Superman: & Lois S02e13 Workprint _top_

The episode opens not in Smallville, but on a black screen. Audio only. Clark’s voice, ragged and distorted: “I saw it, Lo. The other side. It’s not empty. It’s hungry.” Then a flash of strobe-lit footage—Superman falling through a kaleidoscope of red skies, doppelgänger Earths, and a version of Lois who wears the Eradicator symbol. The workprint has no opening credits. Just a title card in Courier New: “DIRECTOR’S PROOF – NOT FOR REVIEW.”

The Cutter’s Cut

Here’s a story based on the fictional “Superman & Lois” Season 2, Episode 13 workprint. superman & lois s02e13 workprint

A leaked workprint of Superman & Lois S02E13 reveals a darker, more experimental version of the episode—one where Clark’s near-death experience fractures time itself, and Lois must talk him out of becoming the very thing he fights. The episode opens not in Smallville, but on a black screen

But the —a rough-cut, ungraded, temp-scored version leaked from a post-production house in Vancouver—tells a radically different story. The other side

Fans still debate whether the workprint represents a lost, darker vision for Season 2—or a deliberate plant to test audience appetite for a “Red Son” style Elseworlds. But one thing is certain: the official S02E13 is safe, warm, and hopeful. The workprint is a scar. And somewhere on a hard drive in Burbank, the full 58-minute director’s cut still exists, labeled: