Plan B was for Jonathan to blow up the gold tower with dynamite.Alex disagreed, fearing: "If the explosion doesn""t kill us, the avalanche will." He proposed instead: "We ambush him with long-range rifles and silencers." Under the command of the Emperor, General Yang was ordered: "Clear a path to the Golden Tower.Prove yourself to me." Heavy bazooka fire was unleashed on the tower area, and Alex, Rick and Evelyn were overpowered, forcing their retreat from crossfire.Lana phoned the Smallville airport and ordered two plane tickets to Metropolis the following day.Meanwhile, a crowd gathered around the outside of the neighborhood St.Louis Hotel tavern in Metropolis, where a disgraceful Superman (with a stubbly beard and a completely dark costume) was on a drinking binge at the bar.She was startled and shrieked as she awakened, and then saw the bloody-faced killer (unmasked), alive and staring back at her from a second-story window.When the lights are turned back on, the sapphire is missing.Lady Patricia is angered at her adopted sons, believing that they are playing a cruel joke upon her, but each of them deny stealing it.Ben-Hur is sentenced into exile to the slave galleys, and forced to join other prisoners chained together on a forced march across the desert in the searing hot sun to Tyrus.