While sharing a night of domesticated normalcy, a car explosion happens outside Lois' apartment. A former agent of the NIA has been murdered, over a laptop which he tells Lois and Superman to hold on to, for she was who he was coming to see when he was taken out. Lois and Clark enlist hacker Jimmy to look into the computer, not knowing that their current articles on the NIA have made them targets, and the person chosen to come "spy" on them is no one other than Jimmy's estranged father Jack. With the thoughts of children on his mind, Clark notices the strain between Jimmy in his father, given Jack's job broke up his family, even though neither his son nor his ex wife new exactly what Jack did for a living. Clark fears that given he is constantly being called to save the day, that when he and Lois do have children they won't even recognize him because they hardly ever see him. 

A fellow NIA agent by the name of Trevania wants to be the head of the NIA and he will use any means possible to make that possible, not to mention taking out the two reporters who seem to being running a constant smear campaign on the association.