Clark's uncle (Martha's brother) rings the Kent House early morning to ask whether they've seen Leah, Clark's adopted cousin whom he hasn't seen in eight years.
Martha answers the phone while Lois wipes the table after breakfast. Clark has gone to the Daily Planet since Chloe called him.
Martha: Hello?
Jim: Martha?
Martha: Oh, Jim! How are you? Haven't heard from you in a while...and I mean a while.
Jim: Yes, I've been great. Listen, have you heard from Leah?
Martha transfers the phone from her left to her right ear.
Martha: Jim, I haven't heard from her since you sent her to boarding school eight years ago. Geez, time flies. Why, what happened?
Lois stops wiping the table and looks at Martha.
Jim: Nothing. She ran away from the school and we can't find her so that's why I called, I thought she might be there.
Martha's face becomes frustrated.
Martha: Well, Clark and I will keep an eye out.
Jim: Okay, call me if you find her.
Martha shakes her head and puts the phone down and cups her hands over her mouth.
Lois: Is everything okay?
Martha looks at Lois and smiles.
Martha: Umm...I really, I really don't know. My niece...
Lois waited for her to continue. Martha sighs.
Martha: She's...missing.
Lois' eyes widened.
Lois: You have a niece?
Martha nodded.
Martha: Yes, a beautiful one. But I haven't seen her since my brother sent her to boarding school. It's been what eight years. She'd be sixteen now, her sweet sixteen. Her birthday's coming up too.
Lois: You and her must've been really close.
Martha smiled.
Martha: We are. She was really close to Jonathan as well. She was adopted just like Clark and even though she's my brother's daughter she's like my own. The funny thing is that Jonathan actually put his last name onto her name as well.
Lois smiled at the sweetness of the family. She was really touched; no wonder "Clarkie" is as he is.
Lois: You guys must've been really sad when she left.
Martha: We were John and I...but Clark...he was worse. Even though there was a huge age gap between them they were so close. And when Leah left, he was such a mess. That's why we never talk about her. Or that's why...he never talks about her.
Lois continues wiping the table.
Martha: Lois...can you keep this a secret from Clark. He'll go completely berserk. And I want to find her first then tell him.
Lois nodded.
Lois: Yes senator.
Scene 2
Chloe finds out from the Daily Planet that Lois' ex-date, Jay (the one who can see people's history is actually part of a Meteor-Gifted group called the MG Clan) had been captured by Luthor Corp. Somehow, he is meant to be the bait for them to be able to capture someone more "special" whom they call AMCK.
Lois tries to find him and gets Clark and Oliver to help her save him and they manage to do so. Oliver looks for the information about "AMCK" whom Luthor Corp is trying to hunt but finds absolutely nothing.
Ollie, Lois, Clark, Chloe and Jay sit in Chloe's apartment at the Talon while Jay tells him about Lex wanting to really find this "special meteor-gifted person".
'So now Lex is playing detective?' asked Lois, her face confused, holding her coffee mug.
'Lex will play anything to get what he wants,' responded Oliver from the meal table.
'And I don't think returning her to her family is what he's gonna do,' spoke Chloe. They all turned to where she was sitting, engaged in her laptop.
'What are you doing?' questioned Clark as he stood behind her bending towards the laptop.
'Well, I'm researching. Look here,' she pointed to a paragraph on the screen, 'it says that... Luthor Corp had bought over a warehouse, now, why would he buy a new warehouse-become-lab when he already has so many?'
'Chloe, that doesn't mean anything,' said Oliver crossing his arms. Chloe looked from her laptop screen to Oliver, 'even if I said that the warehouse has concrete walls 5m thick?'
'Why does the up-to-date-with-technology Lex use concrete walls 5m thick? I mean with the technology that he just created a few months ago that could stop anything even a nuclear bomb to pass through why would he use concrete?' Clark scratched his chin while Lois took a sit leaning her head backwards. Chloe absorbed what Oliver was saying and thought of the answer.
'Well that's easy,' spoke Jay finally. He felt their daggering eyes at him. 'This very gifted girl is...well,' he breathed, looking for the word, 'very gifted. And she doesn't have many weaknesses that people know about.' Lois' eyebrows raised in puzzlement. 'And concrete walls are her weakness?'
Jay shook his head. 'Not exactly. It's really very complicated. I'd much rather not talk about it,' he replied so casually. Chloe and Lois exchanged glances wondering if this guy was for real. Clark let out a small laugh while Oliver just looked irritated that someone was wasting his time.
'So...how do we find her?' questioned Oliver going straight to the point. Jay shrugged, 'I don't know man. This girl doesn't like to be found. But...you can always begin with the files of our country's department of defence.'
Lois gasped. 'You mean the Pentagon?!'