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Smallville
Obscura
airdate 05-14-02
Those watching TV with me Tuesday night will testify that I spent the last fifteen minutes chanting for an appearance by the shield of the House of El, and was not totally disappointed.
Although the spaceship made only the briefest of cameos last night, it looks to figure prominently in next week's season finale, formerly known as The Storm, now called No Warning. Lex and Dr. Hamilton are now in possession of a small, octagonal, probably crucial part of Clark's ship. The alloy it's made of is unlike anything on this earth. And it's very faintly marked with Kryptonian symbols.
Angry about that dalliance with another journalist, Lex's pet reporter from the Inquisitor threatens to blow the lid off the weirdness that inhabits Smallville. He's found an old crop duster who's convinced that something other than meteors fell from the sky 12 years ago. (As if glowy-green meteors wouldn't be weird enough all by themselves?)
The story, then the fragment, piques Lex's curiosity, as well as Hamilton's. Knowing their respective meteor obsessions, they're unlikely to leave this alone.
Meanwhile, Lana filled in as this week's Krypto-freak, after she and Whitney got too close to a gas-main explosion that knocked her out and showered her with glowy-green rocks. Through the eyes of a stranger, she watches Chloe being abducted and held in a creepy lair, then buried alive.
Clark rescues Chloe (look for a final tally in the end-of-the-season wrap up) and even asks her to the Spring Formal, much to her delight. She's also secured an internship at the Daily Planet for the summer, so aside from having been buried alive, things are going real well for her.
Lana is still linked with the mystery kidnapper, though, and Clark does some research to uncover what her ailment might be. Some sort of post-traumatic stress disorder combined with the meteor rocks gave her a psychic connection with one of the cops who'd been on the scene of the explosion and then took on the case of Chloe's capture. Not the bad cop, of course, the one who sneered at the telepathic visions; the culprit is the good cop, who wanted the glory of rescuing Chloe to help make his career.
Now that Clark has discovered how important Chloe is to him, it will be interesting to see how fast he runs to Lana's rescue next week, or how fast he leaves afterward. Perhaps this will start him thinking about the need for anonymity in his heroism.
Let's hope they've saved the best for last - we've got spaceships, tornadoes, peril, and pretty clothes, so how can it go wrong?
