2.10 - Skinwalker

Chloe and Clark are graduating - Lana's missing.  They go down a wedding styled march towards their diplomas*  when there is a military evacuation interrupting the ceremony - another meteor shower is coming.  Chloe is amazed about the second strike in "sixteen years."**  Clark brushes her off saying that they need to find Lana - Chloe agrees saying that if anyone can do it, he can. "Are you saying I'm not normal?" he demands and Chloe apologizes, brushing it off, trying to focus on finding Lana when her cousin comes up saying that Lana's probably evacuated.  Clark agrees that it's what both girls need to do; Chloe gets in the car but her cousin whips herself up into a panic while trying to advice Clark not to panic.

Lana leaves Chloe a voice mail that Lex interrupts - when Chloe gets it she turns the car around to go get Lana.  "I can't abandon her," Chloe points out when they are stopped by one of General Lane's men.  He tells them to turn around and Chloe lays the pressure on her cousin, "We're way too close to turn away."   Her cousin agrees and distracts the guard while Chloe dashes over to Luthor Manor.

When Alicia Baker is released from Belle Reve, Clark goes to Chloe to get some confirmation. Chloe hacks into the Belle Reve database where she finds the profiles on Alicia and her psychiatrist, the brilliant Harvard educated William McBride.  Chloe reads the file which claims Alicia is fully cured and Clark deduces that Alicia told him the truth.  Chloe teases him that it was exactly what he wanted to hear.

Alicia steals yet another extra redK ring from the Torch.  Interestingly enough, she (like Kyla before her) has a bracelet on her wrist now - this one keeps her from being able to transport.  Clark breaks it later in the episode - and gives it back to her at the end of the episode after she takes a bullet for him (and it's right before they get get together).

Chloe has a girl talk with Lana later about sexual relationships; Chloe admits that she had a relationship with a boy she met at the Planet which she thought was "the real thing" but wasn't.   She calls him "cute in a bow tie kind of way" and we're told it's Jimmy (and find out in Zod, he is Jimmy Olsen) Chloe tells Lana that it only happens once so make sure Jason is the one she wants to remember forever.

The next day when Clark is looking for Alicia, he enlists Chloe's help in finding her - but ultimately doesn't need it as McBride is waiting in his loft to show him down.

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 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.