2.00 - Smallville Season Two

WB Summary

Smallville, Season Two: Cast

The breakout hit "Smallville" returns for a second season. Young Clark Kent deals with all the challenges, hopes and desires of any other teenager ... while discovering and learning how to master his burgeoning superpowers. Clark's life intertwines with those of Lana Lang, for whom he yearns; his friend Lex Luthor, who is destined to become his greatest nemesis; and the town itself, which is haunted by the supernatural effects of meteor fragments.

Chloe's Arc

Smallville, Season Two: Chloe

Smallville, Season One: CastSmallville is an American television series developed by writers/producers Alfred Gough and Miles Millar, based on the DC Comics character Superman, created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The television series was initially broadcast by The WB. After its fifth season, the WB and UPN merged to form The CW, which is the current broadcaster for the show in the United States. Smallville premiered on October 16, 2001, and was renewed for its ninth season on February 24, 2009. It is filmed in and around Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

Chloe notices Lana getting ready for the wedding; she notes that Lana and Clark as going as a couple, Lana lies and says they are going as friends.   Lana then says Clark wanted to talk with Chloe, but Chloe said he wasn't around earlier so it couldn't of been as urgent as Lana thought.

Smallville, Episode 2.23: Chloe and ClarkChloe drives out to the farm to see what Clark wanted to talk to her about; Clark physically pushes her away (As he was about to blow up his space ship) but Chloe gets upset.  She tells him that she knows, that she saw them when she came over to warn him about something that "doesn't matter."  Chloe goes on a tirade about how fate is "inevitable but always surprising."  Clark claims he was going to tell her, but she brushes him off saying that she was okay with the relationship as she saw it coming but she couldn't stand that they lied right after their agreement to be honest with each other.  She tells him to "have a nice life."

Chloe goes into the Talon to get coffee before going out investigating with Pete saying that she's not "holding out for [her] fairy godmother to bring [her] glass slippers"; she runs into Lana and Clark who both look overly tired and she seems suspicious.  She tells Pete that she's ready to go having "ashes to sweep and wicked stepsisters to undermine."* 

That night, Chloe goes to visit Clark at the barn to tell him that Dr. Walden woke up from his coma and to ask if he "wanted to come out of retirement to do a story with [her]."  Clark says it's not a great time; she clarifies that she didn't mean right this instant.  Chloe adds that she feels that there is a huge "rift" and that she feels like she can't get back to him.  Clark says it will take time; Chloe agrees that but if they act maturely and honestly she thinks that they will be okay.  She leaves him to his speech for Lex's wedding, and goes back to the Torch.

Chloe finds Clark sitting in the Torch and reminds him that he can't use the computers if he's not on staff; he says he's helping Lana who is being terrorized by "a girl who died six years ago" which catches Chloe's attention. Clark admits that Lana thinks it's a ghost but that people do have a habit of coming back to life.  Chloe offers up that despite her paranormal slant, she thinks it's just Lana's way of dealing with trauma and that Clark doesn't really know Lana at all; she adds that Lana is her friend and thus Clark has a right to know since Lana listens to him.   She lets the computer policy slide and reminds him to lock up when he's finished.

Chloe confronts Clark in the Talon; he hadn't written or submitted his piece on the debate team causing her to have a hole in the issue that she had to fill with the lunch menu enlarged.   She says she doesn't blame Lana, but Clark's inability to manage his time or come through on his promises.  Chloe says that she's never a priority, "just a back up plan" and in response to the claim, Clark quits.

Lex threatens Lionel for information using an article Chloe wrote on mysterious transport vans from LuthorCorp that are continually being hijacked.   Lionel doesn't give Lex any answers, just studies Chloe's article. 

Chloe and Pete mock Clark's community service sentence from the new Sheriff; Chloe notes that the orange vest is going to "clash with the plaid!"

Clark calls her up later that night to his barn looking for help on his case; Chloe retorts that she's always up "for a good conspiracy" when Clark talks about tracking people down for evidence that they are faking their injuries.  She jokes about Lana's new found self-defense, adding in that Clark wouldn't understand what it's like to cross the street at night "and hear footstep behind [him]" and if it makes Lana feel "less like a victim" then he should be all for it.

