olsen: Can I, uh, kiss the bride?

Lois Lane: The next person that makes a newlywed joke gets fitted for a body cast.

Cat Grant: Whoo! Count me in!

Cat Grant's words are heard before we see her arrive. Cat enters the room. Somehow Cat even managed to inject prurient sexual innuendo into Lois Lane's comment about getting "fitted for a body cast."

Lois Lane: What're you doing here? We're supposed to be undercover.

Cat Grant: I was at a reception downstairs, so I thouht I'd just pop up and say hello.

Lois Lane: [To Jimmy] What about you?

Jimmy Olsen: Surveillance equipment.

We see Cat Grant go through a series of actions that demonstrate she has been to this honeymoon suite many times before. She knows exactly where everything is and she knows how to operate the various controls and gadgets in the room. She pushes a button on a wall and a section of a wall opens up, revealing a wet bar. She jiggles the ear on a statue and it dispenses ice. She expertly mixes a drink. Sh sits in a chair and claps her hands to trigger it massage mechanism. Lois Lane, Clark Kent and Jimmy Olsen can't help but notice that Cat is extremely familiar with the suite.

Lois Lane: Why do I get the feeling you've been here before?

Cat Grant: This old place?

Cat chuckles. She turns to the end table next to the vibrating chair she is reclining in. She lifts up the table cloth covering the small table and reveals her name ("Cat") carved into the wood.

Cat Grant: It's kind of a home away from home.

Cat chuckles once again. Clearly Cat has been here many times, engaged in various trysts with untold numbers of well-heeled illicit lovers.

Timecode: 12 minutes, 15 seconds: Lois Lane goes to bed in the bedroom. Clark Kent remains in the outer room, trying to sleep on the couch. With his super hearing, Clark hears Lois undressing for bed. Clark walks to the closed door of the bedroom. He takes off his glasses, preparing to use his X-ray vision to look through the door and get a look at Lois. But before he does so, he stops himself. He is determined not to invade Lois Lane's privacy even in this slight way. How knows it would be unethical and immoral. Clark goes back to the couch and lies down. He is frustrated, but remains pure.

Timecode: 14 minutes, 47 seconds:

Congressman Ian Harrington: No, I just meant, are you sure you can pull this off?

Rourke (man who is bribing the congressman): I guarantee it.

Congressman Harrington: Because if you don't, what happens to me?

Rourke: Pray you never find out.

This does not appear to be a sincere expression of religious belief on the part of Rourke, who is apparently the principle guest villain of this episode. Rather, this is a traditional villainous threat.

Timecode: 16 minutes, 56 seconds: We see Lex Luthor for the first time in this episode. As has been the case in most episodes of this TV series thus far, Lex Luthor is somehow connected criminal goings-on that are part of the episode's central plot. We see Lex Luthor sitting in the back of his limousine, talking on a car phone. He has a thick paperback book perched on his knee, which he was reading before this phone call interrupted him. Note that we can clearly see the name of the author on the book: Friedrich Nietzsche. This is very appropriate. Although Lex Luthor has demonstrated admiration for a number of prominent thinkers of the past, including Sun Tzu and Alexander the Great, nobody can more accurately be described as the "prophet" whose teachings are followed by Lex Luthor than the 19th Century German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Based on Lex Luthor's manifest behavior and stated philosophy, one could well think that Friedrich Nietzsche's writing, including Will to Power and Man and Superman, are as scripture to Luthor.

Timecode: 21 minutes, 48 seconds: In the second day of surveillance, their situation prompts Lois to ask Clark an interesting question while making smalltalk.

Lois Lane: Have you ever lived with anyone? I mean, a full-time relationship with a member of the opposite sex?

Clark Kent: No, not full-time.

Lois Lane: Me, neither. I mean, full-time.

Lois Lane has left the suite. Unbeknownst to Clark, she is going to the room they are surveiling to break in and get a look at some documents. Clark Kent's parents call him. Perry White gave them his phone number there at the Lexor Hotel honeymoon suite. Clark's parents try to be polite, but it is clear that they are very curious about what he is doing staying in a honeymoon suite, and they are more than a little worried that their son is either engaging in premarital sex or getting married without them present.

Timecode: 24 minutes, 50 seconds: The phone rings. Clark picks it up.

Clark Kent: Hello?

Martha Kent: Clark Kent. What are you doing in the honeymoon suit of the Lexor Hotel?

Clark Kent: How did you find us?

Jonathan Kent: Perry White gave us the number.

Martha Kent: [Sounding concerned] You and Lois? Is that . . . Does everybody know?

Clark Kent: Ug. Sure, Mom, it's no problem. We're registered as husband and wife.

Jonathan Kent: [Hesitantly] Well, uh, Clark, is there anything you'd like to tell us?

