4.00 - Smallville Season Four

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 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.

Chloe is working in the Torch* when she notices the power doesn't work, there is no one in the halls, and the only other person she can find has been turned into a plastic mannequin.  She's stuck inside a model of the Smallville High building, on the last day of class with no idea how she got there.  Eventually she runs into two other students who inform her that they're being watched.  Brendan, a photographer at SHS, comes out and reveals that he's controlling it all.  "Some of us didn't get into our dream colleges like you," he snipes at her, trying to convince her to stay 'in high school' with him so she won't be disappointed.  Brendan shows her that he turns the people into mannequins with the clear threat that if she tries to escape, she'll be one too.

Chloe is working in the Torch, and ignores Clark and Lana's baby moment -- she found an interesting 911 call.  The three of them listen to  the calll, noting that the father leaves the mother there alone before she explodes.   They all think it's pretty harsh and Clark asks Chloe to look into it further.  She agrees.

The next day, Chloe has found the girl - Karen Gallagher.   She admits that Karen had given her a few blips on the radar when Clark asks if she was Wall of Weird material, but nothing substantial.  However, Karen had gotten pregnant and delivered in less than a week, but no one seems to know who the father was.  Chloe pulls up e-vite, the guest list to a part Karen was at a week prior.  She snarks that their invitations got lost and suggests they just go down the list and seek out whomever it is.

The next day, Clark's looking for Evan (who is in the middle of his melt down); Chloe points out to him the power surges all over the town and Clark realizes Lana would of taken Evan to the windmill in Chandler's Field.   When Chloe loks up, Clark's gone.  "Go get 'em, Speedy!" she snarks to herself.

Chloe and Clark stop by the Talon to get coffee and talk about where he might go to college (we already know that Chloe is going back to her home town of Metropolis togo to Met U in thefall.). Clark talks about going to Miami (he checked it out in Run with Bart, and it's a set up for Aqua.) While they are there, her cousin on duty is robbed and doesn't remember it. Clark rushes outside to confront the robber who zaps Clark - erasing all his memories (and we see a still from every episode in the series thus far.) Chloe comes running out of the Talon to check on him, and Clark looks up at her confused. "Clark who?"

Chloe is crusading against the Prom Queen tradition at SHS; she sees prom as the senior class's last party together and sees it needless to cap off four years with a popularity contest.  Lana notes that "Chloe Sullivan strikes again" but also remarks "balloons and taffeta seem a little harmless compared to your usual targets."  Chloe tries to twist Lana's arm to going stag even if it's just to hear Lifehouse when they get cornered by Dawn Styles who warns Chloe to back off.  Chloe is shocked and appalled to find she was nominated for Prom Queen.

Clark and Chloe go to check up Lex after an explosion at LuthorCorp, Chloe explains that yet another one of her sources is an EMT at Smallville Medical Center.  Lex explains that it's fine, that it was merely an experiment that went a little out of control.  Chloe snarks that she's sure it was helpful - "to LuthorCorp's bottom line."  Lex claims it would be helpful to al and invites both of them to the lab to check out the experiment.  Chloe remains skeptical and decides to interview Dr. Sinclair while Clark goes with Clark back to the lab, claiming that she isn't trust a LuthorCorp experiment without corroboration and reminding Clark that LuthorCorp experiments never end well.

Chloe catches up with her younger cousin Lucy when she comes to down, giving her the full tour of Smallville; Chloe helps her other cousin after she can't keep her dishes on the tray - Clark calls it a "floor show."

When it becomes obvious that Lucy is having issues, Chloe and Clark look into it; Chloe hacks into some database and figures out that the man behind it is a bounce and known bad guy, and she warns her cousin not to go "Lifetime heroine" after him.  Clark suggests going to Lex.

After Lucy leaves with Lex's car and 50,000 in untraceable bonds, Chloe catches up with Clark the next day at school.  Chloe comments that keeping secrets only seems to hurt people, and Clark agrees that people can't save everyone.  "But that doesn't stop you from trying, does it Clark?" Chloe asks as she walks past him to class.

* In the SFX round up, Al and Miles the producers claimed the reason this episode failed was because the audience wasn't invested in EDLois' character and the one good point was that Lucy and Lois looked related.  Rating for this episode were very low and immediately after this episode, the spoiler sides for Blank were re-written. This also put EDLois in league with Byrne Era Lex and Clark in the respective forms of Lionel and Whitney

Chloe comes to the Kent farm to bring her cousin's forwarded mail, while there she meets the puppy her cousin nearly killed by running over; the dog immediately takes to her (and we learn in this episode that the dog is a Clark stand in.)  Clark admits that it's hard to be himself with her cousin around, and Chloe tells him that he's got the puppy and her.  The puppy has super powers thought and drags a tractor with him when he tries to follow Clark in the house; Chloe plays her first cover for Clark telling her cousin that the tractor is just old.

