As the episode starts, we see two teenagers speeding down the road in a vintage muscle car. The girl in the car is pregnant, and the guy driving her looks absolutely lost. There is a little bit of a problem with the pregnancy, and he is on the phone with 9-1-1 saying that he needs help. As many of the problems in Smallville, the trouble they are about to have is something that you really can't fix in a hospital or by calling the police.

Taking another look at the young woman, her stomach is starting to move around like there is something big in there. Don't laugh, I know she is pregnant, but this baby doesn't look like it is just going to be a tough labor, it's trying to break out of mama like something out of Species II. When the guy sees that this is happening, he pulls off to the side of the road, and like any responsible father-to-be decides to leave the mother of his baby alone while she deals with the pregnancy. I am going to take a wild guess and say that he really wasn't that excited about being a father.

Just as our model parent is running off, the baby decides it is coming out, and it must have been one hell of a labor, because instead of a little crying, there was instead a huge explosion of energy. Needless to say, it looks like the mom did not make it. The explosion was so powerful, it sent a bunch of debris onto the road nearby, just as Clark and Lana were driving by. I am not sure where these two were going. Last episode we were led to believe that maybe they would try a relationship again, but wherever they went it look like they were driving Lois' GMC Envoy and not the Jeep Liberty Lois has had since last season. Actually, it looks like an Envoy in the color of Lana's Liberty from last season. Consistency writers, consistency.

As they go to investigate the scene, Clark and Lana find the baby, and see that nobody else is around. Let's see. Baby? Check. Explosion? Check. Crater in the ground? Check. Clark is gathering the evidence and to him it looks like it might be another baby from Krypton. Even though Lana says "Babies just don't fall out of the sky", Clark knows better. They take the baby to the hospital, and it seems fine, but since there is no sign of the mother, the Kent's decide to take the baby home with them so it won't have to spend it's time in a foster home.

Since Lana and Clark are both foster children, they seem to have a particular attachment to the new baby. In a bit of a surprise, Clark really takes to parenting. He's feeding, burping, changing diapers, the whole nine yards. The two of them name him Evan, since he was found in Evans Field. I bet the boy was glad he wasn't found in Big Pussy Field or on the side of Herpes Avenue, those names would have sucked. They are both enjoying the baby, but Clark is concerned about how attached they are getting and that Evan's real father is out there somewhere. Lana says that maybe the maybe the father is not around, and they should get used to having Evan around.

As much fun as a baby was, they didn't get to keep him that long. No, there wasn't any luck in finding who his father or other relatives may be, but something strange happened to the baby. When he was born, he came into the world with a sort of energy pulse, obviously caused by some sort of kryptonie something or other happening. Just after Clark laid him in his bed, another sort of energy discharge happened. It didn't hurt Lana or Clark, but when they looked over, Evan was no longer a baby, he was a seven year old boy.

So clearly, something very strange is going on. We have a kid who is growing at an alarming rate, and whenever he gets older, he is accompanied by an explosion. And whatever happened to him gave him more than just accelerated aging. Even though he has been on the earth for around 36 hours, he speaks perfectly and knows how to read. And even though he has been with Lana and Clark for less than a day, he is calling them mom and dad. Being orphans themselves, Clark and Lana want to tell Evan the truth, that they aren't his mom and dad, but that they love him very much and they are also very concerned with his safety. They don't know what is going to happen, and they can't simply go to the hospital, because nobody is going to believe them that this boy all of a sudden grew 7 years with a flash of light.

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Posted by J-Unit on May 15, 2005 3:07 PM