“30 Days and 30 Nights” is episode nine of season two of Superman and Lois.
In the previous episode, “Into Oblivion”, Lucy drugged her father to get his pass. This episode opens with Sergeant Wu using that pass to free Ally Allston. She tells Ally they’ve fixed the suit too. Sam comes around to hear his phone ringing and Ally, dressed in the alternate’s suit, is approaching the portal. Wu wants her to save Anderson.
Clark wakes up, telling Lois that Anderson broke out of the DoD and flies to the mine. Wu tells him he’s too late. Ally has made it to the other side and not even Superman can make it through in clothing. So, Superman flies around until he’s covered in debris and heads through.
The world is wondering where Superman is. John Henry and Natalie are working on a new suit. There are more disasters happening (and, oddly, no other superheroes trying to stop them). Finally, a plane with two engines in fire is heading into Metropolis. Then John Henry flies up in a new suit, catches it and puts out the engines. The news wonders if he’s a new ‘Man of Steel’.
One month later and Lois isn’t doing much. Jonathan comes down and she asks where Jordan is. Outside, listening again. Lois joins him and he says that dad has never been gone this long. Lois is sure he has a really good reason.
Natalie is ruining waffles when John Henry arrives and says they need to get to the rally. Lana is telling everyone that the polls are open. Lois greets her; Clark is supposedly working on a big case in Metropolis. Lana is asking Lois to look at her speeches when someone starts having a go at Jonathan for ruining the football season. Coach tells him lots of people feel the same way. Jonathan heads out.
Sarah is talking to Jordan about how he seems distant. He isn’t paying attention. Then hears Kyle and his crew fighting a fire and excuses himself as John Henry and Natalie arrive. The fire is getting out of control. And weird.
Sarah and Natalie are talking when Natalie sees her father talking to Lana and excuses herself as sirens pass. The fire is now out of control and Kyle gets knocked down and set on fire. Jordan arrives and extinguishes the fire, sees they are surrounded and, for the first time and very briefly, flies. John Henry arrives suited up and starts putting out the fire, telling him he needs to get out of there.
Natalie is looking at photos of her family when Sarah joins her. She says her dad is flirting with Sarah’s married mother. Sarah thinks married is a strong word currently, if it helps. It doesn’t. Nat apologises. Today is the day her mother died and her father is acting as if she didn’t even exist. She spent an hour trying to recreate her mother’s waffle recipe and he didn’t even notice. Sarah suggests doing the same thing to remember Natalie’s mother as they do to remember her grandfather. They just need a picture of Natalie’s mother. And Natalie definitely doesn’t want to share those.
Natalie asks Lois to take her home as Lana gets a call. She and her daughters find Kyle at the hospital. He says it was a strange fire.
Jordan returns home and tells Jonathan what happened and that he flew. Jonathan is impressed, but tells Jordan to tell their mother, as John Henry might have seen him. It’s not worth the risk being on her bad side. And Jonathan doesn’t know what to do to fix things with his father, who isn’t even there. He doesn’t know if he’ll even get the chance.
The AI is telling John that the fire’s accelerant was X-K when Natalie returns home with Lois and storms off. John realises what day it is. He forgot. And there’s something he needs to tell Lois. Which Jordan says too as she returns home. She already knows, and she isn’t happy. She’s not happy with Sam either.
John speaks to Natalie. He doesn’t want to forget their Lois, but she didn’t see what obsessing over her death turned him into.
Superman is still gone and Lois is reaching her limits. Sarah is worried about her father and not pleased with Jordan’s lack of sharing. If she knew why he wasn’t sharing, it might be different, but that in and of itself is sharing. And the X-K operation is bigger than thought.