Chloe also does some digging in this episode - for Lana.  She researches Jason's lineage back to a small town in France and discovers that Jason's ancestors moved Isobel's tomb into the church in Paris where Lana found it and was marked by it.  Chloe, not for the first time, reminds Lana that if she wants answers then she really needs to go to the source of her questions.

Chloe is working to free her cousin from assault charges for attacking a fellow student while intoxicated.  Chloe points out that anyone with an MD can figure out that it's impossible for a spin kick to cause full body paralysis.  Chloe is going to Met U for her financial aide pitch, and Clark Kent is looking at Met U for a football scholarship - so they both end up working on her cousin's case together.  Chloe says she's a bit surprised that Clark took advantage of the football route, but Clark doesn't seem to get the hint. 

Later, Chloe is hanging out in her cousin's dorm room filling out a long questionnaire for financial aide when Clark comes in having deduced that Geoff, a former SHS football player, must have the power to drop people.  He cites the fact that Geoff is faking his drug tests - and he asks Chloe to track the guy down.  Chloe agrees and takes her cousin with her; while Chloe is trying to get in the dorms, her cousin gets snatched by Geoff who figures out she's on his trail on her search to clear her name.

Alicia is still in town, and is now sort of dating Clark.  They go to the karaoke at the Talon where they have mixed reactions from the crowd, including a bad reception from Lana.  When someone who can teleport tries to kill Lana, everyone thinks it's Alicia.  Chloe and her cousin meet Clark up at the hospital after the attack and Chloe warns him that the sheriff suspects Alicia; Clark points out about the bracelet and bout Chloe and her cousin remain skeptical.  (Clark later tries to make her a new special bracelet later in the episode but he can't.)

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.

Smallville, Episode 4.10: Chloe and ClarkClark and Chloe go to Smallville Medical Center when Jason slips into a 'panic mode' sleep to visit Lana; Chloe agrees to go to Lana's apartment to get Jason's insurance card.  The pair leave the hospital and go to the Talon; Chloe chides him slightly about his reaction to Jason and Lana dating but comforts him by reminding him that love isn't something that "you just ease out of."   She begins look around and Clark gets on her case for going through Jason's things, saying it's outside her "snoop jurisdiction" - Chloe brushes off his worries and points out that backtracking through Jason's day might help them save him.  On Jason's palm pilot, Chloe discovers that Jason had a meeting at LuthorCorp.

Clark is working to save Lex from a frame up; he talks to Lex and Lionel and then goes back to the Torch where Chloe asks where he's been all day.  Clark reveals that he's done his homework about the cars left in the parking lot of the hotel Lex was at, whittling it down to one car which he's having trouble tracing.  Chloe teases him and takes over the search before warning him about trusting Lionel Luthor in any guise.   And she points out that what Lex really needs (rather than police help) is a good publicist - the DP has an article about Lex's sex scandal. Clark is upset that Lex lied to him, and Chloe finds the address which puts Clark in the right direction.

It's Chloe's 18th birthday is happening and her cousin intends to throw a party in Clark's barn for her; Clark protests feebly but she asks him to "trust her" that nothing will go wrong.  (And it does.) She then takes Chloe around to the Talon where her cousin calls Chloe "Little Miss Reporter" and berates Lana (who has been possessed by Isobel) for not taking Chloe out shopping.  We find out that Clark badly wraps Chloe's present.*

The story starts off with Chloe putting a bet on the football game to Mikhail Mxyzptlk* - a foreign exchange student who has the power to control the odds.  Chloe puts her money down on Smallville to win, citing that she "never bets against Clark Kent" even though she hates to admit it.  Mikhail uses his powers to make Clark trip on the field and almost loose the game - he does make Clark tackle and nearly take out an opposing team member; it brings up the issue of steroids and questioning Clark's ability to play with other people.

Clark has been body swapped with Lionel Luthor with the water stone, one of three magical stones left by the Kryptonians all over the world.  Apparently they were what Lionel was looking for in season three and now Lex has taken up his cause.  Lionel, as Clark, sneaks into the Torch to use the computers where he toys with Chloe.  She tells him that she's not scared of him and Lionel takes advantage of the situation and tries to kiss her, mocking her feelings for Clark in the process.

Later that week, Clark tries to apologize to her says that he doesn't know what he did, but he's sorry; Chloe claims him of being on drugs and, when Clark denies it, demands an explanation because while a lot of people in Smallville have "pulled a Jeckyll and Hyde, but deep down, they're still the same person."  She suggests that he gets some psychological help.  It's interesting that Chloe is the first person we see him apologize to (not Lana.)