Chloe is talking to Clark and Pete in science class; she introduces Cyrus Krupp who she was supposed show around the school a few weeks prior when he transferred from Grandville.   Shortly after she has the conversation with Clark, she saw Cyrus supposed heat vision in the lab.

Compared to most people I think aliens would be a step up.

The next day Chloe drives out to the farm to talk with Clark, joking that she knows his secret.  She tells him that the lab is still closed by the Principal.  Clark asks her theories about what happened, she lists out pranks, meteorites, or aliens as possibilities adding that Cyrus claims he is one.  She also cites an incident when he ran away and was found naked in field, trying to be beamed up; she adds that it landed him in a mental institution but she really doesn't think he's an alien -- though it would be cool if he was.  Clark mentions the journalism angle, but she disagrees that it's not "about Pulitzers" but about learning about other worlds; Clark is amused when she admits that she thinks that aliens would "be a step-up."

Chloe, Pete, Lana, and Clark are conversing about a history assignment to do family trees, Pete is the only one not bummed about it claiming that one never knows what mysteries will be found.  Chloe points out that the rest of them had their nuclear family "nuked long ago."  Lana suggests getting together to plan out the project, when Clark (after hearing an odd whining sound that only he could hear) runs out.

Later, Chloe lets Lana use the Torch to work on the project.  Chloe leaves and then comes back to find Lana looking through the pictures from the Spring Formal.   Lana tries to deflect the prying charge by telling Chloe to tell Clark about her feelings; Chloe says it's a matter of privacy, following up that she already had told Clark and that he'd called out Lana's name.  

Bossing Clark around is the highlight of my day!

Chloe comes into the Talon after lunch for an almond latte, and starts looking through Lana's current job applications.  She picks out Clark's application snarking that he didn't list her as a reference.  Lana claims she's not going to hire him, but Chloe admits that "bossing Clark around is the highlight of [her] day."  She adds that Clark always come through, even if it's on his own schedule and that Lana's only balking on hiring Clark because of her own issues with him.

The next day, Clark delivers her favorite Talon goodies to the Torch to thank her for the recommendation that got him hired.  He comments that with Lucas Luthor's return, he's worried for the Talon; Chloe remarks that it could earn someone a "byline on the front page of the Daily Planet."  Clark claims he doesn't trust Lucas and asks her what she found.  Chloe retorts that he's had a hard life but the only unusual thing she found was that his Metropolis United Charities file was created only two weeks ago.

Chloe and Pete go to a rave in the Kawatchi caves; Pete is worried about them and the paintings, Chloe is sure everything is going to be fine.  When they get inside, they notice people acting abnormally - Chloe's dorky chemistry partner tried to make out with her and then jumped to his death (a Clark and Superman riffs); Pete gets bitten by one of the worms in the cave.

The next day, Chloe finds out from Lana that Lana and Clark are going on a date when she asked Lana to go shopping with her and talk about what happened to her chemistry partner; Chloe tells her to go for it, not to let her "be [Lana's] excuse."  Later that day, when she asks Clark if he has plans for the weekend he dodges her question.  Clark brings up that Pete skipped school and helping out on the memorial issue; Chloe points out that her chemistry partner had a small puncture wound in the back of his neck as did two Smallville Community College students. 

Chloe is working on the Torch on an article on Jonathan Kent's murder accusation, commenting that "sometimes being an objective journalist really sucks."  Lana is looking for some information on why Henry Small didn't take the case; Chloe admits she did some research and tells Lana that Henry used to do legal council for LuthorCorp, and was fired from his old firm due to a LuthorCorp complaint.  She tells Lana, once again, that she can only get so much from a computer and that one must talk to the source.

Chloe opens up walking out of history yet again (as mentioned in Red and Lineage) talking about how "thinking you know the truth about someone only to find out that it may be a total lie."  She admits that Betsy Ross used to be a role model for taking a major role in shaping this country, but in first grade that feel apart when she learned she was just a "glorified seamstress."

When Whitney shows up, she confronts Lana about Lana's wardrobe crisis; Lana admits her feelings for Whitney came rushing back (similar to what Chloe noted about Clark to Lana in Heat).  Chloe claims that Lana might be falling for a "man in uniform" and Lana remarks that Whitney doesn't have "deep dark secrets."

