Lara Lor-Van Was In Kandor, On The Planet Krypton, For A Party With Her Mother And Sister Zora. She'D Brought Kal-El Along With Her, Leaving Jor-El Behind To Present The Science Guild Awards For The Year. Jor-El Abruptly Contacted Her Via The Teleband, Advising Her To Take Kal-El And Flee Kandor Immediately. Professor Van-Da, Who Killed Himself Just As Jor-El Was Presenting Him With The Cosmology Award, Allowed An Alien Consciousness To Enter The Network. Kandor Would Be Collected In Order To Protect It From Krypton'S Impending Destruction, According To The Intelligence, And Jor-El, As The Planet'S Foremost Scientific Mind, Would Deliver The News. Soon After, A Ship Appeared In Krypton'S Atmosphere, Announcing That The Planet'S Database Had Been Copied And That The Planet Was On The Verge Of Being Destroyed. Kandor Was Cut From The Surface Of Krypton As The Terminauts Collected Important Artefacts For Preservation, And Lara Narrowly Escaped While Her Mother And Sisters Were Trapped.
Now, Clark Kent Awakens From His Vivid Dream To Find Mrs. Nyxly And A Group Of Police Officers Led By Inspector Blake Knocking On His Door. They Begin Searching Clark'S Apartment, Warning Him That Media Mogul Glen Glenmorgan Is More Powerful Than He Realises, And That Clark'S Apparent Agenda At The Daily Star, As Well As His Obvious Sympathies For The Alien Superman, Will Get Him Into Trouble. After Completing Their Search, The Officers Must Admit That, Despite Clark'S Obvious Weirdness, They Found Nothing Incriminating. Mrs. Nyxly Reveals To Clark After They'Ve Left That She'D Found His Superman Cape And Hidden It From Them.
Later, Clark And Jimmy Olsen Eat Lunch In A Diner And Watch A News Report In Which Mr. Glenmorgan Declares Superman To Be An Alien And A Threat To Society. Clark Is Outraged That The Media Portrays Superman As An Alien Invader, To Which Jimmy Responds That Glenmorgan Owns The Television Station And Is Using Superman To Distract Attention Away From Himself.
Perry White Sent Lois To Offer Jimmy An Escape Route Through The Daily Planet, Jimmy Explains. Clark Declines, Assuming That Because Glenmorgan Owns The Planet, It'S All A Ruse To Silence His Critics At The Daily Star.
Later, As Clark Sits On A Park Bench Working On His Laptop, A Homeless Woman Approaches Him And Claims That The Ghost Of A White Dog Is Watching Over Him. After That, He Gets A Call From "Icarus," An Informant Who Tells Him That He Needs To Keep Pushing Glenmorgan Because He'S Getting Close To The Breaking Point. Glenmorgan, According To Icarus, Staged The Bullet Train Crash In Order To Assassinate Angus Grundig And Anyone Else Who Might Tell The Truth About Him. Meanwhile, He Plans To Replace The Current Subway System With His Own Robotic Subway Renovation, Which Will Be Constructed With Low-Cost Parts And Labour. Clark Is Directed To The Factory For Tomorrow By The Voice, Who Cautions Him Not To Lose His Nerve.
Meanwhile, People All Over The City Are Growing Suspicious Of Superman. On Live Television, Squatters Living In The Building That Was Destroyed At Lex Luthor'S Command Now Blame The Man Who Saved Them. Even When Superman Attempts To Save A Young Girl'S Cat From A Tree, She Recoils In Terror.
Clark Gets An Interview With Mr. Tide, The Factory For Tomorrow Supervisor In Charge Of The Robotic Subway Renovation Project, A Few Days Later. To Expose Tide'S Lack Of Concern About The Fact That His Robots Will Make Many Manual Labourers Redundant, Resulting In Mass Layoffs, Clark Takes The Lead In The Conversation. Tide Reacts Angrily, Having Mistakenly Believed He Was Being Interviewed For A Puff Piece, And Expresses His Growing Frustration With The Large Number Of Reporters Present. Lois And Jimmy Are Also At The Factory, Pursuing The Same Lead, But Tide Decides To Have Them All Thrown Out.
However, The Mysterious Alien Intelligence That Attacked Krypton Decades Ago Seizes Control Of The Factory'S Robotics, Converting Them Into "Terminauts," And Announcing That The Earth'S Database Has Been Copied In Advance Of The Planet'S Impending Destruction.
Meanwhile, Under The Supervision Of Luthor And General Lane, John Corben Is Being Outfitted With The Steel Soldier Armour At A Military Base. However, As The Alien Intelligence Begins To Take Control Of The Armour, Luthor Reveals His Alliance With The Entity, Which Demands That He Deliver Superman As Promised.