On the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El fails to convince the council that the planet is reaching its last days before it is destroyed. Despite his efforts to convince the council, Jor-El moves forward with his escape plan, not for him, not his wife Lara, but their son Kal-El. Jor-El sends his son away from to save him from Krypton’s end. The two parents bid their son farewell and safe travels as their planet begins to implode. Kal-El aircraft leaves Krypton’s atmosphere before eventually exploding. The aircraft eventually lands safety on planet Earth, in a small city of Smallville where the aircraft lands in the farm of Jonathan and Martha Kent where the couple takes the little baby in.
