he used before, but this time the red light is actually set loose on the Fortress removing the criminals' power while Superman is safe inside the chamber. Superman then crushes the now powerless Zod's hand and throws him down a crevice in the fortress Lois punches Ursa, Non leaps toward Superman, and they both fall through the fog of the fortress. Superman notifies the U.S. Arctic Patrol, who arrest the four criminals. Superman, realizes that life with Lois can never be, kisses Lois, erasing her memory of their romance. Superman III (1983) Clark returns to Smallville for a High School Reunion where a small romance blossomed between him and Lana Lang. During this time a computer genius named Gus Gorman befriends a millionaire named Ross Webster, who orders him to create synthetic Kryptonite using a satellite to locate and analyze Krypton's debris substituting tobacco tar for an unknown element. Lana convinces Superman to appear at Ricky's birthday party, which Smallville turns into a town celebration. Gus and Ross' sister Vera, arrive disguised as Army officers, giving Superman the flawed Kryptonite as an award. Although it has no immediate effect, Superman becomes selfish and commits petty acts of vandalism such as straightening the Leaning Tower of Pisa and blowing out the Olympic Flame. Gus asks Webster to build the world's most sophisticated supercomputer if he creates an energy crisis by directing all oil tankers to the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. When one tanker refuses, Ross' assistant, Lorelei seduce Superman, persuading him to breach its double hull, causing an oil spill. After creating a disturbance at a bar, the corrupted Superman was spotted by Lana and her son Ricky, who pleads with Superman to become great again. Taking flight, Ricky's words reach his buried conscience, causing him to split into two beings: the immoral, corrupted dark Superman and the moral, mild-mannered Clark Kent, who engage each other in a battle at a deserted automobile graveyard. Clark emerges victorious and becomes Superman once more. Superman arrives at the supercomputer's location in Glen Canyon. The supercomputer severely weakens Superman with a Kryptonite ray. Horrified by the notion of "going down in history as the man who killed Superman", Gus destroys the Kryptonite ray with a firefighter's axe. Superman fetches beltric acid, which becomes volatile by the supercomputer's intense heat, destroying it. Superman leaves Webster and his cronies for the authorities and drops Gus