lex came back in season 8 in requiem.
lex came back in season 8 in requiem.
when does lex come back in season 8?
requiem
oliver queen (justin hartley), a billionaire who left star city to live in metropolis, arrives in the season six episode "sneeze" to investigate lex luthor. in the episode "arrow", oliver begins masquerading around metropolis as a costumed vigilante, named "green arrow" by lois lane (erica durance), who robs from the rich—only taking objects he knows were already stolen by those wealthy individuals—and gives to the poor. oliver also begins a romantic relationship with lois. eventually, oliver's vigilante life takes priority, and he and lois break up when oliver is forced to leave town to investigate more of lex's machinations. in season eight's premiere, oliver moves back to metropolis, and begins searching for lex, who has been missing since the season seven finale. oliver believes he has tracked lex's whereabouts in the episode "bride", but he does not find lex when he arrives; instead, oliver reveals that he plans to kill lex when he does find him because of the threat he perceives lex poses to both clark and the rest of the world. in the episode "requiem", oliver takes controlling interest in luthorcorp after tess mercer (cassidy freeman), lex's handpicked successor for luthorcorp, sells him the company. as a result, lex attempts to kill him. oliver tracks lex down and blows-up the medical caravan that lex was supposedly traveling in.
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it is not just the women in his life that lex has a difficult time maintaining a healthy relationship with, but his father as well. rosenbaum characterizes the relationship between lex and lionel as a form of tug-of-war, and disagrees with john glover's assessment that lionel is merely testing lex for the life he is going to take over. for rosenbaum, lex is being pushed and pushed, and lex is afraid that he will reach the point that he knows he will no longer be able to come back from. in "vortex", lex realizes that he forgot who he was in that moment that his father was trapped under the column, and he felt guilty over the situation. according to rosenbaum, lex realized that by letting his father die he would have been traveling down a dark path, and would have become all that his father was—evil. as lex continues to live in his father's shadow, and as time progresses, he learns more about the "monster" that lionel truly is. the breaking point comes when lex learns that his father killed lex's grandparents in a tenement fire. rosenbaum sees this as the ultimate ethical dilemma—he likens it to parents learning that their child has murdered someone, and then having to decide if they should go to the authorities or not—and lex, who can no longer take his father's abuse, decides to turn lionel over to the fbi. according to rosenbaum, the decision is justified to lex, who sees that monster that lionel really is from his actions—using electroshock therapy to erase lex's memories, drugging lex, killing his own parents, and the way he treated lex's mother.
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