A group of cops gone bad attempt to kill police lieutenant Zeke Harris and Lana witnesses the shooting. The ""dirty"" cops chase after her and she avoids them. She leaves a message for Clark at his dorm. She then takes up with an ex-hippie in his trailer outside of the city. But the dirty cops find her there and this time she can't escape. Superboy finds the message on the answering machine and arrives just in time to save Lana from a horrible death at the hands of one of the dirty cops.