Then Lois’s phone buzzes. A new message. No sender ID. Just a link.

“So it’s real,” she breathes.

Even the moment Superman looks directly into the lens and whispers: “Turn it off.”

She clicks it. A video file:

“Worse.” She turns the screen. On it, a grainy satellite image — but the timestamp is wrong. It’s from next week . “This was uploaded to a darknet forum six hours ago. Title: ‘Superman & Lois S02E13 1080p WEB-DL’.”