Clark Kent: Not really. Things are going pretty smoothly, assuming Lois keeps her end of the bargain and lets me have my turn in the bedroom tonight.

Clark had arranged with Lois to alternate nights sleeping on the bed versus the couch. The looks on Jonathan and Martha's faces indicate they don't quite know what to make of this. Clark says this innocently enough. He can't see the expressions on his parents' faces and he is so absorbed in reading a work-related report and thinking about the news story he is working on that he really doesn't comprehend what his parents are thinking right now.

Jonathan Kent: I . . . That would be, uh, oh . . . I'm sure she will, son.

Martha Kent: Uh, honey, uh . . .

Clark sees something happening in the room across the street, the room they have been spying on in order to gather more information about the scandal with the congressman. He sees Lois enter that room. She had not told him that she was planning to go there and break in.

Clark Kent: Mom, hold on a second. Uh, oh! Lois! What are you doing?!

Clark's parents can't see what is going on there. They may not realize that Lois isn't in the room with him at the time. Clark is saying Lois's name and "speaking" to her, but of course she can't hear him. He is just frustrated to see her taking a risk like this by breaking into the room across the street.

Martha Kent: Gee, Clark if we called at a bad time . . .

Clark Kent: No, no, no, no, Mom, it's not like that, I just . . .

Martha Kent: Honey, you can tell us.

Clark Kent: Ah, ugh. Lois! [Clark sees people - the bad guys - entering the office across the street. Lois is in a back room of the office, so the bad guys do not immediately see her. Clark knows he has to act quickly - as Superman - lest Lois be caught and quite probably harmed.]

Clark Kent: Mom, Lois is in trouble.I'll call you back tomorrow.

Martha Kent: Clark?

Clark hangs up the phone and rushes to save Lois. He does so as Superman, but in such a way that nobody sees him or knows he is there.

Timecode: 43 minutes, 41 seconds: After the investigation is over and the evil-doer Thaddeus Rourke has been thwarted and jailed, Clark Kent is back in his own bed in his own apartment. He calls his parents.

Clark Kent: I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression, Mom.

Martha pretends that she hadn't been thinking what she had actually been thinking when she last called Clark on the phone at the honeymoon suite.

Martha Kent: The wrong impression? Whatever do you mean, Clark?

Clark Kent: You know Lois and I are just friends and co-workers.

Jonathan Kent: Well . . . If you say so, Son.

Clark Kent: I mean, if anything ever . . . did happen between us . . . which is not to say that it would . . .

Martha Kent: We understand.

Clark Kent: . . . it would be because we'd gotten to know each other really well . . . and . . . I mean, it wouldn't be impulsive.

Martha Kent is smiling broadly, but trying to be quite so that Clark doesn't sense her glee. Is she happy to hear Clark express this "moral values" - that he is committed to not sleeping with people "impulsively," but that he would only do so after "getting to know somebody really well"? This level of restraint in sexual behavior falls short of Biblical and traditional religious teachings about abstaining from sex outside of marriage, but perhaps this is sufficient enough to satisfy Clark's mother? This might be part of why Martha looks happy. Certainly Martha was concerned earlier in this episode and in previous episodes that Clark might be rushing into an intimate relationship. Maybe, despite her religious values (portrayed more explicitly in comics than in this TV series, which does not explicitly identify her as a weekly churchgoer), Martha is simply relieved that Clark is demonstrating some morality and adherence to their traditional values, even though he is not in this conversation explicitly saying that he will absolutely refrain from sex until he is married.

But from the looks on her face and the way she and her husband act, it seems that the bigger part of the reason that Clark's parents look happy is that they are happy to see Clark growing closer to a wonderful young woman who he clearly respects and admires deeply and who they like as well (having met her when she came to Smallville in an earlier episode).

Jonathan Kent: That is very sensible, Clark.

Jonathan fights to keep from laughing.

Clark Kent: So . . .

Clark wonders where he stands with his parents now that he has explained things to them. He seeks their approval and wants very much to avoid giving them the impression that he is sleeping with Lois, or getting close to that point.

Martha Kent: So you really liked being with her, didn't you?

Clark Kent chuckles upon hearing his mother's words. Martha Kent struggles to keep herself from busting out laughing. Clark can't see that, of course. He is relieved that he is not going to be scolded by his parents. He smiles, starting to realize that his parents having something else on their mind other than his moral purity. They're also interested and enthusiastic about his love life.

Clark Kent: I--

Jonathan Kent: Goodnight, Son.

Clark Kent: Good night, Dad. Good night, Mom.

Martha Kent: Good night, honey.

Martha and Jonathan hang up. They laugh out loud and hug each other. Clark Kent hangs up his phone, smiling, shaking his head slightly, appreciative but also wondering at his parents' intense level of involvement with his adult life.

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