Enough of my ranting, as Clark leaves the field, his dad stops him and asks him why he is continuing to play. Clark tells him that he and Chloe are confident that they can stop Mikhail, and that this is one decision that if he is the one to take responsibility of his actions, he must be responsible for his own decisions. Jonathan understands, and Clark goes on to play the game. You may be wondering just exactly what it is that Chloe can do to stop Mikhail and how she is going to reproduce the locust frequency. Ahh, you forget that Chloe has a three star general for an uncle, and he is more than willing to give her the tools necessary to recreate the frequency, in this case, it was a stealth airplane jammer. She connects it to the PA system, and blasts the frequency while the game is going on. Since the noise is beyond the level of human hearing, nobody in the crowd or on the field notice anything, but Mikhail is powerless to change any of the action going on before him. Smallville is in the middle of a hard fought game when Mikhail realizes that the sound is not natural and is coming from the field speakers. He rushes to the transmission room, finds Chloe, and pulls a knife on her.

Mikhail returns to the sideline just as Smallville is about to pull of yet another last second play to try and win the state championship. He tells Clark that he has Chloe, and that Clark is going to throw the game or she is dead. Clark thinks about his options, is giving his count at the line of scrimmage, but uses his x-ray vision to find exactly where Mikahil is holding Chloe. In the middle of the play, which is a long pass, Clark uses his speed to run off of the field, find Chloe and Mikhail, free her from handcuffs, knock his knife away and throw him across the room, then returns in plenty of time to get hit before anybody else knows what is going on. He did get his pass off, which of course is good, and wins the game. Clark is a hero, Smallville wins the championship, and Chloe is safe. Not too bad for one day of work. After a night of partying, he comes home. His parents fake being upset with him for breaking curfew, but are really just proud of him. Chloe walks in to thank Clark. She says he can never stay in her dog house for long, and it looks like they are back to being friends, which is good, because now that football is over, it would make for some awkward moments when Clark got back to the torch.

For Mikhail, it wasn't a great day. He lost the bet and lost his power, but Lex Luthor still took a great interest in him. Lex didn't put him in jail, and instead took him to a secret floor at Luthorcorp headquarters. Mikhail says that he is no longer with his gift, but Lex assures him that it is possible to regain what you have lost. We don't see what Lex means, but I hypothesize that Lex has been rounding up a lot of the people who have been stopped by Clark in the past including some kids who were in the mental hospital when Clark was committed. Perhaps somebody who knows the comic more than I can help me elaborate, but I can't be too sure as of now. I do know that Mxyzptlk is a real character from the comics, although I believe he was not human and he didn't have any mind control powers. Anyway, it looks like Lex is back to his old tricks, or has learned some new ones. I'm guessing that we will have a real showdown between these two this year.

Back at school, Clark is looking for Coach Teague. It turns out a Metropolis University scout was at the game, and he offered Clark scholarship. Clark wanted to thank Jason for all of the help, but when he asks Lana where he is, she is visibly upset. A few days before, she had talked to Jason about Clark, and they talked about how Clark might be using drugs. Lana assured him that he was not, and Jason revealed the head coach asked him to take a blood test, but Jason was worried Clark would try to retaliate by making their relationship known, so he administered no test, but said it came back clean. Lana assured Jason that Clark wouldn't do anything on a grudge, and not to be too worried, although he needed the job to stay in college (how that works is anybody's guess). Anyway, Lana says that somebody made her relationship with Jason known, and he was fired. Since Clark is apparently the only person who knows, she blames him. Maybe it is his fault, but how much work is there in the off season for an assistant football coach who doesn't appear to teach class? The team has already won the football championship, is he going on to coach basketball or something? What's the deal? And secondly, somebody else might have found out. It is a small town, and you would think that somebody might discover that the coach is paying visits to a student at school, considering that student happens to live above the number one social hangout in the whole town.

Posted by J-Unit on November 4, 2004 8:53 AM