Clark paused, shirt half-unbuttoned, heat-vision eyes dimmed to human concern. He tilted his head — the Superman tilt, the one that could hear a heartbeat across oceans. "Hear what?"

"The... second layer." Lois set the mug down. "Like someone talking just under the floorboards of reality."

"What storm?" Lois asks.

She drives to three locations across town: the radio station, the school's AV club, and the library's old vinyl archive. At each, she plays a specific tone sequence — a "reassembly song" Mira composed — through the surviving speakers.

The Frequencies We Keep Episode: S02E15 – "DD5.1" Logline: Lois hears a distress signal no one else can — buried in the digital static of Smallville — leading her and Clark to a truth about sound, memory, and survival. The rain over Smallville wasn't rain. It was the sound of frequencies bleeding.

"Thank you, Lois."

Clark lands behind Lois, breathless. "You saved her with a boombox ."

Clark's brow furrowed. "You think someone's hiding a message in audio channels ?"