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Prologue

Chloe leaving the Daily Planet; bullpen has that Superman the movie vibe
Max Taylor. Any relation to George?
“She’s my cousin. She’s not interested in journalism at all”. Lois Lane. And here it is. If they didn’t mean for it to be Lois Lane in the past, that obviously changed somewhere.
Battlefield Earth movie poster. Yikes.
Molly. Missy Peregrym. Shows up in Heroes later / she has the Torch computers
And the Torch gets “robbed” again. Chloe doesn’t learn.
Not another truck Clark!!
I wish the music transition from the prologue to the title song connected more. I miss that.

Act One

Interrogating Clark and Chloe in the same room?
Ha! Sheriff comments on all the trashed Kent vehicles
Oh no. It’s a Souders/Peterson episode. Hm. At least it’s not Lana focused. / director Pat Williams
Clark meets Adam! Awkward!
The actual LuthorCorps IT guy is played by Chris Gauthier. He’ll show up in Smallville again. More importantly, he’s Seymour in the Watchmen movie. How’s that for being meta?
See? Even this Adam/Lana conversation is tinged with titillation. The writers can’t help themselves.
Chloe to Clark: “I can only apologize so many times” How about don’t do those things in the first place!!
Clark’s dialogue feels stilted here. Welling’s acting is off as well. Could be that he’s not the focus of the episode so the writers aren’t really giving him anything to do
General Sherman mention. Odd.
Brainwave
Evangeline Lilly sighting!
Kryptonite malware?

Act Two

Dynasty fight! I swear they wrote this episode just to get a cat fight in here between Lana and Chloe
Come on Chloe fight back! Oh there we go. She just popped Lana. You know she’s wanted to do that for a long time
Okay come on – they aren’t ninjas
Here comes Adam! He’s got some moves too.
If my counting is correct, Chloe gets hit 10 times. Lana gets hit 6 (combined between Chloe and Adam). Between falling down stairs, smashing into walls, getting kicked in the back and gut – the damage for both should way higher. But damn is that a fun fight. Funny how the first real hand to hand fight in the show didn’t involve Clark.
Of course their faces aren’t damaged
Adam is good at fighting. And computers. And anatomy. He’s well studied.
Even Lana is wondering how Adam knows all this.
Lex didn’t like Clark bringing up that Lionel put him in an asylum
Lex can’t remember seven weeks / Ah okay. Maybe he doesn’t remember that Chloe was investigating his grandparents Murder.

Act Three

Garner. Summerholt Neurological Institute. Connecting back to Ryan.
Wow. Crazy to think this episode came out in January 2004 and by the Fall Ian Somerhalder will be in Lost. And Evangeline.
“Chloe can’t even hack a computer like you can”. See? How does she become so skilled later?
Adam has secrets. Lana’s not having it.
Molly Griggs
Wow. An actual small Ryan reference.
And now a Mengele reference. WTF?
Ooops. Dead Max. Pencil to the ear!

Act Four

Act Five

Pa with kryptonite! Beating Clark up. Damn.
Now shouldn’t Chloe wonder why Pa has a meteor rock to beat on Clark?
The Talon apartment! Long list of people who live here. Starting with Adam.
Lex returns the computers. Oooop.
Wait. What happened to Molly?
Chloe and Clark come to a truce. AGAIN he asks her to stop digging. But look at her face. Will she?
Uh oh. Lex is going to blackmail Garner to get his memories back.
“I want those seven weeks back.”
Well how about that. The episode is a little shaky here and there – and still relies a bit on on appealing to a primetime soap opera emotionality – but it was enjoyable to watch. And the writers remember that it should be Smallville first: tropes second. Definitely helps that the actors are more grounded now. Delivered the script in a believable way. Pleasantly surprised.

Next episode: Hereafter!