Astrid awoke chained to a post deep within the cave and saw Barry across from her. She wasn't sure how either of them had gotten there. Barry was unconscious and they both seemed to be bound by power dampening cuffs. Fortunately, nobody else was with them. "Barry!" she whispered loudly. "Barry, you need to wake up!"

Barry groaned. Then his head lolled about but then he opened his eyes. "Astrid, where are we?"

"I'm not sure… we seemed to be deeper in that cave. Where are the others?"

Barry tried to determine what the last thing he could remember was. He remembered searching for her and then everything had gone dark. "Daemonites!" he exclaimed.

"Great! But why are we chained up?"

"I don't know. Shh… Somebody's coming."

Sure, enough they could hear the footsteps of somebody approaching. Astrid looked up at the sharply dressed business man with the bald head. Lex Luthor. But then she remembered something… It wasn't Lex, it was an alien.

"Barry Allen… Astrid Sutherland… The two of you and your friends were responsible for the massacre of many of my species… You started a war."

Astrid felt the desire to argue but Barry shook his head to tell her not to. They both remained silent.

"I have rendered the two of you powerless… We are surrounded by the music of the congregating humans and thick rock… No one will be able to hear you scream."

"What do you want with us?" Astrid demanded to know.

The creature in Lex's body sneered in her direction. "I merely want to take the two of you out of the picture. I do not need a repeat of last time."

"You were the one speaking on the news," Barry said.

"Oh no, that was my host. I have just recently taken over his body. I simply agree with his desire to wipe out all meta-humans… the less there are to save the day, the easier humans will be to enslave."

"Slavery, really?" Astrid scoffed. "We've taken down bigger baddies. What makes you think that you will succeed?"

Lex Luthor sniggered. "Oh, we have been studying your kind. We witnessed your battle in Central City with the Overmaster… This time you will not have that powerful doctor with his cape to protect you."

Astrid looked over at Barry, neither of them had a plan of how to break free.

Cisco trailed the cave looking for any sign of Astrid and Barry. They were simply gone, and he was alone. He had clearly taken a wrong turn at some point because he found himself in a small room where there was some large metallic object hidden away.

He ran his hands along the smooth black surface until they fell onto what looked like a smashed window. It was a pod. "Dude, where's ET?" he mumbled.

He pushed open the glass and examined the control panel in his full glory. Remembering his time on the Overmaster's ship he decided to find out if he could get this pod to work. It might just be of use.

Outside the cave, Caitlin checked over Clark's wellbeing.

"Caitlin, I'm okay… it must have just been that stone like you said." But Clark still seemed very fatigued.

"We can't risk you getting hurt, Clark… We're going to have to find a way to save them without risking your health."

"But that man wasn't Lex… He has your friends… Cisco will be no match for him and we need to get everybody out of the cave before he does something stupid."

"Clark, I'm sorry. I'm going to call your mother to come and get you. The kryptonite could kill you! We are not going to risk your heath to save my friends. We will find another way."

Caitlin pulled out her phone and started to call Martha. Before Martha could answer Caitlin looked up to see that Clark had disappeared.

She quickly ended the call and stared into the cave where she was sure that Clark had just left. "Clark?" she called out. "Clark!"

But he did not respond.

"Caitlin? DR Caitlin Snow?" the voice of a woman approaching her from in the distance forced her to turn to see just who was calling.

Caitlin immediately recognized the voice, but the woman was wearing a scarf over her head and a pair of sunglasses. "Pamela?" Caitlin asked softly.

The woman approached her and lowered her sunglasses. "I understand that you have been searching for me. So much has changed… Can we go somewhere to speak in private? There is a whole lot at stake here."

Caitlin weighed up her options. She needed to help her friends. "Pamela… I can't… my friends…"

But Pamela brought her finger to her lips. "Please, do not use my name… I might have a way to help them. But I need your help." The desperation on the woman's face was urgent. Caitlin had no choice but to accompany her.