Lois receives two tickets for the cruise from Brian on her birthday. She and Peter go on the trip, leaving the rest of the family behind. Stewie gets angry and vows to kill Lois.
He drives a speedboat to board the ship, shooting Lois repeatedly with a machine-gun until she falls into the ocean.

A year later, Lois is still missing and thought to be dead. Brian suspects that Stewie murdered Lois, prompting Stewie to throw the gun in the garbage cans.

Joe, Quagmire and Cleveland become suspicious about Lois' death after learning that Peter bought an insurance policy for her right before her death. They come to Peter's house looking for evidence and find the gun Stewie dumped.

The court finds Peter guilty. Before he is sentenced to lifetime imprisonment, Lois shows up and clears the air that it was Stewie that shot her.

To be continued.

Jack is a carpenter fired by his father recently; Joy is a stockbroker dumped by his fiance. They both go to Vegas to seek excitement. They meet in a hotel room which is double booked and get married while inebriated after partying all night. The next day, they plan to divorce before Jack hits the jackpot and wins 3 million dollars. Back to New York, the judge forces them to live together for six months until then they can't get a penny. They both attempt to sabotage one another's image in order to get the other's share. During the process, they start to develop a true love.

Another phantom zone escapee, who feeds on human bones, is eliminated by a mysterious bold man who is more powerful than Clark. Bronson escaped from Level 33.1, Lex's secret laboratory which is dedicated to research people who has been affected by meteor rock; he kidnaps Lex imprisoning him in a different frequency plane, threatening to kill Lana if Lex doesn't tell him what he has done to the place after he finds out the laboratory is gone. With Jimmy's help, Chloe is able to get them back to the normal frequency, but not before Lex kills Bronson.
In the end, Lex proposes to Lana.

Peter, Cleveland, Joe and Quagmire build a men's club after their wives start hanging out at the Drunken Clam. During a party, Joe is frustrated that he is unable to dance with his wife.
Tired of being handicapped, he decides to seek Dr. Hartman's help.

Joe receives a leg transplant and is able to walk again. He soon realizes that Peter, Cleveland and Quagmire are not in the same league as him, so he decides to hang out with his new friends who are all exercise-maniacs.

Getting fed up with Joe's arrogance, Peter hatches a plan to re-cripple Joe, but the three armed men are defeated by a barehanded Joe. Bonnie takes matters into her own hands and fires at his spine several times, but misses, prompting Joe to shoot himself.

Joe apologizes to his friends, and they are reconciled.

Oliver is shot while trying to stop a mugging. Having read the news about this event, Clark goes to check on him, only to find a perfectly healthy Oliver exercising, but there is a change in his personality. While leaving, Clark uses his x-ray ability to find that Oliver is injecting himself. With Chloe's help, Clark is able to locate a research facility sponsored by Oliver, and they find a drug that heals all kinds of wound instantly. Oliver confronts Lex and shoots him after he refuses to give away his fortune. Lex survives after being injected with the healing drug.
Oliver finally snaps out of it.

Lana is pregnant.

Baern, one of the phantom zone escapee, seeks revenge against Clark; he feeds off radioactive energy, and after absorbing enormous energy from the box Lex possesses, he goes to kill Clark. Baern kills Raya before annihilated by Jor'EL's crystal. With enough power to reactivate the fortress, Clark decides to complete his training, but not before defeating the other three phantom zoners.

In the flackback, Lex and Duncan find out that Oliver and his friends has stolen the answer to the midterm test. While Lex wants to take advantage of this opportunity to make friends with Oliver, Duncan objects, so Lex beats him up. Duncan is later hit by a car and presumably died.

Lex meets Oliver at the highschool reunion, where Alden(Oliver's friend) is killed by a falling statue. Before long, Geffery, anthother friend of Oliver, dies in a car explosion.

Lex and Lana narrowly escape from a falling chandelier, and Lana is hospitalized. When going into the matter, Clark discovers that Duncan is alive, and all this years he has been receiving treatment from Lionel; the most recent treatment gives him the ability of telepathy.

Oliver is Impaled on a wall by an arrow which Duncan's spirit controls, before he can be killed by another arrow, Clark arrives, and who didn't see that coming.

Brian grudgingly moves in with Jillian, but he realizes that he can't afford the rent.With the money made from paper route, Stewie offers to pay half the rent on condition of living with them; Brian agrees. Jillian breaks up with Brian after finds out about his reluctance of living with her.
On Stewie's advice, Brian tries to reconcile with her, only to find that she has already moved in with Mayor West. Now that the relationship is over, Brian goes back to living with the Griffins.