Clark approaches Pete and Chloe later that week with his theory that Whitney is really Tina Greer; Chloe negates it by pointing out that she's running the story of Tina Greer's suicide on page two.  Clark asks if anyone checked the dental records, and it turns out Tina went homicidal on a fellow inmate to get out.

Chloe notes that Clark and Henry were pulling Lana into their activist phase to preserve the newly found Kawatchi caves.*  Chloe buttons up as Lana remarks that she doesn't think the caves are the only thing Clark's interested in and that she's been writing Whitney weekly.  Chloe says that guys tend to keep things in the closer one gets to them as a protective instinct; she comments that they need to stop falling for guys who are trying to "save the world."

Clark has Chloe do some digging on a death of a foreman to try to clear his new girlfriend's grandfather's name; Chloe had her source at the coroners go over the bones of the foreman where they found wolf teeth prints.  She cites that the Kawatchi tribe name translates into 'Skinwalkers' which stems from a Native American myth of tribesmen turning into animals.  She tells him that sometimes "legends are true."

* This episode introduces the Kawatchi legends of Numan (a being who falls to earth with Clark-like superpowers to help the world), Seigieth (Numan's former human friend who turns against him), and a cave!woman who baresa bracelet which Clark gains "for the true one in [his] life" at the end of the episode.

Smallville, Episode 2.09: Chloe and IanChloe and Lana move in together; Clark helps transport Lana's boxes to Chloe's house and offers for the three of them to hang out but both girls have plans.   He tells them to call him when they are scheduled to breathe.

At school the next week,  Chloe working in the Torch when Ian Randall comes over to borrow back some of the reference books she's borrowed from the library.  When Ian tells her he's getting ready to graduate this year if he can get the Luthor scholarship, she claims she's "journalistically intrigued." She offers to give him an interview in the Torch, promising to take it easy on him.

She goes with him after school to the Talon where she interviews him; he comments that he can't wait to get out of Smallville.  Chloe adds that while she doesn't get the "mad rush" to graduate, she
can't wait to take the world beyond Smallville on.  She agrees to let Ian tag along and help at the Torch.  She nods to Clark before she leaves; Clark and Ian talk as he picks up the bill and agrees to help Lana with her Algebra.  The audience sees Ian's power - to split into to two halves.

Clark gets a phone call from Ryan, he feels guilty about not realizing his friend (from Stray) was in trouble.  Chloe introduces another one of her contacts, Heinrich, an Austrian who works at the phone company and rides a vespa, who traces Ryan's call for her.  She finds out that it came from Summerholt Neurological Institute in Metropolis - not Edge City, where Ryan had been living.  Her initial research on the Institute shows that they don't take patients, that it's solely for "super-esoteric brain research."

She then (along with Pete and Lana and others) helps organize a "jailbreak" party for him, complete with cake, balloons, and a band after Clark physically frees Ryan from Sommerhalt.

Later that day, she sees Lana looking up emancipation details in the Torch; Lana explains that Nell is marrying her boyfriend and they would all move to Metropolis and that emancipation could take up to a year.  Chloe comments that Lana might have another option and agrees to let Lana move in with her and her dad. 

Smallville, Episode 2.16: Chloe and ClarkClark drops off raffle items at the Talon in the morning, telling Pete, Lana, and Chloe that is mom is sick.  When Chloe starts trying to ask questions as to what she has, he snaps at her; she apologizes and so does he saying he needs to go back to the hospital.

The next day, Lana had told Chloe that Clark had come down with the same disease.  Chloe drives up to the farm, apologizing to Jonathan for being a nuisance and asking if she could sit with him*.  She sits with him remarking about how he ruined his perfect attendance record.  She adds in that she'd never seen him sick before and made her wonder "what if something happened to [him] and [she] never got a chance to tell..."  Chloe wrote a letter to read/give to him:

I want to let you in on a secret. I'm not who you think I am. In fact, my disguise is so thin, I'm surprised you haven't seen right through me. I'm the girl of your dreams masquerading as your best friend. Sometimes I want to rip off this facade like I did at the Spring Formal, but I can't because you'll get scared and you'll run away again. So I decided that it's better to live with a lie than expose my true feelings