10. Stop the Presses

Complete story — includes the ending

Perry gets a promotion and appoints Lois in his place as the new editor in chief of the Daily Planet. Lois is under pressure in her new position while Clark investigates a story that has to do with the disappearance of a black hat computer hacker, Eric Press (Jeff Juday). When strange things start to happen in Metropolis involving computers, Clark believes that Eric is involved but the lack of evidence leads Lois to kill his story. This leads to their first serious fight and causes troubles to their marriage. It is revealed that behind the hacking is indeed Eric but only because his brother Ethan ( Charles Esten ) forces him to do it since he wants to get revenge on Superman for killing his "idol", Lex Luthor. Both brothers are die hard Lex Luthor fans and want to get rid of Superman for this. Superman is out to encounter the two brothers while Lois puts the pieces together and realizes that Clark's story was important and that he is in danger. The two brothers block out the yellow sun to prevent Superman from recharging his powers and use a deadly weapon called the A-Tech Quantum Dispander (a new improved version of the Quantum Disrupter, the weapon Lex used to try to kill Superman in Seconds ) to kill him. Fortunately Superman gets his powers back and takes them into custody. Clark and Lois get back together and Perry, who is not really satisfied with his new position, asks Lois to run the paper together but Lois declines his offer telling him that she prefers to be a reporter as she has always been.