Wearing a valuable necklace given by Lionel, Martha goes to a party held by Lionel Luthor. During the party, a mysterious man disturbs the crowd with an arrow before grabbing Martha's necklace and runs off. Clark, after investigation, finds out that the thief is Oliver Queen, a billionaire who has stolen valuable things not only from Lionel, but also from other insidious rich people, and then donates to charity. Clark is impressed and helps Oliver to escape before Lois can unveil his identity. Grateful for Clark's help, Oliver gives the necklace back and they have a conversation about how to use Clark's power to help the world.

While the Griffins are watching TV, the power goes out. To entertain his family, Peter starts to tell a Star War IV story featuring Family Guy characters instead of the original cast. The plot is almost the same as that of the original story, so PASS.

Gloria, a criminals escaped from Phantom zone, has resided in Smallville, copulating with human male to
breed. With Chloe's help, Clark manages to gasify her with electricity.

Lex throws a charity ball to raise money for those who suffer from Dark Thursday. Lois meets Oliver Queen, a billionaire, and they go to the ball together.

When playing with Rachel, eight-year-old Bruce Wayne develops a fear of bats after falling into a well where he is attacked by swarms of bats. Having left the opera early, both Wayne's parents are shot dead after being mugged. The murderer is arrested, but Wayne still blame himself for the accident because it's him who urged his parents to leave.

Back from college, Wayne is furious to hear that Chill(the murderer who killed his parents) is about to be paroled after he testifies against mob boss Felcone. Carrying a gun, he is waiting outside the court, intending to kill Chill. But while he is hesitating, Chill is shot by a female assassin who is apparently sent by Felcone. After scolded by Felcone for being innocence of the desperate lives, Wayne resolves to travel the world to experience poverty and crime; he is apprehended by Chinese police and put in jail until approached by Ducard, who frees him and invites him to join his group: the League of Shadows. In the temple where the group assemble, Wayne meets the leader of the group, Ra's al Ghul, and he is trained to conquer his fear by Ducard. After refusing to execute a farmer, Wayne sets the temple on fire and engages in a fight with Ra's. A beam falls down crushing Ra's to death; Wayne saves his unconscious mentor and jumps out the temple before it explodes.

Returning to Gotham, Wayne prepares to fight the corrupt city. With the help of Alfred(his butler) and Fox(former board member of his father's company), he designs a black suit with bat as a symbol and other paraphernalia; Batman was born. Felcone and his henchmen are uploading drugs at a dock when Batman interferes. Felcone is tied to a searchlight forming a bat symbol in the sky.

Rachel confronts Dr. Crane, who is a psychopharmacologist at Arkham Asylum and a partner of Felcone, about Felcone's convenient mental breakdown after his arrest. Crane reveals that he has invented a type of fear-inducing drugs which can cause hallucinations upon inhaling, and they are putting it into Gotham's water supply to purge the city. Rachel is drugged. Batman then comes to the rescue, bring her back to his manor driving his Batmobile, just in time to inoculate her.

At Wayne's birthday party, Ducard shows up revealing himself as the real Ra's al Ghul. Wayne delivers a insulting speech to the guests and disperses them before Ducard sets his manor on fire. Alfred saves an unconscious Wayne and they narrowly escape the explosion.

Meanwhile, at the Narrow section of Gotham, Ducard and his followers are installing a microwave emitter which will vaporize Gotham's water, eventually resulting in releasing the fear-inducing drug into the air. All prisoners at Arkham Asylum are set free by Ducard's men, including Dr. Crane, who proceeds to chase Rachel, but she manages to stave him of with a razer. With the water vaporized, the drug is releasing into the air, all the people are infected except for Ducard, the ninjas, sergeant Gordon and Rachel. Batman arrives, and after rescuing Rachel from a group of infected people, he intimates to her his identity then takes off with Rachel shouting his name.

Ducard carries the microwave emitter on a monotrain, heading to the center of the city, vaporizing water all the way. Batman enlists Sergeant Gordon's help to devastate the base of the monorail in order to prevent him from approaching the water main. Driving the Batmobile, Gordon suscessfully destroys it. On board the train, Batman picks up a fight with Ducard. After defeating him, Batman jumps out of train, leaving Ducard crash with it.

Back at the ruins of his manor, Wayne decides to rebuild it. Rachel comes over and they kiss each other. But she then makes it clear that she can't accept his dual identity. Gordon using the searchlight to form a bat symbol to pay homage to Batman, and though the drug is under control, the city is suffering from the aftermath, as half of the prisoners of the Arkham Asylum are at large; especially a psycho who left a joker at the crime scene, and Batman agrees to take care of it. Leaving a cliffhanger for the sequel.